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finished making a monument honouring all the people who died taking the ship. They put an image of Ayan and Jonas at the top since most of the crew see Jonas as the last one who died in that fight. You should go down and see it."

"I know, things have been busy. I haven't seen my own quarters for weeks. Maintenance keeps asking for permission to go in and clean up but I just push it to the bottom of the priority list."

"You're going to have to finish moving in someday Jake," Alice smiled wryly. "A few of the Samson crew aren't moving their stuff from the old ship into their new quarters until they see you do it first."

"It's not that I'm not here for good. Eventhink about doing anything else and as he drew her hand away from her face his professionalism held, but barely. "The EMP from the nuke must have burned the cybernetics out, I'm sorry Captain."

"Do what you can," she said, trying not to cringe as her fears were confirmed. The eye would have to come out.

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Stephanie was already on her way to the gunnery deck with fifty six armoured counter-incursion team members. They stood behind her holding their heavy assault rifles across their chests, dispositions ranging from hardened and cool to jittery and nervous. The large express car stopped and the doors opened to a sight that she couldn't believe.

A drone was finishing cutting a hole in the inner layer of the Triton's hull and through its transparent


sky lit up with the engine fire of dozens of drop ships.

"If we can't find an intact wire maybe the transit tunnels can get us back to the mountain. I told them we wouldn't be getting back, but if Jake is on his way there we should try to get him behind the shield and regroup." Ayan said firmly, making sure her rifle was securely slung.

"Sounds like the best choice considering there's a fleet in orbit," Oz said quietly. "Oh, and some of my stealth systems still haven't regenerated."

"I know, your long range covert systems still work, right?"

"Yup, I won't show up on thermal or throw any EM."

"Good, let's go," Ayan said, starting off at a run between the rows of sugar cane.

"Are you all right?" Minh askedencounters with the Victory Machine but there's plenty of him left," Hampon adjusted his vestments so they fell straighter before continuing in a more casual tone; "I have to ask; does this change our arrangement?"

"Oh, I'll be going after Jake and his crew, just not so directly this time. I'll be able to draw him out."

"Good, I look forward to seeing the results of your efforts."

"I'm just tired of hearing about him. What the hell makes him so important now?"

"That's something you'll discover for yourself in time, just keep searching Collins' memories. Few people knew more about him than he did."

The holoprojector deactivated and the image of Lucius Wheeler disappeared. Young Hampon turned in his seat, a little too large for him, but that was something he was


the classical truth-conditional logic, a logic or grammar that is given by describing different Bedeutungskörper. Although critical of Mach, Wittgenstein probably found in that paper two suggestions very close to his own sensibility: (a) the idea that thought experiments are kinds of "variations" on a situation, and (b) the idea that "paradoxical" thought experiments "help thoughts not to come to rest". In what follows I propose to consider all or most of Wittgenstein's language games as thought experiments that typically take the form of counterfactual reasoning involving a concrete scenario, although a 1 Different drafts of this paper have been presented in 2012 at the EPILOG Seminar in Genoa, at the Conference "In Wittgenstein's footsteps" at the Univeristy of Iceland in Reykjavìk, and in 2014 at the Universitythe late twenties, when Wittgenstein used to discuss with Waismann and Schlick, one of the main interpreters of Einstein's work (we find an echo of the discussions on Einstein's simultaneity problem in the first chapter of Waismann 1965) 2 clear conclusion does not always follow in Wittgenstein's text.3 Language games may be grossly4 classified as follows: (i) "constructive": aimed at arguing central claims in Wittgenstein's view. These are typically presented as a chain of variations5 that purports to give, in the end, not a theory but a perspicuous representation of the working of language. Variations on a situation are especially developed in the Blue and Brown Books and in Philosophical Investigations: for instance, the initial situation of builders with the progressive insertion of different kinds of words for


by Kush (2011, 2015), according to which metrology has a central role in Wittgenstein's critique of the Tractatus and beyond. Kush relies on the comparison between the rigidity of rods and clocks in Einstein theory and the rigidity of "grammatical" rules in Wittgenstein – where for "grammatical" we mean also our mathematics: "mathematics as such is always measure, not thing measured" (RFM III: 75). Kush 2011 claims that "just as Einstein brings the rulers and clocks into the empirical world, so the later Wittgenstein rejects the transcendental status that the Tractatus accorded to rules, and situates them firmly inside our real and empirical language-games." Somebody might object that Wittgenstein also insists on non-empirical language games (for Wittgenstein "the limit of empirical is concept formation" RFM IV: 29). Howevera proper assessment of the contrasts among interpretations. For a discussion see also see Miller 1997, BakerHacker 2009, § IV and Horwich 2010: 133. In RFM VI 49 Wittgenstein suggests the following anti-consensualist view: "If what a proposition of logic said was: Human beings agree with one another in such and such ways (...) then its contradictory would say that there is here a lack of agreement. Not that there is an agreement of other kind. The agreement of humans that is a presupposition of logic is not an agreement in opinions, much less in opinions on questions of logic". An anti-consensualist view is developed by Crispin Wright who claims that Wittgenstein's analogy between his philosophy and Relativity theory suggests a more constructive kind of response to the


of which we interpret an unknown language." (PI: 206) Given that this passage follows the conclusion of the discussion on rule-following, and begins with the remark "Following a rule is analogous to obeying an order", we are led to think that rule-following behaviour is a central feature of shared human behaviour. It differentiates humans from other animals, and – besides basic features like walking, chasing, eating, and other usual behaviours, the central ferature of shared human behavious is rule following, which is connected with speech acts. We may thereby understand why Wittgenstein speaks of shared human behaviour, after the argument of rule following, as an answer to the question: "In what circumstances would you say that the people there gave orders, understood them, obeyed them, rebelled against them,as an invariant. The analogy Wittgenstein proposes between his work in philosophy and Einstein's work in physics seems therefore to confirm a standard reading: as Einstein analyses the tools with which we measure events in coordinate systems, and the description of the working of these tools is part of the overall theoretical system, philosophy analyses the tools we use in describing facts, tools that belong to the grammar of description, or "logic" in a most general view. This reading is confirmed by a famous passage of On Certainty: "Everything descriptive of a language game is part of logic" (OC: 56)23 On the other hand, Wittgenstein makes a specification that requires clarification: "Philosophy is not a description of language use" (LW I: 121). The claim in the second quotation


of Wittgenstein is not just describing the builders' use of words, but describing different descriptions of the builders' interaction: at the beginning Wittgensein presents the builders' as "a language for which the description given by Augustine is right" (PI: 2), but soon he criticises the standard description of the meaning of words as evoking images, as it is supposed to be in the Augustinian picture: "in the language of §3 it is not the purpose of the words to evoke images" (PI: 6). He then gives a different description of the linguistic interaction of the builders, as "one of those games by which children learn their native language" (PI: 7), and eventually he put doubts on the possibility that "on can reduce the description of the use ofJ. Read, 293–314. London: Routledge. Coliva, A. 2010. "Was Wittgenstein an Epistemic Relativist?" Philosophical Investigations. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9205.2009.01394.x. Coliva, A. 2016. "Which Hinge Epistemology?" International Journal for the study of scepticism 6 (2-3): 69-76. Conant, J. 1991. "In Search for a Logically Alien Thought: Descartes, Kant, Frege, and the Tractatus." Philosophical Topic 20: 115–80. Dieks, D. 2018. "Time Coordinates and Clocks: Einstein's Struggle." Einstein, A. 1916. Uber Die Spezielle Und Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Engl. Transl. Relativity; the Special and the General Theory. New York: Random House 1961. 18 Einstein A. 1917. Relativity: The Special and General Theory: A Popular Exposition. New York: Grown Publishers, 1961. Einstein, A. 2002. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Elton, L. 1986. "Einstein, General Relativity, and the German Press: 1919-1920." Isis 77


Oxford: Oxford University Press . Phillips, D. n.d. Wittgenstein and Scientific Knowledge. London: Macmillan. Picardi, E. 2009. "Concepts and Primitive Language Games." In Wittgenstein's Enduring Argument, edited by E. Zamuner and D. Levy, 109–34. London: Routledge. Pritchard, D. 2018. "Wittgensteinian Hinge Epistemology and Deep Disagreement." Topoi, 1–9. Putnam, H. n.d. "Rethinking Mathematical Necessity." In H. Putnam, Words and Life, edited by James Conant, 245–63. Harvard University Press. ---. 1992. "Reply to James Conant." Philosophical Topics 20: 374–77. Recanati, F. 2011. Truth Conditional Pragmatics. Oford: Oxford University Press. Reichenbach, H. 1951. The Rise of Scientific Philosophy. Los Angeles: UCLA Press. Rorty, R. 1979. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Sankey, H. 1998. "Taxonomic Incommensurability." International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 12 (1): 7–16. Savigny,Edited and translated by G. G. Luckhard and M. A. E. Aue, Oxford: Blackwell 2005 LFM: Lectures on the Foundation of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939. Edited by Cora Diamond, Ithaca: Cornell U.P. 1976. LW: Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, vol. 1, Blackwell, Oxford, 1982. OC: On Certainty/Über Gewissheit. Oxford: Blackwell, 1974. Nachlass Berggen Electronic Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. PR: Philosophical Remarks/Philosophische Bemerkungen. Oxford: Blackwell, 1964. Engl.transl. Oxford: Blackwell, 1975. PI: Philosophical Investigation/Philosophische Untersuchungen. Edited and translated by G.E.M. Anscombe. Oxford: Blackwell 1968. RFM: Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1978 (Third edition). RPP: Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, 2voll., Oxford: Blackwell, 1980. VB: Vermischte Bemerkungen. Edited by Von Wright, Frankfurt aM, 1977. Z: Zettel. Oxford: Blackwell,


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Local NBC news anchors across the country hope the new show leading into their nightly newscast five days a week succeeds. Leno says he's ready for the challenge, "Hopefully they enjoy the program and have a few laughs. That's the idea."

