of the Winding Way to attack the Sorcerer Supreme for rejecting her daughter. Dr. Strange is able to neutralize Margali, transforming her into an old gypsy woman. The woman is surprisingly thankful, revealing that the magicks she wielded had corrupted her and her family (especially her son Stefan, who became a child-killer before adopted son Kurt killed him).Roger Stern would unite the two doctors for the TRIUMPH AND TORMENT Graphic Novel.Definitely love the scene of Doom getting rid of Hauptmann.

One more beautiful thing to the list then: the scene of Dr. Doom pondering on Dr. Strange is a verbatim copy from the one in DR STRANGE #57.

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African Americans in the Civil War

Notes from presentation:

Civil War Facts /Numbers
• Approximately 180,000 African Americans comprising 163 units served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free African Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight.

• The most widely known battle fought by African Americans was the assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, by the 54th Massachusetts on July 18, 1863. The 54th volunteered to lead the assault on the strongly-fortified Confederate positions.

• Although Black soldiers proved themselves as reputable soldiers, discrimination in pay and other areas remained widespread. According to the Militia Act of 1862, soldiers of African descent were to receive $10.00 a month, plus a clothing allowance of $3.50. Many regiments


slaves, in return for the official recognition of the Confederacy by Britain and France. France showed interest but Britain refused.

• By the time of the Confederate surrender in 1865, there were more African Americans in the Union army than there were soldiers in the Confederate army.

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A fight involving several Penn State football players in April 2007 left Britt bruised, bewildered and critical of a judicial system he says allows players to escape serious punishment.

Yet prosecutors and police officers insist that wearing a blue and white jersey on the field does not score points in the courtroom.

"It doesn't change the way cases are handled in this office," said Michael Madeira, district attorney in Centre County, the home of Penn State's main campus in State College.

Since 2002, 46 Penn State football players have faced 163 criminal charges, according to an ESPN analysis of Pennsylvania court records and reports. Twenty-seven players have been convicted of or have pleaded guilty


to a combined 45 counts.

Most recently, former wide receiver Chris Bell pleaded guilty July 22 to making terroristic threats for an April incident in which he pulled a knife on a teammate in a university dining hall.

These criminal charges coincide with concerns from a former player, a recruiting analyst, local media and others that Penn State has pursued recruits who are good athletes but might have questionable character issues, in order to improve performance. The team under head coach Joe Paterno faced an unprecedented four out of five losing seasons from 2000 to 2004.

Paterno says the allegations about recruiting are simply not true.

"We tried to get kids that were good, solid kids," the coach said. "We may have made a mistake or two, but there was no deliberatethe mix and are magnified."

Fans and students pay more attention to student athletes and rightfully hold them to a higher standard, Keirans said. "The student athlete is supposed to be a model for the university." And many are, he said. "In some cases, they do have a few minor indiscretions."

One of the more extreme incidents was the April 2007 melee at the apartment, in which Britt was injured. Originally, six players faced nine felonies and 18 lesser charges. The courts dismissed counts against four players and allowed the remaining two to plead guilty to misdemeanor offenses.

Two other students also faced charges. The courts dismissed a harassment charge against one student after he completed community service and found another student guilty of criminal mischief after he missed his hearing.

According


defense attorney who represented three of the players, Jerome Hayes, Justin King and Scirrotto. Charges against King and Hayes were dropped, and Scirrotto pleaded guilty to trespassing. Scirrotto insisted he never hit anyone in the apartment.

McGlaughlin said there simply wasn't enough evidence to prove otherwise, including allegations that Scirrotto conspired to gather his teammates to ambush the apartment.

But Britt, who was not charged in the incident, still insists the defendants got off easy simply because they're football players. He says he has friends who have received harsher punishments for less serious crimes such as underage drinking.

"If you're not a football player, you don't matter," he said.

The case also angers Britt's father, Sgt. William Britt, a 30-year law enforcement veteran who supervises detectives in the Philadelphia Police Department's homiciderevelation anew. For the truth has not been fixed; it has not been made positive once and for all in some well-circumscribed set of statements. This cabalist conception was later radicalized again. Now even the written Torah is considered a problematic translation of the divine word into the language of human beings — as a mere, that is, a disputable, interpretation. _Everything_ is oral Torah, no syllable is authentic, transmitted, as it were, in archewriting. The Torah of the Tree of Knowledge is a concealed Torah from the beginning. It keeps changing its clothes permanently, and these clothes _are_ the tradition.

Gershom Scholem reports on discussions enkindled by the question of whether all ten commandments were transmitted by Moses to the people of Israel unadulterated. Some Cabalists were of


subjective purpose. To be sure, Heidegger and Bataille have in mind the same tendencies by which objectifying thought and purposive-rational action unleash their historical power; but the critique that is supposed to go to the roots of the malaise takes a different tack in each: Heidegger's procedure of critique of metaphysics digs into the frozen ground of transcendental subjectivity in order to lay bare the true foundations of an origin set temporally aflow; in contrast, Bataille's approach of moral critique is concerned not with discovering still deeper _foundations_ of subjectivity, but with _unbounding_ it —. with the form of expression that leads the monadically self-encapsulated subject back again into the intimacy of a life-context that has become alien, confined, cut off, and fragmented. For Bataille, a completely differentand nuclear destruction.

Bataille adduces speculations about equilibrium in the energy ecology of the cosmos and of the world society to support his expectation that total reification must turn into a resurrection of pure sovereign power. For the universe of a laboring society will increase the unabsorbed surpluses so immensely that the staging of orgies of waste and expenditures in the grand style will become inevitable — whether in the form of predictable catastrophes or precisely in the form of a libertarian society that frees its wealth for sovereign waste, that is, for excesses, for the self-transcendence of the subject, for the un-bounding of subjectivity in general.

I do not need to go into the details of this metaphysical (in a pejorative sense) world view, which is presented in the


they remain undifferentiated in their results. The criteria according to which Hegel and Marx, and even Max Weber and Lukacs, distinguished between emancipatory-reconciling aspects of social rationalization and repressive-alienating aspects have been blunted. In the meantime, critique has taken hold of and demolished the sorts of concepts by which those aspects could be distinguished from one another so that their paradoxical entanglement became visible. Enlightenment and manipulation, the conscious and the unconscious, forces of production and forces of destruction, expressive self-realization and repressive desublimation, effects that ensure freedom and those that remove it, truth and ideology — now all these moments flow into one another. They are not linked to one another as, say, conflicting elements in a disastrous functional context — unwilling accomplices in a contradictory processMonday, April 23, 2012

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Toddler shoots person to death on orders of South Carolina man, cops say

Albert Davis is charged with murder, possession of a stolen handgun and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
(Aiken County, S.C., detention center)

A 3-year-old boy shot a man to death Tuesday after he was given a gun and ordered to chase the victim around the yard of a home, South Carolina cops said.

Albert Davis, 31, was charged with murder in the death of Timothy Johnson, 24, after officials say Davis gave the murder weapon to the toddler, Aiken County Sheriff's Sgt. Stephen Shunn said.

Davis was also charged with possession of a stolen handgun and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, authorities said.

Shunn told the Associated Press that deputies were still investigating why Davis gave the""The first revolution, and the counter-revolutionary period which followed it (1907-1914) laid bare the true nature of the czarist monarchy, pushed it to its limits, and exposed the rottenness, the corruption, the cynicism and the debauchery among the Czar's followers," "with the monstrous Rasputin leading the pack..."" "V.I. Lenin "Letters from Exile"" "MOSFILM" "Second Artists' Association" "Russia" "The Russian Empire is a vast territory straddling Europe and Asia." "A land of 170 million inhabitants, the largest monarchy in the world." "An agricultural country, with industry only moderately developed." "A country of great poets, writers, thinkers, and revolutionaries." "A country where two-thirds of the population is illiterate." "A country of enormous social contrasts, where bureaucracy and censorship are omnipresent, where the authorities stifle human rights." "The First World War


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"In 1894, he married the German Princess Alix of Hesse, who became the Czarina Alexandra Fyodorovna." "Nicholas II succeeded to the throne in 1894." "The coronation festivities were marred by the Khodynka, a bloody trampling on people in Khodynka meadow in Moscow." "In the course of its 300-year history, the Romanov dynasty had survived many upheavals:" "the peasant insurrections led by Razin and Pugachev, the Decembrist uprising, the Narodnaya Volya movement, and the revolution of 1905." "However, never before had the future looked so ominous for the royal family." "Nothing short of a miracle could save the situation." "I. F. Manassevitch-Manouilov" ""Manouilo", "Vanka Cain", journalist" "I.L. Goremykin, Prime Minister" "A.A. Vyrubova, friend of the Imperial family" "You think there's no way the project can go through?" "It was"Mixed-up in brawls and scandals, involved in illegal assemblies of a sect called "The Flagellants"." "Twice convicted and sentenced to be whipped." "At the age of 27, suddenly became an itinerant preacher, calling himself the "Holy Starets"." "Visited many monasteries in Siberia and Central Russia and made pilgrimages to Mount Athos and Jerusalem." "By the turn of the century, rumors about the Siberian prophet and faith-healer reached the capital, and he soon appeared there himself." "He was welcomed into the salons of the aristocracy, and it wasn't long before he was received at the Imperial palace." "Within a short time, Rasputin acquired tremendous influence." "In the past, numerous prophets, clairvoyants, hypnotists, healers, believers in the occult, all had their place in court circles." "They usually turned up in


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Why is the government of India probing Dr Zakir Naik for connection with terrorism after 26 years?

