USA TODAY's article "Alicia Keys urged to cancel concert in Israel" reports as fact Palestinian allegations of "Israel's large-scale abuses of Palestinian rights." These charges are meant to induce entertainer Alicia Keys to cancel her Tel Aviv performance in the name of fighting "entertainment apartheid." Israel is a shining example of "anti-apartheid." Israeli Arabs  20 percent of the population  exercise the same civil rights as the country's Jewish majority.

"Large-scale abuses of Palestinian rights" are committed by the terrorist Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip, who attempt to impose an Islamic theocracy, and by the Palestinian Authority administration of the West Bank, the hallmarks of which are corruption and silencing dissent.

Israel so abuses Palestinian rights that polls repeatedly indicate that if the PA were to control easternGuardian, Straits Times are among many who have covered this incident. As they cover other such incidents that occur in India. And each time, those living outside India and in India believe every woman in India has been or will be raped, or every woman who steps into any part of the country is a target of molestation.

One just needs to take a look at the comments in the local news, or discussions among locals to understand the extent to which India gets branded as the worst place for any woman. Which is not the case. India is a wonderful country with ample opportunity for women who shine and rise. Albeit just as in many places around the world, it is sad that the women in public spaces


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Amateur space photographer Andrew McCarthy, or 'space nerd' as he calls himself on his Instagram account, has a passion for astronomy, thanks to his dad introducing him to the moon through his telescope when he was a child.

The Sacramento-based software worker has taken hundreds of thousands of photos, and one in particular that he shared on social media forum Reddit has gained 74,000 upvotes.

His 81 megapixel shot came about after an evening's work on May 7, as part of his current project to take pictures of the moon every day for one month.

"I take as many photos as possible, using two cameras and a telescope patched to a tracking mouse that compensates for the rotation of the earth," Andrew told the BBC, after which follows alot of post production, "that gives me a nice clear, crisp image."

His post also includes the ability for users to zoom in to see individual craters.

It was thanks to a free telescope Andrew found on Craig's list two years ago, that his passion was reignited, and he started to share his images on social media.

"I like to post in a variety of communities to introduce new people to this hobby," he said, "What I like might be different to what others like. I like the deep space stuff."

One image in particular, which he posted on February 25, is one of his most popular and was even picked up by the media in Russia and India.

Image copyright cosmic_background/Instagram Image caption One of Andrew's favourite photos has also been shared


We created a vision and master plan for the lake and surrounding areas. As part of the city’s smart-city initiative, the project is focused around protecting the natural habitat, while enhancing the lake and surroundings that benefit the community and visitors. The redevelopment is organized around the large water body with extensive trail networks and access to open spaces which are rich in flora and fauna.

Our vision for the redevelopment creates an opportunity as one combined and meaningful destination catering to various groups, while enhancing the biodiversity of the lake and surroundings by introducing, island in the middle of the lake, dense vegetation zones, lake edge treatment, mix of flora and aquatic plants like reeds.Hardin, 49, after he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in October in the fatal shooting of 59-year-old James Appleton of Gateway. The sample matched DNA from the rape case, Minor said.

"The Rogers Police Department would like to thank first and foremost the victim in this case for standing beside us and never giving up after 20 years," Minor said.

Hardin, who is serving a 30-year prison sentence for killing Appleton, was arrested Monday in the rape and kidnapping. He made his first court appearance Monday in the rape case. Arraignment is scheduled for 8 a.m. March 19 in Circuit Judge Robin Green's court.

Green granted a request by Kevin Lammers, deputy public defender, that Hardin be held in the Benton County jail to better assist his attorneys in the case.

Minor


and several of his detectives attended Hardin's bond hearing.

Minor said police notified the woman of the DNA match after receiving the news from the Arkansas Crime Laboratory.

The woman was at the school Sunday, Nov. 9, 1997, preparing for the week's classes while a church service was being held in the school cafeteria, according to the police. About 11:30 a.m., the teacher went to use the restroom. A man wearing a knit stocking cap and sunglasses brandished a pistol, raped her and fled, according to the news release.

The woman described the man as between 20 and 30 years old with reddish-blond facial hair, and between 5 feet, 6 inches and 5 feet, 9 inches tall. He also had a flat, wide nose and a protruding belly but was not"overweight," according to police.

Minor was one of the detectives called to the crime scene in 1997. He said many of the officers knew the victim, and the case remained important to members of his department.

Once a year detectives would set aside at least a week to concentrate on solving the case, Minor said. The case also was featured in 2015 on the television show Cold Justice: Sex Crimes.

Rogers police obtained a warrant in 2003 for a "John Doe" suspect in the case. A John Doe warrant is an arrest warrant for an individual whose name is not known. The statute of limitations for rape in Arkansas is six years, and the warrant was filed before time expired.

Minor said it was Arkansas' first John Doe warrant that was based


on a DNA profile.

Benton County prosecutor Nathan Smith praised Rogers police for their efforts in solving the case.

"You can see from the chief today that the focus of the Rogers Police Department has been solely on the victim and solving this for her and gaining justice for her, and certainly the arrest of Mr. Hardin today is a huge step in that direction," Smith said.

Hardin admitted in court in October to shooting Appleton in the head Feb. 23, 2017. Hardin will not be eligible for parole in the murder case until Feb. 21, 2038. He was being held in a prison in Calico Rock.

According to Hardin's LinkedIn page, he worked as a police officer in Eureka Springs from 1993-97. Minor confirmed that Hardin had worked for the EurekaSprings Police Department, but he was not with the department at the time of the rape.

County records show that Hardin served two terms, from 2009-10 and 2013-14, as Benton County District 1 constable. He also has worked at the Northwest Arkansas Community Correction Center in Fayetteville, according to court documents.

Hardin was the police chief of Gateway from January 2016 to May 2016. He also worked for police departments in Fayetteville and Huntsville, according to his LinkedIn page.

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A gaming machine represented by a slot machine is highly popular among casino customers as a device that provides gaming that is easy to enjoy, and recent statistics report that sales from gaming machines account for the majority of casino earnings. Initial slot machines were simple devices, wherein an inserted coin is received, a configured reel rotates and stops mechanically according to a handle operation, and a win or a loss is determined by a combination of symbols stopped on a single pay line. However, recent gaming machines, such as mechanical slot machines driven by a highly accurate physical reel via a computer controlled stepping motor, video slot machines that display a virtual reel on a display connected to a computer, and various gaming machines that apply similarEstablished in the year 1950 as a reserve forest, the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, is one of the top rated tourist spots in the state. A 'World Heritage Site', according to UNESCO, the park has ...


a modern nation state. What is of utmost importance in Sikkim’s case is the story of the unique relationship between Sikkim and the centre, highlighting facets of Indian nationhood which are different from the experiences of homogenous European nation states.

The aforementioned aspect of relations between Sikkim and the centre is premised on autonomy (cultural, economical and political) granted to numerous cultural communities within the respective zones of habitation in parts of the north-eastern states of India. One example of such concessions relates to fiscal concessions provided to cultural communities in remote areas of the country. For example, the Government of India has extended Income Tax (IT) exemption facilities to those categories of people who are qualified as “Sikkimese” as per the Sikkim Subject Regulation Act, 1961. This fiscalinstitutional memory by reinforcing and reminding the centre of Sikkim’s late and unusual entry as a constituent part in the Indian nation state as its reference point for negotiations.

The Union Minster of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh sensing trouble in his official communiqué dated 8 December, 2016, directed the Ministry of Finance under Arun Jaitley to oversee successful implementation of demonetisation programme. The communiqué appraised the finance ministry to clear such road blocks that would invite condemnation both for demonetisation programme and GOI under the BJP a bad name in Sikkim. Further, it stressed that Sikkim was a politically sensitive region in India and that its people be allowed to withdraw from SBS as other people had been doing from their respective banks in other parts of the country.


keep dividends from its low-cost deposit and not the Government of India. This has so far allowed SBS and the Government of Sikkim to evolve its independent fiscal policy to establish its daily expenditure beyond the WMA limit. It is important to note that state governments are already at the mercy of Ministry of Finance, Government of India for meeting their expected annual expenditure.

The RBI cap on daily expenditure of Government of Sikkim beyond the WMA limit tilts the power balance in favour of the Government of India. The forces of the nation state in Sikkim have been coming in different forms and different magnitudes at different timelines, and the demonetisation bears such a trademark of nation state. Despite this, SBS remains the only bank in India whichof the Indian Constitution. It is a historical fact that political arrangements mandated by the Constitution of India under its special provisions have integrated many communities in the Indian nation state, simultaneously allowing them to govern as per their customary subjectivities. Within this framework, Sikkim has only been an exception within this exception. This postcolonial anomaly is a feature of the Indian nation state; one has to bear in mind that, Sikkim now a constituent part of the Indian Union, in essence, remains a successor state of the erstwhile Kingdom of Sikkim.


Plaque honors Sicher, Gezik for plane crash rescue

May 14, 2014

Photo by Ted Lutz â€“ These three brave men risked their lives on Christmas Eve 1968 to rescue a 17-year-old girl from the fuel-soaked wreckage of a commercial airplane near the Kinzua Bridge.

LAFAYETTE TWP. â€“ Kristin King was aboard an Allegheny Airlines plane that crashed while attempting to land at the Bradford Regional Airport on a snowy Christmas Eve in 1968.
Just 17 years old, King was returning from Detroit to her home near Harrisburg in time for Christmas Day.wife or daughter on the phone, only for it to be answered by an unknown male who "warned them off".

The Sinjar mountains in northern Iraq, where 40,000 Yazidis are trapped.(Google)

One Yazidi man, Khandar Kaliph, told the Guardian that his daughter was kidnapped when IS took control of Sinjar. After a brief telephone conversation with her he discovered she was going to be sold as a slave for $10.

