a habit to make a whole cookie sheet of mistakes for the neighborhood kids. She also let the kids climb and pick apples to snack on. They would pick bushels for her so she would have them for her baking. More times than not the area parents knew where to find their youngsters and would come to Emma to pick up their kids. It was something her mother and Kathy's Mom did back when they were young and she had just carried on the tradition.

She pulled into her driveway and saw her cats sitting in the big window seat. She got out, waved at them. Midnight turned and jumped down. _Hmm, still mad at me..._

As Emma turned she noticed the sheer curtains of Miss Crabtree's house close. _Sothe hate the woman had for Emma. He was just doing his job but he didn't like the feeling he got from this old lady. If he were a meter he would be off the screen with the hate she was emitting from her soul.

"Miss Crabtree, we are getting high readings of a propane leak here. We think your leak is the cause of Miss Brewster's alarms going off." He knew it wasn't but it seemed to be strange that the two would have problems the same day. He had to find out.

"So if you don't mind we are going to check your house. I am also having EMS check you out."

He watched as Miss Crabtree tottered down the stairs, the EMS attendant took her hand and he


putting it in the machine. She knew when her friend was upset, she always made bread.

Seeing no reply, "Okay, I will get the door."

She ran to the door and saw Cas just about to knock on it. "Hey Cas."

Cas looked past Kathy. "Can I see Emma or is she too busy?"

Emma looked over at the door. "You are welcome to come in if you don't mind coming into a witch's house."

Cas swore under his breath.

"I can hear that!" Emma said as she wiped her face. She knew there must be flour all over her but she didn't care. It wasn't like she was trying to impress him.

"What can I do for you, Lieutenant O'Halloran?"

Oh, so we are back to that? Cas thought.

"I just wanted to let you know,fire when she touched you. You see..."

"Hold that thought," Cas said.

"Cadwell Harbor Utility One to Cadwell Harbor Dispatch"

"Cadwell Harbor Dispatch..."

"We are clear of 66 and 65 Magnolia. All Cadwell Harbor units are back in service."

"Copy that Cadwell Harbor Utility One."

Cas pulled up to the stop sign. Looking over at Paul he knew he was a friend of Emma's but just from the little he had known him he seemed like a good friend, one that he could count on in good and bad. Someone who he could count on to cover his back if he needed it.

"Okay, so tell me Paul what you know and how you are sure Emma never put a spell on me, and what's this about her aunt?"

Paul knew it was going to be


going to throw up. She was on someone's shoulder with her head hanging upside down. She heard what sounded like Darth Vader and then she saw one of her cats land on the barn floor. Blissfully cool air blew in and she heard thunder and saw a streak of lightning. She felt herself being brought off the person's shoulder and then she was placed on a stretcher and she was moving though rain. She stretched her face to let the rain hit her and she opened her eyes. There over her was Cas. He had on a mask, but she knew it was him. Next as they lifted her up into the ambulance he climbed up to her side.

Cas had to get the mask off, had to kissand am so glad you two finally figured out that you need each other because Cadwell Harbor wasn't going to survive if you didn't settle down." Paul raised his glass higher. "To Emma and Cas and their little one. May you always be happy and love one another."

Next Year, Halloween, Magnolia Street

Emma brought the bowl of candy out to the table that they had placed on their new doorstep of the rebuilt Brewster home. It was a replica of the one that had burnt down the year before.

She turned and kissed Cas, who had walked down to see how she was doing. Then he kissed the little bundle that was strapped to Emma. Their little Eliza had been born early but healthy. She was bald at the moment


weekend, creatures of the night. Vampires who from all accounts, if he thought Sir William was a big man, these would dwarf him. "Go with the creatures, Ma'am. If you understand what I am saying Ma'am."

Molly was touched by Keats' knowing sacrifice. "I will remember that Keats, but for now the only thing I need that I know you can accomplish is make sure the household staff has everything in readiness. Also assure all the maids they've nothing to fear from our guests that will be arriving."

Keats smiled a knowing smile. "How many are we expecting to stay here at Pendragon Manor?"

Molly mentally checked off all the vampires she knew personally, having met them at Annie and Travis's wedding. "Twenty will be staying in the manor house, thenSara in her black jeans because she knows just how well they work when she wants to smother her slave and he definitely deserves the punishment. She gets him on his back and wastes no time in straddling his face and pushing down with her full weight to make sure that he can't gasp for a single breath of fresh air. As long as the only thing he can inhale is her pussy stench, she's happy.


Story highlights Peter Bergen: NYT article says Pakistan knew bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad

He says reporter Carlotta Gall is a respected authority, but there's no evidence

Bergen: Why would many high-level U.S. intelligence officials deny Pakistan's knowledge?

Bergen: If Obama administration has information showing Pakistan knew, it must release it

The New York Times magazine is running a bombshell story alleging that the Pakistanis knew all along that Osama bin Laden was living for years in his longtime hiding place in the northern Pakistan city of Abbottabad, where he was killed by a U.S. Navy SEAL team on May 2, 2011.

The Times story, titled "What Pakistan Knew About bin Laden," will carry weight: It was written by Carlotta Gall, the dean of the correspondents who have covered Afghanistan and Pakistansince that fateful day in 2001, when al Qaeda's four hijacked planes crashed through America's comfortable sense that vast oceans insulated it from its enemies.

At great personal risk Gall has authoritatively covered the war in Afghanistan for the past 12 years. Indeed, I first met her during the civil war in Afghanistan during the mid-1990s when she was an aid worker, and I have met her many times since. I encouraged her (along with, I'm sure, many others) to write a book about her reporting in Afghanistan, as no Western reporter has more to say about what has transpired there since the fall of the Taliban.

Peter Bergen during coverage of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 on location in Afghanistan

The bin Laden story in the New York Times magazine is


an extract from Gall's forthcoming book, "The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014."

Gall makes two astonishing claims in her Times magazine piece.

The first claim: An unnamed Pakistani official told her, based on what he had in turn heard from an unnamed senior U.S. official that "the United States had direct evidence that the ISI chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, knew of bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad." ISI is Pakistan's powerful military intelligence agency.

The second claim: "The ISI actually ran a special desk assigned to handle bin Laden. It was operated independently, led by an officer who made his own decisions and did not report to a superior. He handled only one person: bin Laden...the top military bosses knew about it, I was told."

It is, of course, hardreporting trips to Pakistan I spoke to senior officials in Pakistan's military and intelligence service. They all denied that they had secretly harbored bin Laden. OK, you are thinking: "But they would say that, wouldn't they?"

Well, what about the dozens of officials I spoke to in the U.S. intelligence community, Pentagon, State Department and the White House who also told me versions of "the Pakistanis had no idea that bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad"?

During the course of reporting for my book I spoke on the record to, among others, John Brennan, now the CIA director and then President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser; then CIA Director Leon Panetta and his chief of staff, Jeremy Bash; then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Adm.


Mike Mullen; then Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. James Cartwright; then director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Michael Leiter; then senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, Nick Rasmussen; then head of policy at the Pentagon, Michele Flournoy; Michael Vickers, who was then the civilian overseer of Special Operations at the Pentagon; Tony Blinken, who is now the deputy national security adviser; and Denis McDonough, who held that position before Blinken.

These officials have collectively spent many decades working to destroy al Qaeda, and many are deeply suspicious of Pakistan for its continuing support for elements of the Taliban. But all of them told me in one form or another that Pakistani officials had no clue that bin Laden was living in Abbottabad.

Indeed, an earlydebate between senior national security officials at the White House, once CIA intelligence established that bin Laden could be hiding in Abbottabad, was whether to mount a joint U.S.-Pakistani raid on bin Laden's suspected hideout.

This plan was rejected because the officials were concerned that such a joint operation carried the risk that word would leak out about the bin Laden intelligence. This debate would have been moot if the Pakistanis already knew bin Laden was living in Abbottabad.

And, by the way, if the U.S. government had any evidence that the Pakistanis were knowingly sheltering bin Laden, as Gall claims, why cover this up?

In 2011, the relationship between the United States and Pakistan was at its lowest point ever. Early that year a CIA contractor killed two Pakistanis in


Pakistanis had not had a clue about bin Laden's presence there.

Finally, in the course of reporting my book I discovered that bin Laden was even hiding from some of the people living in his own compound; forget about letting officials in the Pakistani government in on the secret. One of the wives of the bodyguards protecting bin Laden didn't know that the tall stranger hiding on the compound was al Qaeda's leader.

In fairness to Gall, I have heard from four current and former U.S. intelligence and military officials that some of the thousands of documents that U.S. Navy SEALs picked up at bin Laden's Abbottabad compound that haven't been publicly released could point to some kind of official Pakistani collusion.

If that is the case, the Obama White HouseDefendant to get a "second bite at the apple" by considering this second brief on the issue.

