warn their brethren on the surface. Their sacrifice saved many marines, as they were able to take shelter before the virus bombs struck. The population of Isstvan III received no such protection. Twelve billion people died almost immediately. The psychic shock of so many simultaneous deaths shrieked through the Warp, alerting the Emperor that something was terribly wrong and informing the Chaos Gods that Horus was now theirs. A contingent of loyalists led by Captain Garro of the Death Guard escaped the fleet orbiting Isstvan III aboard the damaged Eisenstein, fleeing to Terra to warn the Emperor.[Needs Citation]

Flight of the Eisenstein

Main article: Eisenstein

Angron, realising that the virus bombs had not been fully effective against the loyalist marines, flew into a rage and hurled himself at the planet withfifty companies of World Eaters. Horus was furious at Angron for delaying his plans, yet reluctantly reinforced him with troops from the Sons of Horus, the Death Guard, and the Emperor's Children. On Isstvan III, the remaining Loyalists under the command of Saul Tarvitz fought bravely against their own traitorous battle-brothers, but their cause was doomed. Soon only a few hundred of them remained until, finally, Horus grew unable to tolerate the delay, forced Angron to withdraw his forces, and ordered a systematic orbital bombardment that killed Isstvan III's last brave survivors.

The seventy Loyalists led by Captain Garro commandeered the Imperial frigate Eisenstein and evading the forces of Horus, were able to escape from the Isstvan system into the Immaterium. The Eisenstein was badly damaged during its escape


from Isstvan III; all its astropaths were dead and its lone navigator was mortally wounded. However, Garro managed to attract the attention of passing loyalist ships by setting the vessel's warp engines to self-destruct and ejecting them from the ship. Rogal Dorn's Imperial Fists Legion had been becalmed in the Warp with its fleet for some time and his navigators sensed the detonation of the Eisenstein's Warp drives. Making an immediate course for the location of the ship's beacon, Dorn met with Garro, who explained to him all that had happened with the traitor legions.[Needs Citation]

The remaining crew of the Eisenstein, now aboard Primarch Dorn's fortress-monastery Phalanx, was able to reach Terra (after Dorn's fleet destroyed the Eisenstein to ensure no Chaos taint remained), allowing the loyal marinesmen formed the nucleus of the elite Space Marines Chapter later known as the Grey Knights , for Malcador the Sigillite had presented eight of the survivors to the Emperor before his departure. These men were gifted psykers , came from the ranks of the Legions that had turned traitor, and yet maintained both an unbreakable faith in the Emperor and talent for resisting the temptations of Chaos.

After ridding himself of all suspected loyalist members within the three Legions under his direct command, Horus chose Isstvan V as his command post and prepared a trap for his former brothers and their Legions.[Needs Citation]

Agonizing over the betrayal of his most beloved son, the Emperor ordered the deployment of seven full Space Marine Legions against him. Their orders were to


take Horus and the Primarchs allied with him into custody and bring them back to Terra to explain their actions. Unbeknownst to the Emperor, four of the Primarchs and their Legions chosen for this task had already turned against him, forming a "fifth column" which would strike against the loyalists at the most decisive moment.[Needs Citation]

The initial naval operations seemed to go well for the loyalists. The Imperial Navy gained orbit over Isstvan V and the Legions proceeded with their planetary deployment. Under the overall command of Ferrus Manus, three whole Legions took part in the first wave of landings; the Salamanders lead by Vulkan, the Raven Guard under Corax, and Manus's own Iron Hands. Horus had foreknowledge of the location of the loyalist drop site and hisforces mauled the Legions during their landings, keeping them pinned down and unable to advance.[Needs Citation]

Ferrus Manus engaged Fulgrim in personal combat, only to die at his hands while the Emperor's Children butchered the Iron Hands. The loyalists retreated towards the apparent safety of their brothers in the second wave, hoping to gain reinforcement; what happened next took them completely by surprise. The four Legions of the second wave - The Night Lords of Konrad Curze, the Iron Warriors of Perturabo, the Word Bearers of Lorgar, and the Alpha Legion of Alpharius — already seduced to the cause of Horus, opened fire on their unsuspecting brothers, slaughtering them wholesale. This orgy of carnage would later become widely known as the Istvaan V Drop Site Massacre. A phrase attributed


to the Warmaster himself can easily summarise the entire battle: "When the traitor's hand strikes, it strikes with the strength of a Legion." After the battle, Fulgrim presented the head of Ferrus Manus to Horus as a trophy.

[28] Strategic situation in the Imperium by late 010. M31

The Rebellion Spreads

Only a small number of loyalist Space Marines, bearing the gene-seed of their fallen brothers and carrying the critically wounded Corax, managed to escape. They fled back to the Raven Guard's homeworld, Deliverance, to tend to their wounds and alert the Emperor. In a single stroke Horus had crippled three Legions, killed one Primarch in battle, left another severely wounded, and a third (Vulkan, who survived due to being a Perpetual) was captured and imprisoned by his brother Konrad Curze.It was disastrous news for the Emperor and the Imperium.[Needs Citation]

During the developments at Prospero, Horus's rebellion would be further strengthened by Magnus the Red and his Legion, the Thousand Sons, now servants of Tzeentch. In addition, the Schism of Mars, the civil war of the Adeptus Mechanicus, had ended in the victory of the Warmaster's allies, the Dark Mechanicum. With nine Legions and much of the Adeptus Mechanicus behind him, Horus quickly struck towards Terra after gaining the powers of the Emperor after the Battle of Molech. To occupy the bulk of remaining loyalist forces, he commanded the Alpha Legion to bog down the Space Wolves at the Battle of the Alaxxes Nebula and White Scars in the Chondax Campaign while having the Night Lords rampage throughout


the Imperium to draw the attention of the Dark Angels in the Thramas Crusade. The Ultramarines were still reeling from their battle with the Word Bearers at the Battle of Calth and currently facing the combined forces of Lorgar and Angron in the Shadow Crusade. Thus only the Imperial Fists and White Scars (who managed to escape the Alpha Legion and return to Terra) were in any position to defend the capital world in force[2e][4].

The Traitor Marines laid waste to their former allies' holdings along the way to Terra, however Horus' hopes of a swift war were dashed by a number of setbacks and stubborn loyalist defenses[28]. Perturabo invaded the world of Tallarn, beginning one of the largest armored conflicts in galactic history. At the Signus Cluster Sanguiniusand the Blood Angels narrowly avoided corruption at the hands of Daemonic forces under Kyriss the Perverse and Ka'Bandha. Despite the traitor defeat on Calth, Erebus was successful in creating the Ruinstorm which threw the Astronomican into disarray and rendered navigation and communication difficult. The Blood Angels and Dark Angels under their respective Primarch's sought Terra, but were unable to navigate the Ruinstorm and instead locked onto the Pharos beacon, ending up in the Realm of Ultramar instead. As a result, Roboute Guilliman feared the Imperium lost and created a second empire, Imperium Secundus, as a contingency with Sanguinius as its Imperator Regis and Lion El'Jonson as its Lord Protector.[6] Early tests for Imperium Secundus came from both the Battle of Sotha and the unleashing of Konrad Curze


on Macragge. Imperium Secundus was constantly undermined thanks to the political clashes between Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson, with Sanguinius proving unable to negotiate settlements between the two.[19]

Final Battles

Main article: Solar War

After years of bitter fighting, Horus and his forces finally arrived at Terra, capital of humanity. For several years previous, traitors had been wresting control of the Sol System from the Imperial Fists in the Solar War. During these battles, the Alpha Legion struck at Pluto and Alpharius himself was seemingly killed by Rogal Dorn.[13]

Due to the visions of both Sanguinius and Konrad Curze of the Emperor, it became apparent that he still lived and Terra still endured. This, along with the many disagreements between its ruling triumvirate, resulted in the dissolution of Imperium Secundus. Sanguinius, Roboute Guilliman,and Lion El'Jonson attempted to breach the Ruinstorm to reach Terra, but in the end only Sanguinius and the Blood Angels were successful.[14] Shortly after the arrival of Sanguinius on Terra, Leman Russ left with the intent on confronting Horus himself. Thanks to runes planted by infiltrating Knights-Errant during the Battle of Molech the Space Wolves were able to track the location of the Vengeful Spirit, and Russ and Horus engaged one another in a duel as battle raged around them. Russ was badly wounded, but in turn wounded Horus with the Spear of Russ, cleansing much of the corruption that had befallen the Warmaster since Molech. However the battle cost the Space Wolves dearly, and they fled to Yarant with Russ in a comatose state.[16] The Wolves


narrowly avoided destruction at the hands of Sons of Horus First Captain Ezekyle Abaddon thanks to Corax and the Raven Guard.[16]

Eventually only Terra itself stood. After the titanic Battle of Beta-Garmon, Horus' fleet was within range of the Sol System and mustered their forces on Ullanor. Horus during this time was still suffering wounds inflicted by Russ at the Battle of Trisolian, and the traitor war effort would have fallen apart had it not been for Maloghurst who gave his life to restore the Warmaster. During the muster of the Traitor Primarch's at Ullanor, Lorgar revealed that he saw Horus as weak and doomed to fail and attempted to usurp him. However Horus defeated the coup, and exiled Lorgar from his sight. Alpharius apparently quit the traitor wareffort after giving the Warmaster a detailed map of the Sol System defenses, but Horus still mustered Angron, Magnus, Perturabo, and Fulgrim to his side on Ullanor as well as forces from the Night Lords and Word Bearers.[17] Meanwhile, Mortarion and the Death Guard were fully corrupted inside the Warp by Nurgle thanks to sabotage by First Captain Calas Typhon. When the re-emerged from the Warp in the Sol System, they had become a horrifying army of Plague Marines.[2]