"What can a father say to that. How can I help? We all feel so useless." he told reporters.

The dangers faced by the Yazidi sect have been revealed by survivors who have crossed Mount Sinjar to reach the Kurdish city of Dohuk.

Other survivors spoke of scarce food, water and medical supplies, with no shade from the scorching sun. Many say they


have lost all faith in Iraq.

One woman carrying a child told a Channel 4 reporter how she was forced to make a mountain goat suckle her 2-month-old baby after her own breast milk ran out.

Aid helicopters carrying food and supplies to the Yazidi people trapped in the mountains, including one from the British RAF, finally reached the Sinjar mountains this week.

Witnesses described the sheer desperation of the persecuted people, who "clung on" to the helicopters and tried to escape the treacherous conditions of the mountains.

It's estimated that as many as 40,000 Yazidi people are still struggling for survival in unforgiving conditions on Mount Sinjar. The militants have long regarded the Yazidis as "devil worshippers" and have given them a convert-or-die ultimatum.

"More than 30 people have died of hunger.We went back 100 years in time on that mountain," one man told witnesses upon reaching Dohuk.

He also recalled how one desperate man killed his five sisters and then himself as a last resort to end the persecution suffered at the hands of the brutal jihadi group.


Pac-12 Notes – May

From Huskies.com … Washington wide receiver James Johnson has retired from football due to a lingering wrist injury suffered last fall, head coach Steve Sarkisian announced.

Johnson, who would have been a fifth-year senior this fall, will remain on athletic scholarship until he completes his degree.

Additionally, Sarkisian announced that the following four student-athletes have requested and been granted their release from the Husky football team: WR Jamaal Jones, DB Darien Washington, TB Erich Wilson II and LB Evan Zeger.

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Texas A&M drops USC, Oregon from its future schedules

As the SEC votes to keep its conference schedule at eight games instead of going to nine (see story, below), the conference’s programs are not exactly stepping up to make sure its four non-conference games are fan friendly.

From the Houstonschool to put a scholarship on the table Northern Colorado, New Mexico State and Wyoming offered Miller and programs from the Big 10 Conference reached out. In the end, Boulder was the best fit.

May 24th

Pac-12 Networks nominated for national award … but DirecTV talks still in limbo

From the Seattle Times … Caught up Wednesday morning with Lydia Murphy-Stephans, newly named president of Pac-12 Networks, who was in New York to attend Sports Business Journal’s sports business awards ceremony. Pac-12 Networks was nominated by the publication in the best-in-sports-television category, which, as Murphy-Stephans says, is “in itself a huge accomplishment for us. Just to be named among the other candidates is a big win for us.”

Also in the running are CBS Sports, ESPN, NBC Sports Group and Time-Warner Cable


worst year in program history in 2012. There is hope that 2013 will be better.

Colorado also suffered through one of its worst years financially in 2011-12, but at least Buff fans know that it most certainly will be better in 2012-13.

Jon Wilner at the San Jose Mercury Newshas compiled the payout for last year’s income for Pac-12 members. As it was a transition year, with Colorado not yet a full partner, the numbers are awful – CU came in dead last in payouts.

That, however, will change when the 2012-13 fiscal year numbers are compiled.

Why were CU and Utah so far behind? Because they were, as noted, only entitled to a partial cut (basically all the two schools received were their share of the added revenue from the additionalof $71,462. His total compensation surpassed that of Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, who made $2.8 million in salary, bonuses and benefits that year. It also is nearly double the $1.6 million listed for commissioner Mike Slive of the Southeastern Conference, which has won the past seven major-college football national titles and recently announced it will launch a network with ESPN in 2014.

In the span of 2011-12, Scott added the Universities of Colorado and Utah as members after initially exploring the possibility of a 16-team conference. He brokered a broadcast-rights deal with ESPN and Fox worth $3 billion over 12 years, elevating the Pac-12 from a distant fifth place nationally with $58 million in primary media-rights revenue to the leader, with the new deal worth an average of


a commitment from hometown athlete Cameron Denson.

The full list of current Pac-12 commits can be found at ESPN’s website.

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UCLA loses defensive lineman

From the LA Times … UCLA defensive end Owamagbe Odighizuwa could sit out the 2013 season after surgery on his right hip Tuesday.

UCLA Coach Jim Mora feared he had lost the sophomore defensive lineman for the season, but doctors found that the damage wasn’t as extensive as previously believed. Owamagbe had a frayed rotator cuff in his hip, and Mora was unsure of the timetable for his return.

Odighizuwa, who will be a junior this fall, underwent surgery on his left hip during the off-season and did not participate in spring practice. He started experiencing pain in his right hip before spring practice began.

The loss would be significant,the mascot head. It will debut at the start of the 2013 academic and athletic year.

The Sparky redesign also included a new Sparky logo, though it will not replace the old Sparky logo. The new logo will be used in comic books, children’s books, animated films and on select merchandise. The original logo was drawn in 1946 by Disney artist Berk Anthony and remains unchanged. The mascot, however, has changed more than a dozen times.

The “Old” Sparky

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And the new Sparky …

May 8th

Two Fresno State players dismissed from team

From NBCSports.com … Early last September, wide receiver Victor Dean and defensive back Davon Dunn were two of six Fresno State players suspended for various lengths of time for various issues.

While both returned during the 2012 season, the same can’t be


said for 2013.

In a very brief press release sent out Tuesday evening night, the Bulldogs announced that both players have been dismissed from the football program for what’s described as “violations of Athletic Department policy.” Suffice to say, the specific nature of the issue or issues weren’t revealed.

The release stated that each player was informed of their dismissals Monday morning, and that there would be no further comment from the team.

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May 7th

Arizona only other Pac-12 school with a Hall of Fame Honoree

Joining Bill McCartney from the Pac-12 in the Hall of Fame Class of 2013 is Arizona defensive tackle Tedy Bruschi. A lightly recruited player from Northern California, Bruschi went on to become a two-time All-American. Bruschi went on to win three Super Bowl rings with the NewEngland Patriots and now works for ESPN.

“Arizona State is primed for a run to the South division crown, and a Pac-12 championship appearance. The Sun Devils became the odds-on favorite for me when tackle Will Sutton eschewed the NFL draft … ASU put up a surprising 38.4 points per game — only Oregon was more prolific among Pac-12 teams. Perhaps most importantly, the Sun Devils look like the only South team without glaring questions marks: USC is still paper thin, UCLA must replace its record-setting running back, and Arizona is replacing star quarterback Matt Scott while trying to solve its defensive woes”.

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USC has yet to produce a Super Bowl quarterback … Why?

From CBSSports.com … One of the great mysteries of both college and the NFL is that while


other Pac-12 schools have historically generated Pro Bowlers and NFL Hall of Famers at quarterback — make that other schools, period — USC quarterbacks have mostly failed in the pros. Trojan quarterbacks have won 11 national titles, six during the Super Bowl era, but no USC quarterback has played in a Super Bowl.

… This statistic is one of the more damning for the Trojans. At least 15 times that group of USC quarterbacks (Paul McDonald, Todd Marinovich, Rob Johnson, John David Booty, Carson Palmer, Mark Sanchez, Matt Leinhart, Sean Salisbury, Rodney Peete, Pat Haden, Vince Evans, Bill Nelsen, Matt Cassel and Pete Beathard) won either a national championship (outright or share), a Heisman or made a Rose Bowl appearance. None won a Super Bowl and only a handfullaunches in August 2014.

The SEC and ESPN announced a 20-year agreement and rights extension on Thursday. The deal includes a new television network and digital platform that will show SEC sports 24/7, including more than 1,000 events in the first year.

Included in the programming will be 45 football games, more than 100 men’s and more than 60 women’s basketball games, 75 baseball games and selected events from the other 17 SEC sports. The network will also feature studio shows and coverage of special events such as signing day and football pro days.

The digital network, which will launch nationally with AT&T U-verse, will show hundreds of additional events. Each SEC school will have the opportunity to produce and develop content for various platforms. The network will be based in


106,572

Tennessee 102,455

Ohio State 102,329

Alabama 101,821

Texas 100,119

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SEC to debate nine-game conference schedule

From The Sporting News … While the Big Ten last weekend announced plans to expand to a nine-game schedule in 2016; while the ACC was committed to nine games beginning in 2014 but backed away only after partnering with Notre Dame; while the Pac-12 and Big 12 currently play nine league games, the last holdout of the five major conferences is still debating semantics of the eight-game schedule.

The move to a nine-game schedule was initially an issue this time last year at the SEC’s annual spring meetings. But like most things in the uber-successful, tradition-first conference, change is slow.

Last year’s meetings got bogged down in the same spot this year’s meetings – later this month in Destin, Fla.Andrews University Seminary Studies

Andrews University Seminary Studies is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University. It was established in 1963 and publishes research articles and brief notes on biblical archaeology and history of antiquity, the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, church history of all periods, historical, biblical, and systematic theology, ethics, history of religion and mission, and Christian ministry and education. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the ATLA Religion Database.

Editors-in-chief
The following persons are or have been editors-in-chief of the journal:
Siegfried H. Horn (1963–1974)
Kenneth A. Strand (1974–1988)
George R. Knight and Kenneth A. Strand (1988–1991)
Nancy J. Vyhmeister and Kenneth A. Strand (1991–1994)
Nancy J. Vyhmeister (1994–2000)
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Jerry Moon and John Reeve (2005–2010)
John Reeve (2010–2014)
John Reeve and Martin Hanna (2014–present)

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on his show and I've heard
others use this term.

I spent a good week trying to figure out what they meant because the term
never seemed to correlate to the size of the success of the pitch they were
hearing.

