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Shailene is being predicted by many awards experts as a frontrunner for a Best Actress nomination at the 2015 Academy Awards for her work in The Fault in Our Stars!

She is currently one of the five predicted nominees by The Hollywood Reporter‘s awards analyst and HitFix pointed out that a nomination is possible because she “received near universal acclaim for her work and the film turned out to be one of the surprise global blockbusters of the summer.”

Of course, not every movie being released this year has been screened yet so we’ll have to wait and see what the competition looks like. Oscar nominations will be announced on January 15.

Also pictured inside: Shai out and about in the Big Apple earlier in the day.

FYI: Shailene is wearing aand to develop and maintain a strategic plan in alignment with the Center mission. As the Center?s director, Stan Gerson prioritizes a coordinated effort in strategic planning and evaluation for the Center. This impacts the direction of scientific programs, recruitments, investments, expansion and creation of new shared resources and new initiatives, and clinical translation. All scientific research programs developed a future directions priority list that has been reviewed by the Center?s advisory committees, coordinated and endorsed by the Center?s Executive Committee (EC), and approved by consortium institution leaders. These specific priorities are codified in the updated strategic plan.


public official acknowledged the existence of the tiger pelt trade within the country. The official ban on tiger bone sales has been in place since 1993—but why does the Chinese government see a difference between killing endangered animals for their skins and killing them for their bones?

Last year, the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) took a closer look at the tiger trade in China. EIA found that some companies are issued licenses to breed endangered animals, including the South China Tiger. A notification issued to those businesses by the Chinese government in 2005 enabled “the pilot use of captive-bred tiger bone for medicine.” In fact, traditional Chinese medicine outlines the uses for each component of a tiger, down to its nose leather and whiskers.

The 2005 notification reenergized theeffort was all worthwhile.

I took this photograph facing west, on Dewes Street in north suburban Glenview Illinois. Soon another nightfall will be upon us.

I took this photograph last night, in Chicago's Garfield Ridge neighborhood near Midway Airport.

I was visiting my old friend Bill after work, and decided to stop for a bite to eat at the Nicky's Gyros on South Archer and Austin Avenues. That brutal long rush hour commute from Glenview Illinois in heavy traffic, made me very hungry, and I just had to stop at one of my old favorite neighborhood eateries that I used to frequent during the 1980's and 90's.

It's been many years, and the food here is still very tasty and inexpensive today.

I just couldn't resist having a Tamale boat to go. This


was always one of my favorites that they served here featuring a delicious bowl of Chilli with cheese and a Tamale. Their signature Big Baby Double Cheeseburger is always welcome here anytime.

Good food and happy memories last night for me last night when I visited this favorite old haunt from my southwest side Chicago days past.

I took this photograph this past January, at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois.

My 1960's and 70's era Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad unit grain train to the left, meets fellow club member Chuck Colin's freight train from his own shortline railroad known as the Oak River & South Chicago Railroad on the Missisippi River lift bridge at the Illinois and Iowa stateline border.

Chuck's freight train to the right, features a kitbashed 1970's era wide vision caboose, that was rebuilt in to a modern "Shoving Platform " car with the windows and doors welded shut with steel plates.

One of the more unique railroads I had grown up with in Chicago many years ago, was the former Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad which was known by many as just simply refered to as "The Milwaukee Road.

The Milwaukee Road was famous for fast steam powered streamlined Hiawatha passenger trains, investment and modernization with several early models of diesel electric locomotives, horizontal rib sided box cars and cabooses, and sometimes experimental locomotive exhaust system mufflers
and appliances, such as the unique two mufflers mounted on the twin exhaust stacks on locomotive #


672 shown here.

This photograph and many other railroad photographs from the former Milwaukee Road and several other now gone American railroads, can be viewed at the website Fallen Flags.Orgwww.rr-fallenflags.org

We are at the Riverside Illinois Metra commuter rail station on a very bitterly cold
and overcast winter afternoon. My hands and face were stinging from the single digit
outdoor temperatures and sharp windchill factors that day. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

An eastbound BNSF Railway freight train passes through the station, with a very smokey
diesel locomotive pushing on the rear of the freight train.

We are at the Wolf Road railroad crossing in northwest suburban Des Plaines Illinois on a sunny late autum day in November.

In this behind the scenes view, a railroad maintenance crew from the Union Pacific Railroad, is viewed lowering the Freightliner railroad maintenancetruck's Hi Rail wheels on to the rails, in preparation for another inspection trip along the former Chicago & NorthWestern Railroad freight only cut off line.

A heavy all morning lake effect snowstorm had finally stopped falling on the greater Chicagoland area by early afternoon that day, and soon I would be onlocation with my camera in hand, at the River Grove Illinois Metra commuter rail station.

In a scene right out of a Christmas holiday greeting card, an eastbound Canadian Pacific Railroad transfer freight train, passes the station with freshly fallen white snow on the ground at Thatcher Avenue.

One of my favorite local neighborhood eateries I used to patronize when I lived on the southwest side of Chicago many years ago, was the quaint little Nicky's Gyros fast food


stand, which is located on the northeast corner of South Archer and Austin Avenues in Chicago's Garfield Ridge neighborhood near Midway Airport.

Nicky's has been in business for many years, and also has a few other locations on the south side of Chicago serving inexpensive and tasty fast food favorites such as their famous Big Baby double cheeseburger, Pizza puffs, Tamale boats (Chilli and a tamale) Grecian gyros, and many other selections of comfort food.

During the mid 1980's, I used to frequent the Nicky's Gyros location on South Kedzie Avenue and West 58th Street in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood. I seem to recall that they had a gentleman with a Greek accent who used to shout the orders to the cook in the kitchen behind him. It often soundedat West Park in Des Plaines Illinois like I did last year. It was fun!

Growing up in the city of Chicago like I did, light engine movements over any given railroad line is a common everyday sight. This was especially true over the Belt Railway of Chicago, as they were often locomotives returning to a local yard or terminal after dropping off a transfer train at Clearing Yard, or were sent there to ease a motive power shortage. Sometimes they were sent there for work at the BRC's own large locomotive shop for repairs.

Until recent times, the General Motors Corp RTS model transit bus, rolled many miles down city streets in many towns and cities in North America, serving transit ridership on a daily basis.

Introduced in the late


1970's, these futuristic looking buses were intended as a replacement model for the aging GM TDH Series fishbowl windshield buses introduced in 1959. Many of these were in operation until the early to late 2000's, until replaced by newer models of transit buses.

A former Suburban Transit 1970's era General Motors TDH Series fishbowl windshield "New Look" transit bus, is viewed waiting to turn south at the intersection of South Archer and Harlem Avenues at the Chicago city limits east of Summit Illinois.

The former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe is proboubly my all time favorite railroad that had served the city of Chicago Illinois where I had grown up many years ago.

The former Santa Fe had used this black and silver "Zebra Stripe" color scheme on their diesel yardswitcher locomotives from 1950 until 1960, however, a number of these rolled around in this color scheme until the late 1960's at some of their terminals system wide unti repainting or retirement.

A dark blue color scheme with yellow frame and ends had replaced this color scheme in 1960, but it took a while before the paint shop could finish the repainting task.

The entire Chicagoland area suffered a very heavy and wind driven lake effect snowstorm recently on Monday, February 17th during the 2014 President's Day holiday. 5 inches of snow had fallen on the greater Chicagoland area between 9 AM and 9 PM, with a few more inches in some areas.

I took this photograph the next day, in southwest suburban Bridgeview Illinois. This photo was taken on West


83rd Street just west of the intersection of South Oketo Avenue, and shows the extent of the heavy lake effect snow accumulation.

All travel the day before, was very dangerous and time consuming, with nearly zero visibility in some areas.

Another era is coming to a close in near northwest suburban Norridge Illinois in 2014.

For many years, local families would shop for delicious Maurice Lenell Cookies at their very popular Cookie Factory Store located on North Harlem Avenue in Norridge Illinois. My family and I would visit here from time to time when I lived on the near southwest side of Chicago during the 1970's and 80's, and take home boxes or plastic buckets of their many varieties of assorted cookies to take home.

In late 2007, this popular store locationI sometimes operate early 1972 merger era locomotives and equipment from the former Illinois Central Gulf Railroad.

The ICG was created from the August 10th. 1972 merger of the former Illinois Central, and the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroads.

Former G,M & O locomotives like this one, were a common site on everyday ICG trains for the first 5 years of operation, until retired from the roster. They either rolled around in the original color scheme like my model shown here, or were eventually repainted in to the ICG's orange and white color scheme.

This photograph was taken the day after, in southwest suburban Bridgeview Illinois. Believe it or not, it was a very warm and sunny 43 degrees Farenheight, and the dripping snow was melting in the sunshine.