Monday night's first guest is Jerry Seinfield. Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye West will perform, which could be interesting after Kanye West's controversial outburst at the VMA's on Sunday.


An unusual green comet reaches maximum brightness on Saturday, providing a sweet treat for early-morning risers.

Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova (named after three astronomers who discovered it in 1948) travels into the inner solar system every 5.25 years. On Saturday, 45P will pass just 7.4 million miles from Earth, a stone's throw by celestial yardsticks.

With binoculars or a small telescope, comet-watchers should be able to spot 45P in the pre-dawn skies between Thursday and Sunday. "The comet will be racing through the constellation Hercules high in the eastern sky," notes SpaceWeather.com.

Comet 45P will look like fuzzy bluish-green ball with a fan-shaped tail. Its distinctive color comes from vaporizing diatomic carbon, a gas which glows green in the near-vacuum of space.

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The Minor Planet Center reports45P's upcoming pass as the eighth closest comet since modern tracking technologies began around 1950. It made an even closer approach during its last visit in 2011, pictured above, but it won't be as near to Earth again this century.

"Proximity makes the comet bright despite its small size," said SpaceWeather.com. "Forecasters say 45P could be on the verge of naked eye visibility... when it emerges into the pre-dawn sky later this week."

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in each direction between 7am-7pm. This part of the project was reviewed after protests by councillor Ken Baguely. However, part-funding for the project by ARTA had been contingent on those operating hours.

Most of the streets en route received substantial overhauls, with, for example, relaid footpaths. Ten pedestrian crossings were to be improved and enlarged, especially around the university. The changes included the closure of Alfred Street, a side street off Symonds Street bisecting the university campus in that area, to all traffic except Link and City Circuit buses from the end of 2006, and new canopies over footpaths in the university areas.

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Category:Public transport in AucklandDeadly air strikes and artillery fire continued on Tuesday with more than 100 people in Syria's Eastern Ghouta enclave killed, bringing the number of civilian deaths to 250 over the last 48 hours, a war monitor reported.

It was the highest two-day death toll since a 2013 chemical attack on the besieged enclave, which killed hundreds, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The UK-based war monitor said 106 people had been killed by bombardment on Tuesday.

Six hospitals have been struck over two days in the Syrian rebel enclave, putting three out of service and killing several people, the United Nations said.

"I am appalled and distressed by reports of the horrifying attacks against six hospitals in East Ghouta over the past 48 hours," said Panos Moumtzis, the UN's regional humanitarian


in Aleppo - shelling day and night," Abulabed told Al Jazeera.

"Nothing is excluded from the shelling, not schools, not residential areas, not even markets, which has caused a significant increase in the number of people martyred and wounded."

Hundreds of people have been wounded in the onslaught.

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Residents say there are no signs of life in the area - home to nearly 400,000 people - especially with the lack of basic necessities, including food and medicine.

"We reached a point where we don't even leave the house during these raids so that if we're attacked, we die together," said Shams.

The attack that began on Sunday reportedly marks an upcoming ground assault, which will soon be launched by the government, the Syrian Observatory said.

Eastern Ghouta is the last, remainingrebel-held area east of Damascus, and has been under siege by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces since 2013.

The UN and other rights organisations have continuously called for a permanent ceasefire and for the government to lift the "crippling" blockade.

As a result of the tight siege, aid convoys have not been able to deliver much of the desperately needed food and medical supplies, and overall access to the enclave remains "woefully inadequate".

On February 14, a convoy's deliveries reached only 2.6 percent of the estimated 272,500 people in need of humanitarian aid, according to Ali al-Za'tari, the UN's humanitarian coordinator in Syria.

The lack of commodities has left residents with two main - and scarce – options to stay afloat, including rice and bread.

Facing severe food shortages, coupled with the sharp


MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico’s incoming government is considering indefinitely suspending auctions for oil and gas projects, and giving state-owned Pemex authority to pick its own joint-venture partners rather than holding competitive tenders, according to policy guidelines seen by Reuters.

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The document, drafted by energy advisers to leftist President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, also recommends forging closer ties with leading oil producer cartel OPEC while withdrawing from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which represents the interest of oil-consuming countries.

It was not clear to what extent the guidelines would translate into formal policy after Lopez ObradorUFC Champion Dominick Cruz Could Miss All of 2013 After Second ACL Surgery

UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz may not be back next year, a major blow to a 135-pound division that the company launched in late 2010.

MMA Junkie confirmed on Monday that Cruz underwent another major surgery last week, according to trainer Eric Del Fierro:

The UFC bantamweight champion is in Los Angeles today to meet with a doctor who will give him a timeline for his return, Del Fierro (sic) said, though he estimated it could set the fighter back another six to nine months...

"He's pissed and disappointed," Del Fierro said. "But I think he's doing better now. Once he talked to the doctor and found out what was going on, he felt much better."

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for six months, the resulting rehab will likely sideline him for the remainder of 2013.

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This marks the second major surgery that Cruz has endured in 2012, with a torn ACL sidelining him during the taping of The Ultimate Fighter: Live in May of 2011. The unfortunate turn of events killed a rubber match with opposing coach Urijah Faber, originally set for UFC 148 as the co-main event behind an Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen rematch in Las Vegas.

Replacement bantamweight Renan Barao would go on to win the UFC interim bantamweighttitle, stepping in to challenge Faber on short notice in the headliner at UFC 149 in Calgary.

Barao's camp has previously stressed a desire to wait for Cruz's return, but the linear champion's long absence and rehab period will almost assuredly force Barao to defend his interim belt.

It is questionable as to whether the UFC will strip Cruz of his title altogether, as welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre was allowed to retain his belt despite an 18-month period of inactivity due to scheduling and an ACL injury of his own.


Just after the Keystone vote failed in the senate yesterday, Elizabeth Warren was loudly interrupted by a Native American chant from the gallery.

You might think this was done by a snarky activist but according to Andrew Kirell of Mediaite, the chant was done by a genuine Native American:

Native American Chant Interrupts Senate as Keystone Vote Fails Seconds after Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced that the “aye” votes approving Keystone XL project fell just short of the 60 vote threshold, a Native American chant broke out in the gallery, celebrating the Senate’s rejection of the controversial crude oil pipeline. The man who began the chant reportedly came from the Lakota tribe:

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Here's a look at some of Merrick Garland's high profile work on the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.

Here's a look at some of Merrick Garland's high profile work on the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. Top left: Nicholas Kamm/Getty; background: Bill Waugh/AP

Before Merrick Garland was announced as President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, he was a prosecutor and the linchpin in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing investigation and ultimate convictions of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

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Before Merrick Garland was announced as President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, he was a prosecutor and theIsrael, Hezbollah to trade captives

The Israeli government said it will swap prisoners with the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah on Wednesday, closing a chapter between the enemies two years after they fought an inconclusive war.

The prison service said Sunday that Israel would free five Lebanese, including the perpetrator of one of the most notorious attacks in Israeli history. In exchange, Hezbollah will return two soldiers it captured in a cross-border raid that sparked the 2006 war. Israel believes the soldiers are dead.

After nearly two years of negotiations through German mediators, Israel's government approved the release on June 29, but it took several weeks to work out final arrangements. The Israeli announcement came a day after the government received a report from Hezbollah on a missing Israeli soldier who disappeared


of a diary he kept in the 1980s. A letter was delivered to his family during that time, and a videotaped message Arad recorded in the late 1980s was released several years ago. But he has not been heard from since then.

The prison service said it will free Samir Kantar, a Lebanese man serving multiple life terms for a 1979 attack. After infiltrating Israel, he killed a policeman, then kidnapped a man and his 4-year-old daughter and killed them outside their home.

