Success is no accident

Arunima “Sonu” Sinha (born 1988) is world’s first female amputee to climb Mount Everest. She is also the first Indian amputee to climb Mount Everest. She was a national level volleyball player who was pushed out of a running train by thieves in 2011 while resisting them. One of her legs had to be amputated below the knee as a result.

Early life and career

Sinha is from Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, India. She had qualified as a Head Constable in the CISF in 2012.

Train accident

Sinha, a former national volleyball and football player, boarded the Padmavati Express train at Lucknow for Delhi on 11 April 2011, to take an examination to join the CISF. She was pushed out of a general coach of the train bythieves wanting to snatch her bag and gold chain. Recounting the incident, she said “I resisted and they pushed me out of the train. I could not move. I remember seeing a train coming towards me. I tried getting up. By then, the train had run over my leg. I don’t remember anything after that” Immediately, as she fell on the railway track, another train on a parallel track crushed her leg below the knee. She was rushed to the hospital with serious leg and pelvic injuries and lost her leg after doctors amputated it to save her life. She was offered compensation of INR25000 (US$380) by the Indian Sports Ministry. Following national outrage, the Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken announced an additional


Rs. INR200000 (US$3,100) compensation as a medical relief, together with a recommendation for a job in the CISF. Indian Railways also offered her a job. On 18 April 2011, she was brought to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for further treatment, spending four months at the Institute. She was provided a prosthetic leg free of cost by a private Delhi-based Indian company. An inquiry by the police into the incident threw her version of the accident into doubt. According to the police, she was either attempting suicide or met with an accident while crossing the railway tracks. Arunima claimed that the police were lying. Contrary to the police claims the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court ordered Indian Railways to pay a compensation of INR500000 (US$7,700)to Arunima Sinha.

Planning and Training

While still being treated at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, she resolved to climb Mount Everest, She was inspired by cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who had successfully battled cancer, “to do something” with her life. She excelled in the basic mountaineering course from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, and was encouraged by her elder brother Omprakash to climb Everest with a prosthetic leg. She contacted Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest, in 2011 by telephone and signed up for training under her at the Uttarkashi camp of the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) 2012.Sinha climbed Island Peak (6150 meters) in 2012 as preparation for her ascent of Everest

The climb

On 1 April 2013, Sinha and Susen Mahto, a TSAF


instructor, who had together climbed Mount Chhamser Kangri (6622 meters) in 2012 under the guidance of Bachendri Pal started their ascent of Mount Everest. After a hard toil of 17 hours, Sinha reached the summit of Mount Everest at 10:55 am on 21 May 2013, as part of the Tata Group-sponsored Eco Everest Expedition, becoming the first female amputee to scale Everest. She took 52 days to reach the summit.

Aftermath

She was congratulated by the Indian Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on her achievement. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday honoured Arunima Sinha, the first amputee to climb Mount Everest. Chief minister handed over two cheques for an amount of Rs. 25 lakh to Sinha at a function organised at her 5-Kalidas Marg residence in Lucknow. These includedin the news.

"I found out through my aunt, that he found out," she says. "But I haven't talked to him yet."

Notaro, 41, grew up in Pass Christian, Miss., and outside Houston with her mother — her parents divorced when she was 6 months old. Tig is a name her older brother made up; her given name is Mathilde.

She dropped out of high school after failing three grades and, as a music lover who played guitar and drums, thought she might go into the music business. When her childhood friend Beth moved to Los Angeles with ambitions to produce sitcoms, Notaro, then in her mid-20s, tagged along. When she arrived, she discovered a wonderland of open-mike nights.

Notaro's humor evolved from crafted one-liners, to two- and three-minute bits and more


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sharing system that links personal computers.

A security guard stands among boxes filled with editions of the latest Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," inside a Barnes & Noble distribution center at an undisclosed location in the northeastern United States, July 16, 2007. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Unlike the Napster music-sharing service that was shut down by authorities several years ago, such exchanges do not go through a central service, which makes it almost impossible for the book’s publishers to stop the file from being traded.

BigChampagne Media Measurement estimated that by Wednesday about one copy of the Harry Potter photographs was being downloaded per second and that 50,000 had been exchanged since Monday.

BigChampagne Chief Executive Eric Garland said he believes the pictures are probably legitimate.

Rowling fueled speculation about theof any loss or injury caused in the territory of other Member States by such persons or vehicles. In addition, Member States must designate a body responsible for compensating injured parties in such cases in order to ensure that they are not deprived of compensation in the event of an accident.

Each national insurance bureau is required to centralise and communicate to other national insurance bureaux information on accidents caused in their territory by vehicles of other Member States (such as particulars of vehicle insurance).

The rule determining the country in which the risk is situated is subject to derogation for accidents involving a vehicle imported from one Member State into another. In such cases, after June 2007 the Member State of destination of the vehicle will be liable for


insurance undertakings, to be secured by Member States, including in the party's Member State of residence.

Representative responsible for settling claims

The representative is responsible, in relation to such claims, for compiling all information necessary for the settlement of the claim and for taking the measures necessary to negotiate a settlement. Representatives must be capable of examining cases in the official language(s) of the Member State of residence of the injured party.

All insurance undertakings covering risks relating to the civil liability of terrestrial motor vehicles must appoint a claims representative in each Member State other than that in which they have received their official authorisation.

The representative must be resident or established in the Member State where he is appointed. However, the requirement of appointing a claims representative does not precludeif a third-country vehicle is involved.

Information centres must keep a register of vehicles registered in their territory, a list of insurance undertakings providing cover against civil liability for such vehicles and a list of bodies designated to provide compensation for injured persons in the Member State in question.

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the first talk reaching nearly 4 million on the TED website.

Students across the Philadelphia area gathered together on Feb. 24 at the University City Science Center’s Quorum to compete for thousands of dollars in prize money at the first-ever College Pitch Philly competition.

Penn Integrates Knowledge Professors Dorothy Roberts and Sarah Tishkoff have recently published a paper in the journal Science calling for the end of using race as a biological category in genetic research.Hikurangi Margin

The Hikurangi Margin is an active subduction zone extending off the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, where the Pacific and Australian plates collide. It is the southern portion of the Tonga–Kermadec–Hikurangi subduction zone and its main feature is the Hikurangi Trench.

Earthquakes of up to 8.2M have been recorded on the Hikurangi Margin, generating local tsunamis, and earthquakes in the 9.0M range are thought to be possible. The Ruatoria debris avalanche originated on the north part of the subduction zone and probably occurred around 170,000 years ago.

It is New Zealand's largest subduction zone.

References

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Category Archives: Policy & Regulation

The open data movement has surely gathered momentum across the world. Taking a cue from the United States, which launched its data.gov open data sharing site in May 2009, many national governments have taken similar initiatives to create their own open data sites. These include developed countries such as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and UK as well as emerging nations such as Brazil, India, Indonesia and Russia. Most of these sites got launched between 2010-2012.

India launched its open data site, data.gov.in September 2012. After starting off slow, it has now picked up momentum and today offers more than 2500 datasets. A dataset is a table of data on a particular area. It could be as large as all the crop production inthe betterment of society—making lives of citizens convenient, creating the basis for decisions at a macro-economic level, making the economy and business ecosystem more efficient, and yes, minimizing risk. It is not about technology; technology is a very handy tool, though.

Like this:

In September 2011, as the then editor of Dataquest, I wrote an editorial, The Opportunities and Threats of Facebook Democracy. While Dataquest was one of the first publications to do a cover story on how social media was effectively used in the fight against corruption earlier that year (in April), and had celebrated the new power that social media had given to the common people, in this editorial, I had warned against attaching too much importance to the voice emanating from social media by the leaders and


it called a Core Subsidy Management System (CSMS) to implement the new subsidy regime. The task force foresaw the gap that exists in the payment system reach and recommended this

Since it may take a while for the payment systems in the country to gear up for direct transfer of subsidies, an intermediate step may be considered where the subsidy difference is transferred to wholesalers/retailers in the first phase, and only later on to customers.

But the government has disregarded it and has announced DCT right away. Also, there is no news on where the rollout of CSMS has reached.

With all its good intentions, the government will have only itself to blame, if the whole idea backfires.

The much-awaited policy decision to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail hasextent consumers’) interest on the other.

But here, we are missing out a really, really big point.

Wall-Mart is the largest civilian employer in the world, with more than 2 million employees. Tesco is the largest private sector employer in the UK. Woolworths and Wesfarmers are the two largest employers in Australia. Carrefour is one of the largest employers in the world, though because of its distributed business, it is not the largest employer in its home country, France. Sears, Target, Home Depot all feature among the largest employers in the US.

Wall-Mart employs more than two million people globally. In the US alone, it has 1.4 million employees—that is a little less than half a percent of the total US population. Tesco employs more than 500,000 people and Carrefour some


competitive retail market has implications for the e-commerce market.

