dangerous shooter from the perimeter, even if he's mired in a slump at the moment.

Above all else, he's not the same player who dropped 25 points, six rebounds, nine assists and four steals against the Sacramento Kings to open his Cleveland career, though he's still recording similarly gaudy lines.

An Offensive Juggernaut

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If there's one thing James has always known how to do, it's provide his team with positive contributions on the offensive end. Even as a rookie, he averaged 20.9 points and 5.5 assists for the Cavaliers—admittedly with far less efficiency than he's enjoyed in recent years.

In fact, James is one of the few players in NBA history who have managed to string together a dozen seasons scoring at least 20 points per game, and he's sethere. Basically, it measures how many points better an average team's offense is per 100 possessions with the player in question on the court rather than a perfectly average offensive contributor.

Using OBPM, while also taking James' playing time and the pace of his teams into account, we can come up with an approximation of how many points he added during any given season. Naturally, that number has been rather high during each and every year of this future Hall of Famer's career:

The per-36-minute figures are even more telling, especially because they eliminate the impact of the lockout that shortened the 2011-12 campaign:

Is any of this particularly surprising?

James trended up at the beginning of his career, with the 2006-07 season serving as the lone exception. That was a massive


aberration, as his scoring average dipped to 27.3 points per game while he struggled to maintain his percentages and posted "only" six assists during the average contest. That was actually the only season between 2004-05 and 2012-13 in which he didn't pace the Association in OBPM.

But after the conclusion of the '07 campaign, he kept moving in the right direction, peaking in the final year of his first stint with Cleveland. That season, he averaged 29.7 points and 8.6 assists while shooting 50.3 percent from the field, hitting 33.3 percent of his looks from beyond the arc and knocking down 7.8 of his mind-numbing 10.2 free-throw attempts per game.

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James' numbers dipped once he joined the Miami Heat and had to learn how he could best workalongside Wade and Chris Bosh, but he gradually improved while becoming an absolute master of efficiency. And lately, he's trended down, as we've seen issues with his back pop up—most notably when he needed two weeks off during the 2014-15 go-round for rest, relaxation and rehabilitation.

Even during the downward trend, James' points added on offense are ridiculous. They're not as jaw-droppingly crazy as what he did during his peak years, both during the first Cleveland stint and after refusing to miss shots in South Beach, but still quite good.

In 2009-10, James added approximately 548 points on offense. Throughout the entire league, the closest players to him were Wade (368), Kevin Durant (308), Steve Nash (259) and Chauncey Billups (246), which means James more than doubled the contributions of


all but two players in the NBA.

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Three years later and at the second peak of his bimodal career trajectory, James added an estimated 500 points on offense, compared to the expected contributions of an average player. This time, his closest competitors were Durant (376), Stephen Curry (370), James Harden (323) and Chris Paul (319). He at least doubled the output of all but seven other standouts.

There's no more doubling going on these days, but it's a testament to James' immense offensive ability that even in 2014-15, after undergoing a substantial decline for two consecutive seasons, he was near the top of the leaderboard. With 297 points added, he trailed only Curry (514), Harden (443), Paul (423) and Russell Westbrook (404).

We've seen cracks chipping away atthe facade in recent years, but it's not like James has devolved into anything less than a superstar on the offensive end.

Longstanding Defensive Excellence

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You don't become the best basketball player in the world without playing a little bit of defense.

While it's easier to remember his high-flying exploits, dime-dropping ways and ability to punish a defense for showing the tiniest hint of a weakness, James' defense has always helped make him such a special forward. To that point, though he's never actually won Defensive Player of the Year, he's at least appeared on the ballot multiple times.

In 2009, he finished a distant second to Dwight Howard, drawing four first-place votes in the process. He earned another four one year later but dropped down to fourth in the


standings, trailing Howard, Josh Smith and Gerald Wallace. The 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons saw him finish ninth and fourth, respectively. And after a second-place finish to Marc Gasol in 2013, he came in at sixth in 2014 and a mere 13th during the last completed season.

Stellar as it may be for a forward to get so much consistent recognition in an award traditionally dominated by rim-protecting centers, James might actually have gotten less credit than he deserves. Though he was a liability on the defensive end during his rookie season, he's bulked up and settled down ever since, using his immense physical tools and court vision to wreak havoc year in and year out.

Using defensive box plus/minus (DBPM), the counterpart of OBPM, we can estimate how many pointsJames has saved throughout his career:

And per 36 minutes, so that we're no longer factoring in injuries, time off and the 2011-12 lockout:

Naturally, James' true peak came during the height of his athletic prime. He may only have celebrated his 24th birthday during the 2008-09 season, but that was six years into his NBA career, back when he was still a whirling dervish who delighted in the chase-down blocks that he pinned to the backboard with such bombastic fervor.

Though steals and blocks aren't particularly great indicators of defensive prowess, it is notable that 2008-09 was one of just two seasons in which James rejected more than one shot per contest. He spent a little less time on the court during his average outing, and he parlayed that extra


energy into enthusiastic contributions from the opening tip until the final buzzer.

As Jodie Valade reported for the Plain Dealer back in '09, this was the first time James truly cared as much about defense as he did offense:

Not that James never played defense before, but the Cavaliers swingman said his main off-season goal last year was to improve defensively. He learned the Cavaliers' defensive schemes inside and out, worked on footwork and angles and perfected his patented "chase-down block" maneuver. He simply began to care more. "It means more to me now at this point in my career than it did in the past," he said. "I'm not saying I didn't care about defense. It just means a lot more to me. I care as much about defenseas I do about offense."

That season, James saved approximately 203 points on the defensive end—easily the most of his career. Howard, who won Defensive Player of the Year, checked in at 233 points saved, and no one else topped James' mark. In fact, the next-best mark by someone who didn't typically line up at center came from Shane Battier—115 points saved, putting him outside the top 10.

However, that year—while clearly the zenith of his defensive career—stands out as an aberration. He's still been dominant in other seasons, though never quite to the same extent. Take 2012-13 as an example, since that's the other time he finished second in the Defensive Player of the Year voting, most notably because of his much-hyped ability to guard all five positions on


the court.

"We're at the point where it's possible LeBron will never win DPOY, so he's right to be angry that he's not gotten more consideration for the award and public praise for his defensive effort," Tom Ziller wrote for SB Nation in April 2013.

And he was partially justified in his rage during the year in question.

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During that season, the penultimate one spent with the Heat, James saved 130 points despite missing six games. That actually only placed him at No. 9 in the league-wide hierarchy, well behind Joakim Noah's 230 points saved and Marc Gasol's 227.

But again, positions come into play, as Paul George was the only player who spent a significant time guarding wings to finish above James. And George (No. 7) had the luxuryof teaming up with two more top-15 defenders—Roy Hibbert (No. 6) and David West (No. 14)—while James' most impactful cohort was Joel Anthony (No. 34).

The claim to fame here isn't that James has made the biggest defensive impact in the league. Instead, he's outclassed other similar players for the better part of a decade, even if he's fallen victim to the trees in the lineup on a regular basis.

The Total Package's Peak

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When you're one of the league's best offensive players for such a sustained stretch and a positional stalwart on the other end of the 94-by-50-foot rectangle, you're naturally going to thrive as an overall contributor. And thrive James has throughout his entire career, making the All-Star squad during his sophomore season and never looking back.

The


overall accolades are ridiculous. He's won MVP four times, become the fastest player in league history to reach 25,000 points, earned a scoring title and so much more. The list could drag on and on.

But when did he peak? We can determine that by combining offensive points added and defensive points saved:

And, as always, there's the per-36-minute version:

Here's where we have to address something we've been ignoring up to this point: LeBron's sudden defensive resurgence.

Against all odds, the soon-to-be 31-year-old Cavalier is averaging a career high in steals per game (2.6) while registering the most impressive DBPM (4.6) of his time in the NBA. He's turning back the clocks with his intensity on the point-preventing end, constantly jumping into passing lanes and recovering in the blink of anhis overall total points added down to a more reasonable mark. After all, his career has followed a pattern that makes logical sense.

Early on, he consistently improved until peaking in 2008-09 and 2009-10—the anomalous dip in 2006-07 notwithstanding. He took a massive step in the wrong direction after the infamous decision to leave for South Beach and gradually built his profile back up while learning how to thrive alongside new, ball-dominant teammates.

Then, as his physical talents began to erode a bit in 2013-14, he declined before moving back to Cleveland and experiencing the same arc gone through during the beginning of his stint with the Heat. It shouldn't be surprising that he's faring better in the second year of the second Cavaliers era, even if the offense and


defense should move in opposite directions for the rest of the year.

What makes James special isn't the career trajectory but rather how much more impressive everything is when compared to what we see from a typical superstar. The peak is higher, the dips don't drop as far down, and everything in between falls in line.

This modern legend won't be compared to typical superstars, though. The bar is right where it's always been set—in a direct comparison to Michael Jordan:

Factoring out playing time by looking at the per-36-minute version is especially important here. Not only does it help account for the sophomore season Jordan lost with a broken bone in his foot and the comeback that took place deep into the 1994-95 campaign, but it also aids James, wholevels. And truthfully, we don't know what's going to come next, particularly after he's gotten off to such a promising start in 2015-16 on the defensive end.

One thing, however, is certain.

The Jordan-versus-James debate remains a legitimate one, and the latter's side is still getting strengthened with each passing year. What was once only a distant hope when he entered the league back in 2003 has now become a reality.

All stats, unless otherwise indicated, come from Basketball-Reference.com and my own databases.

Adam Fromal covers the NBA for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter: @fromal09.


