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the Sorins in their underlying wrongful death claim. Herfor each of the lines that extend from the hub (typically one fibre pair). In operation, the interrogator sends an optical pulse along the cable where it is split at the hub before being sent along the individual lines to the optical sensor units. The vibration sensors may comprise a length of optical fibre that is wound around a flexible former to form a coil, and the optical lines may contain reflectors, for example formed by a mirror that terminates a fibre spliced with the line, preferably upstream and downstream of the sensors. As the external pressure varies, the coil of fibre is compressed or released, thereby changing the length of fibre in the coil. If a signal is sent along the optical fibre, it is partially reflected


Transplantation of Peyer's patches under the kidney capsule in syngeneic mice. I. Morphological studies.
The morphology of Peyer's patches transplanted under the kidney capsule in syngeneic mice was studied up to 30 days after transplantation. Changes undergoing in transplants were arbitrarily divided into three stages: the initial stage of necrosis, then from the third day on -- clearing of dead tissues, and finally, from the fifth day -- lymphoid regeneration. Starting from the ninth day on, the lymphoid structure of the transplants was quite distinct. Transplants appeared to be similar to Peyer's patches in situ. Reconstituted transplants contained a huge number of blood vessels located with lymphocytes. The epithelial cysts were found in all the transplants. They were formed by remnants of persisted intestinal epithelium covering Peyer's patches inBEREA, Ohio -- Browns safety Donte Whitner is known to lay the wood on opposing receivers, and he did so verbally on Cleveland's No. 8 overall pick from May's draft.

Whitner told ESPN that cornerback Justin Gilbert needs to "stop being a kid" after the rookie struggled for much of the season and saw his playing time dwindle to players with limited to no experience Sunday at Carolina.

Gilbert played 17 snaps Sunday, less than special teams ace/corner Jordan Poyer and fourth-round rookie Pierre Desir, who didn't log a defensive down through the first 14 weeks of the season.

Browns rookie Justin Gilbert needs to "grow up and not be a kid anymore," his teammate said. Jason Miller/Getty Images

"It's time to grow up and not be a kid anymore. It's a


team rule but had some on- and off-field issues that led to his diminished play Sunday.

Gilbert didn't beat out veteran Buster Skrine for the starting outside cornerback spot during training camp, and undrafted rookie K'Waun Williams won the starting nickel job, relegating Gilbert to the fourth corner spot. Gilbert has flashed potential, including an athletic 23-yard interception return for a touchdown against Indianapolis in Week 14. Gilbert was in the Browns' locker room for the early portion of media availability Tuesday but was not available after Whitner made the comments.

Asked whether Gilbert's issues stretch beyond the normal rookie transitions, Whitner said, "Yeah, but you know we keep all that in house."

"He has things he needs to improve on and grow up in," Whitner said. "Stop being a kid."

GilbertIceland's leader has announced that she will skip US Vice President Mike Pence's visit – opting instead to keep prior commitments

5 comments

Pence is only the Vice President, and the U.S. equivalent of a Foreign Minister. It's fine for him to deal with his Icelandic counterpart.

“This is unprecedented for an Icelandic prime minister,” historian Thor Whitehead told The Associated Press. “I doubt any other Western leader would decide to address a friendly conference abroad instead of welcoming a major foreign ally.”

Pence is only the Vice President, and the U.S. equivalent of a Foreign Minister. It's fine for him to deal with his Icelandic counterpart.

The VP is not the equivalent of a Foreign Minister, that would probably be the Secretary of State. The VP is usually seen as standing in


State.

Is Pence not the Secretary of State? I thought he was, as well as being the Vice President.

Either way, he's not the leader of the government, and doesn't need to be met by a leader of a government.

Also, as the Iceland PM says, "This visit [...] has been bouncing a lot around the calendar so that it has been very difficult to organize oneself around it". I found this article from only 6 weeks ago which says "As it is, nothing is set in stone. The sources contend Pence has expressed an interest in visiting the country [...] but the visit has not yet been confirmed." These things are usually organised many months in advance, but less than two months out from his intended visit, he hadn't evenThe Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3 as the group is also known, has released its annual Internet Crime Report for 2011. The center received 314,246 complaints during the year, adding up to an estimated $485 million in losses for the year. The most commonly reported scams were FBI-related, in which victims would encounter criminals posing as the FBI. Romance scams on dating forums and chat rooms, in which “scammers use poetry, flowers and other gifts to reel in
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Ireland kept their hopes of qualifying for the ICC Intercontinental Cup final alive by securing a six-wicket win over Canada in Toronto.

After dominating the early stages of the match, which saw them dismiss Canada for 120 and rack up 261 for nine declared in reply, they were forced onto the back foot as the home side scored 316 in their second innings.

That set up a potentially tricky run chase, which was eventually safely negotiated and the match closed out with Ireland on 176 for four in their second innings.

Trent Johnston returned five for 23 as Canada's first innings lasted just 32 overs and half-centuries from Andrew White (84) and Kevin O'Brien (57) handed Ireland a substantial lead. Henry Osinde proved the pick of the Canada bowlers by adistance as he returned five for 68.

Canada then rallied and got themselves back into the game thanks to half-centuries from Ashish Bagai (90), Zubin Sarkari (72) and Khurram Chohan, whose 59 in 177 balls came from number ten in the order and helped Canada put on 121 runs for the ninth wicket.

O'Brien finished with figures of five for 39 and Andre Botha three for 25 to prevent Canada pushing too far ahead.

Although Ireland then slipped to 41 for two and 90 for three in the final innings of the match, they were steered to safety by Botha's 61 and White's unbeaten 59, which earned him the man-of-the-match award.


Dutch ambassador to Israel, Caspar Veldkamp, said Tuesday that Arab and Muslim countries, many of whom do not maintain diplomatic relations with Israel, maintain rich economic ties with Israel, facilitated by Holland.

Israel Radio reported in Arabic that Muslim-majority countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia, in addition to several Persian Gulf nations, all trade quietly with Israel. Veldkamp added his government has acted to prevent Dutch banks from boycotting Israeli banks, and that the parliament in The Hague recently voted to strengthen economic and trade ties with Israel.

The report also noted that Wednesday, about 100 businesspeople, start-up entrepreneurs and business representatives will attend a bi-lateral Innovation Day. The exhibition will focus on medial innovations for senior citizens.

About the Author:Meir is a news writer for JewishPress.com - and he lovesgone downhill in every sense since then. It was once a wonderful place for tourists – I cycled the entire length and breadth of its beauty all by myself; now it would be too dangerous – an Islamist murderer waiting behind every dyke.

Eli Beer stunned the 16,500 AIPAC conference participants by arriving on stage with lights and sirens blaring on an ambucycle, a specially equipped motorcycle ambulance designed by United Hatzalah to speed up emergency response times.

For years, Binyamin Netanyahu’s views on negotiating with terrorists, and on negotiating under fire have been clear: In his defining treatise on the subject Terrorism: How the West Can Win, Netanyahu spelled out clear guidelines for dealing with the scourge of attacks on civilians. Amongst other principles, the then up-and-coming Likud leader


U.S. pursuing legal protections for contractors still in Iraq

Staff Sgt. Matthew Craig, from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Armored Division, escorts a contractor to the Iraqi army side of Contingency Operating Base Taji, Iraq, Oct. 1, 2011. Soldiers with HHC were providing security for civilian contractors working with Iraqi army personnel as U.S. forces continue to transition out of Iraq.

BAGHDAD — The United States is still pursuing an agreement with the government of Iraq that could provide defense contractors working for the U.S. State Department with some legal protections in 2012, U.S. embassy and military officials said last week.

While diplomats and servicemembers working for the State Department are shielded by diplomatic immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law, theSaturday, December 25, 2010

This Christmas, I have an angel in Heaven, who has had her 2nd Christmas up there. Her name is Naomi. I miss her with every inch of my body. I grabbed her ornamnet on the tree tonight, and just kissed it. This morning, was a little difficult. While opening gifts with the family, I felt my eyes beginning to fill up with tears. Even with the laughter, the smiles, the gift opening, EVEN WITH SADIE IN MY ARMS. I got up and took Sadie to my room and just had to sit in the rocking chair & let the tears flow.I kissed Naomi & kissed her pictures.I then heard my name, jumped up, wiped my face, and came out and began on with the festivities.

This


am looking forward to whats to come in both of our futures!

On Saturday, I took Sadie to Meet Santa. I got to dress her up in her little santa outfit and take her on to the hospital where she was born at. There were so many kids & families with their children & babies all dressed up. I felt so happy, to take Sadie, and share this experience with her. Although she slept most of the time, she woke up a little on her own as I placed her in Santa's arms. They took 2 pictures of her and one with mommy in with Santa and Sadie. I can't wait to see how they turn out! I will be able to place a picture in her First ChristmasRFC 60. From
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— are not covered by UN Resolution 2231, which was passed shortly after the nuclear deal with Iran was signed in July 2015 and calls on Tehran “not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology.”

Iran argues that its ballistic missile program is also not covered by the resolution because it does not have a nuclear weapons program.

In January, Iran test-fired a ballistic missile and cruise missile — both of which are nuclear capable — with the former resulting in new US sanctions on a number of entities involved in Iran’s ballistic missile program and a warning from US President Donald Trump that the Islamic Republic had been “put on notice” and that“nothing is off the table” in terms of a military response to perceived Iranian provocations.

Iran claimed another ballistic missile test in March, a week after a US vessel in the Strait of Hormuz was forced to change course after being harassed by Iranian fast boats in the strategic waterway.

