casting installations, are considered, liquid steel is introduced from the casting ladle, via a shroud, into a manifold vessel or tundish. The induced steel jet flows toward the tundish base, where it strikes the flat base of the tundish or a flow-diversion device, which diverts the jet of liquid toward the bath level surface and extracts kinetic energy through dissipation. In the inlet region, the flow generally returns to the bath level surface, migrates along the latter and is submerged again along the narrow back wall and along the side walls of the trough-shaped tundish. As a result, depending on the shape of the tundish, substantially two oppositely rotating recirculation rolls (upward flow in the longitudinal-center section), which migrate in the direction of the outlet opening, are induced.The jet temperature decreases in the direction of the outlet opening as a result of heat losses via the side walls and the bath level surface, with the temperature loss between the feed location and outlet location being dependent on the throughput.
The foreign substances in the metal melt, which are to be separated out as efficiently as possible, originate firstly from the steelmaking process, and are flushed out of the casting ladle into the tundish when the metal melt is transferred. Secondly, foreign substances are also introduced into the metal melt in the tundish itself. These foreign substances originate from the refractory lining material of the tundish and/or from the liquid steel covering slag which is generally used, and are abraded and suspended firstly through mechanical erosion as


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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Book Review: Armada by Ernest Cline

Zach Lightman is a dreamer. He has no plans for the future other than to get through the last few months of high school and graduate. The teenager lives a lackluster life of dull routine, hoping for an indescribable something to give his life meaning. Then one day he sees a spaceship outside his classroom window. Next thing you know Zach is recruited by a mysterious global organization to protect Earth from an alien invasion. World governments have been secretly training soldiers by the use of video games that mimic actual battlefield technology. One of the games is called Armada, and Zach just happens to be a top player.

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A company exhibits sex dolls at the 17th China Adult Toys and Health Care Products Exhibition in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province on November 6, 2015. Photo: CFP

As China's sex toy industry penetrates more and more people's bedrooms, experts have again called for industrial standards to be established to better regulate the almost unsupervised sector.More sex toys were sold on this year's Singles' Day on November 11 - the country's annual online shopping spree - than in previous years.A search of online retail platform Taobao for sex dolls yielded 61,900 hits as of press time. The three most popular models on the site, which cost between 150 to 600 yuan ($23-92) each, have been ordered 10,900 times in November so far.According to the Guangzhou-based New Express newspaper, an online pharmacysold 500 sex dolls on November 11 and another sex doll store owner claimed that 2,500 sex dolls were sold on the same day.Citing Taobao data, the newspaper said that the number of sex toys being bought online has grown by 50 percent annually in recent years, with an estimated 30 million Chinese people buying sex toys online in 2015.Data released by market research firm Analysys International showed that the B2C market volume of sex toys in China topped 3.38 billion yuan in 2013, up 73.6 percent on the previous year. The figure will grow at 58 percent annually in the next three years, Analysys estimated.According to a survey conducted by sex toy company JINGVO International in 2014, over 75 percent of the 10,000 respondents said they would


more sexually active and has a stronger purchasing power and willingness to try these things," Peng said, adding that the more sex education people receive, the more the domestic market for sex toys will grow and develop.The production of sex-related products was overseen by the food and drug administration until 2012. Now, different products are managed by different government departments including the family planning department and the health authorities. However there is no specific department responsible for regulating the production of sex toys, said an Analysys report issued in February.Chinese sexologists have called for a standardization of the industry since 2012, but little has been done."As China produces 70 percent of the world's sex toys, some big manufacturers that conduct international trade will use international standards such asanimator could concentrate on the performance."

To do this, the Pixar animators had to be more innovative than ever before.

How the Production Design and Cinematography Work:

The Look of "Finding Nemo"

From a visual standpoint, "Finding Nemo" is a stunning achievement that is both aesthetically appealing and groundbreaking.

The animation team previously had their share of challenges bringing life to toys, bugs, and monsters, but their assignment on "Finding Nemo" proved to be the toughest yet. Visits to aquariums, diving stints in Monterey and Hawaii, study sessions in front of Pixar's well-stocked 25-gallon fish tank, and a series of in-house lectures from an ichthyologist (a biologist who specializes in fish) all helped to get the animators into the swim of things. They also became trained scuba divers and made several research diving


trips and a visit to Sydney Harbor to get the lay of the land and sea.

The animators studied Disney classics that involved underwater scenes -- "Pinocchio," "The Sword in the Stone," "Bedknobs and Broomsticks," and "The Little Mermaid" -- for inspiration. "We kept coming back to 'Bambi' because of the way the filmmakers adhered to the real nature of how these animals moved and what their motor skills were," says director Andrew Stanton, also noting the film's impressionistic style of blurred backgrounds -- just like it really is underwater. "We thought of it as 'Bambi' underwater." This gave the film a realistic look, and helped focus on the characters.

"The film begins with an intense Garden of Eden coral reef," says production designer Ralph Eggleston. "From there, the underwaterdid a heck of a job making clear the differences between living in an incompressible fluid like water and compressible fluid like air," Summers says. "I was completely knocked out."

How the Underwater World of "Finding Nemo" Was Created

Under the watch of supervising technical director Oren Jacob were six technical teams specializing in different components and environments seen in the film. Lisa Forsell and Danielle Feinberg were the CG supervisors responsible for the Ocean Unit. David Eisenmann and his team handled the models, shading, lighting, simulation, etc., for the Reef Unit. Steve May headed up the Sharks/Sydney Unit, which tackled the submarine scene, shots inside the whale, and most of the above-water scenes in the Harbor. Jesse Hollander oversaw the Tank Unit, which created all the elements for the


fish tank. Michael Lorenzen was in charge of the Schooling/Flocking team, which created hundreds of thousands of fish, plus key elements for the turtle-drive sequence. Brian Green led the Character Unit, which created the look and complex controls for nearly 120 aquatic, bird, and human characters.

The Ocean Unit was responsible for such scenes as the school of moon fish, which form different objects (an arrow, a lobster, a boat, etc.), the angler fish chase, and the turtle drive in the East Australian Current. The unit's most challenging and impressive scene, however, was the jellyfish forest. This rich and colorful moment finds Marlin and Dory in an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous sea of deadly pink jellyfish.

Forsell explains, "This scene involved several thousand jellyfish. Our unit built the model forof what audiences expect to see with water and developed our own ratios and proportions."

How The Sound in "Finding Nemo" Works

After the film's visuals are completed, two separate sound departments were responsible for creating what you hear in the movie: music and sound effects. Composer Thomas Newman was hired to create his first epic score, and leading the sound effects team was seven-time Oscar-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom, who also worked on all the other Disney/Pixar features in addition to Pixar shorts such as the 1989 favorite "Knick Knack."

Newman, a five-time Oscar nominee and an Emmy winner for his theme for "Six Feet Under" (he's the cousin of songwriter Randy Newman, who composed music for the previous four Pixar animated films), was a major inspiration for "Finding Nemo"


even before he was hired. Stanton wrote the screenplay for the film while listening to Thomas Newman scores on his headphones, and during the editing process, Newman's previous film music was used in the temporary music "scratch track." Newman's lush, sophisticated score came to be regarded by the filmmakers as a character in the film.

"He does a lot of overdubs, where he'll gather a group of musicians together apart from the orchestra session and have them play lots of interesting percussion and instrumentation," co-director Lee Unkrich explains about the recording process. "Then he'll layer that into the music that's been recorded on the soundstage with the orchestra."

But first Thomas would try out his musical themes by playing them on his keyboard sequencer at his house. "Towards the endof production, we would go down there almost once a week and hear all the music to picture mocked up in his studio," says producer Graham Walters. "By the time we got to the recording sessions, we had heard everything, but it sounded so much better with a 105-piece orchestra. For our film, he also did his signature overdubs, where he goes in with his posse ahead of time and records things to go on top of the orchestral stuff. With the turtle drive scene, the music breaks into a full-on classic surf rock sound."

While the musical score was being written and recorded, sound designer Rydstrom and his "noise" boys created an inventive recorded catalogue of swish and splash sounds to complement the visual excitement of the film


and add to the sensation of being underwater.

One of the things Rydstrom's crew discovered early on was that sounds actually recorded underwater were boring, so they manufactured many of their own. "But we did go to a pet store with a lot of aquariums and stuck our mikes in the tanks and moved them through the water," Rydstrom says. "For the fish tank in the film we wanted a contrast with the wide-open ocean. Occasionally, you hear weird, cheesy filter buzzes, goofy bubbles, and things that happen in real aquariums."

Rydstrom recorded sounds in the ocean, in jacuzzis, and even in a coastal cave to get the sound of water sloshing and crashing. The latter ended up being used to approximate the inside of a whale. The sound ofof Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan (MEXT), and a Grant-in-Aid for the Global COE Program from the MEXT through the Nanoscience and Quantum Physics Project of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.


known before the journeys can be fully understood or appreciated.

This week the POV shifts from Asukai Jin to Taniguchi Masaki, the kid he saved from bullies along with the girl he was with. We learn more about both Masaki and the girl, Orihata Aya, who had actually just met him in that alley and tried to save him by offering her body to the guys.

Masaki is a transfer student from abroad who is just trying to do well, but gains some unwanted attention. Fortunately for him he not only had Asukai on his side when things got rough, but met Aya and basically fell for her the day he met her, due to her courage in that situation.