At one point someone came in who has built some kind of underwater propulsion
device which was the culmination of 3 years of work. He had a pretty polished
prototype too and was currently working as an engineer for one of the big 4
tech companies making a large salary. This guy had never tried to actually
sell his product to anyone. He just kept building. And I remember again Cuban
calling him a "wannpereneur".

At that point it struck me that the apparent definition of wannapreneur is
"Someone who wants the trappings of an entrepreneur (ie the socialfeature will make them
successful and are justified in doing so, versus people who do the same thing
but really should pivot? It's tricky because we have all of the following
examples:

\- People whose initial idea isn't working, but who pivot and immediately hit
product market fit.

\- People who launch the exact same thing once a year and it finally becomes a
huge hit after the fourth time.

\- People who pivot quickly and fail, whereas they would have probably been
successful had they pushed the original idea to its logical conclusion.

\- People who pivot after five years and become wildly successful, but where
it's unclear if they would have been as successful had they had pivoted
sooner.

\- People who pivot and become successful when they would have been better off
shutting down and starting over. (e.g. Derek


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Same here. I use to have an uncle (he has since passed away) who lived just above Sonora six miles down a dirt road. Now there is some beautiful fall colors to the leaves there. And bright colored banana slugs, lol.

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Can Mercedes keep winning in Canada?

Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel won in Canada in 2018, with Hamilton finishing the race in fifth place

Hamilton's next challenge is this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix, which he has won six of the past 11 times it has been held.

A victory at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Sunday would put him level with German great Schumacher as the driver with the most wins on the historic track on the Ile Notre Dame.

However, Mercedes, who have won every race this year, may face a renewed challenge from Ferrari, whose car


Superstar Saoirse gets hair chopped for charity

Saoirse Cawley left the hair salon with a slightly lighter head last week - after getting her hair cut short for charity.

After losing an uncle to cancer, Saoirse, a second year student at St Mary’s High School in Lurgan, decided she wanted to help chidren who were suffering from the illness. The thirteen year old carried out some research and came across Little Princess Trust, a charity that provides real hair wigs to girls and boys who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment.White Beaches

The “Spiagge Bianche” is a stretch of sand unrolling for about 4Km in the province of Livorno(Italy); it extends between the towns of Rosignano Solvay and Vada. The coast with its real tropical-like beach attracts, over the summer, many Italians and foreigner tourists. Although its beauty the white sand and clear water hide a huge environmental risk due to pollutions . The site in fact has been included, as described in a report published by United Nations Environment Programme, among the most polluted areas of the Mediterranean coasts. The history of Rosignano Solvay began in the early �?900 when the Belgian entrepreneur and politician Ernest Solvay decided to build a factory for the production of soda that has became at present one of the largest in Europe.


In short time with the Solvay factory driving the development, a new city was born; quite soon streets, avenues, houses, recreation and after work centers were built to accomodate the factory’s manpower and the families. Although the positive economical impact of the Solvay a consistent pollution of the coast raised over the years. The so-called “Spiagge Bianche”(White Beaches in Italian) have been formed by the deposition of industrial water discharges(to date about 100 thousand tons per year) headed out to the sea, and made of limestone(about 90% of the total), bioaccumulative heavy metals(mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium and lead), ammonia and organic solvents. The economical interests on the factory are various. The Solvay Group is among the biggest chemical companies in the world and the only site of RosignanoPages

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Colorful Willemstad

Painted Houses and Queen Emma Bridge

View from Queen Juliana Bridge

Colors!

Queen Juliana Bridge

With all the holiday craziness going on, I've been remiss, both in highlighting my Thanksgiving vacation and all the recipes I've been knocking out in the past two weeks. "Town" in Curacao is Willemstad, a very colorful port, with not just one, but two famous bridges. The Queen Emma Bridge is on pontoons, is popular with tourists, and moves out of the way for boats and ships to get by and the Queen Juliana Bridge is one of the tallest in the world...some of those big ships can go under it. It was a pretty place to spend a half day.


still plan on playing the full game (and I suggest you do), stop reading here.

Still here? OK. So Episode 1 of Burial at Sea put you once again in the shoes of Booker DeWitt, but this time in the underwater city of Rapture, the setting for the original Bioshock and Bioshock 2. He is soon contracted by Elizabeth to track down a missing girl, only this time Elizabeth appears as a sultry femme fatale rather than a scared imprisoned young woman in need of rescuing. Being back in Rapture, vigors are now plasmids again, splicers and Big Daddys can be seen around, and the odd familiar face makes an appearance. It is fun, and the story is certainly intriguing, but it is a bit on the short side.utilize Elizabeth’s intelligence and studious nature in a few problem solving situations as well.

Elizabeth herself is a lot of fun to play as, and is a great character in herself. I found that in all the characters introduced in Infinite, she was the one who almost felt alive. Many of the supporting cast felt a bit flat, with very few exceptions. Elizabeth talks to Booker via radio throughout the story, bouncing ideas of him as she attempts to find a way out of her situation. This involves helping Atlas, well known from the first Bioshock. However, at this stage he isn’t even trying to hide his ruthless nature. The story intersects with that original story in a couple of interesting ways. For example, we witness first-hand the grisly


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report under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2)(B),
and the admission of a remark made during closing
arguments by counsel for the City.
  The jury in this case heard two irreconcilable versions
of what ultimately happened on a January night in
Chicago in 2006. We start with the version presented by
Mr. Banister.
  Banister, who was in his mid-20s at the time, testified
that on the night in question he was riding around in a
gray van with his girlfriend, Melissa DeBerry, looking to
buy “some weed.” Melissa, who was driving, pulled up
alongside a car and talked to its driver about buying
marijuana. The driver of that car turned out to be Craig
Burton who, unbeknownst to DeBarry or Banister, was
a Chicago police officer working undercover in a drug
operation. The cars moved offsaid he
feared for his life and did not want Banister to see
his gun and conclude he was a cop) he “reached in franti-
cally and just threw money at him and said: take the car.”
Banister replied, “I know you got more money,” and
Burton (in an effort to get out of the car) said he
had more in the trunk. Both men then got out of their
respective sides of the car. Banister was still pointing a
gun at him when Burton pulled out his gun, said “police,
drop it” and fired thirteen shots when Banister failed
to comply. The shots were fired in around three to five
seconds. Burton said he fired because he thought he
was going to be killed.
  Burton also testified that after being shot, Banister fell
to his back and threw a


Modi said at a joint press interaction after his bilateral meeting with President Magufuli.

Both the sides signed an agreement under which India will provide a Line of Credit of USD 92 million for rehabilitation and improvement of Zanzibar's water supply system.

Other agreements signed include an MoU on water resource management and development, MoU for establishment of vocational training centre at Zanzibar, MoU on visa waiver for diplomatic/official passport holders and an agreement between National Small Industries Corporation of India and Small Industries Development Organisation Tanzania.

Prime Minister said the two countries are also working on a number of other water projects for 17 cities in Tanzania.

"For this India is willing to consider an additional USD 500 million line of concessional credit," he said.

Describing Public Health as another important areaTemporal stability and dynamic convergence of the Personality Assessment Screener in a prison sample.
Although the Personality Assessment Screener (PAS; Morey, 1997) has garnered substantial research interest, the measure's temporal stability and sensitivity to change have remained largely uninvestigated. The present study employs a dynamic approach to investigating the convergent and discriminant validity of the PAS by examining relationships between temporal changes on the PAS and changes on external criterion measures, thereby exploring the extent to which changes on the PAS offer meaningful information regarding changes in psychological functioning. Data were obtained from a public dataset funded by the United States Department of Justice in which male inmates were administered various psychological measures at 5 time points spanning the course of a year. The PAS demonstrated appreciable stability across


A 48-hour general strike in Venezuela ended on Friday morning without the massive protests that many had been anticipating—but the chaos of those 48 hours left ten more Venezuelans dead. Although only a spattering of protests materialized in the afternoon, many young demonstrators told The Daily Beast that they were preparing for large clashes with government authorities in the evening.

The death toll for protesters in the country now stands at 112 since April, with thousands more injured and detained.

Opposition to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called off the protests on Friday after Interior Minister Néstor Reverol issued a decree that anyone seen organizing and protesting would be arrested on sight, and given harsh jail sentences of between five to ten years. The government also ordered liquor stores to banExclusive: Wolves line up bid to sign midfield kingpin from Championship promotion rivals

Wolves, Derby and Reading are eyeing a raid on Championship rivals Bristol City for midfielder Marlon Pack, Football Insider sources understand.

Pack has been instrumental in Bristol City’s success so far this season having been a virtual ever-present in Lee Johnson’s side and helping them climb to fourth spot in the Championship and reach the semi-finals of the League Cup.

Former Portsmouth man Pack was outstanding in City’s recent stunning League Cup quarter-final win over Manchester United dominating a midfield including United’s French star Paul Pogba.

Pack has established himself as one of the best midfield operators outside the Premier League during the last couple of seasons in the Championship with Bristol City.

Pack’s performances have not gone unnoticed among


level, and each round of winners go on to compete at the school, then region, state, then national levels.

“The national initiative is part of an attempt to bring literary arts to students, a critical need in U.S. schools, according to a 2004 NEA report Reading at Risk that found a dramatic decline in literary reading, especially among younger readers,” said a spokesperson with the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission.

Pioneer Valley won a third-place distinction last year, the first year the school competed, Rothstein said.

Cortes will include poet David Kirby’s “Broken Promises” and author Sherman Alexie’s “The Powwow at the End of the World” in performances at the California state finals in Sacramento on March 24 and 25.

NONDISCRIMINATION POLICYSMJUHSD programs, activities, practices and employment prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment,Horror start to Christmas road safety campaign

THE Sunshine Coast has had a shocking start to this year's 55-day Christmas Road Safety Campaign with two serious crashes this weekend.

