Mental Disability Groups Protest 'Tropic Thunder'

Dozens of people from organizations such as the Special Olympics and the American Association of People with Disabilities protested the movie-industry spoof across the street from the film's Los Angeles premiere at Mann's Bruin Theatre on Monday. The protesters held up signs with slogans such as "Call me by my name, not by my label" and chanted phrases like "Ban the movie, ban the word."

The groups are outraged over scenes featuring the liberal usage of a disparaging term used to describe the mentally disabled. In the movie, director and co-star Ben Stiller plays a fame-hungry actor cast in a war movie who previously had a role as a mentally disabled character named Simple Jack. The DreamWorks film, which opens Wednesday, also stars Robertbut with monoskiing the lower body can work as one unit.

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Avid Guinness World Records collector Martyn Tovey, has been given the ultimate Christmas present this year after being awarded two official records for the ‘Largest collection of Guinness World Records Memorabilia’ and ‘Largest Collection of Guinness World Records Annuals’.

The 57-year-old from Somerset, UK, owns over 2,164 unique Guinness World Records items of memorabilia and over 353 unique Annuals including rare first editions signed by both Norris and Ross McWhirter.

The diverse collection started after Martyn won the 1968 Guinness Book of Records during a school competition, with his mother continuing to buy him an annual every Christmas since.

Speaking of his official recognition by Guinness World Records, Martyn said "It has taken many years - and a great deal of effort - to put my collection together, and to berecognised by Guinness World Records in this way is absolutely fantastic."

Martyn has proved to be an expert on Guinness World Records and even advised Norris McWhirter of a mistake in the 1971 edition of the annual, after it printed two different ages for J B Salling in the list of oldest people and longest surviving soldier. Norris McWhirter responded by letter, thanking him and explaining that the different publishing times of the front and back of the book resulted in the confusion.

In preparing for the 60th Anniversary celebrations Guinness World Records have found Martyn to be a wealth of knowledge and have often called upon him to check historical facts.

The extensive collection varies from the weird to the wonderful, with memorabilia including board games, spoons, cartoon engraved glasses


before Wednesday's sentencing to 35 years in jail, Manning was a young Army private struggling with gender-identity issues. As early as 2009, Manning reached out to an online counselor; Wired published the resulting transcripts from those chats in 2011. "Bradass87" is Manning.

Manning's internal conflicts, the defense lawyers argued during the trial, factored in her decision to leak the more than 250,000 diplomatic cables and other military files. Perhaps those pleas partially explain why she only received a 35-year sentence. Prosecutors were gunning for 60.

But due to current procedures at Fort Leavenworth, the Kansas facility where she will be serving her sentence, the complete gender transition she is hoping for isn't likely to happen (at least without a legal intervention). In an interview with the Court House News Service,while in prison (though Manning's only current request is the hormone treatment). In 1990, when Michelle L. Kosilek was still known as Robert, she murdered her wife. She's now serving a life sentence. Over the past few decades, her legal proceedings have followed a similar path as De'lonta's. First in 2003, she successfully sued to receive hormone treatment. And in September 2012, again citing the Eighth Amendment, she won the right to a state-funded sex change. The court ruled:

The Eighth Amendment does not permit the unnecessary infliction of pain on a prisoner, either intentionally or because of the deliberate indifference of the responsible prison official. Any such infliction of pain is deemed "wanton." The wanton infliction of pain on an inmate violates the Eighth Amendment. Prisoners have long


Athletics: World record holder Leonard Komon returns to chase world leading 10 k time in Berlin

Will there be another world leading road race time to be improved in Berlin? Just two weeks after Geoffrey Mutai has taken the Berlin Marathon with 2:04:15 his own 10 k mark will come under threat in the German capital renowned for superfast times in road races. Organiser BERLIN RUNS will stage the ASICS Grand 10 this Sunday, where Leonard Komon had tied the world lead a year ago with 27:15 minutes. The Kenyan returns to Berlin for the 10 k race and will go for a hattrick plus another very good time. Two years ago the world record holder (26:44) had established the course record of 27:12, which still is a Germanallcomer record. Around 7,000 runners will participate in the ASICS Grand 10, which will be staged on a loop course leading through the western part of the city centre and also through parts of the Berlin zoo.

Leonard Komon will not watch out for lions or tigers when passing through the zoo but instead will check the clock on the lead car. He intends to run at least 27:28 minutes on Sunday, which would be just enough to establish a new world lead. By coincidence fellow-Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai, who had won the Berlin Marathon in September, is the number one so far this year at 10 k as well. He had run 27:29 in Boston on 24th June.

Leonard Komon has shown good form recently, when he took the 10


× Expand EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Conflict on the Ukrainian border has contributed to a humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine.

For Ukraine, one benefit of being dragged into America’s domestic political scene is that its strategic importance to the United States has become clearer. As former Ambassador Bill Taylor said at the impeachment hearings: “Ukraine is a strategic partner of the United States, important for the security of our country as well as Europe. Ukraine is on the front line in the conflict with a newly aggressive Russia.”

For almost six years, Ukraine has been fighting off Russia’s attempts to move its borders westward. Casualties of the conflict have reached an estimated 40,000, with 13,000 killed including 3,300 civilians.

Among all this noise about Ukraine, a lot of misinformationcirculates. Some of this has been unintentional and well-meaning, such as the assertion from certain members of Congress that President Trump’s withholding of the $400 million in aid in military aid directly cost Ukrainian lives. The rest of the misinformation has come from Russia.

As Ukraine and Russia resume talks to end the war, it is important that we separate fact from fiction. How and why did the war start? How has it progressed? And, most importantly, how can a peace settlement be reached?

The Russian state has mischaracterized the conflict as a civil war; or as an uprising by ethnic Russians in the east of Ukraine attempting to rejoin the Russian Federation; or as a Russian military project to protect Russian speakers from far-right thugs who took over Kyiv


in a bloody coup.

None of these narratives is remotely true. The war started as a land grab on the Crimean peninsula, with Russia taking advantage of disarray in the Ukrainian state and armed forces in the weeks following the Euromaidan revolution.

A matter of days after corrupt Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia after being ousted in a popular uprising, the so-called “little green men”—Russian special forces unconvincingly posing as local freedom fighters—moved in on Crimea. The operation had been planned for some time, and as soon as the opportunity presented itself, it was implemented—Russia secured control of the peninsula within days.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had long coveted Crimea. Crimea hosts Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, is an attractive holiday destination and held a symbolic historical relevance to Russia.The region was Russian territory until as recently as 1954, when it was gifted to Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev.

The Donbas region holds no such attractions, so it was by no means certain that Russia would double down on its success in Crimea by using the same strategy there. Beset by corruption and reliant on oligarch-owned major industries like coal and steel, the Donbas had a poorly functioning economy even in peacetime. Before war broke out in 2014 the Donbas accounted for 16 percent of the Ukrainian population, but only contributed 8.4 percent of its GDP.

Russia’s objective for pushing into the Donbas was less about claiming Ukrainian territory than securing the annexation of Crimea and maintaining leverage over the new Ukrainian government.

Russia’s objective for pushing into the Donbas was


less about claiming Ukrainian territory than securing the annexation of Crimea and maintaining leverage over the new Ukrainian government. The loss of Ukraine from their sphere of influence was a genuine fear for Russia. A well-known phrase in foreign policy circles is that “Russia without Ukraine is a country, Russia with Ukraine is an empire.”

Putin has operated remotely in the Donbas through use of “curators” and proxies—whenever there has been a danger of a significant battlefield defeat, though, regular Russian forces have poured in.

The Russian proxies had the upper hand at the start of the conflict and claimed much of the Donbas in early 2014. However, as the new government established itself, the battered Ukrainian army staged a remarkable comeback. Reorganizing themselves quickly, and boosted by new volunteerbattalions, by July 2014, Ukrainian forces had retaken twenty-three of the thirty-six districts previously under separatist control. It looked, briefly, like Ukraine might be able to take back all the territory it had lost.

It was at this point that thousands of Russian special troops swept in to drive the Ukrainians back, inflicting some heavy defeats, like the one in the key supply link of Iloviask in August 2014. The Ukrainian army had surrounded Iloviask, but as the Russian regular forces arrived, found themselves surrounded. They reached an agreement to give up the town in exchange for being allowed to retreat safely. But the Russians went back on the deal, and many Ukrainians were killed trying to escape.

In fact, each time Russia’s proxies in the Donbas were unable to


deliver an important strategic objective, the regular army moved in to do the job. At Donetsk airport, for example, Ukrainian fighters nicknamed ‘The Cyborgs’ held out against all the odds for 242 days, until Russian regular troops finally forced a retreat in January 2015.

It was by this time clear to the Ukrainian side that this was a war they could not win militarily. But their resistance had made clear to the Kremlin that any further incursions would come at a heavy political cost. Since then, the battle lines have hardly moved, while the war no longer features large battles with tank and infantry, but sporadic artillery and gunfire. The United Nations reported that 9,100 people had died and 20,700 people were injured by November 2015. Since then, theannual death toll has been closer to 500 to 600 people.

Germany and France were able to broker talks in late 2014, leading to the Minsk Agreement in September 2014, followed by Minsk II in February the following year.

The Minsk agreements called for an immediate ceasefire and the release of all hostages. The separatists agreed to disband their armed units and gradually reintegrate into the Ukrainian state. Kyiv agreed to disband militias, pass an amnesty law, a special status law and a constitutional amendment, to resume payment of pensions and other benefits, draw up a strategy for economic reconstruction.

