Long voted to approve an $81,000 contract with Huffmaster that will go into effect if teachers file a 10-day strike notice.

Board member Joe Begeny, a teacher with Columbus City Schools, abstained.

Begeny said if he voted to approve the contract, he would betray his instincts as an educator.

"I am deeply worried about the qualifications of those people entering our classrooms and teaching our students," he said. "Security for our students is one thing, education is something different."

At the same time, he said, he couldn't vote against hiring Huffmaster because, "I could possibly be placing a major hardship on the families of Reynoldsburg" who depend on the district's breakfast and lunch services for their children.

The audience of more than 600 people at the Aug. 19 board meeting included Reynoldsburg teachersand union members from other districts, along with parents belonging to a support group called Raider Strong We Care. They crowded into the performing arts center at Encore Academy and stood for nearly 10 minutes, holding yellow signs that read, "Our Community Deserves Better."

Board members approved four more teacher resignations last week, bringing the total number of teacher resignations to 54 since January.

REA spokeswoman Kathy Evans said the combined resignations, retirements and one-year leaves of absence amount to 20 percent of the teaching staff from last year that is not returning to Reynoldsburg classrooms.

"Reynoldsburg students deserve better, including reasonable class sizes and a means of addressing the unprecedented teacher turnover in our district," she said.

Swope, who is on the district bargaining team, told the audience he has received


Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981, age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, retaliation, constructive discharge, and breach of contract. Appellant's trial counsel, however, conducted virtually no discovery, and GW moved for summary judgment, which the district court granted on all counts. Seeing insufficient evidence in the record from which a jury could find in appellant's favor, we affirm.

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After beginning a job at appellee George Washington University, appellant Cynthia Carter received three promotions over five years while earning a master's degree and pursuing a Ph.D. From 1994 onward, Carter worked as Director of Reunions and Events in the Alumni Relations Office. According to Carter, because she spoke out about what she considered discriminatory treatment within that office, her relationship withMichael Worth, GW's Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs, began deteriorating.

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In 1997 and 1998, Carter applied for the positions of Executive Director of Alumni Relations, Director of Development at Mount Vernon College (a former women's college now owned by GW), and Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations. She obtained none of these promotions. Carter then resigned, taking a higher-paying job at Howard University.

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Following the second promotion denial, Carter filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which she later amended to cover the third denial. When the EEOC chose not to pursue the complaint, Carter sued GW in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, raising claims based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2000e(16); 42


many other candidates. Michael Worth, Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs, appointed a ten-person search committee to review applications, interview candidates, and then recommend at least three finalists to him for the final decision. Joe Hall, Associate Vice President for University Development, served as the nonvoting committee chair; the committee also had four alumni and five administrators, including two African Americans. The committee narrowed the field and interviewed only five candidates: Carter, two white men under age forty, and two white women. It recommended only the four white candidates to Worth, who ultimately picked one of the men, Keith Betts. Betts had recently received a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and, like Carter, had worked as a director in the Alumni Relations Office since 1994. He hadstarted working there a few months after Carter and occupied a lower salary grade.

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According to Joe Hall, the committee decided against recommending Carter for several reasons, including poor interviewing skills and lack of qualifications. Most committee members ranked her last. During her deposition Carter testified that a few weeks after the interview, she sought out an African-American committee member for advice, and that member suggested that she adopt a new approach to interviews.

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Carter filed her complaint with the EEOC more than 180 days after GW's decision to select Betts and more than 240 days after learning that the committee had declined to send her name forward to Worth. Asserting that Title VII requires the filing of complaints within 180 days of the time the employee learns of the


Worth, he was not a decision-maker at the committee level, nor does Carter suggest that he exercised discriminatory animus in selecting the committee members. Indeed, responding to GW's specific interrogatories, Carter named none of the committee's voting members as discriminatory actors; she named only Keith Betts, Joe Hall, and Michael Worth. Because no reasonable jury could find sufficient evidence to infer intentional discrimination from the evidence before us, the district court correctly granted summary judgment to GW on Carter's race and age discrimination claims related to this promotion denial.

Director of Development

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In the spring of 1998, Carter applied for the position of Director of Development at GW's recently absorbed Mount Vernon campus. GW sought to hire a director who would work with Baxter to identify, cultivate, and solicit majorgifts. The job description called for a bachelor's degree, with a "master's degree ... preferred," and a minimum six years of fundraising experience. Baxter and Hall interviewed Carter and two other applicants, including Sarah Morgan. A thirty-three-year-old white woman, Morgan worked as GW's Associate Director of Development for Major Gifts and had at least nine years of experience in fundraising, including a year spent working at a women's college. When Baxter identified Morgan as the best candidate, Hall agreed to hire her. According to Baxter, she selected Morgan because of Morgan's experience managing fund-raising campaigns and working at a women's college. Carter was "not a viable candidate," Baxter concluded, because she "had no pertinent experience working with potential major donors, and had never directed a fund-raising campaign of


see no basis for a jury to find that a reasonable employer would have found Carter more qualified — let alone significantly more qualified — for the position of Director of Development at Mount Vernon. Because Carter offers no other evidence to attack Baxter's reason as pretextual and indeed offers no other evidence from which a jury could infer discriminatory or retaliatory intent on the part of Baxter, we affirm the district court's grant of summary judgment on all counts related to this promotion denial.

Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations

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Following the two denials of promotion described above, Carter applied for yet a third GW position — Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations. That position entailed responsibility for coordinating the university's grant management and soliciting funds from corporations andopportunity to interview and compete for the position." Sometime after this conversation, White wrote a letter to Hall which stated that she had met with Carter, found her unqualified due to lack of experience, and, after consulting with Hall, called her to say that GW would consider her no further. GW later withdrew the position for lack of qualified applicants and then, several months later, restructured the position, increased the salary, and convinced the employee who had last held the position to return.

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Carter challenges this promotion denial as both racially discriminatory and retaliatory. The district court found that Carter failed to make out a prima facie case of discrimination because she had not shown "that the position was filled by a member outside of the protected class," 180


still fails to make out a prima facie case for both discrimination and retaliation because she has not shown that she was qualified for the position. The resume Carter submitted to GW nowhere indicates expertise in fundraising. That resume even fails to list the fundraising-related activities included in the resume Carter submitted for the Mount Vernon job. Even supposing that Carter told White about these additional activities during their meeting, they fall short of "a demonstrated ability to solicit high-level gifts." Nor does her resume reveal much experience with university corporate and foundation relations. The only relevant references appear in two lines of her two-and-a-half page resume: in its description of her earlier GW job as Director of Off Campus Programs, Carter's resume states that she "solicited participationTickets for exhibitions:

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D.C. United announces 2009 Major League Soccer schedule

January 28, 2009

Washington, D.C. (January 28, 2009) – D.C. United announced today its 2009 Major League Soccer regular season schedule. Winners of 12 major domestic and international titles, D.C. United kicks off the campaign during First Kick weekend – presented by Dick’s Sporting Goods – on Sunday, March 22 in Los Angeles with the home opener set for Saturday, March 28 against the Chicago Fire. The Black-and-Red will also play a host of nationally televised games, including a June 17 clash against League newcomer Seattle Sounders FC and a renewal of the Atlantic Cup rivalry with the New York Red Bulls on June 4, both on ESPN2.

Various League broadcast partners, including ESPN2, Fox Soccer Channel/Fox Sports en Español, and TeleFutura, willnationally televise almost half of United’s 30 regular season MLS games. The team’s regional TV schedule on broadcast partner Comcast SportsNet, as well as the club’s radio broadcasting plans for 2009, will be released in the coming weeks.

Full season, half season and flex plans are now on sale through the D.C. United office at 202-587-5000 or online at dcunited.com. Upscale seating for full season plans – either club section, private or semi-private boxes, or field level seating – is also available and includes premium services such as meal service, complimentary parking and VIP access. Youth discounted pricing remains an option for United full season, half season and flex ticket packages. Individual game tickets will go on sale at a later date on ticketmaster.com and all Ticketmaster outlets. A


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ReferencesMOSCOW -- Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has told Russian media he's selling a 49 percent stake in the NBA club.

The Russian billionaire announced his intention to sell a minority stake in December, and now says "49 percent of the Brooklyn shares are up for sale," in comments reported by R-Sport.

He adds that "currently the process is going on and we are looking for a buyer."

Prokhorov took an 80 percent stake in the then-New Jersey Nets in 2010, moved the team to Brooklyn in 2012, and took full ownership in 2015.

Brooklyn went 20-62 this season, which was the worst record in the NBA and its third consecutive season below .500.

The Nets last made the playoffs in 2015, losing to the Atlanta Hawks in the first round.


POZNAŃ: The legendary
cradle of Poland

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A city of 600,000 inhabitants, Poznań lies in the western part of Poland and is the capital of the region known as Wielkopolska, a term frequently translated as Great Poland, but likely a reference of the large fields (Wielkie Pola) common to this relatively flat region. The city itself has an interesting history and is rich in places of interests that reflect that history: churches, palaces, musea and monuments. For all of that, it is also a flourishing metropolis know, the world over, for its trade-fairs. Here, in largest trade fair complex in Poland, over 25 events such as Budma, an international construction fair, and Polagra, Europe's largest agro-industrial show, are staged annually. However, for those more interested intourism, the city offers many historical landmarks that are well worth seeing.

