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Former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and actress Lindsay Lohan have at least one thing in common: Both recently filed high-profile lawsuits against video game makers, charging that their likenesses were used in games without their permission.
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It's the undisputed media sensation of London's fall theater calendar.
Lindsay Lohan officially debuted in a revival of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" on Thursday. The actress, seeking to put her troubled past behind her and relaunch her career as a...

Nobody ever chose to go to the theater to watch an actor be adequate. Sadly, "adequate" sums up Lindsay Lohan's London stage debut in David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow." The bad news, however, is that she's not the problem. Director Lindsay Posner has badly...

This year's reunions issue ofEntertainment Weekly sounds especially enticing.
The edition, out Friday, features the casts of "Mean Girls," "Monty Python," "Little House on the Prairie," "Sports Night," "Sisters" and "Napoleon Dynamite."
But the...

There's a change in the 2014-15 schedule for Hartford's TheaterWorks and it's hoping for a touchdown.
Production artistic director Rob Ruggiero says that the early spring show (which follows this season's "Annapurna," "Christmas on the Rocks" and Mark...

Garrison Keillor, the raconteur and radio host who has invited America into his life at Lake Wobegon, will be coming to The Ferguson Center in Newport News next week for a night of storytelling.
Keillor, whose iconic radio show "A Prairie Home...

Step aside, Shia LaBeouf and Lindsay Lohan. The CTA Blue Line has been stealing the spotlight for some odd incidents lately.
The line has generated some


eyebrow-raising headlines, from a man charged with opening fire – with an assault rifle...

Expect unprecedented peer pressure to dress up Halloween this year. Various studies report that adults will spend more than ever before to dress themselves, their children and their pets for the 2014 festivities.
Of course, adults will spend the most...

This week 15 years ago, the first Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was held in California, "House Hunters" premiered on HGTV and the following songs were the most popular in the United States, according to Billboard's Hot 100 chart archive.
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For Jill Robinson, it was a dream come true to see Hollywood stylist Rachel Zoe host a fashion show at Costa Mesa's South Coast Plaza.
"She inspired me to lose 60 pounds, so now I can wear cuteStay in this position for several breathing cycles and return to the starting position. Then, as you inhale, begin to bend your back in the opposite direction – the tailbone looks up, the chest is open and stretches down, the head is up, the look is straight. Hands are always perpendicular to the floor. Repeat several times.

This exercise will make your spine mobile, relax the tense muscles of the neck and shoulders. It stimulates and massages the muscles of the abdomen and internal organs, improves the functioning of the central nervous system.

From the previous position we transfer the pelvis to the heels and with an inhalation we begin to lower the stomach to the hips, then the chest and head. Calmly “spread” along the body, shoulders and neck


the upward direction, and the chest should be perfectly faced towards the ceiling.

Hold this position for at least 3 minutes and change the sides of your leg. Accordingly, change the head position as well.

Stretching from knee to Chest: A simple exercise that can work wonders is the knee to chest pose. Your back, along with your stomach muscles, will receive relief from all kinds of pain.

Lie down on the ground in the sleeping position. Rest your arms first.

Slowly, fold your legs and lift them up. Bring them up in the folded position towards your chest.

The Final Thought: One of the conditions of getting in touch with yoga to get relief from back pain is dedication. Yoga is by far, the only ancient practice that promises to purify theMitt Romney turned the tables today on an oft-repeated attack coming from Democrats, calling President Obama the "outsourcer in chief."

In a speech in Colorado, Romney slammed Obama for providing federal government support to energy companies that do business overseas.

Romney charged that Obama is an "extreme liberal" trying to raise taxes on small-business owners and others who create jobs. Obama called on Congress yesterday to extend for one year the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year.

"If there's an outsourcer in chief, it's the president of the United States, not the guy who's running to replace him," Romney said in Grand Junction.

Romney joins his allies in the Republican National Committee in hitting Obama on creating overseas jobs. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus bracketed Obama in Iowa


today and unveiled a website aimed at attacking Obama for spending "billions" of taxpayer dollars on outsourcing jobs.

"President Obama has promised over and over that he would focus on creating 'jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced,' but his record speaks otherwise," Priebus said in a statement released today. "Through his 'stimulus' program, billions of dollars from hardworking taxpayers were sent overseas."

The pushback by Romney and the RNC comes after Obama's campaign and other Democrats have repeatedly criticized the presumptive GOP nominee for offshore accounts. Among other things, the Democrats have cited a Washington Post story from June 21 that said Romney's private equity company, Bain Capital, "invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers" to China and India.

The Romneycampaign unsuccessfully sought a retraction of the June 21 story.

The RNC is also circulating a Washington Post story out today that reports Obama's critics "primarily on the political left say he has repeatedly failed in other ways to protect American jobs from being moved overseas."

Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said the president's record stands in "stark contrast" to Romney, who "personally profited from investments in companies that were pioneers in shipping American jobs to India and China."

"President Obama has fought continuously to end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, fostered incentives for companies to bring back jobs to America and doubled the rate of trade enforcement actions we've taken against China," she said.


We received the rule on October 9, 2008. It was published in the Federal Register as a final rule on October 10, 2008. 73 Fed. Reg. 60,544.

The final rule establishes procedures to address congestion in the New York City area by assigning slots at John F. Kennedy and NewarkLibertyInternationalAirports. The rule also extends the caps on the operations at the two airports, assigns to existing operators the majority of slots at the airports, and develops a secondary market by annually auctioning off a limited number of slots in each of the first 5 years of the rule. The rule states that auction proceeds will be used to mitigate congestion and delay in the New York City area. The final rule has an effective date of December 9, 2008,Every year the Church obliges Catholics to attend Mass on August 15th, in the middle of summer, to honor the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The belief pertaining to Mary’s Assumption, while celebrated for centuries (many saints have homilies on the Assumption), was elevated to the status of dogma with the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus on November 1, 1950 by Pope Pius XII. Essentially the Holy Father declared it to be true that Mary was assumed body and soul into Heaven, and to support this claim, he provided the witness of the Catholic Church throughout the centuries. Despite the definition and support throughout history for the belief, the document leaves open-ended certain questions pertaining to the Assumption. As a result, individuals hold a variety of opinions regarding


placed in a tomb, later to be discovered empty. I reached my opinion based off the many biographies of Mary by spiritual and mystical authors. The first work that I personally place a high value on is by Maximus the Confessor called The Life of Mary. I trust this account because it presents a synthesis of the Catholic tradition from the early Church to the seventh century. I also have reviewed the works of Venerable Maria of Agreda and Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, who through visions, saw the life of Mary and related it in their accounts The Mystical City of God and The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, respectively. All three accounts seem to confirm the assumptionist position. Our authors recount a second-annunciation moment for Mary,you considered whether Mary died? What assumption will you make?

2. Where did the Assumption take place?

Most pilgrims to the Holy Land will visit Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, where Benedictine monks worship and pray. In the crypt of the church, the pilgrim will discover a resting Mary on a funeral bier. Again, turning to Maximus the Confessor’s biography, he says that the apostles processed through the streets of Jerusalem from Mount Sion (where Dormition Abbey is) to the Mount of Olives, where Mary was placed in a tomb near Gethsemane. At the foot of the Mount of Olives is an Armenian/Greek Orthodox church which claims to house the tomb of Mary. From this tradition, it would appear that Assumption took place in Jerusalem, which is present in the biographies


by Maximus and Maria Agreda. Emmerich though, recounts a different version based of her mystical visions.

From the cross, Jesus entrusted Mary to John, and John to Mary, and from that hour he took Mary into his home. Many believe that Mary accompanied John to Ephesus for his apostolic work. Maximus the Confessor, however, disagrees, alleging Mary never made it to Ephesus and was instructed in an apparition of Jesus to return to Jerusalem. Mary of Agreda claims Mary did go to Ephesus but eventually returned to Jerusalem. Anne Catherine Emmerich proposes for our consideration that the Assumption took place in Ephesus. And to a certain degree, Emmerich’s account received quasi-validation from the efforts of a Visitation nun, Sr. Marie de Mandat Grancey (1837-1915) who was profoundly moved byFew artists have recast Canadiana in their image like Gord Downie. When his death at age 53 was announced Wednesday, condolences poured in with equal heft from Ottawa's highest offices to gear-filled tour vans in Portugal.

The Tragically Hip frontman's kindness will be immortalized as much as his music: For all the slow-burns and anthems he spilled onto airwaves, those who got to know him – and those who simply got to hear him – will long remember his grace, too.

Mr. Downie spent the past three decades celebrating Canadian identity through song, and was richly celebrated for it from Golden, B.C., to Isle aux Morts, Nfld. He died Tuesday night, according to a statement on the Hip's website, with his children and family nearby.

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Obituary: Gord Downie,


troubadour of Canada, charmed and challenged a nation

In photos: Gord Downie's life in songs

'With just a few words, you gave the whole country Courage': Fans pay tribute to Gord Downie

He had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in December, 2015, and revealed it the following May, just before the Hip released their latest album, Man Machine Poem. The announcement heralded a year and a half of national mourning, including a final Hip tour with Mr. Downie that summer.

It culminated in Canada's ultimate "where-were-you-when" moment: a heartfelt final tearjerker of a concert in the Hip's hometown of Kingston that was broadcast across the country.

In the face of his illness, Mr. Downie spent his final months campaigning for a better, healthier Canada and world.

"No one worked harder on every partof their life than Gord," his family wrote Wednesday.

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"No one."

