legally carry passengers in Arizona, officials said. On June 23, the U.S. Department of Transportation proposed fines totaling $72,760 78 violations of 13 motor-carrier safety regulations.

Credit: David Kadlubowski/The Arizona Republic

16. Toddlers killed

Scottsdale police said Andre Leteve, 39, used a revolver on March 31 to kill his two toddlers inside his home (shown in a photo taken from video). Leteve turned the gun on himself - a gunshot wound to the face - then called police to report the shooting. He was indicted in April on two counts of first-degree murder.

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15. Slain ASU student

Zachary Marco, a straight-A political-science major who had tutored about 50 students, was killed Oct. 17 as he was walking home from the ASU library on a fairly well-lit street outside the University ParkApartments.Tips led to the recovery of Marco's laptop computer and bag, prompting the November arrests of two Tempe residents on suspicion of first-degree murder and armed robbery, police said. A third suspect, who is suspected of driving the getaway car, was also arrested.

Credit: Family photo

14. Vandalism and nudity

A Mesa woman greeted police officers in the nude and holding a beer July 11 after allegedly vandalizing her boyfriend's car with a dog leash. Police reported Chandra Reed, 23, appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol and was "belligerent" to officers. Officers attempted to place Reed in handcuffs, but before they could she allegedly threw her head back and struck an officer in the chest, causing him to stumble.

Credit: Mesa Police Department

13. Firebird tragedy

Susan Zimmer, 52, a


spectator at Firebird International Raceway, was killed Feb. 21 when a wheel came off Antron Brown's Top Fuel car. Video of the race shows driver Antron Brown's dragster spinning out of control and a tire flying off the dragster. His car flipped on its side and hit a retaining wall before catching fire.

Credit: The Arizona Republic

12. Deadly drug bust

Chandler Detective Carlos Ledesma was killed while posing as a drug dealer and two other officer were wounded in a Phoenix house July 28. On Oct. 20, the state announced is seeking the death penalty against Doarnell Ruena Jackson, 36, and Eldridge Gittens, 34, in what prosecutors describe as the "coldblooded" murder of Ledesma, 34, during an undercover reverse sting. The wounded officers have since recovered.

Credit: The Arizona Republic

11. Party,then death

Ethan Mills, the 19-year-old whose final wish was to have a big "phat" going-away party after his terminal cancer returned, died June 9. On May 22, more than 400 people from dozens of communities gathered at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Elementary School in Tempe to celebrate his life and say goodbye to Mills.

Credit: Family photo

10. Woman found dead

Tanya Morris, a Flagstaff woman who had been reported missing, was found dead March 10. Two days earlier, her dog and some of her clothing were found 1 1/2 miles from vehicle, which was parked off Interstate 17 at the overlook south of Munds Park. She had phoned a friend March 8, saying she was going to walk the dog.

Credit: Yavapai County Sheriff's Office

9. Sex scandal

Susan Brock, wife of


Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock,was arrested Oct. 26 on suspicion of child molestation and sexual relations with a minor after police said the friends of a 17-year-old boy found messages on his phone indicating a relationship between herself and the teen. On Nov. 14, Brock, 48, entered a plea of not guilty to child molestation and other charges. Her husband has filed for divorce.

Credit: Chandler Police Department

8. Inmates captured

John McCluskey was one of three inmates who escaped July 30 from the state prison in Kingman. On Aug. 19, he was the last of the trio to be captured, along with Casslyn Welch, suspected of being their accomplice. A Mohave County judge set a Feb. 15 trial date for John McCluskey, who is charged with felony escape, kidnapping, armedrobbery and aggravated assault. McCluskey, Welch and Tracy Province also face capital-murder and carjacking charges in New Mexico stemming from the deaths of an Oklahoma couple.
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Credit: Associated Press

7. Teacher sex case

Andrea Martinez, 26, a teacher in the Stanfield Elementary School District, was arrested June 30 after authorities apparently witnessed her having sex with a 14-year-old former student, according to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office. She was taken into custody on suspicion of child molestation and sexual contact with a minor.

Credit: Pinal County Sheriff's Office

6. Dragged to death

In May, Kyleigh Sousa was dragged to death during a purse-snatching incident outside an International House of Pancakes in Tempe. In December, Tempe police, aided by a photo from a speed-enforcement camera, arrested Jose Luis Marquez, 20, on first-degree murder.

Credit: Tempe Police


he's competent to stand trial, tentatively set for June. Daimen Irizarry, the getaway driver who led police on a 50-mile chase after the shooting, appealed his 107-year prison sentence on Nov. 7

Credit: The Arizona Republic

3. Officer killed

Phoenix police Officer Travis Murphy (shown in portrait) was investigating reports of a suspicious person near Indian School Road and 19th Avenue when he was killed May 26. Police arrested Danny Ledezma Martinez, who was indicted on 11 counts, including first-degree murder, resisting arrest, burglary, misconduct with a weapon and disorderly conduct. Prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty.

Credit: The Arizona Republic

2. Motorcyle crash

Eight motorcycles carrying at least nine people were stopped at a stop light in north Phoenix on March 25 when a large truck hit them from behind, policeTommaso Chiabra Holding

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Carrier Dome to Reprise Hosting Duties for 2015 NCAA East Regional

After returning to Madison Square Garden for the first time in over five decades last year, the NCAA East Regional will set up shop at another prominent East Coast venue in 2015. Though it hasn’t been quite as long, the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y., will host the prized NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 and Elite Eight rounds on March 27 and 29 for the first time in five years, and 11th time overall. Its multi-purpose design keeps the Carrier Dome busy throughout the year, as in addition to serving as the home site for Syracusefootball and men’s basketball, the facility also plays host to concerts, lacrosse, and more.

During the Carrier Dome’s last stint as host for the NCAA East Regional in 2010, participating teams included Kentucky, West Virginia, Washington, and Cornell. It’s highly likely the Wildcats could again make a serious run at a national championship, though with Cleveland in the mix as the venue for the Midwest Regional, Kentucky may end up there instead, while other top programs like Duke, Virginia, and Villanova could all potentially compete at the Carrier Dome to try and earn a trip to the Final Four.


The Inside of an Apple

Joshua Beckman is at his most immediate and attentive in The Inside of an Apple. His sincere, spare poems place the reader within the personal space of the author from inside his apartment to the mountains. From this perspective, the reader experiences a revelation of consciousness and a surprising generosity of spirit.

Beckman’s speakers seem not to search for anything, per se, but see in all things an animating spirit, inseparable from the physical.Diego Báez, The Rumpus

Beckman's one of my favorite living poets—unsoiled as he is by trends and camps. He walks in stride with Whitman and Niedecker and Ginsberg somehow, without sounding like a throwback full of archaisms or faux wit. Joshua Marie Wilkinson, HTMLGiant

That’s the kernel, the approach, of The Inside of ana trumped up and “selective” charge (insofar as the highest levels of the state have overseen such shady dealing), the al-Yamamah deal in particular – which goes back to the mid-1980’s – has been an historical embarrassment to both the UK and Saudi governments (BAE Systems was the prime British contractor involved) for the astounding level of fraudulent accounting exposed in UK courts.