Israel says Kantar beat the girl to death, though he has denied the accusation. As the attack unfolded, the girl's mother hid in a crawl space inside their home and accidentally smothered their 2-year-old daughter, fearing Kantar would find them.

His release has stirred emotional opposition from relativesof victims of the attack and others. Israel's Supreme Court last week turned down an appeal against his release from children of the dead police officer.

Israel said it would also release four Hezbollah prisoners captured in the 2006 war. Israel also is expected to turn over the bodies of some 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters. Military crews dug up the bodies from an Israeli cemetery last week in preparation for the exchange.

In return, Israel is to receive the two soldiers captured by Hezbollah in a cross-border raid July 12, 2006, that set off a fierce 34-day war. More than 1,000 Lebanese, mostly civilians, died in the fighting, according to Lebanese officials, while 159 Israelis were killed, including 40 civilians killed by Hezbollah rockets.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has


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to steal this election.”

US District Court Judge Mark Walker denied the plaintiff's request for a temporary restraining order on Monday night, instead scheduling a phone hearing on Wednesday at 10 a.m. to discuss their parallel call for a preliminary injunction, which would also bar Scott from overseeing the recount. Walker noted that Scott's lawyers have yet to tell they court they have received the complaint.

Scott has violated the constitutional due process rights of voters to have their votes counted fairly, while also overstepping their rights by intimidating election officials based on their party affiliation, says the complaint filed in the Northern District of Florida.

It calls on the court to issue a restraining order that blocks Scott from using his position as governor in any way relating to theReese said she contacted the governor asking for help, stating that, “Safety has to be the top priority for the residents, both in the short and long term.” Ironically, had safety actually been the priority of the police department, instead of felony criminal action, abuse, sexual harassment, and brutality, Lincoln Heights would not be in this position.

The closure of the Lincoln Heights police department comes just days after a revealing investigation into the overwhelming corruption within the department. The investigation revealed that the department had not only hired, but heavily promoted an officer with a felony background, who was later fired for felony theft on duty.

The investigation also found that one officer was fired and rehired who had a history of harassing female drivers and was an actual


embryos grown from the donor's own DNA.

Hugely versatile, these "pluripotent'' stem cells are controversial as the method entails destroying the embryo, something opposed by religious conservatives and others.

In 2006, a team led by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University, who was a co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine, created so-called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS).

With this, the team took mature cells and coded them with four genes, "rewinding'' the cells' genetic programs to return them to a juvenile state.

The technique had to overcome an early hurdle of causing tumours in cells and still faces problems with efficiency - less than one percent of adult cells typically are reprogrammed successfully.

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Source of Edinburgh LD outbreak a mystery

Source of Edinburgh LD outbreak a mystery

UK: Scottish authorities have been unable to identify the source of the fatal legionnaires disease outbreak in Edinburgh in 2012.

Between 5 June and 15 July 2012 four died out ofa total of 92 people affected by the outbreak. An investigation by the HSE and Lothian and Borders Police under the direction of the specialist Health and Safety Division of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service failed to identify the source of the legionella bacteria, despite detailed analysis of samples from a number of sites. As a result Crown Counsel has concluded that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute any person or organisation for the deaths.

The decision on whether or not to hold a Fatal AccidentMexico election candidate Lopez Obrador seeks recount Published duration 4 July 2012

image caption Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has refused to concede victory to rival Enrique Pena Nieto

The runner-up in Sunday's presidential poll in Mexico has said he will demand a total recount of the vote.

"For the good of democracy and of the country, all the votes must be counted," Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the leftist PRD, told reporters.

He had refused to concede victory after the official preliminary count gave Enrique Pena Nieto of the PRI victory by more than six points.

Mr Lopez Obrador has accused Mr Pena Nieto of breaking electoral rules.

Speaking on Tuesday, Mr Lopez Obrador, the candidate of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) said he had evidence of widespread irregularities.

"Where these things happen,


It's just too bad that Trump's first labor nominee, who
IIRC referred to his company's employees as "the best of the worst", didn't get the job!

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Congress' wiretap slap leaves White House fuming
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US makes formal apology to Britain after White House accuses GCHQ of wiretapping Trump Tower

The Government "made clear" to the US that the "ridiculous" claims should be ignored and received assurances in return that they will not be repeated,
showing that the administration does not give them any credence, Mrs May's spokesman said.

White House apologizes to British government over spying claimswww.cnn.com...

Congress' wiretap slap leaves White House fuming
Trump suffered his second congressional rebuke in two dayswww.politico.com...

US makes formal apology to Britain after White Houseaccuses GCHQ of wiretapping Trump Tower

The Government "made clear" to the US that the "ridiculous" claims should be ignored and received assurances in return that they will not be repeated,
showing that the administration does not give them any credence, Mrs May's spokesman said.

White House apologizes to British government over spying claimswww.cnn.com...

Congress' wiretap slap leaves White House fuming
Trump suffered his second congressional rebuke in two dayswww.politico.com...

US makes formal apology to Britain after White House accuses GCHQ of wiretapping Trump Tower

The Government "made clear" to the US that the "ridiculous" claims should be ignored and received assurances in return that they will not be repeated,
showing that the administration does not give them any credence, Mrs May's spokesman said.

Congress has pretty much closed the book on this investigation with the rebuke


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5-time NBA All-Star whose career spanned from 1989 to 2003. His #10 jersey was retired by the Miami Heat in 2009, only the second retired jersey in franchise history.

Before Fame

He was given the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award at the University of Texas at El Paso as the best basketball player six feet tall or under.

Trivia

He was best known for his crossover dribble.

Family Life

He married Yolanda Adkins in 1993. His son Tim Hardaway Jr. was a standout college basketball player at the University of Michigan and became a first round pick of the New York Knicks in 2013. He also has a daughter named Nia Hardaway.

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He became the second-fastest player in history to surpass 5,000 points and 2,500 assists after legendary Hall of Fame guard Oscar Robertson.On the morning of the historic victory for the 'Leave' campaign I called on the Prime Minister to resign. Within a hour or two David Cameron had done so. I was more than a little surprised – after all, he has rarely listened to me in the past. Now we learn that no plans had been made to deal with the result, that surprise has gone.

He had called a referendum, due in part to the pressure from Ukip. With his customary mix of arrogance and complacency, he had failed to plan for a result he believed could never happen.

Indeed, this catastrophic dereliction of duty on behalf of Mr Cameron and the Treasury has resulted in the very short-term instability that they had predicted. These failures should result in


our strained communities. What an opportunity for the right person!

Now we are down to the last two and what is wonderfully unremarkable is that the next Prime Minister will be a woman. Given that the policies the last one saved the country from decline and political melancholia, the auguries are good.

Like most of the rest of the country, I hardly knew anything of Andrea Leadsom before she signed up for 'Leave'. The first time I observed her was at a debate way back in March. Back then she was a little defensive of the Prime Minister who had given her Ministerial office, but there were flashes of a keen mind and an honest and pragmatic belief in Brexit.

We shared a stage again at a debate two months later.Application No. 80.03.360 to cool the display window and the display screen connected thereto. The space between the display window and the second window filled with cooling liquid in a first described embodiment is surrounded on the top, at the bottom and laterally by a metal cooling member which serves as a spacing member and as a heat radiator. As a result of the rise in temperature of the display window the cooling liquid heated by the display window moves along the display window upwards and past the second window downwards as a result of which the thermal energy from the centre of the display window is also dissipated via the cooling member. At low load, for example smaller than 5 W, the thermal energy is dissipated to


resigned amidst scandals in which shadow governance groups played a role. Former Gov. Robert Bentley (R-AL) resigned after impeachment proceedings had begun regarding his use of public resources to conceal an affair with his senior adviser. That adviser was on the nonprofit Alabama Council for Excellent Government (ACEGov)’s payroll, and ACEGov was named as a co-defendant alongside the governor in at least two lawsuits. Former Gov. Eric Greitens (R-MO) resigned amidst an investigation by the Missouri legislature for a number of alleged offenses. A New Missouri’s records were subpoenaed by the Missouri House committee in the course of investigating these charges.

View the governors’ profiles:

AllDemocratRepublican Alabama Robert Bentley Georgia Nathan Deal Idaho C.L. “Butch” Otter Illinois Bruce Rauner Indiana Eric Holcomb Kansas Sam Brownback Louisiana John Bel Edwards Mainegovernors holding office as of January 31, 2017 for connections to nonprofit groups involved in politics or policy. Specifically, from February to October 2017, CREW looked for organizations that directly benefited the governor — by either bolstering their election prospects or supporting agenda items that could be concretely connected to the governor — that could also be tied to the governor through a combination of timing (established during or after the governor’s initial campaign), scope (operated predominately at the state level), personnel (led by staffers and board members with established connections to the governor) and other shared logistics (used resources such as office space and contractors that were also used by the governor’s campaign), and publicly reported ties (the governor makes appearances on behalf of the nonprofit, media


can exert more influence than ever before.