The stated advantages, as envisioned by the policy, include maximization of use of data, avoidance/minimization of duplication of efforts on collection, facilitating integration by leading to common standards, providing ownership information, faster and better decision making, and of course, equitable access to information by all citizens.

Ever since the then Federal CIO of the United States started in May 2009, many counties have launched similar sites. India is the latest country to join the bandwagon.

The data.gov.in site has debuted with 13 raw datasets provided by seven departments and four apps provided by four departments. As part of the plan, data management offices are being created in each of the departments to be headed by a senior official called data controllers. Fivethe three kingdoms on the Korean Peninsula and ancient Japan as well.
In other words, the musical instrument, even before it was eponymically named wanham in the Tang Dynasty, found its way into the Baekje incense burner.

See also
 Buyeo National Museum
 List of Baekje-related topics
 National treasures of Korea
 Three Kingdoms of Korea

External links
 Buyeo National Museum
 Korean National Heritage
 Cultural Heritage Administration
 Culture and Tourism
 Seoul Selection

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later before I finally “got” that the story within the story served as a mirrored story structure, echoing the personal story of one of the characters in a more dramatic and accentuated fashion.

For the motion picture franchise, Tales of the Black Freighter has been moved from comic book format to an animated presentation. This is not a children’s cartoon, however, and it maintains the visceral nature of the original presentation. The story still follows an unnamed captain of a ship that fell prey to the vile “Black Freighter” pirate ship. Stranded, left for dead, the captain assumes the Black Freighter is headed for his home port. Desperate to beat the Black Freighter home so he can save his family, the marooned sailor succumbs to unrealized depths of humanity.Continued membership of the European Defence Fund and the European defence industrial programme post-Brexit will see the UK cede yet more sovereign control of its defence and military capabilities, warns Luke Watson.

Recently, images have emerged of British paratroopers wearing EU flags on their sleeves during a European Union Force (EUFOR) training exercise in Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing a storm of outrage throughout this country.

These soldiers were seen arriving for an annual international exercise, with the intention of providing a safe and secure environment in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is part of the EU's mission – Operation Althea – which focuses on supporting the country's transition into integration with Europe.

This major public display has led to serious concerns over our future involvement in EU defence and military union. The


country' status after the end of March 2019, it will also have to apply European Defence Agency (EDA) rules as well as paying an annual subscription. In other words, acting like an EU Member State – without actually being a member.

Industrial planning will be operated by the likes of the European Commission, the European Council, the European External Action Service, as well as significant input from the EDA and EU Military staff. Under the Chequers proposal, the Government would permit the EU to place the UK Armed Forces in the EU's Force Catalogue, which is for the purpose of military and foreign planning. Instead of 'taking back control', we would be giving away greater sovereignty over the autonomy of our armed forces.

There are plenty of things wrong withcooperation with the European Union. We need to be absolutely certain on what the EU's new defence ambitions actually are. Our Government should currently be focusing on strengthening its role in NATO, which is a far superior platform for defence and security cooperation with European partners. The former Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, has previously labelled the EU moves for a greater role in defence as "nonsense" as it intends to "duplicate and divert from NATO".

By staying in the European Defence Fund and the European defence industrial programme, as well as witnessing images of British paratroopers wearing the EU flag on their sleeves, this clearly shows our Government is more than happy to sacrifice sovereignty and independence over our own defence and military capabilities.

If the Government is serious about


Upcoming Events

Students from CIM and the CWRU early music program present a wide range of repertoire in this series of early evening performances. To make your evening even more musical, attend the 8pm CIM Orchestra Concert at Severance.

Presented in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Case Western Reserve University Music Department.

Joint Music Program

The intimacy of a conservatory with big school benefits -- that's what CIM offers our students thanks to a special partnership with our neighbor, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).

Known as a leader in engineering, medicine, and law, CWRU is also one of the top schools for musicology in the world. For nearly half a century, CIM and CWRU have used our educational partnership, the Joint Music Program (JMP), to share collective resources, focusingon the strengths of each institution. It's so seamless that many students and faculty don't even realize the partnership has a formal name!

Major in more than music

Here's how it works. As a CIM student, you'll take your music history and non-music electives in the humanities and sciences at CWRU. Meanwhile, CWRU students take music lessons as well as performance, chamber music, theory, and eurhythmics classes at CIM.

Many CIM students pursue a minor at CWRU. You can even commit to the dual degree (see below), receiving diplomas for both a Bachelor's of Music from CIM and a Bachelor of Science or Art from CWRU.

Beyond the classroom and concert hall

The Joint Music Program goes beyond music instruction and education. We share resources and facilities with CWRU, as well. Read more


Institute Community

Adriana Dominguez is a Clinical Professor of Theatre and the Director of Audience Development for the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at El Paso. She teaches Creative Drama, Leadership in Performing Arts Organizations, Women in Drama, Chicano Theatre, Feminist Theory and Drama, Theatre History and Literature I, and Theatre Practicum I-III. Adriana has participated in theatre as an actress, director, producer, designer, and teacher at the elementary, secondary, and university levels for over 20 years. She is the co-founder of both the Chican@/Latin@ Theatre Series and the Children’s Traveling Troupe, which serve to promote artistic connections with the community at no cost. She is also the director of the Department Summer Children’s Camps; collectively these projects reach over 5,000 community members eachyear. Adriana is a native El Pasoan and is proud to further integrate the arts into the classroom and community. When she is not busy at the theatre, Adriana enjoys reading, participating in local community events, and spending time with her family.

Yolanda Leyva (Ph.D., History, University of Arizona, 1999) was born and raised in the Ciudad Juarez/El Paso area. She serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of History and as Director of the Institute of Oral History and the Borderlands Public History Lab. She offers courses on public history, oral history, borderlands, and Mexican American history. She is the recent recipient of the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association for “distinguished contributions to public history.” In 2013, she received the “Outstanding Public History Award”


from the National Council on Public History as co-founder of Museo Urbano, a museum without walls that highlights the history of the border. She serves on the national boards of the National Council on Public History and the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites.Yolanda is currently directing an oral history project interviewing people who attended segregated “Mexican Schools” in El Paso and West Texas and is collaborating with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience on creating dialogue projects on the school-to-prison pipeline. Yolanda is grateful that her work allows her to view the beauty and creativity of border people while also acknowledging the struggles we face.

Kathleen Staudt (Ph.D., Political Science, University of Wisconsin, 1976) came to the Paso del Norte Metropolitan Region in 1977 and considers herselfan ‘adopted fronteriza.’ Half of her twenty books and edited volumes focus on the borderlands. Kathy offers courses on public policy, borders, political geography, women, nonprofit management, and teaching democracy. She founded the UTEP Center for Civic Engagement in the late 1990s and directed its academic service-learning opportunities for a decade thereafter. She is active in community organizations. Kathy is one of a half-dozen faculty Returned Peace Corps Volunteers at UTEP. The mother of two adult children, Kathy has always been active in parental engagement and educational policy issues. She taught Schools in Communities for the UTEP College of Education, Department of Teacher Education Department, Political, Cultural, and Linguistic Borders for the Ed.D. program, and upper-division political science courses for future teachers in middle and high school social


studies. Kathy loves to travel, read, and write (including a not-yet-published, co-authored short story!), and takes care of her dog Pewter. Visit her blog for more details.

Celeste González de Bustamante teaches courses on reporting in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and Latin America, and television news writing, reporting and production at the University of Arizona School of Journalism. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the UA Center for Latin American Studies. Her research focuses on: the history and development of television news and media in Latin America (mainly Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and Brazil); and violence against journalists in Mexico. During the 2013-2014 academic year, Celeste was a distinguished visiting professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, where she taught journalism courses and conducted research on aggressionsagainst journalists in Mexico. She is the current head of the Border Journalism Network/La red de periodistas de la frontera, a binational consortium of journalism educators, professionals and students who are working to improve news coverage of the US–Mexico borderlands. Celeste is the author of Muy buenas noches: Mexico, Television and the Cold War(University of Nebraska Press, 2012) and the co-editor of Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media and Provincial Politics(Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). She covered the U.S.-Mexico border on commercial and public television for more than 16 years. She enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, and taking students to the border.

Pat Mora is former teacher, university administrator, museum director, and consultant. She is a popular national speaker shaped by the U.S.-México border where she was


born and spent much of her life. Pat writes for all ages—children, teens and adults. She’s the founder of the family literacy initiative Children’s Day, Book Day / El día de los niños, El día de los libros, (Día). The year-long commitment to linking all children to books, languages and cultures, and of sharing what Pat calls “bookjoy,” culminates in celebrations across the country in April. Pat received Honorary Doctorates in Letters from North Carolina State University and SUNY Buffalo and is an Honorary Member of the American Library Association. The mother of three children and an Austin granddaughter, she is married to anthropologist Vern Scarborough. Pat lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she savors the Southwest landscape, reading and working on new manuscripts. She enjoys family/friendtime, reading, gardening, cooking, and living. Pat tweets @patmora_author. Find her on Facebook and read her blog.

