not prepared to give up. Instead, it caught the administration off guard by launching a surprise attack on legislation known as Trade Adjustment Assistance, a program designed to help workers displaced by trade and one which Democrats—and organized labor—have overwhelmingly supported in the past. Just 40 House Democrats—less than one-quarter of the caucus—voted for the bill, which fell in a landslide, 302-126. By defeating the aid measure, the labor movement rendered the administration’s careful work rounding up votes for Trade Promotion Authority largely irrelevant.

This is an important point: Trade Adjustment Assistance was seen as a Trojan horse by TPP opponents- providing populist cover for Congress while ultimately serving the pro-corporate ends of the larger trade deal. The White House and GOP allies like Speaker Boehner thought they hadfound a workaround in the TAA, a compromise to alleviate worries about job displacement while sewing a traditional union compromise in the fabric of the TPP. It appears, however, for now these efforts were for naught.

In order to salvage some kind of victory, GOP House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, followed the TAA defeat with a vote on Fast Track, or Trade Promotion Authority, which narrowly passed 219 to 211 thanks to overwhelming Republican support. But this vote is ultimately symbolic due to the fact that the Senate and House bills have to be reconciled. After the defeat of the TAA, this is far from certain.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus is celebrating the vote as an unqualified victory, writing in a fundraising email this afternoon. "Corporate forces will try to


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A nine-member jury also found Lai Sai-ming guilty of endangering the safety of others at sea, in what was Hong Kong's biggest maritime tragedy in decades, the South China Morning Post newspaper and Radio Television Hong Kong said.

The same jury found the captain of the other, smaller boat, Chow Chi-wai, innocent of manslaughter but guilty of endangering the safety of others at sea. All of those killed, including eight children, and most of the nearly 100 injured in the collision were aboard his boat.

The two captains had blamed each other for the Oct. 1, 2012, collision, which left


this highly organized and overwhelmingly safe southern Chinese city traumatized.

The verdicts came down after a 60-day trial and four days of deliberations.

The manslaughter charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, while endangering safety at sea carries a maximum of four years and a fine of 200,000 Hong Kong dollars ($25,000).

The verdicts were not posted online and Hong Kong High Court clerks could not immediately be reached for comment.

The ferry was heading from Hong Kong Island to the outlying island of Lamma when the collision occurred. The smaller boat, owned by the Hong Kong Electric Co., was taking employees of the company on a harbour excursion to watch the Chinese National Day fireworks display.

Fleets of ferries form the backbone of the city's transportation network, running frequently toelements:

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A federal judge on Tuesday awarded $20,400 each to two American lawyers illegally wiretapped by the George W. Bush administration, and granted their counsel $2.5 million for the costs litigating the case for more than four years.

It was the first and likely only lawsuit in which there was a ruling against the former administration's secret National Security Agency surveillance program adopted in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Although U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker had called it "unlawful surveillance," (.pdf) the judge went soft on the government because the authorities, he said, believed they were protecting the country in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

The San Francisco judge on Tuesday did not declare the administration's so-called Terror Surveillance Program unconstitutional and helaw in cases before it and hold violators accountable, it need not mete out punitive measures on officials for perceived 'recklessness' in dealing with a serious, proven threat to the national security." (.pdf)

Walker ruled the record showed the government had reason to believe Al-Haramain supported acts of terrorism and that "critical intelligence was obtained monitoring Al-Haramain." Walker added that Al-Haramain, designated by the government as a terror organization, was involved in planning and financing terrorist attacks against the United States' embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Tuesday's award was based on Walker's decision that went against the government in March. It was the first ruling addressing how Bush's once-secret NSA spy program was carried out against American citizens. Other lawsuits considered the program's overall constitutionality – absent any evidence of


specific eavesdropping – and were dismissed.

The government in 2004 was intercepting the telephone communications of Al-Haramain lawyers Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor, who worked for an Oregon branch of the charity. The plaintiffs learned of the eavesdropping after the government erroneously sent them records. Both the Bush and the Obama administrations declared those records state secrets, so the documents were removed from the case.

Walker allowed the case to proceed, based on other evidence of eavesdropping.

Under Bush's Terrorist Surveillance Program, which The New York Times disclosed in December 2005, the NSA was eavesdropping on Americans' telephone calls without warrants if the government believed the person on the other line was overseas and associated with terrorism. Congress, with the vote of President Barack Obama – who was a U.S. senatorfrom Illinois at the time – subsequently authorized such warrantless spying in the summer of 2008.

The legislation also provided the nation's telecommunication companies immunity from lawsuits accusing them of being complicit with the Bush administration in illegal wiretapping.

The lawyers representing Belew and Ghafoor said they worked a combined 5,400-plus hours on the case, which during its 4-year-life had a tortured procedural history of being bounced from Oregon federal court to San Francisco federal court, to an appeals court and back to Judge Walker. They were granted about $2.5 million based on an hourly rate of roughly between $300 and $500 hourly according to generally accepted billing practices.

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No, this is not from the Babylon Bee.

It actually comes from the Oprah Winfrey Network, and a segment featuring Professor Britney Cooper, who sports a PhD from Emory University and who currently is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. With that sort of background, perhaps it isn’t surprising to eternalize blame for obesity on racism and seem to indict President Trump for it. In fairness, she only mentions Trump before launching her indictment of racism as the cause of black female obesity.

Here are few screen grabs of her subtitled rant, followed by the entire segment embedded in a tweet, in case you want to hear her, the moderator, and the audience all enthusiastically accept the theory that white people intwo below Anthony Pettis. Maybe everyone else is too.

Watch the video above to see what UFC President Dana White, and some of UFC 164′s top fighters had to say about all the action from last night’s pay per view event. New champion Anthony Pettis talked about his dramatic first round submission of Benson Henderson, Frank Mir and Josh Barnett talk about their controversial heavyweight clash and Chad Mendes discusses his fourth straight knockout win.

Per usual, the “…of the night” bonuses were announced by White at the post presser. Mendes won KO of the night, Pettis won submission of the night and Hyun Gyu Lim and Pascal Krauss won fight of the night. All fighters involved took home an extra $50,000 for the honors.

The countdown to UFC 164 has


professional wrestling after they made their names in MMA in our newest installment of The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly.

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When you’re thinking of good instances of an MMA fighter turning to professional wrestling as a second career choice, Josh Barnett should immediately come to mind. There have been other fighters who dabbled in professional wrestling, but Barnett is one of the only ones to be just as popular and successful in it as he was in MMA.

Before his transition, Barnett became the youngest heavyweight champion in UFC history by defeating Randy Couture at UFC 36. After being stripped of his title due to a positive drug test, Barnett set his sights on the Japanese professional wrestling scene, where the fans value legitimacy and toughness from theirwrestlers more than mic skills and charisma (although Barnett has both in spades). He immediately challenged for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, and although he came up short, he went on to enjoy the most relevant crossover career of any fighter on this list before his return to the UFC earlier this year put a halt to the wrasslin’ for the time being.


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To explain the marked variation in the reported incidence of how often leukemic cells infiltrate the eye in fatal cases of leukemia, we tested the hypothesis that ocular leukemic infiltration is related to the peripheral leukocyte count during the final hours of life. We reviewed tissue sections, as well as autopsy and clinical records, from 135 patients who had fatal leukemia and had their eyes examined after death at Duke University Medical Center. Infiltrates of leukemic cells were found in the eyes of 42 of 135 patients (31.1%), with the choroid being the most frequently involved site. We detected a significant positive correlation between the ocular leukemic infiltration and an agonal leukocyte count as well as the severity of


Glenn Freemantle, who won an Oscar for sound editing on the film Gravity, sonically recreates stories from real-life astronauts on the fiftieth anniversary of the first spacewalk.

In late 2010, Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón presented Glenn Freemantle with a challenge - to create authentic sound design in the vacuum of space. In 2014, Glenn won an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for his work on the film. Now, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first-ever spacewalk, Glenn sonically recreates the stories of real-life spacewalkers.

Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov completed a major Space Race hurdle by performing the first-ever spacewalk in March 1965. Alexey ran into serious problems with his suit pressure and was barely able to re-enter the airlock. Since Leonov's tense inaugural moments, there have been 175 successfulspacewalks devoted to maintenance of the International Space Station alone.

In this programme, we'll meet some of the spacewalkers and walk through what the experience is like floating in zero gravity above the earth. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield describes his awe at flying weightless above the earth. Record-holding astronaut Sunita Williams describes her spacewalking experiences accumulated over more than fifty hours. Steven Smith describes the enormous pressure helping repair the Hubble Space Telescope. And Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano describes his dramatic 2013 spacewalk, when he almost drowned in his helmet.

Along the way, Glenn will use sound to help us feel the vacuum of space, punctuated by breaths, heartbeats, vibration, the radio crackle, the whoosh of the airlock. The thoughts and feelings of the spacewalkers describing the most awe-inspiring visions


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The metamorphic conditions of the country rocks reached medium and high grade. The Payzac Quartzite has crossed the staurolite isograd, the Upper Gneiss Unit belongs mainly to the staurolite zone and parts of the Lower Gneiss Unit even have reached the kyanite isograd (near the village center and in the north).

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TBILISI, Georgia — Concerned that Georgia’s bitter political transition could turn into a wave of political reprisals, American officials have urged the new prime minister to stop the arrests of officials who served under President Mikheil Saakashvili, warning that politically motivated prosecutions could jeopardize Georgia’s chances of joining NATO.

