It must've been fate, me first bumping into U.S. Senate candidate Kelli Ward outside the recent meeting of the Maricopa County Republican Committee at a church in Central Phoenix.

I recently took the Duke University-educated former state Senator to task for her playing footsie with far-right fanatics, like in 2014 when she and other Arizona GOP politicians rushed up to Nevada to support so-called "welfare rancher" Cliven Bundy in a standoff with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over his unwillingness to pay grazing fees for his cattle.

Now it's deja vu all over again in Oregon, as a passel of heavily armed wackos led by Cliven's sons, Ryan and Ammon, and joined by anti-Muslim Phoenix bigot Jon Ritzheimer, have taken over a federal wildlife refuge, defaced property, used governmentvehicles, and vowed to stay put till the Obama administration turns over federal land to county control.

Ward has a history of humoring crackpots, which has earned her the sobriquet "Chemtrail Kelli" for holding a town hall in Kingman to discuss the harmless white trails of condensation emitted by airplanes that so many of her supporters believe are part of a kooky conspiracy to poison Americans.

When I asked Ward about the Oregon standoff for my previous column, she issued a statement, saying in part, "We don't have the right to use force or threaten violence."

Still, she did not condemn the Bundys' actions in Oregon, and instead supported their "free speech" rights.

Face to face at the MCRC meeting, she didn't even offer her previous admonition against violence when asked if


in the GOP primary.

Granted, censuring McCain for Maricopa County tuskers is as perfunctory as saying the Pledge of Allegiance, and McCain's getting spanked is good for Ward, but isn't it also good for Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, who surely will take on McCain in the general election?

Far-right Republican activist and PC Charlene Hanson told me that she disliked both McCain and Kirkpatrick. But when I asked if she would vote for Kirkpatrick, assuming McCain squared off with her in the general, her answer floored me.

"I might," she said.

Not every PC was willing to go there, and some spoke against the measure when it came to a vote, pointing out that by dissing McCain in an election year, they were aiming Glock at foot and firing.

Those speaking in favorsmiling, potato-like mug. The sign simply said "for Arizona." It didn't indicate that he was running for anything.

Naturally, I inquired as to what he might be running for, but Russ remained mum. Currently, he is employed at an $80,000-a-year job working for Republican County Treasurer Charles "Hos" Hoskins, who has signaled that he will not run for re-election this year.

However, Pearce's fellow county employee and political ally Royce Flora has announced his intention to run to replace Hoskins, and it seems unlikely Pearce would challenge Flora.

The MCRC was a marathon, lasting officially from 9 a.m. till well past 7 p.m. Last order of business was the removal of the first and second vice chairs of the MCRC, Aaron Borders and Jeni White, respectively.

You may recall Borders as the


guy who wanted to be Donald Trump's man in Arizona until some incendiary Facebook posts of his forced the Trump camp to give him their version of "the Heisman."

AZ GOP chair Robert Graham is being touted as possible replacement for current RNC chair Reince Priebus.

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Apparently, White and Borders' sin was to raise questions about the county party's bookkeeping, which was enough to earn a special session of the MCRC, held in the waning hours of Saturday's meeting, just to remove the two volunteers from office.

The debate over the issue was ugly, with PCs shouting down speakers, in some cases with profanity. But the LaFaro-Morrissey-Haney axis wanted them gone. In the end, they were ousted by about 63 percent of the vote.

This was also a win for theMCRC's young, charismatic chairman, Tyler Bowyer, whose leadership had been challenged by White, Borders, and their supporters.

"What I saw Saturday from Maricopa County Republicans was nothing but subtraction and division," he wrote on his blog, contending that "rules and procedures were botched in order to kangaroo court a decision."

Wikfors also bemoaned having to watch "fellow Republicans froth at the mouth shouting at each other."

Republican state party committee members may get more of the same January 23, when the Arizona Republican Party meets in Phoenix.

Team LaFaro will be at it again, attempting to pass a statewide anybody-but-McCain resolution and hoping to censure popular state party chair Robert Graham, whom many see as a contender to replace Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus next year.


Although NYSERDA ultimately was not tapped for the funding, the request — detailed in a confidential internal NYSERDA email exchange obtained by the Times Union — shows the blurring lines between independent state authorities and the executive branch controlled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. For instance, NYSERDA currently pays the salaries of five employees in the executive branch, using funds collected through utility bills.

While denying that the use of authority money helps the governor keep taxes down, administration officials said that sharing resources makes state government more efficient and allows state policy set by the executive branch to be implemented more quickly. For instance, Cuomo's energy czar and Cabinet member Richard Kauffman also serves as chairman of NYSERDA.

"Agencies periodically have employees doing agency policy and budget work at thepay for three positions at the Inspector General's Office.

"He explained that (the governor's secretary) Larry Schwartz and the Governor want to create a special unit in the State Inspector General Office to focus on preventing fraud, waste and abuse in state government... but they want to keep the unit positions/funding off State Budget," Pitkin wrote to Rhodes. "So they are asking various public authorities for assistance in funding certain positions for the unit on each authority's payroll."

Pitkin also said that "adding additional positions" to the NYSERDA payroll "will create fiscal challenges for us," and said that the money would have to come out of existing clean energy programs "further diluting... funding for these programs."

A high-ranking Cuomo administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the request was


just one funding alternative that was being considered at the time by the Division of Budget. But the funding mechanism was never used.

"They did not go that route," the official said.

The same official called "inaccurate" an assertion in the email that NYSERDA was being asked to fund the inspector general jobs as a way to keep the expense out of the state budget.

The official said that banks regulated by the Department of Financial Services pay for the audit staff the department needs for its bank investigations.Former U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy blasted House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., saying Schiff made himself a "fact witness" with the revelation that his office had contact with the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower.

"Right now he's made himself a fact witness," Gowdy told "The Story with Martha MacCallum" on Friday. "He is in the evidentiary chain for what happened with this whistleblower and I hope the Republicans make him testify."

PELOSI DEFENDS SCHIFF AFTER BEING PRESSED ABOUT HIS 'PARODY' OF TRUMP'S UKRAINE CALL

Gowdy also mocked Schiff for being awarded “Four Pinocchios” by the Washington Post on Friday, claiming he hadn't told the truth about his knowledge of the whistleblower.

Schiff has played a leading role in investigating the Trump-Ukraine scandal but hasn’t been truthful in the process, according to Washington Post fact-checker


A recent revelation by satirical cartoonist Atena Farghadani that she was forced to undergo a “virginity and pregnancy test”, prior to her trial for a charge of “illegitimate sexual relations” for shaking hands with her lawyer, has added another stain on Iran’s shameful record of violence against women, Amnesty International said today.

In a note written by Atena Farghadani leaked from prison, which has been seen by Amnesty International, she says the judicial authorities took her to a medical centre outside the prison on 12 August 2015 and forced her to submit to the tests, purportedly with the purpose of investigating the charge against her.

“It is shocking that on top of imposing a ludicrous charge on Atena Farghadani for the ‘crime’ of shaking hands with her lawyer, the Iranianis a prisoner of conscience. She has committed no internationally recognizable crime, and has been punished simply for exercizing her rights to freedoms of expression, association and assembly.

Held in prison since January 2015, Atena Farghadani was sentenced in June 2015 to 12 years and nine month in prison for her peaceful activism, including meeting with families of political prisoners, and for drawing a satirical cartoon depicting legislators as monkeys, cows, and other animals. The cartoon was in protest at a bill that seeks to criminalize voluntary sterilization and restrict access to contraception and family planning services.

In December 2014, when she was out on bail she released a video message on YouTube protesting at how female prison guards at Evin prison had beaten her, verbally abused her and forced


actually gave him a small nick in the flesh of his neck. Apparently unsatisfied, she reared back to stab him again, but this time he hit her in the mouth. She dropped the knife and ran to call 911. Sacramento Sheriffs Deputies arrived at the scene to intervene, drew their guns, and slapped cuffs- on Mr. Woods.

They were preparing to take him to jail, over his protests, but it was the daughters, who insisted that the deputies listen to them (they sure as hell were not listening to him), that finally prevented them from taking their father to jail and leaving them alone with the disturbed and violent mother.

But, they did not take the mother anywhere either. They released Woods from his handcuffs advised him to get herAndrew McCormick, who was the most senior official working under Jonathan Bell when the RHI scheme ran out of control in 2015, gives a unique window into the inner workings of Northern Ireland’s most successful – and one of its most disciplined – parties.

In witness statements and documentation which run to more than 1,000 pages, Dr McCormick set out a spat over whether Mr Bell was invited to an event with Boris Johnson, a late night out for Mr Bell in New York which led to him being unable to adequately discharge his duties the following morning, Mr Bell’s recording of as yet unreleased audio tapes involving his then DUP Assembly colleague Carla Lockhart and the at times dysfunctional relationship between the minister and the DUP Spad who


in relation to foreign direct investment and trade (indeed they had been aware of his limited capacity to contribute effectively, and the risk of him making inappropriate or unhelpful comments even before the trip took place).”