However, with the Russians were involved in the agreement as mediators, rather than combatants they cannot be held to account for breaking the agreement, which they have on every occasion, and


Ukraine cannot achieve its objectives of joining the European Union and NATO in the midst of an armed conflict. In turn, Ukraine has an excuse to hold out on enacting any disadvantageous provisions of the Minsk agreements.

In the geopolitical fracas, the people of the Donbas are in danger of being forgotten. It may take the region decades to recover economically, if indeed it ever does. Besides the physical damage to the region, the banking system has collapsed and trade ceased. It is estimated that the region’s economy shrunk by about two thirds in 2014.

It is not a conflict the people of Ukraine have sought. Surveys last year showed that 65 percent of people living in the government-controlled areas of the Donbas, and 55 percent of people living inUnder the Radar Blog Archives Select Date… August, 2020 July, 2020 June, 2020 May, 2020 April, 2020 March, 2020 February, 2020 January, 2020 December, 2019 November, 2019 October, 2019 September, 2019

The move came one day after former Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) was sworn-in as attorney general. | Getty Feds drop request to rein in ban on Obama transgender policy

The Trump administration has found a nationwide injunction it can live with.

In the slew of lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order, Justice Department lawyers have repeatedly argued that — whatever the alleged legal defects in his order — nationwide injunctions on its enforcement are improper.

However, on Friday night, Justice Department attorneys handling a lawsuit over President Barack Obama's efforts to protect transgender individuals dropped an effort to


on the transgender rights issue, or even punt the case until they have a ninth colleague on the currently shorthanded high court bench.

The Justice Department has long argued that nationwide injunctions are improper, in part because they can interfere with the normal process of different federal courts considering legal issues and issuing decisions that then percolate up through various appeals courts.

However, Texas and other states managed to obtain such a nationwide ban on key parts of Obama's effort to accommodate some immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally. In recent days, more liberal states have managed to harness that precedent to shut down Trump's travel ban order, at least for the time being.

Some of the Justice Department lawyers involved in defending the travel ban are also listed on themotion withdrawing the stay request in the transgender case, notably Civil Division special counsel August Flentje, who argued for the ban in the 9th Circuit session Tuesday. The acting chief of the Civil Division, Chad Readler, is also listed on the filing in the transgender case. Readler was listed on some pleadings in the travel ban case but took his name off more recent filings due to his former law firm's involvement in preparing an amicus brief in that dispute.


at the very sight of his picture, this jester is only half way his final act.
Now nobody asks what the real reason is why he is so strongly objected at the recognition of the Turkish genocide of the Armenians. Nobody connects the dots with the Turkish objection of the presence of the US air-force in Turkey. Nobody asks why the Erdogan soon to be caliphate government is so keen of withdrawing from the EU, although the game between the two is who draws first for the political blaming.
Now observe the de facto birth of Kurdistan. And observe the coming genocide of the Kurds. And observe the costs it takes to recognize a genocide.

You gotta love the jester, for he does what he does and nobody is connecting theThe 24-year-old completed a dramatic homecoming just minutes before last night's transfer deadline, re-joining Wolves on loan for the rest of the season.

The Bournemouth striker enjoyed a stellar year in Wolves colours between January 2015 and January 2016, scoring 23 goals before moving to the Premier League side for £10million.

After his shock return to Wolves, Afobe told the club's official website he was 'home'.

"It's unbelievable," he said. "Two years ago I left, everyone knows that, it's been good playing at Bournemouth in the Premier League but I'm glad to be home, this feels like home for me.

"It was probably the best year of football I had. I just thank Wolves for giving me the opportunity to come back and hopefully I can score goals from now until the


end of the season.

"I have unfinished business here. I've been keeping tabs on the club and the team for the whole season. I obviously still have friends here, they've been doing great.

"It's a family club so I'm just happy to be part of it again. Hopefully I can help the boys get over the line for promotion and win the league.

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"When I first came we finished seventh and missed out on the play-offs by goal difference so that was very upsetting for me.

The season after we were nowhere near it. That was tough as well. I obviously left, for a number of reasons, but as I've said I've been keeping tabs on the club this season and they've been doing great.

"I've always wished nothing but the best forOpen Arms

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Today, tonight is the night. Last year about this time we landed in Columbia and were welcomed home by family and friends. We've made it through our first year and have so many stories to tell.

Today we were thinking about how different all our lives are now. Usually we are up early an busy with school or co-op classes by 9am, but today was different. We were all pretty exhausted last night so the kids slept in for a bit.

Lyonya was up early though and racing thru his school work. He was motivated. He managed to finish his Algebra, Physical Science and English by 10am. Highly motivated. He had the opportunity today to help a friend with a house painting job....and that meant there


was money to be made, so he was all over that. By 10:30 he was out the door for a full days work. Pasha also had the chance to work today but he wanted to make sure he was ready for marching band this afternoon so he opted to stay home today. So we (Pasha, Galya, Andrew and I) enjoyed a leisurely morning of current events, the reading of the historical account of John Wycliff's bones being dug up and burned at the stake, math and grammar. A quick lunch of meatloaf sandwiches (which the kids actually like now) was enjoyed while we visited with Jenn (our extra daughter/border right now) and our next door daughter, Sarah. Sarah had to come visit due to plumbing problems at home.

PashaThe charges come days after the United Air forcefully removed a passenger from a flight due to overbooking, capping off a bruising week for the public image of the one of the world’s largest carriers.

ON April 9, United Airlines had forcefully removed a passenger from a flight due to overbooking. (AFP File Photo)

United Airlines found itself on the defensive again on Friday after a passenger complained that a scorpion stung him during a flight from Texas, capping off a bruising week for the public image of the one of the world’s largest carriers.

A man on board a United flight from Houston to Calgary, Alberta on Sunday, said a scorpion dropped on his head from an overhead storage bin and stung him under his fingernail, according the United and


security officers dragging a bloodied passenger off an overbooked United Express flight in Chicago on Sunday as other travelers looked on in horror.

Dr David Dao, a 69-year-old Vietnamese-American doctor, suffered a concussion and broken nose when dragged from the plane and will likely sue, his attorney said on Thursday.

His lawyers have filed an emergency request with an Illinois court to require the carrier to preserve video recordings and other evidence related to the incident.

After the incident triggered international outrage, United chief executive Oscar Munoz apologised to Dao, his family and its customers, saying the carrier would no longer use law enforcement officers to remove passengers from overbooked flights.what I would have done. I would have been surprised.’’

The surprises started the previous week, as Easter vacation allowed Fagundez time to train with the first team for the first time since signing with the Revolution as a 15-year-old in November. Then things started happening quickly. After three days of workouts, Revolution coach Steve Nicol decided Fagundez was worthy of making the travel squad.

But that hardly indicated that Fagundez would actually see action. At this stage, MLS teams are juggling obligations, and they are reluctant to commit many starting players as the regular season takes priority over the US Open Cup.

The Revolution would be playing three games in a week, so most of the regulars stayed home. Among the starters was former France national team midfielder Ousmane Dabo,


unfulfilled red lines, and favoring a Trump pivot to counterterrorism and security.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi is still waiting for a White House invitation, having been shunned by Obama for his bloody crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Saudi Arabia is expecting a renewed push from Washington on its arch-rival Iran, instead of Obama's more neutral stance and its accompanying criticism of the kingdom's treatment of women and killing of civilians in Yemen. And Israel's nationalist leadership has made almost a public celebration of Trump's imminent arrival, confident that its grief for how it treats the Palestinians is over.

Here's a look at how Trump's policies could shake up the Middle East:

SYRIA AND ISLAMIC STATE

The U.S.-led campaign against IS, more than 60 nations strong, has lacked in Syria the onething it needs most: a partner on the ground capable of reclaiming and holding territory, as the Iraqi government is doing in its areas. Widespread evidence of torture, chemical weapons attacks and even war crimes by Assad's forces had made a partnership infeasible to Obama and most of America's foreign policy establishment.

Meanwhile, Russia's intervention since September 2015 has dramatically shored up Assad's position. If Assad and Putin now take on IS in its strongholds in northeastern Syria, it is less difficult to imagine Trump accepting perhaps a tacit partnership.

Trump has said Assad may be "bad" but the rebels fighting to topple him "could be worse." He has said the U.S. has no idea who its allies in the country are and has appeared most concerned about containing the


Tuesday dismissed the possibility that Trump could undo the nuclear deal, likening it to turning a finished shirt back into cotton. The president-elect's tough talk on the deal was is "mainly slogans," he said.

Officials in Saudi Arabia, Iran's regional rival, are nonetheless pleased with a president who might focus more on Iran than its own human rights violations. Although its rights record routinely ranks among the world's worst, Rex Tillerson, Trump's choice for secretary of state, wouldn't call the key U.S. ally a rights violator.

EGYPT

El-Sissi, Egypt's general-turned-president, isn't hiding his hopes in Trump: "There is appreciation (by Trump) for Egypt's regional role and there will (be) more coordination with the United States going forward," he said this week.

Government circles in Cairo widely see Obama as naive about thetrue intentions of political Islam and excessively idealistic about liberal democracy. Championing the popular protests of the 2011 Arab Spring, Obama urged the stalwart U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak to step down and welcomed the ascendancy of the country's first elected president, Islamist Mohammed Morsi.

After el-Sissi led a 2013 military overthrow replacing Morsi, Obama's administration struggled for months over whether to call it a coup and later suspended some arms sales to Egypt. It has routinely criticized the government's police brutality, mass trials of Islamists and the crackdown on liberal dissent, drawing charges from el-Sissi that the U.S. supports Morsi and other religious hard-liners.

