of materials and facilities for creative and fun initiatives. This is a unique initiative of Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza.

S. Maria delle Grazie reception centre (hotel complex)
This is located just a few meters away from Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza. It has 217 beds divided into single and double rooms with private bathrooms, Conference hall, Chapel with Eucharist, Restaurant, TV room, Bar reserved for guests only, and Car parking with garage.

Casa Padre Pio residence for the elderly
It offers a hotel-type hospitality service with full respect to personal freedom, human and Christian dignity. The services include-Reading room, TV room, library, conference room, gym with an instructor, bar & restaurant,  a private chapel with daily Mass celebration, spiritual and religious guidance, fully guaranteed social and health assistance, laundry and hairdresser forAMSTERDAM – Stoke City winger Brek Shea has seen his Barnsley loan spell cut short as a direct result of a March 1 fan incident.

Late in a 5-0 loss at Huddersfield Town, the US international made an offensive gesture to a Tykes supporter when rushing to the defense of teammate Steven Dawson. The defender had to be restrained after a heated confrontation with the team's traveling fans. On Monday, Barnsley boss Danny Wilson opted to send Shea back to Stoke a few weeks before the stint was set to end on April 3.

"In his comments to the press today, the manager said he didn't want to have any issues with the club," press officer Mark Stokes told MLSsoccer.com on Monday. "He felt it was the best thing to


Prosecutors charged a 20-year-old Kansas City man on Monday with second-degree murder in the death of an alleged accomplice during a home invasion robbery.

Jackson County prosecutors also charged Dominique D. Richardson with first-degree burglary in the April 9 incident the ended in the death of 17-year-old Trevor Garms.

Prosecutors allege that Garms and Richardson went to a house in the 5800 block of Garfield Avenue with the intention of stealing a video game console and big-screen television. A woman who lives at the house later told police that when she answered a knock at the door, Garms pointed a gun at her while the other man went to the back of the home to look for the items.

When Garms turned away to say something to his accomplice, the womangrabbed a handgun from an open closet. Fearing she was going to be shot, the woman shot Garms while begging him to leave, according to court documents.

He stumbled back, but when he started toward her, the woman shot him again, according to the documents.

He dropped his weapon. When he picked it up, the woman shot him a third time. He staggered out of the house and collapsed outside, according to the court documents.

When the other man saw what was happening, he ran from the scene. The gun left at the scene by the assailants was a BB gun replica of a semiautomatic handgun, according to the documents.

Prosecutors charged Richardson with murder because Garms was killed during the commission of the felony crime of burglary.


of the automated light modulating materials which are of most interest contains vanadium dioxide (VO2). The material uses thermochromic characteristics in which optical characteristics are reversibly changed by a temperature and which occurs when a phase transition occurs between a semiconductor phase of vanadium dioxide (VO2) and a metallic phase. The light modulating characteristics of an ambient temperature depending type are obtainable with this.
A glass containing the automated light modulating material may be obtained by a sputtering process of vanadium dioxide (VO2) to, for example, a glass substrate. After sputtering a thin film of vanadium dioxide (VO2) on a substrate, the thin film is transferred to a film, and the thin film transferred to the film is transferred to a final glass substrate. Then, a glass containing anno long-term security in the coming seasons. He did it once before, with costly consequences, when he played under the franchise tag for San Diego in 2005 and wound up with a career-threatening injury to his throwing shoulder.

That injury led him to accept a six-year, $60 million deal with New Orleans in 2006, which left him playing for well below market value in the past few seasons, even as he was setting club and league records.

Brees had hoped an extension would be done before 2011, but when it was not, he decided not to hold out and played without the security of a long-term contract. He remained healthy the entire season and passed for an NFL single-season record 5,476 yards. Brees considered that an act of faith in


opportunity to find a digital way to go back to olden
times. On the other hand, the web people saw it as a natural extension to the
website. So massive infighting will have occurred at most newsdesks around the
world. Since the print people have the most clout in most newsrooms around the
globe, they generally won the initial round, which pushed the print people
closer to digital. With the failure of early tablet papers (distributing
massive, perfectly kerned pdf's to devices), the web people have gotten a shot
at it, thus pushing the organizations closer to each other.

At the same time, the systems vendors, harrowed by the competition from open
source sees the convergent newsroom as the strategy to win; None of Wordpress,
Drupal etc can easily produce a website and a printed paper. The tabletMental Health of Children of Deployed and Nondeployed US Military Service Members: The Millennium Cohort Family Study.
Families experience multiple stressors as a result of military service. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations among service member deployment experiences, family and military factors, and children's mental health using baseline data from the Millennium Cohort Family Study, a study designed to evaluate the health and mental health effects of military service on families, including children. This study examined administrative data on deployment status (combat, noncombat, and no deployments), as well as service member- and spouse-reported data on deployment experiences and family functioning in relation to the mental health of children in the family who were aged 9 to 17 years. Most children were not reported to have


People v Kinsey (2018 NY Slip Op 04240)

People v Kinsey

2018 NY Slip Op 04240

Decided on June 8, 2018

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on June 8, 2018
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., CENTRA, LINDLEY, CURRAN, AND WINSLOW, JJ.

775 KA 16-01492

[*1]THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT,
vCORBIN J. KINSEY, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

THE LEGAL AID BUREAU OF BUFFALO, INC., BUFFALO (ROBERT L. KEMP OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.
JOHN J. FLYNN, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, BUFFALO (DONNA A. MILLING OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.

	Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Erie County (John L. Michalski, A.J.), rendered August 11, 2016.Two issues and little progress for NFL

The NFL and its players appear to be as far apart as ever on a new labor pact,
contrary to recent positive comments from union chief Gene Upshaw.

As league owners meet this week in Detroit to receive a status update on talks
centering on the collective-bargaining agreement, they will likely hear that the
two sides are not even close on how much of league revenues should be committed
to player salaries.

A meeting last Thursday between the two sides ended quickly and achieved nothing,
a source said.

Meanwhile, sources say that several teams are very upset that the league has apparently
temporarily sidetracked the discussions over how the clubs split their own revenues,
in favor of the CBA talks. These clubs fear that the concerns of mid-market and
small-revenue clubs are being


said that even that
would not be economically feasible. He criticized the union for not giving the
league credit earlier this year for agreeing to share all league revenues with
the players, instead of the 90 percent that is now open to pooling.

That is a big concession, Henderson said.

And Roger Goodell, the leagues chief operating officer, asked about Upshaws
positive comments last month after a CBA meeting with the league, said, Gene
was positive, then he was negative, then he was positive. He was just sending
a message. That is part of negotiations.

From the unions side, it has been waiting for some time for a new offer
from the league.

We keep getting indications that a significant offer is forthcoming, but
it never quite comes forth, said union adviser Jeffrey Kessler. In
terms of where the parties aremore than 30 new academic programs and awarded its first doctoral degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering. In addition, the university experienced substantial growth as more than $50 million in new construction was completed; including a new building for the College of Engineering and a new Library, as well as nearly $30 million in campus renovations. The university also experienced an increase in enrollment in both domestic and international students. On June 30, 1999, Fort retired as chancellor of the university, and currently serves as a professor of Leadership Studies and Chancellor Emeritus.

Personal life and legacy
Dr. Fort is married to his wife Lessie Covington; the two have two children together. The Edward B. Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC) on the campus of North Carolina A&T was named in


10 most climatically diverse countries in the world ([@bb0125]). Spain is currently a country with the third-highest life expectancy of the world ([@bb0220]), which explains somehow the high impact which is causing COVID-19 in this country, especially in old people for whom this disease represents a major threat ([@bb0130]). In addition, according to the World Tourism Organization, Spain was the country in the world with the second highest international tourist arrivals in 2019 ([@bb0200]). The climate in Spain varies across the entire country with five main climatic zones: the hot-summer Mediterranean climate, which is dominant on the Iberian Peninsula; the warm-summer Mediterranean climate in parts of north-western Spain and mostly inland the central-northern Spain; the oceanic climate in the northern part of Spain; the semiarid climate in thethe rate that fuel is supplied to the engine to provide a desired air/fuel mixture to the cylinders. Increasing the amount of air and fuel provided to the cylinders generally increases the torque output of the engine. The fuel is stored in a fuel tank. In some applications a fuel pump may be used to propel fuel from the fuel tank and to pressurize the fuel system downstream of the tank. In other applications, a fuel vaporizer is used to convert liquid fuel to the gaseous state prior to injection. In those applications, the inherent pressure of the fuel tank may be sufficient to propel and pressurize the fuel without the use of a fuel pump. A fuel pressure regulator controls the pressure to the fuel rail and


city handled the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Recovery efforts were concentrated in areas of businesses and wealthier, white neighborhoods. The Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) pulled funding from displaced residents living in hotel rooms, which resulted in them being homeless. Those who did return had to wait for months before being given a FEMA trailer.

The lower Ninth Ward, which had been home to many of the city’s hospitality, restaurant, and other tourism industry workers was the last to have its utilities restored, and today remains relatively empty.

Fewer Young People

The report also shows that while more residents are returning than leaving New Orleans, fewer families are returning. In the year 2000, 34 percent of households in the metro area had children under 18. In 2017, that number was downto 24 percent. The total number of children under 18 in the metro decreased from 358,092 to 284,167.