Dr McCormick went on to say that “it was noted that Jonathan Bell was visibly tired at a key meeting on Friday 28 January 2016. The context for this was that I had accompanied him and Niall Gibbons of Tourism Ireland for a meal and some drinks the previous evening, and although I left them when I felt the need to sleep, I was told later that Jonathan Bell had had quite a late night...it was my impression that, in consequence the minister was unable to participate fully in the meeting in aMecoms agreed to sell their entire interest (79.5%) in a Louisiana partnership known as the New Orleans Saints, a franchise organization of the National Football League. By letter of July 24, 1973, the Palmer Group terminated the contract charging that warranties and representations made by the Mecoms had proven to be materially inaccurate. The Mecoms thereafter demanded arbitration as provided for in the two Letter Agreements and appointed the first arbitrator.[1]
The Palmer Group refused to arbitrate, and on August 15, 1973 this complaint was filed with an attached Motion to Compel Arbitration. On October 9, 1973, the defendants filed, simultaneously, their answer and counterclaims alleging that the contract, as embodied in the Letter Agreements, was void ab initio because of error, fraud, failure of suspensive condition, breach of


boiled down to how the main character, Laila, holds herself and discovers who she is as a girl in a wheelchair who may or may not be bisexual. The film is a social commentary on the beauty of relationships and self-discovery; it is a voice for the marginalised and stigmatised, and taboo communities in a country yet to reach the highest point of a representative, progressive social and cultural order.

Laila, played by Kalki Keochlin, is a girl with cerebral palsy living in New Delhi, India, with her primary caregiver and mother, father and younger brother. They are a close-knit family with nothing but love and acceptance for Laila and her condition, something that is rare and or difficult to do in most families across the world. Her familyas a whole exudes an image of cultural progression as her parents hail from differing background; her mother from South India and her father from the north. They are supportive in her desires to live as normally as she wants to, for instance her interest in music, her role in a college band and her choice to move to New York for studies. The only exception that her mother feels strongly about is the notion of love, to which she attributes being in love with boys, something she wants for her child someday but knows that it will be a hard path.

Feeling the pain of her first heartbreak over a boy in her class, Laila decides to transfer her studies to America, where she meets Khanum, played by


Sayani Gupta, a blind girl from Pakistan, with whom she falls in love and thus believes she is a lesbian. She goes through the tumultuous stages of her youth life like any other young girl would, and one prevalent part of that is sexual discovery. Her realisation of her bisexuality, after becoming intimate with a classmate, called Jared, Laila enters that realm of ones youth where confusion settles and overtakes ones moral code. She doesn’t know how to deal with her feelings for boys and girls, she doesn’t know how to tell Khanum what she did, or even her family about who she is. The film beautifully picks up on these rites of passage moments all the while taking our focus away from her disability, sending the messageto its viewers that her cerebral palsy does not stop her from living and discovering sexuality, love, relationships and ultimately her identity.

This is just one part of the film, where she immerses herself into the ups and downs of youth. The other parts demonstrate the relationships she has with her family and then the subsequent affects of her life in New York upon her family. The bond Laila shares with her mother, Shubhangini, played by Revathi, is one of two best friends more than a caregiver and patient, or mother and daughter. The attachment and love between them is so strong and warm that it becomes something of a curse when troubles knock on their door. Laila plucks up the courage to come out to her mother and


ignite the urge for change in general.

Lion, based upon the non-fiction autobiography called A Long Way Home, by Saroo Brierley, is a story of finding your identity, an identity that faded away when one was in the system as yet another lost child. Lost hundreds of miles from home, and after months of living in poverty and government shelters, Saroo was adopted by a couple in Australia. When he grew up, he became determined to locate his family in India, to find his way back home, to find his brother, Guddu. But what he really yearned to find was himself. Lion is a truly heart-breaking account of a serious issue that is plaguing India, lost children, and Saroo inspires many with his story and the journey he embarkedtrivialise these highly prevalent issues in demonstrating the true story of the lost Saroo, a little boy who cannot remember where he is from and how to get back, and the people or system he relies on to help him are unable to do so. Why is that? Because the system is flawed, his village could not be located, nor his mother and family. These are the negatives surrounding India, and they are not sugarcoated for the benefit of the films international audiences. All countries have their problems, and their setbacks, and Davis displays that clearly in this film, but he doesn’t forget to inhibit the wonder of such a nation in its aesthetics.

You can still see the beauty within the simplicity of Rural India and its culture;


all feelings, but remains grounded despite the probable reaction of loathing life and everything it has thrown in his lap. Patel brings a sense of realism to the role with his own background. His inability to speak the Hindi language, something the real-life Saroo forgot as he aged, works into his own grasp of the role and the non-Hindi speaking majority of the international audience are able to watch and experience with the character. Nicole Kidman, also critically acclaimed for her work in the film, embraced the role of the adoptive mother with a warm truth as she too has two children by adoption, correlating to her character. The bond lost between Saroo and his real mother, Fatima, was re-built between Kidman and Patel’s characters, a bond thatWay Home revealed itself page by page, just as a reader would experience and understand it, book in hand. We were watching a film, but we were also reading the story, not being told the story – the difference is key.

The ending is the pinnacle of the story, the moment Saroo had been waiting for, the discovery of his family’s fate since he became lost. The climatic point of the film is truly a beacon of answers at the end of a character journey darkened by enigma, and while I have been praising the film for its theme of hope and mode of inspiration, you must know how it ends by now. Saroo finds his mother; he reunites with the little village he grew up in, his sister,


I don't know how many
times I've seen Sunset Boulevard (1950). I've never counted. A
dozen, perhaps? More? The last time I saw it, on a DVD, I noticed something
that I never caught in previous viewings. In the scene in which Joe Gillis
(William Holden) goes to Artie Green's apartment (Jack Webb, who was soon
to become a huge TV star in his show Dragnet) on New Year's Eve,
he wants to use the phone to call Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim),
to have him send all of Gillis' clothes to Artie's house. He's decided
to move out of Norma Desmond's mansion on Sunset Boulevard and stay at
Artie's until he gets his bearings. Two blondes are sitting on the couch,
laughing hysterically as one of them is talking on the phone, which is
on a sidetable next to the couch. On the table, in the lower right hand
corner of the screen, there is something else, which I never paid attention
to. After seeing the film umpteenth time, I realised it was a model for
the statue of Dagon in the temple that Samson brings down in Samson
and Delilah (1949). Samson and Delilah was made for Paramount,
as was Sunset Boulevard, and shot around the same time. In the
huge temple seen on the screen at the end of the movie – the famous set
piece of Samson bringing down the temple – there is a roaring fire in
Dagon's belly. A nice little touch, barely visible in Sunset Boulevard,
are cigarette butts stubbed out in the belly of the Dagon maquette.

Ever since the Nouvelle
Vague in the early ‘60s, filmmakers have


been making references in their
films to other films. Part homage, part pointing the way to their influences,
it's somewhere between a joke and a genuflection to the directors they
admire. They are actes gratuites – perhaps références
gratuites would be better – which are planted strictly for the cognoscenti
to recognise. As for those who do not, maybe footnotes can one day be
appended at the end of the film. Michel Piccoli, in Contempt, always
wore his hat, emulating Dean Martin in Some Came Running. 1963,
the year Contempt was made, was not that far away from 1958, in
which Some Came Running was produced – and Godard's audiences at
the time could easily make the connection. But now, over forty years later,
young viewers might need a special study guide to help them identify Some
Came Running andeven who Dean Martin was, much in the same way we
need notes in reading Shakespeare in order to know what certain words
meant in Shakespeare's day. François Truffaut names his main character
Lachenay in The Soft Skin (1964) after Marcel Dalio's de la Cheyniest
in Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game (1939), and has an inn called
La Colinière – the name of the country house in Rules of the
Game – and expects some people, if only his friends and fellow cinephiles,
to recognise them.

In Hollywood, this
was a rarity. When a poster advertising The Proud Land appears
in the ‘Girl Hunt’ ballet in The Bandwagon (1953), we know it's
a joke that Vincente Minnelli intended for himself and his pals, but for
not the rest of us. The Proud Land was the name of the movie


which
Kirk Douglas (the unscrupulous, arrogant producer in Minnelli's The
Bad and the Beautiful, made a year earlier) directs – a huge turkey
of a film after firing the director. The title also appears earlier in
The Bandwagon, on a movie house marquee when Fred Astaire is on
42nd Street. But you would have to attend a Minnelli retrospective to
make the connection.

In film
comedies, however – from Warner Brothers cartoons, to Bob Hope/Bing Crosby
‘Road’ films, to Frank Tashlin and beyond – pop culture, and especially
movie culture, was always fair game. Talking about Billy Wilder, in his
The Seven Year Itch (1955), Tom Ewell cracks wise when he's asked
whom he's hiding in the kitchen, ‘Wouldn't you like to know! Maybe it's
Marilyn Monroe!’ – a reference that not only acknowledges the film we
are watching but also themechanics of the film’s production. The audience
is engaged in a double vision – the movie it's watching, as well as isolating
the star in the movie (the main reason for seeing the film in the first
place) from the movie itself, and reincorporating her as a gag. Even if
it's not quite what Brecht had in mind when he wrote that he wanted his
plays performed with the house lights up, it's a step in some kind of
direction.

But that's
comedy. Sunset Boulevard is something completely different. It
is a Paramount film that uses the Paramount studio as a location and even
the Paramount gateway serves an important function in the film. Gloria
Swanson, as Norma Desmond, as a once famous silent film star and
also herself a once famous silent film star, announces (as she
drives through the


gates) that it was the successes of her silent movies
that kept Paramount afloat. Even the studio itself is inveigled in the
fiction of the fiction that is being presented, becoming as much a presence
in the film as the actors themselves. Cecil B. DeMille, in the film, is
one of the studio's most important directors, as indeed he was in real
life, and was with Paramount Pictures from its very inception, in 1914.
His entire career was spent at that studio. And he directed Gloria Swanson
in several movies that, in fact, were big hits. Even his nickname for
her, ‘little fella’, and her addressing him as ‘Mr DeMille’, recounts
their real-life relationship.