But a court in Tbilisi decided over the weekend to leave 12 Interior Ministry officials in detention pending their trial. The officials are accused of using illegal surveillance to record conversations discrediting Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose party defeated Mr. Saakashvili’s in parliamentary elections last month.

Lawmakers from the rival parties must now share power in Parliament, but Mr. Ivanishvili, the new prime minister, said he would make it a priority to investigate officials leaving the government of Mr. Saakashvili, whose term endsImage copyright EPA Image caption Mr Obama had supportive words for PM Alexis Tsipras on the Greek economy

Barack Obama has warned of a "rise in a crude sort of nationalism" following the Brexit and US presidential votes.

Speaking in Greece on his final foreign trip, he said: "We have to guard against... tribalism built around an 'us' or a 'them'."

He said the US was painfully aware of the danger of divisions "along lines of race or religion or ethnicity".

He also put the victory of Donald Trump down to "the view of the American people to just shake things up".

Mr Obama was speaking after talks with Greek PM Alexis Tsipras in the capital, Athens, as part of a final tour that also takes in Germany and Peru.

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leg of his trip to try to reassure leaders about future US commitment to its international alliances.

Analysis by James Reynolds, BBC News, Athens

For the first 30 minutes of their news conference, Mr Obama and Mr Tsipras managed to avoid talking about President-elect Trump. Given the drama of last week's election result, that surely sets some kind of record.

But the two leaders soon faced questions about Mr Trump's impact. Mr Obama chose his words carefully. He obeys two American traditions which come together on this trip: an outgoing president is normally gracious about his successor and a president on a foreign trip doesn't criticise his opponents back home.

Mr Tsipras - who himself came to power as the leader of a populist movement - said he knew very little aboutOn the afternoon of April 11, 1861, a small open boat flying a white flag pushed off from the tip of the narrow peninsula surrounding the city of Charleston. The vessel carried three envoys representing the Confederate States government, established in Montgomery, Alabama, two months before. Slaves rowed the passengers the nearly three and a half miles across the harbor to the looming hulk of Fort Sumter, where Lt. Jefferson C. Davis of the U.S. Army—no relation to the newly installed president of the Confederacy—met the arriving delegation. Davis led the envoys to the fort’s commander, Maj. Robert Anderson, who had been holed up there since just after Christmas with a tiny garrison of 87 officers and enlisted men—the last precarious symbol of federal power in passionately secessionist


left to individual states.) At the time, some Southern members reacted with hostility to any emphasis on slavery, for fear that it would embolden the then-burgeoning civil rights movement. Only later were African-American views of the war and its origins finally heard, and scholarly opinion began to shift. Says Holzer, “Only in recent years have we returned to the obvious—that it was about slavery.”

As Emory Thomas, author of The Confederate Nation 1861-1865 and a retired professor of history at the University of Georgia, puts it, “The heart and soul of the secession argument was slavery and race. Most white Southerners favored racial subordination, and they wanted to protect the status quo. They were concerned that the Lincoln administration would restrict slavery, and they were right.”

Of course, in thewhich attempted to square the libertarian ideals of the American Revolution with the fact that human beings were held in bondage. Over time, the Southern states would grow increasingly determined to protect their slave-based economies. The founding fathers agreed to accommodate slavery by granting slave states additional representation in Congress, based on a formula that counted three-fifths of their enslaved population. Optimists believed that slavery, a practice that was becoming increasingly costly, would disappear naturally, and with it electoral distortion. Instead, the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 spurred production of the crop and with it, slavery. There were nearly 900,000 enslaved Americans in 1800. By 1860, there were four million—and the number of slave states increased accordingly, fueling a sense of impending national crisis over the


South’s “peculiar institution.”

A crisis had occurred in 1819, when Southerners had threatened secession to protect slavery. The Missouri Compromise the next year, however, calmed the waters. Under its provisions, Missouri would be admitted to the Union as a slave state, while Maine would be admitted as a free state. And, it was agreed, future territories north of a boundary line within land acquired by the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 would be free of slavery. The South was guaranteed parity in the U.S. Senate—even as population growth in the free states had eroded the South’s advantages in the House of Representatives. In 1850, when the admission of gold-rich California finally tipped the balance of free states in the Senate in the North’s favor, Congress, as a concession to theSouth, passed the Fugitive Slave Law, which required citizens of Northern states to collaborate with slave hunters in capturing fugitive slaves. But it had already become clear to many Southern leaders that secession in defense of slavery was only a matter of time.

Sectional strife accelerated through the 1850s. In the North, the Fugitive Slave Law radicalized even apathetic Yankees. “Northerners didn’t want anything to do with slavery,” says historian Bernard Powers of the College of Charleston. “The law shocked them when they realized that they could be compelled to arrest fugitive slaves in their own states, that they were being dragged kicking and screaming into entanglement with slavery.” In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act further jolted Northerners by opening to slavery western territories that they had expected would remain


he would oppose the expansion of slavery into new territories.)

However, the so-called Fire-eaters, the most radical Southern nationalists who dominated Southern politics, were no longer interested in compromise. “South Carolina will secede from the Union as surely as that night succeeds the day, and nothing can now prevent or delay it but a revolution at the North,” South Carolinian William Trenholm wrote to a friend. “The...Republican party, inflamed by fanaticism and blinded by arrogance, have leapt into the pit which a just Providence prepared for them.” In Charleston, cannon were fired, martial music was played, flags were waved in every street. Men young and old flocked to join militia companies. Even children delivered “resistance speeches” to their playmates and strutted the lanes with homemade banners.

In December 1860, aand fireworks shot through the sky.

By 1861, Charleston had witnessed economic decline for decades. Renowned for its residents’ genteel manners and its gracious architecture, the city was rather like a “distressed elderly gentlewoman....a little gone down in the world, yet remembering still its former dignity,” as one visitor put it. It was a cosmopolitan city, with significant minorities of French, Jews, Irish, Germans—and some 17,000 blacks (82 percent of them slaves), who made up 43 percent of the total population. Charleston had been a center of the slave trade since colonial times, and some 40 slave traders operated within a two-square-block area. Even as white Charlestonians boasted publicly of their slaves’ loyalty, they lived in fear of an uprising that would slaughter them in their beds. “People talk


sides, an interior large enough to house 650 defenders and 135 guns commanding the shipping channels to Charleston Harbor. Construction, however, had never been completed. Only 15 cannon had been mounted; the interior of the fort was a construction site, with guns, carriages, stone and other materials stacked about. Its five-foot-thick brick walls had been designed to withstand any cannonballs that might be hurled—by the navies of the 1820s, according to Rick Hatcher, the National Park Service historian at the fort. Although no one knew it at the time, Fort Sumter was already obsolete. Even conventional guns pointed at the fort could lob cannonballs that would destroy brick and mortar with repeated pounding.

Anderson’s men hailed from Ireland, Germany, England, Denmark and Sweden. His force included native-born Americans aswell. The garrison was secure against infantry attack but almost totally isolated from the outside world. Conditions were bleak. Food, mattresses and blankets were in short supply. From their thick-walled casements, the gunners could see Charleston’s steeples and the ring of islands where gangs of slaves and soldiers were already erecting bastions to protect the Southern artillery.

Militiamen itching for a fight flooded into Charleston from the surrounding countryside. There would soon be more than 3,000 of them facing Fort Sumter, commanded by the preening and punctilious Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, who had resigned his position as West Point’s superintendent to offer his services to the Confederacy.

“To prove it was a country, the South had to prove that it had sovereignty over its territory,” says historian Allen Guelzo. “Otherwise


and tried to put off the evil day as long as possible. Yet a better analysis of the situation might have taught him that the contest had already commenced and could no longer be avoided.” But Anderson was a good choice for the role that befell him. “He was both a seasoned soldier and a diplomat,” says Hatcher. “He would do just about anything he could to avoid war. He showed tremendous restraint.”

Anderson’s distant commander in chief was the lame-duck president, Democrat James Buchanan, who passively maintained that while he believed secession to be illegal, there was nothing he could do about it. A Northerner with Southern sympathies, Buchanan had spent his long career accommodating the South, even to the point of allowing South Carolina to seize allthe other federal properties in the state. For months, as the crisis deepened, Buchanan had vacillated. Finally, in January, he dispatched a paddle wheel steamer, Star of the West, carrying a cargo of provisions and 200 reinforcements for the Sumter garrison. But when Confederate batteries fired on her at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, the ship’s skipper turned the ship around and fled north, leaving Anderson’s men to their fate. This ignominious expedition represented Buchanan’s only attempt to assert federal power in the waters off Charleston.

Some were convinced the Union was finished. The British vice-consul in Charleston, H. Pinckney Walker, saw the government’s failure to resupply Fort Sumter as proof of its impotence. He predicted the North would splinter into two or three more republics, putting an end


to the United States forever. The Confederacy, he wrote, formed what he called “a very nice little plantation” that could look forward to “a career of prosperity such as the world has not before known.” Popular sentiment in Charleston was reflected in the ardently secessionist Charleston Mercury, which scoffed that federal power was “a wretched humbug—a scarecrow—a dirty bundle of red rags and old clothes” and Yankee soldiers just “poor hirelings” who would never fight. The paper dismissed Lincoln as a “vain, ignorant, low fellow.”

