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The UAEMr. Buff, who appeared in the Eison case, used to be a managing partner at Semrad, but is no longer associated with the firm.
Two other Semrad attorneys filed documents in the Harmon case: Ms. Hong and Ms. Jakob-Barnes. Ms. Hong was the junior attorney working on Ms. Harmon's case. Ms. Hong was admitted to the Georgia bar in 2008 and has been working at Semrad since April of 2009. Prior to working at Semrad, Ms. Hong's bankruptcy experience was limited to a debtor-creditor relations course in law school. Ms. Hong's legal practice before working at Semrad was limited to contract work on worker's compensation claims. Ms. Hong's bankruptcy training at Semrad consisted of sitting with two senior attorneys, Brien Nelson and Harold Boone, when she first started the


Harmon came to Semrad's offices on September 9, 2009, for what she believed would be a consultation. She initially met with an intake attorney, Brien Nelson, whose job was to evaluate whether Ms. Harmon's situation was appropriate for a bankruptcy filing and under what chapter to file.[2] After meeting with Mr. Nelson, Ms. Harmon spent two hours with Ms. Hong, who prepared Ms. Harmon's petition and discussed her initial payment to Semrad. Ms. Hong and Ms. Harmon determined that she would pay Semrad the initial filing fee in two installments. She paid half the fee via a check dated September 9, 2009, and half the fee via a check post-dated to September 18, 2009. Ms. Hong explained to Ms. Harmon that they would gather information and prepare herHong to change the numbers on Ms. Harmon's Schedule I.
Ms. Hong contacted Ms. Harmon again on September 17, 2009, and explained that the only remaining documents she needed were her credit counseling certificate and an affidavit regarding her roommate's contribution. Ms. Hong told Ms. Harmon that, if the credit counseling was completed on that day, the earliest Ms. Hong could file the petition would be September 18, 2009, which was the date on her post-dated check. Ms. Harmon emailed the credit counseling certificate to Ms. Hong on September 17, 2009.
On September 18, 2009, Ms. Hong filed Ms. Harmon's petition. Despite the various changes to the petition between September 9 and September 18, Ms. Hong testified that she did not have Ms. Harmon sign a new declaration verifying the


a troubling decision. Got to agree with the two dissenting justices that the majority created a new and unwarranted excuse to late notice of suit -- the "I didn't know the insurance company had moved and my attorney didn't spend three-tenths of a second to check" excuse.

American Transit insured Batista under a personal auto policy. Batista struck and injured Brown on November 12, 2002. Brown's attorney promptly notified ATIC of Brown's claim, and ATIC assigned a claim number and acknowledged that claim in a letter to Brown's attorney dated January 28, 2003. ATIC's address at the time was 275 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001. ATIC subsequently conducted a property damage appraisal of Brown's vehicle and settled the property damage portion of his claim.

Just shy of the applicablethree-year SOL, Brown commenced a personal injury action against Batista on November 9, 2005. On January 26, 2006, Brown's counsel sent a "courtesy copy" of the summons and complaint to ATIC at its Seventh Avenue address, instructing it to interpose an answer on behalf of its insured.

There was no reply or appearance by ATIC which, in fact, had moved two years earlier in November 2003 to offices on West 34th Street in Manhattan. Brown's counsel apparently did nothing to determine why ATIC had not responded to his notice of suit, as ATIC had done almost immediately to counsel's first notice of claim. On June 21, 2007, following an inquest, the court granted a default judgment in favor of Brown for $75,000. Judgment in the total amount of $81,830,


including medical liens and interest, was entered against Batista on July 19, 2007. Now needing to "serve" notice of entry of the judgment on ATIC in order to comply with Insurance Law § 3420(a)(2), Brown's attorney apparently had no trouble identifying ATIC's current West 34th Street address and sent the judgment to ATIC at that address on August 9, 2007.

Upon receipt of the default judgment, ATIC promptly disclaimed coverage on the ground that it was not provided with timely notice of the lawsuit. ATIC then brought this declaratory judgment action alleging that neither Brown nor Batista had complied with the policy's requirement that ATIC be timely notified of any suit brought against one of its insureds. ATIC alleged that its first notice of Brown's lawsuit came after judgmentservicer of HVT's leasing program and agent of HVT for all obligations of HVT as a lessor under its lease contracts. Adams averred that the vehicle that struck the plaintiff's car was a leased vehicle, owned by HVT. The Adams affidavit also stated that the lessee driver involved in the accident was not an employee or agent of HVT, that HVT had no duty to repair or maintain the leased vehicle, that the vehicle's lessee was responsible for repairs and maintenance, and that as of the accident date, HVT was in the business of leasing motor vehicles to the public.

In granting HVT's motion for renewal of plaintiff's earlier motion for partial summary judgment, Bronx County Supreme Court Justice Nelson Roman reiterated the general rule that an application for


as ISO's PP 00 01 01 05 personal auto form, limit the application of that exclusion to vehicles "located inside a facility designed for racing" while being used for the purpose of competing in, practicing or preparing for "any prearranged or organized racing or speed contest."

MIC Property & Casualty Corp. insured Pedro Avila and his vehicle. On October 3, 2005, the Avila vehicle, being driven by Merqui Avila, struck an automobile, killing one of the passengers in that vehicle and injuring two others. Merqui and the driver of another vehicle, Carlos Molina, were charged with manslaughter in the second degree as a result of the accident. During their plea allocution to the reduced charge of criminally negligent homicide, both admitted that at the time of the accident, theyno liability coverage to the Avilas. The decedent's executrix appealed.

In a 3-2 decision, the Second Department REVERSED the order appealed from and denied MIC's summary judgment motion. In the three-justice majority's opinion, the statements made by the drivers to the police on the day after the accident, which were admissible for the purpose of defeating a motion for summary judgment, raised a triable issue of fact as to whether Merqui's conduct fell within the speed contest exclusion:

Merqui's plea of guilty to criminally negligent homicide does not, in itself, establish that he was engaged in a speed contest at the time of the accident. "A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when, with criminal negligence, he causes the death of another person" (Penal Law § 125.10). Since nothing


in the statutory language requires that, to be convicted of that crime, a person have been engaged in a speed contest, the conviction of criminally negligent homicide does not, in itself, establish that Merqui was involved in a speed contest (see Allstate Ins. Co. v Zuk, 78 NY2d 41, 45).

Merqui's admission that he was engaged in a speed contest at the time of the accident also is not dispositive here. At issue here is the meaning of the term "speed contest" in the exclusion from coverage contained in the insurance policy issued by MIC. To " negate coverage by virtue of an exclusion, an insurer must establish that the exclusion is stated in clear and unmistakable language, is subject to no other reasonable interpretation, and applies in thea "speed contest." Indeed, both drivers indicated that just before the accident occurred, and after stopping at a traffic light, Merqui pulled away at a high rate of speed and Molina raced to catch up with him. After stopping at a second traffic light, they continued "playing with each other," and pulled away at a high rate of speed as Merqui tried to pass Molina.

The dissenting justices also noted that both charged drivers, in allocuting to their guilty pleas, admitted that they had been engaged in a speed contest:

Furthermore, although no specifics as to the speed contest were elicited during the plea allocution, neither Merqui nor Molina was charged with a violation of the Vehicle and Traffic Law. Finally, and most significantly, the drivers clearly admitted that they


had participated in a speed contest when they were asked that question during their plea allocution. Indeed, a review of the plea minutes indicates that not only did the court specifically elicit such admissions from them, but also, that there was no concern expressed at that time about the meaning of the questions being posed.

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law approved late last year prevents the FDA from allowing any such trials in humans.

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Case study on Maruthi Sujuki India Ltd Employees Strike:

Case study on Maruthi Sujuki India Ltd Employees Strike Earlier, on June 4, workers at the plant had gone on a 13-day-long strike demanding the recognition of a new union, the Maruti Suzuki Employees Union (MSEU).

Introduction: Differences in salary pay:

Introduction: Differences in salary pay In the Gurgaon plant the salary of skilled workers adds to 30,000 – 40,000 Rs including the overtime and incentives, whereas the skilled labourers at Manesar get only around 13,000 to 17,000 Rs.

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From 4th to 17th of June 2011 around 2,000 young workers engaged in a wildcat sit-down strike at Maruti Suzuki factory in Manesar . The two Maruti assembly plants coordinate hundreds of local supplying factories [2], the


the wider work-force in the territory.

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The main reasons for the defeat of the strike as follows: workers raised direct demands, but early on these demands were ‘integrated’ in the workers’ hope that by formal recognition of an independent union their material situation would improve. An attack both by management and state, cutting of electricity, isolation of workers by army of security guards, declaring the strike formerly illegal and last but not least by sacking the 11 ‘leaders’; the main unions then offered ‘support’ and at the same time focussed the struggle on the question of ‘taking back the leaders’ and ‘workers’ rights’ for representation.

