square of the housing hub are here preferably constructed identically and correspond approximately to the diameter of the screw head of the central screw with which the housing hub and the output unit are screwed on the camshaft. It is also possible to provide the diameter of the housing hub and the lateral length of the hollow square with different dimensions, or to provide the housing hub with another polygonal hollow section cross section on which the inner end of the coil spring then is in any given case complementarily adapted for form-locking fastening on the housing hub. Likewise, the housing hub can be constructed as a hollow cylinder over its entire length, and be fastened to the inner end of the coil spring constructed in this caseespecially for the spring attachment. Likewise, it is also possible here to construct the outer end of the coil without additional deflections, and to fasten it through a rivet or screw connection of the like force-locking on the drive unit of the device.
Finally, as a further feature of the device constructed in accordance with the invention, the external pressure medium leakages of the device are selectively discharged through slot seals between the drive unit and the output unit to a coaxial opening in the side cover of the drive unit adjacent to the housing and are from there introduced into the annular space of the housing through an annular slot between the opening in the lateral cover and the exterior of the housing hub. These external pressure medium


New species of Heteropathes (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) expands genus distribution to the NE Atlantic.
Heteropathes opreski, a new antipatharian species from the northern border of the Oceanographer Fracture Zone is here described and illustrated. An emended diagnosis of the genus and a dichotomous key containing the four Heteropathes species are presented. This species is unique in that it forms smaller colonies compared to the other species in the genus, with some of the lateral pinnules presenting a small ramified subpinnule. Additionally, the polypar spines found on the lateral pinnules are the highest so far recorded in the genus. This record greatly expands the known distribution of this genus, as it was not previously reported to occur in the Northeastern Atlantic.Now Commenting On:

Blue Jays Winter Tour is back for 2013

Blue Jays Winter Tour is back for 2013

Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos and new manager John Gibbons discuss Toronto's megadeal with Miami, and the signing of Melky Cabrera

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TORONTO -- The Blue Jays Winter Tour is making its return for a third consecutive year, and this time it's the prairies that will be getting most of the attention.

The club is set to hit the road in January with stops in Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Edmonton. Colby Rasmus, Anthony Gose, J.P. Arencibia and Drew Hutchison are all expected to take part, with more names being announced at a later date.

The Blue Jays brought back the Winter Tour in 2011 after a lengthy hiatus. The idea came from the


old caravan-style road trips the organization used to do back in the 1980s, and was re-instituted by president Paul Beeston and senior vice president of business operations Stephen Brooks.

The first trip put a strong emphasis on the province of Ontario and the western part of Canada. Last year, the tour shifted east, with stops in Montreal and the Maritimes, while the central part of the country is getting most of the stops this offseason.

Toronto will officially kick off the tour on Jan. 5 in Toronto. Rasmus and Gose will be on hand for an amateur baseball clinic at Rogers Centre that will be held in conjunction with Baseball Canada.

From there, the tour moves west with a two-day stop in Winnipeg. Rasmus and Gose will sign autographs at PoloPark Shopping Centre on Jan. 6, and the following day they will visit the students and staff at Ecole Van Walleghem School to relay messages about healthy living and positive lifestyles.

Arencibia and Hutchison will join the tour on Jan. 11 in Saskatoon. The two players will take part in a Jays Care Foundation luncheon at the Delta Bessborough Hotel before moving on for curling lessons and eventually attending a Canadian Hockey League game between the Saskatoon Blades and Red Deer Rebels.

The final stop of the tour will be in Edmonton over the course of a two-day period. The team will visit the Stollery Childen's Hospital on Jan. 12, and the following day will visit the CFB Edmonton to visit with military personnel.

More details on the tour are expected


arms above his head — a much more painful position.

Borrini and Luigi Garlaschelli of University of Pavia, Italy, arrived at this conclusion after analysing the pattern of blood stains on the Shroud of Turin and simulating blood trickling down the arms.

They looked for what crucifixion position would produce the blood stains seen on the shroud.

“The shroud pictured Jesus with his arms above his head in a ‘Y’ position. This would have been a very painful position and one which would have created difficulty breathing,” Borrini was quoted as saying in the journal ‘New Scientist’.

For centuries, the Church has depicted the crucifixion of Christ with his arms outstretched horizontally on a cross.

While many believe the Shroud of Turin was the cloth wrapped around Christ after his death, there areprison officials in transferring Muhammad to another cell was not excessive.

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First, the amount of force was minimal in relation to the need for force.   The defendants filed an affidavit stating that when Muhammad arrived at the new cell, he pointed his finger in one of the deputies' face and said he was not going into the cell.   The deputy asked Muhammad not to point his finger at him, and Muhammad repeated the gesture, and stated that he would have to be physically placed in the cell.

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At that point, the deputy placed Muhammad in a "control hold" and directed Muhammad into the cell.   The defendants' affidavits state that the entire procedure took no more than five seconds, and that none of deputies ever


Unicef Sudan to start enrolment campaign for 300,000 out-of-school children

May 31 - 2015KHARTOUM

A class in Yabous, Blue Nile state (RD)

In cooperation with the Sudanese state Ministries of Education, and with the support of the EU and Educate A Child (EAC), Unicef will conduct a promotion campaign for the enrolment of more than 300,000 out-of-school children in the country.

The enrolment and awareness raising sessions aim to promote the importance of education and the enrolment of children, in particular among the most marginalised communities. They will start in June, in 14 of the 18 Sudanese states, including Khartoum, Kassala, El Gedaref, Red Sea, Sennar, Blue Nile, the five Darfur states, and South, West, and North Kordofan.

In a media advisory today, Unicef states that some 3 million children between the agesYou have to be inside of a chat to start one of these instant videos , otherwise you'll just need to make a standard video call if you want to talk. Perhaps it's not, but I'm sure Facebook wouldn't mind winning back some of its users' time away from the popular photo- and video-sharing app.

In 2014, the 36-year-old quarterback missed one game after getting kneed in the back against the Redskins. Dak Prescott wasn't planning on making his regular season debut so soon, but with Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo out with a broken bone in his back, the time is now for the former Bulldog.

At the start of Turkey's now nearly week-long cross-border offensive, Turkish tanks, artillery and warplanes provided Syrian rebel allies the firepower to capture swiftly


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Four ex-hostages who shared cells at one time with Kayla Mueller spoke publicly for the first time in an interview with ABC News airing Friday. They were raped and tortured nearly daily. "And then she was like, 'No, I didn't ". He was also the man that Mueller faced as she defended her Christian faith to the Islamic extremists.

Because I figure anybody voting for Stein is going to be voting for Hillary. Poudre Valley Green Party Chairman Dave Bell said that he has come across people quite excited for the event of Stein, though she is a minor party candidate,including the stunning East Branch of the Penobscot River and a portion of the Maine Woods that is rich in biodiversity and known for its...

Finally, when he was moving, he gave it to his aunt, who just happens to be a tourism official in Puerto Princesa , reports the Guardian . The pearl, which measures 30 centimeters wide (1 foot) and 67 centimeters long (2.2 feet), was presented to Amurao when the owner's home was ravaged by fire recently.

According to a document filed in the Japanese Patent Office, the mechanism features three clutches that will allow the transmission to further reduce the torque removal of existing dual-clutch setups. Meanwhile, the most number of forward gears now found on any Honda vehicle is nine. Ford will use it in


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In addition to institutional obstacles, the women are also shown tackling troubles at home as they spend extended time away from their families. Their impact and work was crucial to the success of the agency's Mercury and Apollo missions. "The film will be the first time the contributions of African American scientists to that effort have been th...

Tesla's– who previously spoke in support of a Christian couple who turned away a gay couple from their B&B.

He has also been ordered to go on an equality course before he is allowed back in the courtroom.

The married 68-year-old was told he had broken the oath sworn by all Justices of the Peace (JPs) as well as Labour’s controversial Equality Act, by being guided by his religious views and discriminating against the same-sex adoptive parents.

Last night, critics said the case was another example of how people who hold traditional Christian views feel they have no freedom of speech and find it difficult to hold public office in modern Britain.

Mr Page told The Mail on Sunday: ‘There is tremendous pressure to keep quiet and go along with what is


and even her own Chancellor Geoffrey Howe to push through the policies which pulled Britain back from the brink of economic chaos.

Documents released by the National Archives under the 30-year rule show the pressure Mrs Thatcher faced from the Establishment behind the scenes – and the extent to which she was isolated.

In 1980, the year after becoming Britain’s first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher embarked on a controversial programme to revive the moribund economy through deep public spending cuts and strict control of the money supply, intended to stamp out inflation.

He warned that while her programme of cuts might give a ‘sense of exhilaration’ to her supporters, the country was heading for industrial collapse and ‘dangerous’ levels of unemployment.

Macmillan, then 86, sent the letter following a meeting withthe Prime Minister at Chequers in August 1980.

He criticised her for abandoning ‘consensus politics’ to pursue radical reforms and ‘divisive politics’, which he said went against the ‘essence of Tory democracy’.

It was Macmillan who coined the phrase ‘you’ve never had it so good’ in 1957 during the long post-war economic boom.

His brand of consensus politics is now credited with contributing to the economic malaise that brought Britain to its knees in the late 1970s.

Years later, in her memoirs, Mrs Thatcher poured scorn on consensus politics, writing: ‘What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner “I stand for consensus”?.’

[…]In 1981, 365 economists wrote to The Times urging Mrs Thatcher to change course and limit the damage caused by the recession.

But she was unmoved, and her


tough stance succeeded in reducing inflation from 27 per cent to four per cent in four years, putting Britain on the road to recovery.

