become so distorted in his hatred for the Empire that he didn't even fret about war crimes, nor did he think that anyone else would, if the Empire was finally destroyed. His attitude could be summarized as, "Kill them all, and let the lawyers sort it out!"

Operatives for the Unified States did notice his increasingly erratic behavior, and on their advice, the US decided to scale back their contribution and focus instead their own independent action against the Empire. Of course if his scheme was a success, they would also be ready to exploit the situation.

When creating the Russy Federation, one of the few intelligent things they did was to create a balance of power between the three primary parts of the government. The communist party, the militaryand the secret police, the NKVD, made up what was called the "three legged stool". When one of the legs got too strong, the other two legs would gang up to cut it down to size, to balance the system.

What was more difficult was when one of the legs had been brutally cropped, in this case, the military, after their debacle in Manchukuo, with the loss of most of 300 divisions, leaving them so crippled that they could not defend their nation. It also made Loria, the head of the NKVD, the second most powerful man in the Federation. So to keep him out of trouble in Moskva, Chairman Joseph sent him forth across the land, to find those who were not good communists and to have them


killed or enslaved or enlisted. With all the children he could rape and murder as a bonus, as long as he was reasonably discreet about it. Loria was truly happy, and saw it all as a reward.

The rather slap dash division of NKVD, military intelligence, and border guards did not get along particularly well. Sent into Magna Rumeli with the purpose of encouraging restless minorities to revolt against the government, all the NKVD could do well was to torture and murder so was not appreciated by these minorities. The military intelligence thought their purpose was to prepare a route for the military to invade, so they sabotaged what little infrastructure the people had, also breeding resentment. And the border guards were clueless, so did as little as possible.There was no real command structure other than a few political officers, Zampolits, who knew communist doctrine, but nothing about unit operations or leadership. And initiative among the ranks, or even to have NCOs, was forbidden.

So when reconnaisance people from Tanya's division showed up, the locals had no idea who they were, but if it would lead to the eradication of the Russy division, they were all for it. In a short time, the locals had regained their patriotism and appreciation for the Sultan, and were more than happy to help the "flying people".

So with the arrival of the Commonwealth invasion armada, the stage was set. In addition to a huge number of infantry, tanks, artillery, fighter aircraft and bombers, their navy had wisely brought minesweepers, if foolishly


of the wrong kind, and one of the largest mage contingents in the world, mostly well trained, but untested in war. And they were waltzing into one of the largest defense-in-depth ambushes ever created, with at least ten times their number in battle hardened combat mages.

Tanya had long been suspicious of the ability of the Commonwealth to figure out the communications of the Empire, enough for its mage units sent to covertly assist their allies to be able to evade Imperial attacks, both on the ground and with its naval fleet. So with the permission of the Empire's military intelligence, she had implemented a double communications network. A false one using the current Imperial code structure, and a second one, of one use codes sent in the clearon lesser used international channels.

With most eyes focused on the landing at Canakkale, only the Russy high command, then Empire, the Sultan and several key new generation leaders and officers, were made aware of the disappearance of the infiltrator division, followed shortly thereafter by the extermination of seven Russy infantry and mech infantry division poised to invade over the border. This ended the animosity between the new generation and this ethnic and religious minority, preventing what had been on Tanya's old world a nasty genocide.

Meanwhile, Tanya's division moved with practiced efficiency in the direction of the landing. A considerable distance, their less needed ground units were expected to lag behind their air deployed fast mage units. Fastest of all were their forward observer mages, who with great hilarity


noted that thinking they had little to do, the Commonwealth mages seemed to be practicing their "synchronized flying", or "drill and ceremonies in the sky", almost a sin in the eyes of hardened combat mages. For their part, long after the fact, the surviving Commonwealth mages said that they should have paid more attention to those far away mana detection positions, but they were so far away they just didn't want to be bothered.

The Commonwealth noted with disdain that there were some poorly constructed and obvious minefields, made with old style mines and emplaced perhaps decades before. And some of them had even been marked as such with signs. So it was decided to clear those mines in the easiest approach, creating a corridor for the men andequipment. From the Empire's perspective, in military parlance, this is called channelizing the enemy. In this case, so that they would travel through the densest parts of the kill zones created by the Magna Rumeli army, directed by new generation officers, themselves under the direction of Imperial advisors, working under Tanya's supervision.

Back in Berun, the general staff had constructed for them one of the most unusual war rooms ever made. Though the Empire was not officially participating in this battle, agent Margaret Zelle had a heavy company of Imperial spies providing detailed descriptions of the play by play, as well as watching things in both the capital and second city of Magna Rumeli, to counteract any efforts at sabotage, assassination or other mischief by Commonwealth agents and their


embassy there.

Of all the international gaffes, declaring war after initiating war is regarded as the worst. First Lord Churbull, blinded by his ambition and hate, made this gaffe. After the debacle, he was retired to an estate in Coventry, to soon drown in a vat of whisky, as it was known that he preferred it to wine.

Tanya arrived at the head of a brigade of mages, to first perform a repeat of what had happened to the mages of the Unified States fleet, that is, wiping out those Commonwealth mages that were airborne with great speed, and then as the brigade obliterated the newly constructed airfield, fighters and bombers.

The Elphinstine family were military prodigies. On land they were known as some of the worst, most incompetent field commandersthe Commonwealth had ever produced But in naval command, they produced some of the most brilliant admirals of fleet combat ever seen as well. So it was no surprise that Fleet Admiral Georges St. Michael Elphinstine was aboard the flagship. By all accounts he was a great talent, and to his credit he went down with his ship, at the loss of all hands, which would have been the case except that he was detected while being ferried in his sinking longboat and was spirited away for a meeting with a few Imperial interrogation agents who happened to be in the area, who were soon joined by some others from Imperial naval intelligence. He was not abused in any way, and cooperated to spare his family embarrassment as


a living prisoner instead of a dead hero, being rewarded with a new identity and a luxurious villa on what had formerly been known as the Francois Riviera.

His fleet was considerably worse for wear, including the loss of submarines to nets, though they fared much better than the ground invasion forces, who every time they ventured from the beach were brutalized. Some ships had tried maneuvering out of range and had run into minefields, and several minesweepers were lost trying to clear a path. Without spotters on high ground, or mages, their artillery was worse than useless, though did manage to kill two dozen unfortunate Magna Rumeli soldiers by what amounted to bad luck, before those guns were reduced to scrap.

No enemy made it past the first layerof defense before an ignominious retreat was ordered, and since most of the larger ships littered the bottom of the strait, about 70,000 mostly infantry had to be abandoned to be captured by the Rumelians. Strangely enough, this resulted in some very strong words between the Imperial officers present and the Rumelian army and new generation leaders. The latter wanted wholesale butchery of the prisoners, and the Imperial officers were adamant that this was a horrible idea, that would create disaster in the future.

The impasse was quickly broken by the arrival of Colonel Tanya Degurechaff, who descended like an angel from on high, with a company of her top killers comprising her honor guard. Carefully watched by a Commonwealth officer from a long way away, who later reported


that with her arrival, the Imperial officers came to attention and briskly saluted, and several of the Magna Rumeli officers, and even some of the new generation officers actually knealt and bowed, or kowtowed before her.

The argument ended immediately, and the prisoners were put in a beach compound surrounded by barbed wire, but with tents, field kitchens, showers and delousing facilities, an aid station for the wounded, and administrative facilities to notify the international agencies in charge of military prisoners.

Because the First Lord had not declared war before starting it, it was strongly suggested that the Commonwealth government apologize and provide the new Magna Rumeli government with several tons of gold in the manner of reparations. In exchange, large cargo ships of indeterminate registration were used to transportthe prisoners. This created a major problem in Londonium, as not only had they been about to return their currency to the gold standard, which now had to be aborted, but by offloading the prisoners in Londonium itself, rather than the prefered port much further away, they had some 70,000 disorganized soldiers and sailors wandering around their capital telling people of the fiasco.

Which resulted in the current government failing and being replaced in a snap election.

The former Sultan, Mahmad VI, having abdicated his throne, and his new wife, one Margaret Zelle, from the Empire, purchased a very expensive villa on the Francois Riviera, and were soon the toast of the town. They got along well with their neighbor, one Horace Nelson, an older man of substantial means, a


just a brief look at this new world, I decided to stop by and see how you are doing. If there is some time to talk at length, I have some information to share that you might find very interesting."

Tanya set aside her schedule, informing Major Serebryakov that she was not to be disturbed, and to pass the message along to Lieutenant Colonel Weiss, currently supervising a training exercise on the island. She then asked the Major to brew and bring in to her office an entire samovar full of coffee, and a coffee set for two. Visha could not help but stare at the unusual man, but held her tongue before leaving.

