those uncovered or described by teams headed by Tim D. White in the 1990s, including Ardipithecus ramidus and Ardipithecus kadabba.

In 2013, fossil skeletons of Homo naledi, an extinct species of hominin assigned (provisionally) to the genus Homo, were found in the Rising Star Cave system, a site in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind region in Gauteng province near Johannesburg. , fossils of at least fifteen individuals, amounting to 1,550 specimens, have been excavated from the cave. The species is characterized by a body mass and stature similar to small-bodied human populations, a smaller endocranial volume similar to Australopithecus, and a cranial morphology (skull shape) similar to early Homo species. The skeletal anatomy combines primitive features known from australopithecines with features known from early hominins. The individuals show signsthe basis of a separation from the orangutan between 10 and 20 million years ago, earlier studies of the molecular clock suggested that there were about 76 mutations per generation that were not inherited by human children from their parents; this evidence supported the divergence time between hominins and chimpanzees noted above. However, a 2012 study in Iceland of 78 children and their parents suggests a mutation rate of only 36 mutations per generation; this datum extends the separation between humans and chimpanzees to an earlier period greater than 7 million years ago (Ma). Additional research with 226 offspring of wild chimpanzee populations in eight locations suggests that chimpanzees reproduce at age 26.5 years on average; which suggests the human divergence from chimpanzees occurred between 7 and 13


were interpreted as supportive of a recent single origin. Analyses have shown a greater diversity of DNA patterns throughout Africa, consistent with the idea that Africa is the ancestral home of mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam, and that modern human dispersal out of Africa has only occurred over the last 55,000 years.

"Out of Africa" has thus gained much support from research using female mitochondrial DNA and the male Y chromosome. After analysing genealogy trees constructed using 133 types of mtDNA, researchers concluded that all were descended from a female African progenitor, dubbed Mitochondrial Eve. "Out of Africa" is also supported by the fact that mitochondrial genetic diversity is highest among African populations.

A broad study of African genetic diversity, headed by Sarah Tishkoff, found the San people had theyears ago. The Paleolithic is subdivided into the Lower Paleolithic (Early Stone Age), ending around 350,000–300,000 years ago, the Middle Paleolithic (Middle Stone Age), until 50,000–30,000 years ago, and the Upper Paleolithic, (Late Stone Age), 50,000–10,000 years ago.

Archaeologists working in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world. Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 years older than stone tools from Ethiopia that previously held this distinction.

The period from 700,000–300,000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster (or erectus) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough (Early Acheulian), later "retouched" by additional, more-subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes. After 350,000 BP the


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The XXIInd International Congress of Psychology (ICP) in Leipzig in 1980 is a case that illustrates the mutual relationship between science and politics, specifically of the role of science in a communist state. We focus first on the situation of the discipline of psychology within the (East) German Democratic Republic (GDR). Second, we provide a detailed description of the interactions between the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPS) and the communist regime of the GDR. The Psychological Association of the GDR was commissioned by the IUPS to organize the congress. The Communist Party, being an omnipresent authority in the state, both supported and tried to manipulate the Leipzig conference for its politicalA Central American man, who was previously deported from the United States, was arrested near a border crossing in California after he admitted to being an active member of the MS-13 gang while planning to seek asylum.

Officers at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in Calexico, California, approached Jose Villalobos-Jobel on Saturday and detained him after he was suspected of being in the United States without legal documentation, according to CBS affiliate KESQ.

The 29-year-old, who traveled through Mexico after joining the migrant caravan in his native country of Honduras, confessed to border patrol agents from the Calexico Port of Entry that he belonged to the notorious criminal organization.

A Las Vegas immigration judge in 2006 handed down a deportation order for the Honduran man, who was 'physically removed


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Jose Villalobos-Jobel was arrested by order agents arrested after he admitted being a member of the MS-13 gang and trying to apply for asylum

Trump claimed on Wednesday he will shut the government down if he doesn't get $5 billion for his border wall

The arrest of Villalobos-Jobel comes after President Donald Trump' claimed that members of the gang would try to infiltrate the caravan in the hope of being granted asylum.

Trump was criticized in May when he attacked all immigrants and labeled them as 'animals' before he said he was talking about the gang that was started in Los Angeles in the 1980s.

"I'm referring and you know I'm referring to the MS-13 gangs that are comingwith the U.S. Border Patrol in the El Centro Sector told DailyMail on Wednesday that Villalobos-Joel was traveling alone when he was apprehended by the immigration unit patrolling the southern border area.

According to an immigration report filed during his interrogation, Villalobos-Joel said he 'joined the caravan because it was safer to make the trip from Honduras'.

Villalobos is the second MS-13 admitted gang member who has been detained since October by agents from the El Centro Sector.

Villalobos is the only known MS-13 gang member tied to the migrant caravan that has been appended by the officers assigned to the same border patrol division in southern California.

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An estimated 7,000 migrants have traveled 2,000 miles through the length of Mexico from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador since mid-October. The Trump administration is defending the southern California border and insisting Mexico deport anyone trying to sneak across.

Thousands of migrant have settled in recent weeks across Mexican border towns, especially Tijuana, a city popular with American tourists that tend to trickle across the border crossing.