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The fate of the strike was handed over to the ‘negotiating forces’. It is inexpert to repeat the phrase of ‘unfaithfulness’ of theOn 5th and 6th of June management sealed the gates and placed a row of security guards in front of them in order to prevent exchange between workers inside and outside, between workers and supporters and media. Management also restricted water, food, electricity and toilet access. Only after a demonstration outside the gate on 6th of June, the food supply through family and friends was permitted again. Eleven workers were officially dismissed on the 6th of June. Police was deployed both inside and outside the premises.

Entrance of mediators into issue:

Entrance of mediators into issue On the 8th of June the main unions AITUC, CITU, HMS, INTUC, UTUC formed a ‘joint action committee’ to ‘support’ the strike. Although this committee dominated by AITUC had no formal link with neither


the provisions of the Industrial Depute Act, 1947, referred the matter of ongoing strike in Maruti Suzuki Udyog Ltd, Manesar , by the workers to the competent labour court and has also passed the orders prohibiting the continuance of the strike in the industrial unit,” Minister of State for Labour and Employment Shiv Charan Lal Sharma said in a statement. The strike was officially called ‘illegal’.

Strike call off:

Strike call off On the 16th of June Maruti management told the media that it would try to ‘revive’ production lines in the Gurgaon plant in case the strike dragged on for longer – unnecessarily so, because a day later, on 17th of June, the dispute was settled. The workers were represented by leader of the proposed new union Maruti SuzukiEmployees Union Shiv Kumar and national secretary of AITUC Sachdev . “The company has now agreed that we would not be asked to sign the paper. Also, the fact that Maruti took back the 11 workers shows that our demands were met,” said Shiv Kumar.

Strike again:

Strike again July 28, 2011 | 17:05 , Just over a month after they called off a 13-day-long stir that resulted in a loss of about Rs 630 crore , workers at Maruti Suzuki India's Manesar plant went on strike again on Thursday afternoon. The workers resorted to a strike when five of them were suspended for "allegedly assaulting a supervisor" on Wednesday.

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Workers of Suzuki Powertrain India Ltd and Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt Ltd, located in the Gurgaon-Manesar industrial belt, declared a


13, 2011 Haryana government on declared strike by workers at Maruti -Suzuki's Manesar plant as illegal. The strike on Thursday entered seventh day as workers continue to demand that the management take back all suspended and casual employees. Suzuki India Ltd. has incurred a revenue loss of 15 billion rupees ($306.7 million) since Aug. 29 due to labor woes at one of its factories that have severely impacted vehicle output at the country's largest car maker by sales.

Negotiations:

Negotiations The Haryana government signed separate pacts with MSI and its arms — Suzuki Powertrain India Ltd (SPIL) and Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt Ltd (SMIPL) and their respective workers' bodies to end the stir. Haryana government-brokered negotiations between Maruti Suzuki India management and its workers to end the standoff at MSI’sLagos (CNN) Google has created a doodle in honor of jazz legend and anti-apartheid hero Hugh Masekela on what would have been his 80th birthday.

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smelled odor in March or April of 1963; and thereafter when wind out of south. Witness Johnson first smelled odor in spring of 1963, and when wind out of south. Witness Mrs. Gorgas first smelled when weather got warm in 1963; smelled at various times; worse when weather damp. Witnesses Hesse, Swensen and Stollenwerck went to plant and near plant at various times and smelled no odors. Witness Barns, who designed the plant, testified it made no odor after it was built in September or October, 1962; and that the installation of an odor burner in early 1965 eliminated all offensive odors.
Plaintiffs' witnesses testified after the odor burner was installed the condition improved somewhat.
Defendant's plant was a lawful undertaking and erected on defendant's lands, and did not constitute(where the Sun is straight up on the summer solstice) either, which is another assumption Eratosthenes makes, according to Cleomedes.
Our primary source on Eratosthenes's Geographica, where these assumptions were, presumably, justified, is, unfortunately, Strabo, whose mastery of geometry leaves much to be desired. Here is what Russo writes in Ptolemy's longitudes and Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's Circumference on his account:

"Strabo writes in a couple of passages that according to Eratosthenes the Nile flows along the meridian from Syene to Alexandria, but in the same passages the Nile is described as flowing along the same meridian even from Meroë to Syene, while in the book devoted to Egypt, still quoting Eratosthenes, he describes the path of the Nile as far from being a north-south straight line and


in more than one instance Strabo appears to confuse distances with their orthogonal projections along a meridian."

If we take Strabo at face value, Eratosthenes could have taken the word of mouth that sailing down the Nile was northward, which could be roughly determined by watching the Sun and the Polaris.  Just as he took the word of mouth that the Sun was straight up in Syene on the summer solstice.
But even Shcheglov, who disagrees with Russo on Eratosthenes, is equally unkind to Strabo, see his Hipparchus on the Latitude of Southern India. And the above does not align well with Eratosthenes's reputation as a meticulous geometer and geographer, who, as the head of Alexandrian library, had a corps of surveyors at his disposal. In the ForgottenI knew there was something there.

They just kind of... show up. My first novel, "The Time Travel Journals: Shipbuilder," came about because I watch movies while walking the treadmill. I'd put in "Titanic" to watch for probably the tenth time, and just started wondering, "Who WAS Thomas Andrews? How did he come to build the Titanic? What was he like?" After a little research, I was in love with the man, and this story just poured out.

But the second novel has me flummoxed. I wanted to write a fantasy, and I had some early notes from "Shipbuilder" that ended up not working at all for that story, so I used them as the jumping off point for the character of Seamus. Once again, when I started writing, the


II. And I began to wonder under what circumstances a woman would help a German POW escape. Several months ago, I began pondering the reasons a woman would give her three-year-old up for adoption and tell the rest of the family that the child had died (as an ancestor is rumored to have done). These two seemingly unrelated questions sparked the idea for my protagonist, though it turns out (in the story) her child was stolen from her instead of being abandoned.

My kids' day-to-day life, dreams, and crazy inspire me. I want to live in middle grade, and my current work-in-progress came to me from something funny my child said as we walked to the park. I laughed, and then asked myself "what if?" By the time wetalking about a nightmarish experience on vacation where ants poured into their room from a tiny hole in the wall.

Once the lights were out, the interviewee and her partner were set upon by this horde of little feet as they covered the room (This was a rustic hotel in S. America where they turned the generator off at 10pm to conserve fuel).

One jumped up and ran for the shower to get the ants off, the other grabbed a flashlight to see what was going on.

That interview triggered the idea for a scene with this kid waking up to find her wallpaper moving... and the rest came from there.

The in progress MG novel came from a phonetic hiccup where I heard something the wrong way and thought "That would


from tragedy. In 1999, I lost my father-in-law in a motorcycle accident. In 2001, I lost my mom to cancer. The differences in their passing - one sudden and one slow - got me thinking about life and death in new ways (at least new to me at the time).

Ultimately the line of thought led to a story where a man must die in order to save his soul from a vengeful ghost, even if it means leaving his family behind.

On the lighter side, one day a thought hit me out of the blue: God is going to destroy the world but he can't decide how to do it, so He comes down to earth and hires a consultant (EARTH'S END).

Also, when my oldest son was a toddleris news journalism. For my first novel When I Was Joe I saw a report about a boy who was a witness in a trial, and whose family had to have new identities. I began thinking about how the witnesses had suffered almost a worse fate than anything handed out to the criminals. For my WIP I read a news report and thought yes!!!!

My TOTALLY FICTIONAL work-in-progress is semi-autobiographical. I took a situation from my life and and reworked it so that it turned out the way I wanted it to. Oh, and I made it funny instead of angsty and sad.

My current project is based on my hockey goaltending sister and her former boyfriend who also goaltends. In September, he signed with his first professional team. This


killings" is done by raping a teenage girl, then dumping her in an acid bath until she's been skinned, and burying the skeleton in a corn field (to which the killer shall lead the police later, post-arrest, as no one is going to find that given the time of year). I was walking down the hall two days ago just sort of mulling over a conversation in the early part of the book and trying to decide how I wanted a specific joke to work, and all of a sudden it came to me and I just shouted "YES! RAPE AND ACID BATH!" and tore off down the hall to my class so I had a hard surface to set down a scrap of paper on and writesurprisingly helpful on those days when the words don't come easily. :-)

Standing in line at Barnes and Noble behind a very vocal middle-aged mom. She was attempting to return the first book in a super popular vampire series written by a Mormon mother in Utah. AHEM. She ranted and raved about the inappropriateness of the series for her fourteen year old daughter while the embarrassed teen stood by, face crimson and looking like she'd be thrilled if the floor would just open up and swallow her whole. My first thought as I listened to the hysterical mother was "WOW...I wonder what it would be like to live with such an overbearing (w)itch!" VOILA...my new WIP was born...

Strange as it may sound, I often browse the pages of--dare I


little girl has a big secret. And even though I never intended it to happen this way, her story niggled in the back of my mind for about six months. I decided to try to write it for NaNoWriMo, but I was in school, and it never happened. I picked up the story and put it back down a few times while working on other projects, and then in August of 2008, inspiration finally struck. I finished the first draft last June, and the second back in November.