Under Trump, "there will be a lot of capacity for less friction and more engagement," said Michael W. Hanna, an Egypt expert at the New York-based


could be wider and stronger than Irene, which caused more than $15 billion in damage when it struck in August 2011, and could rival the worst East Coast storm on record.

On Saturday morning, forecasters said hurricane-force winds of 75 mph could be felt 100 miles away from Sandy's center.

Sandy killed more than 40 people in the Caribbean, wrecked homes and knocked down trees and power lines. On Saturday morning, the storm was about 335 miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. Its maximum sustained wind speed was about 75 mph.

Up and down the coast, people were cautioned to be prepared for days without electricity. Several governors, including Connecticut's Dannel Malloy and New Jersey's Chris Christie, declared states of emergency. And airlines said to expect cancellations and waived change feesmainland. Residents feared a temporary bridge built after Irene last year poked a new inlet through the island could be washed out again, severing the only road off Hatteras Island.

Jeff Masters, meteorology director of the forecasting service Weather Underground, said this storm could be as big, perhaps bigger, than the worst East Coast storm on record, a 1938 New England hurricane that is sometimes known as the Long Island Express, which killed nearly 800 people.

"It's looking like a very serious storm that could be historic," Masters said.

Sandy, having blown through Haiti and Cuba, continued to barrel north. A wintry storm was moving across the U.S. from the west, and frigid air was streaming south from Canada.

If the three weather systems meet Tuesday morning around New York or New


little more than a week before Election Day, while several states were heavily involved in campaigning, canvassing and get-out-the-vote efforts. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Vice President Joe Biden both canceled weekend campaign events in coastal Virginia Beach, Virginia.

In North Carolina's Outer, retirees Larry and Jean Collier, of Brantford, Ontario, were leaving their beachfront hotel in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, early Saturday and trying to plot their route home knowing they risked driving into a mess.

"I'll try to split (the trip) right down the middle, not too close to Washington, not too far west," Larry Collier said. "The storm has kind of put a wrench in it."

CDL A DELIVERY DRIVERS Home Every Night! Needed for our Worcester Depot! Drive local - No more spending valuable nightswith the National Weather Service, no records were broken for any low temperatures during the month of December.

"We did have 11 consecutive days where temperatures were below freezing," she said. "The most was 18 in January of 1977."

Byrd said December actually finished a tenth of a degree above normal due to the warmer weather at the beginning of the month, but January thus far is 10 and a half degrees below normal.

"January was predicted to be below normal for our area, which is what it's been so far," she said. "For the three-month outlook, the temperature has equal chances of being normal with precipitation slightly above normal January through March."

The NWS advised low temperatures on Tuesday night were forecast to dip to the 0 to 5 above range,


with wind chill readings up to 10 below zero through mid-morning on Wednesday.

The temperature will finally climb above freezing on Thursday and stay that way through next week.

Two winter storms - Winter Storm Hunter and Winter Storm Inga - gave students a rare six-day layoff during the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The NWS, in a statement, noted that Tuesday's frigid temperatures would make it difficult for crews to clear ice and snow from roadways.

"We still have a lot of ice around the school sites and some of our secondary roads, so we hope to be back in on Thursday," District 300 Superintendent Gary Kelly said.

Kelly noted that the district will use its third emergency day of the school year, which has seven planned into the 2017-18of the product support member; and cutting at least some of the oriented, heat shrinkable film extending beyond the perimeter of the product support member.
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Kitchen, the new gastropub at 20th and Lombard whose creamy brick exterior sports the high-soaring silhouette of a rabbit-headed pig. More likely, the hour-long waits and endless blogger buzz that's been stoked by this replacement to Chaucer's is due to the presence of Philly's hottest young trick chef, Jonathan McDonald....

A glittering snow of confetti fluttered onto my lap at Izakaya as I opened the menu - when suddenly the waitress snatched it away. Too late. A closer look at the confetti (and its very naughty X-rated theme) made me realize why she was blushing red. "Bachelorette party last night," she sighed sheepishly, meticulously checking a new batch of menus before handing them over. As I settled into a sparkly banquette in the Borgata's sultry new Japanese gastropub, Iof the CityView Condos near the Art Museum (2001 Hamilton St., 215-561-1002)

Every great trend hits a moment of sudden saturation when the buzz of novelty wears off and expectations ratchet up to a higher level. That time has come for the gastropub, the exuberant hybrid of hipster bar and neighborhood restaurant where craft beers coexist with serious cooking. It's been a signature trend here for years, helping Philadelphia to secure its growing national reputation as one of America's beer meccas. But a gush of recent newcomers has flowed into the city so fast that the concept's limits are being tested, like a pint of ale frothing over from a hasty pour.

There's sure to be a beautiful story behind a place called The Ugly American, the new South Philly


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It was only a week ago that a fictitious story about mega-church pastor Creflo Dollar endorsing Donald Trump went viral.

Blalock makes his claims against the Time-Warner owned network in a $500,000 racial-discrimination lawsuit filed last week and his action marks the second such legal action against CNN in just over a year.

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a CNN Dialogues event held at The Ray Charles Performing Arts Center of Morehouse College in Atlanta (October 12, 2011).

CNN, the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference of Emory University,


Sandi at EPFL now brings biological evidence to bear upon the field. The researchers performed a series of experiments to identify the brain areas involved in trait anxiety and social competition. The experiments involved categorizing rats on a spectrum of trait anxiety, from low-anxious to high-anxious rats, which model trait anxiety.

The animals underwent several behavioral tests that required high-anxious rats to compete socially with their low-anxious counterparts, and their performance was quantified and analyzed statistically. In addition, the researchers examined the brains of the rats to identify changes in biological function.

The experiments highlighted an area of the brain known as the ‘nucleus accumbens’, which has been long-associated with motivation, reward and depression — in humans too. When competing socially, most of the high-anxious rats took on a lowerfleet wide probe and removed Seventh Fleet chief Vice-Admiral Joseph Aucoin, citing a lack of confidence in his ability to command.

Last month, Admiral Scott Swift, responsible for US naval forces in the Pacific, said he plans to retire after being passed over for promotion to the chief of all military forces in the region.

The McCain’s sister ship, the Fitzgerald, almost sank off the coast of Japan in June after colliding with a Philippine container ship.

That incident claimed the lives of seven US sailors.

In May, a South Korean fishing vessel collided with the guided-missile cruiser Lake Champlain, while another guided-missile cruiser, Antietam, damaged its propellers in January while anchoring in Tokyo Bay.

The McCain’s captain, Commander A. Sanchez, and his executive officer, Commander J. Sanchez, were reassigned to other duties


in Japan, where the Seventh Fleet is headquartered, the Navy said.

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They were on a running track near Highlands High School when 18-year-old Neven Glen Butler allegedly jumped out and attacked Ms Arcade.

Sacramento Sheriff's Sergeant Tony Turnbull says Ms Petrus tried to defend her friend, hitting him with a "small walking stick".

"She died trying to help her friend," he said.

Butler was later arrested after a separate attack on an elderly person that afternoon.

He was being held without bail on charges of murder, felony assault and elder abuse, local authorities said.

Newshub.PASAY CITY, Philippines—Poker in the Asian region is about to get an additional shot in the arm as the Asia Poker League (APL) is set to rejuvenate the game on a major scale starting this August in Beijing, China.

With tournament poker already recognized globally as a sport in many sectors, the APL aims to enhance the competitiveness of the game and bring back the entertainment factor that has slowly waned in recent years.

Bringing local poker communities in the continent together

It also aims to bring local poker communities in the continent together in a showdown of national superiority with clubs from Korea, China, the Philippines, Vietnam and Mongolia already part of the project. These countries are the initial members of the league with Malaysia, Japan and Australia indicating that


in fact organized a series of Mega Satellites to the four-day event with one re-entry allowed.

The club competition will be introduced as a side event and could be the precedent of it being the main thrust of the undertaking.

There are speculations that the Chinese authorities may descend upon this endeavour once it begins, but Kim is quick to point out that the APL has coordinated with the Beijing Poker Club and the strict guidelines of having the re-entries monitored and the disallowing of cash games during the entire event ensures that this compliance will make this first effort fly.

Kim also stressed that one of his visions is to bring back the entertainment value to the sport and this is going to be manifested in the opening party withK-Pop stars gracing the event with Club Modo being the venue for this affair.

Four events per year across Asia

The mandate of the league is to host at least four events per year across the Asian region and the Beijing leg is seen to be the true acid test.

Somuchpoker will be closely following the APL, starting with the Mega Satellite to be held on the Final Day of the “2M for 2K” tournament in MIKES ROOM here in the Philippines.

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that the course was dictated by the ascended master Jesus, who has taken great pains to correct the errors propagated by traditional churches as part of purpose of the works. This includes clearing up many of the traditional terms such as atonement, forgiveness, love, truth, salvation, God, Christ, the holy spirit and many others. The course states point blank that it will result in direct, undeniable experience of your true beingness / state of existence, as an infinite creator, a creature of God and God alone, utterly beyond the confines and madness of the physical universe, with its limited ego traps and language barriers. It has 365 different daily exercises to be done one a day often in as little as a few minutes, very simple, yet thesigned by the Denver Nuggets but was released on October 23, 2008, as the Nuggets trimmed their roster to the league-allowed 15. He then played with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League.

On January 9, 2009, Parker officially signed with Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball Association.

In September 2010, he signed a one-year contract with the Russian club Spartak Saint Petersburg.

In January 2011, he returned to Greece and signed a contract with Iraklis Thessaloniki.

