to this case was the March 4 meeting.
Other evidence presented by the state was the testimony of personnel of the shopping center who saw three men acting suspiciously on March 5. Two of the men were black and one was white. One of the witnesses knew Smallwood and identified him at trial as being one of the men he saw. This witness also knew the defendant but could not identify him as the white man present, but stated he only saw the man at a distance of 60 to 70 feet. He said he thought the other black man was a James Trotter. At trial he was shown photographs of Hardyway (a co-conspirator) and Trotter and testified they were similar. The three men were followed back to theirBiopic about notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's teen years includes Louisville actors

After debuting at the Tribeca Film festival and winning accolades around the country, "My Friend Dahmer," which features several Louisville actors including a senior from Assumption High School, is now in Louisville theaters.

The biopic tells the story of 17-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer's senior year of high school in Akron, Ohio. The time essentially sets the stage for the evolution of a psychopath.

"It's the story before the story," said co-producer Milan Chakraborty. "We didn't want to do anything to glamorize a monster."

Later in life, Dahmer went on to murder 17 men and boys in Wisconsin and Ohio and confessed to having sex with corpses, keeping some of the body parts and engaging in cannibalism. After he was tried and


convicted of the murders, Dahmer was murdered at a Wisconsin prison in 1994.

The movie script, written by Marc Meyers, is based on the 2012 graphic novel of the same name by cartoonist John "Derf" Backderf, who had been friends with Dahmer in high school in the 1970s. Meyers also directed the film.

The film crew shot on location in Akron and the movie includes scenes involving Dahmer’s home life firmed in the actual house where he grew up and murdered his first victim.

Sydney Meyer, a senior at Louisville's Assumption High School, plays Dahmer’s prom date in the film.

Chakraborty will attend the screenings at 7:10 p.m. Friday and 4:15 p.m. Sunday at Village 8 Theaters, 4014 Dutchmans Lane, in Louisville.

More: John Cleese on 'Monty Python,' Facebook, bad/great comedy, kids theseKartheiser. Local actors Tom Luce, Nick Hulstine, and CJ Rush also had small parts in the movie.

The film is set to run from Friday through Nov. 16 in Louisville.

Read USA TODAY's review here.

Reach Kirby Adams at kadams@courier-journal.com


much financial backing Obama got, he was never going to convince
people in the rural south to vote for “an America hating, secret Muslim, that
was trying to bring Sharia Law to the United States” (please note sarcasm). As
the last Presidential Election proved, not only was Trunp outspent by Clinton,
he was also outspent by his Republican primary opponents. But he won anyway.
The country is so idealogically divided, once the general election happens,
really the only thing that matters is turnout and which side is angrier.

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PAC money can be spent on ground game, which feeds turnout.

I agree that there is a deep cultural canyon dividing the country right now.
However, the need for funding to keep up with the competition limits what
representatives can achieve. It is in this context that the lobbying ofKhloe came home early from school with her boyfriend and walked in on her stepmom, Alexis, half-naked ironing in the living room. It was obvious she was making a play for her boyfriend so Khloe rushed him into her room to keep him away from her. Khloe started sucking his dick in her room and Alexis eavesdropped. What she heard turned her on so much, she started rubbing herself while listening in. Alexis quietly opened the door and looked on while Khloe was getting nailed. Her boyfriend was so enthralled by seeing her stepmom watch them fuck that he became mesmerized and she caught wind of it. Needless to say she was pissed! She kicked him out of the room but Alexis just dragged him to the shower


to fuck him out of spite and sheer horniness. Khloe interrupted them because she was fed up with her stepmom putting the moves on her boyfriends so she was ready to fight for what was rightfully hers. They both fucked him and tried to outdo each other until they finally even started pleasuring each other.Introducing the Rolls-Royce Cullinan, named after world’s largest diamond

In 2015, Rolls-Royce announced that the ultra-luxury carmaker will be venturing into the SUV business. Today, the British firm has just confirmed that their Bentley Bentayga rival will be called the Rolls-Royce Cullinan.

The name Cullinan was inspired from the Cullinan Diamond. Extracted from a deep mine in Magaliesberg Mountain, South Africa in 1905, it remains the largest diamond ever unearthed at 3,106 carats. Today, the Cullinan Diamond takes up its place in the British Crown Jewels.

CEO of Rolls-Royce, Torsten Müller-Ötvös commented: “It is the most fitting name for our extraordinary new product. Cullinan is a motor car of such clarity of purpose, such flawless quality and preciousness, and such presence that it recalibrates the scale and possibility of true luxury.


Impact of using the International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups criteria in South Auckland: prevalence, interventions and outcomes.
Adopting the modified International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups (IADPSG) criteria for diagnosing gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) will increase the prevalence of GDM resulting in increased resource utilisation and an unknown effect on clinical outcomes. To determine the prevalence of GDM by the modified IADPSG criteria and compare characteristics and pregnancy outcomes between women with GDM by IADPSG-additional, those with GDM by the New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes (NZSSD) criteria and those with a normal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). All women who delivered at Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) for a 12-month period from July 2012 to June 2013 had demographic, pregnancyJohn Wall Favored to Lead NBA in Assists in 2018-19

John Wall averaged 9.6 assists per game in 2017-18, but has never led the league in the category. Photo by Keith Allison (Flickr) [CC License]

Wall hobbled by injury in 2017-2018

Top 3 in assists in four of past five seasons

See the odds to lead the league in assists in 2018-19

It was a tough 2017-2018 NBA season for John Wall.

Plagued by a nagging knee injury, Wall was limited to a career-low 41 games. But the Washington Wizards point guard is set to return to action amid high expectations, sporting strong +150 odds of leading the NBA is assists per game at Bovada.

Wall looked to be on pace to establish a personal best in helpers early on last season, racking up 10


or more assists in five of his first nine outings, but saw his performance drop off before losing nine games to injury in late November and early December.

The 28-year-old managed to return to the lineup just prior to Christmas, and turned in a pair of 16-assist performances in early January.

But Wall was subsequently sidelined for an additional 28 games after electing to have knee surgery in late January, returning to action just in time for the Wizards’ first-round playoff loss to the Toronto Raptors.

Wall a Fixture Among the NBA Assists Leaders

Wall has reportedly returned to full health and has spent the summer working on improving his conditioning, which proved to be a concern while seeing limited action last season.

The five-time NBA All-Star has regularly ranked among the leagueleaders in assists, finishing among the top three in the four years prior to last season.

Wall finished in the top three in assists per game in the four years prior to last season

Wall should also benefit from offseason moves by the Wizards, including the acquisition of veteran center Dwight Howard and guard Austin Rivers.

However, it will likely be a rekindling of chemistry with teammate Bradley Beal that will play the determining role in Wall’s success this season.

Chemistry with Beal Key to Success

Beal emerged as a team leader in Wall’s absence last season, leading the squad with 22.6 points per game and adding a career-high 4.5 assists per game, while playing a full 82 games for the first time in six NBA campaigns.

However, Wall faces some stiff competition on


for the entirety of the 2016-2017 season, Simmons fulfilled expectations in his NBA debut, potting 15.8 points and 8.2 assists per game last season.

The 22-year-old also played a key role in the return to respectability of the Philadelphia 76ers, who are pegged as a +375 bet to win the NBA Eastern Conference after ending a five-year playoff drought last season.

Don’t Sleep on Harden, Paul

While the Houston Rockets will face a daunting task keeping pace this season with the Golden State Warriors and LeBron James’ Los Angeles Lakers, James Harden and Chris Paul cannot be overlooked as legitimate threats to emerge as this season’s assists leader.

Harden claimed MVP honors for the first time last season, despite missing 10 games to injury. He will undoubtedly benefit from a return toformalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded in the usual fashion including staining with hematoxylin and eosin were reviewed by a pediatric pathologist, blinded to diagnostic group. Specimens were evaluated for the presence of gastritis, duodenitis, lymphoid hyperplasia, basal plasmacytosis, eosinophilia, cryptitis, crypt abscess, and crypt distortion.

Mucosal (lamina propria) eosinophils of the stomach, duodenum, and rectosigmoid areas were further quantified by the primary investigator (J.A.B.). Eosinophils were identified by the characteristic prominent eosinophilic cytoplasmic granules and a typical bi-lobed nucleus. Densities were determined by counting eosinophils in what appeared to be the most involved area after scanning the entire specimen. Three consecutive high power fields (each high power field approximately 0.15 square millimeters at x400 magnification) were evaluated with the peak count defined as the highest count of the three fields and


FBI agents have interviewed officials from England's failed 2018 World Cup bid as part of an investigation into possible computer hacking.

The FBI is understood to be looking into claims that the USA and England World Cup bids were the victims of attempts to hack into their email accounts by outside organisations.

The interviews with the England 2018 officials, who are not suspected of wrongdoing, were conducted in November, and are part of a wider FBI investigation into allegations around the bidding process.