The first fatality of the holidays happened on Saturday night when a 44-year-old Burnside man died in a crash at Diddillibah.

Police said his motorbike was travelling south on Diddillibah Rd when it left the road and hit a power pole aboutt 10.30pm.

Another 52-year-old motorcyclist who suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash in the hinterland on Saturday morning remains in the Royal Brisbane Women's and Children's Hospital after he was airlifted on Saturday.

The man suffered multiple injuries including a head injury and a compound femur fracture (upper leg) when he crashed on Mooloolah Connection Rd at Mooloolah Valley,

Further north, a man suffered


serious injuries after he was left trapped in his car in a single vehicle crash at Curra on Saturday night.

The man, believed to be in his 20s and the sole occupant of the car, went through a fence at the corner of Kintyre Ct and Gleneagles Dr at about 8.40pm.

According to a Police Media spokesman, the man was struck by a metal picket.

A Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokesman said emergency responders had to remove the side of the vehicle and his seat to free the man before he was airlifted to Royal Brisbane Hospital.

The Christmas holiday road campaign which kicked off on Friday is a bid to reduce the number of road fatalities which hit 33 in 2015.

Sunshine Coast District Officer Superintendent Darryl Johnson has urged residentsand visitors to the Coast to stay safe, be patient and show respect to everyone in the community.

"We live in one of Australia's most popular tourist destinations and that means a large influx of visitors from right across the country will descend on the Coast to celebrate Christmas and New Year here," he said.

"We want to ensure everyone has a happy and safe festive season and not one tarnished by road trauma.

"Over the Christmas and school holiday period, police will be out in force targeting drivers putting themselves and other road users at risk by breaking the law."

Superintendent Johnson said police will be out in force this season conducting drug and alcohol testing as well as implementing many speed enforcement strategies.

Mayor Mark Jamieson asked motorists to be patient


December 02, 2013

Sidley Austin Bolsters Transportation Practice

Sidley Austin has added Raymond Atkins, former general counsel of the Surface Transportation Board, as a partner in the firm's Washington office and a member of its transportation practice.

Atkins has 10 years of experience at the board, which is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, including the last three as general counsel. He left the agency on Oct. 31.

As general counsel, Atkins defended the agency in appeals and counseled board members on transportation regulations, antitrust, federal preemption and administrative law. The agency has jurisdiction over railroad rate and service issues and rail mergers and other transactions. The agency also oversees some trucking and moving van companies, ocean shipping and intercity passenger bus companies, and pipelines not regulated by the Federal EnergyRegulatory Commission.

Atkins will work with Sidley's transportation group—he said the practice "has no equal in the United States"—to get to know clients who include Norfolk Southern Corporation, Canadian Pacific Railway and the Association of American Railroads. The regulation of passenger rail and rail transportation of certain materials will be big regulatory issues in the future, Atkins said.

Working at Sidley, he said, also offered a deep appellate group and a broad regulatory practice where he could utilize his government experience. "What I was looking for was someplace I could broaden my personal experiences," Atkins said.

Atkins previously served as chief of staff for the surface transportation board's chairman, and represented the agency before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit as an associate general counsel and appellate lawyer.


after execution of a will, but before the testator's death. Even though, at the time of the amendment, the testator was incapacitated, and under guardianship and conservatorship, the trial court applied the amended antilapse statute. We affirm.
Hugo Micheel executed his will on August 27, 1957. At that time he was living with Evelyn Holck, whom he appointed as executor of his estate. Although they never married, Hugo and Evelyn lived together from 1944 until 1992 when Hugo entered a nursing home.
Item one of Hugo's will directed payment of his burial and administrative expenses, along with any other debts. Item two, the provision involved in this appeal, provided:
It is my will and I so provide that my executrix hereinafter appointed convert all of my estate into cash within awill, the antilapse statute was codified in Iowa Code section 633.16 (1954) *409 and stated: "If a devisee die before the testator, his heirs shall inherit the property devised to him, unless from the terms of the will a contrary intent is manifest."
When Hugo entered the nursing home in 1992, Evelyn was appointed guardian and conservator because of his debilitation resulting from Alzheimer's disease. Evelyn died January 7, 1994, leaving no issue. Hugo died on October 8, 1995. His estate was valued at more than $800,000.
In 1995, before Hugo's death, the 76th General Assembly amended the antilapse statute, now codified in Iowa Code section 633.273(1) (1997), as follows:
1. If a devisee dies before the testator, leaving issue who survive the testator, the devisee's issue who survive the testator


they lived, without sunrises or sunsets, fresh air, or real-time contact with friends and family. Unlike their comrades on the International Space Station, they could not get care packages, talk to psychological support personnel, or enjoy the view of Earth from outer space.

They exercised. They followed regimented schedules. They performed more than a hundred experiments, many on themselves. And they tried to stay sane. All the while, space agency officials from Europe and Russia monitored them with surveillance cameras.

No disasters occurred, happily. But we got a glimpse into some of the challenges of deep space travel. As the months went on, the crew became less active. Four of the six crew members experienced sleep problems, which tends to degrade performance and erode resilience.

Each week, the crew answered aAmong those speaking at the Kashmir rallies on Friday was Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the head of Jamaat-ud-Dawa - which has been accused of being a political front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group blamed by India for the attacks.

'Global issue'

Saeed told an audience in the eastern city of Lahore that Kashmir was one of the most important global issues and expressed his support for predominantly Muslim Kashmir to be given the right to self-determination.

"We are not against dialogue with India, but composite dialogue should include Indian intervention in East Pakistan [Bangladesh] as well as the issues of Joonagarh, Monawader as well as Babri Masjid," he said, referring to a mosque in India demolished in 1992.

Saeed denies any involvement in the Mumbai attacks and in June was released from house arrest


by a Lahore court which found insufficient evidence for his continued detention.

In recent years, February 5, has come to be known as a day of solidarity with the Kashmiri people. The date has no specific significance, but is a public holiday in Pakistan.

Pakistan observed a one-minute silence at 10am (0500 GMT) as a mark of respect to the more than 47,000 people killed since separatists started fighting in 1989.

Raja Nassim, a provincial government official of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, said that the day was marked to "give assurance to the people of occupied Kashmir" that they are supported throughout Pakistan.

Government 'encouragement'

Anti-India sentiments run deep in Muslim-majority areas of Indian Kashmir, where more than a dozen groups have been fighting for its independence or its merger with neighbouring Pakistan.

Ravi Sawney, theformer director-general of Indian Military Intelligence, said he was "saddened" by Islamabad's apparent support for the separatist fighters in Kashmir.

"Pakistan should discourage these career terrorists," he told Al Jazeera from New Delhi.

"You get a feeling they have a certain amount of encouragement, otherwise their activities would be curbed and their annoucements would be muted.

"However they seem to be addressing the rallies openly and not being arrested which means their is a certain amount of government encouragement."

In Srinigar, in Indian Kashmir, troops sealed off areas and arrested dozens of activists planning to protest over the death of a 14-year-old Muslim boy on Sunday.

His death has sparked days of angry protests against Indian rule and left about 150 protesters and policemen injured.


from community workshops to musicians meet ups and parties, events were hosted at a great local community venue / platform for local indie musicians in Lebanon called **Radio Beirut**.

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The Musicoin meetups and activities I have done for the first time during my trip to the Middle East were one of the hardest for me as most people and general audience in Lebanon and Middle East are way left out when it comes to Blockchain, crypto and the rest due to the unstable political situation, wars, social issues and bad internet infrastructures.

Definitely this trips has taught me a lot given I was encountered with new and different situations then the where I’m currently based at in South East Asia.

With that said we did the first seeding of Blockchain,The 2018 annual Oktoberfest of Grand Rapids, MN, was held for the second year at Klockow Brewing on September 29th, hence “Klocktoberfest.” Though it was a cold day outside, many people held up like Minnesotans, and tried homebrew samples outside from the Boreal Brewers, tried Klockow beers served outside and chose excellent German food from Tikes (smoked pork, brats, German potato salad). The inflated bounce palace eventually filled with kids, the bean bag toss and Hammerschlagen logs were used, and some found the heater in the large tent to be a good place to spend time. The taproom was packed due to great beer, great music from Doctor Kielbasa and the Plucked Up String Band, and of course, warmth. Since the temperature hung at about 38-40F, the homebrew


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Dr. Niren Rao is one of the best urologist in Delhi he did his MBBS from the prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College and associated Lok Nayak and G B Pant hospitals. After graduation, he did his specialization in General Surgery at Safdarjung Hospital and associated Vardhman Mahavir Medical College. He was fortunate to have an extensive hands-on surgical training at Safdarjung Hospital performing nearly 3,500 surgeries during 3 years of his training. After completing his Masters in Surgery he joined M.Ch in Urology at the coveted All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Here he was trained in endourological procedures, laparoscopic complex cases and robotic surgeries by a distinguished world-class faculty. Dr. Niren Rao’s Clinic provides the best urology treatments in Delhi with a blend of research and surgicalto GaAs. The inherent conductance of the silicon substrate induces loss and limits inductors and capacitors to poor Q factors. Encasing the transmission line conductors in the oxide insulators used in silicon integrated circuits increases the stray capacitance and lowers the self resonance frequency. Thus, as the frequency received by an integrated communications system is increased, the inductance will decrease. Losses in the conductive silicon substrates are increased by the high dielectric constant of the insulators under the conductors, and relatively large values of stray capacitive coupling to the silicon substrate. Resistors, though effected by their surroundings, generally perform well when deposited on a silicon substrate. Poor Q value in capacitors and inductors and RF/digital line conductor loss have created significant barriers to fabrication of a viable integrated


deal" in place.