Iran has previously harassed US Navy ships in the Persian Gulf and around the Strait of Hormuz, with the most notable case being Iran’s capture of 10 US Navy sailors in January 2016, who had drifted into Iranian waters after experiencing mechanical problems.

The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Indian Sea through which a fifth of the world’s oil supply passes.

Agencies contributed to this report.


The week in pictures: 23 March 2012

The UCLA Quidditch team practises in Los Angeles, California. In the Harry Potter books, Quidditch players fly through the air on their broomsticks over an oval-shaped pitch and attempt balls through elevated ring-shaped goals. In the real world, players attempt to throw a semi-inflated ball, similar to a rugby ball, through their opponents' hoops while running with broomsticks between their legs. More than 200 universities and colleges across the USA are currently members of the International Quidditch Association...Picture: Incredible Features / Barcroft Mediamove about our daily lives," said Brian Hofer, the executive director of privacy advocacy group Secure Justice. The group was joined by ACLU of Northern California and several other advocacy groups in supporting the bill, which was introduced by Supervisor Aaron Peskin.

The ban is a first, but San Francisco isn't alone. Several other cities are considering facial recognition bans, including Oakland and Berkeley in California, as well as Somerville, Massachusetts. It's part of a larger backlash against the technology from privacy advocates, as well as lawmakers and even other tech companies.

For example, Microsoft asked the federal government in July to regulate facial recognition technology before it gets more widespread, and said it declined to sell the technology to law enforcement. As it is, the technology is on track


a year. He says that claims of his involvement with the terror group prompted a California bank to close his accounts with them according to the Tribune.

Chagoury’s connections with the Clintons have been documented in the The New York Times bestseller Clinton Cash. Some of his activities allegedly included a near half-million donation to Democratic voter-registration nonprofit Vote Now 96, which was followed two months later by his attendance at a 250-person Clinton White House Christmas party.

He was initially charged in Switzerland for aiding in laundering billions of dollars from Nigera, but ended up entering into a plea deal. He was added to a federal terrorism no-fly list after a 2010 bombing of an American airliner. Chagoury later admitted to being acquainted with the bomber’s father. He wasNow, in his first opportunity in his career titled, Kelly hopes to get a victory when it finally counts. Kelly has proven to be able to win against anyone, but manages to avoid two potential obstacles - that lie behind Layla -...

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Since winning the WWE Diva tafuta the conquest of the securities and Divas Women's Champion, Eve and Layla have followed two completely different ways to earn an honored place in WWE. For both, however, winning the summit came after years of sacrifice, hard training and dedication. Only in this way has been able to establish a reputation WWE universe. When Eve, the current Divas Champion, won the 2007 edition of Diva Search, did not only think of becoming a professional wrestler, but to become the best "When


Marshall, even

though the argument did not involve her. Marshall came back inside. He then threatened

that he would commit suicide and that Beth Ann would come home to blood everywhere.

Kathleen responded by yelling that Marshall would never babysit Beth Ann's son alone again.

        {¶ 14} Marshall managed to unlock the bedroom door, possibly with the scissors he

had been using to destroy the gutters. He entered the room and approached Kathleen in

"attack mode." Kathleen, who had been sitting on the bed, stood up as he approached.

Marshall then put his forehead against Kathleen's forehead and forced her back on to the

bed. He was on top of her "on all fours." Kathleen testified that she was afraid because she

was not sure if Marshall would hitthe cause.

Solih also confirmed the multi-party coalition had initiated compiling their campaign pledges on Friday and will conclude within next two days time.

The MDP backed presidential candidate was confident the Maldives United Opposition (MUO) will emerge victorious in the upcoming presidential polls; scheduled for September 23.

Solih's trip to Baa atoll is accompanied by Jumhooree Party found Gasim Ibrahim's wife Aishath Nahula and other senior members of the coalition.


GRAEME the trainspotting cat has attained rock star status among commuters at his station.

Every morning the laid-back feline leaves home and saunters down to the platform on the Hurstbridge line to mix with travellers heading off to work.

media_camera Graeme laps up the attention from a friendly commuter. Picture: Trevor Pinder

A commuter gives Graeme a pat

The pampered cat cannot get enough of attention, with scores of regulars calling him by name as they stop for a chat and give him a pat on the head.

Safety conscious, the sociable moggie is meticulous about using the subway to cross to the city-bound platform, rather than take a dangerous short cut across the tracks.

When the evening peak comes around, Graeme puts on an encore performance, arriving at the opposite platform in timeto greet owner Nicole Weinrich as she returns home from work.

"He always seems to know which train carriage I am on and will be sitting there behind the yellow line when the doors open, because he is all about safety," Ms Weinrich said.

"He is an amazing cat."

Many of the locals at the station, which the Herald Sun has chosen not to name at the request of Graeme's owners, agree.

"He's gorgeous. He just lights up our mornings and evenings," Julia Scott said.

Fellow traveller Damien Dempsey said Graeme lived for his adoring public.

"He's very regal. He's kind of aloof but in a nice way," he said.

"It's his platform and he welcomes people."

But sometimes Graeme can take his desire to be close to his fans a bit too far - he


has been known to jump on the train and get off a station or two later.

media_camera Amelia greets Graeme every morning. Picture: Trevor Pinder

Little Amelia greets Graeme

"He doesn't do it often, but we do worry about that," Ms Weinrich said.

She said Graeme, believed to be about 12, had roughed it on the street before being saved from the RSPCA's "death row" six years ago, so his love of people is tempered by his survival instincts.

"He is very friendly and loves to go to the station to watch people go, but he's weirdly stand-offish," Ms Weinrich said.

"He's very cool about it.

"I've heard people get off the train and say, 'Look, it's Graeme'. Some just call him 'rock star'."

Graeme even has his own Facebook page.

"He has about 60 friends," MsWe've seen plenty of weird crime mugshots and heard plenty of bizarre stories. But when it comes to criminal names, this one is ... a mouthful.

Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop, 30, was arrested Thursday afternoon on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and a violation of probation in Madison, Wisc.

Zopittybop-Bop-Bop was born Jeffrey Drew Wilschke, according to court records unearthed by the Capital Times. He legally changed his name to Beezow Doo-Doo Zoopittybop-Bop-Bop in October.

According to Zopittybop-Bop-Bop's apparent Facebook account, when he's not in trouble with the law he enjoys activities including "eating," "standing," walking," "thinking," and "diamond." He's also single... so there's that, ladies.

Zopittybop-Bop-Bop was apprehended by authorities after neighbors complained of "excessive drinking and drug use" around a local park, the


Life events and symptomatic recovery of army spouses following Operation Desert Storm.
The relation between life events and psychiatric symptoms among wives of soldiers deployed to the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm (ODS) was examined. Psychiatric symptoms were measured, using the 25-item Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL), at two times, once while the soldiers were away and a second time several months after they returned. In a multiple regression analysis, symptoms at Time 2 were predicted by post-Desert Storm events as well as by events and emotional stressors that occurred during the military operation. The strongest predictor of post-Desert Storm events was pre-Desert Storm events. The impact of the deployment was also assessed on the basis of respondents' symptom profiles over time. Although 70% of the respondents were symptomaticSunday, September 27, 2009

Article written by Terence Fernandez[Source: http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=38039][Access date: 27 September 2009]

EVERY year, about 3,700 academics from around the world are quizzed on what they think defines a good university and to list down what they feel are the premier higher learning institutions in the world. Their responses are collated and at the end of the day, 500 universities are shortlisted and published on the Times Higher Education (THE) QS World Top University Rankings.

Each year, universities around the globe fall over themselves to gain entry into this prestigious list because it helps secure more grants and sponsors; helps attract a larger student population, where in the era of foreign education, it is used as a commercial boast to attract students.

In Malaysia, where one brags of frivolous achievements


such as the largest fruit basket, longest teh tarik and a space tourist, being listed on the Times-QS rolls is indeed a big deal, which is why when the list is released, all and sundry crane their necks to see if they made the cut.

Politicisation of the education system has added to the cause in standards of local varsities going south and this starts at school – from sub-standard teachers who join teachers’ training college as a last resort, exam-oriented syllabuses to vague admission criteria.

This was well-illustrated when the government recently had to explain that some of its top-scoring Pubic Service Department scholarship applicants may be book smart but do not have the analytical mindset to qualify for certain courses. Basically, it was trying to say that theseletter in English from a university professor littered with grammatical errors. Not too long ago, one university had to publish an apology to a member of the Royal House for its atrocious use of the English language in a congratulatory message to her published the previous day.

I cannot speak on other faculties but we have many journalism students interning with us. The knowledge that their lecturers have not spent a day in a newsroom sends shudders down our spine as we contemplate the future of journalism in this country. One intern even confided that the first thing she learnt was self-censorship – how to write favourably about the establishment.

Then there are those which border on the criminal. Last week, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia law lecturer Yasmin Norhazleena Bahari


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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Not long ago, an international news agency shown police forcefully using water cannon against Hindraf protesters in their television news. Yet, the most deep memory in the mentioned news is this phrase used to describe the situation at that time: "This is demorcacy - Malaysian style".

It seem that Malaysian style democracy remains the same as is in the recent protest against the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA). Herewith is the link to BBC News (Asia Pacific) video clip, which once and again shown that democracy is under siege (or perhaps, under ISA detention).

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

BBC (20 July 2009) reported that Chua Jui Meng, a member of Malaysia's governing coalition, has quit to join the opposition Pakatan Alliance. He said he was concerned about allegedabuse of power and the unexplained death of an opposition leader's aide. …

"We see the abuse of power in the use of the federal institutions to harass, persecute and prosecute the leader of the opposition," he said. This was a reference to a sodomy trial, for which preliminary proceedings have begun, against Mr Anwar.