Russia won the bid for 2018 in the controversial vote by Fifa's executive committee a year ago, while England went out in the first round. Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup, beating USA in the final round.Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Faryal Talpur on Saturday requested a joint investigation team (JIT) formed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to grant her more time to appear before them, DawnNewsTV reported.

The investigation team had ordered Talpur to appear at 11am today in connection with a money laundering case. However, in an application submitted by her attorney, she sought more time on account of her "being busy" with a banking court, where she went today to submit Rs2 million in surety bonds to secure an interim pre-arrest bail.

Talpur, who won the July 25 general election from Sindh Assembly constituency PS-10 (Larkana-I), is named in a corruption case relating to fake accounts and fictitious transactions worth Rs35 billion, along with her brother, former president Asif Ali Zardari. Last


week, both of them were declared absconders by the FIA along with 18 others.

After the challan was issued, Talpur requested a division bench of the Sindh High Court in Larkana to grant her protective bail in the case. The high court accepted her plea and granted a six-day bail on July 23 that will expire today.

On Friday, her counsel had said that the PPP leader wanted to join trial proceedings, but feared that if she would do so, the FIA would arrest her. Therefore, the court was requested to grant a pre-arrest bail in order to enable the applicant to surrender and join the trial proceedings.

Money laundering scam

The corruption case, in which Talpur is named, was initially registered against former Pakistan Stock Exchange chairman Hussain Lawai, who iswidely believed to be close to former president Asif Ali Zardari, and other bankers in connection with an ongoing probe into a massive money laundering scam.

Lawai and other bankers were accused of facilitating opening of 29 ‘fake’ accounts in Summit Bank, Sindh Bank and United Bank Limited, where ‘beneficiaries of the Sindh government’ had deposited Rs35 billion that was subsequently transferred to different accounts. Lawai, along with three other bankers, was arrested by the FIA earlier this month.

In the case's interim charge sheet dated July 21, 2018, Zardari and Talpur's names appeared in the list of absconding accused persons along with their addresses.

Additionally, Zardari's close aide Anwar Majeed and his son were also named in the list of absconders which contains the names of 20 individuals.


Onslow-Cole In Shock AmD Move

Tom Onslow-Cole has sent shockwaves through the BTCC paddock with the announcement that he will switch to AmD Milltek Racing for the 2011 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship. The 23 year old will race the team's single YourRacingCar.com backed VW Golf, while Shaun Hollamby, who was widely expected to be racing the car once again this season, will take on the role of team manager.

After years of running with big name teams like WSR, Arena Motorsport and Triple Eight, his decision to move to one of the series' smaller teams has surprised many fans, but Onslow-Cole believes he can turn the team's Golf into a front-running machine.

Onslow-Cole has become a real frontrunner in the BTCC over the years, winning races with both WSRin 2007 and Triple Eight Vauxhall in 2008, before enjoying his most successful season to date in 2010. Racing in Team Aon's LPG powered Ford Focus; he won four races on his way to heading into the season's final rounds with a chance of winning the prestigious title, eventually finishing fourth in the standings.

The New Malden-based driver believes the Golf has improved significantly in the hands of AmD over the winter and is sure that he can enjoy success in the car. He will be aided by the car's new turbocharged VW TFSI engine, which will give the car more power and torque than it had last season. Onslow-Cole has experience of the engine too, after he tested in rival team Special Tuning Racing's Seat Leon at Silverstone


Knowing the team will be built solely around me is a big draw and I want to work with them and develop the Golf into a regular top ten contender. The additional support from YourRacingCar.com was an added incentive to join the team as the club gives its members a unique opportunity to have a direct involvement with the BTCC grid.”

The move sees Hollamby step out the driver's seat, after a solid first season in the series last year, a year which saw him developing the car as well as getting used to the hustle and bustle of the BTCC. The 45 year old took a best result of thirteenth at Knockhill and his hard work made him a real fans favourite, with him picking up the btcc.netFans Trophy award at the end of the season, given by the fans to the driver who most embodies the spirit of the BTCC.

Commenting on the new arrangement, Hollamby added: “Stepping down from the driving duties this season was an easy decision once I had got Tom to sign on the dotted line. Tom is one of the Top 10 Touring Car drivers in the world and has won races in every car he has driven- our job is to continue this winning streak! I would like to thank all the fans for their huge support in our debut season and rest assured AmD Milltek Racing will continue to be passionate about keeping the fans involvement.

”I would not have approached a driver of Tom's standing if I did


After robot-detective Rick Deckard closed the case on the murderous escaped Nexus-6 Replicants and then presumably fled Los Angeles with his true love Racheal, a lot has happened in the noir future of Los Angeles. Bridging the gap between the first Blade Runner film and its new “present day” of 2049 was never going to be easy. But now, it seems there will be specific stories of what occurred in the time in between. Three new short films are poised to bridge the gap between the world of 2019 in the original Blade Runner and the forthcoming future of Blade Runner 2049.

Interestingly, at this point, the original Blade Runner is no longer a movie about the future, but something closer to meditation in an alternate present. This meansbefore the new movie in 2048.

This story follows a man named Sapper played by Dave Bautista. Sapper is seemingly in the business of selling manufactured organic substances, kind of like the people who sold bespoke snakes in the original Blade Runner. Sapper seems like a pretty solid guy and has some sort of personal investment in taking care of a woman and her daughter who seem like they are living in poverty. From start to finish, this short immediately feels a lot like the marketplace scenes from the original Blade Runner, so much so, that of all the new footage from the world of Blade Runner 2049, this one looks the most like the original film.

The plot is also awesome and seems to set up what Sapper will


just about everywhere. Best of all, Edward James Olmos returns as the voice of Gaff, the cop who conferred with Deckard in the first film.

Gaff returns.

Black Out 2022 is also the longest of these shorts clocking in at just over fifteen minutes. As of now, the entire anime is only available in its entirety on the streaming platform Crunchyroll.

Blade Runner 2049 hits theaters everywhere on October 6.

If you liked this article, check out this video about the practical effects in Blade Runner 2049.Envoys and senior diplomats from India and other countries performed yoga postures in New Delhi.

Nearly 60 ambassadors of various countries stretched and bent in different yogic postures in unison here to mark the International Day of Yoga, with many hailing the ancient practice as a "wonderful contribution" of India to the world.

The envoys as well as several senior diplomats from India and other countries performed yoga postures in Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra in New Delhi's Chanakyapuri at a Yoga Day event hosted by the Ministry of External Affairs.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in his address said, "Its Yoga's growing reach and acceptance is evident everywhere and I am sure particularly in the countries that are represented here."

"By celebrating the International Day of Yoga together, we celebrate our common humanity.


We are recognising that we have shared bonds. We are also acknowledging our sense of a shared global destiny," he said.

The Union minister also reiterated Prime Minister Narendra Modi's words from his address at the mega yoga event in Ranchi that "yoga belongs to everyone and everyone belongs to yoga".

"Its inclusion as world intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO underlines its global significance and benefits for entire humanity," Mr Jaishankar said.

Dominican Republic's envoy in New Delhi and Dean of Diplomatic Corps, Hans Dannenberg Castellanos, who was present at the event, told news agency Press Trust Of India, "About 100 countries were represented at the event. Nearly 60 ambassadors took part in it, besides senior diplomats from other countries".

"We appreciate that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar led the eventhosted by the MEA on Yoga Day. The bonds among different countries will grow stronger with such events," he said.

Ambassadors of Germany, Venezuela, Egypt, Israel, Bhutan, Estonia, Slovenia, Gambia, Nepal, Bosnia-Herzegovina took part in the event.

Envoy of Venezuela Coromoto Godoy, who took charge as her country's ambassador in May, was ecstatic after participating in the event.

"This is the first time I took part in any Yoga Day event. It was wonderful, and I feel so relaxed. I and my husband, who also attended the event, we both do yoga before starting work at the embassy," said Coromoto Godoy, who sported a thematic white Yoga Day t-shirt.

"India and Venezuela both are very spiritual countries. I love India and its culture, and yoga is a wonderful contribution of India to


When Bravely Default hit the 3DS back in 2013, it was arguably the best Final Fantasy game made since Sakaguchi’s departure, despite losing the Final Fantasy name part way through development (possibly because it put Final Fantasy XIII and its awful sequels to shame). This was also due to Nintendo stepping in to publish the game in the West because Square didn’t think it would sell (seriously!). With innovative turn-based combat, likeable heroes, beautiful scenery, and bloody great airships, Bravely Default proved that there was still a place, and a market, for traditional JRPGs outside of Japan. It was a true classic that pushed the genre forward while respecting its past, striking a chord with fans and critics alike. Considering the popularity of the original, it was aAmong lessons Bill Belichick learned from his dad: Team is bigger than you

The late Steve Belichick, father of Patriots coach Bill Belichick, acknowledges the crowd at Navy in 2003. The senior Belichick was an assistant coach at Navy for more than three decades. Tim Cammett/WireImage

1a. Here's wishing everyone a Happy Father's Day, while leading off with five Patriots sharing some of the biggest lessons they learned from their dad:

Bill Belichick (on Steve): "Keep your head down, work hard, keep your mouth shut. Actions speak louder than words. That's basically what he did. Do what you can to help the team. The team is bigger than you."