1. One
thing I noticed the last and only time I saw the film as an adult is that
the extras and bit players are allold, whereas the leading players are
not. Even the soldiers are old. There's a strange dialectic and a divide
between the two elements of the movie as if there are two movies. One,
the kinky part, with the stars, which accounted for its success; and the
other filled with the elderly background players, who by their very presence
suggest that whatever happened in the Bible happened a long, long time
ago. It is, after all, a story from the Old Testament. Even the
soldiers are old. Cecil B. DeMille, like John Ford, loyally offered employment
to silent movie actors who had seen better days, long after they were
forgotten.

He is shooting a Biblical
epic on Soundstage 18. And he was, on that same soundstage, when Sunset
Boulevard was being filmed. When Norma Desmond visits DeMille's set,
he is preparing a


scene from Samson and Delilah. All the players
are old and, very likely, people who (like Swanson) worked with DeMille
in the silent era. (1) One can even glimpse, if just barely, Henry Wilcoxon,
who played Prince Ahtur in Samson and Delilah, as well as Julia
Faye, who plays Delilah's handmaiden – a former mistress of DeMille's
who had appeared in almost all of his sound movies, even though their
affair and her career had ended many years ago.

It's hard
to imagine the mansion in Sunset Boulevard without the suffocating
presence of Gloria Swanson's countless framed photographs of herself on
every tabletop – or without Gloria Swanson, period. But, originally, Wilder
had Mae West in mind for the role of Norma Desmond. When he approached
her, she was insulted that he would even think that she play an actress
whois past her prime. West, fifty-five at the time, never much of an
actress – more like a found-object or a self-made one – clearly couldn't
distinguish between an actress playing a role and the role itself. If
only in that respect, Mae West would have been right for the film,
although wrong in every other way. Although it's true that the success
of West's films really did keep Paramount from going under in the
early ‘30s, it's hard to imagine West in her unrelievedly, before-the-fact
camp style playing the alternately monstrous, alternately pitiful Norma
Desmond. Considering, or despite, her initial response, luckily for the
film and for Wilder she did not accept.

Before
he wrote the script, Wilder had signed Montgomery Clift to play the part
of Joe Gillis. But once the script was done and Clift read it,


he refused
to do the film, partly because Gillis has an affair with an older woman.
Clift himself had, if not an affair, some kind of close relationship with
Libby Holman, a once-famous torch singer of the late ‘20s and early ‘30s
who was about twenty years older than Clift. She had been involved in
the shooting death of her then-husband, which ended her singing career
for good. Clift thought it referred more than indirectly to him and Holman.
The parallels were too great to ignore. Reportedly, Holman threatened
to commit suicide if he agreed to be in the film. He bowed out. Again,
it's hard to imagine the neutral and neutered Clift playing cynical, corrupt
and corruptible, and sexy Joe Gillis. Wilder wound up settling
for William Holden, a contract player at Paramount. If these casting strokes
were partiallyluck, there are other elements of the film that go beyond
the borders of chance.

When Erich
von Stroheim talks about the three greatest directors of the silent era
in Hollywood, D. W Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille and himself, Max von Mayerling
(the name of the character he plays in the movie), he wasn't kidding.
Stroheim himself, without the mask of von Mayerling, was, of course,
one of Hollywood's most important directors before talkies. And of course,
the bitter irony and sadness of him projecting scenes from his unfinished
Queen Kelly (1928), surely one of the greatest movies never completed,
adds a poignancy to the fact that the character has willingly subsumed
his own life to serving his former wife and former star. Swanson herself
used the money of her then paramour, millionaire Joe Kennedy (scion of
the Kennedy clan) to


finance the venture that was ultimately aborted.
The reason given was that the movie was made in the cusp period, just
between silent and sound movies, and could never be released – although
it was released in Europe in a somewhat altered version. So, the clip
of Swanson praying was the first time anyone in America had seen the film.
The real reason the movie was shut down was because of friction between
Swanson, as producer, and von Stroheim. The unfinished version was seen
in America for the first time in 1985.

2. Obviously,
in Hollywood you were paid as much as they thought you were worth. Clearly,
there was no parity. You were paid what they thought they could get you
for. Von Stroheim got the highest salary among all the talent, which indicates
that Wilder knew how crucialweek plus 1,500,000 French francs (equivalent
to $36,000 in 1950) upon completion of the shoot. (2) When a director
hired von Stroheim to appear in his films, he was getting two people for
the price of one: von Stroheim, the scene-stealing actor, who could draw
attention away from the other actors merely by letting his unsmoked cigarette
burn down to his finger tips; and also a brilliant director who would
invest his character with a variety of attention-getting costumes, props
and acting tricks. It was he who suggested, to Renoir, that he wear a
neck brace in Grand Illusion (1937). His electric, over-the-top
presence enlivened many dull, barely-remembered French films of the ‘30s,
‘40s and ‘50s, in which von Stroheim, directing himself, imbues the character
he plays with a richness and complexity that the writers and directors
were unable to


furnish. As for him playing the once-famous director, his
tribulations regarding Greed (1925) were already the stuff of folklore.
The half-finished Wedding March (1928) and the unfinished Queen
Kelly confirmed his reputation as some kind of undisciplined, profligate
director, and Sunset Boulevard doesn't hesitate to capitalise on
that tarnished reputation.

These are the things
we know for sure about von Stroheim vis-à-vis the two films he
acted in, directed by Billy Wilder. He wanted a riding crop with him at
all times in his previous appearance in Wilder's film as Rommel in Five
Graves to Cairo (1943). He advises Mouche, the French chambermaid
(played by Anne Baxter) to remain five feet away from him at all times,
as if she were a fly that he could swat away with his riding crop. In
Sunset Boulevard it was he who suggested toWilder that Queen
Kelly be used as the movie that Swanson watches. It was he who suggested
to Wilder that Norma receive fan mail, all written by him. ‘I wouldn't
look too closely at the postmarks’, he advises Gillis. He came
up with the idea of the Maharajah from Hyderbad who begged for one of
Norma's stockings. ‘Later, he strangled himself with it’, a line that
is echoed in Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959) – Joe (Tony Curtis
as Josephine) to Jerry (Jack Lemmon as Daphne): ‘I heard a very sad story
about a girl from Bryn Mawr. She squealed on her roommate and they found
her strangled with her own brassiere.’ Von Stroheim also suggested to
Wilder that he be filmed, as von Mayerling, ironing Norma's underwear,
an offer Wilder could refuse. In any case, von Stroheim


had already
done this earlier in Queen Kelly – Prince Wolfram keeps a purloined
pair of Kitty Kelly's panties and sniffs them. We'll never know for sure
whether it was Wilder or von Stroheim who came up with the bit in which
Max, driving Norma to the studio, looking at her through the rear view
mirror, points out that her eye shadow is ‘not quite balanced’. Once on
the Paramount lot, he points out to Gillis that his offices (could they
actually have been his offices when he was making The Wedding March
at Paramount?) were where the readers' department is now. He adds, ‘I
remember my walls were covered in black patent leather’. Neither of these
two moments – the eye shadow and the leather-covered walls – sound like
details that Wilder would have been interested in, butthey sound very
much like the obsessive, fetishistic situations and details that abound
in von Stroheim's films.

3. Mitchell
Leisen was the only director in Hollywood whose credit as director in
the title cards was purportedly in his own signature. This is an indication
of how important a director he was to the studio. That was long before
the days when a Hollywood film was signed ‘a film by … ‘, although Hitchcock,
DeMille and Capra were the only directors famous enough to have their
names above the title. Hitchcock went Leisen one better when he used a
caricature of himself that he drew as the logo for his television series.
But that was in the ‘50s.

In
Hold Back the Dawn (1941), an earlier script by Billy Wilder and
Charles Brackett (Wilder's writing partner for many years), directed by
Mitchell Leisen for


Paramount, Charles Boyer plays a sleazy refugee, a gigolo
(like Joe Gillis), and maybe even Wilder himself in his Berlin days, stuck
in Mexico without a visa. Unable to get into America, he marries Olivia
De Havilland, an American citizen, which automatically permits him to enter
the country. Desperate for cash, he wants to sell his unusual life story
to a film company. The movie opens with Boyer crashing Paramount studios.
The person he gets to is Mitchell Leisen, the director of the film we're
watching, playing a film director (just as DeMille does in Sunset Boulevard)
– although he is not addressed as Mitchell Leisen. (3) As in Sunset Boulevard,
these scenes frame the tale that is being told in flashback, the story of
the film we're watching. When Boyer gets to the sound stage where Leisen
isfinancial
concerns sometimes help artists drift to a before-the-fact post-modernist
relationship to their work.

4. Hedda
Hopper's lasting legacy in show business might very well be her son, the
actor William Hopper. He was Natalie Wood's father in Rebel Without
a Cause (1955), and also Perry Mason's assistant in the long-running
series Perry Mason, which will probably play in syndication until
the world ends.