In January 2012, Parker signed with Petrochimi Bandar Imam of the Iranian Basketball Super League. He later played in Venezuela, then signed with the Indios de San Francisco de Macorís of the Dominican Republic. In December 2012, Parker signed with Cibona Zagreb of the Adriatic Basketball Association. After only 5 games


gas phase and the sorbent and moves through the column at a rate dependent upon the partition coefficient or solubility of the analyte components. Various types of columns are employed such as tubular glass or stainless steel capillary tubes. In use, the analyte is introduced at the entrance end of the column within the moving carrier gas stream. The components making up the sample become separated along the column and escape from the exit end of the column at intervals and in concentrations characteristic of the properties of the analyte components. A detector, for example, a thermal conductivity detector or a flame ionization detector (FID) at the exit end of the column responds to the presence of analyte components. Upon combustion of the eluted material in the FID,Now in its 20th year, the UNC Breast Cancer SPORE's Developmental Research Program (DRP) continues to promote novel translational breast cancer research. The Program includes mechanisms for stimulating grant applications, evaluating proposals, selecting projects, and monitoring progress. Drs. Lisa Carey and Charles Perou, SPORE overall co-directors and leaders of the UNC Lineberger's Breast Cancer Research Program, oversee the DRP mechanisms for identification, evaluation, selection, and monitoring. Application mechanisms include Cancer Center-wide competitive awards and rapidly emerging opportunities. Evaluation and selection processes include independent peer review and consultation with the SPORE Executive Committee and senior leadership and external advisors (including advocates). The SPORE Director/PI (Dr. Earp), with input from the Co-Directors/Co-PIs (Carey, Perou) and the Executive Committee, makes final decisions regarding selection and budget. The DRP has continued to


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Kate Gallego was officially sworn in as mayor of Phoenix on Thursday morning. Addressing a group of supporters at the Orpheum Theater, the former City Council member vowed to continue working to expand public transportation and pledged to focus on high eviction rates.

As the population of World War II Holocaust survivors dwindles, the torch is being passed to the next generation to tell their stories. This second generation grew up living with the grief and melancholy of their parents who may have survived the war, but in many cases lost everything, including family members. A group here in Arizona trying to keep their memories alive so that future generations can continue the mantra of “never forget.”

Late in 2017, Arizona Republic investigative reporter Robert Anglentold the story of Arizona businessman and alleged former mafia member, Frank Capri, who had dabbled in the restaurant industry and left a chain of broken business in his wake.

This winter was the second coldest ever recorded in Phoenix. According to the National Weather Service, the average temperature from mid-December to March was 56 degrees. Beat only by the winter of 1997-98, when the average was 55 degrees.

On Friday, the UN observes World Water Day. But while much attention is focused on eradicating this lack of access in developing countries around the world, right here in the United States, there may be at least 1.6 million Americans without a tap or toilet in their home.

Some farmers in Nebraska are facing devastation by the floods in the Midwest which


have killed at least four people and left most of Nebraska underwater. Already, bankruptcies were up some 20 percent among Midwest farms.

Embattled Rep. David Stringer will not be allowed to submit documents in secret as the Arizona House Ethics Committee investigates complaints about his offensive comments and expunged criminal charges from the 1980s, the panel said Wednesday.

A freshman guard overcame a frightful fall and helped Bobby Hurley — a two-time champion guard at Duke — get his first NCAA Tournament win as a coach. Luguentz Dort shook off knee and hip injuries from a hard fall, scored 21 points and led the Sun Devils to a long-awaited NCAA Tournament victory.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Wednesday that talks with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner have ledstrange friend Dr. Emmitt Brown also known as“Doc”. Doc created the first time machine out of a DeLorean sports car. The whole premise around the movie was to go back in time to fix certain events that may have been messed in the current state of time. For example, Doc gets murdered in the first movie and Marty uses the time machine to prevent his friend from getting killed. I enjoyed the entire trilogy but in particular, the second movie is the one that I liked the most. And that is where we will see the hoverboard be used.

The second movie takes place in the future where Doc and Marty go to prevent Marty’s father from being killed by the town bully Biff Buchanan. We see a lot


Crews struggle against smoky wildfires across region

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Jul 29, 2013 at 7:10 PMJul 29, 2013 at 10:10 PM

Flames continued to get the upper hand on firefighters stretched across Southern Oregon battling lightning-ignited blazes that threaten rural communities as they push their way through the parched landscape.

Flames continued to get the upper hand on firefighters stretched across Southern Oregon battling lightning-ignited blazes that threaten rural communities as they push their way through the parched landscape.

Crews from as far away as Pennsylvania have descended upon Southern Oregon as crews lost ground on a suite of fires that all grew today, four days after a series of lightning strikes triggered about 75 fires in the region.

Firefighters relied heavily on air attacks from water-dropping helicopters and retardant bombers as flames darted across treetopsgrowth was the result of better mapping, officials said.

Eleven helicopters pounded the flames with water buckets, while 38 hand crews, 29 engines and two bulldozers fought flames that were pushed south by unseasonable winds, fire spokesman Cheyne Rossback said. Close to 400 more firefighters and other personnel joined the fire team today, Rossback said.

Josephine County commissioners declared a state of emergency this morning in an emergency meeting. They are petitioning Gov. John Kitzhaber for additional resources to contain and control the fires caused by lightning Friday.

Meanwhile, 50 firefighters have set up camp in the Illinois Valley's Oak Flat to defend area residences should flames from the 870-acre Labrador fire make their way there, according to a Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest spokesman.

About six miles west of Selma, the Labrador


in the vehicle. Officer Peace then called for backup.3 Subsequently, Officer Quillen and Conley arrived on the scene. Officer Peace told Quillen that he felt there was a weapon in the vehicle. However, Peace did not explain to Quillen why he felt there was a weapon in the vehicle or why he felt the situation was dangerous. He just told Quillen that Estep had denied having a pistol, but that something about the situation made him nervous.

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Thereafter, Officer Peace summoned Estep from his vehicle and they proceeded to the back of Estep's truck. Officer Peace informed Estep that he had been stopped for speeding. While Estep signed the citation, Quillen began to search the inside of Estep's vehicle even though Estep protested that the search violated his constitutionalin favor of Officer Conley.

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Because this case comes to our court on the defendants' motion for summary judgment, we review the record in the light most favorable to Estep. Taking the undisputed facts and the disputed facts as Estep has alleged them, on March 29, 1993, Officer William Peace was monitoring traffic from his squad car using a radar unit when he noticed Estep was speeding. Officer Peace stopped Estep and got out of his squad car to request identification and proof of insurance. As Officer Peace approached Estep's truck, he noticed camouflage material and what he believed was hunting gear in the back of the truck. Peace also noticed a National Rifle Association ("NRA") sticker on the truck's back window.

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quite a different story. According to Officer Peace, as he approached the truck, Estep quickly exited the truck and came toward him. Officer Peace noticed camouflage material, what he thought was hunting gear, and an NRA sticker and was concerned that Estep might have a firearm. Officer Peace then asked Estep several times whether Estep had a weapon in the vehicle; Estep never gave him a straight answer. The first time Officer Peace asked whether he had a weapon, Estep asked why he had been stopped. After Officer Peace again asked Estep if he had a weapon, Estep "made a quick move with his hand" to reach inside his truck. Estep retrieved a key chain containing mace and waved the mace in Officer Peace's face, asking if mace  SessionLog(status=SessionLog.CHECKPOINT,
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used. I blame the Mahama government 100%.”

Mahama, of the National Democratic Congress, is seeking a second four-year term as Akufo-Addo, of the New Patriotic party, makes his third and probably final run for the highest office in a nation of more than 28 million people. Candidates from four smaller parties are also on the ballot.

Ghanaians will also elect members of parliament to serve in the country’s 275 constituencies.

The elections are expected to be a referendum on the incumbent party’s last eight years in power and its handling of the economy, which has been dogged by a decline in global commodity prices and perceived economic mismanagement and corruption. The opposition has exploited high unemployment levels and underperforming GDP growth rates in an effort to appeal to frustrated Ghanaians.

Mahama hasWe at KCP, act as an educational organization with the aim to empower young people, out of the belief that global change can start from personal development. KCP's unique approach is based on the notion that learning deep and transformational concepts as well as actively creating and working together has major impact on a productive youth dialogue. The organization holds dialogue sessions between young people from Israel and the Palestinian Authority, as an educational tool for personal development and an empowering process that encourages the use of communication instead of violence. Our vision is to foster young leaders who seek reconciliation. The Dialogue Program graduates gain tools that encourage living in peace and recognition of human dignity, tools which will positively affect both their lives and the lives


themselves and others.

Our programs are divided into two age groups:

Youth aged 13-18 – KCP's dialogue program. The program includes multi-cultural groups of young Israelis and Palestinians, who often gather after-school with the cooperation and support of schools and youth groups.

Children aged 7-13 - The program is based on an international educational program called "Game of Life" implemented in schools and other educational centers and organizations. The "Game of Life" program has been the topic of extensive research conducted by the Rand Corporation which determined that the implementation of the program has a positive effect on children's behavior.Sunday, May 23, 2010

Spirit of '67: Pictures at a Revolution (Part III)

One of my favorite passages in Pictures at a Revolution concerns a party that author Mark Harris describes as a clash between worlds. The party was at Jane Fonda's beachhouse, and the date was July 4, 1965, a few years before Fonda would become known as both a great actress for films like Klute and as "Hanoi Jane" for her conduct in protest against the Vietnam War. Those who only remember the latter may be reminded by Harris that Jane Fonda was as much a part of the Old Hollywood as she was the New, and her guests were divided into these two factions: Henry Fonda, William Wyler, Fred Zinneman, Sam Spiegel, Lauren Bacall, Gene Kelly, and


Darryl Zanuck on one side; Peter Fonda, Warren Beatty, Dennis Hopper, Tuesday Weld, and Jack Nicholson on the other. (Sidney Poitier, also in attendance, was as always a faction unto himself.) The era's generation gap might be best exemplified by the reactions between Jane's brother and father to The Byrds, who were playing on the beach: as a stoned Peter grooved to the music, Henry stormed outside and yelled, "Can't you get them to turn it down?"