Monica Perales is an associate professor of history at the University of Houston, and is the Associate Director for the UH Center for Public History. Her first book, Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community(University of North Carolina Press, September 2010), received the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American Urban History from the Urban History Association. Monica’s general research and teaching interests include Chicana/o labor and social history, immigration, American West, Borderlands, food studies and oral history. She is presently working on a book on Mexican American women, labor, and foodways in the U.S. Southwest in the 20th century. Monica has been involved with teacher enrichment programs through


her work with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Since 2006, she has presented at numerous one-day and three-day Teacher Institutes across the state, and served as the faculty director of the 2016 Institute named “America from Jefferson to Jackson,” which was held on the campus of the University of Houston. She enjoys traveling, practicing yoga, and “researching” Houston’s vibrant food scene.On the retrohale, leather and pepper are easily detectible. As the first third of the 2016 Angel’s Anvil gets going, there is a pleasing mix of chocolate, molasses, earth, caramel and pepper on the palate. During the transition to the second third of the cigar, there is an increase in pepper while chocolate, molasses, earth and leather remain the primary flavors. Toward the end of the second third of the 2016 Angel’s Anvil the pepper notes mellow out briefly before coming back with full force in the final third of the cigar. The final third of the Angel’s Anvil is very chocolatey with pepper and earth flavors rounding out the flavor profile.

Overall: The original 2014 Angel’s Anvil earned high marks from me and was a very impressive cigar,


– boasting a big ensemble cast (including Harvey Keitel) led by a giant star of the ‘70s and ‘80s who was sorely in need of a career renaissance. The Travolta of Cop Land was Sylvester Stallone, who (in true dedication-to-craft form) put on 40 pounds and worked for SAG scale to play a sad-sack small-town sheriff. Whispers abounded that Stallone was going to get an Oscar nomination, his first since Rocky all those years ago.

And then the movie came, and quickly went. Reviews were mixed – not bad, exactly, but not the kind that a movie like this one needed, and the commercial reception was muted as well (Miramax did the film no favors by releasing it in the dead zone of August rather than the awards-friendly fall,vets: Ray Liotta, Frank Pelligrino, and Paul Herman (Goodfellas), Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull), Frank Vincent (both of those films, plus Casino), Keitel (you know), and Robert De Niro (you really know). Much of the rest of the cast is comprised of actors who would turn up, at one point or another, on The Sopranos, which premiered two years later: Edie Falco, John Ventimiglia, Robert Patrick, Annabella Sciorra, Tony Sirico, and Arthur Nascarella. (Also appearing: Peter Berg, John Spencer, Malik Yoba, Paul Calderon, Noah Emmerich, Janeane Garafalo, Bruce Altman, and Method Man. It really is a jaw-dropping cast.)

But the story is pure Lumet, diving into the world of New York police corruption and cover-up. It’s set in the fictional New Jersey town of Garrison, just over the river, inhabited


a really great dream.

2. Daily Relay: You know Meb and have trained with him. Had you two discussed strategy at all before the race? And did you speak during the race once you broke away?

Josphat Boit: I’m so happy and proud of Meb for his amazing performance. His win was well deserved. Before the race, Meb and I did not talk race strategy. But I do know that he likes to run consistent, without crazy surges, and he runs his own race. During the race, the Ethopians and Kenyans were looking at each other and throwing in small surges, to see who would take the pace. It seemed that they were ignoring the Americans and other elites. At one of the water stations, Meb kept his pace andcabinet to reach a decision. They would ignore the threat and make no response whatsoever. Swiss banks had to be impervious to these kinds of threats. Later that evening, as they were getting ready for bed, Eleanor told Henrik about the meeting and the reactions that she had seen. Henrik was the vice president in charge of expansion. Another vice president, a woman, was in charge of banking operations. Eleanor gave Henrik some instructions on where expansion might be possible. One suggestion would require a trip to Denver Colorado. The other suggestion would require a walk down the street.

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Montana, 7:30 pm. Billy and Maddy were in the mess hall working on some geometry questions. Let me rephrase that. Maddy was


classes. How would she know what to teach her? Mac attempted to reason with her, but Maddy was stubborn. She wanted Billy to help her. She would never dare say this to anybody, but the truth was that Mac was impatient and explained things far too quickly. Billy didn't look at her in exasperation when she didn't understand. Stubborn won out.

The review of simple geometric shapes had gone well but Maddy couldn't put that kind of geometry together with what she had to know with the military scope she had to learn how to use. Billy went into the maintenance room and came out with a big stepladder. They turned a cafeteria table over on its side, and Maddy crouched behind it with her scope to her eye.first job or not, but it's very unlikely that the DCA would give the job to anybody younger. So, we'll go back in time to January 1, 2053 and plant an invisible drone with a recording device in a place that we're sure he's going to be. We'll collect the data from that device after a number of years and wait until we see Uncle Howard walk by. Once we know when he started being a bagman, we'll be on our way to finding the bagman who collected money before him."

"How do we know where he's bound to be?" Lohla asked.

"Winnie was watching him earlier and he had a predictable routine."

"How is Winnie?" Lylah asked.

"She's not getting any worse. So, in his routine..."

"Is she sure it's a growth


18, 2053._

Now Uncle Ezra

_Ezra Ezenwa Swensen, born March 11, 2006, in Denver to Frederick Wilbur Swensen and Kathy Annette Swensen, (maiden name Dunsen). No marriage. Died August 1, 2072._

As far as Cowboy was concerned, there wasn't much to note here apart from the Frederick and Kathy's love of boys' names starting with EZ. Paula and Howard's parents had died on the same day. That was interesting. Copter crash?

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Cowboy spent a full day going through archive copies of the Denver Post from 2040 to 2070. He was looking for articles on the Denver Cattlemen's Association or articles mentioning Uncle Ezra. These archives were not searchable which is why it took him so long to find out that there were no articlesmovements impossible.]_ It was easy to find Uncle Ezra's address. He was living in an apartment building that had been owned by the DCA for over fifty years. Cowboy took his Stetson, placed it on his head, and stood up. "Well, stick my face in the carcass of a dead skunk and call me Stinky," he said.

Cowboy had spent an entire day searching the media for references to the Denver Cattlemen's Association and had found nothing over the decades. Now, here was the DCA's name on a legal document that revealed that the DCA owned property. Some people would call that a clue.

Cowboy returned the property registration materials to the shelf that had the sign _Return ALL property registration resources HERE!_ prominently displayed. Next stop? Census records.

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me a B," Billy instructed.

Maddy tapped out one long index finger touch and three short ones into Billy's palm.

"F."

Maddy tapped out two short taps, one long one, and a short.

This went on for about fifteen minutes.

"Is your finger tired?"

"A little."

"Put your whole hand in mine and I'll massage it."

Maddy did and Billy put his other hand on top and rubbed her hand between his two hands. He was most concerned about her possible fatigue and spent some time with his massage while offering encouragement. "You've done really well. You know all the letters from A-J now, and your finger presses are firm enough to click a Morse pad when we get one. You'll have to learn to send faster though."

"I can do that."

"Plus, you have to know howcontact information. She didn't want details on the money delivery to go through the PM's office, as that would reduce the time that she had to plan a response. She wasn't expecting that she would be successful on this money drop, but at least she'd know how they wanted the money drop to work. Right now, she didn't. Her best guess? She'd be told to leave the money in some sort of bag in a very busy part of Zurich where it would be difficult to follow the bag to the extortionists. Some hired copter taxi man would do the bag pick up. It they tried to follow the taxi, they'd be discovered.

It was now Tuesday, December 27. Back in Montana, the cadets took off in a Wilizy


guessed. They have a history of military aggression."

"Perhaps China," Yolanda said. "They're still under military control aren't they?"

"That was my guess too," Winnie revealed. "I remember the operation we had there. I was eight years old." _[Operations Old King Cole, Bob the Invisible Dragon.]_

"Some former North African countries might find the wealth in the Swiss banks attractive," Hank explored the idea of non-countries. "It's easy enough for criminal groups to find military copters."

"Anybody else?" Mac asked.

...

In the silence that followed, Mac's words echoed loudly. "We followed them back to Colorado Springs."

### # # # # # # # #

Mac called another debriefing meeting and held it in her house. Attending were Melissa, Yollie, and Lylah. This was Lylah's first chance to see one of the Wilizy homes andof the property. At that point, he was able to take advantage of being a DCA employee. This suggests that senior members of the DCA not only avoid income taxes, but they also avoid land taxes. We can't prove that yet. But this does explain why Swensen had to die. Stu was on the verge of opening up a very big secret on how the DCA and its employees pay no taxes whatsoever. Paula had to die too for the same reason."

### # # # # # # # #

"I'm really glad that you and Melody are getting along so well. That was a nice Christmas gift you gave her."

"It was just a peck on the cheek."

"You and I are friends, right?"

"Yes."