Mr Chua said the sudden death of a young opposition political aide, Teoh Beng Hock, was the tipping point in his decision to join the opposition.

"The tragic death of 30-year-old Teoh Beng Hock is the consequence of one such institution going overboard in its action." Mr Teoh, an aide to a member of the state cabinet in Selangor, ruled by the opposition alliance, apparently plunged from the 14th-floor offices of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.

Meanwhile, Shannon


Teoh (20 July 2009) highlighted three more similar high profile cases happened previously in Malaysia. Among them are the cases of Altantuya Shariibuu, Francis Udayappan and A. Kugan. Her write up is available in Malaysian Insider.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Not long after Jose Mourinho took over as the Chelsea football team manager, he self-proclaimed himself as the ‘Special One’. Coincidently, soon after Najib Abdul Razak took over as prime minister of Malaysia, he announced the ‘1Malaysia’ concept. How would these two match-up in the spirit of democracy?

The concept of democracy could be traced back to the philosophical thoughts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, particularly to his ‘On Social Contract’ (1762). In brief, there are three important components in democracy architectural, namely the individual, the laws and the government.

Every individual is bornof the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA) and resignation of Zaid Ibrahim from his Minister post as a sign of disagreement to the misused of the ISA by the government. Zaid, widely known as de facto Law Minister and is Malaysian best hope for juridical reform. He was later sacked from UMNO. In this month, Sabah Progressive Party (Sapp) also announced its pull out from the BN coalition.

Nonetheless, “September 16” became an anti-climate for the opposition and never materializes. BN keep a clean a sheet and won the “second round” despite Anwar has far more possession in this round. In other happening in September, announcements of big banks from the United States and Europe collapsing did chill the country of a possible global economic crisis and start to


trigger the nation attention to economic arena.

The “third round warm up” did not start off as fierce as the previous two rounds. Therefore, month of October merely involved randomly throwing of punches to each other. These include outgoing MCA President, Ong Ka Ting surprisingly criticizing UMNO as bully in the BN coalition and Zaid Ibrahim claiming that Malay supremacy model has failed. Sexual abuse of Penan women in Sarawak, the controversial appointment of Low Siew Moi as temporary head of PKNS, MCA election, nominations for UMNO election, banning of Hindraf and reductions of petrol price filled up the month.

In November, PKR move up the heat by indicating that the Pakatan Rakyat is targeting Sabah and Sarawak to fulfil the “unfinished” plan of “September 16”, or at least forthe coming state elections. Fatwa on the ban of tomboy characteristic and yoga to Muslim trigger anxiety. Yet, this month seems to belong to BN as various happening started to reveal weakness of the Pakatan Rakyat. Examples are the Penang’s UNESCO status fiasco and various reports of rifts among the Pakatan members.

Full concentration to economy provides calmness before the storm in early part of December. In the late December, plan to privatize IJN (National Heart Institute)causes some spark but it was the debate about implementation of Islamic hudud law resurfaces that matter most, threatening to tear DAP and PAS apart and leaving Anwar and PKR aimless with the “head Pakatan lose, tail, BN win” dilemma.

As the Kuala Terengganu by-election, perhaps the “third round” around the corner, happenings at


state-funded Orthodox rabbis publish books that provide instructions on how and when to kill Gentiles; where half of Jewish youth declare their refusal to sit in a classroom with an Arab; and where mob violence targets Palestinians and African asylum seekers scapegoated by leading government officials as “demographic threats.”

Immersing himself like few other journalists inside the world of hardline political leaders and movements, Blumenthal interviews the demagogues and divas in their homes, in the Knesset, and in the watering holes where their young acolytes hang out, and speaks with those political leaders behind the organized assault on civil liberties. As his journey deepens, he painstakingly reports on the occupied Palestinians challenging schemes of demographic separation through unarmed protest. He talks at length to the leaders and youth ofPalestinian society inside Israel now targeted by security service dragnets and legislation suppressing their speech, and provides in-depth reporting on the small band of Jewish Israeli dissidents who have shaken off a conformist mindset that permeates the media, schools, and the military.

Through his far-ranging travels, Blumenthal illuminates the present by uncovering the ghosts of the pastthe histories of Palestinian neighborhoods and villages now gone and forgotten; how that history has set the stage for the current crisis of Israeli society; and how the Holocaust has been turned into justification for occupation.

A brave and unflinching account of the real facts on the ground, Goliath is an unprecedented and compelling work of journalism.

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"Armed with a critic's eye and a sharp pen, Blumenthal sets out to document what he


regards as the fulfillment of Yeshayahu Leibowitz's darkest prophecy regarding the Israeli occupation. Exposure to the impressions from his journey through the Land of Israel-Palestine might be outrageous, unsettling, often heart wrenching. But those who fear for the image of this land would be well advised to respond to the challenge and to deal with his flowing descriptions of the struggles he witnessed and of the brave souls he met in one of the most divided and conflict-ridden places in the world."Akiva Eldar

Goliath lifts the carefully maintained veil concealing the reality of Israel as it actually is today, a reality that is elided in most reportage from the region Blumenthal's book is packed with remarkable vignettes illustrating the dangerous path Israel is currently following.”Rashid Khalidi

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Sunday, 9 March 2014

Hymn to St Edmund, King & Martyr (recalling my time as precentor at St Edmundsbury Cathedral) - the words are by John Mason Neale

A Pilgrimage Hymn to Our Lady of Walsingham, commissioned from me in the early 1980s by the Anglican Shrine at Walsingham, but never used there

The Gospel Acclamations in Lent set to Genevan psalm tunes. There is a venerable tradition (in which Neale was the master) of setting the chants of the ancient liturgies to post Reformation hymn and psalm tunes in the tradition of Anglican Patrimony. I make no claims for the adaptations of the appointed chants from the Roman Lectionary, but it may be useful to have this noble music available for them to be sung to, rather than their being


A caravan of migrants, nearly all of them Hondurans, is making its way north through Guatemala toward Mexico and the United States. It is the latest, and certainly the largest, iteration of a phenomenon that has occurred from time to time: big groups of Central Americans joining together to face the challenges of migration, their numbers providing security against the criminals that stalk the route north.

But this one has drawn the ire of President Trump, who warned on Thursday that he would shut down the southwest border of the United States if Mexico did not halt the group. He also reiterated his threat that unless the governments of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador stopped the caravan’s progress, he would suspend foreign aid to them.

“I must, in the strongestRemain and Leave camps of the Conservative party has been put forward.

The plan - called the The Malthouse Compromise after Kit Malthouse who brought the parties together - would lead to Britain leaving the EU "on time and with a functioning government", former Brexit minster Steve Baker said.

The plan "provides for exit from the EU on time with a new backstop, which would be acceptable indefinitely, but which incentivises us all to reach a new future relationship".

It would extend the transition period - the period where the UK would continue to follow EU rules and pay into its budget - from the end of 2020 and into December 2021 which would "allow both parties to prepare properly for WTO terms, but also provide a period in which the


parties could obviate this outcome by negotiating a mutually beneficial future relationship".

Former Cabinet minister Nicky Morgan has confirmed talks have been taking place for "some days" between MPs from the Remain and Leave wings of the Tory Party, co-ordinated by MP Kit Malthouse, to find a compromise way forward.

The discussions involved herself, Health Minister Stephen Hammond, and Solicitor General Robert Buckland from one wing of the party, and Jacob Rees-Mogg and Steve Baker from the Brexiteer side.

She said their plan involved a "recasting" of the Northern Ireland backstop as "free trade agreement-lite" with a commitment on all sides there should be no hard border on the island of Ireland and an extended transition period to December 2021.

"The Prime Minister has been aware of the discussions. At some point12 people and injuring 48, did so intentionally in a terrorist attack, police said on Tuesday.

According to reports in German newspapers, the alleged attacker has been identified as 23-year-old Naved B who was born in Pakistan in 1993. Local broadcaster rbb cited security sources as saying the arrested truck driver came to Germany via Passau, a city on the Austrian border, on Dec. 31, 2015.

A Berlin paper, Der Tagesspiegel, reported earlier that he was believed to be either Pakistani or Afghan.

German authorities and police have yet to disclose the identity and origin of the attacker. However, it has been ascertained that the truck was intentionally driven into the market.

They say the real culprit is still on the loose. "Our investigators assume that the truck was deliberately steered into


Translations
Two English translations of De Coitu are readily available:
 Delany, Paul. "Constantinus Africanus' De Coitu: A Translation." Chaucer Review 4, no. 1 (Summer 1969): 55-65.
 Wallis, Faith, ed. Medieval Medicine: A Reader (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 511–523.
The preface to Constantine's Pantegni is also available:
  Eric Kwakkel and Francis Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the oldest manuscript of his Pantegni (Turnhout, 2019), pp. 207-209

The legend of Constantine
In his introduction of the complete works of Ambroise Pare,  here what Doctor Malgaigne writes:
"Constantine was born in Carthage and taken with an ardent desire to learn all  sciences he went to Babylonia, learned grammar, logic, physics (medicine), geometry, arithmetic, mathematics, astronomy, necromancy, and music. After exhausting all sciences of the Chaldeans, ArabsSisecam has announced that it will be installing new XPAR Vision Hot End technology in its plants in Yenisehir, Eskisehir and Mersin.

Sisecam Glass Packaging, the leading Turkish group of container glass manufacturing plants, producing containers for Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics, will install new XPAR Vision Hot End technology in its plants in Yenisehir, Eskisehir and Mersin.