He began by saying that their story was far from unique. That the godlike thing lovescould not be ignored. And a few in particular were genuinely disturbing.

In past, there had been repeated efforts to both identify and assassinate her by various foreign powers. But penetrating the armor of the Imperial army was extremely difficult. And coupled with a very efficient counterintelligence service, adept at locating and eliminating enemy infiltration, it had cost these foreign powers a lot of resources, who generally disappeared, or worse, were turned to work against their former bosses.

The Empire's political regime and its dominant party had been a great success, but their nation as a whole had become tired of war, with its related human and economic cost. This had resulted in the rise of a rather shrill and irrational opposition party that in many ways echoed the recently


victorious "peace party" that had taken power in Londonium. And during the peace conference between the Commonwealth, Magna Rumeli, the recently independent Turkman Principalities, and the Empire, held in the Waldstatte Confederacy, strange and ill considered ideas had begun to emerge, often in tandem with some good ideas.

For example, as a good idea, the creation of a permanent commission on the laws and rules of war, in the form of a great treaty called the Zureich Convention, a generally good idea, Tanya herself recently using the current laws of war, and the lack of laws, to savage ends, and she strongly wished there to be some way so that others would not use such glaring loopholes in the future.

However, a bad idea was the creation of an InternationalCoalition of Nations, which on the surface was to settle disputes between nations, but in reality seemed to have at its core the idea of dismembering the Empire to return its captured territories to those who started the war against it. As well as creating a "war crimes" tribunal to prosecute those who were guilty of war crimes determined after the fact.

The Empire's opposition party seemed to be more than willing to offer up its military leaders, and Tanya, to face a kangaroo court as human sacrifices, to achieve "Peace at any Price", their colorful slogan. The good of the Empire was very secondary to their lust for political power.

Other problems of the ICN idea were numerous. Both the Unified States and the Russy Federation were hoping to


use such an organization to their own ends. Both of them sought to obtain advantages over the Akitsushima Dominion, and though very distrustful of each other were willing to in some ways to join forces against both them and the Empire, perhaps as a prelude to an eventual war between themselves.

As Tanya made preparations to return to Berun, something Sabetay Sevi said to her engraved itself in her mind: "You are never closer to the precipice of cataclysmic war then when others are striving for what they call a just and lasting peace." But nothing she could have thought of would prepare her for what was waiting for her there.

It was unnerving that instead of being driven to staff headquarters, her driver had been ordered to take her,warming up machines. Then Dr. Schugel directed that Tasya begin with a basic healing mana feed to Tanya. And then they began the training flow to the nine. Tanya realized that a lot of mana was draining out of her along with the data being copied. But out of the corner of her eye she saw that Tasya was also squirming, providing a lot more healing mana than she was intending to.

Before the drain could become dangerous, it lessened on its own and both Tanya and Tasya went into a deep sleep. When they awoke an hour or so later, the lab was still buisily working on data, but next door they could hear the girls chattering away. Wanting to meet their lookalikes, they were interrupted by Dr.


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Silicon Valley becomes center of mobile universe

The center of gravity for the global smartphone industry is shifting to Silicon Valley, where local companies are transforming the way people use handheld gadgets to talk, send messages and browse the Internet.

Even five years ago, the trendiest smartphone designs were coming from places like Waterloo, Ontario, home of Blackberry-maker Research In Motion, and Espoo, Finland, where Nokia is headquartered. But that changed with the 2007 launch of Apple's revolutionary iPhone, which electrified consumers with its sleek combination of touch-screen browser, music library and a seemingly infinite warehouse of downloadable "apps."

Since then, Google's Android operating system has begun catching on with manufacturers of phones, netbooks and tablet computers. Microsoft and Nokia now employ hundreds of people working on smartphones in the valley.Motion are still the leading manufacturers; nearly 60 percent of smartphones sold around the world in the last quarter of 2009 carried their brands, according to the market research firm iSuppli.

But figures compiled by the Gartner research firm show the percentage of phones sold with Nokia's Symbian operating system or Microsoft's Windows Mobile software is decreasing, while Apple's iPhone OS and Google's Android are both increasing their share of the market.

"Just browsing the Web on your mobile phone is a very different experience than it was three or four years ago. The market has moved forward around the whole browsing experience, and Apple and Google have both had a dramatic effect in that area," said Chris Jones, an analyst with the Canalys tech research firm.

Jones, who tracks the


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Google executive Andy Rubin said a number of technological advances, including faster processors and touch screens, were key to the advent of smartphones. But he said a major change occurred when some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies threw their weight behind taking those advances and creating dramatically new mobile products, like the iPhone and Google's Android and Palm's webOS operating systems.

"The shift that I saw — this was likefour or five years ago — was that Silicon Valley started entering the mobile phone space," Rubin said. "That meant the industry was ready, the networks were ready and the whole industry was ready for that innovation to take place."

While Google has dabbled in selling its own smartphone, Rubin said the company's main goal is developing new technology that will "delight consumers" and build the audience for Google's advertising business. Google has added so many Android engineers that the group is moving to larger quarters in the Googleplex. The company says it now has more than 20,000 developers writing software applications for Android, and local developers and trade show promoters say interest in the platform is growing.

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Microsoft has about 200 employees in Palo Alto who work on smartphone research and development, operations and marketing, a spokesman said.

Nokia, meanwhile, says it moved its developer outreach headquarters to Mountain View from Finland last summer, after recognizing that the valley has the richest concentration of independent software developers and companies to write smartphone applications.

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dissolution of marriage was fully adjudicated and became final.

¶ 6 On February 11, 2010, plaintiffs filed their three-count complaint against defendants. Counts I and II were brought by Milijana as next friend of Kristian. Count I was for legal malpractice, while count II was for intentional breach of fiduciary duty. Count III was brought by Milijana individually and was for intentional interference with her custody rights.

¶ 7 Count I's claim for legal malpractice alleged that Brend met with Milijana at her house on November 5, 2003, and "wanted to do everything all over as if the parties never had a custody trial." Brend insisted on discussing the issues of Kristian's school, religious upbringing, and custody, all of which had been resolved by the court; however, Brend refused toBrend's negligent acts, plaintiffs would not have become entangled in an unnecessary second custody battle from May 23, 2005, until November 11, 2007.

¶ 12 Plaintiffs alleged that Brend committed legal malpractice during a pretrial conference on September 18, 2007, when he falsely informed the court that the parenting "arrangement" did not interfere with Kristian's extra curricular activities. Plaintiffs contended that Brend knew or should have known that Kristian had been forced to quit his swim team and Tae Kwon Do because Manheir did not want Kristian to participate in activities that would interfere with his parenting time. Plaintiffs alleged that Brend committed legal malpractice on November 8, 2007, when he approached Milijana in the hallway of the courthouse and tried to convince her that even though she was


the custodial parent, Manheir was entitled to an equal amount of parenting time with Kristian. Plaintiffs contended that but for Brend's unsupported argument that Manheir was entitled to an equal amount of parenting time with Kristian, the issue of Manheir's visitation rights would have been decided sooner.

¶ 13 Plaintiffs alleged that Brend committed legal malpractice on December 11, 2007, prior to Dr. Van Byssum's deposition, when Brend attempted to wrongfully influence Dr. Van Byssum by telling her that "Milijana was the sole cause of the litigation and that Milijana was obsessed with obtaining at least four days a week with the minor child solely for the purpose of receiving child support from Manheir." Plaintiffs alleged Brend committed legal malpractice during the hearing on Milijana's amended motion to modifyManheir's visitation when he successfully objected to Dr. Van Byssum testifying to what Kristian told her about his preferences regarding his schedule with his parents. Plaintiffs alleged that but for Brend's objection, the court would have heard from Dr. Van Byssum that Kristian wanted to spend more time with Milijana and that he was afraid of Manheir. Finally, plaintiffs alleged Brend committed further legal malpractice during the evidentiary hearing, and during the hearing on the motion to reconsider, when his questions of the witness and his comments to the court revealed his bias in favor of Manheir and against Milijana.