Mrs Thatcher’s economic views were heavily influenced by the right-wing Cabinet minister Sir Keith Joseph, with whom she set up the free market think tank the Centre for Policy Studies in 1974.

Both drew on the work of the influential American economist Milton Friedman whose monetary theories challenged the post-war consensus on economic thinking.

I recommend reading the whole article for some more articles where Lady Thatcher had to stand against everyone and hold onto her convictions in the teeth of the majority.

Here’s an article from Forbes magazine that summarizes her effort to turn Britain around.

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It’s hard to appreciate today how desperate Britain’s condition was before Thatchertook office. Its economy was a laughing stock, the perennial sick man of Europe. Strikes were endemic and union bosses effectively governed the country. Her Conservative Party had long ago made its peace with the welfare state and the ethos of high spending and high taxes. While the previous Tory Prime Minister, Edward Heath, wanted to revive Britain, he hadn’t a clue how to do it. In a make-or-break showdown with the coal miner’s union, Heath called a special election under the banner “Who Governs Britain?” Heath lost and unions’ dominance in Britain seemed secure.

Great leaders have an astute sense of taking advantage of circumstances. Even though Heath had lost two elections, none of the senior party officials would challenge him. At the time, Thatcher was not regarded


as one of the party’s major figures. But she was the only Tory who firmly believed in free markets and in Britain’s ability to become again a proud nation based on the principles of liberty. She was a devotee of Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman and of the idea of paring back big government and giving free enterprise room to flourish. Astonishingly she beat Heath in a leadership fight in 1975 and led the Tories to victory in 1979.

Immediately she began slashing income tax rates and reining in galloping spending and fighting inflation. She also exhibited that critical sense of timing. When she took office, she was faced with a potential strike of nurses whose union was demanding huge pay increases. Thatcher compromised in a way thatselling off of the government’s business assets, dubbed privatization. After World War II Britain nationalized enormous swaths of the economy which actions subsequent Conservative governments left largely untouched. Thatcher sold government companies off and her example has been followed by countless nations around the world.

In the area of privatizations, she did two remarkable things. She sold off much of Britain’s public housing. An enormous number of Britons, far more than in the U.S., lived in these government-owned buildings. Thatcher pushed the sale of these apartments to occupants at low prices and on very advantageous terms. The purpose was to begin to shift the mentality of people and their dependence on government. Her other smart move was in the privatization of government-owned companies: offering a significant number of shares


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This content is for Annual Base Membership members only.Log InRegisterwho often had competing demands. Indeed, the first constituent assembly, tasked with delivering the post-war, post-monarchy constitution, was dissolved following disagreement over federalism, the major bone of contention among the political forces.

The second constituent assembly, elected in November 2013, also missed its self-imposed deadline of January 2015. Patience was running out among the masses, frustrations soared. Then, in spring this year, a series of powerful earthquakes struck Nepal, which sits on the major seismic fault line. In early June, the leaders of four major parties – the ruling Nepali Congress and the Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML), and the opposition the Maoists and Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum (Loktantrik) – startled the earthquake-traumatized people by forging a consensus on federalism. This was indeed a historic breakthrough.

Why federalism?

While the political parties were also


motivated by power-sharing agreement that was to come with delivery of the charter, the deal was meant to end political instability that had plagued Nepal for more than two decades. Federalism was sold as a formula to address grievances of historically marginalised communities and to decentralise the unitary state. The idea was to narrow the gap between Kathmandu and the hinterland and to reach out to the disenfranchised communities. Federalism was enshrined in Nepal’s interim constitution after the Madhesis and Tharus protested in the winter of 2007.

While the politicos dithered for years, the hastened process was called ‘fast track’, which meant the parliament was going to eschew regular procedure and deliver the charter by suspending many clauses. In mid-June, the coalition government of the Nepali Congress and theUML launched a drive to gauge public opinion on the draft of the charter. But the move sparked protests. Four people were shot dead after protesters clashed with police, while local administrations imposed curfew in several districts.

The protesters were angry with Kathmandu politicos for leaving the demarcation of the provinces to a commission. This forced leaders to reconsider the decision: they duly came up with a six-state federal model. This also drew protests from people of Karnali region in remote northwest. While the people of Karnali were placated after a state was added for them, now a total of seven, Tharus, the indigenous people of the plains, who had long struggled for a separate federal state, were angry for being sidelined. In the ensuing violence, seven policemen, including


a senior officer, were killed in a small town in southwestern Nepal.

As Kathmandu remained complacent, protests erupted in the southeastern parts of Nepal, home to Madhesis, who share close marital, linguistic and cultural ties across the border in India. Police continued to fire indiscriminately at protesters. By the end of monsoon season, almost 50 people had been killed.

Defying India

That New Delhi is one of the key political players in Nepal is no secret. India tends to see Nepal through the narrow lens of security, relegating the all-important foreign policy to the South Block mandarins.

That all seemed to have changed in the wake of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Nepal in August last year, which broke a 17-year hiatus by his predecessors. Addressing the constituent assembly amiddepartment of customs. Both confirmed there is a blockade.)

Although the onus is on Kathmandu politicos – some of whom like to brag about their jaunts to New Delhi to project themselves as India’s allies at home – to resolve the deepening crisis on its southern flatland, this is also a case of a friend quickly turning into a foe. New Delhi has much to lose from this episode.

A leading Nepali daily recently reported that Maoist leader Prachanda vowed to end the political deadlock – the Maoists had cobbled together an opposition alliance against the ruling parties – on his secret foray in Beijing in April this year. Prachanda, who holds grudges against New Delhi, has in the past successfully maneuvered to defy India. In February 2011, he backed


the UML’s Jhalanath Khanal for the premiership of a fragile coalition government that lasted only six months. The Khanal government was said to have been formed despite India’s reservations.

Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushil Koirala of the Nepali Congress, the UML’s blunt-speaking chairman KP Oli, and Prachanda – all snubbed by New Delhi at some point during their long political career – formed an unlikely trio that shepherded the constitution that New Delhi has so far refrained from welcoming. In mid-September, after realising that it was rapidly losing grip on Nepal affairs, Indian government dispatched its special envoy, foreign secretary S. Jaishankar, to Kathmandu to salvage the situation. But it was too late: An overwhelming number of Nepali lawmakers had voted for the charter, which was officially promulgated on September20.

An old game

For those old enough, the blockade has revived memories of 1989, when the Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi imposed a 13-month embargo on Nepal. While New Delhi had been reportedly upset with Nepal’s purchase of anti-aircraft guns from China, the move bolstered the political parties protesting against the Panchayat regime under King Birendra Shah. India’s backing was the key factor for the end of the Panchayat autocracy in 1990.

In fact, in all changes of regime since 1950s, when Nepal entered a modern era, India has played a key role by supporting the opposition forces. Some commentators have argued that this time too it’s backing the Madhesis after feeling left out in the crucial stage of constitution promulgation.

Blocking vital supplies to its neighbour to apply pressure on


the cinnamon sugar, rolled it up,placed it in the pans and let it rise again.It was getting late in the afternoon and my kitchen was getting dark, so I turned on the oven and in went the bread. While it baked I went outside...Christmas music playing....and got out my outdoor lights.I had John move a Christmas Tree that I have had in a big clay pot for years by the french door going out to the garden...and this year it will get lights. Later this afternoon John and I are going out to Baywood Park for farmers market...there is an italian man there that has the best old variety grapes. I want some for Thanksgiving and some for my cranberry and Limbertwig salad.It felt so Thanksgiving this morningis more about visibility, but taking over the parking garage across the street, where their cars were parked, and the university's two computing centers.)Transit. The history of the Civil Rights Movement is intimately linked to transportation access, segregation on transit and in transit stations, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Freedom Riders, etc. PBS had programs on the Freedom Riders a few years ago. It'd be nice for them to do repeat showings (although at least some PBS stations did run a number of such programs on Martin Luther King Day).

It focuses on the "Freedom Riders," the people who pushed the federal government to enforce public accommodations laws concerning inter-state transportation. It highlights Tampa Bay residents who participated and the book, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial


acknowledged and communicated as much as the "Freedom Riders."

Transportation history and the automobile. Because restaurants and hotels were segregated, automobile travel could be problematic for African-Americans too. The "The Negro Motorist Green-Book" was a guide for African-American travelers, providing directions to those places which would accommodate them in otherwise segregated communities ("An atlas of self-reliance: The Negro Motorist's Green Book (1937-1964)," Smithsonian Museum of American History).

Transportation Technology. An African-American, Garrett Morgan of Cleveland created the three-position traffic signal, adding the middle phase "yellow," to what had been two-stage stop and go signals. COMTO chapters sponsor "Garrett Morgan Days" as a kind of career planning event and introduction to the transportation field.

Granville Woods invented the device that allowed for the transmission of electricity from catenary to the streetcar througha pole and wheel roller.

Biking. Major Taylor was an African-American cycling racer active in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Today's Major Taylor Clubs (Seattle)promote cycling in African-American communities.

Land Use. Segregation and racism marks many US center cities. Segregation through zoning was introduced in Baltimore in the early 1900s and spread very quickly to other places. Race-based deed restrictions were another way to restrict African-American access to neighborhoods. So were race-based underwriting standards in the federal mortgage guarantee program--restrictions that were not lifted until the late 1960s.Urban renewal. The Urban Renewal redevelopment movement starting in the 1950s frequently targeted African-American and other minority neighborhoods for change, with the residents left on their own for relocation. DC's Southwest quadrant was one of the pilot locations for testing the


the Le Droit Park Historic District. Washington Post photo.

