by Uefa – the governing body were highly critical of the World Anti-Doping Agency in a report published last week – fell out of favour over the summer. Perceived tardiness on the team’s pre-season tour of the United States, for which he apologised and was fined, served to fracture his relationship with Jürgen Klopp and, despite remaining at Anfield until January, he eventually sought first-team football at Palace on transfer deadline day. It remains to be seen where his future lies next term.

The Frenchman made a point of praising Liverpool in his interview. “I’m in an awkward position,” he said before the trip to Merseyside. “I have a foot in each camp. I still belong to Liverpool, a club I really appreciate, a great team with a greattheir homes.

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Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual maximum extent on March 7. This is the lowest maximum in the 38-year satellite record. NSIDC will post a detailed analysis of the 2016 to 2017 winter sea ice conditions in our regular monthly post in early April.

Overview of conditions

On March 7, 2017, Arctic sea ice likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.42 million square kilometers (5.57 million square miles), the lowest in the 38-year satellite record. This year’s maximum extent is 1.22 million square kilometers (471,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average maximum of 15.64 million square kilometers (6.04 million square miles) and 97,000 square kilometers (37,000 square miles) below the previous lowest maximum that occurred on February 25, 2015. This year’s maximumthe Arctic Ocean.

Data from the European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 satellite indicate that this winter’s ice cover may be only slightly thinner than that observed at this time of year for the past four years. However, an ice-ocean model at the University of Washington (PIOMAS) that incorporates observed weather conditions suggests the volume of ice in the Arctic is unusually low.

The Antarctic minimum

In the Southern Hemisphere, sea ice likely reached its minimum extent for the year on March 3, at 2.11 million square kilometers (815,000 square miles). This year’s minimum extent was the lowest in the satellite record, continuing a period of satellite-era record low daily extents that began in early November. However, the Antarctic system has been highly variable. As recently as 2015, Antarctic sea ice set record


GB Technique : The Open Guard With Prof. Flavio Almeida

This week on the Gracie Barra Blog we are looking at some techniques and strategies from the open guard with Prof. Flavio Almeida from Gracie Barra North Phoenix. Prof. Flavio is a black belt under Master Carlos Gracie Jr. and an active competitor. He recently won the IBJJF World Masters Championship in 2016 and 2018 (** Master 2) division while running GB North America and teaching students at his North Phoenix Gracie Barra School. Known as a highly technical instructor as well as a positive role model and motivator, Prof. Flavio shares some of his more advanced open guard position videos. Let’s take a look at some variations of the open guard as demonstrated by one of the bestbetween ride comfort and handling performance. The exterior of the Saga FLX is identical to the Saga FL.

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referred to is the cat o' nine tails, which was used to flog ill-disciplined sailors. Again, this has sufficient historical record to be at least possible. The cat o' nine tails was widely used and was referred to in print many years prior to the first use of 'let the cat out of the bag'. The 'nine tails' part of the name derives from the three strands of cord that the rope lashes were made from. Each of the cords were in turn made from three strands of string. When unbraided a piece of rope separated into nine strings. The 'cat' part no doubt alluded to the scratches that the knotted ends of the lash made on the victim's back, like those from a cat's claws.

Of the twoexplanations, the 'pig in a poke' derivation is the more plausible, although I can find no direct documentary evidence to link 'letting the cat out of the bag' to the selling of livestock. Versions of the phrase exist in both Dutch - 'Een kat in de zak kopen' and in German - 'Die Katze im Sack kaufen'. These both translate loosely as 'to buy a cat in a bag', that is, to buy false goods.

The cat o' nine tails story is dubious at best. It is reported that the lashes were sometimes stored in bags, but the suggested nautical punishment origin fails at the critical point, in that it doesn't match the 'disclose a secret' meaning of the phrase.

The first known use of the phrase in print that


in NACO, which operates at near-infrared wavelengths and suppresses the brilliant light coming from the star at the location of the protoplanet candidate.

According to current theory, giant planets grow by capturing some of the gas and dust that remains after the formation of a star. The astronomers have spotted several features in the new image of the disk around HD 100546 that support this protoplanet hypothesis. Structures in the dusty circumstellar disk, which could be caused by interactions between the planet and the disk, were revealed close to the detected protoplanet. Also, there are indications that the surroundings of the protoplanet are potentially heated up by the formation process.

Adam Amara, another member of the team, is enthusiastic about the finding. “Exoplanet research is one of the most excitingLast updated on .From the section Football

Kenny Miller launches a brilliant, dipping volley past Jim Atkinson

A stunning, dipping volley from Kenny Miller saw Rangers restore their eight-point lead at the Championship summit, battling past Queen of the South.

Miller's strike just after the hour mark bamboozled Doonhamers goalkeeper Jim Atkinson, whistling into his top-left corner.

Derek Lyle had an early header blocked by Rangers goalkeeper Wes Foderingham.

And Rangers' Nicky Clark failed to beat Atkinson after he fumbled a shot into his path.

Ever a menace from dead-ball situations, marauding Rangers right-back James Tavernier twice forced Atkinson to tip swerving free-kicks over his crossbar.

But the stopper almost gifted Mark Warburton's side a goal with 20 minutes gone, spilling Andy Halliday's strike into the path of Clark.

The onrushing striker somehow failed to slide


the ball beyond Atkinson before a thunderous challenge prevented Jason Holt from firing a third salvo on goal.

At the other end, Lewis Kidd left Foderingham's crossbar reverberating with a booming left-foot drive from 25 yards before the break.

Shortly after the interval, Rangers centre-back Rob Kiernan nodded a dreadful attempted clearance straight to Jake Pickard inside his own box, but Foderingham bailed out his team-mate, getting down low to block Pickard's effort.

A tumultuous second half was imbued with an injection of class when Miller, his body at right-angles to the hosts' goal, launched a vicious, looping volley that left Atkinson stranded.

And Foderingham did well to beat away Ryan Conroy's free-kick from the angle of the penalty box as the game entered its final quarter.

Replacement Gary Oliver jinked his waypast Rangers skipper Lee Wallace, but after his cross was blocked, Kidd could only blaze over the bar.

Holt almost sealed the three points for the visitors when he drove to the edge of the box and his shot was parried on to the crossbar by Atkinson.

As it was, Foderingham had to react swiftly to block Chris Higgins' near-post header amid a late Queens barrage, with Andy Dowie nodding onto the roof of the net with virtually the last act of the match.

Queen of the South manager James Fowler: "Our second half performance, the chances we created - the goal we conceded was maybe a bit of a freak - we just couldn't get one of them over the line unfortunately.

"We're not going to play teams of that quality


every week, but it's important our attitude and application is the same every week.

"If we can do that, it'll give us a great chance of finishing in the top four."

Rangers manager Mark Warburton: "It was an important three points, but that's probably as poor as we've been all season in the last 20 minutes of the second half.

"We gave the ball away cheaply, sat too deep and gave them too much time and space. Wes Foderingham pulled off two or three outstanding saves.

"It was a special strike from Kenny. He sets a good example. He came off the bench and got the goal, which was really important."that aliens could be trying to get in touch.

It is significant considering the fact that at least 17 FRBs have now been detected in this area and is the only known instance in which these signals have been found twice in the same location in space.

The region where the signals are coming from, dubbed FRB 121102 by scientists, is located about 3 billion light years away from earth.

Five of the recently found FRBs were detected with the Green Bank Telescope, while the other was recorded by the Arecibo Observatory, “for a total of 17 bursts from this source,” the report says.

The signals were also found earlier this year and in 2012.

According to experts, the FRBs could be the result of two things: solar flares from a neutron star


tour and launching early "Infinity War" screenings, Anthony and Joe Russo wrote a letter addressed to fans. In the letter, they asked that anyone who would be seeing the movie at advance screenings refrain from spoiling the movie for others.

"Don't spoil it for others, the same way you wouldn't want it spoiled for you," they said.

The letter concluded with: "#ThanosDemandsYourSilence"

—Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) April 3, 2018

This is not the first time Reynolds has joked about "Avengers: Infinity War." After the movie was released in theaters and topped the box office, Reynolds shared a letter from Tony Stark, rejecting Wade from joining the Avengers.

"From a guy who never knows when to quit, I'm glad you guys never did. Congrats #Avengers," Reynolds captioned the photo.

Sign up here to get INSIDER'stheir place in the history books is assured if they get it right, regardless of short-term unpopularity or even the loss of power at the next election. What they have to do in the shorter term is demonstrate the necessary political skill to keep the show on the road while implementing necessary reforms. That is why the deal on public pay was so important. It was a demonstration that politics with all its messy compromises does work.

Some wise words on Irish politics were uttered during the week by former Labour Party press officer Tony Heffernan, one of the most respected backroom officials to work in Leinster House in recent decades.