While Masaki seems normal enough (and is apparently Kirima Nagi’s brother,another interesting connection) there’s something off about Aya, and even he, who likes her, notices it. She’s extremely eager to please, as if she has no will of her own, but is rather driven by a curious pair of edicts: no one is allowed to hate her, and she has no right to fall in love.

Shift again to Anou Shinjirou, who played along with the other classmates who eventually beat up Masaki in the alley, but didn’t get killed by Asukai because he didn’t participate. He was just putting up a front for the other guys; in reality, he fell for Masaki as quickly as Masaki fell for Aya, and wanted to get closer to him. But he found that hard due to Aya, whom he learns is


to thank him and ask if there’s any reward he would like. Since Ernesti has the mind of an adult (and a mecha otaku to boot) he asks for the one thing only the King can grant: the secret to creating the Ether Reactor, the heart of a Silhouette Knight.

To everyone’s surprise, the king grants Eru’s wish, but first he must prove himself worthy of such knowledge by building everything around that Ether Reactor before learning how to build it. Eru accepts the challenge with relish, calling such work his “hobby” to the bemusement of all.

From there, Eru works with the Dwarf mechanics and engineers, knight Runners, and his friends and comrades to develop improvements to the Silhouette Knights, including a second set of arms to wield energyaround."

Mr Dutton's comments followed the release of a letter organised by the Australian Marriage Equality organisation — and signed by 20 chief executives, including Mr Joyce — which called on the Prime Minister to legislate same-sex marriage.

Qantas defended its decision in a public statement and vowed to continue supporting same-sex marriage.

Writing on the Qantas website on Tuesday, Mr Joyce said companies did have a role in the community "beyond selling it things".

"In the past few years alone, Qantas has given its support widely. Charity flights for drought relief. Awareness raising for homelessness. Transporting volunteer firefighters around the country," he said.

He listed Qantas's support for same-sex marriage alongside its recognition for Indigenous people and campaigns for gender equality.

Mr Joyce also wrote that it was an economic issue, saying, "more


to into a day. Opt for no more than two activities a day and be prepared for lots of fun restaurant and snack stops.

We spent three days in Montreal, one of which was spent eating the infamous Montreal bagels and scooting around Mount Royal, the park that the locals call ‘the mountain’ as it towers above the city. Another day was centred around Espace pour la vie Montreal, an area given over to an Insectarium, botanical garden, Planetarium and Biodome. The Biodome is a series of huge climate-controlled dome spheres where you can watch 4,500 creatures interact with each other in four perfectly recreated American ecosystems. It’s amazing. The last day was spent exploring Old Montreal, hanging out at the port and visiting the Museum of Archaeology.

There wasCoevolution of Life and the Planet Spring School 2013:Biogeochemical Cycles and Evolution

The 7-day 2013 NERC "Life and the Planet" Spring School in Exeter during 14th-21st April, 2013 ended successfully! Thanks a lot to all our invited lecturers for your dedication and support! Thanks to Exeter Earth System Science group, to Tim Lenton for agreeing to host the school and to dear Anne Nicholls, who offered immense help throughout the whole preparation! The school was composed of a short field trip, a two-day GENIE modelling workshop and three days of seminars! During the Spring School 12 UK-based academics gave of their time to guide fieldwork, give lectures and participate in evening discussions and 16 young scientists enjoyed this great opportunity. Below are some photos of the activities. For information


attending the same party and left the party just before Rials. The Blackburn vehicle was stopped at an intersection when it was rear-ended by the truck Rials was driving.
As a "perk," Scafco permanently assigned company vehicles to its supervisors for use in driving to and from work. Clark, however, was a temporary Scafco supervisor. His access to the Scafco truck fluctuated with the amount of business Scafco acquired. When Scafco was busy and needed an additional supervisor, Clark was elevated from foreman to supervisor and temporarily granted permission to use a Scafco vehicle by Scafco manager, Jackie Stone. When business slowed, Clark would return the truck to Stone and resume his position as foreman. When Clark was performing the duties of a supervisor, he was not permanently assigneda truck as were the other Scafco supervisors; however, he was allowed to use a "yard truck." A yard truck is a truck that is assigned to each plant cite and is available *178 for use by Scafco employees for such tasks as running errands at the plant site, picking up equipment and materials, and transporting workers.
In December 1997, Clark was functioning as a supervisor and was allowed use of the yard truck. Rials was involved in an alcohol-related accident one to two months before the accident at issue and relied on Clark for transportation to work. Rials was scheduled to work Christmas Day and Clark had taken that day off, so Rials accompanied Clark home after work on Christmas Eve and drove the truck home so he


could drive it to work the next day. Additionally, the truck would be available for work-related activities in its regular capacity as a yard truck.
On that evening, Rials used the Scafco vehicle to drive to the Iron Horse Pub in DeQuincy, where he drank beer from approximately 8:00 to 10:30 p.m. He then drove to a Christmas Eve party at the home of Clark's uncle. Rials arrived at the party at approximately 10:45 p.m. and continued drinking until he left at approximately 1:30 a.m., shortly after the Blackburns and Royers. Clark arrived at the party at approximately midnight and was still there at the time of the accident. While at the party, Clark and Rials spoke, but the topic of how Rials got to the party was notdiscussed.
Approximately ten minutes after Rials left the party, Clark was notified by an acquaintance that Rials had been involved in an accident in the Scafco truck. Clark immediately went to the scene where he found Rials intoxicated. Rials was charged with, and subsequently pled guilty to, driving while intoxicated and reckless operation of a motor vehicle. The following week Rials' employment was terminated because of his involvement in the accident.
The Blackburns and Royers filed suit against Wheels Incorporated, Scafco, Rials, and National Union for personal injury. The cases were ultimately consolidated. The National Union insurance policy which covered the Scafco vehicle contained two allegedly conflicting provisos. Endorsement # 005 purported to limit the policy to the statutory minimum required by state law in instances when an accident occurred


testimony revealed that the Scafco truck involved in the accident used substantially and primarily for hauling employees and equipment around self-contained plant sites. When the truck left the plant site, it was used to run personal errands of the employees, such as retrieving food items and the like. While Clark was an acting supervisor, the truck was used by him for transportation to and from work and to run personal errands. The Blackburns and the Royers contend that the testimony revealed an occasion where the vehicle was used to travel to a job site in Texas and that interstate roads must have been used in the trip; therefore, the vehicle is required to carry the MCS-90 Endorsement. National Union contends that the MCS-90 endorsement is part of theweekend in November up until the accident. When Rials left work on Friday, Clark would give the truck to him so that he could visit his wife in Lake Charles. Rials would then return the truck to Clark's home on Saturday evening.
There was also testimony that Clark knew Rials frequented bars in the DeQuincy area while driving the Scafco truck, that Rials drove to a barbeque at Clark's camp in the Scafco truck, and that Clark allowed Rials and two other employees to use the truck in order to drive to a concert in Austin, Texas, some eighty miles from their job site in Bryan, Texas. Further, testimony revealed that Clark knew Rials was never instructed as to the rules or regulations regarding the use of Scafco vehicles,


that he had a drinking problem, that he was not allowed to use his parents' car because he had damaged it in an alcohol-related accident, and that he totaled his own truck in an alcohol-related accident. On at least one occasion, Clark sought and received permission from a Scafco manager for Rials to use a Scafco truck to move furniture. The record also revealed that at least two other Scafco supervisors used Scafco trucks as their personal vehicles because they did not own vehicles. Further, on the night of the accident, Clark knew that Rials had the truck in his possession, that he was at the party, and that he was drinking. For the afore discussed reasons, we cannot say the trial court erred in determining that Rialspercent now. READ MORE

French
scientists said on [September 19] that rats fed on Monsanto's
genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller
suffered tumors and multiple organ damage. Gilles-Eric Seralini
of the University of Caen and colleagues said rats fed on a diet
containing NK603 - a seed variety made tolerant to dousings of
Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller - or given water with Roundup at levels
permitted in the United States, died earlier than those on a standard
diet.

The animals on the GM diet suffered mammary tumors, as well as
severe liver and kidney damage.

The study was published in the
peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology and presented at a news conference in London.

The
researchers said 50 percent of males and 70 percent of females died
prematurely, compared with only 30 percent and 20 percent in the control
group.

GMOs are deeply


the footage dump notes, “The
NYPD denied freedom of the press the night of the Zuccotti raid by
kicking out media and keeping them two blocks away … Much of the video
being released is edited by the NYPD, and at times edits are quite
blatant, probably trying to cover up their brutality.”

The release urges that readers share the TARU footage
and take note of any glitches or time stamp changes, which might suggest
selective editing. “We ask for an unedited version of the tapes,” it
notes.

Stickers appeared on ads paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. (photo: IMEU)

By Ben Armbruster, Think Progress

26 September 12

fter
the anti-American protests erupted in the Middle East earlier this
month, Pam Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) decided
to re-up its anti-Muslim ad campaign in New York’s subway system. The ad,borrowing from an Ayn Rand quote, is meant to imply that Muslims are savages.

