for a year after being diagnosed with M.S. and laid-off from cook job

"I don't date nobody." —Annette, 59, living in shelters and on street for five years

"There aren't many women looking for homeless guys. I'd say it's not good." —Keith, 48, living on the street off and on for 17 years, recently evicted, hometown San Francisco

"I'm single. I don't date." —Stephanie, 26, living on the street for one year, hometown Cancun, Mexico, lived in SF for seven years, worked as a dental assistant before losing her housing and then her job

"I don't even try. I'll look and say, 'Hey,' but I'm not a position to date." —Elliott, 49, newly homeless and living in a van after he lost his job due to a skateboarding accident, hometown San Francisco

"Ihaven't tried." —James, 34, living on streets for 15 years, hometown Burlingame

(Note: The majority of the people we spoke with asked to use only their first name due to the sensitivity of the subject. Many worried sharing their stories would make potential employers wary of hiring them.)

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Living on the streets in San Francisco: A new series on SFGATE

Invisible to many who walk by them, more than 7,000 people live in San Francisco without permanent housing. Each of these people face daily struggles living on the street, working jobs while living in a tent or shelter, fighting addiction and mental illness, finding places to shower, and always figuring out where to sleep that night.

Their lives are mind-bogglingly difficult, but how how did they get there? Where did things go


The Lancia Stratos made its rally debut in 1973. Its angular looks, Ferrari power and tremendous handling immediately propelled it not only to the head of the pack, but also into the hearts of rally fans the world over. The Stratos proved to be immediately successful in world rally competition. Not only did it win the 1974 World Rally Championship, it also secured the crown for Lancia in 1975 as well. But it was the third season for the car in 1976 that saw it dominate. In the hands of Sandro Munari and Bjorn Waldegard the Stratos locked out the podium on the Monte Carlo and San Remo rallies, won the Portuguese rally and finished first and second in Corsica. On tarmac the car was unbeatable. These strongRegistration

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As a clarification, this is the membership meeting for the club, which is a division of Dragonflight. The Dragonflight membership meeting was held9/11 Babies on Dads: 'I Never Met Him but I Know I Love Him'

Ten years ago, a sad sisterhood of pregnant women gave birth to children who would never know their fathers because the men had perished in the holocaust of 9/11 terror attacks.

Now those babies are almost 10 years old.

They are children who were never able to share a living moment with their dads, but created memories out of ordinary objects such as a lacrosse stick, a biking jersey and even backstage passes from rock concerts.

Morgan Rodriguez still wears the firefighter medallion belonging to her father, Anthony Rodriguez. Ron Milam Jr. said he had his father's basketball.

"This is a picture of my father," Phelan Halloran told ABC News' Diane Sawyer of Vincent Halloran. "I really love him.


husband, Daniel Lee, was a drummer and that her daughter Allison Lee loved the instrument. "My mom always tells me that he was very energetic," Allison Lee said.

Robert Atwood's father, Gerard Atwood, was a firefighter. He said his dad's look was imprinted on his mind.

"It's him. He has his hat on. Ladder 21. It's all his gear. When I'm trying to go to sleep, I look at the picture and then I look in the mirror. It looks kind of like me and he, it's looking in the eyes," Robert Atwood said. "For Career Day [at school,] I dressed up with all his gear and my teacher wouldn't let anybody touch it 'cause it was too valuable."

The children said the reunions made them feel less lonely, less likeElectric vehicle sales continue to increase this year, according to Inside EVs. Although some results have yet to be reported, the site estimates that 50 percent more battery and plug-in hybrid EVs found homes in October 2017 than the year before. And head and shoulders above them all was the Chevrolet Bolt EV.

Chevy sold 2,871 of them in October, making it the best-selling EV of the month by quite some margin. The next closest was the Toyota Prius Prime, which notched up 1,626 sales. That means that the Bolt EV is now the second-best selling EV for the year thus far at just over 17,000 sold—not bad for a car that only went on sale in all 50 states in the second half of the year.

Anecdotally, I've started


After protests, an estimated 500 attend East Bay library's 'Drag Queen Story Hour'

Despite protests, Drag Queen Story Hour was a big hit in Brentwood on Monday night. Despite protests, Drag Queen Story Hour was a big hit in Brentwood on Monday night. Photo: Courtesy Melissa Van Ruiten Photography Photo: Courtesy Melissa Van Ruiten Photography Image 1 of / 5 Caption Close After protests, an estimated 500 attend East Bay library's 'Drag Queen Story Hour' 1 / 5 Back to Gallery

There were some in Brentwood who felt that a literary event at the Brentwood Community Center on Monday night was inappropriate for kids. Why? The public reading in Contra Costa County featured a drag queen reading children's books to, well, children.

But the 25 or so people who showed upto protest mostly peacefully outside the venue were well outnumbered by the 500 people Contra Costa County Libraries estimated to have attended the event. It was more people than the organization expected to attend to hear Bella Aldama read to young guests, a spokeswoman for the group told SFGATE, but it was nevertheless "a rousing success."

"The Contra Costa County Library is proud of the event," spokeswoman Brooke Converse said. "Our mission is about bringing people and ideas together. We want to be representative and inclusive of everyone in our very diverse county and community."

RELATED: Where to see drag shows in the Bay Area

Not everyone in the community was onboard with Story Hour. When East County Today, a local East Bay site, initially posted news of the event, they


At least 100 Jewish Community Centers have been threatened so far, including facilities in Westchester and Staten Island

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NYPD officials say hate crimes in New York City have increased dramatically since last February

Anti-Semitic hate crimes have increased 94 percent since February 2016, with 17 of the 24 instances taking place since the start of 2017

Nearly 100 Jewish Community Centers have been threatened so far, including facilities in Westchester and Staten Island

New York City is experiencing a dramatic rise in hate crimes, city law enforcement officials said.

Anti-Semitic hate crime surged 94 percent since last February, driving up hate crime numbers throughout the city, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said at a press conference Wednesday. He believes it's part of athousands on edge since the start of 2017. Threats called into JCCs in at least five states, including New Jersey, prompted evacuations Jan. 9.

At least 20 centers and day schools were targeted in a new round of threats, the national Jewish Community Centers Association told NBC News Monday. Among those targeted were facilities in Pennsylvania and in the New York City area like Plainview, where 400 people — including 200 preschoolers — were forced to leave the building, police said.


the rusting process began in earnest. It took me a full year to get it to rust up, but it turned out nice and no one has yet to notice that the fender is not original to the truck.

The front and side boards of the box are all original to the truck. Originally the truck would have had three sets of side boards, but the father of the man I bought the truck from needed some wood to fix a hog trough and since the truck was parked in the pasture, that’s where he got the wood. The rear of the box I had to fabricate out of some old barn siding. The hardware for the end gate came from a box in Colorado that the wood hadand sterile sound, even slightly harsh at times. Resampling the analog always sounds smooth, but also like the music has been preserved in some special way. It has always sounded this way to me (though, still thinking this to be a bit crazy, I haven't bothered with any ABX testing).

Now that I have my two new racks set up, I have my two super special disc players hooked up to the Lavry AD10 converter also. The current lineup has two classic players, the Denon DVD-5900 and the all time heavyweight Denon DVD-9000. I use the 5900 for SACD's and DVD-Audio, and the 9000 for CD's. Actually the official purpose of the DVD-9000 is for HDCD's, which must be decoded by a HDCD player to extract the decoded dynamic


This is the same Erickson who recently called retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter a "goat f--king child molester," referred to two sitting U.S. senators as "healthcare suicide bombers," praised protesters for "tell[ing] Nancy Pelosi and the Congress to send Obama to a death panel" (he later backpedaled on that one), and described President Obama's Nobel Prize as "an affirmative action quota."

Another quote from Erickson:

"At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?”Brendan Rodgers has condemned the short-termism of modern football and says there has been genuine progress at Liverpool despite the team going backwards in the Premier League this season. On

Saturday a plane carrying a banner that read “Rodgers Out Rafa In” was flown above Anfield before the 2-1 win over Queens Park Rangers. Rodgers laughed off the stunt, claiming the pilot must have been the agent of the former Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez. AirAds, the company which hired out the plane, said on Twitter that it was funded by Liverpool season-ticket holders.

Irrespective of the aerial protest, Rodgers has been forced to defend his tenure several times this season, with Liverpool having fallen from last term’s title challenge to fifth in the Premier League and their manager’s prospects of


on the front of the seat.

Then, remove the cover and thread the harness back through the harness slots and reattach the harness to the splitter plate. Store the chest clip and the buckles in the provided cubbies located near the bottom of both sides of the seat. Remove the crotch buckle and flip the seat over to thread the crotch buckle back through the seat upside down. Finally, replace the cover and the Maestro Sport is ready to roll in booster mode!

The lower anchors are permitted in booster mode to prevent the seat from becoming a projectile in the event of a crash. If you decide to not use them, ensure the booster is buckled when not in use.

Pro tip: Peeling back the cover from one side ofA touch saucy and savory on the nose, with roasted aromas of bark, leather, cigar box and baked fruits. The palate is lively with good acidity, while the raspberry, red currant and plum flavors carry some snap. Balanced by vanilla and cream on the finish.