While Buchanan dithered, six more states seceded: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. On February 4, the Confederate States of America declared its independence in Montgomery, Alabama, and named Mexican War hero, former Secretary of War and senator from Mississippi Jefferson Davis, itshonor of the United States, there was a point beyond which he wouldn’t go.”

Once in office, Lincoln entered into a high-stakes strategic gamble that was all but invisible to the isolated garrison at Fort Sumter. It was in the Confederacy’s interest to provoke a confrontation that made Lincoln appear the aggressor. Lincoln and his advisers believed, however, that secessionist sentiment, red-hot in the Deep South, was only lukewarm in the Upper South states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, and weaker yet in the four slaveholding border states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. Conservatives, including Secretary of State William H. Seward, urged the president to appease the Deep South and evacuate the fort, in hopes of keeping the remaining slave states in the Union. But Lincoln


knew that if he did so, he would lose the confidence of both the Republican Party and most of the North.

“He had such faith in the idea of Union that he hoped that [moderates] in the Upper South would never let their states secede,” says Harold Holzer. “He was also one of the great brinksmen of all time.” Although Lincoln was committed to retaking federal forts occupied by the rebels and to defending those still in government hands, he indicated to a delegation from Richmond that if they kept Virginia in the Union, he would consider relinquishing Sumter to South Carolina. At the same time, he reasoned that the longer the standoff over Fort Sumter continued, the weaker the secessionists—and the stronger the federal government—would look.

Lincoln initially “believedthree cold, damp months camped on the sand dunes and snake-infested islands around Charleston Harbor, Fort Sumter’s attackers were growing feverishly impatient. “It requires all the wisdom of their superiors to keep them cool,” wrote Caroline Gilman, a transplanted Northerner who had embraced the secessionist cause.

For a month after his inauguration, Lincoln weighed the political cost of relieving Fort Sumter. On April 4, he came to a decision. He ordered a small flotilla of vessels, led by Navy Capt. Gustavus Vasa Fox, to sail from New York, carrying supplies and 200 reinforcements to the fort. He refrained from sending a full-scale fleet of warships. Lincoln may have concluded that war was inevitable, and it would serve the federal government’s interest to cause the rebels to fire the first


were again rowed out to the garrison. They made an offer: if Anderson would state when he and his men intended to quit the fort, the Confederates would hold their fire. Anderson called a council of his officers: How long could they hold out? Five days at most, he was told, which meant three days with virtually no food. Although the men had managed to mount about 45 cannon, in addition to the original 15, not all of those could be trained on Confederate positions. Even so, every man at the table voted to reject immediate surrender to the Confederates.

Anderson sent back a message to the Confederate authorities, informing them that he would evacuate the fort, but not until noon on the 15th, adding, “I will not in15th, I will go now,” Anderson quietly replied. He had made his stand. He had virtually no powder cartridges left. His brave, hopelessly outgunned band of men had defended the national honor with their lives without respite for 34 hours. The outcome was not in question.

“Then the fort is to be ours?” Wig-fall eagerly inquired.

Anderson ordered a white flag to be raised. Firing from rebel batteries ceased.

The agreement nearly collapsed when three Confederate officers showed up to request a surrender. Anderson was so furious at having capitulated to the freelancing Wigfall that he was about to run up the flag yet again. However, he was persuaded to wait until confirmation of the terms of surrender, which arrived soon afterward from Beauregard.

When news of the surrender at last reached


and blew off the right arm of a gunner, Pvt. Daniel Hough, killing him almost instantly and fatally wounding another Union soldier. The two men thus became the first fatalities of the Civil War.

At 4:30 p.m., Anderson handed over control of the fort to the South Carolina militia. The exhausted, blue-clad Union soldiers stood in formation on what remained of the parade ground, with flags flying and drums beating out the tune of “Yankee Doodle.” Within minutes, the flags of the Confederacy and South Carolina were snapping over the blasted ramparts. “Wonderful, miraculous, unheard of in history, a bloodless victory!” exclaimed Caroline Gilman in a letter to one of her daughters.

A steamboat lent by a local businessman carried Anderson’s battle-weary band out to the federal fleet, past hordesof joyful Charlestonians gathered on steamers, sailboats bobbing rowboats and dinghies, under the eyes of rebel soldiers poised silently on the shore, their heads bared in an unexpected gesture of respect. Physically and emotionally drained, and halfway starved, Anderson and his men gazed back toward the fort where they had made grim history. In their future lay the slaughter pens of Bull Run, Shiloh, Antie-tam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga and hundreds more still unimaginable battlefields from Virginia to Missouri. The Civil War had begun.

Fergus Bordewich’s most recent book is Washington: The Making of the American Capital. Photographer Vincent Musi is based in Charleston, South Carolina.


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It's gotta rain sometime

R. Ross Annett

In the seventh year of the drought, the tractor that had been buried in the soil-blowing of 1932 came unexpectedly to light.Babe and Little Joe found it. They came bursting into the kitchen, their eyes snapping with excitement. Their bare hands were blue with cold, for it was a raw March day and they had no mittens. They had no stockings either. Bare legs and feet showed here and there through rents in overalls and shoes.In the five years of her life, Babe had never had anything but boy’s clothing – “and damn littleboth tractor and granary. And, Big Joe ruminated, the granary contained enough wheat to seed a partial crop – a hundred acres or so. He could use the tractor to sow it – if he could get some tractor fuel and some oil.The trouble was that no one would advance him seed or fuel anymore. Everybody thought that the country would never come back, that it ought to be abandoned. Most people, indeed, had moved out.But not Big Joe. He would not abandon the section of land that had brought him more than one ten-thousand-dollar crop of wheat since he left his North Dakota birthplace to settle in Canada. True, during the past six years his farm had often not produced feed enough for one cow and a


he collected from the few remaining neighbours, Uncle Pete distilled a satisfying liquor. He worked steadily, for he had nothing else to do and he had a pessimistic feeling that the drought would last for years. Big Joe was sure Uncle Pete had a lot of liquor cached away.Very occasionally, when he needed money, he sold a little. He never gave any away. He would not give you a drink, Uncle Pete wouldn’t, not to save your soul.He might just as well have been a hermit, so utterly solitary was his life. Nobody bothered about him or talked to him much. He seemed less human than the mongrel dog that slunk hungrily around the place – just an old soak, with his mottled, shapeless face and his clothesthought. “An’ after six years of drought he’d steal, if necessary, to get another crop in. Some people never learn.”He watched them cross the street to the democrat – the gaunt and shabby farmer and the ragged boy and girl. He saw the kids dig into the bag of oranges, saw Big Joe refuse an orange and walk down the street. Big Joe had a fondness for oranges, too, Ed remembered. He himself had often seen Big Joe eat three and four at a time when he could afford to buy them.Suddenly Ed ambled around the counter, picked up two cans of oil and carried them across the street. He put them into the back of the democrat.“Tell your pop he can have this much oil, but it’s


come here in cars-“It was time to get on the land and Big Joe was growing anxious. He and Uncle Pete had dug the tractor out and tinkered it into shape. And they had shovelled a way into the granary. But he had been to Sanford and canvassed everyone he knew, in a vain effort to get gasoline on credit. He had nothing on the place which was worth selling; not even the team of feeble old horses would bring any money.With the oil Ed Hindson had provided and the gas Uncle Pete had pilfered, they got the tractor running. They hooked the tractor to a disk with the seed-drill behind that. They had to disk and seed in one operation, for they could not afford to goof the boy in him to thrill to the challenge of wintry winds, to delight in bird songs. The sweep of dawn across the prairie, the far-flung sunsets, moved him as glorious sound symphonies might move some men. And those were things that even poverty could not deprive him of.But those things did not buy grub for Babe and Little Joe or put colour in their cheeks. They needed more than potatoes and oatmeal, even if he could stand it. So Big Joe was embarked on a career of crime.He regretted it, though. He knew that he would not get the same pleasure from the meadowlarks’ songs anymore.Court was sitting in Sanford and there were many cars parked all around the courthouse block. Big Joe found an empty


space and pulled his team to the curb between two parked cars.He had two empty pails hanging from the reach of the democrat, in each pail a significant length of rubber tubing. He unscrewed the cap on the gas tank of the nearest car, pushed one end of each tube in and then sucked on the other ends until he got a mouthful of gasoline. Then he dropped one of the free ends in each pail and stood by while the stuff siphoned, examining the hub of the democrat wheel with such obvious innocence that anyone observing him would have become suspicious at once.Also, he wrote down the car’s licence number. When he got a crop he was going to give back to the car owner two pailsof gasoline.When the pails were nearly full, he replaced the cap on the gas tank, backed his team out carefully, so not to set the pails swinging, and drove to a deserted alley. There, unobserved, he poured the contents of the pails into the drum on the democrat. Then he reslung the pails to the reach and cruised around the block, looking for a new parking place.It was tedious work. More, it was tense and nerve-wracking. Big Joe had never stolen a nickel in his life, and sometimes, when people passed on the sidewalk, the perspiration oozed from him, he was sure, faster than the gasoline flowed into the pails beneath the democrat.Once two men came out of the side door of the courthouse and approached the car