Terra

Main article: Siege of Terra

Horus and the Emperor battle on the Vengeful Spirit

In 0000014.M31, the first day of Primus, Horus' armada at last arrived at the Sol System. During the final intense phase of the Solar War, the traitors captured the Solar System from loyalist forces despite the best efforts


of Rogal Dorn to stall until the arrival of reinforcements from Roboute Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson.[25] Once within range of Terra, Horus and his forces destroyed Luna's naval bases and within thirty days had destroyed the Terran system's defences. Terra was bombarded and devastated. The corrupted Marines from the Sons of Horus, Death Guard, World Eaters, Emperor's Children, Iron Warriors, Thousand Sons, Word Bearers, and Night Lords eventually landed on Terra, experiencing heavy resistance from the defenders which were led by the Imperial Fists, Blood Angels, and White Scars. Vast amounts of traitor Imperial Army, Dark Mechanicum, Chaos Cultists, and Daemonic forces joined the traitor Astartes in their assault on Terra. The loyalists were outnumbered and the battle for Terra turned into a siege of the Imperial Palace.By the fifty-fifth day the rebels had reached the walls of the Inner Palace but Sanguinius managed to hold the Eternity Gate despite a vicious assault led by the Bloodthirster Ka'Bandha. Eventually a stalemate set in with not even the siegecraft of Perturabo and the Iron Warriors being able to break the tide. Horus, who had remained in orbit aboard his battle barge, was at that point warned that the Ultramarines and Dark Angels were returning to Terra and would arrive shortly. If this were to happen, Horus's advantage in numbers would be eliminated and he faced the prospect of attacks to his rear. In a final gambit he deactivated the Void Shields protecting the Vengeful Spirit to lure the Emperor in a final battle that would decide


the war.[2e]

Leaving Malcador the Sigillite behind to maintain the Golden Throne and thus the seal on the ruptured Imperial Webway, The Emperor saw this opportunity and teleported to the Warmaster's flagship Vengeful Spirit with Sanguinius and Dorn, Terminator-armoured marines of their Legions, and a number of Custodes. The Emperor's forces were scattered through the ship upon arrival and forced to battle their way to find each other. Sanguinius found Horus first. Horus was at the height of his powers, augmented with the blessings of all four Chaos Gods and the god-like powers he had acquired during the Battle of Molech, and Sanguinius was slain. Horus stood over the Primarch's body as the Emperor found him. After a long and grueling battle, the Emperor was successful in slaying Horus,but he himself was mortally wounded. The Emperor survived long enough to be transferred to the Golden Throne, with Malcador having sacrificed his own life to sustain the device in his absence. With Horus dead, First Captain of the Sons of Horus Ezekyle Abaddon took command of the Legion and retreated, causing a general rout among the traitor forces. The assault on Terra was broken, but at great cost.[2e]

Aftermath

The Emperor's final command began the Great Scouring. Under the leadership of the remaining loyalist Primarch's the forces loyal to Horus were hounded into the Eye of Terror and locations such as the Isstvan System sterilized. All records and the remaining homeworlds of the traitor legions were destroyed. Inside the Eye, the remaining Traitor Primarch's, now nearly all Daemon Princes,


became detached from the affairs of the Materium and let their children fend for themselves.[21] Without the Primarch's, the traitor legions themselves engaged in a bitter civil war until Ezekyle Abaddon, assuming the epithet "the Despoiler," would become closest the traitor legions would have to a unified leader and lead a number of Black Crusades into the Imperium in the millennia to come.[20]

With the Emperor now indisposed, Roboute Guilliman took the mantle of Lord Commander of the Imperium and worked his brothers to introduce sweeping reforms to prevent another major rebellion from occurring, most notably the implementation of the Codex Astartes and dividing the Imperial Army into the Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy.[18a] Two agencies left behind by Malcador before his death, the Inquisition and Grey Knights, helpedto maintain the new order and prevent new heresies.[23] Over the course of the Great Scouring, all of the remaining loyalist Primarch's either went missing, were presumed killed, or in the case of Guilliman himself put into stasis to avoid death due to his mortal wounding by Fulgrim at Thessala.[22]

Ultimately, the Horus Heresy was instrumental for the ten-thousand year decay that has since set into the Imperium. The Emperor's grand ambition, the Imperial Webway, was abandoned and Chaos continued to plague humanity. The hope and reason of the Imperial Truth was gradually replaced by the repression and superstition of the Imperial Cult which now worships the Emperor, still kept alive upon the Golden Throne through the daily sacrifice of a thousand Psykers, as a god.[24] Technologies from the


251 So.2d 6 (1971)
Shellie E. McKINNEY, As Tax Collector for Alachua County, Florida et al., Appellants,
v.
Alpha L. HUNT and Elizabeth S. Hunt, His Wife, Appellees.
No. N-444.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
August 3, 1971.
Chandler, O'Neal, Carlisle, Avera, Gray & Lang, Gainesville, for appellants.
Richard J. Wilson, Gainesville, for appellees.
*7 GOODFRIEND, SAM, Associate Judge.
Appellant seeks review of a final judgment rendered May 13, 1970, in the Circuit Court of Alachua County, holding that Appellees' lands were entitled to agricultural tax treatment under the provisions of Section 193.201, as amended by Chapter 67-117, Acts Florida Statutes, as amended and renumbered Section 193.461, Florida Statutes, F.S.A.
Plaintiff-appellees are the owners of 15 acres of land in Alachua County, Florida. In 1969, appellees' land was assessed by the appellants-defendants at fair market valuerather than as agricultural land. Appellees' complaint sought a declaration that the assessment was illegal and to have the 1969 taxes declared void, discriminatory and illegal for the reasons that said property was being used for bona fide agricultural purposes, and was entitled to the tax benefits on January 1st, 1969, as provided for under Section 193.461, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. Appellees contended that the property was so classified for tax purposes in 1968.
The Trial Judge, the Honorable George L. Patten, adjudged that the assessment of appellees' property was nonagricultural property is unlawful and invalid and ordered and directed the defendants-appellants herein to assess said property as agricultural land.
The land in question consists of fifteen acres, owned by plaintiff-appellees since 1935. The fifteen acres consist of 11 acres of


the year 1968, except that the agricultural use has been more intensified.
"3. That said lands were being used as agricultural lands on January 1, 1969, and entitled to be assessed as agricultural lands and taxed accordingly."
and adjudged in part as follows:
"The assessment of the property described herein by the Defendants as nonagricultural property is unlawful and invalid and the Defendants are ordered and directed to assess said property as agricultural lands * * *"
According to stipulation of the parties, testimony of an Alachua County Commissioner, who was also a member of the Alachua County Zoning Board, was presented by appellants showing the reason for appellees' land being zoned agricultural in 1968 was namely because of insufficient facts, the volume of applications for agricultural zoning, and 1968 was theSafety & Compliance

The National Transportation Safety Board called for states to provide a 10-year driving history on prospective employees of motor carriers, along with onboard safety monitoring and speed limiting systems in commercial vehicles, as part of its report on a 2011 bus crash in New York, N.Y.

Fifteen passengers were killed and 17 injured on March 12, 2011, when a motorcoach traveling southbound on Interstate 95 left the roadway, struck a guardrail and turned over onto its side, followed by a collision with an overhead vertical highway signpost that ripped the roof from the bus.

"This crash, one of three fatal U.S. bus crashes in rapid succession last year, is one of the deadliest bus accidents the NTSB has ever investigated," said NTSB Chairman Deborah A. P. Hersman.

The board


information to remediate the behavior or remove him from his position.

• The use of in-vehicle technologies to prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit would be beneficial in reducing both the instances and severity of accidents involving heavy vehicles. The NTSB determined that the motorcoach, which had reached speeds as high as 78 mph in the 60 seconds prior to the crash, was traveling at least 64 mph in the 50 mph speed zone for at least 10 seconds before it struck the guardrail. Investigators said if the motorcoach been traveling at the speed limit, it might not have overturned.

The motorcoach operator was cited as contributing to the accident because of its lax safety oversight of the driver, which stemmed from what the NTSB called "a corporate culturethat fostered indifference to passenger safety." Shortly after the crash, World Wide Travel was placed out of service by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Most of the officials, supervisory personnel and dispatchers continued to work for its sister company, Great Escapes, which is currently operating.

The NTSB does not have any rulemaking power on its own. It investigates accidents and makes recommendations to appropriate government agencies on ways to prevent similar crashes in the future.

As a result of its 15-month-long investigation, the NTSB made a total of 16 safety recommendations to the Federal Carrier Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials, and motorcoach associations.


Nurses praised for studies

Two nurses who boosted their qualifications by returning to study after many years in the profession graduated in Paisley recently.

Mary Smith and Hazel Smith, aged 50 and 49 respectively, took the opportunity to further their training by studying a distance learning course locally in conjunction with the University of the West of Scotland, based in Paisley.

They were previously enrolled nurses, a rank that no longer exists within the profession, but now they are staff nurses, with added responsibilities and skills and the proud possessors of diplomas of higher education in nursing.