New York City transit authorities did not want to
display the ads but a federal court said refusing the ads would violate
AFDI’s First Amendment rights. But now that the ads are up, New Yorkers
are taking matters into their own hands, writing “RACIST” and “HATE SPEECH” over the ads in certain subway stations:

California voters will decide on mandatory labeling of GMOs in November. (photo: California Right to Know)

By Anne Sewell, Digital Journal

26 September 12

ollowing
the recent rat study on NK603 GMO corn, Russia has suspended imports of
Monsanto corn, while France continues investigations into the possible
dangers of GMOs to human health.

On Tuesday this week, Russia suspended the import and
use of Monsanto's genetically engineered corn, following the scientific
study released on


September 19 on rats fed with this corn, which caused serious health problems, including tumors and organ failure.

The study was run over a period of two years, which is
the lifetime of the rats being studied and was the first animal feeding
trial, set up to study the lifetime effects of exposure to NK603
Roundup tolerant GM maize, and also to Roundup, the world's best-selling
herbicide and weedkiller.

The press everywhere is buzzing this week with premature obituaries of the Romney campaign.

New polls are out suggesting that Mitt Romney's electoral path to the presidency is all but blocked. Unless someone snags an iPhone video of Obama taking a leak on Ohio State mascot Brutus Buckeye, or stealing pain meds from a Tampa retiree and sharing them with a bunch of Japanese carmakers, theYou Have a Good Reason

#2. Mining Companies Can Go "Scorched Earth" on the Environment, if They Get Permission

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

This past weekend, Discovery Channel orchestrated the crash of a
Boeing 727 passenger jet in a remote and uninhabited Mexican desert as
part of a scientific experiment for an unprecedented international
television documentary for Discovery Channel, Channel 4 in the UK and
Pro Sieben in Germany.

The pilot evacuated the 170-seat aircraft (via parachute) just
minutes before the collision after setting it on a crash course. It was
then flown remotely from a chase plane. The crash went according to plan
and there were no injuries or damage to property.

The plane was packed with scientific experiments, including crash
test dummies in lieu of passengers. Dozens of cameras recorded the crash
from inside the aircraft, on the ground, in


Betty "Rally Granny" True made a name for herself at the Dodger game by flashing the crowd cam for a quick second while she was dancing. The crowd loved her and a legend was born.

This wise-cracking 85-year-old had Fred and Rodney rolling with laughter as she described the day leading up to the flash. She was with her son's customers and was planning on being on her best behavior but her son encouraged her to show her true colors. She did not disappoint.Contents

Synopsis

Bart accidentally has the entire town emulating his actions, thanks to a feel-good counselor.

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Homer comes across an advertisement in the newspaper for a free trampoline. He rushes to the address from the advertisement, where Krusty the Clown is giving it away--when Homer questions why Krusty's getting rid of it, the clown explains that he used it for various gymnastics routines (such as tumbling), but he's phasing out all the gymnastics in his act and replacing it with things like dirty limericks. Homer takes the trampoline home, and his kids are thrilled by it--Marge, however, is concerned about the potential dangers. But Homer brushes aside her worries; he has grand plans of turning their backyard into a theme park and plans to charge others a fee to use


and Lisa think, she discovers that they agree with their dad's assessment about he, and even bring up times that prove that all Marge really does is ruin everyone's fun by nagging at them. Marge becomes uncomfortable and offended after discovering that people see her that way and goes to the Spinster City Apartments (almost hitting Ned Flanders with her car on the way out). While Marge is at Spinster City, Patty and Selma introduce Marge to an infomercial featuring self-help guru, Brad Goodman, who can supposedly help people like Marge with their "chronic nagging."

After Marge makes Homer watch a Brad Goodman video with her, she becomes more tolerant and the two start getting along better. After seeing how out of control Bart is, the family goes tosee Goodman's live lecture in the hopes that it will change him. Bart interrupts the lecture, but Brad Goodman encourages the town to follow Bart's spontaneous attitude. Soon, the whole town starts acting like Bart, who at first enjoys things, but eventually becomes depressed by it. Lisa explains that it is because he has lost his unique identity as a rebel with everyone else in town behaving just like him.

The citizens of Springfield hold a "Do What You Feel Festival" where everyone does what they feel. Unfortunately, this results in workers not doing their jobs, culminating in an ungreased Ferris wheel coming off its hinges and crashing into the zoo whereupon the animals escape and run amuck through town. People begin arguing with one another until they all


This year, record attendance totaled 6,214, including a record number of 3,324 corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers.

There were also 1,078 first-time non-exhibitor attendees, another record set.

"By the growth of attendance at Commodity Classic, it's clear that farmers are seeing the advantage of coming to this great show," said ASA Vice-President and Classic Co-Chair Bob Worth. "The quality of the trade show and all of the educational opportunities makes attendees happy to come back year after year, and invite their neighbors and friends."

This year’s show also experienced the highest number of exhibitors. The 1,010-booth trade show was sold out with a waiting list of interested parties ready to take advantage of any cancelations.

Before a standing-room-only house, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack made his fourth straight appearance before Generalexposed, and an ultrasound flow probe was placed around the artery (Transonic Systems, Ithaca, NY, USA). A large bore catheter for fluid administration was inserted into the femoral vein. The abdominal cavity was opened by a midline incision. A drainage catheter was inserted into the urinary bladder. The superior mesenteric, hepatic, splenic, and renal artery, the celiac trunk, and the portal vein were exposed, and ultrasound flow probes were placed around the vessels. Two fluid filled catheters were inserted into a mesenteric vein. The tip of the first catheter was placed into the portal vein, while the tip of the second catheter remained in the mesenteric vein. A catheter was inserted into the splenic vein and another catheter into the hepatic artery via the left gastric artery. A


affirm in all other respects.
*432 In July 1974, plaintiff acquired title to three lots in Crystal Lake under the terms of his father's will. Plaintiff's father had apparently acquired title to the property in the early 1930's. Plaintiff's complaint alleged that in 1985, he first became aware of defendant's storm sewer which bisects the lots in a north-south direction at a depth of 7 1/2 feet. Upon learning of the sewer's presence, plaintiff demanded that defendant remove it, but defendant refused. Plaintiff then filed the instant complaint.
The storm sewer in question is part of a drainage district which, according to defendant, services thousands of residents and the city's business district. Defendant has maintained that the sewer was installed in 1927 with the consent of the property owner atthe time. In support of this claim, defendant relies on newspaper articles describing the city park district's approval of a contract for construction of a storm sewer in the vicinity in that year, minutes of a July 1927 city council meeting, and deposition testimony by a current city employee. Defendant has produced no evidence, however, of an agreement with the record owner allowing placement of the sewer, no easement or right-of-way, and no evidence of condemnation proceedings pertaining to the property in question. Defendant also maintains that, according to the deposition testimony of plaintiff's son, plaintiff may have been aware of the sewer's presence as early as 1978.
The trial court initially granted summary judgment only on plaintiff's trespass, ejectment and injunction claims. Later, the court modified its order


Ill. 316, 321.) In Hopkins, the defendant railroad company took possession of a right-of-way without compensating the owner. Hopkins later acquired title and sought compensation for the taking. In rejecting the railroad's claim that Hopkins was not entitled to compensation because the taking occurred prior to his acquisition of an interest in the property, our supreme court stated:
"The company was a mere intruder. It had no easement or right of way, and the purchaser at the judicial sale was not bound to take notice of a right that had no existence in fact. The constitution itself provides, private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation, and the act of the corporation in taking and retaining the land was a continuing trespass. TheForty years before the British fought the Nazis, they used history's first concentration camps to commit genocide during the Boer War.

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Nylstroom Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 2 of 34 Boer women and children in a concentration camp.

South Africa. 1901. Wikimedia Commons 3 of


34 A young boy, withered to nothing but skin and bones, sits inside of his tent.

Irene Camp, South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 4 of 34 A family's farm is burned to the ground as part of the British Army's "scorched earth" policy.

During the war, farms were destroyed, fields salted and wells poisoned to keep the Boers from feeding their fighting men. The families that lived inside would then be dragged off to a concentration camp, where many would die.

South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 5 of 34 Inside of one of the "native compounds," where black South Africans were interred.

Kimberley Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 6 of 34 Boer prisoners captured by the British army.

These men will likelybe shipped to prisons overseas. Their families, however, will be sent into concentration camps to starve and die.

South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 7 of 34 Lizzie Van Zyl, a dying young girl.

Lizzie Van Zyl contracted typhoid fever in the camp and slowly withered away. She could not speak English. Nurses who tried to help her were told by the camp heads "not to interfere with the child as she was a nuisance."

Bloemfontein Camp, South Africa. 1901. Wikimedia Commons 8 of 34 A distant view of the lines of tents that made up a concentration camp in the Boer War.

Norval Pont Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 9 of 34 British soldiers on guard at a concentration camp.

Balmoral Camp, South


Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 10 of 34 Distributing the meat rations at a concentration camp.

Springfontein Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 11 of 34 A Boer family, crammed together inside of a small tent.

These tents would often be home to as many as 12 people, forced to squeeze together and share diseases because of the massive overcrowding.

South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 12 of 34 A native South African village, surrounded by a fence of barbwire and turned into a work camp.

South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 13 of 34 A native South African family living inside of a British camp.

Native families were rounded upand sent into concentration camps of their own to keep them from feeding Boer troops. An estimated 14,154 natives died in the camps.

South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 14 of 34 Native South Africans were often forcibly put to work by the occupying British forces.