Trey Flowers (on Robert): "He's definitely the wisest man I know. He always showed how much he loved his kids and also how


now, but he was an iron worker in Chicago. He worked seven days a week, and as I grew up and became a man that's something I came to respect even more about him. It's not easy to do that -- seven days a week, year-round. If you don't work, you don't get paid, and that's how his mentality was. He was always doing what he had to do for our family, and on top of that, he's like my best friend."

D.J. Foster (on Darryll): "Dedication. He put me in the position to be very involved with sports growing up. Sometimes I didn't want to play. Sometimes I didn't like it. Being a young kid and very intense, the AAU, all the travel football and baseball, he wouldalways talk about how when you start something, you finish it. When you're a part of the team, you don't give up on the team. I definitely appreciate that life lesson from him."

1b. Hat tip to Kalyn Kahler of The MMQB for gathering up six Patriots players who welcomed babies to their homes in the months following Super Bowl LI, and having them discuss the joys and frustrations of fatherhood. Neat pictures to go along with it, too.

Mike Reiss

1c. When tight end Benjamin Watson first arrived in the Patriots' locker room in 2004 as a first-round draft choice, it was clear that he was mature beyond his years. So it comes as no surprise here that he has authored "The New Dad's Playbook," which publisher Baker Books has


created by the player or someone in his inner circle.

4. Impressive second-year Patriots receiver Malcolm Mitchell was kept on the sideline throughout spring practices, and my understanding is that the decision is best put into the "less is more" category. When the Patriots drafted Mitchell in the fourth round last year, they knew his medical/injury history (e.g. knee surgeries) was more extensive than the norm and would likely lead to them considering different approaches to help him sustain for the long haul. That meant some days off from practice last year. When I caught up with Mitchell at his reading rally on Friday night, I asked him his plans for the next month, and he didn't hesitate. "Get ready for training camp," he answered. "We're back on it.Back to work."

5. Mitchell's reading rallies across New England concluded Friday at the Patriots Hall of Fame, and in all, he directly spoke to thousands of students since beginning his tour in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on March 20. It has been ambitious, and from my time covering the team, unprecedented for a player at this stage of his career. Patriots team magician John Logan is a perfect complement to Mitchell's message about the importance of reading, mixing in the fun and wonder of magic. Mitchell takes questions from the audience and this was his answer Friday when asked how he stayed upbeat during Super Bowl LI after the Patriots fell behind 28-3 in the third quarter: "During the game, I sit in between Matthew Slater on my right and


Andrus Peat (2015 first-round pick) could kick out from left guard to left tackle, or perhaps first-round draft pick Ryan Ramczyk -- who might be more of a natural right tackle -- could win the job. The Saints took Ramczyk with the No. 32 overall pick they acquired from the Patriots in exchange for receiver Brandin Cooks.

9. From the "Patriots around the globe" file:

For the second time in three years, Patriots owner Robert Kraft is leading an ambassador trip to Israel with Pro Football Hall of Famers (June 13-21). The club is chronicling the trip on its social media accounts (#TDinIsrael) as Kraft is joined by Lem Barney, Jerome Bettis, Jim Brown, Cris Carter, Dave Casper, Eric Dickerson, Marshall Faulk, Joe Greene, Willie Lanier, Joe Montana, Andre Reed,Mike Singletary, Bruce Smith, John Stallworth, Roger Staubach, Andre Tippett, Aeneas Williams and Ron Yary. Hall of Fame president and CEO David Baker is also on the trip.

10. Did You Know: There are 81 days until the NFL opener between the Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs, and as part of the numbers-based theme, ESPN's Stats & Information notes that teams are 1-81 over the last two seasons when trailing by 25 points. The lone win came in Super Bowl LI when the Patriots charged back to beat the Falcons.


of the most serious legal needs of the New York LGBTQ communities, this fellowship will be a sign of greater things to come in the movement for equal rights for all.”

Scheduled to close in 2015, the Foundation has created the Paul Rapoport Fellowship to carry on the legacy of the late Paul Rapoport, an attorney who was a leading advocate for LGBTQ rights in New York City. Paul Rapoport was a founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center – two New York City LGBT organizations that have had a significant impact in the fight for equal civil rights. “With this fellowship,” said Stern, “the selected fellows will be able to continue this important work.”

The first Fellowship will be awarded inHills (collection of short stories)
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he had the rare ability of commanding instant respect from across the political spectrum. No other leader enjoyed either this rapport or this ability to convince and convert even those who began with initial hostility. Whenever he rose to speak in the Rajya Sabha, he was listened to in silence and with respect and awe even from those opposed to his views.

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He did this in the Opposition and even more so as a member of the treasury benches, both during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government and, thereafter, during the first term of Narendra Modi in office. How can I forget that any time I made a worthwhile intervention in the Rajya Sabha, I would invariably get ahandwritten slip from him appreciating and encouraging me. He was a Parliamentarian par excellence.

Second, there are very few like Jaitley with an innate instinct to reform and change things for the better. A liberaliser by temperament, he believed in the power of competition, enhanced productivity and overall national gains. This was so even when he was the minister for commerce. He looked at avenues for deeper trade liberalisation, and his negotiating skills with other trading partners left his negotiating detractors from developed countries gasping for argument. Even when he conceded a small argument, he won the war on the bigger issues. He never mistook the forest for the trees. As finance minister, he will go down as someone who negotiated a comprehensive Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime.


Equally, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code was a complex piece of negotiation and the centrepiece of the architecture on which the banking reforms rested.

As I look through my past notes, the GST, in another shape and form, began as early as 1992. It took the iconic negotiating skills of Arun Jaitley a quarter century down the line to implement the most radical change in India’s taxation policy. It had taken many countries much longer. Achieving the ‘Grand Bargain’, so to say, of getting all the states to accept the major constitutional amendments, and getting it through both Houses of Parliament will be his lasting legacy and testimony to his political acumen.

Third, in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), there is no one like him who can play the roleof a guiding star, a mentor, a spokesman, a lawyer or in helping the leadership of Narendra Modi to consolidate and flourish. Jaitley saw Modi through an earlier difficult phase in politics and helped inculcate the skills of managing the governance of a complex rubric in the national architecture of governance. The BJP has no second Jaitley and my party will miss him every moment.

Fourth, few can combine the compulsions of official duties with warmth and affection for his family and those who were near and dear to him. Style, elegance and appropriateness of behaviour are characteristics which do not come naturally to people. He was, no doubt, in the rare group of men, not merely a Chanakya or a precious diamond, but in a lighter vein, illustrated


been provided which enables the desired reciprocating motion of the drive members while at the same time limits the passage of debris into the housing. The sealing means have been in the form of plastic foam shields which are positioned at the aperture and through which the drive members extend. Over a period of time, the sealing means becomes saturated with entrapped debris which in combination with shaving lotion and other liquids tends to harden and thus reduce the effectiveness of the shaver. This increases the loading on the shavers and in the case of battery-operated shavers, reduces the effective usage of the shaver between battery chargings.
In one form of shaver of the type described, the drive member for the trimmer extends parallel to and substantially adjacent togoing full throttle with the stealth amnesty
plan and has set Washington on a course to a potential Constitutional Crisis!

That's not all! The Obama Administration is continuing to funnel tax dollars to
the corrupt and criminal ACORN crowd, the most motorious "voter
registration group in American history: Violating a law signed by Barack Obama himself!

I'm sure you remember ACORN--the radical group of "community
activists" who specialized in "voter registration" drives designed to
undermine the election process.

Seventeen states launched criminal investigations of ACORN. Prosecutions led to
convictions of ACORN workers in some of these states. And on August 10th, a Neveda judge
handed down the maximum fine to an ACORN affiliate for its role in a massive violation of
voter registration laws.

At
sentencing, the judge said that if an individual, instead of a corporation had been hauled
before him,


he would have handed down a 10--year prison sentence--"and I wouldn't
have thought twice about it," he said.

Government documents showed the Obama White House, despite earlier denials,
had invited ACORN to participate as an "Executive Partner in the 2110 Census!

When the public found out, it created such a firestorm that the Census Bureau was
forced to drop ACORN from "helping" them with the Census.

Barack Hussien Obama was the lawyer representing ACORN during his lawyer
years in Chicago.

I have yet to know why the U.S. Supreme Court or Congress haven't impeached --
and then convicted--the most corrupt President in the history of the United States.

And why is he still sitting in the White House, pretending to be
"President" when he's not even an American citizen.

When Obama ran for President, he told the world that hewants to be the World's
President.

Hmmmmm...sounds like another dictator named Adolph Hitler, who lost World War
2--and then killed himself in a German bunker.

