The 2013 NHL Entry Draft will be an all-day affair that gets underway at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 30 at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. But while general managers and scouting staffs across the league continue to collect data on the top prospects, Kris Baker from SabresProspects.com has prepared his first-round mock draft, and provided his own unique analysis as to who will be going where in the first 30 picks that day.

(Draft order based on current playoff situation. Positions 27-30 are listed according to regular season overall standings; the final order for those four positions will be determined by the results of the playoffs.)

#1 COLORADO – Seth Jones

D, 6’4”, 208 lbs. (Portland, WHL)

With young guns Gabriel Landeskog, Matt Duchene, and Ryan O'Reilly setting the pacePHILADELPHIA -- In his 15 years of professional coaching, Flyers coach Peter Laviolette never encountered what happened between him and Claude Giroux before Game 6 on Sunday.

"When the best player in the world comes up to you and tells you, 'I don't know who you're planning on starting tonight but I want that first shift,' that says everything you need to know about Claude Giroux right there," Laviolette said.

Giroux was out to set the tone for the game, and he did it in the biggest way possible. He delivered a big hit on Penguins captain Sidney Crosby six seconds after the puck dropped, and -- just 26 seconds later -- he turned a Steve Sullivan giveaway into the game's first goal.

It was an opening shift that shook the


Wells Fargo Center and started the Flyers on their way to a series-clinching 4-2 win.

"About 10 seconds before the puck dropped, he came over and told me, 'Watch the first shift,'" Danny Briere said. "And what he did, I didn't even know what to say to him."

Briere wasn't the only teammate left in disbelief at the way Giroux set the tone and drove the Flyers to the victory.

In addition to scoring 32 seconds into the game, he set up the Flyers' next two goals as Philadelphia took a 3-0 lead 5:25 into the second period. He also had a team-high five shots, blocked two shots and won 14 faceoffs.

"[Giroux] is probably the biggest competitor that I have ever played with," Scott Hartnell said. "He wants to win sobad. I could tell right when I got to the rink this morning that he was fired up and ready to go. When you hit like that on the first shift, that's our best guy in here and he played a great game."

"He was possessed," Briere added. "He set the tone, as plain and simple as that. He set the tone for the whole game. His first shift he took charge. That was beautiful to see. Showed the sign of a great leader right off the bat there."

But, Sunday was not the only game in which Giroux showed leadership. He had six goals and eight assists in the series, and his 14 points were one shy of the team record for a playoff series. It's also the first


time since Crosby in the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs that any player has scored as many as 14 points in a series.

It's been a season-long coming-out party for Giroux, who emerged from the shadows of Mike Richards and Jeff Carter this season to evolve into one of the best players in the League. Carter and Richards were traded from the Flyers this summer.

In response to that vote of confidence, Giroux was second in the League with 65 assists and third with 93 points. He was front and center for the Flyers in all situations, centering the top power-play and penalty-kill unit, taking all the important faceoffs and being used up a goal or down a goal in the final minute of a game.

"Claude had a great game fromstart to finish," Laviolette said. "He made sure the Flyers moved on to the second round."

Talk before the series was focused on how the Flyers would match up with the Penguins' big three centers. By the end of it, it was the Penguins left wondering how they could stop Giroux.

"He's just the best player on the ice, but I don't think we were surprised by that," Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik said. "Maybe two years ago we would be surprised by that. He's a guy we are well aware of and have a tremendous respect for."

Giroux said he didn't take it as a personal rivalry to out-play Malkin and Crosby, but it certainly happened.

Crosby had three goals and five assists in the series, but when his team needed him


most, he was a minus-3 with three shots on net. Malkin also had three goals and five assists -- including the Pens' only goal in Game 6 -- but he had just one even-strength point in the first three games of the series and showed frustration at the way the Flyers took him out of his comfort zone.

"Anything you do you want to be the best at it," Giroux said. "If that's to score goals or do hits or block shots, whatever it is, I'm going to try to do it."

"There's no doubt he's in their class now," Briere said, "if anyone was doubting before."

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Born as Robin McLaurin Williams on July 21, 1951 to Laurie McLaurin and Robert Fitzgerald Williams in Chicago, Illinois, Robin Williams, was the best of the best American comedians. When he was a child, he tried to make his mother laugh, that’s why he gave credit to his mother for his interest in this field. He has two elder half-brothers. He was a very shy guy and was able to tickle everyone’s funny bone. His pals called him a funny guy only because of this reason. He was very good in academics and was also part of his high school’s soccer and wrestling team and was also the president of his class. Since both of his parents were working, his needs were taken care by the maidwho lived with them. In the middle in 1970s, he started his career in comedy genre. He rose to success and fame when the sitcom Mork & Mindy became popular with the masses and he build a solid career as a stand-up comedian and improvised his acts time to time. He debuted in Hollywood in the musical comedy Popeye and starred in many critically acclaimed films like The World According to Garp. He has many awards in his kitty. He won the coveted and prestigious academy award for best supporting actor in Good Will hunting for portraying the role of Dr. Sean Maguire. He was bestowed with two prime time Emmy awards, two screen actors guild awards and was conferred with four Grammy awards.

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They're accused of swiping nearly $2,000 worth of electronics from Target on Telegraph in Bloomfield Township on Wednesday -- the same day cops from four police departments converged on the retailer to buy gifts for kids.

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Right now the women are in the Oakland County Jail facing felony retail fraud charges.

They're due back in court after the new year.


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GREENVILLE, S.C. — Gov. Chris Christie believes Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" would "probably be decent in politics" if the late-night television host ever decides to run for elected office.

The governor, fielding questions from South Carolina residents during a trip to the early-voting state Thursday, said it's "okay" that Stewart criticizes him (look here, here or here) and that he doesn't take it too personal.

Christie, who's midway through a two-day tour of the state that's home to the first-in-the-nation presidential primary in the South, was asked about his thoughts on Stewart, a Lawrence Township native, by a member of the conservative crowd that often draws the ire of the "The Daily Show."

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"Well, Jon Stewart is a good New Jerseyan. Jon is from New Jersey and I've been on the show a couple of times," Christie said.

"They don't like me all that much most of the time, but that's okay. Jon is a funny guy and we all just have to take it in the context of what he's doing. He every once in a while tries to act serious, but he's not," he said. "Most of what he does is meant to make us laugh, and sometimes he hits the mark and sometimes he doesn't.I t means he'd probably be decent in politics."

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is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.

Warren was stepping into one of the largest labor disputes in recent years. Thousands of supermarket workers walked off the job Thursday afternoon, forcing the chain to temporarily close some stores. Some customers refused to cross picket lines.

The United Food & Commercial Workers union, which represents the 31,000 workers on strike, called the work stoppage for 1 p.m. shortly after contract negotiations hit an impasse over pension and health benefits. Workers in three states had voted to authorize a strike in late February, but the employees only learned about the union’s directive to walk off the job about 15 minutes before it started.

Stop & Shop said it had a contingency plan in place for its 240 stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

Stopand the ocean. She sat and watched. It was too late even for them to be out on the beach. They veered toward the place where the beach rose up to street level and disappeared.

Leah was alone again. She stood and brushed the sand off the back of her pants, went up through the trees to the street, and got into her rental car. She drove along the streets from Twelfth Avenue to Fifth searching for places where she might have lain in wait if she were a kidnapper. As she looked and thought about Weiss, it occurred to her that the trick was like being a spider. He would be in the darkest spot he could find, watching the edible creatures moving around in the lighted spaces


ended when Albert Weiss was about thirteen. Leah looked behind each photograph to see if anything was written in the book or on the backs of photos.

She found a den with a desk in it, and among the papers found the answers to questions she had no interest in asking anymore. Albert Weiss had been living for most of the past two years by using Alma Weiss's checking account to pay the bills. At some point she had died, but he had never notified anybody. Her social security and pension payments kept appearing electronically in her account, and he kept writing checks in her name to pay bills. When he ran out of checks, the bank sent more. The reason he had begun to think about returning tomarked, even if the boy didn't seem like anything to celebrate.

Leah saw the bartender coming and accepted her gin and tonic. Then she glanced up at the mirror again and watched a waiter come to the table where the new couple was seated. They looked up from their menus to order drinks. The waiter smiled apologetically at the girl and asked what Leah knew was "Can I see some ID?"