Camp Durban, South Africa. June 1902. Library and Archive Canada 15 of 34 Native South Africans doing forced labor in a concentration camp.

South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 16 of 34 The native South Africans are put to work building a railway line.

The original caption to this photograph, meant to be propaganda to defend the concentration camps, proudly notes that the forced laborers were "singing" while they worked.

South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics


and Political Science 17 of 34 Native South African women huddle together inside of a camp.

Bronkerspruit Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 18 of 34 Camp Matron Miss Moritz grinding cord inside of a concentration camp.

Generally speaking, the nurses and matrons in the camps had nothing but good intentions. They did their best to help the captives stay healthy and safe -- but with too few resources and space to do it, the people under their care died as such alarming rates that the camps nearly exterminated an entire population.

Klerksdorp Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 19 of 34 Native South Africans pose for a picture in front of the wagon thatbrought them to the concentration camp.

South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 20 of 34 A refugee Boer family, still free of the concentration camps, try to get out of the country before they get caught in the horrors of the camps.

South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 21 of 34 Boer refugees arrive at Merebank station, with their every earthly possession at their sides.

The concentration camps of the Boer War started off as well-meaning refugee camps that took in people like these. As time went on, though, they weren't able to handle the crowds. Diseases and starvation started racked the camp and whole crowds of people started dying.

Merebank, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 22 of 34 A church service inside of


a concentration camp, held in the open air.

Nylstroom Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 23 of 34 Distributing rations inside a camp.

South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 24 of 34 A group of Boer children with a native woman, who seems to have been brought in to replace their missing mother.

South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 25 of 34 A young Boer girl in one of the camps.

Irene Camp, South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 26 of 34 Boer prisoners sit down for an outdoor church service.

South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 27 of 34 The Boer women head out to the river to wash theirclothes.

Middelburg Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 28 of 34 Native South Africans inside a camp.

Bronkerspruit Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 29 of 34 South African women gathered around their hut.

Klerskdorp Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 30 of 34 South African prisoners are put to work.

Pietersburg Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 31 of 34 South African prisoners sit by the wall of their concentration camp.

Standerton Camp, South Africa. 1901. Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science 32 of 34 A South African family stand by their home, inside a village


that has been turned into a British-run camp where thousands will die.

South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 33 of 34 Boer prisoners of war gather together for an open-air church service.

Here, uniquely, they are mostly men. All but a few will soon be shipped out of the country, with their wives and children left behind.

Diyatalawa Camp, South Africa. Circa 1899-1902. Wikimedia Commons 34 of 34 Like this gallery?

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The Boer War Genocide: Inside History’s First Concentration Camps View Gallery

While the matter remains one of debate, many contend that history's first concentration camps were built in South Africa, 41 years before the Holocaust began.

These camps were built by British soldiers amid the Boer War, during which the British rounded up Dutch Boers and native South Africans and lockedthem into cramped camps where they died off by the thousands.

This is where the word "concentration camp" was first used – in British camps that systematically imprisoned more than 115,000 people and saw at least 25,000 of them killed off. In fact, more men, women, and children died of starvation and disease in these camps than did men actually fighting in the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902, a territorial struggle in South Africa.

It was a horror that the world had never seen anywhere outside of the Bible. As one woman put it, "Since Old Testament days was ever a whole nation carried captive?"

And yet the first genocide of the 20th century started with good intentions. The camps were originally set up as refugee camps, meant to


house the families that had been forced to abandon their homes to escape the ravages of war.

As the Boer War raged on, however, the British became more brutal. They introduced a "scorched earth" policy. Ever Boer farm was burned to the ground, every field salted, and every well poisoned. The men were shipped out of the country to keep them from fighting, but their wives and their children were forced into the camps, which were quickly become overcrowded and understocked.

The native South Africans, too, were sent to the camps. Some had their villages circled with barbed wire, while others were dragged off into camps, where they'd be forced to work as laborers for the British army and kept from giving food to the Boers.

Soon, there were more than100 concentration camps across South Africa, imprisoning more than 100,000 people. The nurses there didn't have the resources to deal with the numbers. They could barely feed them. The camps were filthy and overrun with disease, and the people inside started to die off in droves.

The children suffered the most. Of the 28,000 Boers that died, 22,000 were children. They were left to starve, especially if their fathers were still fighting the British in the Boer War. With so few rations to pass around, the children of fighters were deliberately starved and left to die.

The world became aware when a woman named Emily Hobhouse visited the camps and sent a report back home to England on the horrors she'd witnessed. "To keep these Camps going," she wrote, "is


murder to the children."

As the war drew to a close, the British government tried to improve the camps – but it was already too late. The children there were already diseased and starving.

One worker, trying to curb the death rate in the camps wrote home: "The theory that, all the weakly children being dead, the rate would fall off is not so far borne out by the facts. The strong ones must be dying now and they will all be dead by the spring of 1903."

By the end of the Boer War, an estimated 46,370 civilians were dead – most of them children. It was the first time in the 20th century that a whole nation was systematically rounded up, imprisoned, and exterminated.

But nothing tells the story asESPN's Mel Kiper recently updated his Big Board, which lists the nation's top draft-eligible prospects.

Of course, the SEC is well represented, with six players making it. Alabama led the SEC with three players on the list, while Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck continued his run at No. 1 on the list.

Here is where the SEC players ranked on Kiper's board and what he had to say about them:

5. Alshon Jeffery, WR, South Carolina

An imposing presence at wideout, Jeffery has been unstoppable. Phenomenal hands, surprising burst for a long-strider, great work ethic. Tough matchup for corners at any level.

18. Trent Richardson, RB, Alabama

A physical specimen, Richardson can be an absolute star. Explosive, he is powerful through the hole and bounces off tackles with ease.

20. Dre Kirkpatrick, CB, Alabama

A big, physical


like a WR while defending them.

I'm surprised that Alabama linebacker Dont'a Hightower isn't on the list. He looks to be his old self out on the field and can really fly. He had seven tackles and assisted on a sack in the Tide's opener. He might not be on this list now, but I expect him to be on it the next time it comes out.Monday, July 23, 2012

Chicago, Colorado and Compton: Do Movies or Rap Music Make Murderers?

by TRUTH Minista Paul Scott

But still my story ain't over cause I got one more to tell/And the people of Colorado, they know it well"
Jus Lyke Compton-DJ Quik

During a recent debate on a Chicago radio station, community activist ,Kwabena Rasuli got into a heated argument with Hip Hop artist, Krazy Keith , blaming his new song , "Murda 4 Fun" for the rising murder rate in his the city this Summer. Just like a game of chess, for every point Kwabena raised about rap music and violence, Keith hit him with a counter point defending his music as only entertainment. After an hour of arguing , Kwabena made his power move and pulled out a


tours. In many cities, the media acted like one of the Fat Boys was gonna jump off stage and beat some kid, unmercifully, for his hot dog. Sometimes the violence did happen. Most of the time it didn't.

Some may, also, remember a time when the threat of violence prevented the first rap movies from being seen at any theaters outside of "urban" areas. As if Shelia E's wack performance of "Hollyrock" in "Krush Groove" was gonna make outraged Hip Hop fans start a riot at the concession stand. Despite the hype of the era, I was able to watch "The Dis-orderlies" and enjoy my popcorn just fine.

It wasn't until the 90's when hood flicks became cross- over blockbusters and movies like Boys in the Hood started peekin' middlevariance in minor delinquency and for 59% of the variance in violent delinquency among blacks, 53% of the variance in violent delinquency among Mexican-Americans, and 34% of the variance in violent delinquency among whites. The best predictors of violent delinquency were the frequent use of illegal drugs other than marijuana and use of tobacco, in that order, among Mexican-Americans; the frequent use of other illegal drugs, marijuana, and tobacco, in that order, for whites; and the frequent use of illegal drugs, followed by marijuana, for blacks.


The “hack-proof vest” placed on the top of ILCoin’s SHA-256 algorithm allows blocking different types of activities and prevents blockchain corruption, such as double spending and rollbacks.

The project notes that C2P is certified by a third party, an official partner of cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks.

ILCoin is available here

From the past to the future

The project was launched in January 2015, before the rise of bitcoin. During the next two years, the team worked on the source code, improving its security and developing online crypto wallets.

The major progress has been made during the last year and a half. Since November 2017, the company released a new version of its Android wallet, web wallet and block explorer, which enables ILCoin holders to monitor their transactions. The startup also launched itsMail carrier indicted for theft of mail

March 31, 2008 3:35:10 PM PDT

HOUSTON --

A mail processing and relief window clerk has been indicted for theft of mail, United States Attorney Don DeGabrielle announced today.Peter Lim, 50, of The Woodlands, was arraigned today before U. S. Magistrate Judge Mary Milloy. Lim was indicted on March 19, 2008 and charged with two counts of mail theft. He pleaded not guilty to both counts.

Lim was arrested by agents of the U. S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General on March 27, and ordered released on a $10,000 unsecured bond.

Lim began his employment with the US Postal Service as a mail processing clerk in December 1990 and was stationed at the Spring Main Post Office located at 1411 Wunsche Loop, Spring, Texas, at


Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s former business partner Bijan Rafiekian was convicted by an Alexandria, Virginia jury of conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent for Turkey after a weeks long trial. However, Flynn’s defense attorney, Sidney Powell told SaraACarter.com “the unprecedented conviction is ripe for reversal.”