He helped launch the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund, committed to working toward reconciliation with Indigenous peoples through cross-cultural education, and the Gord Downie Fund for Brain Cancer Research, the latter of which has raised $1.7-million to date.

Sheila North Wilson, a grand chief who represents Northern Manitoba First Nations, had joined Mr. Downie on a trip to Ogoki Post in September, 2016, to meet with the family of Chanie Wenjack, the 12-year-old who froze to death after running away from a residential school.

Mr. Downie was seeking their permission to use the story on his album, Secret Path. "He portrayed the true picture of what reconciliation is by standing up for Indigenous people and standing with


them, showing love and compassion," Ms. North Wilson said.

Calling him "our buddy Gord," a choked-up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa that Mr. Downie "loved this country with everything he had and not just loved it in a nebulous, 'Oh, I love Canada' way. He loved every hidden corner, every story, every aspect of this country that he celebrated his whole life." Parliament Hill's Peace Tower flag will fly at half mast in Mr. Downie's honour until sunset of the day of a funeral or memorial.

Forming in the mid-eighties, the Hip emerged from Kingston as a force in blues rock with songs such as New Orleans is Sinking, but as their phenomenon grew, so too did their sound, in both style and appeal. Through songs suchas Fifty Mission Cap and Ahead by a Century, Mr. Downie sung his poetry with both coos and howls, helping the band become kings of CanCon.

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But it was on the road that Canadians got up close and personal with the Hip – and with the musicians they hand-picked to play with them on tour.

Mr. Downie's influence will live on not just through his music, but through that of the artists whose boats he and his band lifted with their rising tide. Rheostatics, Sarah Harmer, Sam Roberts Band, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Wintersleep, Arkells, and so many more: The list of artists the Hip have nurtured who have risen to acclaim is a staggering spectrum of the rock side of Canadiana.

"There's nothing more exciting for fans of


Canadian rock music than to see their homegrown bands get to open for The Tragically Hip," said Max Kerman, the frontman of the Juno winners Arkells, who spent a cross-Canada tour with the Hip in 2013. "You get anointed."

The elder band has long been known for treating – and paying – their touring comrades well, but Mr. Kerman says the band gave him a fine education, too. Mr. Downie constantly honed his on-stage performance, his stories, his dance moves. "He never stopped working. That guy got hungrier the older that he got."

Halifax singer-songwriter Joel Plaskett was on the road two provinces away last August when the Hip played their barn-burner at Kingston's Rogers K-Rock Centre. Thinking of his old tourmate, Mr. Plaskett dashed off an e-mail a fewhours before the show.

"I could only imagine how much his phone was buzzing that night and I certainly expected no response," Mr. Plaskett told The Globe and Mail on Wednesday. "He wrote me back immediately. Here was a man, mere hours before what must have been one of the most intense shows of his life, taking the time to answer e-mails and send love down the line to his friends."

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Even into his final months, Mr. Downie remained an active supporter and fan of Canadian music. During the Toronto Raptors' fateful playoff round against the Cleveland Cavaliers in May, he emerged at halftime in his trademark denim jacket to embrace another CanCon king – Drake – who first payed homage by bowing down to the Hip


frontman.

A few weeks before that, he quietly showed up at a downtown Toronto concert by the genre-bending Welland singer-songwriter Daniel Romano, to express his support and take in the show. The artists wound up speaking for a couple of hours.

"Gord Downie will remain the last great cultural coalesce-ist," Mr. Romano wrote in an e-mail as his tour van pulled into Lisbon. "He brought mysterious, philosophical, reflective, dense, bold and profound lyrical thought to the full spectrum of human consciousness. Like a burglar in the night, he crept in and filled even the most ignorant, oppressive and hate-filled minds with subtle secret wisdom and liberation."

Mr. Downie embraced his fellow musicians with a grand enthusiasm. After referencing the New Brunswick band Eric's Trip in song, and taking them on tourin the nineties, he would later collaborate with member Julie Doiron with his solo backing band, the Country of Miracles. And he came to befriend Kevin Drew, a central figure of the Toronto collective Broken Social Scene and something of a de facto inheritor of his quest to spread Canadian song. The pair hung out regularly for years; Mr. Drew has called Mr. Downie a "pillar" and "great educator."

"When you hang out with a lyricist like Downie, you're learning," Mr. Drew told The Globe in 2016. The respect was mutual and tangibly reciprocated: Mr. Drew produced Mr. Downie's forthcoming solo record Introduce Yerself and co-produced its forebear, Secret Path.

Just as music consumed Mr. Downie, so did the personalities behind it. He had a habit of showing up at


Toronto's legendary Horseshoe Tavern unannounced, just to talk music with owners and staff. "We already miss Gord the music fan," Horseshoe owner Jeff Cohen told The Globe.

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Every time Mr. Downie ran into Tyson Parker, who spent 15 years doing communications for the band with Universal Music Canada, their conversation picked up exactly where it left off. "He authentically really, really cared for people," Mr. Parker said. "You see that in his lyrics."

Steve Jordan, the founder of the Polaris Music Prize, has known Mr. Downie since Mr. Jordan's days as a Kingston radio DJ; he spent the better part of three decades watching Mr. Downie's earnestness in action. "In any conversation I've been a part of or witnessed, he had a keen interest in what youdo, what you have to say, what's going on with you," Mr. Jordan said. "He took a lot of that and worked it into his lyrics, and himself. He was like a better version of us because he was us."

Mr. Downie's work expanded beyond music: He published a book of poetry, Coke Machine Glow, and collaborated with dancers Andrea Nann and Brendan Wyatt on a dance performance piece, Beside Each Other. In an e-mail, Ms. Nann, artistic director of Dreamwalker Dance Company, said that she and husband, Andy Maize, of the band Skydiggers "are full with love and gratitude to know Gord as friend, family and artistic collaborator. His love, influence and music flow through us, always and forever."

With a report from Joe Friesen


it carries out sliding movement on the rail of the launch tube at the time of launching.
However, the conventional shoe, which is designed so as to have sufficient structural strength with respect to self-weight, external loads, external impacts, and launch loads, is assembled so as not to be separated from the missile body, which leads to a problem of increase in drag force during the flight of the missile.
Moreover, in order to smoothly move the missile along the rail surface of the launch tube, there exists a gap between the launch tube rail and the shoe due to a tolerance provided by considering launching dynamics, manufacture, and assembling. If a manufactured state of the launch tube rail is poor, the gap between the launch tube rail and theUber facilitated 14 million rides a week in India last year, the American ride-hailing firm said as it claimed the tentpole position in the key overseas market.

In a report (PDF) published on the sidelines of its quarterly earnings Thursday afternoon, Uber said that it commanded more than 50% of the ride-hailing market in India — among some other regions — and was the category leader.

The publicly listed company cited its internal estimations for the claim, it said. In comparison, Uber handled 11 million rides a week in India in 2018, a spokesperson told TechCrunch.

The revelation is especially interesting, since both Uber and its chief local rival Ola have tended to avoid talks about the number of rides they serve in India.

In a 2018 blog post, Ola revealed that


in 1938. Tom Kerry was elected to the party's National Committee, a position he held for many decades.

During World War II, when many of the leaders of the Socialist Workers Party, (including James P. Cannon, Farrell Dobbs and Carl Skoglund) were sent to prison by the Smith Act for opposing American intervention in the war, Tom Kerry became one of the most important "free" leaders of the party.

In 1953 when James Cannon decided to retire from the post as National Secretary, he was succeeded by Farrell Dobbs and Tom Kerry became Dobbs' closest collaborator. Kerry was made Organizational Secretary.

Kerry wrote a lot of political articles and some Marxist books. He retired from active party work in the mid 1970s, though when the Trotskyist opposition developing to the leadershipThursday, August 28, 2008

Certified question.

In an action brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, a father brought an action seeking relief on behalf of him and his disabled son. Because he was the non-custodial parent, the distirict court held that he did not have standing to bring the action. The Second Circuit held that standing turned on an unsettled issue of New York state law and certified the question for decision by the New York State Court of Appeals.

The certified question is:

Whether, under New York law, the biological and non-custodial parent of a child retains the right to participate in decision pertaining to the education of the child where (1) the custodial parent is granted exclusive custody of the child and (2) the divorce decree and custody


Tuesday, June 19, 2018

A dream came through for Athula Kuruppu Achchige in Carrigaline yesterday when his state of the art production facility was officially opened in the local industrial estate. His immediate family from Cork and Sri Lanka, along with many friends, were present on this happy occasion for a man who has worked hard on his long journey to Cork.

A 26 year long civil war in his own country in 1983; that and growing family responsibilities forced him abroad to look for work as a chef. He couldn't be choosy and went where the agents sent him and that included Iraq (where he was head chef at an American base) and then Bahrein airport’s VIP Lounge (where he cooked for local and world leaders passing through).

County MayorDeclan Hurley (left) and local TD Michael McGrath open Athula's spanking new unit in Carrigaline.

Eventually, in 2005, he headed for Ireland and a job in the Hayfield Manor. In 2012, he opened his own restaurant Rooster Pil Pil in Ballincollig. But what he really wanted to do was to produce his own sauces and, with help from the local enterprise office, that became a really in recent years.

He was advised to go to the farmers markets and see if his products would sell. They did and he got an opportunity to find his feet in the new Cork County Council Incubator Kitchens (also in Carrigaline). He has proved himself there and now, again with local authority help and a large investment of his own, has a wonderful state


of the art stream-lined production facility.

Great to congratulate Athula on his big day!