next to the one Big Joe had been working on – just as he was backing out from the curb.“I smell gas,” he heard one of the men say. “I wonder is that feed-line leaking again.”As Joe drove away, he noticed the fellow with his head under the hood of his car.He had been late getting to town, and court was over before he had filled the drum. But he got a few more bucketfuls from cars parked in front of restaurants.As he drove out of town in the dusk of the spring evening, he noticed cars parked along the street where the movie theatre was. There was still a movie in Sanford. North of town, the drought had not hit so hard. People always got a partialthey had enough seed for the rest of Uncle Pete’s half section and his own six hundred and forty acres. But with one hundred acres of crop, he would be back in the money again anyway.The tractor thundered along in a cloud of dust, dragging the disk and the seed-drill behind it. In the very centre of the dust cloud Big Joe sat at the wheel of the tractor, dreaming dreams of food and clothing and fun for Babe and Little Joe – picturing them with the colour of health in their faces while his own face grew black with dirt until he looked like a blackface comedian in a minstrel show.In the afternoon, Uncle Pete relieved him, so that he could drive into town with another empty


drum on the democrat. And the early darkness found him plying his new trade up and down the street where the movie theatre was.It was easier in the dark. Sometimes he did not even bother to drive away, but emptied the pails into the drum right there on the street. Nobody paid any attention to a nondescript farmer messing about a democrat. His nervousness of the day before decreased until at times he was able to meditate dreamily while the pails filled. How he would bring the kids in to the show sometimes. They had never seen a movie. He pictured them, round-eyed with the wonder of it. There was a lot of fun in the world for kids.It was late when he pulled in to what hethought would be the final call of the evening. He thought the drum was nearly full. No doubt he had grown careless. He had unscrewed the cap on the gas tank of a car and had just got the siphon tubes working when he was horrified to feel the car lurch on its springs. A door flew open and a man leaped out. He looked big against the glare of lights from the theatre.“What’s goin’ on here?” a gruff voice demanded.Big Joe was too dumfounded even to pull the tubes away, and when the beam of a flashlight fell on him, he stood there gaping with the cap of the gas tank plain to be seen in his hand and the smell of gasoline all about him.“Well, blow


to think of Babe and Little Joe and the wheat that would not get seeded now. He went to sleep thinking, and dreamed wretchedly of pails and rubber tubing and the smell of gasoline, the taste of gasoline.On the following morning Big Joe came up before a magistrate – a sour-faced, emaciated old man seemingly in an advanced stage of influenza. He looked as though he had wintered on Russian thistle, Big Joe thought.The constable told his story with frequent interruptions while the magistrate sneezed or performed noisy operations with handkerchiefs. Each sneeze was a tremendous eruption which ended with an exasperated “Dammit!”“You – ah-h-choo! Dammit! – got anything to say?” he demanded, glaring at Big Joe in a way that could only mean ten years at hardlabour.But Big Joe told his story – a plain, unvarnished story, for it was not in him to plead. He told about the granary and tractor that the wind had uncovered after five years’ burial, and about his failure to get tractor fuel on credit. He told about Babe and Little Joe. He mentioned the few merchants in Sanford who knew him.The constable, at least, seemed impressed, and whispered to the magistrates that a little investigation might be advisable. The magistrate consenting, Joe was led back to his cell with those terrific sneezes ringing in his ears.He was not surprised when told on the following day that the magistrate had taken to his bed.But the constable was a good egg. He spent some time consulting the merchants Big


MANILA, Philippines, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The Philippines navy soon will receive its second decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard ship amid concern that the move sends the wrong signal to China.

Final U.S. approval for the sale of the USCGC Dallas, a Hamilton class cutter, is under way and the 378 foot-long, 3,250-ton vessel should soon sail for the Philippines.

The Dallas was commissioned in 1967 at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans. It carries a crew of 167 and can stay at sea for around 45 days, making it a high-endurance vessel.

Armaments included one OTO Melara MK-75 76mm gun, two MK-38 25mm machine gun systems and two MK 36 SRBOC systems. It also had a Phalanx CIWS missile defense gun, along with other mounted machine guns.

The ship is being soldas an excess defense article through the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act 1961.

But the Communist Party of the Philippines said the sale indicates the United States is preparing the Philippines navy as its de facto fighting force against China as the tensions increase in the South China Sea, a report in the Philippines newspaper Business Mirror said.

"The transfer of another naval cutter from the U.S. government serves the purpose of U.S. military buildup on the South China Sea," the CPP said in a statement.

"The United States is able to employ the Philippine navy as an augmentation force in the course of its operations to permanently project its military presence and power in the area and secure the trade routes and Asian markets in the interest of U.S. monopoly capitalist


companies."

The CPP also said the acceptance of the Dallas makes the navy a target by enemies of the Philippines.

A report in The Philippine Star newspaper confirmed the sale of the Dallas soon will be completed.

"I'm pleased to report that the congressional review process for another ship – Coast Guard cutter Dallas -- wraps up this week," U.S. Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., told a House of Representatives Foreign Affairs hearing on U.S.-Philippine relations. "It should soon be on its way to Manila."

The Dallas joins the former U.S. Coast Guard vessel Hamilton -- renamed the Gregorio del Pilar -- which was decommissioned in March and taken over by the Philippines navy in May.

Royce said the Dallas will bolster the Philippines navy's efforts to maintain its territorial integrity.

Aggressive Chinese claims onthe South China Sea -- or the West Philippine Sea as it is referred to in Manila -- are driving the nations of southeast Asia to seek closer U.S. ties," Royce said.

Philippines military spokesman Col. Arnulfo Burgos Jr. said the backing of U.S. politicians by agreeing to military sales helps increase Manila's defensive capabilities, the Star report said.

"This is a welcome development for the armed forces of the Philippines which continues to strive to be more efficient and effective in fulfilling its constitutional mandate of protecting the people and upholding the sovereignty and integrity of its national territory," he said.

The Philippines Business Mirror quoted Andrew Shapiro, U.S. State Department assistant secretary for Political and Military Affairs, saying the Philippines's internal security threat has shifted from terrorism to maritime


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Nathan Knorr was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. He began to show interest in the International Bible Students at age 16. He left the Reformed Church in 1922 and was baptized on July 4, 1923 as a Bible Student following a baptism talk by Frederick W. Franz, with whom Knorr became close friends. Knorr became a volunteer at the Watch Tower headquarters in Brooklyn on September 6, 1923, and became its factory manager in September 1932. On January 11, 1934, at age 28, Knorr was elected director of the Peoples Pulpit Association (now Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.), and was made its vice president the following year. In January 1942, Knorr became president of International Bible Students Association and the corporations now known


as Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York.[2] Knorr was married to Audrey Mock in 1953.

Knorr contributed significantly to Jehovah's Witnesses, with an intense educational focus. Within a month of his taking office, arrangements were made for an Advanced Course in Theocratic Ministry, a school that featured Bible research and public speaking. On September 24, 1942, Knorr suggested that the Society establish another school to train missionaries for service in foreign countries. The suggestion was unanimously approved by the board of directors. The first class of the Gilead School - the name given to this missionary school - commenced February 1, 1943.

Knorr arranged for the creation of new branch offices in many countries. In 1942, when he becamepresident, there were 25 branch offices worldwide. By 1946, despite the events of World War II, the number of branch offices increased to 57. Over the next 30 years, the number of branch offices increased to 97.

Knorr began a campaign of real estate acquisition in Brooklyn to expand the organisation's world headquarters, expanded printing production throughout the world, and organized a series of international assemblies that dwarfed those of Rutherford in the 1920s. In 1958, more than 253,000 Witnesses gathered at two New York City venues, Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds, for an eight-day convention where more than 7000 were baptized.[4] Other large conventions were held in the US, Canada and Germany.

From October 1, 1972, adjustments began in the oversight of the congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses. The


in alphabetical order. In December 1975, leadership of Jehovah's Witnesses passed from the president of the Watch Tower Society to the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses. Beginning January 1, 1976 the Governing Body formed several committees to oversee publishing, writing, teaching, service and personnel. Knorr worked with the new arrangement until illness shortly before his death forced his move from the world headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. Following Knorr's death in June 1977, Frederick William Franz succeeded him as corporation president.At night, the tables were cleared for dancing under the stars, which shone through the glass curtains.

Frederick G. Bourne was the fourth president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, and he built this “hunting lodge” for his family, guests and an army of servants. They enjoyed many summers there, until the late 1960s when the property taxes became too much for the last surviving heir to bear. Since then, the castle has served an academy for US Navy students, and it had been abandoned for several years before being purchased by the current owners, who began renovating the property, returning it to the Bourne’s initial vision.

The ground floor of the castle was designed in true medieval style, complete with stone archways, knights, iron candelabras, and rich textiles. The


piano room is flanked with a terra cotta wine cellar, which naturally keeps wine cool. The ground floor also has an incredible library with historic volumes, as well as a music room with a vintage Victrola.

Upstairs is a formal dining room, which has private banquettes modeled after passenger trains. Each compartment was meant for private drinking, gaming, or to look out at the beautiful views in solitude. As if out of a movie, a painting in the room is revealed to have the eyes cut out so that servants could pass in a secret passage behind the room to look down on the table to see if any service was needed, without disrupting the meal. Bourne also had a tiny office off of the dining room for whenthe historic dining rooms. The grounds used to hold a tennis court, but are now lushly planted for outdoor dining as well.

