a letter to the FTC expressing concern about the way the agency has been conducting its investigation. The FTC is wrapping up a nearly two-year investigation into whether Google has used its search market power to unfairly harm rival companies.

The US Federal Trade Commission is poised to open a formal antitrust probe into whether Internet search giant Google has abused its dominance on the Web, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the matter," said the FTC is preparing to serve Google with civil subpoenas "signaling the start of a wide-ranging, formal antitrust investigation."

Google has been forced by regulators in the US to agree to legally binding changes to the way it presents some search results and runs its search advertising following nearly twoshow that was totally unknown to me, represents another atypical cartoon family. Mary Wendell and her live-in boyfriend Chad do their best to parent the affable Clarence. While he is a veritable whirlwind of unbridled enthusiasm, Clarence does have a knack for always focusing on the positive.

Clarence serves as the middle point between his two best friends, the simple (and often destructive) Sumo and the neurotic, cerebral Jeff. A mere couple of episodes into the Clarence: Mystery Piñata collection, the show itself clicked into place.

Imagine the spectrum of animated comedy. On one end is the malicious anarchy of Beavis and Butthead, represented by Sumo. On the other, the deliberate, constructive messages of Phineas and Ferb, as illustrated by Jeff. And in the middle? That’s where you find Clarence


Gerarctia

Gerarctia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.

Species
 Gerarctia poliotis Hampson, 1905

References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
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Category:AcontiinaeColumbus, Ohio --

NASA surprised John Glenn with the kind of anniversary gift only a space agency can give, enabling him to speak live with the International Space Station on Monday as he marked 50 years since his historic spaceflight.

The former astronaut and senator from Ohio, now 90, became the first American to orbit the Earth on Feb. 20, 1962, circling it three times in five hours and helping to lead the nation into space. He celebrated the anniversary at Ohio State University by kicking off a forum about NASA's future.

Sitting on stage with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, he chatted with three space station crew members about space research and NASA's future. Commander Dan Burbank appeared by video link, flanked by two flight engineers floating in the zero-gravity environment,


and said the crew was delighted to help commemorate Glenn's momentous trip.

Glenn was among the top military test pilots presented in 1959 as the Mercury Seven. The only other surviving Mercury astronaut is Scott Carpenter, who called out the memorable line "Godspeed John Glenn" moments before the rocket ignited for Glenn's spaceflight.

"Fifty years ago today, Friendship 7 was orbiting planet Earth, and that helped in a very big way, paved the way for America to become a space power, and to go to the moon, and to do the things that we're doing right now on the International Space Station," Burbank said. "And we hope this also can help set the stage for us down the road to do even greater things."

Glenn had a light-hearted but educational exchangeduring the course of the roughly 15 minutes they'd been talking. They hadn't kept an eye on the exact distance but said they guessed it was about one-fourth of the way around the Earth.

Bolden joked that Glenn sometimes bugs him about making a trip to the space station. Glenn became the oldest person to fly in space in 1998, at age 77.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, was the surprise speaker Monday evening at a gala honoring Glenn.


4th HiGH&LOW film premieres on August 19 in Japan

This year's sixth issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine is announcing on Wednesday that manga creator team CLAMP will launch a manga adaptation of the HiGH&LOW live-action entertainment project this spring.

HiGH&LOW: The Story of S.W.O.R.D.

HiGH&LOW Season 2

The franchise, launched by Japanese supergroup Exile Tribe, began as a 10-episode drama series titledthat premiered on television and Hulu in Japan in October 2015. A second drama series titledran from April to June 2016.

The Road to HiGH&LOW film premiered in theaters on May 7. A second film titled HiGH&LOW The Movie premiered in theaters on July 16, followed by the HiGH&LOW The Red Rain film, which opened in Japan on October 8. A series of live performances titled HiGH&LOW The Live ran fromJuly through October across Japan.

The HiGH&LOW project announced on December 31 that HiGH&LOW The Movie 2 will premiere in theaters on August 19, followed by HiGH&LOW The Movie 3 on November 11.

In the story, a legendary powerful team called Mugen once dominated a town. The group faced resistance from the formidable Amamiya Brothers, the only ones willing and powerful enough to not give in. In the end, Mugen suddenly disbanded and the Amamiya Brothers disappeared without a trace. Afterward, a group of five gangs — Sannoh Hoodlum Squad, White Rascals, Oya High School, Rude Boys, and Daruma Ikka — take over, calling themselves "G-SWORD" and naming the area "SWORD" after their gang names.

Manga artist Masami Hosokawa launched a manga adaptation of the original drama series in Akita Shoten's


Bessatsu Shōnen Champion magazine in October 2015. Akita Shoten published the manga's third compiled volume on October 7.

CLAMP is a four-member manga artist team that has created manga series such as Cardcaptor Sakura and Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE. The group is drawing the character designs for the Kabukibu! anime series, which premieres in April.

[Image via Comic Natalie]Hong Kong law specialist Ong Yew-kim points out Hong Kong's dislike of the Communist Party and its unwillingness to accept "One Country One System" triggered the idea of "One Country Two Systems." (The Epoch Times)

HONG KONG—On June 10, 2007, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke publicly for the first time concerning her views about Hong Kong's return to China and suggested that the idea of “one country, two systems” was inappropriate.

Researcher Ong Yew-kim from the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who specializes in Chinese law, pointed out that Ms. Thatcher was speaking her mind and presented his claim that Hong Kong's dislike of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and unwillingness to accept the idea of “one country, one system” was what


triggered “one country, two systems.”

As the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty approaches, the now 81-year-old Thatcher expressed her regret and disappointment in failing to persuade the deceased CCP leader Deng Xiaoping to extend Britain's lease on Hong Kong. She expressed this during an interview with Hong Kong businessman David Tang. She also claimed that the implementation of the idea of “one country, two systems” is inappropriate amidst the current context.

Mr. Ong pointed out that Ms. Thatcher has the responsibility to declare her standing on this issue. He said, “She is British, and she hosted the Hong Kong negotiation. It was through that negotiation she handed Hong Kong back to China. In her mind, she believes it to be a setback and a failure. Sheis doubtful regarding the “one country, two systems” idea and feels it to be unsatisfactory. I think British people have the right and obligation to say so.”

Ong was once invited to be a draft committee member for the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Basic Law), but he withdrew later as he was criticized of being politically sensitive.

He said that the majority of the Hong Kong people were refugees who had escaped from mainland China in 1949. They did not want to be ruled by the CCP. It is not hard to see why they dislike the CCP. In the early 80's, when the handover of Hong Kong was first mentioned, Hong Kong people generally resisted it, because “after


four months in the studio trying out possible sounds. There were some instruments they wanted to recreate from earlier versions, including a waterwheel of beer bottles. The end result, however, was largely a product of their collective passions. Both Kip and Davidson work on the restoration of the Wanamaker organ, so the piece incorporates — what else? — pipe organ parts.

Kagel, who was born in Argentina and spent much of his life in Germany, collaborated on the first three versions of the work with the German guitarist Wilhelm Brück. Brück served as a consultant for Bowerbird’s production.

Kagel’s original score indicates not only rhythms and melodies, but, at times, body parts. As in, play with head, shoulder, chest, and foot.

“That helped shape the instruments, too,” said Tini, a percussionistAnatomical topography of the mandibular symphysis in the Korean population: a computed tomography analysis.
The objective of this study was to reveal the topography of the mandibular symphysis according to gender and age in the Korean population using computed tomography (CT) to provide a mean anatomical database for the safety zone during block bone harvesting. The following parameters were measured in CT images taken from Korean subjects: interforaminal distance (ID), vertical distance between the inferior mandibular border and the apices of the anterior teeth (VD), and horizontal distance between the labial cortical bone and the apices of the anterior teeth (HD). Differences between genders and among age groups, and the correlations among measurements were analyzed. A total of 973 images (411 males and 562 females; mean age = 41.2


Navy rescues family with sick baby from sailboat

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This undated image provided by Sariah English shows Eric and Charlotte Kaufman with their daughters, Lyra, 1, and Cora, 3. Rescuers have stabilized the condition Lyra, with her family on a crippled sailboat hundreds of miles off the coast of Mexico, and a U.S. Navy warship was headed toward the vessel, officials said Friday night, April 4, 2014. Their boat, the 36-foot Rebel Heart, was about 900 nautical miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas when they sent a satellite call for help to the U.S. Coast Guard Thursday morning saying their 1-year-old girl aboard was ill. (AP Photo/Sariah English)

SAN DIEGO (AP) - U.S. sailors rescued an American family with an ill 1-year-old from a sailboat that broke down hundredsof miles off the Mexican coast - boarding them Sunday onto a San Diego-bound Navy ship so the girl could get medical treatment.

The baby girl, Lyra, was in stable condition at 8 a.m. Sunday when sailors helped her, her 3-year-old sister, Cora, and her parents, Charlotte and Eric Kaufman leave their sailboat and brought them aboard the USS Vandegrift.

The Kaufmans were two weeks into a sailing trip around the world when Lyra developed a fever and a rash covering most of her body and wasn't responding to medications. After their 36-foot sailboat lost steering and communication abilities about 900 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, they sent a satellite call for help to the U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday.

Four California Air National Guard members parachuted into the


water and reached the boat Thursday night. The crew stabilized the girl and stayed by her side until the Navy frigate arrived at about 1 a.m. Sunday.