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On the day of his daughter's (Joey Singer) birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster (Michael Douglas) is trying to get to his estranged ex-wife's (Barbara Hershey) house to see his daughter. He has a breakdown and leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. Along the way he stops at a convenience store and tries to get some change for a phone call but the owner, Mister Lee (Michael Paul Chan), does not give him change. This destabilizes William who then breaks apart the shop with a baseball bat and goes to an isolated place to drink a coke. Two gangsters (Agustin Rodriguez & Eddie Frias) threaten him and he reacts by hitting them with the bat. D-FENS continues walking and stops at aphone booth. The gangsters hunt him down with their gang and shoot at him but crash their car. William goes nuts and takes their gym bag with weapons proceeding in his journey of rage against injustice. Meanwhile Sergeant Martin Prendergast (Robert Duvall), who is working on his last day ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


exactly the brightest year for hockey fans. The player lockout caused the NHL to cease activities, and EA's NHL franchise took a step backward with the shortsighted NHL 2005. Now, with the Zambonis back in action, EA returns to the rink with NHL 06, which offers just enough tweaks to bring back some of the series' lost luster.

NHL 06 isn't a horrible game. If you're a hockey fan who hasn't touched the series in a few years -- and doesn't have access to a console that would allow you to play one of Sega's superior NHL2K games -- you'll get a little mileage out of it. But there are probably a hundred things in this year's game that could be improved, and it's obvious the game is beingChina's two supercomputers still world's fastest as U.S. squeezed out of 3rd place

China's Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 are still the world's fastest and second fastest machines, but America's Titan was squeezed into fourth place by an upgraded Swiss system, according to the latest edition of the semiannual T0P500 list of supercomputers released Monday.

Sunway TaihuLight, described by the T0P500 list as "far and away the most powerful number-cruncher on the planet," maintained the lead since last June, when it dethroned Tianhe-2, the former champion for the previous three consecutive years.

It means that a Chinese supercomputer has topped the rankings maintained by researchers in the United States and Germany for nine times in a row.

What's more, Sunway TaihuLight, with a performance of 93 petaflops, was built entirely using processors designed


and made in China.

"It highlights China's ability to conduct independent research in the supercomputing field," Haohuan Fu, deputy director of the National Supercomputing Center, where Sunway TaihuLight was installed, told Xinhua.

"China is simultaneously developing hardware and software technologies of supercomputers," Fu said. "It is expected that rapid development in homegrown hardware technologies, supported by homegrown software, will lead to a stronger research and engineering test capacity in many fields, thus promoting an industrial upgrading and, eventually, a sustainable development of China's homegrown supercomputing industry."

Tianhe-2, capable of performing 33.9 petaflops, was based on Intel chips, something banned by the U.S. government from selling to four supercomputing institutions in China since 2015.

In the latest rankings, the new number three supercomputer is the upgraded Piz Daint, a system installed at theSwiss National Supercomputing Center.

Its current performance of 19.6 petaflops pushed Titan, a machine installed at the U.S. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, into fourth place. Titan's performance of 17.6 petaflops has remained constant since it was installed in 2012.

"This is the second time in the 24-year history of the TOP500 list that the United States has failed to secure any of the top three positions," the TOP500 organizers said in a statement.

The only other time this occurred was in November 1996, when three Japanese systems captured the top three spots.

"Nevertheless, the U.S. still claims five of the top 10 supercomputers, which is more than any other nation," they said.

Fu called the upgraded Swiss system "really a surprise," saying that "it reflects the increased investment in large-scale supercomputers in Europe."


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It was 3:00 a.m. when the last piece of artillery crossed the Delaware.General Washington gathered his troops and, in the unrelenting storm, began the nine-mile march to Trenton.Despite arriving after daylight and three hours behind schedule, the Americans surprised the Hessians. The battle was brief, lasting only about an hour.Two Americans died from exposure and only five were wounded in battle.After the victory, Washington moved his troops back across the Delaware for safety.The Battle of Trenton encouraged many troops to extend their enlistments and Washington’s army survived to see a new year.

“It was just 8 o’clock. Looking down the road, I saw a Hessian running out from the house. He yelled in Dutch [German] and swung his arms. Three or fourThe Washington Capitals don't plan on emulating the 2014-15 Chicago Blackhawks at the trade deadline.

When John Carlson was placed on long-term injured reserve Sunday, it fueled speculation that he could be shut down for the remainder of the regular season, which would provide Washington with a significant amount of additional cap space ahead of Monday's deadline.

Head coach Barry Trotz squashed the notion, confirming the Capitals don't intend on doing what the Blackhawks did last season when they shut down Patrick Kane until the playoffs in order to acquire Antoine Vermette under the salary cap.

Trotz said Carlson will get "at least a dozen" games before playoffs. "Maybe more." — Isabelle Khurshudyan (@ikhurshudyan) February 28, 2016

With the expectation that Carlson will be back well before the postseason, his cap hit


JERUSALEM, Israel -- In his remarks at the annual Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clarified Israel's position in many of the issues facing the Jewish state.

One prominent issue the prime minister addressed head on is the BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) movement, prominent in Europe but reaching to other parts of the globe as well.

"I think the most eerie thing, the most disgraceful thing, is to have people on the soil of Europe talking about the boycott of Jews. I think that's an outrage, but that is something that we're re-encountering," Netanyahu said.

"In the past, anti-Semites boycotted Jewish businesses, and today they call for the boycott of the Jewish state and, by the way, only the Jewish state," he continued.

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a battery lid is opened and the external power supply is mounted in the battery compartment, a portion of the external power supply protrudes from the battery compartment. This brings about a problem of interference between the battery lid and the external power supply. To avoid this interference, there has been proposed an electronic apparatus having a lid-holding structure that permits the battery lid to be detached from the housing by a battery removing operation before the external power supply is mounted in the battery compartment.
As the electronic apparatus having a lid detachable from an apparatus housing thereof as described above, one described below has been proposed (see e.g. Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2008-167374). The electronic apparatus disclosed in this publication has a housing formed with anthe lid-holding member of a conventional electronic apparatus. FIG. 7A is a perspective view of the lid and the lid-holding member in a separate state, and FIG. 7B is a perspective view of the lid and the lid-holding member in a state in which one end of the lid has been lifted to a position higher than the lid-holding member.
In FIGS. 7A and 7B, the lid 120 has shafts 123a and 120a protruding from respective opposite sides thereof, and the shafts 123a and 120a are caused to be engaged with respective bearing portions 102a and 102b formed in the lid-holding member 102 provided on the housing of the electronic apparatus (see FIG. 7A), whereby the lid 120 is held by the lid-holding member 102. The engagement attaches the


lid 120 to the housing of the electronic apparatus. The shafts 123a and 120a of the lid 120 are disposed on the same axis, so that the lid 120 can pivotally move about a line connecting between the respective centers of the shafts 123a and 120a as a rotation axis.
The motion of the shaft 123a of the lid 120 is interlocked with the operation of a shaft-operating member 126, and the shaft 123a can be retracted into the lid 120 by sliding the shaft-operating member 126 sideways as indicated by an arrow (see FIG. 7A). This operation releases the engagement between the shaft 123a and the bearing portion 102a. Further, in the state where the engagement between the shaft 123a and the bearing portion 102a has been released,and carbon dioxide. Part of the droplets falls onto the bottom of the furnace, to a so-called char bed and burns there. The main part of in-organic matter exits the furnace via so-called smelt spouts located at the lower part thereof.
Feeding of waste liquor into the furnace and the injection is carried out by means of liquor guns. A liquor gun is in principle a metal tube connected to a piping, wherethrough strong black liquor is supplied from the preheaters to the boiler. The end of the liquor gun in the furnace is provided with a nozzle through which the black liquor is sprayed into the furnace and the design thereof varies depending on the size of the boiler and the manufacturer. The primary duty in the spraying


Stack of money that 15 years ago bought an apartment now only pay for a coffee in Venezuela

It takes a pile of money to buy a cup of coffee in Venezuela. Hyperinflation ended the value of the local currency, the bolivar. Today you need all that money to buy a coffee. You would have paid for 15 years ago for a one-bedroom apartment.

Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. But the fall in the price of the barrel and failures of the government generated a serious recession.

There are huge queues at the banks, which do not have enough money to meet the entire population demand. The government blames international sanctions for the rise in prices and the devaluation of the local currency.

One way to put moneysake of completeness. Secretary Ross recalls that Steven Bannon called Secretary Ross in the Spring of 2017 to ask Secretary Ross if he would be willing to speak to then-Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach about Secretary Kobach's ideas about a possible citizenship question on the decennial census. The Defendants therefore are also listing Mr. Bannon for the sake of completeness. In addition, Secretary Ross discussed the possible reinstatement of a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census with Attorney General Sessions in the Spring of 2017 and at subsequent times.

If the Democrats take back the House this November, they will be in a position to stop this racist census decision.

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Cleveland St.-Michigan Preview

So far, Trey Burke and Michigan are putting on stunning shooting displays, especially from beyond the arc.

That means Cleveland State's defensive success could be coming to an abrupt end.

Burke looks to capitalize on another seemingly overmatched opponent as the No. 5 Wolverines meet the Vikings for the first time in 15 years Tuesday night in the NIT Season Tip-Off.