Bandar bought an entire village in the Cotswolds, a picturesque area of central England, and a 2,000-acre sporting estate with part of the proceeds from kickbacks he received in the al-Yamamah arms deal, which netted British manufacturer BAE £43bn ($56.5bn) in contracts for fighter aircraft.

As much as $30m (£15m) is alleged to have been paid into Bandar’s dollar account at Riggs Bank in Washington and the


Colombia's leftist FARC rebels declared a unilateral two-month ceasefire Monday as they began talks in Cuba with the Bogota government on ending Latin America's longest-running insurgency.

But the government of President Juan Manuel Santos immediately made clear it would not be bound by the ceasefire and military operations against the FARC would continue.

The Colombian military is determined to "chase these individuals who have violated all types of laws ... and have attacked the lives and honor of Colombians," Defense Secretary Juan Carlos Pinzon said in Bogota.

Negotiators for the Santos administration and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were in Havana to resume negotiations formally launched last month in Norway, the first attempt at a negotiated peace in 10 years.

Ivan Marquez, the head of the FARC delegation, said therebel ceasefire would take effect at 0500 GMT Tuesday and last through January 20.

"The leadership has ordered that all military operations against government forces come to a halt," Marquez said upon arrival at the talks venue.

He said that this was "another example of our desire to create a political environment conducive to the progress of the talks."

The rebel move was a "solid contribution to strengthening the climate of understanding needed for the parties starting talks to reach the result desired by all Colombians," Marquez said.

Colombian negotiators made no statement as they arrived at the convention center in the Cuban capital. Reporters were not allowed inside as the talks began.

Both Santos and chief government negotiator Humberto de la Calle have repeatedly said that government forces will maintain counter-insurgency operations


during the peace talks with the FARC.

"There will be no military concessions, nor a ceasefire, nor demilitarized zones," de la Calle said before leaving Bogota on Sunday.

Both sides however have said they are confident that an end is near to the decades-long conflict that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives is within reach.

De la Calle said Sunday that he believes this is "the defining moment" to reach a peace deal with the FARC, as both sides have agreed that talks "must end with a final agreement on the conflict."

This round of talks would likely last about 10 days, at which time a start date for the next round would be agreed.

The Santos administration wants to build "a stable peace," he told reporters as he boarded the planemilitary defeats and its ranks have dropped to half the number of fighters compared to the FARC's 1990s peak.

The talks, the fourth attempt at peace between the government and the FARC, will focus on a five-point agenda that includes the thorny issue of rural development.

Both sides must also agree on a mechanism to end hostilities, incorporate the rebels in political life, curb drug trafficking, and compensate victims of abuses committed by guerrillas and government troops.

According to the United Nations, hundreds of thousands of people have died and four million have been driven from their homes in the conflict, which also involves a smaller guerrilla army and right-wing paramilitary groups.

Israel Gaza raids kill 16, Arabs urge policy reviewGaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Nov 17, 2012 Israeli air strikes killed


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PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer’s childhood memories of Mussolini and fascist propaganda... Writer tries to "chart a history of the evolution of Mussolini’s image through his official portraits as they have remained in my memory."... Writer begins in 1929, with official portraits of Mussolini which showed him still dressed in civilian clothes... In those years, then, there persisted the first image that Mussolini had wanted to give of himself on seizing power, which was meant to emphasize a certain continuity and the respectability of the man who had restored order... Mentions his unique, for a politician of the times, lack of facial hair... Mussolini’s image in those days was meant to express at the same time modernity, efficiency, and a reassuring continuity, along with authoritarian severity...


This aim was certainly intended to counter a previous image, one associated with the period of Fascist lynch squads. Writer dates the period of Mussolini in uniform to a shift in Fascist style around1932, the tenth anniversary of the Fascist revolution... Tells how writer encountered portraits of Mussolini in the "Cubist" style in the early thirties, and mentions that he shaved the rest of the hair from his head-a masterstroke of imagemaking... The classic image of Mussolini was by then established and was not destined to change throughout the peak period of his dictatorship (namely, the better part of the nineteen-thirties). Radio and cinema were the principal media not only for the diffusion of this image but also for its very formation. Describes how in writer’s mind, Mussoliniseemed to learn from watching films of his speeches how better to communicate... Once the idea had been planted in people’s heads that a leader must be endowed with an image like his, it was implicit that whoever did not possess that image could not be a leader. For Hitler, who physically was the complete opposite of Mussolini, this must have been an enormous problem, in the period when Mussolini was his model. (The person who understood this with supreme psychological sophistication was Charlie Chaplin, in "The Great Dictator.") Hitler managed to overcome his handicap by going in the opposite direction from Il Duce, emphasizing the nervous agitation of his looks (his face, his mustache, his quiff of hair), and of his voice, and adopting his own style


of gestures and rhetoric, which was such as to unleash a fanatical energy that bordered on the hysterical. Along with the uniform, the helmet changed, too: in place of the First World War helmet, evoking, as it did, the poor infantry in the trenches, there was the drooping German-style, dome-shaped helmet, which belonged to a new age of industrial design. ("Aerodynamic" lines in cars come from the same era.) For Mussolini’s iconography, this was a huge shift: the classic image of Il Duce became the one with the helmet, which looked like a metallic extension of the smooth surface of his head. During the war, Mussolini wore the uniform of the Royal Army, campaign dress with forage cap and boots: he had had the Army confer on himat bay, invaded the Case del Fascio and flung the effigies of the overthrown dictator out the windows... A month and a half later, we saw the dramatic pictures of a ghostly, ill-shaven Mussolini, who had been snatched from Campo Imperatore by Skorzeny and taken north of the Brenner, back to Hitler. Mussolini was a ghost of himself, yet he had no choice but to continue putting forth his weary image in the midst of aerial bombardment and the rattle of machine guns... Having been at the source of so many unphotographed massacres, Mussolini was last photographed at his own...

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SHREVEPORT, LA — The Magale Library will host an exhibit of the wildlife photography of Ronnie Maum and other local artists from June 1 to August 31 in the lobby. The opening reception for the exhibit will take place Saturday, June 23, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

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Liv has released a handful of singles from his personal project, which is how we first came across him earlier this month. And the latest track he sent through to us is Nuco Woods, which is towards the more punk rock spectrum of his music.

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GR: You just released Nuco Woods – it sounds really cool! Whatcompanies such as Visa, MasterCard and PayPal are already in place in the United States and Europe, but legislation could compel Russian companies to comply.

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In 1931, National Geographic photographer W. Robert Moore took a trip to Southeast Asia in which he spent time traveling to Angkor Wat, Cambodia and various locations in Vietnam. Moore’s visit yielded a collection of colored photographs of life in Hue’s Imperial City in the 30s. Taken during a time when colored photography was rare, his shots became an invaluable resource for today’s historians, costume designers and illustrators to use as references for academic and creative projects alike.

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Başak Dizer was spotted in the Etiler area, where she had dinner at the Steakroom restaurant with friends. When leaving the restaurant, the journalists asked the designer about the striking similarity of the goalkeeper of FC Beşiktaş Loris Karius and herspouse Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, to which she only smiled

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At a royal ball where Cath is expected to receive the King’s marriage proposal, she meets handsome and mysterious Jest. For the first time,


she feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the King and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into a secret courtship. Cath is determined to choose her own destiny. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans.