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Alabama: Governor Robert Bentley

Alabama Council for Excellent Government (ACEGov)

Georgia: Governor Nathan Deal

Coalition for Georgia’s Future, Inc. (CGF), Real Georgia, Inc., Georgia Leads, Inc. (GL)/Georgia First, Inc. (GFI), Georgia Leads on Education (GLoE)

Idaho: Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter

Education Voters of Idaho, Inc. (EVI)

Illinois: Governor Bruce Rauner

Turnaround Illinois, Inc. (TI)

Indiana: Governor Eric Holcomb

Imagine Indiana, Inc. (II)

Kansas: Governor Sam Brownback

Road Map Solutions, Inc. (RMS)

Louisiana: Governor John Bel Edwards

Rebuild Louisiana

Maine: Governor Paul LePage

Maine People Before Politics (MPBP)

Michigan: Governor Rick Snyder

Celebrating the Power of Michigan, Inc. (CPM), New Energy to Reinvent and Diversify Fund (NERD), Making Government Accountable (MGA), Moving Michigan Forward (MMF)

Missouri: Governor Eric Greitens

The Committee for a New Missouri, Inc. (CNM)

A New Missouri, Inc. (ANM)

Montana: Governor Stevemoney.

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Gaiman's book is actually a graphic novel -

you could say this showcases more the work of the illustrator Dave McKean than
Gaiman's work, with two more stories written and illustrated by McKean. So you
could say Gaiman's name is for the pull, while the majority of the work was
done by McKean, who'll probably get most of the money, too.


Montgomery County, PA Events

As Daylight Lengthens, Calendards Awake

Once clocks spring ahead one hour in early March, it's easy
to imagine winter 2015 behind us. In the glow of added sunlight and generally
rising temperatures, events across Montgomery County pop up like brave
crocuses.

The King of Prussia Mall draws visitors from all
over the world, so to make them feel at home, area chefs cater to culinary
traditions of numerous ethnic backgrounds and traditions. These extensive menus
come together in dineKOP Restaurant Week, running
throughout King of Prussia March 2-8, 2015. This is your chance to enjoy a
favorite item or explore the flavors of other cultures - all at steep discounts
and prix-fixe convenience. If you're situated further north in Montgomery
County, take advantage of the Jenkintown Restaurant Week, March 2-5. 2015,
highlighting a dozen of the borough's bestfoodie destinations.

If the winter blahs hang on in your household,
laugh them away with tickets to Unnecessary Farce at Act II Playhousethrough March 22. This evening of slapstick involves side-by-side motel rooms
and an ever-present confusion as to who is where and why. The Syracuse Post-Standard
theater critic calls it "The funniest two hours of theater I have seen in
several years."

Local superstar Bobby Rydell takes the stage at
Sunnybrook BallroomMarch 28. Rydell has been a superstar on the music scene
since the early 1960s, when he became the youngest performer to headline at the
New York nightclub The Copacabana. A film career followed, including a lead
role in the 1964 film version of Bye Bye Birdie. Rydell's smooth style
brings thoughts of warmer weather, especially with his hit "Wildwood Days."

The Wharton Esherick Museum re-opens after its
winter


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Category:Parsees cricketersClues emerge about 'mystery barge' that departed New London for Portland, Maine

A barge carrying what appears to be a four-story building, which was built in New London, is seen Oct. 11 tied up at Cianbro Corp.'s Rickers Wharf Marine facility in Portland, Maine.

Published October 23. 2013 2:00PM | Updated October 24. 2013 12:09AM

Tom Bell, Portland Press Herald

Portland, Maine — What's inside the four-story structure that was towed into Portland Harbor on Oct. 11 and how it eventually will be used remain a mystery, but some clues have emerged.

The structure itself isn't hidden away. It's still on the barge that hauled it into Portland, docked at the Rickers Wharf Marine Facility, where Cianbro Corp. is scheduled to do a significant amount of interior work on it, including the installation


Pete Rose. Over the next several decades, she repeated
her act numerous times at baseball games and other sporting events, earning
nicknames, admirers and citations from local police.

Recently, a wonderful short
film was produced telling the true story of the grand dame of field
rushers. Among the most famous MLB recipients of her smooches included Nolan
Ryan, Johnny Bench and Cal Ripken Jr. Love her or simply lust for her, she was
unlike anything baseball has ever seen, before or since.

***Earlier this month, NBA player Jason Collins publicly came
out as a gay man and was recognized as the first professional athlete to do
so. With their always being an emphasis on identifying who was the first to do
what in our society, the stories of those who simply tried can often be left by
the wayside. Thatappears to be the case with gay athletes.

ESPN.com’s
Rick Reilly recently wrote a terrific article about how former major league
outfielder Glenn Burke tried to come out during his career, but was
unceremoniously stuffed back into the closet.

During a four-year major league career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and
Oakland A’s in the late 1970s, Burke openly lived as a gay man. Unfortunately,
as time went on, intolerance grew from other players and team management. The
Dodgers even reportedly offered him $75,000 to marry a woman; and offer Burke
left on the table.

Burke, who died in 1995 of AIDS, never saw the kind of acceptance
Collins is currently receiving. However, as Reilly demonstrates, it’s important
to remember his legacy and the path he started to pave for those who have and
will go after him.

***In a random bit


events.

***Talk about nosebleed seats! Take a gander at this amazing picture of college students looking
down on a game of the 1960 World Series at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh between
the Pirates and the New York Yankees. While they may have missed out on seeing
the intricacies of the game, at least the seats were free.

***Hall of Famer Honus Wagner wasn’t only one of the greatest
shortstops of all time; he was also a pretty intimidating lawman. CBSSports.com’s
Dayn Parry wrote about how Wagner became the deputy sheriff of Allegheny
County in Pennsylvania in 1942, when the former player was 68.

The article not only is a great tidbit of history about one of
baseball’s iconic players, but also includes a pretty amazing photo of Wagner
doing his best Dirty Harry impression; 30 years before there wasa Dirty Harry.

***Bo Jackson is one of the best athletes to ever step on a field. When
he was a student at Auburn University, he played baseball in addition to the
Heisman Trophy-worthy work he did on the gridiron.

The Kansas City Royals made Jackson a fourth-round draft pick in 1986
despite his proclivity for football. His selection was made in part because of this scouting report from April,
1985, which left the evaluator nearly at a loss for adjectives when trying to
describe the youngster’s ability.

Jackson had a good, but not great baseball career. However, he never
dedicated himself to the game full-time until after he was severely injured
playing football, making him one of baseball’s great what-if questions.

I don't get paid for most of my writing work, so it can sometimes be a struggles


A private member's bill aimed at protecting consumers from unexpected repair charges will not proceed after industry members said it was unworkable and redundant.

MLAs decided Monday Bill 203, which was under review by the standing committee on families and communities, was too flawed to recommend it proceed to second reading.

The decision came after a day of testimony from industry groups, auto dealerships and repair shops. Every group except one called on the government to drop the bill.

Members of the Alberta auto industry told MLAs the bill duplicates measures in the Fair Trading Act.

Edmonton-Meadlowlark NDP MLA Jon Carson, who introduced the private member's bill, was criticized for drafting it without first consulting with the industry.

Despite condemnation from industry experts, Carson told the committee that the bill could be strengthenedStory highlights The list of banned items is part of revamped security following last year's deadly bombings

The Boston Marathon will be held on April 21

Organizers are preparing for 36,000 entrants this year.

As part of revamped security following last year's deadly bombings, the Boston Marathon has banned various items for the 2014 race, including bags and strollers.

The bombs placed in backpacks exploded near the finish line last year, killing three people.

Backpacks, handbags, suitcases and similar items are prohibited from entering any marathon venues this year.

So are containers with more than 1 liter of liquid, costumes covering the face, and bulky clothes such as vests with pockets.

Photos: The arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Photos: The arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev The backlash over Rolling Stone's cover photo of Boston Marathon bombing suspect


Dzhokhar Tsarnaev led to the release of new photos of his capture. The images, released by Police Sgt. Sean Murphy on July 18, 2013, show Tsarnaev as he emerges from the boat where he hid in Watertown, Massachusetts. Hide Caption 1 of 5 Photos: The arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Tsarnaev was found in a motorboat dry-docked in the backyard of a Watertown home on April 19, 2013. Hide Caption 2 of 5 Photos: The arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev "This guy is evil," Murphy said. "This is the real Boston bomber. Not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine." Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to 30 federal charges related to the marathon bombings. Hide Caption 3 of 5 Photos: The arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Tsarnaevare aware that many people want to participate in some way in this year's Boston Marathon as a display of support," the statement said. "But we ask that those who are not official participants to refrain from entering the course for the safety of the runners and themselves."