Sailors waited until daylight to move the family from their inoperable sailboat, "Rebel Heart," which authorities were in the process of sinking Sunday because it was taking on water, Bena said.

It was still not immediately known what illness the girl may have had.

Before the family left for the trip, Lyra had salmonella poisoning, but doctors cleared her to travel after she was healthy again, said Charlotte Kaufman's sister, Sariah Kay English.

When her sister first mentioned plans to sail with two young children, English recalled, "I thought it was nuts."

But English said the couple was always careful. Eric Kaufman is a Coast Guard-licensedcaptain who introduced sailing to Charlotte Kaufman during one of their early dates.

"They were not going into this blind. I knew they were doing this wisely," English said.

English initially was in daily email contact with the family but realized something was wrong when the communication stopped several days ago.


“I heard some gunfire over here, come quickly!” An FBI officer by the name of Robert Wilson was urging his troop of other officers towards Hallway 1A in the vast prison filled with cells holding many criminals with a bad record. Robert and his troop were running through alarm sounds and broken lights, through overturned tables and shattered glass. He looked ahead into the hallway, and saw the body of a security guard lying on the ground in a pool of blood. They rushed to him, and Robert knelt down with his pistol in his grip and felt the blood.“It’s fresh,” He said to the rest of the troop.Robert heard more shouting at the end and he looked ahead. He sighted more flashing heard more gunfire.“What’s going on?”completely dark.“Everyone, turn on your tactical lights!” Robert ordered in the darkness of the prison.He reached over to the bottom of the muzzle of his pistol and flicked a switch. All the lights of his men were turned on one after the other, and the men were squinting their eyes, trying to get used to the bright light that blinded their vision. Robert shined his tactical light where they were going. There was nothing there, except for some shattered glass. “What cell was he in?” One of the officers asked. Robert thought about it for a second. What did they tell him again? When the prison chief supervisor called him requesting for assistance, he told him the cell that was broken out of.“They told me he was originally


the papers down on his desk and leaned back in his chair, thinking about what was going to happen. This would be one hell of a job to do, trying to catch such a criminal who even had a reputation on his name. He saw his M9 Beretta lying on the table, unloaded with the magazines around the gun. Robert took the gun in his hand, looking at its shiny and blackish-gray surface. The T.V hanging to the left of the office suddenly began making static noises. It was showing the news before but now the screen turned grey. Robert heard some extra noises in the background and assumed it was someone speaking, but was unclear. It began to get more clear as the static disappeared. It showedimage made over a year on cloud-free nights. It also shows where fires rage, natural gas burns off, and fishing takes place at night.

A current political map that features our world in rich, earth-toned colors. Astounding detail and boardroom quality make this map excellent for reference in your home or office. Features the Winkel Tripel projection to reduce distortion of land masses as they near the poles.

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The new Dynamic Earth wall map illustrates plate tectonics and features new bathymetry and naturally colored relief, as well as current volcano and earthquake data. Notable earthquakes and eruptions lists are updated to include the significant earthquakes in Haiti (2010) and Japan (2011) and volcanic eruptions in Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland (2010) and Merapi, Java, Indonesia (2010). Like pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle, tectonic plates fit together to form the earth’s outer shell. The interaction of these plates causes earthquakes and volcanoes and shapes the earth’s crust into mountains, valleys and deep-sea trenches. The Dynamic Earth map illustrates 17 major tectonic plates and highlights diffuse plate boundaries, convergent boundaries, spreading boundaries, fault zones, hot spots, notable earthquakes


and volcanic eruptions of the 20th and 21st centuries, earthquakes with a magnitude of greater than 6.5 during the 20th and 21st centuries, and notable volcanic eruptions during the past 10,000 years.

The most accurate map of Earth's surface ever produced from satellite data. This computer-generated composite map draws from more than 500 satellite images to give one-kilometer detail and consistent representation of natural colors. This version is mounted on wood material with beveled edges and a keyhole hanging slot on the back. Choose from four bevel-color styles to match your decor.

During the 1930s and 1940s, National Geographic designed several world maps using a projection that separated the eastern and western hemispheres. We have brought back this classic view of the world with modern cartography and elegant earth toneswas acquitted in the 2012 fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. He was charged with aggravated assault after pointing a gun at his girlfriend, and prior to that arrest he was involved in a domestic violence incident with his estranged wife.

There are conflicting reports about whether Zimmerman acknowledged the alleged Tuesday road rage incident, however.

Police caught up with Zimmerman Wednesday, after the same man called to say that he was being followed, according to WESH. The news station reported that Zimmerman told police he was in the area for a doctor’s appointment.

Zimmerman admitted to exchanging words with the man when confronted by police Wednesday, according to a report from Miami TV station WSVN. The same man had made a second 911 call to say Zimmerman was waiting for him


However, there is a lack of reports about the course of AD in Korean children, although several reports are available from other countries ([@B14]-[@B16]). In this study, we aimed at analyzing the natural history of AD in Korean children occurring in their first year of life as well as the risk factors associated with persistent clinical symptoms.

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Among the patients with AD who visited Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea between September 1995 and March 2006, those who manifested skin symptoms in the first year of life were selected in this study. The age at their first visit to our clinic was less than 36 months, and the diagnosis of AD was based on the criteria of Hanifin and Rajka ([@B17]). For this study, theirFor decades, collective bargaining for government workers wasn't controversial.

On Jan. 17, 1962, President Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, bringing collective bargaining rights to most federal workers for the first time. Kennedy's order might be the least known of the string of significant events that made the 1960s such crucial years in American history. At the time Kennedy acted, very few workers at any level of government had won the right to bargain collectively with their employers. Federal action helped inspire many states and localities to follow suit, allowing their own workers to organize. This triggered a huge wave of unionization in the public sector that saw firefighters, teachers, sanitation workers, social workers and many others form unions in the 1960s and '70s.

For 20 years after Kennedy's order, public


goodies to labor allies, the taxpayers be damned. Just ask unions in New York and California. They have complained loudly about their treatment at the hands of Democratic governors Andrew Cuomo and Jerry Brown.

If the reality of public sector collective bargaining belies the scaremongering of anti-unionists, so too does the history of Kennedy's executive order itself. It was scarcely the sop to the union movement that some critics argued at the time and continue to believe today. The order instead fell far short of what the union movement wanted, and it headed off a more union-friendly law that Congress was set to consider when Kennedy took office.

That bill would have given federal workers robust bargaining rights, including the right to negotiate over pay and benefits. Kennedy and hisour labor politics have become and how anti-union today's Republican political leaders are in comparison to the man to whom they would like to be compared, the onetime union leader (as president of the Screen Actors Guild) Ronald Reagan. The Gipper was no fan of Kennedy; he rejected Kennedy's liberalism, which he felt might lead to something worse. "Under the tousled boyish haircut" of the young president, Reagan once worried, was "still old Karl Marx." But Reagan's position on workers' rights to bargain was closer to Kennedy's than to the one promoted by Scott Walker and other conservatives today. Much indeed has changed over the last half-century.

Joseph A. McCartin teaches history at Georgetown University and is the author of "Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and


FOX CREEK, Alta. -- Alberta government investigators have cleared three Mounties who shot a murder suspect last summer.

RCMP responded to reports of a suspect killing a man and a woman with a large butcher knife in June 2015 at an oil industry work camp near Fox Creek.

Investigators say the Mounties fired a total of 13 shots at the man when he refused to drop the knife and lunged at the officers.

Susan Hughson, executive director of the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, says after reviewing the investigation there is no evidence that suggests the officers committed any offence.

Daniel Goodridge, who is 30, is to stand trial on May 15, 2017, on charges of first-degree murder and second-degree murder.

Fox Creek is 260 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

"The evidence very clearly establishesand bird protection.

Fauna and flora

Fauna
The variety of birds inhabiting the nature park contributes significantly to this ecological importance. To date, well over 300 bird species have been observed which makes the Rhine delta nature park popular among ornithologists and bird watchers. Shallow water and silt areas are important resting and breeding places as well as food spots for water birds and waders. Numerous rare and endangered species breed in the about 2,000 hectares of wet meadows, reed beds and riparian forests.
The Rhine delta is an ideal habitat for many amphibians, too. So far, nine species and a hybrid form (the edible frog) have been identified in this area. The large populations of water frogs are remarkable. European tree frogs and crested newts are also found locally in


required to make a concrete conclusion on what the most effective PA and exercise training is and how the training should be carried out. Physiotherapists, who are specialists for promoting active ageing in older adults, has a key role in applying and designing treatments for people with MCI to promote their cognition and physical capacity, and reduce related signs and symptoms. As more evidence is going to emerge, PA and exercise training can possibly become one of the key components in treating people with MCI.

Wayne Chan is a registered Physiotherapist at Chi Lin Nunnery Elderly Services and a Visiting Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained a PhD in Medical Sciences (Geriatrics) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and has a wide range of clinical,within a radius of about 5 pc. García-Sánchez (1997) started a search for stars passing close to the Sun using Hipparcos data, assuming a straight line motion model. Subsequently García-Sánchez (1999) continued their search by integrating the motion of the candidate stars and the Sun in a local Galactic potential and in a simple global Galactic Potential. More recently, Bobylev (2010) presents a study of the closest encounters of stars in the Solar neighborhood with the Sun, using also a simple local approximation to integrate orbits.