Singer Castle on Dark Island is not only a preservation of America’s opulent past, but also a unique getaway that combines history, luxury and the serenity of the beautiful St. Lawrence region.


the Neverwinter River cascade over small, gentle waterfalls as they course into the city's bustling harbour. Neverwinter's magnificent gardens (the phrase "the City of Skilled Hands" refers to Neverwinter's accomplished gardeners) ensure the warm winters are colourful and the summers are rich with fresh fruit. The city is replete with beautiful and ingeniously designed buildings, many of which are famous in their own right, such as The House of Knowledge, and Neverwinter's tall and many-windowed temple of Oghma. In addition, the reputations of such unique taverns as The Moonstone Mask and The Fallen Tower reach far beyond the Neverwinter's walls. These elements generally make Neverwinter a distinctive city. It is also famous for its important slave market.

The city is a member in good standing of the Lord's Alliancecarnosaur, a tyrannosauroid, or a basal coelurosaur if its close relation to Gualicho is legitimate.

Description

The holotype of Deltadromeus agilis (museum catalogue number SGM-Din2) is a partial skeleton of an animal which is estimated to have measured 8 meters (26.24 feet) long. The weight of the living animal was estimated to have been around 1050 kilograms, slightly more than an imperial ton.

A number of specimens (catalogued under IPHG 1912 VIII)  were originally considered by Ernst Stromer to be conspecific with Bahariasaurus, but were referred to Deltadromeus by Paul Sereno in 1996. They were thought to come from a much larger individual, with a femur (upper leg bone) length of 1.22 meters (4 feet), compared to the 0.74 meter (2.46 foot) long femur of the holotype. These referred specimens, if


Life supporting first aid (LSFA) teaching to Brazilians by television spots.
Accidents in developing countries are frequent and have high mortality and morbidity rates. In Brazil, in 1995-1996, the year of this study, life supporting first aid (LSFA), which includes cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) basic life support (BLS) was not taught in schools. With the population of 165 million, the only way to teach the adult population on a large scale would be by television (TV), that is widely viewed. This study compares two groups of factory employees - 86 controls without TV exposure to LSFA and 116 exposed to brief LSFA skill demonstrations on TV. Their ability to acquire eight LSFA skills was evaluated: external hemorrhage control; immobilization of a suspected forearm fracture; treatment of a skin burn bydue from the Debtor to Anderson that she had requested in the Original Complaint and was requesting in the Amended Complaint that the Court determine to be nondischargeable, arose from the parties divorce and the Amended Order, which was an exhibit to the Original Complaint; and (7) since the Amended Order was part of the Original Complaint, the Debtor was on sufficient notice of the conduct, transaction or occurrence now placed in issue by the Amended Complaint.
In a February 11, 2003 Memorandum of Law (the "Anderson Memorandum of Law"), Anderson asserted that: (1) the deadline to file a nondischargeability claim under Section 523(a)(15) in the Debtor's case expired on December 23, 2002; (2) if the Amended Complaint is to set forth a timely cause of action pursuant to


of Section 523(a)(15), which would make those obligations dischargeable.
On February 18, 2003, after the Amendment Motion was filed but before its March 5, 2003 return date, the Court conducted a pretrial conference in the Anderson Adversary Proceeding. Having read the Original Complaint and the Debtor's Answer, and otherwise having prepared for the pretrial conference, the Court was surprised when the parties indicated that Anderson had filed the Amendment Motion to include a Section 523(a)(15) cause of action for the Condo and Enhanced Earnings Awards which she believed could relate back to the filing of the Original Complaint.
In determining whether Anderson's additional cause of action proposed in the Amended Complaint arose from the same conduct, transaction or occurrence as set forth in the Original Complaint, the question appears toInvestment banking giant Goldman Sachs has cited its connection to cryptocurrencies and blockchain as a potential business risk, public records show.

In a way, the disclosure echoes one published last week by Bank of America, which warned at the time that it faces both competitive and compliance risks as a result of the technology.

According to the Feb. 26 filing, which constitutes its annual report for the fiscal year 2017, Goldman believes that it might be impacted because of its work with clients and the companies it has invested in. Goldman is an investor in payments startup Circle (which announced today that it had acquired crypto exchange Poloniex) and is one of a number of investment banks that offers its customers access to bitcoin futures markets, as reported by Bloomberg


earlier this year.

The company wrote:

“We may be, or may become, exposed to risks related to distributed ledger technology through our facilitation of clients’ activities involving financial products linked to distributed ledger technology, such as blockchain or cryptocurrencies, our investments in companies that seek to develop platforms based on distributed ledger technology, and the use of distributed ledger technology by third-party vendors, clients, counterparties, clearing houses and other financial intermediaries.”

While no obvious connection was drawn, the risks highlighted – particularly on the cryptocurrency front – may form part of the reason why Goldman has thus far eschewed any closer involvement in the market.

In January, CEO Lloyd Blankfein denied a past report that the investment bank was eyeing the launch of a dedicated trading desk for bitcoin (though he didthe manufacture of ultra-tough spider silk familiar to fans of the Marvel superhero Spider-Man.

Hannes Schniepp cautions that the worlds textile mills arent likely to start producing spidey silk in the near future, but says his work describing the structure of the silk protein and its self-organizing behavior is an important step in that direction. Schniepp is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Science at the College of William & Mary. Along with graduate student Minzhen Cai and a set of collaborators at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, he has published a paper describing silk at the molecular level.

Silk is a polymer, Schniepp explained. Its not a synthetically-made polymer, but its a polymer made out of proteins.

Synthetic plastics are polymers, but these macromolecules are


Amnesty lambastes 'arbitrary dismissals' in Turkey purges

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a statement to reporters alongside US President Donald Trump after their meeting at the White House in Washington, US May 16, 2017. Photograph: (Reuters)

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Amnesty criticised the dismissals as "carried out arbitrarily on the basis of vague and generalised grounds of ''connection to terrorist organisations"

Emergency rule is due to expire on July 19.

But Erdogan yesterday said it would continue until there was peace, without giving a time limit

Amnesty International today accused Turkey of implementing "arbitrary dismissals" of public sector workers in a series of purges since last year's failed coup.

Over 100,000 people from the public sector including members of the judiciary and armed forces have been dismissed since the attempted overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdoganin July, the rights group said.

They have all been dismissed by decree under the state of emergency put into force a few days after the failed putsch bid.

The emergency has been renewed three times and is due to expire on July 19. But Erdogan yesterday said it would continue until there was peace, without giving a time limit.

In a report entitled "No end in sight", Amnesty criticised the dismissals which it said were "carried out arbitrarily on the basis of vague and generalised grounds of 'connection to terrorist organisations'".

The organisation urged the government to put in place a "prompt and effective appeal mechanism for those already dismissed".

The dismissed public sector officials Amnesty spoke to described a lack of evidence presented to them after finding their names on a


dismissal was justified," the report said.

According to Amnesty, of those dismissed more than 33,000 are teachers and other employees of the education ministry while over 24,000 are police officers and others from the interior ministry.

Over 8,000 are members of the armed forces, more than 5,000 are academics and include those working in the higher education sector as well as over 4,000 judges, prosecutors and justice ministry officials, it added.

As well as sackings, more than 47,000 have been arrested over alleged links to the movement led by US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of ordering the failed coup.

Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, strongly denies the charges but Turkey alleges his group is a terror group which it dubs the "Fethullah Terror Organisation" (FETO).

Although Western governments andDoctors' understanding of the specialty of Public Health Medicine: a survey of general practitioners and junior hospital doctors.
The Acheson report recommended that the new name for Community Medicine should be Public Health Medicine and that a new group of doctors with responsibility for communicable disease control be established. Three years after the report, general practitioners and junior hospital doctors in one health district were surveyed regarding their understanding of the specialty. This study identified some confusion about the titles and functions of doctors in Public Health Medicine. It is important to understand this problem and make efforts to rectify it.


different conditions, resulting in a difference in adhesion and peel-off of the base films. Further, steps are formed between the color base films. Therefore, printing resolution in the second color and then in the third color is degraded, resulting in blurs of the patterns.
According to the second method, a stripe-shaped light-shield metal film is formed on a glass substrate. Thereafter, a base film to be dyed is formed to cover the entire surface. A first photoresist film is then formed on the base film. First windows are formed at predetermined positions defined by the light-shield metal film. The base film is selectively dyed with a first color (e.g., red) through the first windows. Similarly, second windows are formed at predetermined positions adjacent to the first windows, using awho is accused of sexually molesting and harassing minors as well as adults.

Specifically, Vigano accused Francis of rehabilitating McCarrick from canonical sanctions imposed on him by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009 or 2010.

The Vatican has known since at least 2000 that McCarrick slept with seminarians.

Francis removed McCarrick as cardinal in July following accusations he groped a teenage altar boy in the 1970s, a canonical crime that could result in him being defrocked.

Francis' refusal to immediately respond to Vigano's claims has frustrated many Catholics in the U.S., who were already outraged that McCarrick's penchant for seminarians and young priests was apparently an open secret in some Catholic circles.

That outrage has been compounded by the revelations of the Pennsylvania grand jury report, detailing the abuse of more than 1,000 children


the guide. So to give it back was a big decision but ultimately the right one.”

A top French restaurant, Le Suquet, withdrew from the listings last year, having held a three-star rating for nearly two decades. The chef Sébastien Bras said he no longer wanted to cook at his restaurant under the “huge pressure” of being judged by the inspectors. Michelin said it was the first time a French chef had asked to be dropped from its guide in this way.