Echeverria 2006 Family Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Curicó Valley)

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to touch any of the crackers! Even the ones inside.

## WHAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA

For the people who make dog treats to make them taste more like Robert's favorite crackers.

## WHAT SAMMY SAID

Sammy did not have much to say about the whole backflip thing except for asking Max, "Can we go?" every couple of minutes. I was surprised when he suddenly said, "Why is the cat walking in slow motion?" We all turned and looked to where Sammy was pointing. There was Crinkles, doing his sticky-paw walking. Mr. Scruffers was watching too. She had one eye on Robert and one eye on Crinkles, but she didn't move or make a sound. "How do you make her do that?" asked Mimi. "Not bark or go after Crinkles?" "I'mIt was so quiet in here, so here we go...In Uncut's Eric Clapton special issue (recommended) I found this in a December 9, 1978 Melody Maker interview; Eric commenting on Peter.

"And Peter Green, he came and stayed with me when he was having a really bad time, for about two weeks. And the first week, nothing. Not a word. And every now and then he'd complain. 'Why are you doing this? Why are you listening to that? Why are you playing that way?' And then one sunny day I caught him outside in the garden, dancing his head off, and laughing. It was so good to see him enjoying himself at last. And then we had a play, and he had it all there, it was exactly the


for much of 1978; perhaps this was in the mid 70s, after his ECT therapy.

Hi Daniel!
It's hard to tell from what Eric says in the interview (which was given in Southampton, UK on December 1, 1978), right? We know that Green was in LA for much of 1978; perhaps this was in the mid 70s, after his ECT therapy.

Yes, probably the mid-70s. I believe he stayed at several friends' houses in that periode.

"Returning to England in late October 1965,I found that my place in the Bluesbreakers had been filled by a brilliant guitarist,Peter Green,later of Fleetwood Mac,who had aggressively pestered John to employ him,often turning up at gigs and shouting from the audience that he was much better than whoever was playing that night.Though I barely knew him,Igot the impression that he was a real Turk,a strong,confident musician who knew exactly what he wanted and where he was going,but who played his cards close to his chest. Most important he was phenomenal player,whit a great tone.He was not happy to see me,as it meant rather a sudden end to what had obviously been a good gig for him.Once change that
didn`t particularly surprise me was that McVie had finally be given the boot,and had been replaced by Jack Bruce,the bass player from Graham Bond Organisation,whom I had see play at the Marquee.Jack stayed for a few weeks.........."


Facts About Niagara Falls

Collectively they are called “Niagara Falls”

Categorized by these three names: American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, Canadian Falls

American Falls & Bridal Veil Falls

Length of brink: 1060 feet /323.08 meters

Height: 176 feet / 53.6 meters (due to rocks at the base actual fall is 70 feet/ 21.3 meters)

Volume of water: 150,000 U.S. Gallons / 567,811 Liters per second

Actual amount varies, there are two hydroelectric plants which draw water into their reservoirs prior to the Falls. Their intake greatly affects the volume of water flowing over the falls.

The amount of water being siphoned away depends on two variables. The time of year and the time of the day. The flow is greatest over the Falls in the daytime during peak tourist season (June, July, and August). In theevent of an emergency the flow can be somewhat reduced by the hydroelectric companies increasing their intake.

The Bridal Veil Falls is named for its appearance. It is located next to the American Falls and separated by a small piece of land called Luna Island.

Canadian “Horseshoe” Falls

Length of brink: 2600 feet / 792.4 meters

Height: 167 feet / 50.9 meters

Volume of water: 600,000 U.S. gallons / 2,271,247 liters per second

A Brief History of the Falls. Information below graciously provided courtesy of Niagara Parks

Ice Age History of the Niagara River and Whirlpool Rapids

The Niagara River as is the entire Great Lakes Basin of which the river is an integral part is a legacy of the last Ice Age. 18,000 years ago southern Ontario was covered by ice sheets 2-3 kilometers thick.


As they advanced southward the ice sheets gouged out the basins of the Great Lakes. Then as they melted northward for the last time they released vast quantities of meltwater into these basins. Our water is “fossil water” less than one percent of it is renewable on an annual basis and the rest leftover from the ice sheets.

The Niagara Peninsula became free of the ice about 12,500 years ago. As the ice retreated northward its meltwaters began to flow down through what became Lake Erie, Niagara River and Lake Ontario down to the St. Lawrence River and finally, down to the sea. There were originally 5 spillways from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Eventually these were reduced to one, the original Niagara Falls, at Queenston-Lewiston. From here theFalls began its steady erosion through the bedrock.

However about 10,500 years ago through an interplay of geological effects including alternating retreats and re-advances of the ice and rebounding of the land when released from the intense pressure of the ice (isostatic rebound) this process was interrupted. The glacial meltwaters were rerouted through northern Ontario bypassing the southern route. For the next 5,000 years Lake Erie remained only half the size of today. The Niagara River was reduced to about 10% of its current flow and a much-reduced Falls stalled in the area of the Niagara Glen.

About 5,500 years ago the meltwaters were once again routed through southern Ontario, restoring the river and Falls to their full power. Then the Falls reached the Whirlpool.

It was a brief and violent


encounter and a geological moment lasting only weeks, maybe even only days. In this moment the Falls of the youthful Niagara River intersected an old riverbed and one that had been buried and sealed during the last Ice Age. The Falls turned into this buried gorge and tore out the glacial debris that filled it and scoured the old river bottom clean. It was probably not a falls at all now but a huge churning rapids. When it was all over it left behind a 90-degree turn in the river we know today as the Whirlpool and North America’s largest series of standing waves we know today as the Whirlpool Rapids.

The Falls then re-established at about the area of the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge upriver to our right andresumed carving its way through solid rock to its present location.

Straddling the Canadian-United States International Border and both in the Province of Ontario and the State of New York, Niagara Falls attracts some 12 Million tourists to her majestic awesome beauty each year.

The Niagara is a fairly young river and only 12,000 years old, a microsecond in geological time. The Niagara Escarpment which was created by erosion is much older. The glaciers pressed down on the land during the last ice age and laid down layers of sediment then the slow process of erosion of ice and water ate at the surface of the escarpment.

The mighty river plunges over a cliff of dolostone and shale. Niagara Falls is the second largest falls on the globe next to Victoria


Falls in southern Africa.

One fifth of all the fresh water in the world lies in the four Upper Great Lakes-Michigan, Huron,Superior and Erie. All the outflow empties into the Niagara river and eventually cascades over the Falls.

At the bottom of the Falls the water travels 15 miles over many gorges until it reaches the fifth Great Lake-Ontario. The land between the lakes does not slope at an even grade, but forms a spectacular drop approximately the same height as a 20 story building and this is known as the “Niagara Escarpment” and two billion years ago it was buried under a blanket of ice.

As the years passed the process of erosion took place and five distinct ‘gorges’ were formed-Lewiston Brange Gorge, Old Narrow Gorge, Upper & Lower GreatGorges and the Whirlpool Narrow Gorge.

Approximately 500 years ago the river encountered an obstacle that caused it to split into two channels, thus Goat Island was formed named after John Stedman whose goat herds froze to death in the winter of 1780. This was the original sediment left from a vanished Lake Tonawanda (an Indian name).

On the eastern part of the island the American Falls took shape and the Horseshoe Falls is on the western side where the river angles some 90 degrees. The water flow on the American side of the Falls is much less in strength because of Goat Island whereas the Horseshoe Falls has no obstruction to divert it. It should be noted that a third much narrower falls exists. Over the years these falls


bridge”. This ice bridge can extend for several miles down river until it reaches the area known as the lower rapids.

Until 1912 visitors were allowed to walk out on the ice bridge and view the Falls from below! February 24th of 1888 the local newspaper reported that at least 20,000 people watched or tobogganed on the ice. Shanties selling liquor, photographs and curiosities abounded. On February 4th 1912 the ice bridge broke up and three tourists lives were lost.

There can also be a great deal of “mini-icebergs” which flow down the Niagara River from frozen Lake Erie. The flow of ice has been reduced considerably by the yearly installation of the “ice-boom” on Lake Erie. The ice-boom is a long floating chain (2miles- 3.2 KM) of steel floatsstrung across the Niagara River from Buffalo New York to Fort Erie Ontario. It is set in place during the month of December and removed during the month of March or April. It is maintained by the New York State Power Authority. The ice boom helps prevent the ice from clogging the river and most importantly the hydroelectric companies water intakes.

Spring Ice flowing underneath the North Grand Island Bridge

HOWEVER…. The flow of water was stopped completely over both falls on March 29th 1848 due to an ice jam in the upper river for several hours. This is the only known time to have occurred. The Falls did not actually freeze over, but the flow was stopped to the point where people actually walked out and recovered artifacts from


the riverbed!

Interesting facts about Niagara Falls

The flow over the American Falls was stopped completely for several months in 1969. The idea was to determine the feasibility of removing the large amount of loose rock from the base of the falls to enhance its appearance. In the end the final decision was that the expense would be too great.

The word “Niagara” is derived from the Iroquois Indian word “Onguiaahra” meaning “the strait”

There is an international boundary between the United States and Canada.

Before the invention of film tourists would sketch pictures of the Falls.