¶ 14 In count II, plaintiffs claimed that Brend intentionally breached his fiduciary duty toward Kristian when he engaged in the conduct described above favoring Manheir. In count III,


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Yesterday(Maureen Buccellato) 23/09/2019 20:28Marilyn Livingston Dillow

Marilyn Livingston Dillow was a long time lover of Warren Zevon and the mother of Jordan Zevon. She is often noted as Zevon's first wife, although this is incorrect. Crystal Zevon is the only person he ever married. She is also incorrectly confused for Violet "cybelle" Santangelo (currently active in musical theater using the stage name Laura Kenyon), Zevon's duo partner in the group lyme & cybelle. Dillow died of breast cancer on March 4, 2004 at age 57, only a few months after Warren died (September 7, 2003) of the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma. In fact Jordan was informed of her cancer three weeks after his father died. He assisted the family in trying to help her through what was thought to be treatable cancer, putting


his new musical ambitions temporally on hold. She went by the nickname "Tule", and Zevon made a song about her called "Tule's Blues" (Wanted Dead or Alive).

"The French Inhaler" is mainly intended as a kiss-off to Livingston. The over-all bitter tone of the song was lyrically modeled after Zevon found out about Livingston's post-breakup meeting with another musician. Jordan Zevon has described the lyrics of the song as "French Inhaler is [Warren Zevon's] way of saying 'fuck you' to my mom after she slept with another guy." He also went on to say, "...as much as it pains me that it's about my mother, it is the greatest ex-girlfriend 'fuck you' song of all time."The True Story Of Bernard Macfadden

In 1950 a biographer of the elderly Bernarr Macfadden—who by then was known primarily as an octogenarian health fanatic who took a parachute jump each year on his birthday—remarked that his subject’s boyhood adventures bore “a stunning resemblance to the pulp fiction of the period.” That is true but not surprising. Macfadden’s imagination always contained a healthy admixture of pulp; otherwise he could not have invented the confession magazine—“the first new idea in the publishing field in the last fifty years,” according to one contemporary authority—or have made so much money from it. And virtually all that is known about his life before 1893, when he arrived in New York City, comes either directly from him or from one of his worshipful authorized


biographers. Unlike George Washington, who was posthumously served by Parson Weems, Macfadden mythicized himself.

Still, this record is worth examining. What a man chooses to tell about himself can reveal more than the most complete objective account; in Macfadden’s case, it presents a life conceived in terms of struggle, food, and conventional fiction.

The father of physical culture was born Bernard McFadden, on a farm in Mill Spring, Missouri, in 1868. His mother was a consumptive, his father a drunkard who died of delirium tremens when Bernard was four, and the farm a money-loser. The boy was sent to a boarding school whose students, he recalled as an adult, would have made Oliver Twist look “dangerously overstuffed.” He went next to relatives who ran a hotel near Chicago. Within aset up a gym of his own, complete with dumbbells, horizontal bar, two swinging trapezes, and a tenpound lead bar that he carried inside his shirt on daily six-mile walks.

When he felt sufficiently regenerated to set out again, he became a hobo of sorts, riding the rails, descending on more of his numerous relations, and working—as a water boy for a construction gang, a dentist’s assistant, a wood chopper, and, in the tradition of Franklin and Twain, a printer’s devil. Toward the end of this period, while toiling in a coal mine, Bernard had one of those moments of revelation that dot his recollections. He suddenly saw that his mission in life was to preach the gospel of health. He got busy: returning to St. Louis, he saved


the publisher to whom he had sent his novel, The Athlete’s Conquest , had replied, “Contribution is the worst piece of junk I ever read. Rejected.”

Deciding that his prose would benefit from formal schooling, Macfadden signed on as professor of kinistherapy and all-purpose coach at a St. Louis military school and liberally partook of its curriculum for a year or so. Then, armed with new-found literacy, he set out for Boston, which at the time seemed the logical place for any young American to commence a life in letters. But he was struck by yet another moment of revelation. New York, he realized, was the city of his future. There were all those skyscrapers, pulsing with power; better yet, there were all those flabby men sitting on parkand prudery. His public activities usually served to promote these ideas. He founded in 1899 a magazine called Physical Culture , published the five-volume, 2,969-page Encyclopedia of Physical Culture (first issued in 1911 and periodically revised), and issued a vast array of books and pamphlets. (His wife explained that “every time he cured himself of something by his natural methods”—and it was often—“he wrote a book about it.”) He opened a chain of one-cent Physical Culture restaurants—with menus strikingly similar to those of today’s bean-sprout emporiums. He devised inventions—the Washed Air Company, double-decker subway cars, a breakfast food called “Strenthro”—and produced equally unsuccessful films, which starred members of his family.

And he established a succession of spas he called “healthatoriums”: in upstate New York, on Long Island, in the


New Jersey Pine Barrens (this one he fought in vain to have incorporated as Physical Culture City), in Chicago, and in Battle Creek, Michigan, where, while trying out his milk cure for cancer, he became involved in a sanitarium war with the cereal kings Charles W. Post and the Kellogg brothers. A frequent guest at Physical Culture City recalled that “everybody [there] enjoyed a fad of his or her own. There was a little brown woman like the shrivelled inside of an old walnut, who believed you should imbibe no fluid other than that found in the eating of fruits. … There was a man from Philadelphia who ate nothing but raw meat. He had eruptions all over his body from the diet, but still persisted in it.too far. He was not content, for example, to point out the drawbacks of medical science; he had to develop the conviction that the American Medical Association was trying to poison the wells on his country estate.

The personal impression he made was just as peculiar. He spoke in a flat Missouri twang that struck one employee as “a combination of Old Scotch and Choctaw.” Following the Macf adden theory of voice development he would periodically, and without warning, break into loud mooing or braying; when merely speaking he had a penchant for malapropisms, referring to fleas in the ointment and comparing himself to Huckleberry Flynn. To promote his cure for baldness, which involved yanking vigorously on one’s hair, he affected a thick, springy pompadour. He believed in the


wife, “that any kind of publicity was better than being ignored.” He consequently became, at least to nonbelievers, a figure of fun. But Macfadden’s egotism and obsessiveness were not all that amusing to his own family. After two early and short-lived marriages, both excised from the official history, he had apparently resigned himself to living the solitary life of so many crusaders.

Then he met a champion swimmer named Mary Williamson. He was in England at the time, organizing a competition to find the country’s “most perfectly formed female"; her prize, he later allowed, was he. During their marriage, which lasted from 1912 to 1946, when long and bitter divorce proceedings finally brought it to a close, she had to bear a great deal, including seven children—Byrnece, Beulah, Beverly,Braunda, Byron, Berwyn, and Bruce. The Physical Culture Family (as the brood invariably was referred to in Macfadden’s publications) not only had to suffer the embarrassment of their picturesque names, they had to bellow for an hour each day and exercise ad nauseum.

Mrs. Macfadden was pregnant so often, and in such discomfort, that she dedicated her autobiography ”… particularly to those merciful doctors ever ready to reduce the pain of childbirth.” She believed, moreover, that her husband caused both the miscarriage of yet another child, by forcing her into strenuous exercise while pregnant, and the death of Byron. Macfadden had reacted to a convulsion, she charged, by plunging the one-year-old into a hot bath; naturally, calling a doctor would have been out of the question.

Whatever the real cause


of the tragedy, Macfadden’s reaction was typical. He first had his wife join him on a two-week, midwinter hike from northern Massachusetts to southern Connecticut, then wrote an editorial for Physical Culture called “The Death of Little Billy.” This ugly spate of self-justification ran for three black-bordered pages and blamed the child’s death on a fall (fictitious, according to Mrs. Macfadden), on the inadvertent neglect of his exercises, and on overfeeding caused by “mother love”—”a mad devotion of the mother for the object of her affection.”

But if Macfadden was sometimes ruthless and frequently absurd, he was far from ineffectual. In 1935 the combined circulation of his magazines was 7,355,000—more than those of Hearst, Luce, or Curtis. Whatever his peculiarities, he was a brilliant magazine publisher.

He started Physical Cultureand up to half a million by Armistice Day. As the magazine prospered, it became more general, running articles on how to skate and how celebrities keep in shape and fiction by the likes of Faith Baldwin and Adela Rogers St. John. But its essential character remained the same, and Macfadden continued to provide a substantial proportion of the material—either as himself or under one of a collection of pen names. There were several advice columns, with Macfadden’s solution for virtually every problem—psychological, social, or physical—being some combination of fasting, hiking, and dietary reform. There was also “The Physical Culture Correspondence Club,” some of whose entries were just as racy as anything to be found in the back pages of The New York Review of Books: “American bachelor,


girls who were bewitched by some socialite’s irresistible charms. Most of them could say, as one did, “In reviewing my life I cannot detect a single instance in which my misfortune was the result of my own misdoing.” The confession magazines offered no-fault thrills; their pathos was sentimental in the sense of being wholly unearned.