His first products, a range of Peri Peri Sauces (from mild to hot), went down well. And now he is also producing a few curry sauces including Jalfrezi, Tikka Masala and Korma. The products are available in 35 SuperValu stores, over 30 independents and now just coming onto the shelves in Aldi. And soon he’ll be selling spices and high quality Ceylon teas from his homeland.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Festival Cork are in their second year now and have once again teamed up with Taste Cork to bring:

Taste Cork Week 2017, October 16th- 22nd And for the first time this year, an extended special “Taste Jazz” 23rd-26th October

There are almost 40 venues signed up this year allwith an extension that takes it up to the eve of the Jazz Weekend.

At the launch last week, in Nano Nagle Place, the spanking new major attraction right in the heart of the city, Ernest Cantillon of Festival Cork told us to watch out for some of the more informal events: jazz cafes, a distillery visit in a barn, and pop ups in unusual places.

Ernest Cantillon of Festival Cork

One or more of those pop ups will be in the café in the peaceful gardens of Nano Nagle. Keep an eye on the Taste Cork website here for more details of all events.

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Victor O'Sullivan (left) of Bluebell
and Tim Mulcahy (Chicken Inn)

Evenings with guest chefs always seem to be popular. One of the highlights from last year was in Isaac’s


were officially represented on the night.

Lorna Conroy ofKinsale Bay.

Lord Mayor Tony Fitzgerald pointed to the fact that Cork has been designated as a Healthy City and put that down largely to the good food in the area. He stressed the importance of festivals in drawing visitors and said he was very proud of what Ernest and his colleagues are doing.

Ian Doyle, Deputy County Mayor, rightly congratulated the City Council on the marvellous work that they have done (and are continuing to do) at Nano Nagle Place, “a fantastic venue”. He noted that artisan food and drink are becoming very important and praised the great dedication shown by the producers.

Ernest said there is a great relationship between businesses, such as restaurants and hotels and suppliers. “Cork is well knowngo.

Kevin Aherne is one man who has been doing exactly this for the past five years and his innovative 12 Mile Menu was recognised by his peers on Tuesday evening in Killarney when his Sage Restaurant in Midleton won Restaurant of the Year in Cork.

Kevin spoke later at the seminar and we’ll have a post on that tomorrow. Mary Daly (Food Safety Company) also spoke in Electric and she too stressed the importance of local: “Provenance is hugely important. Taste Cork can play a big role.” More too from Mary tomorrow. Part Two is now up and running and you can see what Kevin and Mary said here.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Year on year, the awarding of Best in County Awards has been growing as a part of the


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Fireworks for the winner goes off as Jamaica's Usain Bolt falls after suffering an injury, during the men's 4x100-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in London Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.

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LONDON (AP) — Usain Bolt was ramping into warp speed when suddenly, stunningly, the sprint turned into a somersault.

Fifteen steps into the final homestretch of his final race, something gave in his left hamstring. The World's Fastest Man skittered to a stop — hopping, skipping, jumping, then finally dropping to the ground and tumbling forward before coming to a rest.

While the winning team from Britain crossed the finish line, Bolt was writhing on the track, where he eventually woundup chest down with his face pressed into Lane 5. He was certainly every bit as stunned as any of the 60,000-plus who packed the stadium Saturday, or the millions watching one of the world's most entertaining showmen make his final curtain call in the 4x100-meter relay at world championships.

There was no celebration. No gold, no silver, not even a consolation bronze, the likes of which Bolt received a week earlier in his final 100-meter race.

Jamaica closed the night with "DNF" by its name: Did Not Finish. Dead last. Bolt was helped into a wheelchair, but eventually got to his feet and, assisted by his teammates, limped gingerly across the finish line. He gave a few waves to the crowd, then left for the trainer's room, and with


that, presumably left track and field forever.

"Injuries are part of our sport and, always, of course, it's sad to see," said Wallace Spearmon, the American sprinter who has been close with Bolt for years and was on hand helping the U.S. team. "So, yeah, it's tragic."

The Jamaican team doctor, Kevin Jones, diagnosed the injury that brought a strange end to Bolt's career as, simply, a cramp in the champion's left hamstring.

"But a lot of pain is from disappointment from losing the race," Jones said. "The last three weeks have been hard for him, you know. We hope for the best for him."

Watching track's No. 1 sprinter and celebrity dropping to the ground was nothing short of jaw-dropping — so much so that the fact that Britain won therace, outrunning a United States team that, somewhat amazingly, didn't drop the baton, almost seemed like an afterthought.

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake held off U.S. anchorman Christian Coleman down the stretch and the Brits won their first-ever world title in the 4x100 in 37.47 seconds.

When Bolt took the baton from Yohan Blake for his final homestretch, he was in third place, but that was no cause for concern. In virtually each of the seven relay golds he's won at the Olympics and world championships, Bolt has reeled in the competition down the stretch and won going away, much the same as all his 100 victories have played out.

Five years and one day earlier, on the very same track, Bolt helped Jamaica set the world record. That run of 36.84 seconds earned


Bolt the sixth of nine Olympic victories.

But last week in the 100, Bolt's extra gear was not enough either to catch Coleman, who finished second, or to hold off Justin Gatlin, the oft-booed American who came from behind to finish first.

Could he have caught his relay competition in this one? Nobody will ever know. Bolt was gaining no ground at the 30-meter mark, which is when he felt the pain in his leg and went tumbling.

Afterward, there was plenty of second-guessing to be done. Most of it came at the expense of the IAAF, which made the sprinters wait about 40 minutes from the time they were summoned from the warm-up room to the time the starting gun went off.

"I think this is crazy," Blake said. "Forty minutes.[Anatomy and topography of the spleen in children].
Fifty-two isolated spleens and 17 corpses of newborns and children up to 3 years of age have been studied. Preparation, visirographic and morphometric methods have been used. During the newborn and suckling age periods the spleen is projected in three regions: in the epigastrum, in the left subcostal and in the left lateral areas of the abdomen, and during early infancy--only in the left subcostal and in the left lateral area of the abdomen. The anterior end of the spleen beginning from the newborn period up to the early infancy comes down 1-2 vertebrae. The angle formed by the longitudinal axis of the spleen and the horizontal plane running across its anterior end increases. The spleen changes its form from the


Joint release by the ESRF and DESY.

Hamburg / Grenoble 14 September 2012: With a sophisticated X-ray analysis scientists have identified why parts of the Van Gogh painting "Flowers in a blue vase" have changed colour over time: a supposedly protective varnish applied after the master's death has made some bright yellow flowers turn to an orange-grey colour. The origin of this alteration is a hitherto unknown degradation process at the interface between paint and varnish, which studies at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility ESRF in Grenoble (France) and at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg (Germany) have revealed for the first time.

The results are published in an upcoming issue of "Analytical Chemistry", the first author of which is Geert Van der Snickt, who received a PhD in Conservation andRestauration from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) for this work. The research team was led by Koen Janssens from Antwerp and also comprised scientists from TU Delft (Netherlands), the French CNRS, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo (Netherlands), the ESRF and DESY.

Microsamples from art masterpieces moulded in Plexiglass plates ready for investigation with synchrotron X-rays. The historic paint tube at the bottom is from the personal collection of M. Cotte. Credit I. Montero/ESRF.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) painted “Flowers in a blue vase” in 1887 in Paris, and in the early 20th century, the painting was acquired by the Kröller-Müller Museum. The master usually did not varnish his works, but this painting was later covered with a supposedly protective varnish, like many other Van Gogh paintings in the first half


raised on this appeal is whether the court erred in admitting testimony relating to defendant's acquaintanceship with Miss Hall. Defendant contends that the testimony was improper since Miss Hall was not specifically identified as a participant in the alleged robbery and was not on trial herself. He argues that the testimony regarding his association with her improperly corroborated the State's case and gave rise to an unwarranted inference of guilt. The facts follow.
On January 22, 1966, Robert Hurnes was in a tavern at the corner of Madison Street and Albany Avenue in Chicago. Some time after midnight he left the tavern and walked along Albany Avenue until he reached the alley at the rear of the tavern. At that point a woman whom he recognized as having beenin the tavern earlier in the evening approached him, produced a small container from her purse and sprayed a substance in his eyes, temporarily blinding him. He was then assailed by a number of men who tore his clothing and demanded his money. He testified that he was unable to get a clear look at any of the attackers, but noticed that the man who was actually holding him down spoke as though he had a cold. He further observed that this assailant was wearing trousers with a stripe down the side, which appeared to be part of a uniform. That man, whom the witness positively identified as the defendant, was the last to leave him in the alley when the other assailants fled. Immediately upon *249 being


released, the victim arose and without losing sight of his attacker, followed him into the tavern, confronted him and accused him of the robbery. Hurnes identified the defendant to the police as one of his assailants and described the woman who had first accosted him at the entrance to the alley. Shortly thereafter the police apprehended the codefendant Mae Frances Hall.
Defendant Clark testified that he was walking north along Albany Avenue approaching Madison Street when he heard sounds from an alley and saw Hurnes trying to get up from the pavement; that he helped Hurnes up and took him to the tavern, where he met a group of friends, and that Hurnes then confronted him and identified him as one of the robbers. Clark said he called thepolice, but when they arrived he found himself taken into custody. He also said he had come from his employment as a parking lot attendant and was wearing his work uniform at the time of his arrest.
On cross-examination Clark was questioned by the attorney for the State with respect to the circumstances surrounding his arrest. He testified that shortly after his arrest the police arrested the codefendant Mae Frances Hall. He further testified that he had known Miss Hall for a week or two prior to the arrest. Defense counsel objected to that line of questioning on the ground that the case against Miss Hall had not been tried because of her mental incapacity. In overruling the objection the court said, "it was alleged she was a participant


Hall's role in the alleged crime was germane to the issues on trial and testimony regarding her whereabouts or her relationship with Clark was not rendered irrelevant merely by the finding that she was incompetent to stand trial. The only conclusion to be derived from the defendant's testimony on that point is that the codefendants were acquainted and that both of them were arrested at approximately the same time.
[3] The evidence shows that Hurnes followed the defendant from the scene of the crime to the tavern where he identified the latter as a perpetrator of the robbery and that he again identified him at the trial. The positive identification of one credible witness is sufficient to support a conviction for robbery even though such testimony is contradicted byThe first visit of the SEVA Champagne trip was to Jacquinot in Epernay. Jean-Manuel is well acquainted with the English wine industry. He first worked with Nyetimber a decade ago, and since then has moved away from that to be the Wineskills mentor for sparkling wine, via which he visits and speaks to lots of English wine makers. He’s a very charismatic bloke, and his wines were tasting very nicely today. I particularly liked his Harmony’96 and Symphonie’00 so I bought some.