But the city, know for it's wild nightlife, was also the site of an ugly clash Sunday that pitted U.S. border agents against migrants desperately looking to cross into the United States.

Around 500 men, women and children, part of a caravan of roughly 5,000 mainly Hondurans who have been trekking toward the US for weeks, scrambled over a rusted metal fencewithout priority for an unliquidated and disputed claim.
3. Movants' claim arose from an automobile accident which occurred on November 7, 1981.
4. On November 7, 1981, the movant (Thelma Shipula) and her friend, Frances Byrk, while stopped in movants' vehicle at a traffic light in Kingston, Pennsylvania, were struck in the rear by an automobile driven by respondent.
5. As a result of the accident, Frances Byrk, died and Thelma Shipula, received severe neck and back injuries.
6. At the time of the accident, respondent was intoxicated. Respondent was ultimately charged and plead guilty to homicide by motor vehicle and to driving while under the influence of alcohol.
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his Chapter 7 petition. Movant's argument that respondent deliberately took steps to reduce the assets in the bankruptcy estate is without merit. Respondent's property settlement with his wife in which he refused to take the property to which he was entitled was apparently motivated by his desire to care for his children. Also, the respondent's alimony and support payments were not unreasonable and were not established in order to reduce the bankruptcy estate.[4]. Finally, respondent's decision to close his business was apparently motivated by his business' structural disrepair not by a desire to reduce the assets of the bankruptcy estate.[5] Furthermore, the debtor is allegedly responsible for a large unliquidated claim which together with the above mentioned circumstances entitles the respondent to file a Chapter 7 petition.
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The city is located on the bank of the River Subarnarekha (the word ‘Subarnarekha’ means golden streak), and is situated in an undulating forested area. It has been a popular place frequented mostly by people from West Bengal, who have been going there for a change of place and climate. The noted Bengali writer Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhyay of Pather Panchali fame was a resident of the city.

A small township with mixture of people from communities like Bengalis, Biharis, Gujratis, Marwadis, Punjabis and Muslims, all staying together in harmony participating in each other's festivals. Geographically placed between two mountain ranges with the Subarnarekha river separating them from kissing each other. Aerial view is beautiful from top of any mountain like the Surda pahar. You can find the rocky river


fore fathers of the Raja of former Dhalbhum estate. Utensils, sweet meats, ornaments etc are sold by petty shopkeepers. It is a very popular, particularly for the Santhals.

Notable places in and around Ghatshila are: the house of Bengali writer Bhibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, Phuldongri Hill, Burudi Lake, Rankani Temple(Jadugora & Ghatsila),Dharagiri Falls, Naroa Forest, Mosaboni Mines & Surda Pahar. 8 km from Ghatshila is Galudi, another tourist spot on the banks of the Subarnarekha. Tatanagar is just a day's trip from Ghatshila.

Notably, most tourists from nearby big cities like Kolkata are attracted to Ghatsila not only for its natural beauty but also to taste the sweet mineral water. At each pockets of the township, a public tube well or Chaapaakal can be found where you can taste fresh water. TheSlideshow ( 3 images )

PARIS (Reuters) - A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in Marseille on Monday is a Turkish citizen of Kurdish origin who said he acted in the name of the militant Islamist group Islamic State, the prosecutor in the southern French city of Marseille said.

“He claimed to have acted in the name of Allah and the Islamic State, repeating several times to have done on behalf of Daech (Islamic State),” the prosecutor, Brice Robin, told a news conference.

The 15 year-old, who was armed with a machete and a knife, wounded the teacher slightly before being stopped and arrested.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve earlier called the attack a “brutal anti-semitic aggression.”

France has the highest Jewish and the Muslim populations in Europe. Violent racial incidents have been


"The entire shale fracking endeavor began as a somewhat quixotic, patriotic ambition within fledgling federal energy research programs. Scientists had long understood the geology of shales and knew there was gas to be had," write members of The Breakthrough Institute in the New York Times. "But everyone assumed it was unreachable. There’s a reason that the shale gas, tight sands gas, and other natural gas deposits that now make up half of U.S. gas production are still called “unconventional.” With domestic gas production on the decline in the 1970s and policymakers eager for alternatives to imported oil, shale gas was one of several such radical resource bases that federal geologists tried to tap."

"So much of the innovative work on shale gas was underwritten or led by federal agenciesout blessing in the land of idols, much like the Israelites often did in the Old Testament.[5] Welch explains, “Drugs and sex are the modern golden calves erected by addicts to find meaning, power, or pleasure apart from God.”[6] He also discusses other themes that offer insight into addiction such as adultery, slavery, and foolishness. In chapter 4, Welch discusses the following stages of addiction: friendship, infatuation, love and betrayal, and worship.

The second part of his book is titled “Essential Theological Themes.” This section of the book is devoted to finding hope and healing for the addict in the pages of Scripture and in the person and work of Jesus Christ. This section is both theological and practical. Welch gives wise counsel and biblical insight in how to


It might shock some Bulldogs fans – and torment their Magpie counterparts – to learn that Scott West once came within a whisker of joining Collingwood.