With the installation of XPAR Vision IGC (InfraRed Gobweight Control) systems at its blow-blow production lines,Sisecam Glass Packaging is extending the control of the forming process by automatic closed loop control of the weight of the gobs, performed by IGC. This unique development by XPAR Vision allows the plant’s operators to gain in ease-of-use operation while having the benefits of the automated closed loop to regulate stable weight of the bottles


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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Noomi Rapace & The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones have released their new music video (watch below) for the song "Doom and Gloom" off their career-spanning hits set "GRRR!" which was released last week. The new video stars Noomi Rapace, known to Americans for her roles in the hit films Prometheus and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. She also starred in the Swedish versions of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy as Lisbeth Salander.

Props to The Rolling Stones for still kicking ass after 50 years and releasing a fairly imaginative music video to an energetic new song. The video features a scene with ZOMBIES, which automaticallymakes it great in my book. The Stones will be playing a few concerts soon in London and the New York area, and rumors are they might play more dates in 2013. One such rumor is that they'll be one of the three headliners for the Glastonbury Festival in 2013, which makes its return after taking a year off. It was last headlined by U2, Beyonce and Coldplay.

They also released their first official app to the iTunes store. Looks like they'll be rocking beyond their 50th year. Mick Jagger still just wants to know, "Baby won't you dance with me?"


help bust a national machinist worker’s strike in 1901, and the tradition continued with Columbia students acting as strike-breakers in a 1905 transit strike, a 1920 railroad strike, and a building trades strike in 1936, until the rise of student leftism finally made collegiate scabbing uncouth.

And again, I was there when the GSEU held a “Free the Ballot Box” protest on the steps of Low Library to protest management having locked up the ballot boxes in the NLRB election that had been held shortly before the Brown decision, which election had come only after four years of management stalling and failed appeals that dragged on for years after the NLRB had made its ruling in 2000 granting the right to organize.In 1933, Michigan moved quickly and became the first state to ratify the 21st Amendment repealing the prohibition of alcohol. But these days, a mix of politics, power and lobbying means change doesn't come as fast when it comes to the state's liquor laws.

There was optimism among state officials — and some brewers and pub owners — when a state commission produced a 2012 report detailing a myriad of ways to modernize Michigan's liquor control system. The changes were billed as a way to spur business and job growth while maintaining public safety.

Two years and one day later, just 18 of those 72 recommendations have been implemented, and a handful of those that were approved have been watered down from the original proposals after lobbyists and the lawmakers


names 13 specific purchased branded items that can be used.

Critics say these and many of the other proposals didn't see the light of day or were changed because they would hurt the profits of wholesalers that operate in specific jurisdictions — entities with which bar and restaurant owners are required to do business by state law.

"I don't think much gets done on alcohol without the wholesalers' fingerprints on it," said Michael LaFaive, director of fiscal policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

Mike Lashbrook, president of the Michigan Beer and Wine WholesalersAssociation, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Lansing, is not shy about the role his organization played in preventing many of the provisions from taking hold.

"We see that as a success," he said. "We believechanged and they play defense when they don't. In this case, the wholesalers didn't want many of the changes. Because the wholesalers give generously to lawmakers in both parties and often host fundraisers at their office near the Capitol, Robinson said, he was not surprised so little has been done.

"They give any lawmaker money who is sucking air, so long as they aren't complete teetotalers," he said.

Cleaning the lines

Some of the other rule changes that were implemented were less controversial, such as no longer requiring security guards to escort individuals visiting the Michigan Liquor Control Commission in Lansing.

Other changes reduced duplicative paperwork and encouraged the use of electronic communication to help speed up the process of approving liquor licenses.

One of the biggest changes was for conditional liquor licenses.

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Eastern Michigan U Streamlines Backup

By Dian Schaffhauser

12/09/09

Eastern Michigan University has upgraded EMC backup equipment in its data center operations with newer EMC gear. The institution is using both Avamar deduplication backup software and Celerra unified storage for daily backups of data maintained by its mission critical applications, including SunGard Higher Education's Banner, Microsoft SQL Server, and SAP BusinessObjects. Previously, according to a request for proposal put out for the new implementation in February 2009, the university was running EMC's DMX 800, a Celerra SE NAS, and a storage area network switching infrastructure.

According to Lynnette Rose, associate director for enterprise operations, backing up a NAS file system would formerly take four days and frequently wasn't successful. "In addition, we would have to allocate large segments of ourtook a very early shower in the midweek game at Arsenal, seeing red in the opening stages.

Statistically speaking, Wolves have the worst defence in the Premier League and its third worst offence and when considering that Sunderland have kept clean sheets in almost half of their home matches this campaign, the chances of the visitors scoring this weekend look slim indeed, let alone coming away with any points in hand.


cigarette, smokes it and it burns her on the inside
Sarah is afraid of water, but in the end she and the bad guy fight underwater for a long time and she ends up killing him because he needed to breathe and she shot him with her hand out of water.
P.S. the first scene I remember is a dorm flooded with water and the wheelchair guy is stuck. Lamps fall on the water so that it gets electrified. Cole saves him.

I remember many details but not the movie's name...
I apologize if the format looks terrible but I'm still not used to how this site works.

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This is Mindhunters from 2004 with Jonny Lee Miller and Christian Slater:

On a remote island, the FBI has a training program for their psychologicalprofiling division, called "Mindhunters", used to track down serial killers. The training goes horribly wrong, however, when a group of seven young agents discover that one of them is a serial killer, and is setting about slaying the others. Can the few that are left figure out who the killer is in time?

Every detail you've mentioned is in there (though the black guy is called Gabe). Here's the trailer:


central zone. Israel laid claim to the remainder, most of the southern zone and the entire central zone west of the Jordan River.

September 1953 Israel advanced plans to divert water to help irrigate the coastal Sharon Plain and eventually the Negev desert and launched a diversion project on a  channel midway between the Huleh Marshes and the Sea of Galilee in the central DMZ to be rapidly constructed. Syria claimed that it would dry up  of Syrian land. The UNTSO Chief of Staff Major General Vagn Bennike of Denmark noted that the project was denying water to two Palestinian water mills, was drying up Palestinian farm land, and was a substantial military benefit to Israel against Syria. The Israeli response was to increase work. UN SecurityDevelopment Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh, which built the new houses in partnership with BRAC, a Bangladesh-based non-governmental development organisation.

The 170 square foot (15 square metre) homes are designed to withstand winds of up to 240 kph (150 mph).

Akhter and one of her daughters survived the 2009 cyclone by grabbing hold of a piece of iron roof sheeting that was floating past. She believes that if her family had been living in a sturdier elevated house, like her new one, they would not have been washed out and their lives endangered.

The Disaster Resilient Habitat (DRH) project aims to build safer settlements in Bangladesh coastal villages affected by cyclones or tidal surges, so that families can survive future cyclones.
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before, right?"

Blake shook her head, her amber eyes still puzzled. She's never celebrated Halloween before? "Should I of…?" This had to change.

Ruby slowly nodded her head. "Everyone does it… that's what we're going to do tomorrow, you're coming with us I thought. Unless you don't wanna…"

"Sure, I don't mind…?"

Ruby favoured Blake with a grin before cupping her hands around her mouth. "YANG!"

A few seconds later of feet padding along the floor and Yang's head leaned through the door way. "What's up sis?"

"We need to get Blake a costume!"

A mischievous smirk appeared on Yang's face.

"Are you sure this is… wise?"

"Yup~!" Ruby stated as she put on her costume. It was looked simple enough to Blake; the teen was wearing a witch costume. It was perhaps one of the morestereotypical witch interpretations that Blake had heard of; a black outfit with a cape –eerily similar to the normal red one she wore- a pointed black hat with a large rim, and even pointy shoes. The image was complete with a massive broomstick. Although that's a bit oddly shaped for a broo- Wait.

"Is that," Blake pointed at the prop, "Crescent Rose?" It couldn't be…

"Yup!" Ruby brought it in front of her before taking off a fake wood cover that was velcro'd on, then pulling the straw bit off the end.

It was Crescent Rose.

Blake had a single thought on her mind which she voiced.

"Why?"

Ruby frowned. "Everyone's going in costume, why not Crescent Rose?" As Blake question the absurdity of it, Ruby put the fake wood finish and straw back


anterior surface of the porto-mesenteric vein. After gentle mobilization of the body and tail of the pancreas and spleen, pancreatic transection in the neck followed by ligation of the splenic vein was performed before ligation of the SPA (final step of the DP). After removal of the distal pancreas, the proximal pancreas with the duodenum was then removed by the standard Whipple's procedure. The total weight of the pancreas was 86 g. An 8 Fr. size catheter was cannulated into the main pancreatic duct and ductal injection was performed at the procurement site using ET-K solution (Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory Inc.). The pancreas was immersed into the cold ET-K solution, packed in a cooler box with crushed ice and carried to the cell-processing center of our institution. After performingfoods than ever this year. November, Native American Heritage Month, is an especially fitting time to celebrate the addition to FDPIR of bison, blue cornmeal, wild rice, and wild salmon – foods that not only nourish a body but sustain a culture.

In collaboration with the FDPIR community, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service and Food and Nutrition Service have been working to identify culturally relevant foods to procure and offer through FDPIR, a program that provides healthy food and nutrition education to an average of 92,500 income-eligible individuals living on or near reservations across the United States each month. The food package offers more than 100 domestically sourced, nutritious foods, including a variety of meat, poultry, fish, dairy, grains, and fruits and vegetables. In both fiscal year 2015 and 2016,


USDA received an additional allocation of $5 million dedicated to traditional and locally-grown foods. This fund, authorized under the 2014 Farm Bill and subject to the availability of appropriations, has allowed the exploration of new culinary opportunities for FDPIR.