Macfadden manipulated the formula masterfully. He knew the illusion of authenticity was essential, so instead of hiring what he called “art artists” to illustrate the stories, he used staged photographs—featuring such models as the then-unknown Fredric March, Jean Arthur, and Norma Shearer—and he made every contributor sign an affidavit stating that his or her story was indeed true. In 1927, however, after a piece called “The Revealing Kiss” used the names of eight actualstory, romance, confessions , and love .) Macfadden believed in volume: he started magazine after magazine and quashed the unsuccessful ones as quickly as possible. A flag flew on the Macfadden Building for each Macfadden publication, and employees would go up to the roof first thing each morning to see if they still had a job. Among the short-lived flags were ones that bore the legend Beautiful Womanhood , whose undoing was an ill-conceived, scathing attack on spinsters, and Brain Power , whose title apparently suggested to readers that they were somehow lacking in that department. But the mainstays—the confession group, True Detective Mysteries and an inevitable spin-off called Master Detective , and the dependable Physical Culture —had, by the late twenties, built Macfadden a fortune of $30,000,000.

Macfadden


was undone by ambition. Always obsessed with spreading the message of physical culture, he looked around to see who had the widest audience in America. It was the President. His wife reported that he had his eye on that office as early as 1914, when he wrote, “political contests that derive their support through advocating physical culture reforms will, I believe, become a reality in the not far distant future. ” But nothing happened. Eventually he concluded that the only way to be taken seriously as a candidate was to be talked up in the press. And since the newspapers never mentioned his name without the trace of a smirk, he decided to start his own: the New York Graphic .

The Graphic represented one of the low pointshigh point of Leonard Kip Rhinelander’s divorce trial. The young millionaire was suing his bride of a month on the grounds that she had concealed from him the fact that she was part Negro; one day in court she reportedly stripped to the waist to prove the falseness of the charge. When the Graphic ran its composograph of the scene, circulation jumped by one hundred thousand. The paper always had a lot of readers—as one observer eulogized, “The only value ever claimed for it was that it educated readers up to a point where they were able to understand the other tabloids”—but it was a flop with advertisers. By the time it folded, in 1932, it had lost Macfadden $11,000,000.

The paper had failed to help Macfadden get his


used company funds to finance his campaigns and forced him to sell all his holdings and step down as president. After a few years he revived Physical Culture —which had been transformed into a conventional women’s magazine during his absence and run into the ground—and announced plans for a whole new magazine kingdom, but it never worked out.

Auden wrote of Edward Lear that he “became a land.” Bernarr Macfadden became a press release. In the last eighteen years of his life he was featured in Time (which dubbed him “Body Love”) or Newsweek eighteen times. He ran for the Senate in Florida. He conducted innumerable fasts and hikes. He offered a prize for the best biographical play about his life. In 1949, at the age of eighty-one, hetook up parachuting and thereafter tried to make a jump each year on his birthday. Claiming that his third wife had “humiliated” him by losing her figure, he married a woman of forty-two; she later had the marriage annulled. In 1953 he declared “his acceptance of the nomination of the Honest party for mayor. He pledged a business administration that would make the sales tax unnecessary, eliminate traffic congestion, and obtain double-deck subway cars. … He promised also to purge the city of Communists.”

He died in 1955 from an attack of jaundice aggravated by a three-day fast. His estate was worth practically nothing, and he generally was regarded as a forlorn old joke. But a quarter of a century later, white bread is beginning to be crowded off


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the nationwide level, Steinbeck and his shut good friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, launched into a month lengthy marine specimen-collecting day trip within the Gulf of California, which led to their collaboration at the Sea of Cortez.

'One of my life's maximum tragedies is to have already learn Pickwick Papers - i cannot return and browse it for the 1st time' Fernando PessoaFew first novels have created as a lot well known pleasure because the Pickwick Papers - a comic book masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old writer to rapid repute.

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once sinful, and traditionally most sensible shunned altogether, and so went on with deepening notes or even with brief arresting gestures of the best arm and hand, to stir and exhort us in the direction of goodness, in the direction of that smooth, unsectarian goodness, goodness ordinarily and not anything specifically, which the Zeitgeist appeared to point out in these transitional years. 7 the college by no means fairly received carry of me. in part i believe that was once simply because i used to be a day-boy and so freer than lots of the boys, in part as a result of a temperamental disposition to work out issues in my very own means and feature my inner most desires, partially simply because i used to be aDynamo Kiev have been ordered to close part of their stadium for next month's Europa League quarter-final after racist behaviour by fans towards Everton players.

The Ukrainian side has also been fined 15,000 euros (£10,950) by UEFA for the setting off of fireworks and for insufficient organisation.

The racist behaviour took place during the 5-2 second-leg win over Everton on March 19.

Dynamo Kiev will have some sections closed. Credit: PA

UEFA has ordered partial closure of the NSK Olimpiyskiy stadium for the first leg of the quarter-final against Fiorentina, to be played in Kiev on April 16.

A UEFA statement read: "The CEDB (UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body) has ordered the partial closure of the NSK Olimpiyskiy stadium during the next UEFA competition match which FC Dynamo Kyiv would play as


the host club, and in particular, Blocks 43 and 45 of the stadium.

"The Ukrainian club have also been fined 15,000 euros for the setting off of fireworks and the insufficient organisation."

Celtic have been fined just under £10,000 by Uefa following the misbehaviour of both their players and fans during last month's Europa League clash with Inter Milan.

The Hoops have been ordered to pay 8,000 euros (£5,861) after collecting five or more cautions during the 1-0 defeat to the Italians at San Siro.

They were also hit with a further 5,000-euro (£3,663) punishment after travelling supporters set off flares during the Round of 32 fixture, which saw the Scottish champions crash out after a 4-3 aggregate defeat.Democratic presidential hopeful US Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district Tulsi Gabbard (L) and former Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard sued former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for allegedly defaming her by suggesting the Hawaii congresswoman is a "Russian asset."

"Clinton's false assertions were made in a deliberate attempt to derail Tulsi's campaign," said the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

The suit claims that Gabbard has suffered "actual damages" of "$50 million — and counting" from Clinton's comments. But the suit does not cite a specific amount of damages it is seeking.

Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee who previously was a senator from New York, said in an October interview that an unnamed Democratic presidential candidate was "the favorite


of the Russians."

Clinton did not mention Gabbard, a four-term congresswoman, by name in that interview with the podcast "Campaign HQ With David Plouffe."

But Clinton's spokesman, Nick Merrill, said after the interview that "If the nesting doll fits," when asked if she had been referring to Gabbard, who is also a major in the Army National Guard and a combat veteran of Iraq.

Merrill later said in a tweet that Clinton was referring to the Republican Party grooming Gabbard. But it is Russians, not the GOP, who are known for making nesting, or Matryoshka dolls.

Clinton, wife of President Bill Clinton, lost the 2016 election to Republican nominee Donald Trump.

The report by special counsel Robert Mueller as well as a probe by the Senate Intelligence Committee have both found that RussianThe Knicks and Nets tend to dominative the narrative in the Atlantic, but you have to look outside of New York to find the true power players in the division.

The Raptors and Celtics are unlikely to become League Pass staples anytime soon, but they’ve turned into unlikely breadwinners in the division as the New York teams flounder in mediocrity. Toronto owns arguably the best backcourt in the league outside of Golden State and has the necessary veteran complements to make them the heavy favorites, while Boston’s mish-mash of talent and bright head coach make them the closest thing to a dark horse in this division.

How do all five Atlantic teams look heading into 2015–16? Let’s dive into our season preview.

• NBA middle class in tricky spot | Who


goes from lottery to playoffs?

1. Toronto Raptors

2014-15 results: 49–33 | Lost in first round

Outlook: The Raptors are unlikely to be challenged as they go for their third straight Atlantic Division crown—the question is what will they do after that? Toronto has set franchise records for wins in each of the past two seasons, but its playoff performance has been dismal, failing to advance out of the first round. Last season, the Raptors were embarrassingly swept by the Wizards despite holding home-court advantage. This year, there’s cause for optimism. The Raptors landed DeMarre Carroll this summer—the closest Toronto will come to reeling in a marquee free agent—and fortified its bench with the grab bag of Luis Scola, Bismack Biyombo and Anthony Bennett. Kyle Lowry is in the best shapeof his career and DeMar DeRozan is in a contract year. Sometimes you need to suffer the lows in order to achieve the highs in the NBA. With All-Star Weekend also coming to Toronto this year, the table is set for the Raptors to steal the spotlight.

Best case: Lowry’s new slender frame doesn’t diminish the size of the chip on his shoulder, fueling the Raptors to their first conference finals appearance in franchise history.

Worst case: Injuries rear their ugly head and Toronto finds itself stuck in the mud, producing another good-but-not-great year with an all-too-familiar first-round exit.