The flow was also halted over both falls on March 29th 1848 due to an ice jam in the upper river.

The movies Niagara and Superman were filmed in part at the Falls.

In the past fifteen years twodaredevils lost their lives trying to conquer Niagara.

In the evenings intense spotlights bathe the falls with different shades of color.

The first person to go over the Falls in a barrel and survive was a 63 year old female schoolteacher.

High wire tightrope acts used to be performed across the river. Most notably was “Blondin” who once actually carried his manager across on his back and stopping midway to rest!

The Falls make a tremendous sound as the water goes over and lands at the bottom.

Twenty percent of the worlds freshwater lies in the Great Lakes and most flows over Niagara Falls.

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within an area at around that portion, when current is supplied to the fuse.
The current-disconnection-type fuse (E fuse, referred to as electric fuse, hereinafter), blowing the fuse by supplying thereto a predetermined energy of current, is intrinsically free from a problem in positioning accuracy which is anticipated in the system blowing the fuse by laser irradiation.
The electric fuse, however, is in need of further improvement in the yield ratio of disconnection. It was also found that the electric fuse has arisen some new problems.
The electric fuse may be re-connected in the portion once it was blown, if blowing of the electric fuse is followed by annealing. In particular for the case where the electric fuse is composed of a material causative of electro-migration, it is anticipated that thecharacters on the other Marvel shows on Netflix, but has plenty of rage. Also like the other shows, The Punisher is filmed in New York City giving us plenty to look for while taking in the show. Here are some filming locations so far:

1. 60-62 West Street, Greenpoint

Photo: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix

The series opens with Castle wreaking havoc on the Mexican cartels and bike gangs at the end of his vigilante period. Since then, he’s been laying low working construction and demolition in Greenpoint, having grown a beard and going by Pete Castiglione. His coworkers make fun of him, telling a newbie that he’s “not all there.” The specific site is 60-62 West Street, a building that was a former rope factory in the Greenpoint Terminal Market. The building is


being converted into a boutique hotel, with a design by architecture firm FXFOWLE that will weave “nautical and industrial history with contemporary comforts and playful elegance.”

In the show, you can see the views of the surroundings from the upper floors of the building, which include the Pencil Factory just nearby on Greenpoint Avenue, Hunters Point and Long Island City northwards, and the view of midtown Manhattan.

Castle keeps working into the night, having flashbacks to a carousel – one that figures in Daredevil as well.

2. Williamsburg Bridge

Castle walks the Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan, heading to a support group for former military led by Curt, a friend of his. But in a later episode, we see that the exterior of the support group is a church building inpopular film spots in New York City. It has appeared in Gotham, Mr. Robot and more. Donny makes a critical mistake, dropping his drivers license. The group flees and drives back to the construction site.

There, they decide that Donny must be dumped into the concrete pourer and made to disappear. Fortunately, Castle is there still demolishing the wall. He violently dispatches with the guys, smashing faces and private parts with a big hammer. Castle heads back to Cortlandt Alley and takes care of the mob guys before they can get to Donny. A requisite slo-mo shot of Castle walking down the alley comes after.

5. Goodfellas Diner

The Goodfellas Diner, also known as the Clinton Diner, has been popping up a lot as a filming location recently seen in shows


that.

7. Manhattan Family Court, 60 Lafayette Street

Photo: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix

The exterior of the Manhattan Family Court building at 60 Lafayette Street stands in as the office of Homeland Security, where Dinah works. It’s located between Franklin and Leonard streets. The building was constructed in 1975 and designed by Haines Lundberg Waehler.

According to the NYC DCAS website, the building houses not only Family Court but also the Department of Probation, Human Resources Administration, and Legal Aid. The website also reports that the building “was intended to look as if it is an incised cube that was carved away from a polished black granite monolith,” though in 2006, the facade was reclad in a renovation.

8. Frank Castle’s Apartment

Photo: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix

Castle has been staying at what looks like an SRO (single roomoccupancy building). The exterior is located at 25-20 50th Avenue in Long Island City, just under the elevated Long Island Expressway near the edge of Newtown Creek. In real life, it is an industrial street with a metal fabrication company. Many shows, including the Netflix Marvel shows, have scenes in Long Island City due to the proximity of various film studios in the neighborhood.

9. Grand Ferry Park

Photo: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix

Frank Castle finds reporter Karen Page, also a character on Daredevil, on the street, pretending to be a bum. They go to her apartment and he tells her he thinks someone is after her and offers her the name Micro. She agrees to help and he tells her to put flowers in the window when she has information.

Page gets some


new location at every point, including Greenpoint Terminal.

11. Mount Zion Cemetery

At Greenpoint Terminal, Castle has Curt looking out from atop the building (looks like the construction site Castle has not been to work at for several days now). Curt confirms that Micro is alone. Castle directs Micro to Mount Zion Cemetery, the Jewish Cemetery in Maspeth, Queens, and tells him he knows where to meet. That’s because Micro (aka David Lieberman) has a tombstone there. Curt shows up, saying that Frank is “in the wind.”

Mount Zion Cemetery is located next to Cavalry Cemetery, and is one of the 10 largest cemeteries by number of internments with 210,000 buried. One of the most notable architectural features of the Mount Zion is a monument to those who died in theChurch at 139-151 Milton Street in Greenpoint in the Greenpoint Historic District. According to the Historic Districts Council 6toCelebrate report, the church is in the

German neo-Gothic style of brick with terra-cotta ornament. It features a flying buttress at its western corner, lancet windows and a plaque above the central arched window carved with the church’s name in German…The Greenpoint Reformed Church was originally the Greek Revival home of Thomas C. Smith, owner of the Union Porcelain Works and a local architect/builder.

14. Brooklyn Navy Yard

Photo: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix

Things get a little “Fast and Furious”-style in the fourth episode, with Castle and Micro wreaking havoc on Dinah’s operation to seize a delivery of guns. What follows is a souped-up-car chase between Dinah and Castle, with Castle pulling Dinah out of her


car before it blows. The map shown in the meeting at the Homeland Security offices shows the location to be the Red Hook piers, but the actual film location is in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Later in episode six, when Billy meets up with Castle, they’re back at the Navy Yard, only in daytime.

Located between south Williamsburg and Dumbo, the Brooklyn Navy Yard is a former military facility that has been transformed into manufacturing space, film studios, and industrial spaces. Steiner Studios is one of the major tenants, which is why the navy yard appears in countless television shows set in New York.

15. Bronx County Courthouse

Lewis Walcott is a military army Vet, suffering from PTSD and in the support group run by Curt. After being kicked out ofthe Anvil recruiting program, he bonds with another support group member and they go canvassing in front of the Bronx County Courthouse in support of the Second Amendment. Later, Lewis learns from Curt that the guy he’s bonded with was never in Vietnam. Lewis confronts him and kills him.

The Bronx County Courthouse, part of the Grand Concourse, is another popular film location seen in shows like Gotham, Billions, Daredevil and more.

16. Newtown Creek

Photo: Nicole Rivelli/Netflix

Billy Russo meets Rawlins on the Queens side of Newtown Creek, which is on the border of Brooklyn. It is one of the most polluted waterways in New York City. It’s a popular film location due to the presence of Broadway Stages, a film studio in Greenpoint along the creek. In this shot, you


Castle and Russo’s team, but Castle is disappointed not to find Russo himself.

21. Tudor City Bridge

Rawlins and CIA Deputy Director Marion James meet again, and James is angry this time. They’re on the bridge in Tudor City, which crosses 42nd Street near the United Nations. This very bridge is one of the most popular spots to view Manhattanhenge, the twice a year phenomenon when the sun aligns with the street grid. Rawlins tells James of his plan but James tells him he’s crossed the line. In the end, she agrees to burn Billy Russo to save the two of them, but she tells him he’ll resign from the CIA.

22. Hunts Point, The Bronx

The hostage exchange takes place on the waterfront of Hunts Point, an industrial zone in TheManaging the news

Managing the news refers to acts that are intended to influence the presentation of information within the news media. The expression managing the news is often used in a negative sense. For example, people or organizations that wish to lessen the publicity concerning bad news may choose to release the information late on a Friday, giving journalists less time to pursue the story. Staying "on message" is a technique intended to limit questions and attention to a narrow scope favorable to the subject.

An example cited by the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies infobase regards a February 1996 Scott Report on arms sales to Iraq. In the United Kingdom, the report was given early to certain officials.

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 News management entry from the Communication,


GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — Two teens are dead and an employee with the Department of Homeland Security is in custody after a domestic dispute led to shooting in Garfield Heights, according to police.

Officers from the Garfield Heights police department responded around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday night to find a 17-year-old male and a 19-year-old female lying in the driveway of a home. Both were transported to the hospital.

SWAT on scene after the deadly shooting and a 4-hour standoff.

The 17-year-old, identified as Manuel Lopez Jr. by the medical examiner, was pronounced dead at Marymount Hospital and Giselle Lopez, 19, was taken to MetroHealth Hospital, where she underwent surgery, but later died from her injuries.

The suspect, a 29-year-old man employed by the Department of Homeland Security, barricaded himself inside thehome after law enforcement, including SWAT, arrived on the scene, the police report states. Officers were informed that the suspect said he would shoot any officer that attempted to enter the home, and that he had an AK-47 inside.