A little known


preserved artifact from Chicago's historic railroading past, is this former Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad caboose, on display in a local city park along the east side of 80th Avenue, in south suburban Tinley Park Illinois.

As much as I "Hate" wintertime here in the greater Chicagoland area, I must admit...the sunsets at this time of the year are nothing less than spectacular.

Bitterly cold as it was during this recent visit to southwest suburban Bridgeview Illinois, this glorious and very colorful winter sunset at the end of the day, made the freezing all worthwhile for me and my camera.

I took this photograph one lovely autum evening, back in October of 2008.

An eastbound Metra rush hour local commuter train, has finally boarded or disembarked some passengers at the Galewoodstation, and is now preparing to begin the final leg of it's journey to Chicago Union Station, as the late day sun begins to set in the western sky.

Although the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers, H.O Scale Model Railroad Club operates American prototype trains...you can occasionally find yourself not knowing what might come chuffing down the track next.

Fellow club member Joe, occasionally operates this German prototype 0-8-0 steam locomotive and European two axel cars on the club layout.

This train is an import model from Fleischman, and the locomotive features a high pitched European "Peanut Whistle".

We are on the southwest side of Chicago, in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood near the Chicago city limits, east of neighboring Summit Illinois.

This photograph was taken looking south on South Neva Avenue, just


north of the intersection at West 56th Street.

With frequent heavy lake effect snowstorms and several days of bitter bone chilling single digit outdoor temperatures, Chicago's winter of 2014 which was refered to as "The Polar Vortex" was a never ending and relentless cycle of winter's worst offerings weatherwise.

The former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, has been a lifelong favorite of mine.

Although the Santa Fe had began repainting their diesel switcher locomotives from the black and silver zebra striped color scheme, to a blue and yellow color scheme in 1960...many locomotives that were operating scattered about at various terminals on the Santa Fe, rolled around in the black and silver 1950's era colors, until approximately 1968 or so in daily service.

With a bright red "New Image" caboose circaparent company] IMO was contacted by two major firearms industry manufacturers, stating that they would do no further business with IMO if it continued with its present personnel structure. Within hours, Jim Bequette resigned as editor of Guns & Ammo, and my relationship with all IMO publications and TV shows was terminated.

A groveling apology had to be offered to placate them from Editor, Jim Bequette. In his surrender Bequette said:

I made a mistake by publishing the column. I thought it would generate a healthy exchange of ideas on gun rights. I miscalculated, pure and simple. I was wrong, and ask your forgiveness.

Jim Bequette then also was forced to resign

The gun extremists, who claim to support and understand the Second Amendment, do not even respect or understand the First


privilege. To have your hand in it, a calling. To stand within the four walls of this place, I may as well had been in a museum.

For this is the first chapter: Christer, fine-tuning and finishing and refining these fine leathers and wooden bases into footwear. Then, it is packaged up and shipped to the doorsteps and storefronts of the world where the second chapter is written. Sweden's influence is immediately felt in the four corners of the world until it is joined with that of the consumer. When a Sandgrens box arrives, a third chapter is written. It harmonizes with the footsteps, the movements, the lifestyle of the wearer. This pulls forward that tradition, only by now, it has been shared with the world. The legacy isPrime Minister Justin Trudeau quickly backed up his pledge for more dialogue with the West, opening his Thursday meeting with Calgary’s mayor up to the two members of his government now entrusted with being ambassadors to the region.

Manitoba MP Jim Carr, who was named Wednesday as Trudeau’s special representative for the Prairies, and Chrystia Freeland, now deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs, both sat in on the latest of Trudeau’s meetings with provincial and municipal officials from Western Canada in the wake of last month’s election.

The Liberals lost all their seats in Saskatchewan and Alberta in October. They also dropped three seats in Manitoba.

Carr, who was previously the minister for trade diversification, was also to attend Thursday’s first cabinet meeting, before embarking on his new task


The Associated Press reported last week that the Department of Homeland Security’s own Office of the Inspector General was investigating charges of excessive force by Border Patrol guards at the Mexican border. According to the article that appeared in the Washington Post, the investigation “… involves a review of accusations of brutality and excessive force as it works to determine whether reforms have been implemented.”

Foremost among the cases presumably to be examined by DHS’ Inspector General is Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas who died at the border near San Diego. A video recently emerged which depicts what looks like blatant brutality against Mr. Hernandez as he is repeated tasered while lying on the ground surrounded by Border Patrol agents. And last week at the border in Nogales, Arizona, a Border Patrolagent shot a young boy, aged 16, who allegedly was throwing rocks. There are, as well, a number of other cases since 2010 in which Border Patrol agents have used deadly force.

But what is not being investigated by DHS’ Office of the Inspector General is the risky and dangerous work of being a border guard, on the one hand, and the marked decline in professional training recruits receive at their national training academy in New Mexico.

So the good news is that fewer illegal immigrants are successfully entering our country as reflected in Border Patrol statistics. The bad news is that violence against agents is increasing along with the number of illegal border-crossers who are dying at the hands of border agents.

There are at least two major reality checks


Sunday, November 28, 2010

Sunday's frontpage New York Times piece on the trend towards increased roboticization of the military is accompanied online by an interactive graphic showing the latest platforms used by the U.S. Military. The article quotes Ron Arkin as saying that 56 countries now have military robotics programs, and Wendell is also quoted a couple of times, drawing attention to the long-term downside of these developments. The recent ICRAC meeting in Berlin is also linked.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Submissions are invited for presentation at MC2011, a two-day symposium to be held in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour 2011 (AISB 2011), April 4-7 2011, University of York, UK. It is anticipated that the symposium will be held April 6th-7th (TBC).

A very interesting article by Ryanphilosophy to answer these questions. Chapters will consist of peer-reviewed essays addressing the scientifically literate nonspecialist in a language that is divorced from speculative, apocalyptic, and irrational claims.

As a follow-up to his 2009 talk at the Singularity Summit, David Chalmers has written an extended article on the subject. The article is titled, The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis. It is perhaps the most comprehensive reflection by a philosopher to date on the subject. The paper has three sections. The first section covers the arguments for an intelligence explosion. The second section will be of most interest to readers of this blog. In that part of the article Chalmers considers "how to negotiate the singularity: if it is possible that there will be a singularity, how can we maximize the


chances of a good outcome?" In the last part he looks at uploading and the place for humans in a post-singularity world.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Special Issue of Philosophy and TechnologyEditor-in-Chief: Luciano FloridiCall for Papers onRobotics: War and PeaceGuest Editor: John P. SullinsClosing date for submissions: January 9th, 2011

The topic. Two of the most philosophically interesting aspects of robotics technology are their use in military applications, and as engineered companions and helpers in the home. Military technology is going through a change that is as significant as the advent of gunpowder, or nuclear weapons. Robotics has made great advances in the last decade due mostly to research and development funded by various militaries around the world. The resulting systems stand to change every aspect of war and peacekeeping. AtWednesday, May 31, 2006

As I write, the treason Senate – under intense pressure from Communist world government traitor Smirk W. Bush – is preparing to pass the legislation that will legalize the present invasion of these United States.So here let me repeat something I have said many times, which nevertheless deserves repetition even more because it is so little mentioned, even by our friends.The goal of the conspirators from the beginning has been to submerge and dissolve our country in a totalitarian socialist world government they would run.But they had a problem. Go back to World War II.When it ended, these united States indisputably comprised the most powerful country on earth. Unlike most of the other participants, our homeland was completely undamaged. We had most of the gold.No


martial law be the whack upside the head that would finally awaken the American people?Nothing else has worked. It was Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev, who many years ago at the Communist UN in New York, expressed his amazement at the depth of naiveté of the American people. Khrushchev exclaimed, “These Americans! You can spit in their face and they call it dew!”My guess is that today he would marvel even more.http://www.etherzone.com/2006/stang052606.shtml

Israel has surrendered this right to the Master of the false peace Road Map.They are not permitted to defeat their enemy and willingly go along with the dead endRoad Map which is set up to exterminate the people of Israel and their land.The two state solution of emperor George is Israel's death sentence and the blind and faithlessthepick up their own cross and not the swords of judgment, while we wait patiently for the glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ to set up his earthly Kingdom and imprison the fallen angels.

In truth, these leaders today, and their confused followers who support President Bush, are only perpetuating the “just war” doctrine of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and the militant preachers of their day who rebelled against the true gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to follow a false one, and then despised men in government as they declared independence from the King of England. That rebellious spirit has a long, ugly, and bloody history. As I have written many times, all of these men, then and now, are trapped in the false militant Christian gospel


the Roman Emperor, Constantine, and later Augustine, established seventeen centuries ago.