Of course, a star passing near the Sun has greater effect on the Oort cloud – an extremely extended structure – than on the planetary disk. However, in the solar system, the Kuiper belt has properties acquired early in its history, and some


A leading music publishing company is going after streaming giant Spotify with a $1.6 billion dollar lawsuit.

Wixen Music Publishing accused Spotify of using artists' music "without a license and without compensation," according to documents filed in a California court on Friday.

Wixen handles copyright management and royalty compliance for artists including Tom Petty, The Doors, Neil Young and Missy Elliot.

Petty's "Free Falling," Rage Against the Machine's "Calm Like A Bomb" and more than 10,000 other songs are listed in the lawsuit. Wixen is seeking damages of $150,000 per song, the maximum award possible under the U.S. Copyright Act.

Related: Siri, what's that song? Apple buys Shazam

According to that act, there are two separate copyrights for every recorded song: one for the sound recording and one for the musical composition (theWeidenbaum and weaponry

For all his commitment to military buildup, President Reagan has shown that he can be wary of grandiose, misguided weapons schemes. For example, he turned away from the previous administration's elaborate MX basing mode although clinging to development of the controversial missile itself. He ought to redouble efforts at exercising the utmost discrimination among various weapons programs in light of a lengthening list of cautionary voices, to which Murray Weidenbaum's was added last week.

Mr. Weidenbaum spoke to the Associated Press in an interview he asked to be withheld until after his recent official departure as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The federal budget really has not been cut, he said. Slashes in social and other nonmilitary spending have been offset by the unprecedented growth


procedure, please see the post Emergency Umbilical Vein Catheterization for Newborns—An Outstanding Video Resource. This is an embedded YouTube video made by the Indiana University Department of Pediatrics. It details the three by three method of putting in an emergency umblical vein catheter in the delivery room. The post also has a written summary of the three by three method for quick review.type was detected in the visceral and parietal pleura and wihtin the tumor at the left gluteus area, we diagnosed a malignant granular cell tumor. The CT-scan was suspicious of lung metastasis. The primary tumor was located in the area of left hip. The patient was in a poor general condition and she suffered from an extensive metastastic disease; curative treatment was not possible. A pleurodesis was performed. The patient died nine months after initial diagnosis. A rare malignant granular cell tumor was discovered by detecting tumor tissue of granular cell tumor in the pleura and within a tumor in the left gluteus area. Another indication of a metastatic disease were multifocal lesions in the lung detected by CT-scan. Curative treatment was not possible.


they wipe the frosting out of their eyes.

Didn't see that one coming

As far as crooked corporate news items go, this one's almost heart-warming. Ervin Brinker, 70, the former CEO of a community mental health authority in Battle Creek, is sentenced in January to 32 months to 10 years in prison for embezzling Medicaid funds. Why did he need all this extra money? Drug habit? Private dances? Italian suit fetish? No, our good man Brinker stole $510,000 from Medicaid to make payments to a psychic palm reader and her husband in Key West, Fla. Maybe next time, he'll find a better psychic.

Poison isn't free, you know

Flint started the new year off by sending shut-off warnings to residents. In late 2015, the city had been enjoined from sending shut-off warnings— remarkably, not because the city's water contains hazardous levels of lead, but because of a court injunction stemming from a billing lawsuit. But with the injunction expiring and the holidays over, Flint returns to sending shut-off warnings when its residents don't pay the highest rates for water in the country — for poison. Think you'd just thumb your nose at the city and refuse to pay? Think again: In Michigan homes without water service, parents can be referred to social services and run the risk of losing their children.

Water cooler talk

In January, after Flint's water crisis had been officially declared a state of emergency, emails obtained by the group Progress Michigan reveals that a year before, the Snyder administration discreetly trucked water coolers into a state building.


According to one email — sent days after the city told residents that the smelly, rust-colored water was safe to drink — water coolers were to be placed next to the water fountains, so that government employees "can choose which water to drink." Apparently for the Snyder administration, what was good for the goose was not good for the gander.

Say "cheese!"

With news spreading far and wide that a Snyder-appointed emergency manager's poor decisions led to the city's water being poisoned with lead, the guv reacted swiftly: hiring not one but two public relations firms, and staging a showy photo op of him signing a short-term aid bill. But with a half-million people already demanding his resignation, you'd think Snyder and his handlers would know better than look positively"green ghettos" — in a city where 1 in 4 households doesn't own a car, and public transportation stinks.

The blame game

The Flint saga continued in April with Attorney General Bill Schuette announcing criminal charges against what would become the first patsies of the crisis, filing felony charges against two DEQ officials and one city of Flint official. In July, he would charge three more DEQ employees and three Michigan Department of Health and Human Services employees. In December, Schuette charged four more people, including former Flint emergency managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose.


on this team moving forward.”

TRANSACTION: On August 9, 2019, Whitecaps FC acquire Tosaint Ricketts, pending receipt of his International Transfer Certificate (ITC) and medical.

Whitecaps FC striker Tosaint Ricketts

More than 250 professional matches and 62 goals in 10-year career

15 appearances and eight goals in Lithuania’s A Lyga in 2019

59 appearances and 16 goals for Canada men’s national team

The 32-year-old most recently played with Lithuanian side FK Sūduva in the top tier A Lyga. In 15 league matches with the club, he started 13 times and scored eight goals. In additional competition, Ricketts scored another two goals while making five appearances between domestic cup play and international competition in UEFA Champions League and Europa League qualification matches.

Prior to his time in Lithuania, Ricketts spent three seasons with Toronto FC scoring15 goals and recording three assists in 18 starts and 58 appearances in MLS regular season and playoff action. The 5-foot-11 striker also started three of his five Canadian Championship appearances, scoring once.

Throughout the first seven years of his career, Rickets played in Finland, Romania, Norway, Turkey, and Israel, accumulating more than 150 appearances and scoring 36 goals.

At the international level, the native of Edmonton, Alberta has represented Canada 59 times, making 40 starts, while scoring 16 goals with four assists.

TOSAINT RICKETTS

Position: Striker

Height: 5-11

Weight: 170 pounds

Date of Birth: August 6, 1987 in Edmonton, Alberta

Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta

Citizenship: Canada

Status: Domestic

Previous club: FK Sūduva (2019)


a couple of hours, but coming nonetheless—to women who, more often than not, have just finished a 10-hour day at the office, made a barely competent dinner for the family, bathed, soothed, and put to bed a couple of kids, and are now sitting blithely for the first time all day on the floor in a corner of the bedroom gleefully painting toenails red. Thrilled for the first moment of peace and absence of need in their lives.

But then the man intrudes like a roving brown bear.

The best among us will set aside the red toenail polish, summon our last ounce of understanding and tolerance, and listen. But sometimes we just cannot help it. We turn the look of death on the beaten down husband, fling the bottleWhile millions of happy, loving couples were busy last night celebrating Valentine's Day, another chunk of the population stayed home and spent the holiday watching the
"Teen Mom 2" Season 2 finale (aptly titled "Love Will Tear Us Apart"). The episode was chock full 'o baby daddy drama -- the pitfalls of shared custody and residual emotions -- with a little bit of rehab on the side.

Kailyn
began this season as the most level-headed teen mom in the group, but in the aftermath of her hookup with Joe, she burns her bridges big time. Yet again, her lack of interpersonal skills leaves the audience and the people in her life puzzled. She's completely unremorseful when she announces to Jordan that she cheated on him.

"You don't put yourself in my position,"


Kailyn seethes. But when Jordan dumps her and Joe rejects her, there still isn't much sympathy remaining.

The only thing sloppier than Kailyn's behavior is Leah's hasty divorce. Corey handles the situation stoically, taking off his wedding band and quietly letting Leah move her belongings out of their home. Meanwhile, Leah is all tears and dramatics -- saying she's "in shock over everything" and is upset about "being married and divorced in 6 months." Well ... why did you cheat on Corey? And why did you file for divorce?

Jenelle is at rehab in California, where she has some moments of significant self-discovery. "My mom... me and her argue all the time, constantly -- and it's always in front of Jace," she says.

We also learn that Jenelle has a brotherPhil Armstrong had said that Matador was good especially with his new finishing pitch. The forecast was equivocal but I was keen to get back to Rosea.
Optimistically I set out from Natimuk under clearing skies which became less clear the nearer I got to Wartook. There seemed little point in rushing into the mist so another morning coffee called. At the Rosea carpark just before 10 things were still grey but with promises of clearing. A trio pulled in beside us and raced off to Debutante.
Norm crossing the excellent trackwork across the erosion gully. Once we left the main track for the left end things slowed down. The route until Bourgeous Blues was pretty overgrown and once we got past Big Chimney progress slowed dramatically, fighting through ferns


reach past the overhang and would have been even harder back in the mid-sixties. I managed to awkwardly place a big cam out left in the middle of the overhang and then launched up onto stonker jugs, quickly resetting the big cam in a better position as I pulled past. The corner above was really nice to a small ledge at about 25 metres.

Obviously the original intention for the climb was to continue up the corner but the top 6 or 7 metres was closed. The left wall of the corner looked great but too hard for this day. Norm came up, chilled to the bone, although the sun was now poking through and struggling with the pack.

The next pitch was way devious, traversing out right across thebe seen today stretching from Tyne Dock towards the mouth of the Tyne.

Turner made an engraving of Shields on the River Tyne in 1823. This is now in Tate Britain in London. He also painted Keelmen Hauling Coals by Night in 1835, having himself rowed out into the Tyne at Jarrow Slake in order to do so.