The women, who are not related in spite of sharing the same surname, and who coincidentally both live in Cunningsburgh and both have four children, started their programme in May 2007. The flexible nature ofdevelopment. This two-year programme demands a high level of commitment and they are both to be commended for their efforts. The board would also like to thank the mentors and all staff who have provided support to the students while on clinical placement.”

The graduation ceremony was held in November in the ornate setting of the Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church. The church was built as a tribute to the family of threadmakers J & P Coats, one of the main benefactors of Paisley Technical College from which the university developed.


They are International Studies high school students, following a demanding bilingual program that gives them the same education as their peers in Spain, France, Germany and Italy.

And now they have a new public high school - the International Studies Preparatory Academy @ Gables, or ISPA, the first magnet school in Miami-Dade to offer only International Studies in a high school setting.

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A venture between the Miami-Dade Schools and the consulates of Spain, France and Italy, the high school completes the International Studies trajectory for the nearly 3,000 students on that course. They will be able to go from first to 12th grade and take courses in history, foreign languages and some math and science classes in Spanish, French, Italian or German.

"I think the program issince the 1990s. The International Studies Charter High School in Little Havana, founded in 2004, teaches Spanish, French and Italian.

The International Studies Preparatory Academy @ Gables, which opened Aug. 23 in the Koubek Center off Coral Way, has 12 freshmen taking courses in French and Spanish. Next year, the school will begin Italian.

Principal Alejandro Perez said he has spots for 75 to 100 students this fall and will accept magnet applications for the next six weeks.

"The benefits of becoming truly bilingual and bicultural will help later in life," he said. "Businesses are looking at students who can read and write in a second language."

Typically, these type of programs are found at international or private schools -- not public schools.

ISPA is recruiting students. Enrollment is low because the school


district launched the school a month before classes started, said Anna Piva, executive director of ODLI, which coordinates International Studies in Italian.

"Many families had already decided where to send their children for the coming year," she said.

When the school moves next year to 1570 Madruga Ave. in Coral Gables, the building will accomodate 600 students.

"It gives me a lot more public choices than what I have now," said Andrea Leal, an Argentine, whose son studies the Spanish curriculum at Carver Middle School.

To be sure, the International Studies program is not for everyone.

"It's a lot more work," said Pavel Raphael, 17, a senior at the International Studies Charter High School. "The curriculum is harder. There re no multiple choice tests, just long response questions."

But the rewards -- academic prestige,a lawyer who was working in the government legal affairs field before I was elected mayor in 2011.

Yet he has not been active in any county business. Santiago initially included him as an active lobbyist in the online version of her column, then when advised that he is listed as “not active lobbyist” — as posted on the county website — she did not include the date of Jan. 27, 2011 that is listed as the last “inactive.”


The Thunder re-tooled... But do the pieces fit together?

The Thunder re-tooled... But do the pieces fit together?

The unquestioned winners of the offseason were the Oklahoma City Thunder.

A year removed from losing the best player in franchise history, trading for Victor Oladipo and then (somewhat inexplicably) handing him a four-year, $85 million extension, general manager Sam Presti has brought his team back to basketball prominence.

First, on June 30, just before the opening salvos of the 2017 free-agency period, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburnereported that Oklahoma City had acquired disgruntled All-NBA wing Paul George from the Indiana Pacers.

The package they sent back consisted of Oladipo and rookie big man Domantas Sabonis – who possesses talent to be sure, but struggled mightily as a first-year player.

Then, days before the start of training camp,

The two pictures of the OTRAG rocket laid on top of each other to

show the motion of the rocket. The terrain is taken from the first

picture. The notes have been added by Sven Grahn.

Sven Grahn

The photo-CD

In January 2012, when I perused an old photo-CD in the archives of SSC (previously the Swedish Space Corporation) I stumbled, by pure chance, upon two pictures of an unknown rocket type taking off from Esrange.

The rocket in the pictures is very slender and left no trail of smoke. It took me very few seconds to realize that this must be a liquid propellant rocket (usually no smoke trail) and the only liquid-propellant rocket ever launched from Esrange was the last OTRAG rocket which is designated OTR-1 and the vehicle type was OTRAG


- OTRAG. The rocket was going to be assembled from a large number of modular boosters. Testing would start with the launch of a single rocket, burning red fuming nitric acid and diesel oil. Gradually more powerful combinations would be assembled and tested.

The flamboyant director of the project visited Esrange in his search for a suitable launch site. He came in his LearJet and was dressed in an impressive wolf fur coat. At the Ferrum hotel he asked to buy the piano! Another small detail that impressed us was that ordinary car windscreen wiper motors were going to be used in the rocket design. What could be more reliable in relation to cost?

Unfortunately, in the end, the launch site was established in Zaïre, where an enormous land areais probably a sign of the oxidizer.

The green "rod" directly below the rocket is actually the MAN rail rocket launcher.

There is a "tent" attached to the service tower of the blue-gray gantry tower originally built for the Aries rocket and nowadays extended in height and used for the MAXUS rocket. The tent was used for preparing the rocket for launch.

However, there were experiments on OTR-1. In (2) the Technical University of Aachen and the Technical College in Munich are mentioned as "scientific groups".

The plot thickens - a visit to the Esrange archives

In mid-September 2013 I traveled to Kiruna to do research in the archives of Esrange for my upcoming book (in Swedish) about all Swedish sounding rocket projects. Of course I could not resist having a peek at


received another picture (see below) of the launch from Esrange from a member of the DLR team that launched the OTRAG from Esrange in 1983. We can see clearly that the rocket had three fins and not four as in the sketch above. The nitric acid gases can be seen as well as the Skylark tower in the background. A press release (opens in new window) about the 1983 launch was also published. It mentions nothing about the actual fate of the test. It just states that the rocket was launched successfully. If you by "launched" mean that it took off from the ground the press release is not untruthful. But it certainly was not the whole story.

The other OTRAG launches

It is not easy to accurately reconstruct thehugs the Irish Sea and is links-like, the back nine is beautiful parkland with several outstanding holes including the par-3 13th from a lofty elevated tee 229 metres down to the green – and at the back of the short 17th there are birdies of another kind with a family of swans in residence.

The 18th is typical of Hackett’s vision – a double dogleg and a massive 562 metres from the championship tees with a sting in the tail. The green is well guarded and you have to negotiate water on both sides of the fairway before you reach the haven of the welcoming clubhouse.

Course

Charlesland Golf Club

18 holes

Average Prices

Weekday

€20.00

Weekend

€38.00

Location

Contact

Charlesland Golf Club

Directions

The club is located on the edge of Greystones, a bustling and vibrant seaside village with it’s own


Thursday, November 28, 2013

A couple of years
ago, Jerry Bowyer, writing in Forbes Magazine,
recounted the real significance of Thanksgiving, a significance that is too
often lost among the turkey dinners, football games, and stories about Indians
who befriended the early settlers.

In 1620, the Plymouth
pilgrims based their original community on Plato’s Republic, a collective model that appealed to their religious
convictions and morality. But the communal model didn’t work for them. After over
two years of failing harvests and resulting malnutrition, disease, starvation, and
deaths, the pilgrims replaced the communal model with a model based on private
property. The ensuing harvest was abundant, with surpluses available for trade.

Their Thanksgiving celebrated
the triumph of the individual, private property, and incentive, over
collectivism. At first, the pilgrims were guilty because they were putting
self-interest over the seeming altruism of socialism. Yetlook the other way.NO BETTER THAN MITT ROMNEY.These issues are grinding people down. This is a good part of the reason we have so many desperate people doing so many desperate acts.Parts of the town remind me a book I just read, "The Last Man in Russia," which describes the disintegration of so much of the former Soviet Union where desperation led to dire population loss, heavy drunkenness and early deaths. The recent data on infant deaths in some areas of Cleveland have fallen below that of many Third World countries, to say nothing of the devastating conditions women in many parts of the city endure.But we collected another $119,124,658 as of Sept. 30 (since February 2007) for arts and culture.There is no special tax for needy infants.Why


states to completely remove themselves from the train wreck of Obamacare.Legislatively, the HCC will allow member states to draft and pass healthcare related legislation task specific to the needs of their state....

Enters Ohio into the Health Care Compact, which, with the permission of the United States Congress, allows Ohio, as a member state, to suspend the operation of all federal laws, rules, regulations, and orders regarding health care that are inconsistent with Ohio laws adopted pursuant to the Compact.The bill enacts and ratifies the Health Care Compact which, with the permission of the United States Congress, allows Ohio, as a member state, to regulate health care within the state (particularly, insurance), and to enter into the Compact with any other state that has legally joined in the Compact.Fromwhat you like
about Newt Gingrich, he is a savvy observer of DC politics. His recent email
message is titled, ominously, "The Death of the Senate." It’s difficult to argue
with his assessment, despite its pessimism [note: no link, since it arrived in an
email]:

No one should be
confused about what happened yesterday.

The Obama Democrats
killed the United States Senate as a deliberative body 226 years after the
Founding Fathers created it.

The use of a simple
majority to change the Senate rules and eliminate the filibuster on judicial
nominees and other appointments--a device that made getting 60 votes a
practical necessity--was a decisive first step toward reducing the Senate to a
body that operates by simple majority.

The Democrats have
tried to argue that they killed the filibuster only for a handful of
presidential nominees. But in fact they’ve killed a tradition


can keep your private medical system, period.