This false gospel spread throughout the Roman Empire and was responsible for the Crusades against a rabidly violent Islam, another satanic religion which occupied the Holy Land and had visions of world dominion. The current phase in this seemingly eternal war between Islam and Christendom over the existence of Israel is a satanic trap to seduce terrorized and nuclear war-weary populations into seeking world peace and security through men of enormous power. I believe the Presidency and Papacy are the two power offices of the modern day Roman Empire that Satan and his fallen angels have established to deceive and lead the nations into accepting his counterfeit Kingdom of God, Revelation 13. Eventually all religions, including a crushedand defeated Islam, will bow the knee to the two men who occupy these offices during Daniel’s 70th Week.

There are other confused patriotic Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians who now think God’s chosen nation, America, has been taken over by global elitist wolves wearing sheepskin suits, like President Bush, and want to take it back, by force if necessary. Many of them are probably former supporters of President Bush, but have fallen away thinking the President has betrayed them.

Another distinct group of confused Evangelicals and Fundamentalists are acknowledging that America might actually be, or at least has become, Babylon the Great of Revelation 18 and the final lead nation of the Roman Empire of Daniel 7, and rightfully seek to distance themselves from this New World Order, rather than


seduced young Christians back into the ways of unsaved mankind by religious deception, than he is the “dignities”, the unregenerate kings and governors of the then Roman Empire, who occupied the land of Israel.

Today these false teachers and their followers, instead of obeying the command of the Lord through Peter and Paul to obey (only commands not contrary to the gospel) and honor President Bush, while still warning him of his own sin nature and the false militant gospel he is following, are now accusing President Bush of conspiring and even planning the attacks on 9/11 in order to fulfill the plans of the New World Order elites to establish a one-world government and religion. Let me be clear on this….even if President Bush and his government wereby taking up arms against a government which is filled with men who have the Mark of the Beast on their forehead or hand, who can rightly be called, dead men walking, for those who take the Mark are beyond hope and cannot be redeemed. They have condemned themselves by taking the Mark. Even during those coming days of darkness and mass death, the saints are not to take vengeance on their enemies.

Listen and heed the warning from the scriptures….”And it was given unto him (Antichrist/President/Beast) to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life


the founding fathers like George Washington and Patrick Henry, but the Lord Jesus Christ and his apostles, his precious blood, glorious resurrection, and imminent return to set up his Kingdom on the Earth. The writers of the scriptures were rooted and grounded on this foundation and had “departed” from the evil of their own sin natures that were filled with the pride of this life (militant patriotism), the love of money, the love of self, and hatred, which are the root causes of war between all of the political-religious-military systems in the world, 1 John 2.

My prayer for all of you in Christendom is that you will remember the pure words and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ, and as a loyal ambassador, take a stand for thevisit the Audubon Society website, www.ctaudubon.org, for more information and a live camera feed to the gourds at Milford.

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Goodbye to all that:chief nursing officer for Scotland Anne Jarvie, who retires this month, has received the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing Global Health Leadership Award. Ms Jarvie accepted the award at an international conference in the US. Department of Health nursing officer for international relations Anna Maslin said: 'A highly respected advocate for nursing, Anne Jarvie has played a major role in reforms within the NHS, and in 2001 outlined a ten-year strategy for nursing and midwifery in Scotland. Her vision encourages nurses to meet the challenges of the future, to embark upon a lifetime of learning and the pursuit of excellence in delivering the best care possible. Anne has also played a pivotal role in ensuring strategic nursing leadership at the highest levels offor the holidays, foot-traffic was low, and the only continuous noise was swish of wind through the three elevator shafts which service the front of the building.

When I woke up and returned my shoes and glasses to their accustomed positions, it was dark outside, and my computer, purse and so forth were still undisturbed in the conference room where I'd locked them. A middle-aged, querulous-voiced fellow history student named Renee offered to fix me a cup of tea, and minutes after I'd transfered myself and my baggage into the department I was sipping on a steaming mug and thinking about how to tackle my Russian Literature term paper.

Then Ben appeared.

"I thought you were in Russia."

"I'm leaving tomorrow," he explained. [He'll spend Christmas there with his wife. She doesn't


they'd wait an hour or so for me to finish a draft of my paper, I'd take them home. Cheerful assent.

When the second bottle was produced, the government girl was long gone, and the corkscrew thus inaccessible. Though it had therefore to be opened less elegantly--with the stopper being pushed in rather than pulled out--this did not affect its charms. Ben started to sing snatches from "An American Tail" ("There are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese..."), Renee to rant shrilly about sexism and to prophecy that "we would have slavery in the U.S. within the next fifty years." I printed out my paper.

When the three of us emerged at midnight, it was bitterly cold outside. My little jacket didn't adequately compensate forand actresses during the evening. I was enchanted. Physically, the man has not aged well--a lifetime of cigarettes and gin has mottled his skin and stretched it in odd places, so that he now reminds one more of a weatherbeaten scarecrow than a Brooks-Brothers-clad suitor for the hand of an Audrey Hepburn character. But mentally, skillfully, he was and is at the peak of his powers.

As O'Toole turned, and "toddled" (his words) back into the darkness of the wings, I decided that I must find whether he'd published anything--I was sure it would be worth reading. And last night, I finished Loitering With Intent: The Child, the first volume of his memoirs. The time was entirely well spent--both his in writing it, and mine in reading it. If


rights.

Douglass is an intellectual treat as well as a pivotal U.S. historical figure. Nazer’s work, though about events in Sudan, and produced in juvenile, journalistic prose, affected me with greater power. Mende is a Muslim woman from the Nuba people of northern Sudan. She was kidnapped at about age twelve along with many other children from her village by Arab raiders during the 1990s. She was sold into slavery in Khartoum, where she spent about eight years virtually confined to a single house, cooking, cleaning, and caring for the children of her abusive mistress. She was beaten often, once so brutally that she had to be hospitalized. Eventually, her mistress decided to "loan" her to the wife of a Sudanese diplomat living in London. Mende was dispatched toyears ago that I’d be a spinster at thirty, living with two, and possibly three unrelated twenty-something guys…

Happily, some folks from Intervarsity showed up among the more than fifty people who crowded our downstairs—turned out that a fellow named Ben was in graduate school with Marianne, and he brought two guests—one guy I knew, and one girl I didn’t. Joey, a tall, thin man with rimless glasses, has joined the navy, and is due to report to OCS just a few weeks after my submariner brother. The fun and wacky redhead Emily and I hit it off almost immediately. She was a drama person in college, and yes, she still is a drama person at heart. Her sister was married in Siberia two years ago to one of


those rarest of creatures, a decent Russian man. The entire family went over to Irkutsk for the wedding. It was her mother’s first time abroad, and a good time was had by all—they were “adopted” by her sister’s host “grandparents” (the dedushka was a retired Aeroflot pilot who loved to feed them sweets, the babushka was a former home-ec teacher at a local high school), mugged by a street child, went camping in the forest, bathed in Lake Baikal, and relaxed at a Edenic-gardened dacha. And the wedding was a traditional village affair, complete with food-laden tables, dancing and lots of toasts. I look forward to hearing more of Emily’s stories tonight—at the Intervarsity party over on Capitol Hill.

I doubt the language at the IV get-together will deteriorateAbout Me

Friday, December 30, 2011

Went to the London Museum today. Enjoyed myself. Especially liked the Elizabethan display. Started from prehistoric, which I guess is common across civilizations. Medieval was interesting too. There were quaint exhibits like a puzzle jug with three spouts, me
ant to confuse the drinker.
It was quite interactive, with children encouraged to try on clothes from different eras. It was fascinating to see the minutae of a bygobe age, from manicure kits to gowns. Also enjoyed learning about the buldings here that I had already visited. The London Wall was right outside the museum, and a glass window showcased it inthe museum.

Vauxhall got a special section, and I remembered Georgette Heyer novels. Also liked the section which had padlocks and chains used by the suffragettes. Saw


a William novel in anexhibit showing the stuff children took with them during the war evacuation.
Also
saw the first Time Out. Took the highwalk back to the Barbican, an international India Habitat Centre I found yesterday. The library was open for longer today, so read the Time Out guide to London.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

yesterday, went to Oxford St. to shop. Hordes of people were there for the Boxing Day sales. Intheafternoon, part of the street was cordoned off after a teen got stabbed there. Had a late lunch of lip smacking Lebanese. Took thebus back again as the tube strike was on. Enjoyed the view from the deck.
Today, went to Hyde Park. Then Harrod's. Had to stand in line to enter the perfumesale area. Worth it though. Beautifully donesaw the Thames and London Eye. Had a delicious late lunch of pasta at an Italian restaurant by the street.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

had dimsums for lunch. discovered a shortcut to liverpool station and spotted heron tower, which I had seen yesterday. Stumbled on to St. Paul's Cathedral. Bells were ringing. Very soothing. It is huge. Only saw it from outside though. Huge line for non ticketed entry to carol service. Rained but now I just turn a thick skin. Bank of England remained elusive. Felt like Christopher Columbus. Set out to find a bank and found a cathedral instead. Maps helped me make my way back. Shops are so nice and warm here, no wonder Shopaholic was a shopaholic. Had some yum chili cheese nuggets at Burger King.


on the tube and remembered PG Wodehouse. Keen to go to the Sherlock Holmes museum. Saw Baker St.