2. Boston Celtics

2014-15 results: 40–42 | Lost in first round

Outlook: The Brad Stevens Era enters Year Three in Boston and for the first time the Celtics coach will deal with legitimate NBA


since 1987, and he knew that she had several allergies. However, Mrs. Olsen's medical history gave no indication that she would have an allergic reaction to the medication received during the catheterization procedure.
On December 19, after being properly prepared, Mrs. Olsen was taken to the catherization lab, and the procedure was started at 10:01 a.m. One of the nurses involved with the procedure placed a Hep-lock device in Mrs. Olsen's right arm for the purpose of administering medications during the catheterization procedure. Before the actual catheterization, the nurses administered four separate doses of Versed, which, according to expert testimony, is a medication routinely given to patients during such procedures to relieve anxiety and cause the patients to experience what is called "conscious sedation." Phenergan, a medication for nausea,was also administered to Mrs. Olsen through the Hep-lock device.
Dr. Rich inserted the diagnostic catheter into the femoral artery, and more medication was administered through the Hep-lock device to prevent blood clotting. He performed the diagnostic heart examination by standing near Mrs. Olsen's head and taking X-rays. Mrs. Olsen's only pain was in her right hand and her right arm, where she was receiving the medication. The plaintiffs alleged no negligence regarding the actual heart catheterization procedure.
According to the Dr. Rich's notes, Mrs. Olsen first complained of pain in her right *878 hand at approximately 11:01 a.m. This complaint of pain is the critical point of Mrs. Olsen's allegation of negligence. She alleged that she complained of pain to the nurses with each administration of the Versed, and


from Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Higgs did his internship at a Memphis hospital and served residencies in Houston and Atlanta. His residencies were in general and vascular surgery, and in pulmonary work. He is on the staff of Mobile Infirmary, Providence Hospital, and Springhill Hospital, and is on the consulting staff at the University of South Alabama Hospital. Dr. Higgs has been a clinical professor of surgery at the University of South Alabama since 1976. He has been in private practice with three other doctors since 1976. Dr. Higgs testified that in his medical practice his speciality consisted of conducting vascular, cardiac, pulmonary, and esophageal surgery, and he testified that he occasionally puts in pacemakers. He testified that doing vascular surgeries required working with injuries to, and/orcomplications with, veins, arteries, and blood vessels.
Dr. Higgs further testified that the cardiac medical treatment and/or surgeries that he conducts are often performed in response to cardiac catheterization results. Dr. Higgs explained that because his speciality was working with veins, arteries, and blood vessels, he was often called upon for assistance *882 or advice during catheterization procedures. He stated that he was in catheterization labs "frequently." As mentioned earlier, dealing with Hep-lock devices and IV sites is an integral part of Dr. Higgs's daily practice. He testified that on the the day before the trial he had treated a patient with the exact complications as Mrs. Olsen. The record indicates that Dr. Rich sought Dr. Higgs's medical advice after realizing that Mrs. Olsen's right arm and hand had


Milo Yiannopoulos sings "America the Beautiful" to cheers and Nazi salutes. Buzzfeed News A trove of documents and excerpts from conversations within Breitbart News, the far-right website led by President Donald Trump's former top strategist, Steve Bannon, shows seemingly deep ties to modern Nazi figures in the US.

Uncovered by BuzzFeed News' Joseph Bernstein, a series of communications and leaks as well as a video establish how the website's former tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos often trafficked with ideological extremists on the right to fight a culture war under Bannon's instructions, in one email, to "go help save western civilization."

Though Yiannopoulos often defends his work as being satirical provocations designed to counter what he considers liberal-dominated college campuses across the US, BuzzFeed's report uncovered damning ties between Yiannopoulos and Nazism.

Forexample, BuzzFeed found that some of Yiannopoulos' passwords to private accounts included references to Kristallnacht and the Night of the Long Knives, two violent episodes against Jews and perceived opponents of Nazi Germany that precipitated the Holocaust.

Yiannopoulos himself identifies as gay and Jewish and denied being a racist to BuzzFeed.

Also in the report, BuzzFeed published a video of Yiannopoulos singing an overblown version of "America the Beautiful" as the white supremacist Richard Spencer and other so-called alt-right figures gave Nazi salutes.

Watch the video below, and read the full report at BuzzFeed here.


be much stronger.

Here’s the thing: Icelandic is a majority language – spoken by about 97% of the whole population.

Welsh – as a result of state policy over many centuries – is only a minority language. It’s spoken by about 20% of the whole population of Wales (though the concentration of speakers in a small number of communities is as high as around 75% and there are many more in the 20 to 50% bracket).

Wales is, in effect, a colony of England. Iceland is independent.

After my native English, Welsh was the first language I got fluent in (as a 22-year-old adult).

As I invested more and more of my own time, efforts and emotions in Welsh, I also started to take an interest in attempts to nurture, develop and normaliseis, though, it’s in Welsh.

So here are some more key points in English.

An Icelandic influence in Wales already?

Although the Icelandic and Welsh are not closely related, there is a Norse linguistic heritage in Wales, dating back to the time that the Vikings were big around the Irish sea and settled along parts of the Welsh coast.

That heritage, though is to be seen in some of the English geographical names in Wales, rather than the Welsh ones .

I found leaflets Reykjávik’s striking modern city hall for places called Grímsey and Hrísey. The “-sey” ending – island – is found in Swansea, the English name for Welsh Abertawe and Anglesey (for Ynys Môn).

The use of Icelandic in literature, publishing and the traditional media

Welsh and Icelandic have a strong literary heritage


dating back over 1000 years in common and historically high levels of popular literacy.

Virtually monolingual Welsh-speaking Wales was the most literate country in the world in the late eighteenth century.

Iceland today jostles with the other “Nordic” countries for that top literacy spot.

The two countries also share a veneration of poets and the composers of hymns.

Wales has, among many others, Williams Pantycelyn (1717-1791).

Iceland has, among many others, Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614-1674) after whom the striking modern Church in the Reykjavík is named (this is NOT the city’s cathedral church, I discovered).

Going into the several large bookshops was still sobering, though. The reason: the sheer number of translations of classical and famous contemporary foreign authors into Icelandic.

In the video I was at the crime shelves and you’ll see volumes by JoI heard languages other than Icelandic.

In several cafés I was served by people from elsewhere in Europe, taking advantage of the free movement of labour within “European Economic Area” (Iceland is not in the EU).

There was the occasional café in the centre where signage appeared to be in English only.

The tourism and leisure industries also use a lot of English, as you’d expect, though sometimes Icelandic still takes confident priority on signage.

All the music I heard playing in shops and cafés was English.

Things felt a lot more Icelandic in the centre of town on weekday mornings, I’m glad to say.

Icelandic in the internet age

Another area of concern for the future health of Icelandic is the wider influence of English media and the internet.

This wasn’t something I could observe


Scott Parsons founded Pacific Wireless as a sole proprietorship in December of 1998. The Company incorporated in March of 1999. In June 2005, Cushcraft Corporation acquired Pacific Wireless. In March 2007, Laird Technologies acquired Cushcraft Corporation. Pacific Wireless is now part of a global corporation with an extensive technology background and product line.Dark Entries is pleased to present the sophomore album from Austin, Texas analogue hardware enthusiast Bill Converse. Immersed in the early days of the 90s midwest rave scene, Bill began DJing at a young age in Lansing, Michigan. Luminaries such as Claude Young, Traxx, and Derrick May were key early influences. Techno, noise, ambient and tape processing are all part of his uncanny sound palette. His debut album ‘Meditations/Industry’ was released on cassette in 2013 and edited for a vinyl release in January 2016 followed by two 12” singles ‘Warehouse Invocation’ and ‘7 of 9’ the same year. ‘The Shape Of Things To Come’ is a 70 minute journey spread across two pieces of vinyl. It's comprised of seven tracks recorded directly to tape with no overdubs, made


at Converse's home studio. At the time of recording, Bill was sending this material to Josh Vance (Josua Dorje Ngodup) for feedback. Most of the time Josh would respond in the form of artwork, and then Bill would create another track inspired by this feedback chain. Converse has dedicated this series of tracks to him. The songs on this album reveal a sublime influence from Detroit techno, early Chicago house, and Acid. For this album Converse slightly bumped up the tempos geared for dancefloor energy. Built around vintage synthesizer lines and gritty drum machine percussion, the tracks evoke “how things have changed and how they have come to be.” All songs were mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Each LP is housed inkidding!! honestly he pulled out something special just like when FruitDealer won his tournament. He's going to be the most analysed zerg player until now..... Wonderworld!!! Wonderworld!!! the happiness is free.....!!!!!!