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What did I learn from the visit? Well the topic of riddling came up and Jean-Manuel made the point that to get a good clarity in the resulting wine he always leaves the riddling crate to sit for a week next to the gyropalate


For decades, New York has owed a key part of its allure—its unwillingness to honor class divisions with geographic ones—to rent stabilization. Under the system, which governs rents for a million apartments in the city, wildly different tax brackets can be found sharing walls, watts, and water pipes. But is a rule that limits rent increases to prescribed percentages—and flies in the face of both soaring costs and a runaway market—still viable?

Not for MetLife, which is selling Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the fabled middle-class enclave where some 8,000 apartments still rent for about half the market price. Elsewhere, more than 200,000 units throughout the city have been deregulated since 1993, and virtually all new construction, promises of “affordable housing” aside, is betting the farm on luxury.

Economistshave long debated the wisdom of rent stabilization. Tenants and landlords debate it, too—but at a much louder volume. In June, the Rent Guidelines Board’s vote on the size of the next increase incited protests so vigorous that the clamor, for the first time ever, temporarily shut down the process. In an atmosphere close to a Tammany-era riot, the board ushered in a hike of 4.25 percent.

Among the few landlords testifying before the board (to heckles of “Sell!” and “Get out of town!”) was Gail Stein Weinstein, a short, shy, bespectacled woman hardly fitting the cartoonishly villainous archetype. Many rent-stabilized buildings in New York are owned by companies with lots of holdings. Weinstein, who owns a few small buildings, was trying to make the case for a heretofore


unnoticed third front in the landlord-tenant standoff: the small, dedicated property owner—buoyed on one side by the berserk market and beset on the other by skyrocketing costs.

To evaluate her claim, and those of others like her, we attempted a dissection of one of her properties, a 28-unit, six-story pile of red brick smack in the middle of the East Village. The building, typical in some ways but decidedly unconventional in others, has been around for 103 years, but its present identity and core cast of characters fell together in the early eighties, on the intersection of drugs, punk, art, and AIDS. Madonna lived on the fifth floor back when she was better known as D.J. Jellybean Benitez’s weird girlfriend. An alleged murderer was once its super. Tim Miller,a co-founder of P.S. 122, still performs a one-man piece about it—titled The Maw of Death. He exaggerates, but not by much.

As late as 1988, cabbies made their fares get off a full block to the west. Times changed; taxis are a popular complaint topic (they double-park in front of the entrance). The building’s tenants, however, even after a full decade of rampant gentrification, are a motley mix of Village vintages: a starving artist and a Disney artist, a carpenter and a caterer, an architect and a dancer.

We persuaded most of them to disclose their lease terms, and Weinstein to contribute some numbers of her own. What we saw was a uniquely New York kind of mess: Rents stuck in the Koch era and rents thrown at the


the tenants who haven’t explicitly allowed us to use their names by their apartment numbers) moved into the building in 1988, when it was still, he says, “on the worst drug block in New York City.” He, his wife (also a painter), and their son share a small one-bedroom: about 400 square feet of twisting, angular space. In harder times, Weinstein would accept Seven’s paintings in lieu of rent. “She has a decent collection of my stuff,” he says sheepishly. In 1999, she converted her nearby office into the Philip Alan art gallery, a “tenant-landlord collaborative” named after Weinstein’s son, where artwork by the couple was frequently featured. Seven’s relationship with Weinstein has deteriorated recently, which he laments. He says he and his wife had to sue formember is moving in. In No. 3, for instance, the tenant immediately preceding Phil lived there for over twenty years, and his rent likely never made it out of three-digit territory. The current, post-Phil tenant pays top dollar. The rule, however, applies only to the buildings held in an individual’s name (Gail’s is owned by her company), and all the reshuffling appears strictly voluntary. Gail says Phil plans to remain in No. 19 for the foreseeable future.

Apt. 20

SIZE: three-br

CURRENT TENANT: 7 years

RENT: about $1,300

Twenty, a dancer-choreographer, has lived here for seven years, one of them spent in litigation with Weinstein. She went on a fourteen-month rent strike over a complaint about heat, which Weinstein says was later proved phony. (The Division of Housing and Community Renewal has no


among his tenants. “Oh, he was a monster,” says Kevin Malony, the theater director in No. 18. “He came to suck people dry. It took Weinstein several years, but she turned things around. She is a true philanthropist, one of the few people who keep the fabric of the East Village alive.”

The weight of her father’s notoriety could explain Weinstein’s dedication. In the eighties, she was almost pathologically bent on keeping the building “clean,” at one point going so far as to hire a private security guard (an unheard-of thing back then). She stuck with the blighted neighborhood through two waves of landlord flight, the drugs, and the riots, and remains, with a couple of notable exceptions, beloved by the very people who hand her half of theirThe new and distinct grapevine described and claimed herein originated from a hand pollinated cross of the IFG 01032-067-222, an unnamed seedless selection from the IFG breeding program, and the Arkansas 2798 (unnamed interspecific) hybridized in May 2006. The abortive seed traces were subsequently embryo cultured and the resulting population of plants was planted in the field in April 2007. The present variety of grapevine was selected as a single plant in September 2008 and was first asexually propagated by hardwood cuttings in December 2008 near Delano, Kern County, Calif. The resulting propagules were planted during April 2009 near Delano, Kern County, Calif. and were found to reproduce true-to-type through at least two generations of asexual reproduction.


Welcome to Buzzworthy's "The Week In Pop," where we round up new album releases, talk show musical guests and TV performances by your favorite pop stars and more (so you don't have to).

Get into the groove this Tuesday with a mix of albums housing songs destined for the dance floor and poolside jamming. Usher releases album number seven rife with bedroom come-ons and club joints, while Canada's Metric wrap electropop around intelligent themes on their fifth effort. Waka Flocka Flame, Far East Movement and Diplo drop the hip-hop beats that will flavor the summer, while Hot Chip's synth-happy gems inspire the romantic in all of us. Meanwhile on the telly, Justin Bieber gets the weekend party started on "Today Show."

NEW ALBUM RELEASES

Tuesday, June 12

+ Usher, Looking 4 Myself:Far East Movement, Dirty Bass: They made splashes in 2010 with "Rocketeer" and "Like A G6" -- the first song by an Asian-American band to top a Billboard chart. Now the group releases Dirty Bass's Deluxe Version, featuring two exclusive songs "Shake Ya Rump" and "Change Your Life" with Flo Rida. Other guests include Justin Bieber and a RedFoo-assisted remix ("Live My Life"), Tyga ("Dirty Bass") and Tokio Hotel ("If I Die Tomorrow").

Check out more new album releases and upcoming TV appearances and performances after the jump.

+ Metric, Synthetica: The Canadian group fronted by the sultry Emily Haines craft another charming electropop-rock gem. They blend glammier stylings with current sociopolitical concerns on "Youth Without Youth," mine modern, infectious pop on "Breathing Under Water" and the confessional "Dreams So


Matt Toka's debut release, he's been wracking up YouTube counts with homemade videos of his own songs (along with covers of Adele, Coldplay and The Beastie Boys) long beforehand. His previously YouTube-only tracks "666" and "Ode To My Family" get officially released here along with four more original songs.while in Sokovia. He killed both of Tony's parents and managed to steal the serum, while watching this I was really amazed as to why would Hydra want to steal the serum for? The 秒 half of the film was really sad, because I thought that Iron Man was going against his フレンズ によって being a vengeful person. Honestly, I never saw it coming! I was also happy that Black パンサー stop...

Until last fall, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has released three films each for only two of the franchise's characters - Iron Man and (allegedly) Captain America. With the release of "THOR: RAGNAROK", the God of Thunder became the third character to end up with three solo films.

Directed によって Taika Waititi, "THOR: RAGNAROK" told the story of


Asgardian prince Thor's efforts to prevent the destruction of his world, Asgard, from his aggressive and もっと見る powerful sister, Hela. The movie is the franchise's version of a...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) had released its 秒 film of 2017 in July called "SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING". Although this film marked the first time a solo Spider-man film within the MCU franhise, it marked the 秒 appearance of the Peter Parker/Spider-Man in a MCU film. The character made its first appearance in 2016's "CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR". In an odd way, this film could be seen as a sequel to the 2016 movie. .

Before I started on this review, I found myself wondering which "phase" in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) that "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2" found itself. Phasewith its first adaptation of the Marvel Comics character, Doctor Strange.

Directed によって Scott Derrickson and starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the starring role, "DOCTOR STRANGE" told unveiled the origin story of a successful New York City neurosurgeon named Dr. Stephen Strange, whose career ends...