International Fair Complex

The Cathedral

Mieszko IBolesław I

Ostrów Tumski

Economics Academy

Poznań lies on the Warta River and the most ancient part of the city is the Cathedral Island or, as it is to this day rendered in rather archaic Polish, Ostrów Tumski. It is on this island that there once stood the castle of Prince Mieszko I who accepted Christianity on behalf of the Polish nation in 966, and of his son, Bolesław the Brave, Poland's first crowned king. The sarcophaguses of father and son can be viewed in the Gold Chapel of the gothic cathedral that stands on the island to this day. Near the cathedral stands the Museum of the Archdiocese. It houses, in addition to gold chalices


and monstrances from the churches of Wielkopolska, Poland's only paintings by Anthony Van Dyck. The observation terrace of the Economics Academy's skyscraper, 260 feet high, offers an excellent view of Ostrów Tumski and the cathedral.

To the west of the river is the center of the old city, the Stary Rynek, or Old Market Square in the middle of which stands the Renaissance Town Hall. Until 1939, it housed the city's government. Today, the building is home to the Poznań Historical Museum. At noon, two mechanical billy goats clash horns on the Town Hall tower. Inside is the lavishly decorated Great Hall. The facades of the houses surrounding the square, and the ones abutting the Town Hall - once the homes of the wealthiest residents - feature Renaissance andBaroque motifs. Three of these buildings now house the Museum of Musical Instruments, with exhibits from all over the world and from many musical eras.

Renaissance Town Hall

The Renaissance Hall

Górka Palace

The Fara Church

Fara Church Interior

Not far from the Stary Rynek stands Poznań's most beautiful church, the huge Baroque Parish Church of St. Stanislaus, commonly referred to as the Fara Church. This is one of Poznań's most mysterious buildings, since parts of the crypts have not yet been investigated. Rumors say that crates of sketches by the great Polish painters Jan Matejko and Wojciech Gerson, purchased for the Poznań City Museum just before World War II, were hidden here. Every day during the summer, organ concerts are held in the church with the proceeds going towards the renovation of its


historic organ.

On the hill next to the Market Square are the foundations of the castle of Przemysł II (1257-1296), Duke of Wielkopolska who was crowned King of Poland in 1295 only to be assasinated by agents of the Brandeburgs a year later. Built in the second half of the 13th century, the castle remained a royal seat for many years. It was here in 1493 that King Jan Olbracht accepted the homage of the grand master of the Teutonic Knights, Johann von Tiefen. The building fell into ruin in the 18th century, and on its foundations the Prussians later erected a new building. It was destroyed in 1945. Reconstructed after the war, it now houses the Museum of Applied Art.

Further west is another Poznań square that commands attention,namely Plac Wolności (Liberty Square). It is dominated by the Raczyński Library, the public library founded in Poznań in the early 19th century by Edward Raczyński. Its facade is an architectural reference to the eastern facade of the Louvre. Also located on the square is Poznań National Museum which boasts Poland's largest collection of works by the painter Jacek Malczewski. Its permanent exhibition of Gothic art is also worth seeing. From the west, the square is completed by the former German theater where Teatr Ósmego Dnia (The Theater of the Eighth Day) is located today.

Raczyński Library

National Museum

Hotel Bazarin 1918

The Bazar buildingtoday

Adjoining the square is the building that once housed the Bazar Hotel. Built in 1838-42 during the period of the partitions when this area of Poland was under


Prussian occupation, it was the site of patriotic ceremonies, speeches, concerts and balls. During the 1948 Spring of Nations it was the headquarters of the National Committee during the attempted uprising. On December 26, 1918 and while Poznań remained in German hands, it was from a window of the Hotel that Paderewski, the famous pianist and patriot who had on that day returned to Poland, spoke to a huge patriotic throng which gathered to welcome him. It was also here that the following day, while preparations were underway for a banquet honoring Paderewski, that shots fired at the Hotel from a German counter-demonstration. This proved the spark that led to an uprising by Polish patriots that led, over the following two months to the territory of Wielkopolska becomingpart of the renascent Polish state.

The Okrąglak

The Opera

Imperial Palace

Next door is the Okrąglak, Poland's only round department store. Its windows offer an excellent view of the Opera, which is referred to as the Teatr Wielki, or Grand Theater. It was Poland's first permanent opera house dating from 1910. Today it stages excellent productions and has a prominent decorative element- the winged horse Pegasus.

The opera house was one of a number of important elements of the new city center designed in the early 20th century and located even further to the west. The center's main building is still the Imperial Palace built, in neo Romanesque style, by Kaiser Wilhelm II. This was the last royal residence of such size built in Europe. In the courtyard is the Lion Fountain


- a replica of the famous sculpture from the Alhambra. The Kaiser, who visited his castle just twice, received guests in the throne room, which today houses a movie theater.

Adam Mickiewicz University

June '56Memorial

Wielkopolska Uprising Memorial

For those who enjoy longer outings, the Wielkopolski National Park, just a dozen or so miles from Poznań, is an excellent choice. Napoleon Bonaparte stayed there in the early 19th century. A stroll around Poland's oldest and largest palm house or a visit to one of two zoos is ideal for those who don't have time for long excursions. Poland's oldest zoological garden. was established in 1874 with a donation of a few animals. With time, the modest collection grew into a large animal farm.

Poznań has no shortage of artistic attractions. In January, numerouschoirs give concerts of Christmas carols. In late June there is the Malta
International theater Festival or a concert by the excellent boys' choir, the Poznań Nightingales. Organ concerts are held in St. Stanislaus Parish Church from July to Sept. at 12:15 p.m.

There are plenty of palaces and castles to see around Poznań. South of the city is the palace in Rogalin, surrounded by a beautiful park. It includes a museum and a gallery of paintings. Old furniture and fittings have been preserved in the castle in Kórnik, which houses a collection of national mementos and is surrounded by a beautiful arboretum.


SEATTLE – April 24, 2018

Lawrence Clarke was arrested Monday night for investigation of Voyeurism and then released from the King County jail on his own recognizance. Prosecutors have until Thursday to formally charge him with a crime.

The 31-year-old is accused of taking upskirt photos and videos of 175 women.

Clarke was arrested in December after being accused of filming up a woman’s skirt at a Target in downtown Seattle. According to probable cause documents, he admitted to taking video up a young girl's skirt while she shopped, saying what he did was not illegal 'because he was in a public place." Police confiscated his phone and got a warrant to search it, and when they did, they said they found hundreds of pictures and videos of him stalking womenJaguar girls hold off Hodgson, move on to quarterfinals

Friday

Mar 2, 2012 at 12:01 AMMar 2, 2012 at 2:04 AM

Just when it looked like the Appoquinimink girls basketball team was about to relive the same nightmare of losing to Hodgson in the DIAA state tournament second round on their home floor, they got help from the expected and unexpected.

Chris Stevens, Staff Writer

Just when it looked like the Appoquinimink girls basketball team was about to relive the same nightmare of losing to Hodgson in the DIAA state tournament second round on their home floor, they got help from the expected and unexpected.

Amani Clark and Allie Minner’s back to back to steals and breakaway lay-ups pushed a four-point lead back to eight in the final minute and the Jaguars held off


News Update: Miss Honduras 2014 was killed
by her sister’s boyfriend

The boyfriend of Sofia Trinidad, the older sister of 19 year
old 2014 Miss Honduras, Maria Jose Alvarado, has been
identified as the killer of the beauty queen and her sister.
Plutarco Ruiz (pictured right) admitted to gunning down
Sofia, 23, after flying into a rage after seeing her dance with
another man at his birthday party, where the girls were last
seen alive and then turned the gun on Maria because she
was a witness to the murder of her sister. Three other men
have been arrested in connection with the murders.
After he killed the women, he and his accomplices buried
them near a riverbank close to where the party was held.down by what's going on in our lives. Thoughts whirl, emotional reactions jump, the body makes its demands, even as we long to clear all the inner noise away to be quiet and aware. Here's an analogy you can call to mind and heart every day this week when you need to quiet the inner hubbub._**

**_Step 1_**

_Imagine a river stirred up by a storm — a big one. Once it's gone, all the detritus from the riverbank floats along on the surface with bits of trees and bushes. The river itself is brown and thick with sediment from top to bottom. Not an inch of clear water. That image might apply to a stormy reaction or a moment of confusion in your day._

**_Step 2_**

_Then imagine that the sun


This blog presents news items and resources relating to trial advocacy and the legal system, with a focus on Washington State. It was developed to support the Trial Advocacy Program at the University of Washington School of Law, but now has a broader coverage and a wider audience. In addition to information about trials and trial practice, you'll find notes about appellate practice, the courts, access to justice, and related topics.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Earlier this month the first drug court in the USA, in Dade County Florida, marked its 20th birthday. Many newspapers observed the anniversary and published what are now fairly commonplace stories about successful participants—along with a new twist of possible drug court closures due to tough economic times.

Pierce County Superior Court Judge Michael Hecht isthat boredom? A few video games, a deck of cards, ...?

The 14-count indictment charges that Bergrin, a former federal and Essex County prosecutor, engaged in a host of illegal activities from his Newark law office, including witness tampering, wire fraud, money laundering and drug trafficking.

They included orchestrating the murder of an informant who was expected to testify against his client in a federal drug case and attempting to hire a hitman from Chicago to kill an informant in a Monmouth County, N.J., drug case -- a killing that was never carried out.

Bergrin obtained exculpatory testimony from witnesses through bribes or threats of harm in nine other cases, and he assumed control of his client's drug trafficking operation after the client was convicted on federal drug charges, the indictment


says.

The trial has drawn an audience of supporters of the defendant and the victim. One of the audience members was arrested on an outstanding warrant, and then the two camps began fighting. "Paul Sherfy, chief administrative officer for King County Superior Court, said additional court-security officers have been assigned to Superior Court Judge Regina Cahan's courtroom because of the fight."

In 1982 the New Jersey Legislature restored the death penalty, lifting the Furman stay of executions. 228 times prosecutors sought death. 60 times juries agreed, 57 cases were reversed at some point. 8 remained on death row at the time of repeal. None were executed.