Speaking at the launch of a book about his political life* Heffernan, who began his political journey in Sinn


Féin in the 1960s, started in unusual fashion by saying that there were things he regretted in his career, principally his youthful support for physical force as a means of promoting political objectives.

No justification

He recalled that the atmosphere in the 1960s was very different, with the civil rights movement in the US and assassination of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, the student revolution in Paris and dictatorships in Spain, Portugal and Greece. Nonetheless, he said, there was no justification then or now for violence in Ireland, North or South.

Heffernan expressed his affection for, despite all its faults, the Dáil and its procedures, quoting Churchill’s famous dictum: “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried.” He also said thatEminem
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This article is about the entire faction. For other uses, see Space Pirate (Disambiguation).

Space Pirate A standard Pirate Trooper as seen in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Featured in Metroid: Zero Mission

Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime Pinball

Metroid Prime Hunters

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Metroid Prime: Federation Force

Metroid: Samus Returns (mentioned, partially seen)

Super Metroid

Metroid: Other M

Metroid Fusion (mentioned, partially seen) Known habitats Glacier One, Frigate Orpheon, Bryyo Fire, Bryyo Thorn Jungle, Eastern SkyTown Known diet Omnivorous (sometimes cannibalistic) Known worlds Pirate Homeworld, Zebes, Tallon IV, Talvania, Excelcion, Bion Affiliated with High Command Color(s) Predominantly greyish-black, also red, orange, purple and blue (when Phazon -corrupted). Distinctions Varies, but tends to follow bipedal insectoid form with some reptilian and slight avian features. Notable individuals Weavel, Ridley, Kraid, Mother Brain Attacks Galvanic Accelerator Cannons,Quantum Assault Cannons , beam weaponry and Scythes Weakness(es) Most Beam weaponry, Hypermode attacks, Missiles , and Bombs ; depending on armor

“ Death to the Hunter. Death to all who oppose us! „ —Space Pirate terminal, Omega Research

Space Pirates (宇宙海賊, Uchū Kaizoku?) are an antagonistic faction that acts as one of the major villains in the Metroid series.

Main article: History of the Space Pirates

Space Pirates have been present since the early days of the Galactic Federation. They quickly established themselves as a fearsome force, necessitating the formation of the Galactic Federation Police. The Pirates were notorious for attacking and raiding vessels in one moment, and disappearing the next. The Pirates would also lay claim to planets, establish the now-captured planet as their territory and any surviving natives as


their slaves. They were known to be zealous of their right to rule that they would not only refer to the conquered planet as their own "homeworld", they would also take the name of the previously dominant race, referring to themselves as the rightful inhabitants.

The Pirates have been responsible for some of the most disastrous events in Galactic history, such as the Phazon Crisis, and have been responsible for the raids of numerous planets, including Zebes, Bryyo, Norion, Elysia, Tallon IV, Aether, Naishii, Jigrad, and K-2L.

In general, the average Pirate soldier is tall and bipedal, though they favor a more hunched posture. However, beyond this their physiology has changed dramatically with almost every encounter, sometimes resembling crustaceans, insects, reptiles and even avians. This has led many to believeThe standard Space Pirate had grey-purple flesh, with green, bristle-lined plating partially covering its body and loops over each shoulder.

The Space Pirates stationed on Aether resembled the Zebesian breed, with the same lobster-like claw-weapons and rough, grey exoskeletons. However, they also had the digitigrade leg structure of the Tallon IV variation, insect-like mandibles and blade-like structures growing from their shoulders. For whatever reason, the basic Pirate Trooper's exoskeleton did not completely cover his body, leaving back tissue exposed in several areas as well as what appeared to be the Pirate’s beating heart.

The Pirates living on the inhospitable "Homeworld" explored in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption had a particularly unusual morphology. They possessed eight eyes instead of the usual two, with a row of four on either side of their


sloping, fishlike heads. Their upturned mouths were lined with long, needle-like teeth, as was the pair of lower mandibles. Most unusual of all was that the limbs of the slave class Pirate Militia appeared to be artificially grafted on, with their "true" bodies consisting of merely their head and a brown, eel-like body. It is unknown if this was the case for the bulkier non-slave classes or if the Militia's limbs were surgically removed as a form of punishment.

The Space Pirates encountered by the Federation Force in the Bermuda System vaguely resembled the variations encountered on Aether but with far more insect-like traits. They had large, red eyes, yellowish heads and bodies, and pinkish-red tissue under their grey armor plating.

Diet and Biochemistry [ edit | edit source ]

Piratesappear to be omnivorous. A fish is found in a crate in a Pirate base in Metroid Prime, while Metroid Prime 3: Corruption indicates that they may have cannibalistic tendencies. On the other hand, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes features a species of plant considered a delicacy by the Pirates. Regardless of the variation, Pirates are known to have some sort of urinary or excretory system, as power latrines were mentioned in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

It was stated in the manga that Pirate biochemistry possesses a large concentration of alkaloids, which can be traced to locate members of the species.

Abilities and traits [ edit | edit source ]

The Zebesian Pirates were equipped with a claw-like energy weapon on both arms, which fired when the claws were opened. However, all


tampering to enhance themselves in many ways, especially with Phazon as seen in Prime with the Elite Pirate series and in Corruption with the new Troopers' Hypermode and the Berserker Knights and Lords.

They are also known for their use of other lifeforms as biological weapons, such as all of the captured creatures in their Tallon IV facilities, or the Metroids (they desired to use the Metroids for that very purpose), even devoting various resources to obtaining, breeding and modifying them to serve their purposes, such as Phazon and Metroid Eggs.

In Echoes, there is mention of a "Datanet" in one of the Pirate logs. It is likely similar to the GF Database mentioned in Corruption. Captain N: The Game Master depicts the Merchant One.

Main article: Pirate Homeworld

Originally believed asthe definitive planet of origin of all Pirates (similar to how Zebes was regarded), this Space Pirate Homeworld is visited for the first time in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. The Metroid Prime Trilogy art booklet states the planet is just one of the Space Pirate homeworlds and is never given an official name in the U.S version of the game. However, Urtragian Shriekbats are found in some areas of the planet and its name in the Japanese and Spanish releases of Prime 3 is Urtraghus. It is likely this planet is one of many celestial bodies the Pirates have conquered over the years that was radically changed into a world befitting of the title "homeworld". It is unknown how many planets have been converted into Pirate homeworlds, and


the true planet of origin from which the marauding race(s) was born has yet to be discovered.

The planet seen in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is constantly plagued by falling Acid Rain, which harms even the Pirates themselves without proper protection, such as the Hazard Shield. The planet is completely covered by Space Pirate structures, and seemingly lacks any signs of flora or fauna. All traces of nature seem to have been eliminated, and it seems that the planet has become completely urbanized. Once Dark Samus gained control of Phaaze, the planet was the first to be struck with a Leviathan. The spread of corruption on the planet caused all matter on the planet to slowly begin changing into Phazon. By the time Samus arrives, Phazon begins to gainBill Murray, Chloë Sevigny, and Adam Driver were spotted Sunday in uniform wielding shotguns on the Upstate New York set of Jim Jarmusch's zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die, due out next year.

The 67-year-old Oscar nominee's role as Officer Robertson marks his fourth collaboration with the 65-year-old filmmaker after Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, and The Limits of Control.

'I've got a good job coming up. Brace yourself: It's a zombie movie,' the charismatic comedy icon told Philly.com back in March.

Due out next year! Adam Driver (L), Chloë Sevigny (M), and Bill Murray (R) were spotted Sunday in uniform wielding shotguns on the Upstate New York set of Jim Jarmusch's zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die

'Jim Jarmusch has written a zombie script that's so hilarious and it has a


cast of great actors: Rosie Perez, Daniel Craig. It's titled The Dead Don't Die, and it shoots over the summer. But, no, I will not play a zombie.'

43-year-old Chloë - sporting a bun and cat-eye glasses - previously worked with Murray and the silver-haired director in Broken Flowers and Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet.

And 34-year-old Adam - who worked with Jarmusch in Paterson - plays Officer Peterson in the zom-com, which is shooting in Fleischmanns but set in fictional Centerville ('A Real Nice Place').

'Jim Jarmusch has written a zombie script that's so hilarious': The 67-year-old Oscar nominee's role as Officer Robertson marks his fourth collaboration with the 65-year-old filmmaker

Locked and loaded: 43-year-old Chloë - sporting a bun and cat-eye glasses - previously worked with the charismatic comedy iconand the silver-haired director in Broken Flowers and Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

Machete for the undead: And 34-year-old Adam - who worked with Jarmusch in Paterson - plays Officer Peterson in the zom-com, which is shooting in Fleischmanns but set in fictional Centerville ('A Real Nice Place')

Production began Thursday on the five-time Cannes winner's Focus Features flick, which also stars Austin Butler, Selena Gomez, Tilda Swinton, Daniel Craig, Steve Buscemi, and Rosie Perez.