Monday, October 17, 2011

From Rimbik, a plenitude of greenery on
the way calmed my spirit. Rivers, mini waterfalls on the way, valleys
and mountains all greeted us. The waterfall had water in a hurry, in
contrast to the rest of the surroundings, which simply were.

Watercolors merged with blue, trees
silhouetted against the sky. After lunch, another trek took us to
Gurdum. UNO now also known as ENO and a local brew led to a merry
evening. Saw orchids too.

Next morning, after a breathtaking
sunrise, we started trekking to Sandakfu. The stillness and coolness
of the jungle green was soothing. Panoramic clouds crept up on the
hillside. Felt like pulling a particularly fluffy one down for a
pillow.

It gave a feeling ofachievement to see
how far we had come in just half an hour. Seven hours later we were
in Sandakfu. Most of us slept through the sunset. In the morning we
saw the first rays of the sun hit Kanchenjunga and Mount Everest.
The range looked like a sleeping Buddha.

Coming back we reached Gurdum by lunch
and Srikhola by evening. In the morning we trekked to Rimbik by
starlight and torchlight. The entire sky was glowing with stars. After
a peach blushed sunrise on the way, we soon hit the plains.

I can still taste the memories though.
Only need to close my eyes and I am back in the hills.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

The first part of that word- "relation"- seems less appealing than the second- "ship". "Relation" reminds me of duty, while "ship" seems delicious, sailing


the hottest item of 2009.

iPod pockets: It seems like yesterday -- or, holy shit, eight years ago -- that Apple introduced the iPod. According to the people I've never met at Wikipedia, the thing debuted on Oct. 23, 2001, about six weeks after the tragedy of 9/11 and heading into one of the darkest holidays on record. But not only did the iPod reinvigorate Apple and recast the portable music market .... it sent outdoor gear designers into a tizzy. The first "iPod pockets" that hit the market became the difference maker for hard shells and backpacks. Later on, they became de rigeur in everything from hooded sweatshirts to golf pants. For a spot I did back in 2005, I joked that a new jacket had an "iPodending jam was loud and spirited and real, as only Grace and the crew can do. The only bummer is that it seemed like an entirely different band from the one that started the show.

Maybe it was the camera crew. Maybe it was end of the tour fatigue. Maybe it was the new material with the radio play hooks and the soft rock touch. But for the most part, the first half of the show failed to move the not-quite-sold-out crowd.

"I hope you're ready to hear some new material," grinned Grace after the opening jam. "Cause you're going to get it." I seem to remember that she also tacked on "whether you like it or not" to the end of that sentence, but maybe that was my imagination.

When


Grace Potter is on target, she's mesmerizing. That hair, that smile, and that unforgettable voice are a formidable combination. Her brand of music is beautiful and inspiring, and it's an amazing thing to watch her and the band work the crowd.

But as with any band .... or brand .... the debut of new material is Darwinism at it's best.

After they've been played, it's easy to recognize the ones that never should've been there in the first place.

But when a new song or a new product survives, it's not merely because it's fitter than the rest. It's because the new thing is a natural progression of the old thing.

12.08.2009

You've heard it before ... "Iceland is green, and Greeland is icy" ... but after you visit the world outside Reykjavik,Why the Los Angeles Rams as the NFC West Champions is a Smart Bet

2019 was a disappointing season for the Los Angeles Rams. The Rams finished with a record of 9-7 and 3rd in the NFC West. However, they were still a competitive team that played their divisional opponents tough going 3-3 in the division. Vegas has already released the divisional odds for the 2020 NFL season, and the Rams are +260 to become the NFC West Champions. So, why is this a smart bet to make? Let’s take a deeper dive into why this is a bet you should be looking to make.

Easier Schedule

The Los Angeles Rams won the NFC West in the 2018 season and had to face each division winner from the NFC last season,


which included the New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, and the Dallas Cowboys. The NFC West also matched up against one of the toughest divisions from the AFC Side in the AFC North. This season, the Rams will have a more manageable schedule after finishing 3rd in the NFC West they will face the New York Giants, Chicago Bears, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The NFC West will also play against the AFC East, which may not have Tom Brady, and already has one of the worst teams in the NFL with the Dolphins.

More to Prove

Virtually the entire team has something to prove this season. Todd Gurley has to prove that he is still able to handle a full workload, Goff has to prove that the 2018 NFL season wasn’tStewart Stebbins, that he developed gravity. Renaming himself in her honor as Don A. Stuart, he began producing poetic, reflective stories that deserve to be remembered — “Twilight,” “Night,” “Forgetfulness” and “Cloak of Aesir” — stories that testify to a young author’s sense of isolation and helplessness in the face of immeasurable universal forces.

Despite an aimless early life, Campbell eventually stumbled onto the job he was born to do — long before anybody realized it was a job worth doing. Until Campbell came along, the pulps were edited by company men who felt little if any personal affection for the stories they published. But in 1937, when Campbell accepted the editor’s chair at Astounding Stories (which he quickly renamed Astounding Science Fiction), he became the first SF fan


As a “competent man” who believed in self-made remedies, he quickly became one of Hubbard’s earliest champions; eventually, he not only announced the new “science” of Dianetics in Astounding, but became one of its most devoted patients, believing Hubbard could “audit” out his many deep-seated emotional traumas from as far back as the fetal state. “I firmly believe this technique can cure cancer,” he wrote Heinlein in 1949. And he did firmly believe it — for a while.

After he stopped believing in Hubbard and his Dianetics, Campbell went digging for other basement-built theories of human and social improvement, eventually turning Astounding (later renamed Analog) into a cross between Popular Mechanics and a crash-course in miracle-peddling. He grew enamored of concepts such as dowsing, astrology and telekinesis, which heauthor of a dozen books, including the recent novel “Dazzle Resplendent: Adventures of a Misanthropic Dog.”

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An advantage of the present invention is that the peak valve lift of one valve relative to another valve within the same cylinder is adjustable.
A further advantage of the present invention is that the peak lifts of the valves within a cylinder are matched and/or set to within a relatively close


operated as a semi-batch process. The contents of the aeration reactor basin are referred to as mixed liquor and contain microorganisms (living and dead), soluble contaminants, and inert, biodegradable, and non-biodegradable suspended and colloidal matter. The particulate solid fraction of the mixed liquor is termed mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS).
After a sufficient residence time for the biological reactions to occur (usually a number of hours), the mixed liquor is typically transferred to a separate gravity settling basin 18 (clarifier) to allow separation of the MLSS from the treated wastewater. Settled MLSS is then recycled to the aeration reactor basin as recycled sludge 16 to maintain a sufficiently concentrated microbial population for rapid degradation of the influent wastewater constituents. Because there is usually a significant net positive production ofthe trial court in November to examine false testimony claims, prosecutors filed a brief - and the judge decided against Castillo one day later, according to court filings.

The Bexar County District Attorney's Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The 36-year-old condemned man was originally convicted in 2005 of killing teenage rapper Tommy Garcia Jr. during a botched robbery.

Castillo's then-girlfriend lured the targeted man to a secluded spot with the promise of sex and drugs. But while the two were making out in his Camaro, Castillo and another man attacked.

Wearing ski masks and carrying weapons, they dragged Garcia from the car - and Castillo shot him seven times in the process.

Castillo was one of four people convicted in the crime, but the only one hit with


a capital sentence. During the punishment phase, he represented himself.

He was found guilty on what would have been his victim's 21st birthday.

Last May, he was scheduled for execution, but saw the date cancelled after prosecutors failed to give 90 days notice to the defense. In September, he was scheduled to die, but the date was pushed back again, this time in light of the impacts of Hurricane Harvey.

Then in November, his December execution date was canceled and his case remanded to the trial court in light of claims of false testimony from a jailhouse snitch.

"I described what Juan Castillo supposedly told me about the capital murder," former Bexar County inmate Gerardo Gutierrez wrote in 2013, according to court records. "Juan Castillo never told me this information about thisthe news of her death this week,

and riveted by the descriptions of her as they have come in from different news sources –

‘she lived a life of relentless creativity’,

‘she was a sculptor of words’,

‘she lived a life as a teacher, an activist, artist and human being. She was a warrior for equality, tolerance, and peace’ (Guy B Johnson)

‘she moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence, and a fierce grace‘ (Oprah)

and then there’s her last incredible tweet from a few days before her death, that has been spread the world round already,

‘Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God’.