On December 17, 2007, Gov. Jon Corzine signed a bill repealing the death penalty and replacing it with life imprisonment without parole for capital murder.

OnApril 14, 2008, principal actors in the 25-year drama gathered at Seton Hall Law School. The symposium reflected on the judicial, legislative, and popular efforts to sustain, limit, and ultimately abandon capital punishment. Five former Justices of the New Jersey Supreme Court (two of them former Chief Justices, and three of them former Attorneys General), leaders of the legislative effort, and members of the Legislative Study Commission which recommended repeal spoke. Former prosecutors and public defenders recounted the struggle in the courtrooms and on appeal. Sen. Raymond J. Lesniak presented a resolution by the Legislature honoring Celeste Fitzgerald and New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Gov. Corzine expressed his pride and personal commitment on the issue, urging others to follow New Jersey’s lead.

The proceedings and an


Law Day event last night, the Washington State Association for Justice (formerly Washington State Trial Lawyers Association) gave its judge of the year award to Skagit County Superior Court Judge John M. Meyer and its excellence in journalism award to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. See the press release. A bio of Judge Meyer is here. That page also has bios of 7 judges honored for 20 years of judicial service.ticket sales.

The agreement was finalized Friday in negotiations between Vice President Joe Biden and Xi, who was visiting Los Angeles on a trip to promote more trade between the countries.

Easing China's restrictions on access to its vast market has been a top priority for the Motion Picture Assn. of America, whose chief executive, Chris Dodd, met with Xi on Friday.

Dodd was joined by other studio executives, including Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger and DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, who just announced a deal to build a new animation studio in Shanghai with two state-owned Chinese media companies.

The rapid growth of the theater industry in China has made the market that much more appealing to studios, which can generate $20 million to $40 million in ticket


sales per film, compared with about $1 million a decade ago. Popular movies released in China include the blockbusters "Avatar," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

During his trip, Xi has put forth a different face than Chinese President Hu Jintao, who has a stiff public persona.

Xi attended the last quarter of a Lakers game Friday. Before that he spent much of the day with Biden. The vice presidents heaped praise on each other and their countries at several events in the Los Angeles area.

At one stop, Biden said he and Xi had spent 20 hours in private talks over the course of this visit and Biden's trip to China last summer.

He praised Xi's stamina and his inquisitive spirit, which he said was on displaythe State Department and even took tea with locals in Muscatine, Iowa, where he spent time years ago.

On Friday, both he and Biden stressed the importance of cooperation between the nations to a class of Mandarin-speaking students at the International Studies Learning Center in South Gate, a public school that emphasizes foreign language and culture.

Xi joked to students about the challenge of finding private time. "It's like the name of that American movie," he said: " 'Mission Impossible.' "


By Jhonny Gonzalez

According to reports in San Juan, Puerto Rico - Federal agents have seized more than $4 million worth of cocaine from a house owned by former two division champion Ivan Calderon. Drug Enforcement Administration spokeswoman Laila Rico advised news outlets that 225 kilograms (nearly 500 pounds) of cocaine were found when agents raided the house in the coastal town of Humacao.

Calderon issued a statement to WAPA-TV in Puerto Rico denying any knowledge of the drugs, stating the house was one of several investment properties he owns and he was not aware of any illegal activities there.

No information was revealed as to whether or not Calderon was renting the house to a third party, although one news outlet has disclosed that a married couple was living there.

AnDream Theater's Jordan Rudess: the 10 greatest prog-rock albums of all time

“I was in high school and had been going to Julliard, studying classical music, so I was only somewhat aware of anything going on in the rock world," says Dream Theater's keyboard master Jordan Rudess. "Classmates of mine used to show up in the school auditorium with albums by Genesis and Gentle Giant, and they tried to show me what they were listening to. That was probably how I first noticed something new was going on in music."

According to Rudess, his first true introduction to prog-rock occurred when a friend came over to his house and put on a copy of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's seminal 1970 album, Tarkus. "It electrified my thinking," he says. "Suddenly, I


Neuroethics Session

In association with the International Neuroethics Society, we are delighted to present a special neuroethics session on Monday, May 21 st, 20:45-22:00 .

The session will feature the following speakers:

Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Machine Intelligence, Google

Blaise leads a team at Google focusing on Machine Intelligence for mobile devices—including both basic research and new products. His group works extensively with deep neural nets for machine perception, distributed learning, and agents, as well as collaborating with academic institutions on connectomics research. Until 2014 he was a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, where he worked in a variety of roles, from inventor to strategist, and led teams with strengths in interaction design, prototyping, computer vision and machine vision, augmented reality, wearable computing and graphics. Blaise has given TED talks on Seadragon and PhotosynthSociety
Director of Neuroethics Canada, University of British Columbia
Dr. Judy Illes, Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics at UBC, is Director of Neuroethics Canada at UBC, and faculty in the Brain Research Centre at UBC and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. Dr. Illes also holds affiliate appointments in the School of Population and Public Health and the School of Journalism at UBC, and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA.

A pioneer and eminent scholar in the field of neuroethics, she has made groundbreaking contributions to ethical, social, and policy challenges at the intersection of biomedical ethics and neuroscience, with a specific focus on aging and dementia, addiction and mental health, neuroimaging, stem cells, cross-cultural values,


and the commercialization of health care.

Dr. Illes was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2017. She is immediate past president of the International Neuroethics Society, Vice Chair of the Standing Committee on Ethics for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Vice Chair of the Internal Advisory Board of CIHR’s Institute of Neuroethics, Mental Health and Addiction. Dr. Illes is an inaugural member of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Leadership Forum, and is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis available of contemporary Russia and the challenges facing Vladimir Putin and his successor, Dmitri Medvedev. Leading scholars discuss the social, political, and security issues that confronted Putin, as well as his successes and failures in dealing with them. The contributors conclude that Putin's influence will continue to be felt for years to come, not only because he remains powerful in his new post as prime minister, but because he laid the groundwork for dealing with the many problems still confronting Russia. Clearly written and organized, this text is an indispensable guide for anyone wanting to understand Russia today.

Now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text


provides the most authoritative and current analysis available of contemporary Russia and the challenges facing Vladimir Putin and his successor, Dmitri Medvedev. Leading scholars discuss the social, political, and security issues that confronted Putin, as well as his successes and failures in dealing with them. The contributors conclude that Putin's influence will continue to be felt for years to come, not only because he remains powerful in his new post as prime minister, but because he laid the groundwork for dealing with the many problems still confronting Russia. Clearly written and organized, this text is an indispensable guide for anyone wanting to understand Russia today.[Newsmaker] Banners supporting Hong Kong protesters pulled down at Yonsei campus

Pro-Hong Kong banners are seen at Yonsei University’s Sinchon campus in Seoul on Monday. (South Korean students of Yonsei University advocating for Hong Kong)

Pro-Hong Kong banners are seen at Yonsei University’s Sinchon campus in Seoul on Monday. (South Korean students of Yonsei University advocating for Hong Kong)

Banners hung up at a university campus in Seoul by students to show support for the Hong Kong protests have been taken down twice in as many weeks.A group of Yonsei University students -- who identified themselves as “South Korean students of Yonsei University advocating for Hong Kong” -- said Tuesday that four banners they put up on Monday around noon were removed less than two hours later. The banners bearing the


in the removal and that they believed a third party was behind it.According to a Yonsei University official, the school authorities were not aware of the banners and were not involved in their disappearance. The official explained that students are allowed to hang posters concerning school activities on campus without approval from the school. The school only regulates promotional materials, but may order the removal of other posters and banners if they are considered inappropriate.Meanwhile, in the previously released statement, the students had introduced themselves as Korean students who were joining forces to support Hong Kong citizens’ fight for democracy. The student contacted by The Korea Herald refused to disclose any further information about the group.By Choi Ji-won ( jwc@heraldcorp.comCaryn Waechter

Caryn Waechter is an American filmmaker best known for her 2014 debut film The Sisterhood of Night.

Education
Waechter initially attended Columbia University to earn a degree as a film critic. Encouraged by her mentors she switched majors and ended up earning an MFA in directing. While there she met Marilyn Fu who later presented her with the screenplay of The Sisterhood of Night.

Film career
In 2012, Waechter and her team launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for The Sisterhood of Night. The film premiered at the 2014 Woodstock Film Festival. The film was picked up for distribution by Freestyle Releasing and was given a limited theatrical release as well as a release on VOD in April 2015.

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producing organism (plasmid).in the water following the failure of Windows Phone to gain significant traction over the past year.

Neither Google nor Nokia can bring its vector maps to iOS via the mobile web, simply due to the disadvantages of the web platform. That means both companies will need to deliver native apps for iOS in order to even have a showing on the world's largest and most valuable mobile platform, something neither of which has even targeted with an official release date yet.

Instead, both Google and Nokia have launched a scoff campaign ridiculing Apple's Maps. That strategy didn't work for Palm and RIM when they laughed at the original iPhone's keyboard-free design, didn't work for Microsoft's Windows Mobile, didn't work for Nokia's Symbian or Palm's webOS, and didn't work for


could also trade in their phone for a new device after one year. AT&T, meanwhile, benefits from a quirk in accounting rules that let it record all of a customer's monthly payments for the phone upfront, boosting the margins for that quarter.

When AT&T, the nation's second-largest carrier by subscribers behind Verizon Wireless, debuted Next in July, it was a poor imitation of T-Mobile's own no-contract program. The carrier offered early upgrades and a monthly installment plan, but it didn't provide a financial break on the service fees. It wasn't until AT&T began offering discounts to Next customers in December that the plan was considered a competitive deal.