During the festivities, a transplanted Jewish-German East Coaster named Mike Nichols wandered over to a small group of partygoers lazing under a large tree. "Once again an immigrant in a new land," Harris writes, "he surveyed the tribal rituals, the lapses of etiquette, the deferences and courtesies and small humiliations of thisAt the time The Graduate had been well into the planning stages, but it was there that the movie was born.

The Graduate

Along with Warren Beatty, Rex Harrison, and Sidney Poitier, Mike Nichols is one of the most prominent personalities in the book. It's amazing to reflect on just how dazzling a wunderkind Nichols was. In the late-50s and early-60s, he was part of a wildly successful comedy team with Elaine May. Nichols and May had cut a popular comedy album, guested on The Ed Sullivan Show, and starred together in a Broadway hit directed by Arthur Penn (seven years before he made Bonnie and Clyde). Soon Nichols became a stage director himself and had won three straight Tony Awards for Best Director himself by the time of Fonda's


party. By this time, he was looking to expand his range to the silver screen. (Elaine May, too, would become a movie director, her credits including the hilarious original The Heartbreak Kid starring Charles Grodin, and the unfortunate Ishtar starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman.)

After a couple of false starts, Nichols chose Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, based on a 1962 play by Edward Albee, to be produced by Warner Brothers and to star Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, for his film debut. "He had less than three months to learn how to make a movie, outmaneuver a notoriously combative studio head...and figure out how to direct the world's most famous couple," Harris writes, quoting Nichols himself as saying, "'And I wasn't entirely sure how a camera worked.'"

Nevertheless,he is described on the set of Virginia Woolf as "successful lion tamer to two of the world's least controllable celebrities...he would push Taylor and Burton until she would break down in tears and he would be too shaken to come out of his dressing room, and they would still return the next day eager for more." In 1966, the movie would be a box-office hit and eventually nominated for thirteen Academy Awards, including Best Director. This gave Mike Nichols the cache to make virtually any movie he pleased.

Before directing Virginia Woolf, Nichols had read Charles Webb's 1963 novel The Graduate and liked it, thought the book had terrific dialogue and needed only a workable structure. The younger-man/older-woman scenario was, Nichols believed, "'a good, old gag'"; though in


early 1967 he fretted that he had been beaten to the punch by a similarly-themed $800,000 MFA thesis project titled You're a Big Boy Now, courtesy of a UCLA grad student named Francis Ford Coppola.

This proved difficult, however, as the script went through several writers, including Calder Willingham. Described as Stanley Kubrick's screenwriter and poker buddy, Willingham submitted a draft that Mike Nichols found "vulgar" and dismissed. Nevertheless, he would successfully arbitrate for co-screenwriting credit shortly before the film was released and was Oscar nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The script that was ultimately used, however, was by Buck Henry. A gifted comic writer who along with Mel Brooks had created the TV series Get Smart, Henry's friendship with Nichols began under Jane Fonda's tree, and while Nichols wasmaking Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Henry was given the chance to shape The Graduate into something substantial. "As the story of Benjamin, Elaine, and Mrs. Robinson passed from the hands of a novelist in his early twenties into the custody of a writer and director who were both in their mid-thirties, it became both more detached and more sympathetic."

However, the transformation of Benjamin Braddock on the page made it increasingly difficult to cast the right actor to play him. In Webb's novel, Benjamin "is the scion of an apparently WASPy family, a cocky, aloof college track star who returns home for the summer before beginning two years of graduate school, then announces to his parents that he has wasted his life...." Harris astutely notes that this version


of the character would have been perfect for Warren Beatty. But Buck Henry had eliminated the character's superiority complex and made him more of a bumbler: along with Nichols, he "located The Graduate's comic center in (Benjamin's) complete failure to live up to his own standards, and unlike Webb, they came up with an ending in which it's not clear if Benjamin triumphs by meeting those standards or by discarding them." Yet Nichols and Henry had gotten so far ahead of themselves in terms of how Benjamin should behave they went through an excruciatingly long casting process (another WASPish blonde, Robert Redford, wanted the part badly) before an unknown actor made them rethink how the character should look.

In 1965, the pair took a break from their respective dutiesat all. Hoffman was extravagantly talented but relentlessly combative, driving directors insane with his endless quest for authenticity.

Just as the director and screenwriter's mutual ages alloted them a healthy distance from the source material of The Graduate, the casting call for Benjamin took on a new dimension once they began considering older actors. Charles Grodin, also still an unknown (The Heartbreak Kid was a few years away), gave the best reading, according to Nichols; but he adds that the twenty-nine-year-old Dustin Hoffman gave the best screen test (with Katharine Ross): "'He had that thrilling thing that I'd only seen in Elizabeth Taylor...That secret, where they do something while you're shooting, and you think it's okay, and then you see it on screen and it's five times better than


when you shot it."

After Hoffman won the part, he actually had to turn down another one: a Nazi playwright in Springtime for Hitler, a new movie written and directed by Buck Henry's Get Smart partner and Anne Bancroft's husband, Mel Brooks.

The clout that Mike Nichols had earned up to then gave The Graduate an astonishing three weeks of rehearsal and one hundred days of shooting. In Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, one of the interviewees compares the filmmaking technique of Altman ("who leaves everything to chance") with that of Nichols ("who leaves nothing to chance"). It's funny how two of my own favorite filmmakers could have such disparate styles. I guess it boils down to whatever works best for the director and the material.

Anne Bancroft was already anwere technical: for the key scene when Elaine discovers Ben and her mother's affair, a wall had to be removed for the long pull-back shot from Mrs. Robinson to Benjamin. Another was figuring out how to simultaneously light the mid-30s Bancroft to look older and the late-20s Hoffman to look younger. Other hardships were brought on by Nichols himself, who had his star terrified to the point of acting paralysis. ("Don't forget to trim the inside of your nose," was one of his regular bon mots.) On the DVD commentary track, Nichols freely admits that he was a prick and that he would do it differently today.

For me, what holds up the movie remarkably well today is its innovative technique -- the subjectivity of its perspective. Surtees accomplishes


this via POV shots like the one of Benjamin in scuba-gear at the bottom of his parents' pool; while editor Sam O'Steen achieves it through tricky editing rhythms: some scenes feel extracted from a play (as when Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson lie in bed and talk about art), others deftly convey the passage of time (like the groundbreaking montages scored to Simon and Garfunkel). In a New Yorker piece a few years ago, David Denby recalled that his mentor, Pauline Kael, disliked the movie and its protagonist, complaining that "There's nothing in his head." Of course there is, Pauline: We are.

As with Bonnie and Clyde, early screenings of The Graduate to the Hollywood establishment went poorly. "'It's a shame about the boy,'" people would say to Nichols, unableto see in Dustin Hoffman anything resembling leading-man material. Similarly, many film critics (Kael, Richard Corliss, John Simon, Richard Schickel) panned the picture, with one notable exception: the New York Times's Bosley Crowther, whose ceaseless attacks on Bonnie and Clyde led to his dismissal, gave The Graduate a rave for his final review: "'The overall picture has the quality of a very extensive and revealing social scan,'" Crowther wrote.

Regular audiences -- particularly the burgeoning youth market on college campuses -- went berserk for the movie, placing it atop the box office for months. This subsequently led to studios' hiring younger filmmakers to make movies for younger audiences, as well as opening up leading-man roles to the Arkins, Hackmans, Duvalls, De Niros, Pacinos, and Nicholsons where they previously could


not tread.

Mike Nichols and Buck Henry had little in common with the counterculture that went wild for their movie. (A running gag in the movie is how clean-cut Benjamin is repeatedly assumed to be an "outside agitator.") Yet The Graduate cannily explores and exploits the era's generation-gap, never more so than at the climax. Nichols and Henry crucially altered the book's ending so that Benjamin would arrive after Elaine had formally exchanged vows, rather than before. (Webb groaningly despised the change, believing it undermined Benjamin's virtue.) There's a lot going on in that whirligig sequence, a satirical dismantling of church and family values in one fell swoop.

With the famous final shot of Benjamin and Elaine on the bus, Nichols believed he was saying that they "would end uplike their parents." This is the reading commonly accepted today (see (500) Days of Summer), but audiences weren't convinced then and neither am I. It reads to me as more of a "What do we do now?" ending, like Robert Redford at the conclusion of The Candidate, hopeful yet worried, ambiguously open-ended.

More interesting to me is what Nichols says about his own personal link to the story -- that he along with his alter-ego Hoffman had transformed Benjamin Braddock from the blonde stud of the novel into a "'Jew among the goyim...a visitor in a strange land.'" Physically and emotionally, Benjamin becomes an outsider in his own family and culture. By zeroing in on something specific (however unconsciously), Nichols made the movie's appeal universal.

The Graduate received seven Oscar


nominations, including nods for Hoffman (Actor), Bancroft (Actress), and Ross (Supporting Actress). Henry and Willingham were up for Screenplay, as was Surtees for Cinematography (nominated twice, for both The Graduate and Doctor Dolittle). (Sam O'Steen's innovative editing was ignored.) All came up empty-handed, however, with only Mike Nichols winning for Best Director.

