schools in sixth grade, and Jack has been in a bad mood ever since.

But in the last couple of weeks, we've started to see tiny changes in him at home. He's been consistently--well, cheerful would be too strong a word for it, so let's say not a total crank. He even makes occasional dinnertime conversation, and seems very interested when the Man and I discuss local and national politics.

According to Jack's advisor, Mrs. E., Jack's social life at school is improving, too. She says Jack was always with a group of kids on the seventh grade's recent trip to Washington, DC, and that he's talking more during the advisory period, where they discuss all sorts of middle school trauma, such as bullying and what to do when yourFootball

Alex King named D3football.com All-South Region

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Senior linebacker Alex King has capped off his career at Birmingham-Southern by being named to the D3football.com All-South Region Team, it was announced today.

King, who is from Mobile, Ala., was named to the All-South Region Third Team after being named First-Team All-Southern Athletic Association. He led BSC this season and ranked third in the SAA with 98 total tackles and 57 solo tackles, and was second in the league with 50 sack yards and fourth with 5.5 sacks.


A St. David’s Day recipe in collaboration with Food & Drink Wales.

Happy Dydd Gwyl Dewi- St David’s Day!

St. David is the patron saint of Wales who, during his lifetime in the 6th century AD, founded around twelve monasteries, including the Celtic monastic community at Glyn Rhosyn (The Vale of Roses) on the western headland of Pembrokeshire. It is believed that he died on the 1st of March, 589 and he was canonised by Pope Callixtus II in 1120 during a time of Welsh resistance to the Normans.

Now, the feast of St. David’s Day is a time of great celebration. People wear daffodils and leeks, symbols of Wales and Saint David respectively, and eat traditional Welsh food such as cawl (a traditional Welsh soup, the national dish of Wales)new computer exploitation technique that still holds the Internet at ransom. The author had the honor of briefly working with the same research team as Levy at Symantec.

Pukhraj Singh ([email protected]) occasionally taps into the cognitive dissonance that arises from being a cyber-warfare analyst, a media observer and a social activist. He is the founder of Abroo. The opinions expressed in this piece are personal.

Cyber geo-strategy does not exist as a formal discipline in India. This blog takes a shot at it.

It also curates Pukhraj's publications on cybersecurity spanning a decade. His bylines have appeared in The Indian Express, The Tribune, Deccan Herald, The Print, Huffington Post, BW BusinessWorld, The Quint, and Seminar.

Pukhraj was also recognised as a social activist while running Abroo, a now-defunct sociopolitical initiative for


live trading and withdrawals operations, and at the same time allows users to trade with meager fees and withdraw money completely free.

Important partnerships

Neo has recently developed a substantial and vital partnership with the Ontology foundation. Both organizations decided to create a task force in which the primary targets are to build up API standardizations, and a shared smart contract ecosystem.

The project was initiated with a fund consisting of 4 million CNY that both companies have collected together. In addition, members of both organizations will collaborate to deploy the project – and three individuals of the community have been already confirmed, Weng Junjie Weng, Yuan Tan, and Peter Lin.

Furthermore, NEO was recently ranked as the number 4 regarding usability and appropriateness when it comes to supporting applications of theup?" asks House, a 34-year-old adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. "And what does this stream of tweets mean if it's not set up by an artist but by the U.S. government?"

The components of Conversnitch, including a Raspberry Pi miniature computer, an LED light source and a plastic flower pot. (Click to enlarge) Photo: Kyle McDonald

The surveillance gadget they unveiled Wednesday is constructed from little more than a Raspberry Pi miniature computer, a microphone, an LED and a plastic flower pot. It screws into and draws power from any standard bulb socket. Then it uploads captured audio via the nearest open Wi-Fi network to Amazon's Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform, which McDonald and House pay small fees to transcribe the audio and post lines of conversation


to Conversnitch's Twitter account. "This is stuff you can buy and have running in a few hours," says McDonald, a 28-year-old adjunct professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts.

House and McDonald first tested Conversnitch at the "Prism Break Up" Eyebeam art exhibition in Manhattan last October, but wouldn't say where else they've planted it, citing legal issues. "We recognize that this device can be used in an illegal way, and we will not admit to using it in that way," McDonald says cagily. "It has potentially been deployed in various places."

But a video they've posted online (embedded below) shows two people with obscured faces planting Conversnitch in a light fixture in a New York McDonald's, disguised as a desk lamp in aof Tap on the Head. Sister trope of Rolling Pin of Doom.

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An advertisement for the mobile device game Design Island shows a little old lady getting increasingly honked off as a giant hand, presumably representing the player, ineptly rearranges her kitchen appliances, wrecking the place and endangering her. She throws a frying pan at the camera.

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Happy Heroes: In Season 3 episode 12, Arcas's mother hits him with a frying pan after he forgets to repair their ship.

In the Motu Patlu episode "Motu Ke Sawaal", Motu decides to constantly ask questions to increase his knowledge. This gets on Patlu's nerves, so much so that Motu just barely dodges a frying pan that Patlu throws at him in his anger.

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They Might Be Giants, with Particle Man: "Person Man, Person Man, Hit on the head with a frying pan..."

Justin Timberlake's love interest in his video for TKO knocks him out with a frying pan.

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The Bride of Frankenstein uses this against her mate in Monster Bash.

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The Stephanie Miller Show has voice impressionist Jim Ward portray former president Bill Clinton's reaction to titillating news stories of the day. Then his wife hits him with a frying pan after the inevitable innuendo. Mind you, this is a liberal radio show.

Stand Up Comedy

Eddie Izzard: Part of the "Heimlich Gesture", along with being thumped in the stomach and kneed in the bollocks.

Dara Ó Briain has a comment on frying pans asplayer goes on to build the character around frying-pan battle techniques.

In reference to the Dragonlance novels, several editions of Dungeons & Dragons had rules for using frying pans as weapons.

One of Samwise Gamgee miniatures by Games Workshop dual wields a sword and a frying pan.

In Zombicide, set after a Zombie Apocalypse, four to six survivors start with the following weapons, each distributed randomly to one of them: a fire axe, a crowbar, a pistol and a Frying pan per survivor beyond 3.

In Mysterium one of the possible murder weapons is a frying pan.

GURPS features the "Pan, Iron". This kitchen accessory functions as a slightly weaker round mace OR small iron shield. Unlike most improvised weapons, it is as solid as a Good quality weapon (most are of Cheap


quality). it has different stats in Dungeon Fantasy: Taverns and Zombies

The fast-food themed (and soundly tongue-in-cheek) Feast Of Legends naturally includes a frying pan on its weapon list, along with its bigger cousin the two-handed cast-iron skillet.

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In the Met Opera's production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Norina playfully fences with Doctor Malatesta while they're coming up with their plot - she with a frying pan, he with a Classy Cane. This can be seen in the 2011 recording, though the revival changed it to a Rolling Pin of Doom.

to a Rolling Pin of Doom. In the Broadway version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Willy Wonka subjects the factory visitors to an obstacle course of invisible hazards including a path with swinging frying pans. Most of the visitors takeCategories:

London-based electronica and future-beats musician and former Fridge member Kieran Hebden.

As well as producing and remixing for a long line of acts such as Aphex Twin, Anti-Pop Consortium, Bonobo, Beth Orton, Super Furry Animals, Radiohead, Manic Street Preachers, Matthew Dear, Sia, Nathan Fake, Bloc Party etc, Hebden has released solo work such as "Dialogue", "Rounds" and "There is Love in You".


at Volkswagen in 1999, assisting with the Bugatti reboot in 2001 before moving into a consultant role in 2005. He made his mark on motorsport in 2011, helping the Hispania Formula 1 team design its F111 racer.

"Whilst pushing the boundaries of engineering, we styled every single part of the Robocar," Simon said. "We take special pride in revealing a functional machine that stays true to the initial concept, a rarity in automotive design and a testament of our determination. It's a great feeling to set this free."

Roborace's progress has been slow, but steady. The team has been working with Averner Films on a documentary series, posted to its YouTube channel, that provides regular updates on the project. To date, these have focused mostly on the team's "DevBot" prototypes,The awkwardness of Real Madrid's handling of Cristiano Ronaldo Opinion Saved Los Blancos' blushes again

The other day it was the latest penalty in the world, however, that was not enough.

Cristiano Ronaldo flicked the ball into the bottom corner of Kepa Arrizabalaga's goal on Wednesday against Athletic Club.

In the Madrid derby he volleyed a ball that was coming from an unbelievable height to beat another giant of a goalkeeper in Jan Oblak, and prior to that it was the sensational over-head kick against Juventus, a moment that is permanently burned into the memory of supporters.

His scoring record has stretched to 12 successive matches, equalling his best run with Real Madrid, a club that was recently thinking about signing Neymar to replace the outgoing legend.

Perhaps the Portuguese forward was a


hindrance to their plans.

Real Madrid shouldn't read so many comics.