Be still my heart. What honoring words of pure inspiration are these,

describing a woman who fully understood her own power and willingly stepped into


A man has been jailed for eight years for attempting to murder his four children, two of whom he thought he had succeeded in killing.

The Central Criminal Court imposed a 12-year sentence but suspended the final four years on a number of conditions.

The judge this morning described a narcissistic element to the crime. He noted that the man said he had planned to take his own life after strangling his children, and thought that they would be better off dead than without him.

The man, who cannot be named to protect his children, had pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of his children at the family home on June 3rd, 2016, with one child telling him: “Daddy we can get you help, just don’t do it”.

Mr Justice Michael Whitemitigation, he noted his guilty plea, his remorse, his previous good character, his “exemplary role as a father previously, which makes it all the harder to understand his crimes”.

He said that, because of the man’s previous psychiatric history, it was appropriate to mitigate the sentence on those grounds.

He noted that the accused had first presented to his GP in 2010 with low mood, paranoia and contemplating suicide. He said “he often thought of taking the lives of his wife and children”.

He was diagnosed with moderate to severe depression and was admitted to hospital and given medication.

He was later also diagnosed with social phobia and a past history of substance abuse and has been on medication since.

“The court has not had the benefit of a psychiatric report detailing the


reasons for his actions,” he said. “If there was evidence of previous domestic violence, the court could more readily accept the actions of the accused.”

The court previously head that the man’s relationship with his wife had broken down the previous month and there had been “unhappy differences” between them which seemed to affect him badly.

The man, who had a history of depression, attempted to strangle two of his children and left them when he thought they were dead, before moving onto the other two children in the next bedroom.

The man had been minding his children as his wife was going out for the night. His father was in a nearby house minding other grandchildren when his son arrived at the house at 7.20pm saying: “I hurt the kids,I’ve done something stupid to the kids.”

The grandfather ran over to his son’s house and saw two of the children in a “panicked state” in the driveway. The grandfather found the other two children on their backs in the main bedroom, one crying and the other unconscious. He contacted the emergency services and managed to revive one of the children.

Two of the children’s faces were purple and their eyes were bloodshot. They were gasping for air and had red marks on their necks.

The other two children were treated with oxygen by paramedics in their bedroom and one of these was in a critical condition. They were later accompanied by their mother to the hospital in an air ambulance.

The accused was located by gardaí and said he was planning


on killing himself when he found out his wife was going on a date that evening and he did not want his children upset that he had taken his life. “I thought if I killed them they wouldn’t be upset. I thought I had to do it,” he said.

The man said that when he went to strangle two of his children, they looked at him and asked him what he was doing. He told gardaí: ‘I thought it would make them happier’.

He said he was upset as his wife of four years was going on a date with another man who she had been texting since January. “I thought the marriage was good, anytime she wanted to go I let her go out,” he added.

The defendant said hehad been crying that evening in his house and his children were worried about him. He told gardaí he was texting his wife and she had sent him a text message saying it was “time to stop crying” and to tell the children “what he wanted”.

He said he started tickling two of his children in their bedroom and then his hands began to “strangle” them as he pressed down on their neck with his thumb. “I kept going until they were dead and I kissed both of them of the foreheads and left them where they were,” he said.

Two other children were playing Xbox in their bedroom, the man told gardaí, and they did not know what had just happened. The man then grabbed two of them “at


this happened was because the text from his wife. He had replied, telling her she would “regret all of this”.

A medical report was read to the court in which the doctor said the four children’s injuries were consistent with a serious assault by their father and there was clear medical evidence of an attempted strangulation by him.

A psychiatric report was also read to the court in which it said the children had suffered severe trauma that night and they had lost their safe environment. Their world had been turned upside down overnight, Mr Burns read, and things would never be the same again.

Both parents had been described as extremely attentive parents with happy and active children. People spoke of how well the children had turned out.

Their mother readMLA panel considers changes in the academic job search

Submitted by Scott Jaschik on January 10, 2012 - 3:00am

SEATTLE -- When Erika Wright started off her talk here at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, she said that this was her fifth straight year on the market for a tenure-track position. A few people in the audience gasped. They were already on the tenure track, or tenured. None of the graduate students or people a year or two out of grad school seemed surprised.

The session here wasn’t about how bad the job market is -- that’s old news. Rather, the focus was on how the search process is changing in light not only of the lousy economy, but of technology, shifts in departmental thinking and the presence


panelists said. (Needless to say, such advice won't thrill many adjuncts who say that they need to spend every hour teaching to get even close to a living wage.)

Here are some of the other changes cited at the panel here:

A new calendar: The MLA meeting (until recently in late December and now in early January) has for decades been the primary place where search committees in English and foreign languages interviewed a large number of candidates and then selected a small group for campus visits. So the fall was the time for the initial vetting of the large pool to determine who was worthy of an MLA interview. Now, the schedule is much less firm. Susan Miller, English chair at Santa Fe College, a Florida community college, saidthat she has had searches in which money wasn’t available on the regular schedule, but then materialized late in the year. So the college advertised a job last March, "a really awkward time for a fall opening." But she said that the department didn’t want to lose its shot at the position, so it went ahead as soon as it could -- and in fact rushed the process, feeling that until someone had signed a contract, the position might disappear.

Precarious positions: Miller’s fear of a search being canceled is one that others discussed as well. Wright noted that her first year on the market, she made it to the campus visit stage for a job that would have been ideal, and the visit went well. Only late in


And that is increasingly the case not just for junior professor positions, but for more senior posts. Donald Hall, who chaired the session and is the new dean of arts and sciences at Lehigh University, said that his first interview for that position was via Skype.

Raising the teaching bar at community colleges: Miller said that, a decade ago, many community colleges were excited by the idea of hiring more people with interesting research experiences and the potential to become good teachers. Now, she said, teaching is everything at two-year institutions. "The fullness of one’s teaching experience is becoming more and more critical," she said.

Raising the research bar at four-year institutions: Reddy said that even though she is not at a research university, "I see research expectation creep," andInnovative Areas "Foundation of Synapse Neurocircuit Pathology" (No. 25110740), "Glia-Assembly" (No. 25117009), and "Seishun-no" (No. 26118717) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan, by AMED under grant number JP18dm0207001, and by JSPS KAKENHI grant numbers 17K18401 (Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists) and 16J40220 (Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow).

We thank Mr. Hajime Ishii and Ms. Akiko Tsuchiya for their valuable technical support and animal care, and Ms. Tomoko Manabe for her technical assistance for histochemistry.

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[^2]: Reviewed by: Rosa Chiara Paolicelli, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland; Zhihong Z. Chen, Emory University, United States

[^3]: This article was submitted to Cellular Neuropathology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience


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Bollywood star's marriage mired in paper trouble

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, who
married his girlfriend at a Hindu temple, has been unable to
register the marriage after the bride forged residence
documents, leaving the alliance legally invalid, an official
said on Thursday.

The spotlight seems to refuse to leave Dutt, a beefy,
action hero, whose third marriage is making as much news as his
court battles to clear his name in an illegal guns case.

Dutt and girlfriend Manyata married in a traditional Hindu
ceremony in the western city of Mumbai this month, two years
after they started dating.

The couple applied to register their marriage in the
tourist haven of Goa where Manyata said she had lived, and
provided residence documents.

But their application was put on hold after her documents
were found to be forged, and they havenow withdrawn their
application to register the marriage.

"We had kept the marriage pending, but now they do not wish
to pursue it further," Vithal Salkar, marriage registrar in
Goa, said. "The documents were not proper."

Dutt, 48, could not be immediately reached for a comment.
Neither was it immediately clear if they could apply to
register the marriage in another state.

The actor, among the highest paid in Bollywood, is out on
bail, while he challenges his conviction for getting illegal
guns from gangsters connected with India's worst bombing in
Mumbai that killed 257 people in 1993.

Dutt's first wife died of brain tumor, while his second
marriage ended in divorce. Dutt has a daughter from his first
marriage.


go to work.

I have poured cognac, we have drunk for good luck, and have gone to work.
Chapter 4

We sat before a holographic projector. Alex has output the scheme of a circular labyrinth.

– Where were gone, uchena and rescuers?

The doctor has shown five places.

– In these three places was gone scientists and rescuers, in these two on one rescuer. Scientists worked at the sites with assistants. After loss of scientists assistants have fenced places and have called rescuers. During searches five more rescuers were gone. As rescuers went to leashes with the workmate, ropes and weigh in air from our party going to emptiness. Attempts to extend ropes have not led to success, they begin to be torn, we have decided to leave so far as is. As electronics,off communication.

– To an arrival fifteen minutes, – mother has told.

– Thanks, – I have answered.

The shower left Tsy, defiantly became before us, has like a dog shaken off, water drops have extensively departed.