The girl opened her purse and handed him what appeared to be a driver's license. He looked at the picture on it, looked at her again, turned the license over, and then said, "I'll be right back."

The girl looked alarmed, and that interested Leah. After she had scanned the room for Panko again, she let her eyes return to


to the driveway, and moved forward beside the house toward the street. At the front corner of the house where the clapboards ended and the side of the wooden porch began, she paused. The porch was about six feet high, so the floor of it was almost at eye level. As she crouched and crept forward beside the porch, she noticed an access hatch on the side of the structure that was about three feet high and two feet wide. She went past it to the side of the steps to see if there were any suspicious cars parked at the curb.

There was room for only two cars in front of the narrow house, and neither of them had anyone sitting inside that she could see. There waspage, petitioner published a criticism of Harvard University, and notably of the judge as president of its Board of Overseers, in connection with the selection as a lecturer of one Oppenheimer, who had had difficulties with the federal government.  This was followed by a front-page editorial on the same subject, prominently mentioning the judge, in February 1957, and by an inside editorial two months later.  On January 13, 1959, the complaint was filed in petitioner's action and forthwith drawn to the judge in accordance with local practice.  On March 5, 1959, at the first hearing, the judge made the following statement:

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Stolen painting by French impressionist Edgar Degas found on bus in France "Les Choristes" was stolen from the Cantini Museum in Marseille in 2009.

 -- A painting by French impressionist Edgar Degas has been located for the first time since it was stolen from a Marseille museum in 2009.

The 1877 piece "Les Choristes" -- which translates to "The Chorus Singer" -- was found inside a suitcase on a bus in Marne-la-Vallee, a French town located about 15 miles east of Paris, The Associated Press reported.

The French Culture Ministry announced Friday that customs agents were surprised to find the work, which bears the signature "Degas" after no one claimed the suitcase last week, according to the AP.

The "disappearance represented a heavy loss for the French impressionist heritage," said FrenchCulture Minister Francoise Nyssen after it was recovered.

The colorful piece depicts singers in a scene of the opera "Don Juan." It was on loan from Paris' Musee d'Orsay and caused a local media frenzy when it was stolen overnight from the Cantini Museum in Marseille in December 2009.

The piece is reportedly worth about $1 million.


Piranha Games announced yesterday that, nearly two years after Mechwarrior Online went live, European servers are now operational. The studio said the new servers will improve ping times for European players by an average of 50 percent.

Mechwarrior Online is entering its "final phase of feature implementation," Piranha said in a statement, which includes leveling the competitive playing field worldwide by rolling out new server locations. European players account for nearly 40 percent of the total Mechwarrior Online player base, according to the handy infographic below. They also have a better win/loss and kill/death ratio than North American players, and for some reason seem to have a preference for the Lyran Commonwealth.

"The MechWarrior Online community has always been competitive by nature given the fundamentals of the MechWarrior gameplay, andnow that we've added European servers a huge portion of our player base that lives in that region can experience MechWarrior Online at the highest competitive level," Piranha Games President Russ Bullock said.

Mechwarrior Online has evolved at a slower pace than was expected in the early days—Community Warfare, for instance, was "projected" to be added within 90 days of the launch of open beta, which began in October 2012, but wasn't actually implemented until more than two years after that—but it does seem to have picked up the pace since Piranha acquired the full rights to the game from original publisher Infinite Games and committed to "more efficient development."

To celebrate the launch of European servers, Piranha is holding a "European Takeover" event, beginning at 1 pm PDT today


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The wife of a foreign banker faces losing UK property worth millions of pounds unless she can explain the source of her wealth, following a judgment at the high court.

The woman, referred to in the judgment as “Mrs A” and cannot be named for legal reasons, was the subject of the UK’s first unexplained wealth order earlier this year following an application by the National Crime Agency.

Counsel for the NCA described the luxury lifestyle of Mrs A, who spent £16m at Harrods over 10 years, at a hearing before the high court in July. Her husband’s net worth was reported to be $72m.

The UWO was issued in respect of a property bought in 2009 for £11.5m via a company in the British Virgin Islands. A £7.5m mortgage wasToronto Blue Jays Lose, Again, but Fun Was Had as Carlos Delgado Inducted Into Level of Excellence

By Craig Ballard

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Sunday afternoon saw the terrible Toronto Blue Jays lose again (commentary intended, this team won the winter but has been horrid in the summer) 4-3 to the Tampa Bay Rays. Since the Jays’ 11 game winning streak they have gone a putrid 7-16. Yikes. There was fun to be had at Rogers Centre though as Carlos Delgado was inducted into the Jays Level of Excellence in a pre-game ceremony.

Since Toronto won back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993 there has been very little to like about the Jays, but Delgado was outstanding for the team from 1996 through 2004. His MLBcareer started prior to ’94 and


ended after ’04, but those nine seasons in the T-Dot were massive for Delgado. During that stretch he averaged 36 home runs and 114 runs batted in. Wow.

He was only a two-time All-Star for Toronto because he played in the era of other first-baseman like Mark McGwire, Mo Vaughn, Jim Thome, and Frank Thomas (amongst others), but to be honest he should have been honored as an All-Star many more times. From ’96-’04 Delgado finished in the top dozen for American League MVP voting three times and came this close to taking the award in 2003 when he barely lost to (then) Texas Rangers star Alex Rodriguez.

As a Jay Delgado amassed 1,413 hits in 1,423 games with 336 dingers and 1,058 RBI. He hit .292 with an on-basethe Government and Community Relations Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Office of the President. When she transitioned into municipal government, Wilson served as the Chief Lobbyist and Director of Governmental Affairs for the City of Columbia. She was later named the City of Columbia’s Assistant City Manager for Community Programs, Economic Development and Government Services. Wilson's leadership was key in a number of groundbreaking initiatives including transforming Columbia's Community Development department into a nationally recognized model organization and reducing the city's Commercial Revolving Loan Fund's default rate from 29% to 4% in just one fiscal year.

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LOS ANGELES, CA — A big rig crashed over the side of the northbound Golden State (5) Freeway onto the Ronald Reagan (118) Freeway lanes below, and, somehow, no one was killed.

All lanes of the eastbound Ronald Reagan (118) Freeway in the Mission Hills area have since been re-opened after the crash.

The crash happened at the Golden State (5) Freeway at the Ronald Reagan (118) Freeway interchange in the Mission Hills area. According to the California Highway Patrol, the truck driver has been taken to a nearby hospital. The truck landed across several lanes of roadway with the cab resting atop a center divider. Several lanes of the northbound 5 Freeway were closed, along with some transition roads between the two freeways.The topic of the 2014 American Urological Association/Society for Basic Urologic Research Summer Research Conference will be Patient Phenotyping: Advancing Treatment of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction. This marks the AUA's 21st Summer Research Conference, extending AUA's history of addressing timely topics in urology and nurturing the careers of urology investigators in the pivotal early stages of their professional development. The tentative date and location for the conference will be September 13-14 at the AUA Headquarters in Linthicum, Maryland. However, the meeting organizers are seeking to increase the synergy of the meeting by possibly scheduling the meeting immediately following one of the meetings of the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP) Research Network. This scheduling model will also increase participation from MAPP investigators and thus


dysfunction (LUTD); 4) exploring ways to better phenotype patients with LUTD, and 5) discussion of issues related to patient assessed outcomes. This conference is intended to complement and synergize with the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases' Measurement of Urinary Symptoms (MOMUS) and Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Research Network (LURN) initiatives. Additionally, the AUA's National Urology Research Agenda (NURA) specifically identifies BPH and urinary incontinence as major priority areas, and advancing progress in those areas is part of our mission. The scientific presentations and posters displayed during the meeting will advance progress in urology research. This may also lead to new opportunities for collaborations between basic and clinical participants and eventually lead to the translation of laboratory bench findings into clinical settings and vice versa.A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly ...

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A press briefing was held after the incident on Friday night. (Jen Chung/Gothamist)

An already chaotic day at Penn Station turned dangerous Friday night after false reports of a shooting caused people to flee the building, leaving their suitcases and other belongings behind. The stampede that followed caused at least 16 injuries.

"Folks were screaming. I saw people fall to the ground; folks jumping over chairs," Natalie Tucker, who was in the Amtrak waiting room at the time, told Gothamist. "I ran into something but didn't take the time to figure out what it was. A woman next to me hurt her hand. It was mass hysteria."