Now that I've had a chance to relax and get over myself, I realize that it has a lot more work, and that the story was too complex to fit into a single book. The challenge won't be splitting it intonot for the faint of heart

I have always been fascinated by the first Christmas of World War I. On Christmas Eve of 1914, soldiers along a section of the German-British-Scottish Western Front expected to stop fighting to observe the Christmas Holiday. And that's exactly what they did. On Christmas Day the soldiers all got together and partied, played soccer, sang songs and exchanged gifts. The next day they went back to fighting. As I thought about it, I wondered what it would have been like if two enemies had been trapped in a bomb crater on Christmas Eve. The story evolved from that single thought.

I went to the funeral of a friend's mother - we'd gone to college together. And his sons were there. They were twenty and


eighteen. And they were a riot!

The older brother was quiet, amused, obviously intelligent and letting his brother have the spotlight. The younger was talkative, charming and even flirted with my (long-married) sister. They were like a comedy routine and "Brothers" was born.

My work that is currently in submission came from a dream. Well, the first half of it did, and for the most part it was "inspired" I guess you could say, as I had to take out all the wacky dream elements, but the characters and some of the events were the same. I just woke up and knew that I had to write this character.

The current WIP came from talking to a friend about the Justice League and one of us (don't remember which) saying, "Younovel Dead Frog on the Porch came from a childhood incident when I accidently stepped on and killed my friend's pet frog. The mystery around why scientists are creating giant genetically stretched frogs is pure fiction!

I knew I wanted to write a historical mystery, because I love reading them. Then I read a biography of Katharine Hepburn, whose father was a physician, and he had a case of a man who gave his wife a venereal disease on their wedding night - his friends had taken him to a brothel before the wedding. There was no cure back then, and she died. Dr. Hepburn committed his life after that to preventing VD, despite the controversy it caused. That started the wheels turning: sex, scandal, a prominent family, murder


March 6, 2006

The town of Manchester, Vermont, convened a special meeting Saturday night to discuss and vote on the wind power project on Little Equinox Mountain proposed by Endless Energy. By a voice vote at the end, the people of the town chose to oppose the project. They also approved $150,000 to fight it.

The Village Planning Commission had already done its homework, as represented by the statement below.

At a Special Meeting of the Commission held on Saturday, Feb. 25, to discuss the results of the recent Wind Forum, the Commission concluded, unanimously, that the proposed project should not be supported because:

1. The project violates both the Town and Village Plans of Development.

2. The project's detriments outweigh its benefits to the Manchester Community.

3. No pollution reductions will result becauseAn international team of scientists have confirmed the discovery of a major cause of dementia, with important implications for possible treatment and diagnosis.

Professor Garth Cooper from The University of Manchester, who leads the Manchester team, says the build-up of urea in the brain to toxic levels can cause brain damage – and eventually dementia.

The work follows on from Professor Cooper’s earlier studies, which identified metabolic linkages between Huntington’s, other neurodegenerative diseases and type-2 diabetes.

The team consists of scientists from The University of Manchester, the University of Auckland, AgResearch New Zealand, the South Australian Research and Development Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University.

The latest paper by the scientists, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that Huntington’s Disease – one of seven major


the cannery industry which permitted American Samoa to get a head start on recovery from the cannery closure in 2009.

McPhee is a professional economist with extensive Pacific Island experience. Lewis Wolman, a former executive at Samoa News and Blue Sky Communications, has served as past president of the American Samoa Chamber of Commerce and is now the Chamber’s vice-chairman.

(Appeared in Samoa News, original article no longer available online.)A Look At Cornerback And Return Man Jamal Agnew‘s 2017 Performance And Future Outlook.

Coming out of a small school like San Diego, not many analysts knew much about the Lions 5th round pick in the 2017 NFL Draft when they selected Jamal Agnew. However, in his rookie season, he showed exactly why the Lions drafted him and why he was worth the selection.

At 5’10, 180 lbs, Agnew was drafted to be a punt and kick returning specialist, with the athletic upside to be a great slot cornerback if he can put it all together. However, his role in his rookie season was not limited to special teams and defense, Agnew’s speed and vision earned him a limited role in the offense as well.

They typically utilized his speed on


sweeps and screens, that generated nine yards rushing on two carries, as well as snagging both of his receiving targets for 18 yards. While the yardage gained may have been minimal, two of those four plays earned first downs for Detroit. His niche use was important in keeping drives going, especially for a team that had as money close games as the Lions did in 2017.

In 2017, as a punt returner, Agnew was among the NFL’s best. He returned two punts back for touchdowns, but also did a consistently good job getting long returns. He was even a couple missed blocks and penalties away from increasing that touchdown count, too. He averaged over 15 yards per return, which all together was enough to earn Pro-Bowl honors for therecently become the largest minority group in the United States, and their growing presence is perceived as both a threat and an opportunity. The Latina body acts as a site where discourses about Latinos as a ...

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Pellegrin was able to accompany Pitt to Berlin, where he is working on his next movie; Cruz as she rehearsed for her role in the film “Nine”; Winslet as she primped for the red carpet; Penn as he made a hamburger at home; Rourke as he cuddled his beloved Chihuahua, Loki, in London; Langella as he was fitted for a tuxedo before an awards show; Downey Jr. as he shared a laugh with his wife; and Dennings in the bath at her house in Los Angeles. The


Sarah in “Little Children” — both are ex-bohemians, trapped in their pleasantly conventional surroundings, uncomfortably inhabiting the roles of mother and homemaker — but their dreams of escape are entirely different. Sarah wants love; April believes she already has it and simply wants to move to Paris, where she and her husband, Frank (Leonard DiCaprio), can live the creative, interesting lives they deserve. Sarah’s fantasy survives until very close to the end of “Little Children”; throughout the film, she’s an energetic and hopeful — if slightly deluded — character. April’s dream dies earlier, and she spends the second half of the movie in a state of escalating desperation. Furious with Frank, she has sex with a neighbor in the front seat of a car; the scene is shortplays her role with such conviction it’s impossible not to believe her.

It seems logical, somehow, that an actor who became famous for playing Dracula should have his greatest success playing Richard Nixon — no disrespect to Dracula intended. Frank Langells has been on stage and screen now for almost a half-century. He has taken on roles from Antonio Salieri to Sherlock Holmes, the Daily Planet editor Perry White, the Lolita-loving Clare Quilty, the CBS chief executive William Paley in “Good Night, and Good Luck,” Cyrano de Bergerac and a White House chief of staff in Ivan Reitman’s “Dave.” Moving laterally — and vertically — from one room in the West Wing to the Oval Office, he has now received an Oscar nomination for best actor in “Frost/Nixon.” Watching


is illuminating.

Nixon has been played by a number of actors over the years. Anthony Hopkins earned an Oscar nomination for his Nixon in 1995, and Lane Smith turned in a memorable Nixon in “The Final Days,” alongside Theodore Bikel’s Henry Kissinger. But Frank Langella now owns Nixon, as surely as Gielgud, whose Shakespeare recordings Langella listened to as a young actor in order to shed his New Jersey accent, owned Hamlet for a time.

In the movie, Frost decides, as a gamble, to start off the first of the four, 90-minute interviews by asking Nixon, “Why didn’t you burn the tapes?” It fails, as a trap. Wily — rather, tricky — Nixon ties him up in videotape by prattling on endlessly about how all the presidents before him taped,in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” a role for which in the past few months she seems to receive an award every other day.

I’m delighted that after a long period wandering in the wilderness at the beginning of this century, when she appeared in a series of American films that didn’t work,Penélope managed to shatter the image of empty beauty in which Hollywood pigeonholed her. In 2003, she returned to Europe, to star in the Italian film “Non Ti Muovere” (“Don’t Move”), by Sergio Castellitto, as an impoverished woman who has a passionate affair with a surgeon, and re-established her reputation as an artist.

Last year she finally came into her own in America, as she had already done in the rest of the world. Penélope is one of the most


8/30 TNA Live Events Results: Hagerstown, Maryland

1. James Storm and Gunner defeated Bad Influence to kick off the show. Storm hit Last Call for the win.

2. Mickie James defeated ODB with a roll-up to retain the Knockouts Championship.

3. Bobby Roode defeated Joseph Park with a DDT.

4. AJ Styles defeated Mr. Anderson. The crowd loved Styles and had the biggest pop of the night. Styles picked up the victory with the Calf Killer.

5. Austin Aries defeated Magnus in what was called "the match of the night." Aries was able to lift up Magnus for a Brainbuster and picked up the win. The crowd was split for both men, who worked as faces.

6. Bully Ray defeated Chris Sabin to retain the TNA Heavyweight Championship. Bully beat up on Sabin throughoutthe entire match, similar to their bouts on TV. Sabin was able to hit Hail Sabin, but the referee was knocked out and did not come to life. Bully Ray would pick up the victory after he used a chain to hit Sabin in the head. The referee struggled to get up and made the count.