Expectations are certainly high following the Columbia grad's brilliant and offbeat take on the vampire genre, Only Lovers Left Alive, in 2013 with 57-year-old Swinton and Tom Hiddleston.

Joshua Astrachan (All About Nina) and Carter Logan (Carmine Street Guitars) will produce The Dead Don't Die, but the plot is still unknown.

Action! Production began Thursday on the five-time


with STAT, Gumby and Brewskie still out, it makes sense to
sign Copeland based on his ability to work with 2nd team, and the fact he's working hard at training camp.

that's the beauty of his game, he's known for being a SF, but seeing how Wood Son wanted him
to implement his skills with 2nd string PG's ala training camp, Cope's PnR inside game came through vs Celtdicks.

Agreed, chemistry is priority, and with STAT, Gumby and Brewskie still out, it makes sense to
sign Copeland based on his ability to work with 2nd team, and the fact he's working hard at training camp.

I'm not sold on him at all. Gropeland went out there as the biggest guy on the court, playing the 5 and chomping on small forwards as the mainthe shoulder surgery that pretty much ruined his shooting stroke, was ever praised as the "hardest worker on the team" and when his number was called in the 2010-2011 season he performed well above his station.

Bottom line he's not gonna see the court unless it's garbage time or we have a ton of injuries, he keeps working hard and improving his NBA IQ and he'll be useful.


Nitin Gadkari: We Are A Government Of 'Ram Bhakts'

NEW DELHI, INDIA DECEMBER 30: Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari during a Press Conference in New Delhi.(Photo by K.Asif/India Today Group/Getty Images)

In comments that could kick up a row, Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said the government at the Centre is of 'Ram bhakts'(devotees) and those who shout 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans.

Gadkari, a senior BJP leader, made these remarks yesterday while announcing the government's decision to construct 'Ram-Janki Marg', connecting Ayodhya with Janakpur in Nepal.

"This is a government of 'Ram bhakts', government of those who shout 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans. Hence I promise you that Ram Van Gaman Marg will also be upgraded to a national highway and the work will commence in four months," the UnionRoad Transport Minister said addressing an event in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad.

The minister was responding to the concerns raised by Faizabad BJP MP Lallu Singh about the condition of Ram Van Gaman Marg, connecting Ayodhya with Chitrakoot in Madhya Pradesh.

According to the epic 'Ramayana', Lord Rama took this route to reach the Chitrakoot forest to serve an exile of fourteen years after abandoning his claim to Kosala's throne.

The minister announced the construction of 'Ram-Janki Marg' at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore. The road will connect Ayodhya with Janakpur in Nepal, to which Sita, the wife of Lord Rama in the epic 'Ramayana', belonged.

"Lord Rama is our ideal, and we will not destroy 'Ram Setu' (Adams bridge) in Tamil Nadu, instead we will develop it," Gadkari said. Uttar Pradesh


partner while ratcheting up sanctions and pressure on it. The U.S. should squarely see the trend of the times and make a proper choice,” the newspaper said.

Pompeo met North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho during the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 26 and accepted the invitation to visit Pyongyang. The meeting is set for Oct 7, during which Pompeo plans to keep the denuclearization talks going and discuss a second summit between Trump and Kim.Restrictions:R13

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Since winning Stars in Their Eyes in 2000 with a record 864,838 votes, Gary Mullen has toured the world with his breathtaking One Night of Queen. His uncanny vocal resemblance to the late Freddie Mercury has enthralled hundreds of thousands of people throughout the UK, USA, Europe, South Africa and New Zealand. His popularity is still sky high after all of these years.

One Night of Queen, performed by Gary Mullen and The Works is a spectacular live concert, recreating the look, sound, pomp and showmanship of arguably the greatest rock band of all time. Featuring hits such as I Want to Break Free, A Kind of Magic, We Will Rock You and – of course – Bohemian Rhapsody.

"Last night I would probably have believed that the band


performing were the real Queen and that Mullen was the real Freddie Mercury if I had not been aware that he died in 1991." - The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand

Since winning Stars in Their Eyes in 2000, Gary Mullen has toured the world with his breathtaking One Night of Queen, a spectacular live concert.Jurists versus doctors: the birth of legal medicine in the United States.
This paper considers some of the problems that attended the birth of legal medicine in the USA. The historical study of relations between American medicine and jurisprudence and ethics should identify some of the philosophical assumptions that inspire their views of anomalous behaviour.


arch enemy, Electronic Arts. The founders fired off a lawsuit saying Activision conspired to get rid of them.

The legal action spiraled into a bigger battle for control of the first-person shooter market, which has turned into a multibillion-dollar business. Activision sued EA for interrupting its business by stealing away Zampella and West, who set up Respawn Entertainment and hired dozens of former Infinity Ward employees. Activsion recently claimed more than $1 billion in damages.

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Cryosat's orbit will be modified slightly to get the best out of the instrument

The radar instrument on Europe's Cryosat-2 spacecraft has been switched on and is reported to be working well. The satellite, which was launched last Thursday from Kazakhstan, will use the equipment to map the thickness and shape of the Earth's polar ice cover. Controllers must now check all of Cryosat's systems while a calibration team fine-tunes the radar. The science phase of the mission is expected to start in a few months' time and continue through to at least 2013. Cryosat is the latest Earth observation venture to be flown by the European Space Agency (Esa). A command was sent from its operation's centre in Darmstadt, Germany, on Sunday to


in 2017 when the Aston Martin AM-RB 001, since rebranded as the Valkyrie, made its global auto show debut in Toronto. That was followed in 2018 when the record-setting Koenigsegg Agera RS — then the world’s fastest production car reaching speeds of 450 kilometres per hour — was showcased.

Last year saw the Canadian debut of the Devel Sixteen, a 16-cylinder, 5,000+ horsepower behemoth that is to be the first car produced in the United Arab Emirates.

While it won’t be physically located in Auto Exotica, the Canadian debut of the Bugatti La Voiture Noire will happen at the 2020 Canadian International AutoShow. The world’s most exclusive Bugatti — and most expensive new car ever sold — will be found in the Grand Touring Automobiles Display on the 800 levelwrap ($8.95) and portobello, mozzarella, and tomato panini ($8.95) reside on the lunch menu, along with a selection of abridged pastas, meats, and Puccini arias. The dinner hour tops tables with dishes such as veal parmigiana ($24.95) and spaghetti alla carbonara, with light cream sauce flavored with onions and pancetta ($19.95). Chefs immerse a fun-loving fish in a confetti of olives, capers, anchovies, and spicy red sauce in the halibut puttanesca ($28.95), and an extensive wine list includes oenophilic delights by the glass bottle or 50-gallon drum.

Seated at La Villa Trattoria's white-cloth-draped tables, patrons may feel the impulse to share their antipasti with a boater or poke a seagull with a breadstick, but the cerulean waterfront scene they're observing is merely a mural painted by local artist, Kim


basis, proposed legislation, rules, or regulations introduced in any federal, state, or local legislative or administrative body which may affect the social, economic, educational, or physical welfare of the Vietnam-era veteran or others; and to develop public-policy proposals designed to improve the quality of life of the Vietnam-era veteran and others especially in the areas of employment, education, training, and health.

To conduct and publish research, on a non-partisan basis, pertaining to the relationship between Vietnam-era veterans and the American society, the Vietnam War experience, the role of the United States in securing peaceful co-existence for the world community, and other matters which affect the social, economic, educational, or physical welfare of the Vietnam-era veteran or others.
To assist disabled and needy war veterans including, but not limited to, Vietnamveterans and their dependents, and the widows and orphans of deceased veterans.

Special Programs

Government Relations Advocacy on the range of veterans issues.
National Task Force for Homeless Veterans.
Health care for veterans, including disabled veterans.
Issues pertaining to women and minority veterans.
National scholarship fund.
Program providing assistance to veterans seeking benefits/services from the government.
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Vietnam Veterans of America relies totally on private contributions for its revenue. VVA does not receive any
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History

Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families.
By the late 1970s, it was clear the established veterans groups had failed to make a priority of the issues of concern to Vietnam veterans. As a result, a vacuum existed within


help Vietnam veterans and their families.

It soon became apparent that arguments couched simply in terms of morality, equity, and justice were not enough. The U.S. Congress would respond to the legitimate needs of Vietnam veterans only if the organization professing to represent them had political strength. In this case, strength translated into numbers which meant membership. By the summer of 1979, the Council of Vietnam Veterans had transformed into Vietnam Veterans of America, a veterans service organization made up of, and devoted to, Vietnam veterans.

Hindered by the lack of substantial funding for development, the growth of membership was at first slow. The big breakthrough came when the American hostages were returned from Iran in January 1981. It was as if America went through an emotional catharsis that putthe issues of the Vietnam era on the table for public discussion. The question was asked why parades for the hostages but not for Vietnam veterans? Many veterans complained about the lack of recognition and appreciation for past national service. Vietnam-era veterans wanted action in the form of programs that would place the latest generation of veterans on the same footing as veterans from previous wars.