According to law enforcement officials, multiple reports of the shooting were unfounded. A statement released by Amtrak notes that "an individual was subdued withTurkey to attack the Kurds, who have been America's partners on the ground in the war against the Islamic State group in Syria.

There are 2,000 American troops in Syria. Trump's abrupt decision in December to pull them, declaring in a tweet the defeat of ISIS, sent shockwaves across the region and led to the resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis and the top U.S. envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition. It also led to major criticism that the U.S. was abandoning its local Kurdish allies amid Turkish threats of an imminent attack.

On Sunday, national security adviser John Bolton said American troops will not leave northeastern Syria until ISIS is defeated and American-allied Kurdish fighters are protected.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is on a tour of the region, has


2 days. Surgical incision and drainage of the mass was performed, and cefuroxime and metronidazole was administered intravenously in the local hospital, but there was no obvious improvement. The skin lesions gradually increased, part of which formed an ulcer surface, and the purulent secretion increased. A fever began 2 days prior to admission, with a highest temperature of 39 °C. So, she came to our clinic for further diagnosis and treatmenton February 12, 2018. The patient was living in the countryside and had a history of dog contact; however, she was too young to recall a history of trauma. She was normally healthy with no similar diseases, other infectious diseases, or genetic diseases in her family.

Cutaneous examination revealed several ulcers of different sizes fused into a large 10 by 12 cm tenderPolice: Man who struck, killed student says he's blind

Matt Mencarini | Lansing State Journal

CHARLOTTE — The man police said fatally struck a Waverly High School student with his vehicle last month told police he didn't have a license because he is legally blind, according to court records.

Hector Arroyo called police to report that he thought he struck a deer around 7:25 a.m. Oct. 28, while he was driving westbound on Michigan Avenue, Det. James Maltby, of the Eaton County Sheriff's Office, testified last month during a court hearing.

Arroyo told Maltby he didn't stop because he didn't have a license and that the Secretary of State had suspended it because he's "basically legally blind," Maltby testified. Maltby added that the time frame and location matched up with the crash


Secretary of State's Office, which added that he previously petitioned for re-examinations to lift the suspension. The most recent re-examination — in September — resulted in another indefinite suspension.

Maltby testified that the damage to Arroyo's vehicle was consistent with a vehicle-pedestrian crash, based on his experience.

Witnesses told police a vehicle caught their eye before it struck Dirby because it was driving fast for the time of day and proximity to a school, Maltby testified.

"They were concerned about that and kind of watched him as he continued on and it was dark out, but they saw him strike the victim who was 13 years old," he testified. "After striking the victim, the suspect kept driving. He did not stop."

Arroyo faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. APhoto of a music classroom in Chernobyl taken by Diana Thater in 2010. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York.

NEW YORK, NY.-David Zwirner announced the re-opening of his gallery on Friday, November 9, with an exhibition by Diana Thater entitled Chernobyl, on view at 519 West 19th Street. Framed around the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, the 2011 video installation spotlights the consequences of man-made catastrophes on the natural world. The urgency of its subject matter resonates in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and the damage it wrought within the Chelsea art district, and beyond.

Diana Thater is one of the most important video artists working today. Since the early 1990s, she has created a wide range of film, video, and installation-based works whose sculptural forms


engage spatial perception in physical, as well as conceptual, terms. Her pioneering oeuvre was among the first to push the boundaries of how new media art is displayed, helping to cement its position in the art world.

Through a combination of the temporal qualities of video and the architectural dimension of its physical installation, Thaters work explores the artifice of its own production and its capacity to construct perception and shape the way we think about the world through its image. Natural diversity, wildlife, and conservation have been persistent themes in the artists work, and she has dedicated herself to an examination of the varied kinds of relationships humans have constructed with animals. While her in-depth studies of ecosystems and animal behavior propose observation as a kind of understandingin itself, her ethical position is implicit in the work, which, while subtly political, provides views of the sublime in all its incarnationsstunning, beautiful, and simultaneously terrifying.

Chernobyl features imagery from the zone of alienation, a nineteen mile (30 km) wide exclusion area created around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in northeastern Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian SSR) in 1986. Over one hundred thousand people were evacuated from the area within a short time span, leaving behind all but a few of their personal belongings. The zone has since been a no-mans-land dotted with abandoned villages and decaying infrastructure, largely untouched since the day of the disaster. It remains accessible only to special teams and researchers, though temporary visitor permits are granted.

To create this work, Thater stayed within


the exclusion zone. Chernobyl takes its point of departure in the ghost city of Prypiat, which was purpose-built in 1972 to house workers at the nuclear plant. Using the desolate remains of Prypiats movie theater as a pivot, Thaters footage focuses on the areas wildlife, and in particular the endangered Przewalskis Horse, a subspecies of wild horse released into the area following the catastrophe and now roaming freely, undisturbed by human interaction. Other animal populations have since returned to the area, yet according to most studies, their numbers remain severely depleted.

In Chernobyl, Thater juxtaposes pastoral scenery with destruction both apparent and implied, and in the process highlights the relationship between Western industrial civilization and the regenerative potential of nature left to itself. It mirrors a tension between thenatural environment and mediated reality that can be seen throughout the artists work. The shape of the installation copies that of the movie theater in Prypiat. The work is made from a video re-creation of the theater with images of the zone of alienation layered over it, asking the viewer to see the world in the theater and the theater in the world.


in the block of target code.
Another embodiment of the invention further includes translating content in the source units of translation to the associated target units of translation.
In another embodiment of the invention, the delineating characteristics include syntactic characteristics. The method further includes determining pairs of instances of syntactic characteristics of the source content.
In another embodiment of the invention, the delineating characteristics include formatting characteristics. The method further includes determining pairs of instances of formatting characteristics of the source content.
In another embodiment of the invention, the document formatting characteristics include HTML code markers.
In another embodiment of the invention, the delineating characteristics include conceptual characteristics. The method further includes determining pairs of instances of conceptual characteristics of the source content.
In another embodiment of the invention, the conceptual characteristics include spatialadjacency pattern. The method further includes merging the target units of translation so as to follow the first adjacency pattern.
In another embodiment of the invention, the source units of translation are characterized by a first adjacency pattern. The method further includes merging the target units of translation so as to follow a second adjacency pattern different from the first adjacency pattern.
In another embodiment of the invention, at least one of the source units of translation corresponds with two or more target units of translation.
In another embodiment of the invention, two or more of the source units of translation corresponds with a single target unit of translation.
In another embodiment of the invention, each one of the source units of translation corresponds with a single target unit of translation.
Another embodiment


and identifying one or more pairs of the instances. The system also includes, for each pair of instances of the delineating characteristics, a segment processor for associating a first instance of the pair with a first boundary of a source unit of translation. The segment processor also associates a second instance of the pair with a second boundary of the source unit of translation.
In another embodiment of the invention, the content processor further identifies one or more target units of translation in a block of target content. The content processor also assigns associations among the source units of translation in the block of source code and the target units of translation in the block of target code.
In another embodiment of the invention, the content processor further translates contentin the source units of translation to the associated target units of translation.
In another embodiment of the invention, the delineating characteristics include syntactic characteristics, and the content processor further determines pairs of instances of syntactic characteristics of the source content.
In another embodiment of the invention, the delineating characteristics include document formatting characteristics, and the content processor further determines pairs of instances of document formatting characteristics of the source content.
In another embodiment of the invention, the document formatting characteristics include HTML code.
In another embodiment of the invention, the delineating characteristics include conceptual characteristics, and the content processor further determines pairs of instances of conceptual characteristics of the source content.
In another embodiment of the invention, the conceptual characteristics include spatial adjacency.
In another embodiment of the invention, the delineating characteristics include


sound-based characteristics, and the content processor further determines pairs of instances of sound-based characteristics of the source content.
In another embodiment of the invention, the sound based characteristics include voice inflections.
In another embodiment of the invention, the delineating characteristics one or more markers manually inserted by a user, and the content processor further determines pairs of instances of markers within the source content.
In another embodiment of the invention, the segment processor further translates the source units of translation into a target language so as to form target units of translation, and merges the target units of translation into one or more blocks of target content.
In another embodiment of the invention, the source units of translation are characterized by a first adjacency pattern, and the segment processor further merges thetarget units of translation so as to follow the first adjacency pattern.
In another embodiment of the invention, the source units of translation are characterized by a first adjacency pattern, and the segment processor further merges the target units of translation so as to follow a second adjacency pattern different from the first adjacency pattern.
In another embodiment of the invention, at least one of the source units of translation corresponds with two or more target units of translation.
In another embodiment of the invention, two or more of the source units of translation correspond with a single target unit of translation.
In another embodiment of the invention, each one of the source units of translation corresponds with a single target unit of translation.
In another embodiment of the invention, the segment processor


years younger than him. Johnny is willing to do anything MTV asks of him these days. He fills the villain role, even if he believes he is the hero. More people watch the Challenge to see Bananas lose than they do to watch him win at this point. At the same time, one must admire his ability to win on these shows despite being an average physical talent.