Harris savages Bob Hope's hosting of the Academy Awards telecast, which had been delayed for two days due to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his funeral in Atlanta. (Had the show gone as planned, it would have played to a largely empty house.) "As Hope continued," the author writes, "it became clear that beneath the surface of his comedy was barely concealed reactionary anger." When Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross appeared onstage as presenters,Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant To Shut Down In 2019

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The company that owns the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history, announced that it plans to shutter the facility in 2019 unless the state of Pennsylvania steps in to keep it open.

The plant near Harrisburg, Pa., hasn't been profitable for the past five years, according to owner Exelon Corp. The company announced last week that it failed to auction off future energy production from Three Mile Island for the third year in a row.

"Today is a difficult day, not just for the 675 talented men and women who have dedicated themselves to operating Three Mile Island safely and reliably every day, but


forms of power. And environmental groups are mixed, Cusick said, with some stressing that nuclear power is not renewable.

Exelon said Pennsylvania "has an opportunity to take a leadership role by implementing a policy solution to preserve its nuclear energy facilities and the clean, reliable energy and good-paying jobs they provide." It criticized the state's reluctance to subsidize the industry, saying it produces "93 percent of the Commonwealth's emissions-free electricity."

On March 28, 1979, the core of one of Three Mile Island's nuclear reactors partially melted down. As NPR's Joel Rose reported, a problem with one of the valves was compounded by slow reaction from the operators at the time.

"When the crisis ended five days later, relatively small amounts of radiation had escaped from the plant. No one had beeninjured," Joel said. "But the accident had a huge impact on the industry."

The meltdown put the brakes on building new nuclear plants in the U.S., and prompted the industry to apply more stringent safety standards.

It's becoming increasingly common for nuclear power plants in the U.S. to close in light of market conditions — as Bloomberg reported, at least five have shut down in the past five years.

Three Mile Island has a license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to operate until 2034.


his best. He did the best with what he had.'

Valve went with Day9 as the host last year, but they've brought Redeye back in for TI 2018

Redeye says he's thrilled to be back this year, and I also asked him to think back to when he first found out he would be hosting The International.

'In 2014 I'd heard some whispers. I'd only just started hosting Dota at the time, but that didn't pan out for whatever reason, but that was already flattering. It was the first time I thought "oh it's nice to be mentioned."

'I did a bit more in 2015, and I really got into the game by then. I really started to love the game and the scene itself including the pro players and the teams.a repeat winner, follow Team Liquid because all five of their players won it last year.

'Of the other six players, there's SumaiL [Sumail Hassan] and s4 [Gustav Magnusson], both fantastic players. SumaiL has won it before with Evil Geniuses, s4 with Alliance. Both now play for EG, so they both have the chance for a double, and EG could win for the second time after they won in 2015.

'Their captain that year was ppd [Peter Dager] who now plays for OpTic Gaming, who have been playing fantastically. I think they're slightly less favourite than Liquid, same with Evil Geniuses. They're a bit up and down because of the roster changes, but they're fun to watch.

'The other one to watch is Universe [Saahil Arora], he's playing with Fnatic this


STATE OF THE MARKET

It is worthwhile to mention the weather when discussing residential real estate for large portions of the U.S. for February 2019, because this month has turned in some impressively cold, rainy and snowy days that have stalled some buying and selling actions. Nevertheless, housing markets have proven to be resilient despite predictions of a tougher year for the industry. It is still too early to say how the entire year will play out, but economic fundamentals remain positive.

The National Association of REALTORS® recently reported that national existing home sales were down slightly during January 2019 and that pending sales were up in year-over-year comparisons. It is worth noting that some softening of sales was anticipated, as was a positive sales bounce during January 2019 afterGarampani Wildlife Sanctuary Karbi Anglong

The Garampani Wildlife Sanctuary, located in Karbi Anglong district of Assam is home to 51 rare species of orchid. The size of the sanctuary is 6.05 square kilometer, and it is a safe home for endangered animals, birds and trees. The flora of the sanctuary is of tropical semi evergreen type and the weather condition of the sanctuary is of moist tropical variety. The sanctuary is one of the oldest in this area, and has a hot water spring. The Garampani Sanctuary is surrounded by another wildlife reserve called the Nambor Sanctuary. It includes a number of animals such as the clouded leopard, barking deer, jungle cat, sambar, gaur, and Asian elephants. The sanctuary also houses a number of birds namely, hornbill, green pigeons,


and April, as the weather remains most comfortable during this time of the year. After April, the temperature rises and the humidity also increases. It is also better to avoid the place during the monsoons as it rains heavily during that time.Middle school coach helps youngsters develop, and he's won championships in 3 sports

Christopher Foy is the football, boys basketball and boys track coach at Landmark Middle School. He and his teams are remarkably successful. In fact, he had to take the day off on signing day to be at all the signings of his players to big-time schools like FSU and West Virginia. On Thursday Feb. 7, 2013 Foy signals the defensive play as he coached his basketball team in their 51-47 win over DuPont Middle School in the Landmark gym in Jacksonville, FL. (The Florida Times-Union, Bob Mack)

Landmark Middle School football coach Christopher Foy took National Signing Day off. It was the only way he could get to all the college signing ceremonies of his former players.

“I


anywhere,” but took the cameras to Landmark, he said, where it all started for him. He returns to the campus whenever possible to work with Foy’s players.

Foy had more than 40 active college football players this past season and another 50 or so playing at high schools around town. He is a modern-day Gil Thorp, the mythical hero/coach who took his teams to countless three-sport championships in the comic strip that bore his name.

Foy wasn’t that familiar with Gil Thorp, but there are striking similarities. Foy also coaches basketball and track and field at the Kernan Boulevard school on Jacksonville’s Southside. Like at Thorp’s *****ord High, championships abound at Landmark.

Foy’s teams have won 25 middle school conference championships in the three sports. All the banners hang in theUFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey posed nude for the cover of ESPN the Magazine's Body Issue in 2012. One fan was so moved by the picture he had the image turned into a tattoo. There was some artistic license taken with the tattoo, like UFC gloves instead of the body wraps, but it's not a bad likeness of the champ.

Here's the big question: Rousey's rival coach on the next season of "The Ultimate Fighter" and opponent at UFC 168, Miesha Tate, posed for the Body Issue this year. Will we see some overzealous fan with Tate body ink next year?

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the track number and indicate how far the head is from the track centerline. As the head passes over the servo patterns, the track identification and position indicators are read by the head and supplied to the servo controller.
Servo track writing in which the servo patterns are written to the disk is becoming an increasingly difficult and expensive part of the manufacturing process. A servo track writer is typically stabilized on a large granite base to minimize unwanted vibration and employs laser interferometry for precise position measurements. The servo track writer supplies power to the spindle motor for rotating the disk and may include a fixed head for writing a clock track to one disk surface. The servo track writer typically requires direct mechanical access to the actuatorto move the actuator and the head very precisely across the disk as the head writes the track address and the servo patterns at servo sectors for each track.
Servo track writing is degraded by two major factors that perturb the fly height or fly stability of the head which causes the servo patterns to be written with deviations from ideal, circular, evenly spaced servo patterns. The first factor is external vibration which leads to non-circular tracks (non-repeatable runout) and variable track squeeze. The second factor is head-disk interaction which leads to high fly write. During servo track writing, high fly write can cause missing, degraded or improperly written servo patterns which can range from a single track to a wide annular region on the disk.
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hundreds of people is the best protection they could have.

Shark Town from the air.

David Edwards

Generating income for hundreds of people offers the best possible protection for sharks.

Richard Peirce

One cage-diving operator commented on the exploitation charge: 'Maybe we exploit the sharks but not in any negative way. They are there, and we take people to see them, and help get sightings by using chum, but they are free and come and go as they like. I think of it as non-invasive and it has no bad impact; everyone is a winner. The clients see the sharks, and we make a living, so we would protect them with or without a law.'

The 'if it pays it stays' issue is one of the great wildlife debates, on both moral and practicalBest of Paschal Chukwu

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The Class LL boys basketball semi-final game between Fairfield Prep and Greenwich High School at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Fairfield Prep defeated Greenwich by the score of 59-41 to advance to the final. less

The Class LL boys basketball semi-final game between Fairfield Prep and Greenwich High School at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Fairfield Prep defeated Greenwich by the ... more

At left, Paschal Chukwu (#44) of Fairfield Prep gets past Alex Wolf (#54 ) of Greenwich to dunk during the Class LL boys basketball semi-final game between Fairfield Prep and Greenwich High School at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., Wednesday, March 19, 2014. less

At left, Paschal


Chukwu (#44) of Fairfield Prep gets past Alex Wolf (#54 ) of Greenwich to dunk during the Class LL boys basketball semi-final game between Fairfield Prep and Greenwich High School at the ... more

Paschal Chukwu (#44) of Fairfield Prep scores on a dunk as Greenwich defenders look on from left, Alex Wolf, CJ Byrd and Jon Palmer during the Class LL boys basketball semi-final game between Fairfield Prep and Greenwich High School at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., Wednesday, March 19, 2014.