Burke has hit 17 of 32 field goals and half of his 12 3-pointers while adding 17 assists through two games, opening the season with 21 points in a 100-62 victory over Division II Slippery Rock on Friday.

The sophomore guard followed that up by connecting on 8 of 15 from the floor - 4 of 7 from beyond the arc - to total 22 points with a careerof 17 field goals through two games, totaling 34 points while adding 17 assists.

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- Elena Delle Donne scored 22 points, including the winning runner with 19 seconds to play, and tied her career high with four 3-pointers to lead the Chicago Sky past the Washington Mystics, 69-68 on Sunday night. … More »

Zimmer coaches them as critically as any players on the Vikings, and if there were a contest held to determine his favorite position on the field the others would probably be fighting for second place. ''He is a hard coach, but that's something … More »

Mark Canha's afternoon began on the Oakland bench, not unusual considering the slump he's been in. It ended with the Athletics' utility player being doused with a bucket


After Baby Boom, Asia Now Facing a Baby Bust

The distant voices of children at play travel down long, empty corridors at Lao Song Elementary School in downtown Taipei, like faint echoes of a past when thousands of pupils packed the buildings.

After Baby Boom, Asia Now Facing a Baby Bust

Dwindling birth rates have caused the number of pupils to drop from 11,000 in 1966 -- then a world record for a school -- to just 780, illustrating a population trend afflicting not just Taiwan, but most of East Asia.

"Some students would attend classes in the morning, others in the afternoon. They had to line up for the toilet. They had to line up for everything," said Chien Yi-jung, the school's principal.

"But in recent years, we've been cutting the numberand size of the classes. People aren't having as many children as before," she said.

Throughout the region, a baby boom that had politicians worrying about having too many mouths to feed has turned into a baby bust that could potentially be just as devastating.

In the middle of the 20th century, the average woman in East Asia had 5.42 children, but that figure has dropped steeply to just 1.72 today, according to United Nations figures.

The societies of East Asia are among the most crowded in the world, leading some to welcome declining birth rates for their benefit on the strained environment.

But for countries like Japan, which has traditionally been in the vanguard of economic and social change in Asia, the lack of babies is taking on crisis proportions.

In Japan,


births fell below the replacement level in the 1970s, and that is one trend that neighbouring nations do not want to repeat.

Out of a population of 127 million, Japan now has 29 million people aged 65 or over, creating a huge welfare burden in a country already grappling with the industrialised world's highest levels of debt.

The government forecasts the nation's population will more than halve to 60 million by 2100 unless it can persuade citizens to have more children.

And Japan, in common with other East Asian countries such as South Korea, has no history of large-scale immigration to replenish its dwindling numbers.

In South Korea, politicians are starting to worry aloud about the survival of the nation, in stark contrast to their past encouragement of birth control.

"It is aNIS America has delayed the release of Natural Doctrine one week and pushed Fairy Fencer F forward one week, trading their release dates.

Natural Doctrine, previously set for release on September 16 and 19 in North America and Europe, will now launch on September 23 in North America and September 26 in Europe. It will be available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PS Vita.

Fairy Fencer F, previously set for release on September 23 and 26 in North America and Europe, will now launch on September 16 in North America and September 19 in Europe. It will be available for PlayStation 3.


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Darryll Fish is an online and live tournament poker pro based out of Florida. Last week he finished third in the 2013 World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the [b]Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida for $126,000, making his total live tournament earnings just over $1 million.

Fish is the most recent guest on the Strategy with Kristy podcast and came on to discuss a few interesting hands that came up during his deep run. The first spot he discussed took place when there were two tables left in the event.

February 9th, 2013

Jason Koon started his poker career online and has found consistent success since transitioning to live. In five years he's accumulated a total of $1.2 million in tournament winnings. His11-02-17

Redskins Rides – Daniel and Jesse show off both of their 1963 Chevy Impalas at Redskins Park

Hello, beautiful people! This week, we have doubled the fun for you all. Of course that means we have another edition of Redskins Rides but we have two amazing rides this time. We recently met with both Daniel and Jesse at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Virginia to see their awesome cars. They both own a 1963 Chevy Impala but they are both different from each other yet unique in their own way. Daniel purchased his 1963 Impala convertible back in 2005 and is a member of Individuals Car Club of Woodbridge, Virginia. He found the car in Ontario, Canada and brought it to the DMV area where he has been working on


but as being a mental illness, disease, disorder or equivalent thereof."

Billboard for Exodus International, the largest conversion therapy organization in the country. James A. Finley/AP

"The ruling marks the first time a court in the United States has found that homosexuality is not a disease or a disorder and that it is fraudulent for conversion therapists to make such a claim," writes the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on its website.

A major blow: According to the SPLC, this is a "a devastating ruling for the conversion therapy industry." Deputy legal director David Dinielli said, according the center's website:

"For the first time, a court has ruled that it is fraudulent as a matter of law for conversion therapists to tell clients that they have a mental disorder that can bestating that 99.9% of queer people who attempted to change their sexuality at the organization never became straight.

What's more, according to a damning report by the American Psychological Association, participants of conversion therapy note higher rates of mental health issues, ranging from PTSD, to anxiety, to depression and suicide. That means this practice is actively harmful to an already vulnerable community.

"Few practices hurt LGBT youth more than attempts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity through so-called conversion therapy," writes the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR).

It's time to follow New Jersey's lead: Despite the closing of Exodus International in 2013, anti-LGBT religious groups are still too often keen on "changing" LGBT people from queer to straight, and conversion therapy continues to be marketed as a viable


"solution" for LGBT people by anti-LGBT groups around the country.

California, New Jersey and Washington D.C. are the only states to have banned conversion therapy. It's time the rest of the country recognized that groups like PFOX implicitly promote harm towards LGBT individuals and banned the practice, too.

Fighting back: Thankfully, more and more people are standing up to conversion therapy. The past few years have witnessed multiple instances of former ex-gay poster children coming forward and speaking out against the therapy that supposedly changed them.

NCLR via Facebook

In June 2014, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) launched the Born Perfect Campaign, an initiative to ban conversion therapy. The NCLR wrote on its website, "We are committed to ending these dangerous and stigmatizing practices across the country once and forin the late 19th Century by two sisters who called their version Good Morning To All. That song later evolved into the version popular today and was copyrighted by the sisters' publisher. The publisher and the rights to the song were eventually purchased by Warner/Chappell for $25m (£16m) in the 1980s. …

A group of artists who challenged Warner / Chappell’s ownership said over the summer that they had proof that the song belonged in the public domain. They said a songbook from 1922 includes the song, predating its 1935 copyright.

On Tuesday, the judge agreed.


The heavy syllables of the victims' names boomed out along the streets around Ground Zero. The public were patted down, then allowed up a cramped side road to peer at a distant video screen of the memorial. They filmed the video screen on their mobile phones, filmed each other filming, and film crews filmed them filming.

Filming crowd. Photograph: Charlie Skelton

It was hardly fertile ground for grief, you'd think. And yet, the weird detachment of the moment was severed by the chanting of the names and the brief tributes of the readers. It was the daughter who said her father's friends tell her that she reminds them of him that did it for me. That, and the list of victims called Jones. Jones after Jones after Jones. Too manyAmerica's very own Reichstag fire. And the official version of the event? "A racist, militaristic, and fascist myth that we must reject."

What I heard, from speaker after speaker, was a heartfelt desire to turn away from the path of destruction, militarism and lies that America has been set upon after 9/11. Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst, mourned for Iraq: "One million dead, 4m displaced, and that's a victory?" He sees the failure of Americans to comprehend the scale of the destruction wrought under their flag as nothing less than racist. "In America, we are very good at segregating our tears. Racism is our original sin."

Ray McGovern

McGovern quoted from Martin Luther King's letter from Birmingham jail: "Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it


it would have been made by the director".

So that would be George Tenet. Director of the CIA from 1997-2004, now a managing director of an investment bank. The former CIA man, McGovern, ends his speech by saying: "Of all the people who should be put in prison, he'd be top of my list."

Another speaker, Mike Rivero, addressed the outrage, which he often felt when the "false flag" analysis of 9/11 is presented. The idea that "we would never do such a thing" or "it's not the sort of thing governments do." He gave a whistlestop tour of state-sponsored attacks and hoodwinkings: the Lusitania, the Maine, the Dodgy Dossier, Saddam's nuclear weapons, the staged burning of the Reichstag, and the notorious Gleiwitz incident in which the Nazis faked anthe administrator of the White House office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is one Cass Sunstein. The same Cass Sunstein that in 2008 urged the government to "cognitively infiltrate" alternative groups like the 9/11 Truth Movement. So releasing those documents probably isn't top of his to-do list.

He's also the same Cass Sunstein that wrote the first op-ed about Julian Assange – the CIA asset and "child of MK Ultra", as Tarpley dubs him. But that's a whole other can of worms …

I found myself blinking back tears for the second time when McGovern read out a poem – in his polished CIA Russian – about a mother mourning the loss of her child. This thread of grieving ran throughout the conference. Wayne Madsen grieved for the loss of


relied heavily on Sanders’s recollection. An examination by The Washington Post of the trip — based on interviews with five people who accompanied Sanders, as well as audio and video of it — provides a fresh look at this formative time for Sanders, foreshadowing much of what animates his presidential bid.