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Plaintiff was employed by Defendant from July 6, 1971 to December 6, 1989, and worked as a sales representative at the time of his termination. Plaintiff was terminated after Eli Witt, a customer of Defendant, alleged that the Plaintiff had stolen sixty cartons of cigarettes from the customer's warehouse facility. Prior to termination, Defendant conducted an inventory of the cartons of cigarettes in Plaintiff's vehicle. This inspection revealed that Plaintiff had an excess number of cartons in his van in violation of company policy, although the parties disagree as to why there was an overage. Plaintiff was tried and acquitted of the criminal charges filed by Eli Witt pertaining to the


She-Wolf of London

Premise: While working on her master's thesis in England, graduate student Randi Wallace is the victim of a werewolf attack on the moors. She finds a welcome ally, however, in mythology professor Ian Matheson, who helps her search for a cure to her condition and stands by her during the full-moon phases when she turns into a she-wolf.

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Titan Rising, Part I

by Sam Savage

Just over a month ago, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descended through the atmosphere of Saturn's giant moon Titan. The probe sent back stunning close-up images of a world never before seen is such detail In this, the first of a two-part series, science reporter Michael Benson shares his impressions of the event from his front-row seat at ESA's control center in Darmstadt, Germany.

Astrobiology Magazine -- It's not very frequently, in the early 21st century, that one can observe grown men cry for reasons other than disaster. We've seen plenty of it due to tragedy, of course: the recent tsunami; the hell of Iraq; massacres in Darfur; Israel vs. Palestine. The list is practically endless. But tears of joy? They're


practically unheard of.

There are exceptions, however. Take the successful arrival, on distant, ringed Saturn's mysterious planet-sized moon Titan, of robot Huygens, Europe's first mission to the outer solar system.

Orange-brown Titan is larger than Mercury and Pluto and is shrouded entirely by a dense, opaque, frigid atmosphere. Those gasses include complex molecular hydrocarbon chains believed to be the building blocks of life. With a surface only glimpsed indistinctly through the petrochemical smog - and then only in the last year or so, by Huygens's "mothership," NASA's Cassini spacecraft - and with some theories holding that the place must have lakes or even seas of liquid ethane and methane, Titan is one of the most mysterious spheres within the range of robots from Earth.

Still, that's 3.5 billion kilometers away. Giventhe distances and uncertainties involved, the Huygens mission is one of the most audacious forays into deep space ever attempted by human beings. It's also the first time that a landing has ever been attempted on a moon other than the Earth's own.

It was Friday morning, January 14th, in Central Europe. After 20 years of development and more than six years of flight, Huygens was finally scheduled to plunge into Titan's hydrogen-methane atmosphere - hopefully revealing some of the secrets of the place along the way.

***

The European Space Agency's control center in Darmstadt, Germany, is a pretty high-tech affair. Rows of large computer screens, banks of telephones, winking lights, and large projector screens with images of Saturn and the Earth provide all the various Star Trek touches one


might expect from such a facility.

No expense has been spared, and with good reason: apart from Huygens, this is the place where an ESA spacecraft orbiting Mars is currently being controlled, as well as a second robot now on its way to visit a comet; another European mission has just settled into orbit of the moon, and a fourth is monitoring the Earth's atmosphere. It would be no exaggeration to say that Europe is currently enjoying the first flushes of a real space exploration renaissance.

But no Euro-mission can boast anything like the longevity or ambition of Huygens. The 3.3 billion dollar joint NASA-ESA Cassini-Huygens project was first conceived in 1981, when a European proposal to collaborate with NASA in sending a probe to Titan was augmented by theAmerican idea of equipping such a mission with a far larger Saturn orbiter.

The design called for the Huygens probe to be mounted on the side of Cassini; it would effectively hitch a ride to Saturn on the orbiter. The construction of the two probes was already well underway when money troubles arose on the American side. In 1994, then-NASA administrator Dan Goldin directed his agency to focus on "cheaper, faster, better" robotic explorations. The directive threatened to cancel Cassini altogether, and thus Huygens.

As befits a mission originally conceived there, it was the Europeans who ultimately saved the day. In June of that year the director of the European Space Agency sent a sharply worded letter to US Vice President Al Gore. "Europe "¦ views any prospect of a


unilateral withdrawal from the cooperation on the part of the United States as totally unacceptable," the letter read in part. "Such an action would call into question the reliability of the US as a partner in any future major scientific and technological cooperation." Cassini-Huygens was restored, though the Cassini part of the program had its budget severely cut, reducing many of its capabilities.

Still, NASA's school-bus-sized Saturn orbiter is by far the largest robot ever sent to the outer solar system. It was named after the French-Italian astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini, who in 1676 discovered the large gap in Saturn's rings which now bears his name. The namesake of ESA's atmospheric probe is Dutch astronomer and scientist Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Titan in 1655. Huygens also was the first toa few years ago, he chewed the information over for a minute then quipped: "Maybe that's what they are."

Meanwhile Huygens' top managers - the scientists and engineers that have been shepherding this mission to completion, some of them for more than two decades - were absent from that auditorium. That's because they were in that gleaming control center, which is in another building. On a big screen in the media room, we of the press could occasionally see them as they were interviewed from a safe distance by ESA's PR woman.

Mysteriously, the televised slice of control room visible to us behind the top Huygens brass - which included Jean-Pierre Lebreton, the mission's manager; Claudio Solazzo, its operations manager; and several of the "P.I.'s," or Principal Investigators, meaning the


is: a highly complex activity subject to rapid-fire improvisation and technical smarts.

And so the Huygens chiefs intently watched the screen of that Dell, which was hooked up to the Internet; a small webcam window was open. With the blurry, pixilated vision characteristic of all webcams, ESA's humble laptop revealed another control center. This one was on the other side of the planet, and running the massive Greenbank Radio Telescope in West Virginia, USA.

In the pre-dawn darkness of the eastern half of North America, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope happened to be in a perfect Earthly longitude for listening to Saturn. And so all 110 square meters of the Greenbank dish's steerable surface was tilted towards the ringed planet - more specifically, towards Titan.

Although the laptop-and-webcam linkScreening Out Controversy: Human Genetics, Emerging Techniques of Diagnosis, and the Origins of the Social Issues Committee of the American Society of Human Genetics, 1964-1973.
In the years following World War II, and increasingly during the 1960s and 1970s, professional scientific societies developed internal sub-committees to address the social implications of their scientific expertise (Moore, Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008). This article explores the early years of one such committee, the American Society of Human Genetics' "Social Issues Committee," founded in 1967. Although the committee's name might suggest it was founded to increase the ASHG's public and policy engagement, exploration of the committee's early years reveals a more complicated reality. Affronted by legislators' recent unwillingness to


seek the expert advice of human geneticists before adopting widespread neonatal screening programs for phenylketonuria (PKU), and feeling pressed to establish their relevance in an increasingly resource-scarce funding environment, committee members sought to increase the discipline's expert authority. Painfully aware of controversy over abortion rights and haunted by the taint of the discipline's eugenic past, however, the committee proceeded with great caution. Seeking to harness interest in and assert professional control over emerging techniques of genetic diagnosis, the committee strove to protect the society's image by relegating ethical and policy questions about their use to the individual consciences of member scientists. It was not until 1973, after the committee's modest success in organizing support for a retrospective public health study of PKU screening and following the legalization ofA trapeze artist plummeted to the ground in an accident during a Cirque du Soleil performance in Australia.

Lisa Skinner, a three-time Olympian who won gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, was reportedly about 16 feet from the ground performing a solo aerial hoops act when she appeared to lose her grip and suddenly dropped to the floor.

The 35-year-old athlete reportedly lost consciousness when she hit the ground during the show in Brisbane on Saturday and had to be placed in a neck brace before she was rushed out of the big top.

A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the acrobat was taken to hospital in case she had sustained any internal injuries, but was in a stable condition.

A witness in the audience told 7 News Australia: “She was doing


very quickly and the performer is responsive, safe and under great medical care at the moment.”

Ms Skinner competed as a gymnast at the Olympic games in Atlanta, Sydney and Athens.

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Since retiring from competitive gymnastics, she hasMonday, 19 February 2007

FROM HELL: 5/26

I don't usually reveal FROM HELL pages and their scripts for three days running, but I've been in a stew trying to get my annual tax scraps together. It was all wrapped up this morning and I was off to see the accountant, the illustrious Mr Tucker, last seen in his sarong and bare feet, his normal working attire, in The Fate of the Artist. As usual I'm four thousand bucks over in one part, one thousand under in another part, and another part has disappeared altogether. My only excuse is that I was in Chicago in 1899 at the time, working on The Black Diamond Detective Agency.The upshot of it all is that I don't have time to do much here. This


HE FACES DIRECTLY AT POLLY AND US. (I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED, INCIDENTALLY, THAT HE HAS TAKEN OFF HIS HAT ON ENTERING THE COACH.) HE SMILES QUIETLY AND WARMLY AT POLLY AS HE SPEAKS TO HER.GULL: Dear Polly, have as many as you wish.GULL: Now come, child. Tell me all about yourself. Where were you born?