"The knowledge that we were not alone in this and the support that we received from every single one of you that took the time to take a second look, to send an email or to post a flyer held us up and kept us strong."
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A heartfelt thanks and the story of Pepper

As most of you may recall, on October 9, 2004 my 8 year old daughter Paige's horse Pepper was stolen from his pen in Stromsburg, Nebraska. The Sheriff's department was notified immediately as there were fresh trailer tracks leading to the pen and horse tracks disappearing at the trailer tracks.

An intensive search began, with the help of two local news stations and SHI. As a family we were pretty upset and felt quite alone and helplessmoved their horses the following week. About a week and a half ago, around October 20, they decided that they were going to move their horses back to this pen for the winter and went over to ready the barn and pen area for their horses again. They worked for two days in the barn and in the pen.

Last night, November 3, 2004 we received a telephone call from our friends needing us to come over right away. When we got there we knew something was wrong. Whoever had taken Pepper had brought him back, killed him and dumped him in the feed bunk.

As I write this I am still in shock that there are people that sick and cruel in this world. I am very disheartened by


Stop the Fatwa!

In response to:

In her review [NYR, February 16] of Salman Rushdie’s East, West, Hilary Mantel remarks that Rushdie has been compelled to respond in both political and imaginative ways to the extraordinary destiny imposed upon him. Her review rightly concentrates on Rushdie’s imaginative strategies; but readers may also be interested in recent developments in the political and diplomatic worlds, where the consequences of the fatwa pronounced by the Ayatollah Khomeini continue to unfold.

In October 1994, the Iranian Ambassador to Oslo, Mr. Abdolrahim Gavahi, was recalled by his government. In a letter to the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, in June 1994, Ambassador Gavahi had written: “We…condemn any form of the application of force in international relations.” This unimpeachably diplomatic utterance was a response to a request from theNorwegian government that Iranian diplomats accredited to Norway provide assurances that the Iranian Mission would not facilitate the implementation of the fatwa (more bluntly: the murder of Rushdie, or others associated with the publication of The Satanic Verses) on Norwegian soil. Ambassador Gavahi’s comments were viewed by his government as a failure “to act in accordance with Iran’s principled foreign policy.”

It is equally disturbing to relate that at a London conference on the Iranian political economy, held in January and supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, statements were made by a British diplomat and an MP on the desirability of closer relations between Iran and the UK. In a session chaired by the Iranian Chargé D’Affaires in London, Gholamreza Ansari, a British MP, Peter Temple-Morris, declared that


[Sleep deprivation and its effect on the ability to maintain wakefulness: implications on functioning and driving].
During the last century, western society suffers from an increasing steep debt. A large number of accidents occur due to drowsy drivers. People are not aware of the influence of fatigue/drowsiness on their functioning and driving capacity. Our goal is to identify and characterize measurable physioLogicaL information capable of monitoring simple and reliable performance of driver vigilance. Eight healthy volunteers without sleep disorders were included in the study. They participated in two missions, on and off every two hours during 34-36 hours, in order to create an accumulative sleep debt. The tasks included the Maintenance of wakefulness test (MWT) and the driving simulator test. White tested, they remained connected to EEG, EMG, EOG,ECG and audio-video registration. These first results are related to 60 MWT tests. The first falling asleep events (FA) appeared around the early afternoon hours, in agreement to the physiological tendency to fall asleep, according to the biological clock. The night was characterized by FAs with a very short sleep Latency time at around 4 AM. On the second day of the experiment, the averaged sleep latency was larger than in the night before, despite the accumulation of sleep debt. The fluctuations of RRI increased after the first micro sleep. The autonomic nervous regulation displays an increase in the overall sympathetic activity as an indicator of increased stress. There is a correlation between parameters associated with instantaneous autonomic changes of heart rhythm (RRI) and the FA/almost-FA events observed


There’s been quite a few street co-namings in NYC in the past months: In early May, a Staten Island street was named after the Wu-Tang Clan, and in June, a Brooklyn intersection was named in honor of the Notorious B.I.G. Now, the NYC Council approved the co-naming of a Bronx street after comic book writer and publisher of Marvel Comics Stan Lee.

University Avenue between Brandt Place and West 176th Street will be renamed Stan Lee Way next spring, according to the Bronx Times, as proposed by City Council member Fernando Cabrera, who represents the area.

Lee, the mastermind behind Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, among others, spent a lot of his teenage years in the Bronx—he lived at 1720 University Avenue and attended Dewitt Clinton High School.Lee was born in Manhattan in 1922 and passed away last November at 95.

“Stan Lee was a Bronx native who grew up in my district,” Cabrera told NBC New York. “Mr. Lee’s amazing talent brought joy and entertainment to countless children and adults and he deserves to be permanently memorialized in his home borough, the Bronx.”


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Posted on: March 13, 2020

City of Hopkins Monitors, Prepares for COVID-19

On March 16, Mayor Jason Gadd issued a local emergency declaration. This declaration invokes the City’s emergency operations/management plans and pandemic response plans related to the coronavirus outbreak. Fire Chief Dale Specken and City Manager Mike Mornson are leading this emergency effort, in coordination with the City’s senior staff. The Hopkins City Council will continue to receive briefings as necessary.

The City of Hopkins is working closely with Hennepin County Emergency Management Services and the Minnesota Department of Health to monitor and update protocols to keep residents and staff safe as the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Minnesota continues to rise.

At this time, the City is following Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)recommendations and has made the following changes and cancellations to City programming:

Hopkins City Hall, Hopkins Public Works, the Hopkins Activity Center, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the Hopkins Pavilion and the Depot Coffee House are closed to the public until further notice

The David Wilcox concert on March 21 at the Hopkins Center for the Arts is cancelled

The Hopkins Academy scheduled for April is cancelled

Garden plot registration on April 7 at City Hall is postponed

The Hopkins Race and Equity Initiative event on April 14 is postponed

The spring bulk item drop-off event on April 24-25 is cancelled

Cops and Community Bingo on April 25 is postponed

The Hopkins Fire Department hiring process for part-time firefighters is suspended until further notice.

The March 14 Squirrel Nut Zippers concert that was cancelled has been


onto the field of the soccer stadium along the Mon.

"We're simply asking that they back off and work with the states,'' said Mr. Tomblin, a Democrat similarly opposed to the administration proposal.

Mr. Corbett argued that the emissions curbs would threaten as many as 63,000 coal-related jobs in Pennsylvania.

"Anything that seeks to or has the effect of shutting down coal-fired plants is an assault on Pennsylvania jobs, consumers and those who rely upon affordable, abundant, domestic energy,'' he said.

On Thursday and Friday, officials of the Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection will join the parade of witnesses protesting the federal regulations. They were to make the case for an alternative state-crafted plan designed to curb emissions at less cost to the industry.

The EPA plan aims to cut greenhouse gas emissionsSidharth Malhotra shows support for Slum Soccer

Sidharth Malhotra poses with the Slum Soccer team at National Inclusion Cup inauguration

Sidharth Malhotra inaugurates National Inclusion Cup
Young Bollywood star Sidharth Malhotra inaugurated the National Inclusion Cup in Mumbai on February 13, 2017. Sidharth was seen supporting the cause of empowering the country’s underprivileged youth through the medium of sports. The actor for the initiative has joined hands with Sony Picture Networks India and an NGO ‘Slum Soccer’.

Sidharth Malhotra poses at National Inclusion Cup inauguration

The National Inclusion Cup is the only football tournament on the national level for the underprivileged children in India. Teams from different states of the country including Maharashtra, Assam, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Vidharbha, Orissa, Delhi, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and participating in


the five-day tournament to be held in Mumbai.

Sidharth Malhotra plays soccer at National Inclusion Cup inauguration

Many of the local non-profit organizations like Cequin, Dream a Dream, Oscar, Khelduar, Jeet Foundation, Childreach International, Karmic Foundation and others have also been invited to bring their teams in the tournament. Malhotra at the event said, “Everyone is equal in sport irrespective of your background. I truly believe in Nelson Mandela’s saying that ‘Sports has the power to change the world’. This is a very exciting and empowering initiative and I really hope that our Slum Soccer team wins the world cup for us and makes India proud.”

Sidharth Malhotra tries his hand on soccer at National Inclusion Cup inauguration

After the tournament comes to an end, the finals teams with 8 men and8 women players each will participate at the 15th Homeless World Cup in Oslo, Norway, while representing India. The International tournament is due to be held from August 29 to September 5, 2017. On the work front, Sidharth was last seen in the movie ‘Baar Baar Dekho’ and is currently filming for the upcoming movie ‘Reloaded’.


decided that I was gonna redo the devil.”

Since then, the Devil’s Den has become Broadfoot’s specialty. He runs a Facebook page dedicated to sharing updates about the ride and teasing new stunts. Everywhere you look, there are little pieces of him in the ride. For instance, he and his wife recorded their own voices to bring to life the ghosts of Edgar and his bride Elizabeth, who tower above riders in their wooden coffins. According to local lore, Elizabeth was a real woman who died on her wedding night in a fire at the neighboring Hotel Conneaut in the 1940s.

“That's why she has that burnt, charred look,” he said.

In taking on maintenance of the Devil’s Den, Broadfoot also made himself the caretaker of one of the last knowntroubles prevented the owners from opening that season. It remained closed the following year, but reopened in 2009. That’s when Adams was brought in to repair the aging Blue Streak roller coaster.

Debt continued to follow the park and in 2014 it filed for bankruptcy. That’s when the Economic Progress Alliance of Crawford County took over management.

Since then, the park has halved its debt, reopened the adjoining water park and doubled the number of campsites at the nearby Camper Land.