Superman has just turned 80, but the club decided to move on from their own superhero, who is just 33, at a time when Ronaldo's mood was damaged by an inability to find the net earlier in the season, as well as a lack of affection from the club.

Ronaldo couldn't miss the newspaper reports that Neymar was the next idol of the Spanish capital's own Marvel universe, that there would be untold affection for the Brazilian and that he would cost nothing less than 200 million euros.

Real Madrid had lost its short-term memory, they were Dory from Finding Nemo.

The club had forgotten the unforgettable, despite it happening very recently.

They hadn't taken into consideration the incredible performance put in bythe Portuguese international in the previous season before making their own judgement on what the veteran could give in the future.

Anticipating a decline that only Ronaldo's enemies would wish on him was a reckless move, especially when it hadn't even arrived.

The most decisive player in the most challenging competition in the world, the Champions League, was denied the improved contract he was pursuing with a renewed sense of determination.

Older people always say that clubs are bigger than a single player, and that's generally true, but Ronaldo has earned the right to be an exception.

Think of what Los Blancos would have been like without him for all these years.

The club wouldn't be where they are today and for that reason, the club should have ignored convention and swallowed their


well." "Found him." "Douglas James Greyson." "Born 7 January 1940 in Fort Worth, Texas." "Studied in Fort Worth, etc." "Military service: assigned to Special Branch." "Medical history:" "In Thailand he contracted a disease which attacks the nervous system causing decompensation and memory loss." "Hopitalised in Phoenix, Arizona." "Pronounced cured of the disease but his memory and behaviour were slow to recover." "Employment history:" "Worked for 3 months as a chauffeur at the US embassy in Rome, on a war veterans scheme." "Dismissed for poor performance." "Greyson..." "Yes, he never remembered the streets." "One day he circled Piazza Indipendenza for hours." "He'd forgotten where he had to go." "He ended up forgetting the ambassador's address." "It was rather comical." "He'd been there many times." "They tried to redeploy him,Sunday, November 24, 2013 10:41 pm

Nepal's oldest party leads 1st election results

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYAAssociated Press

Nepal's oldest political party is leading a first set of results from last week's election ahead of two prominent communist parties, the country's election commission said Monday.

The results showed that the Nepali Congress Party had won 105 of the 240 directly elected seats. Only one directly elected seat remains to be decided. The Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) trails with 91 seats and the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has 25 seats.

The Election Commission said counting of the second sets of ballots - where voters pick a political party - had also started. Those 335 seats will be divided among the 122 competing political parties according to the proportion of the


total vote each gets.

The election for Nepal's Constituent Assembly was held Nov. 19 and final results are expected by the end of the week.

The Maoists, a party made up of former communist rebels, has withdrawn from the ballot counting after initial results showed them losing most of the seats. That was a big drop from the last elections in 2008, when they won the largest number of seats.

They demanded an independent probe because of alleged widespread irregularities and have threatened to boycott the Constituent Assembly. Party spokesman Agni Sapkota said the party will decide its next move during a meeting on Monday.

Independent observers, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, have said the election was free and fair of any irregularities.

The Maoists fought government troops between 1996 and 2006,but then gave up their armed revolt, joined a peace process and mainstream politics. Their fighters joined the national army.

Political leaders in the last assembly elected in 2008 disagreed over who got to lead the nation and on creating a federal system divided by ethnic groups or by geography. The resulting power vacuum has left Nepal without a proper constitution.


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The two decades that followed World War I brought hard times to the US Marine Corps. By 1936, the corps had shrunk from 75,101 Marines (in 1918) to only 17,234.

As international tensions escalated when Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan expanded their military forces, the US possessed neither the will to fight nor a sufficiently strong military to counter these threats. At this low point in December 1936, Thomas Holcomb became the seventeenth commandant of the Marine Corps.

Preparing for Victory is the first book to document Holcomb's crucial role as commandant during the Great Depression and


to the story, here are interesting facts about the Buddha.

Gautam Buddha is the first identifiable personality in India’s Past. Indian History, in a sense begins with the Buddha!

He is said to have lived in the 6th century BC. That is about 550 years before Christ.

He was a great thinker who pioneered a new way of life. The path he set out was quite out-of-the-box!

He broke away from orthodox beliefs and meaningless rituals to usher in a more egalitarian society.

Stories about the Buddha (actually stories about his past life) are compiled in what are known as the Jataka Tales. You may have heard some of the popular ones like The Monkey and the Crocodile.

The Monkey and the Crocodile is a famous story from the Jataka Tales Collection which comprisestories about the Buddha’s past life.

Coming back to Gautam Buddha – The Story goes that he was born into a royal family and at his birth, Sage Asita prophecised that he would become a great spiritual leader. His father however, wished for him to be a King and never allowed him out of the palace gates. However one day, Gautama managed to venture out into town and saw four sights that changed his life.

An Old Person (feeble)

A Sick Person (miserable)

A Dead Person

A Sage (content and happy)

The Suffering of the first two and the Finality of Death in case of the third, troubled him. The peace of the sage puzzled him.

In a quest to understand the way out of worldly suffering, he left the palace and wandered for many


Compassion and Love were more important than blind faith and rituals.

As a result of this message of universal love, his teachings became very popular in India and across Asia.

Although the Buddha himself did not travel outside India, his followers took his teachings to Tibet, China, Japan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Burma and further.

However, due to several reasons, Buddhism slowly declined in India. (Interested to know why? I’ll be posting something on this soon. Subscribe to the site to stay posted)

Ladakh is one of the few places in India, where Buddhism continues to be practiced the traditional way. And the dozens of chortens and stupas you see are testimony to that.

Want to know tell your child about stupas? I’ll be posting more on this soon. Make sure you follow theIt’s been postponed three times due to tension over disputed territories in the north. But unlike most of Iraq’s bureaucratic messes, this one could save lives.

BY JOOST HILTERMANN | OCTOBER 8, 2010

One of the silent victims of Iraq’s political paralysis has been the country’s long-delayed census. On Oct. 3, the census was postponed for the third time since 2007, when the cabinet pushed it back from Oct. 24 to Dec. 5. The main reason for the latest delay was the concern of some Iraqi politicians, neighboring states such as Turkey, and the United States that going ahead with the census now could just foment unrest in the disputed territories that border the federal Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.

Even the current configuration of the census, however, a delay is


whether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential
elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443
U.S. 307, 319 (1979).

Randy
Wright, a Mineral Wells police detective, testified that on August 1, 2004,
while on patrol early in the morning, he received an anonymous tip about a
possible meth lab.  He said officers went out to conduct a Aknock and talk,@ meaning that they would
knock on the door to gather information.  He indicated that he went to the rear
of the house to cover the back door.  He identified Burns as a subject he
pursued and captured after he heard running and the back door flew open.  He
stated that Burns continued to run after he had announced that he was a police
officer.  He identified tubing he recovered fromBurns=s rear pocket when he searched Burns following
his arrest.  He acknowledged that it was on the ground after he wrestled Burns
down.  He also identified two camera-type lithium batteries that he believed
were also in Burns=s
rear pocket.
Detective
Wright testified that, as he approached the residence, he noticed a strong odor
of anhydrous ammonia.  He identified anhydrous ammonia as a chemical used to
manufacture methamphetamine.  He indicated that officers received consent to
search the residence.  He said that, based on his experience, the chemicals,
powdery substances, and cooler that were discovered in the residence were used
to manufacture methamphetamine.
On
cross-examination, Detective Wright acknowledged that it was dark when he first
encountered Burns and that he could not tell what Burns was doing other than
that he had heard the door.  He confirmed the fact that he recovered the tubing
from Burns=s


rear
pocket.  He acknowledged that he did not know whether the tubing and lithium
batteries he found on Burns=s
person were used or intended to be used in the manufacture of methamphetamine.
He did indicate that lithium batteries, after being broken open, were used in
making methamphetamine and that in his experience it is unusual for someone to
have a battery in his or her pocket.  Detective Wright acknowledged that Burns
had no precursors for the manufacture of methamphetamine on his person.  He
indicated, however, that many of those items were found in the residence from
which Burns had fled.  He acknowledged that it would have been possible for
Burns to have been standing at the door or just beginning to enter rather than
having fled the residence but said that if someone were showing up they would
not slamthe back door.

John
Waight, a narcotics investigator with the Texas Department of Public Safety,
testified that he arrived at the scene of the residence on the occasion in
question and detected the strong odor of ammonia in the air in the area of the
residence.  He said that inside the residence he found what he expected to see
in the operation of a meth lab.  Burns stipulated that the State had sufficient
evidence to demonstrate that there was a methamphetamine cook or that the
manufacture of methamphetamine was going on in that residence.  Investigator
Waight identified all the items found in the residence and indicated how they
related to the manufacture of methamphetamine.
Investigator
Waight testified that a lithium battery such as those found on Burns was the
kind of battery that could be used in the manufacturing process of
methamphetamine


Monday, 29 July 2013

Purrring softly...

It doesn't take much to lift the spirit when things have not been going well. I was sitting in my Jaguar the other night, warming the engine, when a friend popped around.