After four hours of negotiating, he surrendered peacefully, exiting the home in a bulletproof vest, the report states. He was taken to jail by Garfield Heights police.

Police said the two victims are the children of the suspect's girlfriend and that all four people lived in the home together. The suspect's girlfriend told police that an argument began with the suspect over her texting an ex-boyfriend. He then got physical with her, she said, and the two were fighting in a back room when Manuel Lopez, Jr. entered the room and


began defending his mother.

Giselle Lopez returned home from work during the fight and was involved in the argument, according to the police report. The suspect then threatened to kill everyone in the home, and the mother and her children exited.

While they were standing in the driveway, the suspect exited the home and began firing his pistol at them, striking Manuel Lopez, Jr. and Giselle Lopez, the report states.

The mother was taken to the hospital for minor injuries.

The suspect was arrested and charged with aggravated murder, among other charges.

Police have not released the name of the suspect at this time.

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His two other crewmembers are Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchencko and American Peggy Whitson, the first female commander of the International Space Station (ISS).

AWAITED MOMENT: Abdullah announcing the person chosen to be the Angkasawan at the Prime Minister's office in Putrajaya yesterday. With him are selection panel chief Tun Haniff Omar (centre) and Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Jamaluddn Jarjis.

The other Malaysian in training, 27-year-old Armed Forces dental surgeon Kapt Dr Faiz Khaleed has been named in the secondary crew together with American astronaut Michael Fincke and Russia's Sharizan Sharipov.

However, Dr Muszaphar is not absolutely certain to be the on the space flight. The decision on which of the two Malaysians will be in the final crew will be decided by the Russians at the last minute.

PrimeMinister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, in announcing this, said the Government was proud that both the Angkasawan candidates passed the training with flying colours.

"The country has successfully produced two individuals who can participate in space missions at any time when they are needed, and the Government is proud that the Main Crew Commissioning Board has also acknowledged their success."

GOOD TO GO: Dr Muszaphar giving the thumbs-up at the Star City Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow on Sept. 18 - REUTERS

"On behalf of the Government and all Malaysians, I wish them both all the best. I pray that the mission will be a safe one and a success," he said at a press conference to announce the Malaysian astronaut yesterday.

Dr Sheikh Muszaphar and Kapt Dr Faiz will leave


man in space in 1961, many have followed suit.

Malaysia joins a long list of countries to have sent their citizens to outer space.

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia's astronaut candidates Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor and Kapt Dr Faiz Khaleed have passed their training programme successfully and have qualified to become astronauts. Both the medical officer and army dental surgeon are equally eligible to be sent to space on Oct 10, but if all goes according to plan, it will be Dr Sheikh Muszaphar making history as the first Malaysian in space.

Dr Sheikh Muszaphar, 35, has been named as part of the three-member first crew for the Soyuz 15-S mission alongside Yuri Malechencko from Russia and American Peggy Whitson, while Kapt Dr Faiz, 27, is a member of the second crew with MichaelFincke from the United States and Russian Sharizan Sharipov.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, in announcing this said the Government was proud that both Angkasawan candidates had passed with flying colours and were equally eligible to represent the country in its first outer space mission.

Dr Sheikh Muszaphar, Whitson and Malenchenko will board the Russian Soyuz TMA-11, which will blast off from Baikanur in Kazakhstan on Oct 10.

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ANGKASAWAN TO BE NAMED IN SIX MONTHSTopic: - Selection Process

By THE STAR ONLINE

KUALA LUMPUR: The training has been intense, the months long. The choice is now down to the wire.

In just six months, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will announce who has made the cut


to become Malaysia's first Angkasawan.

"It is difficult to even guess who is the more likely candidate," he said yesterday.

Dr Jamaluddin was quick to add that the timing of the announcement could vary depending on further notice from the Russian authorities.

"It is also possible that the chosen Angkasawan may be changed at the time of launch."

"He may suddenly start panicking and sweating and if this happens, the second candidate will be launched."

Both Angkasawan candidates are undergoing a year's training, which will end in October.

Dr Jamaluddin was speaking after a discussion on the BIO International Convention (BIO 2007), to be held from May 6 to 9 in Boston, the United States.

"There is flourishing interest from the West on outsourcing the biotechnology sector to Asia."

"Malaysia is strategically located and we shouldback-up candidate but both were getting equal training from the Russians at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.

"From the reports I have received, the Russians feel that the two of them are equally capable. We will make a final decision as late as possible," he said during the launch of the Angkasawan weblog (blog) here.

The blog will allow the candidates to share their daily experiences with the rest of the world over the Internet.

Dr Muszaphar, 34, is a medical doctor attached to the Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Cheras while 26-year-old Dr Faiz is a dental surgeon with the Royal Malaysian Air Force.

The two said they did not feel that they were in competition against each other.

"In fact, we inspire each other to do better. Even after classes,


Malaysia on the map.

He also congratulated every person and organisation involved in selecting the candidates to be the country's first astronaut from the more than 10,000 applicants.

Medical officer Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (left) and army dental surgeon Kapt Dr Faiz Khaleed have been selected as Malaysia's final two astronaut candidates. After further training in Moscow one will be named Malaysia's first astronaut.

They will leave for the Yuri Gagarin Aerospace Training Centre at Star City in Moscow at end of the month.

The successful candidate is scheduled to leave for the International Space Station on Sept 2 next year to undergo a research and development programme, including research on cancer and biotechnology.

Selection committee chairman Tun Mohammed Hanif Omar told reporters that both Vanajah and Capt Mohammed Faiz lost out duringDr Faiz Khaleed, the two successful candidates for the Astronaut programme raring to go to Moscow to become the first Malaysian astronaut posing at the KL International Airport.

SEPANG: The pursuit of a Masters degree and modelling will now take a backseat for Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor.

The medical officer, however, hopes to carry out bone studies while in space if he gets the nod to become Malaysia's first astronaut.

Dr Sheikh Muszaphar who is pursuing a Masters in Orthopaedics while serving as a trainee lecturer at Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, said although his first love was medicine, he believed in diversifying, and his ultimate dream was to go into space.

"I have put my heart and soul into this, everything else has to take a backseat until the whole programme is


over," he said, when asked about his modelling and medical career.

The all-rounder has also taken part in humanitarian aid activities for Mercy Malaysia – in Afghanistan in 2002 and Cambodia in 2003.

His fellow astronaut candidate Kapt Dr Faiz Khaleed, a dental surgeon with the Malaysian Armed Forces, said he was looking forward to going to space.

"If I say I am not afraid, it will not be true, as no one is fearless, especially when he has to do something new. But we have to conquer fear," he said.

Mohammed Faiz, who was not selected due to a "minute medical complication," said he believed in destiny.

"I am looking at the bright side – I went to Moscow, met a lot of people, learnt the Russian language and now despite myown work as a pilot, I can still help promote science and space studies in schools under Angkasa's (National Space Agency) programme," he said.

Vanajah said she would go back to work as an events coordinator and be a backup candidate in Angkasa's programme.

SEPANG: Medical officer Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor hopes to ace a punishing 12-month training in Russia before potentially carving his name as the first ever Malaysian astronaut, a feat most others can merely dream about.

He and dental surgeon Capt. Dr Faiz Khaleed have been named the final two candidates for a spot in a Russian space launcher that will leave for the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept 2, 2007.

"I've put in my soul into this programme right from the beginning. I am going all the


way," he told reporters following the announcement on the successful candidates by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi here Monday.

Scheduled to leave for Russia at the end of the month, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar, who is in his final year pursuing a Masters in Orthopaedic Surgery programme, said they would have to face a harsh winter and grapple with the Russian language.

The handsome Petaling Jaya-born 34-year-old cited mental strength as one of the strong points that worked in his favour.

"Becoming an astronaut is not about looks. It's more about your mental, physical and psychological strengths. I believe that I was selected based on merit," he said when queried whether his perceived popularity was a factor in the outcome of the selection process.

Proud that he had been chosen asDr Faiz who gets to go. So both have equal chances... and both will be doing exactly the same training," he said.

He said that the final selection on who gets to go into space would depend on the advice of the Astronaut Selection Panel headed by former Inspector-General of Police Tun Mohammed Hanif Omar.

Dr Jamaludin said that the initial training programme of 18 months in Russia had been shortened to 12 months as Russian officials felt that the Malaysian astronaut hopefuls were of high calibre.

He said that experiments to be conducted by the Malaysian astronaut would be based on life-sciences in light of the government's emphasis on biotechnology.

Efforts were also underway, he said, to establish communication channels between ordinary Malaysians and the astronaut aspirants while they were undergoing


man-made satellite, in 1957 by the Soviets.

In his remarks, Abdullah said it would be the first step by Malaysia to prove its capability in the field of aerospace.

"On behalf of the government and all Malaysians, congratulations and use this opportunity to bring glory to the country," the Prime Minister said.

Dr Sheikh Muszaphar and Dr Faiz were among four aspirants who made the cut in the previous selection process that took them to Moscow for assessments.

Malaysian astronauts to be Sheikh Muszaphar gShukor (L) and back-up astronaut Faiz Khaleed present themselves during the official announcement of Malaysia's first astronaut in Sepang on 4th September 2006. - PHOTO: Courtesy of AFP.