EPACC executive director Jim Becker says the park has also been increasingly profitable in the last few years. In 2017, the park brought in $43,000 in ticket sales. In 2018, it jumped to $63,000.

While the park intends — and is on track — to pay off the rest of its


problem than gender discrimination—both in foreign policy and in intellectual fields in general.”

One of those new outlets is The Intercept, founded by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill as the first digital magazine of First Look Media. The Intercept will initially cover the Edward Snowden NSA leaks but plans to expand into a comprehensive news outlet. Like many observers, I was deeply disappointed when The Intercept launched with a staff of twelve that included only three women (Poitras, Liliana Segura, and Marcy Wheeler) and two people of color (Segura and Murtaza Hussain). When First Look announced that Matt Taibbi would be given a digital magazine of his own and The Intercept announced Gawker’s John Cook as Editor-in-Chief, my disappointment turned to frustration. Greenwald continued to promise onset is accompanied by a booklet which includes an introduction by Martin Parr, an essay discussing the wider context of these books by Gerry Badger, and English translations of all the texts in the books. Enrique Bostelmann América: un Viaje a traves de la injusticaFirst published in 1970 by Siglo I Editores, Mexico City; Bostelmann, a Mexican photographer, journeyed through Latin America looking for examples of injustice, such as the exploitation of indigenous Indians who were forced into factories and menial jobs. Paolo Gasparini Para verte major, América LatinaFirst published in 1972 by Siglo I Editores, Mexico City; Gasparini, an Italian born photographer who has lived in Caracas most of his life, traversed Latin America to document the contrast between communism and capitalism. The book also documents and


uses graffiti and graphics to emphasis his polemic. Dirk Alvermann AlgeriaFirst published in 1961 in Berlin, GDR; Alvermann, a photographer originally born in West Germany, published his book about both sides of the Algerian conflict in East Berlin. The radical design was inspired by Russian film stills. Kitai Kazuo SanrizukaFirst published in 1971 by Nora-Sha, Tokyo; a classic protest book which shows the huge popular uprising inspired by the proposed building of Narita airport. Paolo Mattioli and Anna Candiani Immagini del NoFirst published in 1974 by Occhio Magico No 11, Milan; this small format book documented various protests in Italy, from the Feminist Movement to Anti-Fascism marches.

Feminist Posters 1974–1990

"Girls are powerful": the ‘70s feminist posters of See Red Women’s WorkshopA feminist silkscreen poster collective founded in London inpower and energy of these images reflect an important and dynamic era of women’s liberation—with continued relevance for today.

Body as Protest highlights the photographic representation of the human body as a radical expression of protest against social, political and aesthetic norms. Centering on a series by John Coplans, it also includes works by Hannah Wilke, Ketty La Rocca, Hannah Villiger, Bruce Nauman, Robert Mapplethorpe and Tatiana Lecomte.

Published by National Portrait Gallery.Edited by Christopher Tinker. Introduction by Simon Callow.

This collection of quotations by and about gay people celebrates the advances of the international LGBT community over the past 50 years. Amusing observations by Noël Coward, Tallulah Bankhead, Quentin Crisp, Boy George and Ian McKellen are interspersed with interviews with Dusty Springfield, Alan Bennett, Freddie Mercury, Clive Barker, George Michael


and William S. Burroughs, and diary entries by Kenneth Williams, Joe Orton, W.H. Auden and John Maynard Keynes. John Gielgud and Alan Turing’s accounts of being arrested contrast with letters from Violet Trefusis to her lover Vita Sackville-West, King James I to the Marquis of Buckingham, and Benjamin Britten to his partner Peter Pears. Contributions by Oscar Wilde, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, John Wolfenden, Field Marshal Montgomery, Lord Arran, Margaret Thatcher, Waheed Alli and David Cameron demonstrate enormous developments in gay rights. Reflections from celebrity icons such as Julie Andrews and David Beckham are also featured, alongside a wealth of reproductions.

Published by AsaMER.Text by Tommaso Speretta. Afterword by Loring McAlpin.

Rebels Rebel looks at the history of AIDS activism undertaken by various artistic collectives in New York between 1979and 1989. Among these once-controversial, now-legendary collectives were Gran Fury (who scandalized the 1990 Venice Biennale with their billboards juxtaposing the pope and his anti-contraception stance with a two-foot high penis), the Silence = Death Project (who appropriated and inverted the Nazis' pink triangle), Gang and DIVA TV. These collectives addressed concrete social problems using unconventional media, and in doing so helped to shift the public and political perception of the AIDS crisis. Collating a wealth of materials and perspectives, from graphic design to art works, and from sociopolitical to art-historical reflections, Rebel Rebels is an important and thorough examination of a rare overlap between art and activism during a time of heightened conservativism in America. It includes a full-color poster.

Published by Steidl.

Mark Peterson’s way of looking—with a


raucous wit, and an eye for the scary and the absurd—is meant for our current political moment. His photographs will stand as a defining portrait of an unsettling time. Joanna Milter, Director of Photography, The New Yorker

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, this comprehensive survey explores all aspects of its groundbreaking artOne hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Revolution: Russian Art, 1917–1932 explores one of the most momentous periods in modern world history through its groundbreaking art. The October Revolution of 1917 ended centuries of Tsarist rule and left artists such as Malevich, Tatlin, Popova and Rodchenko urgently debating what form a new “people’s art” would take.Painting and sculpture were redefined by Kandinsky’s boldly innovative compositions, Malevich’s dynamic abstractions and the Constructivists’ attempts to transform art intotechnical engineering. Photography, architecture, film and graphic design also experienced revolutionary changes. These debates were definitively settled in 1932, when Stalin began to suppress the avant-garde in favor of Socialist Realism—collective in production, public in manifestation and Communist in ideology. Based around a remarkable exhibition shown in Leningrad’s State Russian Museum in 1932—which was to be the swansong of avant-garde art in Russia—this volume explores that revolutionary 15-year period between 1917 and 1932 when possibilities seemed limitless and Russian art flourished across every medium. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (the first to attempt to survey the entire artistic landscape of post-Revolutionary Russia), Revolution explores the painting, sculpture, photography, film, poster art and product design of the years after the Russian


Revolution. Including contributions from some of the most prominent scholars in the field (John Milner, Natalia Murray, Nick Murray, Masha Chlenova, Ian Christie, John E. Bowlt, Nicoletta Misler, Zelfira Tregulova, Faina Balakhovskaya, Evgenia Petrova and Christina Lodder), Revolution is a timely and authoritative exploration of both the idealistic aspirations and the harsh realities of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath.

Published by Walther König, Köln/Koenig Books.

Scottish photographer Jane Stockdale's first publication, I Predict a Riot documents the now notorious G20 demonstrations that took place in London in April 2009. Hyped in the British media as "The Summer of Rage" and "Meltdown in the City," the events of that summer are here recorded from the midst of the action, in photographs and interspersed captions.

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Published by nai010 publishers.Edited byPublished On: September 6, 2019 07:05 PM NPT By: Kamal Subedi | @Inspiredkamal

KATHMANDU, Sept 6: Ministry for Foreign Affairs on Friday has confirmed the official visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

According to the press release of MoFA, Minister Wang is scheduled to visit Nepal from September 8 to 10.

During Wang’s stay in Nepal, he will call on President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

Wang and his Nepali counterpart Pradeep Kumar Gyawali will hold delegation-level bilateral talks on September 9, the press release stated.

Gyawali will also host a dinner in honour of the visiting Chinese delegation.


JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville man was arraigned Tuesday on felony charges in the murder of a transgender woman who was found shot dead inside a hotel room last year.

Sean Bernard Phoenix, 22, pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and evidence tampering in the February 2018 shooting death of 36-year-old Erika Walker, court records show.

Walker is one of three transgender women killed in Jacksonville last year, and her killing marks the first of those cases to lead to an arrest.

Phoenix was in jail on an unrelated charge at the time of his Sept. 24 arrest.

Officers sent to the Skinner Lake Drive location of Extended Stay America on Feb. 4, 2018, found the Walker's naked body inside a hotel room, the Sheriff’s Office said. She was shotof manslaughter for each of the eleven men killed in the casualty, one charge pertaining to violations of the Clean Water Act, one charge pertaining to violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and one charge of Obstruction of Congress. The Obstruction of Congress charge is in regards to BP’s admission that it misrepresented the amount of oil flowing from the Macondo well to members of Congress. The obstruction charge has also resulted in the indictment of the BP executive who made the false statements to Congress. In addition, at least two other BP employees working on the rig have been indicted for their acts related to the interpretation of the negative pressure test and the tragic eleven deaths…

Click to read the rest, it’s a good report.

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As Bill Belichick makes moves at the end of the roster, they are not random. Every player he picks up is intended to be a potential contributor in 2015. The moves also serve a dual role to motivate the existing players at the position and send the message that everyone’s job is in jeopardy. Investigating the moves made by Belichick at the backend of the roster shows where he thinks the team needs improvement heading into the first preseason game. Here are four positions where the recent moves show Belichick is not happy with the results to date.NewsO'Neill Center Playwrights Conference in Full Swing Through Aug. 1

Jul 17, 1998

Ten American and one Russian playwright are spending the month of July in idyllic, beachfront Waterford, CT -- and they're working like crazy all through it. That's because they've been chosen to take part in the 1998 National Playwrights Conference (July 1-Aug. 1), an annual project by the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.

Ten American and one Russian playwright are spending the month of July in idyllic, beachfront Waterford, CT -- and they're working like crazy all through it. That's because they've been chosen to take part in the 1998 National Playwrights Conference (July 1-Aug. 1), an annual project by the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.