"How's it going, chief?" he asked. So I reeled off the list of expensive problems I've had to fix. "Still looks great, though," he said, and took a seat beside me. I smiled, turned up the music and noticed that there was still some light in the sky and decided to take the Jag for a quick run.

We turned out of the driveway and headed for some open road. The engine was purring softly (the expensive triple-SU's I fitted were paying off!) The carbs kicked in, gave a rush of power and soonto full-fibre broadband rocketed from about 23% in 2009 to more than 95%. The government launched a policy in 2008 called “zero broadband areas elimination”. In Japan, the internet is unbundled – the line is provided by one company, such as the former state-owned NTT, while the internet service is provided by another company, of which there are about a dozen. South Korea used an approach based on market principles alongside state-led investment.

Australia has attempted a part-nationalised model, though consumers still have to pay for the service and it has been criticised as a failure. Mark Gregory, a telecommunications expert at RMIT University, said Australia was “a third-world broadband country”. The costs rocketed from A$39.5bn in 2013 to A$51bn by 2018. There are record complaints and some customers


do not get the minimum speeds promised.

Some countries have opted for more free-market competition, including Spain and Portugal, which have both achieved high levels of fibre rollout (63% and 86% respectively). There are, however, concerns about the potential to overbuild in densely populated areas and to underserve rural communities – unless there are government subsidies.

Reaching rural communities could be difficult for Labour, particularly in Scotland, a country with one of the lowest population densities in Europe. Many nations with high levels of fibre-broadband penetration are either small or have highly concentrated urban demographics, including Japan and the Netherlands. Housing patterns also have an impact. In Germany, Italy and Spain, half the population live in flats and apartments, compared with less than 20% in Britain.

There are likely to beOn this Page:

Easily the most celebrated, yet most contentious, church in Christendom, the Holy Sepulchre contains the traditional sites of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus under one roof.

The site was rediscovered in the corner of the western forum of the Hadrianic city Aelia Capitolina by Queen Helena, Constantine's mother, who knocked the temple down and built a huge basilica, which was dedicated on Easter day in the year 326.

The church was partially rebuilt in the next century by Justinian, and remained untouched until 1009, when the mad caliph Hakim destroyed virtually all of it. It was patched up by a Monk called Robert, but when the Crusaders came across the city, around the year 1099, the church was rebuilt to only half of its original size, and


thus it stands today.

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From the Scriptures

Mark Chapter 15:

22 And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull). 23 And they offered him wine mingled with myrrh; but he did not take it. 24 And they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. 25 And it was the third hour, when they crucified him. 26 And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” 27 And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. 29 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it insponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” 37 And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last. 38 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. 39 And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that he thus breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”

John Chapter 19:

38 After this Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took away his body. 39 Nicodemus also,


who had at first come to him by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds’ weight. 40 They took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb where no one had ever been laid. 42 So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

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because the headphones were burned, it was likely that whoever was close to the vehicle had
been ignited. On June 1, 2014, defendant texted someone that he was “got burnt earlier.”
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bar, convenience store, or darkened rooms where people repeatedly paid good money to stand in front of a TV for five minutes, known as “arcades”. Eager to help fight the spread of this horrifying condition, Atari, who was the leading video game manufacturer at the time decided to help sufferers of Pac-Man Fever get their treatment in the convenience of their own home, and purchased the exclusive rights to develop and distribute a home version of the cure.

Obviously, this was a big deal for Atari, who was starting to get a bit of competition in the home console market. Most of it was weak and incapable of causing any harm, but some of it, like the Intellivision, constituted a clear and present danger. By grabbing the license tothe biggest video game in the history of video games, they grabbed a license to print money. Not only would the Atari 2600 have a sure-fire hit, their under development Atari 5200 console would have a sure-fire hit, their computer line would have a sure-fire hit, and, on top of that, the Intellivision would have a sure-fire hit, because Atari put profits before console exclusivity. To summarize, Pac-Man == $$$.

Naturally, mega hits will spawn imitators. Magnavox, the makers of the Odyssey2 system, which was one of the legitimate competitors to Atari decided to produce a Pac-Man imitator. However, since it was clear that a straight Pac-Man ripoff would get them sued, they made some changes to the game play. Keep the maze, but make change. Keep the big


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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Why do two men feel it is okay to ride on a motorcycle together? Especially crotchrockets? That's two strikes at once. And if you see two dudes on a crotchrocket wearing turtlenecks with yogurt and kitty litter in a grocery bag, run the other way because they will try to recruit you to play dance dance revolution Barbra Streisand edition.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Being out and about I have noticed many people are confused about how to wear rings. Therefore I have taken it upon myself to declare the rules for ring wearing. The rules are as follows: One ring, the exception being if you are married and have won some type of championship (just remember high school championship rings are reserved for highAn influential US Congressman has asked the Obama Administration to work towards making India and other members of the so-called G-4 countries a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

During a Congressional hearing, Congressman Ami Bera called for G4 countries -- Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan -- to be considered for inclusion in the UN Security Council.

The hearing was about advancing American interests in the UN, wherein US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power testified.

"If we look at the membership of the UN Security council, it does seem like it's time to revamp the permanent members, specifically to include the G4 countries: India, Brazil, Japan and Germany," said Bera, who is co-chair of the India Caucus in the House of Representatives.

"If we look at India specifically, it's


Concentrations of cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes in biosolid amended soil, influent, effluent, receiving water, and sediment of wastewater treatment plants in Canada.
A comprehensive surveillance program was conducted to determine the occurrence of three cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes (cVMS) octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4), decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5), and dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane (D6) in environmental compartments impacted by wastewater effluent discharges. Eleven wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), representative of those found in Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec, Canada, were investigated to determine levels of cVMS in their influents and effluents. In addition, receiving water and sediment impacted by WWTP effluents, and biosolid-amended soil from agricultural fields were also analyzed for a preliminary evaluation of the environmental exposure of cVMS in media impacted by wastewater effluent and solids. A newly-developed large volume injection (septumless head adapter and cooled injection system)natural knowledge; we must
erase from our memories all the facts we have learned about the world;
we must reject purity and decency of morals; we must revert to a
condition of barbarous ignorance and barbarous conduct before we can
believe very many parts of the Holy Scriptures are of divine authority.
Still, as we are to be imprisoned and damned for not believing this, we
must try, and we had better examine a little more exactly what we are to
believe on divine authority. Only some of our imposed feats of
_leger-de-foi_ will be examined. Those who can accomplish these will not
bungle over the rest.

It is of divine authority that god made "a firmament in the midst of the
waters" and divided the waters, putting some above it and some below,
and this firmament is "heaven" (Gen.


facts, I admit, but they
fly in the teeth of the fictions which are of divine authority; and as
Mr. Justice North is armed with full power to vindicate the divine
authority, you had better, if you want to keep out of gaol, give up the
facts and pretend to believe in the fictions.

It is of divine authority that god made grass and herb and fruit tree on
the "third day of creation," the day before he created the sun, two days
before he made fishes and birds, and three days before he made animals.
In the face of this it is a mere trifle, my dear sceptical reader, that
no herb could yield seed, no fruit tree could yield fruit, without the
aid of the sun. It is quite true that a plant without the sun-rayshave plagues of darkness in
London from the fogs, but we make shift with gas and the electric light
until the sunlight returns.

The last miracle in Egypt was a very wonderful one; it was the killing
for the third time of some--the first-born-- cattle. The first-born of
men were also slain; but that was only for the first time, and all men
are mortal. This was too much for the Egyptians, and they rose up to
drive out the Israelites, the latter picking up, as they went, "jewels
of silver, jewels of gold, and raiment" (xii. 35), and so robbing their
unlucky hosts of the little property they had left.

But poor Pharaoh was not yet safe: "The Lord hardened the heart of
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel"
(xiv. 8). He yoked


were new clothes
born as well as new babies? If such questions are regarded as
blasphemous, I can only answer that they are suggested by Moses'
assertion of the remarkable durability of the raiment, and raiment that
did not become old might surely also grow and reproduce itself. Once
begin miracle-working on old clothes, and none can say how far it may
go.

It is blasphemy to assert that it is wrong to swear, for the Bible
commands: "Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God.... and swear by his name"
(Deut. x., 20). It is blasphemy to assert that it is right to swear, for
the Bible commands: "Swear not at all" (Matt, v., 34).

Deuteronomy xiii., from the first verse to the last, is a disgrace to
the book in which it is contained, and a scandal to theAustralian earthquakes explained

Dan Jaksa and Hugh Glanville

Railway track damage caused by the

1968 Meckering Earthquake.

Reproduced with permission from Alice Snooke

When it comes to earthquakes, living in Australia is much safer than other parts of the world, as Australia is well away from tectonic plate boundaries where large earthquakes occur more frequently. However, the Australian continent can still experience potentially damaging earthquakes, such as the magnitude 6.7 Meckering earthquake in October 1968 or the magnitude 5.7 Newcastle earthquake in December 1989.