Paschal Chukwu (#44) of Fairfield Prep scores on a dunk as Greenwich defenders look on from left, Alex Wolf, CJ Byrd and Jon Palmer during the Class LL boys basketball semi-final game between Fairfield Prep and

Fairfield Prep high school's Paschal Chukwu dunks the ball asplayers on the East Hartford high school look on during a second round game of the CIAC class LL boys basketball tournament played at Alumni Hall, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT on Thursday, March, 13, 2014. less

Fairfield Prep high school's Paschal Chukwu dunks the ball as players on the East Hartford high school look on during a second round game of the CIAC class LL boys basketball tournament played at Alumni Hall, ... more

Fairfield Prep high school's Paschal Chukwu dunks the ball during a second round game of the CIAC class LL boys basketball tournament against East Hartford high school played at Alumni Hall, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT on Thursday, March, 13, 2014. less

Fairfield Prep high school's Paschal Chukwu dunks the ball during a second round game of the


CIAC class LL boys basketball tournament against East Hartford high school played at Alumni Hall, Fairfield ... more

Fairfield Prep's Pascal Chukwa reacts as he slam dunks the ball, during boys basketball action against Career of New Haven in Fairfield, Conn. on Thursday February 20, 2014. At right is Career's Alden Singley.

Fairfield Prep's Pascal Chukwa reacts as he slam dunks the ball, during boys basketball action against Career of New Haven in Fairfield, Conn. on Thursday February 20, 2014. At right is Career's Alden Singley.

Fairfield Prep high school's Paschal Chukwu blocks a shot during a second round game of the CIAC class LL boys basketball tournament against East Hartford high school played at Alumni Hall, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT on Thursday, March, 13, 2014. less

Fairfield Prep high school's PaschalDo Riparian Buffers Protect Stream Invertebrate Communities in South American Atlantic Forest Agricultural Areas?
We investigated the influence and relative importance of insecticides and other agricultural stressors in determining variability in invertebrate communities in small streams in intensive soy-production regions of Brazil and Paraguay. In Paraguay we sampled 17 sites on tributaries of the Pirapó River in the state of Itapúa and in Brazil we sampled 18 sites on tributaries of the San Francisco River in the state of Paraná. The riparian buffer zones generally contained native Atlantic forest remnants and/or introduced tree species at various stages of growth. In Brazil the stream buffer width was negatively correlated with sediment insecticide concentrations and buffer width was found to have moderate importance in mitigating effects on some sensitive taxa such


Ocular hypersensitivitiy to topical vancomycin in a case of chronic endophthalmitis.
To report a case of ocular allergy to topical vancomycin eye drops. Interventional case report. A 76-year-old man presented with progressive itching, soreness, and burning sensations, photophobia, and tearing in his left eye 3 days after completing 2 weeks of treatment with 5% vancomycin eye drops. He had been suffering for the previous 2 years from chronic recurrent endophthalmitis and secondary glaucoma associated with cataract surgery in his left eye. He denied any history of drug or food allergy. Examination by slit-lamp microscope showed left periorbital skin erosive rash, marked hyperemia of conjunctiva, central epithelial defect, corneal stromal edema, and Descemet membrane striae. Vancomycin skin tests were positive. The patient's symptoms resolved after discontinuing vancomycin eye drops andMankera

Mankera  (), is the principal town of Mankera Tehsil, an administrative subdivision of Bhakkar District, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is situated about 320 kilometres west of the city of Lahore.

Bhakkar is located in the west of Punjab. The mighty Indus River flows on the Western side of the District which plays havoc during monsoon season and the Jehlum and Chenab rivers both flow on the eastern side they also sometimes plays havoc during monsoon season. One third of the land is sandy of which small portion is irrigated by Thal canal and tube wells. Rest of the sandy land is cultivated and is entirely dependent upon rains.
People mostly depend on agriculture which is highly dependent on rain falls. As such people are poor, backward


sons. He Provided land to Army of Pakistan in early days of Pakistan which is now present as Rest house in Mankera. His eldest son Muhammad Masoom was Hafiz-e-Quran. He was also very religious.

Transport
The nearest airport to Mankera is Dera Ismail Khan – travelers used to be able to catch a flight either Islamabad or Peshawar to this city and then onto Mankera. However this airport is now out of use – the only way to get there is by bus. The bus takes 6 hours from Peshawar to reach Dera Ismail Khan and 7 hours from Islamabad and 6 hours from lahore. From Dera Ismail Khan it takes two hours to reach Mankera and from Bhakkar it takes a drive of 45 minutes.

The direct Bus serviceNo two teammates have produced more yards after the catch through two weeks than Green Bay Packers running back Ty Montgomery and receiver Randall Cobb.

Together, Montgomery and Cobb have powered Green Bay’s quick passing attack to start 2017.

Montgomery has caught 10 passes for 114 yards through two games, but he leads the NFL in yards after the catch with 132. The disparity in total yards and yards after the catch only means Montgomery has created yards when making catches behind the line of scrimmage.

Cobb isn’t far behind, ranking fifth in the NFL with 101 yards after the catch. He has 145 total receiving yards, so roughly 70 percent of his production in 2017 has come after the catch. He also lost about 30 yards after the catch when


There's no doubt Nebraska Cornhusker fans are some of the best in the country. They're known for unwavering support, hospitality, and most of all, showing up.

Nebraska Football boasts the longest sellout streak in the nation - currently standing at 375 consecutive games. It dates back to 1962. But as 10/11 NOW discovered in a recent records request, likening a sellout to a fan in every seat is bit of a stretch.

In fact, since 2016, scanned ticket numbers show Memorial Stadium is, on average, about 80-percent full. The lowest game? A cold November day in 2018 when 2-7 Nebraska squared off against 4-5 Illinois. The Cornhuskers picked up their third win of the Scott Frost era in front of 54,838 fans. The announced attendance that day was another sellout,88,316.

2019's low total came in the season finale against Iowa. Keep in mind, many students were on Thanksgiving Break, but Nebraska also had a lot riding on the game. Get a win against a Top-20 Hawkeye team, and the Huskers would notch their sixth victory, ensuring a bowl trip. Despite an announced attendance of 89,039, the number of tickets scanned shows 60,232 fans watched the Huskers drop their seventh game of the season.

From 2016-2019, the total "Announced Attendance" at 29 Cornhusker home games was 2,508,661. The number of "Tickets Scanned" during that same stretch was 2,012,724. That's a difference of 495,937, or about 80-percent.

When asked about the discrepancy, Nebraska Athletics provided the following statement: "Our announced attendance figures include all ticketed fans, including students, as well as numerous


About Us

Dihlabeng Local Municipality was established in terms of Section 12 of the Local Government Structures Act, 117 of 1998, after the first general local government elections of 5 December 2000 which heralded the final phase of local government reform as envisaged in 1994 at the onset of the process of democratisation.

Category & type

The Municipality is a category B as defined in the Local Government Structures Act and shares executive and legislative authority with the category C municipality within whose area it falls i.e. Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality. The type is that of a Mayoral Executive System.

In the mayoral executive system, the municipal council delegates executive powers and duties to an individual councillor, the executive mayor. Although the executive mayor may delegate responsibilities to members of the mayoralcommittee, the executive mayor remains accountable to the municipal council for all the powers and duties allocated to him. In the mayoral executive system, the mayoral committee is appointed by the executive mayor.

Geographics

The Dihlabeng Local Municipality is situated within the boundaries of the Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality in the Eastern Free State. The geographical area is 7550.4910 km2. The Municipality consists of the towns Bethlehem (incl. Bohlokong & Bakenpark), Clarens (incl. Kgubetswana), Fouriesburg (incl. Mashaeng), Paul Roux (incl. Fateng-Tse-Ntsho) and Rosendal (incl. Mautse).

Bethlehem is situated approximately 240km north-east of Bloemfontein, 140km east of Kroonstad and 90km west of Harrismith. The town is strategically situated in the heart of the picturesque north-eastern Free State and originally developed as a service centre. Growth is stimulated by the strategic location of


the area that serves as a central regional centre, situated adjacent to the N5 between Bloemfontein and Durban.

The scenic town of Clarens, often referred to the “Switzerland” of South Africa is situated ± 34 km south-east of Bethlehem. Clarens is a mere 20km from the Golden Gate Highlands National Park.

Fouriesburg is situated on the R26 route an in close proximity of Lesotho. The town has the predominant function of a small service centre and is increasingly being supported by the Tourism industry. 67% of the population resides in urban areas and 33% in surrounding rural areas.

Paul Roux is situated 35km west of Bethlehem, on the N%. The area is mainly focused on agricultural significance.

Rosendal is located at the foot of the Witteberg mountain range on the R70. Thetown offers excellent property investment opportunities.

Economy & industry

The economic activities within the Municipality are dominated by Farming (29,4%) and Private Business (17,2%). At ± 15% and 11% respectively, Social Services and Trade Operations are also relatively high economic activities.

Of a total farmland area of ± 3 000 ha in the Eastern Free State, 34% thereof is located within the Dihlabeng area – a factor that confirms the Agricultural comparative advantage that the sub region has in the Free State Province. The normal industrial incentives, with specific reference to affordable purchase prices, endorsed by Dihlabeng Local Council, ensure growth in the epithelium industrial area. The significance of the Lesotho Highlands Water and the Bethlehem Hydro Electricity projects are also relevant in this regard. Upmarket Residential, Business and Tourism development


Third World

By Ed Finkel

5/20/2009 - Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is having trouble quitting smoking. In his home country of India, cigarettes are available for less than a nickel and there are few health warnings about the risks of smoking.

As a result, “you think, ‘Oh, it’s just one cigarette,’” said Vaidyanathan, a graduate student at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.

Drawing upon his personal experience, Vaidyanathan partnered with three Kellogg students and one student from the McCormick School of Engineering to develop a plan for combating smoking in the Third World. Dubbed “Team Pulmo,” the students won first prize in the final round of the CHEST Foundation Case Competition, held May 12 at the Kellogg School.