– Tsy!!! – Irza and Alex have told chorus.

Irza descended behind a towel, has wiped to me a face, herself the person, has wrapped Tsy in a towel, has put on knees and began to wipe it carefully. Tsy zaurchat as a tractor.
Chapter 8

– Mother display a round labyrinth.

– Enter a safety code.

I have entered a code, on the screen the round labyrinth has appeared.

– Show places of one-sided teleports.

On the screen five points have appeared. "Something is missing". I have twisted a labyrinth to the left to the right, have stopped, have got accustomed,


the place of landing, and has very softly put him, having squeezed between two ships.

– Have gone, already wait for us, – Irza has told.

It has taken Tsy, has pulled out it from a towel and has gone to an exit. I some time sat not movably, have poured to cognac, have drunk, then have squeezed out:

– Mother you are whole?

– Long ago I so did not frolic, – mother has answered.
Chapter 9

Really waited for us. The entrance had a person with a dog. We approached it. A dog, having seen Tsy, has run up to Irza who held Tsy, and has begun to bark, wag a tail and to jump, trying to reach Tsy. Irza tried to lift Tsy above, protecting it from a dog, but Tsyour galaxy, you contact a staff, you give coordinates, you put the emergency beacon, you begin investigation and search of the gone people, to you the ship with the help will arrive. If we get to other galaxy, we look for the gone people, we do investigation, we keep in contact, we find a teleport, we come back home.

– Questions?

Questions were not.

– Teams are ready?

– Yes.

– We accept pilyulk, forward.

I the first have defiantly got a pilyulka and have pretended that I have swallowed, all have begun to get and swallow of pilyulk. I have bent and have thrust under nose a pilyulka of Tsy.

– Nyam?

I have nodded, he has swallowed a pilyulka, I have put Tsy on a shoulder and have gone forward. We approached the secret


presence too? – I have asked Tsy.

– Dya.

It something new, Tsy "Nyam" began to tell simple words, instead of the darling.

– It is hostile? – I continued.

– Not.

Already well, so danger does not threaten people.

– Something is necessary to it?

– Dya.

– Food, water?

– Not.

– Talk, the help?

– Dya.

Well, it is already good. They need the help. But to relax early, it is necessary to explore. Long ago I did not do it.

– I will leave a body now, can do you it it will not be pleasant.

– Nyam?

– There is no time to explain, – Alex has told, has approached the next wall and has sat down, having occupied a convenient pose.

Alex left the body, he has seen the body sitting at a wall, Tsy sitting near myonly very big and shaggy. However, from his mouth if it is possible to call it a mouth canines, as at the biggest dog looked out. On his hinder four legs about one claw was visible, but they did not touch a floor, probably moved forward if necessary. On two lobbies shoots were similar to our fingers.

Where, I have not gone, watched black eyes, the good overview at a six-claw at me. To me has bothered to wander and I have sat down behind the back of Tsy. Alex has felt that on him, something approaches, but he has not felt hostility therefore he has relaxed and has closed eyes.

In a moment I have appeared on a planet surface, "I in his mind" – I have guessed. Tsy


it was the colonel Lisitsyn. – He has put the overhearing bug with under space transfer. I have made so that music plays so far, he does not hear our talk, and hears only music. So if you want to talk without wiretap, ask to turn on the music.

Music has ceased to play. We with Irza have exchanged glances, have nodded each other and began to speak on abstract subjects. Alex, has included an auto pilot, has gained coordinates.

– I will go, I will have a sleep, – Alex has told. Has gone, it was filled up on a bed and has fallen asleep. Irza has followed its example.

Irza dreamed strange dreams, pictures were indistinct and vague. Tsy lay near Irza and slowly hummed.

Alex was woken by aa hand, it has taken a cup and slowly drank. She has looked at a position of spherical chess and has told:

– An interesting combination who conducts?

– The account two one, I lose. I am going to visit the brother, you are with me or you will walk on park with Tsy?

She has looked out in the illuminator, has seen only sand and rocks, has told:

– With you.

She has understood everything. We went out of the ship, and have gone towards a complex, Tsy has looked round around, but, without having seen either trees, or columns, has made a boring ugly face, and has asked on handles. Irza has naturally taken it on hands. Air was dry, from sand blew as a heat. Having entered a complex, we


will manage to activate all signs in time.

– And what will be when all signs are activated? – Irza has asked.

– And everything is farther very simply, in the last pyramid the secret room in a floor will open, in this room on a wall the crystal will be established, these should break it, – has told dock and has put the ordinary hammer on a table.

Alex has taken the hammer, has examined, has felt, the hammer as the hammer. He has looked at Irza, she has in the affirmative nodded. Alex has hung up the hammer to himself for a belt.

– When we begin? – Alex has asked.

– In two days when to us exempt space, from other ships, – Egor has told.
Chapter 18

Two days have flownBut "trifle" has coped also with it. We have departed from the line and have reflected.

On a floor balls rolled, Tsy skatit all balls to one place and has told:

– Rumpled!

Alex has asked to make dock the strong cylindrical container of the same material, as balls, with densely closed cover with an inside diameter about fifteen centimeters.

The dock has made changes to the modulator of matter and in five minutes the container was ready. Alex has taken the container, has opened a cover and has asked Irza to throw a ball on three. And itself has closely approached the line.

– One.

– Two.

– Rub!

Irza has thrown a ball. Alex has stopped time. Everything has stood. Alex has seen that "trifle" has stuck around a ball and were groundless not


ship and Tsy have orbited has told:

– I should talk to my brothers, I do not say goodbye, – and it has just disappeared.

Without it in the ship it became boring. Irza has told that she should fly home too and to make something. I have brought it home.

– I will contact you, – she has told, – I should be alone.

We have said goodbye and I have left.
Chapter 21

There has passed month, from Irza there were no messages, Tsy did not appear too. Too nobody looked for me. During this time Alex has recustomized a teleport. Our galaxy was rather flat. Alex just on the shortest way brought the ship out of a galaxy, on average on it left days five. Then he could create a portalparalyzer, in eyes has darkened, and I have fallen to a floor.

When I have recovered, have been strong attached in a chair. I was searched by both all my things, and a knife lay on a table.

– We cannot open a door in the bunker, – some person has told, – it very strong, it is necessary for me an hour more two.

– Act, – the healthy fellow has told, – and I will interrogate it so far. – It has approached a table and has attentively studied my things. Has taken my document, has inserted into the scanner, has read, then has begun to examine other things.

I have tried to release at least one hand, but they knew the business, have connected on conscience. I have heard


ability, to manage time. Therefore the plan has been thought up to track down their leader. We have told them that our scientists have created the device, control over time, and tests will happen here. They have pecked, but you have nearly broken all operation.

– Well, sorry, – Alex has told.
Chapter 22

The next morning Alex began to get ready for a trip. He has gone down in kitchen and began to cook coffee.

– You will prepare for me? – Irza has asked, on hands she held Tsy and stroked it. It has made coffee, has poured two mugs, has put on a table. They, silently, drank coffee, Alex perfectly understood everything and did not take offense.

– I have found a way to reach that solar system ina small lodge which stood separately from the settlement. We have gone for it. The lodge was small, a bed, a table and three chairs. On one of chairs Tsy sat. The old man has shown us on chairs, and itself has sat down on a bed. We have sat down and he has asked:

– What we will begin conversation with?

– My parents are living? – Irza has asked.

– Yes, we have lived five years here, they have a daughter and the son. When here the ship has appeared, they have moved to the continent. They are fine, they missed you, but I have told that with you everything will be as it should be and you should not worry, – the old man has begun to cough,


Masters, Volume 1 CD; the true mono version was not made available in CD format until 2009 as part of The Beatles in Mono boxed set compilation.

There is also another stereo version that sounds the same but with McCartney's count-in which appears on the CD EP box set. This stereo version with the count-in also appeared on a bonus stereo vinyl EP included with an earlier vinyl EP box set. The song is heard being played on a tape recorder underground during the Salisbury Plain scene in the movie Help!. In the UK, the first album release was on the 1978 compilation LP Rarities in mono in the box set The Beatles Collection and later released separately.

The band started including the song in their live shows in 1965.Youth Association of Turkey, the same group that roughed up three U.S. Navy sailors while chanting "Yankee, go home!" a week ago in Istanbul.

The protesters threw red paint at the sailors and briefly succeeded in putting white sacks over their heads. The servicemen, who were not hurt, were from the USS Ross, a guided-missile destroyer then docked on an inlet of the Bosphorus Strait in the Black Sea.

The new funding that Biden described at a news conference will help feed vulnerable people inside Syria; Syrian refugees in Turkey; and Syrian refugees in other neighboring countries. Turkey is now hosting an estimated 1.6 million refugees from Syria.

More than 190,000 Syrians from Kobani, a Syrian town near the border, fled to Turkey in recent weeks.