Friday, November 22, 2013

Common Core is not about education. It's about indoctrination. It's about fanning the flames of racial tension and class warfare. It's about pushing the progressive agenda. The Illinois Review (via Gateway Pundit) reports:

The book - brought to the attention this week of those on the "Moms Against Duncan - MAD" Facebook page, goes on to say white Americans were hesitant to vote for a black president, and that Obama pushed the race issue to bring the nation together.

"But some people said Americans weren't ready for that much change. Sure Barack was a nice fellow, they said. But white voters would never vote for a black president. Other angry voices were raised. Barack's former pastor called the country a failure.God would damn the United States for mistreating its black citizens, he said."

And here's the image of the book.

You can look at preview pages here. Can you imagine your 9 or 10-year old having to read this in school?

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Columbus. Yesterday's hearing for the repeal of Common Core went in to the morning
hours. Although proponent testimony was cut short, and Marianne was not able to
provide my testimony regarding the intimidation tactics being used by the state,
she was able to have a one-on-one conversation with Rep. John Becker, to address some
questions he had during the testimony.

Accompanying her were three other ladies, one of whom was a teacher. She
was able to give him first hand accounts of just how terrible Common Core
Standards are.

The first testimony of the evening


Regional Sites: No Easy Answers

by Mike Machnik/CHN Senior Editor

MANCHESTER, N.H.  Campus sites or neutral regional sites?

It's become the hot topic of late, with regard to the NCAA Division I Ice Hockey Tournament. The tournament moved to regional sites in 1992, with two single-elimination, six-team regionals making up the 12-team field. Prior to that, for three years, the first two rounds were held as best-of-three series on campus. Since the tournament's expansion to 16 teams in 2003, the format has been single elimination at four regional sites, with each sending a regional champion on to the Frozen Four.

But in recent years, with dwindling attendance at some regionals, discussion has increased on the possibility of moving one or more of the early rounds back to campus, perhaps returning toa series format.

This year's Northeast Regional in Manchester was well attended, with over 8,000 at the Verizon Wireless Arena each night — helped by the appearances of host school New Hampshire and Massachusetts-Lowell, both from Hockey East and both within 40 miles of Manchester.

But that hasn't been the case everywhere — for example, out West where distances between schools and the regional sites are much greater. For example, the first night attendance in Grand Rapids on Friday for the West Regional was just 2,289, despite the appearances of two schools that routinely draw 10,000 or more to their home games in Minnesota and North Dakota (both are at least 600 miles away). And in Toledo for the Midwest Regional, Saturday's crowd was just a bit higher at 2,988,


with none of the participants within 150 miles of the city.

With the current format, often, schools that play in front of packed houses during the season, and good crowds at their conference tournaments, step up to the NCAA Tournament and play even bigger games in buildings that may be much less than half full and a lot quieter in terms of atmosphere.

The committee emphasized attendance factors this year while seeding the Regionals, but there's only so much it can do under the current criteria, and it didn't really help.

No question the makeup of the field is a factor — there was no Michigan, Michigan State, Ferris State or Western Michigan in Grand Rapids (none of them made the tournament), and Toledo host school Bowling Green didn't qualify either.intoxicating grandiose escape from reality. The Fugees had made an album in The Score that elegantly transported itself through samples, covers, and the dynamic melodic range of the New Jerusalem trio. An underground Hip-Hop group, the Refugees predated Eminem and the Black Eyed Peas in showing just how some (Nappy) Heads could be embraced by the pop masses. Jay Z made Reasonable Doubt, and Nas followed with It Was Written. In both cases, two old school Rap-rooted MCs were fitted with tailor-made sample beats, mafioso imagery, and a strong departure from the artists’ previous pool hall battles and park jams. Put another way, Hip-Hop was winning with cinematic themes and ’70s and ’80s hit retreads (see: “California Love,” “Killing Me Softly,” and “Street Dreams”). Additionally, from Tupac spitting


the coasts were packing heavy artillery on wax and to industry events, OutKast stayed quiet, making only their art explosive. The message was sent early on an album that celebrated its poetic license, density, and abstract points of view.

Behind only Pearl Jam, ATLiens landed at #2 on the charts. The LaFace Records release was much more subdued then its ’94 predecessor. Dré, Big, and Mr. DJ produced the would-be first two singles, with Organized Noize taking nine of the 16 tracks (including Rico Wade, Sleepy Brown, and Ray Murray’s take on the single). Despite two producers, the work is incredibly cohesive—with only its deliveries in common with its previous LP.

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At a time when the beat was overtaking thein-your-face. What was taken, and how it was used, was gentle-handed. Instead, much of the album was fortified by an ensemble in the studios that included Goodie Mob, Witchdoctor, Joi, Jazzyfatnastees, Trina Broussard, and Cool Breeze. There were no major samples or grand guests on ATLiens. This album was rich within its own confines, and as self-contained as any mid-’90s masterpiece.

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In retrospect, ATLiens is a Southern Rap pinnacle. Joining Scarface’s The Diary and UGK’s Ridin’ Dirty (released less than a month prior) this album basked in its elements. If Hip-Hop embraced the regional iconography of low-riders, towering project houses, bikini-clad women, gang-controlled streets, or Moet in rugged nightclubs, so would Dré


Democratic Rep. Gerald Connolly (Va.) on Tuesday said President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE has a "bromance" with Russian President Vladimir Putin that has clouded his judgment.

In an interview with "The Lead" on CNN, Connolly told host Jim Sciutto that the recent decision from the Trump administration to sell lethal weaponry to Ukraine came despite Trump's "inexplicable" soft spot for Putin.

"I think that the machinery of the United States government, the defense machinery, the foreign policy machinery, has never wavered in understanding that Russia is an adversary and a threat to Western valuesand our own democratic system," Connolly said.

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"I think the president has a lot of trouble getting that in his head because of his own personal conflicts and his own personal needs and relationships with Russians, Russian oligarchs who financed part of his enterprise and his inexplicable admiration, bromance, for Vladimir Putin," added Connolly.

"So I think in some ways we’re doing this despite the president."

The Trump administration announced earlier this month that it would sell more than $80 billion of lethal weaponry to Ukraine's military, including anti-tank missiles and sniper rifle systems.

Connolly said he believes the president was "reluctant" to sign off on the policy, which was seen as a shift in U.S. policy toward Russian aggression in Ukraine.

"I think he is a very reluctant signatory to the recent


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This arcana allows the Sorcerer to shield himself and his allies from the daemon and the aberrant. It creates a magical ward around the caster, extending outwards to the listed range, and moves with the caster. However, the nature of the ward is such that the caster, while so protected, may only walk, though he may still make Attack actions. While the Ward is active, the Sorcerer chants prayers to Inanna, the Seven Saints, and the God-Emperor. Thus, while ward is active, the Sorcerer may not speak to anyone else, issue commands, or engage in social interaction.

While the ward is active, it defends all those inside of its boundaries from the attacks of creatures with the Daemon, Undead, Aberrant or Warp Creature qualities. If one or more of


these creatures attempts to enter the bounded area, it must engage the Sorcerer in an Opposed WP test. If it fails, the creature takes 1d10 damage per degree by which it lost the test. This damage ignores Armor and any protections caused by Psychic effects, Daemonic Aura, and similar effects. If it fails by 3 or more degrees of success, the Sorcerer may also add his WP bonus to the damage. Daemons and Warp Creatures killed by this effect are banished to the Warp for at least 1 year and 1 day.

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The Ideal Ice Cream is an ice cream manufacturing company based in Mangalore, India. It was started on 1 May 1975 by Prabhakar Kamath, and today it's the biggest ice cream manufacturer in Mangalore with an 80% market share. It has currently four outlets in and around Mangalore, with one of its outlets in the Market Road is considered as India's 3rd Largest Ice Cream Parlour. The brand's signature dish is the so-called Gadbad, a tall glass with layers of ice-cream, jelly, dry-fruits and fresh fruits.

Pabbas in MG Road, Mangalore is an outlet belonging to this company but under a different name.

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Todd Hernandez set to be dual coach, take over Eaton baseball program

» He is an Eaton alum, playing under hall of fame coach Jim Danley before graduating in 1991.

» He is also the Reds’ girls basketball coach, going in to his 11th year with that position. With Hernandez in charge, Eaton has gone 169-41 the past eight seasons with three trips to the final four, including two runner-up finishes.

» Hernandez takes over a Reds program that went 20-3 last spring but went 0-2 in the state tournament and struggled with a young squad over the summer.

Eaton athletic director Steve Longwell, principal Mark Naill and the rest of a five-person search community didn't have to search far to find the Reds' next baseball coach.

Of all places, they found theirnext baseball coach on the basketball court.

After officially reopening the job held last season by Bob Ervin and held by Jim Danley the previous 44 years, Eaton concluded a multi-month process by hiring Todd Hernandez, who is entering his 11th year coaching the Reds' girls basketball program.

Hernandez was officially hired during an Eaton Re-2 School District Board of Education meeting Monday.

"I'm extremely excited," said Hernandez, 43. "It's one of those things that has always been a dream of mine. I played baseball at Eaton since I was 5 years old. And having my dad coach here and those kind of things, it's just always been something that I hoped would happen eventually down the line, and I'm really excited for the opportunity."

Hernandez has regularly helped out with Eaton's


summer program throughout the years.

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Todd's father, Martin, was a longtime Danley assistant before he died in 2003. Todd grew up within the Reds baseball program, graduating from high school in 1991.