* Bad Influence out to start the show and got some heat. James Storm & Gunner interrupted, which led to a match. Gunner & Storm went on to defeat Bad Influence. * ODB comes out to big pop to face Mickie James, who gets the pop for being somewhat local. James pins ODB with a roll-up. Jeremy Borash comes out and says he's going to try to talk Dixie Carter into bringing a


Another lawsuit is pending against Woody and others in the August 2014 death of Erin Jenkins.

Jenkins’ mother filed a $10 million lawsuit in June 2015 against Woody, deputies, a doctor and nurses who worked at the jail; and Correct Care Solutions, the company that contracted to provide medical and mental health care services to inmates at the time of Jenkins’ death.

She was moved away from the general population within a few days of arriving at the jail because she was hallucinating. Jenkins did not have a history of mental illness, but her family believes the jail mistook her hallucinations as a mental health issue rather than a medical emergency.

They allege in the lawsuit that jail staff ignored her for hours instead of seeking medical attention. Her death wasCMMI 20190908003 and CMMI 20190908004, juvenile, under stones in grass halfway up a steep hill, Taiping National Forest Park, Hu county, Shaanxi, China (33.98N, 108.69E, 640 m alt.), collected by Chao Jiang, on 08 Sept 2019. CMMI 20190908005, adult, under a trash bin near the road, Taiping National Forest Park, Hu county, Shaanxi, China (33.98N, 108.69E, 626 m alt.), collected by Chao Jiang, on 08 Sept. 2019. CMMI 20190908006, subadult, under a stone near the collection site of specimen CMMI 20190908005, collected by Chao Jiang, on 08 Sept. 2019. CMMI 20190908007, juvenile, under a stone of brushwood, Taiping National Forest Park, Hu county, Shaanxi, China (33.98N, 108.69E, 620 m alt.), collected by Chao Jiang, on 08 Sept 2019.

### Other specimens for DNA sequencing.

Plutoniumidae: *Theatops chuanensis* Di et al.,


We fed captive centipedes with mealworms, fish moths, and cockroaches, the latter two typically occurring in the centipedes' microhabitat. The centipedes became active at approximately 20:00 most nights and would quickly escape to shelter when disturbed by noise.

### Live colouration.

Cephalic plate brownish red to orange-red, more deeply coloured in the anterior part. Coxosternites, forcipules, and tergites pale yellow to pale brown, ultimate segment and ultimate legs pale orange. Antennae, all sternites, and dorsal aspects of the legs light yellow. The live colour of a specimen from Shaanxi is slightly different from others. Its ultimate leg prefemur was nearly brown, which is more deeply coloured than that of the femur and tibia. The juvenile individual was uniformly light yellow on the cephalic plate, antennae, tergites, sternites, and all legsforged the checks and deposited the amounts in the joint account. He had lied to his wife and told her that the extra money was an inheritance. In his opinion, she clearly had no involvement in these offenses.
P.D.A. agreed to plead nolo contendere and received a five-year term of probation which included an obligation to pay over $10,000 in restitution and perform 100 hours of community service. She fulfilled the terms of this probation in less than two years, and was discharged on February 25, 1991.
In August 1991, P.D.A. filed a petition to expunge or seal her record. An amended petition was filed alleging the appropriate conditions required for an order under section 943.058, Florida Statutes (1991), and also alleging that expunction was appropriate under the three-prong test


racial equality, it would be wrong. Those who took part in those ugly scenes are the reality rather than the myth of America. They know that the American exceptionalism which Obama, while president, declared he believed in with every fiber of his being, is in truth white exceptionalism – ‘white’ in this context being not only a racial construct but also an ideological construct.

Indeed, Obama’s election as the nation’s first black president, rather than heralding the post racial society the country’s liberal establishment liked to believe, merely confirmed the extent to which the generations-long struggle for black liberation and emancipation did not end in victory but in defeat – a defeat reflected in Obama and his supporters’ embrace of the very institutions that have violated and crushed thehumanity of black and brown people in the land of the free since time immemorial.

While the US Confederacy, which was the Islamic State of its time, was defeated on the battlefield, racial oppression remained the lived experience of the newly freed slaves and remains the lived experience of their descendants today. Consider for a moment the withering j’accuse delivered by Frederick Douglass, escaped slave and towering figure of the country’s abolitionist movement in the mid 19th century. In a speech he gave in 1852 to mark that year’s Fourth of July, the most sacred and revered anniversary in the US calendar, Douglass reminded his audience that “your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty


the annual commemoration of his birthday in his home state of Tennessee, known as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day. It is also reflected in the statue of him which today sits pride of place in a park in downtown Memphis. And his is just one of the plethora of statues, monuments, and commemorations that celebrate and seek legitimize the US Confederacy across the South. These monuments and statues are, by the way, a relatively recent phenomenon, with many of them dating back to the 1960s, when they were erected as a reaction to the Black Civil Rights Movement, a movement which at the time was a threat to the racist culture that held sway, and still holds sway, in many of the former Confederate states.

In truth Nathan Bedford Forrestwas a racist, murdering savage who after the war became the first Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan. He fought for the ignoble cause of slavery and white supremacy, along with every other soldier of the Confederacy, and as such his statue is an insult to any conception of human decency. It is, indeed, comparable to a statue of Reinhard Heydrich or any other Nazi leader sitting pride of place in downtown Munich.

The ugly scenes that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia did so in response to a decision by the city’s authorities to remove a statue of that other famed confederate general, Robert E Lee, from a park there. Those scenes and the controversy surrounding the memorials, statues and monuments in tribute to the US Confederacy are


buildings.

One engineer taking a cigarette break in the grassy plaza in Sunnyvale, California, said Microsoft's move raised difficult questions for Yahoos. The woman, who was in her late 30s, would not give her name due to corporate rules against unauthorized contacts with reporters.

"Everyone sees Microsoft as the big octopus from '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' that wants to swallow everybody up," she said.

The Silicon Valley veteran said she had previously worked at Adobe Systems Inc, eBay Inc, Nortel and even Microsoft itself. "I really don't know," she said, when asked what it felt like to possibly work for Microsoft again.

Yahoo definitely sees itself as different from other companies. On its site for prospective employees it says, "We believe humor is essential to success. We applaud irreverence and don'tComing to terms with the challenge of modernity has been a major concern for Muslim
scholars. Faced with the reality of the global system of nation states, and the question that
the challenges of secularism, democracy ...

Islamic resurgent movements have striven to accomplish an Islamic way of life off their own version of an Islamic state, struggling against the socio-economic and political objectives of governments. While autocratic ...

This study investigates the connection between the biblical references to the Gospels in Actae Thoma, or the Apocryphal Acts of Judas Thomas, and the text of the Vetus Syria. The main objective is to verify whether the ...

The history of Muslims in Pretoria began two decades after the arrival of the first Muslims
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supply.

"I don't think (terrorists say), 'We got the World Trade Center. What's next -- Kentwood?'" he said.

But Mayor Richard Root said no one takes chances any more. He said he was proud of city workers for their diligence, adding that they responded appropriately.

"You're never certain what the intention is," Root said. "I'm sure you'd find the Coast Guard very excited if somebody (was photographing) the Mackinac Bridge.

"I hope (Heil) is not too offended, but on the other hand, I think we did a good job."

The water tower, nicknamed "the octopus," is distinctive because of pipes that hang down. Its photo is even featured on the city's website.

John Gorney, Kentwood's operations and utilities manager, said his concern wasn't the content of the photo, but the reason behind it.

He wasCitadel Malware Brings Service To Cybercrime

Using many of the hallmarks of open-source project management, the Citadel project looks likely to become a major botnet threat

When the developers of the popular Zeus banking Trojan released the program's source code last year, many security experts warned Internet users to brace for a deluge of malware. Instead, relatively few variants of the well-known bot software have appeared.

Enter the Citadel malware-as-a-service model. The brainchild of what appears to be Russian and Ukrainian programmers, Citadel is a development effort that aims to provide better support for its offshoot of the Zeus code base, while at the same time allowing clients to vote on feature requests and code their own modules for the crimeware platform. First detected in early December 2011 by threat-management firm


in a statement. "An interview process to determine the retention of an outside security agency will commence next week when the owners return to Florida."

Yaari expressed dismay at the conduct of his bouncers, and said his bar "placed a priority on evaluating [bouncer] training."

Alex Coehlo, 29, and David Parker, 27, have retained lawyers and say they plan to sue the bar. Coehlo, who suffered deep cuts and contusions around his face, has become a sympathetic figure in public opinion.

"I've known Alex for over ten years," friend George Dammous said. "I've been through shit and sunshine with him, and he's in no way a troublemaker. He's a nice guy who keeps to himself and is always there for a friend."International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde returns to her office after an interview at IMF headquarters in Washington July 1, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said it plans an open selection process for its top job and will begin accepting nominations on Thursday, even though Christine Lagarde has said she is open to another term leading the crisis lender.

Lagarde’s initial five-year term as managing director expires on July 5, and IMF executive board member Aleksei Mozhin said he expects the board to complete its selection process by early March.

Lagarde, a former French finance minister, was elected in 2011 after competing against Mexican central bank governor Augustin Carstens to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was forced to resign the top IMF job amid a


Tapie when she served as France’s finance minister.