West can’t recall the exact year – he suggests it might have been at the end of 2000 – but a couple of things are certain: he was in the prime of an already decorated career that had only reached its halfway point, and he considered, and even envisioned, what it would be like to be a Magpie.

"I seriously, seriously considered moving to Collingwood," West said.

"It came very close to happening – half-an-hour or so before the (trade) deadline for signing it off.

"Collingwood is obviously a great club, they were on the rise under Mick Malthouse, and the opportunity to play alongside guyslike Nathan Buckley, Scott Burns and Paul Licuria in the midfield would have been, on reflection, great in my career.

"But I felt a huge bond with the Bulldogs. I'd been there since 1990 as a 15-year-old, and I was vice-captain, so I decided to be loyal to the club.

"Collingwood played in grand finals in '02-'03, and it's a huge regret of mine not playing in a grand final or winning a premiership. But I'm happy to say I was a one-club player."

The Bulldogs were no doubt happy as well, with West going on to play 324 games for the Dogs' (fourth on their all-time list), winning a club-record seven best and fairests, the ruck-rover's spot in the Bulldogs Team of the Century, five All Australian selections, and five


top-four placings in the Brownlow Medal.

He also earned universal respect for his dogged style, which is recognised by the Bulldogs' most courageous player award being named in his honour.

Like Buckley, West set high training standards for himself and his teammates. He believes it drove him to produce maximum output.

"I was pretty relentless in my preparation," he said.

"At times it got me into trouble with some teammates because they may not have been going as hard as I thought they should have been. But I think you have to drive others if you truly believe it's required to bring you success."

West says he was never stats-driven, but his raw numbers make impressive reading. The former Bulldogs' No.7 is the seventh-most prolific ball-winner over the past 40 seasons , withhis disposal average of 25.38 eclipsing the likes of fellow Hall of Famers Robert Harvey (25.21) and Buckley (24.6).

A left-footer and prolific handballer who prided himself on winning contested ball and feeding outside runners, he topped 40 touches on four occasions, with his best effort of 45 coming in a seven-point win over Adelaide at the MCG in round 20, 2006, a victory which helped set up a finals berth.

Former Bulldogs coach Terry Wallace – to whom West says remains "indebted" – has often said that one of West's virtues was that he rarely dipped below a seven out of 10 performance, regardless of the pressure.

The closest West came to a grand final appearance was in 1997, when the Dogs surrendered a five-goal lead against eventual premier Adelaide


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WARNING: All Jutsu’s are in Japanese with the English Version in parenthesis.

A time skip has taken place. Doryoku sensei has been assigned Yugito Uzumaki, Hayate Haruno, and Seiji Yuhi and has been named Team 5. Team 5 passed their Bell Test and the group recently completed a difficult C-rank mission, saving the Princess of the Masuda from a band of rogue ninja that wanted her for ransom. Since the team managed to save the Princess, Doryoku sensei decided they were ready for the Chunin Exams. The first part of the Exams is about to take place; the written test.

All Genin from a multitude of different villages were gathered in the rather large lounge room of the testing area. Hiro Sato, a Tokubetsu Jonin (Special Jonin), wasMarcelo Bielsa kept it up for 90 minutes. He squatted in the left corner of his technical area, got up, paced across the turf and squatted in the right corner of his technical area, got up again, paced across the turf again and squatted in the left corner of his technical area, pausing en route to take in the view from the middle. Standing this time. Over and over again. Every few seconds. Up, pace, down; up, pace, down; up pace, down. A different perspective, a better view. Except that it made no difference: whichever way the Athletic Bilbao manager looked at it, this was terrible. Truly awful.

Monday night at the Vicente Calderón and on 20 minutes, Bielsa saw Atlético Madrid's striker Radamel Falcao glide past San José


and dink it over Gorka Iraizoz for the first. On 42, he saw Falcao replicate that Johan Cruyff goal – or this Fernando Torres goal, or this Ismael Urzaiz one – by leaping in the air, side on to goal, foot raised half way to the crossbar, to volley the second. On 58, it was three, all of them for Falcao, and on 84, it was four. It should have been more: Gorka Iraizoz made a handful of superb saves. Atlético Madrid had 14 shots on target; Athletic didn't have one.

"We were," Bielsa admitted, "impotent in the face of the dimension of our opponent." The dimension of that opponent was gigantic: Arda Turan was consistently dangerous, Falcao's brilliance was barely believable and Atlético had destroyed Athletic in lastseason's Europa League final too. Bielsa talked of "antagonistic styles" and took the blame for not devising a strategy to impose upon Diego Simeone and his team. But it was not just about Falcao or Simeone or Atlético; there was something else, something deeper, something a little depressing. Something in that word: impotent.

An inescapable feeling that Athletic Bilbao, the team that reached two finals and destroyed Manchester United at Old Trafford, are unravelling before his eyes.

Athletic Bilbao are bottom of La Liga. It is only week two and last season Athletic suffered their worst start in 32 years but became possibly the most exciting, most different, most enjoyable team to watch in Spain.