Rafiekian was Flynn’s former business partner in his security firm Flynn Intel Group. He was hired by Flynn 2016 and the project was their first business venture. Rafiekian, had advocated for the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gulen. Gulen lives in the United States and has an estimated net worth of $500 million a year, according to the court. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Ergodan has accused Gulen of terrorism but internal Turkish politics have made the situation and information on Gulen difficultWhen wild hogs roamed the forest in sparse numbers with the population determined by the available food sources, the environmental impact of the hog excretion was insignificant. The individual animal roamed freely, spreading his waste over large areas as he traveled. Later, when man domesticated hog and other livestock, and increased the local concentration to correspond to the caretakers food production, the environmental impact of waste was at first minimal. The farmer removed the waste manure from the pig sty and spread it over his farm for fertilizer.
In recent times, however, livestock production density has dramatically increased. For example, the speciality hog production operators purchased their hog feed (cereal grains) from other farmers who specialized in the production of grain cereal. This enables one operator to have the


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Pregnant woman dies as roof of theatre caves in during live surgical operation in Ghana (photos)

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The surgery theater at the Effia-Nkwanta regional hospital in Takoradi in the Western region, Ghana, caved in during a live surgical operation.

The development caused a temporary hold up on three ongoing operation and doctors had to transfer the patients to Kwesi Mintin Hospital for the process to continue. One of the patients, a 31-year-old pregnant woman died. Her death are being attributed to the incident.

According to local media, she died due to unavailability of blood transfusion equipment or 'giving set' at the hospital. But the medical Director of Effa Nkwanta Hospital, Dr. Kwau Ntodi in an interview with Joy News correspondent Francis Whajah denied the report. He said the ladyNorth Korea on Friday responded to tougher sanctions from the U.N. Security Council with another barrage of vitriol, repeating a vow to ditch all nonaggression pacts with the South.

A day after the isolated regime in Pyongyang had threatened a possible "preemptive nuclear attack" -- something analysts say they think it is unlikely and currently unable to do -- its official news agency reeled off a number of agreements with South Korea that it said would no longer apply.

It's the latest installment in a week of furious rhetoric from the North, fueled by its anger over the U.N. vote on the new sanctions, a response to the Pyongyang's recent nuclear test, and joint military drills by the United States and South Korea, which take place in the region each


year.

North Korea watchers and U.S. officials say that the recent frenzy of ominous language from North Korea under its young leader Kim Jong Un makes the situation on the Korean Peninsula more worrying and unpredictable.

South Korea has warned the North that it will retaliate strongly and sternly if its citizens are threatened.

"This surge in provocative rhetoric is particularly dangerous," said Michael Auslin of the American Enterprise Institute. "South Korea's new president (Park Geun Hye) can't be seen to back down in the face of the North's threats, while Kim Jong Un may feel that his successful missile and nuclear tests give him the ability to keep pressuring Seoul. The two may wind up talking themselves into conflict."

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who took office late last month, saidFriday that Seoul would respond strongly to any provocation from Pyongyang, the semiofficial news agency Yonhap reported.

The possibility of flare up was highlighted by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, which predicted provocative move from the North "in the coming weeks."

The center said that according to its research, Pyongyang has carried out "a military provocation of some form within weeks of every South Korean presidential inauguration dating back to 1992."

A military clash could risk drawing in the United States, which has about 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea as part of the security alliance between the two countries.

The most recent skirmish between the two Koreas took place in November 2010, when the North shelled an island on the South's side of the border, killing several people.


Pyongyang claimed Seoul had provoked it by carrying out training exercises off their shared coast.

A week of strong threats

The North's comments Friday doubled down on statements it had made earlier this week, promising to abolish the armistice agreement that stopped the Korean War in 1953, and threatening strikes on the United States and South Korea.

Claiming its enemies are "hell bent on confrontation and war fever," Pyongyang said it was now revoking "all agreements on nonaggression reached between the north and the south," a declaration it has made in previous years

It also said it was nullifying the joint declaration on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The North, which conducted its third underground nuclear test last month, had said recently that denuclearization of the region was "impossible" because ofwhat it described as the United States' hostile policy toward it.

And it stated that it was immediately cutting off the "north-south hotline," three days after it had already said it planned to terminate its military telephone line with the United States.

The phone line is meant to serve as a tool to defuse potential flash points along the heavily militarized border between the two Koreas.

But Andre Kok, deputy public affairs officer for U.S. Forces in Korea, said that reports of the North's Korean People's Army (KPA) cutting off communication often arise when military training exercises are taking place, as they are at the moment.

"When we place a call on the direct phone line and the KPA does not answer, we have no way of knowing if the KPA has


actually disconnected the phone lines or are just not answering the phone," he said.

New U.N. measures

Tensions are particularly high at the moment because of the new measures against the North adopted unanimously Thursday by the U.N. Security Council.

"These sanctions will bite, and bite hard," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said after the vote.

China, North Korea's key ally, could have used its veto power to block the sanctions. Instead, after weeks of negotiating, it signed on to the final draft.

"China is a country of principle," China's U.N. Ambassador Li Baodong said. "We are firmly committed to safeguarding peace and stability on the Korean peninsula."

The goal of the new sanctions is to stymie the activities

of North Korean banks and cash couriers who might be funneling money tothe secretive regime's nuclear and missile programs.

It will be tougher for the regime to move large sums of cash stuffed into suitcases, Rice said.

The U.N. resolution also outlines measures to step up scrutiny of suspicious sea shipments and air cargo. And it expands restrictions to encompass several institutions and senior officials in the North's weapons industry, as well as a range of materials and technology known to be used in uranium enrichment.

It also blocks the sale of luxury goods -- such as yachts and certain high-end jewelry -- to North Korea.

"As a result, North Korea's ruling elite, who have been living large while impoverishing their people, will pay a price" for the ongoing nuclear activities, Rice said.


The Gentoo Penguin, Pygoscelis papua, is easily recognized by the wide white stripe extending like a bonnet across the top of its head. Chicks have grey backs with white fronts. Adult Gentoos reach a height of 51 to 90 cm (20-36 in), making them the largest penguins outside of the two giant species, the Emperor Penguin and the King Penguin.

Gentoos live mainly on crustaceans such as krill, with fish making up only about 15% of the diet. However, they are opportunistic feeders, and around the Falklands are known to take roughly equal proportions of fish (Patagonotothen sp., Thysanopsetta naresi, Micromesistius australis), crustaceans (Munida gregaria) and squid (Loligo gahi, Gonatus antarcticus, Moroteuthis ingens).conditions of the PHA's promise to pay the lessor a fixed percentage of the family's rent.

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Plaintiff Andrea Williams had completed the first of these steps when the defendant Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee ("Milwaukee PHA")1 sent her written notice that it had expelled her from the program;  plaintiff Hosea Simmons was sent a similar notice after having completed three of the four steps.  The notices informed plaintiffs why they had been expelled--each was alleged to have violated a lease she had previously received through the program, Williams by permitting a person not named in the lease to reside with her and Simmons by moving into her new residence two weeks before her lease on her old residence expired.  The notices also advised each


when the Milwaukee PHA learned of the eviction, it expelled Williams.  Since there is no reason to suppose that the Milwaukee PHA is in a better position than a court to determine how many people are living together under one roof or that Williams was prevented from presenting fully to the court her version of the facts, the Milwaukee PHA was not constitutionally required to afford her a second hearing before or after it decided to expel her.

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Simmons, however, was not given a hearing before she was expelled from the program.  The Milwaukee PHA expelled her after determining on its own that two weeks before her lease was due to expire, she had moved out of the dwelling in which she had been living.  TheMilwaukee PHA had been paying rent assistance on the dwelling, and both its operating rules and HUD's regulatory handbook provide that a tenant who vacates a subsidized unit before the lease expires may be expelled from the program.  The Milwaukee PHA had good reason for thinking that Simmons had moved out.  It had recently approved her request to move to a new place and an inspection of the old place revealed that except for a few odds and ends--some clothing hanging in a closet, a disconnected telephone, possibly a sewing machine, a typewriter, and some food in the refrigerator--it was empty.  As things turned out, the Milwaukee PHA was probably right.  But things might have turned out otherwise.  There was a chance when


the Milwaukee PHA decided to expel Simmons that although her dwelling was almost empty, she was still living there.  It might have turned out that she had been robbed or wrongfully evicted or that she had moved virtually all of her belongings to her new place but continued to reside in her old place for fear of being expelled from the program.  In fact, there is evidence in the record to support the last of these.

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Simmons was not given a chance to offer the Milwaukee PHA these or any other explanations until after she had already been expelled.  That might not be constitutionally objectionable--we reserve judgment on the matter--were it not for the fact that the Milwaukee PHA claims it has no authority to payfirst unit.  After inspecting the unit, on March 4, 1980, the program sent Simmons a notice that she was being terminated because she vacated her unit prior to the expiration of her lease.  A hearing was held on April 1, 1980, and on April 9, 1980, she was notified that her participation in the program could continue, but on April 17 she was notified that she had to satisfy the damage claim from the first unit before benefits would begin.  She did so on May 5, and effective May 8, 1980, a lease and contract were entered into for her second unit.

