shaft is moved by the moving swivel shaft mechanism.
A packaging apparatus in accordance with the fourteenth aspect of the invention is an apparatus as recited in the seventh aspect, wherein, the moving means moves the tray against the hot member.
A packaging apparatus in accordance with the fifteenth aspect of the invention is an apparatus as recited in any one of the seventh through fourteenth aspects, which is further provided with a film feeding means, a lift mechanism, and a hot member moving mechanism. The film feeding means feeds the film between the tray and the hot member. The lift mechanism lifts the tray and presses the flange of the tray against the film. The hot member moving mechanism moves the hot member and presses it against the filmat a portion of the flange of the tray, which has been lifted by said lift mechanism.
With this apparatus, when a food product or other article is placed in a tray is lifted by the lift mechanism, the film has been fed between the tray and the hot member presses against the flange of the tray. When the hot member moving mechanism moves the hot member, the hot member is pressed against the film on a portion of the flange. Then, when the hot member and the tray are moved relative to each other by the moving means, the film is thermally welded to each portion of the flange.
A packaging apparatus in accordance with the sixteenth aspect of the invention is an apparatus as recited in any one


the entire flange of the tray without moving each hot member a full revolution around the flange.
Thus, the time required for the hot member moving means to move the hot members can be reduced and the efficiency of the packaging process can be improved.
A packaging apparatus in accordance with the seventeenth aspect of the invention is an apparatus as recited in any one of the seventh through sixteenth aspects, which is further provided with a controller. The controller controls the moving means to move at least one of the tray or the hot member so that the film is thermally cut at the outside of the thermally welded portion while being thermally welded to the tray.
With this apparatus, the hot member that thermally welds the film to thetray is used to thermally cut the outer portion of the thermally welded film. The film covers the tray and remains continuously connected to the film feeding means after the film is thermally cut. Therefore, the film feeding means can feed the film more smoothly and the film can be taken up more smoothly after cutting if a take-up means is provided which takes up the film that remains after the film is thermally cut.
Furthermore, the hot member can thermally cut the film more reliably if a tensile force is applied to the film.
A packaging apparatus in accordance with the eighteenth aspect of the invention is an apparatus as recited in any one of the seventh through seventeenth aspects, wherein, the hot member is a heat-emitting roller and


rolls on the flange of the tray while the tray and the hot member are moving relative to each other.
With this apparatus, the hot member (heat-emitting roller) rolls on the flange of the tray. That is, the hot member rotates as it moves over the flange. Therefore, the frictional resistance between the hot member and-the film on the flange and the film is less likely to tear or develop tiny holes.
Also, it is preferable for the face of the hot member that contacts the film to be made of a resilient material (such as resin or synthetic rubber) so that firm contact can be maintained between the film and the flange even when small irregularities exist on the surface of the flange of the tray.
A packaging apparatus incelebrating Columbus and start celebrating the native cultures he began the process of displacing.

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For generations, school children learned to recite, “In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”. They then learned the story of the brave explorer who navigated into uncharted territory with sailors who were frightened of falling off the edge of a flat earth. That tale, much of it created by Washington Irving (the man who gave us The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), is bunk. Mariners knew full well the earth was round, including Columbus and his crew. Columbus just thought the circumference of the earth was thousands of miles smaller, and thus that the islands of


Many had been killed by disease or Spanish soldiers; others had been enslaved and sent back to Spain. A huge number simply took their own lives rather than live under Spanish rule. Is this really worthy of a celebration and a three-day sale at the local department store?

One of the original purposes of Columbus Day was to celebrate America’s longevity. There had been local commemorations of the holiday throughout the 19th century, but the first big push for national recognition of Columbus came in 1892, the 400th anniversary of his first voyage. America – its Civil War behind it and a bright future ahead – wanted recognition that the country was four centuries old, even if Columbus himself had never set foot on soil of what would becomeAn Alabama man who took to social media to celebrate the destruction of a Tennessee wildfire that has led to thousands being evacuated and more than a dozen killed was fired from his job. Many of his online critics are now speculating he might be the arsonist behind the blaze, though no suspect has been named

The man, Coleman Bonner of Wessington, posted a Facebook message on November 29th expressing joy at Gatlinburg, TN being burned to the ground due to the residents being Donald Trump supporters, among other things.

“Funny story. I was recently in Gatlinburg. Had a terrible time. I felt the place was a cesspool of consumerism and a bastion of the worst aspect of southern culture. Turns out a wildfire just burned most of the town


                                              No. 14-1347

     The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
(IMPD) participated in this sort of reality television program
called The Shift. The film crew followed a team of homicide
detectives as they investigated a deadly home invasion in
November 2008. Two victims were shot. One was killed; the
other survived. Police eventually arrested plaintiff Carlton
Hart, and his arrest was the centerpiece for the final episode
of the program’s first season. As it turned out, though, Hart
was the wrong man. After he had spent nearly two yearsat the home: Richard Miller, Duane Miller, Ricky
Bluiett, Tamela Daniels, and Kourtney Glasscock. Richard
and Duane were brothers, Bluiett was the Millers’ step-
brother, Daniels was Duane’s friend, and Glasscock was
Bluiett’s girlfriend.
    According to statements from the surviving eyewitness-
es, three men were involved in the home invasion. When the
incident began, Glasscock and Bluiett were sitting in a car
parked in the driveway. Three armed men approached the
house. One man took Glasscock to the side of the house and
held her captive. The other two men entered the residence
with Bluiett at gunpoint. Inside the house, the two men en-
countered Richard in the foyer and Duane and Daniels in a
back bedroom. One gunman shot Richard. He died from his
4


contacted Detective Mannina and told her that the
man who shot Richard looked like a man he had seen on the
social media website MySpace.com. He identified the man as
Samuel Swavely. Five days later, Duane called Mannina and
told her he recognized another man from a video on the in-
ternet as the person who shot him. Duane explained that af-
ter his mother had learned that Swavely was a possible sus-
pect in Richard’s murder, she looked at Swavely’s MySpace
page and came across a hyperlink to a music video. She
showed Duane the video, and he recognized the man who
shot him (who was not the same man Bluiett had identified
as the man who shot and killed Richard).
    The next day, Detective Mannina visited Duane Miller
and watched the video herself. Duane repeatedthat the man
in the video was the man who shot him. Mannina took a pic-
ture of the man in the video with the hope of identifying him
later.
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    Three days later, on November 22, 2008, Mannina formal-
ly interviewed Duane Miller, Bluiett, Glasscock, and Daniels,
each for a second time. Mannina was the only police officer
present with the witnesses during the November 22 inter-
views. All of the interviews were conducted separately; the
witnesses did not discuss their interviews with


one another
either beforehand or afterward.
   Each witness identified Hart in the photo array as one of
the people involved in the home invasion. Bluiett identified
Hart as the man who pointed a gun at him and who shot
Duane. Glasscock identified Hart as the man who told an-
other attacker to shoot her if she moved while she was held
captive. Daniels identified Hart as the man who shot Duane.
And Duane himself identified Hart as the man who shot
him.
   C. Carlton Hart’s Arrest
    After the four surviving witnesses identified Hart as one
of the attackers, Mannina drafted a probable cause affidavit
for his arrest in which she swore to the underlying facts. She
met with prosecutor Denise Robinson to decide whether to
move forward. Robinson and Mannina reviewed the affida-
vitscheduled to in-
terview Rockett, but he was called away for something and
told Moore and Mannina to interview him. Breedlove
watched the interview live on a direct feed to his computer.
    During the interview, Mannina presented a photo array
to Rockett. He identified Hart as involved in the Miller home
invasion. Mannina’s interview technique bothered Breed-
love. He approached Mannina after the interview and ex-
pressed his concern that her technique had been unduly
suggestive. He noted that Rockett seemed “a little wishy-
washy” in his identification and that it looked as if Mannina
had encouraged Rockett to sign the photo array after he ini-
tially hesitated. Breedlove did not believe Mannina had giv-
en Rockett any indication about whom to pick out in the
photo array, but he thought she crossed a line when she en-
couraged


rely on their later
identifications of a photograph of a suspect. Each witness
had close contact with the attackers and had an opportunity
to view the man each later identified as Hart. In their first
statements to the police, all of the witnesses provided specif-
ic descriptions of that man. The descriptions included details
about what the man was wearing and his apparent age, race,
height, and build. To be sure, the witnesses did not have a
perfect view of Duane’s shooter because he was wearing a
hooded sweatshirt pulled up over his head. But nothing else
obscured his face. All four witnesses told police in their first
statements that the gunman wore glasses or sunglasses.
    Not surprisingly, there are some minor differences
among these initial descriptions. For example, Glasscock
said the man was in his late twentiesNovember 22 identifications were unreliable because
there was evidence that the MySpace video was circulating
among members of the Miller family. According to Hart, this
evidence should have alerted Mannina to the possibility that
the four witnesses were colluding to identify Hart—that they
had been exposed to the MySpace video and knew Hart was
a suspect in the crime before they were presented with the
photo array.
    This is plausible in theory, but the record does not sup-
port it. Although there is evidence that the video circulated
within the Miller family, there is no evidence of collusion
among the witnesses, only two of whom were actually
members of the Miller family. Duane Miller of course saw
the MySpace video before he saw the photo array, but there
is no evidence that he told the other witnesses of


The 2013 Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival

The
28th Annual Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival opens Thursday, Oct. 17, at the
Oriental Theatre with I Am Divine, a
terrifically entertaining documentary about the star of Pink Flamingos and every great John Waters film. A slew of good
movies with wide appeal follow through Sunday, Oct. 20, at the UW-Milwaukee
Union Theatre. Included are documentary features about the dreamy filmmaker and
poet James Broughton, the novelist/activist Alice Walker, the growing
recognition of marriage equality as a civil rights issue among African
Americans, and the struggle for survival in Cameroon, Africa, where more people
are arrested for homosexuality than anywhere else on earth.