Historic preservation. The National Park Service is also home to the federal government's historic preservation program. The cultural resource management program of the organization has extensive programs focused on preserving African-American heritage.

Of course, just as urban renewal was called "Negro removal," historic preservation is criticized as a method of reproducing and repositioning space in a manner which displaces low income residents.

Many African-American neighborhoods have been historically designated across the country. Sweet Auburn comes to mind in Atlanta, Sugar Hill in Harlem, U Street in DC, and the Eatonville Historic District, where Zora Neale Hurston grew up, in Florida come to mind off the top of my head.History and cultural interpretation/Civil rights history. Last year the Associated Press reported ("Some civilrights sites at risk of being lost to history) on how there isn't a systematic program on a national scale to preserve places significant to the nation's history of civil rights.

I have suggested that this should be done for African-American history more generally, and could be done for civil rights history as part of that. Ideally, a national organization like the new Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture could take the lead on such an initiative.History and cultural interpretation/Memorials and Monuments of the Confederate Cause. There has been a lot of discussion about monuments and memorials to people who were ardent segregationists. Monuments to segregationists have been defaced in many places across the country as a protest. Many institutions are changing their policies and practices as a


A/N: And now for the final chapter of this saga. I present Unstuck. Enjoy.

"See you tomorrow Neo, remember that we're meeting Cinder at three,"

Neo waved her hand over her shoulder as she entered her room, the orange haired man she dismissed throwing his hands up in the air but taking the gesture as acceptance. She closed the door and turned her focus back to the ice cream she carried in her hand. An untouched small cup of orange cream; her after dinner treat.

She'd nearly slapped Roman when he'd made the suggestion she should have had Neapolitan. Despite her name, she detested that flavor. There just wasn't enough of any particular flavor to enjoy and the mixture tasted too generic.

Sitting down on the bed, Neo started to eat theice cream with gusto. The small cup was devoured quickly, leaving her with eyes closed and sucking on the remnants clinging to the spoon, trying to savor the fruity treat. As the last of the dessert disappeared, Neo felt her eyes refuse to open.

She yawned to herself, overcome by the sudden urge to sleep exactly where she was. Adding to the temptation was her comfy bed, a large king size with bars of metal for decoration at the top and bottom, lined with pleasant silky sheets. Letting herself sink down onto her pillow, she felt her consciousness falling away into a pleasant slumber just as her door clicked open, left unlocked in her distraction with her treat.

With another yawn, Neo awoke. Her eyes lidded slowly and fluttered open


even slower. As she tried to rub her eyes, she realised she couldn't. Attempting to sit up, she realised that too was beyond her. Taking a moment to assess her situation, she determined she was spread-eagled on her bed, hands and ankles tied a little wider than strictly necessary. By the draft she felt skim over her body and her nipples' reaction to it, she also assumed she was naked.

Opening her eyes finally, she saw that the room was lit by a single flame, its soft light keeping her vision impaired for the moment. As she looked at it, trying to force her eyes to acclimatise, she noticed the figure sat on her chair, flame hovering gently over its palm. Out of the corner of her eye, Neosaw a small red light on the table near her bedside. She grimaced as she recognised her video camera set up, facing her.

A fully nude Cinder was sat, legs demurely crossed to keep her core hidden from the bound mute. Her arms followed the curve of the armchair, leaving her breasts exposed to Neo as her smile grew.

"Good morning Neo, you slut…" greeted Cinder, "Or should that be 'good evening'? I hope you're enjoying yourself there,"

Neo thrashed silently as she saw Cinder, the rope binding her to her bed holding firm. Cinder let out a low chuckle and extinguished the flame, plunging the room into darkness. Not a moment later, she was on her feet and pressed the light switch, illuminating the room in a blaze of luminescence.


Neo closed her eyes as quickly as she could, stopping the light from hurting her sensitive eyes, before opening her mouth in pain. The light continued to bore through her eyelids and being unable to use her hands left her extremely vulnerable.

"Oh, poor little ice-cream whore…" tittered Cinder, unseen by the younger girl, but closing in on the bed. Cinder admired how little her ass hurt after Glynda's treatment, enjoying being able to flaunt it once again. "Hurts, doesn't it? Almost as much as being give fifty strokes of the fucking cane!"

As Cinder finished the sentence, she slapped Neo's undefended face with a stinging impact, her own grin growing as she thought back to her previous treatment at the girl's hands. Neo coughed loudly, which on someone whonow. Cinder's expression hardened as she took one of Neo's hardened nipples between her fingernails and pinched the bud sharply. The mute once again began thrashing as she felt the blade-like nails of the fire mistress dig into her flesh, pulling the nipple as she struggled and bucked against the bed. She opened her eyes and despite them watering heavily, she managed to keep them open and look at Cinder. Once the older woman caught her eye, she vindictively let go of the nipple causing Neo to mouth her displeasure once again as the pressure was released.

"You have very sensitive nipples. That's going to make tonight even more fun," Cinder smirked. "Keep your eyes on me, or I do that again," The flame manipulator moved away from the


bed, dragging a finger slowly over Neo's belly, then hip and finally leg before strutting to the desk and pulling the armchair with her. Neo's eyes refused to leave the older woman's body, she'd had fun with it in the past but when admired so fully, it was almost like artwork. The woman's nudity was only exemplified by the pair of black heels she'd chosen to wear, treading lightly on the soft carpet. The mute was still admiring Cinder's rear when she turned around, catching the girl staring and smiling to herself.

Forgetting the chair, Cinder walked back over to the bed, eyes still locked with Neo. Cinder sat down next to the girl, a finger lazily drawing circles on Neo's belly and enjoying the minute twitches that itproduced.

"So… you like my ass?" teased Cinder, before switching back to a near hiss, "You abused it last time, so now you're going to apologise," With that, Cinder climbed onto the bed fully, straddling Neo's neck and moving slightly further up until her ass was just above Neo's mouth and her pussy above the mute's nose. Giving Neo a second to realise what was going to happen, Cinder let her weight fall, sitting fully on the ice-cream haired girl's face.

The small button nose Neo was blessed with was turned into a sex toy for the older woman, shifting her hips to let it rub against the length of her lips. Neo's tongue was already hard at work, tasting the woman who was dominating her. Cinder mused on the


fact she hadn't showered today as she felt Neo's vigorous attention. The pleasure in her ass was something she remembered fondly from the last time the two had been intimate, as was the new sensation of Neo's nose. Cinder looked down through half lidded eyes, hand lowering to provide her clit some needed relief. She was Neo's eyes rapidly changing color as she blinked, her eyes starting to roll back in her head despite her pace not dropping in the slightest.

Sadly halting her own self-pleasure, Cinder lifted herself onto her knees again, immediately glad she did so as Neo's sudden large intake of breath told her it was desperately needed. Despite the release of pressure, Neo leant her head upwards, her tongue outstretched as she tried to lapat Cinder's crotch. Cinder wound her fingers through Neo's hair, grabbing hold of the soft strands and holding tightly as she started to face-fuck the younger girl. Her hips slowly began to find their rhythm, riding against the girl's wet tongue as it wildly explored her pussy. She gasped slightly as Neo found her clit and sucked lightly, refusing to the let go. A moment later, Cinder felt herself reaching her climax, the pressure inside her spilling out in an instant of glorious ecstasy.

The blast of Cinder's orgasm hit Neo square in the face, drenching the mute in Cinder's essence. Neo coughed and hacked as her mouth and nose filled temporarily with the clear liquid, but she regained her limited poise quickly and gave the fire witch a


smirk as she mewled the last of her climax.

Cinder took a deep breath and refocused, the mute was still cocky and she didn't like that. Repositioning herself, she moved her legs forwards and herself backwards until she was sitting on Neo's chest, her feet on either side of the girl's head. Without a word, Cinder confidently undid the straps on her heels and threw them aside, hitting the floor with a thud, before placing her bare feet directly on Neo's face.

Neo took the time to look closer at Cinder's feet, well cared for and with no marring, they were truly beautiful. She'd even kept her theme going and had painted her toenails the same red as her fingernails. Their actual size wasn't huge, but their high arches madefor an alluring sight. As Cinder pressed them onto the mute's face, Neo could feel her feature's distort. Her cheeks squished together and then pulled apart, as well as light slaps to the cheek with the balls of her feet.

Cinder was enjoying the simple humiliation she was inflicting on Neo, letting her bare feet tread on something different than soft carpet. Smirking, she started finding ways to make the petite girl look as unflattering as possible, stretching her face and placing her heels lightly on her eye sockets. Anything that Cinder simply deemed amusing. On a whim, she placed her feet together; pinching the mute's nose shut and let her feet rest on Neo's face.

There was a nearly audible groan from Neo as her smell was cut off.


She had been deeply exploring her senses, feeling Cinder's soft soles and smelling one of the most private parts of her, when it was all stripped away from her. Hungrily, Neo stuck out her tongue and began to explore with her other senses.

With a giggle, Cinder felt Neo began to lick her feet. The young mute was starting to submit more fully, with less bratty attitude. She remained quiet as Neo's tongue bathed every inch of her feet. Neo took a particularly methodical approach to her appreciation, starting with the balls of the feet, before moving oh so slowly onto the arches, placing light kisses every moment or so. Then she cared for the heel, making sure to use extra saliva as if to keep the delicate skinmoisturised. Once she'd done this for both feet, she moved backwards and placed her tongue boldly between Cinder's big toe and the next.