On April 15 last year, double bombings hit the Boston Marathon , which attracts elite runners from all over the world. They exploded within 12 seconds of each other. Three people died and 264 others were injured.

Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, are suspected of planting the homemade bombs near the finish line.

The latter faces a potential death penalty and appears in court in November. His brother was killed in a police shootout shortly after the bombings.

The 118th Boston Marathon will


The First Day

As exciting as it is to bring a new dog home, the first day (first several days, really) should be as tranquil and disturbance-free as you can make them. Remember: your new foster pup has just finished an exhausting journey over hundreds of miles and several weeks of stressful, unpredictable changes (losing his original home, possibly spending who-knows-how-long as a stray, getting picked up by animal control or the shelter's front desk, spending days or weeks in the noisy confines of a shelter kennel, going elsewhere for a 10- to 14-day pre-transport quarantine, and then getting uprooted yet again to travel north). He doesn't know who you are, he doesn't know what this place is, and he doesn't know why he's here or what's going topart of IMCI. By 1998, IMCI was adopted as a national clinical approach. The Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project (TEHIP) \[[@R16]\] from 1996-2003 research facilitated in building the momentum for evidence based planning in Tanzania, specifically for IMCI \[[@R17],[@R18]\].

Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative was also launched in Tanzania in 1991 to promote and support breastfeeding. The initiative has not fared well because of lack of attention. Tanzania adapted the Global Strategy on Infant and Young Child Feeding and developed the National Strategy on Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) in 2005. Tanzania is also one of the 15 countries participating in the Global Action Plan for Preventable Pneumonia and Diarrhea (GAPPD) program \[[@R19],[@R20]\]. Despite having high mortality, it has achieved most GAPPD targets and received one of the highest


under-five mortality was low from 1980 to the mid-1990s, but increased remarkably in the 2000s. The rapid increase in ARR in the 2000s is probably associated with optimal implementation of IMCI in the early years from 1998-2010. This included the role of nutrition, pharmacists, and health care workers, but foremost, it empowered care-takers to take charge and recognize danger signs.

In 2012, Tanzania became the eleventh GAVI-eligible country to introduce rotavirus vaccine in the national immunization program. Coverage of two doses of rotavirus vaccine in 2015 were 94% and 89% respectively. The immunization program in Tanzania has traditionally performed well. Coverage of almost all antigens has been over 80% since the establishment of the EPI program. The high coverage of rotavirus vaccine within a short time of its introductionteam car, prepared for the 1955 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where it was kept as a backup and did not turn a wheel in anger. It first saw competition at Silverstone in 1956, where driver Jack Fairman’s day ended with a DNF. The car’s next outing was at the 1956 Nürburgring 1000km, where co-drivers Paul Frere and Duncan Hamilton also suffered the same fate. Sold to Ecurie Ecosse for the 1957 season, the car was raced by a variety of drivers (including Masten Gregory and Innes Ireland) in events like the Spa GP, the 12 Hours of Sebring, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Tourist Trophy, before being sold to privateer Mike Salmon. Salmon raced the car through the 1961 season, before


Historical Motorsports Stories writes:

"The Miraculous Survival of Stanley Smith"

Posted by nascarman on February 9, 2017

Viewed 11212 times Tweet There are only a few men in racing to survive a basilar skull fracture. Larry Pollard did in 1988, Rick Carelli did in 1999, and sandwiched in the middle was Stanley Smith in 1993. An unofficial member of the Alabama Gang, Smith was a man who owned a drywall business in his hometown and raced productively in the highest level of NASCAR. Along the way, his racing gave birth to a smattering of talented mechanics who remain in racing today. But most of all, Stanley Smith's recovery from near-death was a tale of survival against all odds.

Stanley Smith started his racing career like many other drivers, on the short tracksof Alabama. He moved up to NASCAR's All-American Challenge late model division in the mid-80s. Looking for more success, Stanley convinced Phillipe Lopez to drop out of Texas A&M and join his race team. With Lopez working on the cars, Smith started winning All-American races. Together they won the series championship in 1989. In 1990, Smith attempted to qualify for the Winston 500 at Talladega in May. In his first Cup effort, Smith wrecked in qualifying and had to withdraw. He returned to the superspeedway in July and qualified a shocking 12th for his first race. However, Smith spun on pit road and hit four crewmen from Tracy Leslie's team. They were all released from the hospital that afternoon, but Smith refused to finish the race.

In 1991, Smith


and Lopez made the jump to Winston Cup with his own team and sponsorship from Interstate Batteries. They ran a part time schedule, only on tracks over one mile in length. To build his team, Smith needed employees and he had a knack for finding talent. One of his hirings was Chad Knaus who served as mechanic and fabricator for the team. In 12 races, Smith had a best finish of 21st at Talladega and an ARCA win at Michigan. The next year, Smith ran 14 races, finishing 22nd in the Daytona 500. As an unnofficial Alabama Gang member, he was touched by the passing of Clifford Allison and was one of the drivers who attended his funeral. In 1993, Smith lost his sponsorship and cut back toan even lesser schedule. Chad Knaus left for Hendrick Motorsports and joined the new Jeff Gordon team prior to 1993. With less success, Stanley missed the field for six races before finally making one, the Diehard 500 at Smith's home track.

The 1993 Diehard 500 was arguably the most tumultuous event for Alabama racing. Neil Bonnett was making his comeback after three years but the events were marred by Davey Allison's passing less than two weeks earlier. Amidst a depressed mood, the race would nearly claim another Alabamian.

On Thursday, Stanley Smith stood in for Shawna Robinson to qualify her Busch car. Robinson's father had suffered a stroke the year before and was ill that week. Stanley completed one qualifying lap at 181.794 mph, 38th quickest before overheating problems ended


the run.

"The water temperature was at 250 degrees when we took the white flag and I knew it wouldn't make another lap." Shawna arrived at Talladega that evening and requalified the car on Friday, this time going half a mile per hour slower and qualifying 40th for the race. On the Cup side, Stanley qualified his car at 187.813 mph on the second day day of time trials, fast enough for 35th.

Stanley Smith's Car 1993 Diehard 500

The race action itself was some of the most eventful in the past 30 years. On lap 56, Robby Gordon brought out the first caution when he wrecked in the tri-oval after clipping the apron trying to squeeze under Smith and Sterling Marlin. Stanley was a lap down at that point, butstill relatively quick.

A few laps after the restart, Smith would be at the start of a terrible wreck. As the pack of cars entered turn one, Kenny Wallace squeezed up in front of Smith. Wallace hit the outside wall and spun backwards against it. Smith spun across the track, down to the inside, striking Jimmy Horton and sending him tumbling. After hitting Horton, Smith spun back into the outside wall, hitting head-on and dragging Ritchie Petty and Rick Mast with him. As Horton flipped over the wall and landed on an access road, Smith's car skid to a stop on the apron. The severity of the situation could be seen on a track worker who first reached Smith's car. With CBS focused on him, the worker slowly reached


into the car before quickly removing his hand, a mixture of panic and disgust coming over him upon sight of Smith bleeding profusely. The satellite feed version of the telecast was even more frightening. While at commercial, CBS cameras focused on the driver laying unconscious on the asphalt. His white uniform, stained with blood down to his knees.

Crash Sequence. Photos courtesy of Sam Sharpe / Winston Cup Illustrated

Smith was airlifted to Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham, the same hospital Davey Allison passed away at 12 days prior. He was diagnosed with a basilar skull fracture and a severed aorta in his neck, the reason for his massive blood loss. He remained in a coma state for days, clinging to life.

To make matters more difficult for the family,Stanley's daughter Autumn was Miss Teen Alabama at the time and the Miss Teen USA competition was to be held on August 10th. Her duties meant she had to leave her father's hospital bed two days after his accident to take part in the preparations for the pageant in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Autumn Smith in Miss Teen USA 1993

"It was real difficult," Autumn said at the time. "I want to be (in Biloxi), but I didn't want to leave. I knew he wanted me to come down here. He was excited about it. I'm doing it for him." Back in Alabama, her father was making a tremendous recovery considering his injuries. Just a week after the accident, Smith was upgraded from critical to guarded condition with paralysis on his right


side.

"He is conscious right now," hospital spokesman David Smitherman said. "He understands what happened and where he is. He's been up and even out of the bed a little bit over the weekend. He still has some paralysis, and the therapists are continuing to work with him on that." While he was hospitalized, Smith was visited five times by Bobby Allison, twice when he was in a coma. Imagine the strength it took for Bobby to visit him that many times, returing to the hospital his son died in two weeks earlier to visit a friend.