According to Dr Zakir Naik's biography, he started his preaching and founded IRF in 1991.
Even though numerous terrorist incidents took place in India and Bangladesh during the last 26 years, nothing happened during all these years. I.e. even though he was regularly criticized, no one ever linked him with terrorism.
What happened suddenly?
Why has Indian government started a probe against him after 26 years even though he was doing his job as he was doing 26 years ago?

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Because the current right wing government wants to stop conversions. Since no substantial evidence could be gathered linking him to terrorist organisations the govt made up a case of foreign donations against him.


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GARDAI have been urged to crackdown on heroin addicts ‘shooting up’ near schools after a Cork boy was jabbed by a hypodermic needle thrown into a school play area.

The five year old, a student at the North Presentation national school on Cork’s northside, jabbed his finger and the needle broke his skin.

He was immediately taken for medical assessment to the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) by school staff.

He was treated at MUH and a full range of blood tests were taken to ensure the boy wasn’t contaminated with anything from the needle.

However, his parents now face an agonising wait of up to eight weeks for some of the test results.

They are said to be “very upset” overFrom Indiainfoline.com: On the investment front, India sits behind only Singapore and Poland in terms of growth in transaction activity when compared to the previous quarter. Despite investor enthusiasm, India continues to lag behind China on several forward looking indicators such as rental and capital value expectations, predominantly due to less supply constraints.
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The Committee on Problem-Based Learning Discussions (PBLD) invites submissions for the ANESTHESIOLOGY™ 2014 annual meeting PBLD program planned for New Orleans. In San Francisco this past October, 85 cases were scheduled for two presentations, and nearly all sessions sold out. Each case was presented twice to maximize the opportunity for attendees to participate. There was lively debate and discussion at the tables. For 2014, the committee will again continue the open-call process. Submissions in each of the meeting tracks are being solicited, including ambulatory anesthesia, cardiac anesthesia, critical care medicine, fundamentals of anesthesia, neuroanesthesia, obstetric anesthesia, pain medicine, pediatric anesthesia, regional anesthesia and professional issues. Submitted cases should only have one moderator who must be at the faculty or attending level. Last year, for the first time, fellowstheir common ground, and the structure of society as given and immutable. And, like them, they articulated differences of interest and opinion within one and the same class, not a division between classes.

What the nineteenth-century ethnographers were disposed to refer to as the 'democratic republics' of Kabylia were based on very different principles from the democratic republics of the world of nation-states. It is in part for this reason that the nineteenth-century view of the matter was abandoned by Bourdieu and others. Kabyle political organisation was not based on the philosophy of the Rights of Man, or the abstract democratic principle of universal suffrage, or even universal adult male suffrage. In addition to women (who were answered for by their menfolk), two categories of the population were excluded


is, the primitive politics of kinship antagonisms – and the large, complex, thaddarth of the Igawawen would have been ungovernable and would not exist. And the political history of modern Algeria would be other than it is.

But while the 'arsh level was, arguably, the crucial level for the constitution of saff divisions, these divisions also existed at levels beyond the 'arsh.

### The saff systems

As we have seen, Hanoteau and Letourneux reported that the range of a saff extended 'to the confederation and even to outside tribes, in a vast radius.' The failure of subsequent writers to pay attention to this observation is not the least remarkable aspect of the literature on Kabylia over the last 140 years.

The confederation, thaqbilth, does not seem to have been an important level'aarsh to the east and south-east of the Ath Fraoucen with which the Iboukhtouchen were connected, notably the Ath Bou Chaïb and the Ath Ghoubri. It is likely that Ou Boukhettouch finally decided to lead the Ath Fraoucen and their allies into emulating the Ath Irathen and Ath Bethroun as a way of mobilising the largest possible alliance to support his siding with the anti-Ottoman rebellion in maritime Kabylia. The following year, 1754, the Bey Mohammed finally attacked the Ath Irathen, beginning – rather pointedly, one might think – with the village of Adeni. His troops had taken a number of villages when the Bey himself suddenly fell dead, shot, apparently by one of his own soldiers; his troops, demoralised, abandoned the attack and withdrew.

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Refugees facing deportation in Europe have extra protections because they must be tried inside their country of residence and also in the European Court of Human Rights, Hing said. According to U.S. law, refugees must apply to change their status to ‘legal permanent resident’ after residing in the country for oneThe Black Order: a community friendly mercenary organization set in Canada. The members: sexy, impeccably dressed killers who can accomplish almost anything in exchange for the appropriate payment. Which is why you said yes to an assignment from the Vongola (worth 150 million dollars!) Oh, and there's the fact that Tall, Dark and Snarky is tagging along.

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Welcome to Chasm, an action adventure game in which you play a new recruit undertaking your first mission for the Guildean Kingdom. Thrilled to prove your worth as a knight, you track strange rumors that a mine vital to the war effort has been shut down. But what you discover in the mining town is worse than you imagined: The townspeople have begun to disappear, kidnapped by supernatural creatures emerging from the depths. Honor-bound to solve the mystery and restore peace to the Kingdom, you embark upon an epic adventure, with deadly battles against cunning monsters, exploration of ancient catacombs and castles, and powerful new equipment hidden at everychampionship," Riverton swim club coach Rod Settlemire said. .

"The Riverton team is still a young club," Settlemire said. "We don't have a lot of depth right now, but the talent in the up-and-coming swimmers is looking really good."

Stettlemire said Lander is one of the top programs in the state.

"There are quite a few veteran teams that did well and Lander is always a super strong competitor," Settlemire said.

The winter season starts in early September and lasts until the Winter State Championship in early March.

"The Riverton swim club has a vision to be able to produce a swimmer for the middle school and high school swim team that is an asset and a true competitor," Settlemire said.

"Each swimmer will be proficient in the four strokes (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and


freestyle) so that the coaches will have a swimmer in any event or any distance."

The summer season will begin in April and continue through the end of July.

"Attendance typically drops a little, so there are more opportunities for new swimmers to join the team," Settlemire said. "To do well in swimming, it takes more than a few months. It easily turns into a lifelong sport."

The youngest swimmer on the Riverton team is 4, and the oldest is nearing 40.

"We have a huge range of ages and abilities," Settlemire said.

The largest group of swimmers in the club is 9-10 years old.

"We are hoping to convince more high school swimmers to join the team," Settlemire said. "The are conditioned physically and mentally, so we can become more competitive with Gilletteand Cheyenne."

Conference meet

Riverton brought 32 swimmers to Worland Saturday and Sunday and ended in fourth in the team standings.

"I'm very proud of all our swimmers and had a great time watching some of them compete for the first time," Settlemire said.

"We are so close to the end of the season, and everyone gave their best effort. Worland seems to have a fast pool, so it was great to swim there."

Jordan Settlemire earned five firsts and scored an additional five second-place positions in the 15-and-over women's division.


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Midland moved to new offices and by March, 1969, it was apparent to the bank that these securities were missing. Meanwhile in February of 1969, the defendant had left the employment of the bank.
The bonds next appeared in September, 1972, when defendant pledged them as collateral for a loan which he obtained at Bankers Trust, a Poughkeepsie, New York, bank, of which a personal *1208 friend was the president. In August, 1973, the defendant was able to pay back his loan in the New York bank by obtaining a loan at the Lancaster branch of the Farmers National Bank, Lititz, Pennsylvania. The defendant pledged the same securities as collateral for this loan, and instructed the New York bank to mail them to the Pennsylvania bank. In June, 1974,the defendant decided to cash the bonds, and instructed the bank in Lancaster to sell them. Once the securities were sent back to the original underwriters[1] it was discovered that they had been stolen. The Farmers Bank, upon notification of the status of the bonds, contacted the defendant in the hope that he might offer some explanation. The defendant was unable to do so, and the bank thereupon requested the FBI to investigate the matter.
In August, 1974, Special Agent Patrick A. Philbin of the FBI interviewed Mr. Troback. Mr. Troback admitted that he had been the trust officer at the Paramus bank from which the bonds were stolen, said that he knew who had taken the bonds from the bank, but refused to reveal that person's identity. He