I am so disappointed with Marvel. And I am especially disappointed with its latest entry for the Marvel Cinematic Universe - namely "CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR". I never thought I would be so disappointed with a Captain America film, considering how much I loved "CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER" and especially "CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER".

As for "CIVIL WAR", I found it disappointing. Worse, I left the movie theater feeling unusually angry. And a great deal of my...

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With about eight months to go until Avengers


The 10 people who earn the most in Instagram

Social networks stopped being just a pastime a long time ago to become a real business market.

Instagram just took to years to be bought by Facebook. The app, created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, was launched on the App Store from Apple in the 6th of October of 2010. In April of 2012, Mark Zuckerberg’s company bought it for 1000 million dollars. The reason was obvious: Instagram was about to become a huge market. Nowadays, the social network has more than 700 million users.

Would you like to earn 550.000 dollars per picture in your profile? This is the quantity that the number 1 of this list earns.

This North American celebrity earned 50 million dollars last year thank to herand living that God has brought to bear on our creation. The only thing more piercing than being told we are God’s Poem is being told we are God’s own children. And he has told us that too.

Mark P. Shea is a popular Catholic writer and speaker. The author of numerous books, his most recent work is The Work of Mercy (Servant) and The Heart of Catholic Prayer (Our Sunday Visitor). Mark contributes numerous articles to many magazines, including his popular column “Connecting the Dots” for the National Catholic Register. Mark is known nationally for his one minute “Words of Encouragement” on Catholic radio. He also maintains the Catholic and Enjoying It blog and regularly blogs for National Catholic Register. He lives in Washington state with his wife,


fans will decide the rules for the game, Mohegan Sun Arena, Wilkes-Barre Township, 3 p.m.; tickets, starting at $15, are available at www.harlemglobetrotters.com, www.ticketmaster.com, the arena box office or by phone at 800-745-3000.

March 1-3 - Building Industry Association of Northeastern Pennsylvania Home Expo, featuring builders, remodelers, suppliers, financial services and many related "for the home" booths as well as theme basket displays, a waterfall display to help support Candy's Place, a Chinese auction, a wine-tasting event, featuring seven local wineries, John Stopay Chocolates and Caulkin Cheeses, Kingston Armory; 570-287-3331.

March 5 - "War and Peace: Current Issues," presented by Daniel Serwer, scholar at the Middle East Institute, and professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Harry and JeanetteCOLUMBUS – Columbus Crew SC today announced that the club has acquired goalkeeper Jon Kempin from LA Galaxy in exchange for a Fourth Round pick in the 2018 Major League Soccer SuperDraft. Kempin, 24, is an eight-year Major League Soccer veteran who previously played for LA Galaxy and Sporting Kansas City.

Kempin spent the 2017 season with the LA Galaxy, where he made seven regular-season appearances (all starts), registering two shutouts and 27 saves. The goalkeeper also made six regular-season appearances (all starts) with the LA Galaxy II, the Galaxy’s United Soccer League side, recording two clean sheets and 32 saves. Prior to joining the Galaxy in 2017, Kempin spent seven seasons with Sporting Kansas City, where he signed as the club’s first Homegrown Player on August of 2010


at the age of 17. In 2016, Kempin made 12 appearances (all starts) for Swope Park Rangers, Sporting KC’s USL team, registering three shutouts and 33 saves.

“Jon is a promising young goalkeeper with proven experience in the League and U.S. Youth National Teams,” said Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter. “He has a good reputation for his work ethic, competitiveness and contributions in the locker room. We are happy to welcome Jon to Columbus and continue his development.”

At the international level, Kempin has represented the United States at the Under-14, U-17, U-20 and U-23 levels. In 2015, the goalkeeper was named to the United States Men’s National Team roster for the first time in his career to take part in manager Jurgen Klinsmann’s January Camp. Most recently,Kempin featured for the U.S. U-23 side in a friendly against Brazil on November 11, 2015.

The MLS offseason continues with the MLS Re-Entry Draft Stage One occurring on Friday, December 15 at 3:00 p.m. ET. Stage Two of the Re-Entry Draft takes place on Thursday, December 21 at 2:00 p.m. ET.

TRANSACTION

Columbus Crew SC acquires goalkeeper Jon Kempin on December 13, 2017, from LA Galaxy in exchange for a Fourth Round pick in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft.

Name: Jon Kempin

Position: Goalkeeper

Height: 6’1”

Weight: 170

Born: April 8, 1993 in Overland Park, Kansas

Hometown: Leawood, Kansas

Citizenship: United States

Acquired: Acquired on December 13, 2017, from LA Galaxy in exchange for a Fourth Round pick in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft.

Previous Experience: LA Galaxy (2017), Sporting Kansas City (2010-2016)


problem for visits of a Prime Minister to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine
in favor of the revision of the Murayama Statement
in favor of the revision of the Kono Statement
against laws preventing hate speech
considers Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is a burden for Okinawa
in favor of the Special Secrecy Law
in favor of teaching 'morality' in school

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season as part of an extension he signed last year. Varejao suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in December but is on track to return by the start of the season.

The possibility of moving Varejao, who has played his entire 11-year career with the Cavs, could be behind the Cavs' interest in free-agent forward David West over the last several days. West has indicated he wants to play for a Finals contender, and the Cavs have been attempting to recruit him, sources said.hate machine I was part of is still attacking all abortionists as 'murderers.' And today once again the 'pro-life' leaders are busy ducking their personal responsibility for people acting on their words. The people who stir up the fringe never take responsibility. But I'd like to say on this day after a man was murdered in cold blood for preforming abortions that I -- and the people I worked with in the religious right, the Republican Party, the pro-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church, all contributed to this killing by our foolish and incendiary words.


tough games against Dallas, New England and the surprising Eagles coming up in the middle of their schedule, Miami provides the Bengals the opportunity to start gaining ground in the conference. Reluctantly, I say they tame the Dolphins on Thursday night.

Bengals 23, Dolphins 17

AC — Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, and...oh boy.reality projects remained relatively hidden. However, those experiments were unearthed and released at the New York Public Library in 2013.

According to Arts Beat, the library displayed a monitor at the celebration that showed “a continual loop of samples from the dozen or so games Leary developed in the 1980s, alongside cases containing paper documents relating to his famous LSD experiments. The games were recovered from the roughly 375 computer disks included in the Leary archive.”

Of of those projects by Timothy Leary was a software program developed for Electronic Arts in 1985 called ‘Mind Mirror.’ The goal of the game was to allow people using Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit platforms to digitize their thoughts for entertainment or educational purposes.

In addition to Timothy Leary, another proponent of virtual reality


in the 1990s was American psychonaut, ethnobotanist, lecturer, and author Terence McKenna. The rumor goes that Terence McKenna and Timothy Leary met at a virtual reality-related warehouse “rave” called Cyberthon in July 1994. Shortly thereafter, Terence McKenna started openly speaking about his thoughts into the socioeconomic aftereffects of the medium.

During an event in Amsterdam dubbed Ego-Soft in 1995, McKenna gave a 90 minute talk where he discussed “The New Psychedelics” that were emerging at that time. He started out by pitching the idea that psilocybin mushrooms shaped human consciousness. McKenna also described what he saw was the true importance of psychedelic plants. From there, he goes on to suggest that technologies like virtual reality allow people to share their inner-thoughts in an entire new way. His presentation providedcredibility of the reporting that we're now aware of.

Originally Posted by Jack Hays

From Wilson's 6 July 2003 NYT article: "In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. While I never saw the report, I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake -- a form of lightly processed ore -- by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office."

By the time Wilson published that piece in the NY Times, the story of the forged documents was


the sixteen words.

From Wilson's 6 July 2003 NYT article: "In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. While I never saw the report, I was told that it referred to a memorandum of agreement that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake -- a form of lightly processed ore -- by Niger to Iraq in the late 1990's. The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story so they could provide a response to the vice president's office."

The reason the report was never used to prep the SOTU was because it was in question, as Wilson noted. That's also why GWB only referred to Saddamattempting to procure uranium, drawing back from the claim that a deal had been made.

The National Security Advisor erred.

Um, I don't think she erred at all, here is what she said on national television:

*"The president quoted a British paper. We did not know at the time--no one knew at the time, in our circles-maybe someone knew down in the bowels of the agency, but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery. Of course, it was information that was mistaken. But the-it was a relatively small part of the case about nuclear weapons and nuclear reconstitution." Condoleeza Rice, NBC Meet the Press, 6/8/03

You can also see her saying it at the 1:40 mark in the following video:

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Articles of interest to people living in or involved with co-operative or condominium apartments in New York City. An emphasis will be on improving and running a building, which is of special interest to board members.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

BY BEN PIVEN SPECIAL TO THE NEWSSunday, May 3rd 2009, 4:00 AMhttp://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2009/05/03/2009-05-03_his_job_is_sweep_relief_bronxbased_service_cleans_out_hoarders_cluttered_homes.html

Catharine harvests rainwater for bathing and uses a litter box as her toilet. She has had no plumbing for seven years. The Georgetown University alumna sleeps on massive rubbish piles next to her 10 cats.

Cleaning out her cluttered three-bedroom house in New Jersey was not an easy task, even for professional declutterer Don Tagatac. Five tons of paper, rotten food, mattresses and clothing took five days to remove.

She is not alone. There are 300,000 hoarders in the metro area,according to Randy Frost, a hoarding expert at Smith College. Catherine's putrid residence is not even the messiest that Tagatac's Bronx-based Trauma Scene Cleaning Management Inc. has tidied.