There are three other teams with no points and a long way to go; Bielsa's done


it before too. This summer, they had three players at the Olympics and two at Euro 2012. It was, some say, bound to take a while to re-find their feet and their fitness. They'll come good. But Athletic have conceded nine goals already and it just doesn't feel right.

As Athletic's players filed out of the Calderón late on Monday night, the last of them leaving the car park just before 1am, Javi Martínez and Fernando Llorente were not among them. Both have told Athletic that they don't want to continue. Martínez is waiting for a deal to be concluded with Bayern Munich, who have offered €40m (£32m). Llorente, whose contract is up at the end of this season, will not sign a new deal and wants to goto Juventus. Fans have whistled and booed him at training sessions and graffiti has appeared on the window of the club shop. But despite standing to lose him for nothing, Athletic are refusing to sell, pointing at his €35m buyout clause. The window is closing. In the meantime, he's not playing.

It wasn't supposed to be like this. They call Bielsa El Loco. As Iker Muniáin put it, he is not as mad as people say, he is madder. But he was also brilliant: he had revolutionised the team, changing the club's entire identity. They were fun. They reached two finals. They lost them both, completely running out of energy as the season entered the final weeks, but afterwards the fans chanted for the coach to continue. He was


the architect of a new era. He was also non-committal. It took him a week to decide. There was a barely disguised panic: if Bielsa goes, we're screwed.

When he did finally announce that he was staying there was relief. Athletic's project would continue and so would the players. But Bielsa's methods are wearing and the fatigue, both mentally and physically, among the players is real. His relentlessness has proven successful but it can also be enormously stressful.

In early July it took a turn for the surreal. Bielsa called a press conference which lasted almost an hour and a half to announce that he had filed a formal complaint with the police … about himself. He gave a statement in which he admitted to having insulted and pushed thesite manager on the works being carried out at Athletic's Lezama training ground. He said he had shoved the site manager out of his office after promises made about the completion of work were not met. "I'm sorry," he said, "he may well be the worst site manager around but he deserved respect."

Bielsa had a point: the work was not completed on time, leaving Athletic without the facilities that he had demanded ready for pre-season training, the club had done little to push it through, and he was forced to act in the name of the club, having given them a four-day margin to sort it out. (And who in Spain hasn't felt like clobbering a construction company once in a while?) But he had also revealed the


players, expressed their desire to leave. Team-mates understand their decision but there is irritation at how late it came; the season is two games old – two defeats, nine goals conceded – and still there is uncertainty.

Bielsa says he has asked Martínez and Llorente if he is the problem, implicitly posing the solution: "If you're going because of me, I'll go first." He says they are not, but there has long been a private recognition that Bielsa and Llorente have important differences. This is an opportunity for them to move while they have suitors and lots of them: last season was probably unique and Athletic's absence from the Champions League weighs heavily.

The bottom line for Athletic is clear: these are their best two players. Last season, Llorente scoredstart of the season for Madrid – something that has never happened to José Mourinho before – and a five-point gap between them and Barcelona. Yes, it's early but considering that Madrid only dropped 14 points in the whole of last season it is significant. The performance was, Mourinho said, "unacceptable".

• Valencia won on Saturday, Deportivo won on Sunday and the aggregate score was a draw. 3-1 up at half-time, which ended at midnight, Valencia conceded two second-half goals. Half-time team talk? Tomorrow is another day?

• It's a Barcelona-Madrid one-two at the top. The Madrid team in question, though, are Rayo Vallecano – two wins from two, they sit second, thanks to a brilliant performance of a Leo of their own. This one's Brazilian and only started playing


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Category SfP Bulletin January 1996

Science for Peace can bask in the afterglow of the award of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize to the Pugwash movement and its President, Joseph Rotblat. Both organizations were founded with (1) the realization that nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, (2) the determination to see the abolition of nuclear weapons, and, (3) a recognition that scientists have a responsibility to their profession and their world to ensure, both individually and collectively, that the results of their work are used for the betterment of humankind. While the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is of international scope, and our organization is a national organization, SfP and Canada can be proud that Pugwash draws its name from a small fishingvillage in Nova Scotia where the first Pugwash conference was held.

Science for Peace not only shares many noble goals and approaches with Pugwash, but it also shares members as well. One of SfP’s founding members, John Polanyi, was also the founding chairman of Canadian Pugwash. In December, he travelled to Scandinavia for a second time to attend a Nobel award ceremony (in 1986 he was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry). In Toronto, John joined a dozen or more other joint members of SfP and Canadian Pugwash (representing about a fifth of its Canadian membership) in celebratory symposium for Pugwash organized by SfP.

The award reminds us that, while there has been substantial progress in nuclear disarmament, we are still far from a nuclear weapons free world. The


cities in eastern Europe and Asia as well as travelling through many kilometres of fascinating countryside. The trip ended in Beijing, the site of the Fourth World Conference on Women and nearby to the parallel NGO Forum.

Ian and Bruna have written a couple of articles for Peace Magazine describing their experiences in detail. They have been included in the November-December issue which is available from the Peace Magazine Office at 735 Bathurst Street, Toronto M5S 2R4 (416-533-7581).