Hernandez didn't pursue the job a year ago after Danley was let go. But when the job reopened July 20 after Ervin, who was Danley's assistant for 36 years, decided to retire, Hernandez jumped at the opportunity after extensive conversation with his family.

"What it came down to was me and my family sitting down talking about it," said Hernandez, who also teaches fifth grade at Benjamin Eaton Elementary. "We're pretty strong in our faith. So, we prayed about it. My wife and I said, 'if this is meant to be, we'll pray about it andif God opens the door for us, we'll go that way.' "

Hernandez draws support from his wife, Lisa, his sons, Mason (a high school sophomore) and Grant (a sixth-grader), and his young daughter, Lucy (a kindergarten student).

Although Longwell said several other candidates were considered during the hiring process, he and the rest of the search committee were firmly on board with the idea of Hernandez leading the Reds' program into the future.

"He builds rapport with the kids, he builds good, positive relationships with them and he gets the best out of them," Longwell said. "Being around him the last 11, 12 years, I've seen what kind of work ethic he has. I've seen how much time he puts in. … He's your prototypical Eaton Red."

Hernandez has spent the


The off-duty police officer who was videotaped fleeing a Bronx subway station just after a uniformed MTA worker was attacked has turned himself in to a Harlem precinct, apparently after he saw the surveillance tape on the news. No charges have been filed against Mirjan Lolja, 37, who has worked at the 25th Precinct for seven years.

The incident in question occurred on December 23 at 2:30 a.m. That’s when Lolja allegedly approached a 28-year-old transit worker, who was also off-duty, at the D train station. The employee says he grabbed her from behind, choked her, and pushed her to the floor. She was hospitalized for head, neck, and back injuries after the attack, and Lolja is seen running out of the station immediately thereafter.

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guessing and supposing:  no, you have to be patient and go on
experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.  And it is
delightful to have it that way, it makes the world so interesting. If
there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull.  Even trying to
find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find
out and finding out, and I don't know but more so. The secret of the
water was a treasure until I GOT it; then the excitement all went away,
and I recognized a sense of loss.

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plenty of other things; therefore by all that cumulative evidence6a in series, and a secondary winding 6c (ns turns) electromagnetically coupled to the primary winding 6a and the additional winding 6b.
The drain and source of the switch Q1 formed of a MOSFET or the like are connected to both ends of the DC power supply Vdc1 through the primary winding 5a of the transformer T3. The drain and source of the switch Q2 formed of a MOSFET or the like are connected to both ends of the DC power supply Vdc1 through the primary winding 6a of the transformer T4. A first series circuit, which includes the additional winding 5b of the transformer T3, the diode D3 and the smoothing capacitor C1, is connected to a node at which the primary winding 5a of the transformer


If Duncan turned into a hawk or a bear or a wolf to elude a dangerous creature, a piece of him would stay that way. His biggest fear was that if and when he did find his missing daughter, she would no longer recognize who he'd become in order to save her.

Daniel looked down at what he had on the page so far, and sighed. The problem wasn't drawing the hawk—he could do that in his sleep—it was making sure the reader saw the human behind it. It was not new to have a hero who turned into an animal—but Daniel had come by the concept honestly. He'd grown up as the only white boy in a native Alaskan village where his mother was a schoolteacher and hisperson on the other end had hung up, and silence landing on the house like a fat black crow.

Jason kept glancing at the ground, as if he needed to keep track of his footsteps. Trixie tried not to look at the bruises on his face or the blood on his collar. "I'm not scared of you," she said, although she was not telling the truth. "You can't do anything to me." She wondered if ghosts had the powers of superheroes, if they could see through linen and flannel to spot her legs shaking, if they could swallow her words and spit her lie back out like a bullet.

Jason leaned so close that his hand went right through Trixie. It felt like winter. He was able to draw her


from him, shaking her head, as her throat closed like a rose after dark.

His fingers caught her at the wrist, and Trixie's heart started hammering harder. She closed her eyes, expecting the worst, thinking that maybe if you'd lived a nightmare once it wasn't quite as bad the second time around.

Willie's palm, hot as a stone in the sun, pressed against her cheek. She felt his other hand touch her forehead, then sweep down the side of her face to cup her jaw.

She could feel calluses on his skin, and she wondered where they'd come from. Trixie opened her eyes and, for the first time since she'd met him, found Willie Moses looking right at her.

• • •

Skipper Johanssen, the mitochondrial DNA expert, was a woman. Bartholemew watchedto turn the clocks back, her father would insist that he was going to stay on daylight saving time and keep the extra hour, so that he'd get more work done. The problem was, when he took the additional minutes every morning, he'd conk out in front of the television earlier at night. Finally he'd give in and live on the same schedule as the rest of the world.

She wished her father was here right now.

"I've missed you," he answered, and Trixie whirled around in the dark classroom. Her heart was pounding, but she couldn't see anyone there.

She looked down at Joseph. He had the broad, chiseled features of a Yup'ik and white hair that was matted down in whorls. His beard stubble glinted silver in the moonlight.


this case might finally end up.”

The man, who asked that his identity not be revealed, lives near the site of the shooting and was close enough to have heard the gunshots, his attorney said.

He was speaking to a friend on a video chat service and happened to be recording the conversation at the same time Brown was shot, Blumenthal said.

The attorney said she learned of the man’s recording late last week from a mutual friend.

“I had to get his consent before I could reach out to the FBI,” Blumenthal said.

CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the tape and has asked the FBI for confirmation of their interview with the man who made the recording.

The meaning of the pause

It’s difficult to prove from the audio why the pauseagain.'”

Witnesses and a friend of Officer Darren Wilson have given conflicting accounts of what led up to Brown’s death.

Dorian Johnson, a friend of Brown’s who was walking with him at the time of the shooting, said the officer shot Brown once by the police car and again as he ran away.

According to Johnson, Brown was struck in the back and then turned around and put his arms up as the officer kept shooting.

But a friend of Wilson said Brown mocked the officer and charged at him before the shooting began.

An autopsy showed that all the entry wounds were in the front of Brown’s body.

Key witness speaks out

Ferguson police said Brown allegedly robbed a convenience store shortly before the shooting.

And reports that his friend Johnson had a criminal record


This year's release of the forth edition of the Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language of the Language Center (Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Pusat Bahasa) deserves a huge applause as an important academic achievement by the Indonesian Language Center and at the same time a great contribution to the field of lexicography in the country.

Under its head, Dendy Sugono, the Language Center has been playing an active role in its attempt to help modernize the Indonesian language, particularly the development of its lexicon.

With more than 90,000 entries, the forth edition of the dictionary clearly proves that Indonesian is a modern and open language that welcomes and constantly accommodates the influx of Western words and terminologies.

Moreover, the sharp increase in terminologies taken from indigenous languages such as Dayak, Gayo,Madura, Minahasa, Mimika and Wamena, to mention just a few, partly demonstrates the Center's commitment to preserving the richness of the country's local languages.

Compared to its predecessors, this year edition sees a significant increase in the numbers of entries. The first edition (1988, under Anton M. Moeliono) contained 62,000 entries, the second (1991, under Lukman Ali) 68,000, and the third (2000, under Hasan Alwi) 78,000.

The increase of entries in the latest edition shows a clear sign that, linguistically, Indonesian still needs to either borrow or adopt words and terminologies from other languages (both foreign and local). This is motivated by some fundamental reasons.

First, there is a need to fill the existing lexical gap in Indonesian. Just as the English language adopts words from other languages such as French


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A team of medical researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has all but ruled out a sonic weapon as the cause of the mysterious ailments suffered by personnel working at the U.S. embassy in Cuba last year. Instead, they have found that while the symptoms are real, they cannot identify the cause. In their paper published in JAMA, the team describes the health problems identified in people working at the embassy last year.

In late 2016, employees at the U.S. embassy in Cuba began describing hearing odd sounds while in their hotel and experiencing a variety of symptoms including nausea, hearing loss and vertigo. Such complaints continued through most of 2017 until the U.S. recalled the employees to the U.S., where 24 of them were examinedWhat Bannon Has Over the Trumps

It should be clear by now that the only real political talent possessed by Steve Bannon is his ability to take the usual political norms, shred them into slivers, and throw the whole mess up in front of an electric fan. He did that by helping elect the current president*, who has that same talent by the bucketful. He did that by promoting the Gadsden Mall Creeper in Alabama right up until the night before Roy Moore got pounded by Doug Jones, who was sworn in on Wednesday as the Democratic junior senator from Alabama. And now, according to a new book by Michael Wolff, Bannon apparently has decided that it’s time to bring the temple down on his own head, just for


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“Gritty, ghostly, poetic [. . .] I’d bet a fifth of the top-shelf stuff it will be considered one of the best debuts of the year.” –Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Heavenly Table

Jordan is a country musician living in the shadow of his father, legendary bluegrass musician Walker Bayne. A man who has made a lifetime of poor decisions, Jordan bounces between dive bars, accruing women and drinking himself to the brink of disaster.

When he returns home to the Ozarks for his twin brother’s wedding, Jordan uncovers a dark vein in the Bayne family history: going back to the end of the Civil War, every generation of Bayne men have been twins―andthey can do in the case of unwanted pregnancy. Just few months after the premiere, a negative campaign started to remove the book
from store shelves dedicated to adolescents. Book stores surrendered to public pressure and restricted the book to shelves dedicated to adults.

She is a member of the board of the Polish Labor Party, and also a member of the Committee for Assistance and Defense of Repressed Workers. She has described communism as "the most pro-human system."