Review: In Heartless Marissa Meyer provides an origin story of the evil Queen of Hearts in Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Before she was a megalomaniac who ordered people's heads cut off in a moments notice, she was Catherine, a spirited daughter of royalty, destined to wed the King of Hearts. Catherine detests her fated destiny and wants to exercise her free will in becoming a baker and having her own bakery with her best friend and longtime maid. Iadmired Catherine's temerity in establishing her wants and desires so openly. The clash between Catherine's dreams and her mother's relentless goal of making her daughter queen is the highlight of the book and done exceptionally well.
The world building of a refined yet still whimsical realm of Wonderland is executed quite nicely. We see favorite characters such as the mercurial Mad Hatter, who in my opinion stole the show in his short page time, and the mysterious Cheshire whose one-liners accurately sums up the emotions of others and sets the scene. We are also have a new character, the court joker aptly called Jester whose earnest boyishness makes him far more charming than his royal boss and captures Catherine's heart instantly. The clandestine romance between Jest and Catherine is


a hilarious peek into freshman year of college from the eyes of three spunky, different, and realistic young women in the U.K. Susan, Esther, and Daisy have become fast friends during the first few weeks at university mainly because they all live in the same dorm. Susan is blunt and angsty since she broke up with her longtime boyfriend. Esther is a punk/goth girl who dwells in drama and Daisy is a sweet, sheltered, wallflower who is beginning to explore different parts of herself as she first experiences drugs, goes clubbing, and has girl crushes that she finds confusing.
On the whole the graphic novel is a bit manic. There is no linear narrative or story arc, but rather episodic, misadventures of the three girls. We see them endurea dorm room flu epidemic and bringing down the frat boys who are responsible for putting Esther on a website that objectifies "hot" freshmen girls. I had a few chuckles while reading this volume and a few eye roll moments of exaggeration. Since it takes place in the U.K. the humor is British and there are few Briticism and references that are sprinkled in the volume but they are not distracting. The illustrations are vibrant, warm, and cartoony.

Rating: 3 starsWords of Caution: There is drug usage and drinking, which is legal for 18 year olds in the U.K., there is also language, and crude sexual humor. Recommended for Grades 10 and up.

Description: Continuing their first semester at university, fast friends Susan, Esther, and Daisy want to find their


that are quite graphic. Recommended for adults only.If you like this book try:The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Description: Archer Magill has spent a lively five years of grade school with one eye out in search of grown-up role models. Three of the best are his grandpa, the great architect; his dad, the great vintage car customizer,; and his uncle Paul, who is just plain great. These are the three he wants to be. Along the way he finds a fourth--Mr. McLeod, a teacher. In fact, the first male teacher in the history of the school.
But now here comes middle school and puberty. Change. Archer wonders how much change has to happen before his voice does. He doesn't see too far ahead, so every dayor so a startling revelation breaks over him. Then a really big one when he's the best man at the wedding of two of his role models. But that gets ahead of the story.

Review:The Best Man is an adorable, funny, and insightful coming-of-age story that traces the milestones in Archer Magill's life from first to sixth grade while deftly addressing a variety of social issues. The book begins at a hilarious mishap when Archer was six year old and had to perform as ring bearer duties in a pair of muddy, too-tight shorts that have split open in the back. He recalls that he never wanted to participate in a wedding again until his two favorite people in the world get married. Archer has always had terrific male


role models that he always looked up to: his father, as good at fixing problems as he is at restoring vintage cars; his stylish Uncle Paul; and his dignified grandfather Magill. He adds another person to his list when he meets his student-teacher Mr. McLeod, who accidentally causes a lockdown when he shows up at school in his National Guard uniform. Each of his role models teach Archer valuable lessons about prejudice, how to solve problems by talking them out, grieving, and gay rights. None of these values are heavy handed but are woven seamlessly into the narrative as Archer gains some wisdom on his own and by talking to others such as his mom and role models. Archer also realizes that his role models also have flawsor where
she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to
realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback.
Stranger still are the people entering her life. They seem to know
things about her. Things they hide with lies and half-truths. Soon, she
senses something far darker. A force that wants to cause her harm, she
is sure of it. Her saving grace comes in the form of a new friend she
feels she can confide in and the fry cook, a devastatingly handsome man
whose smile is breathtaking and touch is scalding. He stays close, and
she almost feels safe with him around.

Review: Like the eighth book, this one was a very bittersweet novel. After a life shattering event, Charley is suffering from amnesia and


an unjust system in 19th century Louisiana, they all counted down the days until Sunday, when at least for half a day they were briefly able to congregate in Congo Square in New Orleans. Here they were free to set up an open market, sing, dance, and play music. They were free to forget their cares, their struggles, and their oppression. This story chronicles slaves' duties each day, from chopping logs on Mondays to baking bread on Wednesdays to plucking hens on Saturday, and builds to the freedom of Sundays and the special experience of an afternoon spent in Congo Square.

Review: This is a story that I have not heard before. In historic Louisiana, enslaved Africans were
provided a half-day of rest each Sunday, and in New Orleans their
officialsee the changes on this street. Until 2014, there were five moving traffic lanes on this block of Washington: three for vehicles heading east and two for left turns onto Dearborn. According to Google Maps, the curbs are about 49 feet apart on this block. Many streets in downtown Tulsa are 56 feet wide, curb to curb, in an 80 foot wide right of way.

The curbs on this block of Dearborn are about 49 feet apart. Compare Chicago's Dearborn Street shown in PonderInc's photo (four lanes of one-way vehicular traffic, a buffer strip, and a dedicated two-way bike lane in a 49-foot roadway) to Tulsa's Second Street near Frisco Avenue (two lanes of one-way vehicular traffic, plus curbside parking on the south side of the street in a


1st and 2nd acted as a pair of one-way streets with on/off ramps at the west and east legs of the IDL. With the closure of 2nd between Frisco and Denver for the BOK Center, its one-way east-bound traffic flow was broken. Considering the number of lanes on 1st and 2nd, neither carries very much traffic, really. See "The One-Way Epidemic" on pages 177-181 in Jeff Speck's Walkable City for a criticism of one-way streets in American cities.

Remember, when the IDL was conceived and executed, Tulsa was doing auto-centric development because there was such high demand for suburbs.

The IDL was conceived by the 1940s. Tulsa had a much denser urban core at the time, with many people living downtown and in the surrounding neighborhoods nearby. Voters rejected theRoyal Bank of Scotland is turning its back on both the skilled and experienced staff who have been striving to keep it on the road to recovery, and local communities.

Unite supports the bank in its efforts to find new ways to reflect customer needs, but this cannot be at the expense of the local branches our communities depend on.”

RBS announced in February plans to close 99 branches this year, having closed 144 branches in 2014.

The bank warned in a full-year results announcement in February it expected restructuring costs in 2015 would be “materially higher” with “substantial” job cuts to come.

RBS reported a £3.5 billion loss for the 2014 year, taking total losses reported since the 2008 banking crash to almost £50 billion.