Assisted by professional directors and dramaturgs, each playwright undergoes an intense process of rehearsals and


Pintauro; Barefoot Boy With Shoes On by Edwin Sanchez; The Kitchen by Charlie Schulman; Ornithology by Aleksandr Stroganov and Folk Machine by Alexandra Tolk.

Lloyd Richards serves as artistic director of the National Playwrights Conference/New Drama For Media. Former board chairman Steve Wood is in his second year as President of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, switching places with founder George White, who is now chairman.

Other programs during the summer months include the 21st annual National Music Theatre Conference, the National Puppetry Conference, the August Cabaret Symposium and the International Student Program. The National Music Theatre Conference will feature the development of two musicals: Lola, by Craig Safan & Kirby Tepper, about scandalous entertainer Lola Montez; and The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin about a girl whothinks she wants to be white, by Kirsten Childs.

As for the Cabaret Symposium (Aug. 22-29), three works have been chosen for development, including: Marcovicci Sings Noel Coward, featuring Andrea Marcovicci; Say It With Music by Marilyn Lovell and Peter Matz; and Tallulah, a reworked version of Tallulah's Party, starring Tovah Feldshuh. (For the story of Tallulah's rocky road to Off-Broadway last season, please see the news story, "The Party's Over: Tovah's Tallulah Closes Mar. 29.)"

Also expected for the Cabaret Symposium are various artists offering a "Celebration of Ten Years" concert, Aug. 28. Among the participants are Margaret Whiting (Dream), Julie Wilson, Julie Halston and Natalie Gamsu.

The National Critics Institute will hold a 30th Anniversary party to celebrate the tenure of co-founder and current director Ernie Schier. A scholarship


romance

For centuries, writers have been transfixed by monster stories. The most common monsters are from the 20th Century films: Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula, the Wolfman, King Kong. But the ancient greeks had Medusa and the Minotaur. The Nords marvelled at Fenrir and Jormungand. The Chinese spun tales of Zhulong and Juiwei Hu. Humans have always been fascinated by the terrible creatures lying around each corner and, perhaps more fascinatingly, the aspects of their humanity.

Even more of a marvel is the evolution of monsters and love stories. Often, monsters would steal young women and were seen as cruel antagonists. They even were commonly metaphors for female impurity. However, over time, the idea of monsters being romantic leads grew and has become a new trope in literature and cinema. One ofand engaging with one another to seal off the bore. In a pipe ram blowout preventer, the inner ends of the rams have recesses for sealing around the pipe suspended within the bore. In a shear ram blow-out preventer, the inner ends of the rams include blades to shear pipe and also seal which may be flat or otherwise complimentary for sealing across the open bore after the pipe is sheared. Upon inward movement of the rams into the bore, the sealing engagement between the seals carried on the rams effectively terminates any fluid flow through bore.
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the bedrooms and bathrooms were located. The victim screamed, fell or was dropped to the floor, and the defendant "slammed himself down on top of her." Id. at 145, 392 S.E.2d at 750. The defendant then began crying and allowed the victim to leave. He later apologized to her and gave her the pistol. The Court vacated the defendant's conviction of attempted rape, as there was no "evidence that would give rise to a reasonable inference that the attack on the victim was sexually motivated or that the defendant at any time had the intent to gratify his passion on the victim." Id. at 146, 392 S.E.2d at 750.
In the instant case, the evidence showed that defendant forced entry into the victim's residence at 4:00 a.m., pushed theresidence at four o'clock in the morning, when all of the residents of the home were asleep. When questioned, defendant lied to the victim, telling her that her mother had opened the door. Defendant then asked to use a telephone and the restroom. When the victim refused his request, defendant forced the victim into her bedroom, pushed her onto the bed, threw his body on top of hers and "pinned her down." Defendant then removed duct tape from his pocket, whereupon the victim renewed her efforts to escape and called for help. Defendant repeatedly touched the victim's breast and vagina and, despite her resistance, did not end the assault until law enforcement arrived. Although defendant asserts that he merely wished to use the telephone or the restroom when


not intimate during this period that he was taking the position that the court was without jurisdiction to hear the motion, but on April 25 addressed a letter to plaintiff for the first time taking this position and citing the decision in Fine v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., 7 Cir., 181 F.2d 300, upon which he principally relies here. On June 18 the trial judge after receiving briefs and hearing arguments entered an order denying the motion on the merits as well as on the ground that he was without jurisdiction to pass upon it. The defendant takes the position that the pendency of the motion did not extend the time for taking appeal because the motion was not in writing and the grounds of the motion were notat Wilsons kittens advertised on this site.. He is a FULL pedigree with a certificate and he has a good line of champions is his family. He also has Exotic in his bloodline and he is an ODD Ey...

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The sequel to The Strangers is set to begin shooting on May 30th and announced that Christina Hendricks (Drive and The Neon Demon), Bailee Madison (Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark), and Lewis Pullman(Aftermath)will be starring. The film will see the trio portray a family that is terrorized by three masked individuals at an abandoned trailer park. Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down)is directing from a script co-written by The Strangers creator Bryan Bertino and Ben Katai. Intrepid Pictures Trevor Macy will serve as executive producer, with Fyzz Facility Pictures’ Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones, Mark Lane, and James Harris will produce, in association with Relativity Media. The official synopsis is below.

"The Strangers 2 follows a family whose road trip takes a turn when they arrive at a secludedThursday, January 26, 2012

CNN Conceals Motive Behind Canadian Honor Killings

On June 30, 2009, Mohammad Shafia, with the help of his wife Tuba and his son Hamed, murdered his three daughters and his other wife in Ontario, Canada. The wealthy Shafia family worked quickly to conceal their actions, staging a car accident and weeping for their daughters. The media rushed to support the grieving family, until evidence showed that the girls' deaths were no accident.

Yesterday, CNN posted a video about the murders, noting that "interrogations of the family never uncovered a motive." Indeed, the closest CNN comes to identifying a motive in the killings is when the reporter says that the Shafia family comes "from a very conservative Afghan background."

Yes, it's the family's Afghan background, rather than some other


viewers will automatically connect Islam to honor killings. Muslims easily deflect honor killings as a cultural problem and has nothing to do with Islam. Unfortunately, the connection has to be made for most people.

The American tendency to think the best of people first has, while noble, also turned into one of their weakest points. Regardless of obvious evidences to the contrary, most Americans seem to stubbornly buy into the Islam-is-a-religion-of-peace lie.

@David Wood: It is possible that I may have missed the Islam connection. To the best of my knowledge, form watching the local news in Toronto, police have recorded conversations of the family. I have not heard that the father said " he killed them because they betrayed Islam"

The honor killing and Islam connection has been discussed onthe general public and the world under a veil of total government secrecy—“apparently to avoid causing ‘needless’ social panic,” in the words of Japanese research scientist Haruko Satoh (“Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Energy in Japan: The Need for a Robust Social Contract,” ARI, June 29, 2011)? While the Russians had the excuse of having just one prior warning—namely that of the Three Mile Island’s much smaller nuclear mishap in the U.S. on March 28, 1979—the Japanese appear to have completely ignored Chernobyl’s tragic lessons while operating their Fukushima nuclear-power plant built in a highly vulnerable seismic zone in close proximity to the Pacific Ocean which is prone to massive earthquakes and tsunamis. Pointing out that

“…a vast area of land has been contaminated by radiation,” Haruko Satoh


March 14, 2019):

“…mountains of black plastic bags, filled with contaminated soil or debris, can be seen in many parts of Fukushima…. As such, decontamination does not imply that radiation has vanished; it has simply been moved elsewhere. Yet in rural regions, where many of the bags are currently being disposed, far away from the eyes of urban dwellers, residents are still forced to live near the storage sites. Many rural residents have criticized the actual efficacy of the decontamination projects. For instance, vinyl bags are now starting to break down due to the build-up of gas released by rotten soil. Plants and flowers have also started to grow inside the bags, in the process tearing them apart. With weather factors, residual radioactivity inside the bags will eventually bethe shutdown—supposedly for routine maintenance and safety checks—of its last nuclear reactor at Oi that was still working after all the other 53 operating reactors had been closed down for one reason or another. Facing pressure from the Japanese public which has turned decisively against nuclear energy, the previous Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda of the Democratic Party of Japan, had announced in September 2012 a major change in Japan’s energy policy, pledging to shut down all nuclear power for good by the 2030s, thus angering the all-powerful Japanese captains of industry.

In power since December 2012, Shinzo Abe’s LDP cabinet has been warning about the steep economic costs of pulling the plug on Japan’s nuclear energy, mainly in the form of escalating and very expensive energy imports, especially for


where the next day Lewis performed surgery on DeCamp. According to DeCamp's petition, after the surgery he suffered "temporary and permanent paralysis of the facial muscles, severe headaches, mental anguish, inability to eat properly and inability to talk." DeCamp's postoperative condition allegedly required a second surgical procedure to "correct" the surgery by Lewis. DeCamp alleged that Lewis was negligent in improper surgical techniques to explore DeCamp's temporomandibular joint, inordinate exposure of DeCamp's nerves and soft tissue during surgery, failure to fully advise DeCamp concerning the risks incident to the surgery, and failure to obtain DeCamp's informed consent to the surgery.
On October 15, 1986, more than 15 months after DeCamp had filed the suit, Lewis filed a motion for summary judgment, contending that "no competent evidence exists to affirmNestled beside the Paulista shore of the Brazilian Rain Forest in Guaruja - a Brazilian coastal town near São Paulo - is a home so invitingly private that it makes us want to pack our overnight bags and... make ourselves at home! Completed in September 2015 by architecture studio mk27, Casa na Mata (Jungle House) couldn't be more aptly named. This 805 square meter home which sits on a 1668 square meter patch of the jungle, was built in a spot where the vegetation naturally cleared on the mountainside, making it an ideal for project architect, Marcio Kogan, co-architect, Samanta Cafardo, and their project team, to begin dreaming up the perfect home for their clients.