Stanley went home from the hospital in the first week of September. He was now walking around with the aid of a walker, still having slight paralysis on his right side. He facedmore surgery to correct the nerve damage he suffered in the accident. Smith never recovered full vision in his left eye, remaining today with limited peripheral vision. But it was miraculous he survived and kept his love of racing. Five months later, he returned to NASCAR at Daytona for Speedweeks and was making preparations for his comeback race, hoping to return in the Diehard 500, one year after his accident.

On the morning of February 11, 1994, Smith bumped into Neil Bonnett at the Daytona Beach Krispy Kreme and they had breakfast together.

"I ran into (Neil) at a local donut shop and was cutting up with him about running again and he wanting me to run again," Smith remembered. "He told me, 'I've got to do what I feel


Investors swept up in the current wave of "red chip" fever for China-related stocks are at risk of losses because of the poor health of many mainland state-owned companies, a senior economist warned on Friday.
Demand for the Hong Kong-listed companies with mainland ties has accompanied record highs in the Hang Seng index, in a burst of optimism about Hong Kong's handover to China in three weeks.
But Kenneth Courtis, strategist and chief economist at Deutsche Bank Group Asia Pacific, warned that the speculative gains could be short-lived in light of serious problems with mainland Chinese companies.
A growing number of Chinese and China-backed companies have listed in Hong Kong, and the lure of China's huge domestic market and economic potential have proved difficult for foreign investors to resist.
In Hong Kong,is encouraging many of them to merge into huge conglomerates in the hope that the stronger firms may help ailing ones.
"We are now in a situation when losses (made) by state companies are so big that they've come to destabilise the financial system," Courtis said.
He said that the problems of these companies are a factor in China's difficult campaign to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which promotes free trade and reliance on market forces.
"One of the reasons it is so difficult to negotiate WTO membership for China is that (most) state companies wouldn't survive under WTO rules."
Courtis said he did not think China would enter the WTO for four to five years but was confident the United States will continue Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trade status for


lesson was, “If you avoid your thoughts, they will come back stronger”. In the book, the author explains how he learned this lesson the “hard” way during a very important chess match. At the most intensive part of it, the author was deeply concentrated trying to figure out a strategy to beat his opponent until all of a sudden a familiar song came to his mind and made it harder for him to concentrate. He decided to avoid the song and try to concentrate as much as possible but no matter what he did the song became louder in his head. The author had this experience a number of times more until he came to a breakthrough. In a similar match, he faced the same challenge but thisin its entirety now: Some things are so small, so miniscule, so atomically insignificant, they can be seen only from three feet away using the Hubble telescope. The heart of Jean Musgjerd is one of these things. So as you can see, it's really a character study. This actually saw print. When I first established the Found category, I anticipated that it'd be filled with these sorts of repurposings. And I did get a number of good entries that weren't from fictional sources. Here's another one from the sports world: Nine-year-old Kyle Graddy looked out across a minor league baseball diamond for the first time in his life and pondered the possibility of his own death. From "the Guardian Angel guide to safe living" circa 1982: Street punks


Nerves Fray As Power Still Out For 1.6 Million In Northeast

A West Milford fire chief directs traffic around a power line brought down by a tree on Union Valley Road, West Milford, New Jersey, October 30, 2011.Photo: REUTERS-Mark Dye

Cold, tired and frustrated, residents of more than 1.6 million homes in the Northeast remained without power on Tuesday and some were told it could take 10 more days to restore electricity after the rare and deadly October snowstorm.

Nerves frayed, tempers flared in hard hit Connecticut on the fourth day without power since Saturday, when the unseasonably early storm raged from West Virginia to Maine, bringing down tree limbs and downing power lines.

At the peak of the storm, more than 800,000 homes in Connecticut were in the dark, prompting GovernorDannel Malloy to call it the worst power outage in history.

It could be days before all houses across the region have power again, with some residents in the northwestern part of Connecticut being told it may be 10 days or more before lights come back on.

Hotels in central Connecticut were sold out as residents escaped homes without heat and electricity.

The power outage crippled traffic lights, causing a rash of fender benders, and knocked out home water wells, leaving toilets out of commission.

A woman in the town of Newington threw coffee in another person's face after she said she was cut off in a snaking line of about 40 cars waiting to fill up her vehicle's tank at a gas station.

In the New York City metro area, extreme delays


on storm-battered train lines operated by New Jersey Transit forced some commuters to opt instead to drive to work, jamming roadways with hour-long traffic backups.

The wintry mess over the weekend blanketed cities and towns across the region with record snowfall for October, including 32 inches of snow measured in the western Massachusetts town of Peru, according to the National Weather Service.

Weather was blamed for at least 13 deaths, most on slippery roads.

Nearly 1,800 people sought warmth overnight in 32 shelters open across Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the American Red Cross said.

In New Hampshire, where at the peak 315,000 households were out of power, people hunkered down in an emergency shelter at Memorial High School in Manchester, sleeping on cots in the gymnasium and in other rooms setAPB re-launch enters closed beta in free-to-play form

Publisher gambles on the revival of one of the biggest online game blunders ever

When it comes to failed massively multiplayer online games, few are as legendary as APB. Realtime Worlds devoted almost all of its resources to the game, but just after launch, the entire project was shut down and the company was shuttered.

GamesFirst, a publisher that specializes in "free" online games, however, thinks it can find success with the game. Today, APB Reloaded took its first major step toward becoming a reality by beginning its closed beta test.

"Our vision is to evolve the original APB game into the best AAA production-value Free2Play MMO shooter in the market today by carefully incorporating gamer feedback in the creative process. We plan to


An Ohio zoo has given 10-week-old cheetah cub, Emmett, an interesting new friend.

Columbus zoo paired the new arrival with 7-week-old puppy Cullen, and the two will be raised as brothers.

Emmett caught pneumonia shortly after being born and was hand-reared for several weeks.

The cheetah chose Cullen as his 'companion puppy' when he was given to the zoo by conservation project The Wilds.Urban-rural differences in excess mortality among high-poverty populations: evidence from the Harlem Household Survey and the Pitt County, North Carolina Study of African American Health.
Black youth residing in high-poverty areas have dramatically lower probabilities of surviving to age 65 if they are urban than if they are rural. Chronic disease deaths contribute heavily. We begin to probe the reasons using the Harlem Household Survey (HHS) and the Pitt County, North Carolina Study of African American Health (PCS). We compare HHS and PCS respondents on chronic disease rates, health behaviors, social support, employment, indicators of health care access, and health insurance. Chronic disease profiles do not favor Pitt County. Smoking uptake is similar across samples, but PCS respondents are more likely to quit. Indicators of access to health care


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Usher married Sabrina Reeves, photographer and artistic director of theatre company bloimoth company performance in 1997.They have two daughters, Coco born on 10 January 2003, Dania Océane was born on 28 April 2008.

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To arrange training and education of the destitute and the handicapped particularly women and children.

To nurture civic sense in the general masses to enable them to be good and dutiful human beings and citizens.

To inculcate in the masses a sense of responsibilities to fight against illiteracy, poverty, hunger, disease, social evils and natural calamities.

To arrange means and resources for social welfare and run such programs aimed at well-being of the masses.

To enable the people to arrange and undertake training and sources of their own with aid and assistance to alleviate poverty and corruption.

To help the old, the sick and the displaced with shelter, food and medical care.

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Sunday, June 15, 2014

QK Round 2: She Wears Bruises Like Trophies versus Lavender Marriage

Entry Nickname: She Wears Bruises Like Trophies

Title: Lucky Punch

Word count: 71,000

Genre: Adult Contemporary

Query:

After two years in a veteran’s outreach program of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), widowed military veteran Poppy Leon is slowly rebuilding her life. She strives to be a great single parent to her son Milo, despite suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), after almost losing her life in a mortar attack in Iraq.

With an unbeaten MMA record Poppy’s career is skyrocketing, and her relationship with her five-year-old son has never been better. But a vicious blow to the head during a match triggers a flashback, and Poppy loses control, nearly killing her opponent. She’s immediately plunged into a mental and physical nightmare.


concrete wall. Sand filled her mouth, and her head was splitting apart. All she could think was, move! Tears streamed from her eyes as she opened them, and rough hands grabbed her and dragged her from the tent.

Poppy fell to the ground next to another Marine and watched in a haze as her savior ran back into the tent to bring out anyone left inside. She choked as she inhaled an acrid breath.

She looked around, the ringing in her ears increasing, and brought a hand to her face and wiped her eyes. In slow motion the smoke cleared and the clatter of a .50 caliber machine gun sang a song in the distance. She heard herself asking the question, what happened, in a voice that didn’t sound remotelylike her own. She brought her hand up to her head, grimacing as she felt something sticking out of her skull. She'd felt safe when she'd taken off her battle rattle. Poppy leaned over and retched into the sand.