It's hard to imagine
what Sunset Boulevard looked like and felt like at the time it
was released. The adult moviegoing public grew up on silent films and
Gloria Swanson was still a star, although absent from the screen for many
years. Audiences knew DeMille not only as a silent director but as the
director of epics like Cleopatra (1934), Sign of the Cross
(1932) and, of course, Samson and Delilah, which had been the highest-grossing
movie of 1949. Now


for the waxworks: Buster Keaton, H.B. Warner and Anna
Q. Nilsson. Keaton's career as a great comedian and filmmaker was long
over. But he was still around, mostly in walk-ons in low-budget films.
He played in a musical remake of Lubitsch's Shop Around the Corner
(1940) called In the Good Old Summertime (1949), an easy-to-take
vehicle for Judy Garland and Van Johnson (featuring baby Liza Minnelli
in her first screen role). H. B. Warner had played Christ in DeMille's
1927 King of Kings. A casualty of the sound-era, he was a supporting
actor in several Capra films and had a bit part in DeMille's 1956 The
Ten Commandments. As for Anna Q. Nilsson, apparently she was a big
star in the teens and early ‘20s, but was also a casualty of sound. It's
important to remember that in 1950the silent era had ended only twenty-one
years earlier; many of the silent movie allusions and stars mentioned
passingly in the film – Valentino, Vilma Banky, Mabel Normand, Wallace
Reid and, of course, Adolphe Menjou, who was still working at that time
– were still familiar names to the movie-going public, and former
Paramount stars. To put it another way, Sunset Boulevard, made
over fifty-five years ago, is much further away from its initial audience
than the silent film was to talkies.

Hedda Hopper, the gossip
columnist phoning in her story of the murder at the end of the film, when
Norma is being taken into custody, was in fact one of the two most influential
newspaper gossip columnists in America at the time. Hopper, famous equally
for her hats and her venom, had been – before becoming a gossip


columnist
(4) – a moderately successful actress playing supporting roles in Paramount
films, most notably in DeMille's Reap the Wild Wind (1942) and
Leisen's delicious and undervalued Midnight (1939, with a script
by Wilder and Brackett). In the latter film she plays a snooty society
lady who also is a customer in a milliner's shop that specialises in extravagant
and outlandish hats. Parenthetically (or not so parenthetically), Leisen
himself started in films by designing costumes and then serving as art
director on several lavish DeMille spectacles before becoming a director.
One could go on. Leisen was hated by Wilder, who co-wrote with Brackett
three scripts (Arise, My Love [1940] in addition to Midnight
and Hold Back the Dawn) that Leisen directed. Wilder felt that
Leisen so mangled his scripts that he resolved, in the future, to direct
his scripts himself. Which,Year's Eve party, two guys are pounding out
a popular song at the time, ‘Buttons and Bows’, a tongue-twisting ‘novelty'
number which won the Oscar for Best Song the previous year. It was written
for Paramount's Bob Hope movie, The Paleface (1948). Playing and
singing the tune are Ray Evans and Jay Livingstone, the bespectacled writers
of the song, under contract to Paramount. This kind of cross-amortisation
of music is not uncommon. Studios, having paid for the music to be written,
could use it in the context of any film they chose to. This is found to
a remarkable degree in MGM films – MGM, the home of the movie musical.
It's usually used as background music. In this film, however, the music
is very much foregrounded, another Paramount-reflexive moment, but with
a very big difference. In this case,


buttons and bows.

Gimme eastern trimmin'
where women are womenIn high silk
hose and peek-a-boo clothesAnd French
perfume that rocks the roomAnd I'm all
yours in buttons and bows.

6. To television
viewers, however, William Demarest is best known for the long-running
sitcom My Three Sons, in which he plays Fred MacMurray's father-in-law.
MacMurray, incidentally, was offered the part of Joe Gillis after Montgomery
Clift turned it down. He turned it down because he thought it was too
sordid. MacMurray, of course, played in Wilder's Double Indemnity
(1944) and The Apartment (1960).

7. Her grandmother,
she says, was a stunt double for Pearl White, the star of the silent The
Perils of Pauline serial. Coincidentally, or not, Betty Hutton starred
in a Paramount film, The Perils of Pauline (1947), a musical about
Pearl White.

The impression
given is that everyone at the party works in films, insome underpaid,
lowly capacity or other, and probably for Paramount – hence, the
statuette of Dagon. In addition to referring to how little everyone gets
paid, it also refers to Joe Gillis' situation – he has gotten his
swimming pool and lots of brand new clothes. There are in the film,
in addition, references to scripts being tailored for Bing Crosby as well
as for Alan Ladd and Betty Hutton (who is not mentioned in the script,
but is in the final film), all of whom were big Paramount stars at the
time. The name of William Demarest, a character actor at Paramount now
mostly remembered for his roles in the movies he made with Preston Sturges,
also crops up. (6) When Betty (Nancy Olson) tells Joe about her childhood
aspirations and her life as a third-generation Hollywood brat,


they start
by walking through the Paramount backlot streets. (7) They pass through
the Western street, stop and talk, and leave via Washington Square as
Gillis lets us know – the same Washington Square set used in the previous
year's William Wyler's Paramount film, The Heiress, which starred
Olivia De Havilland and Montgomery Clift. Paramount is more than a backdrop
– its history and present-day production both play an active role in the
film.

Sunset Boulevard
has all these echoes, tethering it to the real Hollywood, thus lending
the film an air of unimpeachable authenticity – as opposed to The Bad
and the Beautiful (1952), which never attempts to suggest that the
people in the film or the films within the film have any relation to an
existing studio, much less MGM. It's some made-up studio, with made-up
stars and fake namesin made-up movies. The movies within the movies in
no way trace their lineage to other MGM productions or refer to the meta-studio
with the authenticity, affection and distaste that Sunset Boulevard
does. None of the films glimpsed or alluded to in The Bad and the Beautiful
have any MGM reality quotient. There are indirect allusions to Val Lewton
and Cat People (1942) – even though The Bad and the Beautiful
is supposed to take place in the ‘30s – and to John Barrymore and his
alcoholic daughter. But these are, at best, half-hearted feints. The generic
German director, von Ellstein (played by Ivan Triesault), complete with
cigarette holder, is, of course, a genius and a tyrant, as we know
all German directors are or were, but it's a caricature that has no teeth.
Although in his later Two


Weeks in Another Town (1962), another
movie about filmmaking that might have had more suggestions grounding
it in the reality of its milieu of Hollywood-on-the-Tiber, Minnelli references
The Bad and the Beautiful as one of the greatest triumphs of Kirk
Douglas (who plays a washed-up actor) and the fictional director (played
by Edward G. Robinson), and shows a clip from the earlier film. Here is
a movie about movies and nothing at all is made of the fact that Erich
von Stroheim Jr (sic!) is Minnelli's assistant director – as he was on
Nicholas Ray's Party Girl (1958)! Similar opportunities are either
missed or deliberately avoided in George Cukor's A Star is Born (1954),
in which one could easily imagine many real-life hints encrusted in the
screenplay referring to the legendary Judy Garland's personal history,
much of which was publiccalled itself ‘the eyes and ears of the
world’, a slogan that is emblazoned on the camera crew truck. Once again,
we're in a bitterly ironic mode. Norma says, earlier in the film, ‘There
was a time when this business had the eyes of the whole wide world. But
that wasn't enough for them. Oh no! They also wanted the ears, too.’

At this point, Norma
is completely deranged and is off, most likely not to prison, but probably
to the same place where they will put Blanche Dubois a year later (although
Blanche will work for another studio). Norma is Salome. She has
become the creature she invented in her own script, written for her to
play. Erich von Stroheim is standing in between the two Paramount newsreel
cameras. She is confused. She thinks he is DeMille. Why


commenting on the man and his kitsch Biblicals, is creating a tragedy
about cinema and delusions and illusions, glamour and aging in a culture
that adores the former and abhors the latter, shot through with a dizzying
orgy of intertexuality and self-referentiality that places the movie and
its themes in a completely different arena from other movies. In a sense,
it is the first meta-film, a film that is not only commenting on itself
but also on the process of, the apparatus of, and the meaning of filmmaking
itself. (Other meta-films? The Killing [1956]. Once Upon a Time
in the West [1968]. Le Samourai [1967]. And perhaps even Keaton's
Sherlock Jr [1924].) Finally, the cameras are turning for Norma
again. With the Paramount newsreel division there to film it.

When
von Stroheim made Five Graves to Cairo for Wilder, hischaracter,
Rommel, has to wear field glasses and a camera around his neck. Von Stroheim
insisted on real German field glasses and a Leica camera. He also wanted
actual film in the camera. Wilder asked him why, since the audience would
never know. Von Stroheim replied: ‘An audience always senses whether a prop
is genuine or false.’ The cameras are finally there for Norma. But they
are only used as a ruse to get Norma down the stairs, even though they were
originally called to document the crime. The cameras are turning for Norma
one last time, but there are no concessions to von Stroheim's philosophy
this time. There really is no film in the camera recording her last
soliloquy. But the ultimate and most awful irony of all – in a movie stuffed
to the gills with ironies,


the acupoints along the meridians to remove stagnation of Qi, blockage of the blood or phlegm, maintain better flow of Qi and blood, movement to take care chronic unbalances.