The Mines Action Coalition,(or Committee), was formed in late 1994 with the general purpose of initiating activities to raise the Canadian public’s awareness of the tragic consequences of the use of anti- personnel landmines in conflicts throughout the world. Four areas of action have been targeted.

The Mines Action Coalition:

Urges the Canadian Governmentto call for a total ban on the use, production, stockpiling, sale, transfer or export of anti-personnel landmines and the destruction of existing stockpiles.

Recognizes recent Canadian initiatives and calls for additional assistance to multilateral and local humanitarian mine clearance activities. These would include multilateral activities such as support of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre and other UN initiatives, as well as any unilateral activities which Canada may undertake with respect to humanitarian mine clearance.

Requests an immediate Canadian moratorium on the production, export and transfer of landmines, their component parts and related technology, including their export and transfer to the USA.

A steering committee composed of representatives from member organizations of the Coalition has been put in place and a part-time coordinator (Celina Tuttle) was hired. The Committee and the


coordinator identify and recommend various lines of action.

The Coalition has been successful in several areas. Recently the Department of Foreign Affairs said the number of letters the government receives on landmines places this issue in the top three areas of concern as expressed by Canadians. A number of MPs have clearly indicated their strong support for Coalition activities and several have drafted, or are drafting, private members bills relating to Coalition objectives. An advisory committee comprised of well-respected Canadians is in regular contact with the Coalition. Interest and support for the Campaign to Ban Landmines grows daily, from South African MPs to Canadian NGOs and high school students. MAC has met with several government officials to date and was represented on the Canadian Delegation to the UN De-miningConference in July 1995 and to the Vienna Conference in September 1995. The Coalition has prepared and mailed landmine information packages to all Members of Parliament. Information brochures are ready for distribution to the Canadian public. As you may know, in recent months dozens of landmine-related articles, including radio documentaries and interviews, have appeared in the Canadian media. Non-governmental organizations are invited to endorse the objectives of MAC and to join the Campaign. A nominal contribution of $200 includes your organization as a voting member of MAC and as a contact in our information-sharing network.

Recently Andre Ouellet, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that “Canada should lead the world by destroying its own stockpile of landmines and declaring a total ban on the production, export and use of the


of Little Boy and Fat Man, the grotesquely named bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

“Fifty years of nuclear terror”, an exhibit of 10 panels prepared by the War Resisters League, which includes a description of the gutting of the Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit under pressure from Congress and the American Legion.

“Fifty Years of Censorship”, an exhibit of five panels addressing the questions: What is it to be a scientist or engineer after Hiroshima?” and “What is it to be a historian after 50 years of brazen lying, misinformation and partial or delayed release of documents by the Allied governments?”

On the night of Pearl Harbour my father was re-circumcised by the wind- shield of a Wellington bomber. His crew was sent out on a practice run around southern England.He was thrown out onto the snow of Lord Noughfields’s golf course just outside Oxford. It was cold and visibility poor, so he had been doing a stint at a gunner’s post looking out for barrage-balloon wires, and radioing back to the pilot to go left or right so the wings wouldn’t be ripped off. He had just returned to his seat when the pilot announced they had run out of fuel. Only he and the rear gunner survived. His face was so bruised and cut that an old friend of his family from Argentina did not recognize him at first when brought to identify him.

It was probably a good thing that he crashed, as the attrition rate for bombers was high at that time of the war.


fig tree; and none shall make them afraid.
Micah 4:4.

Science for Peace organized a celebratory symposium to honour the recipients of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, namely Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Movement. The symposium was entitled “Celebrating Pugwash and Looking Ahead”. It was held on November 2, 1995 at 4 PM in the Earth Sciences Auditorium on the University of Toronto Campus.

The speakers, all of whom are members of the Pugwash Movement, included:

John Polanyi, Nobel Laureate, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto

Major-General (ret.) Len Johnson, President of the Canadian Pugwash Committee

Eric Fawcett, President of Science for Peace, Department of Physics, University of Toronto

David Bell, Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University

John Brencaglia, great-nephew of Cyrus Eaton, the founder of the Pugwash Movement

Terry Gardner, Department of Mathematics,University of Toronto

Bob Logan, Department of Physics, University of Toronto

Derek Paul, Department of Physics, University of Toronto

Anatol Rapoport, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto

Abe Rotstein, Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Metta Spencer, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto

The speakers saluted Dr. Rotblat and other prominent members of the Pugwash Movement. They also related their experiences in Pugwash and described what it has meant to them. They also indicated future directions for Pugwash in addition to its traditional work in nuclear disarmament and world security. These concerns include the environment, ethnic conflict, transitional economies and the hidden costs of globalization.

The historic dimension of Pugwash was described,including the Einstein- Russell manifesto, the Dagomys declaration on the environment, the philanthropy of Cyrus Eaton and the launch of the movement in Canada


in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, at the Cyrus Eaton estate in 1958.

We received greetings from Joseph Rotblat which were read to us by Eric Fawcett, expressing Joseph’s gratitude for our organizing the event. The meeting was a great success and many of the panellists expressed the sentiment that they learned new things about Pugwash. The feeling was also expressed that Pugwash and Science for Peace should sponsor more activities together.