As he campaigns for president a second time, Sanders, an Independent who is running in the Democratic primaries, takes credit for moving the party to the left, and he now finds himself competing with candidates who advocate for the kind of activist government positions Sanders touted during his Soviet trip, such as government-sponsored health care for all.

As he stood on Soviet soil, Sanders, then 46 years old, criticized the cost of housing and health care in the Unitedabout 500 residents, and Sanders asked to take the stage. At one point, according to Kelley, Sanders pointed to the choir and said, “This is the enemy?”

The main purpose for the trip to the U.S.S.R. was to establish Burlington’s “sister city” in the Soviet Union. Kelley said he initially proposed that Burlington partner with Kaunas, Lithuania, but he said Sanders, who is Jewish, rejected that idea because thousands of Jews had been killed there by the Nazis in 1941.

Instead, Sanders agreed to choose Yaroslavl, a Russian city of 600,000 on the Volga River that had scenic views but also a depleted industrial core. Sanders and his companions paid their own way, according to news accounts at the time and his campaign.

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Sanders and his entourage first visited Moscow, where


Sanders walked through Red Square days after Reagan appeared there, and he saw Lenin’s Tomb, according to his companions. Then they went to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where they visited a cemetery where thousands of Soviets killed during World War II are buried, while “Swan Lake” played from speakers strung from trees.

Sanders then traveled to Yaroslavl, where he and his companions toured factories, hospitals and schools. During a boat ride on the Volga River, Sanders interviewed the city’s mayor for a Burlington radio show, quizzing him on the costs of housing and health care.

Throughout the trip, local officials took aside members of Sanders’s entourage, telling them that the Soviet system was near collapse. At one point, officials of an engine factory that employed thousands of people told Howarda facility in the Soviet Union. But he said that “it had nothing to do with Bernie” and that he has never talked to him about it. Cohen said it was not possible to make money from the venture — he said he was paid at one point with Russian nesting dolls — and that it was eventually transferred to a local partner. Instead of seeking a fortune, Cohen said, he was hoping to foster better relations between the two countries.

Kelley, the Republican who helped organize the trip, said he and Sanders were naive in thinking that the Soviet system would be profitable for American businesses. But Kelley said Sanders was prescient in criticizing U.S. interventions. At the time, Kelley said, Sanders seemed to be comparing the U.S.


war in Vietnam to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and Kelley was offended. In retrospect, Kelley said, Sanders was right.

Kelley said that in observing Sanders on the trip and afterward, he has concluded that “he is intelligent, he is hard-working, he is courageous, he is idealistic, and many of his ideas are absolutely impractical and unworkable.”

Sanders, meanwhile, was so enthused by the trip that he soon began planning his next foreign venture: a visit to Cuba the following year, during his last month as mayor.

“Under Castro, enormous progress has been made in improving the lives of poor people,” Sanders said before leaving, while noting “enormous deficiencies” in democratic rights. While he failed in his goal to meet Fidel Castro, he returned home with even greater praise than hespecialized database is frequently used in favor of the original flat file arrangement.

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Hey, if there’s only one book you can afford to read on the wine business, wine trade, wine making, wine traditions, commercial versus natural wines, and some of the greatest vintners on this earth, read Kermit Lynch’s 30-year-old travelogue on selecting his French wine portfolio.

First published in 1988, this is a story of candor, love of the vine, and decades-long incessant battle for the true and sincere fermented juice that brings together the sense of the place it was born in and the passion that old rustic village men put into it on their slopes and in their damp cellars.

Lynch, a renown US wine importer, discusses his views on the natural wines well before Marcel Lapierre and his buddies made it into a huge trend. He meets andtalks to people like Aubert de Villaine, Henri Jayer, Hubert de Montille, François Raveneau, Aimé Guibert and the Peyraud family of Domaine Tempier. Hell, he even talks to Jules Chauvet before Jules Chauvet changed the mentality of the ravaged Beaujolais region and sowed the seeds of the natural wine movement.

He praises wines of elegance, finesse, nuance, balance, light alcohol, no filtration, low or no sulfur at all, over soul-less broad-shouldered bold oaky wines of 15% and above still in favor with the world press. Yet, in his epilogue to the 25th anniversary edition, published in 2013, he spares no harsh words towards badly made ultra purist natural wines, as you cannot sell defects for effects just for the sake of it being natural and raw.

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singled out, mistreated, tried and jailed by the state on the back of tax evasion charges. Different reasons, but in quite similar fashion, it looks like. Saddens me.

In general, it's a good tale of putting together one of the largest and quite successful trading operations in modern history, a child who now tries to purge its founding father's name from history books. Oh well.

If he was indeed innocent, as he claims, I interject, why was he branded the greatest tax fraudster and an enemy of the state? Rich tilts his head to one side, and the red birthmark on his left cheek seems to glow brighter than usual. “I believe it was a combination of political problems and that a scapegoat was needed at the time,” Rich says.Personal tools

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In the Southern Oregon Coast Range northeast of Coos Bay lie 93,000 acres of state-owned forestland. The Elliott State Forest contains more than 41,000 acres of untouched mature native forest and some of the most productive and pristine streams for Coho and Chinook Salmon in the Coast Range. The forest provides a stronghold of critical habitat for federally threatened Marbled Murrelets and Northern Spotted Owls. And in the next several months, this amazing public forest could be sold off to private industrial interests. We need your help to send a strong message to the State Land Board—Governor Kate Brown, Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins, and Treasurer (and soon to be mayor of Portland) Ted Wheeler—that we will not accept privatization of our public lands. We


Audubon Society of Portland, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Cascadia Wildlands, represented by Crag Law Center, sued the state of Oregon for logging occupied Marbled Murrelet nesting habitat in violation of the Endangered Species Act. In 2014, after the federal court indicated a strong likelihood that it would rule in our favor, the State settled the case and cancelled 28 timber sales, agreeing to new logging protocols and reducing its projected annual timber harvest from over 40 million board feet per year to approximately 15 million. The scale of change reflects the degree to which the State was illegally harvesting this incredible forest.

The settlement should have resulted in a more sustainable approach to managing the Elliott Forest. Instead, the State Land Board rashly sold off more thanMatthew Roloff Net Worth

Matthew "Matt" Roloff net worth is$4.5 Million

Matthew "Matt" Roloff Wiki/Biography

Born Matthew James Roloff on the 7th October 1961, in San Francisco, California USA, he is an actor, television personality, author, farmer, motivational speaker, producer and entrepreneur, but probably best known for participating with his family in the reality TV series “Little People, Big World” (2006-2017), which aired on TLC. He also appeared in the film “Ewoks: The Battle for Endor” (1985) as an Ewok, and as an extra in the movie “Under the Rainbow” (1981).

Have you ever wondered how rich Matthew Roloff is, as of late 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Roloff’s net worth is as high as $4.5 million, an amount earned through his successful career as an actor,


author and entrepreneur, which has been active since the mid- ‘80s.

Matthew Roloff Net Worth $4.5 Million

Matthew Roloff had a rather difficult childhood, mostly because he was born with diastrophic dysplasia, which is a form of a degenerative dwarfism, and in order just to function as a normal person, Matt had to undergo fifteen operations; however, his parents Ronald and Peggy Roloff are of average height. Mat grew up with three siblings, his older sister Ruth is of average height, middle brother Joshua who died in 1999 at age 34, and younger brother Sam who also has diastrophic dysplasia, and is in need of crutches to be able to walk.

In the beginning of his successful career, Roloff worked as a computer programmer in Silicon Valley for Altos Computer Systemsin the late 1980s, selling his software systems to Fortune 500 companies. In 1987, Matthew attended the Little People of America Convention, where he met Amy Knight who is also a short person with achondroplasia. Mat and Amy became a couple, and they married on the 12th September 1987. Matthew then decided to move to Beaverton, Oregon, away from the pressures of Silicon Valley, to work for Sequent Computer Systems.

Roloff’s family subsequently bought a fixer-upper family farmhouse in Helvetia, Oregon, and eventually the TLC Reality show “Little People, Big World” originally aired on 4th March 2006, and chronicled the somewhat extraordinary life of the family. The last season was aired in 2010, but after that, TLC released specials, and the spin-off series “Little People, Big World: Wedding Farm”.


In 2013 the show was renewed, and aired on TLC until May 2017, further increasing Matthew’s net worth.

Matthew is a member of National Speakers Association, through which he is working as a motivational speaker for many companies including “Wal-Mart”, “United Healthcare” and “Tyson Foods”. He also speaks at institutions and universities, and has spoken for many associations such as “The Manitoba Childcare Association”, “Association of Legal Administrators” and “Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center”. Through his multi-faceted career, Roloff has appeared as a celebrity guest on the “Rachael Ray”, “The Bonnie Hunt Show”, “Oprah Winfrey Show” and many other shows, which has also added to his net worth.