The town became famous for its maritime industries and the Marine School was founded by Dr. Thomas Winterbottom in 1837. Originally in Ocean Road, it is now part of South Tyneside College in Westoe Village and has an international reputation. From the late 1980s to 2008 it  possessed the nationally unique combined public observatory and planetarium, which has provided education and entertainment for twenty thousand children a year. During the industrial


Galdt Early Origins

The surname Galdt was first found in Hamburg, where the name contributed greatly to the development of an emerging nation which would later play a large role in the tribal and national conflicts of the area. In later years the name branched into many houses, each playing a significant role in the local social and political affairs. The family is also connected to several place names in the Holstein region.

Galdt Spelling Variations

Galdt Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Galt, Geld, Galde, Gelt, Geltman, Geltinger, Geldrich, Geltsayer, Gelder and many more.

Galdt Early History

Galdt Early History

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Galdt research. Another 243 words (17 lines of text) covering the years 1670, 1790 and 1759 are included under the topicEarly Galdt History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Galdt Early Notables (pre 1700)

Galdt Early Notables (pre 1700)

More information is included under the topic Early Galdt Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

The Great Migration

The Great Migration

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Johannes Van Gelder, who came to New Netherland in 1662; Benjamin Galt, who arrived in New England in 1718; Johan Matthias Gelt, who came to Pennsylvania in 1748.

The Galdt Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Galdt Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.


Lutz Bachmann, the founder and co-leader of the PEGIDA organization in Germany, announced on Wednesday evening that he was quitting his post.

PEGIDA's Kathrin Oertel told news agencies that Bachmann was stepping back from his roles in the group opposing what it calls the "Islamization of the West." Bachmann then told mass-circulation daily Bild - the same paper that had published the two-year-old image of him wearing a toothbrush mustache in the style of Adolf Hitler: "Yes, I am also resigning as chairman [of PEGIDA]."

In the picture, Bachmann wears a mustache and a severe side parting reminiscent of the German dictator. At first, he claimed that the picture was a joke.

However, PEGIDA on Wednesday said that Bachmann's real error had been making comments on Facebook - calling asylum seekerslast week played down a ribald comment made in 2013, that "eco-terrorist" Greens - first and foremost former Green party leader Claudia Roth - should be "summarily executed."

"In that moment it was wrong," said Bachmann. "I regret I didn't resist my impulsiveness."

An estimated 100,000 people - both for and against PEGIDA - were expected to rally in the eastern city of Leipzig on Wednesday evening. The movement itself was expected to gather some 40,000 supporters, while around 19 organized counter-demonstrations were hoping to muster up to 60,000.

A demonstration by PEGIDA in Dresden on Monday was canceled by police because of an Islamist death threat against Bachmann.

rc/msh (AP, AFP, dpa, Reuters)


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Iron Maiden

A Maiden trivia primer

For nearly 40 years, Iron Maiden has been the gold standard in heavy metal, influencing countless musicians, terrifying parents and just being awesome. In advance of their first Utah show in about 20 years, City Weekly takes time to reflect on some killer trivia regarding the legendary U.K. band.

DI’ANNO MAIDENAlthough Bruce Dickinson is widely seen as the face and, more importantly, voice of Iron Maiden, the band’s first two albums feature a different singer and a sound. Iron Maiden (1980) and Killers (1981) are more rowdy bar rock and punk than the proto-power metal sound for which Maiden is best known, and feature the raw, raspy vocals of Paul Di’Anno. Although some fans favor one over the other,as the insane Bank of France was.

This was exactly the scenario against which Hawtrey and Cassel had been warning since 1919. They saw it happening, and watched in horror while their warnings were disregarded as virtually the whole world plunged blindly into a deflationary abyss. Keynes had some inkling of what was going on – he was an old friend and admirer of Hawtrey and had considerable regard for Cassel – but, for reasons I don’t really understand, Keynes was intent on explaining the downturn in terms of his own evolving theoretical vision of how the economy works, even though just about everything that was happening had already been foreseen by Hawtrey and Cassel.

More than a quarter of a century after the fact, and after the Keynesian Revolution


for by Keynes was necessary to end the Great Depression, we do know that the key factor explaining recovery from the Great Depression was leaving the gold standard. And the most important example of the importance of leaving the gold standard is the remarkable explosion of output in the US beginning in April 1933 (surely before expansionary fiscal policy could take effect) following the suspension of the gold standard by FDR and an effective 40% devaluation of the dollar in terms of gold. Between April and July 1933, industrial production in the US increased by 70%, stock prices nearly doubled, employment rose by 25%, while wholesale prices rose by 14%. All that is directly attributable to FDR’s decision to take the US off gold, and devalue the dollar9, 1987, at 11:39 a.m., at the intersection of Union and Grolee Streets in Opelousas, Louisiana. Plaintiff, driving a 1986 Nissan Pulsar, was traveling north on Union Street in the right lane. Defendant was operating his vehicle, a 1983 Chevrolet Camaro, in an easterly direction on Grolee Street. It was a sunny day and the roads were dry.
The drivers presented different versions of the accident at trial. Plaintiff testified that as she approached the intersection of Grolee and Union, the signal light turned green. Plaintiff proceeded to enter the intersection, traveling at approximately 35 miles per hour, when she collided with defendant's vehicle. She testified that she did not see defendant's automobile until just before she entered the intersection. According to defendant's testimony, the light facing him on


Grolee Street was yellow as he entered the intersection. He stated that he was traveling at about 20-25 miles per hour. Apparently, plaintiff's vehicle *951 struck the right rear passenger quarter panel of defendant's vehicle.
Donald Fisher, a witness to the accident, testified that he was traveling north on Union Street in the left lane. As he approached the intersection of Union and Grolee the light turned red and he stopped. According to Fisher, after the light facing him turned green, he noticed defendant's vehicle traveling across the intersection on Grolee Street. He stated that as he began to move forward, the Camaro "flew across" in front of the plaintiff.[2] Another witness to the accident, Mary Stelly also testified at trial. She was heading east on Grolee Street behindcans or bottled beverages. Find the biggest, baddest pumpkin in the pumpkin field that can hold a large number of beverages depending on the number of guests invited. Carve the top portion of the pumpkin as well as the inner pulp and seeds. Then fill the pumpkin with ice and beverages. Also, you could carve small holes to hold your beverages around the outside circumference of the pumpkin. Fit your beverages into these holes and fill the inside of the pumpkin with ice. For an extra added smoky effect, use two bags of dry ice!

10. Turn The Pumpkin Stem Into a Nose

Make a lid on the opposite end of the stem to scoop out the pumpkin’s fleshy bits then use the side with the stem to create the


Harthorne Wingo

Harthorne Nathaniel Wingo (born September 9, 1947) is a retired  American professional basketball player.

A 6'6" forward born in Tryon, North Carolina and from Friendship Junior College, Wingo (also known as "Wingo Harthorne") played four seasons (1972–1976) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the New York Knicks. He averaged 4.8 points and 3.5 rebounds in his career and won a league championship in 1973.
After the 1975-76 season he moved to Italy and played with Pallacanestro Cantu (1976–1978) with whom he won the European Cup Winner's Cup twice and Superga Mestre (1978–1980).

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Category:PallacanestroPostanesthesia death and suspected peracute endotoxic shock due to Pseudomonas putida in a cynomolgous macaque (Macaca fascicularis).
An adult male cynomolgous macaque (Macaca fascicularis) died suddenly after anesthesia for a positron emission tomography scan. Bacteriologic culture of the mucopurulent secretions recovered from the endotracheal tube yielded heavy growth of Pseudomonas putida, a known endotoxin producer. Histologically, the lungs had severe, diffuse perivascular edema and neutrophils marginating to the endothelium. The sudden death and the pathologic findings were consistent with peracute endotoxic shock. Numerous environmental swab specimens of the surgical suite and equipment were submitted for bacteriologic culture, as were swab specimens of endotracheal secretions from a control animal; however, Pseudomonas putida was not isolated from any specimen. The animal in this report may have carried Pseudomonas putida as a


in Houston, the South's largest local church, where a mix of geographic and spiritual immigration has quadrupled the Catholic population to 1.5 million over the last three decades.In the Lone Star state -- where the faithful recently overtook Evangelicals to become Texas' largest religious group -- the archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and the diocese of Dallas (its Catholic contingent grown five-fold to a million-plus since... 1990) each welcomed more than 2,000 catechumens and candidates into full communion at Saturday's Vigil.

From the Big D -- home of the K-Far -- the Dallas Morning Newstakes a look at the new faithful:

Matthew Parks was born Protestant and raised in an Assemblies of God church near Houston. By midnight tonight the 28-year-old will be Catholic....

Mr. Parks will be among 200 at St. MarkCatholic Church in Plano completing the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. St. Mark and Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Garland this year have the highest number of catechumens – those who've completed preparations to join – a combined 500 adults and children, among the 74 parishes in the diocese's nine-county area.

"I don't want to put too much expectation on the event, but next to becoming sober, it will probably be the most exponential event of my life," Mr. Parks said. "It's really going to be an awesome experience. It's overwhelming to think about, to finally consume the Body of Christ."

Mr. Parks moved to Dallas a year ago after what he described as a "long problem with drug abuse," and began study of the Catholic faith after joining


initiates at St. Mark. The initiation period is nine months to a year and culminates at Easter.