The competition, co-sponsored by Kellogg and the philanthropic arm of the American College of Chest Physicians, challengedturn it into a business idea,” Abonyi said. Cessation seemed to provide a stronger entrepreneurial hook, he added, and the railway system seemed to be the right starting point. Other nationalized industries, such as oil and steel, could come next.

For its winning plan, Team Pulmo received a $15,000 prize.

The second-place team, Novo Aer, offered a plan to reduce smoking in China, and focused on pregnant women and their husbands. The team — which included Kellogg doctoral student Bingxiao Wu, McCormick students Lide Zhang, Jingsi Xie, Gali Baler and Jieyi Long, and Medill student Minfei Chen — received a $5,000 prize.

David Dranove, the Walter J. McNerney Professor of Health Industry Management and a final-round judge, said the judging panel had a difficult time choosing the winner. The panel admired


Obituary: Atique Sharifi

London was meant to be a place of refuge where Atique Sharifi could put behind him the atrocities of his homeland.

The young Afghan national was one of the few members of his family to escape death at the hands of the Taleban.

But three years after fleeing Kabul, the 24-year-old Muslim was killed by a suicide bomber on a Piccadilly Line train at Russell Square.

A resident of Hounslow in west London, Mr Sharifi had been studying English at West Thames College since September 2002, where he drew praise from staff.

War orphans

He worked in a pizza take-away in his spare time to send money back to his younger sister still in Afghanistan. Both of their parents had perished in the Kabul war.

His college tutor, Harminder Ubhie, described MrSharifi as a highly-motivated student who could make the others laugh.

"He was a delight to have in the group," she said. "From the first month I knew I could push this student. I knew he would be one of our high achievers.

Atique's greatest achievement in life is the respect that he earned from all those who knew himFarishta Sharifi, Sister

"I admired him for his dedication to come to my classes. He said it was because I was an excellent teacher and he was learning so much."

She said he had a "youthful and energetic nature" and helped new members of the group to settle in.

And his college principal, Thalia Marriott, pointed to the "deep irony" that Mr Sharifi had left his native Afghanistan to seek safety in the UK


"only to find his fate at the hands of extremists here".

When Afghan President Hamid Karzai later visited the victims' memorial garden at King's Cross station, he paid tribute to Mr Sharifi, laying a floral tribute of white roses and standing in silence.

But it was Mr Sharifi's sole surviving close relative, his sister Farishta, who described most clearly the impact of his loss.

She said in a statement to the 7 July victims' inquests: "He was not just a brother, he was also my friend and I still miss his telephone calls.

"He was also protective of me, not just sending money home, but also making sure that he shouldered life's difficult responsibilities because he did not want me to worry about any concerns that he had or problems that heStar trek Ds9 Hollow Men by Una McCormack .I really like rereading this book some really good charater storylines for Sisko and Grak in this book and the other Ds9 crew members.It's nice to see Jadzia Dax included in a book again.

I just started Up, Up, & Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, LE Grand Orange, Youppi!, The Crazy Business of Baseball, & the Ill-Fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos by Jonah Keri, a delightful history of Canada's first Major League Baseball franchise.

Finished out Raise the Dawn last night. Absolutely fantastic. Not much else I can say, it was phenomenal from start to finish, hitting some wonderful beats along the way. Glad some story lines got resolved, too.

I unfortunately started Fallen Gods this morning. I read the


Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels.

I just started Up, Up, & Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, LE Grand Orange, Youppi!, The Crazy Business of Baseball, & the Ill-Fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos by Jonah Keri, a delightful history of Canada's first Major League Baseball franchise.

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I'm actually thinking about getting that book this summer. It sounds like a great book, and I do like Jonah Keri.

I'm going to start "Horn and Ivory" tonight. Just finished Demons of Air and Darkness and it was a good book.

Read "The Oresteia" (trilogy) by Aeschylus (reread actually) then read "On the Soul" and "Categories" by Aristotle. Must return to ST for a breath of escape. Perhaps "The Rings of Time" by Greg Cox would be nice next onProgram (BCBST) begun for ARNG enhanced separate brigades (later combined into BCTP exercises).
 1994 – Director, ARNG; Commander, CAC; and TAG-KS sign memorandum of understanding (MOU) establishing and defining the operational relationships between the LDC, CAC, and KSNG.
 1997/1998 – Building 1952, TOCs Five and Six, Building Eight, and additional parking constructed.
 1999 – Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence Support Team formed, later to become the Army Battle Command Systems Support Team (ABCS-ST).
 2000 – Current MOA among Director, ARNG; Commander, CAC; and TAG-KS signed; full-time staff transitioned to Title 10 Active Guard and Reserve status under a new organization.
 2001 – Leader Development Center renamed the LTG Herbert R. Temple Battle Command Training Center in honor of former Chief, NGB.
 2003 – Battalion Staff Training Program


mix, strong 6'3", 195-pound frame, and a deceptive delivery, he's been a nightmare for minor league hitters. In 12 starts at High-A Lake Elsinore, he's pitched to a 1.21 ERA and 0.69 WHIP while holding opposing hitters to an absurd .137 batting average and racking up 83 strikeouts in 59.2 innings. The 20-year-old is ready for the next challenge.

3. OF Jo Adell, Los Angeles Angels (AA)

After dealing with ankle and hamstring injuries during spring training, Adell is back to 100 percent and has gotten right to work making up for lost time. The 20-year-old is hitting .328/.400/.582 with eight doubles, three home runs and 12 RBI in 18 games between High-A and Double-A. He's a true five-tool standout and a potential superstar in the making who could join.351/.418/.587 with 28 extra-base hits in his pro debut as a 17-year-old in the Appalachian League last year. Aggressively sent to Single-A this season, he's responded with a .326/.396/.514 line that includes 15 doubles, four triples, six home runs and 14 steals. Oh, and he won't turn 19 until March 1, 2020. This is the next teenage phenom, folks.

All stats courtesy of Baseball Reference and FanGraphs, unless otherwise noted.


gain fame for being spanked and groped, photos of which Cyus has happily shared on social media to he millions of fans.

Here’s a video montage of half-naked Cyrus twerking and being spanked (and spanking others) through the years.

The former Hannah Montana star recently starred in a bizarre music video that featured her mooning police, as well as driving past kneeling football players, priests in a strip club, and a gun range where children are shooting at her.

Like so many others in the music industry, Miley Cyrus is outspoken about her left-wing beliefs. During the 2016 election, she repeatedly claimed she would leave the United States if Donald Trump won. In 2017, she backtracked, saying that she would not, in fact, leave America.

“I’m not leaving the country, that’s dumb.on the Legia Warsaw website, reads: "Celtic FC is a legend in European football - the club with an incredible tradition, which since 1888 co-creates the story of the most beautiful game in the world.

"At the basis of this legend are not only amazing sporting achievements, but also the determination and commitment to values such as honesty and honour."

And, the statement alludes to Celtic's European Cup win in 1967.

Bereszyński is the player at the centre of the controversy

"Celtic FC wrote one of the most beautiful pages in the history of European football, when in 1967 they unexpectedly defeated in the final of the Champions Cup mighty Inter Milan headed by Helenio Herrera.

"Imagine that Jock Stein and Billy McNeill were deprived of the greatest triumph in their athletic career


Egypt has pardoned and released two Al-Jazeera journalists who had been jailed for disseminating “false news” in a trial widely criticised as a political charade by human rights groups and international observers.

Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian national Baher Mohamed were pardoned by the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, along with about 100 other prisoners, including activists and a poet.

Egyptian presidents have traditionally freed prisoners for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which is celebrated this week. But the latest releases also come on the eve of a trip to New York by Sisi, who will attend the UN general assembly where he would likely have faced questions about the controversial case.

Fahmy, who was released outside his old high school in Cairo after being driven there, said he waspreparing to celebrate freedom. His lawyer, Amal Clooney, welcomed the decision to correct “a long-standing injustice” but said her client had endured a protracted ordeal.

A friend, journalist Samer al-Atrush, posted pictures of Fahmy, his wife and Mohamed shortly after the men were released, and while they were still wearing prison clothes.

It was not clear if Sisi also pardoned a third journalist, Australian Peter Greste, who had been on trial with his colleagues and spent 400 days in an Egyptian jail before being deported in February under a law allowing prisoners to serve out detentions in their home countries.

The state-run Mena news agency said a third person from the Al-Jazeera case had been pardoned, but there were several other foreign defendants beside Greste who avoided jail because they were


The Tyne Bridge has been upgraded to Grade II* listed.

Spanning the River Tyne between Gateshead and Newcastle, it was started in August 1925 and later became a prototype for the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Veronica Fiorato, from Historic England, said it was a "representation of the North East's steely attitude", adding "it fully deserves to be among the 5.8% of structures which are Grade II* listed".

The new rating means it is a particularly important structure of more than special interest.ANTIOCH, Tenn. (WKRN) – A 7-year-old girl was critically injured after being shot in the face when two cars were hit by gunfire on Interstate 24 Saturday night.

It happened in the westbound lanes of I-24 near the Hickory Hollow Parkway exit at 10:40 p.m.

According to witnesses, the gunman fired shots while hanging outside the front passenger window.

A passenger in one of the cars says they were driving home from a Walmart in Smyrna when they heard several booming noises.

They didn’t realize what happened at first, but they pulled over when they saw that 7-year-old Kayla Velazquez, who was sitting in the backseat, was injured. The child was struck by a round that hit her in the cheek and then exited through her nose.

She was transported to Vanderbilt Children’s