Following Hurricane Katrina, most of the city’s public schools were closed, replaced with charter schools. In 2018, New Orleans became the first city in the country to function with an all-charter school system. This has led to a number of problems. Because admission to the schools is based on a lottery system, many children are unable to attend schools in their own neighborhoods. This leads to long bus rides, and a “revolving door” of sorts where poor performing schools are closed, and students are constantly shifted to new schools with different teachers and different standards – all of which are detrimental to a child’s education.

Many parents did not want to bring


been exacerbated by the rise of short term rentals, which has led to increased gentrification. The “whole house” rental phenomenon led to many developers buying up houses in desirable neighborhoods and using them for short term rentals rather than allowing families and residents to move in. While the city council has now taken steps to curb this phenomenon, and otherwise “rein in” short term rentals across the city, for some, the effort is too little, too late.

A More Segregated City

Segregation and gentrification are also both issues. In 2016, the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) released a report showing that New Orleans became more heavily segregated following Katrina. In a city where elevation is everything, traditionally African-American neighborhoods on lower ground (such as New Orleans East and Gentilly)Breaking from Jooste era: Steinhoff names Louis du Preez as CEO

By John Bowker and Janice Kew

(Bloomberg) – Steinhoff International Holdings NV named Louis du Preez as chief executive officer, further severing ties between the global retailer and the rule of former CEO Markus Jooste, who quit late last year amid an accounting scandal.

Commercial Director Du Preez replaces Danie van der Merwe, a Steinhoff director for almost 20 years who took the top job on an acting basis after Jooste resigned in December. Both men have been pivotal in managing Steinhoff as it battled for survival over the past 12 months, with Du Preez in particular credited with leading the South African company’s lifesaving restructuring of about 10 billion euros ($11.4 billion) of debt.

Louis du Preez looks on during


string of lawsuits including a 59 billion-rand claim by Christo Wiese, the former chairman and ex-biggest shareholder.

Boardroom clearout

Other Steinhoff departures include Wiese, who quit as chairman in December and told South African lawmakers in January that the accounting irregularities came as a “bolt from the blue.” Ben La Grange stepped down as chief financial officer, while four other supervisory board members, including founder Bruno Steinhoff, took early retirement as the company sought to add more independent directors. Dirk Schreiber, a German national who was head of finance in Europe, resigned from the boards of two key units in July.

At Steinhoff’s annual general meeting in April, Chairwoman Sonn said the company wants to “uncover the truth, show the world what has happened, prosecute any wrongdoing and reinstate trust.”an ex-Gitmo detainee helped foil the plot

Front and center in foiling the Yemen bomb plot was the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the native land of most of the 9/11 attackers. In particular, former Guantánamo prison inmate and AQAP turncoat Jabr al-Faifi played a key role, according to the BBC and others.

Mr. Faifi, a Saudi national, was released from the US-run Guantánamo facility in 2006 to Saudi Arabia, where he went through the Saudi government's rehabilitation program for former militants. Soon after his release from the program, he fled to Yemen and joined up with AQAP, the Al Qaeda offshoot that is determined to overthrow the Saudi monarchy and has largely been pushed out of the country into Yemen's hinterlands.

According to the BBC, citing senior British officials, Faifi returned


home to Saudi Arabia a few weeks ago and turned himself in, soon telling Saudi interrogators that AQAP was planning to use international air freight to ship bombs to the US. The Saudis quickly informed the US and the United Kingdom, managing to provide the exact tracking numbers of the packages in question, and the packages were stopped in Dubai and the East Midlands airport in the United Kingdom.

Investigators are still piecing together precisely what happened in the thwarted plot, which involved bombs being sent from Yemen to Chicago, possibly to detonate them in mid-air over the city. Security officials around the world are considering new layers of security at airports, particularly for air-freight companies whose security appeared to be the weak link.

Report: In US, 1 in 3Al Qaeda plots exposed by Muslims

Al Qaeda has organized no successful attacks on the US since 9/11. In the US, as abroad, cooperation from the broader Muslim community has been crucial.

Often, the whistleblowers are simply friends or associates of a plotter. Failed underwear bomber Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab was originally fingered by his own father, who approached US authorities and warned them that he feared his son was planning to attack the US. The younger Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, obtained his explosives and some rudimentary training in Yemen.

Farooque Ahmed, the Pakistani American arrested last week for seeking to bomb the DC metro, was also brought to the attention of authorities by a source in the Muslim community.

The FBI then set up an elaborate sting in which at least two individuals


                                       O R D E R

    Michael Aldous worked as a Plumbing and Rental Housing Inspector for the City of
Galena, Illinois. After the City fired him, Aldous sued the City, its mayor, and the City
Administrator, claiming they fired him for exercising his First Amendment rights by
criticizing the City for failing to enforce code requirements and ignoring the Americans
with Disabilities Act’s accessibility requirements. The district court dismissed the
federal claims for failure to state a claim, holding that Aldous had spoken out in the
course of his employment and thus his speech was not protected under the First
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Amendment. The district court then refused to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over
the state law claims. Aldous appeals.

                                               I.

    Because this case comes to us on appeal from a motion to dismiss, we recite the facts
in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. Roake v. Forest Preserve Dist. of Cook County,
849 F.3d 342, 345 (7th Cir. 2017). According to Michael Aldous, the City of Galena went
for many years without a building inspector. As a result, local contractors cut corners
and failed to comply with many code provisions. In May 2013, the City hired Aldous as
the City’s Plumbing Inspector; he was later appointed Rental Housing Inspector.

    Aldous proved to be extremely competent in his dual‐inspector roles. Those jobs
required him to review building permit applications for compliance with building and
plumbing codes, as well as to conduct field inspections. Unfortunately for Aldous, his
enforcement of the ordinances, especially after years of neglect, didn’t sit well with
contractors and homeowners. Strict compliance with the Code provisions caused
additional delays and extra costs. This led to many complaints to the City.

    While the City allegedly received many complaints, there were several specific
instances that especially rubbed the City the wrong way. First, when a new veterinary
clinic was opening, Aldous refused to approve the proposed construction plans because
they did not comply with the code provisions related to oxygen systems. As a result,
Aldous granted the clinic only a temporary occupancy permit until the City Fire
Inspector intervened and granted the clinic a variance from the code provisions. Aldous
criticized this decision to both the Fire Inspector and the City Administrator, Terry
Moran.


    Second, according to Aldous, he frequently expressed concern to Moran that permits
were being issued without the City ensuring that contractors were licensed. During
these exchanges, Moran told Aldous to work with the contractors. He was concerned
that Aldous’ strict code enforcement was causing friction with the various contractors
and city employees.

    Finally, when the City was renovating its old City Hall building for use as a police
station, a contractor asked Aldous why the renovation plans were not ADA‐compliant.
In turn Aldous and the contractor spoke with the City Engineer, who told the contractor
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to bid the project as‐is. The City apparently had relied on the architect who believed the
City was only bound by the provision of the Illinois Accessibility Code.

    Aldous later contacted the State of Illinois Capital Development Board. He inquired
whether the City needed to comply with the federal ADA,which has more stringent
requirements than the Illinois Accessibility Code. The Board confirmed that the ADA
governed. Aldous also independently researched the issue and likewise concluded that
the ADA governed the renovation.

    Aldous then met with Moran, telling him that it was his duty to ensure compliance
with the ADA. Aldous also informed Moran that the Illinois Capital Development
Board had confirmed his understanding that the ADA governed the renovation.
According to Aldous, Moran became visibly angry upon learning that Aldous had
spoken with the Board. Aldous also had several heated discussions with the City’s
building and electrical engineers, insisting in these conversations that the bathrooms
needed to be ADA‐compliant.

    In his role as Rental Inspector, Aldous likewise ran into enforcement problems. He
regularly cited landlords for code violations and noted that earlier inspections had
ignored the violations. When Aldous brought up the issue with Moran, Moran told him
to work with the landlords. And on one occasion, in August 2014, the City Fire
Inspector stepped in and reached a compromise with a landlord which Aldous believed
was insufficient to address the code violation.

    Moran asked Aldous to resign about a month later, but Aldous refused, saying that
he was just doing his job. After meeting with the Mayor, Terry Renner, Moran fired
Aldous, telling him: “I have talked with the City Attorney and the Mayor. Your strict
enforcement of the codes has upset other City Inspectors, Galena property owners, and
tradesmen in the community. Your employment as an inspector for the City is just not
working out with us. Your employment is ended, effective immediately.”

    Aldous responded by filing a lawsuit against Renner (the Mayor) and Moran (the
City Administrator), alleging the defendants fired him in violation of his First
Amendment rights. He also sought to hold the City liable under Monell v. New York City
Dept. of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), for the alleged violation of his First
Amendment rights. Additionally, Aldous sued the defendants under several state law
theories. The district court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the federal claims
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and then declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state law
claims. Aldous appeals.


    The City of Galena fired Michael Aldous from his job as Plumbing and Rental
Housing Inspector apparently because Aldous insisted on doing his job. He was
enforcing the city codes,and told his bosses as much. But because all of his speech
occurred within the sphere of his job responsibilities, it is not protected speech for
purposes of the First Amendment. Accordingly, the district court properly dismissed
Aldous’ First Amendment claims against the Mayor and City Administrator. With no
underlying claim, dismissal of the Monell claims was also appropriate and the district
court did not err in refusing to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the state law
claims. We AFFIRM.