In September, the British celebrity chef Marco Pierre White reportedly said he did not want to give Michelin guide inspectors permission to visit his new restaurant in Singapore.

Simon Wright, a restaurateur, food writer and former AA food guide editor, said decisions such as that made by the Checkersthree piggy back trucks. In a typical piggy back arrangement, the front end of a first piggy back truck rests on the rear end of the mule truck. The front ends of the second and third piggy back trucks rest on the rear ends of the first and second piggy back trucks, respectively. Dollies may be used to connect the first piggy back truck to the mule truck and to interconnect the piggy back trucks.
In order to transport semi-trucks in this manner, the semi-trucks must be arranged within dimensional constraints required by federal, state, and/or local regulatory agencies. For example, the total maximum allowable length from bumper to bumper for a mule pulling piggy back trucks is usually 75 feet on designated truck routes and 55 feet on


The song "Crystal" is a track from the girls' 4th mini album 'Pink Blossom'. Although the girls are done promoting their title track "Mr. Chu", the girls released this surprise gift for their loving fans!collaborators: Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Eskimo Walrus Commission, North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, University of Alaska Museum, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The catalog numbers of specimens used from both UAM and the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History are listed in the Appendices. Special thanks are extended to M. Wooller, who provided helpful comments and edits to this manuscript. The authors greatly appreciate the help of C. Clark, S. Teerlink, and the undergraduate technicians, S. George, C. Markel, E. VanDam, and L. Wendling. They would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers whose comments improved the quality of this manuscript. This manuscript is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under


A North Carolina man is “devastated” after he says a United Airlines flight attendant accused him of inappropriately touching his son’s genitals.

Henry Amador-Batten said he and his 5-year-old son, Ben, were greeted at Raleigh–Durham International Airport on Friday by a group of police officers, The Durham Herald-Sun reported. He soon learned that a flight attendant had seen him cuddling with his son on their flight from Newark, New Jersey, and felt that his hand rested too close to the boy’s genitals.

Amador-Batten, who was returning home from a family visit in Puerto Rico, said he was caught completely off guard by the accusation, but cooperated with police. He said he explained to the officers that Ben was afraid of flying, and he’d simply placed his hand on his son’sWeeding Out the Justification for Marijuana Treatment in Patients with Developmental and Behavioral Conditions.
Alex is a 13-year-old adolescent with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-combined type, anxiety, and depression. He has been resistant to engaging in therapy and treatment with various medications has been unsuccessful. Alex's parents are concerned about his anxiety, isolation, oppositional behaviors, academic underachievement, truancy, and substance use. A recent altercation with his stepfather led to a police intervention and a brief removal of Alex from the home. Alex previously used alcohol and other drugs; at present, he reports that his current drug use consists of frequently smoking pot. Alex states that he uses marijuana to relieve his anxiety and does not understand why this is problematic as marijuana is now legal in his


state.Kevin is a 24-year-old adult man with diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder, mild intellectual disability, and schizoaffective disorder. He has a long history of challenging and problematic behaviors including aggression toward self and others, property destruction, inappropriate sexual behaviors, elopement, emotional outbursts, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Past diagnoses include bipolar affective disorder, depression, and intermittent explosive disorder. Kevin is notably obese and somnolent. His current medications include 8 psychotropic medications, 3 antiallergy medications, levothyroxine, and a fish oil supplement. His father reports that medications have gradually been added and dosages increased over time. Two weeks ago, his new psychiatrist initiated a trial of medical marijuana. His father hopes that the marijuana will allow Kevin's other medications to be decreased or discontinued.Linda is an 11-year-old girl with high-functioning autismspectrum disorder, anxiety, and ADHD-inattentive subtype. Anxiety has been her most impairing condition, and Linda has been responding well to a treatment with cognitive behavioral therapy and a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. She is also working with her therapist on strategies to address her symptoms of ADHD. Linda has had no side effects from her medication and she and her family have been pleased with her progress. At a follow-up appointment, her mother brings an article from the lay press authored by a parent who claims that marijuana "saved" her autistic son. Linda's mother asks if marijuana should be considered for her daughter.


made famous by the book and movie, was known for his crazy work ethic and the expectations he set for his students. Escalante was a math teacher at Garfield High School, a school in East LA that had a history of enormous struggles with behavior and academic achievement. Escalante came in teaching basic math and built up an extremely successful AP Calculus program. In the first year, all 18 of students passed the AP Calc exam. At the height of the program's success, 73 students passed the exam. The movie and book highlighted his unorthodox expectations. Students came to school early and stayed late. They came to school on Saturdays and during the summer. They were used to large homework loads and weekly quizzes. He wanted with everyIn the just-released schedule for the eight day-long event, the reality star turned fashion designer is set to show her Fall 2012 Whitney Eve designs at The Studio, located in NYC's Lincoln Square, on February 15 at 9 a.m.

The 26-year-old debuted her collection in September 2009 on the runway at New York Fashion Week during it's Spring/Summer 2010 season. Since it's launch, Whitney Eve has attracted quite the celeb following, including Kourtney Kardashian, Giuliana Rancic and Heidi Klum.


Thieme (1950–2003)
Robert B. Thieme III (2004-)

Beliefs
According to the church's doctrinal statement, its purpose is to "present isagogical, categorical, and exegetical Bible teaching" and to "present the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ both at home and abroad." It holds to eternal security and a premillennial pre-tribulation rapture. Under "Church Ordinances", it lists only the Lord’s Supper.

Location

During Evans' pastorship, the church built and occupied a small auditorium at 171 Heights Boulevard, while during Burcaw's time, the church transferred to 502 Lamar Street. The current location is 2815 Sage Road, Houston.

References

External links

Online publications of R. B. Thieme Jr.

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Category:Evangelical churches in Texasthat was very common until quite recently. A bi-metallic strip coils and uncoils in response to changes in temperature, causing a glass ampule containing mercury to tip left or right, making or breaking a contact.

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Double-switch thermostat.

This is a mercury tilt switch thermostat that contains two separate mercury tilt switches, one that tilts on when it gets too cold and one that tilts on when it gets too hot. This lets you set the heating and cooling systems to different temperatures.

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Everton FC today unveiled the new Everton crest to be used from the start of the 2014-15 season.

Everton had already unveiled a new crest back in May, which is being used in the 2013-14 Premier League season. The new crest presented earlier this year led to a lot negative feedback from fans who felt the club had taken the decision without hearing their concerns and opinions.

Shortly after, Everton announced they would work together with the fans to create another new crest to be used from 2014-15 onwards. The design won 78% of the votes in an election between three possible Everton crests.

This image shows the old, the current and the new Everton crests.

The new Everton 14-15 crest re-introduces the 'Nil satis nisi optimum' slogan as well as theLast year, the US Supreme Court finally banned patents on human genes after they were handed out by the US Patent and Trademark Office for decades.

The effort was powered by the ACLU and Public Patent Foundation, which gathered a group of plaintiffs who were paying high prices for the patented gene tests on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.

Now Canada is about to see a similar suit. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) has filed suit (PDF) in Canadian federal court seeking to invalidate patents related to "Long QT syndrome," an inherited heart disorder that affects somewhere between 1 in 3,000 and 1 in 5,000 people. The patents were created at the University of Utah. That's the same US university that was connected to the landmark Myriad case.


drive away from the scene.

Barthez was forced to fight back as one of his assailants tried to pull him from the driver's seat.

"It's got nothing to do with the football or the results," Barthez told France Info radio. "What happened goes beyond the sporting realm... and without that I would have stayed with Nantes until the end."

He added: "I accepted being whistled throughout a match because that's part of the game."

Barthez, 35, has been unsettled since joining Nantes in January and been accused on several occasions of feigning injury to avoid training.

In his 14 matches with the club, the former Marseille and Manchester United keeper has conceded 23 goals.

Barthez's agent Jean-Marie Cantona said it was too early to talk about whether the much-decorated keeper would play on.

"It's tooearly to talk about that," Cantona told AFP. "For the moment, he's focused on his family, taking some time off with his family in the southwest (of France) and will stay there for some time."

Nantes moved immediately to cancel Barthez's contract.

"Given the incidents that occurred after the Nantes v Rennes match of April 28, Fabien Barthez asked to break his contract sine die. FC Nantes-Atlantique understands and accepts this request," the club said.

"Given the good relations that the club enjoys with its goalkeeper, it has been decided to break the contract in an amicable way as from now."


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World War I in Photos: Animals at War

Animals were used in World War I on a scale never before seen -- and never again repeated. Horses by the millions were put in service as cavalry mounts and beasts of burden, but they were not the only animals active in the war. Mules, dogs, camels, and pigeons all played vital roles, as well as many others -- all at great risk, and with heavy cost.

When the war began, Europe's armies had an understanding of warfare that put the use of cavalry in high regard. Soon, however, the deadly terrain that evolved around trench warfare rendered cavalry attacks nearly useless on the Western Front. But the need for constant resupply, movement of new heavy weaponry, and the transport oftroops demanded horse power on a massive scale -- automobiles, tractors, and trucks were relatively new inventions and somewhat rare. British and French forces imported horses from colonies and allies around the world, a near-constant flow of hundreds of thousands of animals across the oceans, headed for war. One estimate places the number of horses killed during the four years of warfare at nearly 8 million. Other animals proved their usefulness as well: Dogs became messengers, sentries, rescuers, and small beasts of burden. Pigeons acted as messenger carriers, and even (experimentally) as aerial reconnaissance platforms. Mules and camels were drafted into use in various war theatres, and many soldiers brought along mascots to help boost morale. Only a couple of decades later, at the onset of World War


II, most military tasks assigned to animals were done by machines, and warfare would never again rely so heavily on animal power. On this 100-year anniversary, I've gathered photographs of the Great War from dozens of collections, some digitized for the first time, to try to tell the story of the conflict, those caught up in it, and how much it affected the world. Today's entry is part 4 of a 10-part series on World War I, which will be posted every Sunday until June 29. Come back next week for Part 5.