Concrete and wood are the two primary ingredients that went into the building's construction,


preventng him from performing well.

Marco Scutaro moved from second base to shortstop, the position he occupied with the Red Sox last season, and Jonathan Herrera started at second base.

In other lineup news, catcher Wilin Rosario started for the second straight game while Ramon Hernandez nursed a sore left hand. Manager Jim Tracy said Hernandez should be available Friday night when the Rockies begin a three-game series at Milwaukee.

As Rockies manager Jim Tracy left Coors Field on Monday night, he was doubtful that Tuesday night’s lineup would include left fielder Carlos Gonzalez, who was in the final stages of recovery from a case of strep throat that had kept him out of the lineup since Friday.

“We talked about it last night, how I wanted to be in there, soscooter as needed.

       The District looked for a position that could provide these accommodations. In 2004, a

position called “academic interventionist” was created for Johnson by Susan Hawthorne-Clay, the

principal at Adlai Stevenson Elementary, working with students in small groups, as well as doing

programming, professional development, and writing grants. In 2005, when Hawthorne-Clay moved

to Robert Jamison Elementary, Johnson moved with her. Unlike at Adlai Stevenson, Johnson was

allocated to fill a teacher position at Jamison, but she continued to instead perform her “academic

interventionist” duties.

       In 2006, a new deputy chief in the District, Sharon McDonald, was visiting all schools in the

District. On her visit to Jamison, McDonald met with Johnson and became concerned that Johnson

was not fulfilling her intended


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Sha’Ron Johnson v. Cleveland City School District, et al.

        On September 2, 2006, McDonald instructed Hawthorne-Clay to place Johnson back in the

classroom. After several rounds of communication, Johnson was assigned to an eighth-grade

classroom at Jamison, on the second floor. The elevator to the second floor was broken, as was the

climate control in that classroom. Johnson felt she needed to walk downstairs frequently in order

to cool off. A permanent substitute teacher was temporarily assigned to the same room to assist

Johnson with the transition. The District discussed several accommodations, including exploring

ways to limit Johnson’s speaking. Johnson stated that after receiving this assignment, she requested

a first-floor classroom from “someone,” but she did not know who. Another employee wasassigned

to escort Johnson’s students to the first floor so that she would not have to take them up and down

the stairs.

        McDonald visited Jamison again on September 8, 2006 and sought out Johnson’s classroom.

She was accompanied by Assistant Superintendent Robert Moore, an assistant principal, and possibly

a security officer. They observed that another teacher was teaching in the classroom, while Johnson

sat with a small group of students. McDonald called Johnson into the hallway, and asked her why

she was not teaching. Johnson replied that she was sick, and then left for the day.3 Johnson did not

return to the school that semester, but did continue to receive pay.4

        3
        Johnson


asserts that the heat in the room and the stress from the encounter caused her to
have severe symptoms.
        4
        Johnson soon submitted her Leave of Absence Form, on October 25, 2006. In the attached
personal statement, Johnson wrote that her job assignment had been revoked on September 2, 2006,
and that since September 10, “I have not returned to work due to the illegal action of a Cleveland
Metropolitan School District administrator.”

                                             few days later, Johnson was informed that

since her claim was denied, they expected her to return to work—in the same classroom—on January

8, 2007, this time without an assistant. Johnson did return, but upon finding the room still too hot,

she notified the school office and left before noon. The next day, she sent the District employees an

email stating that she would not return immediately, but would instead “use sick time . . . until a

resolution concerning [her] ‘Fit for Duty’ [was] reached.” Johnson did not return to work the next

day, and only worked five more days in the spring of 2007, each time doing work other than her

normal classroom duties.

       Johnson asked for, and was granted, permission to update her disability documentation. The

District


and must be allowed use of ambulatory

aids as needed. Lastly, Dr. Gretter provided a letter dated April 27, 2007, which echoed the

restrictions on standing, stairs, ambulatory airs, and hot work environments, but also stated that she

should not be required “to verbally control resistive students.” In the meantime, Principal Hawthorn-

Clay told Johnson that she was not allowed to be at the school until human resources received the

doctor’s report; Johnson was called off sick for the remainder of the year but continued to receive

her pay.

        Ultimately, on May 15, 2007, Johnson and the District held a meeting to discuss how her

disability could be accommodated. Johnson provided the doctors’ letters and discussed her

requested accommodations. She also informed the District that she had received a      After her termination, Johnson continued to pursue remedies in federal and state court. On

August 30, 2007, she filed another EEOC/OCRC charge, alleging retaliatory discharge. She also

amended her complaint in federal district court to include an allegation of retaliatory termination.

In addition to checking the box for retaliation, she checked the box for discrimination because of her

disability and wrote next to it “revoked ADA accommodations.”13 The District soon filed a motion

for summary judgment, which the district court granted on November 25, 2008. The court found that

Johnson had not shown that the District had failed to accommodate her in any of the ways provided

in Dr. Bray’s 2002 list of accommodations prior to January 11, 2007. It also found that Johnson had

failed to exhaust any alleged


the District held a meeting with Johnson, at which the officials noted their concern with

the discipline restriction and Johnson responded that she knew how to control students—in any class

size. She nevertheless continued to express her desire for a counseling or small-group position.

        The interactive process continued when the District sent Johnson the letter, stating that

Johnson’s other accommodations (regarding temperature, standing, stairs, speaking, etc) could be

met, but noting that the restriction on “verbally controlling” students interfered with an “essential

function” of any job with the District, and therefore was not a reasonable request. The letter

encouraged Johnson to respond. Again, Johnson responded that she could discipline students. The

District said they would have to review the medical files and get back to her.

  In the last 17 months, 22 cases of the rare STD lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) have been diagnosed in Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) reported Tuesday. Until recently, LGV was rare in developed nations, and Canadian public health officials said a case of the disease had not been diagnosed there in the 10 years prior to January 2004. PHAC officials declined to say in what part of the country LGV has been detected.

Those infected were mostly, if not all, gay and bisexual men in their 30s and 40s; most reported anal sex; a couple practiced "fisting"; one man reported taking crystal methamphetamine rectally; three-quarters were HIV co-infected; and a quarter were hepatitis C co-infected, said Tom Wong, director of community acquired infections at PHAC.

That LGV's lesions


loans that Continental Bank had bought from Penn Square largely uncollectable.   Caught thus in the undertow of the Penn Square disaster, Continental itself became insolvent and was taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.   Several class actions were brought against Continental and its officers in 1982 under the federal securities laws on behalf of investors who had bought stock in the bank before the crash and who claimed that Continental had made misleading statements about its financial condition.   These suits were consolidated before Judge Grady.   Extensive discovery and collateral litigation ensued.   Between 1986 and 1988 the suits were settled for a total (including interest to the end of 1989) of $45 million.

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Having employed their professional skills toat market rates but instead attempted to compute an hourly expense of each paralegal, consisting of the paralegal's weekly salary divided by 40 plus overhead directly attributable to that paralegal, such as health benefits, but excluding general office overhead, such as rent.   Paralegals take up space, and they're paid even when they're not working;  so the judge plainly underestimated their hourly expense.   But his mistake went deeper.   He was again trying to determine the value of a service that the market has set its own value on.   The Supreme Court has disapproved the approach of basing reimbursement for paralegal expenses on the "cost" of the paralegal, as distinct from the market value of his services, when it is customary


Travel India Goa Carnival 2013 AdFactors PR

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The Goa Carnival 2013, which concluded on February 12, turned the seaside state into a giant fairground. Music, dance, feasting and merry-making brought the streets and beaches alive, attracting tourists from everywhere.

First started in 1961 at the end of the Portuguese occupation, it is essentially a Portuguese festival and reflected the customs and traditions of the colonizers. Today, however, all of Goa comes together for the carnival, making it one of the most eagerly awaited festivals and one that sets cash registers ringing at bars, restaurants and hotels all over Goa. The festival is observed before the start of Lent, during which time devout Christians abstain from eating meat and otherOld Pond Publishing

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In May 1979 two young Englishmen travelled to Oklahoma to become members of Dale Starks’ harvesting crew.For Rob and Charlie this was the start of memorable years driving Massey Ferguson combines the length and breadth of the American wheat belt. This is Rob’s story, a vivid account of endless hours of work, rattlesnakes, truck wrecks, summer lightning, tornados, favourite bars and the ‘honeys’ at the grain elevators.

Rob went on to do five years’ harvesting with Dale Starks who comes to life in these pages with all his wisdom and cussedness. This is the man who starred in Yellow Trail from Texas, the BBC documentary that first inspired Rob and Charlie to make the trip.

In England, Rob was working as an agricultural contractor. For him, machines


down into the murky depths.

In 2009 the film crew visited the port of Raahe at the top end of the Gulf of Bothnia in northern Finland.The project was in the hands of international dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster. It was tough digging and a race against time before the return of the Arctic winter when the sea freezes.Three of its most powerful excavators were working round the clock to ensure the job got done on time.Severed from their undercarriages, the upper structures of two Hitachi EX1900s (left and bottom) are bolted to pontoons known as Attila and Koura.