Note: William Epstein, the representative of the Pugwash Conferences at the United Nations, reported in Disarmament Times (10 November 1995) that the Canadian Pugwash Group used the occasion of the Nobel Award to issue a statement calling on the Canadian Government “to demonstrate its commitment to nuclear non-proliferation and a nuclear-weapon-free world by publicly urging the nuclear powers and thesubmitted and accepted.

Following the submission of the Nominating committee report (Janis Alton), Board members for 1995-1997 were accepted.

Reports were submitted by the following Working Groups: (i) Ethics. This had been covered in Kelly Gotlieb’s talk. (ii) Cuban Scientist (Lee Lorch). A brief discussion of needs and problems took place. (iii) Science fairs. Information from Angelo Mingarelli was distributed. (iv) Ad hoc group on Bill C-62. Terry Gardner reported on the status of the campaign.

Moved by Ian Russell, seconded by Derek Paul that the Executive be authorized to appoint either Ken McFarland or an appropriate alternate auditor for 1995-1996, the final choice to depend upon fees and agreement. Passed.

The Nominating committee for 1995-1996 was selected, consisting of Janis Alton, Chandler Davis, and Metta Spencer.

It was noted that a Research


Director and an Education Director will be needed for the coming year.

Votes of thanks to the retiring Treasurer (Derek Paul) and to the retiring Vice-President (Tom Davis) were proposed by Eric Fawcett and Peter Nicholls and accepted by acclamation.

It was proposed we expand the name of Science for Peace in our literature (the official name remaining unchanged). After considerable discussion the wording “toward a just and sustainable world” was accepted by a vote of 12 to five with six abstentions. The meeting was adjourned at 4:50 P.M.

Full text version of all articles from SfP Bulletin January 1996. A PDF edition is also available.Native American Mountains Legends : Thunder Mountain

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Now regarding the Thunder Mountain in the western part of Marinette County: Thunder is a large bird like an Eagle, only much larger. And when this bird was created it was made to have power in order to defend us from the great serpents, who wanted to kill and eat the human race. It was also to moisten the earth for vegetation. Thunderers, we call these great birds. One of them is called Chequah. And the mountain we call Bikwaki, so Thunder Mountain is Chequah Bikwaki.

Many, many years have gone by since the Hill received its name. In the beginning of its Indian history the Thunderbirds


used to make their nests here and sit on their two eggs until their young were hatched. Some Indians many years ago in the summer time visited the Hill and were surprised to find several pairs of young Thunders. It was always the custom with Indians to offer tobacco for friendship and safety.

And later on in another visit by the Indians a pond was discovered on the top of the Hill. And it was dangerous. The Serpent who lives under the Hill had caused this to be so that he could sun himself when the sky was clear. And on a sunny clear day he was sunning, probably asleep, when a lone Thunder discovered him and decided to catch him alive and carry him off. So the Thundercame down from the sky and caught the Serpent. The Thunder would carry him high. The Serpent, struggling, would carry the Thunder back down on the pond.

At that time an Indian hunter who was passing happened to look to the top of the Hill and to his surprise saw the two struggling, and went up to witness the great fight. He was noticed by them, and the Thunderbird spoke and said, “My friend, help me, and shoot the Serpent with your arrow, and I will make you a great man!” The Serpent also spoke and said, “Help me, and shoot the Thunder, and I’ll promise you my friendship to the end of all time!” The Indian did not know which one to help, so he shut his eyes


and shot an arrow toward the fighters and shot the Thunder. That shot weakened the Thunder and he fell down and was taken under the Hill as a prisoner. The Thunderbird is still there, and the Hill is called Chequah Bikwaki. Whenever there is going to be a thunderstorm lightning is seen flashing from the Thunder Mountain.Slowdown: Even though the government has tried to stimulate spending, business in Bangkok's Chinatown remains tepid.

The recent global cost of living survey sees Bangkok for the first time among the top 50 most expensive cities in the world due to the baht's appreciation.

The index was announced in December last year by ECA International, which publishes cost-of-living data for over 480 cities around the world to help companies calculate proper allowances for their employees working abroad.

Bangkok has leapt 43 places to 47th while its Asean counterpart Singapore ranks 13th. Ashgabat, Tokyo, and Zurich are the priciest cities in the world respectively.

In line with the findings, people on the street interviewed by the Bangkok Post lamented that the city is becoming increasingly unaffordable.

HARD TO MAKE ENDS MEETS

Wutthipong Lertchaipat, a 22-year-old


effect.

"I only get few hundred baht to spend, but the problem is that people are tightening their belts. I sell less fruit than I did five years ago," she said.

Meanwhile, Lek Saetiao, a street vendor, 75, said the recession and unemployment are to blame for stifling consumption.

"I sell fewer herbal ointments even though I get the best location behind the bus stop free of charge. I wish the premier knew how to run the country," he said.

When asked what would be an ideal New Year's gift, he asked the government to expand the welfare scheme for the elderly.

"After all, it is better than nothing," he added.

COMPARATIVE POVERTY

Boonlert Visetpricha, a lecturer on anthropology at Thammasat University, said poverty in Thailand is undergoing a transformation.