Award-winning
narrative features from Brazil, Poland, France, Canada, Taiwan and the
Philippines make this a truly international festival. Three programs of short
films are offered, as well as some fascinating free side features.19, at the UWM Union Theatre. Adam is a closeted priest who cares for
tough teenage boys in a Catholic Center that’s an alternative to reform school.
He’s no pedophile. He would die before he’d harm these guys. He suffers over
his sexuality. It’s the reason he turned to religious life. He spends his free
time running through a forest. Running, he says, is praying.

If,
like me, you grew up gay and Catholic, you’ll feel some shocks of recognition.
The film is subtitled but its power lies in what can’t be spoken. The other major
character, a village boy thought daft, never speaks. He falls in love with
Adam. When Adam is transferred from the Center for “staring at the boys in a
weird way,” the young man hunts him down. Their hungry lovemaking comes as a
blessed


35 years and counting for Dave Frisina and his all-local radio show, Soundcheck

If it's 9 o'clock on a Sunday, Dave Frisina knows exactly where he'll be: At his studio, hosting Soundcheck.

It's the same place he's been every Sunday night since 1979. And while his spot on the dial has changed, the dependability of Soundcheck is part of what has made the veteran broadcaster an indispensable part of Syracuse music history.

On Saturday, Frisina celebrated the 35th anniversary of his all-local radio hour with a live broadcast from the Salt City Waltz at the Palace Theatre. As has become commonplace at local gigs, Frisina also served as the evening's emcee.

After all, Frisina's influence in Syracuse extends well beyond a weekly radio program (and his 2 to 7 p.m. on-air gigsduring the week). He's front-and-center for almost every major local event. He's a no-brainer for anyone seeking an emcee. He's a resource for any up-and-coming local musician. And, perhaps most important, he's a fan.

"I'm out at shows three, four nights a week," he said. "There's just too much stuff I want to go to. And I'm not a wallflower. I'm talking with people and right in it."

Frisina's dedication to local music earned him a spot in the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame in 1994, just the second year the awards were held. He remains one of just a handful of broadcasters in the Hall.

Saturday night at the Waltz, State Senator John Defrancisco presented Frisina with a state Senate proclamation recognizing the contributions he has made to


local radio and local music. And the next night, he was back on the air for Soundcheck.

35 years and counting

Frisina started in radio in August, 1978 doing weekend shifts on then-newcomer 95X FM. Soon he was given the overnight shift: 2 to 6 a.m. He was 23 and was "given rein to play whatever I want."

"I was going out every night and seeing bands," he said. "At last call I would get out to [95X's studio in] Manlius and get on the air."

While spending every night seeing live music, Frisina got to know the local musicians. Many, he said, were too good not to be on the air. With that in mind, he pitched a show to his boss, Ted Utz at 95X. The show would be adestination for any and all local music fans.

Utz liked it and Soundcheck was born -- a one-hour show at 11 p.m. on Sunday nights. That first show -- of which Frisina has a CD copy -- featured the popular bands of the day, some of which are still around in some form, like the Flashcubes or The Works.

Weathering the radio storm

Soundcheck quickly became a success as local artists flooded Frisina's office with cassettes (and even some reel-to-reels) and tuned in weekly to see what he would play.

"It's a niche audience, but it's a dedicated audience," Frisina said. "People know when and where to tune in to hear local stuff."

Frisina has changed stations several times, moving from 95X to TK99 in 2003 and taking over as program director for


105.9 The Rebel in 2012. But the show has remained almost unchanged, aside from moving to 9 p.m. It's survived as radio has adopted more syndicated content and scaled back on personnel.

And while radio on the whole has changed, Frisina says it still holds a similar importance to the music community.

"There are a lot of places to get music," he said. "But the human element is necessary in radio. Local radio depends on credibility. I'm picking shows for a reason. Live music charges me up. It's what gives radio stuff life."

Today, Frisina operates out of a small, windowless studio at Cumulus Media's Syracuse headquarters. Vinyl albums flood the floors and CDs litter every spare inch of desk space. Posters of shows dating back to the 1970s cover thewalls, along with a white board listing a host of upcoming local shows. Next to the sound board is a handwritten calendar of local concerts -- one that Frisina hardly has to look at because he knows them so well.

Frisina is the heart, the soul and the public face of 105.9 FM The Rebel, classic rock's new kid on the block. After parting ways with TK99 at the end of 2011, the veteran broadcaster joined the newly-formed Rebel to shape the station and add a familiar voice.

"The word 'local' gets thrown around a lot," Frisina said. "For us, it's what we do. I'm accessible to anyone who wants to get on the air. That's what sold me on [The Rebel]."

In the nearly three years since Frisina joined, The


Laparoscopic stapled resection/plication of left hemi-diaphragmatic eventration in an adult.
We report a 59-year-old man who presented with progressive dyspnea of 30 years. His pulmonary function tests showed reduced forced expiratory volume in the first second and forced vital capacity and computed tomography of the chest showed eventration of the left hemi-diaphragm. He underwent successful laparoscopic stapled resection / plication of the lax hemi-diaphragm. He was discharged on the fourth postoperative day with the intercostal drain in situ and this was removed 5 days later at follow up. Postoperatively the pulmonary function showed significant improvement and he remains well 2 years after surgery.with or have played with or against their players. As a team, collectively, they can be unpredictable and on their day they are a very, very good team.”

On the first day of winter in South Africa, the U.S. held its last practice at Pilditch Stadium before the match. Because FIFA wants to preserve the field at Loftus Versfeld, the site of the match, today’s training was moved to Eersterust Stadium in Pretoria.

In many ways, the Americans know Algeria much better than Slovenia.

Center back Madjid Bougherra is a teammate of DaMarcus Beasley and Maurice Edu on the Glasgow Rangers; midfielder Karim Matmour plays alongside Michael Bradley on Borussia Moenchengladbach; midfielder Adlane Guedioura plays on Wolverhampton with Marcus Hahnemann; midfielder Riad Boudebouz is at Sochaux with injured American forward Charlie


Oregon Youth Soccer •December 2015

Champions Crowned in Oregon Youth Soccer
Fall State Cups

Nearly five months ago, thousands of players on hundreds of teams across the state met beneath the warm summer sun for their first practices of the 2015-16 season. Boys and girls, old and young, recreational and competitive — many took to the field with the same ultimate dream … a State Cup title.

Twelve teams saw their dreams come true this weekend at the Tualatin Parks and Recreation District, as the 2015 Founders Cup and U11-U12 divisions of the 2015-16 Presidents Cup Presented by the Portland Timbers and Thorns crowned their deserving champions! Semi-final and final-round action in both tournaments brought nearly 50 teams — and their hundreds of supportive parents, siblings and friends — to the complexfor an exciting weekend of soccer, featuring thrilling victories, incredible displays of individual skill, and smiles all around.

Soon, those winning teams will be joined by dozens of others to be crowned champions this coming spring in the older divisions of the Presidents Cup and the Oregon State Cup Presented by the Portland Timbers and Thorns, the top tournament-style competition for the thousands of players in Oregon Youth Soccer.

Thank you to the many volunteers and administrators who helped make these events a success this year, and congratulations to all of the teams who advanced to this past weekend's semi-final and final rounds!

For game scores and more information on any of the three Oregon Youth Soccer State Cup events, visit www.oregonyouthsoccer.org.
And don't forget to share your success with friends and


health issues early, there has been limited investigation in the use of these services for families from refugee backgrounds. This study aims to explore experiences of using MCH services, from the perspective of families from refugee backgrounds and service providers.

Methods

We used a qualitative study design informed by the socioecological model of health and a cultural competence approach. Two geographical areas of Melbourne were selected to invite participants. Seven focus groups were conducted with 87 mothers from Karen, Iraqi, Assyrian Chaldean, Lebanese, South Sudanese and Bhutanese backgrounds, who had lived an average of 4.7 years in Australia (range one month-18 years). Participants had a total of 249 children, of these 150 were born in Australia. Four focus groups and five interviews were conducted with MCH nurses, other healthcare providerschildren born in Melbourne had good initial access to, and experience of, using MCH services, significant barriers remain. A systems-oriented, culturally competent approach to service provision would improve the service utilisation experience for parents and providers, including formalising links and notifications between settlement services and MCH services.

Sheikh M, MacIntyre CR: The impact of intensive health promotion to a targeted refugee population on utilisation of a new refugee paediatric clinic at the children's hospital at Westmead. Ethn Heal. 2009, 14 (4): 393-405. 10.1080/13557850802653780.
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Margolis PA: From concept to application: the impact of a community-wide intervention to improve the delivery of preventive services to children. Pediatrics. 2001, 108 (3): e42-10.1542/peds.108.3.e42.
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steel making process in an electric arc furnace. Essentially, the end of the electrode burns away during the steel making process. The electrodes are placed in the furnace as a threaded column of electrodes, and as the lowermost electrode burns away the column of electrodes is advanced and periodically a new electrode segment is added to the top end of the column.
In addition to the expected burning away at the lower end of the electrode, due to the extreme environmental conditions within the steel making furnace, the electrodes sometimes suffer a more rapid and undesired consumption rate due to physical non-conformities in the electrode. Examples are cracks and the like, which may cause chunks of the electrode to separate, thus increasing the rate of usage of the electrodeutilized, which is a much more rudimentary system for testing of the type just described. The predecessor system provided a cradle for receiving the carbon electrode to be tested. The carbon electrode was moved onto the cradle by movement in a transverse direction perpendicular to the length of the carbon electrode. A single pair of roller transducers was then positioned on opposite sides of the electrode through the use of two separate transducer placement mechanisms. During the testing operation, the roller transducers were each simultaneously moved along the entire length of the electrode to be tested. The roller transducers generated an axial topographic scan image of the electrode. The roller transducers were then disengaged and removed from the carbon electrode, which was picked up from the cradle and


The Fury FC have made a long-due signing for its midfield, adding an exciting prospect in former Canadian men’s U20 international midfielder Patryk Misik.