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(with Kazimiera Szczuka): Duża książka o aborcji. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca, 2011.
Mak z popiołem in Siostry i ich Kopciuszek. Gdynia: Uraeus, 2002.

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former U.S. vice consul in Taiwan gives some background of the island around the end of World War II and provides a first-person account and stories from various other Americans there at the time. The book is no longer in print and costs $100 on Amazon, but its text is apparently available online courtesy of the publisher.

Another book, Fires of the Dragon by David Kaplan, covers the assassination of Professor Henry Liu (which I assume is the basis for the movie). It has apparently gotten good reviews from Amazon (all of two reviewers) and Foreign Affairs.

Alternatively you can visit Taiwan’s national archives (!) and see some Flash-ridden presentations about the 228 Incident and the Formosa Incident (the latter referenced by the protest in Kaohsiung in the movie).by NIAAA, NIDA, NIMH and a number of other external funding resources to address addiction problems, their causes, and their remediation. The center benefits from close collaborative relationships with other units including the Molecular &Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, Bioengineering, Psychology, Radiology and the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research. The vigorous research environment nurtures an expanding group of neuroimaging researchers, including Dr. Zubieta, an internationally recognized expert in PET and fMRI with an established track record for mentoring junior investigators, and Dr. Heitzeg, recipient of a 2010 NIDA Early Career Investigator Award for her work in developmental neuroimaging and addiction. The research component will examine the role of dopamine in neural reward circuitry during the key transitional years of 18-23 during which substance use trajectories are expected to


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Specimens were obtained from the University of Cambridge Zoology Museum, the Natural History Museum (London), the United States National Museum of Natural History (Washington, D.C.), the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago), and the American Museum of Natural History (New York). Specific details on landmark collection, unification, and mirroring (to fill in missing data) are described in \[[@CR71],[@CR72]\] and \[[@CR31]\]. From the datasets detailed in those studies,Paleobiology, Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment and Department of Earth Sciences, University College London.

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Calls for impeachment grew louder Friday evening as new details regarding President Trump’s discussions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to light.

“This is impeachable now,” congressional expert and historian Norm Ornstein tweeted Friday evening. “Right now.”

According to multiple news reports, President Trump has attempted to coerce the president of Ukraine into working with his personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, to investigate a political opponent, Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden. To pressure the Ukrainian president, Trump withheld hundreds of millions in military aid until earlier this month. In one phone call in July, Trump reportedly pressed the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden’s son about eight times. The fullto shut down the entire inquiry from the start — depriving not just the American people, but even congressional intelligence committees, of necessary information.”

On Twitter, former officials and legal experts argued this scandal cannot become just another Trump news cycle.

It's not complicated. If the executive really did abuse his power to push a foreign government to knock out his political rival before the next election, that's either too much for you or nothing ever will be. Don't need a statutory citation. We're a free republic or we're not. — Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) September 20, 2019

The most remarkable part of the Ukraine story is that it has Trump trying to collude with a foreign power to influence his next election shortly after the Special Counsel wrapped up its investigation


was calculated using a combination of the phase diagram features and earlier diffusion flux calculations in a similar system to estimate the fraction of the compounds transferred between the layers. These transfers were unexpectedly clear-cut, 95 wt% of the water in the less water solution was transferred into the water rich solution as was 80% of the ethanol. In the same manner 95% of the benzene in the water rich solution was relocated into the water poor solution.Share this article

The Rory Kramer-directed video opens with a shirtless Justin - with the camera starting at his hips before it moves up to reveal the singer standing besides a statue with a somber look on his face.

The Canadian-born artist, who is seen rocking platinum blonde locks in the video, shows off his muscled physique and multiple tattoos in various shirtless scenes.

Views: The video offers a peek into his life last year, and includes clips as he recorded his album, went on tour and even while he posed for his Calvin Klein underwear photo shoot

Introduction: The Rory Kramer-directed video opens with a shirtless Justin - with the camera starting at his hips before it moves up to reveal the singer standing besides a statue with a somber look


on his face

Stunning: Clips of Justin surrounded by scenic landscapes are also woven throughout the video, featuring breathtaking views from around the world

In the video, the Love Yourself singer is seen hitting the stage for the Purpose tour, in the midst of performing a song and also as he rehearsed his choreography.

Also included was a snippet of Justin as he teared up on stage.

The Grammy winner also showed off his modeling chops as he posed for his Calvin Klein underwear shoots.

Handsome star: The Grammy winner also showed off his modeling chops in the video

Belt it out: The video showed Justin as he worked on the Purpose album, which he released in November 2015

Muscled: The Canadian-born artist shows off his physique and multiple tattoos in various shirtless clips

Sneak peek:The star showed off his fit frame as he posed for his Calvin Klein underwear shoot

Company featured the artist enjoying time with friends and family, skateboarding and scenes from his I'll Show You music video, where he walks across a green field.

During the almost three-and-a-half minute video, fans see Justin in many lights - exhausted, sad, joyful - as well as just having fun like a typical twenty-something.

There are also scenes where he's walking through STAPLES Center with his entourage, enjoying time on a yacht and also performing in front of thousands of screaming fans.

The video is directed, produced and edited by Rory Kramer, who is Justin's tour videographer; he has also directed the pop star's music video for I'll Show You.

Action: There are also scenes where he's


walking through STAPLES Center with his entourage, enjoying time on a yacht and also performing in front of thousands of screaming fans

Truthful: During the almost three-and-a-half minute video, fans see Justin in many lights - including somber

Time to relax: Company featured the artist skateboarding and also scenes from his I'll Show You music video, where he walks across a green field

Having some fun: Toward the end of the video, Justin is seen snowboarding down a mountainHR experts say 2014 may be more promising that 2013, when hiring went slow across mid and senior levels Press Trust of India | New Delhi January 1, 2014

It may rain jobs in the new year as companies are gearing up to add over 800,000 new employees to their payrolls and dole out salary hikes of up to 20 per cent to best performers in 2014, say experts.

As per estimates of various human resource consultants, the year 2014 seems very promising for job market unlike 2013, when hirings went slow across mid and senior levels and recruitments were done only to replace 'key' gaps.

In the new year, the country is likely to witness a huge surge of opportunities for job seekers with more and more corporates investing in


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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder today released 274 pages of his personal e-mails from 2014 and 2015, as he and his staff seek to combat calls from protesters for him to resign in the wake of the Flint water crisis.

Snyder pledged to reveal his Flint e-mails in Tuesday's State of the State address, after the Detroit Free Press editorial board and others called for greater transparency from the state's executive office.

The governor’s office and Legislature are exempt from Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act, which requires public disclosure of records related to government. Michigan is one of only two states that apply a blanket exemption to electronic communication from the governor's office and Legislature.

Here are nine must-read pages from today's release. You can read all the released e-mailsterminated their contract. According to the background information found on Page 58, Genesee County was using DWSD water without a contract at that time.

The city of Flint promptly initiated a proposal to Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to use water from their historical backup system, the Flint River. According to this document, the city of Flint could have continued using DWSD water without a contract, instead of sourcing its own water supply from the Flint River. "This proposed shift was billed as a money saver," the document notes. "But it put the city in the business of water production, where they historically had been in the business of water transmission."

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This e-mail is one of the few released that was written by Snyder. Dated Oct. 2, 2015,


Snyder asks staffers to look into "financing mechanisms" that are available to Flint. He wants action "ASAP."

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In another e-mail sent from Snyder (on his iPad), he calls for a daily report on Flint "until our recommendations are fully implemented." Among the items Snyder mentioned as part of his daily report: water test results from public schools, number of water filters distributed and new blood test results.

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Snyder's communications chief Jarrod Agen -- who is now the governor's chief of staff -- outlined personnel changes at Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in advance of a letter from the Flint Water Task Force. Agen said members of Snyder's team met and recommended making "structural changes at DEQ as early as tomorrow." Wrote Agen: "The recommendations in this letteris entitled to receive no-fault benefits from the State Farm policy.

I. BACKGROUND

On February 28, 1991, Bragg was a passenger on a motorcycle owned and operated by Mollie Anne Boyer. At the intersection of North King and River Streets, the motorcycle was involved in a collision with an automobile driven by Vicente Caballes. Bragg suffered injuries as a result of the accident and made a claim for no-fault benefits under Caballes's policy. The express terms of the policy issued by State Farm covering Caballes's vehicle provide that State Farm will pay benefits "in accordance with the No-Fault Act[2] for bodily injury." Boyer's motorcycle was uninsured, and there is no evidence in the record reflecting any insurance owned by Bragg.
On July 17, 1992, State Farm denied Bragg's claim. Bragg thereafter


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Friday, September 6, 2013

Tash's Pick of the Week: Green Arrow #23.1/ Count Vertigo #1

Written By Jeff LemireArt By Andrea Sorrentino
Colors By Marcelo Maiolo

This was one of the first of the bad guy New 52 wave of books. The regular creative team of Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino introduce us to the New 52 version of Count Vertigo. This ended up being my pick of the week because of the strong storytelling and the way anyone can relate to being able to pick themselves up from their boot straps. Provided that you are given super powers.

We see the beginning of the Count's story through his eyes as a small child as his mother is talking down to him. We get the details that his father was also the countto see her tell him that she'll be back as she collects her money and bolts. The next few years the Count is operated on and has his head shaved and a device implanted to give him powers to give people vertigo. (Hence the name, Duh!)