The number of people living belowModern Craftsman Interiors

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The New England Patriots, who will be off until training camp starts in late July, currently have 90 players on their active roster. However, only 53 of them will be able to survive the cutdowns on August 31 and ultimately make the team. Over the course of the summer, we will take a look at the players fighting for those spots to find out who has the best chances of helping the Patriots defend their Super Bowl title.

Today, the series continues with a member of New England’s secondary.

Name: Jason McCourty

Position: Cornerback

Jersey number: 30

Opening day age: 32

Experience: 10

Size: 5’11, 195 lbs.

2018 review: Even though he was one of their better defensive backs in 2017, the Cleveland Browns opted to put Jason McCourty on the trade block following their 0-16season. With no teams initially expressing interest, the team was ready to release the veteran cornerback — which is when the Patriots jumped in: New England sent a sixth-round draft pick to Cleveland to acquire McCourty and a seventh-round selection.

What neither team knew at the time was that the Patriots effectively secured a starting defender for a drop of fourteen late-round draft spots. It did not look like that early on during McCourty’s tenure with his new club, however: the twin brother of New England safety Devin McCourty spent training camp behind Eric Rowe on the depth chart, but emerged after the nominal number two cornerback suffered a groin injury in week two of the regular season.

From that point on, McCourty thrived. He proved himself to be a


5 touchdowns and 1 interception — not particularly outstanding numbers but still very solid for an important player in the Patriots’ secondary.

2019 preview: McCourty was scheduled to enter unrestricted free agency after the 2018 season, but never made it to the open market: New England re-signed the 31-year-old on a two-year, $10 million contract that will hit the world champions’ books with a cap hit of $4.25 million this year — the second highest of all cornerbacks on the Patriots’ pay roll behind the aforementioned Gilmore, and reflective of his role on the team.

Heading into 2019, McCourty is again projected to serve as the rotational second/third cornerback on the opposite side of Gilmore: he will line up primarily on the boundary again, but move inside on occasion whenJackson enters the field. In general, the veteran and the youngster will likely share time as the number two again throughout the 2019 season — a matchup-dependent usage that worked well for both last season.

As a result, McCourty will likely be on the field for around 70-80% of New England’s defensive snaps again this year and also be a regular and special teams: he played a total of 129 of the Patriots’ 545 kicking game snaps last year (23.7%) and projects to see a similar playing time share in 2019. Despite turning 32 in August, McCourty will therefore once more play a prominent role for the club.


these targets practically.

In the second phase, they have planned to get support of the media, after doing some homework and preparing the ground for an awareness campaign and movements for change, the Daily Times quoted sources, who are part of these campaigns, as saying.

According to the report, there are at least three schools of thought working for change in Pakistan- the first wants to bring the change through an alteration in the voting behaviour of the people, the second through a mass movement and the third through political reforms.

An organisation- Centre for Change- is working in Karachi, and its chief executive Farasat Ali is in constant touch with the intellectual change activists of Lahore and other cities.Renowned economist and writer Mehmood Mirza is another intellectual change activist, whocoward to fearless. And his characterization is believable. Janice de Belen is static but perfect: her change of character is only when she is being gnawed–not enough time to show off. Dingdong gives a good characterization of a proud and rich Manila Boy, but I would wish to see a shift to a sober mood, even for a moment, such as when Sonia drops the bomb that he doesn’t have a regular job. Lovi has a weak characterization of her role, except for two brief shining moments: when she shut the door against Dingdong at the beginning of the story and when her face is focused on the camera during the climax of the battle–she’s a woman to die for. The human pig is memorable and so is


the aswang girl whose two arms were chopped off. Roi Vinzon as the head aswang community conveys strength and power, but he loses his aura when he turned into a flying monster–that big bird by the way is not canonical in aswang lore, though the chick inside him is.

Plot

The plot is a travel to four separate places: Sonia’s home, the marketplace, the military checkpoint, and the sari-sari store. There are three waves of assaults: the crazed teenagers at the marketplace stopping a jeep, the attack of the family of the human-turned-pig at Sonia’s home, the race to the checkpoint and back to the home, the assault of the aswang head at Sonia’s home, the slow-mo action at the sari-sari-store, and the last battle at the salt sands.

What couldgravely contrary to the moral law…

2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae,”77 “by the very commission of the offense,”78 and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law.79 The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.

The aswangs, which are drawn to the smell of a pregnant woman and who loves the taste of babies flesh especially just after birth, reminds us of the


the Virgin Mother vomiting on the dead Christ.)

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Poleteismo is an old piece first shown in 2002 at the Vargas Museum of the University of the Philippines. Mr. Cruz wasn’t thinking of the Reproductive Health Bill when he conceived Poleteismo nine years ago.

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Versions of the installation have been exhibited elsewhere, most notably in 2007 in the lobby of the Loyola House of Studies (LHS) — a seminary inside the campus of the Ateneo de Manila University — as part of Tutok: Nexus, a group exhibit organized in cooperation with Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan (SLB), “an association of religious priests, seminarians and lay people committed to the service of the Filipino Church and the Filipino nation.”