Originally written for David Noon’s Violence in US History class at the University of Alaska Southeast, December, 2015.

On March 30, 1867, the United States of America and Russia signed the Treaty of Cession, effectively ending the Russian occupation and beginning one with the United States, which made Alaska one of its territories, then finally the 49th state in 1959. In 2017, Alaska will celebrate its 150th year anniversary for the Treaty of Cession. Among the festivities, there will be renewed attention to the history of the “Alaskan purchase”, potentially cementing commonplace assumptions about how the US government acquired the land, such as the misconception that Alaska was outright “sold” by the Russians to the United States. The United States simply did not purchase the legal title to thesouthwestern coasts of Alaska, mainly for hunting and trading for furs, particularly the sea otter. These boundaries and rights were largely resolved miltarily, particularly with the Battles of Sitka in 1802 and 1804 (see Dauenhauer and Dauenhauer, 2008), and through regular diplomacy, though, of course, there were skirmishes and cross-cultural relations were often complicated and difficult. It was only a few years after the Treaty of Cession where the conception of a government-to-government relation was challenged, often with devastating consequences.


in New England. The 80-year-old racetrack ended live horse racing last October after its partner Mohegan Sun lost its bid to build a casino in Revere — a plan backers said would have given the ailing racetrack a boost.

On Saturday, more than 100 horses will take to the track for 13 scheduled races with high-stakes purses valued at $507,500. In addition to horse racing, the track will also host a food truck festival with live music and activities for kids, such as pony rides and face painting.

"The whole idea here was to create an event that everyone can enjoy," Lou Raffetto, Jr., who is managing the festival for Suffolk Downs, told WBUR's Newscast Unit. "It’s not about the gambling per se, it’s about enjoying a day out atBlack Spire III: A Twisted King

Black Spire Rising: A Summary

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Alice, Ace and Culgalath were clearing out some goblins on behalf of the Pathfinder Society of Stonehaven, when a horrible noise split the day, and an enormous pitch-black spire shot out of the ground in the midst of the city.

They hastily made their way towards their home, stopping at Elon’s Rest to meet some refugees and learn more of the situation. Creatures from the Underdark had traveled inside the spire, and a black cloud poured from the earth, darkening the sky. Within days, Stonehaven would be draped in eternal night. A few paladins were protecting more refugees to the east.

They met the paladin Sir Tristan, who died fighting back some blind


cave ogres that were pursuing the refugees. Killing the ogres, they saved his two apprentices and continued east, being ambushed in the night by a drow noble. Using the release of an enslaved earth elemental to cause chaos among a group of duergar slavers, they infiltrated the city and reached the Pathfinder Society headquarters. They learned by interrogating a duergar that a demon of some sort was behind the invasion and that a wizard named Ofec had somehow summoned it. The Mages’ Guild might know more. Unfortunately, the mages had established a protective barrier around their guild, allowing nothing to enter or leave.

Reaching the Mages’ Guild, they fought off a bulette led by a drow beastmistress. Saving some refugees from a gargoyle, they ran into a mysterious necromancerwho offered his aid in lowering the barrier. The necromancer was seeking his apprentice, who had stolen a precious stone and cast a curse on him that made him rot alive.

Agreeing to help him for now, the necromancer lowered the barrier and they entered the guild. They learned that Ofec had come there pretending to be a weak and incompetent wizard, and that he had brought an apprentice of his own: Ironcrow, the mongrel sorcerer. Questioning Ironcrow, they learned that Ofec had stolen the Chief-Stone, a powerful diamond with the blood of some abominable beast contained within. The necromancer was midway through using this stone as a phylactery. They convinced the Guild to release Ironcrow, because he claimed to be able to sense the stone’s presence.

Thereafter, they ventured


to a small church that had survived the destruction caused by the Spire. The church had been taken over by an Erinyes, a fallen angel, who was busy torturing two paladins inside. Rina, the last remaining paladin, was adamant about rescuing them. The party agreed to help her. They attacked the fallen angel and killed it, rescuing the paladins and returning to the Pathfinder headquarters. Ironcrow had, meanwhile, discerned the location of the stone – inside the Thieves’ Guild.

Holing up in the headquarter overnight, they were attacked three times – first by blind cave ogres, their cave elephant, and a hideous daemon, then by shadows, and then by a drider and some drow. They ventured out to the Thieves Guild in the morning, and learned that Ofec hadtaken over and made himself boss, by killing one of three leaders and kidnapping the brother of a prominent thug, blackmailing him to obey. By conspiring with King Rat, the leader of the halfling rogues, they distracted the thug and attacked Ofec, killing him.

Taking the stone, they returned to the surface. In the process of searching through the Guild, Culgalath put on a cursed belt that would transform him into an ogre. With no way to break the curse, they offered the stone to the necromancer in return for his aid. He broke the curse and disappeared, but not before they had learned his plan: To become a lich. In truth, he hadn’t been “cursed” with rotting – he was halfway through the ritual of lichdom, and his


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also sued to recover an undivided fourth part of another lot in the same square, sometimes designated as lot 20 and sometimes as lot 3. Entry and ouster were alleged to have taken place on March 22, 1889, and in another count on November 28, 1890. There were proper counts also for the recovery of mesne profits. The defendant pleaded not guilty. There was a verdict for the plaintiff for the possession of the property and for one cent damages. The defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals of the District, where the judgment was affirmed, and he comes here by writ of error.
On the trial the plaintiff endeavored to prove a record title to the lots, through various mesne conveyances from the original owners, and for thatpurpose gave evidence, under the objection of defendant, tending to explain the appearance of two sets of numbers on the map of square 939, on file in a public office of the District, one set being in ink and one set in pencil, and he claimed that the pencil were the correct numbers, in which case he contended his record title in fee was perfect. He also gave evidence tending to show a title by adverse possession for twenty years.
The defendant controverted these claims, but at the time he rested his case there was not the slightest evidence which tended to show title in himself or to connect himself in any way with the title. He put in evidence some deeds executed by certain individuals residing in England,


the evidence showed there had been a building on one of them, and after its sale to Ashley, the plaintiff's decedent, the house had been removed by Ashley's permission, and rent had been paid for it to him while it remained on the lot. It also appeared that for quite a long time the plaintiff and his grantors had rented, and collected the rent of the other lots for pasturing cattle thereon; they had authorized others to take sod therefrom, and pursuant to such authority sod had been taken from these lots by other persons, and although this had ceased about 1886, and the defendant did not enter until 1889 or 1890, yet the possession of the plaintiff was not in the mean time in any manner disturbedor interfered with, but continued as it had been, up to defendant's entry; taxes had been paid by him or his predecessors upon the lots, and in brief it appears that all that the nature of the case admitted in order to show actual and continuous possession and claim and acts of ownership had been proved and claimed in regard to the property by the plaintiff. Although the tenancy may have ceased and the sale of the sod concluded some time before defendant entered, yet the plaintiff had remained in the constructive possession, claiming full ownership of the premises, even since the tenancy, and up to the time of defendant's entry. There was an utter absence of any evidence of abandonment.
The contention of the defendant practically is that


premises in controversy, and the title to the locus in quo was, therefore, in the defendant, and he was entitled to a verdict and to retain the lands as within the boundaries of his grant; that the defendant was not a trespasser, but went into possession having title, and the plaintiff was not, therefore, entitled to recover upon proof of any prior possession other than an adverse possession for a period which would bar an entry, and no such possession was shown. The court held that the defendant was entitled to a judgment on the merits. In that case, as will be seen, the presumption of title arising from the prior possession by the plaintiff was overcome, and the defendant proved title in himself by virtue of thethe time of his death in 1825. Immediately after his death, his son, James D. Mitchell, his devisee, entered upon and possessed the land until his death in 1837. Immediately after his death, his widow Elizabeth, as devisee for life under his will, entered and possessed the land until her death in 1841. The plaintiff's lessor was the *69 sole sister of the whole blood of James D. Mitchell and his heir at law. The possession of the premises from 1817 to 1841, the time of the death of Elizabeth, was continuous, peaceable, exclusive, uninterrupted and adverse to all persons. The defendant was half brother of James D. Mitchell, and upon the death of Elizabeth entered on the land, declaring that it was his son's property, and that


no other brother or sister survived the said James D. Mitchell. The verdict was for the defendant. The plaintiff was never personally in possession of the premises, but was simply claiming under James D. Mitchell as his heir at law. The defendant was in possession at the time the plaintiff commenced his suit, holding for his son under a claim that his son was the heir at law of James D. Mitchell. He was not a mere trespasser or intruder within the meaning of the rule, but took possession on the death of the life tenant, ousting no one, and claiming title for his son as heir at law. The question then became one of superiority of title as between the two claimants, the defendant being in possession.
UponSunday, August 27, 2017

After twelve years of blogging, Booksteve's Library is calling it quits. You can read his final post here. I have enjoyed this and his other blogs. I've learned a lot about comic books, comic book artists and pop culture. Even though we've never met, he's shared personal stuff online and we've interacted online several times and I feel like I can call him a friend I just haven't met yet.