Johnny was never as physically dominant as CT, Landon, or Jordan, was never a great swimmer like Wes or Tyler, a fighter like Darrell, or a college athlete — Johnny was a frat boy who became a six-time Challenge Champion by learning how to adapt to the game, and do what he’s best at, sell you Johnny Bananas stock.

His biggest strengthis he gets under people’s skin, in both a good and bad way. Being the frat guy, Johnny has moments where he is the funniest guy in the room and others where he annoys you into insanity. The best quality about him is he a straight shooter who says what he sees, even dating back to his Real World Key West days. Johnny got into it the most with Paula; he was the most honest about Paula’s problems with her anorexia, though he honestly wanted to help her. Paula hated Johnny early on during Real World, and in the end, he was key towards her recovery. Sometimes he is blunt, and other times he is a sweet guy (according to his friends).

Somewhat crazy to think it is the


agility. He won the first round of the opening Purge last season because Johnny is one of the fastest guys on the show. In any timed event, Johnny is a favorite because of his ability to speed through missions. The underrated skill he has gained from years of training is grip strength. Many of the missions and eliminations involve holding onto an object, lifting weight, or grabbing onto a pole of sorts. He may not be the biggest, but he can hold his own because of his grip strength and can beat anyone of equal size.

Based on the recent Champs vs Stars swimming mission, it looks like Johnny has regressed as a swimmer. He got to be a better swimmer around Exes 2 and Bloodlines, and now itlooks like he hasn’t practiced it in a while. The biggest question mark is whether Johnny can wrestle in the mud with the behemoths cast on this season.

Social, Mental, & Political Game: His game on Vendettas will need to be distinctly different from what it was on Dirty 30. Dirty 30 had multiple veterans and Champions filling the cast. This season, Bananas has one major ally (LeRoy), and from there, he needs to figure out who he will be playing the game with. Zach and Brad famously have gone against Bananas in past seasons and vacillate between being friends and associates. Bananas needs to invest time and loyalty into LeRoy, Tony, and any other strong male in order to create an alliance he can take through the game.

He


has multiple Vendettas on this cast: Cory, Nelson, and Devin; Nelson is the only player he should be afraid of in that group. To thrive in this game, Bananas should align with Cara Maria, while the two are former rivals, she is the best female player. The two coming together would give them a power alliance. Better to try and align with her than to be going against the best female player in the game.

Also, MTV has been playing up Bananas being single for the first time in years on this show:

He always had a thing for Latinas.

Eliminations & Winning Potential: The biggest winner in Challenge history has a losing elimination record of 7–8. People love to make a big deal of Bananas elimination losses, though they areliving in human communities) as they exist in the world today in places like Mexico City, and Pemba.

For the Love of A Dog Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend, Patricia B. McConnell, Ph.D., Ballantine Books, 2005, 2006 – This book explores the emotional connection we make with our furry, four-footed canine companions. She also discusses how revolutionary it is to view animals as having a vibrant emotional life. Kudos to McConnell for being one of the few scientists with the courage to admit what almost everyone has known all along; animals experience joy and fear and everything in between. We do not know what it is they are feeling, but it is obvious the have a rich emotional life; in some cases very joyous and others


pet behavior will typically be a member of one one more of the following organizations; the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC), the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB), The Animal Behavior Society (ABS), and the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists (ACVB).

Founded in 2004, the IAABC is working to standardize the practice of companion animal behavior consulting. With over 1,000 members throughout the world, IAABC members are an excellent resource for or those with pets with behavioral issues. The IAABC credentials Dog, Cat, Parrot and Horse Consultants. Those credentialed by the IAABC must demonstrate competency in counseling skills and social systems assessment, behavioral science, a general knowledge of animal behavior, genetics, neuropsychology, ethology and species-specific knowledge of healthcare, nutrition, husbandry, and behavior. Those certified are requiredlearn more about AVSAB at https://avsab.org/

The Animal Behavior Society (ABS) is a non-profit, 501(3)(c) professional organization dedicated to promoting education and research in the field of animal behavior. Members who work with clients and their animals are Certified Applied Animal Behaviorists (CAAB). These individuals are credentialed by the Animal Behavior Society and typically have doctoral degrees in animal behavior or related fields. They focus on more challenging cases and the use of behavior modification protocols to treat animals. There are very few such individuals in the United States. You can find a list of Animal Behavior Society Certified Applied Animal Behavior Consultants at this website: http://certifiedanimalbehaviorist.com/members/

Veterinarians that specialize in animal behavior are credentialed by the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists as a Diplomat of the American College of


about 12 weeks old our first night in class and had no prior training. I was told to ask Gus to sit and when Gus failed to comply, remember he had never been trained to sit, the instructor told me that Gus was being dominant and that I needed to alpha-roll him.

The Monks of New Skete described the alpha wolf roll-over as the ultimate punishment for the most severe disobedience. It involves grabbing the dog by the scruff of their neck, and firmly and rapidly rolling the dog on its back and pinning it while making eye contact and yelling at the dog. In their book the Monks asserted that these disciplinary techniques are what a mother wolf would use in the wild to discipline her pups.

Not beingMossman, Kendrian Elliott, Erika WakefieldWichita State: Head Coach Keitha Adams, Rangie Bessard, Sabrina Lozada-CabbageThe American Athletic Conference (The American), a member of the NCAA, was reconstituted in 2013. With the conference office in Providence, Rhode Island, The American is comprised of the following institutions: UCF, Cincinnati, UConn, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, Navy (in football only), USF, SMU, Temple, Tulane and Tulsa. Wichita State (basketball and Olympic sports) joined the Conference on July 1, 2017. Under the leadership of Commissioner Mike Aresco, The American sponsors 21 championships – 10 for men and 11 for women; is a member of the College Football Playoff; began new television partnerships with ESPN and CBS Sports in 2014; and has a marketing partnership with IMG College. For more information, please visit www.TheAmerican.org


BMA to set up disaster prevention center, northern locals warned of flash floods

BANGKOK, 29 May 2014 – In light of this month’s quake in the North, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is drafting a plan to establish a center to handle the disaster prevention and mitigation in the future.

Bangkok Deputy Governor Pussadee Tamthai revealed that the center to be set up would particularly deal with management of evacuation routes in emergency cases.

Meanwhile, Group Captain Somsak Kaosuwan, Director of the National Disaster Warning Center, has played down public concerns over continuing aftershocks along the northern fault line triggered by the recent earthquake in Chiang Rai, saying even though aftershocks still occur, they are not dangerous, and their frequency and intensity will ease and eventually die down.

He said that theeating, all things are enlightened as well. If all dharmas are nondual, the person in their eating is also nondual.”

As Buddhism moved from India to China, certain cultural influences shifted Buddhist practice. In China, beggars were generally disdained, so the days of wandering mendicant monks came to an end. Monks were encouraged to work. Monasteries were built, and group meditation, not solitary practice, became the norm. Suddenly there were large numbers of mouths to feed, and an efficient and timely system of meal-taking arose as part of a set of rules to regulate the lives of Buddhist monks.

Much of this system still thrives in Zen monasteries today. Master Dogen Zenji, the thirteenth-century Japanese mystic and seed planter for Zen’s Soto school, encountered these monastic rules during his four-year


Washington (CNN) Rep. Elijah Cummings, a longtime Maryland Democrat and key figure leading investigations into President Donald Trump, has died at age 68, his office announced early Thursday morning.