Since then, the numbers speak for themselves. In the fourth quarter, 15 percent of its customers moving to a smartphone opted to17 students in a general microbiology lecture course at Roane State Community College (Oak Ridge, TN) in the fall 2014 semester. This group of students was primarily allied health majors, 88% female, and at least 53% classified as non-traditional students. Most students had significant work and/or family responsibilities outside the classroom. I was impressed by the effort put forth by the students, with an average grade of 93% on the report. The report was a significant task for many students, who reported limited opportunities to write in other college course work. Based on the final discussion, students seemed to be engaged by the projects and even shared ideas on how to improve the user experience.

The most popular project was Viz Health, where students applied the icon array generator


Boys President's Grade scrum.

"All this. It's the Kiwi dream, isn't it? What more could a man want? This is why we go to work for 48 weeks of the year, 9 to 5, put up with all that shit from the boss."

Bruce thought this was probably not the time to point out that Mike had taken over his father's trucking company when the Old Man died, that his sister was the accountant, his brother was the operations manager, and their sons and daughters were dispersed through the family trust that owned the business, or that most of the 48 weeks and 70 hours, give or take, a week were spent "meeting clients" at the golf course or in the Cossy Club.

"So, Mike, what's the perfect day of thefather helped me out.

He showed me two ways.

In one I can watch it
sprouting by using a shaped up blotting paper , which held the beans , inserted
into a glass having water.

The other way was to
soak the beans in water and then fold it up in a wet cotton cloth and leave it
lying in a bowl.

So I asked him, how he
know this- as he seemed to be an expert. My father was a member of RSS in the
pre-independence days.

He told me about the Indian
Navy Mutiny in 1946, when RSS has put
road blocks in all major cities of India , to prevent British troop movement. After this mutiny till India became
independent RSS would hold massive shows of strength like mass drills , march
pasts etc every day.

They would march past
the British


on the way to Dharamtalla
by tram.

Customers hold a small plate
or bowl (katori) and stand around the vendors cart. The server then starts making one panipuri at
a time and gives one to each individual. The vendor kept holding a filled up puri as
soon as I swallowed the previous one .

I thought it was part of the deal and
had a bit too many, till my friend told me in mE ear, stop when I feel like, as
the pricing is based on the count of puris I swallowed.

Traditionally,
panipuris are eaten by placing the entire puri into the mouth in one go and
biting into it. This releases a barrage of amazing tastes and exotic textures into all corners of the mouth and tongue .

Thursday, March 28, 2013

JOSHUA PROJECT TWO
STALKING HINDUISM AND INDIANCULTURE, ASHVAMEDHA
SACRIFICE,HOLI CELEBRATIONS , MANU THE FIRST
LAW GIVER- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

PLAY THE VIDEO BELOW ON HEADPHONES, AS YOU READ!

Today is Holi festival.

All the
foreign funded TV channels of India and Christian missionary NGOs are busy
putting a dampener on the celebrations.

They have even gone to
the extent of saying that our army jawans are wasting water by playing Holi. Who has authorised these foreign funded TV to keep picking on our armed forces, and to crush their morale? Few months back all TVs were discussing how our army jawans are given DOUBLE the usual food quota .

First of all , what is
Holi ?

Holi is the greatest leveler
in India, where an ordinary Jawan can walk up to a General and spray colour on
him and the General reciprocates by putting colour on the


Jawan and hugging him.

During Holi
celebrations there are no caste , gender, age , creed and financial status
divides. All are equal. These celebrations have been going on for 6000
years . It is stress busting time.

The atmosphere is electric with fun and
joy. People dance, sing songs and beat
drums.

The government does NOT arrest people who had Marijuana or Cannabis (
Bhang ) as long as they are not disruptive. Enemies have heart to heart talks
and make up on this day.

Holi is celebrated on
the day after the full moon in early March and glorifies good harvest and
fertility of the land . RADHA IS A FAKE BACK DATED CREATION OF THE WHITE INVADER. BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME TO INDIA NOBODY HEARD OF RADHA , THE MISTRESS OF LORD KRISHNA The white man wrotethat Holi is
celebrated in memory of the immortal love of Lord Krishna and Radha. The young Krishna would complain to his mother
Yashoda about why Radha was so fair and he so dark.

Yashoda
advised him to apply colour on Radha's face and see how her complexion would
change.TRUTH: In the legends of Krishna as a
youth he is depicted playing all sorts of pranks with the gopis or
cowgirls. One prank was to throw colored water all over them.

So at Holi, images
of Krishna and his consort Radha are often carried through the streets . The
colors of Holi, called 'gulal', in the medieval times were made at home, from
the flowers of the 'tesu' or 'palash' tree, also called 'the flame of the
forest'.

These flowers, bright red or
deep orange in color, were collected from the forest


and spread out on mats, to
dry in the sun, and then ground to fine dust.

The powder when mixed with water made a beautiful saffron-red dye. This
pigment and also 'aabir', made from natural colored talc, which were
extensively used as Holi colors, are good for the skin.

This year the foreign
funded media has been lying in ambush for the Holi celebrations of Asaram Bapu.

His foreign funded enemies tried to finish him off by sabotaging his helicopter
in Aug 2012, and he had a narrow escape when the aircraft crash landed.

He
commands a large following. If he ceased to exist suddenly there are easy
pickings of rootless poor people for religious conversions.

Many false cases have been registered on him
for sexually abusing children and women and even murdering them. He is accused
of holding Tantric sexual ritualsobscenities ( probably they were singing ribald songs like DARA SINGH KA LUND-- TEE HEEEE ! ).

On the next morning,
the priests raise the queen from the place where she has spent the night with
the horse.

The three queens with a hundred golden, silver and copper needles
indicate the lines on the horse's body along which it will be dissected. The
horse is dissected, and its flesh roasted. Various parts are offered to a host
of deities and personified concepts with utterances of svaha
"all-hail".

The human sacrifice,
the Purushamedha, followed a similar format,
but included a man with the animals to be sacrificed. The price of the
man was set at one thousand cows and a hundred horses. Like the horse, the man
chosen for sacrifice was allowed to wander for a year. Once he had been killed,
the


queen lay with his corpse.

The Laws of Manu refer
to the Ashvamedha (V.53): 'The man who offers a horse-sacrifice every day for a
hundred years, and the man who does not eat meat, the two of them reap the same
fruit of good deeds.

In the Mahabharata, the
sacrifice is performed by Yudhishtira (. After the horse was cut into parts,
Draupadi had to sit beside the parts of the horse.)

The ritual was
performed in strict compliance with Vedic prescriptions (1.14.10). Dasaratha's
chief wife Kausalya circumambulates the horse and ritually pierces its flesh
(1.14.33).

Then "Queen Kausalya desiring the results of ritual
disconcertedly resided one night with that horse that flew away like a bird." .

At the conclusion of the ritual Dasharatha symbolically offers his other wives
to the presiding priests, who return them in exchange for expensive gifts.

"An empireof a learned European language" (alluding to other
instances where he renders explicit scenes in Latin rather than English). A. B.
Keith's 1914 translation also omits verses.

This part of the ritual
offended the Dalit reformer and framer of the Indian constitution B. R.
Ambedkar and is frequently mentioned in his writings as an example of the
perceived degradation of Brahmanical culture.

UNQUOTE:

So all Indian Hindus are fools and perverts except our dalit BR Ambedkar!

Recently CNN IBN , the foreign funded TV station held a sham poll, to find out the greatest Indian after Gandhi. We MUST believe that Gandhi is the greatest-- this is compulsory!

Now who is BR Ambedkar? He was taken to Columbia Univesity to inject poison into the Vedas. Being a dalit there is no way, he could have laid his hand


of the Vedas.

Out there in USA he wrote a book mocking Hinduism by the name of RIDDLES IN HINDUISM, in league with the white Christian missionaries.

Below: Watch the video of BR Ambedkar ( acted by Malayalam Megastar Mammooty ). Mammooty is NOT anti-Hindu, he just acted out a scripted role.

So what is the truth
about ASHWAMEDHA YAGNA?

The truth is the horse
is NOT killed at all-- leave alone the queen having sexual intercourse with a dead horse's you know what..

A spirited horse is
chosen , with white fur and no blemishes. A yagna ( Agnihotra homam ) is held
BEFORE the horse sets out on a guided tour.

Ashwamedha yagna cannot
be held by a mortal. It is held by the
king of Gods Indra. It can only be done
by a mortal king if heis commanded to do it by an avatar of Vishnu.

This tradition was
broken by King Mahabali of Kerala. He was an asura ( demon ) king. The people
of Kerala were very happy with this king as he was a wise and just ruler, and
there was prosperity all over. King
Mahabali did the Ashwameda yagna.

This made Indra very
jealous, as this was his prerogative, and nobody had the guts to kill the white
Ashwamedha horse of King Mahabali.

He prevailed on Aditi,
his mother to convince Vishnu to correct this imbalance, where an Asura King
could cock a snook at the King of Gods . Vishnu decided to intervene and took
the 5th avatar of Vamana --a
blue faced Brahmin midget ( dwarf ) .

The Brahmin dwarf asked
King Mahabali for alms-- a small grant of land.
The King told


him that he can take as much land area as he wished,
within his kingdom . But the midget wanted only three strides ( paces ) of land.

Immediately the kings
advisor Sage Shukracharya who was a seer, advised his king NOT to agree to this
request, as he suspected something amiss and was sure of foul play.

Mahabali being a very
generous king, could NOT imagine going back on his word, during a divine
sacrifice.

So he agreed to grant
the boon of three paces of land. Vamana immediately assumed the gigantic form
of Vishnu ( the Preserver lord ) and in the first two steps covered the whole
of earth and cosmos.

Then he asked the king
where he should keep his third step. The king bowed down on his knees and told
him to place the third step onhis head.

Before that he asked
that he should be able to visit and bless his subjects once every year .