PANEL 3NOW A SHOT FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COACH, SO THAT WE ARE LOOKING FACE-ON AT POLLY AND GULL, BOTH FULL FIGURE, AS THEY SIT THERE SIDE BY SIDE ON THE SEAT OPPOSITE TO US. WIPING GRAPE JUICE FROM HER LIPS, POLLY LOOKS MOMENTARILY TAKEN ABACK, ALBEIT IN A PLEASANT WAY. SHE LOOKS AT GULL WITH A SURPRISED AND GRATEFUL SMILE THAT IS SOMEHOW POIGNANT. GULL RETURNS HER SMILE WITH A QUIET,McGuinty's principal secretary and energy policy adviser, respectively, met twice with officials from TransCanada to tell them the project would be killed. Both men have denied they were negotiating terms of the cancellation.

"Jamison was very careful to open up any meeting by saying, 'This is occurring without prejudice. We are not here to, nor are we authorized to, enter into any negotiations,' and in those two October meetings, it was simply about delivering a message," Mr. Mullin testified before a legislative committee.

But Mr. Steeve's notes from one of the meetings indicate he and Mr. Mullin told the company that Ontario wanted to "preserve value of contract." The energy company asked for a letter to reassure its shareholders. Mr. Steeve turned down The Globe's request for an interview; Mr.


Mullin did not respond.

Over the following days, TransCanada tried to hammer out the language of the letter with the Ontario Power Authority, the arms-length agency in charge of power planning. Mr. Mullin and another political staffer, Craig MacLennan in the energy minister's office, were copied on some of the e-mail exchanges about the document.

An early draft of the letter by an OPA lawyer contains only a reference to unspecified "compensation" for TransCanada, and does not promise the entire value of the contract. The company pushed for more. A later memo says TransCanada told the OPA "there is already a deal done" and to "go check with the Premier's Office." An OPA executive obliged. When he came back, the memo says, some "unusual language" was inserted into the letter.The final draft stated that TransCanada was "entitled" to "the anticipated financial value of the [Oakville] contract."

On Oct. 7, the day the letter was finalized, the government publicly announced that the plant was dead. Detailed negotiations began in earnest. At first, the OPA tried to drive a hard bargain: in one e-mail, a government lawyer says TransCanada's counsel described an OPA executive as taking a "confrontational" stand. The agency offered TransCanada a deal to build a power plant in Cambridge, Ont., as compensation. But the company rejected it, saying it would not generate enough revenue. Throughout the talks, the documents say, TransCanada repeatedly referred to its discussions with the Premier's Office.

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plant in Oakville will be cancelled. According to Mr. Steeve's notes from one of these meetings, they tell the company the province wants to preserve the value of contract.

The letter

Oct. 7, 2010 – After a back-and-forth between provincial officials and TransCanada, the Ontario Power Authority issues a letter recognizing that the company is owed damages, including the "anticipated financial value of the contract" – a significant pledge that later documents indicate the province had no obligation to make. The cancellation is made public the same day.

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May, 2011 – Talks between TransCanada and the OPA over compensation reach a standstill. One government lawyer says the company describes the negotiations as "an unmitigated disaster." TransCanada continually refers to its meetings with Mr. McGuinty's staff, saying theJohn Locke

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educational standards.

To prepare for implementation of the standards, teachers have been learning new curricula and adjusting lesson plans. Educators will continue professional development throughout the school year and textbooks, aligned with the new standards, have been published. In California, the State Board of Education determines the standards for all students, while the stateÕs Department of Education assists schools to ensure that all students meet them.

The intent of Common Core is to provide equitable education throughout participating states. Standards are designed to be rigorous and reflect real world skills for success at college or in the workplace.

ÒTo ensure that our students are college and career ready, the implementation of the Common Core State Standards is one major effort in achieving a more common and coherent vision of educational purpose,ÓPlatt makes surprise Sky Blues exit

Experienced striker Clive Platt, who Andy Thorn talked of offering a new contract to this summer, has agreed a deal with League Two side Northampton Town.

Platt, who played a significant role in the Sky Blues' best spell of last season, links up once again with the man who originally took him to the Ricoh Arena, Northampton boss Aidy Boothroyd.

'He is the most under-rated player I have ever managed,' Boothroyd told the official Cobblers website.

In other Coventry City transfer news, free agent Sammy Clingan is being linked with Brighton and Millwall while Thorn has dismissed a link with Hartlepool midfielder Gary Liddle.

***Vital View***Platt's exit has already brought forth plenty of doom and gloom from the same people who were probably unhappy about him being


offered a new contract.

Any City deal on the table would likely have been a one-year offer to play a bit part next season. Instead Platt will be a regular starter at Northampton, on a two-year deal and with his former manager at the club.

That's not to say City will not miss him if, like last summer's departures he is not adequately replaced with a similar type of player who can offer more in the goalscoring department.

Somebody such as Steve Howard, set to leave Leicester City this summer but still a powerful performer and with a healthier strike rate than Plattini.the importance of relationship in the work of evangelisation. She gives practical examples of how we can tap into other people’s experiences to proclaim the Gospel.

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Made for the Kreuzbrüder ("Crutched Friars") in or near Cologne, this Circumcision scene is set in an architectural interior illuminated by blank glazings and paved with tiles of geometric ornament. A mitred high priest sitting on a throne supports the Christ child on his lap with a draped hand. Two male figures kneel before him. The elder -- bald, bearded and dressed in rich robes -- holds a knife in his right hand as he initiates the circumcision. His young assistant, graced with golden curls but more modestly attired, holds a broad metalwork charger. The glance and gesture of the Christ child identifies the standing female in a white wimple and robes of blue as his mother, the Virgin, who witnesses the event. The cool palette underscores theCalifornia woman brutally beats and stomps man who allegedly used racial slurs

A California woman wearing cannabis-print pants brutally assaulted a man who allegedly used racial slurs against her, and the whole thing was caught on video.

A man who was apparently drunk while on the Metro Blue Line train in Long Beach was hurling racial slurs when one woman on the train apparently decided enough was enough. She began to punch and kick him, and the entire attack was caught on video.

–Father, son charged in alleged sex assault at college orientation

During the 53-second video, the woman repeatedly kicks him as he is hunched over in his seat before she jumped on the back of a seat in order to get an angle to stomp on him. At some point


pursuant to Bankruptcy Code § 544(b), to avoid as fraudulent under the Connecticut Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, Conn. Gen.Stat. § 52-552a et seq. (hereafter, "CUFTA"), the Debtor's October 17, 2003, transfer to the Defendant, of real property located at 24 Village Road, Simsbury, Connecticut (hereafter, the "Simsbury Property").
The matter was tried before the Hon. Robert L. Krechevsky, United States Bankruptcy Judge, on October 5, 2007, at which time the Court received documentary evidence and heard the testimony of (i) the Debtor's mother R. Lee Jones (hereafter, "the Defendant") and (ii) Marianne Kishimoto (hereafter, "Kishimoto"), the Debtor's former girlfriend. By consent of the parties, the record was kept open pending the Trustee's receipt from the Internal Revenue Service and submission into evidence of a copy of the Debtor's 2005Federal Income Tax Return. Following submission of such tax return on April 14, 2008, the parties, on July 31, 2008, filed memoranda of law in support of their respective positions. Following Judge Krechevsky's August 31, 2008 resignation, the captioned proceeding was reassigned to the undersigned judge who, in accordance with Fed.R.Civ.P. 63, made applicable in bankruptcy proceedings by Fed. R. Bankr.P. 9028, certified his "familiarity with the record", and gave notice to the parties of his intention to proceed and render a decision in the Proceeding based upon the existing record. In the absence of a timely written request from either party to recall any witness, the matter is now ripe for resolution by the undersigned judge.

IV. FINDINGS OF FACT
The Court's findings of fact are derived from its


easily obtain the necessary financing. And contrary to an agreement between the Debtor and Kishimoto, the Debtor kept for himself the net income of approximately $2,000 per month produced by the Rental Properties. In addition, during the years the Debtor lived with Kishimoto at her East Hartford home, he made no contributions whatsoever toward household expenses, telling her he was helping his mother (the Defendant) with her expenses and could not afford to contribute. At the same time the Debtor was regularly obtaining money from the Defendant.[1]
In January, 2001, the Debtor purchased the Simsbury Property for $165,000, with $7,000 given him by his mother for the down payment, and financed with a mortgage. During the next six months Kishimoto made repairs and improvements to the Simsbury Property. Kishimotosecond mortgage on one of the rental properties. As their relationship failed, the Debtor told Kishimoto he had a "plan" for his money and property which did not include herhe intended to take large cash advances against his credit cards, transfer his property to his mother, and that Kishimoto would never find or get anything. Finally, due to the Debtor's abusive conduct, Kishimoto and the Debtor separated on August 23, 2001, and Kishimoto and the children moved out of the Simsbury Property.
Thereafter, Kishimoto brought two actions (one for forgery and one for theft) against the Debtor in state court and, on May 29, 2003, the state court entered judgments against the Debtor for $2,500 and $3,000, respectively. Kishimoto, on July 10, 2003, recorded two judgment liens against the