Australia's earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of stress that slowly builds up across the Australian tectonic plate as it moves northeast about 7cm per year. The Australian plate is the fastest moving continental land mass on Earth and is colliding into the fastest moving tectonic plate, the Pacific


JATWC is the official provider of tsunami warnings for Australia. It is also one of three Tsunami Warning Service providers for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System, along with Indonesia and India. The JATWC monitors, analyses and alerts for earthquakes that have the potential to generate tsunami waves that can impact Australia and Indian Ocean countries. It operates 24/7 and can issue tsunami bulletins within 15 minutes of the start of the rupture of a potentially tsunamigenic earthquake.

Letting the community know when an earthquake occurs

Earthquake alerts are important for emergency managers and the general public. For small earthquakes that occur nearby, the tremor may sound like an explosion or a strong thud, like something has smashed into the house. The effected population want to know whatSteven Fish

professor of political science

M. Steven Fish is a comparative political scientist who studies democracy and regime change in developing and post-communist countries, religion and politics, and constitutional systems and national legislatures.
He is the author of Are Muslims Distinctive? A Look at the Evidence (Oxford, 2011). He also wrote Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (Cambridge, 2005) — which received the Best Book Award of 2006 from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association — and Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution (Princeton, 1995). Fish is coauthor of The Handbook of National Legislatures: A Global Survey(Cambridge, 2009) and Post-communism and the Theory of Democracy (Princeton, 2001).
Fish served as a Senior Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor at the


Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia, in 2007 and at the European University at St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2000-01. In 2005, he received the Distinguished Social Sciences Teaching Award of the Colleges of Letters and Science, UC Berkeley.A trace of a song sung by your favorite singer in the best dream you've ever had

Monday, November 23, 2009

Book 33: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

This damn book sat on my shelf like an albatross for close to 10 years.

I first tried to read it when I still lived in New York City. I next tried to read it when I still lived in New York City.

Then I tried to read it on our family vacation to Cape Cod. Then I tried to read it the next summer on our family vacation to Lake Sunapee.

Then I tried to read it in Los Angeles. Then I tried to read it in Los Angeles again. Then I tried again to read it in Los Angeles...again.

Each time I would


climatic factors, has resulted in a diverse and rich flora. Yemen occupies a very vital position on the southern Arabian Peninsula sharing borders with two countries, Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman towards the northeast. The east and south of Yemen border the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden with a total coastline measuring 1906 km (1184 miles). Yemen also has more than 100 small islands scattered in the nearby Red Sea and Arabian Sea. The total area of Yemen including these islands is 527,970 sq km (203,850 sq mi) \[[@B4-medicines-02-00067]\].

There are two major forces that determine the climate of Yemen. Winters in Yemen are dominated by dry northerly winds whereas moist monsoons prevail in spring and summer. The other major factor that is responsible forthe climatic condition is the elevation, with the highlands experiencing a temperate climate with mild, dry winters and warm summers with abundant rainfall. To take an example, Sana'a, a region in the central highlands, has an average temperature of 14 °C in January and 22 °C in July. The average annual rainfall in Sana'a is 265 mm (10.4 in), whereas the highlands around Ibb and Taiz receive more than 1000 mm (40 in) each year. Sana'a is the capital and the largest city of Yemen. At an altitude of more than 2200 m, the city extends across a very fertile basin near the foot of the mountain called Jabal Nuqum. Taiz is at an altitude of 1400 m in the fertile highlands. It is a productive agricultural region


Dal Lake a predominant way to observe the nature by close. The mesmerizing beauty of the nature viewed from the balcony of the houseboat is truly heavenly that engulfs the heart of tourists and leave them simply spellbind. Moreover it gives them opportunity to experience the warm hospitality, cultural richness as well as a novel way to enjoy holidays staying in the lap of mother-nature.

No wonder if would say that most of the visitors visit this state only for thrilling houseboat cruise as they can enjoy some solitude moments of romance and joy, taking pleasure of the luxury, comfort and the world class amenities offered on the houseboat. Whether you are honeymooning with your beloved and simply wish to spend some beautiful time in the lap of mother-natureGOOCHLAND, Va. – Hundreds of concerned parents in Virginia recently voiced opposition to a controversial policy that allows school officials to grill homeschool parents and students on their religious beliefs.

In 2013, Goochland County Public Schools began requiring homeschool parents to reapply for a religious exemption to public education once their children turn 14 years old. The school district also requires homeschool families to write statements describing their religious beliefs.

“Before the School Board takes action on a request for a religious exemption, the parent must submit the application, a letter of statement explaining their bona fide religious beliefs and in the case of a student age 14 or older, a statement from the child stating his/her bona fide religious beliefs,” the school policy states.

The policy also gives the school


titanate.
When not in use, the slider rests upon the surface of the magnetic disk. During information retrieval and recording, however, the magnetic disk is rotated. When the disk first begins rotating, the slider slides along the surface of the magnetic disk. As the rotational speed of the disk increases, however, a boundary layer of air is formed which causes the slider to lift off of the disk and "fly" above the surface of the disk. The distance of the slider from the disk during flight is approximately 50 nm. When the power to the disk drive is once again shut off, the disk rotational speed gradually decreases, and the slider lands upon the disk, sliding along the surface of the disk until the disk comes to rest.
Several problemsarise from the contact of the slider with the disk. First, during start up and slow down of the disk, the slider is sliding directly in contact with the disk surface. This frictional contact causes wear of the disk and slider. The wear of the disk occurs, even though a protective carbon coating is applied to the disk, because of the extreme hardness of the slider material. The excessive wear on the disk reduces the effective useful life of the disk.
Contact between the slider and disk also occurs occasionally when the disk is at full rotational speed. Although the boundary layer of air normally acts to support the slider above the disk, high points (asperities) on the otherwise smooth surface of the disk often cause the slider to


make contact with these projections on the disk. When the slider impacts these asperities on the disk, the slider often gouges the disk surface, further degrading the disk surface, as well as causing damage to the head and slider.
Several additional problems, other than wear of the disk and slider, have been identified with the use of prior art sliders. First, during initial rotational start up of the disk, friction between the slider and disk increases the force necessary to rotate the disk. This necessitates the use of large motors to turn the disks. Second, the magnetic poles of the head, made of an alloy of nickel and iron, which are exposed to the atmosphere are sometimes prone to corrosion. This is especially true in the case of magnetoresistiveBEIJING — It is no secret that fans of Chinese food often find it addictive. They speak longingly of the numbing spice of Sichuan peppercorn or the sour herbs found in Yunnan cooking.

At least 36 restaurants in China tried to take that addictive quality one step further, and now have found themselves on the wrong side of the law. They were investigated in the past week by the authorities for adding poppy capsules and other illegal ingredients to food, according to a report on Friday by Xinhua, the state-run news agency.

The poppy capsule is made from the dried pericarp of the ripe fruit of an opium poppy plant, and it has more than 20 types of alkaloids, including those found in morphine and cocaine, the report said. It


five or six buildings and the road’s sides are dotted with big, tall cedar trees. I climbed to the driving seat and S took the other front seat. My other fiend sat in the back. I started driving the jeep dead-slowly in the football ground. After 5 minutes or so, I was growing confident and suggested that we take it to the road. S okayed it and we began slowly driving on the road around the buildings. My confidence was soaring by now, and I was growing comfortable with the idea that I could control this behemoth of a machine. I went around the buildings four times. We were on the fag end of the road, where a right hand turn would take us to the road thatran parallel to the football field. I took the right turn, and was bringing the steering wheel back to its normal position. The old Mahindra, like its million cousins was a pain to steer. I had passed the curve and I had not yet managed to steer the jeep back to the straight position. There was a huge cedar tree on the right side about 6 meters away. I was going at 20kmph and thought I still had a lot of time to steer it back. My friend sitting in the back did not think so and shouted out that we were headed for the tree. And then, all hell broke loose. I rammed the accelerator down, thinking it was the brake, and the jeep sped in to


taxes paid for the taxable year 1948, alleged to have been improperly collected by the Collector of Internal Revenue under Section 126(a), Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C.A. § 126(a), which deals with the taxation of legatees with respect to income of a decedent. The facts, which were stipulated, are summarized as follows.

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Ard E. Richardson, a resident of Lansing, Michigan, died testate on September 21, 1945, leaving as survivors his widow, Irene B. Richardson, who subsequently married the appellant Peter C. Treleaven, and his son, Ard E. Richardson, Jr., who, with his wife, Mildred G. Richardson, are also appellants. The Will of Ard E. Richardson was duly admitted to probate on November 13, 1945. Within the time allowed by law, Irene B. Richardson filed with the Probate Court herelection to take her share of the Estate of Ard E. Richardson, deceased, as provided by the Michigan statutes, and pursuant to such election, she became entitled to one-quarter of the net residue of the Estate under the Michigan Statute of Descent and Distribution, Comp.Laws Supp. 1956, § 702.69, and Ard E. Richardson, Jr., became entitled to the remaining three-quarters of the net residue of said Estate.