In late 2015, bison and blue cornmeal became the first traditional foods delivered through FDPIR. More than half a million pounds of frozen, lean ground bison meat have reached program participants throughout the country, with an additional one million pounds already on contract to be distributed over the next year. Two of the three bison vendors are Native American-owned small businesses. Tribes received whole-grain blue cornmeal during the 2015 holiday season, and beginning in mid-2016, have been able to receive this nutrient-rich product year-round.

In August 2016, USDA awarded contracts forFilm's global box office total reaches US$99 million

The Box Office Mojo website reported the Dragon Ball Super: Broly anime film has earned an estimated US$29,101,069 in the United States and Canada from January 16 to 31. The site estimates the film has sold a cumulative 3,222,700 tickets in North America. The film is still screening in theaters.

Funimation told ANN that the estimate is not up to date. Funimation last released an official box office total on January 24, when the film had screened for two weeks and earned more than US$24 million.

The film has earned more than US$70 million outside of the United States and Canada, including about US$34 million in Japan alone. The combined domestic and foreign total has reached an estimated US$99,142,436.

Dragon Ball Super: Broly already


earned over US$7 million on 1,440 screens, including 180 IMAX and Cinemark XD screens, on its opening day on January 16, and had earned US$20,214,771 by that weekend. That total ranked the film at #3 in box office revenue (not adjusted for inflation) on the all-time chart of anime films in the United States and Canada, behind 1999's Pokemon: The First Movie and Pokemon 2000 - The Movie . The film earned an estimated US$3,600,000 from January 25 to 27, making it the third all-time highest-ranking anime film in the United States in terms of estimated tickets sold, behind the two Pokémon films.

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' , the previous film in the franchise, set Funimation Films' previous opening day record when it earned US$1.97 million on itsopening day in the United States. Dragon Ball Super: Broly now holds the record. According to Funimation , the new film set the record for biggest opening for an event film, and was the fifth highest earning anime theatrical opening of all time.

Funimation premiered the film's English dub at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood on December 13.

Vic Mignogna and Dameon Clarke returned as the English voices of Broly and Paragus, respectively, and Chris Ayres played Frieza. Other English dub cast members included Sean Schemmel as Goku himself, Emily Neves as Gine (Goku's mother), Erica Lindbeck as Cheelai, Bruce Carey as Lemo, Veronica Taylor as Berryblue, and Sonny Franks as Kikono.

The film opened in Japan on December 14, and it sold more than 820,000 tickets and earned more


than 1,050,000,000 yen (about US$9.26 million) in its first three days in Japan, topping the box office in its first weekend. Toei stated it anticipates the film will earn more than 5 billion yen (about US$44 million).

Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama wrote the script and designed the characters. Tatsuya Nagamine ( One Piece Film Z ) directed the film, Naohiro Shintani served as animation director, and Kazuo Ogura served as art director. Norihito Sumitomo composed the music, and Daichi Miura performed the film's theme song "Blizzard."

Source: Box Office Mojo (link 2)plots of the novel, Anita is contacted by the FBI to help them track down someone who is abusing zombies and selling zombie porn. Back in an earlier book, Anita encountered a voodoo priestess who was able to return the souls of the dead to their bodies after raising them as zombies, torturing them with awareness of their true state, and it appears someone has either discovered or re-invented the technique.

Anita also finds herself in a tough situation when a zombie she raises for a historical society to quiz turns out to be far too lifelike, and developing flesh-eating cravings. The first is a symptom of her growing powers, possibly, and the second is due to an unknown fact about the person whose body she raises.

Speaking of her


Milan Fashion Week

Updated Tuesday February 28, 9.36am: Following in the footsteps of Christopher Kane and Erdem in London, Milan's colour of choice was definitely purple - with Alberta Ferretti, Gucci and Fendi putting it in the collection and Prada and Versace putting it on the catwalk (in the form of a vibrant violet carpet).

Beyond Milan's usual obsession with animal skins, the city has developed a new penchant this season: stretch crocodile fabric. Already seen in London at Tom Ford, Fendi and MaxMara showed it too - whilst black and white surreal prints popped up at Versace, Moschino, Alberta Ferretti and Emporio Armani.

Updated Tuesday February 28, 9.36am: Milan Fashion Week may be officially over, but we're reminiscing on VogueTV, where we have captured all the biggest shows purely forrecommended to undergo concurrent chemoradiation, but ultimately was unable to receive chemotherapy due to an atypical mycobacteria pulmonary infection. She received 45 Gray (Gy) in 25 fractions to the PTV, which encompassed the GTV, cervix, parametrium, uterus, upper vagina and pelvic lymph nodes. The external bean treatment was delivered using IMRT on a Tri-Cobalt-60 MRI-guided radiotherapy system (ViewRay MRIdian, Cleveland, Ohio, United States). She was advised to have comfortable bladder filling for treatment. She tolerated external beam radiation with moderate fatigue endorsed toward the end of her treatment course and without gastrointestinal, genitourinary, or integumentary toxicities.

She went on to receive high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy with four intracavitary implants. On the day of the first implant, a Smit sleeve was inserted to facilitate subsequent tandem insertion. An MR-compatible, intra-uterine tandem and two 25 mm ovoids were used for


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this season. It was a lovely evening and
one I cherish each year with cousins.

The following week I hosted the neighbors for an annual
Chili party. Another wonderful
experience to fill my holiday season. A
surprise dinner invitation to another cousin and his wife rounded out the week
before we entered the Christmas weekend.
Interspersed with the holiday gatherings I was also focusing on some
knee pain which keeps me from working out the way I always have and a strange
rash that showed up on my right shin.

The Christmas weekend brought family from Virginia to visit
and with them came this beautiful little dog named Molly. This was a fun visit building Gingerbread
houses; well they built, mine crashed.
But it was fun and it was a new experience for me.


Texas receiver Brady Boyd commits to the Gophers' 2021 class

Texas receiver Brady Boyd committed to the Gophers on Friday night, announcing his decision on Twitter.

The 6-1, 175-pound Southlake Carroll product is a three-star recruit, per 247Sports.com. He had other offers from programs such as Texas Tech and Oklahoma State.

While the Gophers staff is not allowed to travel to visit recruits or allow them on campus during the coronavirus pandemic, the coaches have been recruiting from afar with video chats and virtual video tours of the facilities. Boyd is the first commitment since this recruiting moratorium. He is the sixth member of the 2021 class so far.

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Megan Ryan is a sports reporter at the Star Tribune covering college sports, including Gophers football and hockey. Ryan covered Minnesota UnitedLogos of ABB AG sit on display outside the company's semi-conductor plant in Lenzburg, Switzerland.

ABB Chief Executive Ulrich Spiesshofer has quit the Swiss industrial group as the board and major shareholders look for a speedier turnaround at the maker of industrial robots and supplier of factory automation.

Spiesshofer's abrupt exit follows the launch of the biggest overhaul in ABB's 31-year history to reposition the company more towards digital industries and agreeing to activist shareholder demands to sell its power grids business.

But the latest revamp by the former management consultant failed to revitalize ABB's stock, which has flatlined under his tenure while profits fell last year.

Time ran out for Spiesshofer, who has led ABB since September 2013, following a conference call between board members on Tuesday evening.

ABB said Spiesshofer's exit


The relationship between the news media and reality

As a result of the intense stress faced by many Americans during the s, broadcasters and viewers turned to escapist programs such as I Dream of Jeannie, a fantasy show about a 2,year-old genie who marries an astronaut, and Bewitched, a supernatural-themed show about a witch who tries to live as a suburban housewife.

They withdrew from their social life, yet they have a social life; they left the world, but they have a world.

The royals are born to rule and we are apparently born to watch, or so it is assumed by those who publish paparazzi shots of them and their adjuncts.

For example, in Morris Louis; Dalet Kaf Horizontal and Vertical blur he appropriates a painting by Louis, applying a simpleediting filter to it and then printing it out quarter-scale.

That much we know. The sublimity of the virtual landscape has been explored recently by the Spanish artist Joan Leandre in his video In the Name of Kernel - ongoingwhich hacks corporate flight simulators, while identity construction in digital realities finds its master in Gazira Babeli, an avatar artist who plays the role of a virus in the system with a Keatonian sense of comedy.

The Science and Craft of Evidence-based Practice This book examines several current clinical approaches to trauma-focused treatment. Buy Now Journalists under Fire: The images themselves have played an important role in influencing viewer opinion. However, the families and lifestyles presented in domestic comedies did not encompass the overall American experience by any stretch of the


imagination.

The goals of the editor are to tell the story of thousands of individuals dedicated to helping others; and to integrate issues of protection and care into all levels of planning, implementing and evaluating international intervention and action.

With chilling literary power, Lifton describes the Nazi transmutation of values that allowed medical killing to be seen as a therapeutic healing of the body politic.

Buy Now Witness to an Extreme Century: In his recent work Paul B. Featuring a middle-aged feminist living with her fourth husband and divorced daughter, the show exploded the dominant values of the White middle-class domestic sitcom and its traditional gender roles.

Murrow broadcast an unflattering portrait of U. They are not about reality, like a painting by Courbet. It is also the deeply moving portrait ofthose who fought Leopold: Featuring a different celebrity guest host every week and relatively unknown comedy regulars, the show parodies contemporary popular culture and politics, lambasting presidential candidates and pop stars alike.

A press call is never enough. And what a rum do all this is. Love, War, and Redemption An enthralling, deeply moving memoir from one of our foremost American war correspondents.