As an author, Roloff has written two books; in 1999, “Against Tall Odds: Being a David in a Goliath World” withthe help of ghostwriter Tracy Summer, and in 2007 “Little Family, Big Values: Lessons in Love, Respect, and Understanding for Families of Any Size”, the sales of both of which increased his wealth.

Regarding his personal life, as a couple, Matthew and Amy Roloff have four children. In 1990 they had twins Jeremy and Zachary Roloff – Zachary was born with achondroplasia like his mother. They also have a daughter Molly, born in 1993, and the youngest child Jacob, born 1997. Unfortunately, in May 2016, Amy and Matt divorced, after 26 years of marriage.

Matthew has undertaken counselling in the past after a couple of alleged DUI incidents, but no convictions. He still resides on the family farm in Oregon.


city in the Basque country of Spain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
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the largest in the Basque region of Spain. Both city and region must
have visionary leadership. Not only did they succeed in persuading the
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, but the leadership endorsed and
supported the daring vision of the museum and its architect for a
building that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated. It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and becauseof the new fame, status, and cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city has continued to
commission leading architects to design projects there, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa river).
Let me take the parts of your question in the order you presented them.
THE SITE
The museum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is


not
so apparent. The design seeks not to overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website:
http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the center of Bilbao diagonally, are led directly to the
main entrance; the idea was to bring the city right to the doors of
the building. A broad flight of steps takes pedestrians down to the
Museum hall although descending flights of stairs are not a frequent
feature of institutional buildings. This is an inspired response to
the differences in height between the level of the river and the level
of the city center. It also enables a building with a surface area of
24,000 square meters and more than 50 meters high to be slotted into
the city landscape without ithis career. And the sail-like shapes are also a Gehry
trademark, seen again in the recently completed Walt Disney Concert
Hall in Los Angeles.)
SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND CHARACTER
The Museum?s own website says that one can see from the outside how
the building is composed of two kinds of galleries. The building has a
total of 19 galleries organized around the central atrium. ?Ten of
these galleries have an almost classical orthogonal look and can be
identified from outside by their stone finishes. Nine other,
irregularly-shaped galleries present a remarkable contrast, and can be
identified from outside by their unusual architecture and the covering
of titanium.?
The biggest gallery is 130 meters long (!). It is ?free of columns and
with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of
visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight


of the works on
display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that
embraces the bridge and brings it into the building.? It is this
gallery where large works like the sculptures of Richard Serra are
displayed.
As for movement through the building, the museum website says that,
contrary to the outside appearance, all is easy and clear
inside:?There is a harmonius tie between the architectural shapes and
the contents of each gallery. Undoubtedly, this simplifies the tour
inside the Museum while the atrium, in its very center, and the
walkways that link one gallery with another - showing different
perspectives of the exhibitional spaces - facilitate the location of
galleries and services at any time. As visitors enter the Museum they
learn that under theHAVE
exhausted myself, but it is a fascinating subject,and doing this
research has reinforced my determination to some day see this
remarkable building in person. Perhaps I will run into you there!
Scribe_ga
An enormously complex structure, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa is
also a very complex subject, but I hope that my answer will at least
give you a good start on comprehending and appreciating this building,
which seems to be considered one of the great buildings of the 20th
Century, by almost global consensus.
First, a little about the city in which it is located. Bilboa is an
industrial port city in the Basque country of Spain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
the Atlantic. Bilboa is a medium-size city (350,000 population) and
the largest in the Basque region of Spain.


Both city and region must
have visionary leadership. Not only did they succeed in persuading the
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, but the leadership endorsed and
supported the daring vision of the museum and its architect for a
building that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated. It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and because of the new fame, status, and cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city hascontinued to
commission leading architects to design projects there, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa river).
Let me take the parts of your question in the order you presented them.
1. The site.
The museum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is not
so apparent. The design seeks not to overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the


a purely aesthetic use.
****************
2. The second part of your question had to do with ?structural and
construction ideas.?
First let?s consider the extraordinary shape of the building. The
building was completed in 1997 and a writer in the Washington Post was
among the many who were utterly captivated by it:
http://www.jasonkaufman.com/articles/gehrys_guggenheim_bilbao.htm
Here is part is what he had to say about the form of the building:
?Gehry's masterpiece has been likened to a metallic flower, to the
hulls of ships, and to Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned spiral rotunda of
the Guggenheim's flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its
overlapping forms seem inspired by Futurist sculpture, conveying a
sense of centripetal motion, like an arrested implosion of the Tower
of Babel. It is like nothing we have seen before.?
Gehry himself has described the building as a metal flower set in the
bankto the beauty of the building, in all kinds of light, even
the under the frequently grey skies of this city by the Atlantic.
4. Symbolic and historic association of the work
We have already touched upon this. One can say that the titanium
panels pay tribute to Bilboa?s industrial heritage, especially its
shipbuilding. Further, the sail-like shapes can be seen as reference
to the city?s history as an important Atlantic port. (Though both are
also typical of Gehry?s work far from Bilboa. Using fish-scale-like
panels as the skin of a building is an idea that dates back to early
in his career. And the sail-like shapes are also a Gehry trademark,
seen again in the recently completed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los
Angeles.)
5. Spatial organization and character
The first thing to be said on this subject, in my


outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that
embraces the bridge and brings it into the building.? It is this
gallery where large works like those of Richard Serra are displayed.
As for movement through the building, the museum website says that,
contrary to the outside appearance, all is easy and clear
inside:?There is a harmonius tie between the architectural shapes and
the contents of each gallery. Undoubtedly, this simplifies the tour
inside the Museum while the atrium, in its very center, and the
walkways that link one gallery with another - showing different
perspectives of the exhibitional spaces - facilitate the location of
galleries and services at any time. As visitors enter the Museum they
learn that under the external complex appearance of the architectural
shapes, there liessubject,and doing this
research has reinforced my determination to some day see this
remarkable building in person. Perhaps I will run into you there!
Scribe_ga
An enormously complex structure, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa is
also a very complex subject, but I hope that my answer will at least
give you a good start on comprehending and appreciating this building,
which seems to be considered one of the great buildings of the 20th
Century, by almost global consensus.
First, a little about the city in which it is located. Bilboa is an
industrial port city in the Basque country of Spain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
the Atlantic. Bilboa is a medium-size city (350,000 population) and
the largest in the Basque region of Spain. Both city and region must
have visionary leadership.


Not only did they succeed in persuading the
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, but the leadership endorsed and
supported the daring vision of the museum and its architect for a
building that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated. It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and because of the new fame, status, and cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city has continued to
commission leading architects to design projectsthere, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa river).
Let me take the parts of your question in the order you presented them.
1. The site.
The museum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is not
so apparent. The design seeks not to overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the center of Bilbao diagonally, are led directly


of your question had to do with ?structural and
construction ideas.?
First let?s consider the extraordinary shape of the building. The
building was completed in 1997 and a writer in the Washington Post was
among the many who were utterly captivated by it:
http://www.jasonkaufman.com/articles/gehrys_guggenheim_bilbao.htm
Here is part is what he had to say about the form of the building:
?Gehry's masterpiece has been likened to a metallic flower, to the
hulls of ships, and to Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned spiral rotunda of
the Guggenheim's flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its
overlapping forms seem inspired by Futurist sculpture, conveying a
sense of centripetal motion, like an arrested implosion of the Tower
of Babel. It is like nothing we have seen before.?
Gehry himself has described the building as a metal flower set in the
bank of the river. And another observer hasthe startlingly
beautiful effects of reflected light, the source of the welcoming
gleam from afar), warm limestone, and glass. From the three main
materials, paneling of unique sizes and shapes (details generated from
computer design, manufactured by computer commanded robots) was
created, thus allowing for the organically irregular and curved shapes
of the mass. It's like a mutated kind of shingling, taking that
technique to places it has never been before. (Critic Paul Goldberger
noted that changes in architecture have already moved ahead of Gehry;
while Gehry designs in his head and implements with the computer, a
new generation has adopted the computer itself as the generator of
design. Still, Gehry's work could not be implemented without the use
of computers.)?
The reflective nature of the skin of the building contributes in no
small part to the beauty of the building, in


of how it is organized, when viewed
from outside. But the Museum?s own website says that one can see from
the outside how the building is composed of two kinds of galleries.
The building has a total of 19 galleries organized around the central
atrium. ?Ten of these galleries have an almost classical orthogonal
look and can be identified from outside by their stone finishes. Nine
other, irregularly-shaped galleries present a remarkable contrast, and
can be identified from outside by their unusual architecture and the
covering of titanium.?
The biggest gallery is 130 meters long (!). It is ?free of columns and
with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of
visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight of the works on
display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente deLa Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that
embraces the bridge and brings it into the building.? It is this
gallery where large works like those of Richard Serra are displayed.
As for movement through the building, the museum website says that,
contrary to the outside appearance, all is easy and clear
inside:?There is a harmonius tie between the architectural shapes and
the contents of each gallery. Undoubtedly, this simplifies the tour
inside the Museum while the atrium, in its very center, and the
walkways that link one gallery with another - showing different
perspectives of the exhibitional spaces - facilitate the location of
galleries and services at any time. As visitors enter the Museum they
learn that under the external complex appearance of the architectural
shapes, there lies a neat, clear world where it is