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Seven promissory notes, payable by The E. Richardson Corporation in the total principal amount of $139,000.00, plus accrued interest to September 21, 1945, the date of Richardson's death, in the amount of $411,593.33 were included in the assets of the Estate of Ard E. Richardson. The notes were included in the decedent's gross estate for federal estate tax purposes at the fair


that Section 42 of the Revenue Act of 1934 permitted the inclusion as accruable items, in a decedent's gross income for the period ending with his death, his share of the profits earned, but not yet received, of a partnership, when both the decedent and the partnership reported income on a cash receipts and disbursements basis.

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Section 42 of the 1934 Revenue Act resulted in some hardships because there were bunched in the final income tax return of a decedent items of accrued income which might be collected later at different times over a period of years. This subjected such accrued income to higher tax rates than would be the case if returned in the different years in which they were later received. Accordingly, in the Revenue Act oflegislation was held valid in Helvering v. Enright, supra, 312 U.S. 636, 61 S. Ct. 777, 85 L.Ed. 1093, the Court pointing out that it was the intent of Congress to cover into income the assets of decedents, earned during their life and unreported as income, which on a cash return, would appear in the estate returns, thus providing a fair reflection of decedent's income.

26
Section 126(a), enacted in 1942, embodies an analogous principle. Although the accrued interest was income it was not made taxable to the decedent, but was made taxable to the person who actually collected it at the time when it was collected. Section 126(a) (3) provides that the amount included in the gross income of the person who acquired from the decedent the right to


In one corner, a bunch of drunken oafs fresh off leaving a United match. In the other corner, a bunch of drunken oafs celebrating a bachelor party and wearing matching Where's Waldo? shirts and hats. It's the most England video there is.

This is surveillance camera footage of a fight at a Manchester railway station on March 2, 2013, but only made public this week.

All four of the fans, but just one of the Waldos, were convicted on charges of fighting in public. (In his defense, the United group's patriarch said he had drunk "a gallon of ale.")Pitchfork describes Gonzales' modern re-imagining of Chamber music as pop as merely dinner music for the indie crowd. With dinner music such as this one may never leave the table. Either/or if life is a moveable feast then Chilly is precisely the companion to ask along. He is one who can happily converse in the musicality of Peaches, Daft Punk, Erik Satie as well as Vivaldi and Haydn. AND. . . he sartorially inclines towards a Baudelaire/ Hugh Hefner mash-up.


We’ve rated every team before and after every game using our Elo ratings system and created an interactive graph containing all the AFL-era ratings. This is part of a series of posts highlighting interesting facts from the history of AFL ratings.

Which team was the best of the AFL era? Our Elo ratings suggest an answer that might be surprising: the 2011 Collingwood Magpies. The 2011 Pies reached a peak Elo rating 1794 after beating Port Adelaide by 138 points in Round 20, 2011. They narrowly beat the best scores recorded by the 2000 Bombers (1788) and the 2008 Cats (1783).

If we measure teams’ quality using their average Elo ratings over the whole season, the 2011 Pies still come out on top, with a season average of 1763 Elopoints. The 2011 Cats, who of course beat Collingwood in the Grand Final, also had one of the ten best seasons of the AFL era, with an average rating of 1715 over the year.

The worst seasons of the AFL era are dominated by the recent expansion teams. The GWS Giants’ first three seasons were among the ten worst of the AFL era, with Gold Coast responsible for two of the top ten. Brisbane’s 2016 season also makes it into the bottom ten, with the Lions rated about as poorly as Fitzroy in their second-last season.

Over the whole AFL era, from 1990 onwards, Geelong has had the highest average Elo rating of 1589. They beat out Hawthorn and West Coast, who tied for second on 1551. Other than the


personal manner...

But one has to admit he was a bit of an odd guy... on a different level.

I see a number of things in him:
- him seeking victory and the No. 1 of being the best at the cost of everything (including lying, twisting the truth, deflaming Prost and everybody else)
- him seeking a certain spiritual development and enlightment... and racing became his vehicle towards reaching this stage
- him dealing with what seems an complex relationship with women... (i am not surprised at the gay rumours... perhaps he had a crush on Prost too

btw, this gave me goosebumps, not just the line but how he told it...:
"The difference between man and machine ceased to exist, I was united with the car, we became one."

One bit (from so many)miserable and ridiculous person he was.

I recommend you to watch "The lifestyle in Ayrton Senna in Brasil" on Youtube. That guy does not seems an idiot to me at all.

It´s worth expanding on the observation that has been made that Senna was a very complex individual, who had very different and occasionally contrasting facets to his personality, which he would demonstrate alternatively depending on the time of his life, the context and the audience. Indeed it could be said that this wasnt a totally balanced individual, but then geniuses seldom are

In this interview there are a lot of glimpses of some of his less endearing sides, such as the religious "nutcase" figure - which actually was at its height during the time of this interview, a side of


of Senna breaking the track record first time out with the Williams at Donington, but also by the cheeky interview afterwards about his contract negotiations - imagine a F1 pretender saying that kind of thing today, and what kind of reaction it would get in internet BBs

IMO his best interview from late 1986 , among journalists he was comfortable with, he presents himself as the charming, bright youngster who was yet to take over his world - touches several pertinent issues and includes an easter egg with a then very young, now greatest F1 veteran of all times it´s a long interview and the subtitles leave a lot to be desired, but still worth checking out;

Senna comes across as a very nice fellow, not a moron at all.Perhaps in the playboy interview he was too tense - perhaps that period was taking his toll.

He probably was a very intense person, rather unbalanced, and that interview shows the worse in him.

I did not mention this in so many words, but the playboy interview is a real window into why Senna was so ruthless, sometimes, on track. But what shocked me was the twisting of every story to be self serving.

People now have a view of Senna characterised by just a couple of really intense seasons and situations he found himself in. I don't really believe that Senna overall was the same guy as he was for those few mega-intense seasons.

Put yourself in his position but in your own job. He had a terrible situation with Prost


of the myth he was creating around himself. Isn't it more mysterious to say he crashed out in Monaco because he saw Jesus than just say he made a simple driver error?

Senna was a complex guy but he wasn't crazy, nor an idiot. I think he was very conscious about his image and deliberately helped to develop it into this "myterious" direction. He wanted it that way and he played on it. So I think, in a way, he was pretty manipulative. I think when he says he sees God and Jesus the thing he suggests with that is that he is special, some kind of "chosen one".

The interesting thing is that the public accepted the most outrageous and most arrogant comments from him as if they werea line. It is one of only two quotes by any sportsperson that has stuck in my head.

Special man on the track, off the track I never got his behavior, talking about god, crying about the unfair FIA. He did everything to build a myth around him. A lot of people like that and more and more I read about him I am not curious anymore why he is placed Number One. He was the the superstar with charisma, the saint and people loved that..

"He did everything to build a myth around him" - yes, yet IMHO he didn't want to build a myth consciously, he was really like that. We had some 10 - 15 pages long interviews between Heinz Prüller and Ayrton Senna in the Grand


Names and Faces

Beth Hoppe is Chief Programming Executive and General Manager, General Audience Programming at PBS. In that role she has overseen PBS’ growth from the 12th most watched in primetime to the 5th most watched among all broadcast and cable networks.

In just over three years in this position, Ms. Hoppe has overseen the return to PBS of original American drama with Mercy Street, a civil war medical drama set in Alexandria, VA; entered a co-production agreement with the BBC, which has generated science and natural history specials for both networks including Big Blue Live; and helped position PBS as the home for independent film with multi-platform projects like the Oscar-nominated Last Days in Vietnam from American Experience and The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution from IndependentLens.

Ms. Hoppe oversees the entire primetime content strategy and budget and works closely with the Executive Producers of PBS’ award winning series Frontline, Masterpiece, NOVA, Nature, American Masters and Great Performances. She has brought numerous new series and specials across multiple genres to PBS including history programs Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Genealogy Roadshow and In Their Own Words; and dramas Call the Midwife, Last Tango in Halifax and Vicious. Working with Ken Burns, Ms. Hoppe developed a multi-platform “epic binge” scheduling strategy, which resulted in The Roosevelts: An Intimate History being the most watched factual program on PBS since The Civil War more than two decades ago. She has also brought timely specials and events to PBS including a block of programming commemorating the


anniversary of the assassination of JFK, a special on The March on Washington, and Year In Space, a partnership with TIME magazine, scheduled to coincide with Mark Kelly’s return from the International Space Station. Before taking on the top programming job at PBS, Ms. Hoppe spent just over a year as Vice President, Programming, during which she oversaw all natural history, science, history, and news and public affairs programming.