before the transfer was made or obligation was incurred, the debtor had been sued or threatened with suit, (5) the transfer was of substantially all the debtor's assets, (6) the debtor absconded, (7) the debtor removed or concealed assets, (8) the value of the consideration received by the debtor was reasonably equivalent to the value of the asset transferred or the amount of the obligation incurred, (9) the debtor was insolvent or became insolvent shortly after the transfer was made or the obligation was incurred, (10) the transfer occurred shortly before or shortly after a substantial debt was incurred, and (11) the debtor transferred the essential assets of the business to a lienor who transferred the assets to an insider of the debtor.
Conn. Gen.Stat. § 52-552f. Transfers fraudulentvalve seat.
The slots may be tapered in width through the wall of the cage. Preferably, the slots increase in width with increasing radius through the wall of the cage. The slots may be tapered in width through the wall of the cage at an angle in a range of about 4xc2x0 to 17xc2x0.
The slots in the cage may be configured for low noise liquid flow toward the cage bore axis and for low noise gas flow away from the cage bore axis. For liquid applications, the valve plug preferably has a relatively small radial wall thickness in proximity to a seating surface in order to limit exposure of the valve plug to imploding jets when liquid flow into the cage is undergoing cavitation.
In one embodiment, the cage defines


a sealing lip in the cage bore located above the windows, and the valve plug includes one or more pressure balancing passages between opposite ends thereof. The valve plug assembly further comprises an elastomer ring for engaging the sealing lip when the valve plug is in a closed position.
In another embodiment, the cage defines a sealing lip located in the cage bore above the windows, and the valve plug includes one or more pressure balancing passages between opposite ends thereof. The valve plug assembly further comprises a deformable sealing ring for engaging a sealing lip when the valve plug is in a closed position.
According to another aspect of the invention, a valve cage is provided for mounting in a fluid passageway of a fluid control valve. The valveSubmitted by chad on February 17, 2012 - 10:09

Should he stay or should he go - part three.

According to today's Tri-City Herald, Lightning General Manager Steve Yzerman is talking with Tri-City Americans General Manager Bob Tory about returning top Lightning prospect Brett Connolly to the Western Hockey League.

The Lightning are still undecided about what to do with their 2010 first round draft pick, the Herald reports.

"I've been in conversation with Steve Yzerman, but they have until [February] 27th to make their decision. We'll see at that point," Tory told the newspaper.

Connolly, who was the subject of the Lightning's "stay or go" debates coming out of training camp and before the World Junior tournament, has averaged around six minutes in ice time with the Lightning this season. Last night


against the Sharks he was on the ice for 6:40. He began the year earning more than 10 minutes per game.

Drafted because of his high-end offensive abilities, Connolly has just nine points (four goals) in 43 games with the Lightning. He has been learning the defensive side of the game with the Lightning, but still isn't to a point where coach Guy Boucher appears to trust him in the third period of close games - as reflected by his ice time.

Norfolk Admirals coach Jon Cooper, who no doubt would love to have Connolly in the AHL though he is too young, told Bolt Prospects in training camp that the best level for a prospect's development is the one where he's playing the most. He also said winning playsa promenant role in a player's growth. Connolly can't join the Admirals until Tri-City is eliminated from the playoffs.

With Dominic Moore now out of the Lightning lineup and the Lightning putting up a "Sellers" sign at the trade deadline, conventional thought is Connolly's ice time will go up. It's early, but he remained at the same level Thursday night. If his ice time doesn't go up, one would expect Connolly to be sent back to juniors to play with the Americans deep into the playoffs. Tri-City is currently the second seed in the WHL's Western Conference and is tied with Portland for the third most points in the league. Being sent to Kennewick would allow Connolly to play in the role for which he was drafted - a


base compensates for the phase difference between liquid-crystal cells to thereby enlarge a viewing angle range permitting good visibility.
The birefringence characteristic of the optically compensatory film was, however, apt to be changed by an external stimulus such as heat and humidity. Hence, there was a problem that the compensating effect of the optically compensatory film became partially different to cause distortion in display and that the weight per unit area of the optically compensatory film was heavy. The increase of screen size has been required of a liquid-crystal display device, or the like. In the case, the heavy weight of the optically compensatory film-was a serious worry.
An object of the present invention is to develop an optically compensatory film exhibiting birefringence characteristic hardly changed by an external stimulusPlayer utilities

But misfortunes in her family led her to leave in the 1960s, when she was a teenager. She came to New York to work as a nanny. Before too long, her short stories were being published in the Paris Review and The New Yorker.

Kincaid was the "it girl" of the literary scene.

Kincaid’s work (Annie John, Lucy, Autobiography of My Mother) has often dealt with her Caribbean upbringing, but her new novel, See Now Then, is set in North Bennington, Vt. — the town where Kincaid has lived for many years. It’s the story of Mrs. Sweet, a mother with two grown children in a marriage that’s gone very sour.

Many particulars of the book — the town, the gardening, the Caribbean upbringing, the unsuccessful composer, the dissolving marriage


Washington (CNN) The news of former Michigan Democratic Rep. John Dingell's death shook the political world Thursday night as memorials poured in from political leaders spanning his decades as the House's longest-serving member.

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Dingell "one of the finest public servants in American history."

"There are few major legislative triumphs since 1955 that John didn't have a key hand in passing," the Clintons said in a statement, pointing to Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

"His respect for his constituents, his colleagues of both parties, and the institutions of Congress are a valuable reminder today of what a noble calling public service can be," the Clintons wrote.

Former Presidentequally as seriously as my career as a caddie,” he said.

Woods said in a statement issued on his Web site last month that he was taking an indefinite leave from golf after admitting to marital infidelity. A string of women have gone public with claims of having affairs with the world’s no. 1 golfer, who is married to Elin Nordegren, with whom he has two young children.

John Tabutt, 62, told investigators he got his gun when he thought he heard an intruder, then fired at a figure in the hallway, according to Brunelle. It was Tabutt’s live-in fiancee, 62-year-old Nancy Dinsmore, who family members say he was going to marry Saturday. Tabutt told authorities he thought she was next to him in bed the whole time.

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that background junk's confusing," he scowls. "Clear and simple, he said. We'll just give him the horse." and RRRRRIP he starts twisting off the blotchy side as I gasp in shock.

"You said it's a copy!" he reminds me calmly as he rips off the bad tree. "Oops." There goes the flank and the marvelous tail. "Damn cheap Xerox paper, that's the City budget for you--" there go one and a half legs along with the yucca that became a rock. "Shit." So he tears the other legs off to match and now the lithe body swims over nothing... "Oh well." I picture him tearing on, down and in, spiraling down like a buzzard, to a white dot. A point Hardboil finds acceptably... simple.

He hands the psychic a card-sizeIn an image forming apparatus such as a laser printer, a developing cartridge is detachably mounted in an apparatus main body. Toner is accommodated within the developing cartridge. When toner in the developing cartridge is used up, the developing cartridge is removed from the apparatus main body. Then, a new developing cartridge is mounted in the apparatus main body. In addition, when a sheet is jammed in the apparatus main body, there may be a situation in which the developing cartridge is removed from the apparatus main body, and after the jam is resolved, the developing cartridge is remounted in the apparatus main body.
In this type of image forming apparatuses, there is proposed an image forming apparatus in which a detection gear having an abutment projection is provided


for agitating toner accommodated in the developing cartridge. Gear teeth are formed on a circumferential surface of the transmission gear so as to extend along the full circumference thereof. With a new developing cartridge, the gear teeth of the detection gear mesh with the gear teeth of the detection gear. When the developing cartridge is mounted in the apparatus main body, a driving force of a motor is inputted into the transmission gear, and the driving force is transmitted from the detection gear to the detection gear via the gear teeth of these gears.
With the driving force so transmitted, the detection gear rotates, and the abutment projection moves as the detection gear rotates. A sensor is provided in the apparatus main body for detecting a passage of theArizona, Virginia, and the University of San Diego. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Practical Ethics at UCSD, and at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University.

**Julian Savulescu** is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. He directs the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and co‐directs the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities. He is Visiting Professorial Fellow in Biomedical Ethics at the Murdoch Children\'s Research Institute, Melbourne, and Distinguished International Visiting Professor in Law at the University of Melbourne.

[^1]: Oldstone, M. (2010). *Viruses, plagues, and history*. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

[^2]: Riedel, S. (2005). Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination. *Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 18*, 21--25.

[^3]: Crawford, D. (2009). *Deadly companions: How microbes shaped our


one in Queens. The Manhattan sect, headquartered in the LES, consisted of myself, Jon Rock, Pizzy, Max, Rickaby, Sleepy, and Vince. Meanwhile the Queens sect, stationed near Flushing, was a small trio consisting of Juke, Harry, and T-Lalk. The weather was perfect, the city was alive, and Pizzy was the unanimous MVP (despite an accumulation of 57 red cards). I purchased a little digital camera to document the happenings. Here’s my POV of the situation.The Canal Street Gamblers’ HQ in Manhattan was prime. We were 2 Blocks away from Labor Skateshop, and had a plethora of skate spots and slice vendors within a stones throw. Also, a great place for data mining after the consumption of slices!

The LES skatepark was also a few blocks away, which was aJapanese artist Motoi Yamamoto is back with an amazing, new installation all made out of salt. Floating Garden resembles the ominous image of a tropical storm, similar to the satellite shot you'd see during a weather forecast. Using ordinary table salt, Yamamoto meticulously constructs his incredible works, this time spending more than 10 hours a day for over a week on the floor of The Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery of Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

The artist started working on the installation on February 24 and just completed it last night. The opening reception is tonight and it will remain on display until April 12. The salt, which was donated by The Morton Salt Company, will ultimately be dispersed into the Great Salt Lake.