The bank noted in February restructuring costs


upstream into northern Maryland. The dam was completed in 1944 primarily for flood control.

History

In the colonial era and in the early United States, the valley of the river provided an important route of access through the mountains for settlers and military forces from Virginia to western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Country. In 1754, as a militia officer of the British Colony of Virginia, George Washington followed the river in an attempt to find a water route to Fort Duquesne, then held by the French.

During the uncommonly severe winter of 1787-88, American pioneers to the Northwest Territory departed New England and cut trails westward through the mountains. At Sumrill’s Ferry, present-day West Newton, Pennsylvania, on the Youghiogheny River, the men built flatboats which carried them down the Youghiogheny RiverEarlier in the day, Amit Shah started BJP's Lok Sabha polls campaign in West Bengal with a rally in Malda

The Trinamool Congress described BJP chief Amit Shah's speech in Malda on Tuesday as being "low on facts and poor in taste", saying it seemed the ruling party had become nervous and realised that its days were numbered.

"After listening to the BJP president's speech in Malda, it's obvious that they are very nervous. They know their days are numbered. They are politically-scared. Their speeches are low on facts and poor in taste," TMC spokesperson Derek O'Brien said.

"They (BJP) don't understand the ethos of India. They don't understand the ethos of Bengal. They are heading towards one big zero (in West Bengal in the general election)," he said.

"Some are saying


they are desperate, some are saying they have gone mad... or is it a combination of both?" the TMC leader asked.

Earlier in the day, Mr Shah started the Bharatiya Janata Party's Lok Sabha polls campaign in West Bengal with a rally in Malda, where he vowed to overthrow the Mamata Banerjee government and said Bengali refugees would be granted citizenship after the citizenship bill was passed.

The BJP chief also mocked the grand alliance of opposition parties as that of "greed and lust" for power. Mr Shah claimed that bringing 20-25 leaders on one stage -- done by TMC chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the Brigade Parade Grounds in Kolkata -- would not serve any purpose as Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be elected again.There are roughly 11,000 Starbucks locations in the United States, and about 14,000 McDonald's restaurants. But combined, the two chains don't come close to the number of museums in the U.S., which stands at a whopping 35,000.

So says the latest data release from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent government agency that tallies the number and type of museums in this country. By their count the 35,000 active museums represent a doubling from the number estimated in the 1990s.

While most of us think of massive institutions like the Smithsonian and the Guggenheim when we think of museums, one lesson of the new data is that the majority of U.S. museums are small, nearly mom-and-pop affairs. Of the roughly 25,000 museums with income data in the


file, 15,000 of them reported an annual income of less than $10,000 on their latest IRS returns.

And these museums are literally everywhere. Below, I mapped the total number of museums per county in the U.S., in both raw number and per-capita terms.

One shocker? The nation's cultural capital, at least as measured by number of museums, isn't New York, but rather Los Angeles — a city known more for Hollywood and the Hiltons than for Holbein and history. L.A. County has 681 museums compared to New York County's 414. Chicago (Cook County), San Diego and D.C. round out the rest of the top five.

But notice also that there are barely any blank counties on the map, even in sparsely populated rural areas. Storey County, Nev., population 3,942, has 11museums, including the Comstock History Center and the Fourth Ward School Museum. Loup County, Neb., population 576, is home to the Loup County Historical Society.

The IMLS' Mamie Bittner notes that that many of these institutions, particularly in small towns and rural areas, are historical societies and history museums. "We are in love with our history — at a very grassroots level we care for the histories of our towns, villages and counties," she says. These museums may be small, but they play outsized roles when it comes to the "informal learning" that happens outside of the classroom. She added, "These museums are the community institutions that are the cornerstones of this informal learning."

Rural counties come out on top of the per-capita figures, although this is driven largely by


book chapter, or a philosophy paper.

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SC005336, VAT Registration Number GB 592 9507 00, and is acknowledged by the UK authorities as a
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granted degree awarding powers.The women have alleged that the officer in-charge tortured them at gunpoint (Representational photo)

Two cops have been suspended by the Assam Police and an investigation has been initiated against them after three sisters filed a complaint of being stripped naked and tortured inside a police station in Darrang district. One of the three women said she was pregnant and allegedly had a miscarriage due to the torture.

According to police sources, officer-in-charge of Burha police outpost of Darrang district and a woman police constable have been suspended following a complaint by the sisters at the Sipajhar police station.

The incident came to light only after the women narrated their ordeal to a local Assamese news channel.

Police sources say one of the sisters who filed the complaint claims she was picked


up by cops from her residence in Satgaon locality of Guwahati along with her husband and two of her sisters on September 9 and brought to the Burha police outpost in Darrang.

They were picked up by the police over a case in Darrang of alleged kidnapping against their brother by the family of a woman with whom he had eloped earlier this month. The woman with whom the brother eloped is from a different religion, police sources added.

In a separate police complaint, one of the three women, a 28-year-old housewife, had complained to Amrit Bhuyan, Superintendent of Police, Darrang, that on September 10 she, her husband and her two siblings were stripped naked, beaten up by two police officials - Mahendra Sarmah, the in-charge of the police postMost of the public appearances that former IDF
captive Gilad Schalit has made since his return home from five years in Hamas
captivity last October have pertained to sports: participating in a basketball
workout with his favorite team Maccabi Tel Aviv, attending the NBA All-Star game
in Orlando, Florida, last February.

So, it’s not too surprising that the
first job the discharged Schalit is undertaking is connected to
sports.

Yediot Aharonot announced Wednesday that Schalit would begin
penning a sports column for the newspaper, co-authored with veteran sportswriter
Arik Henig.

This weekend, Schalit and Henig will be flying to Miami in
time for Sunday’s third game of the NBA finals between the Miami Heat and the
Oklahoma City Thunder in order to file for their new weekly column “Free Game.”
Then, they’ll take off to Kiev to attend the finals of the


SWAT teams are on scene at the Trader's Joe supermarket.

An armed suspect who allegedly shot his grandmother and another person barricaded himself in a supermarket and then shot a woman dead in the US city of Los Angeles before being taken into custody on Saturday, police said.

"A male suspect ... become involved in a family dispute which resulted in him shooting his grandmother and a female at the scene," police Sergeant Barry Montgomery told journalists.

"That suspect fled the location in his grandmother's vehicle, taking that female victim with him," and eventually entered a Trader Joe's supermarket following an "officer involved shooting," he said.

Mayor Eric Garcetti said one woman was shot in the store and later declared dead at the site.

"I regret to inform you that there is onefatality that occurred inside, of a woman," Garcetti said, without further identifying the woman.

The suspect barricaded himself inside the supermarket with an unknown number of people, but was taken into custody "without incident," according to police.

"We have successfully taken the suspect into custody without incident. The situation remains fluid as officers move forward clearing the location," the Los Angeles Police Department wrote on its official Twitter account

US President Donald Trump had earlier tweeted that he was "watching Los Angeles possible hostage situation very closely."

Devin Field, a man who said he was walking into the store when the incident unfolded, described his experience in a series of tweets.