Before PBS, Ms. Hoppe spent more than eight years on the commercial side of the business. She came to PBS from Discovery where she oversaw Curiosity and developed and produced science projects for Discovery Studios. Prior to Discovery, Ms. Hoppe was President and CEO of Optomen Productions (USA), a Soho, New York-based television production company known for science, reality andfactual programming, which she started from the ground up. Under her leadership, Optomen produced numerous successful programs and series for Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, PBS and the Food Network. Productions she created which went on to be long running series included Monsters Inside Me for Animal Planet, Most Evil for Discovery and I.D, Worst Cooks in America for Food Network, and Mysteries of the Museum for Travel Channel. Additional series and specials included the Emmy-nominated Evolve for The History Channel, Mars: The Quest for Life and Are We Alone? for Discovery and Science Channel, Can Animals Predict Disaster? for PBS’ Nature strand, and Gangland Graveyard for Secrets of the Dead.

Prior to joining Optomen, Ms. Hoppe was Thirteen/WNET’s Executive Producer of PBS’ ground-breaking Frontier House and Colonial


House, both of which were nominated for primetime Emmys, and, while Director of Science Programs at Thirteen/WNET, two projects, DNA and The Secret Life of the Brain, won the Emmy award for Outstanding Science Program. Working with Channel 4 in the UK, she created the long running strand Secrets of the Dead, and oversaw numerous productions and co-productions including 1900 House, Savage Seas, Savage Earth, Savage Planet and Innovation. At WGBH she was series producer of NOVA, and directed and produced several episodes of the series, including Great Moments from NOVA, and Avalanche! Before NOVA, Ms. Hoppe directed the Ten O’Clock News. She got her start in production at New Hampshire Public Television where she directed and edited New Hampshire Journal, floor managed Granite State Challenge, and rancamera for many productions including UNH Wildcat Hockey.

Ms. Hoppe serves on the Board of the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, and has frequently participated in panels there and at RealScreen, IDA, the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, the New York Television Festival, and other industry events. She has served as a jury member for the Japan Prize and has been a judge for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards. She also has served on National Science Foundation grant review panels and has privately reviewed grants for other organizations, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Michael Kelley
Senior Vice President, Programming & Business Affairs

Michael Kelley is Senior Vice President, Programming & Business Affairs at PBS. In this role, he is responsible for developing and integrating content and business strategy


across General Audience and Children’s Programming. Mr. Kelley manages Business Affairs, which negotiates all PBS production agreements; Production Management, which analyzes production schedules and budgets; and Content Services, which manages program delivery and packaging.

Mr. Kelley joined PBS in 2008 as Vice President, Strategy and Operations. In this role, he developed and implemented corporate strategy, tracked the overall performance of the organization, and managed the PBS content budget. He then served as Vice President, Strategy and Business Affairs, adding oversight of Business Affairs and Production Management to his portfolio.

Prior to joining PBS, Mr. Kelley was a management consultant at Eagle Hill Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers, working with media and telecommunications clients. He also spent time at AOL working in corporate strategy and product development.

Bill Gardner
Vice President, Programming and Development

Bill Gardneroversees the acquisition, development and production of historical, cultural, current and world events, natural history and science programming for the PBS Primetime schedule as Vice President, Programming and Development.

Before joining PBS, Mr. Gardner was executive producer at Discovery Studios, where he developed projects in the reality, lifestyle and science genres. He also oversaw national productions including Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl and served as show runner on Science Channel’s Human Nature with Dan Riskin.

Prior to Discovery, he spent over a decade in the independent production world as director, producer, writer and show runner on programs for multiple networks, including Digging for the Truth on the History Channel, Treasure Quest and Solving History on Discovery, CNN Presents and Explorer for National Geographic.

Mr. Gardner has produced in over 30 countries, including


spending two months embedded with US Special Forces investigating the looting of the Baghdad museum. During this time he was also the first Westerner allowed to film inside the holy Shi’i Shrines of Hussein and Abbas in Karbala.

Before entering television, Mr. Gardner performed anthropological fieldwork among Arab expatriates in the United States, in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and among Muslim Sufi mystics in Marrakech, Morocco, as well as in the world of crack cocaine addiction in the US Virgin Islands. He is a member of the board of CINE and has a Masters Degree in cultural anthropology.

Marie Nelson
Vice President, News & Public Affairs

As Vice President, News & Public Affairs for PBS, Marie Nelson is responsible for collaborating with executive producers of acclaimed PBS news and public affairsseries, as well as independent producers, to develop and direct innovative approaches to engage audiences in current events across these programs and platforms.

Ms. Nelson is a seasoned content developer with experience in public media and other broadcast and cable organizations. Prior to PBS, she served as executive producer of national programs at PBS member station WGBH. At WGBH, she oversaw the production of AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS, an eight-part documentary series that explores the impact of America’s changing demographics.

Prior to WGBH, Ms. Nelson was the acting vice president of news & original programming for BET Networks, where she oversaw a range of cross-platform projects, including Battleground 2012, a yearlong politics initiative. She also served as the founding executive producer for NPR’s “Tell Me More” and as a producer


for “Nightline” with Ted Koppel and “World News Tonight” at ABC News. Nelson has also served in public affairs and international development roles with the U.S. Department of State, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Africare.

Prior to joining PBS, Ms. Simensky was Senior Vice President of Original Animation for Cartoon Network, where she oversaw the development and series production of The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Courage the Cowardly Dog and other major projects.

Ms. Simensky began her career with a nine-year tenure at Nickelodeon, where she helped build the animation department and launch such popular series as Rugrats, Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show.

She is a past-president of ASIFA-East, and the founder of New York chapter of Women in Animation. She has lectured at numerous colleges and animationfestivals, and has taught courses in animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has written for numerous animation publications and has had several essays published in books including "Nickelodeon Nation" and "The Children's Television Community."

Ms. Simensky holds a BA in Communications & History from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Media Ecology from New York University.


Prophylactic cranial irradiation of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in childhood: outcomes of late effects on pituitary function and growth in long-term survivors.
It is well known that prophylactic cranial irradiation is highly effective in preventing central nervous system (CNS) relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Nevertheless, there have been very few reports on the late effects, especially pituitary function and growth, in long-term survivors who were treated with 18 Gy cranial irradiation in childhood. The subjects consisted of 35 children with ALL who were treated with prophylactic 18 Gy cranial irradiation at Kanagawa Children's Medical Center between October 1981 and February 1995. All patients received cranial irradiation after first attaining complete remission with induction chemotherapy, according to the treatment protocols prescribed by the Tokyo Children's Leukemia Study Group (TCLSG) andSangma’s plea ill-conceived, Pranab tells Supreme court

President Pranab Mukherjee has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court in response to a petition, filed by his opponent in the presidential election PA Sangma, challenging his appointment. Describing the petition as “ill-conceived and baseless”, Mukherjee told the Supreme Court that at the time of filing his nomination papers he held no office of profilt.

On August 21 Sangma had moved the Supreme Court contending that Mukherjee held an office of profit when he filed his nomination papers. The President has, refuted the allegation saying he resigned as the leader of the Lok Sabha, gave up the primary membership of the Congress and the honorary position as chairman of the Kolkota-based Indian Statistical Institute on June 20.

In his affidavit, Mukherjee has sought


[The work of Jovan Andrejević as a medical student in Vienna--his contribution to anatomy and histology].
During the fifties of the 19th century, a Serb from Novi Sad, Jovan Andrejevitsh, was completing his studies at the Medical University in Vienna. Jovan Andrejevitsh was born on November 6, 1833, in Novi Sad. His father was a priest. He attended primary school in Novi Sad. According to one of his biohraphers, proffesor Sanditsh, Andrejevitsh graduated from high school in Temishvar, where he got his high school diploma on July 30, 1853. As a student, Joles, nick name, he got from his friends, was popula among students of his age and one of the student leaders in the high school in Temishvar. In high school, he started his literature work which hecontinued till the end of his life. He spoke several languages and worked as a translator and literary critic. Ten days after his high school graduation (October 10, 1853). Andrejevitsh was enrolled in the Medical University in Peshta. Soon after, he continued his studies in Vienna, where he graduated on May 16, 1861. After he graduated from the university he returned to Novi Sad, where he was presented in the City Hall by a Council Member, doctor Jovan Jovanovitsh Zmaj, famous Serbian poet. While still a medical student in Vienna, he published his articles under pseudonym "a Serb from Vienna", mainly because he was being kept under surveillance by the Viennese police authorities for his support of Svetozar Miletitsh's program. As a medical studen, he soared above other


students with his talent, intelligence, exams results and specially with his thirst for scientific work. During his studies at the Medical University he showed special interest in physiology. This interest was noticed by professor R. Ernest Bricke) who appointed him for his assistant. While working at that institute, Andrejevitsh, still a student, published his work "About the Fine Structure of Liver" (Uber den feineren Ban den Leber) showing that: "the small channels in liver are a part of the biliary tract, biliary capillaries do not touch blood capillaries...." [3]. How Andrejevitsh's scientific paper was accepted at that time can well be seen from an announcement of the Viennese Royal Academy of Science (XVIII, vol I, 1861) where it was emphasized: "With this knowledge, the anatomy and physiology ofliver get quite a different perspective". This work was often quoted by well known scientists, such as: a physiologist professor Rotel (from Graz), then Kolliker) from Verteburg and Malashot, who quoted Andrejevitsh in one chapter of his book about liver (Histology-IV ed. Leipzig, 1863). The real value of Andrejevitsh's work is clearly shown in personal correspondence between Andrejevitsh and his professor Bricke, which continued even after he graduated from the university. Three letters have been preserved in the Archives of the Serbian Medical Society as document "of the history of our medicine", as emphasized by a well known merchant from Belgrade, Vitkovitsh, who presented it to the Serbian Medical Society as a gift. The letters have been published in the Serbian Archive, 1895. In his first letter, on


UHF, subsquare precision is used.  More precise position reports are very rarely used.