Misik was in a Canada U20 camp in 2012 (http://www.canadasoccer.com/canada-m20-off-to-usa-costa-rica-p152663), playing alongside former Fury M Zakaria Messoudi and current Fury M Mauro Eustaquio.

He went on to play with the Canada U21 squad that was coached by Fury FC technical director Philip Dos Santos at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie (http://www.canadasoccer.com/canada-names-u-21-squad-for-francophone-games–p154992; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_2013_Jeux_de_la_Francophonie#Canada). However, he was not a part of the 2013 CONCACAF U20 Championship squad for Canada.

He spent his youth career in the Toronto and Brantford areas, playing with the Toronto Lynx academy and Brantford Inter-City SC youth club, and then progressing up to the Brantford Galaxy SC CSL side, winning the 2010 CSL Championship.Whitecaps FC on April 22, before traveling to Edmonton a week later, with FCE’s higher rank in the league standings affording them the privilege of hosting the 2nd leg in the two-legger.

The winner of the 5-club competition will qualify for the 2016/17 CONCACAF Champions League, with this being a shift from previous V Cup editions.

As a proponent of the footy pyramid in North America, I, and others, would love to see a Canada Open Cup in the near future that will include, in addition to MLS and NASL clubs, the USL Pro, NPSL, USL PDL, L1O, PLSQ, PCSL clubs in the top 4 tiers of the Canadian soccer pyramid, and why not in the future dream even bigger and open it up for the 5th-tier provincial club teams


still just has 2 bottom teeth, no top ones yet. I took her with me to get formula yesterday. I laid one can on her lap and she didn't want me to take it from her. She picked it up (powder formula can) and tried to drink it, lol. Then today I got her baby food. She wasn't hungry till she saw the jars, so I had to get out the puffs and feed her as we finished up in the store. Her vocab is growing. When she's with dada and not me, she says moma. When she's with me and not dada, she says dada. The seldom times she will say our name around us she'll generally look at us. So cute.

Simon: All is well. He's enjoyinggreat in the snow and ice. He has 5 kids, one of which is the same age as Ellie, maybe a few days or week or so different. Well, the only problem when they came home for break, Simon tried and tried to get in touch with the guy. His wife and mother in law kept answering and talking to Simon. He could never talk to the teammate. His family was pissed at Simon, but Simon just wanted to know when they would go back out to make money. Apparently dude didn't want to go back out or something. Over a week later, Simon FINALLY talked to the teammate. Well they met at the terminal and weren't any loads, go figure. The guy was yelling and cursing at


Simon in front of other drivers, and Simon laughed at him. I would have been yelling and cursing and throwing stuff at him. I have more of a temper than my husband. He was pretty much blaming Simon for the fact that he didn't get to spend time w/ his family (he was off for over week, wasn't Simon's fault). Then on Sunday, somehow the guy found out his license was suspended. My mail doesn't run on Sundays, so I don't know. But, he had a ticket from some time, and never paid it, now there's a warrant for his arrest. So Simon found another teammate, an older man, like in his 70's. BUT then the company had a slip seat position open and offered it to Simon.Lily's signature faces (also at the Pakistani Wedding in January 2013): "Angry", "Happy", "Surprised", and "Silly"

Mary at her 7th birthday party, February 2013, with a Monster High birthday cake created by Joe:

Joey at the Space Needle in Seattle, February 2013:

Looking forward to spending time with everyone in a few days!
The Yatzeck Family

I (Eileen) and Felix are excited to travel together to join you in Minnesota. My husband George grew up in Illinois (suburb of Chicago) and I in Massachusetts. Our family resides in Northboro Massachusetts (40 minutes from Boston)

Both of Felix's grandparents grew up in Minneapolis.
Felix asked me last night where his grandpa was buried and I will look into the possibility of visiting his grave.

This is a special trip for Felix and I as I can't recall


iPad are often close by.

Alexander has long enjoyed gaming and has met some truly awesome friends on the Unschooling Gamers group. He dove deep into computers & programming this past year, working a 6-week internship at a local computer shop, and amassing components for building his own computer. One of his biggest passions is the Melbourne Shuffle, a dance form that has brought him contacts from a wide variety of places and some cool background on the history & sub-genres of electronica music; he looks forward to meeting up with some other shufflers and dancin’ till dawn at the Anime Detour Con again this year. (Yep, manga and anime have been long-time passions, as well.)

We will be joined by Kevin, a gaming buddy from CA. His bio states:leaving our new puppy behind to be cared for by trusted family and professionals.

Our family has always homeschooled and we gradually moved from using an eclectic approach to full-on radical unschooling by the time Zach was 12 years old. Now, Zach is a senior in college majoring in History and German and he will be spending an extra year of undergraduate study in Freiburg, Germany beginning in August.

Zoe loves singing, playing video games, drawing, dancing and reading fantasy novels. She's busy most weeks with church choir, church youth group, dance lessons and skypeing with her friends across the continent. She's looking forward to getting a job this summer, traveling to Italy and Germany with her father and me in September and getting her driver's license in November!

I have


Alexander & husband John, cooking, gardening, knitting, hiking, and a bit of yoga. An information junkie, books and her iPad are often close by.

Alexander has long enjoyed gaming and has met some truly awesome friends on the Unschooling Gamers group. He dove deep into computers & programming this past year, working a 6-week internship at a local computer shop, and amassing components for building his own computer. One of his biggest passions is the Melbourne Shuffle, a dance form that has brought him contacts from a wide variety of places and some cool background on the history & sub-genres of electronica music; he looks forward to meeting up with some other shufflers and dancin’ till dawn at the Anime Detour Con again this year. (Yep, manga and anime(CNN) Facebook's policies for censoring hate speech have again come under fire after the social media giant labeled a passage from the Declaration of Independence as hate speech.

Facebook apologized to a Texas newspaper on Tuesday for deleting its post that included the passage.

The Liberty County Vindicator had been posting excerpts of the Declaration of Independence daily leading up to July 4th. The first nine posts were published without a problem. The 10th post, which included paragraphs 27 through 31 of the Declaration of Independence, was deleted by Facebook.

According to Casey Stinnett, the Vindicator's managing editor, the paper received a notice from Facebook that said the post "goes against our standards on hate speech."

After realizing its mistake, Facebook restored the post. In its apology email to the newspaper, Stinnett


said, Facebook wrote , "It looks like we made a mistake and removed something you posted on Facebook that didn't go against our Community Standards. We want to apologize and let you know that we've restored your content and removed any blocks on your account related to this incorrect action."

In a statement after the incident Stinnett expressed his belief that the post was considered offensive and taken down because it included the phrase "Indian savages."

"While The Vindicator cannot be certain exactly what triggered Facebook's filtering program, the editor suspects it was most likely the phrase 'Indian savages,'" Stinnett said in the statement. "Perhaps had Thomas Jefferson written it as 'Native Americans at a challenging stage of cultural development' that would have been better."

He blamed the incident on anstruggling at the plate, but his baserunning blunder is costly and secures a Royals win. (Howard Simmons/New York Daily News)

In any case, we'll never know what might have happened had Murphy made the play on the slow ground ball from Eric Hosmer. The worst part about the error is that he didn't need to try and one-hand it on the run, but had time to use both hands and make sure.

"I should have used two hands," he admitted afterward.

If he had made the play, the Royals would have had the tying and go-ahead runs on second and third with two outs, and who knows how that changes the inning. As it was, Familia gave up another hit — but only because Murphy was shaded toward second to be


It was the only option Charlie Strong had when push came to shove.

Going after Murray was what Charlie Strong needed to do to have a high school quarterback on campus who could compete for the job right away.

Call it desperate, call it a gamble, but Strong knows his ultimate success or failure at Texas depends on the quarterback position. There's no question Kyler Murray would have helped Texas in 2015, which is exactly why Strong was right to go all-in this close to signing day and try and flip the Texas A&M commit.

The quarterback wasteland on the Forty Acres isn't a mess Strong is responsible for creating, but he's responsible for getting out of it. If it meant losing Zach Gentry, which happened when the former four-star commitmentGeneral President of the International Association of Fire Fighters, after the Congressman spoke at the IAFF's Legislative Conference General Session at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, March 9, 2015. The day featured addresses by members of Congress and Vice President Joe Biden.


Ottoman psychiatric institutions developed gradually over the long nineteenth century in the spaces of early modern Ottoman imperial hospitals located within charitable complexes. These imperial hospitals were altered to accommodate the increasingly “medicalized” needs of mental patients, in tandem with the emerging field of psychiatry during this time. Located at the intersection of architectural and medical history, this article discusses evolving treatments of madness by focusing on Istanbul Toptaşı Asylum that was used as the state mental hospital between 1873 and 1924. The article explores the spatial interventions carried out in the asylum as they affected the daily routines of its occupants, patients, doctors, and staff, which were considered crucial components of the “healing process” in the nineteenth century. The reorganization of the asylum’s space and time, asgalaxy will
never be the same. The acoustic fusion and thematic sound concept for
the CD settled in after McBride wrote "Science Fiction" and discovered it made a great nucleus for the CD. Featured selections include McBride's brilliant arrangements of masterworks by Stanley Clarke, Sting, Jaco Pastorius, and Steely Dan as well as seven original compositions by the versatile leader. Flawless piano grace from Herbie Hancock on "Xerxes" and "Lullaby for a Ladybug" and McBride's Fender Rhodes work throughout is a listen to behold. Particularly, the conversation between McBride's double bass and Carter's bass clarinet on "Walking on the Moon" shouldn't be missed. Sci-Fi
is a seminal work by seminal artists and may very well be considered
one of the most essential jazz recordings of the 21st century.