WNxTbatz Profile Joined February 2013 Canada 7 Posts #6 This strat was amazing, definitely going to shift the meta.Awesome Review Tim!!

Cyro Profile Blog Joined June 2011 United Kingdom 19832 Posts #7 He was able to hit wall vs safe cc first several times and come out completely fine, flash was 9scouting 2 player maps and going cc first after the nat hatch got scouted with his CC on lowground, or on highground as part of wall on 4 player maps - without a scout because you cant confirm early pool or not in time, very efficient play but


moves his lings around to pressure the terran and find openings in the terran player's defense. Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.

HeeroFX Profile Blog Joined November 2010 United States 2619 Posts #16 Already seeing this on the ladder and lost to it like flash lol so I don't feel bad if flash died to it.

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It was a good MLG, ots of stuff to think about Indeed impressive. I liked mc's builds too. He shut terrans down completely. Ofcourse, with mc's and life's strategies micro-ing well is important, need more apm!It was a good MLG, ots of stuff to think about The two NBA teams in states with legal weed are called the Nuggets and the Blazers...

Spyko ProfileA single ticket in California won the $530 million jackpot in Friday's drawing. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo

June 8 (UPI) -- Someone who picked up a Mega Millions ticket in California woke up rich Saturday.

A single ticket sold in the state matched all six numbers to win the $530 million jackpot in Friday night's drawing or cash payout of $345.2 million, lottery officials announced.

Winning numbers for June 7 were white balls 17, 19, 27, 40 and 68, plus gold Mega Ball 2.

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Injury sidelines Philippoussis

Mark Philippoussis withdrew from the Sydney International tennis tournament as expected on Sunday after suffering a groin injury during the Hopman Cup.

His participation in the Australian Open, which begins on 17 January in Melbourne, also remains in doubt. Defending women's champion Justine Henin-Hardenne is also out of the Sydney event because of a knee injury. In the only main draw men's or women's singles match on Sunday, Nathalie Dechy beat American Lisa Raymond 7-5 6-3. Number one men's seed Lleyton Hewitt begins his quest for a fourth Sydney title on Tuesday when he plays Karol Beck. Lindsay Davenport, top seed in the women's draw, has been handed a first-round bye and plays France's Dechy in the second round on Tuesday.
The hastily and ill prepared partition of the subcontinent is one of the greatest tragedies in human history. The event resulted in the displacement of between 10 and 12 million people, creating a staggering refugee crisis for both India and Pakistan. As the British left and two new nation states were born, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs who had lived in relative harmony went into a frenzy of murderous rage, with Muslims on one side and Hindus and Sikhs on the other. They raided each other’s villages and slaughtered entire train loads of refugees. The newly formed governments of Pakistan and India were quite helpless to do anything about the violence. As a result, millions suffered.

But as Jawaharlal Nehru said, the chief sufferers of the partition of India were


the sub-continent’s women. Muslim women were subjected to sexual violence by Sikhs and Hindus, and Muslims did the same to Sikh and Hindu women. According to estimates, between 75,000 and 100,000 women and girls were abducted and raped during partition. Other atrocities against women included forced conversions, forced marriages, molestation, mutilation and murder. Many of the murders were carried out by the women’s own family members. Some, to protect the woman from being violated, others to restore honour once the woman had already been ‘defiled’.

Organised abductions were widespread, especially in situations where refugees were travelling with inadequate protection. An estimated 4000 women in the Gujarat district were openly abducted from refugee trains. In the Rawalpindi district, gangs of armed Muslims abducted large numbers of non-Muslim women and soldthem as slaves in West Punjab. Most of these women ended up as bonded labourers in factories. By 1948, these gangs had also started abducting and selling Muslim women. In East Punjab, the Indian police and military participated in the atrocities. According to Anis Kidwai, a writer, activist and politician from Uttar Pradesh, the ‘better stuff’ would be distributed among the police and military and the rest was handed over to others. Many influential men also used their power to abuse women. A Muslim League member of the legislative assembly was known to be keeping a harem of 500 non-Muslim women. The Maharaja of Patiala was also known to be holding a Muslim woman from a reputable family. Some survivors were forced to wear signs of their violations


housing, and having an upper run and a lower run. An intermediate plate is disposed between the upper run and the lower run and cooperates with the flights of the upper run so that the conveyor conveys solid material along the intermediate plate in a first direction. A bottom plate associated the housing cooperates with the scrapers of the lower run so that the scrapers of the lower run convey solid material along the bottom plate in a second direction opposite the first direction. At least first and second outlets for solid material from the housing are provided, the outlets spaced from each other in the first direction, and disposed on opposite sides of the at least one inlet. And, means defining at least one opening in theintermediate plate between the at least one inlet and the first outlet for allowing a portion of the solid material being conveyed in the first direction to flow through the opening to the lower run of the conveyor, is provided. The dimensions of the opening in the intermediate plate are adjustable to control the amount of solid material that falls from the upper run to the lower run.
The intermediate plate is preferably arranged under the inlet(s) so as to receive all solid material flowing into the housing through the inlets. The intermediate plate is further arranged to reach from the inlet(s) substantially to a first end of the conveyor, thus enabling transport of material from the inlet(s) to a first outlet in the conveyor. The width of the


a second direction opposite the first direction; at least first and second outlets for solid material from the housing, the outlets spaced from each other in the first direction, and disposed on opposite sides of the at least one inlet; and, means defining at least one opening in the intermediate plate between the at least one inlet and the first outlet for allowing a portion of the solid material being conveyed in the first direction to flow through the opening to the lower run of the conveyor. One of the outlets is connected to each of the ducts.
According to still another aspect of the present invention, a method for controlled feeding of solid material bidirectionally is provided. The method comprises the steps of: Introducing solid material into the„Erkenntnis in Kant's Logical Works", to appear in Akten des 12. Internationalen KantKongresses. Eds. Violetta L. Waibel and Margit Ruffing. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018. Sommerlatte 1 Erkenntnis in Kant's Logical Works By Curtis Sommerlatte Abstract In this paper, I aim to shed light on Kant's notion of Erkenntnis or cognition by focusing on texts pertaining to Kant's thoughts on logic. Although a passage from Kant's Logik is widely referred to for understanding Kant's conception of Erkenntnis, this work was not penned by Kant himself but rather compiled by Benjamin Jäsche. So, it is imperative to determine the passage's fidelity to Kant's thought. I compare the passage with other sources, including Reflexionen and students' lecture notes. I argue that several of the text's peculiarities stem from Jäsche rather


Mulch California - Sustainable Clothing

Mulch California was born in 2014 as San Clemente’s first anti-fast fashion shop.

The brainchild of brothers Mehr Alejandro and Philippe Zarif, Mulch California has a strong focus on quality, responsibility, sustainability and ethics that is woven into every aspect of their company.

Fashion is a multi-trillion dollar industry, making it one of the most profitable industries in the world while simultaneously being one of the most destructive and inhumane. Driven by short-term profits and trends, the majority of the fashion industry employs low-wage workers and oftentimes provides them with cruel and immoral working conditions. Manufacturing processes are quick, crude and harmful to the planet. While the majority of fashion companies are focused on making the biggest bang for their buck, Mulch California is focused onare paid to the craftsmen and seamstresses. Unlike most southern California clothing brands, Mulch California is not a surf/skate brand but instead is a mix of laid-back California style infused with tailored European cuts.

For the first three years of the business all pieces were custom made to order. In the past year, Mulch California launched their first ready-to-wear collection: Willie Boy. Inspired by the American Indian tale of forbidden love and defiance in the Mojave Desert, Willie Boy features vintage styles with weathered details reminiscent of turn of the century California desert culture.

“Stitched with distinctive elegance, relaxed attitude and the detailed craftsmanship of the modern era, this collection is made to last for decades. It gets better with wear and is the vintage of future generations,” says Philippe.


three R's

The fundamentals of education, as in It's a terrible school; the children are not even taught the three R's. It is widely believed that Sir William Curtis, an alderman who became Lord Mayor of London, once presented a toast to the three R's—reading, riting, and rithmetic—thereby betraying his illiteracy. In any event, the term was picked up by others and so used from the early 1800s on.a green card in Brooklyn.

Trump used a separate New York attack, the October bike-lane massacre of eight people, to call for the elimination of another legal immigration mechanism, the diversity visa lottery intended to benefit residents of countries with historically low immigration rates.

Uzbekistan native Sayfullo Saipov, 29, is suspected of the October attack. Saipov immigrated to the U.S. in 2010 through the diversity visa system.