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Simmons' hearing revealed a remarkable attitude on the part of the program officials.  Her attorney attempted to determine why moving out 13 days


in an already overburdened court system.  Due process is extremely important in American jurisprudence and I would not express an opinion which would in any way diminish our adherence to it.  I simply think that in the Simmons situation, due process being in essence fairness of procedure, Simmons was not denied all of the process due her.

*
 The Honorable Philip Nichols, Jr., Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, is sitting by designation

1
 The other defendant is William Ryan Drew, the executive director of Milwaukee PHA

2
 Williams' March 31, 1980, request for a lease approval for a unit on 27th Street in Milwaukee was turned down because it needed repairs.  Her April 14, 1980, request for lease approval forin the wild to infect the facility's animals?

Pasteur was very late to the game. Vaccination had already been invented by Jenner decades before Pasteur's birth, and even before that there was "variolation," which was essentially deliberate inoculation with smallpox (taken from scabs of smallpox patients) in order to bestow immunity. So, long before Pasteur, it was well-known that smallpox was transmissible, how to transmit it, and that people could become immune to it.

Pasteur did create several vaccines, and his experiments largely established the germ

In the age of the airliner, a poultry farmer wipes his nose the wrong way, shakes another guy's hand, 2d guy gets on a jet to Hong Kong, jet stops long enough to change crews and off to sunny California. Kills the guys in the


first village, flight crew spreads it to Hong Kong, then right to the US in less than a day.

This story made me think of the game "Plague Inc." by Ndemic Creations [ndemiccreations.com]. I currently play it on my phone while in transit.The idea is to mutate and spread a pathogen (bacteria, virus, fungus, parasite, prion, nano-virus, bio-weapon, neurax worm, and the zombie-making necroa virus) until the whole world is dead, mind-controlled (neurax worm), or zombified (necroa virus).

One of the ways to infect everyone is to acquire the ability to spread through birds, just like this article is about.Bernie Sanders thanked President Barack Obama for his “degree of impartiality” during the Democratic primary and said he looks forward to soon discussing party unity with Hillary Clinton after emerging from a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday.

“What they said in the beginning is that they would not put their thumbs on the scales. And in fact they kept their word and I appreciate that very, very much,” Sanders said of Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

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The president released a video endorsing Clinton shortly after the meeting concluded. White House press secretary Josh Earnest described the meeting as a "friendly conversation" that was "focused on the future."


some hints about his campaign's future timeline. He vowed to compete in next Tuesday’s Washington, D.C. primary and then hopes to meet with Clinton. He also said he will fight for his signature issues -- like college affordability, income inqeuality and taking on Wall Street -- during the Democratic National Convention in July.

“I spoke briefly to Secretary Clinton on Tuesday night and I congratulated her on her very strong campaign. I look forward to meeting with her in the near future to see how we can work together to defeat Donald Trump,” he said.

"Donald Trump would clearly, to my mind and I think a majority of Americans, be a disaster as president of the United States," Sanders said. "It is unbelievable to me, and I say this inall sincerity, that the Republican party would have a candidate for president who in the year 2016 makes bigotry and discrimination the cornerstone of his campaign."

Our mission is more than just defeating Trump. It is transforming our country. People want something to vote for rather than just against. — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 9, 2016

Sanders also plans to meet with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday before holding an additional sit down with Biden and New York Sen. Chuck Schumer. He will then hold a rally in Washington, D.C.


Chief Scott Pruitt took loans from Spirit Bank — a bank that Kelly’s family had run since the 1930s. According to The Intercept, in 2003, Spirit Bank loaned Pruitt money to help buy a share of the Oklahoma City RedHawks, a minor league baseball team.

In 2004, Pruitt purchased a ranch house in the Lakes at Indian Springs community in Broken Arrow, an upscale gated community, for $605,000.

Pruitt earned only $38,400 as an Oklahoma state senator. Combined with the profit he had earned from selling his previous home ($35,000), the amount was not enough to cover Pruitt’s real estate investment, considering his wife, Marlyn Pruitt, had reported no income or assets.

Senator Pruitt had no choice but to seek a loan, so he turned to Spirit Bank. The bank gaveOur Lady of Guadalupe festival goes on

Dec 11, 2010 11:07:00 PM - chicagotribune.com

Rain and slush Saturday proved no match for thousands of Catholics who descended upon a sacred Des Plaines shrine honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, to celebrate the day she reportedly appeared to a peasant in the 16th century.


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After retiring his project Dirty Beaches, Zhang has been focusing on explorations of improvised music, Free Jazz, and his new role as a composer. His newer compositions predominantly works with saxophone, synthesizers, percussion and piano, furthering his research on ritualistic music of liminality. Besides his solo work, he is also a member of a Free Jazz/experimental trio with Portugese minimalist/architect David Maranha, and Free Jazz Drummer Gabriel Ferrandini in Lisbon. Zhang currently works as a composer for film soundtracks, along with acting in independent films.

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After retiring his project Dirty Beaches, Zhang has been focusing on explorations of improvised music, Free Jazz, and his new role as a composer. His newer compositions predominantly works with saxophone, synthesizers,percussion and piano, furthering his research on ritualistic music of liminality. Besides his solo work, he is also a member of a Free Jazz/experimental trio with Portugese minimalist/architect David Maranha, and Free Jazz Drummer Gabriel Ferrandini in Lisbon. Zhang currently works as a composer for film soundtracks, along with acting in independent films.


respectful and dignified way. The bodies will be moved to a local hospital and then buried.

Prior to this latest tragedy, more than 270 people migrating are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean in the first weeks of 2017, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

All of the bodies were men of African origin. They are believed to have travelled in an inflatable boat that can hold up to 150 passengers. More bodies were expected to be washed ashore later in the day.

The IFRC calls for collective international action to avert further deaths like these which are tragic and entirely preventable.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian network and is guided by seven Fundamental Principles: Humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence,Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical, operatic quality, in both sound and words. Despite their astral image, the group was brought down to earth in the 1980s by decidedly mundane power struggles over leadership and, ultimately, ownership of the band's very name.While Pink Floyd are mostly known for their grandiose concept albums of the 1970s, they started as a very different sort of psychedelic band. Soon after they first began playing together in the mid-'60s, they fell firmly under the


leadership of lead guitarist Syd Barret, the gifted genius who would write and sing most of their early material. The Cambridge native shared the stage with Roger Waters (bass), Rick Wright (keyboards), and Nick Mason (drums). The debut album, -The piper at the gates of Dawn- also released in 1967, may have been the greatest British psychedelic album other than Sgt. Pepper's. Dominated almost wholly by Barret's songs, the album was a charming fun house of driving, mysterious rockers ("Lucifer Sam"); odd character sketches ("The Gnome"); childhood flashbacks ("Bike," "Matilda Mother"); and freakier pieces with lengthy instrumental passages ("Astronomy Domine," "Interstellar Overdrive," "Pow R Toch") that mapped out their fascination with space travel. The record was not only like no other at the time; it was like noIt is common that people, especially physically active and frail elderly people, experience a variety of limb injuries.
With regard to the foot and ankle, sprains to the calcaneofibular and anterior tabofibular ligaments often afflict a number of professional and amateur athletes. To aid in the proper healing and treatment of these and other lower leg and foot injuries it is necessary that the affected areas, as well as the surrounding tissue, be stabilized and immobilized.
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having is compartmental osteoarthritis. Compartmental osteoarthritis may arise when there is a persistent uneven distribution of pressure in one of the medial and lateral compartments of the knee. Compartmental osteoarthritis can be caused by injury, obesity, misalignment of the knee, or simply due to aging of the knee.
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In May of 1983, Richard H. Vaughn purchased a major medical insurance policy from State Security Life Insurance Company (SSLIC). Thereafter, on October 2, 1983, and through November 5, 1983, Vaughn was hospitalized for surgery at the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center and incurred expenses within the coverage of the policy. Vaughn submitted a claim in the amount of $24,458.04 which SSLIC refused to pay. On March 8, 1984, SSLIC rescinded the policy retroactive to the date of issuance and refunded Vauglin's premium payments.
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year’s Man Booker prize, and this summer Paulo Coelho’s latest novel Hippie is inspired by the author’s visit to Kathmandu on the Magic Bus.

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The era certainly holds a personal interest. I spent my early childhood in a co-op house in north London that began life as a squat and this prompted a lifelong interest in the counterculture. My first novel, The Tyranny of Lost Things, is set against the backdrop of the London squatting and co‑operative housing movements of the 1970s and 80s. Whole crescents of crumbling Victorian houses were taken over by hippies, punks and dropouts and then mostly demolished; with what claimed to be London’s last commune, in Islington Park Street, holdingout until 2016, after which its members were evicted. My novel follows protagonist Harmony’s attempt to come to terms with a childhood that was loving, but also marked by trauma. I was interested in what happens when the child is placed in an environment that she has not chosen, and that has long-lasting psychological effects. To what extent can blame be levelled against such parents?

As well as historical accounts my research took in novelistic portrayals of hippy parent-child relationships. One classic portrayal is Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud, published in 1992. In it her narrator reflects on how in the 1960s she was taken, along with her older sister Bea, to Morocco by “Mum”, who was on a quest for spiritual enlightenment. Mum abandons her older daughter in


are told in the prologue that a mental image of the women in the river, singing, actually happened before he was born. “The memory clings to him,” Groff writes, “told by Arcadia until it became communal, told again and again until the story grew inside him to become Bit’s own.”