Vishnu granted this
boon and placed his foot on Mahabali's head and instead of driving him
underground to the netherworld , he sent him to heaven -- pleased with his
righteousness.

THIS IS THE REASON WHY
ALL MALAYALIS CELEBRATE ONAM -- THE DAY THE KING WILL COME EVERY YEAR. A CARPET OF FRESH FLOWERS IS LAID AT THE
ENTRANCE OF EVERY HOUSE. DIWALI OR
DEEPAWALI MARKS THE VICTORY OF GODS , OR DEFEAT OF KING MAHABALI . DIWALI IS CELEBRATED BY THE WHOLE OF INDIA --
EXCEPT KERALA.

So why is the white
horse on a guided tour? This is the essence of Ashwameda.

The emperor seeks to check
out if any of his vassal kings want to challenge his supreme authority—


NOT a god, who was the
first to mirror Hinduism.

Later many
mortals became gods, including a Yank by the name of Joseph Smith 190 years ago.
He used converted the right handed
Swastika of Hinduism and made it Left handed.

Let us see what
Wikipedia has to say about Lord Ayyapa.

For this punch into
Google search MOHINI WIKIPEDIA .

Check out the gems.

QUOTE :--

Transgender Hijras
consider Krishna-Mohini as a transsexual, rather than a true female.

Shiva wishes to see the bewildering Mohini
again. When Vishnu agrees and reveals his Mohini form, Shiva runs crazily
behind Mohini, "bereft of shame and robbed by her of good sense,"
while the abandoned wife Parvati (Uma) looks on.

Shiva is overcome by Kāma
(love and desire or Kamadeva, the god of love and desire). His
"unfailing" seed ( semen ) escapes like that of "a love-maddened elephant
chasing adesiring female" and falls on ground creating ores of silver and
gold.

Overcome by lust, Shiva
chases Mohini as Parvati hangs her head in shame and envy. Shiva grabs Mohini's
hand and embraces her, but Mohini frees herself and runs further.

Finally,
Shiva grabs her and their "violent coupling" leads to discharge of
Shiva's seed which falls "short of its goal," suggesting the act was
not consummated.

In the later story of
the origin of Ayyappa, Shiva impregnates Mohini, who gives birth to Ayyappa.
They abandon Ayyappa in shame.

The legend highlights Vishnu's protests to be
Mohini again and also notes that Ayyappa is born of Vishnu's thigh as Mohini
does not have a real womb.

Another variant says that instead of a biological
origin, Ayyappa sprang from Shiva's semen, which he ejaculated upon embracing
Mohini.

Mohini seduces the
sages. Mohini is depicted nude, adorned with garlands


rule”.

So here are the
doctored LAWS OF MANU ( Christian
invaders spin in collusion with BR Ambedkar)

QUOTE

For the sake of the
prosperity of the worlds (the divine one) caused the Brahmana, the Kshatriya,
the Vaisya, and the Sudra to proceed from his mouth, his arm, his thighs and
his feet.

One occupation only the
lord prescribed to the Sudras, to serve meekly even these (other) three castes.

Once-born man (a
Sudra), who insults a twice-born man with gross invective, shall have his
tongue cut out; for he is of low origin.

If he mentions the
names and castes (gati) of the (twice-born) with contumely, an iron nail, ten
fingers long, shall be thrust red-hot into his mouth.

If he arrogantly teaches
Brahmanas their duty, the king shall cause hot oil to be poured into his mouth
and into his ears.

With whatever limb a
man ofslave traders. As a reward, his son William Gladstone was made the
Prime Minister of Britain.

Opium drug traders
British East India Company owned by Jew Rothschild made Indians their slaves.
With their opium money, they build railways , roads, bridges and harbours to
steal India’s wealth. They paid mercenary soldiers, and missionaries to drive
fissures into Hinduism.

When the white
Christian invader came to India ,we were the richest country in the whole
world. By 1947 everything was stolen and
we were reduced to beggars.

Today but for the internet and IT revolution,
Indians would still have been branded as morons. Let nobody be under the
illusion that only English speaking Indians who passed IIT and then went to USA
have brains.

Our national brain bank is literally " non-evaporable" .
An ordinary Indian child can whip his western counterpart in a test


be sued by
Zionist organizations funded by powerful forces. But if
you say Hindu Goddess Sita had sex with Ravana, well you will be invited
to the White house and Queen's box at Wimbledon, for exercising your freedom of
expression-- and you will be in line for the next Rockfeller award. What bullshit is this?

Let me remind all Indians
, when the whole of the west has just come out from under the quarternary ice
age, and were eating raw meat , staying in caves, doing grunt grunt for language
and wearing animal skins , India was a huge civilization with advanced
mathematics and science , with more than 2000 languages.

According to Wiki leaks
Congress party's general secretary Rahul Gandhi remarked to US Ambassador
Timothy Roemer, at a luncheon hosted by Prime Minister of India at his
residence inone of my ships— he starts everything with JAI RADHEY!

It was almost used like
OM ! or PRANAM!

When he spoke to his mother or brothers , the conversation
started with JAI RADHEY .

Radha, daughter of
Vrishabhanu, was the mistress of Krishna during that period of his life when he
lived among the cowherds of Vrindavan. Since
childhood they were close to each other - they played, they danced, they
fought, they grew up together and wanted to be together forever, but the world
pulled them apart. He departed to
safeguard the virtues of truth, and she waited for him. He vanquished his enemies, became the king,
and came to be worshipped as a lord of the universe. She waited for him. He married Rukmini and Satyabhama, raised a
family, fought the great war of Ayodhya, and she still


waited. So great was Radha's love for Krishna that
even today her name is uttered whenever Krishna is refered to, and Krishna
worship is though to be incomplete without the deification of Radha.

The sage Vyasa refers
to this as the 'Rasa'.

MANY INDIAN ARTISTS AND
POETS WERE LITERALLY ARM TWISTED BY THE WHITE CHRISTIAN INVADER TO POPULARISE A
FAKE PHYSICAL LOVE STORY

Radha is not just one attractive
cowherd maiden, but is the origin of all divine personalities that participate
in the rasa dance.

Krishna's youthful
dalliances with the 'gopis' just symbolic of the ALLEGORICAL loving interplay
between God and the human soul.

Radha's utterly
rapturous love for Krishna and their relationship is allegorical of the quest
for union with the divine.

This kind of love is of
the highest form of devotion in Vaishnavism, and is symbolically represented as
the bond between the wife andall the gopis, and Krishna is the
Supreme Lord."

One of Radharani's names,
HARA (mentioned in Narada-pancaratra 5.5.59), in vocative Hare, forms a part of
the Hare Krishna 'Maha-Mantra', one of the most popular Vedic mantras,
especially amongst Gaudiya Vaishnavas.

In the Brihad-Gautamiya
Tantra, Radharani is described as follows: "The transcendental goddess
Srimati Radharani is the direct counterpart of Lord Sri Krishna. She is the
central figure for all the goddesses of fortune. She possesses all the
attractiveness to attract the all-attractive Personality of Godhead. She is the
primeval internal potency of the Lord."

All the ancient books
that refer to Sri Krishna, the name of Sri Radha occurs only in two:- the
INJECTED Brahmavaivarta Purana and in
the INJECTED works of poet Jaidev— for whom the
Bengalis and Oriyas fight over..

In Kaun Banega
Crorepati (KBC III) the Bongs tried to establish
that Jayadeva is a


court poet of king Lakshmanasena of Bengal. This triggered
an immediate volley of protests by from the Oriyas. In Ashtapadi No.21 Radha, the Jeevatma, merges
with Krishna, who is The Paramatma. Jayadeva's
ashtapadis that are sung in dance performances of Odissi, the classical dance
of Orissa.

The INJECTED Padma
Purana describes 18,000 cowherd-girls (gopis) among whom it says 108 are the
most important. Among those 108, eight are considered more important still, and
among the eight, two have a special position - Chandravali and Radharani. Of
the two, Radha is considered the foremost. Others are: Lalita, Vishakha, Padma,
Bhadra, Saibya and Syama.

According to the
Mahabharat and the Puranas, Draupadi was
regarded as the most beautiful and virtuous of all women at the time. (She would never use the phallus of a dead
horse as a dildo, in Yuddhishtra Ashwamedha Yagna ).

Itmegalodon, could grow up to 60 feet, or 18 m, long during its heyday, between about 16 million and 2.6 million years ago.)

Supershark lived before the age of the dinosaurs, which emerged about 230 million years ago. Until now, the oldest giant shark was found in rocks dating to 130 million years ago. [8 Weird Things About Sharks]

Supershark's ancient age makes it a prize find, indicating that giant sharks go back much further in the fossil record than previously thought, the researchers said. They presented their unpublished findings today (Oct. 16) at the 75th annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference, in Dallas, Texas.

When supershark was alive, during the Carboniferous period, a shallow sea called the Western Interior Seaway covered Texas and much of the American West. The fossil


remains of the sea's marine life are still being uncovered in the ancient seabed, which is how study co-author Robert Williams, of the Dallas Paleontological Society, discovered the supershark fossils, including two fossil braincases. He also found a number of large and pointy, fossilized shark teeth, but it's unclear whether these belonged to the Texas supershark or to another ancient species, the researchers said.

The braincases, which comprise the back end of the sharks' skulls, resemble the corresponding skull parts of other Paleozoic fossil sharks, but "are clearly different from the far shorter" back skull regions of modern sharks, the researchers said.

Shown is a well-preserved fossil of a 300-million-year-old shark from New Mexico. The new "Texas supershark" fossils (not pictured) are less complete, but suggest the supershark was evenlarger than the New Mexican shark. |
John-Paul Hodnett

To calculate the body size of the supershark without a complete specimen, lead researcher John Maisey, a curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and his colleagues had to get creative.