Schalie A. Johnson

Schalie Johnson embodies the definition of hard work. She keeps busy as a Partner at Wallace Saunders – but she does not stop there. She is also a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, the Missouri Bar Association, the Johnson County Bar Association and the Kansas Bar Association. Pushing her knowledge and the field forward is one of her biggest goals. It makes her a better attorney and positively influences our entire firm.

With the experience to handle clients of all sizes, she regularly takes on diverse challenges in the federal and state courts of Kansas and Missouri. Schalie’s practice focuses on civil litigation and trial work, with an emphasis on construction and design, commercial litigation, personal injury, wrongful death, and extra-contractual (“EC”) insurance matters.


litigation. In fact, the firm was founded more than 50 years ago with insurance at the core of our practice.

Litigation

Founded as a litigation firm in 1963, our attorneys carry on our tradition of substantial deposition and courtroom experience, with hands-on training that begins early in every attorney’s career. The litigation department is the largest practice area at Wallace Saunders, with more than half of our attorneys working under the Litigation Practice Area umbrella.

Product Liability

Understanding the nuances of Product Liability law and the significant exposure for clients involved in product litigation is a service not every firm can offer. Our experience representing manufacturers, distributors and retailers gives you the advantage of leveraging strategic planning with trial skills in this complex and dynamic area of law.

Transportation and Trucking

When it comescase are that the claimant and others were required to travel and stay in Enid, Oklahoma on a construction project. They took a company vehicle and their accommodations were provided by the employer. The hotel in which claimant and other co-workers were staying, though, was without a hotel bar. Claimant ventured across the street and went to a hotel that did have a hotel bar. He stayed until past two in the morning before attempting to cross the street to his hotel. Unfortunately, he was struck by a car driven by an intoxicated driver and sustained severe injuries.

Kansas Court of Appeals Rules the 6th Edition of The AMA Guides is Unconstitutional as to Francisco Pardo

On Friday, June 1, 2018, the Kansas Court of Appeals published its decision in


Francisco Pardo v. UPS. This case had been the subject of great scrutiny, as the issues raised challenged the very constitutionality of the Kansas Workers Compensation Act.

Mr. Pardo suffered a rotator cuff injury in 2013 in a work-related accident. In March 2015, he injured the same shoulder in a separate work-related accident. The second injury was not related to the first injury and involved a different part of the rotator cuff than was previously injured.The current Liverpool squad are competing for the Premier League title and Jordan Henderson and Lucas Leiva have been hugely important players during the season. But how do they compare as a duo to legendary Anfield team-mates Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman? We will soon find out in a week of activity to support Standard Chartered's global charitable initiative, Seeing is Believing.

The highlight of the campaign will be the match against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, where Liverpool will replace the Standard Chartered logo on their shirts with the Seeing is Believing logo. This will be the third time that the Seeing is Believing logo has been displayed on the iconic red shirt to raise awareness of the programme's work in the fight against avoidable blindness.

After the game, five


signed Seeing is Believing Liverpool shirts via Standard Chartered's Group Facebook page.

Further activities will focus on a local project visit by first-team players Iago Aspas and Simon Mignolet and live match commentary on Twitter via @LFC by legend Didi Hamann during the Liverpool versus Tottenham game.

Richard Meddings, group finance director at Standard Chartered and chairman of Seeing is Believing says: "Seeing is Believing has received incredibly strong support from Liverpool FC fans in the past, raising more than £100,000 through the activities around the last two 'Perfect Match' games. We are very grateful for that support, which helps transform the lives of many individuals around the world by either preventing or curing avoidable blindness."

There are 39million blind people worldwide, yet in eight out of 10 cases, blindness canThe precious archeological site is located at the bottom of the so-called Sayan Sea. Picture: RGO

Unique necropoli in remote republic of Tuva with more than one hundred undisturbed burials from the Bronze era to the time of Genghis Khan appear eerily from under the water only once a year.

The precious archeological site is located at the bottom of the so-called Sayan Sea, an artificial reservoir created upstream of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam, Russia’s biggest power plant.

Scientists can only work here from mid-May to the end of June, with water daily destroying burials made at sea shores, and threatening graves hidden on the reservoir bed.

Scientists can only work here from mid-May to the end of June, with water daily destroying burials made at sea shores, and threatening graves hidden on


the reservoir bed. Pictures: Institute for the History of Material Culture, RGO, The Siberian Times

Last year a 2,000-year-old mummified ‘sleeping beauty’ dressed in silk emerged from one of the stone graves.

In this case, the artificial sea - which one day will wipe all traces of this ancient site altogether - has worked as a blessing, as it washed off several layers of soil and revealed a rectangle-shaped stone construction with the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ inside it.

Luckily for archeologists, the burial had been so well-sealed with a stone lid that first it enabled a process of natural body mummification, and then protected the mummy when the grave was submerged after construction of the dam, on which work started in 1963.

Rectangle-shaped stone construction in the burial 21 with the ‘Sleeping Beauty’inside it. Pictures: Institute for the History of Material Culture

The young woman was laid to rest wearing a silk skirt held by a beaded belt with a precious jet gemstone buckle.

There was a rich funeral meal and a pouch of pine nuts prepared for her afterlife, and inside her most intricately-made stylish wooden bag was her Chinese mirror.

Among the young fashionista’s other treasures were turquoise beads used to decorate the belt, a set of much smaller purple beads, fragments of a belt’s ring made of copper alloy and a bone belt buckle with beautiful engraving.

There was also an iron knife with a ringed handle.

‘This site is a scientific sensation’, said Dr Marina Kilunovskaya from the St Petersburg Institute of Material History Culture, who leads the Tuva Archeological Expedition.

Wooden


box-bag (with numerous leather pieces inside) and broken wooden comb, found in the burial 21. Pictures: Institute for the History of Material Culture

‘We are incredibly lucky to have found these graves of rich Hun nomads that were not disturbed by robbers.

‘We discovered 110 burials at the Ala-Tey burial site, which is usually 15 metres underwater.

‘Another site which was made at what is now the Sayan Sea shore is getting quickly destroyed by crumbling soil.

‘It is called Terezin, and there we found 32 graves.’

Purple beads and charcoal belt buckle found in the burial 21. Pictures: Sankt-Peterburg TV, Institute for the History of Material Culture

Russian archeologists thought that the ‘Sleeping Beauty’ woman must have been a priestess based on how rich was her burial.

Extra studies of the finds led themto believe that in fact she was an ancient leather designer, buried with her work instruments - several pieces of leather and tendon threads tacked inside a little bag.

Not far from this prehistoric ‘leather designer’, scientists found the mummy of a Hun weaver, with a wooden spindle packed in a leather bag.

Preserved in her burial through thousands of years were sparkling glass beads, two stone pendants and two belt buckets made of bone, one with linear and another one with circular patterns, and a birch bark double cover with holes along its edges.

Leather bag, wooden comb and bone belt buckle, found in the burial 27. Pictures: Institute for the History of Material Culture, Sankt-Peterburg TV

‘Both mummies that were found with fragments of leather, threads and a spindle could


have carried a special role in the Hun society’, said Dr Kilunovskaya.

‘Huns cherished women.

‘It wasn’t a matriarchy, yet women - mothers and skilled artisans - were treated with great respect.’

The scientist also explain great attention that was paid to belts found inside the burials.

‘For nomads a belt was an extremely important part of their clothing, indicating wealth and society rank.

'They didn’t use pockets, so all key elements of day-to-day life had to be hung on belts - which in case of Huns women were intricately decorated.’

Bronze mirrors (before and after the restoration) from the burials 21 and 27. Pictures: Institute for the History of Material Culture

Among the other finds were masterpieces of the infamous animal style with female belt buckles depicting scenes of tigers fighting dragons, and beautifullymade bronze bulls, horses, camels and snakes.

Other treasures from the underwater necropoli came from China.

These were silk, mirrors and coins made during the Han dynasty time (206BC-220 AD) which is described as a golden age in Chinese history and culture.

Coal and bronze belt buckles found in Terezin (top) and Ala-Tei burial grounds. Pictures: Institute for the History of Material Culture

This summer the work at this Siberian Atlantis will be over by the end of June.

Tuva archeological rescue expedition in flooded areas is possible thank to a grant from the Russian Geographical Society, and help from Society for the Exploration of EurAsia (Switzerland).

SIBERIAN ATLANTIS, video courtesy Russian Geographical Society


of 1996, Dr. Joy Atchison, M.D., became the Principal Investigator and the study was moved from the Medical Towers facility to Children's Hospital. In February 1996 an Intervention phase was added to the Study. The Intervention Phase was approved by the IRB on February 14, 1996. The Intervention Phase was parenteral insulin and oral insulin testing as a preventive measure against the development of Type 1 Diabetes. Those with a 25-50% risk or moderate risk would be randomized to parenteral insulin or no insulin group. In March of 1999 Fernando Ovalle, M.D. took over as the Principal Investigator of the study when Dr. Atchison left Children's Hospital to go into private practice. The study remained at Children's Hospital until October of 1999 when the coordination changed to theDivision of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Clinical Trials Unit, notification of the change was sent to the IRB. Subjects continue to be screened at Children's Hospital but, are now staged at the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), housed in the West Pavilion. Administration and Coordination for the study, Case Report Forms, Charts and Regulatory Documents are now housed in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Clinical Trials Unit on the 8th floor of the Diabetes Research and Education Building in room 817.


so, in retaliation, she filed a temporary restraining order and a lawsuit?