Fall has a lot of work to do to make Boston's roster as an undrafted free agent. The first two spots on Boston's center depth chart are seemingly in place: Newly signed Enes Kanter will start down low while 2018 first-round pick Robert Williams backs him up.

However, Fall has shown enough during summer-league play to get a shot.

"I think Tacko's gonna have a chance to make the roster," Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge told reporters July 17. "We'll see."

Ainge also said Fall's development is a "high priority."

At the very least, the fan favorite has a shot, which has made Celtics fans happy:

Chances are Fall will start his career in the G League with the Maine Red Claws, but the door could be open downthe road. An anonymous Celtics coach offered encouraging quotes to Smith via Celtics Blog while also acknowledging where Fall must improve:

"The favorite player in Vegas! (laughs) I mean who didn't love Tacko out here? He's a worker. He's got a long way to go to be an NBA player. But he'll work for it for sure. A year or two in the NBAGL would do him wonders. The biggest thing for Tacko is adding strength. He can do a lot with that size, but he gets moved around too easily. NBA guys will power right through him. And he just needs to learn how to play our game. But he's worth working with."

Boston also announced the signings of 2019 second-round pick Tremont Waters, Max Strus and Javonte Green.


of Bureaucrats Protected Barack Obama and Is Working to Destroy the Trump Agenda

The real battle, though, will begin after the U.S. branch of the cabal is removed and it will pit the U.S. military-industrial complex against a loose Eurasian alliance headquartered in Switzerland.

This battle will either end in a world war or a complete remake of post-war institutions like the UN, BIS, IMF, EU, etc. The key is to target the complex of foundations (plus the Vatican Bank) used by the Khazarian mafia to camouflage their control of the privately owned central banks, the Fortune 500 corporations, and most so-called world leaders.

The fireworks should start in September and intensify in the run-up to the U.S. November midterm elections, where the U.S. branch of the Khazarian mafia is hopingday after Rudd received this evidence and tried to act on it, he was fired by the “U.S. Federal Reserve Board,” the agents said.

The agents continued, together with Japanese military intelligence, to track the weapon as it was placed on board the Japanese deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu, divided into five smaller weapons, and drilled into the seabed off Fukushima before being set off to cause an earthquake and tsunami. Despite this, no authorities intervened to prevent this attack. Furthermore, after the attack, former U.S. President Barack Obama contacted the White Dragon Society to claim he had no knowledge of, or involvement in, this attack against Japan.

In fact, the trail of evidence, and the NSA has all the details, leads to former “black pope” (top Jesuit) Peter Hans Kolvenbach


an inch in its horizontal dimension and approximately one-eighth of an inch vertically, at a point approximately eight inches toward the middle of the stair from the right-hand skirtboard as the plaintiff descended. An architect, duly licensed to practice his profession in Oregon, testified that in his opinion such condition "could catch something, on the shoe of anyone going down the steps" and that in his opinion, therefore, this was not "a safe design."
Mr. Naney came from the office on the upper floor and approached the stairway from a direction opposite to the angle of its descent. As he reached the head of the stairway, he placed his hand on the newel post and turned around it so that he faced down the stairs. He then placed hisright foot on the first step down. He next placed his left foot on the second step down, simultaneously transferring his right hand from the newel post to the handrail on his right. He then *370 started to move his right foot forward off of the first step, intending to place it on the third step down, shifting his weight to his left foot. As he brought his right foot forward and downward, something caught his heel. He fell heavily and sustained the injuries complained of.
The trial court, after correctly concluding that there was evidence that the metal strip extended beyond the width of the matting, held that there was no evidence to show that there was a causal relationship between the conditions shown and Mr. Naney's injuries.
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in Oslo Harbor. So it's like Alcatraz, but without the shattered souls and desperate escape attempts that end in shootings. In fact, the guards generally aren't armed – it sends the wrong message, as do walls, fences, steel bars, shakedowns, and tower guards with shoot-to-kill orders. Prisoners at Bastøy live three or four to a room, each having his own key to the cottage, and many commute into the city to work every morning. Having been turned loose on the defenseless population of Oslo, the inmates are essentially unsupervised until quitting time, when they're expected to report to the docks for transport back to the island. Source: Wikipedia

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Running a prison on what amounts to the honor system strikes most people as odd, but it's hard tofew entries with a twinge of conscience, thinking about how America routinely treats its prisoners, relax. Some federal prisons in the United States are just as nice as Halden or Bastøy. Butner Federal Correction Institute, for example, cultivates a civilized atmosphere that's nothing like the brutal cages America is famous for. Source: Pitria

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So, how do you get sent to the federal country club in Granville County, North Carolina? It helps if you're rich and famous. Among the low-security facility's 1,300 inmates are Bernie Madoff, who swindled billions of dollars out of retirees and Holocaust survivors, among others, and Lee Farkas, who was convicted of 14 counts of fraud and sentenced to 30 years. Farkas ran a bank that was shut down for securities fraud after destroying


the holdings of various other banks that were actually solvent, throwing perhaps tens of thousands of people out of work, and conning the federal government out of billions of dollars. Former Congressman Mel Reynolds, convicted in 1997 of bank fraud, statutory rape, and solicitation of child pornography, also had to go to Butner for a while – don't worry, he was released after 8 years. Jesse Jackson, Jr., pictured here, actually showed up early to start serving his sentence. Source: ABC 7 Chicago

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Butner's inmate list reads like a who's-who of wealthy, well-connected sociopaths. Jon Burge, for example, was the Chicago police commissioner who tortured over 200 mostly poor, minority suspects, sometimes with a cattle prod, into giving false confessions. At least one of his victims, whowas later sentenced to death (later overturned), was hospitalized for burns on his thighs. Burge even shot suspects' pets to elicit mostly false confessions. He also obstructed justice and committed perjury to hide his 19-year rampage. Burge is housed in Butner's lowest-security facility, where inmates enjoy open spaces, Internet access, and frequent family visits. Source: JJKLLC

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ADX, United States

At the opposite extreme of the federal prison system sits the maximum-security facility in Florence, Colorado, known as ADX. ADX is the most secretive prison in North America, with every media request since 2002 having been rejected. Virtually all that's known about this facility comes from disclosures in a federal lawsuit over conditions at the prison. ADX inmates are generally confined to cells the size of bathrooms for 23


of assault and who is a party to the class-action suit, eventually lost control and began cutting himself. ADX staff responded by strapping his wrists and ankles to his poured-cement bed and leaving him unattended. Source: Dagbladet

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One of the many, many tie-down beds at ADX. Inmates at ADX, deprived of significant human contact for years – sometimes decades – at a time, generally go insane. Inmates have gouged out their own eyes, cut off fingers and eaten them, smeared themselves with feces, and spent days rhythmically banging their heads against doors until they lose consciousness. The thick concrete-slab walls muffle sound, and the bars at the front of the cell prevent prisoners from approaching the solid outer doors in a deliberate attempt to keep prisoners fromseeing each other. Food and medicine – not, presumably, anything that feels good – are fed to inmates through automated chutes to prevent accidental human contact. Perhaps as many as 80,000 people are presently being held under solitary conditions in the United States. Congress is said to be looking into the matter, as it has since at least 2010. Source: VN Express

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California Prisons, United States

Not to harp on the United States, but America's multiple overlapping prison fiefdoms are so goddamn dysfunctional they rate multiple entries on any list of awful injustices. California, where this picture was taken, is currently in federal receivership for overcrowding. Inmates held under these conditions have an average of 57 square feet of space to themselves. To visualize 57 square feet, look


at the ceiling in the office you're in right now. Count off seven acoustic tiles. That's about 56 square feet. For comparison, prisoners at the Auschwitz II facility were allotted 88 square feet. Source: San Francisco Examiner

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California's prison population increased by 500 percent between 1978 and 2000. Fueled by the war on drugs, three-strikes laws and high recidivism among recent parolees, the state prison system, which was designed for 80,000 inmates, housed almost twice that number at its peak. The state is under a federal court order to reduce the population to "only" 137.5 percent capacity, or 110,000 inmates, by 2016. Governor Jerry Brown has called this goal "unrealistic." Source: Toke Signals

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Sark Prison, England

If it's possible for a prison to be cute, this isit. Sark prison, on the British island of Sark, was built in 1856 and has a capacity of two. The place is mostly used as an overnight holding pen for rowdy drunks. People accused of serious crimes are generally shipped to nearby Guernsey. Source: Guia Del Trota Mundos

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Cereso Chetumal, Mexico

The phrase "Mexican prison" is generally not encouraging. Popular accounts, and quite a bit of unpopular reality, have planted the image of overcrowding, squalor, and relentless gang violence in most people's heads. Granted, Mexico certainly does have places like that, but Cereso Chetumal isn't one of them. The prison houses 1,100 inmates and hasn't reported a single violent incident in 10 years. Source: Sipse

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Cereso Chetumal has a security regimen that can charitably be described as


Jones, the employer, Accentia, granted plaintiff Rodney Jones (“Jones”), their Activities Director, 12 weeks of FMLA leave so that he could undergo rotator cuff surgery and fully recover. However, when Jones was scheduled to return, his doctor reported that Jones could not resume physical activity until February 1, 2015. Despite his doctor’s recommendations and his own physical limitations, Jones still wished to return to his job at the end of his FMLA leave. Jones understood his doctor’s report to simply mean that he needed to continue physical therapy, not that he was prohibited from working entirely. Therefore, he asked his supervisor to allow him to return to work on light duty. His requested was denied. In fact, Jones was told he would not be permitted to return towork unless he underwent and passed a fitness-for-duty exam. Because his supervisor was adamant that Jones could not return to work on light duty, Jones did not ask his doctor for a light-duty certification. Jones instead requested additional time off and was granted another 30 days of non-FMLA medical leave to complete his physical therapy.