She crawled over to the body next to her, putting a shaking hand on the Marine’s neck to feel for a pulse, but not even a whisper beat against her bloodied fingers. Poppy drew her hand away and felt herself up. Head: mostly intact, but the rest of her she wasn’t so sure about. She looked around, wondering who was in charge. Then she remembered: she was.

VERSUS

Entry Nickname: Lavender Marriage

Title: The Well-Adjusted Household

Word Count: 87,000

Genre: Adult Upmarket Fiction

Query:

Ben has been called a lot of things: doctor, husband, father, deviant, liar.


His wife Alena calls him friend and her brother Iain calls him lover.

They live in Prohibition-era Pittsburgh and booze isn't the only thing that's illegal. Homosexuality is a felony and Ben and Iain don't care to spend the next ten years behind bars. Luckily, their sham marriages to Alena and her paramour Margaux are the perfect cover.

In public, they are the wealthy and powerful Blackburn family, heirs to a steel fortune. But behind closed doors, they are an improvised household of artificially conceived children and secret passageways between bedrooms. Everything is orchestrated. Nothing is as it seems.

When a conniving maid discovers their secret, Iain and Ben are arrested on charges of sodomy and homosexual behavior. The men and their constructed family are put on trial and it ispast trauma, maybe she has to choose another way to deal with her PTSD before she loses custody of her son. The first 250 was really visceral and powerfully written. However, as someone else pointed out, if the story starts two years after she's been out of the Marines, then it's almost like a flashback-type prologue, which is sometimes frowned upon as a way to start a novel.

LAVENDER MARRIAGEI love the premise for this! It seems really unique and has the potential to be a major page-turner, especially during the trial scenes. I thought the first 250 were well written and gave Ben and Iain a "meet cute" scene; however, the query gave me the impression that the story started after they'd been married for a while. It


NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

This study was supported by Contract No. DTFA03-99-C-00006 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Transportation Security Administration. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the agency that provided support for the project.

A limited number of copies of this report are available from the National Materials Advisorybetween the fall of the Republic at the end of Revenge of The Sith and the ongoing rebellion against the Empire seen at the start of A New Hope, although producer Rick McCallum later suggested an alternate plan of running multiple series simultaneously to tell a massive arc of somewhere around 400 episodes. The show would be different in tone from either the movies or The Clone Wars, moving towards a darker, more character-based storytelling instead of the operatic sweep of Star Wars as we know it, and would’ve, for the most part, focused on non-Jedi or Sith characters (Which makes sense, considering the Jedi were effectively wiped out in Revenge, and considered a myth by the start of A New Hope), with McCallum telling an interviewer to


sustain the writing quality. Excellent TV series such as Lost, Fringe and Heroes struggle to avoid cliché and poor plotting and they are nowhere near the 400 episode mark.

According to io9 (via Wookiepedia and The Celebrity Cafe) the new Star Wars TV show takes place in the “dark times” between the last prequel Star Wars EpisodeIII: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, when most of the Jedi and anti-emperor politicians were hunted down and killed. Apparently it will be a gritty and dark series, which will star minor characters, including Boba Fett, C-3PO, and the Emperor Palpatine.

MTV recently revealed that the action will follow the Rebel Alliance as it slowly gains strength against the Empire, and as he did with the animatedthe other original members of the Rebel Alliance. Aah, I feel right writing that – Rebel Alliance. Real Star Wars to me.

According to the news collected by io9, someone very special to Star Wars fans everywhere may be a part of the new Star Wars live-action television series. I’ll give you a hint: Look at the picture above.

Karen Traviss, who has written many Star Wars novels, was working on a Boba Fett novel, which many were extremely excited for. Back in December, the novel was cancelled, not by Karen, but by Lucas, with no explanation. There is now an actual reason for why this book has gone kaput, explained by Karen herself:

Yes, the Boba Fett novel was canceled by the publisher because of potential canon clashes with the


were renovating, repainting and building new buildings. Ironically, the effort to build these alien structures was done in a very human way; one man applied plaster with his bare hands, others sat and smoked in the shade of an alien hall.
One worker who spoke English, Farouk Ben Ibrahim, came forward to explain. Renovations began back in December, he said, after an Italian film producer contracted locals. “He gives us money, and we fix it,” Ibrahim said. “He said there is another part of Star Wars filming here. In the summer, maybe.”

Interesting, I will try to get a verification on that. My father has a friend who’s in charge of tourist excursions into Sahara and the other regions of south-Tunis, including the Mos Espa set, I’ll ask him aboutany of this.

Holostar will star Dash and Leebo from Shadows of the Empire!!!
June 2011 – Paperback: Untitled(Holostar) by Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, featuring a promising holostar – a rags to riches story set against the backdrop of the early days of the Rebellion.”

What the heck! Fimling will not be in Australia but in the Czech Republic?!? What?– First – The Screen Australia website has removed Star Wars from its upcoming production report.– Second – this quote from Lucasfilm Ltd. and McCallum:“The Lucasfilm Ltd. production of Red Tails is in full swing, and producers George Lucas and Rick McCallum are already considering a second project to shoot in the Czech Republic…
…Lucas and McCallum previously filmed several episodes of The Adventures Of Young Indiana Jones in the Czech


were renovating, repainting and building new buildings. Ironically, the effort to build these alien structures was done in a very human way; one man applied plaster with his bare hands, others sat and smoked in the shade of an alien hall.
One worker who spoke English, Farouk Ben Ibrahim, came forward to explain. Renovations began back in December, he said, after an Italian film producer contracted locals. “He gives us money, and we fix it,” Ibrahim said. “He said there is another part of Star Wars filming here. In the summer, maybe.”
If true, no one would be more excited than fans of the series, and that includes Amr bin Amr, a local who has stood guard over the set since 1997. “George Lucas wore a fox mask so herapid evolution of Hungary’s film industry is a lesson in shrewd tax and industrial planning: In 2004, when the local incentive plan was launched, foreign filmmakers spent $21 million in Hungary, compared with nothing a year earlier. By 2005, Hungary had caught up with the Czech Republic: Foreign producers spent $85 million in each country, according to an EEIP study commissioned by the Czech Ministry of Culture. It was in 2007 that Home Box Office Inc., a unit of Time Warner Inc., chose to film the Tom Hanks-produced TV miniseries, “John Adams” in Hungary.

Last year, filmmakers spent about $250 million in Hungary, including about $150 million by foreign companies, according to the country’s Motion Picture Public Foundation. The government returned about $20 million in the form of rebates


City Journal

Steven Malanga

Redistricting Wars

The hidden story of the 2012 elections

Spring 2012

Every ten years, after the U.S. Census releases its latest population reports, most of the 50 states begin the complicated process of drawing new election districts. As you might expect, partisan bickering and maneuvering inevitably distort things. So a decade ago, Arizona voters decided to end the partisanship by removing the redistricting process from the state legislature and placing it in the hands of an independent commission. Last year, the new commission, consisting of two Democrats, two Republicans, and a nonpartisan chair, got to work on its first set of maps after the 2010 census.

Unfortunately, the results were anything but nonpartisan. The independent chair sided consistently with the two Democrats, essentially giving them control over the makeup ofthe congressional and state legislative maps. Lawsuits were launched, along with a push by Arizonas Republican governor, Jan Brewer, to impeach the chair. The new maps, if let stand, could reshape the states political landscape in the Democrats favor, the Arizona Republic reported. Already, state lawmakers are looking at doing away with the commission or significantly changing it.

Arizona isnt alone. In many states, including those where reformers had tried to make the process less political, redistricting has already determined the outcome of this years races for Congress and state legislature. In part, blame naivety for the reformers failure: redistricting isnt easily drained of partisanship. But federal election law—especially the Voting Rights Act, which mandates a certain amount of legal gerrymandering to reach preferred racial outcomes—shares some of the


blame. Though some states are inching toward ways of carving out fairer, less politicized electoral maps, reform is slow, and scheming over election districts remains nearly as important as it ever was to politicians fortunes, the composition of state legislatures, and even control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Controversy over redistricting is almost as old as America itself. The word gerrymander, which describes an oddly shaped district drawn to gain electoral advantage, first appeared in print on March 26, 1812, in the Boston Gazette. The paper used the term to describe a district in Essex County, drawn by Massachusettss ruling Democratic-Republican Party, that looked like a salamander. Governor Elbridge Gerry had signed into law an electoral map incorporating the strange district—hence the portmanteau word.