The Dallas convert count does appear to be significant. The Archdiocese of Detroit, for example, lists 589 catechumens and 497 from other Christian faiths receiving Communion; an additional 289 baptized Catholics are receiving sacraments.

The rise in conversions brings good news to the Dallas diocese after a recent study of religion in America showing that Catholicism has had the largest drop attributed to change of religion. Nearly one in three Americans were brought up Catholic; fewer than one in four now list Catholic as their religious affiliation, the Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Landscape Survey showed.

"The Pew report has valid points. It does not apply to the experience in Dallas," said the Rev. KevinJoseph Farrell, bishop of the Diocese of Dallas. "When I was in the Northeast, parishes were closing. The South, Southwest and West have the fastest-growing [Catholic] populations. Not just because of immigrants coming from the south who are already Catholic. Many are people who are returning to the church and folks moving here from the Northeast. We have a wave of immigrants and a wave of migrants."

New converts such as Guy Hollis, a Dallas-area irrigation specialist, embraced the idea in the name of family. The more he accompanied his wife, Chachi, to Sunday Mass, the more he became interested in her faith. He and their preschooler and toddler will be among the 300 entering Good Shepherd in Garland.

Two parishes. 500 converts. Priceless. And mind-blowing.

To all of our newest


more folks than you might realize.

But no pressure -- we're all in this together... and together, as another among us likes to say, "let's go up to meet our destiny."-30-

About Me

One of global Catholicism's most prominent chroniclers, Rocco Palmo has held court as the "Church Whisperer" since 2004, when the pages you're reading were launched with an audience of three, grown since by nothing but word of mouth, and kept alive throughout solely by means of reader support.

A former US correspondent for the London-based international Catholic weekly The Tablet, he's been a church analyst for The New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, BBC, NBC, CNN and NPR among other mainstream print and broadcast outlets worldwide.

A native of Philadelphia, Rocco Palmo attended the Universityof Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. In 2010, he received a Doctorate of Humane Letters honoris causa from Aquinas Institute of Theology in St Louis.

In 2011, Palmo co-chaired the first Vatican conference on social media, convened by the Pontifical Councils for Culture and Social Communications. By appointment of Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM Cap., he's likewise served on the first-ever Pastoral Council of the Archdiocese, whose Church remains his home.


The APT10 group has added two new malware loaders to its arsenal and used in attacks aimed at government and private organizations in Southeast Asia.

In April 2019, China-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as APT10 has added two new loaders to its arsenal and used it against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia.

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper, targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

In July 2018, FireEye observed a series of new attacks of the group leveraging spear-phishing emails using weaponized Word documents that attempt to deliver the UPPERCUT backdoor, also tracked as ANEL.

In September 2018, researchers from FireEye uncovered and blocked aThink you hate your Internet service provider now? Pretty much all the top ISPs in the country just told the Federal Communications Commission that if they face extra regulation, they will stop investing as much as they do today in network upgrades, and they will have to stop being so innovative.

The threat came today in a letter signed by the chief executives of AT&T, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, CenturyLink, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Frontier, Suddenlink, Time Warner Cable, 15 other companies, and industry groups such as the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, the Telecommunications Industry Association, and the CTIA Wireless Association.

The companies warned the FCC not to classify broadband as a telecommunications service, which would open Internet service up to stricter “common carrier” rules under Title II of the


Room 101 will feature a bevy of top-drawer celebrity guests including Sir Terry Wogan, Miranda Hart and Sheila Hancock when the show returns to BBC1 next year.

The second series of comedy programme since Frank Skinner took over as host goes into production today, and will feature appearances from a huge range of stars drawn from the worlds of TV, film, music, media and sport.

Comics booked to appear include Jack Whitehall, Jason Manford, Greg Davies, Miranda Hart, Jon Richardson, Jo Brand, Mel Giedroyc and Hugh Dennis.

Veteran stars Cilla Black, John Craven, Clive Anderson, Sir Terry Wogan and Sheila Hancock have all been lined up to take part, as have younger TV regulars including The One Show’s Alex Jones, globetrotter Ben Fogle and radio DJ Reggie Yates.

Ex-cricketer Phil Tufnell isthe only sportsman to have signed up to appear, but he’ll be joined by the likes of musician Paloma Faith and former media executive Janet Street-Porter.

Victoria Coren, Bill Turnbull and Ben Miller round out the celebrities who’ve confirmed that they will join Skinner in the studio to discuss their pet peeves from everyday life.

Room 101, which was revamped and re-launched on BBC1 in January, has proven popular with viewers and regularly entertained audiences of over 3m per episode in the first quarter of 2012.

The show, which began airing in 1994 with Nick Hancock as host, originally ran on the BBC until 1997. It was re-launched in 1999 with Paul Merton at the helm and continued until Merton left the show in 2007.

Its format originally featured one-on-one interviews with


The parent company of poultry giant Steggles has launched an investigation into allegations baby chickens were buried alive during the clean-up of a truck rollover near Yass, north of Canberra.

Produce company Baiada said it was "shocked and disturbed" by footage appearing to show live one-day-old chicks being pulled from the dirt and an investigation was underway.

In a statement to the ABC, it said images and videos posted on social media by animal activists Vegan ACT were "completely unacceptable and violate our animal welfare incident management procedures and policies".

About 2:00am on Easter Monday a truck carrying 100,000 live chicks rolled on Burley Griffin Way near Yass.

Yass Valley Council, which has denied knowingly burying live chickens, was responsible for the clean-up.

The council said its employees worked for more than 15until about 10:00pm or about six hours.

"We started just digging them out by hand, trying to locate where they were calling from, there were just thousands of bodies everywhere."

Ms Swann said the group retrieved 140 live chicks from the dirt.

She accused the Yass Valley Council of "cruelty towards day-old chicks" but admitted the group had not contacted animal welfare groups or police. Though she said the group was considering further action.

Yass Valley Council Mayor Rowena Abbey said she was "surprised" by allegations from Vegan ACT that council workers had knowingly buried the animals and labelled them "ridiculous".

"They were all over the road, on the side of the road and [council staff] actually spent more than 15 hours picking up 80,000 chickens which is no mean effort," she said.

"So


People turning on HBO Sunday evening must have thought they'd accidentally switched channels to MSNBC.

In the third episode of Aaron Sorkin's new drama The Newsroom, those involved in the fictitious cable news network ACN all basically became MSNBC employees mercilessly attacking the Tea Party whilst comparing Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) to the late Joe McCarthy (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

The episode was done largely as a flashback. At the core was a meeting between heads of the parent company Atlantis World Media including CEO Leona Lansing played by Jane Fonda as well as ACN's news division president played by Sam Waterston. This dramatically took place the day after the 2010 midterm elections.

ACN's program Newsnight has taken a hard turn to the left in recent months, andother cable networks that were giving this more airtime.

One can plainly see some of the furthest-left, most biased entities in our nation basically have a hand in HBO's new offering.

What should one expect from a network that features Bill Maher and has a hit program that used the decapitated head of former President George W. Bush as a prop?

As the show continued, Daniels went on a lengthy, factually-challenged rant against the Tea Party besmirching folks like Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, Jim DeMint, and Allen West while conveniently pushing to raise taxes on the nation's richest one percent.

Potentially worse, mixed in with characterizations of real people were manufactured personalities that don't exist.

The producers concocted a phony member of Congress called Bryce Delaney just defeated in a primary by a


Tea Party candidate.

During an interview with Daniels, Delaney claimed he lost because he said at a townhall meeting that Obama wasn’t a socialist. He also made the awful “mistake” of co-sponsoring a bill with a Democrat that provided for homeless veterans to receive housing vouchers and services such as counseling and job training.

This is tremendously scary stuff, and a bit unethical in my view.

By mixing fake characters in with real politicians, Sorkin is free to say anything he wants without sticking to facts as the overwhelmingly large percentage of viewers aren't going to know who's real and who's an illusion.

Back in the boardroom, things were really beginning to heat up. We found out that AWM as a result of all the Tea Party bashing has lost the backingof the Koch brothers.

Months prior, Daniels went on a lengthy rant accusing the Kochs and Americans for Prosperity of being behind the Tea Party movement - almost as if written by the leftists at the George Soros-funded Think Progress.

Sorkin on Sunday was proudly channeling some of the most left-wing views in America today, and just like Think Progress and MSNBC doing so without regard to fact or context.

But the worst was yet to come.

It's now election night 2010, and Daniels interviewed another fictitious Tea Party candidate victorious at the polls and refusing to answer questions about the looming debt ceiling vote.

Daniels perfectly exemplified all of the far-left's unfounded paranoia that not raising the debt ceiling would have caused a global financial cataclysm.

Back in the boardroom, Fonda has now


in the consumer sector in the automotive industry.

The necessary charging infrastructure is supplied by Qingdao TGOOD Electric Co. Ltd. from Qingdao, China, and Hong Kong, China. The group of companies was founded in 2004 by Chinese and German engineers, is listed on the stock exchange in Shenzhen, China, and is a market leader in eHouse solutions. TGOOD operates 210,000 charging stations in more than 300 cities.

Says Piëch: "We are proud to have found two such strong and innovative partners. Together with our partners, we're open for cooperation, regardless of whether it's about our new modular vehicle architecture or the innovative battery cells or the charging infrastructure."

The permanent team of specialists has wide-ranging experience in various industry sectors, having worked for renowned automobile manufacturers around the globe. Together witha four-seater and a sporty SUV. Other concepts like convertibles or pick-ups are also conceivable.