"I've helped you out a lot, right?"

"Yes."

"That's


the holidays?"

"Nothing that would explain her quitting. I saw her leaving the tobogganing races in some disgust. The boys had made it into a typical boy's crash and burn activity. She had been quite happy when she found the flag, and then I saw face fall when that Swiss lady came down the mountain. Perhaps she felt guilty about taking the flag?"

"That wouldn't have prompted her to leave the corps."

"No, it wouldn't."

"On to other business, what's the status on Billy Bump's mouth?"

"Pretty much healed now. He's still on a diet of soft foods."

"Crazy accident."

"Not really, Erik. Boys of this age are lucky if they can walk and talk at the same time. Billy doesn't have control over his new body. He said he was outside the mess hall,her sending messages to the governor doesn't mean she won't when an opportunity arises. She's in charge of his schedule. She knows where he is all the time."

"Stook just said that he knew that she wasn't a threat. He's done this before. He'll announce that somebody is guilty, or innocent, but without any proof. I've never known him to be wrong. Part of dealing with low life for thirty years, I suppose."

Mac summarized the danger. "If they're not going to attack him at that library, that means that once he's finished his research, he will be immediately at risk. It will be impossible to protect him 24/7. They could kill him eating lunch right here."

"Do we know how much longer he'll be researching?"

"He told me that he's becoming


happened and give me a good description of the robbers?"

"Yes."

"Go ahead."

"I was walking towards the bank.... do I have to spit?"

"No, we can skip that."

By now, a small crowd had gathered to listen in on the interview.

"I saw a white copter land right in the middle of the street. Four men got out, walked to the front of the bank, and started shooting at the door. The glass on the door broke but the iron bars stopped them from getting in. I don't think they prepared for the robbery very well."

"I'd agree with you. So novice bank robbers then?"

"Yes. Add stupid too."

"Can you describe them?"

"Brown cowboy boots, denim jeans, just normal belts and buckles, plaid long sleeved shirts of different colours, and black Stetsons."

"What about their faces?"

"Covered withalso pointed out that the Swiss banking system is very overcrowded. It's hard for any Swiss bank to grow in value because everybody in Switzerland already has a bank account. I pointed that we, on the hand, had strong growth prospects because we were in other countries where we had the opportunity to be dominant. In other words, not only were our assets protected, but over time, the Swiss Guards would be steadily catching up to the country's leaders. We are already #4. These men were bankers. They knew that I had strong growth prospects. So, I gave them the chance to be silent partners in the Swiss Guards. One of them accepted the offer and bought 90,000 francs worth of our minority shares. Minority shares allow the


the door to room #24 and walked in. The unlocked door meant that a certain somebody was here on time. Surprised that he was alone in the room, he checked the bathroom. Some of his _health therapists_ liked to give him a surprise shower, something that polite society usually reserves for soon to be wives or mothers - a type of recipient he did not qualify for. The shower stall was empty. Ah, well. Perhaps another time.

Wally checked the thermostat for the room. It looked OK but the room was terribly hot. At least he was. Wally started taking off some clothes. That didn't help. More heat. More clothes were discarded. Soon there were no more clothes to remove. The heavy toll of heat was followed by anas he feared. No clothes. He had indeed had sex with a savage that could be twelve years old. "Bring my wallet over here. It's on the bureau."

"Why don't I just take what's in there?"

Wally wasn't going to argue.

One disadvantage of Winnie's outfit became noticeable \- as if the outfit weren't noticeable enough. It had no pockets. Winnie came back to the bed with a thick wad of cash in her hands. "Would you hand me my panties? I think you're lying on them."

Wally lifted the bed sheet higher and his head disappeared underneath. He emerged with his hand holding a lacey, miniscule piece of fabric that was probably the pair of panties she was looking for. As you likely have already concluded, the panties were fire engine


that I may come back from utter defeat. Be prepared._

### # # # # # # # #

TG had bots watching the NORAD facilities, so he knew that it was Friday morning before a copter took off from the NORAD base and headed east. He followed the copter long enough to determine it was on route to Switzerland confirming, in the process, that Extortion Central was part of the NORAD military force. He messaged Wolf with the expected arrival time in Geneva.

Once again, Wolf and Reese split up the duties: watch the paddle boat, or watch the undercover spies to make sure they didn't interfere. The anticipated flurry of messages had borne fruit. Reese chose watching the undercover spies and managed to place bots within the apartment theythe US president and other politicians, might have already been moved into the base. They also would seek safety in the mountain. Once everybody was in, all the firewalls would be engaged, meaning there would be thick heavy walls shutting off anything from getting through. A nuclear blast might take out the first ten fire walls, but it wouldn't take out them all."

"How long could they live down there?" Doc asked Jock.

"I couldn't find that out. They had ample food and water. Oxygen would have been the most critical issue and how they handled that was a closely guarded secret."

Melissa added the warning everybody needed to hear. "The important thing for us is the firewalls will stop Cassie from getting out if she's inside and they decide to


yell back that she was the camp commandant and I needed her permission to be on a secret operation."

"I don't think that she'd yell at you, Maddy."

"But I'd have tell her everything before I had finished my operation. I wanted to do it all on my own. Like she had done it all on her own when the restaurant guy had attacked her."

"She'd still be proud of you."

"I can't let anything stop me before I stop Billy. Warriors don't quit the first time something bad happens. We finish what we're supposed to finish."

"A Warrior should make important decisions calmly. Collect all the facts first. You have time to think about this."

### # # # # # # # #

Speaking of collecting all the facts.

"Did Cassie find their nukes?"legs are pushing them up the hill. That will mean that their strides will become shorter and more productive. Short people with short legs already have short strides. Billy didn't know how to run up hills. He had never done it before.

Maddy crested the last hill first and sprinted across the finish line like she always did. Karlsson was there and fist bumped her as she slowed to a stop. He turned and she turned so that she could watch Billy gain the top of the hill. She waited. Then, she waited some more. Stook and Melissa joined them after they set the copter down. Again, fist bumps all around.

They waited.

Finally, Karlsson asked Maddy, "Billy?"

"He was on his knees puking when I passed him."

Indeed he was, and the


sun and getting bigger and stronger.

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# Chapter 30

Denver's Mile High Stadium had been a highly popular meeting place for sporting enthusiasts for many years before _The Troubles_. Built in 2001, it had been home to the National Football League's Denver Broncos for as long as the National Football League was able to continue. Back then, Denver was a large city and over 75,000 fans would fill the three decker stands to watch their beloved Broncos' every home game. Their games were always sold out. Bronco fans were known for distracting opponents by stamping their feet on the stadium's steel floors. This had become known as _Bronco Thunder._

The current governor of Colorado was a direct descendent of a famous Bronco quarterback, John Elway, whofrom San Antonio," Lohla observed. "We could try searching there."

"Why San Antonio?" Winnie asked.

"San Antonio Spurs. .... Gregg Popovich.... Famous coach... Basketball.... National Basketball Association..." Lylah ran out of hints. The three non-basketballers were staring blankly at her.

Doc, who had been a good athlete in his time, understood sports, but not basketball. "Tell us more," he asked the twins.

"Popovich is a legend in the basketball world," Lylah started. "He was a great player in his own right, became one of the best pro coaches ever, and also was general manager of the San Antonio Spurs."

"He coached lots of players to stardom. Tim Duncan and David Robinson were known as the _twin towers_ ," Lohla took over.

"Why?" Winnie asked.

"Because they were towering tall. When the two were on the


not fluent in Spanish and refused to learn due to his advanced age. He lived in the wealthy community of Sierra Oaks, and more specifically in a care home complex. Gregg Popovich the Third was active for his age and had no debilitating health issues. As such, he was able to live on his own in Villa #21. A daily maid service took care of cleaning and caring for his non-medical needs. A care nurse dropped in on him weekly to assess his health. A cook prepared his dinners and ensured that he had ample food in the house for him to prepare his own breakfasts and lunches.

Popovich's sexual needs were provided for by a steady flow of what can only be described as prostitutes. This kind ofBut they didn't have to actually hit anything with the guns. They'd load the guns up with blanks, create some sort of target, and then laser the target with their sling weapon array.

Lohla and Lylah immediately volunteered to be the real shooters. Unfortunately, they hadn't had any training on their lasers. Everybody figured that they wouldn't need instruction since they were so athletic. Essentially, to fire a laser beam out of the weapon array, all you had to do was think and point a finger. When it came time to test their accuracy, a major flaw in their logic was discovered.

Both Lylah and Lohla were experts at shooting a basketball. When it came time to shoot their laser, they thought _shoot_ and then let rip. But their shooting


cryptic comment form. Together, they put together an eighty-minute presentation that went like this.

The name of the scandal appeared on the big screens in large print. After fifteen seconds, that title shrunk in size but remained on the screen. At that point, video clips of the politicians incriminating the governor in that scandal rolled across the screen one at a time. Depending on what detail the confessors had provided, the whole indictment, if you like, of the governor's role in the scandal might consume five to seven minutes. In this case, length was good. It was better to present lengthy and solid information about a scandal and limit those scandals to the ten worst, then present twenty scandals but talk about each for only a minute or two.