A single soldier on his horse, during a cavalry patrol in World War I. At the start of the war every major army had a substantial cavalry, and they performed well at first. However, the developmentof barbed wire, machine guns and trench warfare soon made attacks from horseback far more costly and ineffective on the Western Front. Cavalry units did prove useful throughout the war in other theatres though, including the Eastern Front, and the Middle East. (National Library of Scotland)

Gas attack on the West Front, near St. Quentin 1918 -- a German messenger dog loosed by his handler. Dogs were used throughout the war as sentries, scouts, rescuers, messengers, and more. (Brett Butterworth) #

German soldiers pose near a horse mounted with a purpose-built frame, used to accommodate a captured Russian Maxim M1910 machine gun complete with its wheeled mount and ammunition box. (Brett Butterworth) #

A pigeon with a small camera attached. The trained birds were used experimentally by German citizen Julius Neubronner,


before and during the war years, capturing aerial images when a timer mechanism clicked the shutter. (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) #

Unloading a mule in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1915. The escalating warfare drove Britain and France to import horses and mules from overseas by the hundreds of thousands. Vulnerable transport ships were frequent targets of the German Navy, sending thousands of animals to the bottom of the sea. (Bibliotheque nationale de France) #

Sergeant Stubby was the most decorated war dog of World War I and the only dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat. The Boston Bull Terrier started out as the mascot of the 102nd Infantry, 26th Yankee Division, and ended up becoming a full-fledged combat dog. Brought up to the front lines, he was injured in a gasattack early on, which gave him a sensitivity to gas that later allowed him to warn his soldiers of incoming gas attacks by running and barking. He helped find wounded soldiers, even captured a German spy who was trying to map allied trenches. Stubby was the first dog ever given rank in the United States Armed Forces, and was highly decorated for his participation in seventeen engagements, and being wounded twice. (Wikimedia Commons) #

An Indian elephant, from the Hamburg Zoo, used by Germans in Valenciennes, France to help move tree trunks in 1915. As the war dragged on, beasts of burden became scarce in Germany, and some circus and zoo animals were requisitioned for army use. (Nationaal Archief) #

"These homing pigeons are doing much to save the lives


of our boys in France. They act as efficient messengers and dispatch bearers not only from division to division and from the trenches to the rear but also are used by our aviators to report back the results of their observation." (WWI Signal Corps Photograph Collection) #

Two soldiers with motorbikes, each with a wicker basket strapped to his back. A third man is putting a pigeon in one of the baskets. In the background there are two mobile pigeon lofts and a number of tents. The soldier in the middle has the grenade badge of the Royal Engineers over the chevrons which show he is a sergeant. (National Library of Scotland) #

A message is attached to a carrier pigeon by British troops on the Western Front, 1917. Oneof France's homing pigeons, named Cher Ami, was awarded the French "Croix de Guerre with Palm" for heroic service delivering 12 important messages during the Battle of Verdun. (Bibliotheque nationale de France) #

General Kamio, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army at the formal entry of Tsing-Tau, December, 1914. The use of horses was vital to armies around the world during World War I. (Paul Thompson/New York Times) #

Australian Camel Corps going into action at Sharia near Beersheba, in December of 1917. The Colonel and many of these men were killed an hour or so afterward. (Australian official photographs/State Library of New South Wales) #

On the Western Front, a dead German artilleryman and several draft horses, ca. 1918. Exact figures are hard to come by, but an estimated 8 million


horses died during the four years of war. (Library of Congress) #

Horses requisitioned for the war effort in Paris, France, ca. 1915. Farmers and families on the home front endured great hardship when their best horses were taken for use in the war. (Library of Congress) #

Algerian cavalry attached to the French Army, escorting a group of German prisoners taken in fighting in the west of Belgium. (Library of Congress/Underwood & Underwood, War of the Nations, New York Times) #

Dead horses and a broken cart on Menin Road, troops in the distance, Ypres sector, Belgium, in 1917. Horses meant power and agility, hauling weaponry, equipment, and personnel, and were targeted by enemy troops to weaken the other side -- or were captured to be put in use bya different army. (National Library of New Zealand) #

War animals carrying war animals -- at a carrier pigeon communication school at Namur, Belgium, a dispatch dog fitted with a pigeon basket for transporting carrier pigeons to the front line. (National Archives/Official German Photograph) #


the Corbyn regime
in the Labour party.
So he's here because
he obviously wants
to retain this giant influence.
He's got a lot to
lose, hasn't he?
Will he be able to?
And Jeremy Corbyn's
office was stuffed full
of McCluskey allies.
He had Karie Murphy.
He had Andrew Murray.
He had Jenny Formby as the party
general secretary, and Seumas
Milne as well.
So he's probably got
as much of an empire
to lose as Jeremy Corbyn.
Absolutely.
We've learned who's
in the running, who's
got through the initial stage
of being nominated by the MPs
and MEPs.
And so far, Len McCluskey's
organisation has not yet
declared who it's
officially backing,
but we think that it will
be Rebecca Long-Bailey,
who is the Corbynite
left candidate.
She's been desperately trying
to say she's not the continuity
Corbyn candidate.
What's Barry
Gardiner doing here?
Barry Gardiner...
look.
We were cutting
out all the faces.
At the point where we were
cutting out the faces,
Barry Gardiner was
thinking about standing.
He didn't makeit.
There will be no Gardiner's
question time, sadly.
Say bye bye, Barry.
Rebecca Long-Bailey,
shadow business secretary.
Very, very close
to Jeremy Corbyn.
But she's not out in front.
No.
When this contest
began, when it was clear
that Jeremy Corbyn
lost the election,
the left of the
party, the Corbynites,
needed a flag-waver.
Rebecca Long-Bailey had been
in place for a long time
as their next-generation
candidate,
a protege of John McDonnell.
She was the one they were
all pinning their hopes on.
But it did feel like it's
come a bit too soon for her.
She's only been in the
Labour party for 10 years.
Only been in
parliament for five.
She's perfectly able, but she
is still learning the way,
and she hasn't fizzed out of the
blocks, which means, therefore,
that the front-runner in the
polls so far is Keir Starmer,
who is the shadow
Brexit secretary,
the man who led the Remain
argument within the Labour
party.
The fact that he is the
front-runner


remaining membership
for his whole time
in the shadow cabinet.
I think when you were
judging and criticising any
of the people, you
have to allow...
Analysing.
Analysing.
You have to allow
for a certain fact.
Number one is, they're going to
be members of the Labour party,
so they're all going to be
people who wanted the Labour
party to win the last election.
Even though it was
led by Jeremy Corbyn,
all these people campaigned
to make Jeremy Corbyn
prime minister in
one way or another.
People who are most hostile
to Jeremy Corbyn, especially
of the three who stayed
in his shadow cabinet.
Well, they're ruined by this.
They were part of the problem.
They didn't stand up and fight.
I think at some point,
you've got to say, look,
there are people in the Labour
party who decided that it was
better to just stay in the
tent and wait for their moment
to pull the party backwards.
And IRebecca
Long-Bailey - she is
not the best candidate,
even in her own flat, which
really is going, isn't it?
Angela Rayner's got an
awful lot going for her.
It would be quite
a surprise if she
loses the deputy leadership.
And if she were to
win, and does it well,
but they don't win the election.
The deputy leader is not
a very important job.
But she would be well-placed.
If she were deputy,
she would get a big job
in the shadow cabinet.
So I think she's an
interesting figure,
and she has cut-through, and
you could certainly see her...
She's quite left, right?
Well, she backed Andy
Burnham, originally,
in the leadership conversation,
when Jeremy Corbyn won.
So she's leftish.
Leftish.
She's left enough.
She's left enough for the
membership, I would say.
Richard Burgon, who
we've got here...
Is the proper
Corbynite candidate.
He's the proper
Corbynite candidate,
and he didn't do
very well at all.
He just squeaked in with 22.
So he's through to
this


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Background: M. DANIEL CABOU, THE MINISTER OF COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND LABOUR IN SENEGAL, LAST WEEK VISITED THE NEW SOAP FACTORIES OF WEST AFRICA AND PRESENTED AWARDS TO 16 EMPLOYEES. M. CABOU INSPECTED THE VARIOUS PROCESSES OF SOAP-MAKING AND PRAISED THE COMPANY'S EFFORTS TO MODERNISE THE INDUSTRY IN SENEGAL.

THE DIRECTOR OF THE COMPANY, M. FREDERICK NORGAARD ACCOMPANIED THE MINISTER ON HIS TOUR AND EXPLAINED THE PROCESSES EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SOAP.