Like many of his post-Motown


but on Sci-Fi he adds even more ammunition to his arsenal: he plays discreet Fender Rhodes as a complement to Shedrick Mitchell's acoustic piano. On the Wayne Shorterish title track, McBride tosses in some spacey keyboard effects, while Blake's adventurous soprano saxophone probes right through the spacious composition, like the Enterprise warping through galactic wormholes.McBride pays tribute to two of his electric-bass heroes, Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke, with "Havana" and "Butterfly Dreams," respectively, and gives a mighty pound to the '70s fusion with the infectious "Via Mwandishi," which features James Carter's bass clarinet recalling Bennie Maupin, one of the instrument's underrated players.McBride restrains from using too many electronic effects to get that Dr. Who vibe going. Even when he opts for the electric bass, as on "Walkingenforcement to restrict its availability, including bans in at least 12 states.

Salvia is available at stores in the District and in parts of Maryland. (By Alan Pinon -- Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times)

Animal studies have found that the drug has unique effects on the brain, prompting some scientists to speculate that it or a similar compound may have medicinal uses for diseases such as Alzheimer's, pain and drug addiction.

In a paper published online by the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, two men and two women--all of whom had taken hallucinogens in the past--inhaled a wide range of doses of the drug or placebos during 20 sessions that over two or three months. The subjects began to experience the drug's effects almost immediately after inhaling it, but the effects were


Friday, December 30, 2011

January: My Grammie passed away on January 9th.. one of the hardest things I've ever faced. Not a day goes by when I don't think about my Grammie and all the wonderful memories I have of her. We also had fun family time in January and the kiddos did lots of growing.. especially Mr. Gage David!

February: lots of playing and growing took place this month.. no major events, which was a nice considering all the changes our family had faced the past few months!

March: lots more growing, learning and playing, except this month we got to play outside a little! We went to a Hershey Bears game with family and had a great time!

May: I celebrated the big '28' =) My amazing kids kept growingThanks committee. States intention to provide overview
of HB 2148. Adds he supports HB 2148. Provides history of the current
statutes governing budget. Explains purpose of the proposed budget model. Provides
that it would not take effect until the 2005-2007 budget year. Adds that
there is no emergency clause. Introduces concepts presented in the bill.
Refers to section two as the major component of the bill.

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further explanation.

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the bill. Expresses desire to empower agencies to be proactive by
establishing a contingency reserve. Expands on policies for the recover of
costs.

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objectives of the Governor as outlined by the bill.

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Police say a man shot a teen then himself...

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CULVER, Ind. (AP) _ Police say a man fatally shot a teenage family friend before killing himself at his home in a small northern Indiana town.

Culver police say an autopsy performed Tuesday found that 16-year-old Stephen Suthard was shot multiple times by 44-year-old Michael Price. WSBT-TV and WNDU-TV report police say Price then killed himself with a single shot.

Police say the two were found shot by Price's wife when she arrived home late Nov. 28.

Investigators haven't given a possible motive for the shooting in the 1,300-person town about 30 miles south of South Bend.clear in speech, and his acting becomes more subtle and nuanced in every new part he undertakes. Beatrice is usually allowed to win the couple's jousting matches, but Northcott, both out of innate generosity, I suspect, and a strong sense of the play's balance, allows Weller room to give Benedick a breadth of feeling and an aura of dignity the part seldom receives.

It is always interesting to see an accomplished actor in a lesser role, and watching Mack Harrell play Leonato is an excellent lesson in shining forth while keeping one's character in proper balance. Harrell's Leonato is so gracious and genial a host to the play's action that when it comes time for him to become a badly injured father, his pain in his innocent daughter Hero's


different shirts on a clothesline, shirts representing the different colors and ethos of different periods of his life. What was easiest to miss about Miller's work was the remarkable craft that was masked by the simplicity of the evening's concept. Miller offered his tales with beguiling simplicity and ease, but the strength of the tales and the solid use of dramatic structure showed Miller's fine writing ability. There was a literary quality to the evening, which is not often found in performance art. (Lord knows Holly Hughes was always all over the place with her stories.)

As an actor, Miller is uncommonly sharp. He bounded around the St. Mar-continued on page 74continued from page 72cus stage and audience with sharp agility, and, throughout, he was often quick-witted, easily commentingon little mishaps and nuances. In sharing his reflections and his stories, Miller created significant distance between himself as object and narrator -- perhaps the hardest to do in this form but ironically the most important. The fundamental challenge of Miller's work, and the reason he has remained an important gay artist, is that he challenges his audiences in a manner that most gay writers and artists do not. Although many artists isolate the particular instances that are common language in the gay experience -- coming out, the first relationships, the family sagas of operatic proportion -- Miller takes it all further. He asks his audiences to see the motion of the relationships between the experiences, how the connections between the experiences -- the cities, the lovers, the


friendships through time -- have an identity just as strong as the experiences themselves. When he looks at the whole cloth, he spies the shape and direction of the weave, along with the individual colors and texture. It's a subtle and novel notion, and it's what separates Miller, or at least this piece of his, from the rest. In the end, this notion of personal community spreads like warm sunlight over the audience, and at Saturday night's performance, the crowd's comfort and ease were palpable.

-- Mike Isaacson

TOMATO PLANT GIRL
By Wesley Middleton
Metro Theater Company

Metro Theater Company celebrated the beginning of its 26th season by presenting an open staging of its newest theater piece for younger audiences, Wesley Middleton's Tomato Plant Girl, in the newly refurbished New City School Founders'Hall auditorium.

The work deals with tough stuff. Its protagonist, Little Girl (Monica Holeczy), finds herself bullied, dissed and extorted by Bossy Best Friend (Carlyn Armintrout). Bossy Best Friend even allows her own tomato plant to die of neglect (saying it's Little Girl's fault), then forces Little Girl through emotional blackmail to give up her healthy tomato plant, which Bossy Best Friend also kills by neglect. But then Bossy Best Friend leaves on a shopping vacation and Little Girl finds a new friend, Tomato Plant Girl (Kate Frank). It takes Little Girl a while to learn that her new friend follows her own rules, not Bossy Best Friend's (filtered through Little Girl). When this happens, however, Little Girl discovers that her own rules are better for her than Bossy


Best Friend's and that sometimes it's better to be a bit lonely than bullied.

The children in the audience particularly enjoyed the literal earthiness and related rowdiness Frank brought to Tomato Plant Girl, obviously identified with Holeczy's Little Girl, and viewed with horror the bad manners, vibes and worldview of Armintrout's Bossy Best Friend. As an (arguable) adult, I admired the subversiveness of the work -- "trust yourself" is a motto that children are seldom taught. Metro Theater Company, however, always has subversive, life-affirming messages for its patrons, and Tomato Plant Girl is one of its best efforts at mixing charming theater with necessary but seldom given instruction.Demographics

As per 2001 census, Onda block had a total population of 219,845, out of which 112,429 were males and 107,416 were females. Onda block registered a population growth of 15.06 per cent during the 1991-2001 decade. Decadal growth for the district was 15.15 per cent. Decadal growth in West Bengal was 17.84 per cent.

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Bahulara, a census village under Onda II village panchayat, is the site of the Siddheshwara temple dedicated to Shiva. It is the finest specimen of brick rekha deul temple ascribed to Pala (medieval) period. It is about 5km from Onda railway station, midway between Bankura and Vishnupur.

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The key to the successful revitalization under way on Toronto's waterfront is that one activity isn't allowed to dominate the others. To put at risk this huge effort and investment, public and private, would be counterproductive and unwarranted. Dubious economic claims must not be allowed to trump the realization of an outstanding, livable, multiuse waterfront for all Torontonians.

Paul Bedford was chief planner of Toronto from 1996 to 2004. David Crombie is a former mayor of Toronto. Jack Diamond is a Toronto-based international architect. Anne Golden is chair of the Transit Investment Advisory Panel. Ken Greenberg is former head of urban design in the Toronto planning department.According to the World Boxing Council, WBC super flyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai has requested a voluntary defense before meeting his mandatory obligation with Juan Francisco Estrada.

In March of this year, Sor Rungvisai (44-4-1, 40 KOs) shocked the world when he won a twelve round unanimous decision over heavily favored Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez to capture the WBC title at New York's Madison Square Garden.

The winner of that contest was initially ordered to fight Carlos Cuadras. But that didn't happen. Because there controversy with the scorecards, and an appealr was filed by members of Gonzalez's team, the WBC would instead order a rematch between Gonzalez and Sor Rungvisia. They also ordered a final eliminator, for the WBC interim-title, between Estrada and Cuadras.

The doubleheader was finalized and took place last


month before a sell-out crowd at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

In the main event, Sor Rungvisai set the record straight with an unexpected destruction of Gonzalez, who was knocked out cold in the fourth round.

Also on the card, Estrada (36-2, 25 KOs) won a close, twelve round decision over Cuadras to secure the world title shot at Sor Rungvisia.

The fight between Estrada and Sor Rungvisia was being targeted for early next year, as part of another planned HBO card featuring fighters from the super flyweight division.

Even before the Gonzalez rematch was ordered, Sor Rungvisai was already attempting to make a voluntary but his request was denied. This time around, he is likely to get his way. The boxer, who is now a national hero back home, wouldand former CEO of Horizons ETFs, has been named president and will run day-to-day operations at the fund. Paul Desmarais III, a vice-president at Power Corporation of Canada and Power Financial Corp., will serve as executive chairman of Portag3.

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The A1214 follows the old route of the A12 through Ipswich, or rather along the town's northern bypass, which became part of the A12 in 1935.

The road starts at Copdock Interchange, a standard grade-separated and partially signalised roundabout interchange with the A12 (for which it is J33) and A14 (J55). The former now proceeds to multiplex along the latter to the east over the Orwell Bridge and the road north is the A1214. It proceeds as D2 with a 40mph speed limit past a large supermarket complex and meets a roundabout providing access to the retail area and the district of Pinewood. After a long right-hand curve the former A12 (now an access road from the Park and Ride station) merges in. At this point the barriers inthe central reservations disappear to be replaced with a wide grassy verge with trees. The road then meets the A1071 to Hadleigh and Scrivener Drive at a signalised junction, starting a multiplex with that road. Almost immediately afterwards the left-hand lane of the northbound carriageway becomes a bus lane. This entire stretch is called London Road.