With no rebuke, Neo continued, licking the gaps between toes hungrily, going so far as to encapsulate each toe in her mouth and fellate it as if it were the cock of a lover. Cinder smirked as she enjoyed the attention, watching the girl's eyes stay closed and focussed on the job.

Pulling her feet away, Cinder was shocked to hear a small whine from Neo. It was only for a split second, but it was definitely there.

"So you do have a voice… but you refuse to speak?" mused Cinder, half-jokingly, half serious.

Neo's eyes shifted between glaring angrily at Cinder and flickering evasively anywhere but the hot


tempered mistress.

"Suit yourself," allowed Cinder, "But I'm not stopping till I hear you say my name."

The fire witch returned to her previous position, crotch only a few inches from Neo's mouth. With a handful of the mute's hair, she held the small girl at bay, Neo's tongue so close to her clit, Cinder was getting worked up just from that. Controlling herself, Cinder instead imagined a quiet place and the sound of rain.

"Drink up,"

Neo's eyes opened wide as she realised what Cinder was doing a moment too late. The golden stream of Cinder's piss splattered against the tiny girl's nose briefly until Cinder's grip on her hair forced her mouth open in pain, giving the witch an orifice to use. The acrid taste filled Neo's mouth all tooquickly for her liking and with still more coming, she was left with only one option.

The mute girl closed her eyes and swallowed the piss, along with her pride. Unable to close her mouth, Neo instead had to chug the liquid like a beer at a bar. The noise she made as it went down reminded her of a toilet, causing her to blush even as the next mouthful soon approached completion.

It was over less than half a minute after it began, but the change it wrought in Neo was staggering. The girl's hair had been released and she now lay on the bed, panting from drinking the piss, a few spattered remnants around her lips. Cinder meanwhile had gotten off the bed and had taken a tissue


to clean herself up while Neo recovered. As she was about to throw the soiled tissue in the trash, she thought for a moment and instead kept the slightly sodden material in her hand.

Large pants of breath helped Neo recover quicker. Her mind was racing as she did so, she'd never even considered doing something like that before but it had happened. As it processed through her head, she had a realisation. She didn't entirely hate it. Her thoughts were cut short; as her breathing became more regular, Cinder approached and stuffed a used tissue into her mouth. Once again, Neo tasted fresh piss and would be for a while.

"Since that didn't do the trick apparently, let's move onto option two,"

Cinder flexed her fingers, admiring her nails carefully,before ever so slowly and carefully, plucking each of Neo's nipples between the nails of her forefinger and thumb. She suddenly clamped down and Neo was intensely glad she was gagged as a muted scream wracked her body. She felt herself twist and writhe in pain for an eternity, the tissue in her mouth squeezing fresh torrents of Cinder's piss down her throat as her teeth bit down on it.

Still Cinder refused to relent; instead she started to move her hands up and down, shaking Neo's modest breasts by her nipples. Neo couldn't react to that, all she could was spit the tissue as far as she could, afraid she'd swallow it as her mouth opened wide, mutely.

Finally, offering some morsel of mercy, Cinder released Neo's chest. Neo


offered a low moan, but still nothing coherent. The brunette was becoming increasingly perturbed by Neo's refusal to speak. Irritated, Cinder swiftly bent over and took a nipple in her mouth. The younger girl gasped as she felt the sudden and pleasurable increase in temperature, which swiftly turned to pain as Cinder bit down, hard.

Neo opened her mouth, her voice ready to project outwards and scream Cinder's name, but a hand clamped itself over her mouth so all that was heard was a muffled yell. Surprised and now a little scared, Neo looked at Cinder who locked eyes with her. Cinder drew her lips back, exposing the tortured bud to Neo's eyes, before slowly pulling herself upwards. Neo's nipple was pulled away from her chest, clamped between Cinder'steeth even as she screamed bloody murder behind Cinder's hand-gag. Once she'd reached the limit of Neo's body, the nipple began to slide out of the fire witch's bite. The pain increased as less of the nipple was being bitten until the final, tiny bit was released, popping out from Cinder's teeth as Neo screamed long and hard.

Reaching across to where she'd placed Neo's panties on the floor beside her bed, she grabbed the underwear and stuffed them harshly in the girl's mouth. Cinder watched the girl's cheeks puff out from the sudden intrusion but ignored it to continue her plan.

"You're being very compliant now Neo… but if I recall, so was I but didn't get any mercy," taunted Cinder as she walked over the desk in the


room, picking up a small box that Neo recognised as not being there earlier. "Now… do you know what this is?" Cinder produced a long, rather thick needle in a sterile package from the box, displaying it to Neo. As the girl continue to stare, Cinder produced another needle in sterile packaging, two hoops, similarly packaged and a pair of forceps

The images clicked in Neo's mind as she moaned behind her pantie-gag. Cinder smirked as she took a small flat wrapper from the box and ripped it open. Slowly, the smell of alcohol emerged as Cinder unfolded the small wet rag. She roughly rubbed it over each of Neo's nipples and her own hands before discarding it. She heard a small moan as she clamped the forceps ontothe nipple horizontally. As she picked up and unpacked the needle, the multi-coloured hair girl shook her head back and forth violently.

"No no no… see Neo, you don't get away that easily," Cinder teased as she placed the needle gently against the side of Neo's bud. "Now stay still, if this goes wrong, I'll just do it again and again until I get it right," At those words, Neo froze, but whimpered as she felt Cinder manipulate her nipple, finding just the right spot. "Ok, I'm not entirely cruel. I'll do it on three. Okay?" Neo nodded. "Good, now, one, two,"

That was as far as Cinder got before she pushed the needle through the girl's nipple. Neo's eyes flickered between pink, brown and white as she blinked rapidly


while screaming into her own underwear. Taking advantage of the girl's distraction, Cinder placed the open hoop against the end of the needle and retracted it, letting the hoop follow it through the fresh piercing. The process took only a few seconds, quick enough that Neo didn't even realise that Cinder had done more than stab a needle through her nipple. Striking while the iron is hot, the forceps were removed and placed on the other nipple.

"Ok Neo, this one's on seven," Neo didn't pay attention, she was too busy groaning in pain from the previous piercing. "One, two, three, fo-" Cinder cut herself off halfway through the number as she pierced the second nipple. Neo's moans renewed themselves but the girl did a good job of onlywriggling minimally. Soon, the last hoop was through and in position as Cinder removed the forceps.

As Neo groaned in pain, Cinder pushed the balls that held the piercing shut into place, giving each nipple a flick for good measure when it was done.

"I don't want you forgetting tonight's lesson, so I'm going to make this a little harder to remove," said Cinder, like a school teacher. She kept a finger outstretched and conjured a small flame at the very tip, focussed to a very hot but very small point. Gripping the hoop and nipple with her other hand, she slowly began to weld the ball to the hoop. Using her own fingers as a temperature guide, she stopped every couple of seconds to not burn the girl. In


only a couple of minutes, both hoops had been sealed shut by the fire mistress' dust ability.

Cinder fiddled with the piercings, making sure they were secure enough for her liking before replacing all the used items into her box, ready to be disposed of later. She watched Neo, the younger girl's eyes closed as tears leaked like rain, as she wriggled and writhed.

"Time for your final lesson,"

Cinder lay down on the bed beside Neo, laying slightly on top of the girl's arm and leg through virtue of just being taller than her, before trailing a finger across her body. Neo felt her domme's finger trailing slowly down her body, confidently crossing every boundary of modesty she had as she felt the finger slip between her lower lips, puffyfrom desperation and slick from teasing. Cinder rubbed that finger slowly up and down her slit, offering no penetration, only sliding.

Neo moaned again, this time a passionate moan, born from eroticism rather than sadism. Cinder withdrew her finger, holding it in front of Neo's face as her other hand removed the pantie-gag, before replacing it with the finger. Neo eagerly sucked the digit, tasting her own wetness, combined with Cinder, the younger girl was in heaven.

"Now then Neo… I'm going to leave you ungagged for now. If you want to cum, you know what to say. But if you cum without saying it… well… I'm sure there's worse things I could do to you,"

Neo nodded, eyes still closed as she continued to suck Cinder's finger.

"Good girl,"

Cinder withdrew her


finger from Neo's mouth with a pop as the younger girl tried to keep hold of it, before moving it back down to her pussy, sliding the finger inside smoothly. As Cinder started to pump her finger gently, she leaned closer, starting to nuzzle at the smaller girl's neck and kissing it softly, her other hand gripping the ice-cream hair tightly.

Neo started to purr as Cinder finger-fucked her, panting slightly as Cinder started to move her kisses. To the neck, the cheek, a few small pecks to the lips, all the while never ceasing that perfect thrusting inside the girl. Feeling ready, Cinder slipped another finger inside, drawing a long groan from Neo as she filled the girl's tight pussy up even more, only allowed by the obscenewetness she was producing.

As Neo started to get close to the edge, Cinder could see her mouth start moving with no words coming out. The same pattern of lip movements, like she was practising how to form words. Not wanting it to end too quickly, Cinder stopped thrusting. Neo howled frustrated as she watched Cinder remove her mouth from her chest, and lick the juices from her own fingers.

Cinder gathered Neo's juices in her mouth, not swallowing, despite the nostalgic urge to. Instead she moved so that her mouth was a few inches above the younger girl's. The hand in Neo's hair pulled tightly and the mute obediently opened her mouth. A moment later, Cinder opened her own mouth and stuck her tongue out, letting the collection of


pussy juice and saliva slide off her tongue, only to fall into Neo's mouth. Moving closer, Cinder kept her long tongue protruded as it was soon captured by Neo, the small girl's mouth closing around the muscle and sucking, drawing every minutia of taste from it.