So they looked to the dimensions of other complete specimens of ancient sharks known as ctenacanthiforms, which are a group of ancient sharks that lived during the Carboniferous period (It's likely supershark is also a ctenacanthiform, but its true identity will emerge only once other supershark remains, such as teeth and fin spines, are found, the researchers said.) The skulls of these ctenacanthiforms accounted for roughly 10 percent of the sharks' entire body length, the researchers found.

If the Texas supershark shared the same proportions,


biggest predatory fish in the world. And despite their mass,
they can travel at ridiculous speeds, at over 35 miles per hour, to track their prey.
Marine biologist Joe Butler traveled with two friends off Hans Bay, South Africa, in hopes of seeing some great whites. Which they did.
See more of Butler's story on a

"In order to bring them in closer, to give everyone a good look, the crew would employ a
tuna head on the end of a long rope and drag it out of the way before the shark had a chance to
grab it," Butler said.

This amazing photo, taken from inside the cage, shows the shark grabbing the bait before anyone had a chance to react.
"There's actually quite a sobering moment when you realize that proverbially you're the
fish outManisha Koirala weds Samrat Dahal

After enthralling movie goers for close to two-decades, 40-year-old Manisha Koirala, Nepal’s most popular export to Bollywood, tied the nuptial knot on Saturday with Samrat Dahal, 33, a Nepali businessman.

The ceremony held at a forest resort on the outskirts of Kathmandu was attended by close friends and relatives from both families. The wedding took place in traditional Nepali style with Hindu rituals.

The engagement function was held at the same venue on Friday.

Close friend and actor Deepti Naval, who is directing Manisha in forthcoming film Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish, and Vivek Mushran, her co-actor in her debut movie Saudagaar (1991) were present.

Looking radiant in a yellow sari with red border, Manisha placed a garland on her beau and exchanged rings.

The reception


department investigated the death of Cheyenne Hyer, 3, who died after being left in a patrol car for four hours.

Amazingly enough, neither of the officers were arrested for the child’s death — as would have been the case had they not had badges.

Glenn Grannon, with the sheriff’s department, said Clark Ladner and Cassie Barker were placed on administrative leave after 3-year-old Cheyenne Hyer died. Sheriff Ricky Adam confirmed Barker is Cheyenne’s mother, according to WLOX.

According to investigators, Barker was traveling in her patrol car, with her daughter inside, when she stopped at Ladner’s home. Leaving the child in the car, Barker stayed inside Ladner’s house for around four hours.

According to reports, neighbors were stunned after another police officer found the girl in the car.

Luckily, the 8-year-old girl inFriday, October 1, 1999 Published at 14:23 GMT 15:23 UKSci/TechNeanderthals were cannibalsThis Neanderthal thigh bone was smashed open for its marrowGory evidence uncovered in France reveals that the early humans in the region ate one another.

Cheek muscles from children were filleted out, tendons were sliced and skulls were cracked to remove brains.

Sharp butchering marks made by flint tools

Commenting on the research published in the journal Science, anthropologist Juan Luis Arsuaga said: "To me this is, paradoxically, a very human behaviour that indicates a human mind. Only humans practice systematic cannibalism - this is the dark side of the human coin."

Excavations at the cave at Moula-Guercy, Ardeche, yielded 78 Neanderthal bones, from at least six individuals who lived 100,000 years ago. Remnants of two adults, two 15 or 16


Cherstin Mattson holding child who died

Cherstin Mattson holding child who died

Death of young children was a tragically common occurrence in the mid-19th century. Post-mortem photography also became popular at the time, as a way to capture an image of a deceased loved one.

Cherstin Mattson, the wife of Swedish immigrant and Civil War soldier Hans Mattson, holds her dead baby in this photograph. The Mattsons lost more than one child in infancy, including this baby, Everett Lincoln Mattson, who died in 1866 at the age of five months.he heard about seven shots.

"Pow-pow-pow-pow-pow, about seven times," he said.

Laura Forduno said the event was peaceful right up until the gunfire.

I would suggest that Ms. Forduno lay off the weed for a while.

Several thousand people had gathered in Denver to celebrate marijuana and Colorado's decision to legalize recreational pot consumption.

Organizers said it was the largest gathering in the United States this year for "420 Day," which has become an international rallying time for marijuana advocates, the Post said.

While public pot smoking remains illegal in Colorado, police said law enforcement would be light.

"We're not going to be tackling 10,000 people and writing them all a citation," police spokesman Matt Murray said.

The celebration began at midnight when Snoop Lion, the 41-year-old rap musician born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. who until


last year used the stage name Snoop Dogg, threw marijuana cigarettes into the audience at the Fillmore Auditorium.

The High Times Cannabis Cup, a convention usually held in Amsterdam, was transferred to Denver this year. Thousands of people waited outside the EXDO Event Center to get in.

In Boulder, the University of Colorado closed its campus for the second year in a row to prevent a 420 rally. Officials said they would not go as far as they did last year when the quad was sprayed with foul-smelling fertilizer to discourage partying.

Good luck finding witnesses who were sober enough to identify any suspects, much less their own dog.

Two people were shot at a marijuana "smoke-in" rally in Denver's civic center on Saturday.

UPI reports that the police are looking for twolay off the weed for a while.

Several thousand people had gathered in Denver to celebrate marijuana and Colorado's decision to legalize recreational pot consumption.

Organizers said it was the largest gathering in the United States this year for "420 Day," which has become an international rallying time for marijuana advocates, the Post said.

While public pot smoking remains illegal in Colorado, police said law enforcement would be light.

"We're not going to be tackling 10,000 people and writing them all a citation," police spokesman Matt Murray said.

The celebration began at midnight when Snoop Lion, the 41-year-old rap musician born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. who until last year used the stage name Snoop Dogg, threw marijuana cigarettes into the audience at the Fillmore Auditorium.

The High Times Cannabis Cup, a convention usually held


CHAPMAN joined.
OPINION
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

1
This appeal concerns the interplay between state divorce law and federal estate tax law.  In particular, we study the significant effect of supplanting common law marital rights with deferred community property principles on federal estate tax liability.

2
The Estate of James H. Waters, Jr.  (Estate), acting by and through its co-executors, William Roger Waters and John B. McMillan, appeals the opinion and final judgment of the United States Tax Court in favor of the Commissioner.  Mr. Waters (Decedent), a lifelong resident and domiciliary of North Carolina, died testate on July 3, 1988, from a subarachnoid hemorrhage.  At the time of his death, Decedent was forty-eight years old and had been unmarried since August 1, 1984, when he and his former wife, Barbarathe time of their marriage, Decedent and Ms. Waters had no net worth, and substantially all the assets acquired during their marriage came from income Decedent earned through employment, business, and investment activities.  Decedent was an officer of Boddie-Noell Enterprises, Inc.  (Boddie-Noell) of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and participated in Boddie-Noell's savings and retirement plan, as well as its deferred compensation plan.  Decedent also held a minority share of Boddie-Noell stock.

5
Decedent and Ms. Waters separated on April 1, 1981, and thereafter lived apart from one another.  In November of 1983, Ms. Waters brought an action against Decedent in the North Carolina General Court of Justice (State Court) seeking a divorce from bed and board.1  In January of 1984, Decedent filed an answer and


of such interests.  Furthermore, the language "other marital rights in the Decedent's property or estate" is based on the implicit assumption that at the time of the execution of the Agreement, the parties are still married.  Thus, "other marital rights" for the purpose of determining whether a transfer or a claim was made for "consideration in money or money's worth" is limited to those rights conferred upon a surviving spouse by local law upon the death of his or her spouse.  Estate of Carli v. Commissioner, 84 T.C. 649, 657, 1985 WL 15335 (1985) (holding that a wife's waiver, in an antenuptial agreement, of her community property interest in husband's earnings under California law constituted valid consideration);  Estate of Ellman v. Commissioner, 59 T.C.The invention relates to a drawer guide having a guide rail to be fastened to the wall of a cabinet carcase and reaching from below into a corresponding runner rail which is square or rectangular in cross section and open at the bottom and can be fastened removably to the drawer. In the interior of the runner rail are races on which rolling bearings held in an elongated cage can roll on the races of the guide rail on the one hand and on races formed by associated areas of the inner surface of the runner rail on the other, thus permitting a longitudinal displacement of the runner rail relative to the guide rail. The rolling bodies serving to bear the weight load are formed by a row


of rollers disposed one beside the other with their horizontal axes athwart the direction of drawer movement, and the rolling bodies serving for lateral guidance and stabilization are formed by two rows of balls vertically offset from the rollers and provided on opposite sides of the guide rail.
On the basis of the great number of rolling bodies in the form of balls and rollers which are spaced apart not only in the direction of drawer movement but also at right angles thereto, drawer guides of this kind have the additional advantage, besides easy running and great strength, that they have a relatively high transverse stability even in the fully drawn out state. Therefore a drawer mounted on them in a cabinet will have no great amount of freeIn this Friday Oct. 19, 2012, photo Mabel Humes holds a 1942 photo of herself at her home in Martinsburg, W.Va. Like so many of her generation forever immortalized by the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter, 94-year-old Mabel Humes, of Martinsburg, answered the call for service in her country's time of need and, in doing so, unknowingly became a part of a special group of women who became an inspiration for women in the workforce for decades to come. (AP Photo/The Journal, Edward Marshall)