KUALA LUMPUR:Malaysia on Monday unveiled its first astronaut, a 34-year-old doctor who will blast off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft andvisit the International Space Station in September 2007.

Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor was the winner of a nationwide hunt which drew tens of thousands of hopefuls. Army dentist Faiz Khaleed, 26, was chosen as the back-up astronaut, or "angkasawan" as they are known in the Malay language.

"I pray to God that he will ensure the success of your mission and raise the profile of Malaysia in the international arena," Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said at a ceremony to announce the winning candidates.

The pair, who will now undergo a year of training in Moscow's Star City, came from a short list of four -- three men and one woman -- who spent a month in Russia undergoing tests to determine the best contender.

Sheikh Muszaphar, who is an orthopaedic doctor and


a trainee lecturer in medicine with the National University of Malaysia, said he was realising a boyhood dream.

"I feel honoured and blessed to be picked," he told reporters. "I've always dreamt to go to space since I was 10 years old. My favourite TV programs have been Star Trek and the Star Wars movies."

Sheikh Muszaphar said the one-year stint in Russia would see the pair undergo survival training in difficult conditions such as wintry climes, at sea and in the jungle.

The astronauts will also learn how to conduct research and experiments in space, such as an examination of the behaviour in space of Malaysia's favourite beverage, a sweet concoction of tea and condensed milk called teh tarik.

The astronauts said the inclusion of teh tarik would showcase Malaysian cultureand lend a unique Malaysian flavour to the mission.

"It's great. It is one of the symbols in Malaysia. The Italians introduced pizza in space," said runner-up Faiz Khaleed.

Sheikh Muszaphar's father, 70-year-old Sheikh Mustapha Shukor, said the mission was dangerous but that "we allowed him because this is his desire."

"Now that he is a representative of the nation, he must remain humble and carry the flag of Malaysia," he said.

Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Jamaluddin Jarjis said the launch date would be September 2 next year, which will fall near the 50th anniversary of Malaysia's independence and mark 40 years of diplomatic ties with Russia.

"This is an historic day as Malaysia celebrates its 50th independence anniversary. This date also commemorates Malaysia-Russian ties," he said.

The project was conceived in 2003


when Russia agreed to send a Malaysian to the space station as part of a billion-dollar purchase of 18 Sukhoi 30-MKM fighter jets.

It came at the end of the two-decade reign of then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, whose think-big attitude spawned a national catch-phrase -- "Malaysia Boleh!" or "Malaysia Can!" -- aimed at boosting national pride.

Malaysia, a Muslim-majority nation, hopes the space project will be an inspiration for Muslims across the globe and recall the glory days of Islamic science and discovery.

Source: AFP @ Spacedaily.com. This article also appeared in the Manila Times online on 6th September, 2006; and in the ABS-CBN Interactive website it appeared under the heading 'Malaysia Names First Astronaut'.

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NO SPACE ODYSSEY FOR MALAY WOMAN SCIENTISTTopic: - Selection Process

ByTHE TIMES/ AP

KUALA LUMPUR: An ethnic Indian female engineer lost her bid to become Malaysia's first astronaut Monday, as the government whittled the finalists to an army dentist and a hospital medical officer.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced that either Faiz Khaleed, 26, or Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, 34, will take part in a Russian space expedition next year - likely becoming the first Muslim to launch into orbit in more than two decades.

The announcement dashed the hopes of engineer S. Vanajah, 35, who made headlines in March when she was named the only woman among four finalists who outlasted 11,000 other Malaysians who applied for the astronaut selection process in 2003.

Vanajah, Faiz, Sheikh Muszaphar and Malaysia Airlines pilot Mohammed Faiz Kamaluddin were sent to Moscow's Russian Space Agency


for medical and technical tests to determine who would travel on a Russian rocket for a scientific mission on the International Space Station.

Faiz, an armed forces dentist, and Sheikh Muszaphar, a medical officer at the National University Hospital, are expected to return to Russia early next month for further training, the Science and Technology Ministry said in a statement.

But only one will have the chance to spend up to 10 days in October 2007 aboard the ISS. Vanajah, who was also the only ethnic Indian non-Muslim among the four finalists, has said she hopes to inspire other Malaysian women to participate in science-related projects.

Faiz and Sheikh Muszaphar are both Muslims from Malaysia's majority ethnic Malay community. Ethnic Indians, who are mainly Hindu, are the third largest racial groupafter the Chinese, comprising about 8 per cent of Malaysia's 26 million people.

Officials have said Malaysia's ambition to send someone into orbit could inspire other Muslim countries to embark on space exploration. The only known Muslim astronaut so far is Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan bin Salman, who went aboard the US shuttle Discovery in 1985.

Officials have estimated Malaysia's space program will cost around $25 million (euro20 million), but it is being offset as part of a $900 million (euro750 million) defense deal struck with Moscow in 2003 to buy 18 Sukhoi fighter jets.

Source: The Times (India) Online

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Friday, 2 June 2006

MALAYSIA TO SELECT FINAL TWO ASTRONAUT CANDIDATES NEXT MONTHTopic: - Selection Process

By XINHUA

Malaysia will select the final two astronaut candidates next month, one


of whom will be the first person going to space in the history of the country, an official said Thursday.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is expected to announce the names of the lucky two out of the four candidates when opening the Malaysian Space Center in Banting, Selangor state, said Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Jamaludin Jarjis.

The two final candidates will undergo an 18-month training program in Star City, Russia, Jamaludin told reporters after a brunch to welcome the return of the four candidates who had undergone tests and training in Russia.

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, who announced the name list, said the candidates would receive training in Moscow either at the end of this month or early next month.

The government's decision to buy 18 Sukhoi SU-30MKNfighter jets from Russia gave birth to Malaysia's first astronaut program, said the deputy prime minister at the Royal Malaysia Air Force base near here.

To reciprocate Malaysia's purchase, the Russian government offered a place for a Malaysian astronaut to join the Russian astronauts on the expedition to the International Space Station ( ISS) in October.

Out of the four candidates, only two will be chosen for an 18- month training at the Star City Moscow and eventually only one candidate will go on the expedition to the ISS.

S. Vanajah, 35, and three Malay men will be sent to the Russian Space Agency in Moscow soon to undergo medical and technical tests that will determine who will take part in a scientific expedition on board the orbital station in 2007.

Vanajah,


who outlasted more than 11,000 other Malaysians who applied for the astronaut selection process in 2003, made national headlines last month when she was named as the only woman in a shortlist of eight people remaining in the competition.

Ethnic Indians comprise about 8 percent of Malaysia's 26 million people. The other three shortlisted candidates are from the majority Malay community.

Vanajah has previously said she hopes to inspire other Malaysian women to participate in science-related projects, saying her achievement proved that women could compete alongside men in rigorous trials.

The finalists have endured a battery of physical and psychological examinations, and officials said the remaining four were chosen on the basis of physical fitness, personality and preparedness, including family support.

The upcoming two-week round of tests in Russia - meant toprotecting the borders of Israel as we speak today,” he said. “We salute them all, and the members of our security forces.”Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner also alluded to the violence in his remarks, saying, “As we have seen from the protests of the last month and even today, those provoking violence are part of the problem and not part of the solution.”Netanyahu, in his remarks, wed his own personal experiences in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood where the embassy will be temporarily located, with the significance of the moment.“For me, being here brings back wonderful memories from my childhood,” he said, recalling that his first three years were spent on a street not far away, and that he played in the open fields near where the


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pretty good all around. And the move movies I see Chris Pine in, the more impressed I am.

Pacific Rim: Uprising - Sorely missed GDT and Ramin Djawadi with this one. Loved the first Pacific Rim, and this wasn't nearly as good. The action was definitely fun. But the first third was a bit of a drag with little in the way of meaningful stakes. The color, scale, and awe evoked by the first weren't present much here.

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against him were politically motivated.

McDaniel played on the Ohio State tennis team in the early 1980s.

Steve Snyder-Hill, who said he was molested by Strauss during a visit to a student health center in the mid-1990s, said he too doesn’t buy Jordan’s statement.

Steve Snyder-Hill, who claims that he was molested by a former team doctor at Ohio State University, in Columbus on May 21, 2019. John Minchillo / AP

“Anyone who says they're vindicated, I think anyone at OSU is culpable,” he said.

The Perkins Coie report, which was released Friday, flatly stated that “students openly discussed Strauss’ examination methods or complained about his loitering presence in the shower and locker room, including in front of coaches and other Athletics Department staff.”

But the report only identified a handful of officials byof the students felt that Strauss’ behavior was an ‘open secret,’ as it appeared to them that their coaches, trainers and other team physicians were fully aware of Strauss’ activities, and yet few seemed inclined to do anything to stop it,” the report said.

NBC News reached out to Jordan’s spokesman on Tuesday for comment. He did not respond.

Nor was there any new response from Ohio State, although the school’s president Michael Drake issued an apology after the Perkins Coie report was released on Friday.

Four Strauss accusers have spoken to NBC News, one saying he spoke to Jordan directly about Strauss.

Strauss, who signed on at Ohio State as an attending physician in September 1978 and served as the team physician in the athletics department from July 1981 to June


1995, died in 2005.