The Counts kills the people who have been experimenting on him. Next stop, his homeland. Count Vertigo kills the tyrant ruling his native land, then takes over. He then has his mother found and taken to the same building where he was given his powers. They meet face to face and his mother is happy to see him. He tells her of his taking back the homeland. She thinks she is going with the Count. How wrong she is.

Count Vertigo kills her and


earning cumulative profits for the year worth $174 billion – about a third more than they earned over the same period a year earlier. Banks too are also black in profit after two years of losses, earning twice last October what they earned in the same month a year earlier. Indeed state-owned oil company Rosneft earned more in the first quarter of 2018 than in all of 2017 and the retail banking giant Sberbank earned more in just October than the entire sector earned in 2016. Yet none of this is feeding through to the street. The Watcom shopping index that measures foot traffic in Moscow’s biggest malls in real time, just had its worst year since the index was founded in 2014 – and all of theA three-month independent investigation is being launched into the dumping of interstate waste in Queensland, increasing to one million tonnes a year to the state.

Ipswich was labelled the dumping capital of the state's south-east and its Acting Mayor, Paul Tully, said he hoped the investigation would reduce the truckloads of landfill coming in from New South Wales.

"Hopefully the people of Ipswich will have much less waste coming into our city," he said.

"We know that it is coming illegally from NSW."

Mr Tully called his city the "dumping capital of south-east Queensland" and called for action only last week. ( ABC News: Melanie Vujkovic )

The investigation was triggered by a Four Corners report, which exposed an organised network of waste transporting and freighting companies allegedly sending waste by road and


not ruled out its return if Labor wins at the next state election.

It is cheaper to truck waste to Queensland than it is to dispose of it and pay the levy in the state where it is generated.

Queensland has become known as "the dumping capital of Australia".

Waste levy won't be reinstated

Environment Minister Steven Miles said there were no plans for a waste levy to be introduced in Queensland, even if it was recommended in the review.

He said the Government had categorically ruled out a levy in the final months of the current term, and there were no discussions about making it an election issue for the next term.

"This investigation will be headed with someone with really advanced legal expertise, hopefully a former judge," he said.

"They'll look at allrelease” asylum loopholes in the must-pass government funding legislation later this month.

The statement comes as Meadows, the Freedom Caucus chairman, is in consideration and a leading candidate to replace John Kelly–a retired four-star Marine general–as the next White House chief of staff. Over the weekend, President Trump confirmed that Kelly will be leaving the White House by the end of the year–and that he would be announcing his replacement soon.

When it came out that Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff who was seen as a leading contender for the job, would not be ascending to helm the White House staff, reports surfaced that Trump is considering Meadows for the position.

Several House members, including Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Andy Biggs (R-TX), have come out publicly


in support of Trump selecting Meadows. Biggs said in a Monday evening statement:

Mark Meadows is a proven conservative leader in Congress. Under his watch, the House Freedom Caucus has become one of the most-influential caucuses in the House. He would make an exceptional Chief of Staff for President Donald Trump. President Trump has accomplished a lot in his first two years in office. However, House Democrats are looking to overturn his endeavors and sideline his administration. President Trump needs a fighter like Mark to wholeheartedly defend his policies of smaller government and economic prosperity. I appreciate serving with Representative Meadows in the House and hope I will have a chance to work with him in the administration in the near future.

In an interview on Breitbart News Sunday withAmanda House on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel on Sunday evening, Gohmert endorsed Meadows for chief of staff as well.

“I think Mark would make an outstanding chief of staff,” Gohmert said.

“He’s got a great head on his shoulders and in fact, I talked to him about in July,” Gohmert added. “It remains to be seen which direction Trump will go, but other contenders for the chief of staff position reportedly include Citizens United president Dave Bossie–who served as deputy campaign manager for Trump in 2016–and U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer, as well as Blackstone lobbyist Wayne Berman. Acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker and Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney are also reportedly in the mix.”


A mother, her pregnant daughter and a teenage boy were injured in an early morning shooting in Liberty City Monday.

Miami Fire Rescue says the shooting occurred in the area of Eighth Avenue and Northwest 70th Street just before 1:30 a.m. in Liberty City.

The victims were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital. They told NBC 6 that the mother was shot in the leg, while her pregnant daughter was shot in the arm. Both women say the bullets are still there.

The teenage victim, Carl Taylor, is a 16-year-old student at Northwestern High School, the family said. He is expected to be ok.

The women told NBC 6 that they were outside with six family members when several people in a car drove up, and two of them began firing at them.New York Yankees: Predicting the Top 5 Batting Averages of 2012

The Yankees hit .263 as a team last season, good enough for fifth place in the American League and seventh place in the majors.

Leading the charge was second baseman Robinson Cano, who posted a .302 average. He was the only member of the team to post a batting average above .300. Cano's .302 average was good enough for 12th in the majors.

Second on the team was Derek Jeter at .297. Jeter may have started the season off slowly, but he finished up with a very strong second half.

Curtis Granderson and his .262 average was third on the team in 2011. Granderson posted an all-around spectacular season, with career highs in home runs, runs, RBI and his highest batting


average since 2008.

Nick Swisher hit .260 last season, good enough for fourth on the team. He actually regressed significantly from his .288 average in 2010, but his 23 home runs and 85 RBI were an important part of the lineup.

At .259, Brett Gardner rounds out the team's top five batting averages of 2011. After hitting .270 in 2009 and .277 in 2010, Gardner struggled at times in 2011. He will look to improve that number this season.

It's important to note that Alex Rodriguez would have placed third on this list had he recorded the sufficient number of at-bats. Rodriguez' .276 average did not qualify as he only recorded 373 at-bats in 99 games.

The Yankees' top five batting averages will see a bit of a difference between 2011 and2012.

4. Mark Teixeira

Teixeira had a tough season at the plate in 2011. Despite hitting 39 home runs, Teixeira hit a measly .248, the lowest mark of his nine-year major league career.

Teams implemented a drastic shift against Tex last season while he was hitting left-handed, which turned many of his harder hit balls into outs.

The reason teams felt comfortable shifting against Tex is because of the fact that he is very pull-happy from the left side of the plate. He routinely rolled over pitches on the outer half of the plate, resulting in weak ground balls to the right side.

In 2012, Teixeira has said that he'll make a much more conscious effort to hit the ball the other way from the left side. He's even gone so far as


to say that he may try to bunt a bit more to beat the shift.

The Yankees signed Teixeira to be a big run producer, but after posting a sub-.250 season for the first time in his career, the team needs him to put in the work necessary to make improvements.

He's a very hard-worker and realizes that there's work to be done, so expect Tex's batting average to climb in 2012.

3. Derek Jeter

After hitting .300 or better for five consecutive seasons, Jeter slumped down to a .270 average in 2010.

He may not have hit .300 in 2011, but he came really close.

At .297, Jeter was still sixteen points under his career average. But he was very successful in silencing many of his preseason doubters.

It's clear that Jeter's skills areon the decline and it's clear that we will probably never see 2009-Jeter ever again. It's not yet time to count out the captain, though.

His power may be gone (just 34 extra base hits in 2011), but his ability to hit will never go away.

Jeter's a smart player. He knows that he can no longer look to drive the gaps and drive in runs. He seemed to adjust to that role after the All-Star break, so there's reason to believe that he will continue the same approach over the full 2012 season.

Jeter's 37-year-old body may no longer be able to take the full 162-game season (plus playoffs), though, so his batting average may see a reverse trend than it did in 2011.

Expect a .300 average prior to the


break and around a .280 average after the break. This should put Jeter somewhere around a .289 mark in 2012.

2. Alex Rodriguez

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As I noted earlier, Rodriguez did not receive enough at-bats to qualify for the team's top five averages. That shouldn't be a problem this season, however, as the orthokine therapy that he received during the offseason figures to keep him healthy during the long season.

It worked for Kobe Bryant, so there's no reason to believe that it won't work for Rodriguez as well.

Rodriguez has not hit .300 since 2008 (.302), but many (including myself) believe that he will bounce back well in 2012.

With manager Joe Girardi's plan to rotate many of his older veterans into the DH spot in the lineup (a plan devised mostlyhe hit .320.

Many expect MVP caliber numbers from Cano in 2012 and the team may need him to perform as such if they hope to reach the World Series. In a much improved American League, any improvement by any player makes a huge difference.

I predict that Cano will take home American League MVP honors in 2012, posting a line close to his 2006 mark of .342.

At .335, Cano will lead the Yankees, as well as the American League, in batting average.


who are students of architecture, attend national workshops and each evaluate 15 to 20 courses per year.

With the LS600hL, Lexus has given the hybrid propulsion system popularized by the Toyota Prius some serious muscle and cloaked it in luxury robes. The "h" stands for the hybrid V8/electric motor powerplant that drives all four wheels and the "L" is for long wheelbase, which describes the expansive but not quite Maybachian rear passenger area.

Three thousand kilometers from tidewater, a porpoise surfaces. Then a foot-long skinny slasher of a fish grabs the streamer fly you strip through water the color of Lapsong tea and shreds it. Sweat runs down your nose. The February sun blazes.

During the golden weeks of late September and early October, few places offer a greater fly-fishing spectaclethan the short tidal rivers on the edge of the Bering Glacier, an ice field larger than Rhode Island. These rivers are packed with coho salmon-silvers, as Alaskans call them.