Casualties are starting to mount as Chinese buyers of soybeans and soybean meal default or cancel contracts in the wake of falling international prices, Asian trading sources said on Thursday.
"We have stopped doing Chinese business for now," said a trader in Hong Kong with a major international house.
"We're waiting for the market to stabilise and are staying away from the possibility of defaults," he said.
Traders in Hong Kong, Singapore and China reported hearing of Chinese soymeal buyers delaying finance arrangements for orders in an attempt to force sellers to lower their prices.
Another Hong Kong source reported that Chinese buyers had defaulted on three to four cargoes, each of 50,000 tonnes, since last week when international prices began to fall.
"They are defaulting because PRC buyers delayed opening LCs (lettersin China begin to fall, some international traders simply exit the market.
Others insist on deposits, and others grade Chinese traders according to their record of paying up and charge higher premiums accordingly.
Soybean meal has been the hot Chinese commodity of 1996, traders said, with arrivals from South America around 1.2 million tonnes since February.
Traders said maximum Chinese orders of U.S. meal in the past two weeks were 300,000 tonnes.
One trader claiming to have done 400,000 tonnes of beans and meal business in the past two weeks said he had letters of credit from his buyers for 350,000 tonnes.
His sales would show up in U.S. Department of Agriculture figures this week, he said.
The price of soybean meal on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) has been on a rollercoaster


ride since late September, and initially dipped while China was on holiday from September 30 to October 3 celebrating National Day.
On October 4, Chinese buyers scooped up more than 600,000 tonnes of beans and meal, mostly of U.S. origin, some South American, paying $300 to $310 a tonne, traders said.
But last Friday, prices started to fall again, by Tuesday coming off another $10 or so a tonne -- and word of Chinese cancellations and defaults began to circle.
Reports from Chicago on Wednesday described the market as perplexed over rumours China had bought or cancelled export orders for U.S. and Latin American soybeans and soymeal.
CBOT October soymeal closed at $236.30 a tonne, after Tuesday's $235.30.
Man charged with kidnapping, beating pregnant woman

TAMPA - A Tampa man kidnapped and repeatedly beat his pregnant ex-girlfriend over a 16 hour period, according to a release from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Curtis Eugene Anderson, Jr., deputies say, forced the victim, who was six weeks pregnant, into his Cadillac on the afternoon of June 5. She was repeatedly hit while she was driven around for 30-40 minutes.

Anderson then took her to her apartment where he held her captive until around 7:45 the next morning.. During that time, he repeatedly struck her, according to the statement.

He eventually released her and she was taken to Tampa General Hospital.

A warrant for Anderson's arrest was obtained and deputies caught up with him on the afternoon of June 11. Anderson fled in his


vehicle through a yard and almost struck a deputy.

He managed to escape, but detectives learned of his new location. When they caught up with him again, Anderson fled into some nearby woods and made his way into an occupied residence. He was arrested there without incident

He's now charged with aggravated battery on a pregnant female, false imprisonment, kidnapping, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, fleeing to elude, leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, burglary of an occupied dwelling and no valid driver's license.

Due to the nature of the crimes, the victim's name is being withheld.

Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.Singapore throw away Nations Cup third

Vietnam under-21 came from two goals behind to defeat Singapore under-21 in the Nations Cup 3rd-4th placing tie on penalties at Hang Jebat Stadium on Sunday.

Captain Ammirul Emmran Mazlan and Shahrin Saberin saw their efforts saved in the shoot out as the teams were tied neck and neck until the sixth round of kicks.

Singapore coach Richard Tardy made two changes to the line-up that lost to Malaysia on Friday – including naming Hairul Syirhan Mardan in goal after Zharfan Rohaizad cost the team two goals on Friday – but his team was second best for most parts.

"A draw after 90 minutes was logical. Vietnam were good," said Tardy.

"We fought to stay ahead but we made mistakes... the free-kick we had that lead to


In the Dutch city of Eindhoven, engineers, contractors and architects have joined forces to create one of the world's first 3D-printed commercial housing projects.

Dubbed Project Milestone, the initiative will use a huge 3D printer to fabricate five concrete houses in a wooded area near the city's airport. Plans call for the first home, a three-bedroom dwelling of just over 1,000 square feet, to be completed in mid-2019 — though the entire initiative will take five years because the technology is still being refined.

The effort is being undertaken in the midst of a shortage of bricklayers in the Netherlands, Rudy van Gurp, a project manager at Van Wijnen, the construction firm that's overseeing the project, told CNN. But the main goal will be to show how 3D printing canholds the Series 7, 66 licenses and is a Certified Financial Planner. Presently he is a Level 2 Candidate for the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation, with plans for completion in 2016. He was recently recognized as one of the top Financial Consultants in the nation for Charles Schwab & Co., earning him the prestigious Chairman’s Club award.

“We are very pleased to have German join our firm,” said Al Abaroa, Co-President of Kingsview Asset Management. “With over a decade of experience, he offers a well rounded knowledge base, imperative for the implementation of the family office experience within the CPA space.”

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The teaching of law at Columbia reaches back to the 18th century. Graduates of the university's colonial predecessor, King's College, included such notable early American judicial figures as John Jay, who would later become the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Columbia College appointed its first professor of law, James Kent, in 1793. The lectures of Chancellor Kent in the course of four years had developed into the first two volumes of his Commentaries, the second volume being published November 1827. Kent did not, however, succeed in establishing a law school or department in the College. Thus, the formal instruction of law as a course of study did not commence until the middle of the 19th century.[13]

The Columbia College Law School, as it was thenofficially called, was founded in 1858.[13] The first law school building was a Gothic Revival structure located on Columbia's Madison Avenue campus. Thereafter, the college became Columbia University and moved north to the neighborhood of Morningside Heights. As Columbia Law Professor Theodore Dwight observed, at its founding the demand for a formal course of study in law was still speculative:

It was considered at that time mainly as an experiment. No institution resembling a law school had ever existed in New York. Most of the leading lawyers had obtained their training in offices or by private reading, and were highly sceptical as to the possibility of securing competent legal knowledge by means of professional schools. Legal education was, however, at a very low ebb. The clerks in the law


offices were left almost wholly to themselves. Frequently they were not even acquainted with the lawyers with whom, by a convenient fiction, they were supposed to be studying. Examinations for admission to the bar were held by committees appointed by the courts, who, where they inquired at all, sought for the most part to ascertain the knowledge of the candidate of petty details of practice. In general, the examinations were purely perfunctory. A politician of influence was not readily turned away. Few studied law as a science; many followed it as a trade or as a convenient ladder whereby to rise in a political career."[13]

The Gothic Revival Law Library on Columbia's Madison Avenue Campus

Indeed, Columbia Law School was one of the few law schools established in the UnitedStates before the Civil War. During the 18th and 19th centuries, most legal education took place in law offices, where young men, serving as apprentices or clerks,were set to copying documents and filling out legal forms under the supervision of an established attorney. For example, in New York John Jay, revolutionary founding father and first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, read law with Benjamin Kissam, whose busy practice kept his clerks occupied in transcribing records, pleadings, and opinions. Jay was fortunate to have attentive supervision because the quality and time of learning the law varied greatly within the profession. Theodore Dwight, who had been head of the law department of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, believed formal legal education, conducted in the


classroom with regular lectures, was far superior to casual law office instruction.[14]

At its founding, four distinct courses of lectures of this class were then established: one on Philology, offered by distinguished scholar and statesman, George P. Marsh; a second by Dr. Francis Lieber, a standard writer upon topics of Political Science and of International Law, then a professor at Columbia College; a third course on Ethics, by Professor Nairne, also of the College; and a fourth on Municipal Law, by Theodore W. Dwight, then Professor of Law in Hamilton College, New York, which at the time already had a flourishing Law School.[13] The original course of study to obtain a degree consisted of just two years, rather than the modern standard of three.[13] The first lecture in theLaw School was delivered on Monday, Nov 1, 1858, by Mr. Dwight, at the rooms of the Historical Society. It was an introductory lecture, afterwards printed. The audience consisted mainly of lawyers. It was plain that many of them could be counted upon as friends of a system of legal education. The result was an immediate attendance of thirty-five students, who showed their intention of pursuing a regular course of study by at once paying a tuition fee for instruction throughout the year. Such assurances were given of a future increase of numbers that it was determined to divide each class at the beginning of the coming year into two sections, for their convenience. The next year, the number of students was sixty-two. In the third year there


a solid basis for future detailed acquisitions.".[13]

By the late nineteenth century, Dwight's method give way to the case method which by the turn of the twentieth century had become the standard curriculum at all of the other premier American law schools at Harvard, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.[15] In 1891, in response to Columbia's adoption of the case method, Dwight and a number of Columbia professors left the Law School to found New York Law School in Manhattan's Financial District.

After Dwight's departure, William Albert Keener of the Harvard Law School became Dean of the Law School from 1891 to 1901 when he was succeeded by George Washington Kirchwey. Future Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone graduated from the Law School in 1898.[16] While practicing law in NewYork, he began lecturing at Columbia Law School in 1899 and joined the faculty as a full professor. He subsequently became Dean of the Law School in 1910 and held the position until 1923 when he left to join Sullivan and Cromwell as a partner. Stone became Attorney General of the United States in 1924 and held that Office for almost a year before joining the Supreme Court of the United States as an Associate Justice.