For those unfamiliar with


this artist, Yamamoto began working with salt in 1994 after his sister, just 24 at the time, died of brain cancer. In order to cope with her death, he began making art that reflected his grief. In Japan, salt is used as a part of rituals in some funeral ceremonies and also used to ward off evil spirits and welcome good ones.

Love how this one forms into a perfect circle. See more of his past work, here.1955), and grandfather  (b. 1892) were also trumpeters. He had two older brothers, Ćazim and Demir.

Rustem was a trumpeter in the 2nd Infantry Division of the Royal Serbian Army, the famed "Iron regiment", during the World War I. On 12 September 1916 the Battle of Kaymakchalan, for the Kajmakčalan mountain between the Serbs and the Bulgarian "Rila Division" began. From 26 to 30 September, the top of the mountain changed hands several times, but Bulgarian had an upper hand and it seemed the Serbs will have to withdraw. Out of the blue, the Serbian charge was played by Rustem and Serbian army attacked the surprised Bulgarians who backed off, allowing the Serbs to conquer the mountain and end the battle on 30 September. Commander Dimitrije Milić, who


summary judgment, Harstads claimed that the parties' agreement was an equitable mortgage. Harstads also sought additional time for discovery and to join the third parties to the suit. The district court denied Harstads' motions and granted the Port Authority summary judgment. We affirm.

FACTS
In 1982, Harstads purchased land from the Housing and Redevelopment Authority so that they could develop it for use by the Victory House charity. Harstads later deeded the property to the Port Authority in return for development money which the Port Authority raised by selling bonds. Harstads leased the property from the Port Authority, developed it, and subleased it to Victory House. When Victory House defaulted on rent on October 1984, the Port Authority resolved the matter by dealing directly with Victory House. Later, the PortAuthority adopted a policy of dealing directly with Victory House.
In April 1987, the Port Authority, Harstads, Victory House, and Catholic Charities agreed to assign the Victory House sublease to Catholic Charities.
In February 1990, Harstads filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Harstads then sought permission from the bankruptcy court to assume what they represented to the bankruptcy court was their "lease" obligation to the Port Authority. In April 1990, the bankruptcy court granted Harstads' motion. In October 1992, the bankruptcy court approved Harstads' chapter 11 reorganization plan. The plan did not specifically mention Harstads' obligation to the Port Authority.
In June 1993, Catholic Charities stopped paying rent because of disputes with Harstads. In September 1993, Harstads sued Catholic Charities in Hennepin County. Documents in the file indicate that in the


Hennepin County action, Catholic Charities claims that it is withholding rent pursuant to the sublease with Harstads.
In October 1993, Harstads stopped paying rent to the Port Authority. In December 1993, the bankruptcy court closed Harstads' bankruptcy proceeding.
In March 1994, the Port Authority sued Harstads in Ramsey County. Harstads claimed, among other things, that because the bankruptcy court retained jurisdiction over disputes relating to unexpired leases and contracts, the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the Port Authority's claim. Harstads did not, however, address the fact that after the bankruptcy court issued the order retaining jurisdiction, the bankruptcy court closed the entire proceeding.
In July 1994, the Port Authority moved for summary judgment on the lease. Harstads claimed that summary judgment was inappropriate for several reasons, including that (a)claimed that "Michelle Obama has scrubbed all references to Hillary Clinton from both of her Twitter accounts" and implied that it was the result of FBI investigations into Clinton.

A thicket of far-right-wing web sites picked up the story and ran with it. Red State Watcher said the news was "breaking!" and News Ninja 2012 said it was "suspicious." "The rats are jumping ship," The Gateway Pundit wrote.

Related: The plague of fake news is getting worse -- here's how to protect yourself

Pro-Trump social media users tweeted about it, further amplifying the falsehood. And a contributor to a relatively credible web site, ForexLive.com, posted an item asking "Is the First Lady distancing the Obamas from the Clintons?"

Then new characters were added to the fake storyline. "Elizabeth Warren just unfollowed Hillary,


and Michelle Obama deleted all her tweets about Hillary," Jack Posobiec, who calls himself a "recovering political operative," tweeted at 2 p.m. Tuesday. He kept going, adding President Obama's name to the list, without any evidence to back it up.

President Obama's @POTUS timeline includes recent tweets like "Couldn't be more proud of @HillaryClinton."

By 4 p.m., the made-up claims were on "The Sean Hannity Show."

First Hannity brought up the Gateway Pundit blog post -- which was predicated on a hoax -- and asked if it was true: "It says that Michelle Obama had deleted Hillary tweets from her timeline. Did you ever check that out?" The question is apparently directed at his producer.

Later in the hour, Hannity brought it up again. He was talking about revelations from the WikileaksThe United States’ demands regarding reforming the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have failed to be met, and as such Washington is reportedly ready to pull out over what it calls anti-Israel bias and the inclusion of alleged rights abusers.

Diplomats told Reuters that it's merely a matter of time before the US exits the council, which will convene Monday for a three week convention that will last until July 6. One US source who spoke anonymously said that an announcement looks "imminent."

Another US official in Geneva, where the UNHRC will meet June 18, said, "we are still moving ahead with our engagement for the coming session."

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has cast shade on the council since taking the job, while both the US State


Department and US President Donald Trump himself found issue with it in 2017.

On June 6, 2017, Haley went to Geneva to give the council a series of ultimatums. At the meeting, she said, "It's hard to accept that this council has never considered a resolution on Venezuela, and yet it adopted five biased resolutions in March against a single country: Israel. It is essential that this council address its chronic anti-Israel bias if it is to have any credibility."

Later in the day, she expanded on her grievances against the council at a speech she gave to the Graduate Institute of Geneva, noting that the UNHRC had, by then, passed "more than 70 resolutions targeting Israel" since its inception in 2006, but "just seven on Iran." The UNHRC haspassed more resolutions against Israel than the rest of the world's countries combined, according to the Geneva-based UN Watch.

"This relentless, pathological campaign against a country that actually has a strong human rights record makes a mockery not of Israel, but of the council itself."

She also called on the body to do two things: "Act to keep the worst human rights abusers from obtaining seats on the council," and remove permanent Agenda Item 7, which requires that the council address the "human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories," regularly when it meets.

Trump later echoed those demands in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 19, 2017, calling the inclusion of governments with "egregious human rights records" in the UNHRC a "massive source


of embarrassment to the United Nations." He also singled out North Korea and Iran for their hostility to Israel.

— US Mission to the UN (@USUN) March 23, 2018

After the UNHRC, a body of 47 nations, adopted five resolutions condemning Israel on March 23, 2018, Haley warned "our patience is not limited," reminding the body that "The United States continues to evaluate our membership in the Human Rights Council."

Those resolutions called on governments to stop selling weapons to Israel; for Palestinian self-rule according to Israel and the Palestinian territories' pre-1967 borders; for Israel to remove itself from the Golan Heights, which it has illegally occupied since the 1967 Six Day War; and for an end to Israeli settlements and human rights abuses against Palestinians.

Haley called the council "foolish andunworthy of its name" for treating Israel "worse than North Korea, Iran and Syria."

— Right word (@abcdaee198) June 7, 2018

The US ambassador hasn't only struggled with the Human Rights Council, but also with the UN General Assembly and Security Council. On Wednesday, she failed to prevent the assembly from condemning Israel's use of deadly force against Palestinians demonstrating in the Great Return March after having vetoed a similar resolution in June. She fired back against the vote, saying that for some, "attacking Israel is their favorite political sport."

More than 120 Palestinians have been killed and more than 13,000 injured, many by live ammunition, since the start of the protest on March 30, Sputnik News reported. Haley previously told the UN Security Council that Israel acted with "restraint" in


the protests. One Israeli soldier was "slightly wounded" in the protests, according to an IDF spokesperson.

The US has boycotted the UNHRC before, as former President George W Bush and his Ambassador to the UN John Bolton — now Trump's national security adviser — opposed it from its outset in 2006. The Bush administration refused to run in its first election and also declined to participate the following year.

The main points of opposition then were the "focus on Israeli human rights violations while failing to address human rights abuses in other parts of the world," according to the US Congressional Research Service's 2009 "Issues for Congress" report on the UNHRC.

However, former President Barack Obama began to work with the council after his election in 2008, believing it was betterRiot police pointed a pistol at protesters during a Uighur solidarity demonstration in Central on Sunday.

Officers clashed with onlookers after arresting a protester who removed a Chinese national flag outside City Hall. Police also reportedly fired at least two rubber bullets on a nearby footbridge connected to the IFC shopping mall.

Photo: Apple Daily.

On Sunday afternoon, around 1,000 people gathered at Edinburgh Place to express support for Uighurs in Xinjiang. International rights groups have estimated that at least a million from the Muslim minority have been detained in “re-education camps.”

At around 5pm, a protester removed a Chinese flag from a flagpole next to the rally location.