Bit flounders after the commune breaks up, but he doesn’t blame his parents. In an affecting scene, his mother Hannah asks for forgiveness on her deathbed but he says there is nothing to forgive. He remains not only loyal to them, but to their collective dreams and memories:

Bit feels it start to swell in him. The love, which he had turned from, breathes, blinks, swallows. A creature, stirred back to life. He can’t be separate. It is impossible. Hefor intervenors-appellees Asbestosis Claimants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
HAIGHT, District Judge:
These two consolidated appeals present another example of the growing number of cases arising from the havoc wrought by asbestos. The appeals seek review of various decisions of Bankruptcy Judge Francis G. Conrad, sitting by designation in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, made during Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. For reasons detailed below, the bankruptcy court's "Memorandum of Decision on Summary Judgment and 11 U.S.C. § 553" and accompanying "Order and Judgment" are affirmed in part and reversed in part, the Order dated August 4, 1993 and the First Partial Judgment are vacated, and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

BACKGROUND
Debtor Prudential Lines, Inc. ("PLI"), a United States shipowning company, consented to


when most of the claims for a particular insurance year had been paid, the insurance year was "closed" and a reserve to cover the unpaid claims for that insurance year was transferred to a Reserve Account. Any surplus remaining in the insurance year account was refunded to the participants pro rata according to the premiums each participant paid in the relevant insurance year. Prior to the 1977 insurance year, no additional transfers were made to reserve funds for closed insurance years to cover possible unasserted asbestos claims. PLI paid in full the premiums due and assessments levied for all years in which policies were issued by American Club except for the years 1979, 1983, 1984 and 1985. It is undisputed that asbestotic diseases constitute injuries compensable under thebecause it impacted on issues under appeal in this Court. This Court granted American Club's motion for leave to appeal that order in a Memorandum Opinion and Order dated September 27, 1993.
In a hearing held September 2, 1993, on American Club's motion, the bankruptcy court ordered the Trustee to submit to American Club information sufficient to enable American Club to determine the reasonableness of the settlements. On September 21, 1993, before the Trustee had complied with this order, and over American Club's objections, the bankruptcy court entered the First Partial Judgment submitted by MALC requiring payment of $66,160,000 by American Club to the Trustee pursuant to the so ordered stipulation of settlement.
American Club has also appealed this judgment. That appeal, consolidated with the first, seeks review of both


American Club's contention is that because insurance of non-PLI vessels potentially covers the damage sustained by a seaman, the "other insurance" clause thereby limits American Club's liability for indemnifying PLI for the losses it sustains. Essentially, American Club seeks to expand the definition of "Assured" to include entities other than PLI. This interpretation is simply contrary to the plain meaning of the provision's terms. Nothing in the provision purports to limit American Club's indemnification liability because an injured third party could have pursued its claim against another shipowner covered by other insurance.
The interpretation urged by American Club not only contradicts the plain language of the provision, it infuses the term "other insurance" with a meaning completely at odds with its general understanding in the insurance industry. "The termto the practical interpretation of the deductible provision is the parties' conduct with respect to asbestosis claims. Given the vast difference between the nature of an injury caused by a spontaneous accident and that caused by years of exposure to asbestos on ships, the parties' practice in applying deductibles in the former category of injuries sheds no clear light on the definition of occurrence when it comes to the latter category.
The extrinsic evidence submitted to the bankruptcy court by American Club was contained in an affidavit, R1 at 391, and in ¶ 13 of the parties' Agreed Statement of Facts, R1 at 404-05, both setting forth American Club's policy with respect to applying deductibles to asbestotic disease claims. The affidavit's sole reference to PLI is contained in the


practice established by the so ordered stipulation, and its propriety is challenged on appeal.[11]
On appeal, American Club launches a two-fold attack on the Liman arrangement. Initially, it argues that the procedure is impermissible as it applies to American Club's P & I policies because Liman was wrongly decided. American Club asserts that Liman, resting on questionable reasoning, establishes an arrangement by which an insured's obligation to "pay first" becomes illusory, in derogation of the policy. But the Second Circuit affirmed Liman.
Recognizing that this Court has no power to overturn Liman, American Club next argues that the decision should be limited strictly to its facts and not applied to the case at bar.[12]
*241 In Liman, District Judge Mansfield (as he then was) reasoned that because the claimant became abankruptcy court held that the Liman provision of the Plan was valid and enforceable and that the recycling procedure satisfied the Liman provision. The propriety of the bankruptcy court's decision on the Liman issue was clearly an issue on appeal in this Court at the time the bankruptcy court issued its August 4, 1993 Order and the First Partial Judgment. The August 4 Order directs American Club to fully comply with the bankruptcy Plan, including the Liman provision contained therein. The First Partial Judgment orders American Club to reimburse the Trustee for sums expended pursuant to the so ordered stipulation which embodies the approved Liman recycling arrangement. American Club also contends that the other issues on appeal in this Court involving the determination of allocation of coverage and


Partial Judgment and remand the case to the bankruptcy court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
As a preliminary matter, I conclude that the P & I policies do not, as American Club contends, require American Club's approval before PLI may enter into settlements as a prerequisite to its obligation to indemnify. No language in the policies requires American Club's approval of settlements of personal injury claims arising under Paragraph One of the policies. American Club points in vain to two provisions of the contracts in support of its argument. Paragraph 20, entitled "Defense of Claims" provides:
Whenever required by the Association, the Assured shall aid in securing information and evidence and in obtaining witnesses and shall cooperate with the Association in the defense of any claim or suitwhat you think of both! And the others, which sound fascinating!

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believe climate change is happening, with a similar number saying serious impacts are likely. Even more support renewable energy.

That cultural change echoed in Washington last week as Trump's Cabinet nominees told confirmation committees they believe climate change is caused by human activity. Even former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, soon to be secretary of energy, said he had been wrong to deny it.

I'm glad of the new acceptance but I no longer think a climate response will require much sacrifice.

In 2012, former Gov. Tony Knowles approached me with a climate change project taking the perspective of the energy industry. He thought the problem could be solved using clever technology and policy.

Knowles, who got started in Oklahoma and in the oil industry, had been working with George Kaiser, a billionairein energy and banking and one of the nation's top philanthropists. Their National Energy Policy Institute, at the University of Tulsa, would devise an energy plan that would work with minimal pain.

Knowles hired me to write a report based on work he had obtained from a group of the country's most renowned economists, energy experts and social scientists.

The study combined a set of policies that would move the U.S. dramatically toward emitting less carbon using off-the-shelf technology. The plan mostly tweaked current laws, using incentives to push industry and the public toward lower emissions.

My favorite policy in the portfolio was a fuel tax paid back in a lump sum to every citizen (inspired by the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend). The government wouldn't keep any of the money. The


In 842, he joined the Arab expedition led by Muhammad ibn Khalid, the Caliph’s viceroy in the Caucasus, against the rebel emir of Tbilisi, Sahak ibn Ismail, and his Kakhetian allies. In turn, the Caliph recognized Bagrat the prince of Iberia-Kartli. The expedition ended fruitlessly and Bagrat had to make peace with Sahak. In August 853, Bagrat joined the Caliph’s second expedition against Sahak, this time led by Bugha the Turk who took Tbilisi and had the emir executed. As a result, Bagrat was able to regain Shida Kartli, but only for a brief time as the resurgent Abasgians forced him out of this region.

Like his father Ashot, Bagrat was a patron of the large-scale monastic movement in Klarjeti. He granted the monk Grigol Khandzteli material help toconflict allow unhindered access to enable us to reach all children, from north to south, east to west, with this vital vaccine.”

A Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen’s civil war in 2015 against the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement to restore the internationally recognized government, causing the world’s most pressing humanitarian crisis.

Save the Children said last week that an estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from extreme hunger.

Yemen was declared polio-free in 2009, but experts say conflict-affected countries are particularly at risk of outbreaks because of disruption to their health systems.

Yemen also carried out a vaccination campaign in February, 2017 against polio, which spreads quickly among children and can cause irreversible paralysis within hours.

In the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Monday, nurses delivered oral vaccines to children


Elephant poaching is alive and well — and the elephants are not. A team of scientists examining seized shipments of elephant ivory from Africa have found that the vast majority came from elephants that died within the last three years.

The sobering results, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal that the killing of elephants for their ivory is continuing at a disturbing pace — even as elephant populations across the continent are in sharp decline.

While poaching had been easing for several years, it has returned with a vengeance in the last decade or so, said study lead author Thure E. Cerling, a geochemist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Central African forest elephants have fallen by an estimated 62% from1963, scientists can use the carbon-14 concentration to tell when a living tissue first formed.

Cerling and his colleagues applied this dating technique to 231 samples of ivory taken from 14 large caches (also at least half a ton each) that were confiscated between 2002 and 2014. They focused on the carbon-14 in the pulp cavity inside the ivory, using a sample taken near the base that would have grown in the last two or three months before the elephant died.

The researchers discovered that some 90% of the ivory was taken from animals that died less than three years before the ivory was seized by government officials. In fact, of all the analyzed specimens, only one had a lag time longer than six years, the authors wrote.