The Los Angeles Lakers also moonlight as a basketball team, sort of, but right now, their off-the-court drama challenges any daytime soap opera for bizarre twists and turns.

Every episode seems to top the last, as Friday’s chaos proved yet again.

And while one of the NBA's crown-jewel franchises was thrashed by its archrival at Staples Center, Lakers governor and president Jeanie Buss watched from her usual seat near the baseline. At one point in the third quarter, when the Boston Celtics led by 31, actress Dyan Cannon came over from her baseline seat.

The Hollywood icon placed both hands on Buss's arms in a comforting embrace, and as she spoke, Buss nodded. Amid a painful 115-95 blowout loss, itfitting time to discuss Durant, specifically, with the Celtics in town. The Celtics were never considered a free-agent destination, yet as they’ve steadily risen in recent years, that notion has changed a bit. And Boston became one of a handful of teams with which Durant sat down last summer, and the Celtics ultimately reeled in All-Star forward Al Horford, the top available free agent after Durant.

The Celtics last reached the NBA Finals in 2010, when they faced the Lakers. Yet since that point, both organizations have headed in opposite directions, rapidly so. One is focused on basketball, the other on everything but.

The Lakers are reality TV, every episode more surreal than the last.

Stay tuned.


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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Food, Inc. is Coming to PBS!

Gather your family and friends. Set your DVR. Mark your calendars: August 9, 2011. That's the day Food, Inc. will be airing on PBS for everyone to see das part of their POV listings.

What is POV on PBS?

POV, or "Point of View" is PBS' way of supporting independent films and programming for the public audience. Their tagline is "Documentaries with a point of view." They air new independent documentaries on Tuesdays throughout the summer and the fall (the Food, Inc. presentation is actually a repeat for POV, who first aired it in April 2010). The schedule may differ depending on your local PBS station, but for me the new films air at 10pm and usually re-sir on the following Thursdaybegan in August 1997, when a few Port Townsend Country Blues Workshop participants who wanted to stay in touch created an email listserv in order to keep the spirit of the workshop alive throughout the year. A separate small website was also set up in order to exchange workshop photos and store lyrics. In January 2001, the email list and website content moved to Yahoo Groups.

Then in May 2003, in order to better foster the preservation and appreciation of Country Blues and to include other enthusiasts from around the world, a custom website and forum were created. The website was expanded in June 2004 with an internet radio station called Weenie Juke Radio, which broadcasts Country Blues (mostly) 24 hours a day. In March 2008 we installed a


wiki, Weeniepedia, to serve as our repository for country blues reference content, lyrics and musical analysis collated from content developed on the forum.

The name for the email list and subsequent website was taken from the 1997 Port Townsend Participants Concert. A group of faculty noticed that the night of the participants concert was drawing near and no one had signed up to perform. Some thought this was a blessing. But the faculty took it upon themselves to encourage the participants by entering the first name on the list. The late Jimmy Borsdorf offered Blind Weenie Campbell, and so a gleeful group of faculty entered the performer in the first slot and others soon followed (disappointingly, BWC never showed up). The name was later shortened to Weenie Campbell anda mai câștigat zece turnee, la Shenzhen (WTA), Dubai (Premier 5), ambele în 2015, Doha (Premier 5), București (WTA), ambele în 2014, Nurnberg (WTA), ‘s-Hertogenbosch (WTA), Budapesta (WTA), New Haven (Premier), Moscova (Premier) și Sofia (turneul „mic” al campioanelor), toate cele șase în 2013.

Halep, 23 de ani, a mai disputat șase finale, WTA Finals – Singapore (Turneul Campioanelor), Roland Garros (Grand Slam), Madrid (Premier Mandatory), toate trei în 2014, Bruxelles (Premier), în 2012 și Fes (WTA), în 2011 și 2010.

Săptămâna viitoare, Simona Halep este pe tabloul principal al turneului de la Miami, de asemenea de categorie Premier Mandatory, fiind a treia favorită după Serena Williams, locul 1 WTA, și Maria Șarapova, locul 2 WTA. Meciurile din această fază încep miercuri.


Overwatch League season one champions London Spitfire have parted ways with coach Park “Changg” Chang-geun.

Following the team’s championship win in late July, the Overwatch League team will slim down its coaching staff. Coaches Kim “Jfeel” Jeong-min and Hong “Agape” Cheol-yong remain. The organization has not announced a replacement for Changg.

Related: London Spitfire are the first Overwatch League champions

“Despite the ups and downs of the season, Changg helped the Spitfire come away with the third-best map differential at the end of the regular season and helped lead the Spitfire on a remarkable run through the playoffs, culminating in being crowned the first-ever Overwatch League champions,” a London Spitfire representative said in a statement posted on the organization’s site.

Changg first joined London Spitfire when APAC Premier 2017 champions GC Busanwere acquired by Spitfire owner Cloud9 in October 2017. London Spitfire did not list a reason for Changg’s departure from the team.

In March, London Spitfire dropped head coach Lee “Bishop” Beom-joon from the Overwatch League team, right in the middle of the inaugural season. No reason was given for his mid-season departure from the Overwatch League team.

Although the Overwatch League’s regular season and playoffs have finished, Overwatch League players have one more event left in the inaugural season: the All-Star Weekend. The All-Star Weekend kicks off on Aug. 25 with a series of skill-based matches, followed by the All-Star Game on Aug. 26. Once the weekend is through, players and staff will be free to rest and restructure for the Overwatch League’s second season, which is expected to


Sunday, July 07, 2013

Creativity and Discipline

Let me tell you a personal story. My oldest, closest friend is a guy who came to the United States from Latvia when he was fifteen, fleeing from Hitler. He escaped to New York with his parents and went to George Washington High School, which in those days at least was the school for bright Jewish kids in New York City. And once he told me that the first thing that stuck him about American schools was the fact that if he got a "C" in a course, nobody cared, but if he came to school three minutes late he was sent to the principal's office--and that generalized. He realized that what it meant is, what's valued here is the ability to workJackson reported his address as the Red Apple Motel, 416 North First Street,

Apartment 213, Yakima, Washington. On November 27,2012, Chief Stew Graham

from the Yakima Sheriff's Office performed an address verification on Mr. Jackson.

Upon arriving at the Red Apple Motel, Chief Graham knocked on the door to room 213

but did not receive an answer. He looked into the window and observed the room

looked unoccupied. The manager of the Red Apple Motel testified Mr. Jackson's room,

number 214, was paid for through October 4,2012, and Mr. Jackson checked out of the

room on October 15,2012.

       The State charged Mr. Jackson with failure to register as a sex offender. He was

released and ordered to appear on May 16,2013. On May 16, 2013, Mr. Jackson failed

to appear, and


of his

registration duty, even without that form the evidence supports his the jury finding. Mr.

Jackson knew he was a convicted sex offender and stipulated he had a duty to register.

He stipulated he has been convicted on two prior occasions for felony failure to register

as a sex offender. Chief Graham testified the room listed on Mr. Jackson's registration

form was unoccupied. The Red Apple Motel manager testified Mr. Jackson checked out

of his room on October 15, 2012. And Ms. Gabbard testified the sheriff's department

did not receive a change of address notice.

      Second, Mr. Jackson contends his bail jumping conviction should be overturned

for insufficient evidence. He argues that by relying solely on documentary evidence, the

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After taking new measurements of both objects, Deacon and his colleagues think they are travelling through space together. That would mean the two are tethered by gravity, with the planet orbiting a trillion kilometres away – 6900 times farther out from its small star than the Earth is from the sun . For perspective, the potential new “Planet Nine” proposed last week is at most 1200 times as far from the sun as Earth is.

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of which the Southern states availed themselves during what the author called “The War Between the States.”
At first, only a few articles echoed that view. Then, starting in the late 1970s, a squad of attorneys and professors began to churn out law review submissions, dozens of them, at a prodigious rate. Funds -- much of them from the NRA -- flowed freely. An essay contest, grants to write book reviews, the creation of “Academics for the Second Amendment,” all followed. In 2003, the NRA Foundation provided $1 million to endow the Patrick Henry professorship in constitutional law and the Second Amendment at George Mason University Law School.
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Their numbers put iPhone revenue at 51 percent of the market, Samsung's at 16, and Huawei's at 7. You don't hear much these days from the folks who thought the higher price of the iPhone X was a bad idea.

Actual headline in an op-ed from the Miami Herald today: "In the Wake of the Douglas High Massacre, Is Home Schooling a Better Option?"


has reported Apple Watch sales in the "Other" category is something Tim Cook announced in September 2014, more than six months before the product went on sale, and he was very clear that the reason was the competitive value of the information. Apple could have sold 10 times more watches than expected and they still would have reported them under "Other".