Riot police arrived and subdued several protesters and beat them with batons. Other protesters threw objects including plastic bottles at police, and officers responded


with batons and pepper spray.

Photo: Stand News.

During the confrontation, an officer pointed a service pistol at protesters but did not fire.

Police at one point raised the black warning flag, indicating that tear gas may be used.

Rally organisers declared the event to be over, and most protesters left Edinburgh Place while police continued to stand guard in the area.

Shortly after the initial clash, officers fired at least two rubber bullets at a footbridge connected to the IFC shopping mall. A passerby was reportedly hit in the leg by the projectile, according to Stand News.

Photo: Stand News.

Around nightfall, police conducted large-scale stop and searches in Central at locations such as the City Hall car park, and partially closed the footbridge connecting IFC and Exchange Square.

Some protesters leaving the rally werethe ‘downtown’ area, a row of 20 houses. From here we arrived at a small farm lot that included 2 thatched buildings and a fence. The buildings were the main house, with one level and 2 rooms and the second building was a kitchen.

Behind these buildings was a small stall for showering and a rigged up outhouse a little further back. With the exception of the driveway and footpath to the back, the fenced lot was tilled for gardens. Not an inch of space was wasted.

We enjoyed a beautiful home-cooked dinner, which was cooked one dish at a time over an open flame in their kitchen space. With the help of our hiking guide, we were able to enjoy some great conversations with the family that lived on


the house for the bathroom way in the back.

This left us alone in the room, with the candlelight and the rats. I could not believe this was happening, the place was the picture of clean, no trash, no food lying anywhere – with the exception of one bowl of chickpeas on a table, yet they were infested with rats. While we waited for the girl to return and blow out the light, I witnessed one rat begin his descent from the rafters, down the wall, and into the room.

The kicker here, he scurried down the wall in the corner, and I am talking about a 12-foot wall and jumped straight onto our guide as he slept. I just about died. This rat was running over our guide andBarack Obama's first major initiative as president -- even before Obamacare -- was his economic "stimulus" plan. At that time, businessman Donald Trump praised Obama's plan while Obama's defeated opponent in the Democratic primary race, Senator Hillary Clinton, had proposed her own "stimulus" plan to compete with Obama's.

Government "stimulus" is a fallacious economic doctrine that has evolved into an entrenched political dogma.

Fast forward eight years and we find that presidential nominees Trump and Clinton remain enthusiastic endorsers of government "stimulus." Both propose to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on an "infrastructure and jobs program" that seems patterned after President Obama's $800 billion "stimulus plan."

The fixation on the idea that government can somehow stimulate the economy is a dismaying prospect. Government "stimulus" is a fallacious economic doctrine that


of Keynes' theory since they implemented only part of it, but in the hands of American politicians obsessed with redistributing wealth like FDR and Barack Obama, the progressive political orthodoxy quickly became "stimulate the economy via deficit spending," with the tax-cut part of the theory falling neglected and ignored by the wayside. (Perhaps that is why Keynes himself ruefully remarked before his death that he himself was not a Keynesian.)

The historical record is unmistakable: The Great Depression was an economic disaster. It was the painful and natural result of first Hoover, then FDR, diverting production into uneconomic, wealth-sapping paths with their spending binges, while suppressing economic production through tax increases. Even FDR's own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau testified to Congress in May, 1939, "We are spending more thanfinancing World War II. In the 1960s, it was to finance "guns and butter" -- Lyndon Johnson's simultaneous wars in Vietnam and against poverty. 1970s deficits were incurred to finance the expanding welfare and regulatory state. In the 1980s, the primary reason for deficits was Ronald Reagan's military buildup to challenge the Soviet Union and increased domestic spending demanded by Tip O'Neill and the Democratic House in exchange for the military spending. The 1990s was an economically strong decade that required no "fix" from Washington. After the turn of the century, though, deficit spending for the purpose of counteracting weak economic activity returned with a vengeance.

Keynesianism Under George W. Bush

The next major push for an explicit "stimulus plan" came during the second term of President George W. Bush.


It's hard to say whether Bush was consciously pursuing a stimulus strategy throughout his presidency, but if nothing else, Bush's eight years showed that deficit spending resulting from huge spending increases don't produce a thriving economy. Federal spending soared by 50% in Bush's eight years -- the first six of those years with a Republican Congress -- and the consequent deficits were the largest in history (although those records were quickly shattered by his successor).

The results of Obama's stimulus plan are well-known and undeniable: the weakest economic recovery from a recession in history.

Indeed, in his last year in office, Bush's attempt at Keynesian stimulus was explicit. He promoted and secured passage of The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, which gave tax rebates of up to $300 per personneeds to read Jim Grant's account of the "forgotten depression" of 1921 in which a rapid recovery from a steep economic slide happened in mere months after President Harding cut both taxes and government spending); 2) the strange belief that somehow the Great Depression proved that more government spending is the cure for economic stagnation.

The average American should find it scandalous and worrisome that Hillary Clinton (who offered her own "stimulus plan" as a candidate in 2008) still wants to follow in Barack Obama's footsteps and provide more government stimulus spending (combined, she says, with some targeted tax cuts that undoubtedly would increase the deficit even more). Has she not noticed the dismal performance of the economy under Obama's policies?

I explained in the first part of this article


Bayern focus on Arsenal

Pep Guardiola has said Bayern Munich must ignore their first-leg lead when they host Arsenal in the Champions League against the backdrop of club president Uli Hoeness' trial. Picture: Louafi Larbi

Munich, Germany – Pep Guardiola has said Bayern Munich must ignore their first-leg lead when they host Arsenal on Tuesday in the Champions League against the backdrop of club president Uli Hoeness' trial.

Holders Bayern host the Gunners in the Champions League's last 16, second-leg tie at Munich's Allianz Arena with a 2-0 advantage from the first leg in London.

But the return comes amidst the distraction of Hoeness' high-profile trial in Munich, which is expected to last until at least Thursday, where he is accused of tax fraud.

On Monday, Hoeness' lawyer revealed the Bayern boss hasfee schedule how many hours he was expected to work, or how much he was expected to earn on an annual basis.

At the time, Citizens was accused of delaying lawsuits to appear more profitable than it was. Link was tasked with bringing cases to trial more quickly and shifting the defense strategy.

Peltier said the coordinating team had saved Citizens policyholders millions of dollars.

"The results we got back were positive," Peltier said. "We decided it would be in the best interest of Citizens and our policyholders to expand that coordinating counsel service to all of our claims."

A procurement team recommended Link and his firm for the expanded job.

The new contract, valued at $6.5 million over the next three years, replaces the old contract held by Link and his team.


Re: Oldest Church in Oregon

Boy, I thought churches in Oregon went farther back than 1972. :lol:

But seriously, what does it date to? And what kind of church is it? Many of our Missionary Baptist churches were actually started in Oregon (as well as Washington and California) in the mid 1800s as they came out west from the northern and southern parts of the east coast. Most of the time the church planted would consist of a single family and would have to rely on a circuit preacher until a pastor was finally available. If I had lived in the west back then, I probably would have been one of them circuit preachers myself.

Great pic! I love old church pics, especially with this kind of architecture. Maybe you canreturn there one day and get a better shot.

The liberal, socialist politician's nightmare: "What a comfort to the farmer to be allowed to supply his own wants before he should be liable to pay anything, and then only pay on his surplus." - Jefferson to Madison on Taxes,1784

Re: Oldest Church in Oregon

Originally Posted by schrackman

Boy, I thought churches in Oregon went farther back than 1972. :lol:

But seriously, what does it date to? And what kind of church is it? Many of our Missionary Baptist churches were actually started in Oregon (as well as Washington and California) in the mid 1800s as they came out west from the northern and southern parts of the east coast. Most of the time the church planted would consist of a single family


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On Dec. 7, an adviser to the Iraqi president told Al-Monitor that “among the names proposed was Asaad al-Eidani, the governor of Basra. He was suggested by parties close and loyal to Iran. Meanwhile, the Sunnis and Kurds agreed on the name of former Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum.”

The adviser also said, “Salih has yet to officially receive the names of candidates suggested by political blocs for the premiership.” He told Al-Monitor that representatives of parliamentary blocs attended a meeting with the president Dec. 9 to discuss the


premiership candidate but that the meeting ended without a solution, as the political parties insist on selecting a person from the current political class based on the normal process. The adviser said Salih rejected their view by saying, that the protesters must be given a role in the process.

While Iraqi political blocs had only until Dec. 15 to submit their candidates under the constitution, the differences between these blocs and their concerns over the increasing street anger delayed the process, especially after Sadr decided to refrain from nominating any candidates for prime minister. His Sairoon bloc announced Dec. 3 its decision to "waive" its right to nominate a candidate. The Iraqi Constitution grants the largest bloc the right to name a candidate.

Yassin al-Bakri, a political science professor atNahrain University, told Al-Monitor, “The new equation has further complicated the process, which usually takes months. However, the parties will try to come up with a candidate within the constitutional period for fear of escalation in the street, but the political scene in Iraq is still blurry as it is still not clear whether or not the parties will manage to meet the constitutional deadline. However, they most likely won’t, given the complexity of the situation.”