also said that he could not be prosecuted because the five year federal statute of limitations had expired the prior year. He then related that the bonds were part of his mother-in-law's estate, although he did not explain the manner in which she came into their possession. Finally, he told Agent Philbin that he could not be prosecuted for having made a false statement to the FBI, which had investigated the theft of the bonds in 1969, because he had not been under oath on that occasion as required by a recent Supreme Court decision.
At trial, defendant took the witness stand in his own behalf, and testified that he had worked at the Midland Bank and Trust Company, Paramus, New Jersey, from March 11, 1968, until February 28,1969. He denied ever having seen the bonds in question or having them in his possession until a few days after his mother-in-law's death on February 15, 1971. According to Mr. Troback, he and Mrs. Troback went to the apartment where her mother had lived alone in order to make the necessary arrangements to clean it out. His wife found the bonds in a cabinet in that apartment.
Mrs. Troback's mother, Margaret Shirk, had been a widow since 1958. Prior to her husband's death, she had spent many years in a mental hospital, and when he died her total assets were approximately $35,000. Thereafter, her only income was from a small veteran's pension and social security. Mrs. Shirk was not sophisticated in financial affairs, and had resisted Mr. Troback's


suggestions that she purchase securities after her husband's death. She had had only two contacts with the Midland Bank and Trust Company. On one occasion, Mrs. Troback and her mother stopped to see Mr. Troback while they were on a shopping trip. The only other contact was when Lee Morrill, one of Mr. Troback's fellow employees, stopped at the Troback apartment when he and the defendant were on their way to a social event. Mr. Morrill talked with Mrs. Shirk for approximately 15 minutes and was surprised at how well she could converse in view of the fact that she was totally deaf.
As previously stated, according to Mr. Troback,[2] these negotiable bonds were found in Mrs. Shirk's apartment after her death. In her safety deposit box, however, therewere nonnegotiable shares of stock and some cash. Mrs. Troback became the administratrix of her mother's estate, applying for letters of administration on March 8, 1971, approximately *1209 three weeks after Mrs. Shirk died. Subsequent papers filed in connection with the estate made no reference to the stolen bonds or their value, and no inheritance tax was paid on them.
Since Mr. Troback admitted that the bonds were stolen and that his various loan transactions and attempted sale had caused them to be transported from Pennsylvania to New York and from New York to Pennsylvania, the only real issue before the jury was whether or not he knew these securities were stolen at the time these events took place. By its verdict, the jury concluded that he did.
Defendant's first


contention is that certain testimony violated his constitutionally protected right to remain silent and was so prejudicial that a mistrial should have been granted despite cautionary instructions to the jury. The matter arose in this way: J. H. Geisenberger, Jr., Esquire, testified that he represented the Farmers' First National Bank, Lititz, the bank which at Mr. Troback's direction had sold the bonds. The bank's account was charged by its correspondent bank, however, when the bond coupons were presented to the underwriters for payment because the bonds had been replaced and the interest had already been paid. As a result, the possibility that the bonds had been stolen became known to the bank and Mr. Geisenberger, as the bank's solicitor, was asked to call defendant to discuss the matterAs such, my granting of the jury's request was not erroneous.
Defendant also complains that I permitted one of the prosecution's witnesses, H. E. Johannsen, to testify as to possibilities rather than as to facts. Mr. Johannsen had been employed by the Paramus bank during the year that *1212 Mr. Troback was also there. Johannsen was responsible for the safekeeping of certain bank securities, including the bonds referred to in this case. These bonds were received by the president of the bank on three separate dates: February 19, March 20, and April 11, 1968. Mr. Troback's employment began on March 11, 1968. Mr. Johannsen testified that by reason of the securities' physical location, and the fact that they were not under lock and key at all times, in the


ordinary course of business he was not the only person in the bank who could have had access to them. On cross-examination, defense counsel brought out the fact that Mr. Troback could not have had access to the first bonds received since he was not employed at the bank when they were delivered. The matter about which Johannsen testified in the terms of possibilities dealt with the time the securities had been placed with him. He stated that he simply did not know whether they were delivered in three instalments, as each was received at the bank, or whether they were accumulated by the bank's president and then handed to him sometime after April 11, 1968. His testimony was not speculative or based upon facts not in evidenceChase CEO says 'stupid things were done by American banks,' as bankers lose Davos clout Jeremy Gantz

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Print This Email This JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon is telling a world grappling with the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression what it wants to hear:

I take full blame for all the American banks and all the things they did, Dimon said during a panel on leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Thursday.

Dimon, whose company received $25 billion from last October's federal "bailout" legislation, said he knows that's what people would like to hear, Bloomberg reported. God knows, some really stupid things were done by American banks, Dimon said Thursday.

But the 52-year-old banker, who oversaw his company's acquisition of failing U.S.


banks Washington Mutual and Bear Sterns last year, also wondered where Washington's policy makers were while U.S. banks were laying groundwork for the ongoing meltdown.

"Where were they? They approved all these banks, Dimon said.

Dimon was the only head of a major U.S. financial institution to attend the annual conference this year, according to Bloomberg. That's a break from Davos tradition: in the past, the world's elite business leaders dispensed economic wisdom while political leaders often remained in the background.

"The number of VIP politicians is huge, and it's a lot less bankers this year," said Rainer Ohler, senior vice president of Airbus SA. "What you are missing really is the top shots in banking."

Heads of state, now doing their best to hold the world economy together, have taken centeryou became a fan of Akshay Kumar after watching his action-packed Khiladi movies, it was because of Ved Prakash Sharma on whose books the movies were based on. He also wrote the screenplay of International Khiladi.

Ved Prakash Sharma in Meerut (Photo: The Indian Express/Ravi Kanojia)

Sharma started ghostwriting and it was only after he had penned 23 novels that he got credit as a writer for the novel Dahekte Shaher in the year 1973. He was known for writing detective and investigative novels which would feature lead characters on the lines of Sherlock Holmes who would solve peculiar criminal cases. In his career spanning over 40 years, he wrote around 176 novels as well as many Bollywood screenplays. Some of his record-breaking novels include Qaidi No 100, Vardi Wala


Staphylococcus aureus is a facultative anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium discovered by Dr. Alexander Ogston in 1880. Literature reports suggest that about 30% to 50% of the population has been carriers of S. aureus at one time in their lives and about 20% are long-term carriers. S. aureus is widespread in the environment and has become one of the most commonly isolated pathogens in hospital-acquired infections. Moreover, S. aureus can cause numerous illnesses, from minor skin infections to life-threatening diseases, such as abscesses, pneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, and septicemia. According to reports of the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, S. aureus infects 500,000 people yearly in America, more than 94,000 of which are cases of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant S. aureus infections.
Bacterial culture and metabolic tests are1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to a fluid-filled elastic mount used as a vibration damper such as an engine mount for a motor vehicle, and more particularly to such a fluid-filled elastic mount having a fluid chamber partially defined by an oscillating plate which is actuated by an electromagnetic drive device so as to electrically control the damping characteristics of the mount.
2. Discussion of the Prior Art
As a vibration damper such as an engine mount or a suspension bushing for a motor vehicle, for flexibly connecting two members in a vibration system or mounting one of the two members on the other member in a vibration damping fashion, there is known an elastic mount of bushing type interposed between the two members of the


vibration system. The bushing type elastic mount has an elastic body interposed between an inner and an outer sleeve, which are radially spaced apart from each other. The inner and outer sleeves are elastically connected by the elastic body and are fixed to one and the other of the two members of the vibration system.
Keeping pace with recent tendency of upgrading motor vehicles, such elastic mounts of modern vintage for motor vehicles are increasingly required to exhibit improved damping characteristics over a wide frequency range of the vibrations to be damped, and various attempts have been made to develop elastic mounts which meet such a requirement.
In view of the above requirement, there have been proposed various fluid-filled elastic mounts of non-bushing type wherein a first and a secondMEPs from across the political divide have joined forces in condemning Commission gun law proposals as "unworkable."

MEPs from across the political divide have joined forces in condemning Commission gun law proposals as "unworkable." Photo credit: PA

The proposals were brought forward in the wake of last November's Paris terrorist attacks.

A meeting on Tuesday of Parliament's internal market and consumer protection (IMCO) committee debated a raft of "compromise" proposals put forward by UK Tory MEP Vicky Ford.

Her proposals, which were generally welcomed by committee members, are designed to pave the way for formal negotiations to start on the draft legislation between Parliament, the Commission and member states.

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Before that, the committee will vote next month on the compromise package.

Over 900 amendments to the Commission text have been put forward, including


member Roberta Metsola, who said that despite the "global phenomenon" of terrorism, Parliament had to avoid a "knee-jerk" reaction to recent terrorist atrocities.

"We have to ensure that people like shooters and hunters do not become targets themselves," she told the committee.

Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, EPP group shadow rapporteur on the firearms dossier, agreed that while there was a need to "modernise" current gun laws, it was also important not to add "additional administrative burdens" on legal firearms holders.

Italian Socialist group member Sergio Cofferati also believed it was "crucial" to have medical checks on people seeking to own a firearm in order to ensure "they do not end up in the wrong hands."

Dita Charanzová, an ALDE group member from the Czech Republic, described the Commission proposals as "far fromperfect", partly as she fears it may result in "massive" restrictions, particularly in ownership of semi-automatic weapons.

She said, "In finalising our position we need to strike the right balance between security concerns and the rights of gun owners."

Further comment came from Pascal Durand, a French Greens/EFA group deputy, who said the file was "one of the most sensitive" in the current parliamentary term.