These features were delayed after Apple Inc. concluded it needed its own major upgrade in the way the company develops and introduces new products. Instead of keeping engineers on a relentless annual schedule and cramming features into a single update, Apple will start focusing on the next two years of updates for its iPhone and iPad operating system, according to people familiar with the change. The company willWhen she graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology, in 2006, her friends took jobs in trendy fields, such as automotive design. During her interview at Xerox, however, another engineer showed her the inside of a printing press. All Xerox printers look basically the same: a million-dollar printing press is like an office copier, but twenty-four feet long and eight feet high. Warner watched as the heavy, pale-gray double doors swung open to reveal a steampunk wonderland of gears, wheels, conveyor belts, and circuit boards. As in an office copier, green plastic handles offer access to the “paper path” -- the winding route, from “feeder” to “stacker,” along which sheets of paper are shocked and soaked, curled and decurled, vacuumed and superheated. “Printers are essentially paper torture chambers,”


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The Eagles are NFL champions for the first time in the Super Bowl era, for the first time since three weeks before the inauguration of John F. Kennedy. And it never would have happened without the head coach whom USA Today ranked seventh of seven new NFL coaching hires in January 2016.
“He’s got a big set of stones,” offensive coordinator Frank Reich said, trying to find the words just before the clock struck 12 Sunday night.

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With each report, Instabug attaches screenshots, screen recordings, deviceclimate activist and former Vice President Al Gore. And Leo's not just talking the talk here, people. He launched a nonprofit organization focused on the environment and was recently named a UN messenger of peace for promoting the cause.”

But DiCaprio is absolutely just talking the talk. Despite making a big deal out of flying commercial, DiCaprio took a private plane to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. While there, he stayed on the 470-foot yacht of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahayan -- the chair of Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company. DiCaprio had rented the same yacht in April 2014, to co-host an ‘80s themed party with Jamie Foxx and Orlando Bloom.

On New Year’s Eve 2013, DiCaprio and fellow actor Jonah Hill flew from Sydney, Australia to


he himself lived in luxury.

The Independent (UK) reported in 2010 that Cameron owned three houses in Southern California (including one in prestigious Malibu) that take up more than 24,000 square feet combined and “each have heated swimming pools,” but were sorely lacking in “a single energy-saving solar panel or windmill.”

The Avatar Global Foundation, created by Cameron in 2010 after the release of his Academy Award winning film, donates each year to environmental causes. Cameron is also the president of the Blue Planet Marine Research Foundation, through which he purchased a $32 million submarine for deep sea exploration.

John Travolta: This is Your Captain Speaking, Asking You to Ignore My Hypocrisy

Net worth: $165 Million

Houses: Mansion in Florida with two runways

Yachts, planes, cars: 5 private jets

Famous for: Actor (Saturday Night Fever,of Superstorm Sandy … these storms, it's like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation on the news every day now."

The same month that Gore sat for this interview, he sold his Current TV network to Al Jazeera – the international news network partly owned by the Qatari royal family for $500 million. The entire economy of Qatar is based on oil. Apparently to Gore, $500 million was worth more than the future of the planet. Since Gore personally owned a 20 percent stake in Current TV, this could have meant a $100 million payout for him, according to The New York Times.

Early in that interview, Lauer did ask Gore about this sale and his apparent hypocrisy, but then quickly went back to praising Gore for his


of Tennessee) found that Gore’s “20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average,” according to an ABC News online story. Despite also briefly mentioning this in a newscast, ABC joined the other networks in praising Gore. In 2014 alone, there were five non-interview instances where the networks praised Gore for being a “climate activist.”

Despite this report, Gore told The New York Times on March 16, 2015, that he has reduced the environmental impact of his home, adding “I do walk the walk, and don’t just talk the talk.” How much he has reduced that impact, or whether or not this change was before or after the Tennessee Center for Policy Research report was not mentioned. The New Yorkvoice-over work for a political commercial paid for by NextGen Climate. NextGen president Tom Steyer was the single largest donor in the 2014 election cycle. Steyer spent $74 million targeting conservatives in races across the country, but ended up with most of his candidates losing their elections.

Julia Roberts: The Voice of 'Mother Nature'

Net worth: $140 Million

Houses: Mansion in Malibu, California, house in Venice, California, Ranch in New Mexico, Apartment in Manhattan

Yachts, planes, cars: Part owner of a private jet (as of 2006)

Famous for: Actress (Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman, Erin Brockovich)

Notable Quote: “...an inability to deal with science on a brainiac kind of level.”

Before becoming a world-famous actress, Julia Roberts had initially wanted to become a veterinarian. According to Biography.com, Roberts “abandoned this dream when she realized that she


2006. Roberts has also been spotted boarding private jets with her family as recently as December 2013.

Gwyneth Paltrow: Out of Touch Obama Fangirl

Net worth: $60 Million

Houses: House in London, UK, six bedroom, eight bath home in Los Angeles

Famous for: Actress (Emma, Great Expectations, Iron Man, The Avengers)

Notable Quote: "Cameron, do you turn your thermostat down to 65 degrees and wear a sweater?"

Gwyneth Paltrow teamed up with fellow actress (and fellow star of this MRC report) Cameron Diaz to encourage Americans to switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs and hybrid cars, in order to combat global warming. This team effort was part of a PSA from the Environmental Media Association. To show solidarity, the actresses added that they turn off their lights when they leave their bedrooms, and turnused 1,020 kWh of heat a year, according to a report by the British news outlet Building.co.uk, which used a thermal imaging camera to calculate electricity consumption. For perspective, according to the UK government, the average electricity consumption for a British household in 2013 was 4,170 kWh. The couple also bought a $14 million Malibu estate, before splitting up in 2014.

Paltrow has also been known to fly frequently, and has traveled on Steven Spielberg’s luxury yacht.

Even the media have criticized Paltrow for being out of touch – just not about climate change. In October 2014, Paltrow’s neighbors complained that a fundraiser she held for President Obama at her house had massively inconvenienced them. According to The New York Times, “[t]raffic stood still, children were stranded at school, residents


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Two VOCs (peaks 1 and 9) that increased in infested cores relative to healthy cores were identified as a methyl ester and bicyclic monoterpene, respectively. Four additional VOCs (peaks 7, 8, 11, 12) which had uniform peak areas for healthy and infested cores, but much higher peak areas for putative near-EAB gallery cores, were identified as volatile, bicyclic monoterpenes, aliphatic alkanes, esters, cyclic monoterpenes, homocyclic ethyl esters, and possibly pyran monoterpenes.

The


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The most significant VOC emissions exclusively produced from EAB-infested cores were tentatively identified for peak 9 as 6-decenal (an aliphatic aldehyde) or methyl salicylate (an aromatic esters) and peak 14 as butyl salicylate (aromatic ester) or β-caryophyllene (a bicyclic sesquiterpene), peak 10 as nerol (a monoterpene), peak 11 as hexyl 2-butenoate (an aliphatic ester). Finally, peak 15 was identified as α-bisabolol oxideSome pictures of the Carrington House in Providence, which Lovecraft visited in 1936.

The frontage…

And what appears to have been effectively the back…

In the early life of the city the gardens were regarded as among the finest made in Providence…

I can’t get more than a snippet but he mentions the house, and visiting it, to Derleth in both volumes of the Lovecraft-Derleth letters…

… thrown open as public museums … The Carrington house (built 1809[-11]) is less classical in its symmetry, but is remarkably homelike. With its stables, courtyard, coach-houses, & extensive grounds, it forms one of the finest domestic units of the Early-Republic now on exhibition. The estate has been given to the R.I. School of Design …

A repository record of a late letter from Lovecraft to Elizabeth Toldridge,


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Mary Ellen Brown joins ASU from Louisiana State University where she was research associate in the Office of Social Service Research & Development. Her areas of specialized research include community advancement, promotingeffective human service organizations and transforming systems that perpetuate poverty in ...

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Beach Boys broke the deadlock soon after the half hour mark.

Eastbourne goalkeeper Sam Howes failed to hold onto a dangerous cross and Essam was on hand to poke the ball home.

And Concord doubled their advantage just two minutes later as Luque added his name to the scoresheet after being found by Danny Green.

Eastbourne halved the deficit soon after the interval through Bingham, but Concord held on to triumph.With a chance to take the Pac-12's South Division and play in the conference title game with a win over its cross-town rival, USC came out looking flat and disinterested.

That probably shouldn't surprise anyone by now, because that's how USC has looked most of this season.

When USC got back in the game, despite a 24-0 deficit in the first half, and had a chance to win if it got the ball back in the fourth quarter, USC's defense provided no resistance to UCLA.

Again, this shouldn't surprise you. USC's defense has been a major disappointment all year.

UCLA pounded USC, winning 38-28. There's no bragging rights for USC in Los Angeles this offseason. A Trojans team with a quarterback and a couple receivers all expected to be selected in the


first round of the NFL Draft over the next couple years could not even win its division. That division winner is UCLA, who will play in the Pac-12 Championship Game for a spot in the Rose Bowl and has earned every bit of trash talk it can dispense to USC this offseason.

UCLA came out looking prepared, focused and excited. Jim Mora has done a heck of a job transforming the Bruins. The signature play of the first half was when UCLA running back Johnathan Franklin wiggled free of some bored Trojans defenders on third and 14 and somehow got a first down. Franklin, and UCLA, wanted it more. A touchdown on that drive made the score 24-0.

USC can turn it on when it wants, and it woke up     {¶6} On March 1, 2010, Woodard left Marysville with one of Cassens’

trucks carrying a load of cars and drove to St. Louis, Missouri, where he

completed the majority of his scheduled deliveries. However, due to a delay

caused by an accident on the highway, Woodard was unable to reach the last two

dealerships on his schedule before they closed, and, as a result, was required to

stay overnight in the vicinity so that he could deliver the cars the next morning.

