some of the most labored football in the country. As Ft. Lauderdale’s manager Caio Zanardi (Coach Z) makes a case for himself to be the first firing of 2016, the Strikers players find new ways to be underwhelming. Quietly, Armada central midfielder Richie Ryan put in a quality shift trying to spring his team’s anemic attack. One man can only do so much.

Which is not something that Minnesota United’s Christian Ramirez believes. Going a man down not ten minutes into the second half, Minnesota players kept pressing, winning the ball, and harrying the New York Cosmos defense. In fact, watching the match it was stunning to realize that it was Minnesota that was a man down and not New York. Centerback Jimmy Ockford impressed, but should have hadcuts in nuclear arsenals by Washington and Moscow. Both sides have agreed to continue observing Start I until they reach a new agreement. Under a joint understanding signed in July, deployed nuclear warheads should be cut to fewer than 1,700 on each side within seven years of a new treaty - a huge cut on Soviet-era levels. Nonetheless, between them the two countries will retain enough firepower to destroy the world several times over. The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Moscow says that Russia's nuclear arsenal is the only part of its military that remains world-class, and therefore it fears that it could be disadvantaged by cuts to nuclear capability. Mr Putin's comments could be a negotiating ploy, rather than a reversal of Russia's commitment to a treaty, our


painted with block letters: GYM. The trainer and the kid were in the 5th Street Gym, Miami Beach, 1960.

Two weeks ago, he and Ali were still together. God only knows how Dundee did it. Up from nothing, scrambling for survival through the Depression, street-smart, sly, and unfailingly optimistic, he came to Ali with a psychological gyroscope that kept him even-keeled in a quarter-century of unprecedented turbulence. Dundee’s partner in Ali’s corner, the fight doctor Ferdie Pacheco, told me, “Angelo did it by being an innocent. He was soft-hearted, kind, gentle. He was the exact same man Ali was — but no one knew that about Ali then. They clicked in ways nobody could ever have guessed, let alone explained.”

The malevolent Fruit of Islam thugs — the thick-necked musclethat’s left of the Ali we knew are the abstractions layered onto the myth of a man who, once upon a magical time, lived those ideals. That man is now old and infirm, withered and silent, sitting in a wheelchair. It was cruel of fate, which had been so kind to Dundee for so long, to send him home from that party with a blood clot that put him in a hospital. On February 1, 90 years old, Angelo Dundee died, and a time died with him.

He came to boxing when boxing mattered. He knew men who knew men who knew Jack Johnson. He knew the great trainers Charley Goldman, Whitey Bimstein, Chickie Ferrara. He heard Ray Arcel talk of taking men in against Joe Louis. “They’d be


all right until they looked across the ring and saw Joe,” he said. “Then they wilted like tulips.”

Dundee was born in Philadelphia in 1921, one of five sons of Angelo and Philomena Mirena. Before World War I, the shepherd had taken his wife out of the mountains to the toe of Italy to catch a ship across the Atlantic. He found work driving spikes into railroad ties. Mirena’s firstborn son, Joe, became a boxer; to hide the work from his mother and to escape discrimination against Italian immigrants, he changed his name to Joe Dundee. All the Mirena boys became Dundees.

In 1948 Angelo joined another brother, Chris, who was managing fighters in New York. Afternoons, he hung around Stillman’s Gym, watching trainers. Every night, he’d go to aWhen the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Historical Association (AHA) announced that they would both be hosting their 2019 conferences in the capital of the Midwest, Chicago, during always balmy January, it was not surprising. The two often overlap, particularly in the convention-friendly Windy City. However, what did create shouts of joy was the decision by both organizations to honor the other’s registration. In other words, historians attending the AHA could abscond to the MLA to hear their more literary-minded peers debate similar topics, themes, and historical moments and vice versa.

In celebration, some scholars referenced the obscure but deeply influential hip-hop group, Das Racist:

Coming in January 2019…. I'M AT THE AHA

I'M AT THE MLA

I'M AT THE COMBINATION AHA/MLA I will show myself out. — Ian Petrie


era,” writes Northland College professor Tochterman, “but it was also quite prophetic about the discourse of cities like New York in the not too distant future.” In many ways, Spillane’s problematic view of NYC served as a harbinger of things to come, a point which the writer explores through Spillane’s work, the history of domestic America during the Cold War, and New York City’s always unstable place in U.S. culture.

“The Urbanization of Chinese Fiction” – Kristin Stapleton

Outgoing UHA board member, University of Buffalo historian, and general Chinese literary enthusiast Kristin Stapleton takes readers through a tour of urbanity in Chinese literature. In particular, Stapleton notes fictional discourse about Chinese cities remains a relatively new development, yet serves as an indicator of great change underfoot in the East Asianthe frontier lawlessness of Dodge City had been superimposed on Baghdad.” According to Rice, Hajibevov created some of the first operettas to engage Baku urbanity, as the city’s demographics, economy, and politics shifted. The operetta If Not That One, Then This One, “one of Hajibeyov’s most popular, grappled with the social challenges and violence presented by urbanization through a combination of biting satire and catchy tunes.”

“Race, Sexuality, and Noir in Chester Himes’ Wartime Los Angeles” – The Metropole

Today the works of Walter Mosely – Devil in a Blue Dress and Fearless Jones among several others – stand as testament to the power of noir fiction when retreating from the kind of mid-century tropes of the genre that regrettably equated blackness with dark corners of the changing postwar metropolis.


However, the lesser-known Chester Himes contributed mightily to the Walter Mosely’s of the future when he penned If Hollers, Let Him Go in the 1940s. “Himes offers a dark vision of American racial relations in If He Hollers while also charging headlong into the fraught dynamics of interracial sexuality,” notes The Metropole, “all under a sun-drenched Southern California sky that casts brighter light on Black Los Angeles.”

“Romance Novellas and the Post African City” – Emily Callaci

Recipient of the Urban History Association’s Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Scholarly Article on Urban History, University of Wisconsin historian Emily Callaci explores the role of popular romance novels in the 1970s postcolonial city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Featuring male protagonists styled in the fashion of Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley and Bruceis essentially independent of the location in which the radial force is exerted on the clamping surface.
A continuous clamping force can be guaranteed in particular if, as in one development of the invention, the outer conductor sleeve is surrounded by a locking sleeve. This locking sleeve can preferably move axially and in a working position surrounds the outer conductor sleeve. The locking sleeve preferably exerts an inwardly directed force on the outer conductor sleeve. The outer conductor sleeve diverts at least part of this radial force into the above mentioned axial clamping force.
The plug connector is preferably an SMA connector. A connector of this type has a passage running through it that has a diameter of approximately 4.1 millimeters. On such relatively small connectors, the necessary axial clamping


by David Falk

The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) announced yesterday that the Milwaukee Torrent is their latest new team. Near the same time the Premier Development League (PDL) announced that former NPSL side Tobacco Road FC was joining their league.

Washingtonians are of course aware that the Kitsap Pumas recently jumped from the PDL to the NPSL.

Now in a November 14 article at SoccerNation.com by NPSL Chairman Joe Barone goes on record as saying that nationawide leagues are actively working to undermine each other – and the results are likely to only harm soccer in the states.

“Recently, a large number of NPSL clubs have been contacted by a competing league or leagues, and incentivized to move away from our league. Some clubs have accepted these incentives, but the majorityTEAM TUA KEEN TO TAKE ON WILLIAMS TO 'RESTORE CREDIBILITY'

David Tua's camp have challenged Sonny Bill Williams to a heavyweight title fight to "restore credibility" to the sport after the farcical finish to the Williams-Francois Botha bout in Brisbane on Friday night.

Promoter David Higgins, of Duco, said Botha was "robbed" in a points decision awarded over 10 rounds when everyone was expecting 12 rounds - and with Williams hanging on, desperately close to being knocked out at the end of the 10th.

"What I saw last night was an ageing warrior [Botha] who was robbed," said Higgins. "He is arguably of the same era as David Tua and I thought he was hard done by. There is overwhelming evidence that fight was supposed to go 12 rounds and for


Bill Would Name Chillicothe Post Office for Fallen Navy SEAL

An Illinois congressman says he plans to introduce legislation to name a post office after a U.S. Navy SEAL from Illinois who was killed in Yemen.

U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood says the post office in Chillicothe would be named for William Owens, who was known as "Ryan." Owens died Jan. 29 while on a mission at an al-Qaida compound. He was the first known U.S. combat casualty of Donald Trump's presidency.

LaHood says that he has the support of Owens' widow and the Illinois congressional delegation. LaHood says Chillicothe residents consider Owens "as their own."

He was a 1998 graduate of Illinois Valley Central High School in Chillicothe.News

Early voting begins Tuesday; registration deadline Oct. 4

Monday, Sep. 27, 2010

Early voting for the Nov. 2 general election begins tomorrow, Sep. 28, with an opportunity to register to vote and cast a ballot at the same time continuing from tomorrow through the Oct. 4 voter registration deadline.

The Franklin County Board of Elections has mailed absent voter application forms to registered voters. Voters do not need an "excuse" to vote early either in person or using a mail-in ballot. According to an article in today's Columbus Dispatch, an increasing number of Ohioans have voted absentee, either in person or by mail, since the state adopted "no-fault" absentee voting in 2005. Elections officials push early voting not only as a convenience for voters but as a way to ease congestion


The team is off to St. John's, Newfoundland this week for a series of exhibition games with the Ice Caps.

Nygren scored one goal and had seven assists and was a -9 with 14 penalty minutes last season. Before heading back to Sweden, he was playing top four minutes on the blueline and spending time on the top power play unit.

Nygren, 24, is from Karlstad — a municipality that has just about 87,000 people. His Swedish team Färjestad BK is considered one of the best teams in the SHL.

Bulldogs coach Sylvain Lefebvre said the team wants to help Nygren progress and ultimately make the jump to the NHL.