But even these powerful nautical marvels are dwarfed by the Nordic Giant, the dredging company’s biggest backhoe dredger.Time after time the Liebherr P995 hydraulic excavator (right) scoops up nearly 35 tonnes.This ferocious machine easily fills a split barge in just three-quarters of an hour. The film crew were out and about quite a lot in late 2009 tracking down some even more powerful under-water diggers.Old Pond expects to have this new programme on sale in October.

In 1964 Asian Transport, later to become Astran, pioneered overland transport from the UK to the Middle East, the 10,000 mile round trip that was to become a phenomenon in the haulage industry.

In the early days truckers had to cope with unfamiliar documentation, unmade roads, snowdrifts, dangerous mountains, desert sands and bandits. Some of these difficulties eased over the next twenty years, to be supplanted by problems of congested border posts and wars in the Balkans and Iran-Iraq.

The truckers who persevered were exceptional,


[Christian Wisbech--his hospital and surgery in the 1820s].
Christian Wisbech (1801-1869) was medical superintendent of "Bergen civile Sygehus" during the period 1825-1848. Some of his annual reports have been published. The hospital had 56 beds. The permanent staff included one "spisemester" (caterer) and two "sygeopvartersker" (nurses). Christian Wisbech's medicine was based on strict scientific principles and pathological anatomy. A post-mortem was performed on the deceased. Other current trends in medical practice at that time were foreign to him. It is assumed that he was inspired by Giovanni Morgagni (1682-1771) and John Hunter (1728-1793). His treatment was partly medical and partly surgical. Wisbech treated surprisingly few injuries. A possible explanation is the large number of "barbers and surgeons" in Bergen at that time. It was probably a centuries-long tradition amongThe Forgotten Man (painting)

The Forgotten Man is a 2010 painting by the American artist Jon McNaughton. It depicts President Barack Obama standing in front of the White House. The subject matter of the painting was inspired by the passage of the Affordable Care Act. McNaughton unveiled the painting in a YouTube video on September 14, 2010. It was the second in a series of politically charged portraits painted by McNaughton.

Description

The 43 men who as of 2010 had served as President of the United States are gathered in a park in front of the White House, above which the American flag can be seen, at half mast. In general, the 18th and 19th century presidents are on the left, the later ones on the right, some appear lost in


begin an inquiry later this year into the economic regulation of airports, the first since 2011. The ACCC will be proposing some form of regulation be imposed on the airports, including the possibility of arbitration as an avenue for setting aeronautical charges if airlines and airports cannot reach agreement on their own. The ACCC is concerned about a lack of regulation to constrain the market power of the largest airports. Credit:Janie Barrett “It would give airlines enough clout to get a good deal,” Mr Sims said.

High fees for car parking have long been a bane of passengers. Sydney Airport had the highest profit margin from car parking for the fourth consecutive year at almost 72¢ for each dollar of revenue. While the airport's profit margin from car parkingNewsletter Signup

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note. "The previous update from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4S was arguably a relatively minor one with Siri being the biggest new feature. Despite that, a record number of iPhones were sold."

Wu said he expects Apple to sell a massive 45 million iPhones during the December quarter, well above its previous record of 37 million iPhones in the same quarter last year. "We believe this could turn out conservative, but believe a gating factor could be availability of new in-cell touchscreens," added Wu.

There has been plenty of talk about in-cell touchscreens recently, with the thinner, lighter panel technology seen as a way for Apple to reduce the weight of its products. Last month, for example, Apple was awarded a patent for "liquid-crystal display (LCD) touch screens that integrateBurglars break into Burger King

Two burglars were caught on Jan. 21 just a couple minutes past midnight. They were in Green River and had broken the drive'through window at the Burger King and entered the building.

A call came into dispatch and reported they had heard glass breaking and saw a suspicious vehicle outside the Burger King. A burglary was in progress at the scene. Deputy Kay Jensen and Deputy Jeff Newland were changing shifts at the time so both reported to the scene of the crime. Deputy Kay Jensen approached the building from the south side entering the drive'up window from the wrong direction and he saw a suspect coming out of the window of the business.

Deputy Jensen was able to apprehend the suspect who turned out to


be a 17 year old. The vehicle the two were in was parked behind the business. Deputy Newland apprehended the adult suspect. Both suspects were placed in custody and seated in the officer's cars. The suspects took food items and an undisclosed amount of cash was missing from the business, but not found on the suspects.

The Burger King with attached gas station called the Short Stop is located on the east side of Green River. The businesses had been closed for a couple of hours at the time of the break'in.

The two had entered the business through the drive'up window and rifled through items in the Burger King.

The other suspect was a 28 year old adult named Faron Johnson. Deputy Jensen transported both suspects from Green River. Hehelp deter crime. The reporting caller was able to give a good description of the vehicle.

"It was helpful in this case also to have two officers respond. In Green River there is one deputy on duty and Sgt. Mitch Vetere is on call at all times. Sgt. Vetere came and helped us at the scene and Lt. Bob Blackburn came from Castle Dale and gathered the evidence.

"We would have discovered this crime within a couple of hours because I was starting my rounds around town, checking businesses. This call'in led to a quick arrest," said Deputy Jensen.

Sheriff Greg Funk said, "I am proud of our deputies work on this arrest. They responded quickly and were able to apprehend these burglars without incident. It was a team effort with


Left Field Brewery Releases 10¢ Beer Night Double IPA

TORONTO, ON – Left Field Brewery has announced the release of a new beer inspired by an infamous event in baseball history.

10¢ Beer Night (7.8% abv) is a Double IPA named after a promotion that took place on June 4, 1974 at Cleveland Stadium, and led to a riot that ended a game between the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers in a forfeit.

The beer is described as being “deliciously packed with Nelson Sauvin and Citra hops for an extra juicy wallop of orange, peach, gooseberry, grapefruit and lychee flavours finishing medium dry with a restrained hop bitterness.”

10¢ Beer Night is available now on tap and in 355 ml cans in the Left Field taproom, with cans also available via theback in place of Kennedy.

The following Friday, 12 October, the Arsenal squad, Harry John Peters and Leslie Knighton from the club’s management, and the Arsenal directors were at the Alhambra Theatre, in Charing Cross Road. They had been invited by the management of the Alhambra to a special showing of a movie by the Regent Film Company which contained footage of Arsenal playing a match. It made the players feel good to see such a novelty I am sure, and it got excellent coverage in the local press. Arsenal were now being portrayed as the team of today’s new technology.

The following day, 13 October, Arsenal played their next league game; a game the Times described as “tame”. The result was Arsenal 1 Manchester City 2 with City playing


an offside trap and a counter-attacking game that thus far had not been common in the first division.

In this match Dr Paterson came in for his first game of the season, as always at outside left, but Bob John was missing and this certainly had an effect. Arsenal’s defeat meant that after their run of three wins they had now scored one goal and got one point in the last three games.

Meanwhile away from the football, during this period, the BBC continued to open its radio stations across the country, with new stations springing up everywhere from Aberdeen to Bourrnemouth.

The next match for Arsenal was on 20 October with Arsenal away to high flying Bolton. Those recent results seen above had sent the club tipping downwards and theycontinued for most sides until the 1960s. But from the 1920s on individual teams began to experiment with a modification of tactics – as with the Manchester City offside game. (Indeed it was the growing popularity of playing the off-side game, and the fans utter dislike of the tactic, that led to the change in the offside rules in 1925, which we shall come to shortly.

Although obviously we can’t say exactly what the source of Arsenal’s inspiration was here, the fact is that in October 1923 Arsenal appear to have played the offside game themselves as Manchester City had done the week before, and it worked; surprisingly Arsenal won 2-1 away from home to Bolton. Bolton were third in the league and unbeaten at home so far in


the season. Arsenal were 20th in the league and had won one and lost four away from home.

According to reports of the day the Bolton crowd got so fed up with Arsenal’s tactics and their team’s inability to overcome them and started chucking cinders from the track between the crowd and the pitch at Arsenal’s goal-keeper in front of them. The referee stopped the game and warned the crowd that he would abandon the match if this continued. The crowd, by and large stopped. Woods and Rutherford got the goals; Townrow played his first game of the season at inside right and Young his first match since the opening day of the season. Arsenal moved up to 17th.

The following Monday Arsenal played their first match of the seasonin the London FA County Cup: a home game against non-league Tufnell Park, which Arsenal won 4-0. Interestingly despite the lowly level of the club, there was only one change from saturday’s game – Dr Paterson dropped out and was replaced by Haden. Young got a hattrick and Woods the other goal.

Post war Tufnell Park had joined the highly rated Isthmian League and reached the final of the prestigious Amateur Cup in 1919–20. Then in 1921–22 they reached the sixth qualifying round of the FA Cup, and in 1923–24 the club won the London Senior Cup for the second time.

However there were also off the pitch matters to contend with. It was around this time that the enquiry into the Harry White affair began. as the League settled


down to investigate this case.

The allegation was that Sir Henry Norris had given Harry White a financial inducement to play, in addition to his salary – this being the era of a maximum wage beyond which no players were allowed to be paid anything other than particularly specific sums, such as a limited amount from a testimonial game.

As a result of the enquiry Sir Henry was censured by the League for offering an illegal payment. It was not clear from the findings which other directors of the club knew about the inducement and when. However Charles Crisp left the board of directors after this, and it may have been because of this affair.

Towards the end of October 1923, as a result of this censure by the league SirHenry tendered his resignation from the Arsenal board of directors. It appears that the board refused the resignation and passed a vote of confidence in its chairman. Undoubtedly one of the issues that would have affected the board was the fact that the negotiations to buy Highbury from St John’s College were ongoing, and Sir Henry had proven himself to be the master of land and building arrangements, having conducted so many of them with his own company.