Membership grew steadily, and for the first time, VVA secured significant contributions. The combination of the public’s willingness to talk about the Vietnam War and the basic issues that it raised, as well as the veterans themselves coming forward, was augmented by the nation’s dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in November 1982. The week-long activities rekindled a sense of brotherhood among the


veterans and a feeling that they shared an experience that was too significant to ignore.

In 1983, VVA took a significant step by founding Vietnam Veterans of America Legal Services (VVALS) to provide assistance to veterans seeking benefits and services from the government. By working under the theory that a veteran representative should be an advocate for the veteran rather than simply a facilitator, VVALS quickly established itself as the most competent and aggressive legal-assistance program available to veterans. VVALS published the most comprehensive manual ever developed for veteran service representatives, and in 1985, VVALS wrote the widely acclaimed Viet Vet Survival Guide — over 150,000 copies of which are now in print.

The next several years saw VVA grow in size, stature, and prestige. VVA’s professional membership services, veteransservice, and advocacy work gained the respect of Congress and the veterans community. In 1986, VVA’s exemplary work was formally acknowledged by the granting of a congressional charter.

Today, Vietnam Veterans of America has a national membership of approximately 50,000, with 525 chapters throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. VVA state councils coordinate the activities of local chapters. VVA places great emphasis on coordinating its national activities and programs with the work of its local chapters and state councils and is organized to ensure that victories gained at the national level are implemented locally.

VVA strives for individual and group empowerment and locally originated action to assist veterans and other needy members of their communities. These volunteer programs offer unique and innovative services to an


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calculated by the author.

This proportion is likely to be overestimated and to reflect an underreporting of mental retardation in the CDER evaluations.

These are the highest prevalence estimated reported in this study of time trends. The prevalence in 10-year olds is for the 1991 birth cohort, and that for 8-year olds for the 1993 birth cohort. Both prevalences were calculated in the 2001--2002 school year.

Specific values for % with average IQ are available for each state prevalence.

Confidence intervals are available for each state prevalence.

Average across seven states.

Children aged 8, born either in 2000 and 2002, and included in the two CDC multisite reports.

AD, autistic disorder; CDER, California Department of Disabilities; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; PDD,among the public as well as clinical experts remains limited. Such contextual factors may help explain why epidemiological data is limited in some countries within Western Europe, where psychoanalytic frameworks for management of PDD may still be operative, as they were in the 1960s and 1970s in other regions of Europe and North America (and remain operative is some parts of Europe). Hence, there is a need for continued educational, training, and awareness programs with specific targets tailored to the needs and resources available for each community.

Further challenges face the research community in particular. Diagnosis of PDD still relies on behavioral observation, leaving room for wide variation in clinical judgment, and in cultural and social impact in the identification of biological conditions. While these challenges have been addressed


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The effort comes amid increasing questions about a potential conflict of interest between the banking giant, which has reported a loss of more than $2 billion in a market bet, and its regulators. The


New York Times pointed out that the Federal Reserve did not assign a bank examiner to the department that generated the loss, despite the fact that the Fed and the Comptroller of the Currency have had more than 100 employees embedded at JPMorgan Chase.

Anthony Badami, along with his organization the Agenda Project, is helping to coordinate the effort to oust Dimon. "Removing Jamie Dimon from the NY Fed Board is an obvious but important first step in the fight to wrest control away from the big banks," he says. "This is a battle we can win."

Democratic Senate candidate and former Obama administration official Elizabeth Warren has also called for Dimon's resignation along with stronger regulations for banks. "Wall Street banks already have plenty of voices in Congress, andthey are working with an army of lobbyists to water-down the rules," said Warren, a bankruptcy expert who served as the first head of the Consumer Financial Protection bureau. She's now running for Senate in Massachusetts.

Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has introduced the Federal Reserve Independence Act. It includes the following provision: “No employee of a bank holding company or other entity regulated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may serve on the board of directors of any Federal reserve bank.”

Despite the growing opposition to his role at the Federal Reserve, Dimon still has friends in high places. As Sunlight has reported, he's no political newcomer, and has a record of meeting with -- and giving money to -- all the right people.

Last March,


Dimon met with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to discuss the Volcker Rule, a proposed rule that tries to hamper speculation with firm money. Ironically, the multi-billion flub by Dimon's bank may shape the final outcome of the rule -- but not in the direction he would have liked.

Dimon political contributions include, $35,000 to JPMorgan Chase's PAC and $203,000 to political entities, including $55,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, $10,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, he gave $50,000 to help pay for Obama's inaugural.

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in Berlin. IFAIR's open think tank www.ifair.eu boasts more than 160 publications, including guest contributions from European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz.

Origins
IFAIR was founded in September 2010 by German National Academic Foundation fellows Hanna Pfeifer, Alexander Pyka, Lukas Rudolph, Susanne Schwarz and David Schlutz. The founding objective of IFAIR was to pool the expertise of students of international politics within a web-based "open think tank". IFAIR set out to invite students and young professionals with an interest in different IR-topics to submit relevant research articles, opinion pieces and literature reviews which were to be published and discussed online.

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In January, police found grisly postcards — in the form of notes attached to five severed heads — scattered around the city. The bodies of the victims were never recovered.

According to U.S. authorities, in the first half of 2011 Torreon had a homicide rate of 40 deaths per 100,000 population, comparable with crime-plagued cities like Johannesburg (43/100K). By comparison, Toronto’s murder rate is 1.6 per 100K.

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Michael Brown holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a professor at a number of seminaries. He is the author of 25 books and hosts the nationally syndicated, daily talk radio show, the Line of Fire.

For those who had any questions, Rob Bell has now made himself totally clear: He is willing to trash parts of the Bible as "letters from 2,000 years ago" when God's Word contradicts his views on same-sex "marriage."

Bell appeared on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday program together with his wife Kristen to promote their new book The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage. In an interview last December, Bell explained that on page


16 of the book, he and Kristen give their "whole hearted affirmation" to same-sex "marriage."

That was no surprise in light of his announcement in 2013 that he supported redefining marriage. In fact, that had been his position for years, although he had not proclaimed it publicly prior to 2013.

But on Oprah's show, he and Kristen went much further, dismissing the words of Scripture and criticizing churches that were determined to be faithful to God.

Explaining to Oprah why they included "gay marriage" in their book, Rob said, "One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. Loneliness is not good for the world. Whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural and healthy to want someone to go through life with. It's centralto our humanity. We want someone to go on the journey with."

Of course, he's absolutely right in terms of the importance of intimate personal relationships.

God made us to be relational beings, but in a very specific way. He formed Eve as the fit companion and helper for Adam, the two of them uniquely designed to complement each other in the journey and mission of life.

And Paul's solution to loneliness (and, even more so, to temptation) was specific as well: "because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband" (1 Cor 7:2).

He didn't say, "Each person should have his or her own companion," because that was never God's intent for His creation.

In contrast, what the Bells want to


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was founded in 2014 by former and current educators to improve public education by “empowering teachers, principals and parents.” L’Heureux had a brief stint as an assistant superintendent of facilities from 2012 to 2014. The nonprofit receives much of its funding from the Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation.

It has hired EduAnalytics LLC, based in New Freedom, Pa., to perform the financial analysis and create the tool. The company is putting together the database, which would allow a user to plug in a school name and drill down to find out how much is spent at the campus and with what results. It also would include context, such as demographics of the community.

The Department of Education already makes a wealth of information available about its schools, students and theirOn Friday's news, we took you deep into the Annual Belize Archaeology and Anthropology Symposium. That's where the local and international academics converge every year for to discuss the work they've been doing along side NICH. And while the symposium had them sitting in a conference hall, their work is in the field, digging in the dirt for clues to the ancient past.

But, one archaeologist's work on an ancient site is very connected to the present. That's Dr. Anabel Ford, who discovered the El Pilar Site in the early 80's and has been working there for at least three decades. Located 7 miles west of Bullet Tree Falls village, this site sits in both Belizean and Guatemalan territory.

The work of Dr. Ford and her team is somewhat complicated


by the politics surrounding Belize Guatemala cross-border relations. But for years, she's been able to navigate the often tricky cross border politics to restore and preserve this very important Maya site.

And, yesterday, she even got a number of Ambassadors, Government officials, an OAS Observer, and even a Supreme Court judge to go trekking through bad road, bad weather, and deep into the jungle just for a special ceremony.

Our news team had a front-row seat for the 5 hour long event, and Daniel Ortiz reports:

Daniel Ortiz reporting
A number of VIP's, including the Mexican Ambassador, the Taiwanese Ambassador, Supreme Court Justice Courtney Abel, and the BTIA Executive Director, converged on the El Pilar Archaeological Site for a very special event called "Katun El Pilar". "Katun", the Mayan word for 20,well as a free copy of the military classic of Klaus von Clausewitz, ''On War.''