He branded the commission proposals to update firearms legislation as "inadequate", saying there was also a need to make "efficient checks" on long-distance firearms sales.

A representative of the Dutch EU Council presidency told the meeting that he believes the agreement brokered last Friday with member states represented a "balanced approach" and called on Parliament to adopt its position on the draft law.

The aim, he said, was


uncoerced, and not based on anything outside himself. But it was also a decision that was with full knowledge of the response and which respected the free choice of the person to whom he decided to propose. This is analogous to what the moderate Calvinists believe about God's unconditional election.

Note here that Jim's election was done according to his foreknowledge, that he determined, but she freely chose. She was not compelled, it was freely Joan's decision to accept. Jim also freely chose, soverignly chose. Yet he did not make his choice a violation of the one he chose. He did not force himself on her. He also did not choose that Betty would remain unmarried. It was not his choice, it was hers.

This view may be complicated towrap your head around based on one short story, but note this: It lines up, I would say perfectly, with all election passages - including that God does not will that any will perish but desires all to come to repentance. Jim didn't will that Betty would be alone, she wouldn't accept him so she willed that she would be alone. Also - for those God foreknew he also predestined.... Jim foreknew Joan would accept, so he chose her - she wouldn't have been able to marry Jim if Jim didn't ask her. She was reluctant at first and he had to pursue her. She was not seeking him, he was seeking her. Sound familiar?

I find rest in my thinking, a removal of needless tension in the Scriptures,


At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.

After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing thatmore hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.

And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.

As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.

I loved how the book began with the story of Morozko (The Lord of Winter) being told to the children in their home. I felt like it set the tone for the rest of the book.

Six years after the death of


they have capacity during their peak seasons—and especially during new product release dates.

Fried: Forwarders continue to provide creative solutions to even the most complex logistical challenges because they are not bound to one system for transporting cargo. Shippers and their forwarding partners must work closely together in anticipating future needs in order for capacity to meet requirements in response to any demand presented. Indeed, flexibility and creativity are the cornerstones of forwarding success in assisting shippers to execute their business plans.

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Patrick Burnson is executive editor for Logistics Management and Supply Chain Management Review magazines and web sites. Patrick is a widely-published writer and editor who has spent most of his career covering international trade, global logistics, and supply chain management. HeChinese Medicine Times : Keeping You Informed

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Chinese doctors have used pulse diagnosis as one of their four main methods of diagnosis for at least 2,000 years. Even to this day, this art is integral to the correct identification of traditional Chinese medical patterns of disharmony. Although most practitioners of acupuncture and Oriental medicine give lip service to the importance of the pulse in their practice, few practitioners in the West feel really competent in this art.

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never seen a gingerbread car. It looks great. It looks like somebody put a gum wrapper on the top of the car—I think that's supposed to be skis. Oh, the other one's still on the ski jump. See at the foot of the ski jump the pair of red candies? Those are the feet of a marshmallow person who went headfirst into the snow. Aww, pity.

Here's Russell’s. He also went with a normal house, but he was a bit more ambitious with a large sloped roof. The roof was sliding off, so he had to put marshmallow column to hold it up. He lined the edges of the roof with peanut butter-flavored chocolate chips. He did the same thing that Stephanie did with the colored sprinkles on theentire day to playing these board games. At first, he had us vote on which game to play. I voted for Scattergories, but the class was so divided that we all just decided to have both games play at once. So I played Scattergories with Alex, Aaron, and some other girl sorry I don't remember your name. Alex was really good. Aaron had never played, and I wasn't doing too badly. We played three games. I had 15 points, Aaron had 16, and Alex had 19. The girl had 10. Then we decided to play another three games, and Audrey joined us. She was awesome; she filled in nearly every blank, and even though we ran out of time and didn't get to total our scores for the


took our final early in Walking class. Phew... I was tired after that. We walked down the back road to the Meadowdale Beach, then walked up the Meadowdale Beach Trail, and back to school. It was about 4.5 miles, and when it wasn't uphill, it was steep downhill with slippery leaves.

Tuesday night, I made two dozen no-bake cookies for Christmas presents for my friends. Steffi helped me wrap them, and I gave them to some of the friends I saw yesterday and earlier today. I also made some math-themed badges for Mr. Worster. He really seemed to like them. He wore three of them during class. Audrey liked them, and asked where he got them. He said, "Well, um, Brandon gave them to me!" I'll post some ofBushton. However, it's about a 5-hour drive from our hotel. So we woke up really early and ate in the breakfast room in the hotel. Then we got in the van and just drove west. We stopped at a McDonald's about halfway there at 10:40 AM to get lunch. Guess what. They were still serving breakfast. Aww, I wanted a Quarter Pounder with Cheese. So I got a Sausage Biscuit with Egg instead.

The funeral was in a small town in the middle of nowhere. It was cold and windy. I thought they were going to lower the casket into the ground, but Shelly said that would be too hard for people to watch. Then we went to Oteka's house—she's Grandpa's sister-in-law. We had lunch. While all the grown-ups


AboutHeart

Heart is a rock band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, USA in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.Mr and Mrs Jones didn't attend court during Ahmed Hassan's trial and weren't there to see Ahmed Hassan convicted. dailymail.Why did Police visit the Jones's 'a few times a week' during the month before the attack? dailymail.

Ahmed Hassan is accused of placing a bomb on a London tube train, in September 2017.

In March 2018, Ahmed Hassan, or his body-double, has told the court in London that he assembled the bomb while he was bored and depressed, but claimed he made it carefully so that it would burn rather than explode.

Above, we see the original Marc Dutroux, the child kidnapper who is suspected of having worked for the security services.Note the concave nose.

Above, we see the 'Marc Dutroux' who is apparently held in prison.

Note the convex nose.

Above we see


Ahmed Hassan, or his body-double, on a train to Brighton after the attack

Above we see 'Ahmed Hassan' after the attack. He is wearing a blue cap and a Chelsea shirt.

Ahmed Hassan, or his double, in Asda, before the attack.

On 9 March 2018, we read that 'Ahmed Hassan', or his body-double, has allegedly admitted to making the Parsons Green bomb, and leaving it on the train.

Yet, were also told that Hassan denies all charges against him. "Ahmed Hassan said he was homeless and on his way to Holland when he was arrested in Dover, 24 hours after the attack.

"Officers who searched Hassan's Sunbury (London) foster home found traces of the explosive in the

kitchen sink and around the hob, the court heard."

Above, we see the carriage where the bomb wentoff. The carriage looks undamaged.

Ahmed Hassan, or his body-double.

What is the evidence against Ahmed Hassan, 18, accused of the Parsons Green London Tube event, of 15 September 2017?1. At the age of 15, he escaped from the clutches of ISIS in Iraq and came to the UK.He feared that ISIS would kill his family.dailymail .

(It should be noted that ISIS Is a US-Israeli Creation)2. At a charity-run shelter, he was allegedly seen by staff looking at a video which featured an ISIS flag.

3. At Brooklands college, where he studied media, Ahmed Hassan allegedly made a film, as part of his course, showing a mobile phone being destroyed.He was given a 'Student of the Year' award at Brooklands College.

City of London Police Assistant Commissioner Alistair Sutherland, in Israel, early


September 2017.4. Ahmed Hassan allegedly ordered a five-litre bottle of hydrogen peroxide and sulphuric acid from Amazon.

Allegedly he was seen on CCTV in an Asda supermarket shopping for batteries and a screwdriver.

Allegedly, he was seen on CCTV buying drill bits from an Aldi store Yet, there is no video of Ahmed Hassan on the tube train.

This bulky person above is supposed to be Ahmed, carrying his bomb. It could be his body-double.
Ahmed was in police custody two weeks before the attack.

Police visited Ahmed's foster home 'a few times a week' during the month before the attack.

"Stephen Griffiths, 28, who lives opposite the 'lovely couple', said the police visited 'multiple times over the span of about a month - a few times a week', and believes their house mayhave been under surveillance.

He said: 'They started off as normally dressed cops, then moved up in the police ranks, wearing black uniforms in an undercover car. They used to speak to Penny and Ron on the doorstep, but the last couple of times they went in the house.

Ahmed was being fostered by a couple, Penny and Ronald Jones, living in Sunbury.

Serena Barber, 47, who has known Penny and Ronald all her life and lives in a property backing on to theirs, said: 'I know about two weeks ago he (Ahmed) was arrested by police at Parsons Green, for what I don't know and returned back to Penny and Ron.'

Police visited Ahmed's foster home 'a few times a week' during the month before the attack.

"Stephen Griffiths, 28, who lives


opposite the 'lovely couple', said the police visited 'multiple times over the span of about a month - a few times a week', and believes their house may have been under surveillance.

He said: 'They started off as normally dressed cops, then moved up in the police ranks, wearing black uniforms in an undercover car. They used to speak to Penny and Ron on the doorstep, but the last couple of times they went in the house.

Ronald Hollier was convicted of child rape and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in 2006.

He had been a prison officer at Feltham young offender institution, which holds juveniles as well as young adults.