"I was walking in when a car crashed running from the police crashed into street lamp in front of the entrance. Gunman


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Business and Economy Publishers Cambridge film dance theater music literature sportsMINNEAPOLIS -- Los Angeles Sparks coach Brian Agler made an analogy earlier this season, reminding his team to rely on his navigation. Think of me as Waze, he told them, referencing the traffic app.

But his point guard, Chelsea Gray -- who hit the winning shot Sunday for Los Angeles in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals -- is probably better than anyone on the team at loosening him up with humor.

"There was a game this season where she wanted to go with a different play than Brian, and he was just looking at her," Sparks guard Alana Beard said. "And Chelsea says, 'OK, you're Waze, but I'm Google Maps. Trust me.'

"There's something about her maturity you don't always see in people her age. On top of her being


a great player, she's a great leader."

In Sunday's opening game of the Finals that went from blowout to barn burner, Gray led the Sparks in the right direction: an 85-84 victory. Even if they didn't exactly take the most direct route to get there.

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Minnesota has waited all season for another crack at Los Angeles. But the Lynx failed to execute and were nearly run out of the building in the first quarter before nearly pulling off the biggest comeback in WNBA Finals history.

Chelsea Gray's pull-up jumper with 2 seconds to play helped the Los Angeles Sparks avoid what would have been a stunning collapse and take Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, 85-84, over the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday.

It looked like they would, after getting out toI'm glad it went in."

She was referring to the Sparks' two last-second victories in the WNBA Finals last year in Minnesota. Beard hit a jump shot on an assist from Gray in Game 1, and Ogwumike made the shot that won the championship in Game 5, after she had rebounded a Gray miss.

Gray is just 24 -- she'll be 25 next month -- and playing her third season in the WNBA. She had a tough ending to her college career at Duke, suffering knee injuries that cut short both her junior and senior seasons. She was picked No. 11 in the 2014 WNBA draft by Connecticut, and sat out that season recovering.

She played one year for the Sun, then was traded to the Sparks before last season. Los


back-to-back years, I didn't know if I would ever be at this point. It was about perseverance."

Gray's performance was critical Sunday, because the Lynx almost pulled off the biggest rally in WNBA Finals history.

"Gray made some really good plays," Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said. "Some of the things we were trying to get done, we got done. And she still would make a play."

Reeve acknowledged that on Gray's last shot, where she was guarded by Seimone Augustus with Maya Moore coming in to help, the Lynx just weren't able to close in tight enough on her.

But that's because it's hard to crowd Gray. She's nimble enough to give herself space. Like Gray, Sparks guard Odyssey Sims also is a tough player for the Lynx to stop because ofher quickness.

"Let's not forget Odyssey and what she did this game," Parker said of Sims, who finished with 16 points and five assists. "She was unbelievable, defensively picking up the ball as well as running in transition. It was a collective effort, then Chels down the stretch really brought us home."

Parker got called for her fourth foul with just over a minute left in the second quarter, which she said impacted her in the second half, especially on defense. Still, she finished with 15 points, 12 rebounds and four assists.

The Lynx went with a smaller lineup and were able to keep creeping back into the game. When they tied the score for the first time, 78-78, with 2:10 left on Moore's layup after she stole a pass from


Accident proneness: science or non-science?
The "accident proneness" thesis has been with us since the early 1900s. The early statistical studies that reputedly provided the scientific basis for this notion are examined and found to be lacking due to methodological errors and a fragmented view of industrial life. Accident proneness, as originally envisioned, has no empirical foundations. It has, however, become part of the tactical armanentarium used in "blaming the victim" for industrial accidents. It focuses on the personal characteristics of workers in relation to accident causation, while de-emphasizing the role of dangerous work environments. In this respect, it has acted as a barrier in the development of preventive occupational health and safety principles and practices. The notion has endured not only because it is tactically advantageous, but alsoto protect the health or safety of a patient.

Sen. Matt McCoy, D-Des Moines, urged support for the bill, saying, "This bill will ensure that the public’s expectation of privacy will be assured."

The legislation was introduced after the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa asked the Iowa City Public Library to remove security cameras from its bathrooms over privacy concerns raised by a patron. The request was made on behalf of University of Iowa sophomore Kellsie Pepponi, who had used one of the bathrooms last year and afterward noticed a camera on the bathroom ceiling.

Pepponi saw a sign outside the bathroom noting cameras were in use but, in seeing cameras outside the bathroom, believed the sign was referencing those cameras. She did not notice the camera inside the bathroom


on her way in because they are near the entrance, but noticed it while standing inside one of the stalls, according to ACLU-Iowa. The video cameras are still in place.

Library Director Susan Craig told the Iowa City Press-Citizen in January that the cameras record only the common areas and do not collect video from inside the stalls. She said she understood peoples' concerns, but she described the cameras as necessary to protect public safety and to protect against theft and vandalism.

The library opened its new building in 2004, Craig said, and the cameras have been functioning for more than 10 years. Signs stating "security cameras are in use" are posted outside of the bathrooms and inside some of the bathrooms.By Tom Esslemont

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brokers in Egypt's underground trade in human body parts use prostitutes to tempt migrants to sell their kidneys as hospitals turn a blind eye to illicit dealing in donated organs for transplants, a report says.

Undocumented African migrants arriving in Cairo, desperate for cash, told the British Journal of Criminology that sex workers were offered as a "sweetener" before or after removal of their organs.

"(One pimp) used the services of sex workers as leverage when negotiating fees with both sellers and buyers," the report said. "A night with a sex worker was offered as an extra inducement to sell."

Organ purchase is banned in Egypt, though the country is a common destination for transplant tourism, along with India, Pakistan and Russia, according to


separate research by Erasmus MC University Hospital Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

In April, images published on social media showed the badly scarred bodies of Somali migrants on an Egyptian beach, suggesting they had had organs removed.

In July, a British newspaper reported that African migrants were being killed for their organs in Egypt - a common transit country for migrants - if they could not afford to pay off their people smugglers.

"The Egyptians come equipped to remove the organ and transport it in insulated bags," people smuggler Nouredin Atta was quoted by Britain's Times newspaper as telling investigators after his arrest.

The picture of organ trading in Egypt extends beyond the criminal underworld, with mainstream hospitals conducting transplants using kidneys procured through backstreet deals, according to Sean Columb, the report's author.

Columb,a law lecturer at Liverpool University in Britain, spent weeks in the Egyptian capital interviewing brokers and donors, mostly from Sudan.

Nobody from Egypt's Health Ministry was immediately available to comment on his findings.

While the buying of kidneys is banned in Egypt, it is not illegal to pay for a transplant procedure, Columb's report said, with some recipients paying up to $100,000 for a new organ.

Story continues

Little data is available on the amount donors receive in Cairo, but one of the 13 sellers Columb spoke to said he was paid 40,000 Egyptian pounds ($4,500) for his kidney.

Deals were usually struck in a public place, such as a cafe, in the company of a broker and representative of a registered transplant laboratory, the report said.

Egypt, at a crossroads between the


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The Ocean City Town Council says the "visual pollution" of an offshore wind farm could hurt tourism and property values, and it has started a process it hopes will ensure the farms are moved farther from the shore.