He said, “Following the resignation of the prime minister, the president of the republic opted for a caretaker government and not for Article 81 of the Iraqi Constitution, which gives him the powers of the prime minister until a new prime minister is agreed upon. In other words, the president will most likely


from any political forces.” For the last decade and a half, the prime minister has been Shiite, the speaker of parliament has been Sunni and the president has been a Kurd. Shiite parties have been the ones responsible for submitting candidates to be prime minister, while the other parties only have approved of such names.

A few days ago, political blocs tried to test the waters by indirectly suggesting a group of names, including Suhail, Ulum, Abtan, former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Adnan al-Zorfi, a member of parliament and former Najaf governor. However, all of these names have been rejected and ridiculed by many Iraqis on social media.

Previously, the Shiite parties who named a candidate for the premiership essentially just had to deal with their Sunni and Kurdishbe close to the people. They do not want him to be involved in the corruption of the 2003 regime. They want him to be distant from Iran and the major blocs. Also, they want him to have a coordinated administration in order to hold elections without scandals similar to the ones witnessed before,” he added.

Musa Rahma, one of the coordinators of the protests in Baghdad, concurred. “We want a prime minister who will restore Iraq’s sovereignty, one we can choose from Tahrir Square, not from the embassies,” he told Al-Monitor.

On Dec. 2, representatives of the Fatah and Nasr coalitions met with the National Wisdom Movement and the Kurdish forces in Baghdad and came to the agreement that the new prime minister should be accepted by both the


authority and the street, and not be affected by foreign allegiances. The meeting seems to show that the Iraqi political blocs are genuinely unable to present a substitute for Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who resigned at the end of November.

Iraqi politician Ibrahim al-Sumaidai told Al-Monitor that the political blocs are unable to present a candidate accepted by the street, and indicated that “whatever names are proposed by Fatah coalition leader Hadi al-Amiri will not win the approval of Sadr, while the names presented by the National Wisdom Movement led by Ammar al-Hakim have no resonance.”

He predicted “a consensus for the reappointment of Haider al-Abadi as prime minister.”

Before the protests, when the street was still not involved in the process of selecting a prime minister, politicalGroovy!

Thanks to Sam Raimi's highly influential Evil Dead films, Bruce Campbell was able to cement himself as a genre icon via his role of Ash Williams. Following the cancellation of Starz's Ash vs Evil Dead, Campbell announced that he'd be retiring his interpretation of the character for good. He even endorsed another actor taking over the reins of the franchise. But we may not have seen the last of Campbell yet: Speaking to Inquisitr, the actor revealed that he's only finished doing certain incarnations of Ash.

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to make an investigatory stop. As Curry set the bag down, a jewelry box fell out of the bag, spilling a large number of necklaces with the price tags still attached. The spilled jewelry was identified as having been stolen from an antique store in Rock Island earlier that morning.
A jury found Curry guilty of second-degree theft and assault with intent to cause serious injury. The trial court sentenced him to two consecutive terms of imprisonment: five years on the theft count and two years for assault. He contends the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress the fruits of an illegal investigatory stop and in admitting hearsay evidence over his objection. Our scope of review is for the correction of errors at law except, however,the 1974 Amendments to the Federal Elections Campaign Act (FECA) that the federal government passed a campaign finance law with any serious enforcement mechanism. And it was also this law which, for the first time, gave us both contribution limits and, as a necessary accessory to those limits, the strange doctrines of independent expenditures and express advocacy. The 1974 Amendments threw a web of regulation, with an accompanying enforcement bureaucracy - the FEC - over American politics.

The stated goals of the 1974 FECA Amendments were to lower the cost of campaigning, reduce the influence of so-called "special interests," open up the political system to change, and "restore confidence in government." So what has actually happened in the twenty years since the 1974 Amendments took effect? Well, campaign spending


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Background Info from the Sunday News July 16th 2006 Mr Graham's 1997 murder shocked New Zealand. His body was found on a south Auckland roadside with numerous stab wounds to the head and legs. He had been bound and gagged with packing tape. Szeto laughed at the family of the deceased after he was sentenced in 1998 to life for the kidnapping and murder of the Auckland businessman. The day before, police had found a ransom note in Graham's bloodstained and ransacked Ellerslie home that read, "If you call the police you will never see him again. We will call you".

From a Dominion story 15/12/1998THREE men found guilty of the murder of Auckland businessman Graham Kirkwood were each sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for kidnapping Mr Kirkwood at the time of this death. Tony Gee Siu Szeto, William Xiao Jun Cao and Bieu Manh Pham, all in their 20s, were found guilty last month of murder, kidnapping, aggravated burglary and car theft. Murder carries a mandatory life sentence and at the High Court at Auckland yesterday Justice Williams imposed sentences for the other convictions. He handed down concurrent jail terms of between five and eight years for aggravated burglary and car theft.

He also sentenced two other men, also in their 20s, who were found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, kidnapping and aggravated burglary. Hoang Sua Nguyen was


given a concurrent jail term totalling eight years, and Arnold Hoan Phan was sent to prison for 6 years six months. All five have denied murdering Mr Kirkwood, 56, who was attacked in his home on May 23 last year. His body was found dumped in a South Auckland reserve. Parts of his BMW car, which had been crudely cut up, were recovered from different areas of the Auckland region.

He also sentenced two other men, also in their 20s, who were found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, kidnapping and aggravated burglary. Hoang Sua Nguyen was given a concurrent jail term totalling eight years, and Arnold Hoan Phan was sent to prison for 6 years six months. All five have denied murdering Mr Kirkwood, 56, whowas attacked in his home on May 23 last year. His body was found dumped in a South Auckland reserve. Parts of his BMW car, which had been crudely cut up, were recovered from different areas of the Auckland region.

He also sentenced two other men, also in their 20s, who were found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter, kidnapping and aggravated burglary. Hoang Sua Nguyen was given a concurrent jail term totalling eight years, and Arnold Hoan Phan was sent to prison for 6 years six months. All five have denied murdering Mr Kirkwood, 56, who was attacked in his home on May 23 last year. His body was found dumped in a South Auckland reserve. Parts of his BMW car, which had been crudely cut


hot part of the clean energy job market -- wind jobs grew by 28%. About one-quarter of the roughly 102,000 jobs in the wind business are in manufacturing.

Both solar and wind scored a big victory in December 2015 when Congress decided to extend renewable tax credits that were set to expire.

The coal mining industry is grappling with far tougher conditions right now. Almost half of US coal jobs have disappeared just since the end of 2011, according to a Columbia University study. Kentucky, a state that overwhelmingly voted for Trump, lost an incredible 64% of its coal jobs over that span.

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Wasim Akram's wife dies in Chennai

CHENNAI: Huma Akram, wife of former Pakistani cricketer Wasim Akram, died at the Apollo Hospital here Sunday morning after battling for life for the past five days.
According to hospital officials, Huma breathed her last around 9.45 a.m.

Huma was suffering from sepsis (an inflammation of several tissues, including blood leading to kidney failure) and was admitted to Apollo Hospital Tuesday after developing complications mid-air while on her way to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore from Pakistan.

She was accompanied by Wasim Akram.

At Apollo Hospital, she was in the intensive care unit (ICU) since then and died Sunday without regaining consciousness.

Arrangements are being made to take her body back to Pakistan, the sources said.

In a message to Akram's family, Prime Minister Gilani expressed his deep sorrowand grief and prayed to Almighty Allah to bless her soul and give courage to the bereaved family to bear their loss with equanimity.

National Assembly Speaker Mirza said she was shocked to hear the sad news of the passing away of Akram's wife, and prayed that the departed soul rest in eternal peace, according to an Associated Press of Pakistan report.

Huma was admitted in a hospital in Chennai while on her way to Singapore for treatment and she breathed her last this morning, due to a cardiac arrest resulted from multi-organ failure.

Lahore: Cricket legend Wasim Akram has said doctors in India tried their best to save the life of his wife Huma. He accused their counterparts in Pakistan of only being interested in making money, days after a


Parliamentary panel directed authorities to cancel licences of 22 physicians in Lahore who treated her.

“The doctors of hospitals in Lahore took no pain for treating” Huma, who died in Chennai in October, “as they failed to diagnose her problems.” “They were more interested in making money,” Mr. Akram told PTI. “After failing to cure Huma, they asked me to pay $150,000 to arrange an air ambulance to Singapore for her treatment.”

Mr. Akram also refuted claims by doctors in Lahore that Huma’s condition had been improving before the unsuccessful move was made to shift her to Singapore.

After 42-year-old Huma’s condition worsened while she was being flown to Singapore in October, the flight was diverted to Chennai.

Huma, a psychologist, was admitted to a private hospital in Chennai, where she diedplayers were recruited from Europe and North America. Recruitment consisted of contacting players and coaches electronically, via telecommunications or in person between May and July 2017. Participants were recruited through professional and personal tennis links of the lead investigator. Furthermore, players and coaches were asked to inform other squad members and appropriate level players, and to pass on the lead investigator's contact details. After initial contact, individuals were prompted after four weeks had elapsed in case they had not already participated in the study. From this recruitment strategy, 70 tennis players aged 19 ± 3 years participated. To be eligible for the study, participants had to be competing at county/provincial level or higher. Participants were asked to state their representative level, current club and tennis rating/ranking via their


Chinese intelligence officials sought the help of a Sydney crime figure as the middle man in an operation to smuggle weapons to Islamic militants in Iran and Lebanon.