Pulling away, Cinder smiled at the enthusiasm Neo showed as she casually dipped her pinkie finger into the mute's crotch, lubricating the digit. Withdrawing it and then folding her ring finger and holding it back with her thumb, she placed the two fingers she'd used previously at Neo's entrance, while the newly lubed pinkie finger rested against her tight asshole. As one, Cinder started to thrust while nibbling at Neo's collarbone and she could feel the difference immediately. Where before Neo writhed andenjoyed the pleasure, now she was tense as if she were a second away from cumming. Cinder leaned closer so the pair were resting cheek to cheek. She could feel Neo's lips moving and the rumblings of something growing in the girl's chest. All it would take was a single push.

"Cum for me, Neo," whispered Cinder, gently biting the girl's earlobe as she did.

That tipped Neo over the edge, every bit of pain, frustration and pleasure she'd experienced came back in a brief, shining moment as she screamed with an intensity than made Cinder's knees quake.

"CINDER!"

Neo's voice was light, but hoarse, worn down by pain and exhaustion. As she rode out the pleasure, she made small moans. Not constrained by her limits, but honest sounds, more harmonious than


anything before. More like her real voice.

Cinder smiled, giving the previously-mute girl a quick kiss on the cheek as she removed her fingers from the girl.

"You have a lovely voice you know… I like that I'm one of the few to have heard it,"

Neo heard that last sentence, but nothing more as the relief of the event washed over her and she passed out on her bed again.

Cinder looked at the passed out girl and slowly began to untie the knots holding her to the bed. As she untied the girl's hands, they unconsciously moved to soothe her sore, newly pierced nipples, holding them in a comforting embrace. When the legs were freed, they bent slightly and both pointed to one side while she lay on her back.The image was a provocative one, both modest and alluring from Cinder's perspective.

Standing up on shaky legs, Cinder grabbed the still recording video camera from the bedside table and pointed the camera at Neo, getting a good image of the sleeping girl and letting it stay for a few moments before shutting the camera off. Redressing herself and collecting her things, Cinder left the room quietly, being sure to shut the light off as she did so.

The next afternoon, Cinder was sat in her private office in the headquarters. It was large and spacious with multiple televisions showing news channels and programs from all across Remnant. She idly listened to the local news as she investigated the financial and influential gain from their recent acquisition of several tonnes


of Schnee Dust Company dust.

"Recent reports of mass fainting have been confirmed as being spread throughout Vale. A cause has not yet been determined but no fatalities have emerged. Medical experts are continuing their investigations."

At the knock of the door, Cinder muted the news report.

"Come in,"

The door opened and a White Fang soldier stepped into the entrance.

"Excuse me Ma'am, Mr Torchwick and Ms Neopolitan are in the main hangar,"

Cinder shuffled her papers into a vague order and stood up.

"Yes, I suppose they can't stay long now, can they?"

Cinder strode out of the door quickly, followed by the soldier as they travelled down the corridor in silence. At the end, they went through a set of double doors and entered the main hangar. The atmosphere was immediately louder, thesoundproofing being effective at stopping the sound of aircraft taking off. In the middle of the hangar, highly identifiable amidst nearly a hundred White Fang members in their uniform, were Roman and Neo. Cinder approached confidently, her usual smile on her face.

"Hello Roman,"

"Hey ya Boss-lady," greeted the orange haired man jovially, "How's all the dust we stole? Ready to barbeque some robots?"

"The plan will go ahead as scheduled Roman. You and… Neo" the shorter girl curtseyed mockingly, "will make sure that the Vytal Festival starts off with a bang,"

"Got ya," said Roman, throwing his cane in the air and grabbing it, moving it to point towards a jet, "Let's get rolling people!"

The man's confident motion was halted as Neo stuck her foot out and tripped him over.

"Hey! Neo!


What the…" Roman started but paused as Neo gave him an evil glare, instead focussing on getting to his feet.

The short girl then started to walk a little closer to Cinder, her hand in her pocket. Cinder eyed the girl cautiously, ready to summon a defensive flame at a moment's notice. The work in the hangar stopped, the noise dying down to only a dull tone as everyone stopped to watch the encounter.

When Neo was within a foot of Cinder, she pulled the object out of her pocket. Cinder flinched slightly at the sudden motion, but stopped when she saw what it was. It was an envelope. Specifically, it was a pink envelope, sealed with a cartoony heart sticker.

In shock, Cinder accepted the envelope as it was pushedinto her hand. Before she could react, the smaller girl pulled the flame user down by her neck slightly and pecked her on the cheek, before letting go and walking off, grabbing the just recovering Roman and striding up the ramp of the stealth jet.

Cinder looked around and could see the slack expressions being displayed by the majority of the White Fang members present, as well as Roman as the door to the jet shut, Neo waving casually the entire time.

"Get back to work!" yelled Cinder, her face starting to irreversibly blush at the gesture she'd just received. In response, the hangar once again became a hive of activity, if only token work done to satisfy her. Still blushing, Cinder took the letter and walked right back to


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process with peace and security between us and the Palestinians,” Netanyahu
said.

Following the tete-a-tete between the two principals, the Americans
and Israelis broke up into teams for talks into the New York afternoon. Among
those present were US special envoy George Mitchell, Israeli chief peace
negotiator Yitzhak Molcho, Israeli strategist Uzi Arad and US National Security
Council member Daniel Shapiro.

While no details were offered on the
meetings, Israeli government officials said the talks were “very serious” and
that “everything is on the table.”

The meetings were still ongoing at
press time.

Earlier, Netanyahu met with US House Minority Leader Eric
Cantor for more than an hour.

Cantor, a Virginia Republican, is expected
to become majority leader in January, which would make him the highest-ranking
Jewish member in congressional history.


Global markets were rocked on Wednesday by Donald Trump’s victory in the US election but recovered from their worst falls as the president-elect made conciliatory remarks in his victory speech and Wall Street opened higher.

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The rout in Asia looked likely to continue in Europe, but despite large initial declines, the slide was less than feared.

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DURBAN VOTED BEST CITY TO LIVE

Hester Davis, Chairperson of the Desk of Expertise reported the following on the highest quality of life in the international Mercer’s 19th Quality of Living survey. Hester says it is in these times of turmoil, it is a “GREAT POSITIVE” for our country, too receive such good news. The daily Southern African Tourism updates writes the following on 31st March 2017. Durban has for a third consecutive year, been ranked the top South African City with the highest quality of life in the international Mercer’s 19th Quality of Living survey.

Mayor Zandile Gumede said this proves that eThekwini Municipality has one of Africa’s best service delivery programmes and continues to make a positive impact in the lives of its residents.

“Our Municipality continuouslystrives to ensure that our 3.7 million residents enjoy an improved quality of life through the services we render. The Municipality’s new Radical Economic Transformation Framework aims to accelerate service delivery, provide economic opportunities to poor and unemployed residents and grow the small business sector,” she said.

Councillor Gumede said over the past 23 years into our democracy, eThekwiniMunicipality has improved access to public services such as electricity, water, sanitation, roads, solid waste, community and emergency services and free basic services.

The annual survey ranked Durban the best City in South Africa, placing it 87th in the world. This is followed closely by Cape Town and Johannesburg in 94th place and 96th place, respectively.

Last year, Durban achieved this accolade coming ahead of Cape Town and Johannesburg and was placed the


Second Best City in Africa following Port Louis in Mauritius.

Vienna occupies first place for overall quality of living for the 8th year running, with the rest of the top-ten list mostly filled by European cities: Zurich is in second place, with Munich (4), Dusseldorf (6), Frankfurt (7), Geneva (8), Copenhagen (9), and Basel, a newcomer to the list, in 10th place. The only non-European cities in the top ten are Auckland (3) and Vancouver (5). The highest ranking cities in Asia and Latin America are Singapore (25) and Montevideo (79), respectively.

Mercer’s authoritative survey is one of the world’s most comprehensive and is conducted annually to enable multinational companies and other organisations to compensate employees fairly when placing them on international assignments. In addition to valuable data, Mercer’s QualitySwimming: Seaside rebuilds, re-fills the pool

Kendy Lin is in the senior year of a very successful high school swimming career at Seaside.

While Seaside will see the return of a couple of state-qualifying girls swimmers, the Gulls will have to replace some high-powered boys, including their entire 200-yard freestyle relay team.

Will Garvin, James Kennedy, Luke Liljenwall and Brad Rzewnicki played a big role in helping Seaside to a second-place team finish at districts last year. But the Fab Four has graduated, forcing a quick rebuilding job for head coach Shane Spell.

And rebuild they did.

From a total of 18 swimmers last year, to 34 this year.

While the Gulls have re-stocked the pool, they will have to wait before they can use it, as a remodeling project has closed Sunset Pool


he said. "Perhaps we should scatter some crumbs or pieces of fruit inside – I know he has a big appetite for such a tiny creature..."

But Zoe winked at Meep, and Meep scampered straight into the bag, disappearing inside. "It's as if he knew just what we wanted him to do!" said Great-Uncle Horace, his eyes twinkling, and Zoe giggled.

Meep was much smaller than Kipp, but wiggled right to the bottom of the rucksack and stuck one of his little paws out of a leg hole. "It's very cosy in here, Zoe!" he squeaked.

"I think it's going to work," said Great-Uncle Horace with a satisfied nod. "Well done, Zoe."