The Universal life energy or Qi, present in every living creature circulates throughout the body along the pathway of meridians. Qi is generated from the vabration of the five elements. As long as this energy flows freely throughout the meridians, body is healthy but when there is flow of pathogenic energy that causes blockage in the body, the system is disrupted, pain and illness occur. Acupuncture needles when inserted at the acupoints, it helps restore normal functions and free up the blockage from the pathogenic Qi. (Meridians are like the battery of the computer and acupoints as their charger)

The TraditionalDeviations in craniofacial morphology in patients with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate evaluated by Jarabak's analysis.
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finally break out.

A New Opportunity

For O.J. Mayo, the age old maxim of, “When one door closes, another door opens” couldn’t have been more accurate. When he was drafted by the Memphis Grizzlies a few years back, he was looked to be an immediate impact player, and at first, it seemed that he would be.

At the end of his rookie season, he was right behind Derrick Rose in the running for Rookie of the Year, but it wasn’t in the cards for Mayo to be a superstar for the Grizzlies.

By his third season, Mayo had bouts of inconsistent play, and as a result, Grizz' head coach Lionel Hollins decided to have Mayo come off the bench. For a young player like Mayo, such a move not only hurt hisBerg, Keith Alan of Northeast Minneapolis, died unexpectedly Monday, September 7th at the young age of 56. He is survived by his wife, Lisa Hammer and his beautiful and brilliant daughters, Claire and Anna Berg and constant companion, his dog Buster. He is also survived by his mother, Jan Berg; siblings, Joy Herman, Karen Piper (Jeff) and Dale Berg (Jane); sisters-in-law, Colleen Hammer, Barbara Hammer and 7 nieces and nephews, as well as his entire Palmer's Bar "Family" and many, many friends. Preceded in death by his father, Arne Berg; and father- and mother-in-law, Robert Hammer, Jr. and Dorothy Hammer. Keith grew up in North Mankato, Minnesota, travelled to Minneapolis to attend the U of M to study Math, Biology & Science. He landed on the West Bank


in the late 70's and never left. Keith loved life-especially his precious daughters, his friends, his dog, FISHING and to talk and philosophize. He was a prolific reader and student of life. He was a well-known member of the West Bank Community for over 30 years, bartending at and then owning and operating Palmer's Bar for over 14 years. A Celebration of Keith's life will be held on Saturday, September 12th from 1:00-5:00 (Eulogy at 3:00 pm) at Palmer's Bar, 500 Cedar Ave So , Minneapolis. Following in West Bank tradition, a potluck meal will be served. He was greatly loved and will be missed forever but has left a lasting heartfelt legacy. Memorials preferred to the Claire and Anna Berg College Fund Account at Bremer Bank, 2401By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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Cover art for "Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History"

During the unending hubbub and hullabaloo that swirled around Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark during its first, turbulent year of Broadway existence, it was easy to forget the playwright Glen Berger had anything to do with the complicated project. Berger's the man who co-authored the book. Prior to his involvement with the monolithic show, he was just a nice little Off-Broadway playwright with a tiny, but respectable reputation. When Spider-Man was daily fodder for the gossip columns and nightly news, Julie Taymor, Bono, The Edge and whatever actor had been injured that week were the starring players. Berger was rarely, if


ever, mentioned. And he probably liked it that way.

Well, we're going to be hearing a lot more from Berger in the future on the subject of Spider-Man. And it's his own fault. In the tradition of William Gibson's "The Seesaw Log" and James Kirkwood's "Diary of a Mad Playwright," Berger has penned an showbiz memoir. Simon & Schuster will publish "Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History," chronicling his journey with the production. The publication date is to be determined.

The announcement can't be happy news for Taymor, who specially selected the obscure Berger to work with her on Spider-Man. The two had a nasty split in 2011, and Taylor named Berger in the suit she filed against the producers after shewas dismissed from the project. The suit is still pending.

Jonathan Karp of Simon & Schuster is unperturbed. He told the New York Times, "I just think it's a good story. From the pages I've seen, I think it will be an insightful and entertaining account of the making of this musical."

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Nathan Lane has been mentioned in the past as the probable star in the Lincoln Center Theater production of The Nance, a new play from Douglas Carter Beane, which will debut on Broadway March 21, 2013, at the Lyceum Theatre. This week, the casting was confirmed. The production will mark Beane's LCT debut, and a rare appearance of Broadway star Lane at the nonprofit (he did The Frogs there)

Jack O'Brien, who will direct, has


been developing the 1930s-set piece with Beane and Lane over the past few years. It takes its title from a staple vaudeville character, an effeminate homosexual male, who was featured in burlesque sketches and films of the era. The Nance is set during New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's campaign to ban burlesque in the '30s. Hey, if LaGuardia's also a character, Lane could double in that part. In terms of stage ebullience, heft and height, the two men couldn't be a closer match.

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Pump Boys and Dinettes, a musical about filling-station pump jockeys and waitresses, was a pretty sizable Off-Broadway hit in the early '80s, enough for it to transfer to Broadway, where it ran for a year and a half. It then toured the U.S., andalso played London's West End. The musician-actor show was nominated for Tonys, including Best Musical, and gave the wonderful Debra Monk her Broadway debut. Still, for all that, it's rarely recalled today.

That will change when the show returns to Broadway in spring 2013 in a new production by Tony-winning director John Doyle, who is best known for having actors play musical instruments in Company and Sweeney Todd, on Broadway. Mary-Mitchell Campbell will provide new arrangements and orchestrations (and is music supervisor) for the loose-knit revue, which is set below the Mason Dixon Line. Doyle's version — "a fully interactive and immersive experience" — will include on-stage seating and a working bar, a la Once. Which begs the question: what kind of roadside diner has a liquor bar?


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After two more promising wins in Round 11, two sides in tremendous form meet at Aubrey Keech Reserve on Saturday; the first-placed Mounties host the Wests Tigers, who sit in third place on the Intrust Super Premiership NSW Ladder.

While the Tigers have now won four games in a row, Mounties’ sole defeat came way back in Round 2 and they have since gone from strength to strength against all levels of opposition.

For the second week running Mounties will have to make do without inspirational second-rower Mitch Barnett this weekend, but a wealth of experience joins the forward pack in his place via Frank-Paul Nu’uausala. They will be home town favourites over the Tigers, who last week begun life without Josh Drinkwater and have also beenmissing NRL young gun Josh Addo Carr. Matt Ballin, who was impressive in his club debut last weekend, is another notable omission who will play NRL – but with young dummy-halves Manaia Cherrington and Jacob Liddle filling in, they reap the rewards of the depth they have in that position.

This shapes as the match of the round and both sides still boast plenty of experience across the park. With last week’s go-forward from the Mounties forwards falling short of their lofty standards, however, it could be a danger game for them if they are to take the clash lightly.

Both sides are coming off last-start defeats and find themselves languishing at the bottom of the Intrust Super Premiership NSW ladder, but Saturday’s match-up at Belmore Sports Ground has all


the makings of a thriller. Last time the teams met – in Round 3 at the same venue – it took an 80th-minute Blake Leary try and Hugh Pratt conversion to steal victory from the blue-and-whites, who had led the game for the previous 79 minutes.

That game was one of several last-minute losses for the Bulldogs and they suffered yet another narrow defeat at the hands of the Panthers last week. With the inclusion of in-form NRL fullback Will Hopoate, they threw everything they could at the eighth-placed Penrith side but eventually went down 16-12 at Belmore.

The Sea Eagles, meanwhile, have developed an uncanny knack of losing in high-scorers; while they have scored the sixth-most points in the competition, the have conceded the most and now sit onequal points differential with their Saturday combatants. Since being blown off the park by an NRL-boosted Warriors side in Round 9, the Bulldogs have improved without the ball and it may just be a battle of attack versus defence in their Round 12 clash.

While the two 3pm games feature close encounters at the two extremes of the table, this one is poised right in the middle; the fifth-placed Cutters play host to the seventh-placed Roos in the Fox Sports Match Of The Round at WIN Stadium.

Neither side was able to overcome their higher-placed opposition last weekend, with Wyong losing to Newtown 32-16 and Illawarra to Mounties 22-10. The Roos have not been quite as strong in attack as the Cutters this season, but will be boosted in that


department by the relegation of Jackson Hastings. The 20-year-old is still learning the ropes 29 games into his NRL career, but has proven he has the ability to turn a game when the big men are firing.

For the Cutters, it was Kurt Mann who was chosen to slot into the Dragons’ backline which this week will be without NSW Blues centre Josh Dugan. With Adam Quinlan and Taane Milne still in good form for the Illawarra side, however, the backline remains largely intact and capable of overcoming their Wyong counterparts. This is a toss of the coin battle and can be viewed in full at Fox Sports Channel 501 on Saturday night.

The Intrust Super Premiership NSW is the NSWRL’s blue-ribbon open-age competition and a vital feeder system forThursday, April 1, that will explore the character relations of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night via a medley of parodies inspired by popular modern shows.