to some day see this
remarkable building in person. Perhaps I will run into you there!
Scribe_ga
An enormously complex structure, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa is
also a very complex subject, but I hope that my answer will at least
give you a good start on comprehending and appreciating this building,
which seems to be considered one of the great buildings of the 20th
Century, by almost global consensus.
First, a little about the city in which it is located. Bilboa is an
industrial port city in the Basque country of Spain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
the Atlantic. Bilboa is a medium-size city (350,000 population) and
the largest in the Basque region of Spain. Both city and region must
have visionary leadership. Not only did they succeed in persuadingthe
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, but the leadership endorsed and
supported the daring vision of the museum and its architect for a
building that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated. It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and because of the new fame, status, and cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city has continued to
commission leading architects to design projects there, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge


crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa river).
Let me take the parts of your question in the order you presented them.
1. The site.
The museum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is not
so apparent. The design seeks not to overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the center of Bilbao diagonally, are led directly to the
main entrance; the idea was to?structural and
construction ideas.?
First let?s consider the extraordinary shape of the building. The
building was completed in 1997 and a writer in the Washington Post was
among the many who were utterly captivated by it:
http://www.jasonkaufman.com/articles/gehrys_guggenheim_bilbao.htm
Here is part is what he had to say about the form of the building:
?Gehry's masterpiece has been likened to a metallic flower, to the
hulls of ships, and to Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned spiral rotunda of
the Guggenheim's flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its
overlapping forms seem inspired by Futurist sculpture, conveying a
sense of centripetal motion, like an arrested implosion of the Tower
of Babel. It is like nothing we have seen before.?
Gehry himself has described the building as a metal flower set in the
bank of the river. And another observer has seen no lack of allusions
to the city


source of the welcoming
gleam from afar), warm limestone, and glass. From the three main
materials, paneling of unique sizes and shapes (details generated from
computer design, manufactured by computer commanded robots) was
created, thus allowing for the organically irregular and curved shapes
of the mass. It's like a mutated kind of shingling, taking that
technique to places it has never been before. (Critic Paul Goldberger
noted that changes in architecture have already moved ahead of Gehry;
while Gehry designs in his head and implements with the computer, a
new generation has adopted the computer itself as the generator of
design. Still, Gehry's work could not be implemented without the use
of computers.)?
The reflective nature of the skin of the building contributes in no
small part to the beauty of the building, in all kinds of light, even
the under theoutside. But the Museum?s own website says that one can see from
the outside how the building is composed of two kinds of galleries.
The building has a total of 19 galleries organized around the central
atrium. ?Ten of these galleries have an almost classical orthogonal
look and can be identified from outside by their stone finishes. Nine
other, irregularly-shaped galleries present a remarkable contrast, and
can be identified from outside by their unusual architecture and the
covering of titanium.?
The biggest gallery is 130 meters long (!). It is ?free of columns and
with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of
visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight of the works on
display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the


person. Perhaps I will run into you there!
Scribe_ga
An enormously complex structure, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa is
also a very complex subject, but I hope that my answer will at least
give you a good start on comprehending and appreciating this building,
which seems to be considered one of the great buildings of the 20th
Century, by almost global consensus.
First, a little about the city in which it is located. Bilboa is an
industrial port city in the Basque country of Spain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
the Atlantic. Bilboa is a medium-size city (350,000 population) and
the largest in the Basque region of Spain. Both city and region must
have visionary leadership. Not only did they succeed in persuading the
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, butthe leadership endorsed and
supported the daring vision of the museum and its architect for a
building that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated. It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and because of the new fame, status, and cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city has continued to
commission leading architects to design projects there, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa


river).
Let me take the parts of your question in the order you presented them.
1. The site.
The museum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is not
so apparent. The design seeks not to overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the center of Bilbao diagonally, are led directly to the
main entrance; the idea was to bring the city right to the doorsshape of the building. The
building was completed in 1997 and a writer in the Washington Post was
among the many who were utterly captivated by it:
http://www.jasonkaufman.com/articles/gehrys_guggenheim_bilbao.htm
Here is part is what he had to say about the form of the building:
?Gehry's masterpiece has been likened to a metallic flower, to the
hulls of ships, and to Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned spiral rotunda of
the Guggenheim's flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its
overlapping forms seem inspired by Futurist sculpture, conveying a
sense of centripetal motion, like an arrested implosion of the Tower
of Babel. It is like nothing we have seen before.?
Gehry himself has described the building as a metal flower set in the
bank of the river. And another observer has seen no lack of allusions
to the city and its history.
http://www.architectsonline.com/publications/bilbao/
The river and the city?s
shipbuilding


limestone, and glass. From the three main
materials, paneling of unique sizes and shapes (details generated from
computer design, manufactured by computer commanded robots) was
created, thus allowing for the organically irregular and curved shapes
of the mass. It's like a mutated kind of shingling, taking that
technique to places it has never been before. (Critic Paul Goldberger
noted that changes in architecture have already moved ahead of Gehry;
while Gehry designs in his head and implements with the computer, a
new generation has adopted the computer itself as the generator of
design. Still, Gehry's work could not be implemented without the use
of computers.)?
The reflective nature of the skin of the building contributes in no
small part to the beauty of the building, in all kinds of light, even
the under the frequently grey skies of this city bythat one can see from
the outside how the building is composed of two kinds of galleries.
The building has a total of 19 galleries organized around the central
atrium. ?Ten of these galleries have an almost classical orthogonal
look and can be identified from outside by their stone finishes. Nine
other, irregularly-shaped galleries present a remarkable contrast, and
can be identified from outside by their unusual architecture and the
covering of titanium.?
The biggest gallery is 130 meters long (!). It is ?free of columns and
with flooring specially prepared to cope with the comings and going of
visitors and museum staff, as well as the sheer weight of the works on
display there. Seen from the outside, this gallery slides underneath
the Puente de La Salve and runs up against the end of the tower that
embraces the bridge


there!
Scribe_ga
An enormously complex structure, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa is
also a very complex subject, but I hope that my answer will at least
give you a good start on comprehending and appreciating this building,
which seems to be considered one of the great buildings of the 20th
Century, by almost global consensus.
First, a little about the city in which it is located. Bilboa is an
industrial port city in the Basque country of Spain. The ?river? on
which the building is located (the Nervion) is actually an estuary of
the Atlantic. Bilboa is a medium-size city (350,000 population) and
the largest in the Basque region of Spain. Both city and region must
have visionary leadership. Not only did they succeed in persuading the
Guggenheim to locate a ?branch? there, but the leadership endorsed and
supported the daring visionof the museum and its architect for a
building that would be as startlingly and radically different as was
the Guggenheim?s home museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright., in the 1950s. Certainly the city?s boldness has been
vindicated. It has been a major factor in the economic revival of the
city, both because of tourist dollars attracted to the city as never
before and because of the new fame, status, and cachet the building
has given to a rather obscure and economically-depressed Spanish city
located in a region that in for many years has been bedeviled by a
violent separatist movement. Incidentally, the city has continued to
commission leading architects to design projects there, including
Santiago Calatrava who designed a footbridge crossing the Nervion
(also known as the Bilboa river).
Let me take the parts of your


question in the order you presented them.
1. The site.
The museum is located in central Bilboa in a riverside area formerly
dedicated to warehousing and port activities. (The port of Bilboa is
now located directly on the Bay of Biscay.) The building is approached
from its eastern end, where the size of the building (it is VERY
large: 24,000 square meters on a site of 32,500 square meters) is not
so apparent. The design seeks not to overwhelm its historic
surroundings and the way it avoids doing this is well described in The
Museum?s own website: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/ingles/home.htm
?People coming from the calle Iparraguirre, one of the main streets
bisecting the center of Bilbao diagonally, are led directly to the
main entrance; the idea was to bring the city right to the doors of
the building. A broad flight of stepsin 1997 and a writer in the Washington Post was
among the many who were utterly captivated by it:
http://www.jasonkaufman.com/articles/gehrys_guggenheim_bilbao.htm
Here is part is what he had to say about the form of the building:
?Gehry's masterpiece has been likened to a metallic flower, to the
hulls of ships, and to Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned spiral rotunda of
the Guggenheim's flagship on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its
overlapping forms seem inspired by Futurist sculpture, conveying a
sense of centripetal motion, like an arrested implosion of the Tower
of Babel. It is like nothing we have seen before.?
Gehry himself has described the building as a metal flower set in the
bank of the river. And another observer has seen no lack of allusions
to the city and its history.
http://www.architectsonline.com/publications/bilbao/
The river and the city?s
shipbuilding and industrial past are, this writer thinks,