Production will take place in cooperation with experienced partners with a long-standing successful history in contract manufacturing. The Piëch Mark Zero will be developed and produced strictly to German quality standards. The decision about manufacturing partners will be announced at a later stage.

Management:

Toni Piëch, Co-CEO and Chief Marketing Officer Piëch Automotive:

After graduating from Princeton University in East Asian studies, Toni Piëch spent twelve years in China and co-owned a media agency before he returned to Europe and founded Piëch Automotive in 2016. Piëch lives in Zurich.

Rea Stark Rajcic, Co-CEO and Creative Director Piëch Automotive:

Rea Stark Rajcic founded his first companies even before he was 18 years old. He attended St. Gallen art school and


decision to begin a hunger strike lightly, and we want them to know we will do everything we can to support them and get them home soon,” she added.

In addition to actress Sarah Polley and directors Atom Egoyan and Alex Gibney speaking out on their behalf at the Toronto Film Festival, an online petition to release the two have the backing of 115,000 people including Ben Affleck, and Charlize Theron.

Greyson was heralded for his 1996 film Lillies, and has directed episodes of shows like Queer as Folk and Paradise Falls.for the
hundreds of other species of particles that
have been discovered since the 1960s.
The Standard Model has been found to agree
with almost all the experimental tests conducted
to date.
However, most particle physicists believe
that it is an incomplete description of nature
and that a more fundamental theory awaits
discovery (See Theory of Everything).
In recent years, measurements of neutrino
mass have provided the first experimental
deviations from the Standard Model.
== History ==
The idea that all matter is composed of elementary
particles dates from at least the 6th century
BC.
In the 19th century, John Dalton, through
his work on stoichiometry, concluded that
each element of nature was composed of a single,
unique type of particle.
The word atom, after the Greek word atomos
meaning "indivisible", has since then denoted
the smallest particle of a chemical element,
but physicists soon discovered that atoms
are not, in fact, the


fundamental particles
of nature, but are conglomerates of even smaller
particles, such as the electron.
The early 20th century explorations of nuclear
physics and quantum physics led to proofs
of nuclear fission in 1939 by Lise Meitner
(based on experiments by Otto Hahn), and nuclear
fusion by Hans Bethe in that same year; both
discoveries also led to the development of
nuclear weapons.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a bewildering
variety of particles were found in collisions
of particles from increasingly high-energy
beams.
It was referred to informally as the "particle
zoo".
That term was deprecated after the formulation
of the Standard Model during the 1970s, in
which the large number of particles was explained
as combinations of a (relatively) small number
of more fundamental particles.
== Standard Model ==
The current state of the classification of
all elementary particles is explained by the
Standard Model.
It describes the strong, weak, and electromagnetic
fundamentalinteractions, using mediating
gauge bosons.
The species of gauge bosons are eight gluons,
W−, W+ and Z bosons, and the photon.
The Standard Model also contains 24 fundamental
fermions (12 particles and their associated
anti-particles), which are the constituents
of all matter.
Finally, the Standard Model also predicted
the existence of a type of boson known as
the Higgs boson.
Early in the morning on 4 July 2012, physicists
with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced
they had found a new particle that behaves
similarly to what is expected from the Higgs
boson.
== Experimental laboratories ==
The world's major particle physics laboratories
are:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (Long Island,
United States).
Its main facility is the Relativistic Heavy
Ion Collider (RHIC), which collides heavy
ions such as gold ions and polarized protons.
It is the world's first heavy ion collider,
and the world's only polarized proton collider.
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk,
Russia).
Its


old home" "Only the color of the flowers remains as it was" "Only the color of the flowers remains as it was" "Only the color of the flowers" "That man who lived long ago is still revered today" "The scent of citrus flowers" "conjures memories from the past" "A hair ornament made of calamus leaves" "Which is their color?" "The purple water iris and calamus are so alike" "Lo, a cicada sings atop the tree" "A robe with sleeves" "as white as deutzia blossoms or the driven snow" "The dark of night begins to break" "The rays of the morning sun illuminate pale purple clouds to the east" "The purple iris attains enlightenment, opening its heart" "Now is the time for flora and Terra too" "Now is theLongtime Oiler Ryan Smyth was officially traded back to Edmonton on Sunday from the Los Angeles Kings.

Edmonton sends forward Colin Fraser and a seventh round draft pick in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft the other way.

Smyth, 35, left the Oilers late in the 2006-07 season after over a dozen years with the club. He then went on to play with the New York Islanders, Colorado and the Kings.

"My wife and I discussed for a little while that we wanted to come back to Canada for personal reasons," Smyth said. "That's where home is for us. The kids are starting out in school. We just felt it would be best for us to come back."

Smyth scored 23 goals and 24 assists in 82 games last season with Los Angeles,


with nine power-play markers. He also marked his 1,000th game in the NHL in November.

"I still have a lot to offer," Smyth said. "I felt great last year. I felt like I was a little kid again. I stayed healthy, which was the number one thing. I just want to bring my leadership and wherever [Oilers head coach] Tom [Renney] and the coaching staff want me to play I'll play."

For his career, he's compiled 355 goals and 405 assists in 1,069 games, with 810 penalty minutes. During his time in Edmonton, he scored 265 goals and added 284 assists.

He will represent a salary cap hit of $6.25 million US for the Oilers and is an unrestricted free agent on July 1, 2012.

Deal scuttled

The two clubs had been endeavouringmanager Steve Tambellini said part of the reason the team acquired Smyth was to help Edmonton's younger players in their development.

"You need people that are respectful of these young players," Tambellini said. "You need people that are encouraging as far as their development. You need people that want to share in their success. There's extreme passion there in Ryan Smyth."

While the 35-year-old is approaching the end of his career, thoughts of retirement are "way farfetched."

The 26-year-old Fraser leaves Edmonton after one season, in which he scored three goals and two assists with 60 penalty minutes. He came to the Oilers after beginning his career with the Chicago Blackhawks.


41 having straight circulation portions 45 of the ball circulation paths 44, and end caps 42 having their respective curved circulation portions 46 to form the ball circulation paths 44 as endless tracks when the end caps 42 are in communication with the straight portions 45 and the spaces between the two roller grooves 57, 47. In the case of the base member to which the rail 2 is fastened, the removing work with the oil stone or the like is normally carried out to remove the protruding portions appearing in the periphery of the holes during boring of the prepared holes before formation of the screw holes for fastening in the base member. After that, the screw holes are formed in the base member, and it isbaby girl was the only thing in this world i ask for, a life companion that i could nurture to not repeat my mistakes and be a better person in life to make the world a better place, touch the lives of others that needs it but she didn't get that chance.

She was conceived in spring, born in autumn and went away in winter (節分), many of you knew how her father walked away from our lives which i am fine with it as i didn't want a useless guy to raise this child anyway, and up to the day she died he did not even bother to take any initiative to come see her at her last moments and all he could say was "i'm lost". It


made me so angry that how someone so heartless exist at all, but maybe he was right all along that his family line will end with him. It's the exact words right out of his own mouth, his own family curse that the males are unable to produce offsprings to carry out their surname and i hope it stays that way or it would be another generation of assholes.

Her name was Mariko, i purposely picked this name for her as it carries a deep meaning which i believe will eventually play a role in her life as she grows up.

Her name in kanji "真理子" is a combination of "truth" & "child" because she was the living truth, the unwanted daughter of a man who used to be thecan help in certain you in certain way too:

The Dark CandleA man had a little daughter – an only and much beloved child. He lived for her ~ she was his life. So when she became ill and her illness resisted the efforts of the best obtainable physicians, he became like a man possessed, moving heaven and earth to bring about her restoration to health.

His best efforts proved unavailing and the child died. The father was totally irreconcilable. He became a bitter recluse, shutting himself away from his many friends and refusing every activity that might restore his poise and bring him back to his normal self. But one night he had a dream. He was in Heaven, and was witnessing a grand pageant of all the little


child angels. They were marching in an apparently endless line past the Great White Throne. Every white-robed angelic tot carried a candle. He noticed that one child’s candle was not lighted. Then he saw that the child with the dark candle was his own little girl. Rushing to her, while the pageant faltered, he seized her in his arms, caressed her tenderly, and then asked: “How is it, darling that your candle alone is unlighted? His sweet daughter lovingly replied, “Father, they often relight it, but your tears always put it out.”

Just then he awoke from his dream. The lesson was crystal clear, and its effects were immediate. From that hour on he was not a recluse, but mingled freely and cheerfully with his former friends and associates.A surgeon in New Zealand has received a dressing down for swearing at a severely obese patient.

The female patient made the complaint after a very tense consultation with her surgeon last year.

The New Zealand Herald newspaper reports the doctor said "f..." at least three times after the 44-year-old obese woman told him she did not like the word "diet" and preferred the term "lifestyle".

The doctor told his patient she was "going on a f...ing diet".

The woman was on a waiting list for gastric bypass surgery.

After she complained about his swearing, she received a letter from the surgeon saying they no longer had a "therapeutic relationship" and her name had been removed from his waiting list.

The doctor has admitted using bad language.