“This year is a new year. You know for him, he’s a year older, he’s got more experience now, and he knowsBreaking News

Glitzy Start To SIIMA 2016

Glitzy Start To SIIMA 2016

The 6th annual South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA 2016) flagged off in a grand style at the Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre in Singapore yesterday. This two-day festival celebrated the best of Telugu Kannada films on its first day, with Tamil and Malayalam movies left to be honoured today.

Megastar Chiranjeevi was the special attraction at the opening day of SIIMA 2016 last night. All the young stars and even several Chiru's contemporaries enthusiastically took selfies with the Megastar, who was congratulated his much awaited return to the silver screen this year.

From Tollywood, Baahubali and Srimanthudu won all the major awards. While the Best Film was awarded to Baahubali The Beginning, the Best Actor Male award went to Superstar


(with Ivkov, and ahead of World Champion Petrosian) at Zagreb 1965, tied for first (with Spassky) at Hastings 1965/66, tied for first (with Bronstein) at Szombathely 1966, tied for first (with Liberzon) at Zinnowitz 1967 and tied for first (with Bronstein) at the Berlin 'Lasker Memorial' in 1968. At Raach in 1969, a zonal tournament, he finished two points clear of the field (which included Lajos Portisch).

Into the 1970s and 1980s, there was further success. He tied for first (with Bronstein and Hort) at Hastings 1975/76, placed second (behind Karpov) at Skopje 1976, finished first at Vrbas 1977, tied for first (with Farago and Knaak) at Halle 1978 and was an outright winner at Halle 1981.

In 2012, and at the age of 77, Uhlmann was a member ofDeath row prisoners sue FDA for allowing unapproved execution drug to be imported

The US Food and Drug Administration is being sued by six prisoners on death row to try to stop it from allowing thiopental sodium, the anaesthetic widely used in lethal injections in the United States, to be imported into the country.

The lawsuit, filed by the international business law firm Sidley Austin, accuses the FDA of violating federal law by allowing state correction agencies to bring in unapproved supplies of the drug.

The complaint states: “The law requires FDA to ensure that only safe, effective drugs are brought into …


contest in January 2010 to a misdemeanor charge. He was accused of punching a friend of LeBron James outside a Cleveland night club.

It was during that probation that he was charged with driving while intoxicated in Manhattan.

Edwards pleaded guilty Friday in New York to a misdemeanor DWI charge in a deal that calls for no jail time or probation if certain conditions are met.

His attorney in Cleveland, Patrick D'Angelo, raised the issue in court of whether Edwards' probation had expired in early July and said later that might be a basis for an appeal. The judge said the violation was already pending during the probation period.

D'Angelo mentioned a litany of charitable activities involving Edwards and said people should say, "Thank you, brother, for a job well done."

But thephone instead of going in person.

NFL teams can start signing free agents Friday. They were allowed to start negotiating Tuesday, a day after players and owners cemented a contract that ended a 4½-month lockout.

Edwards had 53 catches for 904 yards and seven touchdowns this past season, and he made a clutch catch to set up the Jets' game-winning field goal over the Indianapolis Colts in the final minute of an AFC wild card playoff game. He has said he'd like to stay with the Jets.


Today Hawaii Governor Ige and Hawaii Tourism Authority president and CEO Chris Tatum moved Hawaii kamaainas and its visitors in a state of alert. The reason is the first coronavirus threat to the State of Hawaii. The virus is now known as COVID-19.

A Japanese tourist in Hawaii may have caught the dangerous virus and was visiting the Aloha State last week. The Department of Health issued an advisory for health professionals in the State of Hawaii.

In Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, a man in his 60s who recently returned from a trip to Hawaii has tested positive for the coronavirus, the city government said. He has not visited China recently.

The Japanese tourist arrived on Maui on January 28, flew to Honolulu on February 3 and left for Nagoya on February7. The visitor stayed in Waikiki at the Grand Waikikian by Hilton Grand Vacations Club on 1811 Ala Moana Boulevard.

It is not clear what measures Hilton is taking after they were made aware of the situation this morning. Yesterday, Hilton closed 150 hotels in China.

According to the Hawaii Department of Health, the visitor most likely caught the virus before he left for Hawaii or on a flight to Maui, but most likely was contagious while in Waikiki.

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The visitor felt fine in Maui but developed cold-like symptoms when he was on Oahu. He did not seek any medical attention but developed a high fever after his return to Japan. He is now getting treated in a hospital in Nagoya. His wife also fell ill yesterday and was


of the first heater 520 is supported by a support member 522. The wafer 400 is introduced into the process chamber 510 through a guide slot 514 formed on one side of the process chamber 510 and is positioned on the first heater 520.
A thermocouple 525 for detecting the temperature of the first heater 520 and a current supplying line 523 for supplying a current to the first heater 520 are provided beneath the first heater 520. The thermocouple 525 and the current supplying line 523 are connected to a controller (not shown). The controller supplies the current to the first heater 520 through the current supplying line 523 based on the temperature of the first heater 520 detected by the thermocouple 525, thereby maintaining the temperature ofheater 520 and places the wafer 400 on the upper surface of the first heater 520, is installed in the process chamber 510. The wafer holder 560 includes a first arm portion 562 disposed at a peripheral portion of the upper surface of the first heater 520, a second arm portion 564 engaged with a wafer holder driving apparatus 570, and a support 566 connecting the first arm portion 562 and the second arm portion 564. Although only one first arm portion 562, one second arm portion 564, and one support 566 are shown in FIG. 1, the wafer holder 560 comprises three or more sets of such components.
The wafer holder driving apparatus 570 comprises a cylinder 572 provided below the process chamber 510. A bellows 580 provides


driving force and a lift 610 which is connected to the motor 608 in such a manner that it can move up and down.
The lift 610 is fixed to the lower surface of a bellows cover 620, and moves the bellows cover 620 upward and downward when the motor 608 is operated. The bellows cover 620 includes an upper cover 622 fixedly attached to the bottom of the process chamber 510 and a lower cover 624 which is moved upward and downward by the lift 610. When the lift 610 is moved upward, the upper cover 622 is maintained in a fixed state and the lower cover 624 is moved into the upper cover 622. Further, the support member 522 of the first heater 520 is mechanically connectedupper surface of the first heater 520. At the same time, the controller applies operation signals to the first and second heaters 520 and 521 so as to operate the first and second heaters 520 and 521. At this time, the temperature of the first heater 520 is about 700 to 750xc2x0 C., the temperature of the second heater 521 is about 315 to 325xc2x0 C., and the temperature of the wafer 400 is about 600 to 610xc2x0 C.
Then, the controller applies operation signals to the heater moving apparatus 600 in order to move the first heater 520 upward to a first position A in the process chamber 510. Placing the first heater 520 at the first position A in the process chamber 510 improves the efficiency of


heating the wafer 400. At the first position A the first heater 520 is at a level corresponding to that of the gas injector 530, and is vertically displaced upwardly from its initial position by about 80mm.
At this time, the temperatures of the first and second heaters 520 and 521 are maintained constant, but the temperature of the wafer 400 is raised to 615-625xc2x0 C. due to the heat radiating in the process chamber 510.
Thereafter, the first heater 520 is left at the first position A for about one minute. The time period of one minute is required for removing foreign substances such as moisture from the wafer 400.
After one minute has passed, a gas is injected on the wafer 400. The gas acts as a source forinitial position by about 100 mm. At this time, the heating temperatures of the first and second heaters 520 and 521 remain constant, but the temperature of the wafer 400 is raised to 625-635xc2x0 C. by the heat radiating in the process chamber 510. The gas injected on the wafer 400 is thermally decomposed when the heater 520 is at the second position B, whereby the HSG-Si layer is formed on the wafer 400.
After the formation of the HSG-Si layer has been completed, the controller operates the heater moving apparatus 600 to return the first heater 520 to its initial position, and then opens the valve device 516. Then the handler moves into the process chamber 510 and feeds the wafer 400 to the next stage of the


semiconductor device fabrication equipment.
However, in the conventional semiconductor processing system 500, the temperature in the process chamber 510 varies as the first heater 520 is moved in the process chamber 510 while the HSG-Si process is proceeding. As it is known that HSG-Si forms best under a uniform temperature condition, the unstable temperature condition occurring due to the movement of the first heater 520 can produce defects in the HSG-Si layer.
Furthermore, the heater moving apparatus 600 for moving the first heater 520 upward and downward renders the overall structure of the apparatus complex, and contributes significantly to the manufacturing cost of the apparatus.
Furthermore, moving the first heater 520 upward and downward during the forming of the HSG-Si layer takes time, thereby detracting from the productivity of the manufacturingtemperature of the ambient in a process chamber is maintained constant by regulating the temperature of a first heater fixed in place at the bottom of the process chamber and a second heater surrounding the upper portion of the process chamber. A wafer having a silicon layer is placed on a central portion of the first heater and foreign substances are removed from the wafer by using the first and second heaters and the heat radiating within the process chamber. Thereafter, a source gas is injected onto the silicon layer of the wafer and the wafer is annealed for a predetermined time, while the first heater remains fixed in place and temperatures of the heaters are regulated to maintain the surface temperature of the wafer constant, so that


birds from the mountains to the coast, and wild turkeys are one of the state’s most popular game animals.

After new volunteers submit observations, the Commission will automatically send a survey postcard the following year to provide an opportunity to participate again. Previous volunteer observers include members of the National Wild Turkey Federation – a valued partner of the Wildlife Commission in the reintroduction of the wild turkey in North Carolina. More information about the turkey survey is available from the NCWRC’s Ryan Myers at 919-218-3376 or ryan.myers@ncwildlife.org.