AtGroup_ is Hank's group, and _Swiss Group_ is Jock's group. _Command Group_ is a communications network that allowed Mac, Hank, Jock and Melissa (battle strategist) to communicate privately. It was now midnight in Denver, which made it 8 am Swiss time.

### # # # # # # # #

_Momaka to Colorado Group: I am watching four copters leaving NORAD on an easterly heading. I'm assuming two men in each copter. It's too dark for me to see the ranks of the pilots._

_Mac to Colorado Group: Anything unusual in terms of armaments, Momaka?_

_Momaka to Colorado Group: No._

_Doc to Colorado Group: Hold everything. More copters are coming out of the mountain._

_..._

_Doc to Colorado Group: That should be the last of them to take off. I count four copters already in


his mansion, for sure."

"The guy we can't find."

"Not for lack of trying. All we have is his voice."

"Swensen's two daughters have disappeared now."

"They can't be in Colorado Springs or Denver. People would remember them."

"So three people are doing all of this?"

"Don't forget the native prostitute and her pimp."

"The one Sully couldn't find. Useless undercover guy. Absolutely useless."

"He's missing now."

"Could he have squealed?"

"He didn't know anything to squeal about."

"Five or six people then and there's an aboriginal connection."

"That means New Mexico?"

"Possibly. That's where the sheriff went. Coincidence?"

"Perhaps. The guy that replaced him is just as dangerous. He used to work here before. No chance of bribing him."

"Is he part of the group we're looking for?"

"I don't see how. He was working in some gawd-foresaken place called Toronto."

"How do wewith trophies. He didn't think that we'd discover what he was really doing."

"Part of protecting him is to know where he is at all times."

"Part of protecting ourselves is to know what secrets he has."

"This burn mark on this outside wall is trouble."

"The burn is cold."

"But not weathered. See how easily the ashes on the wall fall off?"

"Any kind of stiff breeze would have blown some off."

"The towels that somebody used to beat the flames are still here."

"So, it's a recent burn and it was intended to bring the inhabitants out in a rush."

"And while they're outside beating on the flames with wet towels, somebody is inside looking around."

"We know what they found."

"It's right out in the open."

"They would have taken pictures of it."

"Because that's what we did."

"And


were covering it live, having been warned an hour earlier, that the governor would refute all of the allegations that had been lodged against him. Here's his full statement.

_To all of my loyal citizens: I can tell you that all of the claims that you heard in the Mile High Fake News sessions have been fabricated or are outright lies. I am in the process of obtaining proof of this, but I wanted to reassure you all that I am on the job and actively protecting you. What is happening right now is nothing less than an attempt by Coloradoan enemies to take over our government. These enemies may exist in neighbouring states, but they are helped by traitors who operate deep within our own government in orderback to looking at global maps.

In Denver, more and more people were streaming into Mile High Stadium not only by foot but also by copter. The football field was becoming an overcrowded copter parking lot. If there were going to be any barbecuing, the object turning on the spit wouldn't have four legs.

By 3:15, the number of angry citizen had reached critical mass of several hundred raging white supremacists. They had been betrayed by a man who had pretended to be John Elway the Fourth. They had been betrayed by a man who clearly was not a white supremacist, but was likely an agent of the ungodly.

Their poof was indisputable. It looped every minute on the big screen. Videos of a happy family at a birthday celebration. The


been divided into units. The Court fixed a value of each unit and directed the trustee to either purchase the outstanding units for cash or to issue to the owners a proportionate part of the stock of the new corporation in exchange for their units, as the owners should elect. The majority of the units were exchanged for stock in the new corporation; approximately 20 per cent were surrendered for cash; and approximately 17 per cent of the units, plus 25,831.21 shares of stock in the predecessor corporation were exchanged by one Brown for one of the oil wells owned by the corporation.

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echoes of that 2009 playoff run were profoundly evident in this game.

The win marked the first time since the 2009 Stanley Cup finals that the Penguins won two games at home in a row in the playoffs. It marked the first time since then that they won the first two games of a series at home since the 2009 Eastern Conference finals.

"I was able to capitalize on my chances and felt pretty good out there. It was a pretty fast pace. I think we played with a lot of speed, everybody was going, so it was a nice game," Crosby said.

That such an event coincided with Crosby’s best postseason performance in four years would appear to be not a coincidence at all, but something more, even if Crosbyin the first period.

"I was kind of running out of space there to make a pass, so I was hoping that I was able to find a way somehow, but yeah, kind of saw him leaning a bit," Crosby said.

He wasn’t done.

Karlsson, clearly nowhere near the dynamic player he was before having his Achilles tendon lacerated in a run-in with Pittsburgh’s Matt Cooke early in the regular season, found himself a step behind Cooke in the first minute of the second period and was forced to take a hooking penalty.

Just 26 seconds later, Crosby stepped to the top of the circle to the right of Anderson and blasted home his third of the night.

It would spell the end for Anderson on this night and marked the first postseason


hat trick for Crosby since that epic night during the 2009 playoffs on May 4, when he and Alex Ovechkin traded hat tricks in what would be a Washington victory.

"He makes the game look absolutely, disgustingly easy. There were a couple of passes tonight it was coast to coast 100 feet across the ice. One to [Pascal] Dupuis, he had just got on the ice for a change; I didn’t even know he was about to come on. Just tremendous. Could have had five," national analyst Glenn Healy told ESPN.com after the game.

Crosby acknowledged Friday that coming up with the win made this one a little sweeter than the 2009 hat trick.

Head coach Dan Bylsma said the team had talked about the need to build on its GameMonday, September 8, 2014

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laminectomy    and   required    subsequent     surgical    intervention.
Claimant's physician concluded that claimant had reached maximum
healing on September 16, 1988, and gave him a permanent impairment
rating of 10 percent of the whole man.
     The insurer notified the Division of Workers' Compensation
that it had chosen Crawford Rehabilitation Services (Crawford) as
its designated rehabilitation provider on March 17, 1989.               The
rehabilitation    counselor     selected   by    Crawford    prepared    a
rehabilitation evaluation report in which he determined that
claimant could not return to the job


he held at the time of injury,
but that claimant's age, education, work experience, and physical
condition made him vocationally capable of entering the job market
without   retraining as   a   surveyor's assistant or   electronics
technician.     Claimant did not return to work in any capacity.
     As a result of the determination that claimant had reached
medical stability and was released to return to the open labor
market by his treating physician, the insurer reduced his benefits
from temporary total disability benefits to permanent partial
disability benefits.      Claimant's permanent partial disability
benefits were   equal to one-half of his temporary total disability
benefits.
     Claimant wrote the Division stating that he thought the
reduced benefits wereinadequate, that he was not qualified for
return to work in the options designated by the rehabilitation
counselor, that he was not guaranteed future gainful employment,
and that he desired to be retrained.    Claimant argued that he was
entitled to have a rehabilitation panel review the determination
and requested a contested case hearing.
     In the contested case hearing, the hearing examiner for the
Department of Labor and Industry described the issue as:
         The issue to be determined is whether the return to
    work options identified by Claimant's rehabilitation
    counselor are appropriate, and whether he is entitled
    to total compensation benefits.
The hearing examiner concluded that the mandatory rehabilitation
process had not been


  We conclude that under 5 39-71-1023, MCA
(1987), claimant became eligible for total rehabilitation benefits
on September 16, 1988, as he had not returned to work.        Under the
provisions of that statute claimant was entitled to a continuation
of total rehabilitation benefits until he received a decision from
the Department regarding his potential for rehabilitation. No such
decision was ever rendered. Under the statutory provisions, after
the insurer gave notice to the Department that Crawford had been
designated as its rehabilitation provider, claimant was entitled
to total rehabilitation benefits for a period not to exceed 26
weeks, unless extended by the Department. All of the foregoing is
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the total rehabilitation benefits must be paid at the disabled
worker's temporary total disability rate.
the time - both in
technology and business acumen. Then they imploded...

~~~
icedchai
I would argue that they lacked business acumen. The fact is Commodore's
marketing of the Amiga was terrible. After the 1985 head start, they let the
technology languish for years.

The 500, 2000, and even 3000 were all refinements of the same original system.
The basic platform hardly changed at all until the Amiga 1200 and 4000 in
1993, when they added AGA graphics. And it was too little, too late.

~~~
flywheel
The expandability of the original Amiga platform is what kept the ecosystem so
vibrant that there almost wasn't a need to update the platform for so long -
so many expansions that the Mac people could only dream about. Video Toaster,
to name but one. I started with an A1000 that I hacked a 20MB hard


Floods, Power Cuts Hit New York as Sandy Slams into Eastern US

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Superstorm Sandy slammed into the East Coast and hurled a record 14-foot surge of seawater at New York City, flooding the financial district, bringing transport to a standstill and putting the presidential campaign on hold a week before Election Day.