During the additional leave time, Jones twice visited the Busch Gardens theme park in Tampa Bay, Florida where he spent time walking around and taking pictures of the park’s Christmas decorations. Jones also visited his family in the Caribbean for three days. He posted photos from these trips on his Facebook page, including pictures of himself on the beach, posing by a boat wreck, and in the ocean. When Jones returned to work, his


My thoughts on the Phillies season.

Countdown to the Playoffs, Game # 21: The Phils’ bats
continue to play as they give their ace, Roy Halladay, win
#18, as they defeat the Mets, 8-4.

With Jimmy Rollins being day-to-day because of his right leg being tight, the bats continue to hit as they cause damage to their rival to the north, the Mets, while giving Roy Halladay his eighteenth win, as they win, 8-4.

The Phils took the lead in the second as, with runners on the corners, and with one man out, Carlos Ruiz hits an RBI single, knocking in Jayson Werth, who had earlier singled, and then stopped at third on Raul Ibanez’s double, giving the Phils’ a 1-0 lead, while Ibanez, who had earlier doubled, went to third. The Phils3-2 lead. The Phils tied the game up at three-all as, with one man out, Ryan Howard hits a solo home run, his twenty-ninth home run of the year, and the 251st home run of his career, tying him for third place on the all-time Phils’ home run list with Pat Burrell. Five batters later, the Phils took the lead as, with the bases loaded, via singles to Werth, Ruiz, sending Werth to second base, and an infield single by Valdez to third base, moving up both Werth and Ruiz, and with two men out, Halladay helped his own cause by hitting a two-run single, scoring both Werth and Ruiz, giving the Phils a 5-3 lead, while sending Valdez on to third. The next batter, Shane Victorino, made


a runner on second, and with two men out, David Wright hits an RBI single, scoring Ike Davis, who had earlier doubled. That would be the final score as Ryan Madson shut down the Mets in the ninth, ending the game by getting Reyes to fly out to center.

Roy Halladay gets the win as he pitches seven and two-thirds innings, giving up four runs on eight hits, while he strikes out five. His record is now 18-10 with a 2.44 ERA. Chad Durbin pitches a third of an inning, giving up a hit. Ryan Madson pitches a scoreless inning, giving up a hit. Jenrry Mejia took the lost as he lasted only four innings, giving up six runs on nine hits and a walk, while striking out two.His record is now 0-4 with a 4.91 ERA. Raul Valdes pitches two and a third innings, giving up two runs on three hits, while he strikes out three. Sean Green, Pat Misch, Elmer Dessens and Ryota Igarashi pitches two and two-thirds scoreless innings, giving up a hit (Dessens) and three walks (Green (2), Igarashi (1)), while striking out two (Misch and Igarashi one each) between them.

The Phils had thirteen hits, with Carlos Ruiz leading the team with three hits, all singles, as he knocks in a run, as he raised his batting average to .296. Shane Victorino, Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth followed with two hits each, with Victorino’s two hits being both singles, knocking in a run, while Howard’s two hits were a solo home run


4:05 pm Eastern at Citi Field. The Phils’ starter will be Kyle Kendrick (9-8, 4.89) while the Mets will counter with Mike Pelfrey (13-9, 3.96). The Phils will be going for their fifth straight win, while hoping to start pulling away from the second place Braves, who are presently playing the Cardinals in Atlanta.

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By Football Italia staff

Milan have reportedly made Rodrigo Caio and Lucas Biglia their top targets for the January transfer window.

According to Tuttosport, a new right-sided centre-back and regista are Milan’s priorities this coming winter as Riccardo Montolivo “isn’t enough”, the Jose Sosa experiment is “still in its infancy” and Alessio Romagnoli lacks a defined defensive partner.

Consequently, the Rossoneri are being tipped to use their new-found, Chinese wealth to fund the signings of Sao Paulo stopper Caio and Lazio captain Biglia.

Olympic champion Caio was heavily linked with Napoli in the latter stages of the summer mercato, while the contract of 2014 World Cup runner-up Biglia expires at the end of the next season.

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THE ISSUE

Entitlement to service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder, to include as secondary to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

REPRESENTATION

Appellant represented by:	Disabled American Veterans

WITNESSES AT HEARING ON APPEAL

Appellant, C.H. and J.H.

ATTORNEY FOR THE BOARD

Amanda Christensen, Associate Counsel

INTRODUCTION

The Veteran had active duty service from July 1986 to August 1992.

This matter was originally before the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) on appeal from July 2006 and April 2008 rating decisions by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Regional Office (RO) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  In September 2013 the Board granted service connection for PTSD and denied service connection for an acquired psychiatric disorder other than PTSD.this year. I use HardTrade, Beauty Scrolls, DragonDoor, and Antiwitcher in addition to NM4_Random.

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No player born in the United States has won or even competed for the world title since Fischer, who surged to it dramatically in 1972 and held it until his controversial abdication in 1975, after which he mostly disappeared from public life. The 26-year-old Caruana, a rare American contender in a sport historically dominated by Russians and Eastern Europeans, is accustomed to, and flattered by, the comparisons.

Quick Guide World Chess Championship 2018 Show The players Norway's Magnus Carlsen is defending the world chess championship against Fabiano Caruana of the United States. The best-of-12-games match is taking place at the College in Holborn between 9 and 28 November, with the winner earning a 60% share of the €1m ($1.14m) prize fund if thematch ends in regulation (or 55% if it's decided by tie-break games). Carlsen, 27, has been ranked No 1 for eight straight years and was considered the world’s best player even before he defeated Viswanathan Anand for the title in 2013. Caruana, 26, is ranked No 2, having earned his place at the table by winning the candidates tournament in March. No American-born player has won or even competed for the world title since Bobby Fischer in 1972. It marks the first title match between the world's top two players since 1990, when Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov faced off for a fifth and final time. The format The match will consist of 12 classical games with each player awarded one point for a win and a half-point


for a draw. Whoever reaches six and a half points first will be declared the champion. The time control for each game is 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, 50 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 1. Players cannot agree to a draw before Black's 30th move. If the match is tied after 12 games, tie-breaks will be played on the final day in the following order: • Best of four rapid games with 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move. • If still tied, they will play up to five mini-matches of two blitz games (five minutes for eachUS-Italian citizen who was born in Miami and spent his childhood in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood, Caruana – who goes by Fabi – started playing chess aged five in an after-school program that he had joined to address issues concentrating in school. He recalls an early tournament, perhaps his first though he’s not certain, in which he lost all four of his games and forgot to hit the clock after most of his moves. “It was an inauspicious start,” he admits.

Chess players don’t take the physical aspect as seriously as they should. Fabiano Caruana

Before long Caruana was defeating far older players, showing enough promise that his family pulled him from school at the age of 12 and moved to Spain where he could train with better instructors and


performance that included a victory over Carlsen at the 2014 Sinquefield Cup in St Louis – the tournament named for the financier Rex Sinquefield, whose $50m investment has made the midwestern city an improbable world mecca for the sport – Caruana moved back to the United States and changed federations to compete under the US flag.

He’d come agonizingly close to competing for the world title in 2016, but was forced to play for a win against the Russian Sergey Karjakin in the final round of the candidates tournament due to tie-breaker rules and fell short. Instead, it was Karjakin who pushed Carlsen to the limit in that year’s world championship in New York City.

Now Caruana, who has climbed to No 2 in the world rankings and survived theeight-man candidates gauntlet in March, highlighted by a late-stage win over pre-tournament favorite Levon Aronian of Armenia, will take his crack at an opponent widely regarded as the greatest player of all time.

Carlsen, who is 27, has been ranked No 1 for eight straight years and was already regarded as the world’s best player even before he saw off Viswanathan Anand for the title in Chennai five years ago. He is the closest thing to a celebrity in the sport today: handsome and media trained, having done ads for Porsche and modeled for G-Star Raw alongside Liv Tyler and Lily Cole. Known as the ‘Mozart of chess’ since before he was a teenager, he enjoys an outsized celebrity in his native Norway, where the games will be broadcast


include a panel discussion from experts in the medical community and a panel from community members.

In Long Beach, 6,151 cases of AIDS have been reported in the city since the first case in 1983, according to statistics ending in December 2011 from the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services.

The city started officially recording HIV cases in 2006, after a state law was passed requiring health care providers and laboratories to report cases of HIV infection by name to local health departments.

Since then, 1,500 cases of HIV have been recorded.

Of those infected with HIV, 87 percent were men and 73 percent contracted the disease through male-to-male sexual contact.

Overall, the Long Beach AIDS incidence rate is 100 percent higher than Los Angeles County and more than double thatMaldwyn Pope

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800 Million People Still Malnourished, U.N. Says

UNITED NATIONS — More than 800 million people worldwide do not get enough to eat, even as the world produces more than twice as much food as it needs, according to new figures released Tuesday by the United Nations.

Hunger has declined slowly over the last decade: 11.3 percent of the world’s population was clinically undernourished in the 2012-14 period, down from 18.7 percent in the 1990-92 period. Hunger keeps its hold on a handful of countries. Chad, Central African Republic and Ethiopia have some of the highest rates of undernourished people. A relatively large percentage of the population remains hungry across South Asia.

And in Iraq, the share of hungry people has soared: Nearly one in four Iraqis are undernourished, according to theby half the proportion of hungry people in developing countries by 2015.

The report said the world was on target to meet that goal, but that natural disasters and conflict had stymied progress in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.