The first step in that plan to put more distance between the beachfront and the sight of the white windmills is a letter the council agreed to send to Gov. Larry Hogan highlighting the council's concerns.

The move was sparked by renderings of the project presented by Baltimore-based US Wind, one of two companies proposing projects off the coast of Ocean City. The other is Deepwater Wind.

US Wind's 248-megawatt project would be set on an 80,000-acre area 12 to 14 miles off the coast, and is expected to cost $4 billion.The plan was lauded at a public hearing March 25, with many locals, experts, tradesmen and seasonal visitors pointing out the economic benefits of the project.

On a clear day with no haze, and the lighting just right, the turbines will appear on the horizon about the size of a thumbnail at arms length, according to US Wind Director of Project Development Paul Rich.

It was the sight of the windmills that alarmed the Ocean City Council, which on Monday, April 3, first planned to oppose the project and then agreed unanimously during the meeting to focus on the "visual pollution" angle. They would like to work with the project developers to move the farm 6 to 8 miles farther from land, a process US Wind says would cost another


sit on the beach on a clear day and look at the ocean," DeLuca said. "It's one of the few places left in nature that's unspoiled."

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However, DeLuca's and the council's opposition to a changed horizon finds no support in Denmark studies on the impact of wind farms off its coast.

Since 2003 the Nysted Wind Farm has been operating about 6.7 miles off the coast of Denmark – about half the distance the Ocean City farm would be. It's had no impact on tourism, according to a Denmark Commission of Energy study. In a survey of area residents there, 80 percent felt positively about of the wind farms and their impact on the landscape.

The studies also concluded littleto no environmental impact from the farms.

In the U.S., the only other offshore wind farm is a five-turbine project off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, constructed by Deepwater Wind and turned on in December 2016. It's too young to evaluate its impact on tourism, but in February, the University of Rhode Island began a two-year study that will analyze the economic and tourist impact of the farm.

Molly Fitzpatrick, the town clerk for New Shoreham, Rhode Island, the municipality which makes up the entirety of Block Island, said the project has had no impact on tourism, and may have even helped.

"We now have taxi services which take tourists out to view the turbines up close," Fitzpatrick said. "I can only speak anecdotally, but there seems to be


no negative impact on tourism, and even some good."

While Fitzpatrick said she has seen a good response from tourists to Block Island, those owning oceanfront property there have not been as receptive.

"Some of the people that have homes that look over the water don't like them as much," Fitzpatrick said. "But the tourists have embraced it."

The turbines could even have an environmental boost, US Wind said.

For areas void of reefs, Rich noted, the four legged foundations will over time start serving as artificial reefs, a fact also noted in the Denmark study.

But not at the expense of the view, argued Spencer Rowe, a longtime Ocean City resident and environmental consultant, who believes the projects would only hurt Ocean City.

"When you look out over that water, it's one ofthe last unspoiled vistas, one of the last places of a clear view of nature," Rowe said. "It's crazy to me that anyone would do anything to hurt that."

Rowe, a proponent of renewable resources, said the future of Eastern Shore energy should not be in wind, but in solar.

"Solar is perfect for the Eastern Shore; we have tons of flat land and open space to do it," Rowe said.

According to the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2013, the range for building wind farms was set at between 10 and 30 miles off the coast. The US Wind site will feed the Indian River Power Plant.

But at Monday's council meeting, councilman Dennis Dare notes, "At 20 miles, with the haze and everything, there's a big difference than 12."

Councilman


John Gehrig took a more pragmatic approach, insisting on understanding the project as well as possible before taking any action.

"I think we should hear all of the facts first before we draft a letter," Gehrig said.

Mayor Rick Meehan, who had expressed concerns about the view at the March 25 hearing, said he was not surprised by the council's stance.

"After I saw the pictures, I knew this would be the reaction of the council," Meehan said.

Meehan insisted on making the town's stance known before the process moves any further. However, as Tyler noted, the letter may end up being only a symbolic gesture.

"It is federal water, and the bill is already in place," Tyler said. "This really may be too little to late."

For US Wind's Rich, the town's stanceA Tesla Model S owner says that Tesla’s safety level “saved his life” after he managed to walk away mostly uninjured after a horrific high-speed crash on Autopilot.

Peder Hulthin, a Tesla Model S 70D owner from Norway, told Electrek (after first sharing the story on the Teslanytt facebook group) that he was driving his electric car on Autopilot on the highway between Oslo and Drammen when a car swerved in and out of his lane.

As the vehicle exited his lane, there was red van stuck in the middle of the highway and neither Hulthin or Autopilot could react in time to avoid the crash.

The Model S hit the vehicle head-on at about 85 to 90 km/h, according to the driver.

Hulthin shared pictures of the aftermath with Electrek —


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Lewis Hamilton and the Mercedes Formula 1 team have agreed a new deal to continue their partnership, which will be announced in Monaco later on Wednesday, AUTOSPORT understands.

The reigning world champion's protracted contract negotiations have been a major talking point during the 2015 season.

Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg announced an extended deal last summer, but talks with Hamilton were paused during the 2014 title fight and then dragged on through the opening grands prix of this year.

AUTOSPORT understands that Hamilton and Mercedes are now ready to announce the agreement.

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Hamilton joined Mercedes for the 2013 season after spending his F1 career up to that point with the McLaren team that had nurtured him through junior racing.

The 30-year-old Briton hastaken 15 grand prix wins since coming to Mercedes and added last year's drivers' crown to his 2008 title with McLaren.

He heads into this weekend's Monte Carlo race with a 20-point lead over Rosberg in the standings.


SDL and anti-fascists stage protests in Edinburgh Published duration 17 August 2013

image caption The march taking place down Edinburgh's Royal Mile was met with protests

Members of the far-right Scottish Defence League (SDL) and anti-racism campaigners have been staging rival protests in Edinburgh.

The SDL and their supporters marched down the Royal Mile to the Scottish Parliament.

There was a significant police presence to monitor the demonstrations.

The centre of the city and the Royal Mile are traditionally busy with tourists and Edinburgh festival-goers at this time of year.

Police estimated about 150 people took part in the SDL event, with about 350 people involved in the counter-protest.

On arrival at the Scottish Parliament, police cordons were in place to keep the two demonstrations apart.

During the day four people were arrested for minor offences.free Black and Hispanic populations).

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as musically cognizant and technically fluent as Mono could muster'.

Track listing

Personnel
Mono
 Takaakira "Taka" Goto – Guitar
 Tamaki Kunishi – Bass, Piano, Glockenspiel
 Yoda – Guitar
 Yasunori Takada – Drums, Glockenspiel, Timpani, Tubular Bell, Gong

Production
 Henry Hirsch – Recorded
 Rachel Alina – Assisted
 Fred Weaver – Mixed
 Bob Weston – Mastered

The Holy Ground Orchestra
 Jeff Milarsky – Conductor
 Yuki Numata, Courtney Orlando, Emily Ondracek, Patti Kilroy – Violin 1
 Conrad Harris, Ben Russel, Caroline Shaw, Amanda Lo – Violin 2
 Caleb Burhans, Nadia Sirota, Erin Wight, Jeanann Dara – Viola
 Clarice Jensen, Brian Snow – Cello 1
 Caitlin Sullivan, Laura Metcalf – Cello 2
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weighed 8 lbs., 13 oz. at birth. "I really don't feel comfortable trying to go down that route again."