The road then meets Robin Drive at another signalised junction. After the junction, the bus lane ends and the road becomes S3, with two lanes uphill. A cycle lane is also provided northbound. A 30mph speed restriction then comes into force. After descending the hill, the A1214 meets the B1075 Ranelagh Road (to the station) and the now-unclassified former A1071 Hadleigh Road at another signalised junction near the Sainsbury's supermarket.

The road is then


trees and green spaces on both sides of the road.

We ascend the hill on Valley Road and the development becomes more dense as we pass Henley Road and Dale Hall Lane at signalised junctions next to a block of flats. This stretch recently had cycle lanes installed in both directions. The next stretch is arrow-straight eastwards as it meets the B1077 Westerfield Road at a roundabout. It then continues onto Tuddenham Road, with service roads for houses until the next roundabout. The road then curves to the right as we pass over the Ipswich to Felixstowe Railway line. The A1214, now called Colchester Road, straightens out again and meets Sidegate Lane at a roundabout. After a few curves we end up back on the original A12 (now A1071)at what used to be a double roundabout interchange, although the first roundabout no longer provides complete access. Traffic from here wanting to go back into town on the A1071 must go to the second roundabout and U-turn. This junction also provides access to the A1189 for Felixstowe.

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After the second roundabout a 30mph speed limit comes into force again and lasts until the end of the road. The road then travels through heathland for a short while before entering the suburbs once again through an 'Ipswich overspill' housing area. This is generally thought of as the most unpleasant stretch of the road, with a 30mph speed limit, seemingly endless development, bus lanes (due to the Park and Ride near Martlesham) and many traffic lights. There are two roundabouts


on this stretch, one of which was previously signalised.

The road finally terminates on a signalised roundabout with the A12. The old route of that road used to continue straight on through the village of Martlesham. Today one turns left onto the A12 D2 Martlesham bypass to head up towards Woodbridge and eventually Great Yarmouth where the A12 terminates. Turning right onto the A12 takes you down towards the Seven Hills Interchange, J58 of the A14.2011.

Ortega, who had just won the RFA title before getting signed by the UFC, was supposed to make his UFC debut against Brandao in Brazil in May 2014, but Brandao got injured and the fight was called off.

Instead, he took on Mike De La Torre in July. It took him only 1 minute, 39 seconds to force a tapout due to a rear-naked choke.

An opponent vanquished, a dream realized, an accomplishment met.

Four weeks later, it was all taken away. Ultimately by Ortega himself.

The California State Athletic Commission notified him he had tested positive for drostanolone, an anabolic steroid. His victory was overturned and he was suspended nine months and forced to pay a $2,500 fine.

“It changed everything about me,” Ortega said.

He had put his trust in someone who


assured him the steroid was safe and undetectable. He was told it was the nature of the game.

Ortega had kept it from his manager and coaches, but now the secret had blown up in his face.

Ortega holed up at home for two weeks. Taunts and threats came at him from all directions.

He was told to kill himself. He was told his family deserved to die.

Finally, longtime mentor and striking coach James Luhrsen, with whom Ortega has spent nearly every day since he was 18, paid a visit.

His message: “Get your head out of the sand and let’s do this, man. Let’s do this the right way and let’s go.”

Ortega dove into his training. He changed his diet, determined to get closer to his 145-pound fighting weight. No morewalking around at 170 or 175 pounds. He spent hours in the gym and continued teaching at the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy in Torrance.

Once his suspension ended, the UFC came calling with a fight, but on three weeks’ notice against Brazilian veteran Thiago Tavares.

Everyone knew it was little time to prepare for a dangerous opponent, but Ed Soares, the RFA president who is also Ortega’s manager, was confident.

“He’s got that ‘it’ factor. He’s a got a little special something that not everybody has,” said Soares, who counts former champions Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida and Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira among the many fighters he represents.

In June on Fox Sports 1, Ortega and Tavares won Fight of the Night honors for a battle considered one of the best in 2015.

Whenever Tavares took


money and other expenses, said George Guimaraes, the president and chief executive of the N.Y.J.T.L., which enables the organization to hold an event that is free to the public with suggested donations for those over 18. It is rare for the WTA to provide funding for a tournament, but it has done so in the past, the WTA spokeswoman Amy Binder said.

Hosting a pro tournament in Crotona Park would not be possible without the completion of the Cary Leeds Center in 2017. It has a two-story clubhouse and 22 courts, including two sunken courts with seating for 1,000 spectators. No more than five will be used for the Bronx Open. In July, the complex became the new home of World TeamTennis matches for the New York Empire, whichU.S. Open, but lost Friday in the first round of qualifying.

The 30-player main draw includes three top-20 players: No. 15 Johanna Konta, No. 17 Wang Qiang and No. 20 Anett Kontaveit. Barbora Strycova, a recent Wimbledon semifinalist, and the American CoCo Vandeweghe, a U.S. Open semifinalist in 2017 who is coming back from an ankle injury, are also in the tournament.

The clubhouse at Cary Leeds is named after Billie Jean King, who has been a supporter of the facility and its programs.

Rubén Díaz Jr., the Bronx borough president, said the Bronx Open was an extension of King’s dream of spreading tennis to low-income communities.

“When we all got together several years ago to do a public-private partnership to build the Cary Leeds Tennis Center, this is exactly the type


WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says his own Republican Party is having "an identity problem."

The former Joints Chief of Staff chairman who twice endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that in recent years there's been "a significant shift to the right," and that's produced two losing presidential campaigns.

He says the GOP needs to "take a very hard look at itself and understand that the country has changed" demographically, and that if the party doesn't change, "they're going to be in trouble." He also bemoans what he calls "a dark vein of intolerance" in some elements of the party.

He describes himself as a moderate but still a Republican.Tesla driver caught on video 'sleeping' while car is on auto-pilot

Tesla driver caught on video 'sleeping' while car is on auto-pilot Onlookers were shocked to see the driver of a Tesla apparently sleeping while his vehicle travelled along a California road.

Image: A person is apparently sleeping in a self-driving car. Pic: Clint Olivier

Footage has emerged of a Tesla driver apparently asleep while his vehicle hurtles along a busy road in the US.

The video was filmed by Alisha Gallon on Los Angeles' Interstate 5.

It was tweeted by her husband, journalist Clint Olivier, who described it as a "disturbing phenomenon".

In the video, Mr Olivier drives past the car, which is travelling in the middle lane. His wife can be heard saying: "He's totally asleep - this is crazy."

The driver has


his arms folded across his chest instead of on the steering wheel - and at the end of the video, he appears to wake up and take the wheel.

The auto-pilot feature on a Tesla allows the car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically, but the carmaker says "active driver supervision" is still needed.

California law does not specifically forbid people sleeping in the driver's seat of an autonomous vehicle, but a person can still be arrested if they are endangering themselves or others.

Tesla has not responded to requests for comment, and neither the company nor its owner Elon Musk has replied to tweets about the video.

A number of similar incidents have been reported in the US - and last year, a man from Nottingham was banned from driving forthe homeless population increased 363 percent between 1987 and 2007, and “70 percent were receiving mental health treatment or had in the past.” In Bangor, Maine, the shelter opened in 1987 with 10 beds. In 2007, the shelter had 33 beds “with a dozen paid staff members” to care for “people with a range of mental and physical health problems coupled with extreme poverty.”

· In 2006, Markowitz published data on 81 US cities, looking at correlations between the decreasing availability of psychiatric hospital beds and the increase in crime, arrest rates, and homelessness. As expected, he found direct correlations. This is consistent with past studies in Massachusetts and Ohio that reported that 27 and 36 percent of the discharges from state mental hospitals had become homeless within six


months. It is also consistent with a study in New York that found that 38 percent of discharges from a state hospital had “no known address” six months later.

"Dumping" patients out of hospitals, saves mental health system money but increases overall cost to taxpayers by shifting care to more expensive jails and prisons.

.In 2001, a University of Pennsylvania study that examined 5,000 homeless people with mental illnesses in New York City found they cost taxpayers an average of $40,500 a year for their use of emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, shelters, and prisons.”

In many cities such as New York, homeless people with severe mental illnesses are now an accepted part of the urban landscape and make up a significant percentage of the homeless who ride subways all night, sleepon sidewalks, or hang out in the parks. These ill individuals drift into the train and bus stations, and even the airports.

Many other homeless people hide from the eyes of most citizens. They shuffle quietly through the streets by day, talking to their voices only when they think nobody is looking, and they live in shelters or abandoned buildings at night. Some shelters become known as havens for these ill wanderers and take on the appearance of a hospital psychiatric ward. Others who are psychiatrically ill live in the woods on the outskirts of cities, under bridges, and even in the tunnels that carry subway trains beneath cities.

Foreshadowing a grim future

There have been harbingers of an impending homeless crisis for individuals with untreated brain disorders since the early


1970s. Large numbers of ill people began forming psychiatric ghettos in cities such as Long Beach, New York, near Pilgrim State Hospital; San Jose, California, near Agnews State Hospital; and Tacoma, Washington, near Western State Hospital.

As large, often run-down, boarding homes filled with discharged psychiatric patients from the nearby hospitals, the intended policy of deinstitutionalization increasingly looked rather like transinstitutionalization – the exchange of one impersonal institution for another. At the same time, the availability of single-room occupancy hotels and other low-rent housing was declining precipitously in urban areas as redevelopment and gentrification shifted into high gear.

While this urban psychiatric ghettoization and decline in low-rent housing were taking place, it also was becoming apparent that many of the discharged patients were not receiving ongoing psychiatric treatment. Theoretically, theywere to have received medication and rehabilitation services from the federally funded community mental health centers, but in most cases this did not happen.