He died of "complications concerning longstanding health challenges," his office said in a statement.

The congressman, who had represented Maryland's 7th Congressional District since 1996, served as the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, one of the panels involved in the impeachment inquiry of Trump

And it was his committee that grilled Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, in a blockbuster hearing this past February

It was not immediately clear who will succeed Cummings as chairman of the Oversight Committee or how his passing will affect the swirling impeachment investigation into Trump. The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee will nominatea new chairman to fill the vacancy before the full House votes to confirm the pick. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have a major say on who the next chair will be.

A senior Democratic leadership aide said Thursday that Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York "becomes Acting Chair as number two in seniority on the committee. The caucus process to elect a permanent Chair will be announced at a later time."

Cummings had been in failing health in recent weeks. He had been in and out of the hospital, missing votes and business in his committee. He was spotted several times with a breathing tube in his nose connected to oxygen while sitting on the House floor. When speaking to reporters, he would have to wait for 15


to 20 seconds or so to catch his breath before speaking. He would drive around on a motorized wheelchair through the Capitol and then walk in using a walker.

Although he was chairman of the Oversight Committee, he had not been in command of the investigations on his panel. His staff did a lion's share of the work and his staff has been helping lead the charge in the impeachment inquiry.

Still, Cummings' death left a noticeable impact on lawmakers from both parties on Capitol Hill Thursday morning. Pelosi appeared visibly emotional as she started her weekly press conference.

"In the Congress, Elijah was considered a north star," Pelosi said, referring to Cummings as "my brother in Baltimore." "He was a leader of towering character and integrity. He lived the Americandream. "

Pelosi said that Cummings "spoke with unsurpassed clarity and moral integrity," adding "everyone wanted to hear what Elijah had to say. That was the case in Congress, in his committee and in the country."

Prominent Trump critic

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As he has led the investigative efforts, Cummings also clashed publicly with the President. Over the summer, Trump tweeted disparaging remarks toward Cummings and his Maryland district, which includes much of Baltimore, calling the majority black district a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess."

Responding to some of the President's tweets -- in which Trump suggested the congressman needed to spend more time fixing his district --


men had found common ground on their shared interest in lowering drug prices.

At the time, Cummings also said he urged the President to rethink his language on African American communities after Trump repeatedly painted a grim picture of inner-city life on the campaign trail.

"I want you to realize that all African American communities are not places of depression and where people are being harmed," Cummings told reporters, recalling his conversation with Trump. "When we hear those words about carnage and we are living in depressed situations, I told him it was very hurtful."

In her news conference Thursday, Pelosi mentioned that the House Democrats were considering naming legislation aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs, a proposal currently being discussed in the chamber, for Cummings, given his advocacysaid the Maryland Democrat "injected an unyielding passion and purpose into his work on the Committee."

"Our thoughts are also with his staff, who are among the hardest working people on Capitol Hill," Jordan said in a statement. "Their loyalty and affinity for him speaks volumes about his character."

Former Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who regularly sparred with Cummings on the polarizing House's committee investigating Benghazi several years ago, said Cummings was "one of the most powerful, beautiful & compelling voices in American politics."

"We never had a cross word outside of a committee room," Gowdy wrote in a series of tweets on Cummings. "He had a unique ability to separate the personal from the work. The story of Elijah's life would benefit everyone, regardless of political ideation."

Leading African


American voice on Capitol Hill

Cummings, who grew up during the Civil Rights Movement, had become a leading voice among African American lawmakers on Capitol Hill at the time of his passing, and his death triggered an outpouring of grief from his colleagues.

"He spoke truth to power, defended the disenfranchised and represented West Baltimore with strength and dignity," Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, House Democratic caucus chairman and a fellow member of the Congressional Black Caucus, tweeted Thursday morning. "Congress has lost a Champion. Heaven has gained an Angel of Justice. May he forever #RestInPower."

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler called Cummings a "giant of public service," and Sen. Ben Cardin said his fellow Marylander "guaranteed a voice to so many who would otherwise not have one."

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CNN'sJohn Berman on "New Day" that Cummings was "a mentor and someone who in every situation would do the right thing, would put his community and the cause above everything else. Including himself."

The Florida Democrat said watching Cummings continue with his duties despite his health struggles was inspirational.

"We'll walk in his shadow, in his shoes that will never be filled," she said.

Veteran of Civil Rights Movement

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Earlier this year, Cummings discussed how, even at a young age, he faced racial violence in trying to integrate parts of his neighborhood.

"We were trying to integrate an Olympic-size pool near my house, and we had been


constrained to a wading pool in the black community," Cummings told ABC's "This Week" in July . "As we tried to march to that pool over six days, I was beaten, all kinds of rocks and bottles thrown at me."

Cummings said Trump's racist remarks against four minority members of Congress echoed the same insults he heard as a 12-year-old boy in 1962, which he said were "very painful."

"The interesting thing is that I heard the same chants. 'Go home. You don't belong here,' " he told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. "And they called us the N-word over and over again."

Cummings was born and raised in Baltimore -- the city that is home to his district. The son of former sharecroppers, Cummings was born in 1951 and graduated fromBaltimore City College High School in 1969.

He practiced law and served for 14 years in the Maryland House of Delegates, where, according to his congressional website , he became the first African American in Maryland history to be named Speaker Pro Tem.

In 1996, he was first elected to the US Congress. Cummings was reelected last year in the 7th Congressional District with 76% of the vote.

This story has been updated with additional developments Thursday.


design.

for students to design and build a remote
controlled or autonomous excavator, called a lunabot,
that can collect and deposit a minimum of 10 kilograms
of lunar simulant within 15 minutes. The complexities
of the challenge include the abrasive characteristics
of the lunar simulant, the weight and size limitations
of the lunabot, and the ability to control the lunabot
from a remote control center.

The competition event will be held May 23-28, 2011
at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, Kennedy Space
Center, Florida.

Moon
Work Contest - student contest to design "tools
and instrumentation for human and robotic exploration
on the moon":

NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
is inviting teams of undergraduate and graduate students
throughout the country to participate in the fourth
annual Systems Engineering Paper Competition. Participants
in the competition will submit a paper on an Exploration
Systems mission topic. The deadline to register for
thecontest:
Gowalla users who virtually "check-in" at
NASA-related venues and places of discovery
via their smart phone have a chance to find
the four agency virtual items which can be
swapped for other items, dropped in locations
or kept in their vault. Anyone with a Gowalla
account who collects three of the four items
will receive a special pin in their Gowalla
Passport. In addition, the first 100 people
to collect three items will win the special
edition NASA+Gowalla Map: Search for the Moon
Rocks by JESS3, a creative agency that specializes
in data visualization.

Cassini
Scientist for a Day essay contest sponsored
by NASA JPL. The Cassini
spacecraft will take pictures of Saturn and
its rings and moons on Oct. 18-22, 2010. Study
these three imaging targets and choose the one
you think will yield the best scientific results.
Explain your choice in a 500-word essay. Winners
participate in


a teleconference with Cassini scientists
from NASA/JPL.

The contest is open to students in grades 5-12.
The contest deadline for 2010 is October 27, 2010
at noon Pacific Time.

to launch "Space Craft," a contest
where entrants share an original handmade item
or work of art inspired by NASA and NASA's programs,
such as the Space Shuttle Program and human
spaceflight, aeronautics, science and exploration
of the universe. Contestants can enter two-dimensional
original art (painting, drawing, prints, mixed
media, photographic, and computer generated
prints). Three-dimensional entries, including
wearable art and soft sculptures, also may be
entered.

School children aged 6-12 are invited take
part in a competition to design a t-shirt
for ESA astronaut Frank De Winne to wear during
his mission to the International Space Station
next year. The winner, and all their classmates,
will get to talk to De Winne in space.

The Space Generation Advisory Council
(SGAC), throughits sponsors, announces an international
technical paper competition to develop unique
and innovative concepts for how to deflect an
asteroid or comet that may impact the Earth
(referred to as mitigation). The competition
calls for individuals or teams to write and
submit a 3-10 page original technical paper
on their innovative concept for mitigation.
The 1st place award is a trip to present the
winning paper at this year's Space Generation
Congress (SGC) and International Astronautical
Congress (IAC) which take place in Glasgow,
Scotland from late September until early October
2008. The 2nd place award is a trip to present
at the SGC. Entries are due on 09 June 2008
and winners will be announced on 30 June 2008,
the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska Event,
the largest asteroid/comet impact event in Earth's
recent history.