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Christina separated from El Moussa in May 2016 and the split was finalized in August 2017. She married Ant in December 2018.manuscript also showed how only the social could have provided for its survival — his mother, the family, the bookstore, the library. Independence is an illusion, he wrote. And thus so too is autobiography. This is likely why he soon renamed "An Autobiography" "The Autobiography of Phillip Workman by bpNichol" — because bpNichol understood the impossibility of autobiography while the earlier version of bp, "Phillip Workman," had not. Paradoxically, it now required a "we" to create an _auto_ biography.

On May 15, 1972, he marked this passage, and possibly all of the "An Autobiography" writings, as "Part III of Book III of The Martyrology," a plan that he did not carry out in the published book. The only hint of it in _Book_ _3_ occurs in Part V, in


cursed all poetry, poetry mags, and their idiot-editors and wished them condemned to hell. He vulgarly and somewhat incoherently cursed the goddess of poetry for having seduced, captured, and enslaved him. Whether he'd been drinking, was overtired, or merely determined not to seem stilted is unclear. In his reply bissett — perhaps pondering the same possibilities — assured him that everything would be all right if he could "find yur place in the wheel."

The second _Ganglia,_ _The_ _1962_ _Poems of R.S. (Red) Lane_ , with an introduction by Bowering, was published shortly after the unfortunate Bohemian Embassy benefit. Barrie's attempts to obtain a Jamie Reid manuscript, however, were in vain. bissett's letters suggest that either Reid didn't have sufficient poems for a collection or that he was worriedgroup therapies. They had named two of themselves to liaise with the ailing Hindley-Smith as her "advisers and assistants in the administration of the nascent organization." She, however, expected the two to "take charge" during her illnesses and absences, and when this did not happen at a crucial moment at the end of the summer, requested their replacement. She wanted people she could trust to "replace her . . . while she was away," Goodbrand writes, "and convey her input and directions to the [therapist] group" (91). This group — called by Hindley-Smith "Hypno I" because of its training in hypnosis therapy — was one that Barrie was both within and without. He trained within it, but also lived with Hindley-Smith and her son and daughter, and was


flew west for the readings and then on July 27 took the train back, with Barrie hoping to write a journal-poem along the way. The result was _Continental Trance_ , the third book of _The Martyrology, Book_ _6_ _Books._ Barrie thought this text might be a replacement for the "You Too, Nicky" one that he had vainly hoped to create during their drive west through Saskatchewan in September 1979.

A little more than a month later, on September 16, their daughter, Sarah Kathryn, was born 10 weeks premature. She would not be released from hospital until November 28, with both parents during the interim making daily trips to the hospital to be with her. In this period he wrote and delivered a paper — with handouts — at theBarrie had replied by sending the requested resumé and script proposal, but suggested as well that because of _Fraggle Rock_ he might have a "time problem." Nevertheless, in January 1984 he would send _Fraggle_ 's Jerry Juhl two further script ideas.

To facilitate undertaking all these new freelance projects Barrie had bought his first computer, an Apple IIe, the previous March. In his letter of October 23, 1983, to Griffiths he had enclosed a small visual poem that he had created by playing with its Gutenberg word-processing program, and mentioned that he was now also stealing bits of time to learn Apple's programming language, Apple Basic. Barrie's computer play and study of Apple BASIC would enable him to create by the middle of 1984 a suite of twelve "kinetic"


10 Powerful Quotes by Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo is a famous Mexican artist known worldwide. She has been through many physical as well as emotional sufferings in her life. After a terrible accident that happened to her, she focused on her paintings while recovering (with about 30 operations). This strong woman often depicted her both emotional and physical pain on canvas. Frida was also married to Diego Rivera twice, who was one of the biggest reasons to many of her sufferings.

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” There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst. ”
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Frida and Diego’s love story is filled with great passion and great pain. Their relationshipshe was sitting in a cafe called Verb, she admitted that she might, in fact, be a little hip.

While no one among a sample of Williamsburgers was familiar with the book's lingo, most agreed that its drawings of hip hairstyles were recognizable depictions of what adorned the heads of local residents.

''This is about every fourth person you see,'' said Mr. Weiss, pointing at the Casablanca, a tousled look reminiscent of Mick Jagger circa 1973. Several identified the Neo Panther, a large Afro shown with horn-rimmed glasses, as belonging to a musician who works at Verb.

In the opinion of Mr. McCarthy, most buyers of the book seem new to the city. ''It doesn't seem to be bought by the people it's supposed to be about,'' he said.

As for the


Fueled by 10 fighting majors in the final minute, the Adirondack Phantoms and Portland Pirates combined for 299 penalty minutes Sunday at Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston, Maine.

One of the fighting majors assessed was to Adirondack goalie Cal Heeter, who came off the bench to fight Portland goalie Louis Domingue. The Pirates won the game 2-0.

The AHL single-game record for penalty minutes was set by the Hershey Bears and Adirondack Red Wings on Oct. 14, 1981, at Hersheypark Arena. The teams combined for 520 minutes.

Here is a link to the lengthy game sheet and below is a video of the fracas.

ON TWITTER: @timleonewell known Inland Empire conductor and music educator Roger Samuel has passed away after a long illness. He has influenced countless young musicians over decades, most famously as conductor of the CYMO and Intermezzo orchestras. Our condolences to his family and to the many students who have benefited from his kind leadership.

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Richard's family and relatives start to call him Pocho, a Spanish word that means an American who forgets their native language, because he no longer speaks Spanish with confidence. Many family members continue to speak to Richard in Spanish, even if they could speak English. This was because they wanted Richard to speak and know his native language. Richard starts to recognize that he feels guilty speaking English. He blames himself for shattering the close bond his family had previously held. After some time, Richard starts to pick up on the tones and sounds of the English language, details he previously ignored. Richard learns that intimacy does exist in his home, after he realizes that intimacy is not created by language, but by those he


give Sri Lanka’s ruling family whatever it desires, besides backing its power-project to the hilt. Mahinda Rajapaksa wanted an international airport and an international sea port in his home city of Hambantota. No international investor/creditor was forthcoming, probably because of the extreme economic infeasibility of both ventures. The Chinese made those dreams possible. Other Ruling Siblings too are being helped with their pet projects from the Lotus Tower to military housing in the North/East and the Defence Services College in Colombo. With this Abracadabra approach, it is little wonder that the Rajapaksas are totally in thrall to the Mages in Beijing.

True, no international flight comes to Mattala. Even the visiting Chinese President opted to use the Bandaranaike International Airport. Without a government order making it mandatory for vehicleKALAMAZOO -- Tuesday afternoon, Marty DeJong was working on a home project that had been put off for quite a while.

He was piling dirt in a hole along the driveway, where a basketball hoop once stood.

"I do have a list," said DeJong's smiling wife, Alice. "(The basketball hoop) has been on my list for a couple years."