We should also remember that Sir Henry, as chairman of Fulham, had masterfully arranged the re-building of one of their stands in 1905 and defeated a legal challenged from the local council over his plans, and of course had engineered the entire move of Arsenal from Plumstead to Highbury in 1913,


seeing off the opposition of Tottenham and Clapton in the process.

Sir Henry also offered to resign from being chairman of the London FA, and this was accepted “with regret”. Morton Cadman of Tottenham Hotspur became president.

But it was the newspapers who really led the attack gaining revenge for the commentary Sir Henry had made at Jock Rutherford’s farewell dinner on 4 August, which the Islington Gazette correspondent “Norseman” stated was an occasion in which “Norris had caused great offence to pressmen who were amongst the guests, by strongly criticising what they wrote.”

Sir Henry had experienced this before: during the war year the local Fulham newspaper, as we have seen, was vitriolic in its condemnation of all his actions as Mayor, holding him personally responsible for each and everyof inducement for the player to leave his home town and travel to somewhere he didn’t know, resettle his family (who had also just left their roots) all for… well nothing in terms of finance… was hard going.

All the top players were on the maximum wage, so clubs needed to find another inducement, and they did. There are reports of players have afternoon jobs (there being only training in the morning) but we have to remember this was the days of the cash economy. Everyone paid cash to enter the ground, the total number in the ground was always an estimate, and if a player went and stood in a shop occasionally as a way of getting fans to come in and buy their newspapers and tobacco from


was found guilty of paying players during the war is a case in point. I have found several articles that suggest that such payments were commonplace, although none points a finger at anyone in particular. Leeds certainly thought that they could get away with simply refusing to hand over their records.

As we have noted they were thrown out of the League, but then the very next season, as a reformed club (Leeds United) at the same ground and with the same board of directors they were readmitted. And not just readmitted to the Football League by joining its bottom division (which in 1923 was the Third Division) but by being gifted a place in the Second Division!

Finally Sir Henry never seemed to mind that he was making enemies.The closest he had come to being in serious trouble with the League was in 1913 when he made his allegations in his newspaper column that Liverpool were engaged in match fixing. On that occasion the League didn’t thank him for exposing corruption, they warned him that if he repeated such accusations he would be expelled as a director. Two years later the Liverpool / Manchester United match fixing scandal exploded and he was vindicated.

My suspicion, and it can be no more than that since I know of no one who has done a study of football men who transgressed the laws, was that Sir Henry was doing little that was not being done elsewhere. The difference was that he was a most public figure, and absolutely not


a man to keep a low profile. He made enemies, particularly in the press, and among the upper classes who resented his rise in the War Office for being a mere “bureaucrat” and they were starting to circle.

But there is another point as well. As we have seen in the post war years, Sir Henry had been very ill, and this being the era before penicillin and antibiotics, the prime remedy for the well-to-do was to head south to warmer climes, and hope that this, plus perhaps a more Mediterranean diet would aid recovery.

We have no records as to how Sir Henry was feeling, but he had had built a house in the south of France, and he had his fortune. He had rescued Arsenal, the most famousclub in the south, and indeed one of the most famous clubs in the land, from oblivion and undertaken the most famous move of a club in the history of football. He had risen from being a 14 year old leaving school without qualification, working as a clerk in the City of London, to being extremely wealthy, being elected to Parliament, being the longest serving Mayor Fulham ever had, to having been granted a knighthood and been made a colonel.

I am not trying to excuse his behaviour in breaking rules and riding roughshod over regulations, but I think one might argue that by this stage in his life he really wasn’t too bothered by regulations.

Meanwhile there was football to be played and the last game of the month


Before LeBron James worries about the problems facing his Cleveland Cavaliers teammates in their poor start to the season, he may need to work on himself first. James is not the reason the Cavs are 5-7 and on a four-game losing streak.

Naturally, he has been their best player and is already being asked to carry too much of a load, a classic symptom of teams he's played on in his career. Much of the team has been constantly inconsistent or simply has underperformed as new coach David Blatt struggles with the adaption to the NBA game.

But James is not helping his team in an extremely important area: his leadership. If there is one area he needs to clean up first, this should be it. He's doing some damageright now with his actions and words that are not typically part of his character.

James nailed a fencepost into the Cavs' lopsided loss to the Toronto Raptors on Saturday when he complained of his team being "fragile" after blowing an 18-point first-half lead. This is a code word for stronger commentary -- which wasn't easy to miss -- but it is probably a quote that will be referred to for quite some time, even if/when the Cavs turn things around.

LeBron has overwhelmingly been the Cavs' best player this season, but his poor body language has been setting a bad example for his teammates. David Richard/USA TODAY Sports

However, it is James who has been a leader in the "fragile" category for the Cavs. It is his body language that


has been poor when the games have turned for the worse or when teammates have made mistakes. The GIFs have been piling up with evidence.

It is James who has sometimes not gotten back on defense out of frustration.

It is James who has fallen asleep on the defensive end when the Cavs are in the midst of negative runs.

It is James who has been guilty of ridiculous turnovers -- he's averaging four per game this season -- during the Cavs' losing streak. He has said that some of this is because of chemistry and continuity problems, and that is certainly true. But the film doesn't lie: James has attempted numerous foolish passes and has become so reliant on running pick-and-rolls with familiar Anderson Varejao that teams just sit onhim and wait to make interceptions.

It is James who has undercut Blatt with words and actions dating back to even before training camp -- not aggressively, but passively and steadily. Without a doubt, James has many good reasons to be unsure and unhappy with his coach, but he has not handled it progressively or the way a veteran of his experience and standing could to help improve the situation.

Whether it is a dismissive attitude, publicly disagreeing with Blatt's assessments or one instance in which James admitted he "didn't look for [Blatt's] guidance" when deciding on how to send messages to teammates, James is inflicting little cuts to his coach. None of it is unprecedented by star players, but James has yet to appear invested in Blatt's plan, and


season of subtle hints and foreshadowing... Once Upon A Time may have finally introduced their first LGBT character!

The character of Mulan, played by Jamie Chung, is a warrior based on the character from the Chinese legend Hua Mulan (as well as the Disney movie). When Mulan appeared in earlier episodes of the show, there were hints that she may have a thing for her traveling companion Prince Phillip. However, after she helped Phillip rescue his love, Aurora, the writers started to hint that Phillip may not be the object of Mulan's affection after all...

Finally, in tonight's episode "Quite a Common Fairy", Mulan is invited to join Robin Hood's band of merry men (as the first official female member). Mulan tells him that she is honored, but "there's somethinga pregnant woman just to make ends meet, praying for God to give him a lane out of this life. Once the kid is born, Mike sighs, "Heard he was normal 'til three and then he stopped talking," racked with guilt until he meets the woman a few years later and she relieves him of his burden—"I’ve been redeemed/ I found in Christ/ Whatever it take, I hope you find it, Mike." Meanwhile, El takes a surprisingly empathetic tone towards an army ensign who himself was just trying to find his own lane, pitying the man for voluntarily surrendering his free will to become a human weapon but understanding the choice in light of the mental torture. Whereas the broad scope of R.A.P. Music and Cancer for Cure


Timeline of administration's statements shows confusion about location of US aircraft carrier The White House is disputing accusations it misled on movement of USS Vinson.

 -- The White House today tried to clarify a series of confusing and possibly misleading statements about the location of a nuclear-capable aircraft carrier it initially said was headed north to the Korean Peninsula in the face of recent military provocations by North Korea.

The USS Carl Vinson was actually headed south from Singapore to participate in a four-day military exercise with the Australian Navy that only ended Tuesday. The carrier group is not expected in the Sea of Japan until the end of the month.

"Well, I mean I -- PACOM [U.S. Pacific Command] put out a release talking about the group ultimately endingconfusion.

April 8

U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) issued a statement on behalf of the Third Fleet that Admiral Harry Harris had "directed the Carl Vinson Strike Group to sail north and report on station in the Western Pacific Ocean after departing Singapore April 8."

The statement said that the Vinson would head north "rather than executing previously planned port visits to Australia."

It made no mention of the Sea of Japan or North Korea, though a U.S. official told ABC News that the intended redirection of the Vincent was to the Sea of Japan east of the Korean Peninsula.

The decision to change the course of the Vinson rested with Admiral Harris, who commands PACOM.

April 9

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was asked why the Vinson strike group was moving to the Korean Peninsula.

"Well,


almost every instance, a huge deterrence. So I think it serves multiple capabilities.”

Then Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters during a Pentagon news conference that the Vinson was “on her way up there because that's where we thought it was most prudent to have her at this time.” He added that the ship's role in an Australian exercise had been canceled.

It would later be revealed that the ship did participate in those exercises with the Australian Navy. The Pentagon issued a correction to the transcript one week later, on April 18, saying the ship's port visit to Fremantle, Australia, was canceled but the exercises proceeded as planned.

At the time, however, Mattis gave the impression that the Vinson strike group was on its way to the Korean Peninsula.

April 12

Inan interview with Fox Business Network, President Trump says the United States is "sending an armada" after a question about North Korea.

“We are sending an armada, very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, far more powerful than the aircraft carrier," he said.

Later that day, U.S. Pacific Command tweeted photos of the USS Carl Vinson "on patrol in the Western Pacific, ready for any contingency." It was heading south from Singapore through Indonesia for exercises with the Australian military that were set to begin on April 15.

April 14

North Korea holds a big military parade in Pyongyang to mark the 105th birthday of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung. The parade featured intercontinental ballistic missiles and previously unseen canisters that could hold a long-range missile.