New Zealand's Health and Disability Commissioner said the


FP: Harward offered nat-sec job, but still deciding

Ed MorrisseyPosted at 12:31 pm on February 15, 2017

According to the White House, the search for a replacement to Michael Flynn commenced Monday evening after Donald Trump asked the national security adviser to resign. According to veteran military-affairs reporter Thomas Ricks, the decision got made on Monday night — but the offer has not yet been accepted. Ricks reports today in Foreign Policy magazine that Vice Admiral Robert Harward will get the job if he wants it. That decision could come as soon as today:

President Donald Trump offered the job of national security advisor to retired Vice Adm. Robert Harward on Monday night, and was a bit surprised when Harward responded by saying he needed a couple of days to thinkPost naming Harward as the front-runner:

Harward served under Mattis while he was at U.S. Central Command and remains an ally and friend of the defense secretary.

The officials said Harward, who has been under consideration as a possible undersecretary of defense for intelligence, is seen by key players around Trump as a steady pick for the post following the tumult that surrounded Flynn.

The officials also described Harward, who had a tour on the National Security Council during George W. Bush’s presidency, where he worked on counterterrorism strategy, as someone who had a high profile in security circles but a low public profile, which is part of his appeal.

Put another way: Harward might be less likely to pick a public fight with the intelligence community. If the “deep state” really


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Power back for some across US Southwest, Mexico

Power is slowly coming back online for some people in California, but most of the 2 million who lost electricity across the Southwest will remain in the dark through the night.

Mike Niggli, chief operating officer of San Diego Gas & Electric Co. says they are starting to restore power to the system. Parts of Orange County are back online.

The outage extended from southern parts of Orange County to San Diego to Yuma, Arizona. It also affected cities south of the border across much of the state of northern Baja.

Niggli urged people to be patient and asked those who have power to use only the most necessary appliances and turn off their air conditioners to prevent another shutdown.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWSUPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

A major power outage knocked out electricity to more than 2 million people in California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday, bringing San Diego and Tijuana to a standstill and leaving people sweltering in the late-summer heat in the surrounding desert.

Two nuclear reactors were offline after losing electricity, but officials said there was no danger to the public or workers.

San Diego bore the brunt of the blackout that started shortly before 4 p.m. PDT.; most of the nation's eighth-largest city was darkened. All outgoing flights from San Diego's Lindbergh Field were grounded and police stations were using generators to accept emergency calls across the area.

The outage was likely caused by an employee carrying out a procedure at a


power substation in southwest Arizona and should have been limited to the Yuma area, power officials in Arizona said in a press release. The power company, Arizona Public Service, didn't immediately explain the procedure and were investigating why the outage wasn't contained.

The outage extended from southern parts of Orange County to San Diego to Yuma, Arizona. It also affected cities south of the border across much of the state of northern Baja. Border officials said crossings into California are open.

"It feels like you're in an oven and you can't escape," said Rosa Maria Gonzales, a spokeswoman with the Imperial Irrigation District in California's sizzling eastern desert. She said it was about 115 degrees when the power went out for about 150,000 of its customers.

In Tijuana, people wandered outof their hot homes into the street to cool off while restaurants scrambled for ice to save perishable food.

In San Diego, the trolley system that shuttles thousands of commuters every day was shut down and freeways were clogged at rush hour. Trains were stopped in Los Angeles, an Amtrak spokesman said, because there was no power to run the lights, gates, bells and traffic control signals.

Blake Albert Jordan, 20, saw a trolley come to a screeching halt as he neared the platform. Dozens of passengers emptied onto the tracks when the doors opened.

Jordan said he called about 20 friends and family to pick him up in San Diego's Mission Valley, where he was visiting a friend, to his home in suburban Lemon Grove. None offered to venture on


power grid, said Charles Coleman, a spokesman from Southern California Edison. He said there was no danger to the public or to workers there.

The outage came more than eight years after a more severe black out in 2003 darkened a large swath of the Northeast and Midwest. More than 50 million people were affected in that outage.

In 2001, California's failed experiment with energy deregulation was widely blamed for six days of rolling blackouts that cut power to more than 3 million customers and shut down refrigerators, ATMs and traffic signals.

In Arizona, about half of Yuma County had power again Thursday evening after losing it earlier. Yuma County has about 200,000 residents and a little under half live in the city of Yuma.

"It's 113 degrees right now outside," saidYuma city spokesman Greg Hyland, who was sitting in the dark, answering calls.

Five hundred to 2,000 SoCal Edison customers in southern Orange County and Riverside County are currently without power and there is no estimate for when power will be restored, Coleman said.

Capt. Mike Stone of the Orange County Fire Authority said several people were trapped and rescued at the tony Ritz Carlton hotel in south Orange County, Stone said.

In southern Orange County, the sheriff's department dispatched deputies to busy intersections because traffic lights were out, said John McDonald, a sheriff's spokesman. Outages were confirmed in San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano and Laguna Hills, he said.

Traffic was backed up in some areas, and the Orange County Register reported that fire crews were dealing with numerous calls of people


with exactly one hour to eat lunch and do their errands, and many of them were complaining loudly about being docked for pay in jobs they desperately need. Hardly a way to win friends and influence people.

Meanwhile, just east of Los Angeles in the college town of Claremont, students from the "Occupy" movement were sending out leaflets for a protest aimed at Condoleezza Rice's appearance at Claremont McKenna College. Condi Rice a war criminal? Not in my book. And what does that have to do with a movement that is supposed to be committed to economic justice and depends on respect for First Amendment freedoms?

Indeed, by the time they were evicted last night, I'm not sure anyone who has paid attention to the signs at Tent City orMandrax delivery goes wrong as drug runner knocks on cops' doors

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Durban - Getting an address wrong proved costly for a Durban drug runner when he knocked on the door of a police officer’s house instead of a drug dealer he was supposed to deliver to. The man was found to be carrying mandrax tablets. Acting Captain Anthony McVie said he was preparing for work when he heard a knock on the door. McVie said the man asked for a known drug dealer in the area and the officer told him to go away. McVie and fellow police officer Constable Junaid Moodley, who was also in the house, felt that the man looked suspicious and followed him to his car.

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said they searched the man and found packets of tablets on him. He was arrested on the spot.

Officers at Wentworth police station said the 26-year-old was carrying 200 mandrax tablets worth about R8000 on the street.

He is expected to appear in Wentworth Magistrate’s Court soon.

Deputy mayor Fawzia Peer welcomed the arrest.

She said it was sad that a young man was sent by druglords to do their dirty work.

“Drugs are ravaging our society and destroying the future of our society,” she said.

Peer said police officers went to the home of the man and found an unlicensed gun and ammunition in addition to more drugs.

Peer said they also discovered that the gun had been used in a shooting last month in Durban’s CBD.

She added that she was shocked at thediscoveries.

Metro police spokesperson Parboo Sewpersad said Wentworth was one of the areas that the SAPS would focus on in the fight against drugs.

He commended the work of McVie and Moodley.

Sewpersad said that community members should help in the fight against drug abuse in the area by reporting matters to and communi- cating with the community police forum (CPF).

Donny Anderson, Wentworth CPF chairperson, said drug use was a way of life in the area and on the rise, fuelling many crimes.

He noted that drug abuse was so pervasive that it had almost become the norm.

He said dealers sold all types of drugs.

Anderson said, however, that gangsterism had decreased.

He said the police were putting up a strong fight against the sale of drugs.

Anderson said the community needed to come together


A silent cyber war between the US and Iran may already be underway, as tensions between the two foes continue to dangerously escalate.

Last week it was reported the US had launched cyberattacks to disable Iranian computer systems which controlled its rocket and missile launchers.

According to US sources, the cyberattacks were ordered by US President Donald Trump after Iranian forces allegedly blew up two oil tankers in the Gulf earlier this month.

A series of attacks on oil tankers near the Persian Gulf has ratcheted up tensions between the US and Iran - and raised fears over the safety of one of Asia'€s most vital energy trade routes, where about a fifth of the world's oil passes through its narrowest at the Strait of Hormuz. (AAP)

In the last 24 hours,Iranian officials have confirmed they had sustained a determined cyberattack – but that it had been unsuccessful.

US officials have now warned American companies and government departments to brace for expected retaliatory attacks from Iran.

What is Stuxnet?

Welcome to the future , where wars are fought without the sound of Tomahawks whistling overhead or fighter jets screaming off aircraft carrier decks to destroy enemy positions.

The present standoff and cyber sabre rattling between the US and Iran has precedent.

In the late 2000s Iran was the victim of a fabled and audacious cyberattack, known as Stuxnet.

Iranian technicians work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. (AAP)

The Stuxnet attack, a worm virus widely believed to be a joint US-Israeli intelligence creation, disrupted thousands of centrifuges at an


seize control of the plant.

Stuxnet allowed the centrifuges at Natanz to spin at a much higher rate and tear themselves apart. Natanz was knocked offline, severely hampering Iranian ambitions to develop nuclear armed weapons.

There was no need for missiles or smart bombs; just a standard thumb drive and a click of a mouse.

Iran has also shown a willingness to conduct destructive campaigns.

How Iranian hackers attacked the US

Iranian hackers in 2012 launched an attack against state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco, releasing a virus that erased data on 30,000 computers and left an image of a burning American flag on screens.

In 2016, the US indicted Iranian hackers for a series of punishing cyberattacks on US banks and a small dam outside of New York City.

Tensions have run high between theThe dispute is more than 30 years in the making — ever since 'Hunt for Red October' came out and Clancy was told that he'd be committing copyright infringement if he used Jack Ryan again.

As Amazon readies the debut of its newest TV series, Jack Ryan, a quirky dispute has erupted over ownership to the CIA character who has appeared in many books and movies and played by actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine and John Krasinski.