Duck stamps go on sale

The new 2014-2015 federal duck stamp has gone on sale. The stamps, which cost $15, are valid through June 30, 2015. Purchased by millions of waterfowl hunters, wildlife enthusiasts and collectors each year, duck stamps help raise moneyDrum & Bass Awards 2018: The Results

We all know that bricks don’t roll. But this weekend Hazard had to as Andy C reclaimed the Best DJ award from him this weekend at the Drum & Bass Awards 2018. It was one of an impressive three trophies the Ram boss picked up on the night.

Andy wasn’t alone. The 12th annual Drum & Bass Awards ceremony, hosted in Wolverhampton Star Works, saw 23 trophies fly out plus three emotional lifetime tributes. Guv scooped up two prizes for Best Producer and Best Track for No More Games while both Serum and Turno both enjoyed heavy representation in various category top threes and picked up gold for Best Alternate Artist and Best Album respectively.

Other interesting prizes presented on the night by hosts


awards-founder MC Magika, Manchester don Trigga and local rave OG DJ Pilgrim included Low Down Deep for best label (beating both Ram Records and Hospital), London Elektricity for best live act (beating Chase & Status and SaSaSaS) and Benny L for Breakthrough Producer.

Once again the event represented as much of the D&B spectrum as possible and lived up to its ravey reputation: As well as a grand total of four MC awards the line-up flexed from Andy C to Kenny Ken via Hype & Hazard, DJ Guv, Turno, Logan D, Shadow Demon Coalition, Friction, Majistrate and Total Recall.

The most touching moment on the night was an extended tribute to dearly departed scene figures Marcus Intalex, Dominator and Stormin MC. All represented by family or friends, Stormin’s wife broughton growing in scale while maintaining its intimate and sometimes impromptu vibe and also become an important showcase for European festival bookers to discover Francophone talent. It’s definitely a grassroots/boutique-type festival – think Hillside meets Iceland Airwaves, but much smaller – that brings a few days of great music and arts to a community that has an immense appetite for it but is well away from conventional touring routes and for Anglophones like myself, provide a fascinating window into the often opaque world of Québec popular music.

After a Friday morning spent ziplining in a forest a little out of town – no broken bones! A triumph! – it was into town to catch some of their “5 á 7” series of free day shows. Well, one of them


well.

Being an international star, Feist has played a lot of places in Canada and abroad but it was probably safe to say she’d never played Rouyn-Noranda before. That, plus the fact that it was a festival headlining set towards the end of the touring cycle for Metals made me wonder if she might deviate from the consistent (read: same) set she’d been performing for most of the past year and maybe acquiesce to playing a few more of the hits? Not that I’d seen the set in question; I’d caught a bit of her at Osheaga but the last time I saw her perform was last October at the CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio, and that was a decidedly unique and guest star-laden show.

One look at the stage showedits way into the internet echo chamber, and that’s the anouncement of the return of Saturday Looks Good To Me.

Not that I’m entirely surprised; the Ann Arbor, Michigan outfit never quite set the world on fire despite producing two nearly perfect records of Motown/Northern Soul revivalist pop in 2003’s All Your Summer Songs and 2004’s Every Night and had been basically in drydock since the release of 2007’s Fill Up The Room. Songwriter Fred Thomas and vocalist Betty Marie Barnes regrouped in 2010 as Mighty Clouds and released one decent self-titled effort but remained largely under the radar.

But anyways – back to the presser. Basically, it announced that Thomas had reconvened a new version of the band with long-time bassist Scott DeRoche, Ryan Howard (with whom he formed


and accident benefits arising out of his industrial accident for the period of his confinement.
The file is a voluminous file and we will set forth only briefly those pertinent dates which relate to the problem now before us. The petitioner sustained a compensable industrial injury on 26 June 1964. He received medical attention on two occasions prior to his arrest for two felonies, neither of which carried a maximum permissible penalty of life imprisonment. He was arrested on either the 12th or the 15th of July 1964, the evidence being conflicting as to the exact date of his arrest. The petitioner remained in confinement in the Maricopa County Jail pending his being adjudged guilty of the two offenses and the pronouncement of the sentences in relation thereto. Thepetitioner entered the Arizona State Prison on or about 27 January 1965 and there remained in confinement until he was released upon the expiration of his sentences on 21 October 1969. During the period of his legal custody he received some medical attention, the record indicating that the medical attention which he received was not of the same quality which he probably would have received had he not been in confinement.
There is data in the file indicating an average monthly wage in excess of $200. The Commission fixed the petitioner's average monthly wage in the sum of $200. At the time of his injury A.R.S. § 23-1041, subsec. F was in effect, a statutory provision placing a $200 a month floor on the average monthly wage. For a


"filed within one year after the day upon which the injury occurred or the right thereto accrued." See also the 1968 amendment relating to the same one-year period which is found in the amended § 23-1061, subsec. A.
Prior to the 1968 statutory amendment The Industrial Commission enacted Rule 60 which has now been set forth as a statutory rule in the 1968 amendment as § 23-1071. Thereby a forfeiture of the right to compensation is provided during absences from the State under specified circumstances. See also A.R.S. § 23-1228 relating to occupational diseases.
A.R.S. § 23-908, subsec. E provides for the forfeiture of the right to compensation under certain specified conditions with the power in the Commission to relieve the workman of that forfeiture. See also the 1968 amendmentEquinox by Madhuri Maitra

I received Equinox by Madhuti Maitra as a review copy from the author herself as a part of the Book Club review programme. The story revolves around a short story competition and why people participate in it.

The Blurb:

When Indus Publishers announces a short story competition, it affects the lives of the ensemble cast in unexpected ways. A jaded journalist, a bored housewife, a starry-eyed ambitious girl, an army colonel, an impoverished divorcee-all enter the competition for pressing reasons of their own. They emerge with only slightly deeper pockets than they had but far richer in experience. Social issues are explored in an engaging manner, entwined in the lives of the characters-this is indeed the way of life. The novel also promises an enchanting look at


the diversity in India; the characters belong to different Indian states and embody the peculiarities of the people of that region. Equinox and its checkered characters step to music of their own; many readers will find that it resonates with their own inner music.

The contest:

A short story contest, less than 3000 words, is announced by Indus publishers with the deadline as September 22, the autumnal Equinox. The participants have to be Indian citizens over eighteen and the story should be based in urban or rural India. They have nothing to lose but a cash award of two lakh rupees, if they win.

The characters (in the order of appearance in the book):

Johny Kutty, in Allepey, is uncharacteristically stationed in Kerala. He needs to travel, to write and feels thatthis something to do while he waits for the property papers to be ready.

Ruchi Sharma, an English graduate, lives with her parents in a one bedroom apartment in Mumbai. She visualizes herself creating and writing gossip about film stars, and when her friend mentions the story contest, she gets interested to participate.

Monica Joshi Kapoor, is a housewife in Mumbai, both her teenaged children are in college and her house is run like a clockwork by the housekeeper.

Col (retd.) Vikram Singh has moved to Mussourie after the tragic deaths of his son and wife. He is encouraged by his fellow walker to write about the wars and decides to write while he is cooped up indoors in the rains.

Maya Sinha, is a divorcee living in Delhi, on the lookout


for a government job as a lecturer and does commercial writing on the internet. She has honed her writing skills and is determined not only to participate and but also to win it.

The Souzas own a cosy café in Pune and read during lull periods. They decide to participate because the prize money is good and they need it for repairing their café.

Ramona Das hopes to justify her position as commissioning editor of Indus Books Ltd with Equinox the competition and Equinox the anthology. Meher Azam is her assistant and Raghu Advani works in the legal department of the company.

The story:

It is the month of June, and it is monsoon time. Different people from different parts of the country are ready to participate; after all, it is onlyBashar al-Assad’s regime has pulled off a grotesque PR coup by corralling a number of prominent American journalists from outlets like The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker to participate in a conference designed to legitimize the rule of Syria’s genocidal head of state. The conference held Sunday and Monday in Damascus, was organized by the British Syrian Society, a “foundation” chaired by Assad’s father-in-law, the London-based physician Fawaz Ahkras. The larger purpose of the conference appears to be raising money for the regime and its war effort, in part by relieving sanctions against major regime figures.
Many of the participants (here is a partial list of attendees) are British journalists, like Christina Lamb of The Sunday Times, and other UK figures


Syria were to use chemical weapons. There was a short-term illusion regarding an agreement. The use of chemical weapons continues. The massacre has only expanded.
Every mass slaughter requires every human being, definitely a Jew, to think about the world’s silence in the 1940s. There is a double lesson from the Holocaust, both national and human. The national lesson has been learned. Israel can defend itself. The human, universal lesson has never been learned.
It didn’t start today. Since World War II, 86 million people have been killed, and mainly slaughtered. According to a study of the American Public Health Association, the figure is 190 million. Five million in Congo. And the world kept quiet. A million during the Russian invasion and control of Afghanistan. And the world kept quiet.year will mark many important anniversaries in the history of Zionism, Israel and its conflict with our neighbors.It will be 120 years since the First Zionist Congress, held in Basel in 1897, which formulated the Zionist platform and plan of action for the implementation of its goals.It will also be 70 years since the United Nations Partition Plan, which won the support of the UN General Assembly for the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in Mandatory Palestine.
Significantly, it will also be 50 years since the miraculous victory by Israel against five Arab nations intent on extinguishing the Jewish state. However, after only six days Israel not only defended itself, it liberated Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, the cradle of Jewish civilization.One would assume that


given Israel’s opponents’ and detractors’ claims, this date will be the focal point of activity against Israel over the year ahead, as we are constantly being told that the root of the conflict and the lack of peace is a result of the so-called occupation. However, last week, at the House of Lords in the British Parliament a panel discussion was held to commemorate another important milestone, the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration was a letter written by British minister Lord Arthur James Balfour recognizing the rights of the Jewish People to their ancestral homeland. The declaration was then adopted by the international community at the League of Nations, the predecessor to the UN.