Adoption and use
Like the QRA system before it, Maidenhead locators were enthusiastically adopted by radio amateurs beyond contesting, and it is now in widespread use.

Maidenhead locators are still used as part of the formulas for scoring in many VHF amateur radio contests and as the basis of earning awards like the American Radio Relay League's VHF/UHF Century Club, URE TTLOC, etc. operating award.

In IARU Region 1 rules, VHF distance calculations are carried out between Maidenhead subsquare centres assuming a spherical Earth.  This results in a small error in distance, but makes calculations simpler and, given the inherent imprecision in the used input data, it is not the biggest error source.

The relatively new FT8 narrowbandFormer New York Mayor Courts Gun Lobby

Sept. 21, 2007

By JENNIFER PARKER

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani presented himself to members of the the nation's largest gun owners' advocacy group, the National Rifle Association, a group he once likened to "extremists," Friday.

Leaving behind his former position calling for stricter gun control, the former mayor of New York attempted to reassure an estimated 500 lifetime members of the NRA that he supports the Second Amendment's right to bear arms.

"I'm very happy to be here in front of the NRA, because there are a lot of things that you and I have in common," Giuliani said. "There are probably a few things we disagree about, but there are many more things that we have in common."

In a 20-minute address, the former mayor


attempted to distance himself from his previous position supporting the Brady bill and a ban on assault weapons, and an effort to hold gun manufacturers liable in court for gun crimes.

In 2000, as mayor of New York City, Giuliani went after gun manufacturers, filing a lawsuit against companies like Smith & Wesson, Glock and Colt to hold them accountable for violent crimes involving firearms.

And in a 1995 interview with PBS' Charlie Rose, the former mayor likened the NRA members to "extremists," calling their defense of assault weapons "a terrible, terrible mistake."

Asked whether he still believed that gun companies should be held liable for gun crimes, Giuliani distanced himself, saying, "I think that lawsuit has gone in a direction that I probably don't agree with at this point."

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A Los Angeles police officer has alleged in court that members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) bought and sold guns for profit–including to civilians, according to a report in the Courthouse News Service. The police officer, Armando Perez, was told to “watch his back” after he investigated and reported his suspicions. Perez is now suing the city of Los Angeles and the LAPD and is seeking lost wages, compensation for “physical and emotional injuries” and court costs.

The episode dates back to 2010. Perez audited the LAPD’s Metropolitan Division and discovered that LAPD officers were buying special firearms made by the highly-regarded Kimber gun manufacturing company, and were reselling the guns for high profits to other officers as well as civilians and gun dealers. The scandal alsopart of an ongoing inquiry into Perez’s allegations, and was the second time the department looked into them. The first investigation was called “deficient” by Inspector General Alex Bustamante.

According to the Courthouse News Service, Perez reported his suspicions to Captain John Incontro. Incontro wanted to fix the matter “in house” and wanted his name to be taken off the list of gun buyers. Perez also reported on what he called an “inappropriate relationship” between a “subordinate and commanding officer,” and after that was aired, Incontro turned the investigation over to the LAPD’S Internal Affairs Group.

But internal affairs determined that there was no misconduct, though they did not interview Perez. After that, the retaliation began, according to the complaint. The retaliation grew in intensity after the Los Angeles Times


reported on the story. Perez “was ostracized, his reputation damaged, and [was] told to 'watch his back,' among other retaliatory acts. Since reporting the illegal gun deals, Perez says, he has endured veiled threats, ostracism and his job responsibilities have been systematically removed in an attempt to force him to leave Metro,” the Courthouse News Service reports.

I still recall my surprise and wonder upon learning that the largest organism on Earth is not the blue whale, as I had presumed, but actually is a colony of fungi residing underground in the Malheur National Forest, located in eastern Oregon state. Molecular studies revealed that this one individual fungus is huge; estimated occupy 2,200 acres (8.9 km2) and is probably more than 2,400 years old.

But different fungi species can be found nearly everywhere in the world. For example, did you know there are more than 14,500 species of mushrooms in the UK alone? And plenty of these fungi live in London and other towns and cities, as we learn in a video from mycologist Mark Spencer, who is an expert on fungi at London's Natural History


The Ministry of Defence has been evading an international ban on dumping radioactive waste at sea by redefining thousands of uranium weapons fired in the Solway Firth as "placements".

Minutes of secret meetings released under freedom-of-information law reveal the MoD was worried about breaching an inter-government agreement on marine pollution by firing depleted uranium (DU) tank rounds into the sea from a military range at Dundrennan near Kirkcudbright.

But officials found a way round the problem, by claiming the munitions were not being "dumped" in the sea, but "placed" there. This is despite the fact attempts to retrieve them have failed, and their locations are unknown. DU is toxic and radioactive and has been linked to increases in cancers and birth defects in Iraq, where it has been used asa weapon. It has also been linked to health concerns among members of UK armed forces exposed to the shells.

Campaigners have accused the MoD of resorting to "semantic trickery" to justify its plans to dump more DU weapons in Scottish waters.

In the past 30 years, over 6,700 shells have been fired from the range, containing nearly 30 tonnes of DU. They pierce canvas targets on the cliffs, then plunge in the sea.

At an MoD meeting in June 2004, an official was minuted suggesting there could be "a future problem" firing DU into the sea. The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, known as the OSPAR convention, agreed by 15 governments, including the UK, said "it was illegal to dump waste into the


sea", he warned.

According to the minute, this provoked "discussion surrounding the wording". But another official said there was no problem because the MoD's interpretation was "the projectiles were placements not dumping". The 1992 OSPAR convention says dumping does not include "placement of matter for a purpose other than the mere disposal thereof".

Aneaka Kellay from the Campaign Against Depleted Uranium said: "The Scottish public will struggle to understand how the MoD thought they could evade their legal and moral responsibility not to pollute the sea by calling this a 'placement'.

"However the MoD name their firing programme, the fact remains they have purposefully released nuclear waste into the Solway Firth, with little idea of how this will affect the marine environment."

She called on the MoD to retrieve the DU roundsit had fired in the sea, and to refrain from firing more "as we seek legal advice on this glorified form of dumping."

Katy Clark, the Labour MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, said: "The legal basis on which the test-firing has occurred is open to serious questioning."

An MoD spokeswoman said: "All testing is in accordance with procedures agreed with the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency."

The Scottish Government said it was "strongly opposed to the testing by MoD of DU shells on Scottish soil and in Scottish waters".


Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America and Our Revolution, two groups pushing progressive candidates within the Democratic Party, won several races across the country Tuesday.

At least 12 candidates endorsed by the DSA, the country's largest socialist organization, won races and at least 13 candidates endorsed by Our Revolution, the group started by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., also won. Many of the DSA-endorsed candidates were endorsed by Our Revolution and vice versa.

One of the most notable wins of the night was in Virginia, where Lee Carter, an IT specialist and former Marine who didn't have the backing of the state Democratic Party but had the backing of the two progressive groups, beat House Majority Whip Jackson Miller, the second-highest ranking Republican in thestate House.

Carter ran on a platform of implementing a single-payer healthcare plan in the state, raising the minimum wage and supporting workers unions. Miller, who has held the delegate seat since 2006, opposed a single-payer healthcare system and has voted against minimum wage increases and a bill to allow collective bargaining for government employees.

In Philadelphia, civil rights attorney Larry Krasner, a Democrat strongly endorsed by both DSA and Our Revolution, won the district attorney's seat on a platform of reforming the criminal justice system through ending mass incarceration, including imprisonment for minor drug crimes, ending cash bail, ending stop-and-frisk and prosecuting police misconduct.

About 300 miles west in Pittsburgh, fellow civil rights attorney Mik Pappas, an Independent who ran on a similar criminal justice reform platform to Krasner's, won


in his bid for District Justice of Allegheny County. Pappas had the backing of both Our Revolution and DSA.

Other winners backed by DSA and Our Revolution include Seema Singh Perez, who was elected to the Knoxville, Tenn. city council; Brian Nowak to the Cheektowaga, N.Y. town council; Tristan Rader to the Lakewood, Ohio city council; Charles Decker to the council of Ward 9 in New Haven, Ct.; Anita Prizio to the Allegheny County, Penn. council; and J.T. Scott and Bew Ewen Campen, who were both elected to the city council in Somerville, Mass.