Above, we see Allison Barrie (left) with the Chairman of the USA's Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey.

Allison Barrie, expert onspecial operations, was on the London Tube train which suffered 'an attack' at Parsons Green, on 15 September 2017.

"Allison Barrie is a defense specialist with experience in more than 70 countries who consults at the highest levels of defense and national security, and author of the definitive guide, Future Weapons: Access Granted.

"Barrie hosts 'Tactical Talk' where she gives listeners direct access to the most fascinating Special Operations warriors each week."

The child abuse rings in Lambeth are linked to the child abuse rings in Islington, Jersey, Richmond, Yorkshire and elsewhere.

Top people are involved.

"In the 1990's, senior staff members in Lambeth council were producing pornographic material of a 'sadistic, bestial and paedophile' nature in the basement of the housing department, where they knew they would not be interrupted.

"A female member


of staff disclosed how she was subjected to a rape on council premises 'of horrendous proportions' which she was still suffering serious injuries from one month later.

"She described being raped alongside children and animals by senior figures in the council.

"The findings of a report which included rape, assault and posession of indecent images of children, was never formally investigated by the police at the time or made public."

Mahdi Rahimi - a popular 25-year-old Iranian Kurd, also known locally as Bilal Mohammed.
In connection with the Parsons Green attack, of 15 September 2017, the police have arrested Mahdi Rahimi, a 25-year-old, and, two suspects aged 30 and 48, all with addresses in Newport.

'Mahdi Rahimi is a gentle, quiet man... Officers went to his house about a year ago.'

One local Muslimresident claimed that Hahdi Rahimi had recently started receiving visitors in expensive cars from London.

He said: 'He was always very humble, happy to be in the UK. But recently he started to receive visitors from people driving Mercedes and Jeeps, expensive cars with registration plates from London.'

Above, we see Parsons Green after the attack - but we see no one running.

Richard Aylmer-Hall wrote: "Ref: The still frame of the video I took on the platform at Parsons Green - this was filmed a couple of minutes after the stampede. "The staircase was blocked so many of us remained on the platform once it was clear there was no further danger. "And please be assured I have no involvement with any company that creates disaster scenarios. "I worked for


Livewire Digital from 2010 - 2015, only involved in commercial video compression and transmissions products and offshore yacht racing."

Above, we see a model called Autumn Parsons and a woman at Parsons Green.

Parsons Green, just after the 'attack'

"There was a dash for the exit when the bomb exploded at 8.20am on the District line Tube."

"Alex stumbled and fell and felt passengers tread all over his head, chest and stomach as he lay trapped on a stairway."

Alex said: "One man fell on me and my legs bent backwards and my right ankle got twisted. I started screaming that I had no air."

Why did Alex not stay on the platform?

According to Alex's mother, Maria: "Alex said everyone started running so he did, too.

"He said his friend managed to get away buthe has a weak ankle from an old injury and had tripped on the stairs.

"Someone fell on top of him, followed by another person. He couldn't breathe and had cracked his head open on the stairs.

"He said he had to be dug out from so many bodies and that it was mayhem."

Removing the evidence of a false flag?

Michael Perry, 29, a medical student who was at Parsons Green, said: "Alex had a massive scrape and bleeding and a contusion on his forehead where he had been knocked forward, as well as gashes on his tummy and side where he had been stepped on."

Alex was later treated at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and is now recovering at home in Morden, South-West London.

When agents of the UK government shot dead


can see the game of Muslim demonisation, the dodgy false-flag nature of these 'terrorist attacks' & the rather non-devout alleged 'Muslim' perpetrators -

Nontheless, these issues are lesser than what these Muslims feel is the 'hand of Allah' working in the Western world, given the strong media support for importing millions of Muslim migrants to Europe, & the media censorship and down-playing of crimes committed by Muslims

What is overall most important for these religious Muslims, is that Britain & Europe are being 'opened' to Islam, with Muslim people arriving, Muslim children being born in great numbers, and even native local Europeans converting. The false-flag terror etc are seen as just hiccups along this road to an Islamic Europe.

It's a strange game in the media, with mainstream media rather down-pedalingtown of Alon HaGalil one recent afternoon, a clinical psychologist and former Israeli special forces member named Yotam Dagan was worrying about how the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, are going to react the next time the school the school holds a fire drill....

'The UK Fairbridge Society, with its powerful links to aristocracy and the Royal Family, was responsible for sending thousands of poor British children, some as young as four, to migrant farms in Australia ... The Fairbridge Society has been heavily criticised in the British inquiry for "kidnapping" of children and trafficking of children to the farms, where it is estimated 60 per cent suffered sexual abuse ...'


Malaysia, Hong Kong and his home country of Canada. Among the many venues Peters has sold out are Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, LA’s Nokia Theatre, the Sydney Opera House and back-to-back nights at London’s famed O-2 Arena. Peters was the first comic to sell out Canada’s Air Canada center, which he has now done seven times and in November 2012, he became the first stand-up comic to perform at Brooklyn’s Barclays Centre with over 13,000 fans in attendance. As a result, Peters is regular on the Forbes List of top ten highest earning comics, ranking as high as number three in 2013. His comedy has generated over 120 million views on YouTube.

Peters has transitioned into both small and big screens, having recently been a judgeproperty.

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RUSSELL PETERS is an international comedy rock star who regularly sells out arenas all over the world. Russell is just wrapping up his fourth sold-out world-wide tour, The Almost Famous Tour, which celebrates 25 years in the business. His previous tour, Notorious, became the highest attended comedy tour ever in Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Lebanon, South Africa, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and his home country of Canada. Among the many venues Peters has sold out are Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, LA’s Nokia Theatre, the Sydney Opera House and back-to-back nights at London’s famed O-2 Arena. Peters was the first comic to sell out Canada’s Air Canada center, which he has now done seven times and in November 2012, he


became the first stand-up comic to perform at Brooklyn’s Barclays Centre with over 13,000 fans in attendance. As a result, Peters is regular on the Forbes List of top ten highest earning comics, ranking as high as number three in 2013. His comedy has generated over 120 million views on YouTube.

Peters has transitioned into both small and big screens, having recently been a judge alongside Roseanne Barr and Keenan Ivory Wayans for NBC’s reboot of Last Comic Standing, and lending his voice to the animated feature, Ribbit, and to numerous episodes of the iconic animated Fox television show Family Guy and Bob’s Burgers. He was also awarded a Gemini Award, Canada’s version of the Emmy, for hosting the country’s Juno Awards Show. Other notable film roles include thePusuke, World's Oldest Dog Dies; Lived 26 Years, 9 Months (PHOTO)

Pusuke, the world's oldest dog, has died at the age of 26 years and nine months. A male cross-breed dog Pusuke, who was listed as the oldest living dog in the Guinness Book of World Records, is seen in Sakura, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo December 24, 2010, in this photo released by Kyodo on December 6, 2011. Pusuke died on December 5, 2011 at the age of 26 years and 9 months
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Pusuke, the world's oldest living dog has died at its home in Japan.

A male cross breed, Pusuke was the world's oldest living dog as recognized by the Guinness Book of Records. Pusuke died in Sakura in Tochigi prefecture at the age of 26 years and nine


months. In dog years, that equivalent to a human living for 182 years.

The dog's owner, Yumiko Shinohara, said Pusuke had a good appetite and was busy with morning and evening strolls before he suddenly quit eating on Monday, according to ABC Australia. After the dog refused to eat, it appeared to have difficulty breathing, the owner said.

Pusuke reportedly died peacefully in the afternoon on Monday, shortly after his owner returned home from errands.

I think (Pusuke) waited for me to come home,'' said Shinohara, a 42-year-old housewife said. The dog's owner also said she wanted to thank Pusuke for many good memories through the years, the ABC station reported.on providing alcohol where it can be accessed by people under 21 years old.

Jim Hynes, assistant to the city manager, said at the meeting that mini-dorms often cause problems with excessive garbage and that noisy parties are a public nuisance. Additionally, mini-dorms are hard to track, according to Hynes, because the city relies on neighbors to report the mini-dorm status of a building.

Hynes said he and city attorney Zach Cowan recently met with several groups — including the Berkeley Property Owners Association, the Interfraternity Council and the ASUC — many of which proposed changes to the ordinance that are being applied.