Lagarde has vowed to appeal the trial order and has said she acted in the best interests of the French state and in full compliance with the law. The IMF board has reaffirmed its confidence in Lagarde’s ability to effectively carry out her duties.

During her tenure as head of the Fund, a sovereign debt crisis in Europe eased, loan programs to debt-laden Greece have been extended, and the Chinese yuan was added to the Fund’s benchmark currency basket.

The fund also last year won approval by the U.S. Congress of a landmark reform program that shifted more voting power to China and other key emerging markets.wonderful husband for 26 years and I have 2 children. A boy 25 and a girl 21. I live on the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada...better known as the Wet Coast because of the amount of rain that we get.
I first started crafting when my son was in his second year of Beavers. My husband and I became leaders that year with 2 other wonderful people. I found that I had a nack for finding ways of making crafts for the Beavers to do that were cute but inexpesive. I moved on from Beavers into Guiding and followed my daughter through her 2 years of Sparks and Brownies and her first year of Guides. When she left I continued on for a few years. During this time


meets Obama in Washington this week.

The White House said the company’s role in the release of the Lockerbie bomber from a Scottish prison will also come up.

BP has confirmed that it lobbied the UK government in late 2007 over a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya, but said it was not involved in talks on the release of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight.

The British government said it had no plans to re-examine a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya, despite demands by U.S. lawmakers for an investigation.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told senators who had demanded an investigation that the United States was urging Scottish and British authorities to review the circumstances leading to Megrahi’s release.

Cameron’s visit comes as U.S. lawmakers areand weaknesses of all three alliance members. Throughout the tournament students also practice their communication skills, as they try to powerfully and succinctly describe their robot’s strengths and strategy to their fellow competitors and judges. Team members receive a background in budget management, fundraising and public relations as well, since a robotics team is expensive to run and requires pitching yourselves to sponsors and other fundraising throughout the year. On top of those skills, students learn time management and how to work under high-pressure deadlines – there are only six weeks between the announcement of the new FIRST game and when teams have to have their robot completed.

During those six weeks of building students experience great successes, but they also learn and grow from failures. They might measure


Local election results

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May 14, 2011 9:04:09 PM PDT

HOUSTON --

Voters headed to the polls Saturday to decide several key races across our area. In Galveston, voters were deciding whether people should pay to park on the Seawall during peak hours. Supporters said the money will maintain public facilities, while opponents feared the fee will drive tourists away. According to final numbers, the ordinance will pass with 61 percent of voters saying yes to 39 percent who oppose.

There were two closely watched mayoral races in our area. Kemah Mayor Matt Wiggins lost to challenger Bob Cummins. According to poll results, Cummins overtook the incumbent with 285 votes to Wiggins' 227.

And in Pearland, incumbent Tom Reid will hold onto his seat. Unofficial results have him at nearly 60 percent of thefor part of his thumb in the shop’s sawdust. It was found within a few hours and brought to the hospital, but doctors felt Mann couldn’t endure the roughly 12-hour surgery, he explained.

In October, Mann spent about five days being fitted and learning to operate his new hand at a laboratory in Ohio. The company that created his hand, called Touch Bionics by Ossur, even paid to fly Mann and two others to the location.

One was Patricia Schnier, who is a certified hand therapist at Islanders Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation on San Juan Island. According to Joyce Thomson, the owner of the facility, Schnier is the only specialist with that designation on the islands.

Normally, said Thomson, patients like Mann would have to leave the island to see occupational


Ala. Police Officer Will Not Be Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Man Mistaken For Gunman

An Alabama police officer who shot and killed a man he mistook for the gunman in a mall shooting will not be charged with a crime, the state's attorney general announced Tuesday.

Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr., 21, was killed by an officer whose name has not been released and is identified only as "Officer 1" on Thanksgiving night inside the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala.

Bradford was fatally shot by the officer seconds after another man, Erron Brown, allegedly shot twice and wounded 18-year-old Brian Wilson. The officer — who was on duty at the mall — apparently mistook Bradford for Brown.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall released a 26-page report concluding that the officer was "justifiedBradford family, Ben Crump.

The police initially claimed that Bradford was a suspect in the mall shooting.

"But then the next day they said that Bradford likely was not the man involved in the original shooting and that set off waves of protest and unrest, said reporter GiGi Douban of NPR member station WBHM on All Things Considered.

"So you saw marchers demonstrating in front of the mayor's house, they stopped traffic on busy streets and interstates, and for a time they protested daily at stores across the area as the investigation dragged on with few details," Douban added.

Attorney General Marshall also released two 13-second video clips from shopping mall surveillance cameras. One shows Bradford running and then falling as he is shot from behind three times. An autopsy showed that


he was hit in the back of the head, neck and lower back.

The surveillance footage provided no sound, according to the report, which concludes that "it is unclear" if Officer 1 gave Bradford any verbal commands before shooting him. The officer reported that "he did not give any commands due to the imminent nature of the threat," but two eyewitnesses said they heard such commands.

Neither Officer 1, nor his partner, referred to as Officer 2, had turned on the body cameras they were wearing.

Marshall's statement provides links to his report and the video.by National Vaccine Information Center

In what appears to be an unprecedented move, the Allegheny County Health Department (Pittsburgh) is considering a MANDATE that would REQUIRE all 7th grade boys and girls to receive the HPV VACCINE before being admitted to school. Given that the HPV (Human papillomavirus) is sexually transmitted, not contagious in a school setting, and already available to anyone who wants it, this proposed mandate is totally unnecessary for the health of school children.

This proposal only affects Allegheny County – for now. However, if this action is successful, the floodgates will be opened for counties across the Commonwealth and possibly other states to mandate this controversial vaccine. Below are separate urgent action items to fight this for both those residing in the county and for those


Malone was slow to develop at the University of Tennessee before breaking out in his junior season, and it appears that he'll be slow to develop in the pros as well. He was considered a deep-play specialist with the Vols and that might be his role with the Bengals, too. Unfortunately, his most noteworthy play all season was being the receiver that the Steelers' Ryan Shazier tackled on the play that Shazier got hurt. He'll begin training camp no better than fourth on the Bengals' depth chart behind A.J. Green, Brando LaFell and Tyler Boyd, and ultimately behind John Ross as well. Read Past Outlooks

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in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft. He's a former top recruit who earned rave reviews in Tennessee practices as a freshman, but generally struggled along with the rest of the team's passing game in his first two years. That changed in 2016, when Malone totaled 972 yards and 11 touchdowns on just 78 targets. With 4.4 speed, Malone rounds out a prospect profile that implies considerable upside. Unfortunately, he won't see a big role anytime soon with A.J. Green, John Ross and Tyler Boyd already in Cincinnati.

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Malone (coach's decision) is inactive for Sunday's game against the Raiders, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.consumers did not yet notice any impact when they went shopping, the authors of the report said that could change.

“The supermarkets are full of food, but it is mostly imports from other countries and there are not many varieties. The reliance on a small number of species means they are more susceptible to disease outbreaks and climate change. It renders food production less resilient,” warned Julie Bélanger, the coordinator of the report.

As examples, the report noted how overdependence on a narrow range of species was a major factor in the famine caused by potato blight in Ireland in the 1840s, cereal crop failures in the US in the 20th century, and losses of taro production in Samoa in the 1990s.

“There is an urgent need to change the way


in six years, from 1,332 in 2011 to 1,674 last year. Why are they controversial? Mega farms and intensive farms are controversial because they require keeping tens of thousands of animals in a small space, which campaigners and independent experts say can hamper their ability to express natural behaviours, such as nesting. The animals are often kept indoors throughout their lives, though on some farms they are allowed access to outdoor areas at least part of the time. There are also concerns that animals on mega farms may be over-medicated, as if one gets sick the whole herd is generally required to be treated. Why do some people believe we need them? Mega farms and intensive farms take up much less space than traditional farms, and they allowattention as climate change. Many states reported economic losses caused by disappearing or shifting ecosystems. Ireland, Norway, Poland and Switzerland noted shrinking bumblebee populations. Egypt was concerned that its fishing industry would suffer because fish were migrating northwards due to rising ocean temperatures. Gambia said communities were being forced to buy expensive industrially-produced products because free wild food sources were becoming scarcer.

The biodiversity crisis is set to rise up the global agenda, with discussion on the topic at the next G7 in April, a World Conservation Congress in June, and then a major UN conference in Beijing next year.

“Around the world, the library of life that has evolved over billions of years – our biodiversity – is being destroyed, poisoned, polluted, invaded, fragmented, plundered, drained and burned at


The Saraswat Co-operative Banking Society was established on 14th November 1918 by Mr. J.K. Parulkar who was its first chairman, Mr. N.B. Thakur, the first Vice-Chairman, Mr. P.N. Warde, the first Secretary and Mr. Shivram Gopal Rajadhyaksha, the first Treasurer. These people were known for their faith, vision, ideals and entrepreneurial skills.
The bank was set up mainly to help poor people. Bank provided temporary accommodation to its members in time of need such as weddings of dependent members of the family, repayment of debt and expenses of medical treatment etc. Later in 1933 the society was converted into a full-fledged Urban Co-operative Bank.
Bank provides deposit facilities for domestic and NRI people, loan facilities, investment and insurance services, demat service, loans for small and medium enterprises, etc. The Bankis the first co-operative bank to provide Merchant Banking services. In 1978 bank was given license for foreign exchange transactions. At present the Bank is having correspondent relationship in 45 countries covering 9 currencies with over 125 banks.