The 1978 employment application information for Dr. Richard Strauss, from Ohio State University's personnel files. Ohio State University via AP

Strauss' abuse ranged from groping under the guise of a medical examination to "fondling to the point of erection and ejaculation," the report stated.

One athlete told the investigators that Strauss took him out to dinner and later performed oral sex on him. Others reported that Strauss "solicited them to participate in private, individualized photography shoots." according to the report.

Strauss also routinely showered alongside the athletes at Larkins Hall, an athletic facility on the campus, according to the report.

In a statement obtained by The Columbus Dispatch, Strauss’ family stated: “Our family continues to be shocked and saddened by this tragedy. No one should ever be subjected tohis true passion is soccer. He began playing soccer at 5 years old, and every day, he wakes up thinking, “I want to play.” He went on to play varsity soccer for his high school, and became somewhat of an internet star when a video of one of his goals went viral.

It’s no wonder then, that the sports drink Powerade wanted to use Nico as the star of this commercial. The Calabria family idea that “you are not defined by the things you lack” exemplifies the sentiment behind the Power Through campaign. Whatever your condition, whatever obstacles you face, you can overcome. Nico will never play in the World Cup as an able-bodied player like he dreamed as a young child, but this commercial did air at the


boilers to explode, resulting in a shower of flying debris that killed two people and caused numerous injuries among the spectators.

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The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad had first reached the Crush area in the 1880s, during the construction of a route between Dallas and Houston. As the railroad expanded, the Katy replaced its 30-ton steam engines with newer, more powerful 60-ton engines, and subsequently a stockpile of the older units, for which the railroad now had no use, began to accumulate.

In 1896, Katy agent William Crush proposed a publicity stunt that could make use of the obsolete Katy trains to be held along the Dallas–Houston route at a site  north of Waco and  south of the town of West, in McLennan County. A locomotive crash staged by the Columbusthe new town as "Crush, Texas". Events from the Midway Plaisance, including lemonade stands, carnival games, medicine shows, cigar vendors and other sideshows were highly anticipated, with a construction foreman saying that "This feature alone will be worth going to Crush [City] to see." A separate four-mile segment of track was built for the event alongside the Katy railroad so that there was no chance a runaway train could end up on the main line; each end of the track was situated atop a low hill on opposite sides of a bowl-shaped valley in which the trains would meet. The locomotives to be used were two  decommissioned Baldwin engines, No. 999 and No. 1001.

Safety precautions
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Cook County, Illinois. Grunewald is an attorney at law and as such represented Koepke in a certain foreclosure proceeding involving the real estate described in the complaint in this case. In that foreclosure proceeding plaintiff was named as a defendant under a general allegation that she claimed some interest in the premises sought to be foreclosed.

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In substance, the complaint alleged that prior to January 4, 1938, Albert R. Freed, plaintiff's father, was the owner of the real estate and remained the owner thereof until his death on January 4, 1938; that at the time Freed acquired title to the real estate, there was unreleased of record, a purported trust deed to secure the payment of a note for $3,500, but which in fact was null and void; thatFreed died intestate leaving him surviving Fannie Freed, his widow, Morton D. Freed, his son, and plaintiff, his daughter, his only heirs at law; that on January 25, 1938, Morton, the son, filed for record a forged warranty deed, dated December 14, 1936, purporting to be executed by Albert R. Freed and Fannie Freed, his wife, conveying the real estate to Morton; that Morton and the defendants, Grunewald and Koepke, well knowing that the purported warranty deed was a forgery and that the trust deed and the note secured thereby were invalid, conspired to commit certain fraudulent and illegal acts to defraud plaintiff of her interest in the real estate; that as a part of the conspiracy and for the purpose of making it appear that one Schumacher


by publication, and since she had no knowledge of the filing of the foreclosure complaint, an order of default was entered against her and on November 24, 1942, Grunewald and Koepke, pursuant to the conspiracy, procured by deception and fraud, a decree of foreclosure which contained a finding that Koepke had a valid lien on the real estate, and the real estate was thereafter sold to Koepke by a special commissioner appointed by the court to conduct a public sale of the real estate.

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Ford's Chaz Mostert has triumphed at the Bathurst 1000, holding off a short-of-fuel Jamie Whincup to claim his first title in the Great Race.

Sorry, this video has expired Chaz Mostert wins maiden Bathurst 1000 title

Mostert came out on top in a chaotic race which saw a one-hour stoppage to repair a damaged section of the Mount Panorama circuit on Sunday.

Remarkably, Mostert only led from the final lap after he and co-driver Paul Morris started last on the grid.

No driver had previously won at Bathurst from further back than 19th - bettering the feats of Peter Brock, David Parsons and Peter McLeod.

Nissan's James Moffat finished second, ahead of third-placed Holden driver Nick Percat.

Mostert's maiden Bathurst triumph came in just his second start in the endurance classic, and co-driver Morris'22nd.

"The last five laps all I could think of was 'cough, you bastard, cough!"' Mostert said on tailgating Whincup in the ultimate lap.

"I had to have a crack, and we pulled it off.

Bathurst 1000 top 10 Chaz Mostert (Ford)

Chaz Mostert (Ford) James Moffat (Nissan)

James Moffat (Nissan) Nick Percat (Holden)

Nick Percat (Holden) Will Davison (Mercedes)

Will Davison (Mercedes) Jamie Whincup (Holden)

Jamie Whincup (Holden) Mark Winterbottom (Ford)

Mark Winterbottom (Ford) Todd Kelly (Nissan)

Todd Kelly (Nissan) Rick Kelly (Nissan)

Rick Kelly (Nissan) Fabian Coulthard (Holden)

Fabian Coulthard (Holden) Craig Lowndes (Holden)

"From 26th to first, it's unbelievable. Everything went our way."

There was more drama in store as New Zealand's Shane van Gisbergen, who led for the majority of the race, was tragically denied a first Bathurst title when his car failed to start after a late


pitstop.

It allowed Jamie Whincup - who had done remarkably well himself to get into the lead from 23rd on the grid - and Mark Winterbottom to speed away, only for Winterbottom to spin out soon after.

The race became a shoot-out between Whincup and Mostert, with Whincup desperately trying to manage his fuel with an increasingly quick Mostert breathing down his neck.

Ultimately, Mostert's extra fuel gave him the late burst he needed as Whincup looked to coast down the hill in the final lap.

Mostert found the gap he needed, speeding away from Whincup with half a lap to go to take out the title.

Whincup, who ultimately finished fifth, watched on as Moffat and Percat beat him to a podium finish.

"The lights went out and I dropped, while everyone elseled for the majority of the race, but saw his car die on him during a late pitstop. ( Getty Images: Robert Cianflone )

The race was red-flagged with 100 laps to go after a patch of tarmac at turn two broke up heavily, causing a number of accidents.

After the race was resumed, two more safety cars were called in before the midway point of the 161-lap contest, before it was called out again after 127 laps.

Jamie Whincup did well to take the lead having come from 23rd on the grid, but his lack of fuel ultimately cost him. ( Getty Images: Daniel Kalisz )

The 146th lap saw van Gisbergen complete a 2:07.69 lap, only for Lowndes, hot on his heels, to clock 2:07.68 one second later for a


new best time of the race.

The front three of van Gisbergen, Lowndes and Mostert were effectively driving qualifying times in a mad sprint for the finish in an effort to put a gap on Winterbottom in fifth.

Winterbottom, 11 seconds behind the leader, was looking to conserve fuel and bank on the transit time of 34 seconds in an effort to sneak in front late on.

But more drama ensued on the 151st lap when van Gisbergen pulled in for a late fuel top-up, only for his car to give up on him in the pitlane, cruelly ending his race.

Bathurst 1000 previous winners 2013: Mark Winterbottom (Ford)

Mark Winterbottom (Ford) 2012: Jamie Whincup (Holden)

Jamie Whincup (Holden) 2011: Garth Tander (Holden)

Garth Tander (Holden) 2010: Craig Lowndes (Holden)

Craig Lowndes (Holden) 2009: Will Davison(Holden)

Will Davison (Holden) 2008: Craig Lowndes (Ford)

Craig Lowndes (Ford) 2007: Craig Lowndes (Ford)

Craig Lowndes (Ford) 2006: Craig Lowndes (Ford)

Craig Lowndes (Ford) 2005: Mark Skaife (Holden)

Mark Skaife (Holden) 2004: Greg Murphy (Holden)

It allowed Whincup and Winterbottom to speed away with Lowndes in third, only for Whincup to fly off the road on a corner as Winterbottom inherited the lead.

Russell Ingall's earlier collision with the wall meant another safety car was called with nine laps to go, allowing the front pack to bunch up ahead of the race's climax.

Whincup pounced after the restart, overtaking Winterbottom over the course of two corners before Lowndes made contact with Winterbottom's rear, sending the Ford driver into a spin as he dropped down to ninth.

The incident would see Lowndes penalised as he ultimately finished


the race in 10th spot.

But the fuel issue still lingered as Whincup looked to hold off the menacing Mostert, who looked to force Whincup into using as much fuel as possible with four laps to go.