While this will be the troupe's first production under its new name of Metaverse Shakespeare Company, Centaur asserts that the production continues to uphold the company's founding ideals of creating quality, memorable productions, while developing this nascent field of virtual theatre, "As with every Main Canon production, we spend about a thousand hours rehearsing and analyzing, building and designing, and also applying new technologies to virtual theatre... For Twelfth Night, Act 2, our three technological innovations include the usage of physics, moving automatons, and visual illusion on the virtual stage. You'll see physics on-stage, in both built-in and scripted forms in our apple catches in Scene


scenarios show that CO2 emissions could be almost two and a half times the current level by 2050. More than ever before, new technologies and alternative sources of energy are essential to meet the increasing energy demand in both the developed and the developing worlds, while attempting to stabilize and reduce the concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and mitigate the concomitant climate change.
Nuclear energy, a non-greenhouse-gas emitting energy source, has been a key component of the world's energy production since the 1950's, and accounts for about 16% of the world's electricity production, a fraction that could—in principle—be increased. Several factors, however, make its long-term sustainability difficult. These concerns include the risk of proliferation of nuclear materials and technologies resulting from the nuclear fuelclub appears to be intent to activate the release clause of Neymar (about £200m).

Julian Draxler did not travel because of his involvement in the Confederations Cup with Germany while striker Edinson Cavani is still recovering from his ankle injury. Unay Emery handed a debut to new signing Dani Alves last time out and the Brazilian is expected to line up alongside his compatriots Thiago Silva and Marquinhos in defence. The trio of Serge Aurier, Hatem Ben Arfa and Grzegorz Krychowiak have been left out of the team as their future at the club is in doubt.

This will be the first outing of the season for Pochettino's men. They have scheduled friendlies against Roma, Manchester City, and Juventus ahead of their Premier League opener at St James Park in


August. Tottenham have thus far had a quiet transfer window ahead of the 2017-18 season despite being linked with the likes of Ross Barkley, Christian Pulisic and Juan Foyth and their tour squad is made up of familiar faces. Anyway, right back Kyle Walker signed for rivals Manchester City earlier this month.

Spurs' big guns such as Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Hugo Lloris, Jan Vertonghen, Eric Dier and Christian Eriksen are all expected to feature from the off while thje likes of Heung-min Son, Moussa Sissoko, Erik Lamela and Danny Rose remain unavailable for selection due to injuries. Mousa Dembele and Harry Winks are both part of the travelling squad after making progress in their rehabilitation.Donald Trump’s Next Moves

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7 Predictions from Robert David Steele

Preibus’s role in life – Trump has known this – has been to prevent Trump from unrigging the system – Reince Preibus is the face of the Establishment and the leading mole in the White House.

Trump Doubles-Down on Wrong Approach to National Security & National Strategy

There are really two issues here. First, Trump needs a National Strategy Advisor who can do Whole of Government strategy and stop the continued efforts of the neo-cons to pick fights we cannot win and cannot afford; and second, Trump needs to purge the US government of roughly 500 traitors concentrated in the national security bureaucracy. Trump is going to get this wrong again.

Bannon Gets Playmates

This will shock some, but the idea is being considered


it changes everything. There is one big move – and one big move only – that can slam the Establishment back into a small box, liberate the Members from financial dependencies, empower Trump with the popular vote across all boundaries, and make evidence-based governance in the public interest possible. The Electoral Reform Act that many activists have been calling for since Occupy first considered the matter in 2011 is a transformative move.

Trump Channel

Preibus stopped the original and correct instinct of the president, to throw the press corps out of the White House. A Trump Channel – picture a daily seven-minute Presidential fireside chat, multiple fifteen minute briefs by Cabinet officials across all policy domains, and presidential tweets that ask a question answered by 150 million or more viahas consumed trillions of dollars, and migrate the US Government to a commercially-based network where all communications public and private are protected. I further anticipate that NSA – which has no legislative charter – will be dismantled by Executive Order.

Robert David Steele is a former spy, the former second-ranking civilian for Marine Corps intelligence, and the champion for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and an Open Source Agency that can provide decision-support for everyone. He was recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize in January 2017. His personal web site is http://robertdavidsteele.com.

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Compared to 2018, California-based blockchain startup focusing on payment technologies, Ripple, had more lobbyist but spent less on lobbying in the first three quarters of 2019, according to OpenSecrets.org – database of the Centre for Responsive Politics, a non-profit research group.

The data, based on numbers provided by the Senate Office of Public Records, shows that Ripple had USD 170,000 in lobbying expenditures in the first three quarters of 2019, or 48% less than in the same period in 2018 when it spent USD 170,000 in Q3 alone.

Ripple would have had to spend USD 280,000 in that last quarter of 2019 just to reach the amount spent the entire year before.

Nonetheless, the company had six lobbyists during lastyear representing their interests in front of officials, legislators and/or regulators, compared to five in 2018.

Source: OpenSecrets.org

Three issues were lobbied by Ripple Labs in 2019: Science and Technology, Finance, and Banking, as well as one agency: Executive Office of the President, which consists of the immediate staff to the President, along with entities such as the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of the United States Trade Representative.

As for the hired firms, the available data for 2019 shows that USD 100,000 was spent on two Washington-based lobbying firms, ACG Analytics and Williams and Jensen. Robert Nicholas Wagener from the former was hired for the job, while the latter company had three people lobbying for Ripple: David E. Franasiak (also lobbied for TD Ameritrade, OTC Market Group,


Security Trade Association, Colonial Pipline, Oklahoma Gas and Electricity, etc.), Joel Oswald (also lobbied for Visa Inc, Federation of Exchange Accommodators, Federal Home Loan Bank, etc.), and Christopher Wilcox (also lobbied for Compcast Copr, Roche Holdings, National Assn of State Treasurers, etc.).

These four are identified as “revolvers.” The Centre defines the term “revolving door” as the common practice of government regulators, Congressional staff and members of Congress to take a job with lobbying firms and private sector organizations, which they used to oversee in many cases.

Additionally, Manager of Government Relations at Ripple, Ron Hammond, and Head of Research and Director of Regulatory Relations at Ripple, Ryan Zagone, were hired for in-house lobbying, the site states.

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The bill for the lobbying of which Rippleovals get little use these days, although the British Pick Up Truck championship do use Rockingham.

It wasn’t until the new NASCAR TV deal in 2007, plus the addition of Juan Pablo Montoya to the series that the sport began to grow more internationally. Not to mention Australian racing star Marcos Ambrose showing up around the same time. Montoya’s involvement brought NASCAR to the minds of Formula One fans. His biggest fan base outside of his own country is Europe. The new TV deal enabled Cup and Nationwide Series races to both be shown live here.

More and more people began to notice the sport, and it was only a matter of time until social media was used to increase interest. These days, the NASCAR Fans UK accounts on Facebook


and Twitter have a huge following. They bring NASCAR news to British fans on a par with Formula One. There are similar accounts across Europe, and I'd say that NASCAR is probably one of the fastest growing sports on the continent.

As in the USA, drivers have a loyal fan base, and it's be no surprise that Dale Earnhardt Jr has the biggest following over here. Other popular drivers include Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, and Tony Stewart.

I spoke to Kevin Gravenell, who runs the social media accounts but has also helped increase coverage in the UK.

Gravenell: ” I have done a lot of promotional work with Premier Sports who hold the contract. They were new to the sport and I advised them on the coverage and helped with theirElectronic Programme Guide. They are increasing coverage. All three series are shown in the UK on various channels”

Perhaps the main result of the interest, is the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series. An official NASCAR championship and it is getting bigger every year. The US Speedfest at Brands Hatch gets the biggest crowd at the circuit in the entire year. The European stock car equivalent of the Daytona 500, every driver wants to win there. It has even enticed Max Papis to own a team in the series.

The defending champion is Ander Vilariño and as part of his reward, he is racing the K&N Pro East race at Watkins Glen in August. That series is the final step for most stock car racers before stepping up to the three national


There were also reports of funnel clouds near Midway Airport and in downtown Chicago, south of Millennium Park. Chicago sounded its tornado sirens for the first time since a November 2013 storm that forced the relocation of fans at Soldier Field, said Melissa Stratton, spokeswoman for the city's Office of Emergency Management and Communications, in an email about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.the House, we have to make a clear distinction between the Constitutional authority of Congress to make foreign policy, and the Constitutional authority of the president, as commander in chief, to direct the management of any military operation. We do no favor to the troops by micromanaging the war from Capitol Hill while continuing to fund it beyond the president’s request.

If one is unhappy with our progress in Iraq after four years of war, voting to de-fund the war makes sense. If one is unhappy with the manner in which we went to war, without a constitutional declaration, voting against funding for that war makes equally good sense. What occurred, however, was the worst of both. Democrats, dissatisfied with the way the war is being fought, gave the


WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Over 300,000 Americans have applied for federal unemployment benefits in November, the highest number of applicants since the first week of September.

All told, 313,000 Americans sought unemployment through Nov. 22, 21,000 of whom applied since Nov. 15.

Although seemingly high, the Department of Labor credits the jump in unemployment applications with regular seasonal influences such cold-weather construction layoffs and a down-tick in the entertainment industry.

Mountain states Colorado and Montana, which have faced heavy early snowfall, blamed "adverse weather conditions" with forcing otherwise unintended layoffs.30 San Antonio-area schools fail to meet the state's education accountability goals

30 schools in the San Antonio area failed to meet the state's education accountability standards. Click through the slideshow to which ones. 30 schools in the San Antonio area failed to meet the state's education accountability standards. Click through the slideshow to which ones. Photo: Courtesy Photo: Courtesy Image 1 of / 89 Caption Close 30 San Antonio-area schools fail to meet the state's education accountability goals 1 / 89 Back to Gallery

While all 16 traditional school districts in Bexar County received passing grades from the state in accountability results released last week, there were 30 individual schools that failed to meet acceptable standards.