Ironically, for more than a decade, the UK has served as a primary location for2011, Britain has funneled a staggering $20 million in taxpayer funds to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and local NGOs, which in turn have flooded Israeli courts and administrative bodies with lawsuits.

StandWithUs+: 100 Years of the Balfour Declaration

100 years ago today, the Balfour Declaration was penned. The declaration confirmed the UK's commitment to and recognition of the right to a Jewish state in their historic homeland. Through this document, the re-birth of Israel became a reality for Jews already living in their homeland, and for Jews in the disapora who had been expelled historically.Today, we celebrate and thank Arthur Balfour for writing the Balfour Declaration and believing in Israel!

Revisionism: 2016It's not only the events of 1948 that Kashua subjects to revisionism and manipulation. Returning to the present at


make this accusation against Peled and would support the cancellation of his speech at Princeton was pretty remarkable.
After an intense pressure campaign by supporters of Peled, JVP stated that it was not completely ostracizing Peled, but stood by its critique of the tweet, A second group, San Diego State University Students for Justice in Palestine also cancelled a Peled appearance for that same reason.
Peled comes from a famous Israeli military family. His father, Matti Peled, was a well-known General. Playing off his father’s legacy and name is a key component of Miko’s public relations strategy, and the main reason he is so attractive to anti-Israel groups. There is no one so valuable as an anti-Israel Israeli. An anti-Israel Israeli from a famous family is like gold to thebetween Israel and Hamas, the fishing limit was extended from three nautical miles to six. However, it has been periodically reduced to three nautical miles in response to rocket fire from Gaza. Israeli naval forces frequently open fire towards Palestinian fishing boats approaching or exceeding the limit. The UN says if the limit was lifted, fishing could provide employment and a cheap source of protein for the people of Gaza.”

In April 2016 the Gaza Strip fishing zone was extended for the duration of the spring season to nine nautical miles but the BBC’s English language services did not report that change at the time.

A first-hand account of the incident can be found here. This latest pre-planned disruption aimed at closing down free speech for an Israeli speaker at


a British university has been condemned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and additional Jewish groups as well as by Sir Eric Pickles. The university has announced that it will carry out an inquiry into the incident.education-pageThe incident of course received wide media coverage, including from many of the UK’s prominent outlets such as the Times, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Independent, the Express, the Evening Standard and LBC.However, members of the BBC’s funding public looking for that story on the corporation’s website – including the regional and ‘Education‘ pages – over the last four days would not have come across any coverage of the incident whatsoever.

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation would be the “perfect time” for Protestant leaders to recognize and apologize forCooper said.
Luther’s loathing of Jews, Cooper went on to say, “is a theological hatred that still reverberates among some people today.”

Swasitkas and other abusive graffiti were painted at the entrance to a Jewish grade school in Montgomery county, Maryland. Police were summoned to investigate the scene.
According to local media, the members of the local Jewish community conduct the Shaharit morning prayer service at the Jewish school.
One of those praying there discovered the graffiti and alerted the local police who initiated an investigation.This is not the first time that Maryland has suffered anti-Semitic events. About a year ago anonymous elements sprayed graffiti and anti-Semitic inscriptions on a whiteboard in the dorms of Maryland University, sparking a stormy reaction from Jewish students there.
Besides investigating the identity of the graffiti sprayers,


dorm residents decided to answer them with their own missive which they hung near the main door of the university.

This presidential campaign season has drawn attention to the grim persistence of anti-Semitism in the American political discourse. As bracing as it’s been to see what Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has meant for the nation’s most vocal Jew-haters, the settlement of a lawsuit pitting developers and Jewish community figures against local government in upstate New York is a timely reminder that there are more instrumental and more insidious forms of anti-Semitism still active in certain corners of American life.
Last week, the Bloomingburg Jewish Education Center and developer Shalom Lamm settled its lawsuit, first filed in 2014, against the village of Bloomingburg and the town of Mamakating (Bloomingburg is anfrom the often B-movie-class specialists at Columbia Pictures. After a couple of title changes (in preproduction the film was called The Day Will Come, and then Lebensraum), the studio settled on None Shall Escape, a callback to a promise made by FDR to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.Shot and edited from Aug. 31 to Oct. 26, 1943 (not until June 6, 1944 would the Allies storm the beaches at Normandy), the film looks forward to a postwar reckoning in which a United Nations-like Tribunal sits in judgment of a Nazi war criminal whose twisted course is traced in flashback from 1919 onward. “The time of our story is the future,” reads an introductory scroll. “The war is over. As was promised, the criminals of this war have


been taken back to the scenes of their crimes for trial. In fact, as our leaders promised”—and here the screen devotes full frame to the boldfaced imperative—“None Shall Escape.”

World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with helping at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust, has been pronounced dead by Swedish authorities 71 years after he disappeared under mysterious circumstances.The Swedish diplomat is believed to have died in Soviet captivity, but when and how remains unclear.Wallenberg was officially considered a missing person in Sweden, long after authorities gave up hope of finding him alive. But the Swedish Tax Agency, which registers births and deaths in Sweden, confirmed a report Monday in newspaper Expressen that Wallenberg had been pronounced dead.
Pia Gustafsson, who heads the agency’s legal department,rid the patient of the virus entirely. These drugs have allowed doctors to treat AIDS as a chronic illness as opposed to a fatal one.

President Reuven Rivlin met Monday with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, who is visiting Israel for the first time.
Rivlin welcomed Mattarella to the country, and offered his condolences for those killed in the spate of earthquakes that has hit Italy in recent months.
"We are experiencing a period of unprecedented friendship and brotherhood between Israel and Italy," Rivlin said.
"We have advanced trade relations and close ties in the fields of science, culture, sports and security. Both countries are located on the Mediterranean coast and are highly sensitive to the recent turbulence in the region, from waves of immigration, refugees and threats of terror."Mattarella said, "Israel, with


its vibrant democracy and vitality, is as an example for the entire region. Italy will always stand with Israel, at any time when Israel's right and duty to exist in peace are placed in doubt by any side in the world."

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz reportedly plans to extend the upcoming high-speed Jerusalem-Tel Aviv train line to the Western Wall.
Katz spoke of his intentions at a meeting attended by experts from the transportation and finance ministries, Israel Railways and the Jerusalem Transport Master Plan team, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Tuesday.The line would be extended via a tunnel that would skirt the Old City and end near the Western Wall.
Katz reportedly said that the extension of the line would relieve pressure on the main Jerusalem station and make it easier forDecember: Women and the Nobel Prize in Physics

Chien-Shiung Wu in her laboratory

Later this month, physicists Peter Higgs and François Englert will travel to Stockholm to receive the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their development of the theory of how particles acquire mass — a theory confirmed in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It is among the highest achievements in physics. Since the first Nobel Prize in 1901, 196 physicists have been so honored, all most deserving of the honor — yet all but two of them have been men.The most famous female physics laureate is the first: Marie Curie, honored with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel in 1903 for the discovery and subsequent research on


radioactivity. Following her husband's untimely death, Curie went on to win a second Nobel Prize in 1911, this time in chemistry, for her discovery and isolation of a new element, radium, as well as her discovery of polonium.It would be more than 50 years before the second female physics laureate was honored: Maria Goeppert Mayer, who inspired an eponymous APS award. As a young girl in what was then Prussia, Maria Goeppert attended a suffragette-run high school founded for the purpose of preparing young women for university studies. When that school abruptly went bankrupt, she took the entrance exam a year early, and passed, enabling her to pursue her education at the University of Göttingen. At the time, Emmy Noether was teaching there, and Goeppert initially studied mathematicsbefore choosing to get her PhD in physics in 1930.She married Joseph Edward Mayer that same year, and the couple moved to The Johns Hopkins University where he had been offered a faculty position. Despite her academic success, Goeppert Mayer worked as an assistant in the physics department, which at least provided her with access to research facilities. She published a seminal paper on double beta decay in 1935. When Mayer was fired in 1937 and moved to Columbia University, she once again was not given a similar position, although the physics department provided office space, and she found plenty of brilliant colleagues with whom to collaborate, including Harold Urey, Edward Teller, and Enrico Fermi.It wasn't until the couple moved yet again, to the University of Chicago, that


Goeppert Mayer finally attained the rank of physics professor — albeit without a salary. She also worked part-time as a senior physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, located nearby. This was the period during which she developed her Nobel-worthy mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, explaining why certain "magic numbers" of nucleons produced especially stable atomic configurations.Despite the obstacles she faced as a woman in a overwhelmingly male field, Goeppert Mayer's story has a happy ending. In 1960, she joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, as a full (paid) professor of physics, along with her husband. That is where she was working when news broke that she had won the Nobel Prize in 1963; the local San Diego newspaper featured the headline, "S.D.Mother Wins Nobel Prize." (A German physicist named Hans D. Jensen had independently proposed a similar model around the same time. They shared the Nobel with Eugene Wigner.) She maintained that "winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself" — a fitting sentiment for someone who pursued groundbreaking physics research with little professional reward for much of her career.There is always contention when it comes to determining who deserves to share in a Nobel Prize, but women have historically been excluded more than their male peers. One name that usually crops up when physicists consider deserving female colleagues who failed to win is Lise Meitner, who worked on nuclear physics research for more than 30 years with German chemist Otto Hahn. Being Jewish, she


was forced to flee Nazi Germany for Sweden in 1938, but she continued to collaborate with Hahn through correspondence. Her guidance was critical to the experimental discovery of nuclear fission, but Hahn alone received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Meitner never won, despite being nominated several times in both the physics and chemistry categories.Then there is Chien-Shiung Wu, who specialized in weak interactions and undertook the pivotal experiments on Cobalt-60 atoms with colleagues at the National Bureau of Standards that demonstrated unequivocally that parity was not a symmetry of nature. As the work came to a head, Wu even skipped a long-planned trip back to China with her husband, recognizing the importance of the experiment, commuting between her teaching duties at Columbia University and the laboratory inWashington, DC. On a snowy Christmas Eve in 1956, she reported the large asymmetry she had observed to her Columbia colleague, Tsung-Dao Lee, who had laid the theoretical groundwork for the discovery with Chen Ning Yang. Lee and Yang won the 1957 Nobel Prize in physics for their work; Wu was not included.One of the current top female contenders for a Nobel Prize is astronomer Vera Rubin, whose work with Kent Ford on spiral galaxies in the 1960s and 1970s provided the first direct evidence of the dark matter predicted by Fritz Zwicky in a 1933 paper. It is the heavily favored theoretical explanation for such observations, sufficient to snag Rubin a National Medal of Science and membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Perhaps her chances would


improve if a dark matter particle were detected in the near future. She seems satisfied with her life's work, regardless. "Fame is fleeting," she told Discover magazine in 1990. "My numbers mean more to me than my name. If astronomers are still using my data years from now, that's my greatest compliment."The only field honored with a Nobel category that has fewer female recipients than physics is the prize for economics (which wasn't established until 1968); just one woman has received the economics Nobel: Elinor Ostrom in 2009. The chemistry prize has been awarded to just four women to date. In contrast, 10 women have received the Nobel in medicine or physiology, and 12 women have won in literature. Times have changed; there are far more women doingrevising chamber and as a potential check and balance on the powers of a transient Dáil majority.