US counter-terrorist and organised crime investigators, including agents from the FBI, have identified a Sydney criminal identity as a man who brokered the deal between Middle East militant groups and Chinese arms suppliers in about 2011.

Hezbollah members during a military operation in Syria last week. Credit:HEZBOLLAH MEDIA OFFICE HANDOUT

The crime figure is a Sydney money launderer who was a Hezbollah functionary and met with Chinese nationals identified by the US as intelligence operatives.

Hezbollah-aligned figures asked that the man broker the international arms deal, according to briefings from officials who asked not to be identified.Monday, 17 October 2016

SOUTH OF SAGLEK: A NUNATSIAVUT ADVENTURE

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There is a
belief, perhaps commonly held, that Labrador, especially its northern domain, is
“the Land God Gave to Cain”. It is an ascription
which Jacques Cartier gave the entire north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Ostensibly,
he was alluding to Genesis 4:11–16 which tells us that, as punishment for having
killed his brother Abel, Cain is condemned to survive a barren land.

Cartier may
have known scripture, but it seems he gave little assessment to the place he perceived
only as bleak and desolate. He may have been right about Cain’s reward all the
same. It just seems that he had such a limited expectation of a deity he might
have thought a merciful God. Just
possibly, the allusion to “barren” elicits an excess of


alongside the remnants of an ancient culture that thrived
without the construction techniques of the Europeans.

Photo Credit: Mark Dykeman

Yet, it was neither
the Moravian project nor even the graveyards giving evidence of European
settlement from 1829, not the Inuit sod houses nor the ancient rock graveyards,
which testified to lives lived, a respect for family as well as for community —
for even here, the evidences of life found no association with notions of barrenness,
endurance, hardship, or deprivation. That proof was manifest in the pride
exhibited by an Inuit elder and carpenter working on the restoration project.
He led our eager group to one site, and then another, sharing with strangers
stories of the old ways, and some much more recent. He spoke not as might the
historian or the archaeologist, but as one who had alsoendured, one for whom it was
personal. After all, he was in the place of his ancestors, where he was
happiest and where he evidently belonged.

Photo Credit: Mark Dykeman

In 1956 and
1959, the Government of Newfoundland — without consultation — forcibly relocated
the people of Nutak and Hebron.

As deeply
moving were the artifacts of early Inuit life and culture, and even those
relatively modern — especially the Moravian Mission House and the remnants of
the Hudson’s Bay Company store, the latter giving way to the elements — none quite
affirmed the love of place as did the sentiments expressed and inscribed on bronze
plaques, erected in 2005.

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Written in
both Inuktitut and English, and prominently mounted where they give homage to
those who have passed on, the plaques echo the earlier proof of a people who
had truly


“noise” heard in that city of icebergs, the
discord at Torngat
Mountains Base Camp and Research Station was both brief and deliberate. With
fog capping the mountains at Saglek Bay, a phone call to the helpful Manager of
the Camp — who met us at the very start — produced a Zodiac. A short boat trip
began to the northern part of Saglek Bay, providing a chance to satisfy a
long-held curiosity as to the conveniences afforded visitors to Torngat
Mountains National Park.

A community
of yurts and tents, including a large version of the traditional Labrador
variety with comfortable elevated beds, greeted our arrival. Showers, a fine
meal, and a gathering place where we could hang out, read, or just relax, also
contrasted with the service-less demands of camping. Even entertainers were
part of the deal — three in fact.Gnarley permitted the use of his highly regarded name provided he could have full access to state his own rather unequivocable opinions. (A more detailed Profile of Uncle Gnarley is described in the very first Post entitled "Uncle Gnarley is alive and well" found on this site.
Sullivan is a firm advocate of sound fiscal management by the provincial government and intends to use this Site as a forum for commentary on the major issues of the day. Says Sullivan, "Newfoundland and Labrador inspires debate on a variety of issues, a veritable Muskrat Falls of opinion".
Readers are invited to leave their opinions, too.
Uncle Gnarley will post every Monday, and more often as events warrant.


The former Bachelor said the drama put him and his girlfriend Cassie Randolph "in very awkward situations"

During the two-night season 6 premiere earlier this month, Horstmann, 30, caught flak after Miller-Keyes revealed he’d hooked up with her one day after sleeping with Kristina Schulman at the Stagecoach festival in April. According to Miller-Keyes, it was former Bachelor Underwood who introduced her to Horstmann.

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On the show, Miller-Keyes, 24, tearfully told cameras that Horstmann had called their night together a “mistake” and begged her to keep it a secret. But as the episodes aired, Horstmann posted their text messages on his Instagram Story. Their conversations seemed to debunk her story, suggesting she sought him out for sex and was just as concerned aboutof political rectitude.

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I asked Farage what he attributed his success to. He was adamant that it was youtube. His ideas were spread through social media, his message viewed on phones and tablets by people who did not normally do politics.

The big ideas were latent but had no articulation and Farage gave them articulation through the social media he employed. The media like the ideas were waiting to be used.

What surprised me about Farage was his very detailed understanding of the impact of EU legislation on the financial services industry and his optimism about the capacity of UK financial services to recreate themselves as a force in their own right. What he was worried about was the over reliance of the City on globalisation as a concept which


of $700,000. A motion for summary judgment was granted in favor of defendants and from this ruling plaintiff appeals.
On September 19, 1967, a forest fire was burning about twenty miles north of Deer *892 Lodge, Montana, in what is called the Gold Creek area. The United States Forest Service took control of fighting the fire and in order to contain the blaze, several bulldozers were leased and borrowed from the local area. This equipment was necessary for the construction of fire lines. The fire lines were constructed and controlled by employees of the United States Forest Service and the drivers of the bulldozers were under the direct and exclusive supervision of the forest service. One of these bulldozers was leased from Mickelson, who owned and operated a constructionbusiness in Deer Lodge, Montana. Mickelson supplied an operator for the bulldozer, one Charles Fiske; however, while constructing the fire lines, Fiske was under the control and was paid by the United States Forest Service. Another bulldozer was loaned to the fire fighting operation by the Montana State Prison. This loan was at the request of the United States Forest Service; however, certain prison land was adjacent to the fire area and the State Prison had an interest in protecting this grazing and timberland. In order to operate the bulldozer, the prison provided a guard and two prisoner-operators to run the equipment.
James Kish, a member of a fire crew from Butte, was on the fire line several days after the bulldozers had constructed the fire line. Allegedly, an


uprooted tree was left standing and was allowed to lean against another tree. When plaintiff Kish was in the area, a wind caused the tree to fall on him. Kish, 45 years of age at the time of the accident, was paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the accident. Two years later Kish died. Plaintiff contended the uprooted tree was negligently left standing by defendants. This is the basis for the lawsuit.
Two issues are presented for review. First, was the trial court correct in ruling that Montana State Prison was immune from suit by reason of the doctrine of sovereign immunity? Second, was the trial court correct in ruling that the loaned servant doctrine applied as to release the defendants from liability?
The trial court wasWe affirm the district court's ruling on this issue.
The loaned bulldozer and operator (Montana State Prison inmates and equipment) and the leased bulldozer and operator (Mickelson's bulldozer with Fiske as the operator) were fighting a forest fire under the request and direction of the United States Forest Service. Agents of the United States Forest Service directed all operations of the bulldozers and their drivers. The loaned servant rules this Court established in Lewis v. Potter, 149 Mont. 430, 427 P.2d 306, and in Devaney v. Lawler Corp., 101 Mont. 579, 56 P.2d 746, are controlling. In these two cases the Court established two controlling factors of the loaned servant doctrine. First, in whose business was the person engaged? Here, there can be no doubt that the bulldozers and


his dying mother and has run the Empire Grill ever since. His wife, Janine, recently divorced him to marry the slimy Walt and his teenage daughter, Tick, is having problems of her own at school. There are a lot of other colorful people running around,Empire Falls, including Miles' father, the unreliable Max, and his former neighbor and nemesis Jimmy Minty. I had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Russo read from this book shortly after it won the Pulitzer, and if he ever comes to a bookstore anywhere near you, don't pass up the chance. He is just as warm and funny as his characters.Share This Story!

Coney Island opens for 2014

Christopher Patterson, 11, of Ft. Campbell, jumps off of the diving board into Coney Island's Sunlite Pool during the amusement park's opening weekend of the season. In celebration of its Memorial Day weekend opening, Coney Island salutes U.S. troops with special military appreciation days all weekend long, during which military personnel just need to show their military ID to receive a FREE Pool & Rides combo ticket. This is Coney Island's 128th year of operation.

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Christopher Patterson, 11, of Ft. Campbell, jumps off of the diving board into Coney Island's Sunlite Pool during the amusement park's opening weekend of the season. In celebration of its Memorial Day weekend opening, Coney Island salutes U.S. troops with special