Bank has a network of 200 branches and all are fully computerized covering states viz. Maharashtra, Gujrat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa and Delhi. Bank also offers 24-hour banking service through ATM. It has ATM at 84 locations.


littoral explosion, shows intermediate sizes between KI and HMM with abundant highly elongated and few smaller and rounded vesicles.

The 'spurting' velocity, that is the velocity of the magma droplet (Pele's tear) when ejected into the atmosphere, is considered as the main factor controlling the formation of Pele's hair^[@CR11]^. No experimental study has been carried out on the factors governing the shape of the Pele's hair, but it seems reasonable that higher velocities favor the formation of longer and thinner hair. Additional parameters can modulate the shape of the Pele's hair: i) size of the original magma droplet, in turn influencing the quenching rate; ii) viscosity of the magma and iii) the residence time of the hair in the hot environment. For a lava fountain of Kilauea Iki 1959,*t*~*ves*~ is in the order of 15 s and the hair quenches after this second vesiculation event.

The thickness of the Pele's hair formed after the littoral explosion (LOE) is higher than the HMM case, as a consequence of low spurting velocity and of the larger size of the droplets. This is probably due to the different style of fragmentation, related to the rapid vaporization of trapped water in contact with hot magma. In these fragments the vesicles are strongly elongated in the same direction of the hair, indicating that the fragmentation occurred in an already vesiculated magma, whose vesicles rapidly deformed as the magma droplet was stretched. t~quench~ is higher than the previous case, as a consequence of the coarser diameter of the magma droplets and longer residence in


before the complete quenching of the hair. SR-µCT analyses revealed that KI Pele's hair is more vesicular than the other samples. This can be related to secondary vesiculation, but is probably mainly due to the original gas content of the magma at the moment of Pele's hair formation.

The different morphologies and vesicularities of Pele's hair from the three eruptive styles suggest that the eruptive mechanism is a main factor determining their internal and external morphological features. However, Pele's hair sampled during persistent degassing of Masaya volcano (Nicaragua), has coarser diameters (over 200 μm) and has both elongated vesicles extending discontinuously along the length of the hair and smaller and rounded vesicles^[@CR5]^. Masaya Pele's hair is therefore more similar to LOE or KI samples than to HMM, although the HMM samplesPele's hair closely resemble LOE samples, even if in^[@CR10]^ fragments seem to be more irregular and thick. Anyway no description on morphologies and vesicle textures is presented and therefore it is not possible to compare them. Pele's hair of KI (Kilauea Iki 1959) was compared with that of the 1969--72 eruption^[@CR3]^, and while numerical data on the length and thickness of the Pele's hair or vesicle dimensions are not available, the images show long and thin strands, very different from the stubby shape of KI. In the 1969--72 eruption high fountaining was restricted to episodes in 1969 and in the later years magma was frequently ponded and/or drained back into the eruptive craters suggesting a scenario more closely resembling the current Halemaumau eruption. Pele's hair erupted during lava


fountain at Piton de La Fournaise^[@CR41]^ displays the occurrence of highly stretched vesicles and a second population of rounded vesicles very similar to both KI and LOE, but a much higher microlite content, probably determining a higher magma viscosity.

This study of Pele's hair from different eruptive styles at Kilauea and qualitative comparison with hair formed from similar eruptions at other volcanoes shows that, although the fragmentation mechanism (and therefore the eruptive style) is a key parameter in controlling the shape and vesicularity of Pele's hair, other factors are also important. Caution should be used when trying to infer the eruptive mechanism from the texture and shape of Pele's hair. The following parameters are also important:dimensions of the magma droplet originating the Pele's hair, in its turn influencing thelarge. The verdict of the jury was in favor of respondent in the sum of $521.70. For convenience, the parties hereafter will be referred to in the capacities in which they appeared in the trial court.
Plaintiff's petition was in two counts, the first count alleging violation of the "Stock Law", section 270.010 RSMo 1949, V.A. M.S.; the second count being based on common-law negligence. The latter count was abandoned by plaintiff at the trial, since the cause was submitted to the jury only on violation of the "Stock Law." The answer was a general denial and a plea of contributory negligence.
The evidence revealed that on August 16, 1956, about midnight, plaintiff was driving his 1954 Pontiac coupe south on Highway No. 67 at a speed of around 50


to 60 miles per hour. As plaintiff topped a hill there were two cattle standing in the road and his car collided with the cattle, damaging the entire front end of his automobile. The automobile was not in condition to be driven after the collision. The car was towed to the Swisher Chevrolet Company in Fredricktown, Missouri, where it was repaired at a cost of $491.70, plus a $30 towing charge.
Plaintiff testified that he first saw the cattle when he was about 20 yards from them; that he applied his brakes but was not able to stop before hitting the cattle; that one of the cattle was in the southbound lane of the highway and the other about 2 or 3 feet in the northbound lane; that hewas unable to avoid hitting the cattle by going onto the shoulder because of a light pole in the vicinity. Plaintiff stated he swerved slightly to the left in an attempt to avoid one cow, and thereby struck both there not being sufficient space between the cattle to permit the passage of an automobile. The cattle were headed west across *692 the highway and turned their heads toward plaintiff's car. The head of each cow was struck by a headlight of the car.
Plaintiff's pleadings alleged that at all times pertinent to the issues the defendants owned and operated a sales barn and stock pens located on Highway No. 67 north of Farmington, Missouri. Further, plaintiff alleged that cattle belonging to the defendants and others were kept by defendants


in said barn and pens. In their answer, the defendants admit both of these allegations.
The evidence adduced by the defendants demonstrated that a load of cattle had been delivered to the barn about 7:00 P.M. on August 16, 1956, and that these cattle were run through the barn and into the south stock pen. Defendant E. E. Williams testified that the cattle belonged to him, and not to the other defendants. He further testified that the other defendants were his partners in the operation of the Auction Barn. By Williams' testimony the defense showed that after the cattle were in the south stock pen Williams had examined the only two gates to the pen and they were secure. After counting the cattle Williams went to his home wherehe received a telephone call about 12:30 a. m. informing him that his cattle were loose on the highway.
When defendant Williams arrived at the barn after the accident he found the east gate of the south stock pen open, this being one of the gates previously checked by him. Williams testified that there were 40 or 45 head of cattle in the lot, all of which apparently strayed onto the highway, but only the two struck by plaintiff were involved in any collision with autos on the highway. Williams further testified that the first and only notice he had of the cattle being on the highway was after the collision occurred. There was other testimony that there had been no previous complaints of defendants' cattle being at large


exhibit No. 1, which had not been referred to in the testimony, was repainting the left side of the car, which was also brought out on cross-examination.
The evidence clearly showed that witness Smith was thoroughly familiar with the damage to plaintiff's car, having examined it in its damaged condition. Further, all parts needed for the repair of the car were assembled by Smith and installed under his supervision, so he was particularly qualified to testify as to the nature and extent of the damage as well as the reasonableness of the charge. However, exhibit No. 1 was not identified while Smith was on the stand other than by his comment that he had the repair bill and, testifying from the bill, the date the repairs were started. Nevertheless,to the defendants and others for the purpose of selling said stock at the auction barn to the public.
Defendants in their answer admit the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 and 2 of plaintiff's petition.
*696 After the jury was sworn, but before the opening statements were made, the defendants admitted in the presence of the jury and the court that the Farmington Auction Barn at that time was owned by Calvin Furry, A. J. Babcock, and E. E. Williams, doing business as Farmington Auction Company.
Defendant E. E. Williams testified that the ownership of the barn was in all defendants, but the cattle involved in the collision belonged to him alone.
Sergeant Maxey testified that defendant Williams, at the scene of the collision, admitted owning the cattle and the fact that


next" "So why don't you worry about me?" "And after that he got crushed by you in the second round" "Poor guy" "Ogata sansei, please tell me." "Shindo is..." "I thought you weren't interested in Shindo" "That's great" "His hand..." "That mistake has been turned into a great hand" "That's terrible" "At that point, it was a mistake and drew opponent in then he transformed a mistake int a strong hand" "Relax" "You'll get your answer soon enough in two months" "The Pro Qualifier Test?" "Yes, the path you walked last year" "He will finally walk" "It feels like the normal Insei studying time" "The Young Lions Tournament, it was just like a dream" "By the way, yesterday's Young Lions Tournament" "The only ones to win in firstround is Isumi," "Ochi and Odachi" "And only Ochi won in the second round" "It's hard to get to the third round" "It's a few" "But Waya, your first game was such a pity" "You made some great hands" "Sansei complimented you" "Ochi's incredible." "I can't defeat him these days" "Isumi About even, I guess" "I'm even, too." "I match up well with Ochi" "Do you know?" "About Ochi..." "When he lost, he locked himself in the bathroom" "Bathroom?" "I noticed it recently" "But whenever he loses, he heads straight for the bathroom" "And?" "And you can hear him tapping the wall and mumbling to himself" "If he loses in Young Lions Tournament, he will do the same" "You can hear the sounds of tapping wall" "What's he


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In a joint statement published by the European Commission, both leaders said that the purpose of the meeting in Washington, D.C., was to "launch a new phase in the relationship between the United States and the European Union – a phase of close friendship, of strong trade relations in which both of us will win, of working better together for global security and prosperity, and of fighting jointly against terrorism."