That night, Woodard stayed in a hotel in Fenton, Missouri and used the CLC credit

card issued to him by Cassens to pay for his accommodations.

2
  Cassens employees are permitted to stay in non-participating hotels and motels so long as the rate is
reasonable. If this occurs, the


Woodard then scooted himself across the floor and

pulled himself up onto the bed, but he was unable to fall back asleep due to the

amount of pain and discomfort.

           {¶9} A few hours later, at 5:30 a.m. on March 3, 2010, Woodard called

Gary Robinson, Cassens’ Marysville terminal manager, and informed him that he

had injured his knee and needed to seek medical attention.                               Robinson told

Woodard that he would contact the Lafayette terminal when it opened at 7:00 a.m.

and make arrangements to see a doctor. Two drivers from the Lafayette terminal

arrivedto the instant case. Although not discussed by the majority, the Tenth

District in Jones found the claimant to be a traveling employee in the course of his

employment, and not on a personal errand, when he injured himself by slipping

and falling on the ceramic tile in a hotel bathroom after taking a shower. Like

Woodard, the claimant in Jones was an over-the-road trucker. Specifically, the

court in Jones stated the following in reaching its conclusion as to whether the “in

the course of employment” prong was satisfied.

       [B]ecause Jones was an over-the-road truck driver, he was a
       traveling employee. He was staying at a hotel approved and
       paid for by USF Holland when he


the possibility of the G8 countries – which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States – reaching “zero net land degradation by 2020.” Additional priorities established included taking “stock of the land and soil required to maintain soil fertility,” “greater use of conservation agriculture,” and “management practices for climate change adaptation.”

Despite political setbacks occurring shortly after the February G8 meeting, the upcoming 2015 International Year of Soils (IYS) and World Soil Day, on December 5 of this year will create international awareness for the role that soil plays in the global ecosystem, agriculture outputs, and community development. The need for policies that protect soil, investment in sound soil management, and the connection of soil to larger international development goals will also beMichael 'Venom' Page will fight Paul Daley

Attention mixed martial arts fans! Sky Sports will be the only place in the UK and Ireland to watch the US, London and Dublin shows of the Bellator MMA 2019 tour, starting later this month.

We kick off with the long-awaited welterweight showdown between British rivals Michael 'Venom' Page and Paul Daley at Bellator 216 on 16 February at the Mohegan Sun arena in the US - airing in the early hours of the 17th for UK & Ireland viewers. Then MMA returns to Dublin for Bellator 217, where Ireland's own James Gallagher takes on Steven Graham on 23 February.

This one-year deal with Bellator ensures that all US fights on the tour, as well those in London and Dublin, will air exclusively on


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The "vaccine gap" is a term which has been used in Japan to indicate that the current immunization program is behind compared to the programs in other developed countries. The current national immunization program (NIP) which was established under the Japanese Immunization Law includes only six vaccines (eight targeted diseases), and the rest of available vaccines have been categorized as voluntary vaccines, which require out-of-pocket expense in order for the patients to receive them. This has led the vaccination rates for the voluntary vaccines remaining low, and the incidence of the target diseases remaining high. In addition, there are a few domestic rules that exist for immunizations including (1) subcutaneous injection is the standard method


February is the third and last month of the winter season in the Loire Valley as well as in the rest of France and Europe. Temperatures remain on the chilly side, but do tend to increase as the weather progresses toward spring.

What's The Weather Like In Loire Valley In February

Temperature

February nights are 1°C cold on average, while the afternoons see an average high temperature of 8°Coth are one degree higher than the previous month of January, which was the coldest month of the entire year. These temperatures increase in the course of the month, by about two degrees. The overall average temperature remains rather low, at 5°C, making this the third coldest month of the year, after the two previous ones.

Rain

That said; February happens to be the driestFebruary

Hôtel Campanile Saumur

The welcoming and home-like Hôtel Campanile Saumur is located in Saumur on the banks of the Loire River and is a wonderful base for exploring this historic town and the gorgeous countryside. Saumur, incidentally, is the unofficial French capital of horseback riding. Amenities and services include a fitness centre and bicycle rental service, an à la carte restaurant, a meeting room and 60 comfortable guest rooms. Free Wi-Fi is available as well.

Hôtel du Labrador

When visiting the region in February, take a look at the three-star Hôtel du Labrador in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire as a place to stay. It lies only 45 minutes from the historic city of Orléans and right on one of the Loire Valley's most popular bicycle routes. It's a magnificent place if you want to


Orléans, for example, is strongly recommended. This great historic city's main claim to fame is its association with Joan of Arc. Founded by the Romans, this is one of the oldest towns in all of France, its historic town centre mostly destroyed by successive invaders, from Attila the Hun to the English to the Nazis. That part of the town's history is significant, but there are also a number of imposing buildings that survive to this day. Examples are the Sainte-Croix Cathedral and the Groslot Mansion. The re-created house of Joan of Arc is a major highlight as well.

Local Markets

During your holiday in the Loire Valley, take the time to visit one of the local markets that take place every day of the week all over the region.PCR a sample is contacted with a primer DNA complimentary to a 3' end sequence of the specific DNA, a DNA polymerase and with single DNA nucleotides. Following a number of replication cycles, the sample is enriched with the specific assayed DNA. A typical cycle of PCR comprises three distinct stages: a first stage in which the double-stranded DNA is melted to two single strands; a second stage of annealing of the primer to the single-stranded DNA; and a third stage of polymerization where the annealed primers are extended by the DNA polymerase, to produce a double-stranded DNA. The cycle of melting, annealing and DNA synthesis is repeated many times, the products of one cycle serving as templates for the next ad thus, each successive cycle enriches the


Welcome to the New Haven Register high school sports blog where our talented staff of Chris Hunn, Joe Morelli, Dan Nowak and Mike Pucci will keep you up to date on everything to do with high school sports in Connecticut.
Mike Pucci's Gridiron Glory blog for high school football remains.
We hope you enjoy and feel free to join in the conversation.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Class M softball postponed

The Class M softball championship between Seymour and St. Joseph has been postponed. The game was scheduled to be played tonight at 7 at DeLuca Field in Stratford.

The game will now be played on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the same site.

The Class L game between Darien and Waterford was moved from DeLuca Field to West Haven High. First pitch is still scheduledYahoo to announce Asia mobile tie-ups

Yahoo Inc expects to announce a series of partnerships with mobile carriers in Asia in coming weeks, as it looks to its mobile services division for growth.

The U.S. Internet giant has been in talks with operators in Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Malaysia -- countries that boast some of the region's highest mobile penetration rates -- for new tie-ups for its mobile services, President Susan Decker said at an event in Taipei.

We will have a number of announcements in the months ahead, even days and weeks, Decker said at a news conference during a trip to Asia.

Yahoo's combined user base in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, five of its key Asia Pacific markets, totals about 25 million users,


RASCALS is a comedy about the joys of conning where Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgn play two coolcompeting conmen trying to out-scheme each other in consistently amusing and surprising setups.But when both fall for the same girl (Kangna), the competition reaches an all new level asboth men constantly attempt to outwit each other to win over the surprisingly elusive Kangna!Since much of the comedy involves people taking advantage of one another, having everythingput forward in such a gossamer manner that RASCALS becomes an enjoyable journey throughoutwith an interesting twist at the end

Synopsis: John Abraham plays Kabir Lal, an alcoholic lawyer straight out of a Dostoyevskynovel. He meets sexy, rich housewife Sonia Khanna (Bipasha Basu) and start a passionate affairfueled by lust that eventually leads to the murder ofher husband (Gulshan Grover). Kabir

finds no solace in his quest for "happily-ever-after" as his world begins to crumble around

City Hospital witnesses a chain of blood curdling spine chilling murders. A beautiful young recruit Dr. Suhani (Sayali Bhagat) is faced with uncanny happenings at the hospital. She is stunned by the monstrous force that sweeps out of the night to cause a trail of gruesome killings. What or who is responsible for this strange murderous destruction? The murderer uses a unique methodology, leaving behind no trails, defying all human comprehension.A leading investigating agency entrusted with the case, assign it to their most competent officer Vijay Singh (Shiney Ahuja). Vijay a debonair romantic young detective moves intelligently to gather information about the mysterious murders. Among the first he questions is


Reflections on Six Years of the Ex-Muslims Forum

OP - February 19, 2013, 09:51 AM

Reflections on Six Years of the Ex-Muslims Forum

In 2007, a group of people who met on websites sceptical of religion and Islam decided to create a forum specifically focussing on the many issues facing ex-Muslims in the modern world.

They felt uncomfortable with the atmosphere and attitudes of many existing forums which were critical of Islam. Too often these websites existed to service Christian proselytising, or a political agenda that fitted into wider far-right nationalism.

It was felt that there was a lack of a space sympathetic to the experiences of those whose free conscience rejected Islam, who wanted to express this rejection in the spirit of secularism, humanism, feminism, individual rights, atheism, science and rationalism.

In someways, the need to create this space suggests the dilemma of those who reject Islam in liberal, secular non-Islamic countries. Despite having members from around the world, those who founded the forum were ex-Muslims from the West, and the general orientation of the forum originates from this experience.

To be critical of Islam, and to reject Islam in a society like Britain, is to be assailed by immense pressures and contradictions.

On the one hand, certain reactionary values and precepts of Islam, and the violent, often murderous hostility towards those who leave Islam can crush an individual. These pressures emanate from family, peers, and the wider Muslim community.