With three laps remaining, Whincup had a three-second gap on Mostert as his team radioed him to conserve his "marginal" fuel levels.

Whincup only seemed to respond on the penultimate lap to the radio calls begging him to slow down. With one-and-a-half laps to go, Whincup's team informed him he had only one lap's worth of fuel.

It proved costly as Mostert, with extra power and reserves, sped through the gap to triumphantly confirm his first title on the mountain.people across social media platforms and the Points Guy (TPG) website. Kelly quit his corporate job a year after his first blog post and sold the company to Bankrate in 2012, but he remained CEO.

Today, he remains the CEO of TPG and travels the world for next to nothing, thanks to the points he constantly racks up.

"I've got 25 credit cards and a near perfect credit score," Kelly tells Make It, "but that's because I really manage them. … A key thing with earning points through credit cards is you must pay your bill off in full every month. Otherwise, the interest that you pay will negate the value of those miles and points."


A helping hand

Instead of returning home to a house filled with crying babies after her twin girls were born, Rebecca Joslin came home to blissful silence. Well, almost.

Joslin, of Chicago, hired two postpartum doulas-one for the daytime and one for night-to help her transition after she had her C-section so that she could "regain her sanity."

The doulas, which cost about $30 per hour, looked after the babies while Joslin slept, cared for them when she wanted to take a walk and even did her laundry, made her meals and kept her company during those difficult first three months at home.

"They let me regain balance a little earlier than people who are on their own," Joslin says.

Baby nurses and postpartum doulas have long been a staple of post-pregnancy lifeup at all during the evening hours.

Postpartum doulas focus their care on the mother and are there for companionship, to do her laundry, wash her dishes and even do the grocery shopping.

Baby nurses and postpartum doulas are both intended to help the parents transition during the weeks after the baby is born and they can stay as long as needed.

But while some parents swear by the help they receive from the doulas and the nurses after birth, pediatricians are warning parents not to trust them with everything.

Richard Burnstine, a professor of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern University, fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and pediatrician with North Suburban Pediatrics in Evanston and Buffalo Grove, says he's heard his share of horror stories.

One baby nurse decided the baby was


transition help.

But the help doesn't come cheap, and it's not covered by insurance. Most of the doulas and baby nurses in the Chicago area charge about $25-$30 per hour for single babies and some charge an extra fee for overnight care in addition to a finders fee.

Tracy Wilson-Peters, executive director of the Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association, says the care a mother receives from the postpartum help is priceless.

"Coming home from the hospital with a new baby is one of the most stressful and hard times in a mother's life," Wilson-Peters says. "This kind of care becomes essential for new mothers."

Danielle Braff is a freelancer who lives with her husband in Chicago. They're expecting their first child in November and are in the midst of figuring out whoBlog

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the same house as her sister, and this was the quickest way to get her out of the country...

You know, the one who could lift pianos and rejected Havoc. No reason, just Rule of Funny

The Armstrong family are all vampires, of the same sort as those in the Twilight series.

I hate you. I really do. How dare you? Gotta admit, though, it's hilarious. And becomes even more hilarious if you read the first chapter of Shanghai Youma Kikai (another manga by Hiromu Arakawa). There's literally a sparkling vampire there, and he seems to be related to the Armstrong family somehow...

Ah, but Twilight vampires are supposedly all stunningly beautiful. Have you seen his sisters? Not Katherine and Olivia, they have that "hormonal about face" (never quite fully got thatphrase), but like Strongine. She looks like transvestite!Alex. So does his other sister, Amue. Havoc's hormones did an about face when he saw Catherine. :)

Alternatively the Twilight vampires are distant relatives of the Armstrong family-as in at least Carslie Cullen's era. The Armstrong family may have been awesome for generations, but that doesn't mean they've been awesome for every generation.

Major Armstrong's claim that he uses techniques "passed down the Armstrong line for generations" is a lie. He's merely an immortal who continuously uses the same techniques despite changing identities to keep people from being suspicious of his true nature, and merely claims that they've been passed down to him in case anyone notices the fact that his techniques are the same as his supposed "ancestors". This also explains


related by this point. It'd definitely still be funny, though.

If that's true, then the sequence of events that led to Ling becoming the second Greed was the most fucked up impromptu family reunion ever put to screen.

It's been mentioned that he looks like a cross between Edward and Ling in the past, and since he spent at least a few hundred years wandering around Xing and inventing Xingese alchemy, it makes sense that he would have had other kids there as long as Trisha came later enough that he'd moved on . Considering his descendants would likely be skilled in alchemy as the Elric brothers, it would make sense that they would be of a post ranking high enough to be eligible to marry into the imperial family.

Rizabecause if Roy had forced her to shoot him like she'd promised, she would be too overcome with the pain of it all to carry on; because even if it had been Scar to pull the trigger and not Hawkeye, she would still have been the one who had exposed him to Flame Alchemy and made him capable of Ishval. She was still the one who made Roy into a murderer, and made him capable of crossing the line. The guilt of making her most important person die would have been too much for her— and yes, there'd be no other option and she would have to pull the trigger, because in the pair's Ishval-influenced-mindset she owed him to keep her promise, just like he had owed her


making others attracted to her, she certainly doesn't reciprocate, viewing humans pretty much as worms. On the other hand, I never really thought of her as impulsive- I think of Wrath and Lust as generally more calm and low key about their efforts to torment humans, whereas Envy can be Stupid Evil on occasion.

Of course, Homunculi have no reproductive capability. Imagine if you were the immortal incarnation of lust, and you had no genitals. You would be the most sexually repressed being in the history of ever.

As far as I can tell, homunculi can have sex. On his most... well known list of wants, Greed mentions both women and sex. He also has a woman on each arm in his first appearance, and that would make no sensegreed but more manipulative." Logically, if this was the case she would share the desire to have friends. So, she, keeping in with the nature of her sin, pretends that she's loyal to Father and waits for an opportunity to screw up the plan. On Father's orders, she follows potential sacrifices to the fifth lab, alone, where she tries to murder them. The sacrifices manage to kill her, but even though she's angry at them for ending her life, she knows that it will inconvenience Father anyways, and makes her last words as nice as she can through her anger.

Think about it. She slices apart Barry without even bothering to extensively question him. She can't wait to send Riza to her 'precious Colonel.' She impulsively decides to kill


littered all over FMA, the use of Hermetic magic itself, based on christian and jewish philosophy acts as evidence of a Judeo-Christian mythscape, if not the existance of the actual religion of 'Christianity' itself. Philosopher's Stone. The Devil's Research. Case. Point.

Think about it: What other extremely powerful being is also known as Father? Thus, it is quite possible that he is actually God in his reckless teenage years prior to the invention of Christianity. Can't see him really going over benevolent and forgiving, though.

It's kind-of, but not really confirmed. Father is one of the living shadow creatures that live inside the Gate. The Truth knows him and returned him to the Gate. So, I guess "the devil of the gate" works?

Father had a god complex. He used manyof the trappings of the Judeo-Christian god, and of 'Father-Lord-type' gods in general, to build his image. Mainly for his own benefit, but I'm sure it had an impact on the people in his conspiracy and on the children themselves. One of Father's roles may be as Satan analogue (although even then God Is Pretty Much A Sadistic Creep), but in Father's mind, at least, Greed #1 was Lucifer—he who betrayed his father and ran off to build his own little kingdom because he wanted everything. Extra points for hanging Greed up on a cross and then destroying him, so that he could return to the greater whole of his Father. He gets to analogue the Morningstar and a Messianic Archetype! But Father knew he didn't have ultimate


few thousand peasants and get the show on the road."

Yes, May is as innocent as they come, but she's also a bit delusional and not the best judge of character. She decided Scar and Yoki were wonderful people way before they did anything remotely redeemable. In Chapter 57, Lan Fan almost gets into a fight with May, claiming it's her duty to wipe out evil. Maybe this goes beyond clan rivalry and the Chang clan is genuinely villainous, perhaps composed of bandits and criminals. The real reason they're dying off is they've all got bounties on their heads for their heinous crimes. I mean, what kind of clan lets a small girl journey across a treacherous desert by herself as part of a probably fruitless quest for immortality?

Fatherthe best he had to work it. It's quite coincidental though, that they all knew (or come to know) each other. Also keep in mind that once he did whatever transmutation it was he did, all the sacrifices were summoned into his chamber. If he had one less sacrifice, he could always make one for his purposes, but there was no point in doing this until the eclipse. Also; eclipses don't happen often - the next one might have been a millennium away - so I'm guessing Father did have some sort of backup. He was arrogant, but not stupid.

He did do something to create sacrifices. It's called the state alchemist program. I'm pretty sure they say this at one point in the manga, don't remember when though.


Al was not dead, just gone.

Think about it. Their blood tainted the make-up of a human body.

Gluttony is a TARDIS.

bigger on the inside than he is on the outside.

And that would make Lust a Time Lord.

He is

Mrs. Bradley is secretly the most powerful woman on the planet.

with two of the most powerful homunculi.

She's the wife of the Fuhrer is in a familyShe's essentially this universe's conterpart to Chi-Chi.

Elvis didn't die, he went to Amestris.

EPIC, sir.

Rule of Cool. Also explains Mei's overly sideburned fantasies of Al.