Some meeting attendees expressed worry that the new laws would not be enforced. “The behavior that happens in south campus would not be tolerated on Northside or anywhere


automobile, that he was familiar with that intersection; and that he was aware that there was a school in the vicinity. Appellant testified that the day was clear and sunny; that there was no traffic obstructing his visibility of the intersection at Beverly Boulevard and June Street as he approached from the east. He acknowledged that he could see the traffic signals controlling the June/Beverly intersection as he approached from at least 800-1,000 feet away. He stated that he did not see Debbie crossing the street.
Two percipient witnesses were called to testify. One witness, Charlene Nowak, was in a car on June Street at the corner of Beverly Boulevard *1229 facing north, waiting for the light to change so that she could proceed. Nowak was familiar with theintersection. She approached the intersection at about the same time as Debbie. The light had changed to red for June Street traffic just as Nowak and Debbie had approached the intersection. Nowak noticed Debbie because of her "bright red sweater." Debbie kept pushing the button that controlled the pedestrian "walk/don't walk" signal. Nowak estimated that this continued for about a minute and a half. The pedestrian signal never turned to "walk" for Debbie. Finally, Debbie stepped off the curb and darted across Beverly Boulevard. She had cleared the middle of the boulevard and had almost gained the other curb when she was struck by the Mercedes.
Nowak testified that she did not see the Mercedes until it was in the intersection. She did not hear the sounding of a


horn or the screeching of brakes. The speed limit in the area was 35 miles per hour. Nowak estimated that the Mercedes was going about 40 miles per hour and was accelerating at the time of the impact.
Nowak further testified that upon impact Debbie's body was thrown into the air; books, shoes and papers went flying.
Rita Shamie was also on June Street at the Beverly Boulevard intersection, driving southbound and waiting for the light to change. She saw Debbie running in the crosswalk and noted that she had almost reached the northern curb when she was hit. Shamie first saw the Mercedes after impact and estimated that at that time the car was traveling in excess of 35 miles per hour.
Respondents' reconstruction expert, Harry Krueper, calculated the estimatedspeed of the Mercedes at the point of impact with Debbie at between 42 and 48 miles per hour.[2] His conclusions were that Dr. Havens had been driving in an inattentive manner; he further testified that he could see no reason why Dr. Havens had not seen the child.
The officers investigating the accident concluded the primary collision factor was Debbie's running into the crosswalk against the red light. Further, the officers concluded the inattention of both Debbie and Dr. Havens was an associated factor.[3]
Dr. Havens testified that he had just heard a traffic-safety program which had stressed that the primary danger when approaching an intersection was *1230 from cars entering the intersection from the driver's left, and so he was checking for cars coming from the left on


THE ACCIDENT? NO.
Respondents' expert, Harry Krueper, reconstructed the accident based on eyewitness statements, the police reports and his visits to the scene of the accident. Krueper had surveyed the scene of the accident and a videotape was shown to the jury in which a woman, about five feet tall and wearing a red jacket, walked across the same crosswalk while a Mercedes-Benz automobile, similar to Havens's car approached the same intersection on Beverly Boulevard from the east. Lighting conditions were the same as those on the day of the accident. The camera was put in the vehicle directly beside the driver's eye. Krueper had surveyed the distances from the intersection and marked them at 200-foot intervals. The traffic light controlling the Beverly/June intersection was clearly visible beyond 1,000day of the videotaping. As to the fixed direction of the camera versus the constant movement of the eyes of Dr. Havens, the jury could reasonably have inferred that at some point before Dr. Havens reached the intersection, his eyes could have looked straight ahead, down the road on which he was traveling and toward the intersection which he was approaching.
On the other hand, respondents demonstrated that the conditions of the videotape were substantially identical to those encountered by the appellant. The videotape showed an approach to the identical intersection from the same direction that Dr. Havens's approached. The same model car was used. The lighting conditions were the same. The person in the crosswalk was wearing red, as was Debbie. In every respect pertinent to visibility of


it suitable for printing tends to lose those characteristics over time and revert to being unprintable or poorly printable. This causes serious problems in the film industry because film manufacturers are rarely responsible for printing the films they make. Commonly, film manufacturers will instead wind film onto a reel and ship it to their customers, typically printers or converters, who will unwind the film prior to converting and/or printing it. Inevitably in connection with a MADBD treated film, by the time the film is then printed much of the surface characterisation caused by the MADBD treatment has been lost. Hitherto, film manufacturers have consequently sought to guarantee the long-term printability of the film by means other than MADBD treatment—the provision of printable coatings on the film for example.
WhatFairleigh Dickinson University Professor Leads Discussions on Best Practices for Finance in 2019

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Jonathan Schiff, Professor of Accounting at Fairleigh Dickinson University, spearheaded roundtable discussions on best practices for finance in 2019 at the 2018 Chief Financial Officer Leadership Forum in New York on November 28. The roundtable discussions, “Lessons Learned and New Imperatives,” focused on several best practices for finance in 2018, including:

Talent Engagement and Retention

Talent engagement and retention are exceedingly difficult for finance teams worldwide. As finance teams search for top talent, they face competition from global organizations. Meanwhile, without a clear talent engagement and retention strategy in place, a finance team is unlikely to help its organization stand out to potential candidates.

Ultimately, the ability to offer short-term assignments to workers may help a finance team


Scientists have figured out why watching Michael Scott's most awkward moments on The Office can make you squirm. Previously, little research had been conducted on "vicarious embarrassment," but a new study found that watching other people make fools of themselves triggers the part of the brain where we process pain.

In the study by British and German researchers, subjects were presented with descriptions of a series of uncomfortable everyday situations, including someone slipping in mud, leaving their fly open, and burping in a fancy restaurant. Whether the character was aware that they had embarrassed themselves or totally oblivious, the situation caused the regions of the brain related to pain — the anterior cingulate cortex and the left anterior insula — to activate. The reaction in the brain was morefeatured in many players’ responses. In these economically parlous times, only a handful of the major orchestras in any country attack new compositions on a regular basis, with faking mentioned as necessary in anything from ten to almost ninety per cent of some modern works. One player commented that while music by some modern composers presented no problem, with others it was ‘a case of keeping in the right bar and hoping the trumpets drown you out’. There is also a widespread – if erroneous – belief that Tchaikovsky wrote ‘for effect’, and one well-known first violinist admitted that he aimed to land only about a quarter of the high passages, max.

Indeed, first violinists, with their concatenation of high notes and riskily exposed passages, seem not only to


fate.And after your episode of fakery (which one trusts is an episode rather than a habitual occurrence), smile in congratulatory vein at your desk partner as if to say, ‘Hey! We made it!’; and blow rosin off your bow, as one who has fought the good fight and is feeling quite reasonably chuffed about it.

MOST COMMONLY FAKED WORKS, CITED BY VETERAN ORCHESTRAL PLAYERS:

Barber Violin Concerto (last movement)‘The only piece I ever played that seems to get worse and worse the more I practise it!’

Gershwin An American in Paris (end)‘There is a viola passage of octave triplets, the lower note of the octave first, the upper note second, and the lower note again for the third… No way will my bow arm work that fast!’

Hindemith Mathis der Maler‘One ofaffirm.

BACKGROUND	Denise Hodes and Henry Hodes were divorced several years ago. (2)  Under the terms
of the divorce decree, the Hodeses jointly owned a 17.5 acre tract as tenants in common.  A few
years after the divorce, Denise filed for bankruptcy.  On her bankruptcy application, Denise listed
her interest in the 17.5 acre tract and an adjacent 10 acre tract of land.  Denise also claimed that the
two properties were exempt from the claims of her creditors because both properties constituted her
homestead.  See Tex. Prop. Code Ann. §§ 41.001 (West Supp. 2009) (listing types of encumbrances
that "may be properly fixed on homestead"), .002 (West 2000) (defining homestead).  Once Denise
filed for bankruptcy, Deborah Langehenning was appointed as the bankruptcy trustee for the case.
See 11 U.S.C.A. §


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Defining Armed Conflict

Within hours of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, President George W. Bush declared “a global war on terrorism”. Experts around the world assumed this declaration was a rallying cry, a rhetorical device to galvanize the nation to serious action. By November 2001, however, the evidence began to mount that the President was ordering actions that could only be lawful in a de jure armed conflict: targeting to kill without warning, indefinite detention without trial, and search and seizure on the high seas without consent. It was difficult to criticize these actions on the basisof international law, however, given that international law contained no widely accepted definition of armed conflict. By May 2005, the International Law Association determined that there was a pressing need for a report on the meaning of armed conflict supported by international law. The Use of Force Committee presented its Initial Report on the Meaning of Armed Conflict in International Law at the Rio de Janeiro biennial meeting of the ILA. The Report concludes that all armed conflicts have as minimum two necessary characteristics: 1.) the presence of organized groups 2.) engaged in intense armed fighting. The Report indicates that while the United States has been engaged in an armed conflict in Afghanistan and in Iraq since 9/11, it has not been engaged in a global armed conflict.


Virgil de Voldère Gallery is proud to present Replicant, a group exhibition of four emerging artists. Rather than brood over a technocratic dystopia, herald clean utopian spaces, or take a reactionary stance on biological and environmental issues such as climate change and bioengineering, this exhibition explores potential futures in which imagination, adaptation, and creativity present a positive view of cultural and scientific progress. The artists—Ian Burns, Shane Hope, Gilles Rotzetter, and Scott Wolniak—are wildly divergent in their mediums and methods: the work is both outsourced and handmade, meticulous and low-tech, highly conceptual and grounded in materials.

Speculative nanotechnology, extreme bioengineering, technology breakthroughs, and artificial intelligence collide in the paintings of the New York–based Shane Hope. Presenting convoluted run-on sentences set against colored bands and rectangles, the canvases resemble LCDsand computer shell terminal windows. Hope’s compressed and convoluted language—including vernaculars, misspellings and scientific jargon—portrays futuristic communication not unlike programming or reference material. Outsourced to an oil-painting supplier in China and dated to the mid-twenty-first century, Hope speaks to today’s global economy but also forecasts the future of life in the decades to come.