The National Business Aviation Association's Annual Meeting and Convention returns to Atlanta this year, for the first time since 1999. The event will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center from September 25 through 27.

Our series on America's best golf courses continues with a look at three of the best modern fairways in the West, as determined by Golfweek magazine's handpicked panel of 385 course raters. The raters, who are students of architecture, attend national workshops and each evaluate 15 to 20 courses per year.

Summer days can be quite warm in northern California's inland valleys, even those that


allows easy entry by emergency crews, including firefighters, but it sounds an alarm if a burglar tries to break in.

Mike Barnard, 22, of Pittsburgh, and Howard Ku, 23, of Hong Kong, designed and built the prototype during a two-semester course in which students tackle real-world engineering assignments, working within maximum budgets of $6,000 to $8,000. (The students came in well below their budget, spending only about $4,000.) Barnard, a mechanical engineering major, and Ku, a dual major in civil engineering and engineering mechanics, completed the project just before their recent graduation from Johns Hopkins.

The window guard project was launched last fall with funding and a challenge from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Mike and Howard diddirect observations of the micro-scale mechanisms behind the ability of skin to resist tearing. The results could be applied to the improvement of artificial skin, ... full story

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diplomat, and the Minister of Defence Wei Fenghe.

She said she told officials she met that Americans cannot support a more integrated economic system with China if it "fails to respect basic human rights".

China's ruling Communist Party has tightened controls on society since President Xi Jinping assumed power, from online censorship to a crackdown on activists and non-governmental organizations, though Chinese officials routinely deny accusations of rights abuses.

Warren also made stops in Japan and South Korea, and she said that U.S. allies in Asia were having trouble understanding Trump's "chaotic" foreign policy.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un and Trump had earlier exchanged insults and veiled threats of war over North Korea's tests of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, but the U.S. leader made the surprising announcement last month that hewas prepared to meet Kim.

Warren said success for that meeting would mean getting a commitment to discuss verifiable steps to reduce North Korea's nuclear threat, which would require careful negotiations from a State Department whose role has been vastly diminished under Trump, with several high-profile posts unoccupied.

Trump's efforts to "take the legs out from underneath our diplomatic corps" are a "terrible mistake", she said.


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Intelligent Apps' myTaxi won €25,000 (£21,000) plus two years of mentoring as the top prize among 50 contestants in CODE_n12 competition at the Cebit trade show.

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Mikael Ricknäs
| Mar 12, 2012

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Intelligent Apps' myTaxi won €25,000 (£21,000) plus two years of mentoring as the top prize among 50 contestants in CODE_n12 competition at the Cebit trade show.

CODE_n12 is the brainchild of the management at IT consulting company GFT, with the goal of fostering a more startup-friendly culture, according to CEO Ulrich Dietz.

The myTaxi applications, which are available for iOS and Android, connect people who are looking for a taxi with available drivers. Users can see where available taxis are and the drivers get passenger requests directly to their


phones.

The jury was particularly impressed by the speed at which Intelligent Apps, a Hamburg-based startup, are changing the German taxi market, according to a statement. Today, over 8,000 drivers are taking orders through the myTaxi app across Germany, as well as in cities such as Vienna and Barcelona. But the strongest cities are Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, according to Intelligent Apps.

In total, CODE_n12 attracted more than 400 applicants from 42 countries. One third were from Germany, according to Dietz. From that pool of applicants, 50 were chosen to exhibit at the show and compete for the top prize.

The final top 10 applications also included Finnish company Transfluent, co-browsing service Synchronite and car sharing service DriveNow from Germany.

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Since the previous opinion poll in mid-February, steps have been taken by Abe’s government to combat the spread of the virus, including requesting that large events be canceled and schools be shut through the start of the new academic year in April, and unveiling relief measures for businesses and tougher border control measures, especially for travelers from China and South Korea.

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Petitioner for one count of first degree
premeditated murder and two counts of aggravated assault. The proof at trial showed that
the victim stole pills from the Petitioner. In the weeks and days leading up to the offense,
the Petitioner made several threats, in the presence of others, regarding the “money” the
victim owed to the Petitioner for the stolen pills. On November 13, 2007, the Petitioner
pursued the victim and his cousin in their vehicle at speeds of up to eighty miles an hour.
Ultimately, the two vehicles came to a stop at the victim‟s residence, where the victim
walked over to the Petitioner‟s vehicle and, while still in the vehicle through the open
driver‟s side window, the Petitioner stabbed the victim in the area midway between the
victim‟s armpit and hip. The victim died ashis more than forty
year career, he had represented “a lot” of criminal defendants and handled “numerous”
homicide cases. Counsel stated that his theory of the Petitioner‟s case at trial was that the
stabbing was accidental. He said that he did not consider raising self-defense nor did he
request an instruction for self-defense. Regarding his failure to request a change of
venue, Counsel testified that he was aware of three articles about the stabbing. Two of
the articles were published in the newspaper on November 14, 2007, and November 15,
2007, fifteen months before the Petitioner‟s February 9, 2009 trial. The third article was


but very little degree of regard when compared to the great memorials for the dead.

Wilfred Owen understood this notion in his poetry. I’d bet A. O. Fasser did as well, when he photographed casualties during his time as a surgeon in a French military hospital. I’ll let them give meaning to the notion of a living casualty.

He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,

And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,

Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park

Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,

Voices of play and pleasure after day,

Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.

About this time Town used to swing so gay

When glow-lamps budded in the light-blue trees,

And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim,—

In the old times, before he threw awayjilts,

He asked to join. He didn’t have to beg;

Smiling they wrote his lie: aged nineteen years.

Germans he scarcely thought of, all their guilt,

And Austria’s, did not move him. And no fears

Of Fear came yet. He thought of jewelled hilts

For daggers in plaid socks; of smart salutes;

And care of arms; and leave; and pay arrears;

Esprit de corps; and hints for young recruits.

And soon, he was drafted out with drums and cheers.

Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal.

Only a solemn man who brought him fruits

Thanked him; and then inquired about his soul.

Now, he will spend a few sick years in institutes,

And do what things the rules consider wise,

And take whatever pity they may dole.

Tonight he noticed how the women’s eyes

Passed from him to the strong men that


to be lacking.”

Abuse of women is part of a larger pattern of appalling practices. Earlier this year, Amnesty International claimed that North Korea held up to 120,000 political prisoners in camps, where they were subject to forced labor and torture. Four years ago, a U.N. commission agreed, concluding that systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations by the North Korean government — forced abortion, rape and other forms of sexual violence, along with murder, imprisonment, enslavement and torture — constituted crimes against humanity.

Remarkably, these abuses are being overlooked in the feverish diplomacy with North Korea. South Korean President Moon Jae-in has decided that peninsular rapprochement is his top priority and ensuring progress demands the subordination of human rights in his conversations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.U.S. President Donald Trump fervently denounced North Korean human rights practices in speeches prior to his meeting with Kim in Singapore in June but has gone silent on the topic since then.

Peace on the Korean Peninsula and rapprochement between the two Koreas, as well as between North Korea and the rest of the world, is important, but not if it means turning a blind eye to abuses that are practiced there. The U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea, Tomas Ojea Quintana, has declared that he is “very concerned” about the failure to mention human rights in official statements that followed the summits this year, and does not know if the topic even came up in meetings. Referring to the conclusions of the 2014 U.N. commission


Dolphins

Dolphins Bring Nate Burleson In For A Free Agent Visit

DETROIT, MI – NOVEMBER 24: Nate Burleson #13 of the Detroit Lions celebrates after scoring a touchdown on an 11 yard pass from quarterback Matthew Stafford #9 during the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Ford Field on November 24, 2013 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The Miami Dolphins have signed nearly every free agent that has come in for a visit. Veteran wide receiver Nate Burleson is Thursday’s visitor to Davie, according to the NFL Network.

But with a strong wide receiving corps already in place, the visit raises some eyebrows.

Burleson, 32, has 457 passes for 5,630 yards and 39 touchdowns for his career. The veteran receiver played in nine games forpassage 150 and then a valve body 70 in a shutoff valve 50 is pushed to the shutoff position by the cylinder through an output rod 122 and a valve rod 70c, wherein the primary passage is closed.
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Can criminals redeem themselves? It used to be mainly right-wing misanthropes who would answer this question in the negative. But today, the #MeToo moment is giving this reactionary view a feminist makeover.

Just hours before the premiere of The Predator, the LA Times revealed that a scene had been cut from the film. Lead actress and #TimesUp campaigner Olivia Munn managed to lobby the studio to remove a scene where she appears alongside Steven Wilder Striegel, after she discovered he had served time for sexual offences. Striegel pleaded guilty to sending sexually suggestive emails to a teenager in 2010 and was sentenced to six months in prison. He is a friend of the director, Shane Black, who has cast him in bit parts in many of his films. Erasurefrom films has been the punishment of choice for dealing with allegations against actors. All of Kevin Spacey’s scenes in All the Money in the World were reshot following allegations of sexual misconduct, while Ed Westwick was erased from the BBC’s Ordeal by Innocence. Charges against both actors have since been dropped (though there are still other charges outstanding against Spacey).

Unwilling to address the controversy, numerous cast members of The Predator dropped out of their scheduled interviews. Munn says this made her feel isolated. But in the media and online, Munn has largely been hailed as a feminist hero for standing up against sexual abusers. One writer praised her for ensuring that ‘one less problematic figure gets to have a redemption arc enabled by his white male friend’.