Spencer Platt

A huge fire also ripped through Breezy Point in the borough of Queens in New York City destroying 50 homes Tuesday in one of the city's most remote neighborhoods.

The neighborhood had been extensively flooded by Sandy's record storm surge, and firefighters were hampered in their efforts to bring the blaze under control, a spokesman for the New York Fire Department said.

No casualties were immediately reported and the causeof the fire was under investigation. The fire still was not under control by 5 a.m., the department said.

President Barack Obama signed a declaration of emergency for the state of New York making federal funding available to affected individuals in the counties of Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Richmond, Suffolk and Queens, the statement said.

Meanwhile, Reuters reported that 7 million people were left without electrical power by the storm, which crashed ashore late Monday near the gambling resort of Atlantic City, N.J.

At least 13 deaths were blamed on the storm, according to The Associated Press, while more than 1 million people across a dozen states were ordered to evacuate.

US Markets Closed for a Second Day On Tuesday

CNBC's Bertha Coombs reports live from outside the New York Stock Exchange


which will be closed for a second day on Tuesday due to the weather for the first time since 1888.

The record storm surge prompted Exelon Corp o declare an "alert" at its New Jersey Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, while stock markets in New York were set to be closed on Tuesday for a second day — the first time the stock exchange has been shut since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

The storm brought a record surge of almost 14 feet (4.2 meters) to downtown Manhattan, well above the previous record of 10 feet (3 meters) during Hurricane Donna in 1960, the National Weather Service said.

Water poured into the subway system and tunnels that run under the rivers around Manhattan, raising concerns that the world's financial capital couldbe hobbled for days to come.

Andrew Burton

"Hitting at high tide, the strongest surge and the strongest winds all hit at the worst possible time," said Jeffrey Tongue, meteorologist for the weather service, told Reuters.

Hurricane-force winds as high as 90 miles per hour (145 kph) were recorded, he said.

"Hopefully it's a once-in-a-lifetime storm," Tongue said.

Large sections of New York City were without power, and transportation in the metropolitan area was at a standstill.

"In 108 years our employees have never faced a challenge like the one that confronts us now," Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota said in a statement.

It could take anywhere from 14 hours to four days to get the water out of the flooded subway tunnels, the MTA said.

"The damage has been geographically very widespread throughout the


entire subway, bus, LIRR (Long Island Railroad) and Metro North system, MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan said.

The National Hurricane Center said Sandy came ashore as a "post-tropical cyclone," meaning it still packed hurricane-force winds but lost the characteristics of a tropical storm. It had sustained winds of 80 miles per hour (129 kph), well above the threshold for hurricane intensity.

Flooding in Battery Park

Insight on the flooding in Battery Park, Manhattan. Bob McGee, Con Edison spokesman, also weighs in on the extent of power outages.

"We have not seen the kind of flooding problems that certainly could have happened thus far, but we've still got a long way to go to get through this storm," Washington Mayor Vincent Gray said on local television.

President Barack Obama declared emergencies in several states includingMassachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, authorizing federal relief work to begin well ahead of time. He promised the government would "respond big and respond fast" to states and cities after the storm hit.

"I think we will see low fatalities and that is the major thing," Jack Harrald, director at the Center for Community Security and Resilience at Virginia Tech, told CNBC.

New York in the Dark

New York's main utility said large sections of Manhattan had been plunged into darkness by the storm, with 250,000 customers without power as water pressed into the island from three sides, flooding rail yards, subway tracks, tunnels and roads.

Consolidated Edison it could be anywhere from several days to a week before residents who lost power during the superstorm get


their lights back.

It said it was dealing with several different issues — downed overhead lines, a planned shutdown of underground networks and an unexpected explosion at a substation that darkened a large part of lower Manhattan.

In addition, New Jersey power company Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) said more than 1 million customers were without power due to the extreme weather conditions.

"PSE&G urges customers to prepare for the possibility of lengthy outages — perhaps seven days or more due to the enormity of Sandy," the company said.

The power blackout prompted a New York City hospital to move out more than 200 patients after its backup generator failed.

Dozens of ambulances lined up outside NYU Tisch Hospital on Monday night as doctors and nurses began the slow process oftaking people out. They started with the sickest and youngest, including 20 babies from neonatal intensive care. Some were on respirators operating on battery power.

The hurricane-force winds blew over a construction crane on top of a luxury high-rise building in Manhattan, leaving the crane dangling off the edge of the building. The incident, at a building called One57 on West 57th Street, prompted a huge emergency response. New York City officials ordered people in neighboring buildings to move to lower floors.

It was still dangling Tuesday.

Bloomberg

The building is known as one of the priciest ever in New York. A six-bedroom penthouse at the building is under contract for a reported $90 million. The building recently made headlines for tax breaks from a program aimed at low-income housing.

According to the


New York Mayor's Office, emergency services were receiving 10,000 calls per half hour as of late Monday night, prompting authorities to urge citizens to only call 911 for life-threatening emergencies.

Stock Markets Shut

U.S. stock markets were to remain closed to Tuesday in the first weather-related closure for the markets in 27 years. Stock exchange operator NYSE Euronext said markets would re-open on Wednesday "conditions permitting."

NYSE Euronext said it was making contingency plans in case of irreparable damage to New York City facilities.

"We stress that, as of now, there has been no damage to the NYSE Euronext NYCheadquarters that would impair trading floor operations. The following plan is precautionary only given the unpredictability of the storm's impact at this time," it said in a statement.

he federal government in Washington wasWellington Port Worker Dies After Accident

MUA officials expressed deep sympathy for the workplace death of a New Zealand maritime worker, citing the tragedy as an affirmation of the need for a stevedoring national safety code.

MUNZ member and Centre Port (Wellington) employee Mark Samoa was killed over theweekend (early Sunday morning) when he was crushed between a forklift and cargo during a warehouse packing operation.

An investigation into the death is being carried out by CentrePort, Wellington police and the New ZealandMinistry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

"A safe workplace for all maritime workers everywhere around the globe is a top priority for our union and the International Transport Workers Federation," said Paddy Crumlin, MUA's National Secretary and the president of the ITF.

"We extend our condolences to Mark's family and say


to them, and our comrades at MUNZ, that his tragic death only hardens our resolve to make sure every maritime worker comes home safely to his or her family."

Picture: Fallen Comrade Mark Samoa with his niece Azarliah. Mark is also survived by his partner Sarah and three children Gemma, and two boys Maleko and Cale]

The MUA has been campaigning for several years for the adoption of an Australian national stevedoring code of practice.

Major stevedoring and shipping companies in Australia have consistently tried to try water down the draft code despite the ongoing dangerous nature of the industry.

"Stevedoring is dangerous work and the loss of one of our comrades from New Zealand thisweek, and the loss of another comrade from Quebec, Canada last week, makes it even more clearrule (prevention of a short circuit between wells), a certain interval 125 is provided between the wells 123 in the memory circuit 121 and the wells 124 in the region 122. Since the wells 123 in the memory circuit 121 and the wells 124 in the region 122 separate from each other, TAPs 126, 127 are provided on the wells 123, 124 respectively, resulting in increased area.


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In his campaign speeches, Donald Trump often derides the political and business system as being “rigged” and controlled by insiders who twist and exploit the rules. But in his business career, he, too, has been caught engaging in shenanigans. And in one case, he paid a whopping amount to escape legal trouble.

That issue concerned his bold effort in the 1980s to gain control of large pieces of Holiday Corporation and Bally Manufacturing, two mainstays of the gaming (that is, gambling) industry. In the early part of that decade, Trump had moved into gambling by starting to develop a series of casinos in Atlantic City. The first, Harrah’s at Trump Plaza, openedin 1984. The next year, he unveiled Trump’s Castle. And he would soon have his eye on the Taj Mahal.

In the midst of his attempt to become a casino mogul, Trump, through the brokerage firm Bear Stearns, started buying up shares of Holiday and Bally in 1986. But there was a problem. Two years later, the Federal Trade Commission accused Trump of having violated a federal law that required him to report these stock purchases to federal regulators. Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, persons or firms in certain transactions must notify the FTC and the Justice Department of mergers and large acquisitions of stocks and also submit to a waiting period. According to the FTC, Trump did not follow these rules. And the Justice Department in 1988 prepared to


road less travelled.
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Cta Platform Melee Ends In Man's Death

Post-fireworks Violence Mars Holiday

July 05, 1993|By Louise Kiernan.

A CTA platform packed with families heading home from the lakefront 4th of July fireworks display became the horrifying scene of a brawl Saturday night that resulted in a man being thrown onto the tracks and electrocuted.

The incident was part of a spate of violence that killed several people and seriously injured a dozen more over the holiday weekend in the Chicago area.