The statement also touched upon the combined supposed strength of the European Union and United States as it apparently amounts to 830 million citizens and over 50 percent of the


world's GDP. The idea, per the statement, is to unite both sides for a "better, more secure, and more prosperous" world.

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Still, according to the WSJ, there were some hiccups here and there. When Trump and Juncker were expected to release a joint statement, journalists reportedly had to wait for an hour. The meeting itself spanned over three hours and at the end of it, Trump and Juncker had yet to step out from the Cabinet Room to make their statement.

The people responsible for drafting the statement were United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. WSJ reported that both men "disappeared for more than half an hour" to "fine-tune" the statement.

At one point, according to European Union official who spoke with WSJ,countrywomen?"

"I'd like to know more. But I believe I'm good at reading character. It
is a gift I inherited. My father was never mistaken about a man, and he
has made use of a good many."

Blanca studied him. He had a smooth, fresh face, and looked very young,
but while she thought he was direct and perhaps impulsive, something
suggested that he was shrewd.

"Women are supposed to be more puzzling," she answered. "Then the
Sarmientos come from Andalusia, and the Peninsulares are complex people.
On the surface, we are often cheerfully inconsequent, but underneath
there's a strain of melancholy. We live in the shadow of a fatalism we
got from the Moors." She glanced at Grahame. "I think you can
understand."

Grahame made a sign of assent. Sitting thoughtfully silent, his lean but
powerful frame displayed by the thin


They could wrestle and use the knife, and Macallister knew that
Pepe, who came first, must be stopped. He supposed that Miguel, whom he
had left on board, was asleep; but to summon help would be subversive
of authority and the affair would be over before Miguel arrived. Lunging
forward, he put the weight of his body into his blow, and Pepe reeled
when it landed on his jaw. Before he could recover, Macallister sprang
upon him, and with a strenuous effort flung him backward through the
gangway.

There was a splash in the water and the others stopped, daunted by the
vigor of the attack; but Pepe did not strike out for the gig as
Macallister expected. Indeed, for there was shadow along the vessel's
side, he did not seem to come up, and after a moment's pausefirst chance I've had to see you alone," he said. "I want
to thank you for your help at the International."

"Was it useful?"

"Very useful. Your quickness and resourcefulness were surprising."

"That's a doubtful compliment," she laughed. "To me the affair was quite
exciting. To feel that you're engaged in a conspiracy gives you a
pleasant thrill."

"I wonder!" Grahame remarked rather grimly. "But may I ask----"

"Oh, I can't dissect the impulses that prompted me. No doubt, the hint
of intrigue was attractive--and perhaps friendship counted too."

"And you took the excellence of my intentions on trust?"

"Well, there really was no time to question you, and judge if they were
good. As a matter of fact, I'm no wiser now."

"No," he said. "On the whole, I think it's better that you shouldn't
know."

"It looks as if I'm more


them.

"All right; I've had enough," Walthew said when Grahame touched him.
"Mack's going to sing again, and I can't stand for that."

The moon had sunk behind the white houses as they crossed the plaza, and
Grahame kept down the middle, avoiding the crowd near the bandstand and
the narrow mouths of the streets.

"Who was that fellow talking to Watson?" Walthew asked.

"I don't know, but he was interested in our affairs. They have a good
secret service in these countries, and we're open to suspicion. We're
obviously not yachtsmen, and the boat's too small for a regular
trader."

"Do you think the man's an agent of the government we're up against?"

"I don't know. I'd hardly expect them to send their spies along the
coast; but, then, these States may keep each other informed about the
movements of dangerousthe address Grahame had given her. Then she stole
from the house.

No one interfered with her as she went up a street that led to the
outskirts of the town, where she was less likely to be watched. The
unsealed note could not be posted, because it would no doubt be given to
Gomez, but she might find somebody who would arrange for its conveyance
by hand. It would be better if the person were a revolutionary, but she
imagined that the President's enemies would not make themselves
conspicuous. Some risk must be taken, but, after all, very few people
could read English.

After a time she met a peon and showed him the note. He seemed surprised
to see the Spanish name on the back, and at first vigorously shook his
head, but when Evelyn held out two


rose against a sky of
intense blue, and far off on the opposite hand a misty gleam indicated
the sea.

Evelyn soon began to get tired, and she found her thin shoes badly
suited to the roughness of the ground. The dust that rose about her
gathered on her skin; she got hot and thirsty; but the water she tried
to drink was slimy and she toiled on. It seemed wiser to press forward
while she could, for there was nobody at work in the scattered fields.
Her eyes ached with the glare and her feet were sore, but the peon did
not come, and when she looked back the road wound along the hillside,
white and empty. Here and there tall trees filled the hollows among the
rocks, but the country seemed deserted and she could not seewas a crash and a rope
fell into the boat, which surged violently forward, grinding against the
steamer's side. Walthew did not know how he got on board, and he
imagined that he fainted soon afterward, for the next thing he
remembered was trying to get up from the top grating in the engine-room,
where Macallister sat beside him, holding a rag and a can of hot water.

"Keep still while I tie up the cut," he said.

"But they've got Grahame!" Walthew exclaimed, trying to rise.

Macallister gently pushed him back.

"I ken. A bad job, but we might have lost ye both." Then he took up a
piece of linen. "It's lucky ye'll no' need stitching, but maybe this
will nip."

Walthew's head smarted intolerably after the bandage was applied, but
the dazed feeling left him when Macallister gave


about him, and he was in the town. It was hard to
believe they had entered unopposed, without a shot being fired, but he
supposed the guard had been surprised and overpowered by friends inside.

The backs of the leading files obstructed his view, but now that they
were moving down a narrow lane the air throbbed with the sound of their
advance. Rifle slings rattled, feet fell with a rapid beat, and now and
then an order broke through the jingle of steel. Then a shot rang out
and the men began to run, two or three falling out here and there, with
the intention, Cliffe supposed, of occupying friendly houses. A little
later, the advance guard swung out into a wider street, and a group of
men began tearing up the pavement; it had been loosenedsustaining the special appearance. Under this disposition, it is unnecessary to address the summary judgment issue.
These parties at one time were involved in various land transactions in Iowa and, as a result, Curoe gave the two notes in question to LaRose. Curoe defaulted and, on December 22, 1978, LaRose filed a petition in Dubuque County District Court to collect them. Curoe, who is a resident of Illinois, was not served with original notice until November 18, 1980, almost two years later.
At some time prior to service of the notice on Curoe, Curoe had filed a separate *155 action in federal court in Iowa against LaRose's attorneys, alleging malicious and reckless conduct in their filing of a suit against Curoe on behalf of LaRose. That suit is not involved


had defrauded the bankrupt corporation. Immunity was refused to this nonresident, because the suit against him was in a nature of a counterclaim, which would have a direct bearing on his own claim in the bankruptcy proceeding. 250 Iowa at 147, 93 N.W.2d at 86.
Similarly, in Miller v. Miller, 153 Neb. 890, 904, 46 N.W.2d 618, 626 (1951), immunity was denied a nonresident who was served notice in a contempt action for failure to pay alimony while he was in the State of Nebraska to seek modification of the original decree. And, in Mullen v. Sanborn, 79 Md. 364, 29 A. 522 (1894), immunity was denied when a nonresident who had commenced an attachment suit was served with notice in a suit against him for wrongful attachment.
The distinctionautomation, cloud computing, and natural language processing.

Apple's senior director of artificial intelligence and machine learning Carlos Guestrin back in February 2017:

We're trying to find the best people who are excited about AI and machine learning — excited about research and thinking long term but also bringing those ideas into products that impact and delight our customers. The bar is high, but we're going to be hiring as quickly as we can find people that meet our high bar, which is exciting.

Seattle has become a hotbed for technology companies because of its talent pool and lower cost of living compared with the San Francisco area, with Amazon, Facebook, and Google among the tech giants with offices in the region.

Last year, Apple became a member of the Partnership on AI,


a non-profit organization established "to study and formulate best practices, to advance the public's understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society."

Apple recently hired John Giannandrea, the former head of Google's search and artificial intelligence division. Apple's Machine Learning Journal documents the company's efforts in the artificial intelligence area.Sally Ride, 61, first US woman in space

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Sally Ride, shown aboard the Challenger during its mission in 1983, was also the youngest American to travel in space.