Gerrymandering has persisted partly becausethe U.S. Constitution is silent about redistricting, so courts have had trouble ruling on the constitutionality of obviously partisan districts. The Constitution no more regulates gerrymandering than it regulates pork-barrel spending or the many advantages of incumbency, write two legal scholars, Larry Alexander and Saikrishna Prakash, in a 2008 William and Mary Law Review article. Its true that in 1986, the Supreme Court tried to define excessively partisan gerrymandering, using terms like fairness and discriminatory intent, and to label it unconstitutional. But in a 2004 ruling, the Supreme Court admitted that the language of the 1986 decision had resulted in nearly two decades of confused rulings and fruitless efforts at consensus by lower courts. Justice Anthony Kennedy noted that ordering the correction of all election district lines drawn


for partisan reasons would commit federal and state courts to unprecedented intervention in the American political process.

The courts shift raised the stakes in the 2010 elections in a way that went largely unnoticed. Now that the courts were much less likely to intervene to prevent partisan redistricting, the winners of the 2010 elections would have fewer checks on their power to draw districts for the next round of elections, in 2012. Illinois governor Pat Quinns narrow defeat of Republican challenger Bill Brady, for instance, meant that Democrats would dominate redistricting in the Prairie State—a crucial component in any Democratic effort to retake the U.S. House of Representatives this year.

Clashes over redistricting in Illinois and Texas illustrate how much is at stake. A decade ago, federal judges intervened tobreak a Texas redistricting stalemate by drawing a map that largely maintained the status quo. The GOP argued fruitlessly that the new map was unfair, observing that Republican candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives had captured 57 percent of the Texas vote in the previous election but actually held just 15 of the states 32 House seats. So when Republicans took control of the states legislature in 2002, they engineered a new map that helped them win a 2111 edge in congressional representation in the 2004 elections, strengthening the national GOPs hold on the House. Democrats challenged the map, saying that states couldnt have more than one redistricting per decade, but the Supreme Court ruled that nothing in the Constitution prevented it.

The 2010 census brought Texas a


associations with the Democratic Party. Not only had Aguirre made campaign contributions to Democrats; he had been active in left-leaning groups like the Coastal Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, an organization with strong ties to the Service Employees International Union, which represents 700,000 California government employees and is a mainstay of Democratic politics in the Golden State. Investigators for the commissions selection process either missed those associations or ignored them. Aguirre, supposedly one of the four independent members on the commission, helped crucially to tilt it toward the Democrats.

The commission was supposed to hear testimony from ordinary citizens and from local groups and then draw reasonable new maps, ignoring how they might affect the political fortunes of incumbents. Democrats immediately went to work on influencing the testimony—aneffort coordinated, says ProPublica, by Alexis Marks, the deputy director of the House of Representatives California Democratic delegation and a federal government employee. Democrats surreptitiously enlisted local voters, elected officials, labor unions and community groups to testify in support of configurations that coincided with the partys interests, reported ProPublica. When they appeared before the commission, those groups identified themselves as ordinary Californians and did not disclose their ties to the party.

In one particularly egregious case, early drafts of maps showed that incumbent Democratic congresswoman Judy Chu would wind up in a new district tilted against her reelection. Then a group calling itself the Asian American Education Institute jumped in. Testimony submitted by the groups spokesperson, Jennifer Wada, argued that the district wouldnt sufficiently represent Asian interests. But Wada


never revealed that she was a registered lobbyist or that the institute, whose tax records show that it had no full-time employees, was working with a Democratic political consultant to influence the mapmaking. The commission accepted the groups recommendations and gave Chu a district that firewalled her incumbency.

The maps that the commission produced will hand Democrats big wins in Sacramento, tilting the state senate at least two-thirds in their favor. They will also get a windfall in Washington, D.C. Examining population changes around the state, experts had initially predicted that no party would gain significantly on the federal level from redistricting. But the commissions new maps, says ProPublica, will probably give Democrats six or seven extra House seats in a state where the partys voter registrations have grownonly marginally.

Similar maneuvering brought Democrats a victory in Colorado, another state where an independent commission, instituted by statewide referendum, controls redistricting. The states 2011 redistricting commission consisted of five Democrats, five Republicans, and one independent—Mario Carrera, an executive at Entravision, which operates Spanish-language TV and radio stations. Early on, Carrera sided with the Democrats in producing a plan that pitted a number of Colorados Republican state legislative leaders against one another in new districts. The states supreme court rejected the plan, ruling that it violated a provision of Colorado law that requires new districts to respect town and county lines and not split too many of them into different districts.

When the commission went back to the drawing board, Carrera, its chairman, asked both parties to resubmit plans, which


the Democrats, the two new Democratic resubmitted maps were accepted, Robert Loevy, a retired political-science professor and a Republican commissioner, wrote later. The maps crammed ten current Republican state legislators into five new districts, where they would have to compete with one another. Loevy called it one of the severest gerrymanders in state political history. The independent-commission structure in Colorado, he concluded, was a total failure.

Whether partisan legislatures or nonpartisan commissions are running the show, a major reason that redistricting remains arduous is the role that race and ethnicity play in mapmaking. Back in 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to ensure that black voters had equal access to the ballot box, which had routinely been denied in the South. Congress intended the bill to endform of officially sanctioned gerrymandering. We have involved the federal courts, and indeed the Nation, in the enterprise of systematically dividing the country into electoral districts along racial lines, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has written. After the 1990 census, for instance, North Carolina submitted to the Department of Justice a redistricting map with one congressional district in which blacks were a majority of voters. The department demanded a second black district, and to create it, the state had to join areas 160 miles apart, incorporating places dissimilar except for their large African-American populations. Since it sliced right through the middle of the state, the new district also reshaped the rest of North Carolinas political map, with many districts needing to be redrawn. A challenge to the map


is complex in practice. In pursuing this line of jurisprudence, Thomas argues, the court has contributed to the racial balkanization of the Nation.

And so, when states with diverse populations draw election districts, they often place an overwhelming emphasis on race. Redistricting expert Tony Quinn points out that nine of the 14 members selected for Californias 2011 redistricting commission were minorities, even though whites make up 58 percent of the states population. Race played a big role in the mapmaking itself, Quinn adds: Often the commission went to ridiculous extremes in its racial line drawing. The commissions two black members, for instance, refused to consider any plan for Los Angeles that reduced the number of congressional districts where a black candidate was likely to be elected below the currentlevel of three, even though population decline means that blacks now constitute just 8 percent of the citys total population, down from about 9.5 percent in 2000. This concern with race helped Democrats, Quinn says, since minority voters tend to support Democratic candidates.

In his account, Loevy detailed how Colorados redistricting commission, working under a court ruling that Hispanics deserved a state house of representatives district in the southern part of the state, created one of the oddest districts ever mapped. House District 62 spreads out broadly from east to west in southern Colorado, but then snakes upward along a narrow band of Interstate Highway 25, moving through sparsely populated land until it reaches the southeastern rim of Pueblo. Why the bizarre shape? There werent enough Hispanics in Colorados


commission placed two Asian neighborhoods that were miles apart in San Diego into the same state senate district to help get an Asian candidate elected.

Congress renewed the Voting Rights Act in 2006, so its influence on redistricting is likely to remain substantial. One part of the act does face potential overthrow by the courts, however: Section 5, which requires nine states with a history of denying blacks the right to vote—plus dozens of counties in other states with similar past abuses—to preclear all changes in their voting laws, including redrawn districts, with the Department of Justice.

Officials in many of those jurisdictions have argued that evidence of racism is long in the past and that the onerous preclearance requirements should no longer apply. Georgia representative Lynn Westmoreland has noted,populations. The state legislatures 50 senate districts and 100 house of representatives districts look like boxes piled on top of one another or arranged adjacently, with often regular borders and with house districts compactly placed within larger senate districts. Legislators in the politically divided state—Republicans currently control one house of the state legislature and the governors mansion, while Democrats control the other house—routinely approve the maps. This year, observers agree, Iowas redistricting favored Democrats in Washington by forcing two incumbent GOP congressmen to compete in a single new district. But the plan also gives Republicans a fair shot at controlling both houses of the states legislature.

Replicating what Iowa does may prove impractical because it is so unlike other states. But its still possible to refine redistricting, especially in


had done some crystal-gazing into the financial and speculative world and came up with the thought that he could beat the stock market racket as practiced on the Street, and following his gleam of intuition sold short, through his broker, Francis I. DuPont and Company of Charlotte, North Carolina, four hundred shares of common stock of the Central of Georgia Railway Company, a common carrier organized under the laws of the State of Georgia, in four separate sales of one hundred shares each, as the following schedule would indicate.

                                       being of general knowledge by those who play the market that one selling short lives on the fond hope that the stock sold short would go down and he would be able to purchase said stock at a profit at the time of delivery, to effect his short sales. In this plaintiff's guess turned out to be dead wrong, as the price of the stock continued to advance.
On November 3, 1954, or approximately 15½ months after plaintiff had sold short the last of the four hundred shares *869 of stock the defendant began purchasing and taking delivery of the common stock of the Central of Georgia Railway and continued to make such purchases until May 27, 1957.
On December 5, 1955 the defendant filed an application with the Interstate