But another pressure exists externally, the pressures caused by those whose concern for Muslim apostates is rooted in an agenda that seeks to


Inter Milan fined £38,00 for racist abuse against Tottenham

Inter Milan have been fined €45,000 (£37,900) for their fans racial abuse of Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor during the Europa League tie between the two on March 14.

The 29-year-old striker scored at the San Siro in extra time for Spurs in the second leg tie to put them through on away goals; but he and his teammates were subject to racial abuse as the Milan fans waved inflatable bananas.

The Nerazzurri were found guilty after Adebayor and Kyle Naughton complained that sections of the San Siro were chanting racist remarks during the clash.

The Italian giants have been punished a number of times this season for racial abuse and Tottenham manager Andre Villas Boas pointed this out to UEFA when he publiclyasked them to dish out a more severe punishment for the Italian team this time.

Inter were recently fined £43,000 by Serie A officials after their fans racially abused Sulley Muntari and former Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli during Februarys clash with Ac Milan. They were also fined €15,000 earlier in February for racist chants aimed at Balotelli during their 3-1 win over Chievo.

This was not the first time Tottenham had faced racist abuse as earlier in the season Lazio were also fined for racist chanting during the Group J tie at White Hart Lane in September. The Italian team were then again punished for similar behaviour in the return leg in Rome.

DISCLAIMER: This article has been written by a member of the GiveMeFootball Writing Academy and does not


TJ's past. There's no telling who might emerge as a friend of the family in a second season or who might pay a visit. With this crew, the possibilities are limitless.

6. More "relatives" coming out of the woodwork

"Everyone wants to be a Jackson" are words we've heard often during this short season. The brothers confronted Tanay Jackson, who claimed to be Tito's daughter, and asked her to take a DNA test, which proved that she wasn't exactly a Jackson, but nevertheless close with the family. It's unclear whether or not this season's interactions with Tanay were intended to bring more publicity to the show, but since we know how much people want to get inside the Jackson clan, a second season could only hold more potential for "family"473 F.3d 773
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,v.Susan M. VUCKO, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 05-4182.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
Argued June 7, 2006.
Decided January 12, 2007.

Rick D. Young (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Michael B. Nash (argued), Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.
Before BAUER, RIPPLE, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.
WOOD, Circuit Judge.

1
For many years, Susan Vucko was employed by the Northwest Building Materials and Supply Company, where she both worked at the retail sales counter and performed various bookkeeping tasks. In the mid-1990s Vucko began to help herself to Northwest's money, eventually pilfering more than $700,000. Meanwhile, Vucko also defrauded the United States by falsely reporting her income on her tax returns for five years. After she was caught, she pleaded guilty without a plea agreement to wire fraud


At Northwest, Vucko was responsible for reconciling credit card sales with merchant banks that processed credit transactions for the company. In addition, as part of her duties at the retail counter, she processed cash and credit card transactions. In 1992 or 1993, Northwest gave her the additional job of closing out the retail sales counter at the end of each business day. This involved balancing the cash drawer, ensuring that the cash register and credit card swipe machine were properly closed, and recording gross sales. Vucko also had to prepare weekly and monthly reports totaling all retail sales.

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Beginning around February 1995, Vucko succumbed to the temptation to help herself to some of the money she was handling. She started to use Northwest's credit card swipe machine to processunauthorized credits or refunds for banking and credit card accounts belonging to her or to members of her family. Normally she did this at the end of the business day, before closing out the cash register and credit card machine. These "refunds" were typically between $2,000 and $9,000. Because no one was around to supervise Vucko's work at closing time, she was able to conceal her actions when she "zeroed out" the two machines after processing her fraudulent transactions. From 1995 to 1999, when she was caught, she accumulated at least $720,662 in unauthorized credits, which she distributed among five accounts held either in her name or the name of her husband or one of her sons.

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Vucko took a number of steps to keep Northwest from discovering her


scheme. First, she destroyed the tapes from the cash register and credit card machines at the end of each business day. Second, she falsified various sales reports by under-reporting the amount of actual credit card purchases at Northwest. Third, she destroyed the monthly statements that Northwest received from its merchant banks.

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At the same time, Vucko was concealing the true amount of her annual income on the federal tax returns she prepared for herself and her husband each year from 1995 through 1999. She under-reported her gross income by at least $111,802 in 1995; by $129,298 in 1996; by $272,162 in 1997; by $156,601 in 1998; and by $31,017 in 1999. In the aggregate, the underreported income was almost $701,000, just short of the amount Vucko embezzled. She filedThe center of gravity of a golf club can be strategically positioned according to the desired performance of the golf club. Because the position of the center of gravity of the golf club is dependent on the distribution of mass of the golf club and because it is often desirable, for performance purposes, to move the center of gravity down toward the sole and/or away from the face of the golf club head, the face of the golf club head may be made thin in order to move mass to the sole and/or away from the face. Thinning the face permits the center of gravity to be more strategically positioned, but may have side effects, such as, for example, reducing the strength and/or durability of the face and/or


war in Vietnam was only made possible through a staged attack in the Gulf of Tonkin, which provided the problem that gave rise to the reaction of controlled media induced fear, and a uniting of popular support amongst the people for the all but necessary perception of an invasion of Vietnam as the only solution. In the very same way, this has been done many times throughout history, such as Hitler burning his own Reichstag building to justify the invasion of other countries, the Israeli’s deliberately sinking the U.S.S. liberty and blaming it on the Egyptians in order to bring the U.S. into the conflict, and the Japanese setting off an explosion on a train in order to blame China and justify an invasion of Manchuria.

21 st CenturyClub of Rome (Al Gore is a member), through legislation like cap & trade, and through hired intellectuals and think tanks that were paid to lie and fudge the data. The end synthesis is not really aimed at truly living in harmony with nature, but instead is nothing more than a marketing gimmick and profit-making scheme designed for further control by the elite over the environment.

Drug War – On one side there is the federal government along with some Americans who want to demonize all drugs as highly dangerous to society and therefore should be outlawed, with anyone choosing to participate in them being sent to jail. However, little known to many people is the fact that our own government is largely behind the drug trade through the


use of the CIA and FBI, along with its infiltration of criminal gangs and mafias, which it uses as outposts to indirectly sell the drugs to the public. In the end, the synthesis is more profits for the establishment by locking drug offenders up as well as tons of covert money being made through the production and distribution of drugs. The people are not part of the equation.

Civil Liberties/Freedom Groups – On one side there is the establishment system, which only benefits the elite and people connected to them. Many people have become aware of how unjust this system is for the people and how only a few already wealthy people benefit in the end. As a result, movements like the Black Panthers, the Libertarians, and the wholeThere has been little positive news for the Florida Gators early in the 2013-14 campaign as an avalanche of injuries and suspensions wiped out the promise of roster depth the team believed it would have this season.

Fortunately for Florida, a major piece of the puzzle is about to come into place as two sources – one close to the player and another close to the program – told OnlyGators.com over the past few days that five-star forward Chris Walker (Bonifay, FL) is scheduled to join the Gators and report to the team for the first time next week for practice, no later than Saturday, Dec. 14.

Walker, a 2013 commitment who did not academically qualify to join the team in the fall, has completed his required coursework online and


achieved the necessary grades for enrollment. He is in the process of being admitted to the University of Florida for the spring semester but is awaiting complete approval from the NCAA Clearinghouse.

That is expected to be a formality at this point with one source indicating he is already in the process of being academically cleared by the NCAA and accepted into UF.

Contrary to a report from ESPN’s Andy Katz on Monday that stated Walker was still working to earn an extra half of a credit that he needed, the player has been done with his academic work for weeks and is currently spending his days getting in shape while practicing on his own in nearby Ocala, FL.

It will be up to head coach Billy Donovan when Walker playshis first game with the Gators. He is expecting to start practicing with the team on Dec. 14. The first game after he joins the program will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 17 when Florida faces Memphis as part of the Jimmy V. Classic in New York NY.

When Walker does play, he will provide immediate depth in the frontcourt behind seniors Will Yeguete and Patric Young. It is unlikely he sees more than 10-15 minutes per game when Donovan first puts him on the court. His minutes would increase as he gets into the swing of things and becomes more familiar with the program.


Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss have confirmed that there are, at best, 15 episodes of the series left, and possibly as few as 13.

It's unclear if future seasons will see Jon Snow continue to make tactically unwise decisions which turn out okay at the last minute thanks to the intervention of other factors and is then inexplicably rewarded afterwards.

Benioff and Weiss have been talking for a while now about ending the series with two shortened seasons, with a clear preference for a seventh season next year of seven episodes and then a final season in 2018 with six episodes. This would allow them to focus and concentrate more resources, finances and filming time on the events of these episodes, which areexpected to be huge in scale and scope. HBO's preference appears to be for at least two full 10-episode seasons and clearly discussions have been going on for some time over a solution. Last month HBO renewedGame of Thrones for a seventh season, but not an eighth, leading to speculation that perhaps they were even discussing a larger-than-normal seventh season, perhaps airing later in the year to conclude the series in one go. However, this seemed unlikely as HBO would prefer two event seasons in two subsequent financial years, especially as they don't have a new series on the drawing board likely to replace Game of Thrones in the zeitgeist.