Like an amateur tinkerer building a rocket ship in the garage, Ian Burns, also from New York, creates image-making machines with hardware store materials and scavenged household items. Similar to the enthralling low-technology of magic-lantern shows and shadow-puppet plays—and also the work of the artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss—Burns exerts incredible mechanical and conceptual effort to produce a simple visual image. Known for taking on subjects ranging from the mundane (driving in a car)


bags, cardboard containers, and plastic sacks—the artist traces replicated vegetation from the shapes of actual leaves, then stretches them across wire frames to form synthetic weeds. The finished sculptures are what a futuristic folk artist would make in a land ravaged of plant life in the not-too-distant future, cultivating beauty from trash.

The Swiss artist Gilles Rotzetter reimagines a collection of paintings by the seventeenth-century Flemish artist Jan van Kessel with his own faux-naïf drawings of postapocalyptic landscapes populated by hybrid human-animal creatures. While Kessel drew inspiration from illustrated scientific texts of flora, fauna, insects, and birds from the New World to paint meticulous still lifes with the utmost precision, Rotzetter creates otherworldly places, people, and objects in garish, unnatural colors; they’re more depictions of internal states and imaginativeDragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly

Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly, known in Japan as  or by Toei's own English title Dragon Ball Z: Attack! Super Warriors, is a 1994 Japanese animated science fiction martial arts film and the eleventh Dragon Ball Z feature movie. It was released in Japan on July 9 at the Toei Anime Fair alongside Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha!! Excited Heart of Summer Vacation and the second Slam Dunk movie. It was the third and final Dragon Ball Z movie to feature the character of Broly. Dragon Ball Super: Broly, released in 2018, features a different version of the character.

Plot
In a dark laboratory on a distant island, strangely-coloured humanoids emerge from tanks, having been created by Dr. Collie. Collie's employer, Mr. Jaguar, plans to use these


though, after I posted the announcement on Friday, it was reported on by L.A. Observed and then on the L.A. Times Culture Monster blog, first by by Arts Editor, Lisa Fung; and then by Theater Critic, Charles McNulty; The O.C. Register's Theater Critic, Paul Hodgins also weighed in on that newspaper's blog. Curiously, with postings on numerous other blogs, from here to New York, the news traveled almost entirely on blogs and websites. (The one exception is Matthew Fleischer's expose in City Beat, out this week.)

This person whom I met at the theater, who admitted to being so out of the loop, said she just reads newspapers in print, a habit that left her clueless about swiftly moving local events of the past week. And that's the realpoint that we all have to grapple with for the future.

Check back here Monday after noon for New Theater Reviews of Waiting for Godot at A Noise Within; Bill Sterritt's new play set in 61 A.D. Rome, Boadicea , at Studio/Stage; Brit scribe Amelia Bullmore's Mammals at the Lost Studio; Jim Leonard's New Play, Battle Hymn, presented by Circle X Theatre Company at [Inside] the Ford; Christopher Moore's new musical, Pope Joan , at the Stella Adler; A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room presented by Interact Theatre Company, now in residence at the Victory Theater Center; Moss Hart's Depression-era comedy, Light Up the Sky , at Open Fist Theatre Company; a new comedy about the Nixon resignation Charles Pike, Resignation Day , at Sacred Fools Theatre Company; and the


This long and wonderful interview with ICO and Shadow of the Colossus creator Fumito Ueda first appeared in vol. 25 of the excellent CONTINUE magazine in 2005, and was later compiled in a book of interviews. It covers Ueda’s entire career up to that point: his childhood years, art school, working at WARP, and finally settling in at Sony as a full-fledged game creator. The discussion is full of Ueda’s thoughts and insights about game design, gaming, and the themes of his own two masterpiece “art” games.

The Story of Fumito Ueda originally featured in the 2005 book, game no ryuugi

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gamer

—Ueda, you’ve made some of the deepest, most impressive games with ICO and Shadow of the Colossus, but your pre-Playstation history aswas announced.

Ueda: Yeah, it had been announced, but the release was still a ways off. The guys working next to me are the same developers who are now part of Polyphony Digital. They were in the middle of Gran Turismo then. I remember they were on their 4th game, when I was still working on my second. (laughs)

—Getting back to ICO, after you finished that 3-month pilot film, did they immediately greenlight the game development?

Ueda: They did. In hindsight, I think that pilot movie was really well done. At the time, SCE had a bunch of Silicon Graphics workstations, all lined up in a row at their offices, but I was able to use a normal computer and produce something on par, quality-wise. In only three and a


Kurdish people unite against terror: Tribe of 65,000 pledge to stand up against PKK

Around 400 Kurdish people affiliated with the Gerdi Tribe in southeastern Hakkari's Derecik town have come together on Wednesday and announced that they will stand against the terrorist PKK and side with the Turkish state in Turkey and the President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Masoud Barzani in Iraq.

"We will not embrace the PKK and will stand on the side of the state" the town's mayor Ekrem Çetinkaya –who is affiliated with the Gerdi Tribe- told reporters.

"We believe that the current terrorist incidents damage the people of the region" Çetinkaya said, who noted that the tribe has 25,000 members in Derecik and its villages, and around 40,000 members in Northern Iraq.

Çetinkaya said thatthe tribe has decided to come together following the surge of terrorist attacks carried out by the PKK and show their stance.

He underscored that the Gerdi Tribe does not accept the PKK as representatives and recognize the state as the legitimate force in the region.

The Kurdish mayor noted that PKK attacks have also killed their people: "Recently, a man by the name of Celal İnan has lost his life in a terrorist attack by the PKK in Durak Village" he said.

The tribe members have then expressed their views regarding the issue and reportedly sent a letter to Barzani in Northern Iraq to inform him about their stance.

Turkey has been hit by violence since a suicide bomb attack by a suspected ISIS supporter killed 32 activists in Suruç on


July 20.

The Turkish government has intensified its counterterror operations following the recent attacks carried out against Turkish forces and civilians by the PKK, which is recognized as a terrorist organization by the U.S., the EU and Turkey.

Formed in 1978, the terrorist group has been fighting the Turkish government for an independent state until the early 2000's. The group then shifted its goal to autonomy in predominately Kurdish inhabited regions of Turkey.

The PKK announced on July 11 that the cease-fire which was declared via a message from the PKK's imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan in 2013 has ended.

After the end of cease-fire, more than 110 Turkish security forces were killed in terrorist attacks including the recent Dağlıca and Iğdır attacks that respectively claimed the lives of 16 soldiers and 13police officers.

Turkish security forces have arrested hundreds of people with suspected links to ISIS, the PKK, and leftist groups, detaining over 1,300 people across the country, according to a recent statement released by the Prime Minister's Office.

The Turkish Air Force has been carrying airstrikes against the PKK in northern Iraq and the ISIS terrorists in northern Syria.


Spies of the American Revolution: An Interactive Espionage Adventure

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Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what you do next. The choices you make lead you to survival or to death.The Great Auto Industry Conspiracy to Eliminate Electric Streetcars in America

As the demand for electric cars—such as the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf—accelerates, and with social and political pressures around fuel economy and carbon emissions, it’s time to glance back upon the vast electric infrastructure America once had.

After World War I and before the boom of the auto industry, America had a powerful and broad electric streetcar public transportation system—the fifth-largest industry in the country at the time—that employed over 100,000 workers and operated in just about every major city in America.

These rail-based trolleys were fully electric, and power was supplied to them via a suspended cable. They produced zero emissions, other than the emissions created in producing the electricity at the power plant.

But due to a


to expand into larger cities like Los Angeles.

In 1922, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of GM was given the special task of supplanting the country’s streetcars and other electric rail transportation systems. In his 1974 report to the U.S. Senate, he stated that in the ‘30s, GM—together with Goodyear Tires, Firestone Tire and Rubber, Standard Oil, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks, and others—formed false rail companies, bought the real ones, and eliminated the competition.

In 1947, the Truman Administration filed a charge of conspiracy to violate the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890—the first act of Congress to ban abusive monopolies—and the corporations were indicted by a California grand jury. In 1949, GM and nine other corporate defendants were fined $5,000.

By the ‘50s, most of America’s electric rail infrastructure had been destroyed.Between 1950 and 1970, the amount of vehicles in Southern California had tripled, while the population doubled and the miles of road built increased by 50 percent, according to Davis. Such statistics were typical throughout the United States.

Despite today’s infrastructure and demand for low-emissions vehicles, the electric trolley car may be an alternative that never gets back on track.


Jewish history located across the border in Denver, and the Wild Animal Sanctuary, home to 25 rescued circus lions 45 minutes away in Keenesburg.

More important to Visit Aurora, however, are the city's 3,800 hotel rooms, its booming medical facilities and its immaculately manicured sports fields. The organization's strategy is to attract visitors from several niche demographics, including small and somewhat obscure conferences, sick people (and their loved ones) who come to be treated at the city's top-notch hospitals, and huge youth sports tournaments.