Everyone has their own personal Door and Truth

ends up in front of the Door (only one door this time from what I could tell), there's no Truth around - just Al's oddly self-aware body. Al also ends up leaving through the Door in frontof his body - his own Door, not the same one Ed used.

The thing about individual Truths is connected to how Truth takes the payment and adds it to its own body. Ed's Truth only has his arm and leg, which it's visibly still wearing years later. Al's Truth took Al's entire body, which is why Al's body is acting all self-aware while Truth is nowhere to be found . The biggest tip-off is that Al and Ed's Truths, when seen, are always the same height as they are. And Mustang's Truth, though only seen in one panel thus far, is noticeably taller than either of the Truths seen before.

. The biggest tip-off is that Izumi's Truth was a female silhouette.

Also, this information will be a major plot


104 spoilers aside, I'm surprised this hadn't shown up yet...

The homunculus is the first member of the Godhand from Berserk

during an eclipse, it sacrifices a huge number of people with the help of a magic stone to have an encounter with God and attain a perfect human form.

Think about it:The events of the end of the manga are going to knock the world back to the stone age; Berserk takes place after civilization catches back up to the middle ages.

Seriously, though, I swear Arakawa was channeling Miura in chapter 104. Only without the rape, thank God.

Regarding the rape, I was going to think Arakawa would make men the victims, but she doesn't seem like an Yaoi Fangirl It quite makes sense, specially considering her very first manga Strayhas been much contact between the continents in Dragonlance that there are in fact races like Elves, Dwarves, and Gnomes on the other continents. Now, the FMA universe is an alternate timeline from the early Fifth Age because there is only one moon, not three, and there are no gods around. Alchemy is just another form of Primal Sorcery and Mysticism. The Truth is an entity who managed to hijack the Gate of Souls (Krynn has a Gate of Souls that all souls pass though after they die, where they go not even the gods know) and use it for its own purposes.

I bet no one but me gets this...

Hohenheim has worn Al's armor body into battle.

the German military on the Shamballah project

body-switching

Wouldn't he have avoided fighting, knowing


that it was most likely Father's plotting causing it? Who said he would have been fighting in any Amestrian conflicts? He was a non-native Xingese for hundreds of years, and there are at least six countries canonically named in Fullmetal Alchemist (five if Liore's just a subdivision of Amestris, as I always thought it was) with geography to spare. He could have gone the long way around Amestris and participated in some Franco-Iberian scuffles a few hundred years ago, for example.

I know him saying "my oldarmor!" in the manga hints at it having been found as a collectible or restored by him, but he's one of the only characters in the series tall enough to wear it (even if he would have to use the under-chin or neckit perfectly, and be completely plausible.

Armstrong can also transmute his uniform reversibly into sparkle, which explains how he can go from clothed to shirtless-and-sparkling in a split second.

"These novelty Xingese Bishie Sparkles have been passed down the Armstrong family line of generations!" They're powered by the correspondence of the human's Hot Bloodedness to the dragon whose life flows through the earth. Olivier just doesn't hold with sparkles. The Armstrong Family passing the novelty Bishie Sparkles down their family line for generations may explain both how Catherine can power them without drama and how she can lift a piano with one hand despite her mostly slender body. She will show up at the last minute after a lesson from Mei Ling and singlehandedly solve every alchemy-related problem that exists


within the series, at the cost of the Bishie Sparkles ever being passed down to future generations of her family line (this guess could be the fastest example of Cerebus Syndrome and Plot Tumor ever, neh?).

If Envy hadn't been killed

summoning "God"

absorb and keep every human soul in Amestris

Envy was destroyed

Wrath, and thus Gluttony

eating God, which gives him both God's power and a release for the hatred of The Truth that he was able to feel now that he was once again in possession of of thousands of extra years of Wrath

, Father's "transaction" would have had a much different outcome.Father originally had a completely different plan that involved, perhaps wanting to increase his knowledge for knowledge's sake (to ease the sorrow of immortal boredom or or some otherlament) and not caring about who he killed in the process. When he re-absorbed Greed, he may have changed the plan to, but that was likely part of the original plan since he kept it after making the new Greed. However, that he had an extra homunculus-attribute in him at the time, this means that the attributes have a sort of compartment soul, a glue that keeps them separate, and this may have returned to Father when. With Sloth and Envy driving him, as well asin him, he decides to screw the time and effort it would take to follow the original plan and gain what he wants by

Also, pride somehow trapped in/under central, much in the way MIB was trapped on the island.

Or alt-universe equivalent. A freaky,


for the Truth for as long as they live, (...) which is why I am a man who died long ago." Sounds like he's implying that he's seen the Truth to me. Not to mention that Riza says that her mother died years before her father... It's all too convienient to be a coincidence.

We see him cough up blood when he dies, and the only other person in the series who also coughs blood does so because she tried it. He was obviously a talented alchemist, having taught Roy and developed the flame alchemy theory. Plus, wouldn't it make sense if up until a few years ago, there was another fully-ready sacrifice waiting in the wings for them to use? Hell, they might have discovered Roy from keepingoverexaggerates his interest in women and the vast number of dates he goes on to dispel any doubts about his sexuality, since being found out in the early 1900s is a court-martial offense. In canon, the only "date" we see him on 1, 2 is with one of the women who works for his aunt, and the "date" part is a cover for the exchange of intel she has collected for him. It's completely likely the rest of the dates he brags about are along the same lines. Being Madame Christmas' foster son, he likely grew up with these women like older sisters. They'd probably be happy to help him hold his cover (also, if they're already providing him with dangerous government secrets, what's one fake date between


friends?). His flirting with Riza (or "Elizabeth") over the phone is also just coded information about the mission at hand.Not to mention his relationship with Hughes : the only time he cries in both canons is at Hughes' funeral, and he nearly loses his mind trying to get revenge for Hughes' murder.

The one-eyed zombies weren't just soldiers.

They were also subjects. Father wanted to lord it over a kingdom of mindless drones once he obtained his godhood, wiped out all Amestrians and, presumably, set his eyes on enslaving the rest of the world (or feeding it to his horrible invincible dolls). They were injected with philosopher's stone elixir that had been diluted over time to remove the original personalities attached to the soul-juice, and simply reprogrammed to obey only"father," which the top military brass and the mad scientists under Father's employ bone-headedly assumed meant that the zombies would respond to their own commands as well.

King Bradley is not a Time Lord.

Well, that's just no fun.

He literally grows old and die. End of story.

The Gold toothed alchemist doctor is Silver Steiner.

But even being Gold Steiner's younger brother, he'd need to be at least ten years older than he is now. So he's the real Time Lord here?

He didn't die. He faked his death so he could go work with Father.

Selim will grow up and try to follow in Ed's footsteps by being an awesome hero and/or alchemist.

He grows up to become what he pretended to idolize.

Does that mark on his forehead look familiar to you? That's how


powerful he will become!

look familiar to you? That's how powerful he will become! One problem... Selim can't grow up, because he's a Homonculus. While he looks like he's younger physically then he was before and will probably continue growing until he reaches the physical age he once had, there's not much he can do afterwards. Selim had the ability to alter his own age, which let him believably masquerade as normal children for years at a time; we hear about this from Roy's mom, but he never has cause to use it on camera. Also, if he's down to one soul, he's probably the equivalent of Wrath and will age even if he retains some of his powers. Didn't Ed release most, if not all, of Pride's soulsPerhaps a reference to this?

Seriously,

Homunculi are the Lie equivalent of Truths.

A Truth is a white being with no face and the shape of the person they reflect. A homunculus is a black being with a face and no shape. They both have their containers, the homunculi the flasks (for varying definitions of flask) and the Truths the gates. The original homunculi (and the homunculi in the original anime) were imitations of humans (the former humans in general, the latter specific humans), and the Truths gain the bits and parts of the people they reflect as they take them for trying to do human transmutation. Plus , the English pun in the word homunculie.

The Gold-Toothed Alchemist was a former sacrifice candidate.

Selim to force open the Gate for Mustang by


using his connection like a crowbar.

He saw a very tiny part of the Truth and it took his tooth in exchange. The amount seen wasn't enough for Father to use as a straight sacrifice, so his slightly-enhanced alchemy was used in the Fuhrer Candidate project. It later allowed

Truth-sama is a Droste Image of its visitor.

The plane of the Gate is nothing else than a total perspective vortex created by certain transmutations. This means that the alchemist is seeing everything, including himself seeing everything, including himself seeing everything, ad infinitum. While most of the universe gets translated into a white void , the alchemist's own contour stands out, with another white void inside it.

Lust was a double agent secretly working against Father.

She always seemed all too willing to killnormal medical alchemy (Hohenheim mentions that he can't give Izumi back her organs), if the alchemist used human transmutation like Ed did to get out of Gluttony, and then used a Philosopher's Stone to pay the toll, it would theoretically allow them to get their body parts back without sacrificing their Gate. So if Izumi had used Hohenheim herself to do a human transmutation and then used some of the soul-energy inside him to pay the toll to get there, get her body parts back, and then return, she would have retained her clap-transmutation while also regaining her lost organs. It's implied that this may have been what Mustang did at the end of Brotherhood, which would make him one of the two most powerful living alchemists (alongside