The value of the Seanad as a space for an independent second opinion to reflect on bad legislation was never more clearly highlighted than in early 1943, when a debate in Seanad Éireann played a significant role in blocking one of the most illiberal, intolerant and arguably sectarian measures ever proposed by an Irish Government. This debate arose in the context of a legislative proposal dealing with the issue of compulsory Irish in the School Attendance Bill 1942 brought forward by the Fianna Fáil Minister for Education, Tom Derrig.

This Bill enjoyed a relatively non-contentious passage through the Dáil. On Second Stage, only Professor John Marcus O’Sullivan, a Fine Gael TD and former


to make parents who sent their children to school abroad – in essence mostly members of the Protestant community, who had a tradition of sending their children to Great Britain or Northern Ireland – liable to prosecution for failing to have their children taught Irish.4

Though Derrig gave an assurance that, as long as he was Minister, he would operate under the assumption that a child was receiving a proper education if the child was attending a recognised school, public or otherwise, outside the State, his failure to accept a legislative amendment, proposed by Senator James Douglas, on this basis suggested that the Government at a future stage might use this legislation to prevent children from being educated outside Ireland.5

Derrig’s assurance of moderation was not given credence by thethat the School Attendance Bill 1942 was now a hot political potato, this duly arrived by means of correspondence signed by six senators and two TDs on 15 February 1943, a full three days before Fianna Fáil’s numerical advantage ensured the Bill finally passed through the Oireachtas.9

The letter was the brain-child of the Independent Senator James Douglas and was also signed by the three Independent Trinity Senators, Ernest Alton, Joseph Johnston and Robert Rowlette; by two Fine Gael TDs, John Marcus O’Sullivan and Richard Mulcahy; and by two Fine Gael Senators, Michael Hayes and Michael Tierney.10 The letter maintained that:

in our opinion section 4 of this Bill introduces new principles which may be held to be repugnant to Article 42 of the Constitution, and we respectfully suggest that


it would be desirable to have the question of the repugnancy or otherwise of this section submitted to the Supreme Court before the Bill became law.11

The focus that the opposition senators, in particular, had brought on the School Attendance Bill was a major factor in President Hyde declining to sign it into law. On 22 February 1943, it was announced that Hyde had decided to convene a meeting of the Council of State to consider the School Attendance Bill.12 This meeting took place in Áras an Uachtaráin three days later.13 On 26 February, Hyde took the decision to refer section 4 of the School Attendance Bill to the Supreme Court for a ruling on its constitutionality.14 On 15 April 1943, the Supreme Court advised the President that section4 of the School Attendance Bill, 1942, was repugnant to the Constitution. The judgement delivered by the Chief Justice, Timothy Sullivan, said that the Bill was an unwarranted intrusion into family rights.15

For the President, given his background, both as a champion of the Irish language (although he was, at best, lukewarm on the policy of compulsion) and as a member of the Protestant community, the issues in the School Attendance Bill were sensitive matters to deal with. Hyde, however, did not shirk his constitutional responsibilities and wisely chose to seek the opinion of the Supreme Court as to whether the Bill was repugnant to the Constitution. Though Hyde’s action deserve praise, the major credit for ensuring that this illiberal legislation did not make it onto the Irish statute


book belongs to the opposition senators, who successfully shone a spotlight on some of the Bill’s more narrow-minded provisions. After the Bill had passed tamely through the Dáil, the vocal opposition of the senators to the Government’s policy of compulsion in the teaching of Irish and how this might impact on parents, mostly from minority religions was instrumental to the Bill ultimately being subjected to constitutional scrutiny and being struck down by the Courts.

In 1959, Seanad Éireann made another important, but largely unheralded intervention. This occurred on 19 March 1959 when the Seanad rejected the Third Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 1958, by 29 votes to 28.16 The purpose of this Bill was to permit a referendum that would alter the system of voting in Dáil elections fromabolish PR was seen as both a strong political protest and a set-back for the Government’s proposals to alter the voting system. The Seanad’s action, however, merely delayed the referendum. Under the terms of Article 23 of the Constitution, the Dáil passed the requisite resolution ‘deeming’ the Bill to have passed both Houses, on 13 May 1959.18 The referendum to abolish proportional representation ultimately took place on, 17 June 1959, the same day that de Valera was elected as the third President of Ireland. Despite de Valera’s immense prestige being in the scales, the Government’s proposal to alter the voting system was narrowly rejected by the public. This was in no small part due to the Seanad’s unprecedented action in delaying the referendum bill, which helped to focus


because of the late hour. Intriguingly, the Seanad record shows that the Fine Gael senator, Michael Hayes, called the division on which the Bill was defeated in protest at what he viewed as the contemptuous attitude of the Minister for Justice, Charles Haughey. Hayes said:

This division has been caused by the Minister’s very insolent action. I am voting against his insolent attitude. He has been convenienced, no end, here tonight and he has treated us with insolence, without a vestige of good manners. This, therefore, is a vote against the Minister for his attitude. It is disgraceful.22

In this referendum campaign, a Sinn Féin critic of the Seanad has sought to downplay the Seanad’s stance in 1964 by suggesting that it had actually only voted against the Pawnbrokers Bill2000, that would ban the publication of opinion polls within a week of an election.25 This amendment, in its original form, had, in fact, first been proposed by Fine Gael and initially, at least, there was a cross-party consensus on the opinion poll ban.26 An Irish Times political reporter noted on 12 July that ‘the haste with which the legislation banning opinion polls was rushed through the Dáil was almost indecent.’27 It was in the Seanad that real opposition to the opinion poll ban raised its head. This was spearheaded by the Independent senator, Shane Ross, who was supported by fellow Independents, Joe O’Toole and David Norris, and a number of Labour senators as cross-party consensus began to unravel.28 Concerns were also expressed by journalists that politicians were


regard: ‘The fire escape in every apartment block is thankfully never used in the vast majority of cases, but would that seriously be deployed as an argument to prevent their construction?’33

Much of the work that the Seanad does is unglamorous, but it is essential. In an article in the Irish Times in 2002, former Fine Gael Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, who was a strong supporter of the Seanad, pointed out the chamber’s intrinsic value as well as the public relations deficit it has to contend. FitzGerald wrote:

Everybody who has been in politics knows that a whole range of Bills are much more thoroughly vetted and improved in the Seanad than in the Dáil…. Of course, none of this emerges in the media, for nowadays neither the broadcast media norreforms, Ireland will have 31 local authorities and 949 councillors. Ireland did have 114 local authorities and 1,627 councillors (city, county and town), but Town Councils are being scrapped.46 Despite Fine Gael’s claims to the contrary, Ireland currently has far, far fewer politicians than Sweden.

Possibly the most bizarre intervention in the entire debate on the future of the Seanad involves another international comparison. One prominent Yes campaigner has described the abolition of the Hungary’s second chamber in 1960 as ‘a positive political decision.’47 It should, however, be noted that Hungary back then was in the firm grip of the Communist dictator, Janos Kadar. As Patrick Brogan, a leading historian of Eastern Europe has noted, ‘by 1960, Kadar and his Soviet masters had reduced the country to abject subservience


SAN FRANCISCO (November 14, 2012) – On the day that California launches its cap and trade program, a new poll of voters in California, Oregon and Washington shows strong support for maintaining and expanding efforts across the region to account for the costs of climate pollution and invest in clean energy sources by ensuring polluters pay when they contribute to climate change.

The findings demonstrate that even in a tough economy, voters in the region prioritize efforts to hasten the transition towards cleaner energy and tackle climate change while growing the economy.

The poll, conducted October 29th through November 1st by Lake Research Partners, also found strong support for proposals to create jobs by investing in making homes and businesses more energy efficient; expand investment in clean fuels, electric vehicles,Jen's Trip Ch. 02

Jen woke up feeling totally fucked, totally and completely fucked. It was great. She removed the toys with a little whimper of loss. This is New York her thoughts kept telling her, time to get up and go. A quick shower and then she started dressing. Sliding on some pink panties, the satin slid up over her thin hips, with a matching garter belt.

As she pulled the stockings up her legs, she admired the tanned muscles as they flexed and relaxed. The track team all through High School and her daily morning jogs since then had paid off. At home she jogged to cleanse her thoughts each morning, letting her mind just concentrate on the running. Her dismay was not pretended when people remarked that


she must torture herself with exercise to have legs like this.