At 11 p.m. Saturday, a group of young men got in a fight on the subway platform at Washington and State Streets, either because one had stolen another's hat or had made comments about a woman in the group, said Harrison Area Violent Crimes Sgt. John Chojnacki.

At least 50 people were standing onthe platform when one man shoved another onto the tracks. He landed on the third rail and was electrocuted. The group then escaped into a departing train, Chojnacki said.

Police were still trying Sunday to determine if the incident was gang-related, Chojnacki said.

Gang warfare is believed to be the cause of a shooting at 9 p.m. Saturday on a Congress/Douglas line elevated train. Two teenagers were on their way to view the fireworks when they encountered two members of a rival gang and began beating them, Chojnacki said.

The victims then pulled out a gun and shot their attackers as the train was at the Racine Avenue stop, he said. They were arrested by police as they tried to flee, but charges had not been filed against them as of


Sunday afternoon.

A 15-year-old remained hospitalized in serious condition at Cook County Hospital with gunshot wounds to the stomach and chest. An 18-year-old was discharged Sunday after being treated for a gunshot wound to the stomach.

People were still trickling home from the fireworks along south Lake Shore Drive just after midnight, when a 20-year-old Bellwood man was shot to death in his car. Diamon George, of 3604 W. Monroe St. in Bellwood, was driving south along the outer portion of the drive, in the 3900 block near a bicycle path, when a group of men called out gang slogans and then began firing at the car, said Wentworth Area Violent Crimes Detective Bill Murphy.

Four people were in the vehicle but only George was hit, police said. A bullet camethrough the back window and struck him in the chest.

A 17-year-old was shot and killed in the 11600 block of South Throop Street at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. George Barron, of 6253 S. Michigan Ave., was found lying on the ground, with a single bullet wound to the head, according to Pullman Area Violent Crimes Detective Jimmy Marbury. No suspects had been identified as of Sunday afternoon.

A South Side restaurant was the site of another fatal shooting early Saturday. Ruben Aramula, 26, was killed and a 15-year-boy injured after they walked into Phil's Kastle, 9232 S. Commercial Ave., at 5:30 a.m. and allegedly flashed gang signals at three young men sitting at a table, said Pullman Area Violent Crimes Sgt. Rich Kobel.

One of the young men pulled out a


semiautomatic pistol and fired at least four shots, hitting Aramula, of 3010 E. 80th Pl., in the head and the boy in the eye. The boy was reported in good condition at Wyler Children's Hospital.

On Sunday, police were still searching for the occupants of two cars who sped down the 5600 block of South Ashland Avenue at 8 a.m. Saturday, chasing and shooting each other in a melee that seriously injured two passersby.

A stray bullet hit a 77-year-old woman in the head, and a 42-year-old man had both legs broken when one of the cars apparently lost control and struck him, said Wentworth Area Violent Crimes Detective Janet McCarthy.

The victims, whose names were not released by police, were both hospitalized. The woman was listed in critical condition atis best to get it straight from the horses mouth.

Third, and more importantly, Rand blasted the whole philosophy and
epistemology of "two kinds of truth" deriving from Kant. She identified this
as the analytic-synthetic dichotomy that follows from Kant's false theory of
concepts. This topic was covered by Leonard Peikoff in her book: "Introduction
to Objectivist Epistemology" titled "The Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy".

It will be interesting to see if Matt Dupree doubles down on his errors and
continues with with additional parts or stops to check his premises and the
straw man that he is attacking.

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I stand corrected. It looks like it was a mistake to attribute psychological
egoism to Ayn Rand.

I do think, however, that the argument I setup in my post will turn out to be
sound in spite of Rand's criticisms of the analytic-synthetic distinction.

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university like Gonzaga, ranked fifth in the AP poll, receiving the other two first-place votes from the panel of 65 sportswriters across the nation.

The 29-2 Bulldogs were ranked No. 2 last week in both polls and beat Brigham Young University 70-65 in Provo, Utah, and the University of Portland 81-52 at home to run the table with a perfect 16-0 record in the West Coast Conference.

Both the Gonzaga men’s and women’s teams earned top seeds into the WCC Tournament, which begins March 6 in Las Vegas. The men, top seed for the 14th time, will play in the WCC semifinal game Saturday at 6 p.m. at The Orleans Arena, while the GU women, who captured their ninth-straight WCC regular-season title this year, will play their semifinal Saturday atThe Government has said that Rs 22,000 crore have been deposited in over 17.5 crore bank accounts within a year of the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, the largest financial inclusion scheme in the world.

"At present, more than 17.5 crore bank accounts have been opened under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY). More than Rs 22,000 crore have been deposited by the people in their bank accounts opened under the PMJDY," the Finance Ministry said.

More than Rs.22,000 Crore have been deposited by the people in their Bank Accounts opened under PMJDY. August 28, 2015

At present, more than 17.5 crore bank accounts have been opened under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana ( PMJDY). . — Ministry of Finance (@FinMinIndia) August 28, 2015

Prime Minister Narendra Modi


had launched this ambitious scheme of financial inclusion on August 28, 2014.

The Finance Ministry said the target of opening one account per household was achieved by January 26, 2015, barring few areas of Jammu & Kashmir and left wing extremism affected districts.

Target of opening one account per household was achieved byJanuary 26, 2015 barring few areas of J&K &left wing extremism affected districts — Ministry of Finance (@FinMinIndia) August 28, 2015

"PMJDY, the biggest financial inclusion initiative of the world launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 28, 2014, completed its first year today," the Ministry said.NEW DELHI : On the fateful night of 8 November 2016, when in a televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his decision to invalidate 86% of the currency in circulation, the country was in shock.

While subsequently anecdotal evidence from across the country suggested the unorganized sector was badly hit by demonetization of high-value currencies as it faced a cash crunch for at least six months, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government reaped political dividend by winning the Uttar Pradesh state elections with a landslide majority.

Former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian in his book Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley Economy, which was released last year, called demonetization a “massive, draconian, monetary shock" and hinted he was not consulted on the matter. On why


players are not. Amendments in the Payment and Settlement Act made through Finance Bill 2017 are still to be notified. Proposals by the committee in 2019 are literally dumped," he said.

The sharp growth in income-tax return filings seen after the June 2016 amnesty scheme as well as the demonetization in November in the same year has now taken a beating with the economy slipping into a deep growth slowdown. The trend of more than 20% surge in return filings seen in FY17 and in FY18, has now given way to one of contraction in FY19, a trend not seen in nearly a decade for which data is readily available.

The number of income-tax returns filed had grown 6.5% in FY15 to 40.4 million and then surged 14.5% in FY16between a graph of the traveler's changing speed and the total distance traveled.

"This is familiar to any student of physics, or math or science," Mathieu Ossendrijver, an astroarchaeologist at Humboldt University of Berlin, told Space.com. But using time as a variable to calculate speed or distance has not been part of human culture forever. Using a graph to understand motion or speed over time is usually traced back to scholars in Oxford and Paris around 1350, and then to Isaac Newton, who developed integral calculus, Ossendrijver said. "What I now found is that this method was already invented in Babylonia more than 1,500 years earlier."

Ossendrijver was an astrophysicist before he began studying the history of science and cuneiform in 2005. In 2012, he published a book of new


for examining previously discovered tablets, as many tablets that are already translated have sections that aren't yet understood, Ossendrijver said. And it also forces science historians to rethink the way astronomical techniques evolved, he said.

"In the beginning, I felt insecure myself, because the implications of this, from a history of science point of view, are kind of — big," Ossendrijver said.

The process shows "a more abstract and profound conception of a geometrical object in which one dimension represents time," Alexander Jones, a historian at New York University said in Science's news article accompanying the work. It's much earlier than these concepts have ever been found before, he said, and "their presence … testifies to the revolutionary brilliance of the unknown Mesopotamian scholars who constructed Babylonian mathematical astronomy."

Email Sarahlift you with a word. The intransigence which made him the great artist he was—his ineffable and cynical wit, the clarity with which he saw most things, including me, and the fact that he never spared me the view. I learned a lot from him," she said.

"He was the finest of actors and directors. I couldn’t wait to see what he was going to do with his face next," Thompson continued. "I consider myself hugely privileged to have worked with him so many times and to have been directed by him. He was the ultimate ally. In life, art and politics. I trusted him absolutely. He was, above all things, a rare and unique human being and we shall not see his like again."

Some of Rickman's other co-stars


reacted to the news on Twitter, including James and Oliver Phelps, who played Fred and George Weasley in the "Potter" series. Matthew Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom in the films, wrote that Rickman "inspired my career more than he ever knew and I'll miss him."

British celebrities such as Stephen Fry, Harry Styles and Boy George also took to social media to pay their respects.

Here is what other stars and organizations had to say about his death.allies, where they take on more responsibility for order on their continent, and do even more to contribute to possibilities for longer-term order in the Middle East, while the United States devotes relatively more resources and attention to Asia. Now is the moment for a renewed Atlanticism, built on shared interests and values in a world in which a rising China -- as well as a resurgent Russia and persistent problems in the Middle East -- ought to cement a common approach.