HBO has yet to officially comment on how many episodes will be in the seventh season. With that writing


of the scripts for the seventh season already complete and filming due to start in a couple of weeks, this will have been finalised some time ago, so it's just a question of when they want to confirm it.

Last Thursday the United Kingdom voted, by a very narrow margin, to leave the European Union. Discussions of the socio-economic and political consequences of that will go on for many years. Although it will not have been at the forefront of many voters' minds, the departure also has a bearing on the European SFF fandom scene. It was only two years ago that huge numbers of fans from across the continent descended on London for Worldcon, and next year will likewise descend on Helsinkin and then on Dublin in 2019.In fact, it was the largest Con I had ever
attended outside North America. But where the hell did they all come
from?
Europe, of course.

My mistake was to think of
Luxembourg as a country. Well, it is, but that's not what's important
here. What's important, is that it no longer possesses any borders.
People arrived from Paris and Brussels by trains that never even slowed
down when they passed from one state to another. They drove by car from
Germany and only realised they had crossed over from their own country
when they started spotting road signs in French.

Then, they
reached the Con -- thousands of them, overwhelmingly young, buying
wonderful Belgian frites with the same currency they already had in
their pockets.

I sat in the sunshine speaking to people,
sometimes in French, but mostly in an English that many


of the Seven has gained tremendous power and inflicted moral shame even on Cersei Lannister, the Queen Regent. A new age of religious dominance seems nigh in Westeros. Far across the sea, Daenerys Targaryen has disappeared from the city of Meereen, leaving Tyrion Lannister in reluctant control of the situation. For Daenerys, she once again finds herself a guest of the Dothraki and having to navigate their customs for her own advantage. But in Westeros itself the true threat comes from beyond the Wall, as the Night's King and his White Walkers march...and the only person willing to stand against them has been betrayed and murdered by his own followers.

Missing: Brad Pitt in a battle skirt.

The fifth season of Game of Thrones was its worst, saved from mediocrityby the penultimate episode Hardhome which completely raised the bar for the show in terms of dramatic power, visual effects and small-screen myth-making. For a show which, for four previous seasons, had always been an effective and satisfying slice of drama (if still running a distant second to the novels in terms of characterisation and satisfying political drama), the fifth was a major let-down, reportedly the result of the producers not knowing how many episodes they had left to tell the story and the confusion caused by adapting elements from George R.R. Martin's novels whilst also outpacing them.

The sixth season is, thankfully, vastly superior to the fifth. It is has a sense of purpose and relentlessness which has been missing for a while, as well as a willingness


the point of incoherence.

Vastly superior is the season finale, easily the best they have ever done and a strong contender for best episode of the entire series. Some plot developments were predictable, but seeing Cersei sweep the board clean of her enemies in one swift movement and be established as the show's final human villain of consequence (Euron, I suspect, will remain a side-player) is immensely satisfying, especially as it is set to Ramin Djawadi's finest musical work since the first season. Bringing in new bad guys can be fun, but returning to the very first one and seeing them gain an immense amount of new power and prestige is even more satisfying. It was a delicious moment, if undermined by the fact that Cersei's enemies outnumber andoutflank her on such a scale that her defeat is inevitable. But that's for next season to worry about.

Not many TV shows can boast a scene that some people have been literally waiting to see for twenty years.

More impressive is the shot of Daenerys setting sail for Westeros. As someone who picked up A Storm of Swords on release day in 2000 hoping that's how that novel would end, it's brilliant to finally see that realised on screen. The staging of the shot also made me wonder if the CG guys were tipping the hat at David Benioff, as a similar shot of the Greek fleet can be found early in the running of his 2004 movie Troy.

But of course the killer moment of the finale was the


revelation that one of the longest-held fan theories about the books, one that was discussed on nascent internet message boards as early as 1996, was true. By now it was all but certain it was true, but the final confirmation still delivers a powerful emotional kick. Special kudos to Robert Aramayo who played the young Eddard Stark so convincingly in flashbacks. Although a "Robet's Rebellion" prequel series has been ruled out by George R.R. Martin (who has the rights to it and is not minded to sell them), if HBO ever do talk him around it'd be great to perhaps see Aramayo in the role again.

Overall, the sixth season of Game of Thrones executes some much-needed damage control after the problems of the fifth season to deliver amuch more interesting set of stories. There are still weaknesses in worldbuilding, dialogue, characterisation and how it handles military matters, but the show has developed a renewed sense of purpose and focus as the final end of the show comes into view.

Sunday, 26 June 2016

The Apocalypse destroyed the civilisation of the Ancient
North. Two great cities, Atrithau and Sakarpus, had survived but otherwise all
of the glories of the Norsirai had been lost and the surviving remnants of that
once-great people pushed south into the Three
Seas. Attempts to found new cities
and settlements foundered under vast numbers of Sranc. Leaderless and without
direction, they continued breeding, raiding and rampaging. With a truly vast
amount of terrain to free range across, almost the entire northern half of the
continent, their numbers could not be controlled and


within a few centuries
their numbers blanketed the earth. Fortunately, they showed no appetite for a
concerted push into the Three Seas.

The borders of the Ceneian Empire after each major conquest: Gielgath (2349), Cepalor (by the 2390s), Shigek (2397), Xerash and Amoteu (2414), Nilnemesh (2483), Cingulat (2484), Amarah (2485), Cironj (2508), Nron (2511), Ainon (2518), Cengemis (2519) and Annand (2525). The latter conquests were carried out by Triamis I, the Great, the first Aspect-Emperor of the Three Seas (2456-2577).

The fall of the No-God at the battlefield of Mengedda spelt
the end of the Consult's plan to destroy the world, but not the Consult
themselves. They retreated - according to some, taking the No-God's Carapace
with them - and sought refuge in Golgotterath. With initially thousands and
later millions of Sranc infesting all the landsbetween the Three
Seas and the Yimaleti
Mountains, the victorious armies of
Kyraneas and theirsorcerous allies were
unable to pursue. The ravages of the Indigo Plague of 2157 soon exhausted what was left of Ketyai strength, already pushed to breaking point by decades of warfare and accompanied by the death of Anaxophus V shortly after the end of the war, led to the collapse of Kyraneas.

Seswatha survived the Apocalypse, in fact living until 2168 when he died at the age of 79. Shortly after the end of the Apocalypse, with the School of Sehonc effectively destroyed, he founded the Gnostic School of Mandate, based in the fortress of Atyersus on the island of Nron. A year later he founded Attrempus on the mainland to the north-east. Fearing that his successors would forget


the lessons of the Apocalypse, Seswatha underwent a sorcerous ritual upon his death. His heart was extracted from his body and placed in a chamber in Atyersus. Every Mandate schoolman, upon joining the organisation, would undergo a ritual known as the Grasping. This ritual would transfer Seswatha's memories to him. Every night he would dream the details of Seswatha's life, the great battles, the descent into Golgotterath, the preparations for the Apocalypse and the final battle with the No-God. In this way the knowledge and fear of the Consult would live on. The Mandate scoured the Three Seas searching for Consult agents, occasionally exposing and destroying them. But for the most part the Consult seemed willing to remain in hiding in far Golgotterath.

Although the Ancient North and thenorthern Three
Seas had been ravaged by the
No-God, the southern nations remained untouched by the war. Amoteu, Shigek and
Nilnamesh soon proved resurgent and the refounded city-states of the Kyranae
Plains fell into internecine warfare, beginning the Age of Warring Cities
(lasting approximately from 2158 to 2477 Year-of-the-Tusk). This period may well
have seen a relapse into barbarism had not humanity found a new saviour.

Inri Sejenus, known to history as the Latter Prophet, was
born in 2159. At a young age he claimed to be the pure incarnation of the
Absolute Spirit ("the very proportion of the God") and to have been
sent to amend the teachings of the Tusk. He argued for a fairer world and a
willingness to embrace God in His singular aspect as well as that of the
Hundred. The extant Kiünnat sects at


first dismissed Sejenus as a fringe
philosopher, but as he got older he attracted vast followings. His teachings
were widely disseminated and his popularity boomed. In 2198 Sejenus was
arrested and sentenced to death by King Shikol of Xerash. In 2202 the execution
was carried out and Sejenus was put to death outside the city of Shimeh,
in what had been Amoteu (at that point a subservient nation to Xerash).
However, Shikol himself then died and it was said by the faithful the Sejenus
returned to life and ascended to the Nail of Heaven.

Sejenus's movement, Inrithism, slowly spread throughout the Three
Seas. It was fought against by the
Kiünnat cults, but soon become irresistible. A framework was set up that
disseminated the teachings of Sejenus, The Tractate, through sub-temples worshipping the
Hundred. This became the Thousand Temples, with asingle leader, the
Shriah, at its head. Although Shimeh was the holiest city in Inrithism for the martyrdom of Sejenus, the presence of the Tusk led to the religion basing itself in Sumna (to
where the Tusk had been returned following the No-God's defeat), which capitulated in 2469. In 2505 the
religion gained official recognition as the state religion of the Ceneian
Empire, which by that point had become the pre-eminent power of Eärwa.

Cenei had been founded over a thousand years earlier, but
had spent most of its existence as a modest river town on the Phayus, the
greatest river of the Kyranae Plains. The destruction of Mehtsonc during the
Apocalypse had been carried out with such thoroughness that the ruins were
deemed uninhabitable, and over successive generations downriver Cenei instead absorbed a
lot of the returning