Ever since U.S. News & World Report began ranking law schools in 1987, Columbia Law has appeared in the Top 5 each year, an honor shared only with Yale, Harvard, and Stanford.[19]U.S. News & World Report consistently places Columbia Law among the top four law schools (for both academic reputation and national standing).[20]U.S.


two years in a row (2007, 2008) for having the highest percentage of graduates hired by the nation's top 250 law firms (#2 in 2009; #3 in 2010; #3 in 2011).[27][28][29]

Today, Columbia Law's faculty is well regarded for its teaching and scholarship in a number of different areas. Several of the faculty are recipients of the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant". The following list of disciplines enumerates some—but not nearly all—of Columbia Law School's notable scholars:

For the year ending December 2009, Columbia Law School’s faculty ranked #2 in the nation for the number of academic papers authored and downloaded on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), according to cumulative statistics, exceeded only by Harvard Law School's faculty.[31] In 2007 (the prior such ranking by SSRN) Columbia Law School'sfaculty also was the #2 most downloaded law faculty in the United States.[32]

Columbia was among the first schools to establish both comparative and international law centers. The Law School also has major centers for the study of international law, including the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the Center for Korean Legal Studies, the Center for Japanese Legal Studies (the first and only center of its kind in the United States), the Center for European Legal Studies, as well as centers for Corporate Governance, Climate Change Law, Law and Economics, Law and Politics, fourteen other law centers, and numerous law programs.[33] In July 2012, the Law School launched three new centers: i) the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership to "study global financial markets and


their diverse, interdependent actors"; ii) the Center for Constitutional Governance to "bring together a dynamic roster of constitutional scholars who are deeply engaged in the study of governmental structure and relationships, including experts on separation of powers and issues of federalism"; and iii) the Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration Law to "further the teaching and study of international arbitration, building on the Law School’s considerable expertise in this rapidly growing area of legal practice."[34]

In 2006, the Law School embarked on an ambitious campaign to increase the number of faculty by fifty percent without increasing the number of students.[35]

On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia since 1999, to be a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.[36]Judge Sotomayor created and co-taught a course entitled "The Federal Appellate Externship" every semester at the Law School since the fall 2000.[37] Federal Appellate Externships and many other externships, including Federal District Externships, are offered each year at Columbia.[38][39]

Among other externships, the Law School offers a full-semester externship on the federal government in Washington, D.C., which provides students hands-on experience in government law offices. In addition to their placements at federal agencies, students in the program are also required to attend a weekly seminar and write a substantive research paper.[40] The Federal Government Externship has the following three specific components:

Seminar: Students conduct an in-depth analysis of the roles lawyers play in federal offices. Each seminar is taught by Columbia Law faculty and a Washington-based adjunct professor. Each seminar


also features guest speakers and has a substantive writing component.

Supervised Research: Students are required to produce an 8,000–10,000-word research paper on a topic closely connected to their externship and field placement. Externs are encouraged to consult with the agency in which they work to develop their topic.[40]

Jerome L. Greene Hall, home of the law school and the Arthur W. Diamond Library. September 2004

Columbia Law School’s Arthur W. Diamond Library is one of the most comprehensive libraries in the world and is the second largest academic law library in the United States, with over 1,000,000 volumes and subscriptions to more than 7,450 journals and other serials.[41][42]

In December 2010, the Law School announced the addition of an accelerated JD/MBA joint degree program, which allows students to obtain both a JDjoint exchange program that begin in 2006 when students could be exchanged for a semester, which was expanded as a program in 2011 to allow faculty to teach or co-teach courses abroad, and which was expanded as a program again in 2013 when Columbia Law School Dean David Schizer and Peking University Law School Dean Zhang Shouwen signed a memorandum of understanding between the universities, allowing for joint publications and joint seminars between faculty at the respective universities.[53]

The Law School runs nine vigorous clinical programs that contribute to the community,[54] including the nation's first technology-based clinic, called Lawyering in the Digital Age. This clinic is currently engaged in building a community resource to understand the collateral consequences of criminal charges.[55] In April 2006, Columbia announced that it was


starting the nation's first clinic in sexuality and gender law.[56] In 2007, Columbia opened a new program in law and technology.[57]

Given that Columbia is well known for its strength in corporate law, the Law School offers, for example, a "Deals" course that includes participants from the Columbia Business School and the Law School. In addition, the Columbia Business and Law Association (CBLA), the Law School's principal student group dedicated to the interaction between law and business, routinely sponsors lectures, workshops, and networking events from traditional areas of interest such as investment banking, management consulting, venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, and entrepreneurship. CBLA also serves as a center for members of the Columbia Law School community interested in many aspects of business law, including corporate governance and securitiesregulation.[58]

Columbia Law School’s main building, Jerome L. Greene Hall (or simply "the Law School"), was designed by Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz, architects of the United Nations Headquarters and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (which for many years served as the site of Columbia Law School's graduation ceremonies). It is located at the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue and West 116th Street. One of the building's defining features is its frontal sculpture, Bellerophon Taming Pegasus, designed by Jacques Lipchitz, symbolizing man's struggle over (his own) wild side/unreason.

In 1996, the Law School was given an extensive renovation and expansion by Polshek Partnership (now Ennead Architects), including the addition of a new entrance façade and three story skylit lobby, as well as the expansion of existing space to include an


upper level students' commons, lounge areas, and a café. In the summer of 2008, construction of a new floor in Jerome Greene Hall was completed providing 38 new faculty offices. Other Columbia Law School buildings include William and June Warren Hall, the Jerome Greene Learning Annex (which Jerome Greene's representatives politely declined to have renamed after the building of Jerome Greene Hall), and William C. Warren Hall (or "Little Warren").

Lenfest Hall, the Law School's premier residence, opened in August 2003. The hall was named for H. F. Lenfest '58 and his wife Marguerite. Lenfest contains more than 200 luxury student residences, including private studio apartments and one-bedroom apartments.[59] In addition to Lenfest Hall, the majority of Columbia Law students live in the University's Graduate Student Housing consisting ofsingle and shared apartments in buildings throughout Morningside Heights. All Columbia Law students are guaranteed housing on campus for the duration of their Law School studies.

Columbia offers a Graduate Legal Studies Program, including the Master of Laws (LL.M.) and the Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) degrees. The LL.M. Program is considered one of the best in the United States and has been ranked very highly according to private studies.[60][61] Each year the Law School enrolls approximately 210 graduate students from more than 50 countries with experience in all areas of the legal profession, including academia, the judiciary, public service, civil rights and human rights advocacy, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and private practice. Graduate students are an important component of the Law School community. They participate in many co-curricular


Eric Holder, the current Solicitor General, Don Verrilli, and the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Lanny Breuer are all graduates of the Law School.

CLS alumni are also notable in the arts, business and elsewhere. For example, Civil rights activist, recording artist, and actor Paul Robeson received his law degree from CLS in 1923. Academy Award-winning lyricist and playwright Oscar Hammerstein II attended the law school. Alumni of the Law School have been the president or founder of more than thirty colleges and universities in the nation. More current members of the Forbes 400 attended Columbia than any other law school.[citation needed]

In Body Heat, Edmund Walker (played by Richard Crenna), the wealthy husband of the film's femme fatale, is a Columbia Law School graduate.

In the film OldSchool, Dean Gordon Pritchard bribes the student body president by guaranteeing her admission to Columbia Law.

In the film Just Cause, Law Professor Paul Armstrong, played by Sir Sean Connery, is a Columbia Law graduate.

In the film Two Weeks Notice, Howard Wade, played by David Haig, asks for a lawyer trained at Columbia Law School.

On the television show How I Met Your Mother, the character Marshall Eriksen is an Environmental Law graduate of Columbia Law School.

On The West Wing (S5), Angela (the new head of legislative affairs at the White House) meets Leo to talk about the President's high popularity in polls during the time of his daughter's kidnapping. When Leo says that the President's temporary self-removal from office was a constitutional necessity, Angela comments on the negative political


and size distribution.
Air is naturally entrapped in concrete through the folding and shearing action of mixing the cement paste. The entrapped air voids are large and not stable in concrete unless air entraining agents are used. Air entraining agents are surface active agents or surfactants. These agents reduce the surface tension of water, which tends to promote the fragmentation of large air voids into smaller ones, and to stabilize air voids by collecting at the water interface and forming a film.
The unburned carbon residue present in fly ash has a high adsorptive capacity for air entraining agents. The time dependent adsorption of air entraining agents causes a loss of entrained air during mixing and placement, and ultimately affects durability of the concrete by degrading the air void system.
LOIYesica Sanchez at the Normandy Apartments in Portland, Oregon, where tenants were notified that their rent was being almost doubled. Oregon, one of the fastest-growing states in America, is facing a housing shortage. A new state zoning law is expected to usher in an era of housing diversity in neighborhoods that were once reserved for single-family homes. Andrew Selsky/The Associated Press

Read more Stateline coverage on affordable housing.

BEND, Ore. — Phil Chang has a naturalist’s take on the 600-square-foot rental unit he built on top of his garage last year, after the city made it easier for people to add apartments to single-family homes.

Bend, a fast-growing city of nearly 100,000 in central Oregon, has plenty of big houses on large lots for vacationers and retirees who are flocking to


housing supply: an end to zoning that favors single-family homes.

Earlier this month, Democratic Gov. Kate Brown signed a law that requires most Oregon cities with more than 1,000 residents to allow duplexes in areas previously zoned exclusively for single-family homes. Cities larger than 25,000 also must allow townhouses, triplexes and fourplexes.

Cities in other states, including Minneapolis and Seattle, are moving ahead with similar zoning changes. It has been a far tougher sell in California, though, where efforts stalled this year to pass rent control and denser zoning around transit centers.

The proposed statewide zoning changes raised concerns in many suburban California communities about local control, and what denser development might mean for neighborhood character. The bill also lacked the strong support of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In many places, people2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang just skateboarded his way into Democratic voters’ hearts. At a Yang 2020 rally in Las Vegas Wednesday, the New York businessman stoked the crowd with some gnarly moves on a supporter’s skateboard.

The best part is supporters caught Yang thrashing wood on video. But that might be bad news for Democratic primary rival and fellow skater boy Beto O’Rourke.

The rad video footage prompted Iowa Hawk Blog to tweet, “RIP Beto.”

In the 1990s, Baby Boomers thought it was all that and a bag of chips to have a young, saxophone-playing president like Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. Well, Millennials are losing it at the possibility of electing a skateboarding president who supports bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

Your Move, Beto

Why RIP Beto?

The Yang vs. Beto “cool guy”