Trump called for the death penalty against Saipov, and in his Monday statement said, "those convicted of engaging in acts of terror deserve the strongest penalty allowed by law, including the death penalty in appropriate cases."

Trump said Monday he views his proposed legal reforms as part of a broader effort alongside his temporary travel ban on eight countries, which the Supreme Court allowed to


This last week, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, speaking on behalf of the Montreal Metropolitan Community, announced the region's official opposition to TransCanada's Energy East pipeline project that would take bitumen from Alberta's oil sands to port in New Brunswick.

Calgarians, already reeling from the collapse of oil prices and desperate to find ways to access world markets, were understandably taken aback. The details of Energy East had not even been finalized, and here was the mayor of Canada's second-largest city leading a parade against it.

The usual suspects immediately began pointing to Coderre's comments as evidence that Alberta's two-month old climate change plan had failed. Wasn't the greening of Alberta supposed to have paved the way to broader social acceptance of these projects?

And if that softer approach wasn't working, didn'tOfficers responded around 5:21 p.m. to a report of a shooting on the 5400 block of Old Tucker Row. Witnesses told investigators they saw two men approach Carolina and then run away after hearing two or three gunshots, police said.


while driving.

She said she decided to launch the effort to promote awareness of the dangerous practice after a friend's sister died in a car accident while a driver was using a cellphone.

Angela Seaver said her daughter's initiative, which includes a plea to "Keep me alive, don't text and drive," has increased her own awareness of distracted driving.

"(Before this) I was one of those who would be preoccupied on my phone," she said. "I didn't realize the impact that me picking up the phone while driving had on her, and it's really changed me and her dad. Neither of us have touched our phones in the car since then."

State Rep. Milo Smith, R-Columbus, said he was considering introducing a bill during the upcoming legislative session to clarify the lawAustralia's child poverty 'national shame' By Phil Mercer

BBC, Sydney Published duration 17 November 2016

image copyright Getty Images image caption Indigenous children are more likely to live in poverty than their non-Aboriginal counterparts

It is one of the wealthiest countries on Earth - enriched by the bounty of a once-in-a lifetime mining boom - but Australia remains bedevilled by a rising number of its children living in poverty.

It laments a "national shame", and its research suggests about 13% of the population - or three million people - are living below the breadline.

Indigenous children suffer more than their non-Aboriginal counterparts. Single-parent families also endure great hardship.

Raising her two young children on her own, Jessica Russell, 25, relies on weekly welfare payments of A$545 (£338), much of which is swallowed up by


will just be like, 'What have I done wrong? What have I done wrong to struggle so much?'"

It is almost 30 years since the then Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, said: "No child will be living in poverty by 1990."

His bold promise would not be kept, but it did lead to significant progress in tackling inequality in the 1980s and 1990s, yet still the problem persists.

In the Ashfield district of Sydney, it is late morning and a crowd waits quietly outside the heavy wooden doors of the Loaves and Fishes Restaurant, a restored hall in the grounds of the 19th Century Uniting church.

Run by the Exodus Foundation, it serves 500,000 free meals to the needy each year.

The charity was co-founded 30 years ago by the Reverend Bill Crews,and water issues, is organizing the event with the Josie Porter Farm.

The festival, held at the Josie Porter Farm on Cherry Valley Road near Stroudsburg.

Live entertainment throughout the day will include strolling musicians from the Pocono Bluegrass & Folk Society.

Admission is free. For directions and information, visit josieporterfarm.com

Milford Valley Quilters' Guild's 2013 quilt show, "Stitching in the Valley," will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 22, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 23, at Delaware Valley High School, Routes 209 and 6, Milford. The judged show will feature more than 200 quilts, vendors, door prizes, demonstrations and a quilt raffle.

It features a stroll through the garden, garden lore, demonstrations and samplings of dishes made with fresh herbs and vegetables. Children can get


at that position depending on the matchups (New York Daily News). As the preseason continues, the battle for the starting center spot should come down to Mozgov and Anthony Randolph. While Randolph is the more athletic big and may see more minutes regardless because of his versatility, Mozgov could have the edge to start in order to help the Knicks establish their offense early

Anthony Randolph is going to surprise a lot of people this year. In the Knicks’ first official day of the 2010-11 season on Friday, the 6-foot-11 small forward/power forward/center already had his new teammates raving about his unique versatility.

As Knicks training camp traveled here yesterday, the biggest unknown is who will inherit the starting center job.
With Eddy Curry out of the picture, Ronny Turiaf notexcelling, and impressive Russian rookie Timofey Mozgov still so inexperienced, Mike D'Antoni is giving more consideration to starting 6-foot-11 forward Anthony Randolph in the pivot. Randolph saw time with the first team during a light practice at Armani Jeans Milano's training facility.

Training camp opened last week with Turiaf playing with the first team, but he has no presence on offense. In the original alignment, Randolph was not in the starting lineup of Turiaf, Amar'e Stoudemire, Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler and Raymond Felton. D'Antoni won't reveal his starting lineup for Sunday's exhibition against Milan.
The only way to fit Randolph into the starting lineup is at center. Mozgov has been a poised presence during camp, but the Knicks might keep him out of foul trouble by bringing him off the


bench.

Randolph also is being used to front the Knicks' fullcourt press that will be used more this season.

Frank Isola of the New York Daily News: "Mike D'Antoni made it clear that the competition for minutes at the center position is definitely open and that impressive rookie Timofey Mozgov continues to play his way into the team's plans for this season. D'Antoni was effusive in his praise for the 7-foot Russian, telling reporters Monday, 'I'm trying to curb my enthusiasm.' Mozgov and third-year forward Anthony Randolph represent the future for the Knicks. Both give the club more versatility and scoring at center.

Meanwhile, Ronny Turiaf, the presumed starter, has been a bit underwhelming. D'Antoni has intimated he plans to use a rotation at the starting center spot with Turiaf, Mozgov,A Court of Wings and Ruin – Sarah J. Maas

Blurb

Looming war threatens all Feyre holds dear in the third volume of the #1 New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series.

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s maneuverings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit-and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well.

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords-and hunt for allies in unexpected places.

In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the earth


Q:

Sum rows values in column on MySQL

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    sArea,
    `2014`,
    `2015`,
    `2016`,
    `2017`
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    LEFT (sArea, 2) IN ('XM');

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| sArea | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
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| XM2A  |    0 |    1 |    4 |    5 |
| XM2B  |    0 |  231 |  527 |   51 |
| XM4A  |    0 |   87 |  287 |   46 |
| XM4B  |    0To conclude his series, Antonio Pappano looks at five of Puccini's operas - La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Gianni Schicchi and Turandot.

Three-part series tracing the history of Italian opera presented by Antonio Pappano, conductor and music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The series features sumptuous music, stunning Italian locations and some of the biggest names in opera as contributors.

The final episode is devoted to Puccini, the worthy successor to Verdi. Puccini's operas are cinematic in their scale with ravishing, passionate and clever music, as he took Italian opera into the 20th century.

Pappano looks at five of Puccini's most popular operas - La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Gianni Schicchi and Turandot. He travels to Rome to meet stage director Franco Zeffirelli and talk about Puccini and


Zeffirelli's famous production of Turandot.

Pappano also talks to one of the great Puccini interpreters, the soprano Renata Scotto, about the composer, Madame Butterfly and the role of Mimi in La Boheme. Also featured are soprano Angela Gheorghiu, tenors Jonas Kaufmann and Roberto Alagna and baritone Sir Thomas Allen.Peasants in the Middle Ages Pb