Managing relations with Russia will be a long game, conducted within a relatively narrow band of possibilities, from the sharply competitive to the nastily adversarial. Even as we push back firmly against Putin’s belligerence, we cannot ignore the need for guardrails – lines of communication between our


complacency by our strength after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and we inverted further the roles of force and diplomacy in American statecraft following the terrible shock of September 11.

These long-term trends have been greatly exacerbated by the current administration’s hollowing out of American diplomacy. The after-effects of its early, ill-conceived “redesign process” are still lingering. Intake into the Foreign Service was cut by over 50 percent. The Foreign Service has lost many of its most capable mid-level and senior officers. Key ambassadorships and senior positions in Washington remain unfilled. What was already painfully slow progress toward better gender and ethnic diversity has been thrown into reverse. Most pernicious of all has been the practice of blacklisting individual officers, simply because they worked on controversial issues inAnna Karenina
By
Leo Tolstoy
Part 6:
Chapters 6-15

After escorting his wife upstairs, Levin went to Dolly's part of the house. Darya Alexandrovna, for her part, was in great distress too that day. She was walking about the room, talking angrily to a little girl, who stood in the corner roaring.

"And you shall stand all day in the corner, and have your dinner all alone, and not see one of your dolls, and I won't make you a new frock," she said, not knowing how to punish her.

"Oh, she is a disgusting child!" she turned to Levin. "Where does she get such wicked propensities?"

"Why, what has she done?" Levin said without much interest, for he had wanted to ask her advice, and so was annoyed that he had come at an unlucky


and looking up from under her brows to catch her mother's eye.

The mother glanced at her. The child broke into sobs, hid her face on her mother's lap, and Dolly laid her thin, tender hand on her head.

"And what is there in common between us and him?" thought Levin, and he went off to look for Veslovsky.

As he passed through the passage he gave orders for the carriage to be got ready to drive to the station.

"The spring was broken yesterday," said the footman.

"Well, the covered trap, then, and make haste. Where's the visitor?"

"The gentleman's gone to his room."

Levin came upon Veslovsky at the moment when the latter, having unpacked his things from his trunk, and laid out some new songs, was putting on his gaiters to goout riding.

Whether there was something exceptional in Levin's face, or that Vassenka was himself conscious that ce petit brin de cour he was making was out of place in this family, but he was somewhat (as much as a young man in society can be) disconcerted at Levin's entrance.

"You ride in gaiters?"

"Yes, it's much cleaner," said Vassenka, putting his fat leg on a chair, fastening the bottom hook, and smiling with simple-hearted good humor.

He was undoubtedly a good-natured fellow, and Levin felt sorry for him and ashamed of himself, as his host, when he saw the shy look on Vassenka's face.

On the table lay a piece of stick which they had broken together that morning, trying their strength. Levin took the fragment in his hands and began smashing


said with dignity, understanding at last.

"I can't explain," Levin said softly and deliberately, trying to control the trembling of his jaw; "and you'd better not ask."

And as the split ends were all broken off, Levin clutched the thick ends in his finger, broke the stick in two, and carefully caught the end as it fell.

Probably the sight of those nervous fingers, of the muscles he had proved that morning at gymnastics, of the glittering eyes, the soft voice, and quivering jaws, convinced Vassenka better than any words. He bowed, shrugging his shoulders, and smiling contemptuously.

"Can I not see Oblonsky?"

The shrug and the smile did not irritate Levin.

"What else was there for him to do?" he thought.

"I'll send him to you at once."

"What madness is this?" Stepan Arkadyevitch saidwhen, after hearing from his friend that he was being turned out of the house, he found Levin in the garden, where he was walking about waiting for his guest's departure. "Mais c'est ridicule! What fly has stung you? Mais c'est du dernier ridicule! What did you think, if a young man . . . "

But the place where Levin had been stung was evidently still sore, for he turned pale again, when Stepan Arkadyevitch would have enlarged on the reason, and he himself cut him short.

"Please don't go into it! I can't help it. I feel ashamed of how I'm treating you and him. But it won't be, I imagine, a great grief to him to go, and his presence was distasteful to me and to my


to Veslovsky, then clambered into the trap, and they drove off together.

Stepan Arkadyevitch and the princess were much upset by Levin's action. And he himself felt not only in the highest degree ridicule, but also utterly guilty and disgraced. But remembering what sufferings he and his wife had been through, when he asked himself how he should act another time, he answered that he should do just the same again.

In spite of all this, towards the end of that day, everyone except the princess, who could not pardon Levin's action, became extraordinarily lively and good humored, like children after a punishment or grown-up people after a dreary, ceremonious reception, so that by the evening Vassenka's dismissal was spoken of, in the absence of the princess, as though itwere some remote event. And Dolly, who had inherited her father's gift of humorous storytelling, made Varenka helpless with laughter as she related for the third and fourth time, always with fresh humorous additions, how she had only just put on her new shoes for the benefit of the visitor, and on going into the drawing room, heard suddenly the rumble of the trap. And who should be in the trap but Vassenka himself, with his Scotch cap, and his songs and his gaiters, and all, sitting in the hay.

"If only you'd ordered out the carriage! But no! and then I hear: 'Stop!' Oh, I thought they've relented. I look out, and behold a fat German being sat down by him and driving away . . . .


Samit Patel, a hard-hitting middle-order batsman and a more-than-capable slow left-arm bowler, has been one of the most watchable county cricketers of his generation but he will go to his grave feeling he was hard done by in a sporadic England career. He had several opportunities to make his mark for England, especially in limited-overs cricket, without ever quite holding down a regular place. Six Tests without much of an impact and 36 ODIs with an average of 32, and excellent strike rate of 95, but only one half-century, told of a player whose consistency had not been adorned by big, eye-catching contributions.

Patel has been involved in a permanent attempt to persuade England that his fitness levels are acceptable but he has never entirely managed it, not helpedby the fact that the left-arm slows that made him an especially tempting option in Asia turned out to lack the guile to trouble the best players.

His early career was full of promise. He represented England at Under-15, Under-17 and Under-19 levels, and was awarded the Test Match Special Young Cricketer of the Year award in 2000 for his impressive performances in the Under-15 World Cup. He made his debut for Nottinghamshire 2nd XI at the age of just 14, in late 1999 but it wasn't until 2006 that he finally began to show signs of realising his potential, scoring 156 not out against Middlesex, an innings in which he went from 100 to 150 in just 17 balls.

Some of his most eye-catching performances came in Twenty20, including


a unique double-wicket maiden against Derbyshire in 2006, but it was in 50-over cricket that he first attracted the interest of England's selectors, who picked him in his first international squad for the 2008 Champions Trophy.

Patel impressed during his breakthrough season in 2008 where he played 11 ODIs in 2008, particularly during a haul of 5 for 41 to beat South Africa at The Oval. But instead of kicking on to greater things, his career stagnated, amid repeated failures to respond to the cajoling of the England management, and get into the gym to sort out his waistline. The county circuit did not lack for stories about accidents on treadmills or his penchant for chocolate bars

England's frustration was at its height ahead of the 2011 World Cup inthe subcontinent. England desperately wanted to be able to include him for the slow, low wickets of India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and named him in their 30-man provisional squad, with the expectation that he would respond accordingly. "All we were saying was 'get into reasonable shape'. It didn't have to be perfect," said England's coach, Andy Flower.

That public rollicking appeared, finally, to have made the penny drop. Patel worked hard enough at his fitness before the 2011 season to have reached the basic targets laid out by England and he was rewarded with a recall to the limited-overs set-up after a strong start to the summer with Nottinghamshire, his first involvement for two-and-a-half years.

His work paid off as he passed 1,000 runs in a season for the


first time and took 33 wickets for Nottinghamshire. He was one of few players to come out of England's ill-fated one-day tour of India in credit with 160 runs 40.00.

Patel was an England regular in limited-overs cricket when he earned a first Test call up for England's tour of Sri Lanka in March 2012. Despite a modest domestic season in which he passed 50 only three times in first-class matches and had a top score of only 69, he was also selected for England's 2012-13 tour of India, where he made his first century in a senior England side in a warm-up match against India A and was selected for the first three Tests without ever making an impact. He then failed to win selection for World Twenty20in Bangladesh shortly after predicting that, at 29, he was approaching his peak and had ambitions to play 200 times for England. Instead, he feared that total might end on 60..

His slow left-arm was never more valuable for Notts than when a spell of 3 for 21 from seven overs helped Nottinghamshire beat Glamorgan by 87 runs in the 2013 YB40 final at Lord's to win their first limited-overs trophy for more than 20 years. But England's declining interest - even with his director of cricket Mick Newell now ensconced as a selector - began to weigh on him. With his Test ambitions high at the start of 2014, he averaged 52, only to average 23 after he failed be selected. Newell himself called that "no coincidence".

That run