Beyond the confines of the ''Marketing War College,'' what does it do to all of us to melodramatize our lives as tooth-and-claw struggles for survival?

This, we are habitually told, is ''the way life is.'' Nice guys come in last.

Certainly the coach of the Winnipeg Jets was thinking in the metaphor of the ''Marketing War College'' when he sent his own fighter Jet, Jimmy Mann, out on the ice to punch Paul Gardner from behind during a pause in play. Gardner, the leading scorer of the Pittsburgh Penquins, had his jaw broken in two places.

The ''Priority' list' '' -- the retaliatory strike -- is so much a part of professional hockey that every club is


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The cell layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the cat have been reinvestigated in relation to the localization of the degeneration of optic terminals. After unilateral enucleation the degenerated crossed and uncrossed optic terminals form five continuous alternate strips in all the five layers of the LGN with the Fink-Heimer method. The crossed terminals end in the layers A, B0, and B2, and the uncrossed terminals in the layers A1, and B1 without overlapping. The cyto- and myeloarchitectonic study of complete frontal, sagittal, and horizontal serial sections has shown that the former B layer and the nuclei interlaminares centralis pars ventralis and medialis of Thuma built up three continuous parallel layers, which we propose to call B0,When the Minnesota Vikings scored the first touchdown in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday to go up 7-0 over the Philadelphia Eagles, Super Bowl ticket prices on secondary-market site Tickpick shot up to $5,700.

But then the Eagles scored, and scored again, and went on to dominate the Vikings —and Super Bowl ticket resale prices fell, and are still falling.

The problem: Minnesota fans had been driving the market ever since the Vikings won their divisional game on Jan. 14. The Vikings looked likely to be the first team ever to play in the Super Bowl in their own home stadium, and attendance at a home Super Bowl would naturally be dominated by fans of the home team. Minnesotans would not have to book a flight or hotel to


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But now? Now I’m scared of the America some people want to live in.

With talks of walls, deportations, limiting the rights of women and the LGBTQ community, and a willingness to (happily) fire off nuclear weapons, the America proposed by the Republican party reads more like something out of a George Orwell novel than a 21st century American campaign platform.

How the GOP has gone from a party that once promoted civil liberties and American exceptionalism to one that promotes hatred, racism, bigotry, sexism, and the close


William Clerk

William Clerk may refer to:

William Clerk (administrator), clerk to the Privy Chamber of Henry VIII of England
William Clerk (jurist) (died 1655)
William Clerk (MP died 1415) for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
William Clerk (MP for Wycombe) (fl..1399-1420), MP and mayor
William Clerk (MP for Calne), in 1415, MP for Calne
William Clerk (MP for Northampton), in 1417, MP for Northampton

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William the Clerk
William Clerke (disambiguation)
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Two informations charging the crimes were filed June 15, 1976. The informations alleged burglary from two separate dwellings in Jacksonville and theft from each of them. On June 25, 1976, the public defender was appointed by order of the circuit court to represent appellant. Deputy Public Defender Bill Simpson actually represented him. Employed counsel represented him on the motion to vacate his sentence. The motion was in the name of appellant, allegedly 16 years of age, and his natural guardian, father, and next friend, Don Shipman. It contained allegations that appellant had been unable to freely communicate with his parents during his pretrial incarceration due to his being held on excessive bail, that his parents


did not know that he was going to plead guilty, did not consent to the entry of this plea, were not present when it was entered, or advised that he would appear in court on the day the plea was entered and that he should not have been represented by the public defender. It was also alleged that there were mitigating circumstances in his favor, that he had not been previously convicted, that he and his parents believed that he was not a party to the offense charged, that he tried *426 to persuade others not to commit the offenses and that the person who actually committed the crimes had never been brought to trial. He asked that his guilty plea be set aside and that he bewas sentenced. His affidavit of indigency was filed only five days earlier. He had been represented by a public defender at a hearing in a municipal court attended by his father, who said that he could not afford to employ an attorney for him at that time. The father testified that he had wanted appellant to have a different public defender, but that he thought the son would not be taken to court if he (the father) did not appear. He said that he was trying to get the money to employ appellant's present counsel. He testified, however, that he had quit his job for health reasons, and had only been employed for a very short time before the hearing on the motion. The father's fiancee was employed


nothing on which we can say that the trial judge erred in holding against appellant on the question of the effective assistance of counsel. There was good reason for appointment of the public defender and appellant was not deprived of adequate opportunity for the employment of an attorney of his or his father's choice. The fact that appellant was represented by Simpson at the municipal court hearing was well known to his father, who was present, but was without means of employing an attorney.
Appellant's argument includes assertions that employed counsel would certainly have made an effort "to turn the case on a grand larceny [now theft] plea of guilty followed by a suspended sentence," due to his age and the fact that he is a first offender, pointingout that "the principal offender, Jones," who had a penitentiary record, was never prosecuted.
There are certain facts that are clearly reflected by the record. Appellant and one Lawrence, who was also charged with the crimes, were arrested while in an automobile owned and driven by Jones and had made voluntary statements incriminating themselves, but exonerating Jones. Appellant wanted to plead guilty at the time of a preliminary hearing in the Municipal Court of Sherwood, but preliminary hearing was waived, after Simpson's efforts to have appellant's case referred to the juvenile court were unsuccessful. Appellant, in his testimony at the hearing on the motion claimed that he was unaware of the intentions of the others, protested against them and refused to participate. Yet he admitted either taking two radios


from one house that was burglarized or at least carrying them from the house to the automobile. He admitted that an eyewitness had seen all three enter one of the houses, and that, when a lady started shooting at them, he dropped some of the groceries taken from it. He stated that he, Lawrence and Jones went to a "Dairy Queen" after leaving the last place under gunfire and had a hamburger and a coke and played some music. Even though he testified that he protested all along and wanted to leave before the thefts and to return the stolen goods after the thefts, he reentered the Jones automobile and was in it when they were stopped by a police officer. In relating the course of events inhis own words, appellant stated that the policeman was "getting stuff out of the car that they have stole, that we stole . . . ." He had not told his father the full extent of his involvement.
Simpson, who had served as a deputy public defender for five months after one year and seven months as an intern in the office, had talked with appellant on three or four occasions, at least one of which was prior to the circuit court appointment. He said that appellant freely admitted his guilt when they discussed the matter at the time of the preliminary hearing. Simpson had been permitted to review the prosecuting attorney's file in the case and had talked with a deputy sheriff who was familiar with the case.


a three-year sentence, the best offer Simpson was able to obtain was a four-year sentence to cover all charges. He knew that the prosecuting attorney's office sometimes charged larceny only in some cases and recommended a suspended sentence but he made no effort to get the charges in this case changed. When Simpson said that he could not enter a guilty plea for appellant unless appellant was actually guilty, appellant said that he was guilty and signed a plea statement acknowledging his guilt, after Simpson had carefully read it to him. This statement certainly indicated that the plea of guilty was made voluntarily, knowingly and understandingly.
Simpson had told appellant's father that a trial could result in a greater sentence, that juries sometimes recommended suspended sentences for youthful firstbefore accepting a guilty plea, the court advise the defendant of his rights and ascertain that the plea is accurate and voluntary. Appellant introduced a transcript of the proceedings at the time the plea was entered. It reflects that the deputy prosecuting attorney stated details of the crimes and circumstances surrounding appellant's arrest, after the trial judge read the informations in full. It was disclosed that appellant's attorney had explained the elements of the crimes charged to appellant and had read to him the pertinent Criminal Code provisions. The judge determined, by inquiring of appellant himself, that appellant knew that he was waiving his right to a jury trial, was voluntarily entering a guilty plea to the charges, and was in fact guilty and that he knew that


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President Donald Trump is shifting his postelection focus with a weekend trip to Paris, joining an international commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I. He wasted no time mixing it up with his host, tweeting as he arrived in France that President Emmanuel Macron had made an "insulting" proposal to build up Europe's military to counter the U.S., China and Russia.

Trump arrived in France late Friday, days after Americans delivered a split referendum on his presidency in the midterm congressional election, keeping the Senate in his party's control but ceding the House to opposition Democrats.

He planned to meet with Macron on Saturday for talks on topics expected to include European security, Syria and Iran.think it's going to be something very, very special."

Trump originally wanted to celebrate Veterans Day on Sunday with a grand military parade in Washington, as he was inspired by the tanks and flyovers he saw during France's Bastille Day celebration when he visited Paris in July of last year. Trump ordered the Pentagon to come up with plans for his own version, but they were eventually scrapped over concerns about costs and the damage tanks weighing many tons would do to the streets in Washington.

The president and first lady Melania Trump were expected to visit several memorial sites in France that are dedicated to American service members. Not on Trump's schedule, despite earlier discussions about the possibility, was an extended meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I don't know


that we're seeing each other in Paris, but we may," Trump said. "There may be a lunch for the leaders."