As early as 1972, a study commissioned by the National Institute of Mental Health reported, "Relationships between community mental health centers and public mental hospitals serving the same catchment area exist only at a relatively minimal level between the majority of the two types of organizations."

By 1979, the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare was more blunt, saying, "The relationship between the CMHCs [community mental health centers] and public psychiatric hospital is difficult at best, adversarial at worst."

By the early 1980s, then, some unintended consequences of deinstitutionalization were becoming manifest. More and more very sick people were living on the


the studies. For instance, Albert Blanchard, a homeless man with a long history of schizophrenia and homelessness, was set on fire as he slept on a sidewalk in downtown Nashville. His sister noted that "Albert's paranoia would not allow him to stay in one place for long. He chose to live on the streets to keep the people the voices warned him of from finding him." As a result of the attack, Albert spent more than six months in the hospital and had eight separate surgeries.

A 1988 report on homeless women in San Francisco noted the women were being raped and sexually assaulted at an alarming rate, with some women being raped as many as 17 times. To protect themselves from attack, homeless women were known to wearthere.

Freezing to death during bitter weather is all-too-common among the homeless in general, but especially among those with schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness. These deaths do not usually attract much attention, but on November 29, 1993, in Washington, DC, Yetta Adams was found frozen to death on a bench across the street from the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Ms. Adams suffered from schizophrenia and alcoholism and was living on the streets. When seeing a crowd outside his office, then-Secretary of HUD, Henry G. Cisneros, left his office to find out what had happened. He later wrote, "Yetta Adams’ death jarred me and all my colleagues at HUD, reminding us that our society is becoming an increasingly hostile environment for the homeless."

Cisneros, Henry G.


The lonely death on my doorstep; Yetta Adams' story and the new war on homelessness, The Washington Post (December 5, 1993).

Murder is the most horrific cause of increased mortality among those homeless individuals with untreated psychiatric illnesses. While no formal study has been conducted, anecdotal evidence suggests that such deaths are not rare.

In Tennessee, two young men who “came downtown with plans to rough up the people who spend their nights sleeping on downtown streets,” killed Tara Cole by pushing her into the river as she slept. Cole, a 32-year-old woman who had been homeless for four years, had family and friends who wanted to help her, but she didn’t think she was ill and had stopped taking medication for bipolar disorder.

In 1993, three men and a woman,ages 19 to 22, beat a homeless man to death with baseball bats as part of a gang initiation. Randall Townsend, 42, had a severe mental illness and was living under a bridge. One assailant hit him in the face so hard that the bat broke. The other assailants then punched and kicked him and dropped a boulder on his face. Townsend never regained consciousness and died from head injuries.

Four charged in beating death of homeless man, The News Tribune (April 16, 2003).

In 1989, three young men savagely beat Van Mill, a 110-pound man with paranoid-schizophrenia who was living in a tent in Des Moines, IA, to death. After robbing and assaulting him, the Des Moines Register reported that "they threw him into an empty wading pool at


A French business where customers can spend time alone with human-looking silicone sex dolls will remain open despite criticism that it degrades women and promotes rape culture.

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The Paris city council this week rejected a motion that called for the closure of Xdolls, which lets clients tryst with a sex doll at a secret location for 89 euros (about $109, £78 or AU$142) an hour. It's being called the first venue of its kind in France, though similar outlets operate in Japan and Germany.

"This establishment ... is the latest invention to bring brothels back into the landscape," Nicolas Bonnet Oulaldj, a left-wing Paris council member who opposes Xdolls, said in a statement. Other critics include French feminist groups concerned violent behavior toward the dolls could repeat itselfHouston high school student shoots himself in back of cop car

Houston's North Shore High School where a student who had been handcuffed reportedly shot himself in the back of a police car on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012.

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(CBS) HOUSTON - Police say a Texas high school student shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a police car Wednesday, CBS affiliate KHOU reports.

Police were reportedly called to Houston's North Shore High School around 10:45 a.m. after a friend became concerned that the teen would hurt himself and contacted the constable on campus.

According to KHOU, police took the student into custody to protect him. They handcuffed and searched him, but did not find a weapon. The student was put in the back of a squad car where he reportedly retrieved


Asia for clues.

A hermit’s cave

Denisova Cave lies at the foot of the Altai Mountains, near Russia’s borders with Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan. Located in a verdant river valley that reminds some visitors of Switzerland, the site gets its name, according to legends, from a local herder or an eighteenth-century hermit who found seclusion in its high-ceilinged chambers. The cave remains remote, even for the researchers who flock there during the six-month excavation season that spans the spring and summer. “You are completely cut off from the world,” says Katerina Douka, an archaeological scientist and Brown’s supervisor at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who first visited the cave in 2013. “It was a paradise,” she says.

Soviet archaeologists began to excavate thecave in the 1970s and early 1980s, discovering tens of thousands of stone tools and fragments of animal bone, many gnawed and digested by hyenas or other carnivores that had lived in the cave. In 2009, Svante Pääbo, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, received a bone from the finger of a hominin, small and broken in half, that Russian archaeologists had pulled from the cave the previous year. He wondered whether it belonged to a Neanderthal, because his team had found the group’s DNA in fragmentary remains from a cave nearby. But Pääbo’s expectations were low because the bone was so small and therefore unlikely to contain much DNA. “It was actually lying around for half a year,” he says,


and perhaps interbred — in the cave. Geochronologists Zenobia Jacobs and Richard Roberts at the University of Wollongong, Australia, led a team that dated sediment from Denisova Cave by analysing hundreds of thousands of grains of quartz and feldspar5.

Judging by the oldest stone tools found there, the cave’s first residents moved in around 300,000 years ago and were, presumably, Denisovans or Neanderthals. Denisovans occupied the cave from at least 200,000 years ago to about 55,000 years ago — when the sediments in which Denisova 3 was found were laid down, Jacobs and Roberts reported in January5. The team also dated Neanderthal remains and sediment to between about 100,000 and 190,000 years ago.

This could imply that the two groups overlapped for long stretches, but Jacobs cautions that the teamLegendary fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, who dressed generations of celebrities in red carpet and evening gowns, has died after battling cancer at 82.

In the early 1960s, he came to fame dressing Jackie Kennedy, and founded an influential New York fashion house. Among the actresses who appreciated his glamorous red carpet gowns were Audrey Hepburn, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Kidman, Oprah Winfrey, Kristen Stewart, Penelope Cruz and Jessica Chastain. One of his most recent commissions was Amal Clooney’s wedding dress.

His name was so synonymous with high fashion that an entire “Sex and the City” episode was based on the idea of Carrie Bradshaw receiving a knee-length red poufy dress from her boyfriend Aleksandr Petrovsky.

He can also be seen in 2009 documentary “The September Issue,” about the making of


New York where he worked with Elizabeth Arden before launching his ready-to-wear label in 1965.

He married Francois de Langlade, editor of French Vogue, who died in 1983. His second wife, who survives him, is philanthropist Annette Reed. After de Langlade’s death, he adopted a son, Moises, who is a designer and artist.

ABC News reported the news of his death.Divided into chapters which are The ghosts of spaces, empty as rooms Unremembered by whoever dreamed Within once. These are its chapters. Memorize them, or try, for the test On Friday. Nothing happened in a Billion variations at any Time. And Rule Three: Ghosts write the Upcoming but not by writing but Erasing. The long ago dead steer The car over the cliff, or onto The Channel ferry, or straight across Texas. A phantom drove you to an Addiction to the naked girl in Afternoon sun, and the genetics Of raw chance you called love.

James Robison has published many stories in The New Yorker, won a Whiting Grant and a Rosenthal Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in Best American Short


Stories, The Pushcart Prize, Grand Street, and other venues. He has poetry and prose forthcoming in Story Quarterly, The Blue Fifth Review, Commonline, Rick Magazine, Scythe, Metazen, Corium Magazine, and elsewhere. James taught for eight years at the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program, was Visiting Writer at Loyola College of Maryland, and was Fiction Editor of The North Dakota Quarterly.

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valedictory

first thing i know it's Weirton Steel,sulfur-stink, ore dust, and my mom,baby sister and i have driven daddown US 2 till the tin mill swallowsthe sky; i must be three, four, topsand we park next a man-bridge,and beyond it this tiny door gleams,open on the bay; though it lookslike the evil eye, dad grabshis pot, pecks mom, clambers out,and then it's me on the bridgeand it clanksSeattle native, Susan V. Meyers has lived and taught in Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico. She earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a PhD from the University of Arizona, and currently teaches writing at Oregon State University. Her work has recently appeared in Calyx, The Minnesota Review, Rosebud, and Dogwood, and has been the recipient of several awards, most recently a Fulbright Fellowship.

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Mike

Only you and I would be giddily in overalls digging out poles with petrified worms (from the last trip) still clinging to the hooks, throw it all into the trunk of your parents’ old Impala and head south without a map, or enough gas, or any bait. The Tom Sawyer in you always choosing the long way out of town, across the


"Putting Up" is from her manuscript-in-progress, chronicling the lost mill town of Warren, once located in northern Baltimore County, Maryland. Ann's grandmother, Marian Brown, who died in 2006 at the age of 103, spent most of her life in Warren, and is believed to have been the last surviving mill worker.

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Tulsa

Sex is in the eyes and the smell and the past. The hintof sweat from straw-colored hair. The tasteof a smile. The lilting voice. The slow catch of silkon nipples. No man covets shoes, though somecovet memory. Delilah, I miss you. I missTulsa dying in the rearview, the sickly lingerof your cigarettes. But I’m not humping the passenger seatanymore. Remember the time we got stuck in a ditch chasinga field fire? A farmer called a sheriff, refusedthe Garden," was selected as a Notable Story of 2008 for Story South's Million Writer's Award. Nominated thrice for the Pushcart Prize, he blogs at Murder Your Darlings (http://clbledsoe.blogspot.com/). C.L. has written reviews for The Hollins Critic, The Arkansas Review, American Book Review, The Pedestal Magazine, and elsewhere.