By Denise Grady
New York Times
July 24, 2012

NEW YORK — Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died Monday at her home in San Diego. She was 61.

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Sally Ride aboard the Challenger.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, according to an announcement by her company, Sally Ride Science. Ms. Ride, a physicist, flew on the shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, and on a second mission in 1984. She was also, at 32, the youngest American in space. Ms. Ride later became the only person to sit on both panels investigating the catastrophic shuttle accidents that killed all


astronauts on board: the Challenger explosion in 1986 and the Columbia crash in 2003.

Ms. Ride was finishing studies at Stanford — degrees in physics and astrophysics (as well as English) — and looking for a job when she saw a newspaper advertisement that said NASA was accepting astronaut applications. She looked at the qualifications and said, ‘‘I’m one of those people,’’ she told The New York Times in 1982.

She applied, and made the cut. ‘‘The women’s movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming,’’ she said.

By the time she began studying laser physics at Stanford, women had already broken through into the physics department, once a boys’ club. And when she applied to the space program, NASA had already made a commitment to admit women.

Sandysent two women into space. One was welcomed aboard a space station by a male cosmonaut who told her the kitchen and an apron were ready for her.

In her early days at NASA, Ms. Ride trained in parachute jumping, water survival, and acclimatization to weightlessness and the huge G-forces of a rocket launch. She learned to fly a jet plane. She also switched from physics to engineering and helped to develop a robotic arm for the space shuttle. The Challenger commander, Robert Crippen, chose her for the 1983 mission in part because of her expertise with the device. She was part of a crew of five that spent about six days in space, during which she used the arm to deploy and retrieve a satellite.

At Cape Canaveral, many


in the crowd of 250,000 that watched the launch wore T-shirts that said, ‘‘Ride, Sally Ride’’ — from the lyrics of the song ‘‘Mustang Sally.’’

The next day, Gloria Steinem, then editor of the magazine Ms., said, ‘‘Millions of little girls are going to sit by their television sets and see they can be astronauts, heroes, explorers, and scientists.’’

When the shuttle landed, Ms. Ride told reporters, ‘‘I’m sure it was the most fun that I’ll ever have in my life.’’

Her next mission, in 1984, lasted about eight days. She was on the roster for another shuttle flight, but then, on Jan. 28, 1986, the Challenger blew up, 73 seconds after taking off.

‘She inspired generations of young girls to reach for the stars and later fought tirelessly to help themget there.’

As part of the accident-investigation panel appointed by President Ronald Reagan, she asked tough questions. The group learned from testimony and other evidence that there had been signs of trouble on earlier Challenger flights, but that they had been dismissed as not critical. Ms. Ride told a colleague it was difficult not to be angered by the findings.

One witness was Roger Boisjoly, an engineer who had worked for the company that made the shuttle’s rocket boosters and who had been shunned by colleagues for revealing that he had warned his bosses and NASA of potentially fatal flaws in the boosters’ seals. Afterward, Ms. Ride, widely considered to be reserved and reticent, hugged him. She was the only panelist to offer him support, and Boisjoly, who died in


combine ‘‘adventure, science, technology, and perhaps the seeds of enterprise.’’

She also noted darkly that the United States had ‘‘lost leadership’’ to the Soviet Union in a number of aspects of space exploration.

The same year, Ms. Ride retired from NASA and became a science fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University. In 1989, she became a professor of physics and director of the California Space Institute at the University of California San Diego.

She also developed a passion for trying to interest young people, especially girls, in science, math, and technology. She wrote six science books for children, including one that explained how to make a sandwich in space. (She advised eating it fast, before it floated away.) In 2001 she started a company,Sally Ride Science, to ‘‘make science and engineering cool again,’’ as she put it, by providing science-oriented school programs, materials, and teacher training.

Ms. Ride was known for guarding her privacy. She rejected most offers for product endorsements, memoirs, and movies, and her reticence lasted to the end. At her request, NASA kept her illness secret.

In 1983 Susan Okie, a longtime friend and a journalist, wrote an article in The Washington Post in which she described Ms. Ride as elusive and enigmatic, protective of her emotions. ‘‘During college and graduate school,’’ Okie wrote, ‘‘I had to interrogate her to find out what was happening in her personal life.’’

Okie quoted Ms. Ride’s younger sister, the Rev. Karen Scott, a Presbyterian minister, as saying, ‘‘ ‘Closeness’ is not a word that


US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,129

As of Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, at least 2,129 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

The AP count is two less than the Defense Department’s tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 a.m. EDT.

At least 1,766 military service members have died in Afghanistan as a result of hostile action, according to the military’s numbers.

Outside of Afghanistan, the department reports at least 128 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, 11 were the result of hostile action.

The AP count of total OEF casualties outside of Afghanistan is three more than the department’s tally.

The Defense Department alsoRecently, the National Park Service awarded a $6,500 matching grant through the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program. The grant will provide funding for four interpretive granite and bronze footstone markers at the grave sites of William Boyd, John Dean, Hannibal Hamlin, and David Hall.

Historian Sandy Schmidt has completed countless hours of research into the connection between these individuals and the Underground Railroad, and has advocated for their inclusion in the Network to Freedom program. Thanks to her, Congressional Cemetery is included on the Network to Freedom. Sandy wrote the article below for inclusion in Congressional Cemetery’s Fall 2013 Newsletter, and you can learn more about her research on Washington, DC history at her website, http://bytesofhistory.org/.

Congressional Cemetery and the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

By Sandra Schmidt

Congressional Cemetery


was first accepted to the Underground Railroad (UGRR) Network to Freedom in March 2010. An amended application including 2 more individuals was approved this September. As a site on the National Register of Historic Places, Congressional qualifies as the burial site of four individuals associated with the UGRR – William Boyd, John Dean, David A. Hall and Hannibal Hamlin.

The Network to Freedom is a national network of sites, programs and facilities with a verifiable connection to the Underground Railroad. Its purpose is to educate the public and encourage documenting, preserving and interpreting UGRR history. The Network to Freedom was authorized by the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-203) and is managed by the National Park Service. The website (http://www.nps.gov/ugrr) and application process wereofficially launched in October 2000. Since then nearly 500 sites, programs and facilities throughout the U.S. have been accepted by the Network’s review board.

William Boyd (1820-1884, R5 S222) was a “conductor” on the UGRR. In November 1858, he was caught near the Pennsylvania border with two escaped slaves concealed in the back of his wagon. It is not known how many other slaves he helped to freedom, but at his trial, witnesses testified they had seen his wagon on other occasions. Boyd was sentenced to 14 years in the penitentiary for stealing slaves. He had served only 3 years when 54 members of Congress – all of the officers of the Penitentiary and other prominent citizens of the District – petitioned for his pardon. President Lincoln signed the


pardon on October 3, 1861. Boyd’s efforts on behalf of the black community did not end there. During a riot in June 1865, when a crowd of rowdy soldiers began looting and beating the black residents in Southwest D.C., Boyd was hit in the head with a brick. A soldier was about to strike him with an axe when a group of black women intervened. He lost an eye and was so severely wounded doctors gave no hope for his recovery. He did recover, but never fully. He went on to serve on the Board of Common Council in 1869, and was a leading member of the Republican Party in Southwest Washington, where he argued for the rights of the black community.

Both David A. Hall and John Deanwere attorneys who provided legal aid to freedom seekers and other participants in the UGRR. David Hall (1795-1870, R34 S63) arrived in the District in about 1820 to study and practice law. There are numerous examples of cases heard before the DC and MD courts in which Hall defended or negotiated on behalf of freedom-seekers. Among them are the petition he wrote which Rep. Joshua Giddings presented in Congress on behalf of a black Virginian who had been falsely imprisoned as a runaway slave and was about to be sold to pay his “lodging” expenses. In 1848 he was the first attorney to come to the aid of the officers of the Pearl and the escaped slaves found on board. His daughter’s recollection of his funeral is a


fitting tribute to his worth. Nothing was “so impressed upon my memory as the sight of the little group of weeping black men and women that gathered around my father’s casket, and in sobbing tones spoke of his goodness to them in the old days of slavery, when he saved them from being sold and separated from kith and kin.”

National Republican article by Dean

John Dean (1813-1863, R83 S181) arrived in DC in 1862 to take a position in the Treasury Department. He immediately became involved in a series of fugitive slave cases that, because of the interest of persons on both sides of the slavery issue, were covered extensively by the newspapers. His primary focus was to test the applicability of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Becausethe law referred only to slaves escaping from one State to another, Dean argued, unsuccessfully, that the law did not apply to the District or the Territories. Over the next year he represented 7 freedom-seekers, 4 of which were ordered returned to their owners. A fifth, Andrew Hall, enlisted in the army and thus escaped recapture. As a result of his work Dean was extremely unpopular among the Maryland slave owners. He began to fear for his life, and an altercation with Hall’s owner resulted in his being charged with assault. Dean contracted and died of pneumonia before the case could be heard in court.

NFRA Statement of Purpose bearing Hamlin’s name

Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1862, R64 S75) was a cousin of Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln’s first vice president. He arrived in