The White House and the Kremlin had previously considered a formal meeting in Paris. That now seems more likely for later this month, when they attend the Group of 20 summit of international leaders in Argentina.

Trump and Putin have met previously on the sidelines of two summits and had their own bilateral meeting in July in Helsinki. At that meeting, Trump would not say whether he believed Putin or U.S. intelligence agencies about their conclusions about Russia's interference with the 2016 presidential election.

Trump's brief visit to Europe comes amid uncertainty about the U.S. relationship with the continent. Trump has railed against trade deals with the European Union and hascriticized some EU nations, including France, for not spending enough to defense to sustain NATO, the decades-old Western alliance formed as a bulwark to Moscow's aggression.

Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, said Friday in Paris that the U.S. was concerned about stability in Europe and that Trump was not shirking from global engagement. "I think the enduring lesson (of World War I) for the United States is that when you become a global power ... you have global interests to protect," Bolton said. "Great world leaders," he said, are "driven by national interests."

Trump and Macron's early relationship was marked by kisses, frequent meetings and marathon power handshakes. Early on, Macron tried to position himself as a sort of "Trump whisperer" and Trump returned the favor, hosting Macron at


the first and only state dinner of his presidency. But the relationship-building failed to persuade Trump to remain in the global climate change agreement or Iran deals and did nothing to protect France from U.S. tariffs.

The dividends of Macron's cultivation of Trump are "modest at best," said Stewart M. Patrick, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

At the same time, Macron has increasingly been positioning himself as a bulwark against the rising tide of Trump-style populism across Europe, speaking out loudly against the dangers of nationalism and isolationist retreat.

"He's starting to become the antithesis of President Trump's public messaging," said Heather Conley, director of the Europe program at Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Associated Press writers Jonathan Lemire in New York and Elaine Ganley in Paris contributedOn Tuesday, after a Hamas rocket exploded about a mile from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport, the US Federal Aviation Administration announced it was suspending all US flights to Israel for 24 hours. While perhaps understandably motivated by fears of a US plane meeting MH17's fate, the decision came in for some criticism, particularly after the FAA announced it would continue the ban for another day. Israeli officials insisted the airport was safe, Michael Bloomberg called the ban "an overreaction," and AIPAC said it "sends the entirely wrong message."

Yet Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) saw something even darker at work. "The facts suggest that President Obama has just used a federal regulatory agency to launch an economic boycott on Israel, in order to try to force our ally


to comply with his foreign-policy demands," he said in a Wednesday afternoon statement. During an appearance on Fox News hours later, Cruz went further (they start discussing Israel at 3:04):

"The Obama administration is the most anti-Israel administration this government has ever had," Cruz said. He asked why air traffic to Israel, rather than Pakistan, Yemen, or Ukraine was cut off. "The timing was at the exact moment Kerry was there trying to strong-arm Israel into stopping their efforts to shut down Hamas’s rockets and tunnels," he continued. Essentially, Cruz argued, Obama was trying to choke off Israel's tourism industry until it consented to a Gaza cease-fire.

Cruz has a particular genius for inventing ways to position himself as more conservative than his rivals

When host Sean Hannity showed him videoof a State Department spokesperson calling his accusations "ridiculous" and "offensive," Cruz fired back, saying: "What is ridiculous is the Obama Administration refusing to answer simple questions about whether this was dictated by politics." Never mind that, seconds earlier, the video showed the State spokesperson saying safety was the FAA's only consideration. Cruz announced that he'd place a hold on all State Department nominees until he got the answers he wanted. ("Good for you," Hannity said.)

It's only the latest example of Cruz's particular genius for inventing ways to position himself as the most conservative major figure in the Republican Party. To wit:

Every Republican opposed Obamacare — but it was Ted Cruz's hard-line strategy against it that eventually led to last fall's federal government shutdown.

led to When President Obama


asked for more money to address the child migrant crisis last week, Cruz proposed linking any new funding to ending Obama's deferred deportations program for young unauthorized immigrants. Stopping the deferred action program , Cruz's spokesperson said, was the senator's "top priority."

child migrant crisis proposed deferred action program During a period where Paul Ryan , Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio have been attempting to burnish their centrist credentials as poverty-fighters, Cruz has shown no interest whatsoever in doing the same.

Paul Ryan Rand Paul, Marco Rubio When the House Republican Study Committee fired its staunchly conservative executive director Paul Teller, saying he leaked conversations with members of Congress, Cruz soon hired Teller as his deputy chief of staff.

In foreign policy, though, what it means to be "conservative" isn't quiteclear right now, as the GOP base contains impulses both toward hawkish interventionism and skepticism of foreign entanglements.

Back in March, clearly wary of being characterized as a warmonger, but eager to set himself apart from the doves, Cruz characterized his views as follows: "You can point to two points on the spectrum, where Republicans lie. On one side you have the views of John McCain. The other end of the spectrum, you have the views of Rand Paul. Now, with respect, my views are very much the views of Ronald Reagan, which I would suggest is a third point on the triangle."

But while wrapping oneself in the flag of Reagan is a nice rhetorical trick, it's one that's hardly unique to Cruz — Rand Paul and Rick Perry


golden tray full of wisdom and faith and having poured its contents into my chest, he closed it. Then he took my hand and ascended with me to the nearest heaven, when I reached the nearest heaven, Gabriel said to the gatekeeper of the heaven, ‘Open (the gate).’ The gatekeeper asked, ‘Who is it?’ Gabriel answered: ‘Gabriel.’ He asked, ‘Is there anyone with you?’ Gabriel replied, ‘Yes, Muhammad I is with me.’ He asked, ‘Has he been called?’ Gabriel said, ‘Yes.’ So the gate was opened and we went over the nearest heaven and there we saw a man sitting with some people on his right and some on his left. When he looked towards his right, he laughed and when he looked toward his left he wept.Then he said, ‘Welcome! O pious Prophet and pious son.’ I asked Gabriel, ‘Who is he?’ He replied, ‘He is Adam and the people on his right and left are the souls of his offspring. Those on his right are the people of Paradise and those on his left are the people of Hell and when he looks towards his right he laughs and when he looks towards his left he weeps.’

Then he ascended with me till he reached the second heaven and he (Gabriel) said to its gatekeeper, ‘Open (the gate).’ The gatekeeper said to him the same as the gatekeeper of the first heaven had said and he opened the gate. Anas said: “Abu Dhar added that the Prophet met Adam, Idris, Moses, Jesus and Abraham,


were two trees at the edge of the valley, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went to one of them, took hold of one of its branches, and said: ‘Follow me, by the permission of Allah.’ So it followed him like a camel being led by a rope, until he came to the other tree. He took one of the other tree’s branches and said: ‘Follow me, by the permission of Allah.’ So it followed him until he reached the halfway point between them, then he put them together and said: ‘Stay together and cover me, by the permission of Allah.’ So they stayed together.” Jabir said: “I kept away, for fear that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)Mayoral rivals clamor for distinction

New York City Democratic mayoral candidates (L-R) Christine Quinn, Anthony Weiner, Bill Thompson, John Liu, and Bill de Blasio participate in the first primary debate for New York City mayor in the WABC/Channel 7 studios in New York. (Aug. 13, 2013) Photo Credit: James Keivom

New York City Democratic mayoral candidates (L-R) Christine Quinn, Anthony Weiner, Bill Thompson, John Liu, and Bill de Blasio participate in the first primary debate for New York City mayor in the WABC/Channel 7 studios in New York. (Aug. 13, 2013) (Credit: James Keivom)

New York City's mayoral candidates increasingly look to magnify small differences as they claw for an edge in the Sept. 10 primary. Strategically, the moment demands it. The issue positions of the Democratic contenders fall within a


supported by the Summer Research with NIDA Program. This research was also supported in part by the University of Rochester Developmental Center for AIDS Research (NIH P30AI078498).

We thank Drs. Kurt Hauser and Pam Knapp (Virginia Commonwealth University) for generously providing HIV-1 Tat transgenic mice, Dr. Phil Ray (University of Kentucky) for providing recombinant HIV-1 Tat protein, and Dr. Linda Callahan and Maria Jepson of the University of Rochester Two-Photon Core Facility for technical assistance and advice. Finally, we also thank Drs. Handy Gelbard, Charles Lowenstein, Craig Morrell (University of Rochester), Beau Ances (Washington University), James Duffin (University of Toronto) and Ariane Jay (Cornell Veterinary College) for helpful discussions.
However, as described below, compliant towers are also subject to the problem of lateral vibration induced by the impact of random surface waves.
A compliant tower may be characterized as a beam having one pinned end, one free end, and a variable restoring force applied at and perpendicular to the free end. When a wave impacts on a compliant tower, it causes both the rigid oscillation previously described and a dynamic flexural vibration. Thus, at the same time, the tower oscillates in the manner of an inverted pendulum and vibrates in the manner of a bowstring. As with rigid, bottom-founded structures, the flexural vibration period of a compliant tower must be less than about 6 or 7 seconds in order to prevent resonance with the waves.
Due to the different


On 16 January 1995, Plaintiff was injured while working for Employer
when he slipped and fell on a wet floor in Employer's break-room.
As a result of this accident, Plaintiff and Employer entered into
an agreement for compensation pursuant to North Carolina Industrial
Commission Form 21. The agreement stated Plaintiff "sustained
an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of . .
. employment [with Employer]" on 16 January 1995, and the
accident resulted in "back pain." The agreement was
approved by the Commission on 14 March 1995 pursuant to N.C. Gen.
Stat. §97-82. Plaintiff remained out of work from 17 January
1995 until 30 January 1995.