Description

This book is a lively refutation of preconceptions that medieval peasants existed either in idyllic rural conditions or in unmitigated oppression and poverty. Werner Rosener redresses the balance of history in favor of the peasantry, illustrating that their lives were as complex and interesting as those of the nobility. Rosener considers the social, economic, and political foundations of peasant life, particularly the way in which occupational and land divisions determined the rural population's relative freedom. At the height of the Middle Ages, the peasant condition improved as tenant farming replaced the seigneurial system and progress in agricultural technology increased productivity. Peasants left overcrowded villages to farm less fertile or barely populated land. Forms of village settlement gradually diversified, and relationships among the peasants


system in Cap Rock's rates, by approving a
capital structure of 75% debt and 25% equity, by adopting a rate of return on equity of 11.75%,
and by approving the reimbursement of certain rate case expenses.  Cap Rock also argues that the
Commission erred by imposing a per-kilowatt discount for a certain sub-class of Cap Rock's
customers.  The district court affirmed the Commission's final order.  We affirm the judgment of the
district court.
Factual and Procedural Background
		Cap Rock has provided electric service to consumers in northern and western Texas
for many years.  Cap Rock operated as an electric cooperative and as an investor-owned utility.  In
2003, due to amendments to the Public Utility Regulatory Act (PURA), Cap Rock became subject
to the rate-setting jurisdiction of the Commission.  See Act of May 16, 2003, 78ththe regulatory authority shall establish the
utility's overall revenues at an amount that will permit the utility a reasonable
opportunity to earn a reasonable return on the utility's invested capital used and
useful in providing service to the public in excess of the utility's reasonable and
necessary operating expenses.
Id.; see also id. § 36.052 (West 2007) (establishing reasonable return), § 36.053 (West 2007)
(components of invested capital), § 36.057(c) (West 2007) (authorizing rulemaking regarding
allowable expenses).  The Commission referred the Cap Rock contested case to the State Office of
Administrative Hearings (SOAH) on February 26, 2004.
		Pioneer filed a motion to intervene in the proceeding, asserting that it was an
independent oil and gas producer with production facilities in Cap Rock's service area, it was a
customer of Cap Rock, and it purchased large quantities of electric power and energy


under several
of Cap Rock's rate classifications.  In March 2004, Pioneer was granted leave to intervene.  The
SOAH administrative law judges issued their proposal for decision on March 16, 2005.  The
Commission then issued its final order on November 10, 2005, adopting the proposal for decision
with some modifications, and approving rates to be charged by Cap Rock.
		Both Pioneer and Cap Rock filed suit in district court in January 2006, appealing
portions of the Commission's order.  See id. § 15.001 (West 2007).  The cases were consolidated.
On November 16, 2007, the district court affirmed the Commission's final order in all respects.
Pioneer and Cap Rock separately appeal the judgment of the district court.
Standard of Review
		This appeal concerns the propriety of the Commission's order, including its findings
and conclusions.  When According to the witness, his methods for calculating Cap Rock's
return on equity were well-established methods on which the Commission has often relied, and his
use of a premium was also well-established and had been previously relied on by the Commission,
although less frequently.  After describing in detail his analysis, the witness recommended a
premium in the range of 2.0% to 2.4%, and ultimately a return on equity of 11.75%. (3)  Elsewhere
in his testimony, the Staff witness described some of the mismanagement that contributed to
Cap Rock's financial condition and, as a result, greater difficulty in attracting investors.  The
Commission recognized in its findings of fact that Cap Rock's quality of management had been
"poor," listing as evidence significant financial losses due to failed business ventures and
aggressively pursued acquisitions with little relationship to


for a rate increase was reduced approximately
from $10 million to $5 million.  According to Pioneer, a significant portion of the replacement
witnesses' work and testimony was dedicated to revising and correcting Crowley's work and
explaining the reasons for such corrections.
		While Pioneer is correct that the two witnesses who replaced Crowley made several
corrections to his work, one of those witnesses, Gerald Tucker, testified to the value of Crowley's
work.  According to Tucker, although he had to make some "number changes" within the model
created by Crowley, such "cost service model" was a "big part" of Crowley's work, was made by
Crowley "from scratch," was not modified by Tucker or the other replacement witness, and worked
very well as to Cap Rock's rate-filing package.  Moreover, according to Tucker, his changes made
to the numbers within the See City of Port Neches, 212 S.W.3d at 579-80.  Tucker's testimony
regarding the value of Crowley's work was sufficient to support the Commission's determination
that the expenses incurred during the rate-making proceeding in connection with Crowley's work
were reasonable.
		The Commission also approved inclusion of $689,374 in rate case expenses
associated with the work of Cap Rock's rate-design consultant Gaske.  The SOAH administrative
law judges had concluded in their proposal for decision that Gaske's work was "so flawed and
unreliable as to be useless for structuring rates in this case."  According to the administrative law
judges, Gaske's initial presentation required numerous, significant changes, such that the intervenors
had to spend significant, additional resources to address the revisions.  In its final order, the
Commission also rejected the rate design offered by Cap Rock based


on Gaske's work.  However,
while acknowledging that there were "major problems" with Cap Rock's rate design, the
Commission in its final order recognized the "many difficulties" arising from Cap Rock's producing
the rate design in its first rate case "essentially from scratch," and reversed the administrative law
judges' recommendation to disallow Gaske's rate-design expenses.
		The Commission has broad discretion to determine recovery of expenses in a rate-making proceeding, see City of El Paso, 916 S.W.2d at 522, and may reverse the recommendation
of administrative law judges on an issue, see Tex. Gov't Code Ann. § 2003.049(g) (West 2008).  The
Commission was entitled to take into consideration the facts that Cap Rock's rates had not been
regulated by the Commission for a substantial period of time and, therefore, that Cap Rock had
to create much of its rate-filingThomas Buller had appeared upon the great, shining jewel within Her Majesty The Queen's Imperial Diadem at an unknown point in time, and in unclear circumstances. Truth be told, it's not even certain that by then his name had been Thomas, or his surname Buller, for any considerable length of time.

He was about thirty, or in any case of some age past the naive exuberances of first adulthood but prior to the philosophical disinterest of the third. He earned his salt and justified his time before society through employment of some nature with one of the larger trading houses in New Delhi, its nature never exactly specified to the knowledge of any of the other clerks there engaged nor his presence about the offices protracted sufficiently as to


allow their limited means of investigation reach any definite conclusion.

William Podington on the other hand had arrived in New Delhi according to a contract signed in the London offices of the same firm, upon specific invitation by their representative at Oxford, boarding ship the week after his very much talked-about First. It is indeed rare that any candidate's viva voce turns rather into an exercise of flattery by the appointed examiners, but few recalled another instance at Oxford where the fellows actually stood and applauded.

On the strength of this standing ovation, barely a minute in actual duration yet coming at such particularly convenient a moment in time -- for other youths had been indeed applauded for longer, and that same year, or month, and even by more people,later of each other's circumstances from abroad and from beyond their own, narrow, twin-engine, two-seater world they were indeed very little surprised. "But of course you were!" became, through unintentional yet naturally repeated ejaculation, a sort of private joke within their bifocal circle, and they soon agreed that, in the regrettable event of either's cessation from this world, the other will undertake the support and maintenance of the remaining family.

That neither was at that time married, let alone blessed with progeny, nor had momentarily any intentions of undertaking such a step did not figure proeminently in the consideration, as far as they could see. This, then, was the original Buller-Podington Compact : a kind of agreement common enough among men in their circumstance and situation, useful and besides


known, and it would with justice be deemed rather a mental defect of the two had they failed to arrive at as much.

The third Buller-Podington Compact grew naturally from the second, and followed necessarily in the footsteps of the first : they agreed that they would only marry together, which was to say not merely at the same time, such as to avoid the unseemly situation where one, still a bachelor, was confronted with the complex changes in their happy, enduring friendship the other's new circumstances drove, in a most unbalanced manner. No, nothing as plain, trite and ordinary as merely that would do for such gentlemen as these -- and after all, they weren't (nor ever had been, but certainly by this point could not be inasking for not merely one Moon from the very night sky, but the pair of two. This supposition is as false as the notion that such arrangements are at all extraordinary is ridiculous : indeed within a few short weeks of deciding they rather had enough of the distant climes and would prefer returning to the small island, to continue their ongoing contributions to the commercial life of the Empire in more settled circumstances the first match was found, and she was tested thoroughly, to smiling, most content exhaustion, over the course of wide stretched days of bliss.

The second was suggested by the first, before the testing was even complete (though not much before, it may be observed). In fact, they only had to try out two of


each other at their respective rural residences may be briefly stated. Mr. Buller's country house was situated by the sea, as he was very fond of the water. He had a good cat-boat, which he sailed himself with much judgment and skill, and it was his greatest pleasure to take his friends and visitors upon little excursions on the bay. Yet, owing to some unpleasantness during his early trip abroad Mr. Podington was desperately afraid of the water, and he was particularly afraid of any small craft, especially sailed by anyone he knew. If his friend Buller would have at the very least employed a professional mariner, of years' experience and indescript identity, to steer and manage his boat, Podington might have been able to overtake his horrorto drive himself, a private delight he indulged with a vengeance since his return, especially given his means permitted him now any choice in beasts of burden (much as his talents would have permitted him earlier any choice in beasts of the hearth -- but, in fairness, comparatively much less choice in terms of this one other animal that so loves man). On the other hand Buller was, for some mysterious reason never actually explained, more afraid of horses than he was of elephants or lions, which is no idle comment, given he had personally confronted both latter dangers, occasionally in overwhelmingly crowded presentations, or without proper weapons, in one word, in the direst of circumstances. Yet he'd have been more willingly caught bare handed in a lion's