Instead of running candidates in third parties, the strategy for Our Revolution and DSA has been to elect progressive candidates in an effort to push the Democratic Party left.

"The only viable electoral strategy is to workAs one of these authorized purchasers, APMEX is able to get coins direct from the U.S. Mint and pass them along to you.Protect your 2019 Silver Eagles with this clear plastic capsule or display it in style by adding an attractive presentation box or jewelry bezel to your order.One of the most popular designs in American coinage, the Silver Eagle combines beauty with Silver bullion appeal. Add the 20-Coin tube of 2019 1 oz Silver Eagles to your cart today!First released November 24, 1986, the 1 oz Silver American Eagle quickly became the most popular Silver bullion coin not only in the United States, but in the entire world. The initial run sold out immediately “due to the phenomenal demand.” The Silver Eagle enjoys a special prestige as


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banner reading, “E Pluribus Unum.” Above the eagle are 13 stars, a representation of the original 13 colonies. This image harkens to the Great Seal of the United States.These Silver bullion coins do not bear mint marks, differentiating them from the Proof and Burnished versions, which do include a mint mark. From 1986 to 1998, they were manufactured at the San Francisco Mint. From 1999 to 2000, production was moved to the Philadelphia Mint. Since 2001, the 1 oz Silver American Eagle has been produced at the West Point Mint in New York, which is colloquially called the “Fort Knox of Silver.” Starting in 2011, due to the coin’s immense popularity, the San Francisco Mint began minting Silver American Eagles to supplement the output from the West PointJones began a romantic relationship.  In 1991, Jones conceived a
child with the help of a sperm-donor.  The child was born in 1992, and Fowler, Jones, and the child lived
together until Fowler and Jones parted ways in mid-1994.  From the time the parties separated until about
June of 1995, Jones allowed Fowler to have access to and possession of the child for varying periods of
time.  After June of 1995, things changed.  Jones denied Fowler access to the child.  The child originally
carried the surnames of both Fowler and Jones; Jones later had the child's last name legally changed to
"Jones" alone.
	Fowler filed suit in October of 1995, seeking to establish a legal right to visitation with the
child.  Fowler alleged she had standing to file the


suit under section 102.003 of the Texas Family Code
because she was (1) a "parent" of the child, and alternatively, (2) "a person" who had actual care, control,
and possession of the child for at least six months sometime before she filed her suit.  See id. § 102.003(1),
(9) (West 1996).  Two weeks later, Jones filed a Plea in Abatement for Lack of Standing, in which she
sought dismissal of Fowler's suit on two grounds.  First, Jones argued Fowler did not have standing to bring
the lawsuit because Fowler had no legal or biological relationship to the child.  Next, she raised a
limitations-type defense, pleading Fowler had not had care, control, and possession of the child since May
1994 (more than six months preceding the filing of the lawsuit).  JonesResearch Programs

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The deadline has now passed for any other countries to submit a bid, with FIFA due to vote on a winner on June 13.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said: "We have two bids in play, one is a joint bid involving Canada, United States and Mexico, one is Morocco.

"Today, these two bids were presented and they will be looked at thoroughly by a technical task force. We will evaluate the two bids. We will visit the venues and then decide if the two bids live up to the minimum requirements. If they are, the decision will be taken to congress."

Carlos Cordeiro, the newly elected president of


on Saturday.

A day earlier, the United Bid Committee, which is organizing the North American joint bid, reduced the field of potential host cities to 23 candidates, including 17 in the U.S.

The bid has faced some obstacles this week with the news that Chicago, Minneapolis and Vancouver all dropping out over what local officials perceived as unacceptable demands from FIFA.

Also at the FIFA Council meeting in Colombia on Friday, the governing body rubber-stamped the use of video review at this summer's World Cup as expected.

Information from Press Association was used in this report.By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1 . Policy . E-commerce, including transactions involving smaller express-carrier or international mail packages, is being exploited by traffickers to introduce contraband into the United States, and by foreign exporters and United States importers to avoid applicable customs duties, taxes, and fees.

It is the policy of the United States Government to protect consumers, intellectual property rights holders, businesses, and workers from counterfeit goods, narcotics (including synthetic opioids such as fentanyl), and other contraband now being introduced into the United States as a result of the recent growth in e-commerce. The United States Government must also protect the revenue of the United States


from individuals and entities who evade customs duties, taxes, and fees.

It is the policy of the United States Government that any person who knowingly, or with gross negligence, imports, or facilitates the importation of, merchandise into the United States in material violation of Federal law evidences conduct of so serious and compelling a nature that it should be referred to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security for a determination whether such conduct affects that person’s present responsibility to participate in transactions with the Federal Government.

It is the policy of the United States Government, as reflected in Executive Order 12549 of February 18, 1986 (Debarment and Suspension), and elsewhere, to protect the public interest and ensure the integrity of Federal programs by transactingare suspended or debarred by CBP.

It is the policy of the United States Government to ensure that parcels containing contraband be kept outside of the United States to the greatest extent possible and that all parties who participate in the introduction or attempted introduction of such parcels into the United States be held accountable under the laws of the United States.

Sec . 2 . Criteria for the Importer of Record Program, Including Exclusion of Trade Violators . (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue a notice of proposed rulemaking to establish criteria importers must meet in order to obtain an importer of record number.

(b) Such criteria shall include a criterion providing that any person debarred or suspended by CBP for lack of present responsibility for reasons related


with international posts.

(b) Within 90 days from the date of this order, the Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Commissioner of CBP, and in consultation with USPS, shall submit to the President a report on any appropriate measures the Federal Government could take, including negotiating with international posts, to prevent the importation or attempted importation into the United States through the international postal network of shipments containing goods, when such importation or attempted importation is known to have been facilitated by any person who may not obtain an importer of record number under any criteria established by the Secretary under section 2 of this order.

Sec . 5 . Non-Compliant International Posts . (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Commissioner of CBP, and in consultation with theis not promptly provided. USPS should collaborate with CBP in implementing these measures.

(d) The Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Commissioner of CBP, and in consultation with USPS, shall, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, take measures to protect the United States from shipments from any international post that for eight or more consecutive quarters is deemed a non-compliant international post. To the extent consistent with applicable law and as appropriate, such measures might include preventing the importation into the United States of shipments dispatched from such posts, regardless of whether additional information required by CBP is provided. Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Commissioner of CBP, and in consultation with USPS, shall submit a report


to the President analyzing what measures CBP may take consistent with its existing authorities.

(e) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Commissioner of CBP, shall publish and regularly update appropriate guidance related to CBP’s implementation of this section, including the process by which an international post is deemed a non-compliant international post and the process by which an international post is removed from the list of non-compliant international posts.

Sec . 6 . Publication of Violation Information; Enhanced Enforcement Efforts . (a) On a periodic basis, and consistent with Federal law and executive branch policy reflecting non disclosure of sensitive information, the Secretary of Homeland Security, through the Commissioner of CBP and the Director of United States Immigration and Customs                         Facts and Procedural History

        Christopher A. Wiltse (“Appellant”) and Kyle A. Wiltse (“Appellee” or collectively with
Appellant, “the parties”) were married on October 7, 1973, in Norman, Oklahoma. Both of the
parties graduated from the University of Oklahoma; Appellant earned a degree in political science,
and Appellee earned a degree in fashion merchandising. Appellant later earned a masters degree
from Central Michigan University. In 1972, Appellant began a career with the United States Army.
For this reason, until 1980, the parties changed residences numerous times, living in Fort Benning,
Georgia, Fort Hood, Texas, Oahu, Hawaii, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Houston, Texas. In


1980,
Appellant resigned his commission with the U.S. Army as a captain and accepted a position with his
current employer, Morgan Stanley, now Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (“MSDW”), in Memphis,
Tennessee. Throughout Appellant’s career in the U.S. Army, Appellee worked full time as a sales
representative for different clothing and accessory shops, earning the minimum wage.
        While Appellant began his career as a financial advisor, Appellee worked at a series of office
personnel positions for physicians and then again as a sales representative for another clothing shop,
all of which were full time and for minimum wage. In July 1982, the parties adopted their first child,
Patrick Wiltse, at which point Appellee switched from a full time schedule to a part time schedule
at her clothing sales representative position.April. The species overwinters in the larval stage.

Subspecies
Scotopteryx luridata luridata
Scotopteryx luridata plumbaria (Fabricius, 1775)

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Read the first post. Fire Murray now?

I was never anti-Murray per se, but I'm at the point where I'm ready to be done with him. A change is needed and you can't fire every player. It's cliched but it's true. Murray was the right pick for this team when they hired him, he brought discipline and accountability. But from an outsider's perspective, it seems to have worn thin.

Out with the old, in with the new. It's a cycle in sports. You go from a 'player's coach' to a 'disciplinarian' and then once they rise up and regress, you fire the disciplinarian for a player's coach. 'Round and 'round it goes.

Murray is stifling the young players' development, and losing a lot of points for The Blues by trying toPluginInfo.
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