The schools were found in just 7 school districts, with a disproportionate amount coming


from San Antonio Independent School District, the only of the area's large school districts to have failing schools.

RELATED: Except for two charters, San Antonio school districts get passing grades from state

The other six districts to have schools that failed to meet the one or more of the state's four criteria measures were East Central Independent School District, Edgewood Independent School District, Judson Independent School District, Somerset Independent School District, Southside Independent School District and Southwest Preparatory.

School accountability report card The TEA's 2016 accountability report indicates if a school met standards in four categories. To qualify as "met standard" overall, a school must meet targets for student achievement or student progress, as well as for closing performance gaps and postsecondary readiness. A dash indicates a school was not ratedAll others facilities, which were being provided to these 20 MLAs, have also been stopped. (File)

Salaries of 20 Aam Aadmi Party MLAs who were disqualified for allegedly holding office of profit have been stopped, Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said today.All others facilities, which were being provided to these 20 MLAs, have also been stopped."The salaries of 20 MLAs, who had been disqualified by the Election Commission, have been stopped. Their salaries for the month of February have not been released," Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel told PTI.Sources said other facilities, which are provided to MLAs, have also been stopped to these 20 AAP MLAs by the Assembly Secretariat.With salary and allowances, an MLA gets around Rs 90,000 per month in the national capital.The 20 AAP


MLAs have challenged the Election Commission's order in the Delhi High Court, which had reserved its order on February 28 .Earlier, on January 24, the HC had refused to stay the centre's notification disqualifying the MLAs, but restrained the EC from taking any precipitate measures such as announcing dates for bypolls to fill the vacancies.In a blow to the Aam Aadmi Party, the Election Commission had in January asked President Ram Nath Kovind to disqualify 20 of its MLAs for holding offices of profit, setting the stage for their ouster from the Assembly.

In its opinion sent to the president, the poll panel said the MLAs, by occupying the post of parliamentary secretaries between March 13, 2015 and September 8, 2016, held offices of profit, and were liable toBeing egyptian equinx essay iii no short tarot v volume

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A major redevelopment of the Windsor Park ground was completed in 2016

Uefa has announced that Windsor Park, Northern Ireland's National Stadium, will host the 2021 Super Cup final.

Belarus, Finland and Ukraine had all expressed interest in staging the European football season's curtain raiser.

Windsor Park lost out to Istanbul in the bid to host the the 2019 event.

Champions League winners Liverpool beat Europa League victors Chelsea 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw in this year's final in Turkey.

The Belfast stadium, which was refurbished in 2016, is the home of Irish Premiership club Linfield and has a capacity of 18,614 for football matches.

In August 2018, 24,000 attended the boxing bill featuring Carl Frampton's win over Luke Jackson and Tyson Fury's comeback victory


against Francesco Pianeta.

In 2011, the Europa League final between Portuguese teams Porto and Braga was played at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.

The Uefa Executive Committee in Ljubljana, Slovenia, also confirmed adjustments to the Nations League, with Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland remaining in the 16-team League B for the 2020/21 draw.

'Brilliant for Belfast'

"I'm absolutely delighted that the Super Cup will be played in Northern Ireland," said David Martin, President of the Irish Football Association.

"We targeted this particular event as it's the only prestigious final that we could bid for due to Windsor Park's capacity.

"This is our third application for the Super Cup, but the quality of our bid demonstrates how the Irish FA has progressed in the last five years.

"You have to have the facilities andevolution on our planet when our species has become a "geological force" capable of drastically altering its environment on a planetary scale. Frank and his colleagues have extended and modified this conception so it can be used in an astrobiological context.

"In our perspective, the beginning of the Anthropocene can be seen as the onset of the hybridization of the planet, a transitional stage from one class of planetary systems to another," the researchers write in their paper. "From an astrobiological perspective, Earth's entry into the Anthropocene represents what might be a predictable planetary transition."

Like the Kardashev Scale that inspired the new model, Frank & co.'s "hybrid planet" hypothesis divides the evolution of a planet into several classes:

Class 1: the planet with no atmosphere, which is unable to support


This Supplement includes a selection of papers presented at the 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Application (ISBRA), which was held on May 27-29, 2011 at Central South University in Changsha, China. The technical program of the symposium included 36 extended abstracts presented orally and published in volume 6674 of Springer Verlag\'s Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series. Additionally, the program included 38 short abstracts presented either orally or as posters. Authors of both extended and short abstracts presented at the symposium were invited to submit full versions of their work to this Supplement. Following a rigorous review process, 19 of the 40 full papers submitted were selected for publication.

Selected papers cover a broad range of bioinformatics topics, ranging from algorithms for structural biology to phylogenetics and biologicalWednesday, September 10, 2008

And Mercy Above All

Seven years ago, my daughter had not yet opened her eyes upon the world.

Seven years ago, my son was still living with his birth family, hardly more than a baby himself.

Seven years ago, Craig and I had been married a little over two years, and had managed to iron out most of the wrinkles of newlywedded angst.

And then the planes erupted in a flash of smoke and fire.

And then the Towers disintegrated in piles of ash and regret.

And then, as the demons cheered, the rest of America wondered just where God was.

And the angels wept as they led those souls through the smoke and clouds to ... forever.

Wept for the children who would wait forever for Daddy to tuck them in.

Wept for


weep. And they lead us toward forever ... where there is mercy above all.

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Winchester had inherited a vast fortune off of guns. Her father-in-law Oliver Winchester, manufacturer of the famous repeater rifle, died in 1880, and her husband, Will, also in the family gun business, died a year later. After she moved from New Haven, Connecticut, to San Jose, Winchester dedicated a large part of her fortune to ceaseless, enigmatic


building. She built her house with shifts of 16 carpenters who were paid three times the going rate and worked 24 hours a day, every day, from 1886 until Sarah’s death in 1922.

An American Penelope, working in wood rather than yarn, Winchester wove and unwove eternally. She built, demolished and rebuilt. Winchester hastily sketched designs on napkins or brown paper for carpenters to build additions, towers, cupolas or rooms that made no sense and had no purpose, sometimes only to be plastered over the next day. In 1975, workers discovered a new room. It had two chairs, an early 1900s speaker that fit into an old phonograph, and a door latched by a 1910 lock. She had apparently forgotten about it and built over it.

In 1911, the SanJose Mercury News called Winchester’s colossus a “great question mark in a sea of apricot and olive orchards.” Over a century later, the San Francisco Chronicle was still baffled: “the Mansion is an ornately complex answer to a very simple question: Why?”

The answer: Her building is a ghost story of the American gun. Or so the legend went. A spiritualist in the mid-1800s, when plenty of sane Americans believed they could communicate with the dead, Wincehster became terrified that her misfortunes, especially the death of her husband and one-month old daughter, were cosmic retribution from all the spirits killed by Winchester rifles. A relative said many decades later Winchester fell “under the thrall” of a medium, who told her that she would be haunted by the ghosts of


Winchester rifle victims unless she built, non-stop—perhaps at ghosts’ direction, for their pleasure, or perhaps as a way to elude them. Haunted by conscience over her gun blood fortune and seeking either protection or absolution, Winchester lived in almost complete solitude, in a mansion designed to be haunted.

When I heard her ghost story from a friend in graduate school, I was enthralled. Eventually, Winchester became the muse for my book on the history of the American gun industry and culture.

I keenly anticipated my first visit to the Mystery House. I must have been hoping that the house would yield up its secret to me. At first glance I was deflated, for the unusual reason that from the outside, the house wasn’t entirely weird.

But the drama of this house,Not since 1981 when Arkansas beat No.1 Texas 42-11 has Fayetteville, Arkansas, seen this much bedlam! Back then, it was after the game. At least one car was overturned and set fire in the frenzy on Dixon Street giving Fayetteville a local nickname, Fayettenam.

For the last two days, the area around Reynolds Razorback Stadium has been rocking. ESPN sent a crew. The Goodyear Blimp flies overhead. Jumpers are practicing their entrance into the stadium while students began camping out on Tuesday to get a good seat. National media fills the radio airwaves on local shows.

Most importantly, the crowd on Razorback Road outside the stadium has devolved into a non-stop block party.

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Later he began to criticize their anti-monarchy position, and the power of local party bosses such as Santiago Alba.
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On 8 March 1917 the Socialists of Valladolid declared a general strike in protest against the arrest of labor leaders a few days earlier.
The strike did not gain support elsewhere in Spain, troops were brought in to control the demonstrations, and the strike ended after three days.
Pérez Solís was blamed for the failure, although he was probably not responsible for starting the strike.
He temporarily resigned and left the PSOE in April 1917, advocating the creation of an Independent Socialist Party.
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With the premiere for Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming done the stars of the film have started to hit different media outlets to promote the film. One of those of those actors is Michael Keaton who plays the antagonist of the film, Adrian Toomes aka The Vulture. He was recently on ABC’s Good Morning America talking about his role as Toomes. The segment has been shared on YouTube and can been seen below.

During the interview where he talked mostly about how much he enjoyed playing Toomes, he was asked if he was in fact reuniting with Tim Burton for Dumbo, to which he responded, “I am reuniting with Tim Burton”. Then he was asked if he was playing the role of the villain to which he responded, “Yes I know,One month after she called off her divorce from Ryan Dorsey, Naya Rvera has been arrested and charged with domestic battery against her husband.

The former Glee star was arrested at a home in Kanawha County, West Virginia, on Saturday, according to local TV station WSAZ-TV.