The Central Africa region is experiencing rapid urbanization and economic growth, and infrastructure development. These changes, while generally positive and welcome, also make the region more vulnerable to explosive infectious disease outbreaks, according to an international group of scientists. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors, all of whom have field research experience in the region, note that efforts to build up the health care infrastructure in Central Africa are critically needed to mitigate or prevent a large outbreak of Ebola or other infectious disease in the region. The authors represent 12 different organizations, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Citing the example of the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, they note that Liberia, SierraThe present invention relates to a new and distinct Petunia plant, botanically known as Petunia×hybrida and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Fipetrobico’.
The new Petunia plant is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in De Lier, The Netherlands. The objective of the breeding program is to create new freely-branching Petunia plants with early and freely flowering habit, and attractive flower color.
The new Petunia plant originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in 2007 in De Lier, The Netherlands of a proprietary selection of Petunia×hybrida identified as code number For 111060, not patented, as the female, or seed parent with a proprietary selection of Petunia×hybrida identified as code number For 111070. The new Petunia plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor as


a single flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled greenhouse environment in De Lier, The Netherlands in 2007.
Asexual reproduction of the new Petunia plant by terminal cuttings in a controlled greenhouse environment in De Lier, The Netherlands since 2007, has shown that the unique features of this new Petunia plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.

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LENEXA, Kan. -- Staff at a Johnson County restaurant say it was an evening of terror.

Police in Lenexa say a series of men started trouble with wait staff and managers at Fronteras Mexican Restaurant on Saturday night, leading one of the customers, who, according to police, had been drinking, to pull a gun on the restaurant's host.

Managers at that popular restaurant say it's a case of drunk customers getting out of hand. Staff members at Fronteras Mexican Restaurant say those men became abusive when the manager on duty asked them to leave, and


one of them went to his car to retrieve a gun.

Managers at the restaurant, a family operated business, say the host is only 17 years old, and still a high school student. Police say one of those men pointed a pistol at him, after shouting racial slurs at the restaurant's staff.

"This is our whole life," Rodriguez said, making reference to the restaurant her family treasures.

Rodriguez, and her sister, Liliana Rodriguez, say their entire lives flashed before their eyes on Saturday evening. Surveillance video from Fronteras' cameras shows the group of men arguing with the eatery's employees. Elsa Rodriguez says she refused to serve the men more alcohol because they were already drunk and rowdy.

"They started saying a lot more mean stuff. Only bad stuff. A lot of Spanish.Bad words. I said, you guys need to calm down. I'm only doing my job," Elsa Rodriguez said.

Lenexa police say that's when things escalated. The men shouted racial slurs at the staff members, and when managers asked the men to leave, police say the drunk customers refused.

"I'm scared. That's why I'm so scared," Liliana Rodriguez said.

The restaurant's host is Liliana's 17-year-old son. She says when he went to the restaurant's parking lot, which sits near Quivira Road at 77th Street, he intended to spot the disorderly men's license plate. Instead, one of the customers pulled a pistol from his car and pointed it at the teenager.

"I'm scared to say this because it's never happened to me. The boy is my nephew. He was just doing his job," Elsa


The Inspector Thorne Radio Radio Program

Background

Inspector Thorne was a short-lived Crime drama anthology that NBC rolled out under the Hummert franchise. Anne and Frank Hummert were two of Radio's most prolific creators, writers, and producers of all manner of serial melodrama--daytime soaps--throughout The Golden Age of Radio. Though almost universally associated with soaps, their talents didn't end with serial potboilers. Indeed most Radio collectors aren't aware of the prodigious output of long-running crime, mystery, and detective dramas they produced. During the 1940s and early 1950s the Hummerts turned their talents to several Detective and Crime fiction dramas:

Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons (1940-1944)

Front Page Farrell (1944-1950)

Mr. Chameleon (1949-1953)

Inspector Thorne (1951)

Hearthstone of The Death Squad (1951-1952)

They also lent their talents to Variety programs as well, with programs such asManhattan Merry Go Round (1932-1949) and The American Melody Hour (1941-1948).

The hallmark of most Hummert productions was a very formulaic script arc. The Hummerts were in great demand for their soaps, but their crime and detective dramas lacked a great deal of the novelty, punch, and edge of the more popular competing radio noir dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. They kept things 'safe' for the most part. Their track record for finding, pleasing and keeping commercial sponsors was the stuff of legend in Radio. So it stood to reason that the tried and true formula was the safest. Keeping sponsors happy was almost certainly the overriding impetus of commercial Radio and the Hummerts' record for holding sponsors for as much as decades at a time underscores their


talent for playing it safe.

Inspector Thorne premieres over NBC

Inspector Thorne, as short-lived as it was, was something of an anomaly for the Hummerts, but judging from the longer run of Hearthstone of The Death Squad, they seem to have managed to salvage that particular formula somewhat. The comparisons are quite obvious between Inspectors Thorne and Hearthstone. Inspector Thorne is the Chief Detective Inspector of The Homicide Squad of New York City. Inspector Hearthstone is the Chief Inspector of The Death Squad of 'The Metropolitan Police' . Inspector Thorne has his Sergeant Muggins and Inspector Hearthstone has his assistant, Detective Sam Cook. Both productions were more murder-oriented than mystery-oriented, both productions were predictably very melodramatic, and both productions characterized their protagonists as forceful, demanding, and overbearing police officials.

In oneof the more interesting character developments of Inspector Thorne, however, Thorne was cast--and characterized himself--as a bumbling, error-prone, and inattentive detective, much in the mold of Peter Falk's brilliant Detective Columbo character of 1970s Television. Indeed one wonders if this short-lived concept didn't inform the creators of Columbo. It certainly wouldn't be the first time a concept or character from The Golden Age of Radio was borrowed for a Television series. But of course, as with Columbo, Inspector Thorne's self-described slow-wittedness was simply a clever ruse to distract or create a false sense of security in the criminal suspects he was investigating.

Indeed, this very approach to character development was tested in CBS Forecast's Deductions Deluxe presentation of its second season in which Adolph Menjou is cast as a


befuddled, clueless society detective that somehow manages to brilliantly connect all the dots just in time for the denouement.Inspector Thorne was portrayed by Karl Weber for the first nine installments, replaced by Staats Cotsworth of Casey Crime Photographer for the last two episodes. Karl Weber had been a mainstay for The Hummerts, having appeared in at least twenty of their productions over the years. Cotsworth maintained Weber's delivery and pace for the two episodes in which he filled in for Weber. Dan Ocko portrayed Sergeant Muggin throughout the production.

Inspector Thorne was both well recorded and produced. The surviving exemplars are well engineered and transferred. The scripts were fast-paced and generally proceeded under the assumption that Inspector Thorne had some predisposition towards the ultimate outcome, but the scripts neverspirit of cooperation, we'll help them out a bit, as long as they promise to attribute our help. John Penn's detective Thorne was Detective Superintendant Thorne, from Penn's novel, Outrageous Exposures, first published in September of 1988, and subsequently aired over the BBC Radio4's Afternoon Play series in 1993 as a set of three radioplays on successive Mondays:

93-03-01 Thorne Investigates: Unto the Grave

93-03-08 Thorne Investigates: Mortal Term

93-03-15 Thorne Investigates: Double Negative

The Thorne Investigates radioplays were dramatized by Melville Jones from the Omnibus edition of the 1993 publication of Penn's Outgageous Exposures and A Feast of Death. The Thorne Investigates radioplays starred John Castle as Detective Superintendant Thorne and Andrew Branch as Detective Sergeant Abbott. If we're not mistaken, Thorne Investigates has been supsequently aired over the BBC at


home of her aunt, Inspector Thorne is called in to find the murderer.

Born and raised in Iowa and a graduate of the University of Iowa, Karl Weber--possibly best-known as the husband of The Woman in White (1938-1948), a medical melodrama heard over NBC--began as an actor with Midwestern Shakespearean troupes before settling in Chicago where many of the nation's top radio shows then originated.

He went to New York in the late 1940s to help found New Stages, an off-Broadway group that helped popularize Jean Paul Sartre'sThe Respectful Prostitute before it moved to the Broadway Stage. In addition to helping found New Stages, Weber's Stage career spanned almost twenty years, beginning with his debut in Lady of Fame (1943), followed by Lady Behave! (1943), The Happy Journey to Trentonand Camden and the above mentioned The Respectful Prostitute--both in 1948, and finally 1961's The Best Man.

His radio credits over the years included featured roles in The Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters and Dr. Sixgun and recurring performances in The Barton Family, Lone Journey, The Romance of Helen Trent, Stepmother and When a Girl Marries.

Karl Weber's Television career was equally successful, with over 200 appearances in many of The Golden Age of Television's most popular dramatic programs. Weber made several appearances each in Studio One (1948), Search for Tomorrow (1955-56), Robert Montgomery Presents (1956), Bourbon Street Beat (1959), Hawaiian Eye (1959), Maverick (1960), Bronco (1959), Dr. Kildare (1961), and Perry Mason (1961)

Karl Weber also recorded more than 200 books in the Talking Book Program of the American Foundation


for the Blind and served as president of the New York chapter of the Screen Actors Guild from 1968-69.

Weber was a mainstay on many of the most popular radio shows of the wartime and postwar years. His deeply resonant voice was later heard in commercials for the presidential campaigns of Lyndon B. Johnson and Nelson A. Rockefeller.

Weber was 74 when he died of congestive heart failure near his home in Edgartown, Mass., where he continued to record commercials until his death. He was survived by a daughter, two sons, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, two brothers and a sister.

Edward Frank Hummert, Jr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri between 1879 and 1887, depending on widely varying accounts. A great deal of Frank Hummert's past--before partnering in Blackett, Sample &Hummert (BSH) Ad agency--is shrouded in mystery and legend. A former St. Louis and New Orleans newspaperman, Hummert was reported to have ridden with the Texas Rangers prior to his career in advertising. He was reportedly married during that period as well. His wife reportedly died, leaving him a widower and confirmed bachelor.