April 15

The Vinson transited south through


the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, thousands of nautical miles from the Sea of Japan. The U.S. Navy released a photo of the transit two days later.

The Vinson participated in exercises with the Australian Navy off the coast of northwestern Australia. It has not yet left for the Sea of Japan.

Early Saturday evening Eastern Standard Time, North Korea conducted a failed ballistic missile test. The missile exploded immediately after liftoff.

April 17

Vice President Mike Pence, who landed in Seoul on Sunday, told CNN that "North Korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region."

Pence cited the "Mother of all Bombs" dropped in Afghanistan days prior, even though that bomb was not intended by the White Houseto send a message to North Korea.

The decision to drop the bomb on ISIS fighters was made by commanders in Afghanistan.

April 18

U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) announced that the Vinson was heading to the Western Pacific, as ordered.

“The USS Carl Vinson Strike Group is proceeding to the Western Pacific as ordered," the news release said. "After departing Singapore on April 8 and cancelling a scheduled port visit to Perth, the Strike Group was able to complete a curtailed period of previously scheduled training with Australia in international waters off the northwest coast of Australia. The Carl Vinson Strike Group is heading north to the Western Pacific as a prudent measure.”

The location of the "Western Pacific" did little to clear up the Vinson's location because PACOM had tweeted six days


the press briefing today showed the White House is standing by its explanation of the Vinson's movements.

USS Carl Vinson #CarrierStrikeGroup on patrol in the Western Pacific, ready for any contingency. #ThirdFleetForward @SurfaceWarriors pic.twitter.com/DyQcBqKWWQ

April 14

North Korea holds a big military parade in Pyongyang to mark the 105th birthday of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung. The parade featured intercontinental ballistic missiles and previously unseen canisters that could hold a long-range missile.

April 15

The Vinson transited south through the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, thousands of nautical miles from the Sea of Japan. The U.S. Navy released a photo of the transit two days later.

The Vinson participated in exercises with the Australian Navy off the coast of northwestern Australia. It has not yet left for the Sea of Japan.

Early Saturday evening EasternStandard Time, North Korea conducted a failed ballistic missile test. The missile exploded immediately after liftoff.

April 17

Vice President Mike Pence, who landed in Seoul on Sunday, told CNN that "North Korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region."

Pence cited the "Mother of all Bombs" dropped in Afghanistan days prior, even though that bomb was not intended by the White House to send a message to North Korea.

The decision to drop the bomb on ISIS fighters was made by commanders in Afghanistan.

April 18

U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) announced that the Vinson was heading to the Western Pacific, as ordered.

“The USS Carl Vinson Strike Group is proceeding to the Western Pacific as ordered," the news release


said. "After departing Singapore on April 8 and cancelling a scheduled port visit to Perth, the Strike Group was able to complete a curtailed period of previously scheduled training with Australia in international waters off the northwest coast of Australia. The Carl Vinson Strike Group is heading north to the Western Pacific as a prudent measure.”

The location of the "Western Pacific" did little to clear up the Vinson's location because PACOM had tweeted six days earlier that the Vinson was "on patrol in the Western Pacific."

April 19

Vice President Pence was asked about whether the military and administration's comments regarding the Vinson's location were deliberately misleading.

"Oh, I think not," he said. "We have an extraordinary commitment of U.S. Forces in the region. The 'Carl Vinson' and that battle groupinvestigation is Sergeant James Michael Gantt, a veteran homicide investigator.Gantt, a New York City-native who joined the department in 1988, is married, but allegedly had an affair with a local woman for several years. According to sources, Gantt allowed his girlfriend to access sensitive OPD investigative files so that she could write up his homicide reports and do his administrative paperwork.Police sources say Gantt's girlfriend became angry when she discovered he was married. She reportedly posted to social media a photograph of evidence from a case that Gantt had left at her house. She also contacted OPD and informed the department about the investigative materials Gantt gave her access to.These sources say the evidence Gantt placed with his girlfriend was part of the criminal file assembled against Mario


Floyd, one of the two men charged with the 2013 murder of Judy Salamon, a 66-year-old Maxwell Park resident who was shot in broad daylight on July 24, 2013. According to court documents, Gantt was the lead investigator in Salamon's murder. Salamon was shot after she used her cell phone to record Floyd and Stephon Lee earlier that day. Salamon believed that Floyd and Lee were involved in a burglary or robbery that occurred earlier in the area. Her murder caused widespread outrage in Maxwell Park and led to the hiring of private security guards for the area. According to court documents, Lee is the probable shooter.The trials of Floyd and Lee are ongoing. Floyd has a court appearance on Monday, June 20. Lee has a court appearancein July.Gantt has been on leave for at least a year because of an unrelated incident, according to sources.The allegations that Gantt mishandled evidence in an OPD homicide investigation comes on top of other recent scandals that have rocked the Oakland police.OPD Chief Sean Whent was fired on June 9 because he allegedly covered-up a sprawling sexual misconduct investigation involving the trafficking of a teenage sex worker. The sex-crime scandal has already led to the resignation of two cops, the suspension of three more officers, and a former OPD captain who is now an Alameda County District Attorney's inspector has been placed on leave.


for its strategy for vocational and higher education. It aims to direct both towards employability and generally promotes a continuous upgrading of professional and extra-functional skills. Education also has a key role in the politically highly influential cross-country comparisons by the OECD[1]. From the viewpoint of the OECD, countries that are better equipped for the challenges of the knowledge-based society are those where larger proportions of the youth begin and complete higher education. Therefore, the concept of the knowledge-based society contains an urgent recommendation to politics to lead more young people to graduation and make student places available to them. A rising number of graduates and students is viewed as a success indicator. The knowledge-based society’s focus on education and, first and foremost, better and higher education, hasindustrial share in the United Kingdom was 33 %, while in 2011 it amounted to 10.8 %. In this period, the modern financial sector was created in the London City.

Reasons for this trend can be found in the processes of industrial rationalization, as well as in the loss of boundaries of national labor markets as a consequence of globalization. The competition in international product markets and recently also the possibility – created by the communication technology and the internet – of outsourcing production plants previously considered immobile, often leads to the migration of entire production branches to Eastern-European states and emerging countries which can produce cheaper goods of the same quality in the industrial sector. The foreseeable challenge for Germany (and other export-oriented industrial countries) is a relative


loss of importance of traditional qualification systems and the necessity to develop new fields of work outside the industrial sector in the field of services or the tertiary sector.

Politics in Germany in the 1970s has reacted with the educational expansion which was demanded since the 1960s.[13] The raising of all talent reserves was aimed at building human capital in a country as poor in natural resources as Germany, thus corresponding to the long-term trend of industrial development, international competition and the development of the services sector. This educational expansion has indeed taken place, but the hope which accompanied it was fulfilled only in a very limited manner, also in terms of social advancement and finding work that is adequate for the raised qualifications, more challenging and better paid.– and particularly by the European Union[16] - brought in connection with the trend of academization. When an increasing number of young persons are studying, it counts as contemporary and is celebrated as a success by politics. But what does academization mean? More people who are active in the knowledge-based society as managers, experts or supervisors and demand a prize for their academic diploma in the struggle for the distribution of money and influence? Or rather people who make up an academic habitus which always indebts them to responsibility for the common good? Humboldt, who belongs to the founders of the modern university, thought of it as a republic of sciences whose members, those who do research, teach and study, are citizens of a republican commonwealth. The latter


by using their wide employability. In addition to that, the weak – who, due to their aversion towards theoretical learning mostly did not go or were not allowed to go to higher education institutions – are even more frustrated by the reference to the employability-required lifelong learning. In a market that awards employability conveyed by studies, flexible and willing to learn, it is those weak youth who are the big losers: humbled education losers of a society which increasingly renders higher education the benchmark for good education and thus becomes a partisan one.

Academics’ Prize: Income Supplements for Academic Education

Countries with an industrial basis and a system of dual vocational training dispose of a high share of well-educated people with a diploma in the upper secondary level – throughoutOn the other hand, concept becomes a new domain of the spreading academically educated middle class who, in their capacity as managers and supervisors – brainworkers – supervise the executive workers in the company and, when it comes to the private domain, lay claims to the extended offer of personal services by the carriers, cleaners and kindergarten teachers.[26] Such social processes are, as a rule, not subject of discussion when the European Union, en route to the knowledge-based society, looks up to, inter alia, the USA as role model. Is this also the case in Germany – namely, that with its system of vocational training, it offers an alternative to higher education and raises the academics’ quota only slowly? According to the current tendency – yes. In Germany,


the vocational training – unlike the USA and the rigid division between executive and control work – is much more oriented towards polyvalent working forces that collectively, in a holistic approach, learn a profession which provides qualifications for fulfilling tasks in the process. Collective employment competence of the labor forces allows a different production regime, one that enables a high level of independence and flexibility of the labor forces and flat business hierarchies.

This individual arrangement has strong institutional preconditions. In Germany they consist of the tri-relation between the state (who is responsible for the school-based vocational training and guarantees the validity of the diplomas), strong trade unions and strong employers‘ associations. Trade unions provide guarantees for the employers that they would prevail in view of the standards andto vocational training detracted more skillful young people as they provided them with better economic prospects and higher social prestige. The third reason can be seen in the gradual dissolution of the business associations and the withdrawal of many companies from the system of vocational training. The advantage of an education in about 300 widely defined professions (that is the number in Germany) is thus manifested as closure for those who do not receive a training position or an education: no education – no job. As a result, in Germany, unlike countries with non-dual vocational training, almost everyone who completed a vocational training has access to the labor market. Then again, those with no vocational training face slim chances. The vast majority of unemployed youth in Germany belong