"But we still need to make sure it's the right fit for Kipp," said Zoe. "And we need to seePopular Articles

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                         request and ordered the parties to cooperate. The court also ordered DCFS to schedule and pay
       for the testing.
¶ 11       On March 6, 2012, Nichole and Alfred got married. The next day, March 7, 2012, Nichole
       and Alfred participated in a DCFS integrated assessment interview conducted by two
       caseworkers from Family Core. Based on the interview statements made by Nichole and
       Alfred, the caseworkers created a report summarizing the background of N.C.’s case and the
       personal history of Alfred and Nichole.
¶ 12       In pertinent


part, the report noted that Alfred signed the VAP stating he was N.C.’s father,
       but the report claimed that Nichole “questioned paternity.” Alfred and Nichole gave slightly
       conflicting accounts of their relationship, but both stated that they initially met at the Peoria
       bus station in either 2009 or 2010. They dated briefly, until Alfred moved to southern Illinois.
¶ 13       Alfred told the screeners that he returned to Peoria in December 2011, when he and
       Nichole started dating again. Nichole, however, told screeners that Alfred returned to Peoria in
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endorsements from elected officials in Washington. (His successor as governor, Gina Raimondo, is backing Clinton.) He was widely mocked for his call to convert the United States to the metric system, though his veiled criticism of Clinton occasionally earned him a headline.

But on Friday, he left the stage to a sympathetic standing ovation.

Asked by reporters afterward why he had dropped out, he said, "Obviously it's a good week for Secretary Clinton."

He wished people had paid more attention to his other priorities, he said. But yes, he affirmed, he stands by his support of the metric system.Updated at 6:20 a.m.

More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike.

Workers shut down 33 manufacturing plants in nine states across the U.S., as well as 22 parts distribution warehouses. That includes GM's largest manufacturing site, an SUV assembly plant in Arlington that employs more than 4,000 workers.

It wasn't clear how long the walkout would last, with the union saying GM has budged little in months of talks while GM said it made substantial offers including higher wages and factory investments.

It's the first national strike by the union since a two-day walkout in 2007 that had little impact on the company.

GM workers joined striking Aramark-employed


janitors assigned to GM facilities on the picket lines Sunday night at a sprawling factory on the border between Detroit and the small town of Hamtramck.

Worker Patty Thomas said she wasn't scheduled to picket, but came out to support her colleagues at the car plant, which GM wants to close. She's heard talk that GM may keep the factory open and start building electric pickup trucks there, but she's skeptical.

"What are they going to take away?" she asked. "That's the big issue."

She said workers gave up cost-of-living pay raises to help GM get through bankruptcy, and workers want some of that back now that the company is making profits.

Striking GM employees were joined on the picket lines by workers from Ford and Fiat Chrysler, who are working undercontract extensions.

Night shift workers at an aluminum castings factory in Bedford, Indiana, that makes transmission casings and other parts shut off their machines and headed for the exits, said Dave Green, a worker who transferred from the now-shuttered GM small-car factory in Lordstown, Ohio.

Green, a former local union president, said he agrees with the strike over wages, plant closures and other issues.

"If we don't fight now, when are we going to fight?" he asked. "This is not about us. It's about the future."

The Arlington plant is one of 53 GM facilities shut down by a strike. (Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)

UAW Vice President Terry Dittes, the union's top GM negotiator, said a strike is the union's last resort but is needed because both sides are far apart


Kristin Dziczek, vice president of labor and industry at the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank. The length "depends on how far apart they really are and where the lines in the sand are drawn," she said.

Talks were scheduled to resume at 9 a.m. Monday.

The union's contract with GM expired Saturday night, but pacts with the company's crosstown rivals, Ford and Fiat Chrysler, were extended indefinitely. The union has picked GM as its target company this year, and any deal it negotiates will be used as a template for the others. GM was picked because it's the most profitable of the three, and because its plans to close four U.S. factories have angered union members.

On Sunday, about 200 plant-level leaders voted unanimously to strike against GMworkers the two plants would employ. The closures, especially of the Ohio plant, have become issues in the 2020 presidential campaign. President Donald Trump has consistently criticized the company and demanded that Lordstown be reopened.

Rothenberg said UAW was striking for fair wages, affordable health care, profit sharing, job security and a path to permanent employment for temporary workers.

GM has factories in Michigan, Ohio, New York, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Missouri, Indiana and Kansas.

A strike would bring to a halt GM's U.S. vehicle and parts production, and would likely stop the company from making vehicles in Canada and Mexico as well. That would mean fewer vehicles for consumers to choose from on dealer lots, and it would make it impossible to build specially ordered cars and trucks.

Analysts at Cox Automotive


said GM has enough vehicles on dealer lots to last about 77 days at the current sales pace. That's well above the industry average of 61. But supplies of the Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban large SUVs, which generate big money for the company, are well below the industry average.

The talks this year have been overshadowed by a growing federal corruption probe that snared a top union official on Thursday. Vance Pearson, head of a regional office based near St. Louis, was charged in an alleged scheme to embezzle union money and spend cash on premium booze, golf clubs, cigars and swanky stays in California. It's the same region that UAW President Gary Jones led before taking the union's top office last year. Jones himself has been touched bythe investigation, leading some union members to call for him to step down, but he hasn't been charged.

This year's talks between the union and GM were tense from the start, largely because of GM's plan to close four U.S. factories, including the one on the Detroit border with the enclave of Hamtramck, as well as Lordstown and factories in Warren, Michigan, and near Baltimore.

Here are the main areas of disagreement:

GM is making big money, $8 billion last year alone, and workers want a bigger slice. The union wants annual pay raises to guard against an economic downturn, but the company wants to pay lump sums tied to earnings. Automakers don't want higher fixed costs.

The union also wants new products for the four factories GM wants to close. The


SOUTH PORTLAND — When Connor Mullen started wearing a baseball cap bearing Donald Trump’s campaign slogan to South Portland High School three weeks ago, he expected other students to taunt him.

But when two adults who work in the school made fun of him, including a teacher who Mullen said blurted “Thank God you can’t vote,” he decided to speak out. Friday, he voiced his concerns to administrators and was told that while he was free to wear the hat, which reads “Make America Great Again,” he might want to consider leaving it at home to avoid further problems.

Student Connor Mullen says he's tried to call the campaign staff of Donald Trump to let officials know about the treatment he's received while wearing a Trump hat in school. Gabebut working at home meant I had to get my workshop in order.

I was born and grew up in South Africa, but in December of 2003 my wife and I decided to leave South Africa and relocate to the US. For the first 2 years we rented a house and in 2006 purchased our own home in the US. While we eventually settled in nicely and unpacked everything we shipped over from South Africa, the garage had become a bit of an unorganized storage facility. I began by building some storage cupboards and trying to get some kind of organization in the garage. With the little remaining space I figured I would set up a small garage workshop and restart my woodworking hobby. I began by cleaning up


cable news sites have generally poor science reporting. This occurs both on the Right and Left. Fox, CNN, and MSNBC all score poorly on compelling science content. Big American newspapers and magazines struggle, too. The New York Times and Washington Post are often dominated by ideological garbage science such as fad diets, organic food crazes, and new age fluff. TIME and Scientific American occasionally suffer from similar ideological bias. NPR has given time to anti-vaccination advocacy.

Notable bottom feeders in science include The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, INFO WARS, and Food Babe. Read these sites only if you want to reinforce your comfortable cocoon of pseudoscientific hokum.

When it comes to scientific coverage, we look for two things: First, does the site present compelling coverage? Is the research timely, ofFuture outlook in african american kinship care families.
Orientation to the future, in the social science literature, is linked to social adaption and adjustment. This study examines the future outlook in African American kinship care families. The focus of the study was restricted to adolescents in the kinship care population and examined both youth's and parent figure's outlook for the future. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97), the study describes the future orientation of African American youth who live with relative caregivers. It tests for differences in orientation to the future between kinship care parents and those with biological and other family types and tests the hypothesis of there being a significant difference in future orientation between youth and their relative acting as parent caregiver. Findings demonstrate


Sunday, August 31, 2008

Miyoko - April 2, 2006 - May 8, 2008

This is a small tribute to a special dog, Miyoko, and her adored human, Andy. I don't know the full story of Miyoko, but I do know that Andy got her as a pup and put his whole heart into giving her the very best life anyone could possibly imagine for a dog. He taught her street safety, and did such a fine job, she never required a leash. Not a ball, not a squirrel, not someone calling, could tempt Miyoko off the curb, unless she had Andy's permission. This is not to say she didn't have a mind of her own, but as Andy said, "She was just being a woman." Miyoko and Andy were seldomapart. They went to work together at the race track, and they spent countless hours in the forest and along the riverside of Bridgeman Park. They also dropped by Hamersley Park in the evenings, which is where Black Jack and I first met them when I moved to North Vancouver. Miyoko had unbelievable joy in her; she could play with the best of them without ever losing her cool. She was the diplomat of the dog park, eager to meet and greet both dogs and humans. When she wasn't there, people would look for her. It always seemed to be more fun when she and Andy arrived on the scene. In spite of Andy's best efforts, and huge veterinarian bills that he's still trying to pay off, he


on without his best buddy.