Next a mid-length skirt and light colored blouse, staying conservative she opted for only her watch and a thin necklace as the only jewelry. She went to the bathroom mirror for the make up, the advice her Mom had given her long ago, see what you have to work with before you start and never over do it. The reflection looking back was young, girlish and giggly, and also hot and sexy at the same time. She just applied a little light colored lipstick; her skin was radiant without help.

She had a bounce in her walk as she walked out of her hotel and hailed a cab. Her agenda was a quick breakfast and then shopping. The cabdriver was kinda cute but she was afraid he was going to kill them both with his eyes locked on the rearview mirror, trying for a better glimpse of her legs. She pretended to study her notebook with the list of stores to hit, accidentally spread her legs enough for him not only get his wish but also be sure of the color of her panties. With that done she glanced up meeting his eyes and feigned indignation as she clamped her legs together. He started watching the road.

Jen had a light breakfast and hit all the favorite shopping spots, lingerie and blouses, some affordable jewelry and shoes. It had been added into her trip budget. Hours later with a couple of large shopping bags she returned to


the hotel tired.

As she opened the door to her room she heard a noise, using caution she slowly opened it more. Just as she thought there was the maid cart filled with cleaning supplies. Preparing to call out to keep from startling someone, she caught a reflection from the bathroom mirror and froze.

It was the girl. The same girl from last night, she was sitting at the desk with Jen’s lap-top open reading. That little bitch was reading her files. What the hell was with the maid cart, this girl was obviously a lower functionary at the hotel but instead of a maid uniform she wore street clothes. She couldn’t be a maid thought Jen as the girl reached under her skirt and rubbed herself, with her otherher ass and turned it on.

Something strange happened, Jen knew she was going to orgasm but it didn’t happen, she went right to the edge and just stayed there. She had never experienced this but she rode it, right on the edge but not quite coming. It was wild, she felt the orgasm was coming, but not yet, she also felt something else. She had heard rumors about anal orgasms, figuring there was little or no truth to it, but what she felt was probably the basis for the rumors. Her tight ass loved being stretched and filled with the vibrator.

When she finally came it was like thunder and lightning and bliss, with Lisa looking right in her eyes. She exploded and gushed a little come down her


Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (2012)

Marking his 17th studio album, 'Wrecking Ball' features 11 new Springsteen recordings and was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau.

Said long-time manager Jon Landau, "Bruce has dug down as deep as he can to come up with this vision of modern life. The lyrics tell a story you can't hear anywhere else and the music is his most innovative in recent years. The writing is some of the best of his career and both veteran fans and those who are new to Bruce will find much to love on 'Wrecking Ball.'"

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1. We Take Care of Our Own
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5. Death to MyIn 2015, psychology professor Jonathan Haidt and free-speech activist Greg Lukianoff published "The Coddling of the American Mind" in The Atlantic. It argued that speech codes, trigger warnings, and safe spaces on college campuses are "disastrous for education—and mental health." It quickly became the most-read article in the history of the magazine.

Now they've expanded it into a new book with the same title.

Lukianoff, a lawyer by training, heads FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which fights for free speech on campus. Haidt teaches at New York University and is a co-founder of Let Grow, the free-range parenting advocacy organization, and Heterodox Academy, which promotes intellectual diversity among faculty.

Reason's Nick Gillespie sat down with them to talk about why they believe that, as their book's subtitle puts


Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designatedC/1995 O1) was perhaps the most widely observed comet of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades. It was visible to the naked eye for a record 18 months, twice as long as the previous record holder, the Great Comet of 1811.

Hale–Bopp was discovered on July 23, 1995, at a great distance from the Sun, raising expectations that the comet would brighten considerably by the time it passed close to Earth. Although predicting the brightness of comets with any degree of accuracy is very difficult, Hale–Bopp met or exceeded most predictions when it passed perihelion on April 1, 1997. The comet was dubbed the Great Comet of 1997.

Hale had spent many hundreds of hours searching for comets without success, andwas tracking known comets from his driveway in New Mexico when he chanced upon Hale–Bopp just after midnight. The comet had an apparent magnitude of 10.5 and lay near the globular cluster M70 in the constellation of Sagittarius.[6] Hale first established that there was no other deep-sky object near M70, and then consulted a directory of known comets, finding that none were known to be in this area of the sky. Once he had established that the object was moving relative to the background stars, he emailed the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, the clearing house for astronomical discoveries.[7]

Bopp did not own a telescope. He was out with friends near Stanfield, Arizona observing star clusters and galaxies when he chanced across the comet while at the eyepiece of


Pepi I (2332–2283 BC). In Pepi's pyramid in Saqqara is a text referring to an "nhh-star" as a companion of the pharaoh in the heavens, where "nhh" is the hieroglyph for long hair.[10]

Hale–Bopp's orbital position was calculated as 7.2 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, placing it between Jupiter and Saturn and by far the greatest distance from Earth at which a comet had been discovered by amateurs.[11][12] Most comets at this distance are extremely faint, and show no discernible activity, but Hale–Bopp already had an observable coma.[6] An image taken at the Anglo-Australian Telescope in 1993 was found to show the then-unnoticed comet some 13 AU from the Sun,[13] a distance at which most comets are essentially unobservable. (Halley's Comet was more than 100 times fainter atthe same distance from the Sun.)[14] Analysis indicated later that its comet nucleus was 60±20 kilometres in diameter, approximately six times the size of Halley.[1][15]

Its great distance and surprising activity indicated that comet Hale–Bopp might become very bright indeed when it reached perihelion in 1997. However, comet scientists were wary – comets can be extremely unpredictable, and many have large outbursts at great distance only to diminish in brightness later. Comet Kohoutek in 1973 had been touted as a 'comet of the century' and turned out to be unspectacular.[7]

Hale–Bopp became visible to the naked eye in May 1996, and although its rate of brightening slowed considerably during the latter half of that year,[16] scientists were still cautiously optimistic that it would become very bright. It was too closely


aligned with the Sun to be observable during December 1996, but when it reappeared in January 1997 it was already bright enough to be seen by anyone who looked for it, even from large cities with light-polluted skies.[17]

The Internet was a growing phenomenon at the time, and numerous websites that tracked the comet's progress and provided daily images from around the world became extremely popular. The Internet played a large role in encouraging the unprecedented public interest in comet Hale–Bopp.[18]

As the comet approached the Sun, it continued to brighten, shining at 2nd magnitude in February, and showing a growing pair of tails, the blue gas tail pointing straight away from the Sun and the yellowish dust tail curving away along its orbit. On March 9, a solar eclipsein China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia allowed observers there to see the comet in the daytime.[19] Hale–Bopp had its closest approach to Earth on March 22, 1997 at a distance of 1.315 AU.[20]

As it passed perihelion on April 1, 1997 the comet developed into a spectacular sight. It shone brighter than any star in the sky except Sirius, and its dust tail stretched 40–45 degrees across the sky.[21][22] The comet was visible well before the sky got fully dark each night, and while many great comets are very close to the Sun as they pass perihelion, comet Hale–Bopp was visible all night to northern hemisphere observers.[23]

After its perihelion passage, the comet moved into the southern celestial hemisphere. The comet was much less impressive to southern hemisphere observers than


it had been in the northern hemisphere, but southerners were able to see the comet gradually fade from view during the second half of 1997. The last naked-eye observations were reported in December 1997, which meant that the comet had remained visible without aid for 569 days, or about 18 and a half months.[16] The previous record had been set by the Great Comet of 1811, which was visible to the naked eye for about 9 months.[16]

The comet continued to fade as it receded, but is still being tracked by astronomers. In October 2007, 10 years after the perihelion and at distance of 25.7 AU from Sun, the comet was still active as indicated by the detection of the CO-driven coma.[24]Herschel Space Observatory images taken in 2010 suggestby the gravity of the Sun and planets.

In November 1996 amateur astronomer Chuck Shramek of Houston, Texas took a CCD image of the comet, which showed a fuzzy, slightly elongated object nearby. When his computer sky-viewing program did not identify the star, Shramek called the Art Bell radio program Coast to Coast AM to announce that he had discovered a "Saturn-like object" following Hale–Bopp. UFO enthusiasts, such as remote viewing proponent Courtney Brown, soon concluded that there was an alienspacecraft following the comet.[53]

Several astronomers, including Alan Hale,[54] claimed the object was simply an 8.5-magnitude star, SAO141894, which did not appear on Shramek's computer program because the user preferences were set incorrectly.[55] Later, Art Bell even claimed to have obtained an image of the object from an anonymous astrophysicist


without incident, predictions of the imminent arrival of Nibiru continued by various conspiracy websites, most of whom tied it to the 2012 phenomenon.[59]

Comet Hale–Bopp, at a distance of nearly 2 billion kilometres from the Sun. Credit: ESO

Its lengthy period of visibility and extensive coverage in the media meant that Hale–Bopp was probably the most-observed comet in history, making a far greater impact on the general public than the return of Halley's Comet in 1986, and certainly seen by a greater number of people than witnessed any of Halley's previous appearances. For instance, 69% of Americans had seen Hale–Bopp by April 9, 1997.[60]

Hale–Bopp was a record-breaking comet—the farthest comet from the Sun discovered by amateurs,[20] with the largest well-measured cometary nucleus known after 95P/Chiron,[15] and it was visible toFor these words

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Ed Wynn (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966) was a popular American comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.

Wynn became a headliner in vaudeville in the early-1910s, and was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies starting in 1914. In The Ziegfeld follies, W. C. Fields allegedly caught him mugging for the audience under the table during his "Pool Room" routine and knocked him unconscious with his cue, but this may be apochryphal. He was best known as a comedian, billed as The Perfect Fool (and starring in a musical revue of that name on Broadway in 1921). Wynn also wrote, directed and produced many shows (he was a majorBroadway star from 1914 through the 1930's). He was famous for his silly costumes and props, and he always worked "clean," making his shows suitable for the entire family.