Can you show it to me? Earlier NBC sketch comedy show Laugh-In, which ran from toalso featured politically charged material, though it lacked the satirical bite of later series such as SNL. Long divorced from her mother, he is said to be close to his daughter.

Portrayed in some quarters as some kind of bumbling reclusive bankrupt, he actually won several awards during his career. There are laws,


and enquiries; there is hand-wringing, and then there is the reality: During the booming postwar era, a period of optimism and prosperity, the traditional nuclear family flourished.

Although these shows depicted an idealized version of American family life, many families in the s were traditional nuclear families. When terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center towers inhour TV news crews provided stunned viewers around the world with continuous updates about the attack and its aftermath.

Both shows typified the situation comedy Comedy genre, also known as a sitcom, that features a recurring cast of characters who resolve zany situations based on their everyday lives.

This led to such an uproar that McCarthy was formally reprimanded by the U. Providing viewers with footage of the most intense human experiences, televised newshas been able to reach people in a way that radio and newspapers cannot.

At one time, power meant privacy.

Other than an occasional documentary, TV programming in the s consisted of a sharp dichotomy between prime-time escapist comedy and hard news. However, as cable services gained popularity following the deregulation of the industry inviewers found themselves with a multitude of options.

See Craig, Edward ed. Further images, of children being burned and scarred by napalm and prisoners being tortured, fueled the antiwar sentiments of many Americans.There is not a relationship between the royal family and the press: there is a void, and it is dark.

There are moments of negotiated truce, of course, lines constantly drawn and breached.

The Relationship between Traditional Mass Media and ‘‘Social Media’’: Reality Television as a Model


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The collision occurred at the intersection of the Santa Fe tracks and Texas Farm-to-Market Highway 365.  As Abate approached the crossing from the west, he reduced his speed from 40 miles an hour, preparing to stop at a highway intersection 80 feet beyond the crossing.  He testified that several highway signs and a flashing red light at the highway intersection distracted his attention from the crossing until he was about 20 feet from the tracks.  Although the crossing was marked by a cross-bar sign 675 feet from the tracks, a clump of trees and several buildings prevented a clear view of the train until the car was within 300 feet of the crossing.  Abate says that he never heard a whistle nor sawthe train before it struck his car broadside.  He sustained injuries to his hip, back, knee, ribs, and elbow.  Because the knee injury is particularly serious and painful, one doctor has suggested fusion or amputation to relieve his discomfort.

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The train, pulled by a switching diesel in reverse gear, approached the crossing from the north at about 20 miles an hour.  Because the engineer could see only the left side of the tracks, the brakeman served as a lookout on the right side.  The brakeman testified that he advised the engineer of Abate's approach and that the whistle began blowing from 200 to 300 feet before the crossing.  Although the brakeman thought that the engineer started to brake the train as soon as the


Abate, who is completely disabled, is facing the threat of amputation, and has suffered and is still suffering great pain, was excessively compensated by the district court.

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The Court has considered all of the points of error the appellant relies on, including those not referred to in this opinion.

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The judgment is AFFIRMED.

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 Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 6371 (Vernon Supp.1976) states in part:
A bell of at least thirty (30) pounds weight and a steam whistle, air whistle or air siren shall be placed on such locomotive engine, and the steam whistle or air siren shall be sounded and the bell rung at a distance of at least eighty (80) rods from the place where the railroad shall cross any public road or street, and such bell shall be kept ringing until itLatkowo, Inowrocław County

Latkowo  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Inowrocław, within Inowrocław County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland.

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‘Call for Papers’ on Innovation in Education for Fall Conference

April 15 2014

The Africa-America Institute is issuing a call for papers for international educators and academics to present bold and innovation solutions on improving the quality of education at all levels to advance Africa’s global competitiveness and economic growth at AAI’s State of Education in Africa conference this fall.

The inaugural Annual State of Education in Africa conference, to be held on September 9 at the Ford Foundation in New York City, will track the progress of primary, secondary, tertiary, technical and vocational education in Africa. The education conference will also explore thematic, country and sector approaches to strengthening the capacity of Africans and educational institutions.

The conference will feature three panels on Primary and Secondary Education: Where Do We GoJUST IN: Babies with 3 Biological Parents the Hope of Mankind's Future?

This year, the field of medicine has taken a giant leap of faith as the first baby with three biological parents was born healthily and successfully. The announcement was a pretty big surprise which garnered both positive and negative feedback from many communities all over the world. But what does it mean to have three biological parents?

A method widely known as mitochondrial replacement has been in the works for the past few decades. This is a process for which faulty mitochondria from a mother's egg is replaced by mitochondria from a donor's egg and then mixed in with the father's sperm. Though it would not necessarily entail involving two egg donor and one sperm donor, it is


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Dutch starlet turns down chance to join Arsenal

Midfield player confirms he will not be moving to the Emirates this summer.

Arsenal have been rocked by the news that AZ Alkmaar’s highly-rated midfield player Adam Maher has decided not to join the North London club at the end of this season, according to reports on talkSPORT.co.uk.

fanatix tickets – Barclays Premier League tickets are still available for next weekend’s games.Sunderland vs Arsenal tickets are on sale from £23 for this Saturday’s match at the Stadium of Light.

The Gunners had been hopeful of bringing the youngster to the Emirates, either during the January transfer window that has now since closed, or this summer, especially after AZ head coach Gertjan Verbeek had suggested at the end of last year that Maher wouldPerekop, a strip of land about  wide.

Much of the natural border between the Crimean Peninsula and the Ukrainian mainland comprises the Sivash or "Rotten Sea", a large system of shallow lagoons stretching along the western shore of the Sea of Azov. Besides the isthmus of Perekop, the peninsula is connected to the Kherson Oblast's Henichesk Raion by bridges over the narrow Chonhar and Henichesk straits and over Kerch Strait to the Krasnodar Krai. The northern part of Arabat Spit is administratively part of Henichesk Raion in Kherson Oblast, including its two rural communities of Shchaslyvtseve and Strilkove. The eastern tip of the Crimean peninsula comprises the Kerch Peninsula, separated from Taman Peninsula on the Russian mainland by the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea with the


with the temple of Artemis where Iphigeneia is said to have officiated as priestess.
Uchan-su, on the south slope of the mountains, is the highest waterfall in Crimea.

Hydrography
There are 257 rivers and major streams on the Crimean peninsula; they are primarily fed by rainwater, with snowmelt playing a very minor role. This makes for significant annual fluctuation in water flow, with many streams drying up completely during the summer. The largest rivers are the Salhir (Salğır, Салгир), the Kacha (Кача), the Alma (Альма), and the Belbek (Бельбек).  Also important are the Kokozka (Kökköz or Коккозка), the Indole (Indol or Индо́л), the Chorna (Çorğun, Chernaya or Чёрная), the Derekoika (Dereköy or Дерекойка), the Karasu-Bashi (Biyuk-Karasu or Биюк-Карасу) (tributary of Salhir river), the Burulcha (Бурульча) (tributary of Salhir river), theabout the historic deportation of Crimean Tatars in that year by Soviet authorities.

According to the, broken in practice by Russian companies, Ukrainian “law on concert activities” only Ukrainian companies can organise concerts in Crimea.

Sport
Following Crimea's vote to join Russia and subsequent annexation in March 2014, the top football clubs withdrew from the Ukrainian leagues. Some clubs registered to join the Russian leagues but the Football Federation of Ukraine objected. UEFA ruled that Crimean clubs could not join the Russian leagues but should instead be part of a Crimean league system. The Crimean Premier League is now the top professional football league in Crimea.

A number of Crimean-born athletes have been given permission to compete for Russia instead of Ukraine at future competitions, including Vera Rebrik, the European javelin champion.


it was a campaign featuring actual owners. After a serendipitous series of events—including a lot of backlash from people who were angry that I would be so nitpicky— I got a tip from someone that this woman was an educational interpreter and not deaf.

When I talked with Holly about the claims that she was hearing, she responded that she was deaf, but she had a twin sister who was hearing, and that was what was causing the confusion. She even faxed me falsified birth certificates. After many odd incidents, she finally came clean. I later found out that she had pretended to be deaf for up to two years before the advertisement—so she didn’t do it for the money alone.

Speaking of money—she was to get $75,000 for thethe Deaf and the National Deaf Business Institute, and is a RID-certified deaf interpreter. In 2008, Trudy received the Gallaudet University Alumni Association Outstanding Young Alumnus Award and the National Association of the Deaf CEO’s Award. In 2009, she was selected by Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie for a National Association of Secretaries of State Medallion Award.


When: Wednesday, February 3rd – from 6:30 to 8:30PM
Where: CIC Cambridge, Havana room, 5th floor, One Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
Presentation in french followed by a networking reception

Our Guest:

Anne-Marie Prud’homme obtained a Bachelor and a Masters in Biological Sciences from the Universities of Montreal and McGill. The first fifteen years of her professional career has been devoted to environmental projects with NGOs, consulting firms and government departments. Subsequently, she joined Hydro-Québec in 1995 where she worked in ecotoxicology and as environmental advisor to the vice-presidenct for the Environment at Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie. She also worked as a project coordinator at the Hydro-Quebec Foundation for Environment. Since May 2010 she has been part of the Public Affairs and Media team as a scientific spokeswoman.

The Presentation:

While energy supply, specifically those of cleanTHERE are big plans in store for Liverpool Street University.

The alternative education path will be moving from its current Speed St location in the next couple of years and will morph into the Street Universe.

The Ted Noffs Foundation is behind the street uni and its chief executive Matt Noffs is excited about its future.

He’s hoping they’ll be moving into their new site by the end of 2018.

Mounties has sold the current site and will be providing the street uni with its new site at 403 Newbridge Rd, Moorebank costing $1 million.