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Life is good. I live with my little dog, Black Jack, have a dear sister in Ottawa, and am fortunate to have good friends who share in my joys and challenges. Black Jack and I both love a beautiful man named Bill, who came into our lives in August, 2007. I spend lots of time on my bike, and remember on most days to stop and admire the blooms, gaze at the birds and beasts, and take in the scenes around me.Affairs (VA) Regional Office (RO) in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Initially, a December 2012 rating decision continued the assigned 30 percent evaluation for the service-connected right shoulder disability. Subsequently, a May 2013 rating decision reduced the assigned evaluation for the Veteran's service-connected tinea pedis with onychomycosis and tinea versicolor, from 60 percent to 10 percent disabling, effective August 1, 2013.
In April 2017, the Veteran testified before the undersigned Veterans Law Judge at a live videoconference hearing. A transcript of the proceeding is of record.
The Board is only undertaking adjudication of the matter involving the propriety of the rating reduction for tinea pedis with onychomycosis and tinea versicolor, from 60 percent to 10 percent disabling. As will be explained, the Board is remanding the claim of entitlement to an increased evaluation


The split within the clergy appears to be widening A group of clerics in Iran has called Iran's presidential vote invalid, contradicting official results. The pro-reform group's statement pits it against the top legislative body, which last week formally endorsed the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On Saturday, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that post-election events had caused bitterness. Britain said one of two UK embassy employees detained for "inciting protests" would be released. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in the aftermath of the poll to protest at what they alleged was a fraudulent election. The protests died down after the authorities deployed lethal force, killing at least 20 demonstrators. More than 1,000 were arrested. On Sunday, state news agency Irna quoted Iran's policechief as saying about two-thirds of those arrested had been released. The authorities have blamed the West, in particular the UK, for fomenting the unrest through the use of the media, including BBC Persian television which broadcasts to the country via satellite. The head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, has said "those who co-operate with such websites and television channels will face prosecution". On Sunday, Iran's foreign ministry said a British-Greek journalist working for The Washington Times - who had been arrested in connection with "recent street riots" - had been released. 'No authority' The pro-reform clerics group said in a statement that the top legislative body, the Guardian Council, no longer had the right "to judge in this case." In a statement to the press, the


Assembly of Qom Seminary Scholars and Researchers said some members of the Guardian Council had "lost their impartial image in the eyes of the public." Mr Rafsanjani is a possible mediator in the election dispute "How can one accept the legitimacy of the election just because the Guardian Council says so? Can one say that the government born out of the infringements is a legitimate one," it said. The Guardian Council is an unelected 12-member council made up of six religious leaders, appointed by the supreme leader, and six jurists. The statement is further proof of a split at the top of Iran's establishment, correspondents say. They say that in particular, it was an act of defiance against the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The group saidthe Guardian Council had not paid "attention" to the complaints lodged by the defeated candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, and urged other clerics to back them in calling the election and the new government illegitimate. On Saturday, Mr Rafsanjani - an influential figure in Iranian politics and a prominent backer of Mr Mousavi during the election - met with the families of some of those who have been detained. It was the first time he had spoken publicly since the election. He told the families that nobody with a "vigilant conscience" could be satisfied with the current situation. IRAN UNREST 12 June Presidential election saw incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-elected with 63% of vote Main challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi called for result to be annulled on grounds


having a cup holder that extends outwardly from each end wall. The end walls of such a tray include side flaps that couple to an adjacent side wall. The end walls and side flaps are taller than the side walls. As such, when a cup is positioned in the tray, the cup is secured by the combination of the cup holder, the end wall, and the side flap. Notably, the retractable cup holders only extend from the end walls because the end wall and side flap cooperate with the cup holder to secure the cup in the tray. Further, the central portion of the tray is configured to allow for other food items to be positioned therein. As such, this other known tray is limited in the numberCarson fired up the audience, most of those gaps were plugged, even though supporters had to run the gauntlet of protesters outside the venue.

“Wow, what a crowd,” Trump began. “What a crowd.” There were 10,000 people in attendance, according to city officials, although some did filter out before the end.

George Gigicos, a former White House director of advance who had organised the event as a contractor to the Republican national committee (RNC), bore the brunt of Trump’s wrath, according to Bloomberg. He was told he would never manage a Trump rally again by the president’s longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller, who in May hand-delivered a letter from the president firing FBI director James Comey.

The president made headlines at the Phoenix rally with his fierce attacks on the media, threat


When a small handful of enthusiasts gathered at the first cinema show at the Grand Cafe in Paris on December 27, 1895, to celebrate early experimental film, they didn't know that over the next century, their fringe fascination would carve its place in history as the "seventh art." But how, exactly, did that happen? In 100 Ideas That Changed Film, Oxford Times film reviewer David Parkinson and publisher Laurence King—who brought us 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design and the epic Saul Bass monograph—offer a concise and intelligent chronicle of the most influential developments since the dawn of cinema.

From technologies like magic lanterns (#1), the kinetoscope (#3), and the handheld camera (#78), to genres like slapstick (#21), poetic realism (#50), and queer cinema (#97), to system-level developments likeDelivery Man

The last hitchhiker Michael Harrell picked up was kind of a mistake. "I stopped for this guy because I needed someone to help with the driving," Harrell explained. "He took one look at my cooler and said 'Do you have anything to drink in there?' I said 'No, just Pepsi.' 'Pepsi's OK' he said, and he reached in and took one. Didn't ask if he could have one. Didn't say thank you. I mean this guy had problems. So he was telling me about all his problems, and as he was telling me, he kept taking himself another Pepsi. I pretended we had to stop for gas. Sent him into the store to fetch some more Pepsi so I could get him out of the car and


drive away."

Yet here Harrell was, a few months later, in the West Palm Beach morning sun, swinging over to the shoulder of the feeder ramp to pick me up. "Get in boy," Harrell told me. I piled into the backseat. As any gentleman would, he proceeded to introduce himself.

"My name's Jose Motherfucker," he said, turning around to inspect me. The passenger in front of me turned around too. "My partner here is Pedro Piss-ant. What's your name boy? You little snob..."

Snob?

Michael Harrell is one to talk about snobs. Michael Harrell is a snob's snob. He used to be an accountant--according to him a millionaire accountant--but he abandoned that for a line of work that allows him to travel. An average of 23 hours a day.

Every spring and fallfor ten years now he has transported luxury cars to and from Florida for well-to-do northern snowbirds who spend the cold months in their tropical condos and cottages but are too feeble or busy to drive their cars the distance. They call on Michael Harrell.

"The business is run on my personality," said Harrell. He's in his 40s, with premature white hair and a posture as stately as the pillars of the mansion he claims to have once had. "Most of those who work for the wealthy behave servile, like butlers. I do not. I was to the manor born, from one of the oldest families in the south. Our land was granted to us by the king of England. I'm accustomed to having nice things and I know


how to treat them."

It was the height of the spring season, and Harrell was on his way to Sarasota to pick up a car that needed to be delivered to Highland Park. Harrell was driving "Big Daddy," a pin-striped American luxury van that still looked new after 100,000 miles. His trailer was hitched to the rear.

"Michael comes home, takes a shower, and he's gone again," says Harrell's Palm Beach secretary Wilma Edelen, known to clients as Wilma Darling. She earned the pet name by using "darling" as a catchall nickname--"and because it's very Palm Beach," says Harrell. "Clients always remember Wilma Darling--even if they can't recall having breakfast."

That was one of his senility jokes.

"I don't work for the clients' satisfaction," Harrell offered. "I work for my own satisfaction.he meant, Harlan had already laid out the ramps and driven the car onto the trailer, and was commencing to secure the rig.

"Let's go, let's go." Harrell prodded him to get in the van while the owner of the car stood by, his hands and mouth quivering with botched attempts at dialogue.

We moved north on Route 75, past Tampa Bay, Harlan at the wheel; the rig wiggled a little but maintained 60 miles per hour, the speed Harrell believes is optimal for tugging a Lexus. "Any faster and the trailer starts to wiggle-wobble," he said.

Palm trees slowly gave way to palmetto shrubs. In northern Florida the interstate was bordered by high walls of forest, the trees barely visible through the cascading waves of vines.

Night fell as we stopped


for gas. Ten miles later we passed a blue sign showing a peach and a cursive message: "Welcome. We're glad Georgia's on your mind."

Harrell, whose next shift would begin at midnight, called it a day at the office. It took three seconds to commute to the back of the van, where he plowed out on the couch.

But Harrell's workday is never fully over. He doesn't trust other drivers enough to really sleep.

At 2 AM Harrell ended my sleep for the night. "Hey! Come up here and talk to me, I'm getting drowsy." Then he added: "Are you sure you don't know how to drive?"

I know how to take the CTA.

The Atlanta skyline rose before us, at least ten of the buildings crowned with pyramidal hats, a few ofyou're going to rear-end them if they don't get out of your way.

The trick to safety is not to play the radio.

Since he allows few stops, except for gas, Harrell makes an art of living behind the wheel. When he's running a caravan of two or three cars, with only one relief driver, Harrell shaves, washes his face, brushes his teeth, fixes sandwiches, vacuums, reads--and when no one is peeping from the window of a passing truck, he relieves himself behind the wheel in a special jar.

"One time I was alone in the van on a straightaway," he recalled. "And I had to go really bad, but my tinkle jar was all the way in the back of the van. So I put Big Daddy on cruise and


ran back there to get my jar."

Since he's on the road so much, Harrell has plenty of time to make up and test out all sorts of little driving games. Or at least to make them up.

"This isn't a boring job," he said apropos of nothing in particular.

The rig ascended the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, which are neither great nor smoky this far west. We crossed over into Tennessee, and the sloping city of Chattanooga, which hugs the Tennessee River.

Continuing on toward Nashville, the interstate rolls over the foothills and jackknifes back and forth between Georgia and Tennessee and two time zones. According to Harrell, but not his road map, there's even a pinch of Alabama.