The news station posted a photo and video of the actress, 30, in handcuffs and being arraigned.

She has now been released on $1,000 bond and local TV reporter Jatara McGee said on Twitter that her father-in-law had been the one to pick her up.

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Naya Rivera has been charged in West Virginia with domestic battery against her husband Ryan Dorsey. She was arraigned in handcuffs after being arrested on Saturday night

Her arraignment was covered by local TV news stations with photos and


video shared on Twitter

Rivera, 30, filed for divorce from Dorsey, 34, in 2016 after two years of marriage. But in October she ended legal proceedings.

The couple share a two-year-old son, Josey.

WSAV-TV and WCHS-TV reported that deputies were called to the home around 9:30 p.m. Saturday for a domestic situation.

Dorsey told the responding officers that Rivera had struck him in the head and bottom lip while they were taking their son for a walk.

According to local news reports, he provided cell phone video of the incident to law enforcement.

The former Glee star was released from custody on $1,000 bond and picked up by her father-in-law, according to local news reports

Rivera and Dorsey, who was born and raised in Chesapeake, West Virginia, married in 2014 and share a two-year-old sonJosey. They're pictured in May 2016

Dorsey and Rivera first dated in 2010 but the actress called off the relationship after finding fame on Glee. She went on to date rapper Big Sean before reuniting with the Ray Donovan actor and tying the knot and having their son

Rivera and Dorsey first dated in 2010 but the actress called time on the relationship as she became famous for her role as cheerleader Santana Lopez on Glee.

Following the split, she had an abortion, something she only revealed to Dorsey in September 2016 while promoting her memoir Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up.

In November that year, they separated and Rivera filed for divorce seeking primary physical custody of their son with visitation for Dorsey.

In October, when deciding not to proceed


with the end of their marriage, an insider told E! News: 'They want to make it work for the sake of their son.'

Rivera was pictured in Los Angeles November 18 attending a charity event

Following the end of Glee in 2015, Rivera want on to appear on one season of the comedy Devious Maids.

She also had a part in the big screen comedy Mad Families, released in January this year with Charlie Sheen and Leah Remini.

It was written by actor and comedian David Spade and the two were briefly linked romantically this past April.

Dorsey has had small roles in several TV shows, most recently appearing this year as the character Dime Bag in Showtime's Ray Donovan starring Liev Schreiber.Yesterday, SLIVER.tv and Theta launched a massive community-driven all-star streamer CS:GO tournament featuring some of the most popular Twitch Streamers and CS:GO players in the world like Summit1g, Steel, Brax, fl0m, adreN, and others.

Various perspectives from the streamer tournament took over the front page of Twitch CS:GO with over 25k concurrent viewers across all channels, totaling to more than 300k viewers throughout the day as the streamers battled it out to be the first ever SLIVERLympics champions. Top Twitch streamer Summit1g alone had close to 20k concurrent viewers on his SLIVERlympics stream:

Many of the top streamers from Twitch such as JasonR, fl0m, adreN, steel, Pimp, and dozens of others have found immense success on SLIVER.tv, which brings in tens of thousands of new viewers to their channels on


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The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind has agreed to bear the legal expenses and offered the service of its legal cell for the defence of the five accused arrested in the Kamlesh Tiwari murder case.

They appealed to the Jamiat, a leading organisation of Islamic scholars of the Deobandi school of thought, for aid to fight the legal battle as they were poor.

Kamlesh Tiwari, national president of the Hindu Samaj Party, was allegedly shot and stabbed to death by Farid alias Moinuddin Pathan, and Ashfaq Shaikh, both residents of Surat, at his house in lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, on October 18 afternoon.

Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad and Surat Crime Branch have


arrested five accused allegedly involved in the conspiracy and murder of Tiwari. Apart from Rashid and Ashfaq, the others are Maulana Mohsin Shaikh, Faizan Shaikh and Moinuddin Pathan, also residents of Surat. Moinuddin and Rashid are brothers. Maharashtra ATS had also arrested one more accused identified as Sayyad Asim ali from Nagpur.

All the arrested are at present with Lucknow police custody and they are interrogating motive behind murder and who others are involved in this entire operation.

After the arrests made headlines, members of the Surat wing of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind met the family members of all the five murder accused. The team spoke to the family members asking what possible help they would need. The family members of all the five accused told the Jamiat members that theysmall events and concerts a year, and the the Tablet POS is imperative to the success of all them."

In 1973, Philip Kotler wrote an article in the Journal of Retailing where he describes the impact of retail space on purchase behavior:

Influencing the (purchase) probability is the sensory quality of the space surrounding the purchase object...

One of the most important recent advances in business thinking is the recognition that people, in their purchase decision-making, respond to more than simply the tangible product or service being offered. The tangible product – a pair of shoes, a refrigerator, a haircut, or a meal – is only a small part of the total consumption package. Buyers respond to the total product. It includes the services, warranties, packaging, advertising, financing, pleasantries, images, and


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Barthélemy Pouliot (October 15, 1811 – February 26, 1890) was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He represented L'Islet in the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Conservative member.

He was born in Saint-Jean on the Île d'Orléans in 1811 and was educated at Quebec City. He became a merchant in L'Islet-sur-Mer. Pouliot was one of the founders of the Québec, Chaudière, Maine and Portland Railway. He also served as justice of the peace. In 1854, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Dorchester. Pouliot was elected to the House of Commons in 1867; his election was annulled after an appeal but he was reelected in an 1869 by-election.

He died at L'Islet in 1890.

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said. "Everybody remembers what he did at the end, but when he first came through the minor leagues and into the big leagues, it was a tough go for him mechanically."

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Outfield prospect Matt Railey was suspended 50 games for testing positive for amphetamines, the commissioner's office announced. Railey, the club's third-round pick last year, posted an .882 OPS in 45 at-bats last year in the rookie-level Arizona League before going down with a hamstring injury.

• Hale is expecting everyone in town by Tuesday, the report date for position players, with the possible exception of outfield prospect Socrates Brito, who was apparently having trouble with flight delays. But Hale expected Brito to arrive in time for the club's first full squad workout Wednesday.

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U.S. Pat. No. 6,050,295, which issued to Meisinger et al. on Apr. 18,


2000, describes a high flow valved fitting. The fitting is provided which includes a body having a first end and a second end spaced from the first end, with a fluid passage extending through the body between the first and second ends. A valve seat is defined in the body within the fluid passage, and a valve assembly is removably disposed within the fluid passage for controlling flow through the fluid passage.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,277,332, which issued to Liao on May 8, 2001, describes a structure for changing old engine oil in transmission case by automatic circulation mechanism. A structure for changing engine oil in the transmission case of the engine of a motor vehicle comprises a low pressure oil cylinder and a high pressure automatic throttle valve.May 21, 2002, describes a device for emptying a container of a viscous fluid. Devices for emptying a container of viscous fluid in an ambient medium where there exists an atmosphere under pressure and a force of gravity is described. The device of the invention is essentially characterized by the fact that it comprises a receptacle having a main volume comprising top and bottom portions in which a separation wall defines two secondary volumes, an orifice made through the wall to put the two secondary volumes into communication, and opening out into the secondary volume in the top portion of the main volume, a pump mounted to cooperate with the receptacle, its suction inlet being in the volume and its outlet opening out to the outside of the


insertion path 18a of the photointerruptor 18. In the illustrated prior art, when the magnetic head 2 reaches the zero track position located in the outer circle of the magnetic disk 1, the photointerruptor 18 interrupts the optical path formed in the insertion path 18a of the photointerruptor 18.
During the zero track restore, the magnetic head 2 accesses at a lower speed and immediately stops at the zero track. Otherwise, if the magnetic head 2 is driven to access the zero track at a high speed, the head 2 cannot stop at the zero track.
Another conventional system in which neither optical detecting means such as the photointerruptor 18, nor mechanical detecting means is employed, is described in, for instance, European Patent Application 84308193.6 (Publication No. 0154085).
This prior arttrack from which said data is first of all detectable is assumed to be a zero track.
When the power supply is turned off, the actual track position of the magnetic head is unknown. Accordingly, when restoring the head to the zero track, the following cases are present. In the first case, the magnetic head is always returned to the zero track, and the track counter is aligned with the head position by resetting the track counter in the drive. When the seek error occurs, the restoring operation is required to confirm the head position. Finally, the magnetic head is merely moved to seek the zero track. Anyway, a certain detecting means is required to detect the zero position. As such a zero track detecting means, there are the


few. It’s surprising then that a producer noted for such an influential and specific sound, not to mention for his prolific remixing of Ciara, Radiohead, Frank Ocean, The Weeknd and others, is only now releasing his debut LP, ‘Feel Infinite’.

It may look like Greene has missed his moment for a debut, but the arrival of this record is merely another release from an artist who has always eschewed the temptations of commercial success. Since his 2011 track ‘Another Girl’ was released, it has racked up over four million plays on Spotify, a response that could have seen Greene cross over into commercial productions, yet he continued releasing on independents like Glasgow’s LuckyMe and Uno, even when Drake chose his track ‘Know Yourself’ to open his first ever Beatsheart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father

The Bible can't be clearer on this - a foolish son is the calamity of his father, and gives his parents no joy! Therefore he MUST be punished!

Proverbs 19:26,29

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame , and bringeth reproach. Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Proverbs 22:15

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

Proverbs 23:9 , 13-14

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the