SPAACSE
-- Scholarships
The Society of Performers, Artists, Athletes, and
Celebrities for Space Exploration (SPAACSE)
offers


yearly scholarship awards to promising students
in the arts as well as other areas. Contests include a
space essay and a space art competitions.

ThinkQuest
ThinkQuest is an educational program that gives out
awards and scholoarships totaling over 1 million US
dollars each year to US students 12-19. Teams of 2-3
students, supervised by an adult coach, do a research
study on an approved research topic using the all the
resources of the Internet.

Their web site should present their research findings
in an engaging and informative manner. A panel of judges
review the entries and the top entries get awards. All
entries that pass the basic requirements will be put
on the official web listing.

Typically there are several entries based on space
topics.

University
of Toronto Space Design Contest (UTSDC)
The University of Toronto Space Design Contest (UTSDC)
is an annual contest for high school students.those required to win the $30 million
Google Lunar X PRIZE, a private race to the
Moon designed to enable commercial exploration
of space while engaging the global public. To
further this purpose, the X PRIZE Foundation
and Google have now joined forces with three
other well known technology companies to offer
a competition that will stimulate learning of
robotics and team building while exciting students
and their families about their potential roles
in the new Moon race.

Pete
Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award
This contest "challenges high school teams to develop
their own innovative concepts to benefit a specific
science and technology area. Students detail their idea
in a technical report, a business plan, and a prototype.
They must demonstrate understanding of not only the
concept itself, but also the business requirements needed
to take their idea to the marketplace"

Heinlein
Prize Trust
In honor of Robert H. Heinlein,


Limelight is a lightning-based technique that is used when all four users take place in the cardinal directions. They will then join their lightning-chakra in the form of four connecting streams that shoot high into the sky above the target area. It will then create a massive ball of lightning powerful enough to incinerate everything within the area of the four users. It is considered to be the most powerful and destructive Lightning Release technique.[1]

Trivia

The technique's name is a pun, similar to certain techniques of Kumogakure-ninja, in which it has an English name with a given kanji that somewhat matches the pronunciation.

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Wood burning is particularly popular for home heating in southwest Oregon's Jackson County, the state's surveys indicate.

It's less popular in urban counties such as Multnomah but still adds up because of the higher population, close proximity of neighbors, and heavier use of fireplaces, which spew far more pollutants than stoves.

Citing technical reasons, the EPA didn't pin down the cancer risk of particulates from burning diesel fuel, which is dirtier than gasoline and which the agency said "is likely to be substantial." It also didn't gauge risks from forest fires, which dump big loads of pollutants but occur sporadically, or indoor air.

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in the history of Latin America and Asia in particular, with his later focus on Iran not accounting for the history of U.S. intervention there. In 1953 the U.S. and the UK covertly overthrew the democratically elected Mossadegh government of Iran, with all its decades of subsequent events, in Iran, and elsewhere in the world where the Iranian model of displacing uncooperative governments was put into place, the next in line being Guatemala in 1954 (Operation PBSUCCESS).

Finally, in an interdependent world, such as we have now, the “greater opportunity and security for our citizens” tends to speak for the one per cent, the global corporations, rather than the 99 per cent of the rest of the world.

The Crisis

Obama then focuses on the crisis, the attacks on the U.S.leadership, the unilateral support of Israel without acknowledging its nuclear threats and proliferation as well as its international humanitarian law abuses against the Palestinians, the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the ongoing drone wars in Pakistan—a few among the many military interventions brought about by U.S. forces.

Some Real Lies

“We insisted on change in Egypt…. We supported a transition of leadership in Yemen….We intervened in Libya alongside a broad coalition, and with the mandate of the United Nations Security Council….we again declare that the regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop.”

Not true, as the U.S. did and said nothing when the Egyptian protests started and continued, hoping to maintain the status quo of their militarily supported puppet


the other hand has used the “peace process” as a mask to continue with its settlement projects. It also has been the aggressor in most of its wars, most recently with its invasion of Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2008-09, both resulting in large civilian casualties. Israel is content with the status quo, with the its sense of ‘victimhood’ and with the U.S. as ally, its creation of the ‘war on terror’, an unending war that satisfies the political-religious-corporate-warrior elements of both governments.

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opinion pieces and book reviews for The Palestine Chronicle. Miles' work is also presented globally through other alternative websites and news publications.faced a maximum penalty of two years in prison, a $60,000 fine and a lifetime ban from owning an animal.

Speedsport Stables, a family-run horse boarding business owned by the Smalls, had been renting a 10-acre farm and barnyard where the abuse occurred.

According to Ontario corporation records, Speedsport Stables, which started in 2016, is owned by Victoria "Vicki" Small. But its clients say the horse boarding company was a family business run by four members: Victoria Small, her husband David, and their two sons, Jason and Michael.

According to an agreed statement of facts, the case involved the deaths of two horses and mistreatment of 14 others and a pony. The remains of 13 other horses were found on the property, but a vet could not determine exactly when the


the lifetime ban on the Smalls.

"There's no justice," he added.

Cheung started renting his 10-acre farmland to Speedsport Stables around the same time he purchased stakes in three yearlings that he later claimed Speedsport didn't own.

"They claimed they would train them for one year and they would make it into Woodbine Racetrack the following year, when they're two years old," he alleged to CBC News last year.

"They were saying that if your horses make it to the race, doesn't matter if they win or lose, there is supposed to be a lot of purses and prizes from Woodbine and OLG."

OSPCA investigated after neighbours complained

In May 2018, an OSPCA officer went to the rural property after receiving a complaint about the welfare of a herd of horses. The officer saw14 horses and one pony living in unsanitary conditions.

A veterinarian was brought in to examine the horses, which were found to be thin, with ribs, hips and spines visible on many. Their hooves were also severely neglected.

Several dead horses were also found on the property.

Dead horses were dug out of the ground on the rural property in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ont. (James Morrison/CBC)

Originally, neighbours discovered three dead horses in a trailer concealed by trees at the back of the farmland, which prompted the OSPCA investigation.

Fourteen emaciated horses and a pony were taken off the farm and placed in new homes, while the carcasses of 10 other horses were found buried in a paddock on the property.

In May 2018, according to the OSPCA, all three Smalls were charged with permitting an


Clarification of studies on the origin of thymic lymphocytes.
The thesis that lymphocytes originate in situ by the direct transformation of epithelial cells within the thymic primordium in anurous frogs is untenable. On the contrary, in both the leopard frog and the African clawed toad, the lymphocytes that first appear in the embryonic thymus are derived from extrathymic lymphopoietic cells that invaded the developing organ. The exact source of origin of the invading lymphopoietic cells remains problematic.Food is at the heart of every culture but our cookery heritage is often neglected in favor of our obsession with the new. With your help we hope to rediscover the secrets of those great (and not so great) cooks and share them with each other.

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A prolific writer of cookery books

We tend to think of the current era as the heyday for cookery so it comes as a surprise to discover that one hundred years ago was also a boom time for food manufacturers, publishers and authors and few were more prolific than Charles Herman Senn.

Charles Herman Senn was born in Switzerland, in 1864 and died in 1934. He received a classical cookery training in Europe and later under the renowned chef Francatelli at the


Reform Club in London. Senn was one of the founders of the Universal Cookery and Food Association and edited the association’s year-book, The Cookery Annual, from its first publication in 1894. In 1892 he was made Consulting Chef to the National Training School for Cookery, one of the most influential schools of its time, he was also a leading light in the Westminster Technical Institute from its founding in 1910, creating the syllabus and establishing the examinations. He also lectured and gave cookery demonstrations to the wider community.

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In view of the spread of varroasis -- a mite infestation of the honey bee -- over Europe and the problems which this disease has brought about in the beekeeping sector, the Member States of the European Union have been encouraged to set up national programmes aimed at improving the general conditions for the production and marketing of apicultural products. In Belgium, such apicultural programmes now exist for many years and particularly in the Flemish region, a lot of effort has been put in the restocking of hives. Within this programme, a limited number of recognized breeders are provided with the possibility to travel to a land mating yard in Belgium (Kreverhille) and island mating yards in Germany (Spiekeroog, Norderney) and the Netherlands (Ameland, Marken) with selected


If the old Nike commercial rings true, Cespedes is doing alright for himself after he won his second straight Home Run Derby at Target Field on Monday. After advancing past Jose Bautista in the semifinal round, Cespedes crushed Todd Frazier in the finals to take home the top prize.