It was while with BS&H that he met his young assistant, Anne Schumacher Ashenhurst, a former newspaperwoman who'd already married--and divorced--another newspaperman. A newly divorced single mother with a baby son in the big city, Anne Schumacher Ashenhurst failed to acquire another newspaper position in Chicago and was hired on as Frank Hummert's assistant. Their mutual interest and romance percolated for a reported seven years before the couple married in 1934. The marriage would last until


Frank Hummert's death in 1966.

The couple formed their own company, Hummert Productions, after their marriage, and moved the operation to New York and Greenwich, Connecticut. But it was while still with Blackett, Sample & Hummert that the Hummerts inaugurated a Radio melodrama empire that would span the entire length--and breadth--of The Golden Age of Radio.

Just Plain Bill (1932) didn't start as a daytime soap-opera. It began in the evening. Just Plain Bill eventually ran for 23 years until 1955. The first of over 120 such melodramas over their storied careers, the Hummerts also produced two of the longest running musical variety programs--An American Album of Familiar Music (1931-1951) and Manhattan Merry Go Round (1932-1949)--and one of Radio's longest running mystery programs--Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons (1937-1955). ButJohn Glen Sample. In 1927 E. (for Edward) Frank Hummert, longtime newspaperman, Liberty Loan slogan writer ("Bonds or Bondage") and pressagent, joined the firm as copy writing chief. In 1930 pretty, brown-haired Anne Ashenhurst, newspaperwoman, was hired to help him. With his young new aide, Frank Hummert discovered that the jackpot in the radio business was the serial "script show."

Their first was Just Plain Bill, a village barber, who has been spouting homely homilies for eight years. Others followed in profusion. By 1935, when Frank married Anne after the death of his first wife, both were vice presidents of the company, Frank with salary and commissions totaling some $117,000, Anne drawing a modest $21,000.

The Hummert mill produces 50 serial scripts a week, a total of some 6,500,000 words


a year. In their Greenwich, Conn. home Frank and Anne figure out the trends of their serials four to six weeks in advance, dictate outlines to a battery of stenographers. Outline for an episode (Backstage Wife) may read something like this: "Suspecting that Cynthia Valcourt murdered Candy Dolan with Ward Ellman's gun, after Tess left the fiat, Mary, Larry and Ward rush to Tony Valcourt's penthouse to have a talk with Tony and Cynthia, having sent Tess Morgan to her apartment. Arriving at the penthouse, they are refused admittance by the butler. . . . If Cynthia gets away, Tess may take the rap for the crime. Can they save her? . . . What will Tess do?"

When a script is finished by the ghost writers it goestheir radios for the better part of two decades survive a heart-wrenching regimen of producing as many as 90 cliff-hanging episodes a week to live a full, rich and long life?

No need to stay tuned or wait for a toothpaste commercial. It can now be revealed that when she died in bed at her Fifth Avenue apartment on July 5, Anne Hummert, the woman widely credited with creating the radio soap opera and spinning out many of the classics of the 1930's and 40's, was a 91-year-old multimillionaire who had maintained a vigorous life almost to the end.

At a time when televised soap operas have become a postfeminist cultural sideshow, it is hard to imagine the era when "Stella Dallas," "Helen Trent," "Ma Perkins" and "Lorenzo Jones" were


more than household names, and when virtually every woman in America knew that Mary Noble was the "Backstage Wife" and were familiar with every detail of the anguished but inspiring lives of "John's Other Wife" and "Young Widow Brown."

It is even harder to imagine that all of these plus more than a dozen others were the creations of a diminutive dynamo from Baltimore and the man she kept at bay for seven years after taking a job as his assistant at a Chicago advertising agency.

By the time she met E. Frank Hummert in 1927, the former Anne Schumacher had lived something of a soap opera herself. A brilliant student who graduated magna cum laude from Goucher College at age 20 in 1925, she had begun her career asa college correspondent for The Sun, then worked as a Sun reporter before going to Paris in 1926.

She became a reporter for the precursor of The International Herald Tribune her first day in the city, but within a year she had married and divorced a fellow reporter, John Ashenhurst, and was back in the United States with an infant son.

Settling in Chicago, she failed to get a newspaper job but became an assistant to Mr. Hummert, a former St. Louis newspaperman who had become a renowned copywriter and a partner in the Chicago agency Blackett, Sample & Hummert.

He was some two decades older than she and a confirmed bachelor, but then he had never met a woman quite like his captivating 22-year-old assistant with the tinkling voice, who


was such a fount of ideas and organized efficiency that she became a vice president just two years later.

She, on the other hand, had already been married to one newspaperman, thank you, and was in no hurry to marry another. The couple didn't marry until 1934, when they began what friends recall as one of the great love matches, which lasted until Mr. Hummert's death in 1966.

At a time when commercial programming in the infant medium concentrated on working people who returned home to sit in front of their radios at night, advertisers were dimly aware that the housewives who stayed home all day were the nation's primary purchasing agents. But these women were considered too busy to pay more than cursory attention to the family radio.

The Hummertsdidn't argue with the theory of the distracted housewife. They simply seized her attention and changed the pattern of her life. After "Just Plain Bill" hit the daytime airwaves in 1933, housewives arranged their work so they would never miss an episode of the small-town barber who married above himself.

Although a short-lived 1930 program, "Painted Lives" by Irna Phillips, is regarded as the first radio soap opera, it was "Just Plain Bill," which began at night in 1932, that created the cultural juggernaut that would eventually be nicknamed for the product that often sponsored it.

Within months the show had spawned many copycats, few as successful as those turned out by the Hummerts themselves, who had as many as 18 separate 15-minute serials running at a time for a


total of 90 episodes a week, each ending with an unresolved crisis that was heightened for the Friday episode.

The couple, who formed their own company, Hummert Productions, and moved to New York in the mid-1930's, farmed out the writing after they had dreamed up the original idea and mapped out the initial story line. But they were deeply involved in every aspect of each production, from casting to script editing.

Mrs. Hummert, who had a photographic memory, was renowned in the industry for her ability to remember each intricate twist of every one of their creations.

It was a reflection of the grip the Hummerts had on their audience that their programs generated more than five million letters a year, and it was a measure of their commercial success thatby 1939 Hummert programs accounted for more than half the advertising revenues generated by daytime radio.

The Hummerts were also well rewarded. At a time when the average doctor made less than $5,000 a year and the average lawyer half that, they were each making $100,000 a year from their enterprise, which included several evening musical programs, like "Waltz Time," and mysteries, including the haunting "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons."

When television began to displace radio, the couple simply retired and enjoyed a well-traveled life of leisure. After her husband's death, Mrs. Hummert gave up their Park Avenue triplex and cut down a bit on her travels, but she continued her active life, which until a few months ago included daily three-mile walks.

Mrs. Hummert, whose son died several years


ago, is survived by two granddaughters, Pamela Pigoni of Hinckley, Ill., and Anne Jeskey of Park Ridge, Ill., and two great-grandchildren."

Gifted with multiple talents--all brilliant--Staats Cotsworth was a 20th Century Renaissance man. Unable to sell his paintings during the Depression years, he became an actor with Eva Le Gallienne's New York Civic Repertory Theatre--as an apprentice--in 1932. He progressed to a member of the company with Parker Fennelly and Burgess Meredith. He was recruited by Abby Lewis, who noted his fine voice and introduced him to some of her Radio contacts.

Beginning with Pepper Young's Family (1937), Cotsworth quickly became a fixture in Radio for over forty years. But it's in his role as Jack "Flashgun" Casey in Casey, Press Photographer that most Golden Age Radio fans remember him.Staats Cotsworth portrayed Jack Casey for twelve years, from its first incarnation as Flashgun Casey, to its final run as Crime Photographer. His distinctive voice, unerring timing, great humor, and versatilty over his 400 performances stamped him as 'Casey', Crime Photographer to two generations of Golden Age Radio listeners.

Indeed, Cotsworth, a very serious, accomplished Stage actor, recalled being frustrated with his seemingly never-ending association with the character. But owing to his extraordinary range and rock-solid voice, he managed to break out of the 'Casey' type-casting. He enjoyed twenty more years in a wide range of dramatic performances over Radio and Television.

His Television career took off in 1954, adding over seventy Television appearances to his Drama resume. Cotsworth appeared in many of Television's most prestigious Drama anthologies. He was


most often cast in strong, authoritative character roles, such as judges, military commanders, lawyers, politicians, doctors and other professionals.

Those who watched him during his Television career remember him in Studio One, Robert Montgomery Presents, Peyton Place, Kraft Television Theatre, Goodyear Theater, Play of The Week, Armstrong Circle Theatre, General Electric Theatre, The Defenders, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Nurses, Brenner, Bonanza, and Dr. Kildare.

But Cotsworth's parallel careers didn't end with Radio And Television. Cotsworth went on to perform in--and direct--several Stage plays (his greatest love), while at the same time pursuing an equally repected fourth career as an artist.days.

The figures captured both residential and business connections.

Landline use, or fixed-access lines used only for voice calls, continued to decline.

The number of connections in homes fell by nearly a quarter in only three years to just under 200,000 last year.

Average cellphone calling in New Zealand reached 118 minutes per connection per month.

This was 33 minutes less than people in Britain, who talked for an average of 151 minutes a month per subscriber.

A sharp rise in the tally of cellphone calls since 2015 was a reflection of the ‘‘buckets’’ of minutes now being offered to customers on all mobile networks, telecommunications commissioner Stephen Gale said.

‘‘Mobile companies have thrown in more minutes in their mobile packages and people have slowly got used to the idea that calling on a mobile