It's not a thrilling plan, but it is realistic and well thought-out. Plus, Wheat says, it's virtually recession-proof. "People may be cutting out their family vacation," he says, "but they're going to follow their children to watch them play ball."

And when it comes to grabbing aslice of Colorado's billion-dollar tourism industry, playing ball is exactly what Aurora hopes to do.

*****

Since its founding in 1891, Aurora has sat in Denver's shadow. Its second-fiddle status is documented in Aurora: Gateway to the Rockies, published in 1985 and regarded as the most complete written history of the city. The Aurora History Museum sells faded paperback copies for $3, marked down from $10. The foreword to the book was written by then-mayor Dennis Champine, a flawed city cheerleader who is commemorated by a plaque at the museum. It reads: "Rising from humble roots to become a successful businessman in Aurora, his term was marred by a minor criminal record, an investigation into nepotism and inappropriate behavior. In 1979, he punched the City Attorney in the face. Despite


his faults, he fought hard for Aurora's identity, wanting to wrestle culture, tourism and influence away from the dominant city to the West."

Aurora's founders were wily businessmen who bought up farm and ranch land east of Denver and advertised its potential as a "satellite city" full of "electric lights," "rapid transit" and "pure water." When none of that turned out to be true, Aurora turned to the "dominant city to the West" for help. In 1897, the town's residents voted to be annexed by Denver. The big city declined the offer but did agree to sell water to the still-tiny suburb, thus controlling Aurora's growth for decades.

Early Aurorans depended on Denver for entertainment and jobs, too. During World War I, it was the Denver Chamber of Commerce thatraised the money for what would become the Fitzsimons Army hospital, a huge economic boon to Aurora. Similarly, it was Denver muscle that persuaded the military to build the Lowry and Buckley Air Force bases, which caused the population of Aurora to swell. In 1948, Aurora's mayor proudly told the Denver Post that the fast-growing suburb had become the home of the "working man." But the working man didn't embrace Aurora as much as Aurora embraced him. Most residents claimed to live in Denver, according to Aurora: Gateway to the Rockies, which is full of self-deprecating prose: "Except when pressed to be specific, they did not say they lived in Aurora." The suburb was losing its sense of community, the book notes, fueled partly by the construction of


dozens of "shopettes" which replaced the old-timey downtown that had once thrived along Colfax.

One of Aurora's claims to fame was a stay by President Dwight Eisenhower, who had a heart attack in 1955 while vacationing in Denver, where his wife's parents lived. He recuperated at Fitzsimons and, for a moment, Aurora became Washington, D.C.

But it didn't last long. Though Aurora eventually dug its own reservoirs and developed its own infrastructure, it never became exciting.

It came close in 1979, when a Hollywood stuntman named Jerry Schafer showed up with a plan for an amusement park three times the size of Disneyland. Called Science Fiction Land, it was to feature a 38-story Ferris wheel, a holographic zoo, a 1,000-lane bowling alley attended by robots, security guards equipped with jetpacks, andthe "Pavilions of Joy," made up of fourteen Las Vegas-style dinner theaters. The park was also to serve as the set for the most expensive movie of all time, a $50 million sci-fi flick called Lord of Light. The script was being written by an unknown named Barry Ira Gellar, whom the Rocky Mountain News deduced had been, until recently, living in a "dilapidated, cockroach-infested basement apartment" in Hollywood.

The whole thing turned out to be a scam. Schafer and Gellar had lied about having a $400 million line of credit to build the park, a fact that local reporters quickly sniffed out. Their principal investor was an immigrant who barely spoke English, and both men were arrested for convincing him to give up his life savings of $50,000.


Aurora officials got caught in the scandal, too. Four dignitaries, including former mayor Fred Hood, were indicted for trying to use inside information to buy land adjacent to the proposed park in the hope of making a profit. One accused city councilman resigned in disgrace.

Malls became Aurora's principal diversion. According to another plaque at the Aurora History Museum, the 1990s saw the rise of "large strip shopping centers, containing grocery stores, movie theaters and fast food restaurants," which became "the neighborhood centers at prominent intersections." The exhibits at the museum suggest that Aurorans' cultural entertainment was similarly mundane. The glass case representing the '90s contains a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pez dispenser, an "Earring Magic" Ken doll and a football stamped with replica signatures of the 1996 DenverBroncos.

That's not to say that Aurora wasn't trying. In 1985, then-mayor Champine explored bringing a major-league baseball team to Aurora, and developers and the city have tried repeatedly to build a NASCAR track in the area. In 1995, the city council appointed the first-ever Visitors Promotion Advisory Board, a volunteer group made up of representatives from the city's hotels, downtown businesses and the chamber of commerce tasked with bringing more tourists to the city. The board focused mostly on the construction of the Aurora Sports Park, a sprawling outdoor complex offering 35 well-manicured playing fields that was funded by a bond issue and built in 2002.

"Once we had that, we were able to recruit large softball and soccer tournaments," says Kevin Hougen, president of the Aurora Chamber of


Commerce. "If you're a parent and you've ever traveled with these teams, you realize how much money they spend on gasoline and lodging." After a while, the board developed a strategy: Go after girls' tournaments. "When we would go after boys' tournaments, the parents would sometimes say, 'The coach is a good supervisor. We don't have to attend,'" Hougen explains. "But when young ladies attended, the whole family did."

Soon, the Sports Park was hosting a couple hundred thousand people a year. But Aurora wanted more. The city's businesses, medical and military facilities were growing, bringing more travelers to Aurora. In 2007, the University of Colorado opened a brand-new hospital on the site of the former Fitzsimons Army hospital, now known as the Anschutz Medical Campus. The Children's Hospitalopened that same year, and a new Veterans Affairs Medical Center is expected to open in 2015. In addition, the Raytheon Company expanded its campus in Aurora, points out city spokeswoman Kim Stuart, and there has been massive construction at Buckley Air Force Base, which became an "active-duty" base in 2000. "With all that occurring at the same time, the council decided it was time to establish a full-time destination marketing organization," Stuart says.

Visit Aurora was born in 2010 as a nonprofit funded by a percentage of Aurora's 8 percent tax on hotel stays. The lodgers' tax had been adopted way back in 1983 to fund a tourism bureau. But a souring economy forced city officials to divert the money to more pressing needs, such as street maintenance


and firefighters, Hougen says. As the economy recovered, the city was able to use a portion of the lodgers' tax to support the Visitors Promotion Advisory Board. Last year, the tax netted $4.4 million, 10 percent of which went to Visit Aurora, which gets some money from other city funds as well.

The 41-year-old Wheat was Visit Aurora's first employee. He came to Aurora from Longmont, where he'd served as the executive director of the Longmont Area Visitors Association. But before he was ever a tourism guy, he was a sports guy. Wheat started his career at the University of Southern Mississippi and Virginia Tech, doing media and marketing for the schools' sports teams. When his parents fell ill a few years later, he took a sports-tourism job inTupelo, Mississippi, to be closer to them. "I just fell into it backwards by accident and found out I loved it and enjoyed it," he says.

From Mississippi, Wheat jumped to visitor bureaus in Waterloo, Iowa, and South Bend, Indiana, before migrating west to Colorado to be near his brother, who owns a guest ranch here. He started the Longmont visitors' association from scratch but was only there for two years before accepting the gig in Aurora, which has more than three times as many people. Aurora has a population of 335,105, making it the third-largest Colorado city behind Colorado Springs (416,000) and Denver (600,000).

Wheat opened shop at Visit Aurora in December 2010. One of his first calls was to Dan Gaudreau, a local electrical contractor who owns the


Rocky Mountain Lifting Club, a cavernous gym next to a Holiday Inn in central Aurora.

*****

It's chilly inside the Rocky Mountain Lifting Club, but the dozen burly lifters dusted with grip-enhancing chalk still turn red when they attempt to hoist 680 pounds off the floor. In the corner room where the most hard-core weightlifting takes place, a Hank Williams Jr. song twangs loudly from an old-school boombox that sits on a shelf next to bottles of Lander's Baby Powder — "Soft as a Mother's Love" — which the athletes use to coat their thighs to avoid chafing on the deadlift. The room smells like a combination of wintergreen Bengay and burning wires from an overhead light that blew out earlier.

Most of the lifters here tonight are men. The exceptionis Gaudreau's wife, Jennifer, described lovingly by a male gym member as "one of the strongest chicks in Colorado." Despite the grunting and shouting — "Come on, Tom! Don't lift it with the back! Drive the hips forward! Hips, Tom!" — the gym is not a testosterone-fest. It's more of a family affair. The Gaudreaus' five-year-old son, Logan, whose finger paintings decorate Dan's office, is there most nights, driving his toy cars on the gym equipment while his parents work out. Other members bring their kids, too.

Wheat got in touch with Gaudreau because he'd heard that the strongman had an idea that fit perfectly with his vision for Aurora tourism.

"My philosophy has always been that tourism starts in your own community," Wheat says. "One of the things I