Cespedes became the first player to win back-to-back trophies in the Derby since Ken Griffey Jr. did it in 1998 and 1999. But unlike last year, when Bryce Harper fell one short of Cespedes' mark in the final round, the 28-year-old cruised past Frazier 9-1 to earn his second title.

It wasn't all smooth sailing, though. In the first round, Cespedes needed a swing-off against teammate Josh Donaldson to advance to the next round. He then took care of Adam Jonesas he got into the swing of things. On the National League side, Frazier took down Troy Tulowitzki after sliding past Tulo's teammate and fan favorite Justin Morneau in the first round.

One of the biggest concerns regarding the Home Run Derby is its effect on hitters when they return to playing games, and while Yasiel Puig may not have any lasting issues -- he failed to hit a single homer on the evening -- his 28 homers could potentially have an adverse effect on Cespedes in the second half. It's worth noting, though, that after Cespedes hit 32 in the 2013 Derby, he actually posted a better line in the second half of the season than he did in a subpar first half.

For Starters

While the power was on


display Monday evening, a debate about which pitcher most deserves the first shot at suppressing runs in Tuesday's All-Star Game was at the center of discussion earlier in the day.

Cardinals manager Mike Matheny announced at a press conference Monday afternoon that Adam Wainwright would be the National League's starting pitcher for the game, sparking a debate about whether Wainwright deserves to start the game over Clayton Kershaw.

A debate about which pitcher should start an exhibition game meant to showcase the game's best players is, by nature, splitting hairs, as both Wainwright and Kershaw have legitimate claims to starting the game. Wainwright's include having pitched the fourth-most innings in the major leagues to this point while owning a FIP that is best in the National League among qualified pitchers.The 32-year-old is also tied for the major league lead in wins with 12.

Kershaw missed being qualified by 2/3 of an inning due to an injury that forced him to miss all of April, but if he were he would rank first in the majors in ERA, FIP, K% and BB% while being near the top in a few other categories. It's crazy to say coming off a year in which he was very nearly the unanimous choice for the NL Cy Young Award, Kershaw is currently in the midst of the best season of his career.

Somewhat unbelievably, neither accomplished starter has ever started an All-Star Game for his league, making the decision that much more noteworthy for fans.

So who deserves to start the game? In all actuality,


through the season's first half that he's still got something to offer a contending team. Colon posted a 3.99 ERA and 1.18 WHIP that were dragged down by an ugly first month and a half, and he's coming off a month in which he went 4-1 with a 2.57 ERA.

There are plenty of teams that could use Colon at the back end of their rotation, so it will be interesting to see which teams emerge as suitors for the right-hander -- and what they're willing to give up -- as the next few weeks unfold.

Among other trade happenings, the Blue Jays acquired Brett Wallace from the Orioles for cash considerations, the Royals have set their sights on Jonny Gomes as a potential target and the Angels are interested24-year-old Castro. The shortstop is enjoying a resurgent year, batting .276/.326/.440 11 home runs and 52 RBI ... Trevor Cahill will rejoin the Diamondbacks rotation in the second half, because why not ... Only in the All-Star Game will you find Andrew McCutchen batting leadoff in 2014.

American League Quick Hits: After some initial fear that the injury might be more long-term, it appears Alex Gordon (wrist) could be ready when the season resumes on Friday. He'll undergo a full workout of the wrist on Thursday, and if all goes well he's aiming to be back in the lineup against the Red Sox ... According to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports, the Red Sox were prepared to offer Jon Lester approximately $100 million over five years before Lester ceased


negotiations. Lester is set to become a free agent after the season, and he will be paid handsomely -- by the Red Sox or someone else -- if he's allowed to reach the open market ... The Yankees released Alfonso Soriano after designating him for assignment last week. He's batting .221/.244/.367 on the year, but a team will likely try to catch lightning in a bottle on a low-risk deal in the next few days ... Only in the All-Star Game will you find Derek Jeter batting leadoff in 2014.

If the old Nike commercial rings true, Cespedes is doing alright for himself after he won his second straight Home Run Derby at Target Field on Monday. After advancing past Jose Bautista in the semifinal round, Cespedes crushed ToddFrazier in the finals to take home the top prize.

Cespedes became the first player to win back-to-back trophies in the Derby since Ken Griffey Jr. did it in 1998 and 1999. But unlike last year, when Bryce Harper fell one short of Cespedes' mark in the final round, the 28-year-old cruised past Frazier 9-1 to earn his second title.

It wasn't all smooth sailing, though. In the first round, Cespedes needed a swing-off against teammate Josh Donaldson to advance to the next round. He then took care of Adam Jones as he got into the swing of things. On the National League side, Frazier took down Troy Tulowitzki after sliding past Tulo's teammate and fan favorite Justin Morneau in the first round.

One of the biggest concerns regarding the Home


Run Derby is its effect on hitters when they return to playing games, and while Yasiel Puig may not have any lasting issues -- he failed to hit a single homer on the evening -- his 28 homers could potentially have an adverse effect on Cespedes in the second half. It's worth noting, though, that after Cespedes hit 32 in the 2013 Derby, he actually posted a better line in the second half of the season than he did in a subpar first half.

For Starters

While the power was on display Monday evening, a debate about which pitcher most deserves the first shot at suppressing runs in Tuesday's All-Star Game was at the center of discussion earlier in the day.

Cardinals manager Mike Matheny announced at a press conference Mondayafternoon that Adam Wainwright would be the National League's starting pitcher for the game, sparking a debate about whether Wainwright deserves to start the game over Clayton Kershaw.

A debate about which pitcher should start an exhibition game meant to showcase the game's best players is, by nature, splitting hairs, as both Wainwright and Kershaw have legitimate claims to starting the game. Wainwright's include having pitched the fourth-most innings in the major leagues to this point while owning a FIP that is best in the National League among qualified pitchers. The 32-year-old is also tied for the major league lead in wins with 12.

Kershaw missed being qualified by 2/3 of an inning due to an injury that forced him to miss all of April, but if he were he


would rank first in the majors in ERA, FIP, K% and BB% while being near the top in a few other categories. It's crazy to say coming off a year in which he was very nearly the unanimous choice for the NL Cy Young Award, Kershaw is currently in the midst of the best season of his career.

Somewhat unbelievably, neither accomplished starter has ever started an All-Star Game for his league, making the decision that much more noteworthy for fans.

So who deserves to start the game? In all actuality, it really doesn't matter. Both pitchers will get to throw, and neither will still be around in the late innings when the game is likely decided. But it sure made for some opinionated discussion.

Trade Winds

Speaking of a lot ofhot air, rumors continued to swirl Monday as the calendar moved one more day closer to the trade deadline.

The most interesting tidbit of the day came out of Queens, where the Mets are said to be making Bartolo Colon available in trade discussions. Colon is making $9 million this season, approximately $4 million of which he's yet to be paid, and he'll earn $11 million in the last year of his deal in 2015.

The 41-year-old isn't the front-of-the-rotation starter that David Price or Cliff Lee is, but he's shown through the season's first half that he's still got something to offer a contending team. Colon posted a 3.99 ERA and 1.18 WHIP that were dragged down by an ugly first month and a half, and he's coming off


innings for High-A Clearwater. Lee is on track to return to the Phillies rotation on July 21, and it's unclear if Monday's clunker will have any effect on that timetable ... A source tells David Lennon of New York Newsday that Starlin Castro is unlikely to be traded this season. The Cubs recently acquired Addison Russell in the Jeff Samardzija deal and they already have one of the premier shortstop prospects in the game in Javier Baez, but the Cubs appear in no rush to move on from the 24-year-old Castro. The shortstop is enjoying a resurgent year, batting .276/.326/.440 11 home runs and 52 RBI ... Trevor Cahill will rejoin the Diamondbacks rotation in the second half, because why not ... Only in the All-Star Game willyou find Andrew McCutchen batting leadoff in 2014.