On 9 January 1997, Plaintiff requested a workers' compensation
hearing on the ground Defendants refused to pay Plaintiff additional
compensation pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. §97-25 for the injury
received from his16 January 1995 compensable injury.

John Larry Simpson, M.D. (Dr. Simpson), medical and safety director
for Klaussner Furniture Industries, the parent company of Employer,
testified he treated Plaintiff following his 16 January 1995 injury.
Plaintiff indicated he was experiencing pain in his left shoulder,
posterior neck, low back, and upper hip area, and Dr. Simpson
testified the "predominant symptoms deal[t] with left-sided
neck, shoulder, [and] arm pain." When Dr. Simpson saw Plaintiff
for a follow-up visit on 30 January 1995, Plaintiff did not report
any pain in his low back. Dr. Simpson's records indicated he saw
Plaintiff on 12 October 1995, and Plaintiff complained at that
time of low back pain. Plaintiff told Dr. Simpson the pain began
when he was lying on his sofa at home, felt a spasm, and "jumped
up off the couch and felt a catch in


based
in part on [P]laintiff's demeanor and in part on the medical records
and other credible evidence of record. The [Commission] defers
to this credibility determination. As the Deputy Commissioner
noted, in October 1995 [P]laintiff maintained that his low
back pain was not work related. He maintained this position again
when he sought treatment in May 1996. He later changed his position
and told his physicians, and testified, about another work-related
incident in May 1996. . . . (emphasis added).

Contrary to Plaintiff's contention, the Commission's finding
demonstrates it did consider credibility when reviewing the facts
of this case, and did not blindly defer to the credibility determination
of the Deputy Commissioner. The Commission stated the Deputy Commissioner
found Plaintiff not credible, and the Commission then stated facts,
as "noted" by the Deputy Commissioner, tending to show
Plaintiff was not credible. The Commission,and xe2x80x98Rangerxe2x80x99 (unpatented). The presence of thorns and the size of the fruit distinguish xe2x80x98Chesapeakexe2x80x99 from thornless cultivars such as xe2x80x98Arapahoxe2x80x99 (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 8,510), xe2x80x98Navahoxe2x80x99 (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,679), xe2x80x98Hull Thornlessxe2x80x99 (unpatented), xe2x80x98Triple Crownxe2x80x99 (unpatented) and xe2x80x98Chester Thornlessxe2x80x99 (unpatented).
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The Brazilian president cancels a state visit to Washington. The German justice minister talks of "a Hollywood nightmare". His chancellor, Angela Merkel, ponders offering Edward Snowden asylum. The EU may even end the "safe harbour" directive which would force US-based computer servers to relocate to European regulation. Russians and Chinese, so often accused of cyber-espionage, hop with glee.

In response, an embarrassed Barack Obama pleads for debate and a review of the Patriot Acts. Al Gore refers to the Snowden revelations as "obscenely outrageous". The rightwing John McCain declares a review "entirely appropriate". The Senate holds public hearings and summons security chiefs, who squirm like mafia bosses on the run. America's once dominant internet giants, with 80% of the globe under their sway, now face "Balkanised" regulation round theworld as nation states seek to repatriate digital sovereignty.

And in Britain? Nothing. From parliament, the courts, and most of the media, nothing. Snowden, the most significant whistleblower of modern times, briefly amused London when he turned scarlet pimpernel in the summer; then the capital was intrigued when David Miranda was seized by Heathrow police on bogus "terrorism" charges. But the British establishment cannot get excited. It hates whistleblowers, regarding them as not proper chaps.

Nothing better illustrates the gulf that sometimes opens between British and American concepts of democracy. Congress is no puppet of the executive. The US may be brutal in its treatment of leakers such as Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, but the fourth amendment lurks deep in its culture, protecting privacy from the state without due


key player in what Snowden called "the largest programme of suspicion-less surveillance in human history". Its value to the US is evidenced by the £100m the country pays for its surveillance services.

An estimated 850,000 American officials and contractors are thought to have access to this material. Though every activity is said to require the warrant of a US court and a "senior minister" in Britain, this is palpably absurd. There are millions of dips each year, a vast trawl of data. While the NSA is supposedly overseen by a foreign intelligence surveillance court – now exposed as ineffective through being secret – GCHQ professes "a light oversight regime compared with the US". Its overseers are patsies.

Yet none of this seems to turn a hair in London. While Washingtonhas been tearing itself apart, dismissive remarks by William Hague in the Commons and Lady Warsi in the Lords could have passed muster in Andropov's supreme soviet. Hague said merely that everything was "authorised, necessary, proportionate and targeted". National security was not for discussion. British oversight was "probably the strongest … anywhere in the world". This remark – contradicted by GCHQ itself – went unchallenged.

Meanwhile Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP, head of the intelligence and security committee and supposed champion of citizens against state intrusion, positively grovelled towards GCHQ. He said we should all defer to "those involved in intelligence work". He even cancelled a public hearing with the security chiefs for fear of embarrassing them.

For Labour, Yvette Cooper claimed obscurely she "long believed in stronger oversight" but she


was drowned by a dad's army of former defence and home secretaries, such as Lord Reid, Lord King and Jack Straw. All rallied to the securocrats' banner in shrill unison. I sometimes think these people would bring back the rack, the whip and the gallows if "vital for national security".

The reality is that Britons generally have little trouble with the authority of the state. The historian of espionage, Ben McIntyre, has suggested that this trust is embedded in the class system, aided by the vague glamour of James Bond and George Smiley. GCHQ, he says, is seen as "a club of amiable gentlemen in shabby tweed jackets," probably still fighting the Nazis. Like all toffs, this officer class may behave badly, but its heart is in the righthigh gear

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Indian technology companies have long been in demand from private equity investors, but now that demand has enveloped sectors ranging from retail to real estate. In addition, global investment structures are emerging in the private equity drive that show the market is both maturing and getting stronger. First, New York-based Coller Capital, which specializes in the global private equity secondaries market, has carried out what is considered to be the first secondaries transaction in the Indian private equity/venture capital space by buying assets being liquidated from ICICI Ventures-managed Advantage Fund I. Coller has reportedly committed $35 million. Second, Thomas Weisel Partners Group, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, has created a $300 million US-based fund of funds for venture capital and private equity going into India. It


SynergEyes Names Kirchner President

SynergEyes, Inc. has promoted James Kirchner, OD, to the position of president.

SynergEyes says that Dr. Kirchner’s selection demonstrates the company’s renewed focus on the practice of optometry. SynergEyes anticipates that his experience and perspectives will promote optometric influence within the company as SynergEyes transforms itself into a partner of independent eyecare professionals (ECPs).

Dr. Kirchner previously served as senior vice president of clinical and professional relations at SynergEyes, providing professional leadership of product development and management. He also represented the company within the ECP community.

Prior to joining SynergEyes, Dr. Kirchner was chief professional officer for Eyefinity/OfficeMate. With more than 35 years in the private practice of optometry, he has been president and CEO of more than a dozen start-up companies within and outside the ophthalmic industry.

CooperVisionNames Executives

CooperVision has appointed Andrew Sedgwick to the new role of executive vice president of Commercial Strategy and Business Development.

In this role, Mr. Sedgwick will be responsible for CooperVision’s long-range strategic plan, product life cycle management, business development, and professional services. He has experience as an executive working in a variety of different positions within the company, most recently as the president of the Americas for CooperVision. Mr. Sedgwick began his new role in mid-June.

CooperVision also recently appointed Dr. Juan Carlos Aragon to the newly established role of senior vice president, Global Professional & Clinical Affairs, effective immediately.

Dr. Aragon is now responsible for creating, implementing, and managing the company’s professional and clinical affairs strategy worldwide, reflecting CooperVision’s continued growth in developed and emerging markets.

Dr. Aragon is an optometrist


with responsibility for the company’s portfolio of pharmaceutical, consumer, and medical device products including Restasis, Lumigan, Alphagan, Combigan, Ganfort, Optive, and Ozurdex as well as some products not related to eye care.