Mr Noffs was a 20-something-year-old when he first met Mounties Group chief executive Greg Pickering.

He took his idea of creating a street university in Liverpool. Since then, Mounties Group has committed $2.57 million to it.

“Greg (Pickering) was the


US troops punished for Quran burning, urination video

Washington: American military authorities disciplined nine service members on Monday for two episodes this year - the burning of Qurans and the posting of a video showing Marines urinating on dead insurgents - that prompted nationwide outrage in Afghanistan. The punishments did not include criminal charges or jail time, and they fell short of what President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan had demanded.

Army officials said that four Army officers and two enlisted soldiers received letters of reprimand for sending boxes of Qurans from a prison library to a burn pit at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

Although an Army investigation that was made public on Monday found that the soldiers did not act out of "malicious intent" to disrespect the Quran or defameIslam, investigators concluded that they did not follow proper procedures, were ignorant of the importance of the Quran to Afghans and got no clear guidance from their leaders in a chain of mistakes.

The Marine Corps said three of four Marines seen in a video urinating on the body of a dead Taliban fighter received "nonjudicial punishments," which could include letters of reprimand, a reduction in rank, forfeit of some pay, physical restriction to a military base, extra duties or some combination of those measures. The corps did not say what happened to the fourth officer.

The Marine Corps did not release the results of its investigation into the episode because, officials said, there were continuing inquiries about higher-ranking officers in the unit involved, which was part of the Third


the two episodes, which seriously worsened relations between the United States and Afghanistan, although the Quran burning engendered far more outrage than the Marine video did.

The Quran episode occurred in February at the library of the Parwan detention center on the edge of Bagram Air Base, where thousands of Afghans captured by American and international forces are held.

Officers there worried that some detainees were communicating through notes written in library books, potentially to plan an attack. As a precaution, the officers assigned two Afghan-American interpreters to sort through the library's books and identify those that might contain messages that could pose a security risk.

By the time the interpreters were finished, nearly 2,000 volumes, including copies of the Quran and other religious texts, had been set aside for removal.According to the investigation, one interpreter reported that up to 75 percent of the books in the library contained extremist content. But high-ranking Afghan religious officials who conducted their own inquiry said at the time that they doubted the writing in the books was anything other than personal notations, and that some of it was simply notes of detainees' imprisonment, their names, their fathers' names and the locations and times of their arrest.

Still, the books were deemed "sensitive material" by American military officials, who said they decided to burn them because there was no place to store them all. Although an Afghan National Army officer and a linguist expressed concern when they saw the books loaded onto a truck, they were still taken to the Bagram base's incinerator.


As workers began heaving them into the flames, an Afghan laborer offered to help - and then started screaming when he realized what they were. The Americans immediately stopped, but by then at least four Qurans had been badly burned.

The officer who led the investigation, Brig. Gen. Bryan G. Watson, said in his report that the fact "that U.S. service members did not heed the warnings of their A.N.A. partners is, perhaps, my biggest concern."

The Marine video became public in January, when it was posted on video-sharing Web sites including LiveLeak and YouTube. Military officials said at the time that they did not know who had made the video, but confirmed that it was authentic. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and othertop officials swiftly expressed outrage and offered apologies to the Afghan government.

The video showed four Marines urinating over what appeared to be the corpses of three Taliban fighters. One of the Marines was heard saying, "Have a great day, buddy."

Marine officials said on Monday that the action in the video took place during a counterinsurgency operation on or around July 27, 2011, in the Musa Qala district in Helmand Province, a Taliban stronghold and a center of opium poppy production that was the scene of tough fighting at the time. Of the roughly 1,000 Marines in the battalion, seven were killed during the unit's seven-month deployment in the area.

The Marine Corps said in a statement that one of the three disciplined officers pleaded guilty to urinating on the


in those same magazines, or plain old word of mouth. And that worked to such an amazing extent that by the time the “original quest” reached its conclusion in 1984, we were shipping 100,000 copies of each new issue right off the press – which was, at that time, totally unheard of for an indy, black and white comic book. Over the years, we’ve watched as Elfquest’s presence has waxed and waned, depending on whether or not we were between series or the direct market was booming or imploding or whatever. When the internet – and the web – started coming into its own in the early 1990s, we were right there at the forefront – in fact, Elfquest was the very first comic series to have itsbeen many over the years, and even more recently as a result of our 35th anniversary tour. One amazing moment from the past has to be from 1981, at the San Diego Comic Con, when two separate groups of Elfquest fans, totaling over sixty kids, dressed up as their favorite characters (the word “cosplay” didn’t even exist back then) and overwhelmed the hallways and the costume competition all day Saturday. And then, just this past year, there were several instances where individual fans, often shyly, came up to us and told us how Elfquest had – in some cases literally – saved their lives. Even in the midst of thousands of convention goers, those moments – when a quiet hug makes all the chaos disappear – become personal


home. He left Harlem for Greenwich Village in the early 1940s, left Greenwich Village for Paris in 1948, and spent much time in Paris, Turkey, and the South of France between the 1950s and the 1980s. Yet Baldwin and Emerson both can speak directly to another person’s soul, as James would have it, in a way that “seems to go back to the roots of our feelings, to where conduct and manhood begin.”

Baldwin, as much as Emerson, is a legatee of certain Nonconformist beliefs—that every person is a carrier of the divine spark, for instance, an idea that became secular in the time of the American Revolution through arguments regarding the authority of the individual in a political democracy. If this is one of the founding traditions ofAmerican radicalism, then it links the abolitionism of Emerson’s day with the civil rights movement of Baldwin’s. Many intellectuals in the 1960s were aware that the freedom movement was a taking up of what had been left brutally undone since Emancipation. The antislavery cause of a century earlier offered to civil rights activists examples of individual conscience as judge of unjust government and its laws. When the protests of the late 1950s and 1960s that Baldwin wrote about brought the Paris expatriate back to the US, the connection between racial justice and democracy in America was once again at the center of the nation’s politics, asking every citizen to realize that his or her liberty was not freedom so long as other Americans were being denied their rights.

The


political goals of the civil rights movement that Baldwin made himself a witness for, as an essayist, novelist, and activist, were partially realized with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Even the angry black nationalists of the 1960s who attacked Baldwin as a queer and a darling of white liberals accomplished something in the long run. They transformed the public psychology of race, combating on an unprecedented scale the dogma of racial inferiority. Still, Baldwin was as fearless an exponent of racial justice as any of the black nationalists. He famously told the startled Robert Kennedy that young blacks could not be expected to serve loyally in the Vietnam War. Consequently, he was hurt when the Black Panthers’of what historians sometimes call the Second Reconstruction. Americans were told by some commentators how exhausted they were with the subject of racial justice. “That the western world has forgotten that such a thing as the moral choice exists, my history, my flesh, and my soul bear witness,” Baldwin wrote in “An Open Letter to the Born Again” in 1979 and reprinted in The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948–1985. For the remainder of his life he seemed one of the casualties of the freedom movement. He would say that what was wrong with the country was still deeply wrong.

The late uncollected pieces that Baldwin included in The Price of the Ticket were written by a man who remembered himself as a youth with “murder in his


heart.” Just as Baldwin in his later fiction hoped to have another blockbuster like Another Country (1962), so he could sometimes in his later essays seem to be looking to arouse again the sort of controversy that attended the publication of his inflammatory essay on race relations, The Fire Next Time (1963), much of which had appeared in The New Yorker. In the first issue of The New York Review, F.W. Dupee argued that Baldwin had substituted prophecy for analysis and in so doing risked losing his grasp of his great theme, freedom.1 In retrospect, Baldwin in parts of The Fire Next Time can sound somewhat naive about the political process. He certainly overestimated the concern white Americans had about how racial injustice was affecting the moral atmosphereto the critical view that there came a falling off in Baldwin’s work once he had given himself over to forever haranguing Western society. He had stirred the waters with The Fire Next Time, and in the run-up to the 1980 presidential election he again sounded some alarmist chords in a futile effort to reignite in black voters a sense of political urgency:

Therefore, in a couple of days, blacks may be using the vote to outwit the Final Solution. Yes. The Final Solution. No black person can afford to forget that the history of this country is genocidal from where the buffalo once roamed to where our ancestors were slaughtered (from New Orleans to New York, from Birmingham to Boston) and to the Caribbean and to Hiroshima and


Nagasaki and to Saigon. Oh, yes, let freedom ring.

Black critics, especially, have concentrated on what they see as the valor in such political statements, and they praise his last novels, If Beale Street Could Talk (1973) and Just Above My Head (1979), for being proudly pro-black, for depicting loving and supportive black families. They argue that Baldwin sacrificed his popularity with the white critical establishment because he insisted on telling American society discomfiting truths. The exception is Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985), Baldwin’s troubled account of the gruesome Atlanta case in which Wayne Williams was arrested in connection with twenty-eight murders, mostly of children, and was eventually convicted of two of them. Few have defended the book or even tried to explain it.

Meanwhile, young scholars look forsomething fresh to say about Baldwin, to free him from the biography of his early triumphs leading, by way of the assassinations and violence of the 1960s, to late despair. Because of the passage of time, their distance, they examine Baldwin as someone who shows how white America was influenced by black America, and not just in music, and not the usual other way around, that of whites influencing blacks.

Some of the young scholars who want to reconsider Baldwin also have an interest in gender studies. They revere him not only for his pioneering fiction about homosexuality, but for his meditation on masculinity and constricting American ideas of sexuality, “Here Be Dragons,” published in 1985, one of only two essays to address sexuality directly that he published in


his lifetime. Randall Kenan, the editor of The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, is of the generation of young black gay writers for whom Baldwin is a sort of spiritual father.