American League Quick Hits: After some initial fear that the injury might be more long-term, it appears Alex Gordon (wrist) could be ready when the season resumes on Friday. He'll undergo a full workout of the wrist on Thursday, and if all goes well he's aiming to be back in the lineup against the Red Sox ... According to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports, the Red Sox were prepared to offer Jon Lester approximately $100 million over five years before Lester ceased negotiations. Lester is set to become a free agent after the season, and he will be paid handsomely -- by the Red Sox or someone else -- if he's allowed to reach the open market ... The Yankees released


Robot scientists are a natural extension of the trend of increased involvement of automation in science. They can automatically develop and test hypotheses to explain observations, run experiments using laboratory robotics, interpret the results to amend their hypotheses, and then repeat the cycle, automating high-throughput hypothesis-led research. Robot scientists are also well suited to recording scientific knowledge: as the experiments are conceived and executed automatically by computer, it is possible to completely capture and digitally curate all aspects of the scientific process.

In 2009, Adam, a robot scientist developed by researchers at the Universities of Aberystwyth and Cambridge, became the first machine to independently discover new scientific knowledge. The same team has now developed Eve, based at the University of Manchester, whose purpose is to speed up the drugManagement of Waimea Valley will now be under the umbrella of its owner, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

The organization announced yesterday that it filed papers earlier this week to form a nonprofit limited liability corporation called Hi'ilei Aloha LLC, which means "to carry, care for and nurture lovingly." In turn, the corporation will establish a nonprofit subsidiary to manage the daily operations of Waimea Valley.

"This day marks a milestone for OHA and its solid demonstration of OHA's commitment to our kuleana of responsible stewardship, malama aina," said OHA Chairwoman Haunani Apoliona at a news conference held yesterday.

Gary Gill, former deputy director for environmental health for the state Department of Health, was selected as project manager of Hi'ilei Aloha.* He will assist in the transition and will create the


subsidiary that will manage the 1,875-acre property off Waimea Valley Road on the North Shore. When the subsidiary is established, Gill will serve as its executive director.

Gill met with current staff members at Waimea Valley yesterday. He plans to split his time between the OHA office and the valley to prepare for the transition.

"I was very pleased of their enthusiasm toward the OHA plan, and I'm looking forward to working with the people who have proven to be dedicated to making Waimea Valley even more remarkable as it is now," he said.

The National Audubon Society decided to stop managing the valley in January after it could not reach an agreement with OHA on a long-term management lease.

The society had decided to stay on to run daily operations untilOHA made a decision on how to manage the property.

"Following the Audubon Society's January 2007 announcement earlier this year, OHA continued to review different ways to operate the valley including finding another operator, creating a separate entity to manage it or managing it directly ourselves," said Apoliona. "We believe our choice, a choice by the trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, this choice is the most prudent and responsible path to take to manage the valley while protecting OHA's trust assets."

Audubon Society officials were notified of OHA's decision yesterday. "I'm very enthusiastic. I think it's a good transition," said Diana King, interim center director. "I'm optimistic about the future."

OHA officials said they plan to have a marketing strategy to attract more people to the park and generate


archaeological sites.

Staff will be required to reapply for their jobs in December. OHA officials said they hope to expand staffing to help operate and preserve the expansive property. The transition is to take place at the beginning of February.

Michael Lyons, chairman of the North Shore Neighborhood Board, described the current staff at the valley as excellent. It will behoove OHA to retain them, he said. Lyons also said he supports more staffing.

The park has 30 full-time employees, 13 part-time employees and hundreds of volunteers.

Waimea Valley Time line

Late 11th century
Waimea Valley is established as an important ahupuaa, a mountain-to-sea land division containing necessary natural resources to sustain a substantial number of residents.

1970s through mid-1990s
Bishop Corp. (no affiliation with Bishop Estate) purchases Waimea for $355,000 and establishes Waimea Falls Park.For a 25-year period under the ownership of the Pietsch family, the valley is a commercial park with a restaurant and entertainment. A 150-acre arboretum and botanical garden is also established with native and endangered Hawaiian plants, as well as exotic species. During a period of peak commercial success, park attendance averages 2,000 per day.

Early 1990sCommercial viability of Waimea Falls Park falters.

1996 through 2000
New York investor and theme park developer Christian Wolffer assumes previous owner's mortgage and develops an "adventure park," but park attendance is in decline. Wolffer puts the valley up for sale at $25 million, later reduced to $19 million.

2001
Investor Wolffer places the valley under bankruptcy protection. A New York bankruptcy court gives City and County of Honolulu permission to proceed with condemnation process to purchase


the property.

2002 to 2003
The city takes possession of the property through condemnation and awards a lease to the National Audubon Society, which begins management of an ecological and cultural visitor center at Waimea Valley.

2006
Under terms of a court settlement, the valley is purchased by a partnership of OHA, the city, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, the U.S. Army and the National Audubon Society, with the title passing to OHA for the purpose of ensuring the preservation of Waimea Valley.

2007
OHA takes steps to assume responsibility for operations at Waimea Valley from leaseholder Audubon Society by filing papers to form a limited liability corporation, named Hi'ilei Aloha.

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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

» Gary Gill was selected as project manager for Hi'ilei Aloha, a nonprofit group formed by the OfficeAn award-winning author of less renown in the US, the ageing l’enfant terrible has held an unflattering mirror to the world for more than a decade. Among his many targets has been Islam – a tack that once landed him in court in his native France

In February 2001, Nicholas Lezard made Atomised by Michel Houellebecq his Guardian pick of the week. This week, in January 2015, the novelist was caught up in the terrifying events in Paris and Dammartin-en-Goële, which left 17 people dead.

Anyone unfamiliar with Houellebecq and his work – particularly in America, where he is less well known than in Europe – might consider what Lezard wrote about the Frenchman’s second novel:

This is a bold and unsettling portrait of a society falling apart: the rage that


promote the book, the author landed in court. Charged with inciting religious and racial hatred, he was acquitted.

Consistently irreverent, Houellebecq continued to stoke the flames. His fourth and perhaps slightest novel, The Possibility of an Island, considered cloning and societal collapse. His difficult relationship with his mother, which partly inspired Atomised, lurched into public view. His fifth novel, The Map and the Territory, took down the vapid world of contemporary art and, lest he seemed to be mellowing, featured the brutal murder of the author Michel Houellebecq. It won the Prix Goncourt. Developing a theme, last year he starred in a film: The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq.

Houellebecq’s new novel, Submission, takes place in 2022, in a France where for the first time the president is a Muslim. ItComparing skyrmions and merons in chiral liquid crystals and magnets.
When chiral liquid crystals or magnets are subjected to applied fields or other anisotropic environments, the competition between favored twist and anisotropy leads to the formation of complex defect structures. In some cases, the defects are skyrmions, which have 180^{∘} double twist going outward from the center, and hence can pack together without singularities in the orientational order. In other cases, the defects are merons, which have 90^{∘} double twist going outward from the center; packing such merons requires singularities in the orientational order. In the liquid crystal context, a lattice of merons is equivalent to a blue phase. Here we perform theoretical and computational studies of skyrmions and merons in chiral liquid crystals and magnets. Through these studies,


Utah school takes lunches from kids with debts

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Jan. 30, 2014

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Jessica Durango
USA TODAY

Parents are angry with Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City after workers took lunches from up to 40 kids with unpaid balances and threw them away, several media outlets reported.

Salt Lake City District spokesman Jason Olsen told the Salt Lake Tribune that parents with balances were contacted via phone Monday and Tuesday. They weren't able to reach all parents before the child-nutrition manager decided to withhold lunches to deal with the debts.

"She took my lunch away and said, 'Go get a milk,'" Sophia Isom, a fifth-grader at the school, told NBC ...don't want to go there, Mother, you don't need to."

"Well, I like that!" Doris is outraged. "And who'll do the laundry, I'd like to know? You, I suppose?"

"I don't know what in hell I'm supposed to do," Marvin says. "I'm caught between two fires."

That Doris and I could possibly be termed "two fires" is such an absurdity that I can't help laughing. Doris, offended, glares. Then, as though she's just remembered that for some obscure reason she has to treat me nicely, she wipes the expression off her face and puts a bland one on.

"We need advice, I'm sure of that," she says.

Advice to Doris means her clergyman. So once again I find myself, rigged out in my lilac silk this time, conferring on the lawn with Mr.