“That means all


Roethlisberger watches practice after knee 'cleanup'

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The SportsXchangeJune 11, 2013

PITTSBURGH -- Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger showed up for the opening of minicamp Tuesday, and watched from the sideline, his right knee wrapped after "cleanup" surgery last Wednesday. However, he said he could play Sunday if there were a game. "My knee is in great shape," Roethlisberger said. "They took care of the little problem. It had been bothering me a little last year, and we decided now is the time to take care of it. There was no repair. It was just a cleanup." Roethlisberger had similar surgery during the 2005 season and missed three games. He will "absolutely" be ready to go full-bore when the Steelers open training camp July 26. "I think it was justthat he has the receivers to go long regardless of whether they add more downfield plays. He mentioned Antonio Brown and Emmanuel Sanders as deep threats, and the Steelers drafted speedy Markus Wheaton in the third round this year. "Mike, obviously, was a rare speed guy," Haley said. "But I view A.B. and Emmanuel and potentially some of these young guys as rare speed guys. If you look in the Hall of Fame, there are not many sub-4.4 guys in there." --Rod Woodson, who started his Hall of Fame career with the Steelers in 1987, rejoined them this week as a coaching intern at minicamp. He'll also be at their training camp. Woodson coached the Oakland Raiders secondary for one season after his retirement.


During her appearance, some of the show's female writers took a moment to pen thank you letters to the former presidential candidate for the impact she has had on their lives as well as many other women across the country.

Of course, one of the sweetest moments was when guest star Miley Cyrus, who performed a touching tribute to Las Vegas on the show earlier this week, decided to write her own note. The singer proceeded to break down in tears while writing her thank you in front of her role model. See the heartwarming interaction below.A man who brutally attacked a young Irish student and her friend on a street in Chicago has been sentenced to 90 years in prison. Heriberto Viramontes, convicted of the April 2010 attempted murder of Natasha McShane and Stacy Jurich, must serve 85 per cent of the sentence because of the particularly terrible nature of the crime, Judge Jorge Alonso ruled.

It effectively means life for the 35-year-old Viramontes. Judge Alonso said the sentence was based on the “brutality and cold blooded heartlessness displayed on the night.” He received 25 years for each of the attempted murders of McShane and Jurich and further 20 year sentences for aggravated armed robbery, all consecutive.

Ahead of the sentencing, Natasha’s mother Sheila took the stand to deliver a victim impact statement, describing the


to remain in the city.

But as they walked to Jurich’s apartment, passing beneath an underpass, Viramontes came from behind, striking each woman once across the back of the head, then stealing their purses.

Unconscious The trial last October heard McShane was hit with such force she fell hard on the ground, unconscious. Jurich remained conscious as police arrived, then blacked out.

Viramontes had been on the prowl for victims, telling his driver, co-accused, and later key prosecution witness, Marcy Cruz: “Look at all those rich white bitches.”

As the two women were rushed to hospital, Viramontes and Cruz tried to use Jurich’s credit card at two filling stations. They were caught on camera. A baseball bat was recovered from the back of the van Viramontes and Cruz were travelling in thenight of the attack.

Both were arrested a week after the attack. Cruz pleaded guilty to two charges of attempted murder and received a 22-year sentence.

McShane spent weeks in a medically induced coma as doctors worked to repair the severe damage caused to her brain, particularly those parts key to her motor and verbal skills.

She was returned home in July 2010 and continued to receive treatment in two Belfast hospitals. But the young student student suffered setbacks, an infection and seizures.


Just when controversial pastor Mark Driscoll was hoping to make a new start, former members of his old stomping grounds at Seattle’s Mars Hill Church have filed a lawsuit alleging Driscoll and his chief elder ran the now-shuttered megachurch like an organized crime syndicate, in which church members became unwitting participants.

The lawsuit was filed on Monday in the Western District of Washington U.S. District Court in Seattle under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a law originally created for prosecution of Mafia figures.

Former members have been threatening to file such a lawsuit for months to find out just where the members’ tithes—some $30 million yearly, according to church reports—actually went.

Mars Hill closed its doors in 2014, following a number of scandals involving allegations of Driscoll’s bullying andspiritual abuse of members and church leaders, misogyny, and homophobia espoused on a church message board, plagiarism, and misuse of church funds—which this lawsuit seeks to redress. Since its closure, the details of the organization’s dissolution have been opaque, with little public accounting, and a group of remaining leaders who have refused to comment on who gets what from the failed enterprise that not so long ago passed the collection plate around to more than 12,000 visitors every week at 15 satellite campuses.

According to the complaint, ex-pastor Mark Driscoll, and general manager and then-executive elder John Sutton Turner, allegedly defrauded Washington churchgoers Brian and Connie Jacobsen and Ryan and Arica Kildea, along with thousands of other individuals who tithed at Mars Hill, by soliciting donations for one purpose,


later, the church was no more. Driscoll now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and plans to start a new church there.

An email to Driscoll requesting comment was not returned.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the year that Mars Hill Church closed. In fact, its final service was on December 28, 2014.Dentist-physician George J. Ziegler: rogue researcher, "cosmic" editor and social activist.
An industrious self-made man, George Jacob Ziegler (1821-1895) was successively a hairdresser, dentist, physician, author and editor. He is best known as the medical editor of the Periscope section of the Dental Cosmos, and as a social activist who championed the welfare of soldiers, women, and nonsmokers. Ziegler's most unfortunate legacy was his research on dogs, which he misinterpreted as demonstrating nitrous oxide's safety in resuscitation. Pointing to Ziegler's work, dental anesthetist G.Q. Colton would popularize clinical use of 100% nitrous-oxide anesthetics during his 35-year professional career. Consequently, hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide received asphyxial anesthetics.


Application and implications of Mental Health Act 2007 (NSW) certificate use in acute generalist settings.
Objective This retrospective study aimed to explore the appropriate application and implications of Mental Health Act 2007 (NSW) (MHA) certificate use in a metropolitan generalist hospital in New South Wales. Methods A de-identified MHA certificate review was undertaken within acute generalist medical and surgical specialties between June 2012 and May 2013. To assess differences, data were separated into two categories according to whether certificates were completed by psychiatry trainees or generalist medical officers. Analysis of indications for detention was also undertaken and qualitatively matched against legislative criteria. Results A total of 43 MHA certificates were included in the review, which highlighted missing elements in most certificates. Differences were found when professional consensus by theMexicans march to vent anger at police over rape cases Published duration 13 August 2019

image copyright AFP image caption Mexico's security minister, Jesús Orta Martínez, was sprayed with pink glitter during the protests

Hundreds of protesters have flooded the streets of Mexico City demanding justice for two teenage girls who were allegedly raped by police officers.

Around 300 protesters, mostly female, descended on the Mexican capital's prosecutor's office on Monday.

Armed with pink glitter and spray paint, they advanced on the building, smashing its door and leaving a pig's head outside.

The protests were sparked by two recent rape cases.

The first involves a 17-year-old girl who said four policemen raped her in their patrol car in Azcapotzalco, in the capital's north, on 3 August. The second concerns a 16-year-old girl who said


a policeman raped her in a museum in the city centre days later.

On Thursday, a police officer was arrested in connection with the second case. So far, no arrests have been made in relation to the first.

Outraged by the alleged misconduct by police, the protesters chanted "justice" and "they don't protect us, they rape us" at officers.

image copyright AFP image caption The women are enraged about two recent cases of alleged rape

During the protests, Security Minister Jesús Orta Martínez was covered in pink glitter when he attempted to assure the women both cases would be properly investigated.

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico City's first elected female mayor, described the protest as a "provocation".

"They wanted the government to respond with violence. But we're not going to do that," she told reporters.

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President Barack Obama will appoint Ron Klain to head up efforts to address the Ebola threat, a senior administration official tells NBC News.

Klain is a former chief of staff to both Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice President Al Gore. He left the vice president's office in 2011. He is now the president of Case Holdings and serves as the general counsel for Revolution, an investment organization.

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"It’s not solely a medical response," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said. "That’s why somebody with Mr. Klain’s credentials -- somebody that has strong management


why! Located on a peninsula out in the Atlantic Ocean it is widely known for its cable cars as a way to reach the top for the most spectacular 360 degree views over the city of Rio de Janeiro.

A visit to Rio isn’t complete without a trip to Copacabana Beach. This beautiful beach, up to 4km long, is one of the many beaches located around the coastline of Rio de Janeiro. The beaches play host to a mix of activity, from beach soccer matches to games of volleyball, through to sun worshippers and swimmers.

Carnival in Rio is like no other. One of the most famous festivals in the world, the carnival is full of the most vibrant, colourful costumes from the revellers and floats from Samba schools locateddefinitely worth it though!

Rio is home to the 2016 Olympics. Last held in London back in 2012 (has it really been 4 years?!), Rio will play host to this fantastic sporting event with everything from swimming and diving through to athletics and cycling. A trip to Barra Olympic Park is essential on a visit to Rio, located to the south of the city. The Olympics will be taking place August 5th to August 21st 2016.

Make sure you take a trip to icelolly.com to get some inspiration for your next holiday in 2016!

I nominate the following three fabulous bloggers to share their dream destinations as part of the icelolly.com competition #sendmeaway!

On a warm September evening, we travelled over to London Bridge to visit The Shard, the tallest building in