A Jewish-American who was born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended Central High School (Philadelphia) until age 15. He ran away from home in his teens, worked as a hat salesman and as a utility boy, and eventually adapted his middle name "Edwin" into his new stage name, "Ed Wynn", to save his family the embarrassment of having a low comedian as a relative.

United Press International is a leading provider of news, photos and information to millions of readers around the globe via UPI.com and its licensing services.

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UPI is a credible source for the most important stories of the day, continually updated - a one-stop site for U.S. and world news, as well as entertainment, trends, science, health and stunning photography. UPI also provides insightful reports on key topics of geopolitical importance, including energy and security.

A Spanish version of the site reaches millions of readers in Latin America and beyond.

UPI was founded in 1907 by E.W. Scripps as the United Press (UP). It became known as UPI after a merger with the International News Service in 1958, which was founded in 1909 by William Randolph Hearst. Today, UPI is owned by News World Communications.Little brown bat | Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

San Bernardino County public health officials want to talk to a man who had a bat land on his neck at the Kelso Depot visitor center in the Mojave Preserve on April 30. The bat has since tested positive for rabies, and health officials are trying to locate the man to make sure he gets appropriate medical attention.

The bat in question was a member of the species Myotis lucifugus, also called the little brown bat. It's a fairly rare event for a bat to contract rabies, and the rate of transmission of rabies from bats to humans is low: about 10 cases in North America since the 1970s.

As this bat did indeed have rabies, officials are quite concerned about


Asian markets provide best value for money for long haul city breaks from Europe

A trio of Far Eastern cities have been named best value for a long haul city break in a new barometer of costs for holidaymakers in ten cities with flight times of six or more hours from Europe. Research for the Post Office Travel Money Long Haul City Costs Barometer found that Bangkok is the cheapest overall destination, narrowly beating Tokyo and Beijing, while cities in North America were found to be significantly more expensive.

Long haul city breaks have been identified as one of the big new travel trends. “Cities in the Far East are looking unbeatable value,” says Andrew Brown of Post Office Travel Money.

The analysis was based on 11 typical city break tourista three-course evening meal for two with a bottle of house wine is just under £34. This means that eating out for three evenings in Japan costs around the same as one meal in Singapore (£101.20).

The shortest flight time for the ten cities surveyed was to Dubai (seven hours) and the Emirate proved to be the cheapest of the five cities analysed that have journeys of eight hours or less. At £361 for the barometer items, prices in Dubai are less than half those in Boston (£823), the most expensive city in the survey. A cost of £668 for three nights’ four star accommodation in the American city accounts for the high price tag.

Washington DC emerges as cheapest of four cities surveyed in North America. At £504, the


US capital benefited from well-priced accommodation – £382 for three nights – and free entry to top galleries and museums, including the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute. By contrast, visits to top sightseeing attractions in New York (Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of National History and Ellis Island/the Statue of Liberty) will set tourists back over £56.

Excluding accommodation, New York is also the priciest city for the 10 ‘cost of living’ items. Across the border, Toronto (£612) prices are lower than in either New York or Boston.YOUNGSTERS throughout Mid Cheshire are being urged to fight against proposals to store chemical waste in Winsford Rock Salt mines.

Twenty-year-old campaigner Chris Whitaker, of Petrel Close in Winsford, thinks young people need to put their weight behind the fight to stop Minosus dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic waste in the mine.

Chris feels so strongly about the issue he served as chairman of protest group RAMP - Residents Against Mine Pollution - which was formed to fight the dump plan, until he went to university.

He believes that younger generations from across Vale Royal will be the ones who suffer from the consequences of an underground chemical storage.

Minosus wants to use the cavernous space in the mine at its site under Bostock to dispose of the industrial


in states of health and disease. She was recently named an Emerging Leader in Nutritional Sciences by the American Society for Nutrition and has authored several peer-reviewed journal articles related to the gut microbiome and health. Lucy is also a staff research associate for Kresser Institute and writes about evidence-based gut and skin health on her blog at NGmedicine.com. Lucy plans to continue her training and complete her MD at the University of Illinois in 2024.

We had a wide ranging discussion about several topics in IBD including the strengths and limitations of conventional medicines, potential to reform IBD care, health insurance, supplements, dietary therapy, mitochondrial function, candida, Genova testing amongst many other topics. As a disclaimer, I am not endorsing or recommending any of the supplements or protocolsSeptember 6, 2014

A sample of some of the talented folks that live and work in Windham County, from
Brattleboro to Jamaica to Putney and towns in-between. Come visit the show at the Moore Free
Library’s Crowell Gallery from September 5, 2014 thru September 30, 2014.


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ISTSS mourns the loss of Jennifer Gonzales, Christine Loeber and Jennifer Golick, who were killed on Friday, March 9, while working at the Pathway Home, a nonprofit residential program for military veterans in California, where they counseled veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and helped them reintegrate into civilian life. Jennifer Gonzales, a member of the ISTSS community, was a clinical psychologist with the San Francisco Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System. She volunteered as a trainer at the nonprofit PsychArmor Institute, which provides free education and support to engage effectively with the military community.The three trauma professionals were dedicated to helping survivors and their families thrive, and their deaths are a tragic loss to the trauma community.

Parental responses are thought to be critical to children’s recovery(including psychological, physical, sexual, financial), perpetrated by a current or former intimate partner (including spouse or other romantic or sexual partner; World Health Organization, United Nations Development Programme & United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2014). In the United States, it is estimated that more than one in three women experience rape, physical violence, or stalking from an intimate partner in their lifetimes (Black et al., 2011); prevalence and incident rates vary by measurement tools and constructs measured. IPV is associated with numerous adverse outcomes, including physical injuries, chronic health conditions, trauma-related mental health symptoms, unhealthy substance use, housing instability, and suicidality.

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ISTSS mourns the loss of Jennifer Gonzales, Christine Loeber and Jennifer Golick, who were killed on Friday, March 9, while working at the


Pathway Home, a nonprofit residential program for military veterans in California, where they counseled veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and helped them reintegrate into civilian life. Jennifer Gonzales, a member of the ISTSS community, was a clinical psychologist with the San Francisco Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System. She volunteered as a trainer at the nonprofit PsychArmor Institute, which provides free education and support to engage effectively with the military community.The three trauma professionals were dedicated to helping survivors and their families thrive, and their deaths are a tragic loss to the trauma community.

Parental responses are thought to be critical to children’s recovery from trauma. Parent and child PTSD often occur together (Morris, Gabert-Quillen, & Delahanty, 2012), parents appear to make important contributions to the treatment ofWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in an interview that she sees regime change in Syria as one of the Trump administration’s priorities in the country wracked by civil war.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley holds photographs of victims during a meeting at the United Nations Security Council on Syria at the United Nations Headquarters in New York . REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Defeating Islamic State, pushing Iranian influence out of Syria, and the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are priorities for Washington, Haley said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” which will air in full on Sunday.

“We don’t see a peaceful Syria with Assad in there,” Haley said.

The comments represented a departure from what Haley had said before


A giant ash cloud is affecting some flights to and from Australia following a major eruption of the Rabaul caldera in Papua New Guinea.

Satellite imagery shows the plume has reached a height of about 18 kilometres, indicating a significant eruption.

Commercial flights typically cruise at altitudes of between nine and 12 kilometres and the Bureau of Meteorology has issued an advisory to airlines indicating where the cloud is likely to spread.

The ash cloud is spreading at heights of 60,000 feet. Photo: Emma Edwards

"The initial low-level ash is moving northwards, but as it gets a bit higher it's likely to spread out both to the north and south along the western side of the volcano," said Craig Earl-Spurr, meteorologist at the bureau's Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre. The bureau willcontinue to monitor the plume as it dissipates.

Qantas will reroute some flights around the ash cloud.

"As a result of the volcanic ash cloud, QF21, QF22 and QF130 will reroute their flight path to fly around it," a spokeswoman said.

Some Rabaul residents have told media it is the largest explosion at the volcano since 1994, when the city was abandoned. Photo: Emma Edwards

Flights QF21 and QF22 operate between Sydney and Tokyo, while QF130 is a flight from Shanghai to Sydney.

Virgin Australia had no flights scheduled to operate near the ash cloud, but the company will closely monitor the situation as it develops, a spokesman said.

The eruption took place between 3.30am and 4am local time.

PNG media reported that some Rabaul residents were considering evacuating the island, fearing this to be


the worst eruption since 1994, when explosions at the Vulcan and Tavurvur volcanoes forced locals to abandon the city temporarily.

Alice Edwards left Rabaul at 9am Friday and spoke to Fairfax Media from the airport, where she was trying to reach Kavieng in New Ireland province. She said many people had left Rabaul to escape dust and rocks being blown through the city by the volcano.

"This is my first time I've experienced the eruption," she said. "It's frightening."

The Rabaul caldera at the north-east end of New Britain, PNG, has a history of regular low-level eruptions. The Tavurvur volcano experienced eruptive activity in early March that generated ash plumes up to one kilometre high.

Volcanic ash can cause trouble for aircraft. In 1982, all four engines on a British Airways 747later qualified the club to play in the promotion round to the Bayernliga where it was unsuccessful, missing out to TSV Gersthofen. A third-place finish the season after took SpVgg as far as the promotion round to the new Regionalliga Bayern, but in this competition it failed, too, losing to Würzburger FV. However, the third place was enough to qualify the club for the new northern division of the Bayernliga.

Selbitz played for two seasons in the Bayernliga Nord, coming eleventh in its first year. A fifteenth place in the second season meant the club had to defend its league place in the promotion/relegation round where it was unsuccessful and forced to step down to the Landesliga Bayern-Nordost.