And if the constant signs welcoming the traveler in and outof various states weren't bizarre enough at 4:30/3:30 AM, the three or four enormous fireworks factories alongside the road were easy to mistake for spacecraft with giant glowing force fields.

As the sun rose, and the drivers switched again outside Nashville, I dozed off, completely missing the state of Kentucky.

I awoke to the chromatically muted landscape 80 miles short of Indianapolis. A light rain began to fall from the egg carton sky.

Proceeding northward, the countryside grew grayer; leaves diminished into buds and then disappeared altogether into bare brown branches. Forty miles outside the city limits a series of orange caution signs commenced to warn that construction in Indianapolis might cause delays, but the signs were only bragging. We breezed right through the city. According to Harrell Indy couldn't muster


of March 31, 2012.

The Company adopted the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on January 1, 2012 and made accounting changes related to its cargo business unit.

About Grupo Aeromexico Grupo Aeromexico operates its main hub out of Terminal 2 in the Mexico City International Airport. The Group's airlines operate over 550 daily flights to different cities in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Central and South America, and Europe and Asia. Aeromexico is a founding member of SkyTeam, the global airline alliance comprised of 15 airlines.

Safe Harbor Statement This release contains forward-looking statements regarding the Company's results and business prospects. The readers should know that the results obtained may differ from that stated on this release. Past performances do not guarantee the behavior of future performances. The Company undertakes noThe first of Australia's F-35 Joint Strike Fighters has been put through its paces in its inaugural flight in the United States.

In a statement, manufacturer Lockheed Martin said its chief test pilot took the aircraft through "a series of functional checks" in a two-hour flight check.

The first of the Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) is scheduled for delivery to the Royal Australian Air Force later this year and will be assigned to an Arizona Air Force base where it will be used for pilot training.

The Federal Government pledged $24 billion to buy and deploy 72 of the futuristic stealth fighter jets, in what is Australia's largest military acquisition.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has previously credited the F-35, along with the Super Hornet and Growler electronic warfare aircraft, as giving Australia


"a regional air combat edge".

"The F-35 will provide a major boost to the ADF's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities," he said.

"The acquisition of F-35 aircraft will bring significant benefits to Australia, including regional areas and [the] local defence industry."

While the F-35 has been billed as the smartest fighter jet on the planet, designed to strike enemies in the air and on the ground without being detected by radar, its development has been beset by delays and cost overruns.

The head of the JSF program, US Air Force Lieutenant-General Chris Bogdan, visited Australia earlier this year and declared the reliability and maintainability of the aircraft was not yet "good enough".

In late March, the US House Armed Services Committee was told the planes were not yet affordable to use.

The committee heardTrial Of Student Accused Of Tearing Flag Wraps Up

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque Metro Court jurors are expected to decide a case Wednesday involving a University of New Mexico student who tore up a Mexican flag on campus.

Peter Lynch is charged with misdemeanor criminal damage to property. He is an Air Force veteran who attends UNM.

Lynch said that in September 2006, on the day after Mexican Independence Day, he saw the Mexican flag flying on campus, unaccompanied by the American flag. Lynch has admitted to taking the flag down, ripping it apart and stomping on it.

But, Lynch told police that what he did was simply an act of patriotism. "He stated that the national flag code dictated that the flag of another nation flying over the United States was


2014 World Music Awards

The 2014 World Music Awards was a music awards ceremony that was held on May 27, 2014, at the Salle des Etoiles in Monte Carlo, Monaco. It was the 22nd edition of the show since its start in 1989, and the first ceremony since 2010, after which it went on a four-year hiatus. , it has continued another unexplained hiatus of five years.

Awards
At the ceremony, Mariah Carey received the Pop Icon Award for having sold over 200 million records and having more No.1 singles in America than any other solo artist. Miley Cyrus received the award for world's Best Pop Rock Female Artist. She also won World's Best Video for "Wrecking Ball" and World's Best Female Artist voted by the fans. Han Geng received theMay 28. Delays due to talent and technical difficulties caused the event to be delayed until May 27, and the shows' executive producers failed to deliver the show to NBC in time for it to be broadcast due to further delays, which included the late arrival of Mariah Carey to the ceremony, all factors which caused the ceremony to run 4 hours over its original taping schedule. Sharon Stone had been slated to host the ceremony, but pulled out at the last minute due to a payment dispute with the WMA organizing body. Likewise, a scheduled livestream of the red carpet via the website of music industry publication Billboard was called off due to further technical issues.

Pamela Anderson and Jason Derulo stepped in to host the ceremony at


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IP Milestones in Argentina during 2016

Throughout 2016 the new government in Argentina resorted to a policy of opening up to the world, which will surely bring a change in terms of international cooperation treaties on industrial property.

In this regard, a clear change of direction took place in mid-2016, with the appointment of the new President of the National Industrial Property Institute (INPI), Dr. Dámaso Pardo, who has a long history in the Intellectual Property field. Among the first measures was Resolution 56/2016 issued on September 19, 2016, whereby patent applicants may request fast-track examination of a patent application. This, coupled with an increase in the number of examiners, will speed up the examination of patents and reduce the current backlog.

Since the arrival of Dr. Pardo at INPI, therehandling the moto tool and art knives with care... Specially for carving and cutting small parts..

Materials used were varying sizes and types of popsicle sticks, wooden coffee stirrers and toothpicks. The colored 'tongue depressor-sized' popsicle sticks were used in the final assembly to prop up the engine drive assembly at the same level with the mechanical walkers' legs. A piece of bamboo chopstick was used for the gyro system connecting the main turret with the engine drive assembly. Also useful were bits and pieces from my 'spares' box for tiny parts like the simulated mini blaster and concussion grenade launcher mounted on the both sides of the main turret. The 'spares' were leftovers from other popsicle stick projects.

Step 2: Schematics

Schematics for the AT-ST was from the site The-Bluprints.com.


command viewports were separately glued and sanded into shape. The slot for the main blaster was carved using a reinforced cutting wheel from Dremel.

Tiny parts for the command viewports, ingress/egress hatch, mini laser blaster and concussion grenade (and their mountings) were cut from various parts from the 'spares' box and sanded to its final shape using a fine disc sander attachment.

Step 4: Footpad and Leg Assembly

The two (2) footpads of the walker were cut and carved into shape from wooden starbucks 'stirrers' using a fine disc and drum sander attachment.

The simulated fence cutting blade was carved from a toothpick, sliced in two and glued to the two (2) dome-shaped footpads. The length of the fence cutting blades were intentionally lengthened to act as a 'foot' extension. The extendedlength increases the footprint of the walker and acts to counter balance the weight of the main turret when mounted in the final assembly. Equal sized toothpicks were cut and glued to the footpad assembly.

For the AT-ST's legs, wooden starbucks stirrers were slotted using a reinforced cutting wheel. The slots should fit the toothpicks in the previous footpad assembly.

For the AT-ST's 'thighs', regular popsicle sticks were used, carved and shaped according to the size and specs in the schematics. Barbecue sticks from the 'spares' box were cut to form the main joints. Spares were again used for the joint covers of the AT-ST 'thighs'.

The legs and thighs were then glued based on the bluprint and allowed to dry overnight. The footpad assemblies were then inserted into the walker's


spring board to engage young people in wanting to learn more.

A brilliant as well as a delightfully well written book that will surely inspire any child with an inquisitive mind to appreciate the beauty and diversity of plants. Susan has artfully woven history, science, and botany into a tale that captures the rich complexity of plants. Though written for children, adults, too, will find it equally interesting and informative.”

Susan and her three children are proud members of the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia and live on a farm where they raise goats, peacocks and herbs.

About the Illustrator

Nicky Staunton is a Virginia conservationist and advocate for native plants and the habitats that support them. She was the State President of the Virginia Native Plant Society for three terms. Sinceretiring she has become a recognized artist, mainly in pen and ink illustrations. Her work has appeared in several books and many Bulletins. She studies dry brush watercolor with Lara Call Gastinger; is a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, American Society of Botanical Artists, and Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.

Her botanical taxonomic skills are from studies with Marion Lobstein and were used for the plant inventory of the 500 acre Occoquan Bay NWR in Woodbridge when the land was US Army Harry Diamond Lab.

Proceeds from this book will go to the Foundation of the Flora of Virginia Projectto support educational endeavors that inspire children to embrace the study of botany and to learn about Virginia’s ecological diversity! To learn more, please visit www.FloraForKids.org.


acquisition of theory, mastery of applications, and personal qualities. Theoretical groundwork needed included food science/quantity food production, financial and personnel management, marketing, customer satisfaction, and use of computer and other technologies. Although only 44% of faculty respondents had advanced degrees in FSM, their graduate study in other areas was applicable in meeting many of the competencies. Almost all faculty had some FSM industry experience-a high priority from all perspectives. Most faculty were involved in development activities and reported success in acquiring knowledge and application competence. The faculty members' lack of identification with FSM and their feelings of isolation were more problematic.of the attorney's fees as "in the nature of child support" and, as modified, affirm the judgment.

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On February 6, 2003, Mortberg and Niebes were divorced and named joint managing conservators of their two children. However, Niebes was given a number of exclusive rights and duties, including establishing the primary residence of the children; consenting to medical, psychiatric, and psychological treatment for the children; receiving child support; making decisions of substantial legal significance concerning the children; representing the children in legal actions; consenting to the children marrying or enlisting in the armed forces; making decisions concerning the children's education; receiving the services and earnings of the children; acting as the agent of the children in relation to their estates; and managing the children's estates. Further, Mortberg was awarded less