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Being the Only Child in the Suburbs to Grow Up Eating Homemade Macaroni and Cheese,June Cleaver Goes Back to the Old Neighborhood In Search of a Recipe, Discovers the Kitchen Is Not As Big As She Remembered

There were things you did not havegrowing up,things you wanted–the blue box of macaroni and cheeseturquoise toilet waterlighter blue eyes.

Then there are the gems you hold

in your fists while you sleep–the melody of tap water in a cobalt gobletkey of B as you slip


car
with phantom plates, or a van with a periscope,a toilet, recorder gear, stacks of cigarettesand snacks to last the weekand hurried the back roads to beat the late-bell.

It feels unpoemable, that strangeness that feels nothinglike a secret, nothing like an uncovering.There is a bevy of red leather-bound booksin my parents' basement, gold stamped years on the spines.Thirty years seeking out the cityuntil streets become asphyxiation burns—the scorched paths some follow, are followed by.Phone calls with a strained voiceto hear us speak, discover us still alivein pajamas late at night while he guzzled coffeeand considered the notes he'd take later:the body of a six year old, the messy drillstill hanging from his pupil, the fatherstoned dead in front of the smashed television.

My father dizzied and worry-wrinkled—this detail would notthe lessonshe planted in me, an effort to teachthe evil out of this world. His memoirsscribbled like a collection of suicide notesanthologized on a basement workbench.

Carolyne Whelan received her MFA in poetry and nonfiction at Chatham University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Now, Eclectica, and Chapter & Verse, among others, as well as in a collaborative chapbook, Are You Free? (Glass Key Press, 2009). Carolyne's poetry recently won an award from the Sacramento Poetry Center. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the editor of the fledgling chapbook publisher, Longshore Press, while also working as a freelance writer and performer. Her forthcoming chapbook, entitled The Glossary of Tania Aebi, will be published by Finishing Line Press in 2011.

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Treading Waterin the Archipelagoof Bodegas and


blown up, body parts flunghelter-skelter across the wasteland. An arm lands on a cactus. A leg flies into a circle of vultures overhead.Seconds later, he lifts himself off the limb or collects himself from the sand— a lie not even children buy.

Jim Elledge’s H, a collection of prose poems about outsider artist Henry Darger, is due shortly from Busman’s Holiday Press. His A History of My Tattoo: A Poem, won the 2006 Lambda Literary Award for gay male poetry. Jim's work has appeared in Paris Review, Jubilat, Five Fingers Review, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, and other journals. He directs the MA in Professional Writing Program at Kennesaw State University. His father worked in the blast furnace of Granite City Steel in Illinois for all of his life.

<the Provost’s Graduate Study Award in 2009. She was also nominated to read for the CUNY Turn Style reading series in 2010. Her works have appeared in Barrier Islands Review, Caesura, Connotations Press, and Pennsylvania Literary Journal. She currently lives in Staten Island.

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Over-Easy at the All-Night Diner

I dump out the old brew and sizzle up the grill around dawn, when the third shifters thin out and the day shift rolls in, then I spot him; red stitching above his breast pocket reads, Tom.

In wrinkled coveralls, he leans on the counter and orders eggsover hard; yolk hard as the August sun (bubbled like fresh tarunder his roller); leaves me his change and downs the dregs.

Most folks take theirs over-easy, they like for the yolk to ooze,and sop it


both know he will—call him back.

Or I will, hoping that my brotherwill pick up from the last bar in the universewhere he’s just placed the same calland he’s pretty damn sure that this one timehis despair will be more importantthan my disapproval.

Dr. Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a poet and literary scholar. Her second poetry collection, Work Is Love Made Visible (West End Press, 2009), won the 2010 Oklahoma Book Award, the Western Heritage Award, and the WILLA Award. She has published poetry in LABOR: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, Poetry Bay, and Sugar Mule. Dr. Mish is currently a member of the faculty of the Red Earth MFA program at Oklahoma City University.

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Charley Plays a Tune

Crippled in Chicagowith arthritisand Alzheimer's,Charley playsmelancholic melodieson a dust-filledharmonicahe found abandonedon a playground of sand.He hears bedlam when he buys fish at the local marketand their skeleton bones show through;lies on his backin a dark rented room,pine cones in his pillows and mattress;prays to Jesus and rubs his rosary beads.Charley blows into his celestial instrument;notes float through the open window,touch the nose of summer clouds.Overtaken with grief,ecstatically alone.Charley plays a solo tune.

Nikki is a little blackkitten, suckles me for milk,and I, her substitute mother,

afloat in a flower bed of love,give back affectionfreely, unlike a money exchange.I go to the kitchen, getFancy Feast, gourmet salmon, shrimp.A new work day begins.

Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. He says that he is heavily influenced by Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Irving


no one took time to mend.

David Schultz was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He began writing before puberty and has never stopped. Now some five decades later, he has been published in a number of small magazines for poetry and short stories. David says that writing has been and will be what he most loves to do for the rest of his life.

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Candy Store Shopping List

First, the candy cigarettesFor that cool and mature look,Dangling one of those sugared sticks from the corner of your mouthAnd accenting crude cursing with a deep cough,Like the neighbor down the blockWho, parents said, had been to college,Yet worked in the foundry like everybody else;

And then the M & M’s for pills,Like the ones mom took after she spilled sauce on thebite out of his head.

Ron Yazinski is a retired English teacher who lives in Northeastern Pennsylvania with his wife, Jeanne. His poems have, or will soon appear in Mulberry Poets and Writers Association, Strong Verse, The Bijou Review, Edison Literary Review, Lunarosity, Penwood, Jones Av., Chantarelle’s Notebook, Centrifugal Eye, amphibi.us, Nefarious Ballerina, Amarillo Bay, The Write Room, Pulsar, Menagerie, H.O.D., Forge, and Crash. Ron's chapbook, Houses: An American Zodiac, was published by The Poetry Library. He has also written a full-length book of poems, entitled South of Scranton.

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Line of Sight

Frayed fur, mottled and patchy, the coyotecocked his head and answered his mate.

I stood downwind, but he must have heard the crickets,haphazard in their skitters, startled from my path.

He could hunt beaver, jackrabbits, prairie dogs, or voles,though what


could be easier than picking off our chickens.

He leaned his forelegs into the howlas plaintive cries pealed from his chest.

My wife feeds our kids with those eggs.I drew a bead on his head. The other coyote bayed.

I opened steel into sky, opened silencewhere splendor once swayed.

Jill McCabe Johnson is the recipient of the Paula Jones Gardiner Poetry Award from Floating Bridge Press, and two Pushcart nominations. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Pacific Lutheran University, and is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of Nebraska. Her writing has been published in numerous journals, including The Los Angeles Review, Poetry Quarterly, and Harpur Palate.

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Salmonberry Mountain, 1911

Working with double-bitted axessharp enough to get a good shave,fallers hew out slotsto fit springboards into bark.

Balancing on theseplanks, chips flylike ants gnawing a giant stalk.

After the wedged out cut, big enoughfor a lumberjack to lay downand pretend he might be crushed,they rip with a crosscut sawthe entire afternoon,until the tree begins to snap.

Leaping like bucks,each man searches for safety—playing the oddsthe fir will not fall crazy,pounding them with one blowas a sledge drives a stake.

Where the crown used to beis a hole in the canopylike looking upfrom the bottom of a grave.

Mark Thalman's book, Catching the Limit (2009), is part of Fairweather Books' Northwest Poetry Series. His poetry has been widely published over the last three decades, and has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, CutBank, Many Mountains Moving, Pedestal Magazine, and Verse Daily, among others. Mark received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of


so tighthe became his nickname, Tuna,

drinking with the other fishat the gin mill across the streeteach dawn before swimming hometighter and smaller each day

with black lunch pails to be foundone day packed with a few documents,shriveled policies, worthless stock,waving on their way out of the plant

to the boiler men walking into stoke fire and steam, crankthe monstrous valves of another day,shout to the line teratoids

R.A. Pavoldi's poems have been published in FIELD, Hanging Loose, Margie, Exquisite Corpse, and ARS MEDICA: A Journal of Medicine, Health and the Humanities, Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Psychiatry. He received an International Merit Award in Atlanta Review’s 2005 International Poetry Competition and in 2003, was a finalist in The St. Louis Poetry Center’s 43rd Annual National Poetry Contest, judged by James Tate.appeared in numerous literary jounrals, such as Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, and Rattle, among others. Her book, Diary of a Cell, was the winner of the 2004 Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, judged by Charles Harper Webb. Jennifer is currently the author of the blog, Everyday Bright.

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The Man Who Taught Me Endurance

I knew a postal clerk with one small job - to untie knotson misdirected parcels, a wizened gnome hunchedover a low wooden table scarred with scissor wounds,ink tattoos and stacked high with every rope conceivable:hemp coils, nylon, polyester, and polypropylene

all braided, kneaded, twisted, cross-hatched, choked, and tangledin prophetic yet productive shapes such as dolly knotsthat held their loads as long as something tugged the other way.The man untied all kinds - double eights for climbers,


half-hitchesfor those who couldn't bear heavy loads, true lovers (overhand knots

that must be equal to stay locked), and the hangman,a final knot applied when others would not hold.Everyday from six a.m. till four p.m. for forty yearshe battled boredom, visualizing himself as Marie Antoinettein her last few moments while she inhaled the steel and terrorsparking from a sharpening wheel in the courtyard of her palace.

The Immigrants - 1929

Grandpa healed the great locomotives, herding themout of Southern Railway shops along the veins of tracksconnecting both coasts to the Hoosier heartland. Paid enoughfor bread and a few of those potatoes the Irish learned to love,he brought home a bag of coal every week in winterto fire the iron stove rising from the floor like a black orchid.That stove split theThe Café Review, Connecticut Review, The DuPage Valley Review, Elixir Magazine, and North American Review. He is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, Running the Voodoo Down and When the Stars Go Dark. McGarrah has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and was a finalist twice in the James Hearst Poetry Contest.