Baldwin was sure he had to kill off the straightforward realism of Richard Wright in order to heed Henry James, but Kenan didn’t have to set aside his racial identity before he could embrace a queer antecedent. Kenan’s first novel, A Visitation of Spirits (1989), is the coming-of-age story of a black gay youth, and the stories collected in Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (1992) are mostly about what it means to be black, poor, and gay in the South. He has written a biography of Baldwin for young readers, and The Fire This Time (2007) isKenan’s homage to Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, which created a sensation in 1963, the year Kenan was born. Where Baldwin is stirring in denouncing complacent American racism, Kenan’s commentary on what has and has not changed in the racial situation in the US in the years since is tepid, but nevertheless he shows himself a sensitive interpreter of Baldwin’s intentions.

In his introduction to The Cross of Redemption, Kenan says that he had subscribed to the view that Baldwin in his last years was bitter and unhappy:

Journalists often quoted the interviews that Baldwin gave in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the height of the Vietnam War and in the wake of so much death and an American landscape pockmarked with riot-ruined cities.

However, Kenan feels that Baldwin


from rallies in the 1960s; open letters, such as his fiery letter in 1970 to Angela Davis when she was incarcerated, in which he declared that “the enormous revolution in black consciousness which has occurred in your generation, my dear sister, means the beginning or the end of America”; and a memoir of playwright Lorraine Hansberry when she, too, confronted Robert Kennedy and asked him for a “moral commitment” to combat racism.

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James Baldwin in the Blue Mosque, Istanbul, 1965

Not everything great writers do has to be great. We are interested in their miscellaneous writing because we want to go on discovering things by them and things about them. Baldwin never fails to move one somehow. Anguish has your number; it knows where you live, he said. Baldwinlife has failed—to make people happier or to make them better,” Baldwin declared when Eisenhower was in the White House. To become a revolutionary country was the only hope America had, he was saying at the beginning of the Kennedy administration. The standards by which middle-class Americans lived had to be undermined. It was time to create new standards. “What they care about is the continuation of white supremacy, so that white liberals who are with you in principle will move out when you move in.”

Baldwin on race is Baldwin on the white American psyche. He thought a lot about white men. He wants to understand even as he condemns. He consistently attacked them for longing for innocence, for their refusal to grow up, but it was he


who seemed the innocent in his demand that America atone, or pay its dues, as he liked to say. The difficulty was not so much that white Americans were unable to admit that genocide—the Middle Passage, the Indian Wars—was an integral part of American history, it was that acceptance of the historical truth was not likely to alter anything, which left Baldwin reiterating and restating his demand for justice down through the years. He won’t give up; America, he believed, was sustaining too much suffering at home and abroad in its willful ignorance of its own and Western history.

Into the 1970s, he was called upon to lend his name, to speak for international political causes in London or Berkeley, challenging his audiences to be better people. His speechesand open letters are time capsules in their rhetoric. Even the ones from his most angry moments aren’t like a militant’s words for black people, to which the white liberal press can listen in. Baldwin assumed an integrated audience. What damaged his tone was that he decided that white people needed things explained on a basic level. Often he sounded like he was scolding a Sunday school classroom.

Not all of the work in The Cross of Redemption is political: we get considered essays on jazz (“This music begins on the auction block”), on the uses of the blues, on the debate about Black English, on mass culture as a reflection of American chaos, on the untruthfulness of American plays and the consequent “nerve-wracking busyness” of the American stage—which


spent huge amounts of skill and energy attempting to “justify our fantasies, thus locking us within them.” There are some forewords and afterwords to books about black America, profiles of the Patterson-Liston fight in Chicago in 1963 and of Sidney Poitier in 1968 as well as a spirited defense of Lorraine Hansberry’s best-known work, A Raisin in the Sun. In the pieces on culture, The Cross of Redemption becomes an absorbing portrait of Baldwin’s times—and of him.

In Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin rejected Shakespeare and Chartres Cathedral as symbols of a culture in which he had no part. In “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare,” originally published in the London Observer in 1964 and reprinted in The Cross of Redemption, he said he’d been young and missed theappeared on Broadway in 1964 to mixed reviews. His ambitions in drama were as keen and misplaced as Henry James’s. He’d been Elia Kazan’s assistant at the Actor’s Studio in the late 1940s. The Cross of Redemption includes a memoir of Geraldine Page in rehearsal for Kazan’s production of Tennessee Williams’s Sweet Bird of Youth and Baldwin’s generous review of Kazan’s novel, The Arrangement, published in 1967. Kazan had testified to the House Un-American Activities Committee, but Baldwin was loyal to him and to his memories of the days when he ran the streets of Greenwich Village with the young Marlon Brando. One can feel his period—the Method—in his remarks on theater and in his wanting to jazz up Shakespeare, to vouch for him as a hep cat


braids and folk ornaments and wearing a tikka on the forehead.

References

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In the decision, the U.S. Supreme Court estimated South Dakota was losing up to $58 million annually in sales taxes.

"The physical presence rule has long been criticized as giving out-of-state sellers an advantage. Each year, it becomes further removed from economic reality and results in significant revenue losses to the States,” the decision reads.

The court said that law effectively incentivized businesses to "avoid physical presence" in states and led to "a judicially created tax shelter."

"The internet's prevalence and power have changed the dynamics of the national economy," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote


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The 2016 New York International Auto Show highlighted a slew of budget sedans and SUVs that would revamp market availabilities, targets and demands in the following months. One of the most anticipated confirmations is Kia’s 2017 Cadenza.

The brand has finally gives a glimpse of what’s new with the 2017 Kia Cadenza during the New York Auto Show. It can be recalled that the company revealed that the car will arrive in US shores later this year.

The car was first offered to Americans in 2013, so it’s not exactly old, but changes are forthcoming and much needed amid a society of automobile enthusiasts constantly needing upgrades, not to mention options for fuel economy.

The big sedan is related to the Azera, made by sister company Hyundai. It sportsdebate about the nature of class in Britain and the degree of class consciousness in Britain compared to other countries. The old strata comprising the landed gentry at the top followed by the new wealth of commerce and industry and then the professional classes (doctors, lawyers, teachers), shop assistants, artisans and laborers who work with their hands no longer reflects reality — at least since the end of the World War II. Britain has become much more of a meritocracy and birth, at least, counts for very little. Wealth and education remain determining factors.

Many successful British companies are headed by entrepreneurs who have achieved their wealth by flair, hard work, toughness and luck, without much in the way of formal education. Even some of the most successful bankers


have often earned their huge rewards more by brashness and instinct than by their education. The mega-rich do form a class of their own and their status — in their own eyes, even if not in the eyes of wider society — is distinguished by the size of their bank balances and possessions such as expensive sports cars and yachts.

Status among the professional classes is also generally determined by the amount they earn. Accountants, lawyers in top City firms, and medical and surgical consultants can all earn large salaries or fees, but most professionals are only in the middle-income bracket. Some white-collar workers earn less than the average wage.

Blue-collar workers in certain trades are doing well. Qualified plumbers, electricians and cabinet makers are much in demand and can“Duc de” (duke).

The university hierarchy also counts, especially in Germany, as do titles of doctor, professor or even oberpostrat (senior postal inspector). In France, a graduate of one of the grandes ecoles (top schools) commands high status and respect.

The United States prides itself on being classless, but the old aristocracy of the East Coast has hardly died out. Graduates of Ivy League universities have easier access to jobs than those from lesser universities. Wealth remains a passport to various top posts such as ambassadorships, while in the civil service the most senior posts are reserved for political appointees.

India, with its caste system, growing numbers of university graduates and burgeoning middle class, to say nothing of the old princely families, is far from an egalitarian democracy. In China, the


class system seems to be based on the hierarchy of the Communist Party and the growing wealth of the entrepreneurs who have flourished under Communist Party “capitalism.”

Nor can Japan justify its claim to be a classless society. Although the old hierarchy of shi-no-ko-sho (warrior, farmer, artisan, merchant) had ceased to count by the end of the 19th century as Japan industrialized and depended increasingly on trade, society became dominated by hierarchical bureaucrats — military and civil — who held most of the power, and by wealthy industrialists and traders who developed Japanese industry.

Japan became a more meritocratic society sooner than most other developed countries, but admission to top schools does to a considerable extent depend on access to the juku (cram school) and the ability of parents tocardinal points. Exactly how they carried this out is still debated, with a recent study suggesting they used the stars at the equinoxes.

Qin was no different. He also had his elongated pyramid line up in a nearly perfect north-south direction. It’s almost certain that his architects used the positioning of the Sun and constellations to find the direction of the geometric South Pole.

While Qin did a great job bringing together the states, his peace didn’t last long. A few years later the squabbling states were unified once again, this time under Liu Bang, who became known as Emperor Gaozu of Han.

When Gaozu died, he also went for eternity under a pyramid. Only this one pointed a few degrees off south, closer to the 167 degree mark.

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Yet firing in America has been a work in progress. Half a decade ago,
enlightened companies tried employee buyouts, but the lawyers descended,
forcing companies to offer the buyouts indiscriminately. Result: Highly
marketable workers took the windfall and immediately found other jobs, while
people who considered themselves unemployable skipped the loot and clung to
their cubicles.
Other companies, on the theory that it was OK to tell people they had to go
because their functions or departments were being discontinued, bravely
downsized the old-fashioned way. But this was no proof against lawsuits.
Remember Texaco, Coca-Cola and others where the very existence of
affirmative-action programs became fodder for litigation by both minorities
and older white employees?
Searching for a way out of