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the company set up by Gares to publish the newspaper. The Tritts filed a separate claim against the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans of which Skora was the director.
The Tritts contracted with the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans to produce and publish the Jewish Voice which targeted the local Jewish community. The defendant Donald Gares was employed by the Tritts as a sales manager.
Subsequently, Gares left the Tritts and founded his own newspaper to the detriment of that of the Tritts. The Tritts' petition accuses Gares of disloyalty and the misappropriation of confidential business information. The petition accuses Skora of assisting Gares. The Tritts allege that Gares breached a duty owed to them. No similar allegation is made concerning the actions of Skora.
*661 On April 4,1996, Skora filed a motion for summary judgment asking that the suit be dismissed insofar as it pertained to him.
On August 26, 1996, the Tritts filed an amended petition alleging that Skora was aware of Gares' actions, that Skora had an obligation and duty of good faith and fair dealing, and that Skora breach that obligation and duty. On October 15, 1996, Skora filed a motion to consolidate the separate suit against the Jewish Federation with the one naming him as one of several defendants. The trial court signed the consolidation order the next day.
As mentioned at the outset, on July 21, 1997, the trial court granted Skora's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the Tritts' claims against him. As also mentioned above, on October 21, 1997, the


which form the substance of the plaintiffs' allegations of conspiracy against Skora. Insley's affidavit makes the following references to the appellee, Eli Skora:
5. .... Gares told me that Roberta set up a meeting with Eli J. Skora, Executive Director of the Federation, for Gares to present his proposal to publish the Jewish newspaper for the Federation. Gares told me that the Federation no longer wanted Mr. Tritt to publish the Federation's newspaper and that Mr. Skora was very receptive to Gares' proposal to be the publisher of the Federation's newspaper.
6. Within a month after telling me that he had leased premises for his Jewish newspaper, Gares told me that he cancelled that lease because Eli wanted him to be in the same building as the Federation. Gares alsoDESCRIPTION

Amtix! magazine was, as its subtitle stated, a "monthly software review for the Amstrad computers". Published by Newsfield Publications Ltd in the mid eighties. Amtix! ran from November 1985 to April 1987 and produced 18 issues in total. A special issue (Issue zero) was given away with Zzap!64 and CRASH, two of Newsfield's other publications.

After issue 18, the title was merged with Computing With The Amstrad magazine and the Amtix! logo appeared in CWTA's games review section.


these, standing alone, are insufficient to establish the accrual date of her causes of action as a matter of law; rather an "objective verification of a causal connection" between her exposure to the mold and her symptoms is required. See Childs, 974 S.W.2d at 42. Appellant contends she did not discover her causes of action until sometime in 2002, when she received the results of environmental mold tests and was diagnosed with mold-related illnesses.
Appellees argue that, unlike asbestosis or AIDS, in which the nature of the disease is initially undetectable and dormant, and in which no immediate injury manifests itself to alert the potential plaintiff, appellant was sick immediately upon moving into Eagle Hollow in 1994 and was promptly diagnosed with a number of ailments. They contend that,and was diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus in December 1994 or 1995 and with fibromyalgia in 1996, there is no evidence in the summary judgment record of appellant's knowledge of facts in 1994, 1995, or 1996 that would have put a reasonable person on notice that her illnesses were related to exposure to a toxic substance in her living environment and that she should investigate to find the cause. Regardless of any suspicion or beliefs appellant may have had about the cause of her illnesses in 1994, however, and regardless of whether she was put on notice at some earlier time of facts not in the record that would have led a reasonably diligent person to investigate a causal connection between her illnesses and her apartment, it is clear


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Consistently Held
 Metro Manila Film Festival (held every December 25 to January 7 in all cinemas nationwide since 1975)
 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival (held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, select Ayala Malls theaters and Vista Mall cinemas every July or August since 2005)
 Cinema One Originals (held at select malls in Metro Manila and Cebu every October or November since 2005)
 QCinema International Film Festival (held at select theaters in Quezon City every October since 2013)
 Sinag Maynila Film Festival (held in select theaters in Metro Manila every March or April since 2015)
 Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino (held every August or September in all cinemas nationwide since 2017)

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 Cinemanila International Film Festival (held at select malls within Metro Manila every November)
 Sineng Pambansa (heldThe climax of the gameplay demo had CD Projekt RED showed us for last month's cover story had Geralt battling an ice giant in his lair. As the lead character artist, Pawel Mielniczuk leads the art team at the studio in the design of all the game's characters and monsters. Combining all disciplines within the studio, Pawel says that designing the monsters for the game is one of the team's biggest challenges.

Watch the video below to learn about the monster design process and to see the ice giant's in-game model in action.

To learn more about The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, stay tuned to our hub below for a full month of exclusive video coverage.


Forest Road #110, or the Dirty George Aqueduct trail, is located in the Grand Mesa National Forest near Grand Junction, Colorado. The trail begins at the end of the Bull and Brown trail next to Dirty George Creek where it travels southwesterly across the flanks of the Grand Mesa. This post follows it for 2.6 miles to where the Point Camp trail branches off.

The spot where the trail begins is 3.6 miles from the Greenwood trailhead on top of the mesa and 2.7 miles from the end of the Granby Road at Little Battlement Reservoir.

As it starts out the route is moderately steep and very rocky.

After a few hundred feet the trail passes a water intake and the beginning of the pipeline for the Dirty George Aqueduct thatborders the trail for the next mile and a half or so.

The trail continues to be pretty rocky after passing the intake but the descent begins to become a little more gradual.

The elevation profile shows how the trail loses 400 feet in the first mile and then another 200 feet over the next half mile after which it begins a gentle climb. The downhill slope going in this direction probably makes the rocks a little easier for mountain bikes to handle.

Oakbrush replaces the aspen trees at the lower elevations where there are also more open areas that provide views of the valleys below. The distant horizons have the West Elk and San Juan mountain ranges for a backdrop.

For the most part the aqueduct runs right along the edge


Breaking down Miami Hurricanes taken in 2018 NFL Draft

Now that we have had a few days to digest the draft, let’s take a look at breaking down the Miami Hurricanes taken in the 2018 NFL Draft.

DE Chad Thomas was the first Hurricane taken this year. The Cleveland Browns picked Thomas with the 67th pick. Thomas is a very talented person both on and off the field. The Browns add depth to their pass rush and Thomas will likely make an impact right away. If he had a better statistical season in 2017, he would have probably been a second round pick. Off the field, Thomas is also a pro as a music producer, mostly in the hip-hop genre, where he’s produced tracks for Rick Ross.

The New York Jetstraining camp and pre season to earn his spot. At this point the hope is the fact he just got drafted, should be motivation enough for Norton.

Born in the Nation’s Capital, Washington D.C., Ari Russell watched the rise of the 1980’s Miami Hurricanes and knew that he had to be part of the “U” someday. After graduating from Coral Gables, Ari rose through the ranks of the former XM Satellite Radio and then Sirius/XM as college football executive producer. He later spent 2 seasons as the publisher of the website “Beyond U Sports” focusing on major college football/basketball. Ari brings a great perspective on everything Miami, including the Dolphins to F.F.I.

Bucs, Dolphins and Jaguars rookies take part in “Rookie Premier”

The NFLPA hosted members of the 2018 NFL Draft


Set in New York City, 1982, the book follows a dysfunctional family – detail-obsessed Carrie, constantly-angry Eli, their pot-smoking mother Viv and her teenage boyfriend, Arnie – who live in a one-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side. One by one, they encounter a psychic, Miss Rosa, who lives ‘above the smaller dry cleaners’ and is desperate to share her life story with the family; a story that resonates disturbingly with their own lives.

‘It’s about the blur between kids and adults, sex and love, stories and real life,’ says Chassler of her latest publication. ‘It was a hard novel to write. I knew it was odd from the moment I started … though I tried to make it as pleasurably readable as possible, while respecting its increasingly bizarreaims. Hopefully I managed to juxtapose the plotless discomfort of the family with the deathbed story Rosa is attempting to concoct, to make sense of her life. In a way, it’s about the stories we think we’ve lived.’

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1972, Nora Chassler grew up in New York, a city she writes about in immersive, extraordinary detail – almost as a character in its own right. She has an undergraduate degree in English from Hunter College, CUNY, and a Masters in Creative Writing from St Andrews. She has worked as a model and a social worker, and now lives in Edinburgh.

Her first novel, Miss Thing (2010) was described by The Herald as ‘Somewhere between Nabokov and Bret Easton Ellis … Chassler’s characters illicit real emotion. Their


Concerned bystanders and parents intervened immediately when 29-year-old Marcus DeWitt reportedly attempted to kidnap two children playing at a park in Lake Elsinore, California.

Police arrested him at the scene.

What are the details?

DeWitt — a registered sex offender — reportedly tried to abduct two different children at the Rosetta Canyon Sports Park on Monday.

Family members witnessed the attempted abductions and stopped DeWitt in his tracks, according to KABC-TV.

First, DeWitt reportedly tried to snatch a 3-year-old boy off of some playground equipment, but was unsuccessful as the child was attached to the playground apparatus. Thwarted, DeWitt then reportedly moved on to a 4-year-old boy and tried to take off with him in his arms.

The unnamed child's parents saw DeWitt manhandling their child and wrestled the child out of his hands.Another family member subdued DeWitt and got him on the ground while other bystanders stepped in to help restrain him.

Fortunately, an off-duty police officer happened to be in the park at the time of the alleged attempted abduction. Authorities arrested DeWitt on the scene without further incident.

Vanessa Mongrut, a woman who witnessed the incident, said that the child is fine. Keli Wilcher, another eyewitness, told the station that incident struck fear in her heart.

"It was very brazen for him to just come up and try and snatch a kid with all the parents around," Wilcher said. "It makes me nervous as a parent."

What else?

DeWitt was booked on charges of kidnapping. DeWitt's parents said that their son suffers from schizophrenia and blamed the condition on prior drug use.

“I don't