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Treasure Chest was a Catholic comic book produced from 1946 to 1972. Some top comic artists worked drew for the comic, including Graham Ingels, Murphy Anderson, Joe Sinnott and Reed Crandall. Here are three covers by Reed Crandall.

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Weighing in at four pounds and 328 pages, The Art of Joe Jusko


is a tribute to a wonderful artist and a template on how to do an "art of" book.

Jusko began his career in the late 1970's doing covers for Heavy Metal magazine and Marvel's black and white magazines. He has gone on to produce scores of magazine covers, comic book covers, trading cards and commercial art. Jusko produced what many consider iconic versions of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, Vampirella and many other fictional characters.

The book begins with a biographical essay by the artist. Then each chapter is divided up by subject matter. Chapters include: Fantasy, Science-Fiction, Horror, and Trading Cards just to name a few. Dozens of his covers are reproduced full page without the trade dress and logos. Also included are some preliminary drawings and a healthy helpingof unseen private commissions. What really makes this book, aside from the beautiful artwork, is the artist's running commentary on almost every piece. Jusko points what he believes works well in the paintings and sometimes things where he now feels he could of done better. He also provides technical details about his technique and tools he uses to achieve some of the effects in his paintings. The Art of Joe Jusko offers a fantastic treat for the eyes and great insight into his process and approach to art. He comes across as an artist who holds himself to very high standards and is constantly trying to learn and challenge himself. The only complaint about this book is the binding does not seem to be very solid and it


Monday, 28 March 2011

Armadillo and the politics of Le Semaine de la Critique

Le Semaine de la Critique makes for a rather unimpressive, secondary section at the Festival de Cannes. The films showcased in Le Semaine are meant to highlight young talent, but the selection usually turns out to be less exciting than Cannes’ other similar competitions for young film directors like Director's Fortnight or Un Certain Regard. Only very few films which are shown through Le Semaine receive international release and attention from outside of the festival and this fact alone is a huge indicator of the mediocre status of the competition and the films themselves. In spite of all this, it was very exciting to watch Armadillo – the first ever documentary to receive the Grand Prixat Le Semaine de la Critique. The film not only received attention from a multitude of international distributors but caused a political uproar in its native Denmark. It tells a story of a group of young soldiers landing in “Armadillo,” a military base in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. For many of the men it is the first time in combat and Janus Metz, the director of the film, turns their first war experience into an exploration of the male psyche and its primal desire for fight.

Aesthetically Armadillo can be easily grouped together with a canon of war documentaries that are a part of the very well-established subgenre of documentary film-making in America. At first glance Armadillo isn’t in any way different from Taxi to the Dark Side, No End


impulsiveness. That immaturity manifests itself later on as we see their superficial view of war. One of the characters while waiting for combat refers to experiencing war without killing as going to a theme park and missing all the fanfare. While waiting for a real life bloodbath the boys play video games in which they imagine their actions in the battlefield. They spend their days talking about warfare and almost day dreaming about killing the enemy.

Metz’s commitment to his story and the courage he demonstrates by marching into the battle with the soldiers is truly staggering. The camera follows the soldiers wherever they go so that the audience can understand the full scope of the situation the characters found themselves in and possibly make sense of the primalinstincts that overcome the soldiers when confronted with the enemy fire. Metz’s crew risk their own lives during the fight with the Taliban; they never release the camera from their hands. Thanks to that the film achieves a certain aesthetic artistry which resembles warfare video games. But even though the film looks beautiful and the sense of danger is poignantly translated on screen, it somehow feels disappointing. One gets the feeling that the director wants to achieve through his documentary something that was done in the Oscar winning film Hurt Locker, where the combat is presented as a force of nature. In Hurt Locker war is portrayed as a source of exceptional thrill and as such it appears dangerous and addictive. Armadillo flirts with a similar angle but


in the end Metz fails to deliver.

Instead, we see the characters of Armadillo running in pointless circles, wanting to find the bad guys without trying to understand the local community and their situation. The ignorance of the Danish is similar to the unawareness exemplified by the American soldiers in the aforementioned Restrepo. The soldiers see themselves as saviours; an attitude which has its source in their Christian identity highlighted at least a couple of times throughout the film. Armadillo rather unintentionally reveals that the war in Afghanistan is a defeat for the Westerners, definitely in cultural terms. But it is a defeat that Danes can only blame themselves for due to their own ignorance. There is a scene in which one of the soldiers tries to interact withonly a partial success – the film often forcefully fills the gaps between important events with meaningless conversations and the soldiers’ routines of day to day life. It works perfectly for a documentary about being a soldier, but fails for a film about human nature.


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The St. Johns Cultural Council accepts nominations for Recognizing Outstanding Women in the Arts Awards through Dec. 1. For information on application criteria, call 808-7330 or go to stjohnsculture.com.

Kimberly Beasley, JU assistant professor of voice, and Dr. Christine Sapienza, associate dean of the JU College of Helath Sciences, are among the featured speakers at the National Association of Teachers of Singing North Florida Chapter Symposium, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 19 at Jacksonville University, 2800 University Blvd. N., Arlington, 256-7389, natsnorthflorida.org.

A lunch-and-learntrip to be enjoyed yet an exciting one!

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Paris: The mix of romantic lights of the city and the Eiffel Tower made Paris the most visited city in the world.

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day. She doesn't beat around the bush, she doesn't sugar coat anything, and she raises awareness in adolescents about topics that they will likely face whether their parents want to believe they will or not. Her first book, Crank, along with it's successors, Glass and Fallout, chronicle the struggle her own daughter faced with meth addiction. Beautifully written in verse, these books delve deep into the horrors faced by not only the addict, but the countless people touched by association with her. It is an eye opening account, and one that SHOULD be read by all kids before graduating middle school. Hopkins's daughter wasn't a clichéd inner-city "tough case", exposed to the streets; she was a middle-class teen who, by chance, got involved with something she had noawareness of. Ellen Hopkins has done parents everywhere a SERVICE by writing these books, and I am utterly appalled that they would want them pulled from shelves. Yet, this is exactly what has happened in many middle and high school libraries with these books, as well as her others; parents and school officials consider them inappropriate. I consider them essential! They will be REQUIRED reading for my children in middle school.

As bad as the book banning is, what I find even more deplorable is the attacks on Ellen Hopkins as a person and writer. She has suffered serious backlash for tackling issues that should be tackled. In Oklahoma and Texas, Hopkins was actually banned from speaking to kids about her books and the issues represented, as if she


about tough subject matter. Her books will include things like bad language, sex, drug abuse, rape, incest, suicide, alcoholism, homosexuality, prostitution, and exploitation. They should still be books that parents encourage their children to read. My kids will read them in middle school. I only hope that in terms of some of these things, middle school is not too late.

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospitaldeemed these things "inappropriate"; they wanted this book removed. The most obnoxious of these cases was in 2008 when school officials at New Rochelle High School in New Rochelle, NY actually tore the "offensive" pages out of the school's copies of the book, then returning them to the students; all so that the students would not be exposed to this content while discussing the book in their (12th grade) English classes.

Censorship of books pisses me off, but this type of censorship makes my blood boil. What right do those officials have to desecrate the work of an author? Do they believe the author would have written those pages had she thought they were unimportant? Would they break the penis off of the statue "David" by Michelangelo because of


the nudity? Censorship is a bad enough, but actual destruction of the person's work is disgusting and unacceptable. Schools have a choice whether or not they want to teach a book; if they don't like the content, DON'T TEACH IT!

Later that year, after much media attention and public outrage over the matter, the school board announced that they disagreed with censorship and replaced the school's copies of this book with new copies that included the pages.

Review:

I thought this book was excellent! It is the riveting and poignant account of a girl who was institutionalized, at at the age of 18, fro mental illness. She talks about the year and a half she spent at McLean Hospital and the other young girls who shared this time with her. Whathow you can involve yourself in the fight against censorship. I will be featuring the following books/series:

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

When 17-year-old Jamie arrives on the idyllic New England island of Little Bly to work as a summer au pair, she is stunned to learn of the horror that precedes her. Seeking the truth surrounding a young couple's tragic deaths, Jamie discovers that she herself looks shockingly like the dead girl—and that she has a disturbing ability to sense the two ghosts. Why is Jamie's connection to the couple so intense? What really happened last summer at Little Bly? As the secrets of the house wrap tighter and tighter around her, Jamie must navigate the increasingly blurred divide between the worlds of the living and the dead. Brilliantly plotted,