LATER, IN A SPEECH AT THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY, M. NORGAARD EXPRESSED HIS DEEP GRATITUDE TO THE MINISTER FOR HIS EFFORTS IN AIDING THE COMPANY TO PLAY THEIR PART IN THE SENEGALESE ECONOMY. HE SPOKE OF THE PERFECT CO-OPERATION BETWEEN HIS ENTERPRISE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND ADDED, "OUR MUTUAL EFFORTS ALLOW US TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE STRENGTHENINGOF THE SENEGALESE ECONOMY."
M. NORGAARD SAID THAT HIS ORGANISATION LOOKED FORWARD TO THE FORMATION OF LARGE ECONOMIC CO-OPERATIVE BODIES, FOR WHICH THE FOUNDATIONS WERE LAID IN A RECENT MEETING OF THE SENEGAL RIVER COMMITTEE.

HE ALSO TOLD THE MINISTER THAT A NEW FACTORY IS AT PRESENT BEING BUILT TO UTILISE THE SECONDARY PRODUCTS OF GLYCERINE AND SAID THAT THIS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE SOAP AND CREATE A NEW AVENUE FOR EMPLOYMENT.

IN REPLY, M. CABOU PRAISED THE DIRECTOR AND HIS ORGANISATION FOR THEIR DETERMINATION AND EFFORTS IN MODERNISING AND STREAMLINING THEIR ECONOMY. HE TOO SPOKE OF THE CO-OPERATION EXISTING BETWEEN THE MINISTRY AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.

IN PRESENTING THE AWARDS TO THE FACTORY EMPLOYEES, M. CABOU SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS PROUD OF THEIR EFFORTS.


18 years after Microsoft's Halo began training kids to shoot bad guys using a heads-up display (HUD), dozens of Microsoft employees have signed a petition against the development of Halo-esque augmented reality HUDs for the US Army, reports CNBC.

HoloLens is one of the leading consumer-grade headsets, however with only 50,000 units sold as of last November, it has yet to find a large-scale consumer application.

The contract, awarded last November, could eventually lead to the military purchasing more than 100,000 headsets that project holographic images into the wearer's field of vision in order to "increase lethality by enhancing the ability to detect, decide and engage before the enemy," according to a government description of the program.

"Augmented reality technology will provide troops with more and better information to make decisions.dumping of the multiplicity, b) enhancement of the cummulative effect c) enhancement of heavy flavour production d) increase of the inelasticity.

The dumping of the multiplicity is a consequence of the overlapping of the strings forming a new one, in such a way, that the effective number of independent strings (clusters) is reduced compared to the number of original strings. The fragmentation of the new string can give rise to particles outside the kinematical limits of a nucleon–nucleon collision (the so called cummulative effect) and the shape of the x-distribution would be harder than the case of fragmentation of the original strings.

The new strings have also a larger tension due to the higher colour of the grouped partons located at the end of the string which is the SU(3)


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Category:Players of American football from Massachusettsstemming from Snowden's 2013 leaks about vast NSA surveillance of foreigners, including the PRISM program's collection of non-Americans' private data from Silicon Valley firms. Those internet-shaking leaks were followed by others from still-unnamed sources that showed NSA spying on European governments that extended all the way to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone and surveillance of three administrations of French presidents, including listening in on their phone calls.

Snowden, meanwhile, has been holed up in Moscow since 2013, making public appearances elsewhere via video stream and the occasional telepresence robot. But prior to finding a semi-permanent haven in Russia, he applied for asylum in 21 countries according to a 2013 statement from WikiLeaks, including Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway. None of those countries granted him asylum at the time.


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This week is part 2 of a three part series of interviews with Gordy Quist and Ed Jurdi of the Austin, Texas group “The Band of Heathens”. Executive producer and host Rich Reardin, talks with them about their new lives, band, songwriting, and recording “Duende” which is out now in early 2017.

This week is our first in a series of interviews with Gordy Quist and Ed Jurdi of the Austin, Texas group “The Band of Heathens”. We start off this series with clips from In Search of a Song host Jason Wilber in 2012, when we first talked with Gordy about the band. Then we’ll be following up with some new discussions, recorded recently by executive producer Rich Reardin, about their new recordback and top walls are interfitted together. However, two different constructions are provided for the side walls, namely a left side wall and a right side wall. The back wall is connected to the side walls by inserting the opposite side edges thereof into engagement with corresponding slots on the side walls. The slots extend vertically along the entire height of the side walls. This cabinet, however, does not include non-handed side walls which are usable on either the left or right sides, or a connection between the back and side walls which only requires a minimum of manipulation of the back wall to engage the back and side walls together.
Additionally with respect to the cabinet drawers, it is also known to form the cabinet drawers as "knock-down"


joined together in laterally spaced relation by the back wall and the drawer support ladder, and the top wall is secured thereto. The drawer support ladder is positioned at the front of the cabinet housing to define the openings through which each individual drawer is slidably received.
More particularly, the back wall has upturned clips or tabs which are vertically spaced apart along one side edge thereof and downturned tabs along the opposite side edge thereof. The tabs serve to connect the rear vertical edges of the side walls to the opposite vertical edges of the back wall to define the rear corners of the cabinet. The two side walls have an identical non-handed construction, and the rear vertical edge of each side wall includes a plurality of verticallythe original is a work of art.

Hopefully, Cyberpunk 2077 will be in the same vein.

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FTL: Faster than Light changed me. Its mantra of 'losing is part of the fun'
really changed my approach to games, as well as towards picking up real-world
skills.

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beobab
Interesting. I never played more than a few minutes of this game, because the
learning curve was more than I was willing to put in at the time, and I died
on the first encounter.

I might have to give it another go.

~~~
Doxin
Keep in mind that your success in FTL tends to be highly variable too, I still
occasionally manage to die on the first encounter, even though I also often
make it to the last sector.

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_Nier: Automata_ has made me think about the limits of games and how much
untapped potential there still


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CENTRAL POINT, Ore. — Family members remember the man hit and killed by a car while crossing I-5 in Central Point on Thursday morning as a loving father who struggled with mental illness and substance abuse.

Investigators believe that 26-year-old Richard Drew Wilson of Eagle Point tried to cross the northbound lanes of I-5 near the Exit 33 interchange in Central Point around 6:15 a.m. on Thursday morning.

"Visibility in the area was limited by darkness and dense fog," said Oregon State Police (OSP).

Driving her Nissan Xterra northbound on I-5 and hampered by the conditions, 52-year-old Jeri Renee Wiggins struck Wilson in the northbound fast lane. The man was dead by the time emergency personnel arrived.

Those who knew Wilson — "Drew," as they knew him — saythat they hope he is remembered as being an amazing father of two children with a smile that could instantly light up a room.

"Drew was an incredibly intelligent man. He could have been anything he wanted to be," said Lisa Flores, the mother of Wilson's children.

Wilson was fighting an uphill battle against mental illness and addiction. He'd recently been homeless, and had been unable to get the kind of support that he needed.

"There was no help, there was no help, and it's really said," said Toni Wilson, Drew's mother. "I had to take him all the way to Portland to get help, because there was no help in Southern Oregon."

Nonetheless, Toni hopes that when people think of her son, they remember his bright smile and contagious joy.

Toni said


Teacher Mike Landsberry was killed in a school shooting on Monday. Sparks Mayor Geno Martini said Landsberry served two tours in Afghanistan with the Nevada National Guard and was well known in the school community. "He proudly served his country and was proudly defending the students at his school," he said.

A mathematics teacher was hailed as a "hero" after being fatally shot while apparently trying to shield students from a 12-year-old boy who opened fire at a Nevada middle school on Monday.

The slain teacher was identified by his brother as Michael Landsberry, 45, a former Marine and a member of the Nevada Air National Guard who celebrated his wedding anniversary last Friday.

Authorities suggested that Landsberry tried to protect students, but stressed they were still investigating. Two boys werewounded before the shooter took his own life at Sparks Middle School, east of Reno. The Associated Press reported that the incident was witnessed by 20 or 30 children.

"We have a lot of heroes today, including our children ... and our fallen hero, an amazing teacher," Washoe County School District Superintendent Pedro Martinez said.

Tim Robinson, deputy chief of the Reno police, also described Landsberry as "a hero."

Kyle Nucum, a 13-year-old student at Sparks Middle School, told NBC News that the suspect “was pointing a gun at the teacher after the teacher told him to put it down” before the first shot went off.

In a separate interview, Nucum told the Reno Journal Gazette that he heard “a pop, like a loud pop, and everybody was screaming.”

The school week at


when he saw them.”

A first responder can be heard making a possible identification of the shooter, “down from a headshot wound … on the basketball court.”

Authorities said it was too early to tell whether the gunman was targeting anyone or simply on a spree.

The two boys were being treated at Renown Regional Hospital, said Angela Rambo, a spokeswoman.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said that he was receiving regular updates and was “deeply saddened” to learn of the shooting.

In 2006, a boy using his father’s .38-caliber pistol opened fire at another Reno-area middle school and wounded a boy and girl, both 14, the newspaper said. A gym teacher was honored later for ending the episode by telling the boy to drop the gun and bear-hugging him.

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Last week's unexpected coup d'etat in Mali
somewhat overshadowed, in the international news cycle, a relatively peaceful
transition of power in the neighboring democracy of Senegal. In a second-round
vote, opposition leader Macky Sall on Sunday defeated his former mentor,
85-year-old incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade; and while European Union
observers deplored some irregularities, they largely praised the election
and the Senegalese news media for a "positive role" in informing voters.