Tagatac serves as a mediator between the victims of the psychological disorder and the landlords, bureaucrats, social workers, psychologists and family members who struggle to contain the problem.

Compulsive hoarding is defined as the acquisition of, and failure to use or discard, a large number of seemingly useless items. The storage of these items often precludes activities for which spaces were designed. This renders homes unlivable if the condition goes untreated.

Tagatac's 20 hoarding cleanups of the past year have confirmed his entrepreneurial instincts.

"I'm in a strange line of work. It's a specialty job," admits Tagatac, who manages 11 employees.

Tagatac betrays a caretaker's


concern that runs in his family. His mother is an emergency room nurse, and his stepfather is a physician.

Tagatac took over management of the cleanup enterprise two years ago. While the company initially did only biohazard and crime-scene cleanups, an October 2007 trauma case involving a decomposed body at a hoarding scene gave Tagatac a bold idea - to concentrate on hoarder sites.

The business is now about three-quarters hoarding cases and one-quarter trauma scenes, said Tagatac.

"Hoarding is a misunderstood issue," said Patricia Petersen, a geriatric social worker at Hartley House in Hell's Kitchen. Petersen, who has worked with Tagatac, added, "Most people think that all hoarders are pigs, but it's an illness. It's about control, and every item represents their attachment to things."

All of Tagatac's hoarding clients livealone, and 90% are female. Most are elderly.

"Ultimately, you can't go to sleep in a comfortable bed after you've just seen 10 potential hoarder clients," said Tagatac, who hopes that city government will subsidize hoarder cleanups in the future.

During one cleaning job in the Bronx in September, Tagatac's six-man crew struggled for two hours just to enter a junkaholic's residence.

After wiggling the door open, they thought they were in the clear. But after each bag of junk was removed, more stuff would fall down toward the door, and the team resumed their task.

"It may be a blurry line between the Collyer brothers [the infamous siblings who died in 1947 with more than 100 tons of junk packed into their Harlem brownstone] and people who just keep taking stuff


shareholder proportionally. But condo associations are different and more difficult — hitting legal and ethical issues of which even many professionals have been unaware.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

CO-OPS across the city have raised their maintenance charges by as much as 15 percent in recent months, and one of the main causes is rising property taxes.

Board members and building managers say that while maintenance increases averaged only about 5 percent last year, many co-op buildings are now dealing with double-digit increases.

“Operating costs have gone up, but property taxes have skyrocketed,” said John Janangelo, the president of Bellmarc Property Management, which manages about 50 apartment buildings in Manhattan. He said that taxes for some of his buildings had risen by as much as 35 percent in 2009. “It comes at thevaluation is beyond me.”

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: April 12, 2009An article last Sunday about a sharp rise in maintenance charges in many New York City co-ops gave an outdated location for Marin & Montanye, an accounting firm on Long Island that serves hundreds of buildings in the city. The firm is in Uniondale, not Port Washington.

The city's Tax Commission has been swamped with appeals this year from major property owners hoping to lower their tax bills, The Post has learned.

Officials said 44,488 appeals were filed by owners of apartment, co-op, condo and office buildings, up 5.6 percent from the 42,106 filed last year.

"It's a substantial increase," said Tax Commission President Glenn Newman.

Typically, only the largest property owners have the resources -- and


the financial incentive -- to file appeals.

Last year, for example, only 1,389 of 699,809 small-home owners challenged the assessments by the Finance Department, which form the basis for tax bills on the city's 1,015,968 properties. Comparable figures for small-home owners this year weren't available last week.

The odds of winning are long.

In Manhattan last year, just 2,500 of 18,830 challenges were successful. So the appeals numbers tend to stay flat from year-to-year.

The Finance Department's tentative assessment roll, issued in January, lags behind the market by a year, which explains why it increased the value of office buildings by an average of 7 percent even as prices were falling.

In an appeal, owners can present updated income and expense data through the end of the year.

"When the market is rising, mostaction to protect their right to free schmooze.

"We didn't smoke and we didn't drink and all that jazz but they didn't want us in their lobby," said Leroy Tepper, 81, a member of the "Fined Five Seniors."

"We weren't going to stand for it."

The group argued they rarely gathered later than 8:30 p.m., were not raucous and mostly sat around reminiscing about friends, children and, sometimes, politics.

The condo said neighbors complained they were too loud.

"It clearly states in the rules, no loitering," Cheryl Ruiz, who manages the Elmwood Park II condominium, told the Staten Island Advance.

But after the men consulted a lawyer about the fines, managers at the upscale condominium building relented.

They agreed to give the guys a vacant studio to use as a meeting spot from 7 p.m.


"There is no bad language. There are no boomboxes or beer. These are men who fought our wars for us, I don't know why they have to go through this."

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Manhattan doormen, ably trained as they are in the art of regulating traffic in and out of the city’s abodes, might want to start battening down the hatches: The economy … is … coming. In these troubled economic times, some residential building workers, who are members of the union 32BJ, are finding their services superfluous to requirements in the city, with some union members already losing jobs.

So add doormen, especially those working in rental buildings, to the list of luxury amenities that New Yorkers are no longer eager to pay for, along with rooftop decks, in-houserecreational facilities, haute design fixtures and indoor swimming pools.

“Tenants are sacrificing living conditions,” Marc Lewis, the president of Century 21 NY Metro, said. “They are leaving doorman buildings and going into elevator buildings.”

Formerly the white-gloved vestige of an antiquated Upper East Side lifestyle, uniformed doormen spread during the boom to every corner of Manhattan, their most familiar habitat being the new-development building in Manhattan. But because of falling rents and increasing vacancies, landlords are looking at tighter balance sheets, and that just might mean a thinning of the ranks in the doorman brigade.

So far in 2009, 32BJ, which also represents cleaners, porters, supers and security guards, has implemented approximately 70 workforce reductions, which is roughly the same amount as in all of last year.

Troubles in the market for


doormen rental buildings were evident as early as last February, when this very column noted that “Manhattanites are ditching doorman buildings.” A year and several economic crises later, and you can only imagine how things have worsened. From September 2007, around the time the rental market peaked, to February 2009, mean rents for apartments in doorman buildings plummeted faster than anything this side of Citi stock.

In the span of 17 months, rents on doorman-building studios fell by 15 percent; rent for doorman-building one-bedrooms dropped 13 percent; and rents for doorman-building two-bedrooms slipped 9 percent, according to statistics from the Real Estate Group New York.

According to that firm’s COO, Daniel Baum, landlords of doorman buildings are more vulnerable to a slumping real estate market. “At luxury buildings or doormanfor a long time, but they really seem to have started in recent months,” Mr. Nerzig said. So far, most of the staff reductions have been concentrated in Brooklyn and Queens, and whether they jump the river and start becoming prevalent in Manhattan remains to be seen.

For years, Halstead Property’s Richard Grossman has run a boot camp, teaching agents how to get buyers approved by co-op boards. In it, he presents four hypothetical applicant profiles. The first is a professional—a teacher, perhaps—with an average income but an outsize down payment. The second is a bonus-dependent candidate like a banker, who makes $80,000 and is putting down the minimum, but has a bonus three times his salary. The third, a non–Wall Streeter, earns somewhere in the low six figures


their restrictions, for their own sake.

"I'm finding co-op boards to be even further behind the market than sellers," said Jonathan Miller, president of appraisal firm Miller Samuel. "That's going to be a continuing problem during this period."

The most recent crackdown by co-op boards comes at a time when co-ops could actually be luring buyers who, while wary of the market in general, might be more comfortable with the secure financial footing that co-ops offer. Co-ops are not only cheaper than condos; experts say they're also holding their value better as the economic downturn grips Manhattan.

In the fourth quarter of 2008, the median price of a Manhattan co-op was $675,000, down 2 percent from the previous quarter, according to Prudential Douglas Elliman's quarterly market report, prepared by Miller. Bycontrast, the median sale price of a condo in the fourth quarter was $1.12 million, down 8.2 percent from the previous quarter.

"For the past 10 years, people thought 'why would anyone want a co-op?" said Kathy Braddock, co-founder of Charles Rutenberg Realty. Now, "co-ops are being looked at in a healthy way again."

Saving grace

Co-ops, which first began popping up in New York City in the 1920s, account for some 75 percent of the housing stock in Manhattan, according to Miller.

Their more restrictive policies mean they generally sell for 20 to 30 percent less than condos, said Aaron Shmulewitz, a partner at the real estate law firm Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman. That's one of the primary reasons why nearly all new residential developments are condos, he said.

Yet the


high percentage of co-ops in Manhattan is being viewed as a saving grace, and one of the key reasons the borough has largely avoided the same kind of fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis that many other places have seen.

For one thing, co-op owners are often required to put more money down and are thus less vulnerable to default. Moreover, when the owner of a co-op goes into foreclosure, the bank must step in and pay the maintenance charges, Shmulewitz said.

Finally, many banks now require 50 to 70 percent of units in a building to be sold in order for buyers in the building to obtain mortgages, making new condo developments — which once sold like hotcakes — a hard sell.

As a result, while co-ops risk devaluing theiror 30 years and are relying on their job to pay for it.” Other lien-filing lawyers said the pace had picked up by at least 10 to 25 percent.

“We’re seeing more, especially in the higher-end buildings where you never heard of foreclosures,” said Adam D. Finkelstein, a real estate lawyer with Kagan Lubic Lepper Lewis Gold & Colbert in Manhattan. Starting last quarter, his firm began filing two or three liens a month, up from two or three per year.