Mr. Ingram has been with Allergan for 17 years. For the past three years, he has served as executive vice president and president, Europe, Africa and Middle East (EAME). In this role, he was responsible for Allergan’s regional pharmaceutical and medical device operations, with a focus on strategic planning, sales and marketing, development, and general management. Mr. Ingram previously served as executive vice president and chief administrative officer, among other roles in the company.

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To assist practitioners in helping both new and current contact lens wearers better understand how to safely wear andThe SA Government has announced a Royal Commission into nuclear energy. In the first in an NM series, Rob Parker, president of the Australian Nuclear Association offers suggestions for six areas of focus.

Is All Aid Good Aid?

AusAID's involvement in the Cambodian railways project has come under fire from local groups alleging human rights abuses. Is aid always a good thing? AID/WATCH's Matt Hilton on the need for transparency

Recently, something ground-breaking in the world of aid happened. After years of attempting to engage with AusAID, the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Cambodia, two organisations — Equitable Cambodia and Inclusive Development International — submitted a formal complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission.

The complaint was filed on behalf of 30 affected families, and is important because it alleges


that AusAID breached the Australian Government's human rights obligations during the Cambodian Railways Project.

Days after the complaint was filed, AusAID responded. Director General Peter Baxter claimed that all of its programs in Cambodia are in fact human rights programs, including the troubled railways project, which Australia is supporting "because we believe in protecting human rights". However, if AusAID believes laying railway sleepers equals human rights, it certainly didn't make that known in the design phase when it was choosing whether to engage with the project.

AID/WATCH, along with many other organisations, have drawn attention to the ongoing serious human rights violations of this project. Starting in 2009, the project has been implicated in serious abuses relating to the resettlement of around 4000 households who lived along, or in somewhich my school had donated $10,000 worth of stationery in the aftermath of the devastation.

All the way down the coast, there were blue tents housing those who had been displaced. Only a small amount of new building had occurred. Our guide, a Sri Lankan friend who had coincidentally been in Phuket when the tsunami hit, pointed out another endless series of blue water tanks, built in and donated by a country in the European zone. He noted that they were useless - water was not an issue and the tanks were not needed. Yet the country had been trumpeting its significant contribution to the Sri Lankan aid effort. Its cost had been the cost of transporting the tanks to Sri Lanka. The beneficiaries were the manufacturers in the


European country who had made them

All around us we saw an endless number of Toyota Landcruisers with the names of aid agencies stamped on their doors. Many were parked outside luxury hotels. It was sickening.

To the side of the road and paralleling it all the way down the coast was the main north south railway line. The tsunami had ripped it to shreds, the twisted steel rails still visible as we drove. But the railway line was back to normal operations within a couple of months of the tsunami. It had been rebuilt by the Sri Lankan Government.

There's a section in Paul Theroux's <i> Dark Star Safari </i> where he visits the Tanzanian village he had worked in as a Peace Corps volunteer 40 years earlier. Despite theBirbal Dhar

Birbal Dhar was a leader in the Kashmiri resistance to Afghan rule in the early 19th century. He led a deputation which persuaded Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh to invade Kashmir in 1819, which ended Afghan rule.

Due to his role in the ending of the Afghan rule, Birbal Dhar was awarded with the role of Taluqdar, rough translation - Nawab, for the province of Kashmir under the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

He was offered a seat on the council of the Maharaja, but refused in order to be able to be close to his people in Kashmir.

Ever since the time of Mughals and Afghans, the Taluqdar was the highest administrative service for a state.

He was an avid follower of a previous Taluqdar of Kashmir, Ali Mardan Khan,


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Washington, D.C. (for individual relators)

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(for relator The Humane Society of the United States)

Jack Y. Perry, Maren F. Grier, Briggs & Morgan, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota (for
respondent Gourley Brothers, LLC)

Lori Swanson, Attorney General, Fiona B. Ruthven, Assistant Attorney General, St. Paul,
Minnesota (for respondent Minnesota Department of Natural Resources)

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sold Bulleit to Seagrams in 1997. They reformulated the whiskey and redesigned the package. Mostly, they liked the name, which is pronounced 'bullet.' Thoroughbred fell by the wayside.

Tom was an entrepreneur for two years.

Selling your company after two years is surely one measure of entrepreneurial success, but you stop being an entrepreneur when you stop entrepreneuring. For the last 20 years he has been a brand ambassador. Brand ambassador is a noble calling and Tom is a very good brand ambassador but he is an employee, like Fred Noe is at Beam. It is not his company.

The brand owner is Diageo, world's largest drinks company, which never can resist gilding the lily.

So, what did he do in those two years? Doesn't seem like enough time to produce histheir vacations) when I begged to go somewhere scenic. Friends at church had told us about Cades Cove and while it was about 40 minutes from where we were staying, we did it. My in-laws were thrilled and we much enjoyed our three-hour tour around the loop. Deer, turkeys, horses, and even a black bear!
Journaling:
Our first stop inside the park was to park and walk about 1/4 mile to the John Oliver Cabin, built by the first settlers in Cades Cove. John Oliver (1793–1863), a veteran of the War of 1812, and his wife Lucretia Frazier (1795–1888) were the first permanent settlers in Cades Cove. The Olivers, originally from Carter County, Tennessee, arrived in 1818, accompanied by Joshua Jobe, who had initially persuaded them to settle in the


depth of my grief at her loss. The sadness is still very new, and not at all welcome.
June of 2013 brought the worst news we had ever endured as a family. In 2007 my aunt died after a short fight with cancer. It was a shock, but we had nearly a year between diagnosis and her death. My grandmother fell asleep the day after her 98th birthday, and slipped away peacefully. Again, we were sad, but she had lived a long, full, faithful life, and we could say goodbye.
My mom thought she had been fighting pleurisy for a couple months. Finally, they did a CT and found the spots on her liver and the tumor on her pancreas. Metastatic pancreatic cancer, stage IV, no treatment. To say weperformance degrees (MMus or PhD) but our strings are largely hobby players. Many have degrees as well, while others are just happy to have an ensemble to play in. We are one of the few semi-professional orchestras in the country (we are pay-per-service, not salaried/union) that has operated in the black continuously since founding.
I play the viola and sit either principal or second chair, depending on whether or not our principal viola decides to show up for a concert. I love playing with this group, and this is my tenth season.
This concert, a friend of mine used my camera and took pictures during the concert. It was our Emerging Artist concert and the concerto winner was a 16-year-old from south Louisiana. She was okay; she had technique but


of Myra about whom many stories are told. He is a factual person, though the details have probably been embellished upon through the centuries. He was a wealthy man who sold most everything he had so that he could give to the poor. He particularly loved and cared for the poor children of Myra, and was known all over for his generosity.
In 325, during the Council at Nicaea, which met to settle the Arian heresy, Nicholas got into an argument with Arius and, finally getting fed up, punched Arius in the face. He was then stripped of his bishopric but spent the rest of his life serving those in need.
I love the stories about St. Nicholas, the true ones and the ones that might be a little embellished.With multiple pre-flight milestones achieved in recent months, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – which will succeed the Hubble Space Telescope – is on course for its historic launch by Arianespace on an Ariane 5.

As the world’s premier space science observatory, the JWST will solve mysteries of the solar system, look for distant worlds, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of the universe. It is an international project led by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – along with its partners, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

Arianespace is performing the launch on behalf of ESA, within the agency’s scope of its collaboration with NASA. The mission – currently planned for 2021 – underscores Arianespace’s ability to serve institutional clients while


also expanding humankind’s knowledge of the universe to make life better on Earth.

After deployment by Ariane 5 from the Spaceport in French Guiana, the JWST will travel to near the second Lagrange point (L2) of the Earth-Sun system (1.5 million kilometers from Earth, directly opposite the Sun), where the telescope will circle about the L2 point in a halo orbit.

Fully assembled for launch

Kicking off a series of launch preparation achievements, the two components comprising the JWST – the spacecraft and its telescope – were integrated for the first time in late August. This activity took place at the Redondo Beach, California facilities of U.S.-based Northrop Grumman, which leads the JWST industry team.

After the JWST was mechanically connected, engineers worked to electrically link up its two components – enablingTriple bone labeling of canine mandibles.
Fluorescence microscopy was used for evaluation of new bone formation in 16 canine mandibles augmented with hydroxylapatite (HA) granules. Three fluorochromes were injected at different time intervals during therapeutic radiation treatment. Oxytetracycline, DCAF, and alizarin-complexone were given intravenously to mark the bone level at these times, respectively. Oxytetracycline, which defined the baseline of bone at implantation of HA, was detectable in 42% of animals that were irradiated and in no animal of the nonirradiated control group. The marker DCAF, designating levels of bone at the start of radiation, was demonstrated in 92% of irradiated animals, and in 75% of animals in the control group. The uptake of alizarin-complexone determined the level of bone found at the end of irradiation. This marker was demonstrated