All of a sudden, Marty DeJong will have some time to attack that "Honey-Do" list. He has announced his retirement as Kalamazoo Christian's softball coach after 15 highly successful seasons that included six state championships.

Marty DeJong

"I like to garden, working with flowers and stuff, and it's June before I can do that," he said. "Everything feels rushed to get done, and I'm pushing 60 now. I'm more tired this year, and every


year for the last three or four, than I've been the years before."

DeJong, who works in human resources at Allied Mechanical Services, will turn 59 on July 29. He moved to the U.S. from the Netherlands at age 4. He became the Comets' softball coach during his youngest child, Keri's, freshman year at K-Christian.

The next season, Keri DeJong pitched the Comets to the first of their five straight state titles -- two in Class C and three in Division 3. Marty DeJong carries that 1996 state crown as one of his more memorable highlights.

"Well, you have to consider the first state championship, when your own daughter's pitching," he said.

"But I think the fact that the kids were so enthusiastic, year after year after year, to play (was ahighlight for him)."

DeJong, who played basketball and baseball at K-Christian -- "my dad was a real soccer buff; he wasn't crazy about baseball, but soccer wasn't real big over here (in the U.S.)" -- and graduated from the school in 1968.

A 2005 inductee in the Michigan High School Softball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, DeJong finishes his career with a 449-125 record, including a 32-9 mark this year.

"On the surface, you say, 'What an awesome coach,'" said K-Christian athletic director Jerry Weesies, who has not posted the coaching position yet but hopes to have a replacement lined up in early October.

"I think he changed the culture of softball in the area and state. When he started this small-ball, slap-and-bunt kind of stuff, the term 'Marty Ball' really became


popular. But, even beyond that, every year he developed some of the best relationships with kids that I've ever seen."

Katie Dwyer, a four-year starter for DeJong who was first-team all-state the past two seasons, said she entered the Comets program with a bit of hesitation. She was concerned about living up to the level at which DeJong had built the program. She said his philosophy was "if we make the other team make plays, we're going to have a lot of success."

"I think mentally, he's always so level-headed," Dwyer said. "He always stayed kind of level for us. Even when we got really excited, really emotional, he'd always be there for us, in the middle."

Tom Hamilton, former Portage Northern coach who entered the MHSSCA Hall of Fame theCaps Add Tim Hunter To Coaching Staff

The Capitals announced Monday that former assistant coach Tim Hunter would be rejoining the staff for the upcoming 2012-13 season.

Hunter spent five seasons as an assistant in Washington under former Caps coach Ron Wilson. He was part of the staff that led the team to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1998.

Hunter will be well acquainted with his fellow coaches, having previously coached new head coach Adam Oates, goaltending coach Olie Kolzig, and assistant coach Calle Johansson.

As a player, Hunter played 16 seasons with the Flames, Nordiques, Canucks, and Sharks, respectively. He was known as an enforcer and still holds the Flames' franchise record for penalty minutes with 2,405.

The addition of Hunter to the Caps coaching staff continues the trend by Oates and


Britain looks to growing Asian markets for post-Brexit era

TOKYO: Britain wants to align itself more closely with Asia’s growing economies as it prepares to leave the European Union, Trade Secretary Liam Fox said Wednesday.

The United Kingdom seeks to strike new trade pacts with countries that are becoming a larger part of its export market, he said, while also maintaining as much of its European trade as it can.

“This is where we’re likely to see a lot of global growth coming over the next 10, 15 years,” he told The Associated Press during an interview in Tokyo.

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Oh it turns out they had wings too.

There is no mention of wings on Fatburger's website, nor were they available inside the restaurant, only the patio/bar area. So this might be a Vegas thing only. Wings came in orders of 6 or 12, and the price was pretty inflated, but then again, it is the strip.

My wings came with exactly one celery stick and one carrot stick. I mean, really what was the point? And then my dip on the side was a packet of David Newman blue cheese dressing. This just seemed a little silly.

The wings were pretty big surprisingly. Large at best, on the larger side of medium at their worst. They were also pretty meaty. The skin was


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Fazrul Nawaz was the hero for Warriors FC as he grabbed a brace to propel them to a 4-1 win over Home United in Sunday’s Uniform Derby in the S.League.

The 29-year-old had recently returned to Warriors, where he played at from 2011 to 2012, after his move to Malaysia Premier League outfit Sabah failed to work out.

Five minutes into Sunday’s clash, Nicolas Velez raced onto Hafiz Rahim’s incisive pass and whipped a cross into the box to find Fazrul, who made no mistake in slotting a first-time shot past Shahril Jantan to reopen his account for the club.

The Singapore international was on target once more in the 30th minute and, this time, he displayed his aerial prowess after climbing above Shahril to meet Hafiz’s freekick and sent a


drawn from welfare funds.

These marriage initiatives are part of Bush's proposal for the reauthorization of the nation's welfare laws. In late February, Bush unveiled his welfare plan during a speech at a Catholic church in Southeast Washington. In his speech, Bush stated that the welfare policy should focus on the creation and maintenance of stable families, announcing that his "administration will give unprecedented support to strengthening marriage." As Washington Post staff writer Amy Goldstein reported, the White House plans to require states to include "explicit descriptions of their family-formation and healthy-marriage efforts" in the welfare plans they submit to the federal government. The House passed Bush's welfare legislation (HR 4737) in May, and the Senate is working on its welfare reform bill now, with hopes to have itsnow

In order to better understand Bush's proposals for welfare reauthorization, as well as their potential effects, it's a good idea to revisit the 1996 reforms that created the current welfare systems in place across the U.S. Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWOA) in 1996. This new law replaced existing welfare programs with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which was enacted with the stipulation that Congress would have to reauthorize TANF by the end of September 2002. The TANF law defined primary objectives for welfare reform as "promoting job preparation, work, and marriage; preventing and reducing the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and encouraging the formation and maintenance of two-parent families." In this formulation, states were able to define who constituted a family, and


out.

State Marriage Initiatives

As a result of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act's emphasis on the formation and maintenance of two-parent families, several states have begun to experiment with different initiatives linking marriage initiatives with welfare funds. In West Virginia, TANF funds have been allocated to add a $100 bonus to families' monthly benefits if the parents on welfare marry each other. Oklahoma is working on a $10 million Marriage Initiative plan that includes public education campaigns, youth outreach and education, the integration of pro-marriage counseling in social service programs, and a specific religious initiative encouraging religious leaders to encourage their church and synagogue members to undergo pre-marital counseling. The Michigan Family Independence Agency, partially financed with welfare funds, was established to provide marital and family counselingand anger management courses to interested individuals. Utah has allocated a portion of its TANF surplus for a marriage education campaign that will be developed over a two-year period, and the state legislature raised the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16 years old.

Arizona has been particularly gung-ho in its marriage initiatives. According to the NOW-LDEF, the state has allocated $1 million for marriage skills classes offered by community-based organizations, and it has established a Marriage and Communication Skills Commission, whose projects include the creation and distribution of a "healthy marriage" handbook to all couples applying for a marriage license, and funding vouchers for low income couples attending marriage-skills classes. The Arizona legislature also passed a Covenant Marriage law in 1998, "under which couples promise to stay