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Fruits of Labor [spoken word]

"Fruits of Labor" is about William S. Webster's father who was a commercial and residential painter, and with whom he worked for many years. William is an Associate Professor of English at South Georgia College, where he teaches a largely rural community.

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Rap Poem for Generation Gaps [spoken word]

Michelle Tokarczyk's book of poetry, The House I'm Running From, was published by West End Press. Her work has also appeared in


several journals and anthologies, including the minnesota review, Calling Home: An Anthology of Working-Class Women's Writing, and For a Living: The Poetry of Work. In addition to being a poet, she is a professor of English at Goucher College and a scholar of working-class studies.New Orleans Saints running back Mark Ingram (22) is tripped up by Washington Redskins free safety D.J. Swearinger (36) in the first half of an NFL football game in New Orleans, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Rusty Costanza)

Washington Redskins free safety D.J. Swearinger (36) intercepts a pass intended for New Orleans Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas (13) in the first half of an NFL football game in New Orleans, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara (41) celebrates his game-tying two-point conversion in the second half of an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins in New Orleans, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. The Saints won -34-31. (AP Photo/Rusty Costanza)

Revamped Skins defense ranks 31st in points allowed in NFL

By HOWARD FENDRICH

Nov. 21, 2017

ASHBURN,


Heritage Standard Corporation (HSC) owned mineral property leases for
a nonfunctioning oil well in Winkler County, Texas. This well was governed
by a series of contractual arrangements. Because these contracts bear on
Drillers’ ability to recover on their claims, we will briefly outline them here.
In January 2008, HSC entered into a farmout agreement (Staley Agreement)
with George Staley to develop the well. 1                Staley then entered into an
assignment contract (Lakehills Agreement) with Lake Hills Productions, Inc.
(Lakehills) to perform the work. Staley, HSC, and Lakehills, along with well
operator Stratco Operating Co., Inc. (Stratco) subsequently signed a Joint
Operating Agreement (JOA) to develop the well. The JOA was made effective
as of January 2008, and the parties all signed it betweenApril and June of
2008.
        Lakehills then sold and assigned its interests in the well to Trius Energy,
LLC (Trius) in February 2008, and Trius was added to the JOA in September
2008. As a result, HSC was responsible for 12.5% of the well expenditures, and
Trius was responsible for the remaining 87.5% of the expenditures. In July

        1 A farmout is a contract “whereby a lease owner not desirous of drilling at the time
agrees to assign the lease, or some portion of it . . . to another operator who is desirous of
drilling the tract.” 8-F Williams & Meyers, Oil Gas Law Scope. “The primary characteristic
of the farmout is the obligation of the assignee to drill one


part of the
working interest in the lease when Drillers performed their work and perfected
their liens. Drillers also presented evidence that HSC was the record owner of
100% of the lease, and retained 12.5% of the working interest even after the
various farmout agreements and assignments. Drillers presented evidence
demonstrating that Lakehills was in a contractual relationship with HSC
because Lakehills was the assignee of the Staley Agreement. Viewed in the
light most favorable to Drillers, this evidence demonstrates that Lakehills was
a contractor at the time that Drillers performed their work on the well. Drillers
also put forth evidence showing that Lakehills contracted with Drillers to have
Drillers perform work on the well. Taken together, these facts at the very least
raise a genuine issue as to whether Drillers were mineral subcontractors with
regard to Debtors at theintentions, they left a rose at the entrance to 10 Downing St, although police officers there refused to take it in – possibly on the grounds that it might conceal a deadly airborne nerve agent. They then stopped off at the Westminster Arms, before making their way en masse towards the principal public entrance to Parliament – St Stephen’s Gate.

They were definitely not led by an individual best known to the world as blogger aulde Holborne. He explained that he was merely "out for a walk", and suggested that he could in no way be held responsible if a number of his friends just happened to turn up wearing almost identical outfits (and masks).

You can never find a copper when you need one. (Photo: Cassie Mayers)

On arrival at


before. It's scary, because they have control over a very large number of machines."

“Operational restraint”

Yet by all appearances, the group is casting its vast net to spy on only a tiny fraction of the computers it compromises. In the Asus case, it filtered machines by checking their MAC addresses, seeking to target only around 600 computers out of 600,000 it compromised. In the earlier CCleaner incident, it installed a piece of "second-stage" spyware on only about 40 computers among 700,000 it had infected. Barium ultimately targets so few computers that, in most of its operations, researchers never even got their hands on the final malware payload. Only in the CCleaner case did Avast discover evidence of a third-stage spyware sample that acted as a keylogger and password-stealer. ThatIn its most recent video game supply-chain attacks, the hackers' backdoor was designed to activate and reach out to a command-and-control server only if the victim computer wasn't configured to use Simplified Chinese language settings—or, more strangely, Russian.

More tellingly, clues in Barium's code also connect it to previously known, likely Chinese hacker groups. It shares some code fingerprints with the Chinese state-sponsored spying group known as Axiom or APT17, which carried out widespread cyberespionage across government and private-sector targets going back at least a decade. But it also seems to share tooling with an older group that Kaspersky calls Winnti, which similarly showed a pattern of stealing digital certificates from video game companies. Confusingly, the Winnti group was long considered a freelance or criminal hacker group, which seemed


to be selling its stolen digital certificates to other China-based hackers, according to one analysis by security firm Crowdstrike. "They may have been freelancers who joined a larger group that's now focused on espionage," says Michal Salat, the head of threat intelligence at Avast.

Regardless of its origins, it's Barium's future that worries Kaspersky's Kamluk. He notes that the group's malware has become stealthier—in the Asus attack, the company's tainted code included a list of target MAC addresses so that it wouldn't have to communicate with a command-and-control server, depriving defenders of the kind of network signal that allowed Kaspersky to find the group after its NetSarang attack. And in the video game hijacking case, Barium went so far as to plant its malware by corrupting the version ofthe Microsoft Visual Studio compiler that the game developers were using—essentially hiding one supply chain attack within another.

"There's a constant evolution of their methods, and it's growing in sophistication," Kamluk says. "As time passes, it's going to become harder and harder to catch these guys."

This story originally appeared on wired.com.


Jerry Montgomery OU defensive line coach

The Green Bay Packers officially announced the addition of former OU assistant Jerry Montgomery to their staff on Thursday.

Montgomery is among two staff additions and five new coaching titles for the Packers. Montgomery will assume the role of defensive front assistant.

Heralded as one of the top recruiters for OU in his brief tenure, Montgomery left the Sooners this week after a two-year stint as defensive line coach. He was promoted to co-defensive coordinator by Bob Stoops in January.great books to get me out the door so I can find out what trouble he is going to get into next.

The only 4 star read on my list was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows which was on my To Be Read Shelf. I tried to listen to the audio book last winter but had to abandon it as the book is written in a series of letters and it was far too confusing to try to follow who was writing to who. It is set shortly after WWII in England and I thought it was a charming read about a serious time in history.

I might note that I'm a tough rater of books. The vast majority of my


1903, United Fruit introduced its first refrigerated banana boat. As Sarah Murray explains in Movable Feasts:

Without refrigerated transport, shiploads of fruit frequently arrived at best overripened, at worst in a downright rotten state, making the mass marketing of bananas impossible. With the preservative power of refrigeration and the speed of steam-powered engines, however, bananas could be shipped in enormous volumes. […] In a matter of decades, refrigerated vessels had helped turn what in the 1890s was an exotic curiosity into a mass-market product, paving the way for a massive and highly lucrative trans-American trade.

IMAGE: By 1928, United Fruit had its own fleet of eight refrigerated steamships, painted white so as to reflect the sun and assist with cooling. In Movable Feasts, Murray also provides a concise overview oftropical Ecuador. New York City’s supermarkets, grocers, coffee-shops, and food cart vendors are served by just a handful of banana ripening outfits — one in Brooklyn, one in Long Island, a small facility inside the main Hunt’s Point Terminal Market, and our field trip destination: Banana Distributors of New York, in the Bronx.

IMAGE: Behind the heavy doors that open off this main space, thousands of bananas are being ushered through each stage of the ripening process.

During our visit, Paul Rosenblatt told us that he aims to ripen fruit in five days at 62 degrees, but, to schedule fruit readiness in accordance with supply and demand, he can push a room in four days at 64 degrees, or extend the process to seven days at 58 degrees.

“The energy coming


stock over on a daily basis. “Street vendors,” Rosenblatt notes, as well as shops serving a mostly Latin American customer base, “like full yellow.” Personally, he eats only a couple of bananas each week, and favours fully ripe “sevens.”

IMAGE: The Chiquita banana colour guide.

In addition to precise temperature control, the ripening process also depends on atmospheric design. Over a 24-hour period, each roomful of bananas is gassed with ethylene, a plant hormone that accelerates ripening (and is also, curiously, the most produced organic compound in the world).

IMAGE: A clipboard hung on or near the door of each banana ripening room keeps track of the ambient temperature and ethylene gas injection.

IMAGE: Paul Rosenblatt holding an ethylene generator in front of a banana colour guide.”

The ethylene is produced in alow, even flow from portable “Easy-Ripe” generators. In the past, Rosenblatt, explained, rooms would be injected with a burst of ethylene released from a cylinder, which not only made it much harder to achieve an even distribution among the stacked bananas, but also posed a heightened fire risk (ethylene is highly flammable, and in the early days of injection technology, fatal banana ripening room explosions were not uncommon).

When Rosenblatt opened the door on a recently gassed room, the smell was revolting — like a wine-soaked carpet, the morning after.

IMAGE: Bananas stacked in the original 1970s pressurised rooms.

For students of the artificial cryosphere, a visit to the Banana Distributors of New York is particularly exciting because original pressurised rooms from the late 1970s are still in use, alongside state-of-the-art