According to figures provided by the online research company PropertyShark.com, condo lien filings more than doubled in Brooklyn during the second half of 2008, and the number of filings in Manhattan zigzagged, with 156 in the first quarter, 186 in the second, 154 in the third and 203 in


the five boroughs from 2002 through 2007, according to the Department of Finance. That figure includes 132,431 units in Manhattan, where about 22,000 owners are in their fourth year of the program, 31,000 are in their fifth or sixth, and 12,000 are in their seventh. Because 421-a purchases were concentrated in a limited number of buildings, they are potentially destabilizing to these buildings in a down economy.

Mr. Kuperberg sketched out a second chain of events, this one pertaining to new buildings with many unsold units. It unfolds like this: Unable to sell half the units in a building, a struggling developer stops paying common charges and defaults on obligations to the lender. Foreclosure by the lender may take years, while individual unit owners effectively wind up paying doubleWednesday, March 24, 2010

"A patent-holding Illinois ophthalmologist has sued Microsoft over the Zune, alleging the software company illegally added his patented technology to the media player after he tried to license it to Microsoft. Dr. Edward Yavitz, of the Yavitz Eye Center in Rockford, Ill., says Microsoft willingly infringed two of his patents that cover a method for quickly tagging and downloading music via a device's FM radio receiver. ASeptember 2008 firmware update for the Zune let users buy music through the FM app, by tagging a song and downloading via wi-fi. In his complaint (PDF), Yavitz says he sent Microsoft a letter in October 2006 to pitch them the idea for the next Zune. His patents – Nos. 6,463,649 and 6,473,792 – were both filed in 2000


important vector, more exhaustive sampling and associated molecular testing would be necessary to rule it out as a potential vector. A similar need for wider testing applies to the additional three taxa that returned no positives in assays of feeding medium or head tissue before they can be discounted with confidence.

The most commonly reported vectors of phytoplasmas are members of the Hemiptera families: Cicadellidae, Derbidae, Flatidae, Cixiidae, Psyllidae, Cercopidae, Delphacidae and Meenoplidae[@b17]. Whilst the first three listed of these families were present in field samples from BSC affected sites, no positive DNA detections were made for the total of five Cicadellidae individuals. In addition to the positive DNA detections for members of the Derbidae and Flatidae, phytoplasma DNA was detected in specimens of additional families, the Lophopidae andshrink the size of the U.S. energy industry and eliminate its ability to cushion the economy against large swings in prices. A ban on hydraulic fracturing would essentially be the worst of both worlds – low production as if prices were low, while the rest of the economy (in the form of millions of households and businesses) struggles to adapt to a doubling of oil prices and quadrupling of natural gas prices,” it said.

The economic results for the nation and for key energy-producing states (as well as two, Michigan and Wisconsin, which are considered to be close in the 2020 election) is shown below.

Reprinted from PointLogic News. For more natural gas news from IHS Markit, visit the PointLogic website.

Kevin Adler is an Editorial Director, Natural Gas, at IHS


her. She closes her eyes and counts deep breaths: in-two-three-four-five; out-two-three-four-five.

Outside the car hawkish gray haze cloaks the scattered army of fallen leaves. She finds momentary comfort in the crunch of the stiff stems under her boots, smashing against the asphalt like hard molasses. The office door seal squeegees away the dead foliage, clears a path to the waiting room.

From down the hall a Southern drawl calls, “You must be Jane.” Jane orders herself to breathe as the body and the voice of the psychologist float toward her. She turns herself into a statue as the other woman slows and stops in front of her at a professional distance.

“I’m Doctor Katie Bird.” She has a young face, light-brown hair down to her shoulders, a nude sweater and awith the dogwoods and the sourwoods, into the oak-hickory forests, over the Chattahoochee River with the crickets and the white-tailed deer, onto the Appalachian Trail where the bootleggers and the barbeque light up like fireflies into the Blue Ridge sky.

And in that moment Iris becomes the older sister who had never been. Her offer will never be cashed in but is unwavering, full of tenderness and selfless love. Jane raises her head to look up at her big sister, to admire her, and finally, after what seems like a lifetime, to take her hand.

About the Author

Anne Johnston is a writer and wealth advisor in Los Angeles. Her essays, “Real Affluence” and “No Regret Insurance,” have appeared in Psychology Today online. She has participated in the Donald Freed Masters


Creative Writing Seminar since 2010 and is the winner of the Debt of Honor International Writers Workshop: 2018 Award for New Writing. Johnston has a BA from the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication. She loves exploring the intersection of money, psychology and storytelling.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.

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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Greensboro Friday along a three-day college tour through North and South Carolina as part of his 2020 presidential campaign. On Thursday, the senator held a rally at the Bell Tower Amphitheater on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. On Friday morning, Sanders toured the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro in a private visit. Sanders is also scheduled to hold a town hall Friday in Greensboro in the Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel at Bennett College. Doors will open at


12:30 p.m. Later Friday, at 6:30 p.m., Sanders is expected to hold a rally at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Sunday will be the final day of his Carolina college tour with a 1:30 p.m. College Town Hall at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, and a 5 p.m. College Town Hall at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg.nonfiction. For new readers, this is an accessible introduction to the pleasures of reading Wallace; for fans, a must-have best-of; and for teachers, an invaluable tool.

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Barbara Palvin was plucked off the streets of Budapest in 2006 while she was just 13. Since then, she has taken the modeling world by storm and has been features in just about every big-name magazine outlet you can think of.

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As rising numbers of people are living with the long-term impact of cancer, digital health is playing an increasingly important role in the monitoring and support of survivors and their caregivers. This article reviews current evidence, practice and developments, and identifies emerging issues and opportunities. Digital health innovations, primarily using internet or smartphone-enabled applications, have been successfully developed, particularly in the areas of symptom management, decision-making, survivorship and follow-up care and palliative care. The research is characterized by much developmental activity, and evidence is accruing for efficacy and effectiveness. Opportunities afforded by digital health include timelier and patient-centred evidence-based care, offering improved clinical outcomes and independence. Barriers to implementation


09/02/1991
Area code 510 was put into service. Area code 510 was created from a split of area code 415. In 1998 area code 510 was split to form area code 925.

Counties in California within area code 510 include:

Alameda County, and Contra Costa County.

Major cities or places in California within area code 510 include:

Area code 510 serves much of the Eastern Bay area in Alameda County and the western portion of Contra Costa County in California including the larger cities and communities of Alameda, Berkeley, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, Fremont, Hayward, Newark, Oakland, Richmond, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, San Pablo, and Union City in addition to many smaller communities.accepted at a top private university as whites who scored 1410
and African-Americans who got 1100. Whites were three times, Hispanics six
times, and blacks more than 15 times as likely to be accepted at a US
university as Asian-Americans."

In Russia a minority like Jews are asked special questions in admission tests
to make it harder for them to get in, while in America a minority like Asians
are hit with a penalty of 450 points in SAT to make it harder ( _15 times_
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BY Dr. JASWANT S. SACHDEVPOMONA, CA - For thirty years, the International Institute of Gurmat Studies (IIGS) has been celebrating the Prakash Utsav of Sri Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth master of the Sikhs, in grandeur under the auspices of Darbar-E- Khalsa. The gathering of Sikhs in thousands has been taking place in Southern California,

annually, even after the demise a few years ago, of IIGS’s founder, Captain Kanwar Harbhajan Singh. This year too, on Dec.25, members of the IIGS jatha, with the help of SoCal gurdwaras, left no stone unturned in making sure that the event was a spectacular and meaningful one. Thousands of Sikhs, perhaps more than any previous celebration of Darbar-E-Khalsa, arrived with their families and friends to the grounds and huge hall of the LACounty Fairgrounds here. Several raagi jathas, children and women jathas from local gurdwaras did wonderful and melodious kirtan as always. Akhand kirtani jatha performed a blissful seva of Aasaa Di Vaar early in the morning starting at 6:30 am sharp followed by Hukum, Ardaas and Karaah Prashad Seva around 9am. This was followed by a brief kirtan by raagi jathas of Bhai Lakhan Singh and Bhai Khem Singh.Children from various local gurdwaras then took over with their renderings, including two jathas from the Valley Sikh Temple, Gurdwara Buena Park, Gurdwara Walnut Sahib, Sur Shabad privar, Baba Farid Academy, Gurdwara Santa Anna, Khalsa Care Foundation and Ujjal Didar Singh Memorial Foundation. This was followed by kirtan by Sikh Women Now, Sur Shabad Privar Jatha and IIGS Group. Local raagis


from Bhai Daljit Singh of Gurdwara Hesperia, Bhai Gopal Singh from Gurdwara Buena Park, Bhai Jatinder Singh from Gurdwara Vermont, Bhai Bhupinder Singh of Gurdwara Rosemead, Bhai Gagandeep Singh of Gurdwara Nanak Sadan and Bhai Naib Singh as well as jatha from Guru Ram Das Ashram then took turns in singing kirtans. Katha by Bhai Varinderpal Singh Dehradun was followed by kirtan by Bhai Jarnail Singh from Ludhiana and Bhavandeep Singh Zakhmi from Gurdwara Bakersfield. Kirtan by IIGS Senior Jatha led by Sardarni Gurpreet Kaur and Sardarni Harmala Kaur followed by a joint performance by five senior local raagi jathas including those of Bhai Raghbir Singh, Bhai Jaswant Singh, Bhai Varinder Singh Bhai Kulwant Singh Chandan and Bhai Ranjit Singh was the highlight of the day. The mostimportant Seva of Aardas was by Sardar Ranjit Singh, Hukum Seva by S. Kaviraj Singh and vote of thanks was done by S. Daljit Singh. Emcees for the day included among others, Sardar Gurdayal Singh, Sardar Sarabdyal Singh, Sardar Daljit Singh and Sardar Harvinder Singh as well as young members of IIGS.While the religious program was being held indoor, an equal number of the sangat was treated in the wintery sun outside, with utmost reverence with hot breakfast snacks, including fresh chole bhature, pakoras and jalebis, donated and prepared by the various gurdwaras. The mela-like atmosphere was created with the visible enjoyment of families and the Punjabi bazaar where the booths did brisk business. Come noon, the Guru Ka Langar, donated and prepared by hundreds of selfless volunteers


was served in a beautiful setting with people sitting on benches and lawns all around while speakers kept on delivering what was happening inside. A final formal sendoff to Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji in a helicopter, with the entire sangat looking up in the sky after it had walked in a procession behind the beat of a nagaara and Panj Pyaras as well as a team of gatka players, was a scene to behold. On the beautiful Christmas day in sunny Southern California a sea of turbans in the campus of LA County Fairgrounds was evident at every inch of space making one believe that the Sikh Panth of Khalsa is alive and well. Captain Kanwar Harbhajan Singh who touched the lives of many young Sikhs andand RDA are leading fabless semiconductor companies in China. The Intel/Tsinghua agreement is still on hold pending U.S. government approval.