More than 30 years ago, Tom Clancy made the character famous in his first novel, Hunt, which became the basis for the film The Hunt for Red October. Soon thereafter, the author battled the publisher for rights. A resolution was reached, but it was merely a prelude to what


would happen after Clancy died in October 2013. On Friday, Alexandra Clancy, the author's second wife and widow, filed a lawsuit in Baltimore, Maryland, circuit court with hopes of getting a declaration that the rights to the Jack Ryan character are owned by the Tom Clancy Estate. She's suing the personal representative of the Estate, who believes otherwise.

After Hunt came out in 1984, the United States Naval Institute, as publisher, asserted that it owned all rights to the book and that any use of the book's characters by Clancy would constitute copyright infringement. The matter went to arbitration where the case was settled with Clancy being acknowledged as owning the rights to the characters in his book.

Tom Clancy would then establish a company, Jack Ryan Enterprises Ltd., designatedto receive the reassignment of the Hunt copyright. But Alexandra Clancy is emphasizing what allegedly wasn't transferred.

"The assignment made no mention of the character Jack Ryan," states the complaint (read here in full). "Accordingly, unless Tom Clancy subsequently assigned his rights to the character Jack Ryan, he remained the exclusive owner of the character Jack Ryan until his death on October 1, 2013."

In support of this proposition, Alexandra Clancy points to intervening events like her late husband's 1999 divorce from first wife Wanda King. At the time, a marital settlement agreement was executed that listed literary works like Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, then owned by Jack Ryan Enterprises.

"Consistent with the USNI Settlement Agreement, the Marital Settlement Agreement acknowledged Tom Clancy's ownership


of the Jack Ryan character, contemplated that Tom Clancy would continue to exploit the Jack Ryan character, and provided for division of revenue that he might receive from exploiting his rights in the Jack Ryan character as part of the division of the marital estate," according to the suit.

It's also noted that Clancy entered into employment agreements with Jack Ryan Enterprises until those were terminated in 1997. Clancy would go on to write other books including The Teeth of the Tiger, featuring the operative character Dominic Caruso, and the Campus books that introduced the character of Jack Ryan Jr.

Alexandra Clancy is also seeking a declaration that both the Dominic Caruso and Jack Ryan Jr. characters are owned by the Estate.

Following Clancy's death, J.W. Thompson Webb, the personal representativeof the Estate, has signed agreements with publisher Putnam authorizing more "Tom Clancy" novels. One, Full Force and Effect, features the Jack Ryan character.

The motivation behind the lawsuit can best be explained by the way that royalties get divided. According to the complaint, a third goes to Jack Ryan Enterprises, a third goes to the Estate, while the other third is divided among several parties including an entity called Jack Ryan Limited Partnership. If Alexandra Clancy succeeds in her suit, the full 100 percent would be going to the Estate, and according to court documents, her share of the residue of the Estate is 80 percent, with the rest enjoyed by Tom Clancy's children.

Making the matter all the more provocative, it's said that the lawyer who once represented


United States Naval Institute in the '80s dispute is now representing the Estate and parties aligned with Webb.

Baltimore's version of a probate court has ordered that all proceeds from contracts be placed in escrow while telling Alexandra Clancy and her attorney, Jeffrey Nusinov, that they should take this fight to civil court, which they are now doing.

"Mrs. Clancy now asks this Court for a declaration that will ultimately require Mr. Webb to marshal, secure, and account for a signature asset of the Estate — and Tom Clancy's most prized possession — the literary character Jack Ryan, and the characters he created in The Campus book series."

We reached out to Webb for comment and got a response from Miles & Stockbridge attorney Robert Brennan.

"Mr. Webb has acted at allBritain has a new highest mountain after new satellite data revealed the peak was almost 400 metres taller than previously thought.

Mount Hope, in the British Atlantic Territory, was recently re-measured and found to be 377 metres taller than previous calculations.

This takes it to 3,239 metres, meaning it knocks Mount Jackson, the current title holder at 3,184 metres, off the top spot.

"Modern satellite data highlights how inaccurate previous surveys and maps were for some parts of the region,” said Adrian Fox, head of mapping and geographic information at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

Both Hope and Jackson still dwarf the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis, which stands at 1,345 metres.

The discovery came as part of a mapping project led by BAS. It was prompted by calls to


Freeport Indonesia shuts main supply route to mine after shooting

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JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Indonesian unit of Freeport-McMoRan Inc has temporarily shut the main supply route to its Papua mine after a shooting incident, a spokesman said, amid escalating tensions between security forces and an armed rebel group in the area.

No one had been reported hurt after shots were fired at a vehicle, but the main supply route to the world’s second-biggest copper mine had been temporarily closed while the security situation was assessed, Freeport Indonesia spokesman Riza Pratama said in text message.

Authorities in Indonesia’s eastern province of Papua are delivering food and aid to villages near the mine where security forces say the rebel group has blocked residents’ movement, as security personnel surround the area,canned food). The newcomers are dressed in standard prison jumpsuits of orange color and provided with parachutes. Once they are delivered to the drop location, they are pushed out of the plane. Most manage to open the parachute and survive the fall. It is not uncommon that the prisoners on the island wait and kill the newcomers when they are in the air, looting their bodies upon landing. It is recommended to activate the parachutes as late as possible to buy some time for an escape out of the drop location. Except for the convicts, the planes also drop supplies for the prisoners on the ground. These can contain anything from food, weapons, ammunition to clothes and gadgets. Sometimes fake booby-trapped supplies are dropped, too. The dropped supplies


followed by an increase in disobedience towards the government and the ruling elite. As canceling the show would make people even angrier, the producers decide to provide positive characters with tougher challenges and several new deadly scenarios are staged in an attempt to eliminate the leaders of the group, who always miraculously manage to survive. The ratings went up and the whole world starts watching the show. It all ends with the leaders of the group disappearing at the end of the first season while engaging in conflict with the hunters (a mercenary squad dropped onto the island to hunt and kill prisoners for trophies). Apparently, their bodies completely disintegrated after an explosion – that’s what the producers claim. This grand finale episode breaks all the ratings; supposedly,over 70% of population watched the end of the first season. Thus, “The Island” becomes the most successful show in the history of television. The story doesn’t end here – a few weeks after the first season has ended, the first activities of ‘Renegade’ resistance movement are recorded. Allegedly, the lead characters have survived, removed their implants and managed to get off the island. The rest of their allies break into smaller groups and the affairs on the island soon gravitate towards the initial chaotic state.

The newcomers have to secure the bare necessities first, which means that they have to search for food, water and clothes. However functional they may be, orange prison jumpsuits are easy to spot from a distance and one of the rules of survival


base or a stronghold once they group up and decide that they will stay on the same place for a longer time. The group has to be strong enough to be able to defend their base against all attacks, and if they succeed in doing so, they may become an influential factor in the region. On several occasions during the show, the prisoners try to establish their communities and some of them even last for longer periods. Unfortunately, no group manages to survive for the duration of the whole season, mostly because of the conflicts among the existing factions.

Encounters

Almost during the whole first season of the show, there are no other scenarios than capturing life or death situations between prisoners and puppets. Occasional encounters with wild animals orAnd guess what? That is what the viewers like the best! Once their deployment time runs out, the hunters have to pick a zone where some sort of transportation awaits them. If they miss their ride, they remain on the island until the next group of hunters is deployed.

On several occasions, special military squads can be deployed on the island. The purpose of their deployment is to destabilize larger and organized groups of prisoners or to eliminate popular convicts who pose a threat to national security. These black ops are usually hidden from the TV cameras. The last known black op happens during the second season and is a rescue mission for the survivors of the flight MB324, the plane that crashes on the island. Apparently, the producers


have deliberately crashed the plane to boost the number of viewers.

The Island

The island has been selected for several reasons: it is located on a remote location, far away from the usual sea traffic routes. Before “The Island” project, the island has a population of 200K people. There are several smaller cities, many small settlements and villages, farms, an airport, a military base, several industrial areas and a prison facility, of course. It’s a green island with a Mediterranean climate: the forests and fields are full of wildlife and it’s a pleasant place to live. Its coastal area is dotted with nice beaches, hotels and holiday resorts, while its central part is mountainous, with thick vegetation and snow-covered mountains throughout the whole year.

So what is the deal here? Well,The National Rifle Association is praising an armed bystander who gunned down a shooter Thursday at an Oklahoma City restaurant.

A man walked into Louie's Grill & Bar and opened fire, striking two people, who are expected to survive.

As the gunman ran from the scene, the bystander, armed with a pistol, confronted and fatally shot him outside the restaurant, Oklahoma City police Capt. Bo Mathews told reporters.

"Right now, all I know is that it was just a good Samaritan that was there and looks like he took the right measures to be able to put an end to a terrible, terrible incident," Mathews said.

The NRA said the incident is "just another example of how the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy


softened background check rules.

The NRA's website has an article displaying the results of the 2016 and 2017 FBI Active Shooter Incidents in the United States.

The article states, "Armed and unarmed citizens engaged the shooter in 10 incidents. They safely and successfully ended the shootings in eight of those incidents. Their selfless actions likely saved many lives. The enhanced threat posed by active shooters and the swiftness with which active shooter incidents unfold support the importance of preparation by law enforcement officers and citizens alike."The invention concerns a photochromic lens and more particularly a process for making optical lenses containing thermoplastic polycarbonate and thermoplastic polyurethane resins.
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