At the time of the agreement, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich pointed to China as a huge market for smartphones and as having the largest number of Internet users in the world.

"These agreements with Tsinghua Unigroup underscore Intel's 29-year-long history of investing in and working in China," Krzanich stated. "This partnership will also enhance our ability to support a wider range of mobile customers in China and the rest of the world by more quickly delivering a broader portfolio of Intel architecture and communications technology solutions."

Micron is under no pressure to sell

According to Handy, Micron's management is bullish about its prospects for the remainder of the year, and they may


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applicant’s defensive theory was based on the forensic testimony of Harris County Assistant

Medical Examiner Dr. Paul Shrode, who conducted the autopsy on Pena and who opined,

based on his review of the scene photographs, that Pena had been shot where he was found

and not at some other location. Noting that Pena was found lying face down with his shirt

still tucked in and one hand still in his shorts pocket, Dr. Shrode observed that such

positioning of the body would be “unusual” if Pena, who was five-foot-ten and weighed 256

pounds,had been dragged, transported by vehicle, and then dumped at the nature center. Dr.

Shrode additionally observed the absence of dirt or grass stains on Pena’s clothing, which,

in his opinion, was an additional circumstance suggesting that Pena had not been moved after

he was shot.

       Aside from these observations, Dr. Shrode noted that there was a large pool of blood

under Pena’s head. Dr. Shrode opined that such a large volume of blood likely would not

have been present had Pena been shot elsewhere because blood exudes from a gunshot

wound only during the time that the heart is pumping, and the wound that Pena sustained

likely would have caused his heart to stop beating within several minutes, thus cutting off the

flow of blood almost immediately. In particular,


      hand is in his right shorts pocket at the time he was shot. After he is shot[,] a trail of
       blood was lost down the front of his clothing from a bleeding wound, he leaned
       forward causing the trail of blood on the ground in front of where his knees were
       positioned and then fell forward face down onto the ground. There was enough
       blood pressure to cause the blood pool to form under and around his head.
                       We take note of several additional pieces of evidence that were addressed by both Dr.

Wolf and Dr. Shrode as constituting evidence that Pena was likely shot at the nature center:

the positioning of Pena’s body at the time he was found, including the fact that Pena’s hand

was still in his pocket and his shirt was tucked in; the absence of grass, dirt, or drag marks

on his clothing; and the presence of sand on his knee consistent with him having been on his

knees at some point. In his habeas testimony, Dr. Wolf agreed with Dr. Shrode’s assessment

that these factors constituted additional circumstances pointing to the nature center as the

likely location of Pena’s murder, and yet these were all circumstances that were presented

to the jury in support of


that the United States and the Chinese are working more closely together than ever before," he said. "And I dare say that they would become even closer as strategic partners in trying to guarantee safety in the Korean peninsula."

Snow said the North Koreans might act in order to test the cooperation of the five counties that have been engaged in talks with Pyongyang on its nuclear ambitions: the United States, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia. He said in that case, North Korea will be severely disappointed

"Because they are going to find out that the parties, in fact, are resolved to make sure that the North Koreans renounce nuclear testing and renounce nuclear weapons," he said. "And we have offered a whole series of positive inducements and hopethey will take advantage.

He spoke as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice headed to Japan to talk about how best to enforce U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea after the first nuclear test. Her itinerary also includes stops in Beijing and Seoul - where she will also consult with the man chosen to become the next Secretary-General of the United Nations, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon.

President Bush met briefly at the White House Tuesday morning with Ban, who was there to consult with National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley. Snow said their short conversation focused on two topics: prospects for U.N. reform and the North Korean situation. He said Mr. Bush vowed that North Korea will not be permitted to disrupt the region.

North Korea has already declared the


Door-keepers (34 Occurrences)... Ezra 2:70 So the priests and the Levites and the people and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, took up their places in their towns; even .../d/door-keepers.htm - 17k

Daughter-towns (17 Occurrences)... Nehemiah 12:28 And the sons of the music-makers came together from the lowland round about Jerusalem and from the daughter-towns of the Netophathites, (BBE). .../d/daughter-towns.htm - 12k

Needed (59 Occurrences)... Nehemiah 12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day .../n/needed.htm - 25k

Regulated (2 Occurrences)... (WEY). Nehemiah 11:23 For there was an order from the king about them and a regular amount for the music-makers, for their needs day by day. (See NIV). .../r/regulated.htmmusic-makers, door-keepers .../t/taxes.htm - 14k

Bible Concordance

Music-makers (18 Occurrences)

1 Chronicles 15:16 And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.(BBE)

Ezra 2:41 The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and twenty-eight(BBE)

Ezra 2:70 So the priests and the Levites and the people and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, took up their places in their towns; even all Israel in their towns.(BBE)

Ezra 7:7 And some of the children of Israel went up, with some of the priests and the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.(BBE)

Ezra 10:24 And of the music-makers,


Eliashib; and of the door-keepers, Shallum and Telem and Uri.(BBE)

Nehemiah 7:1 Now when the building of the wall was complete and I had put up the doors, and the door-keepers and the music-makers and the Levites had been given their places,(BBE)

Nehemiah 7:44 The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.(BBE)

Nehemiah 7:73 So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.(BBE)

Nehemiah 10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the door-keepers, the music-makers, the Nethinim, and all those who had made themselves separate from the peoples of the lands, to keep the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who hadknowledge and wisdom;(BBE)

Nehemiah 11:22 And the overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi, the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the music-makers, who was over the business of the house of God.(BBE)

Nehemiah 11:23 For there was an order from the king about them and a regular amount for the music-makers, for their needs day by day.(BBE)

Nehemiah 12:8 And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers.(BBE)

Nehemiah 12:28 And the sons of the music-makers came together from the lowland round about Jerusalem and from the daughter-towns of the Netophathites,(BBE)

Nehemiah 12:29 And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers


Krulwich Wonders: Death, But Softly

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 10:21 AM

It was 1569, or maybe early 1570, when it happened: A young French gentleman was out for a ride with his workers, all of them on horseback, when suddenly, "like a thunderbolt," he felt something thick and fleshy slam him from behind. (It was an overzealous, galloping assistant who couldn't stop in time.) Michel de Montaigne's horse crumbled, he went flying up, then down, he crashed to the ground. Then things went black.

When he came to, a minute or so later, he says,

"There lay the horse bowled over and stunned, and I ten or twelve paces beyond, dead stretched on my back, my face all bruised and skinned ... having no more motion or feeling than a log."

Hisassistants tried to lift him up to carry him back to his chateau, but he was throwing up lumps of clotted blood, and his hands were tearing at his chest as if to claw his way to air. His family was rushing toward him, he could see his wife stumbling across an uneven path, and yet he was feeling no pain, no commotion. "[T]he fact is that I was not there at all," he wrote later.

Montaigne, says his biographer Sarah Bakewell, had "traveled far away." The things he saw, his writhing body, his screams, he called "idle thoughts, in the clouds, set in motion by the sensations of the eyes and ears; they did not come from within me."

He was looking down from a higher, tranquil place from


which he could, painlessly, slip away.

"It seemed to me that my life was hanging only by the tip of my lips; I closed my eyes in order, it seemed to me, to help push [life] out, and took pleasure in growing languid and letting myself go."

It was, he wrote, a "feeling that people have who let themselves slide into sleep."

Michel de Montaigne recovered from his accident and lived another 22 years, but, says Sarah Bakewell, he thought about that experience for the rest of his life. He knew he hadn't faced down death. He hadn't struggled, or resisted, or even really acknowledged at the time that he was about to die. Instead, he had floated up to it, or it to him, and at the moment when heof aura of transformation, a quality in the energy around him. After the last breath — no struggle, no grasping at life, the easiest of leave-takings — I swear I had the clearest image of Wally leaping free, as if he'd been so ready to go, as if some space had opened in the wall behind his head, and that he's simply lept out through that space."

Doty goes on to say that the moment of release,"what happened to Wally, whatever it was ... is kind." Doty is a poet. He chooses words carefully. The italics are his. "I shock myself writing that," he says. "I know that many deaths are anything but gentle. I know people suffer terribly." But over the years he has witnessed several deaths, of