If Catholic clergymen had kept quiet, if Archbishop Oscar Cruz hadn’t called the exhibit “sickening,”with a ruthenium (Ru) film 73 interposed therebetween. The magnetizations of the first cobalt (Co) film 72 and the second cobalt (Co) film 74 are fixed by respective anisotropic magnetic fields thereof. The first cobalt (Co) film 72 and the second cobalt (Co) film 74 are antiferromagnetically coupled with each other and are magnetized antiparallel to each other.
However, it was found that, in the structure as that disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 8-7235 in which the Co films are provided on the buffer layer made of tantalum, the magnetization direction of the pinned ferromagnetic layer 70 cannot be appropriately fixed. This fact has also been disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2000-113418.
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of showers or storms on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The rain chance eases to 40 percent on Sunday.

If the Miami Heat wins the NBA championship on Thursday night, revelers can expect a 40 percent chance of rain, whether they celebrate in the streets of Boca Raton, Sunrise or at the AmericanAirlines Arena.

On Wednesday, 2 to 4 inches of rain fell across South Florida, most of it during the morning hours. A flood watch was posted for the entire region, and some minor street flooding was reported in southern Broward County and north Miami-Dade County.

The lousy weather delayed more than 30 flights at South Florida’s major airports, although the majority of those were at Miami International. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood and Palm Beach international airports reported minimal delays.

Some flights planning toRace, Newfoundland, Canada, with top sustained winds of 75 mph. Chris was sprinting northeast at 20 mph.

Chris is predicted to stay out at sea.

With Chris, three named storms have developed this year. Masters said the third storm has emerged earlier than this year only twice before in recorded history, in 1887 and 1959.

“Formation of three tropical storms so early in the year is not necessarily a harbinger of an active season,” he said, noting that 1959 saw close to average activity with 12 named storms, including seven hurricanes.

High levels of early season activity in the Caribbean and between Africa and the Lesser Antilles “usually portends a very active hurricane season,” he noted.

“But this year's storms have not formed in this region,” Masters said. “Alberto, Beryl, and Chris all


SANAA - Yemen's rebel government on Tuesday announced the country's main international airport was fully functional again, one week after a Saudi-led air strike destroyed the facility's navigation system.

Zakaria al-Shami, transport minister in the unofficial rebel government, said the navigation system at Sanaa International Airport was up and running again after emergency teams had put in place "technical alternatives and special solutions", according to the rebel Saba news agency.

The minister said the airport was now ready to accommodate all flights, according to the agency.

Allied with Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Iran-backed Huthi rebels control the capital Sanaa along with much of northern Yemen.

In 2015, Saudi Arabia and its allies joined the Yemeni government's fight against the rebels. More than 8,650 people have since been killed.

The country alsofaces a deadly cholera epidemic and millions stand at the brink of official famine.

On November 6, Saudi Arabia and its allies tightened a longstanding blockade of Yemen's land, sea and air borders in response to a missile fired into Saudi territory by the Huthi rebels.

The Saudi-led alliance last week bombed Sanaa airport, which had been open to only select humanitarian flights amid Yemen's war, in retaliation against a missile launched by the Huthis into Saudi territory.

Saudi authorities said they had intercepted the missile before it could land at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.

Both parties in the Yemen conflict stand accused of neglecting civilian safety. The United Nations has blacklisted the Saudi-led coalition over the "killing and maiming" of children.


Die in Battle, Do Us Proud

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Chief of the Crookedwing Clan and Queen of the Shriekwood Elves. She convinced the 8 Shriekwood Chiefs to vote out her predecessor, King Carufil Featherly, by arguing that he had granted too much land to the lumber companies in Kaladon. It probably didn’t hurt that she also appears to have discovered the long-lost Oakleaf Crown.hospital care and expense, and causing "permanent partial disability from which he will never recover."
The defendants answered by way of denial of material allegations and pleaded the affirmative defenses of contributory negligence and assumption of risk.
The case was tried to a jury and resulted in a $5,000 verdict in favor of plaintiff. From the judgment entered pursuant thereto this appeal is prosecuted.
At the close of plaintiff's evidence on the trial, defendants moved for a directed verdict in their favor on the ground the plaintiff had failed to prove negligence, and on the further ground that the evidence showed plaintiff had assumed the risk and was contributorily negligent. This motion was overruled. Thereafter, at the close of the entire case, the motion was renewed and overruled. Also, a motion


for the Winsors he was 53 years of age and had been a rancher all his life including riding horses. Some time about August 15, 1955, he took a job at the Winsor ranch to do general ranch work. On September 1, 1955, he moved his family to the ranch, and they were furnished a place to live. The Winsors had two riding horses on the ranch, one named Elmer and one named Trigger. Trigger had been acquired and used as a saddle horse since 1952. Plaintiff was instructed to ride one of them one day and other the next, alternating them. At the time plaintiff went to work, he inquired about riding horses and was told there were two horses on the ranch and that they weregentle. Plaintiff told Mr. Winsor he had two horses that he was used to that he would like to bring over for his own use, and for which he would make no charge. Mr. Winsor indicated this would be satisfactory but nothing was ever done to bring the horses to the Winsor ranch even though several later requests to have it done were made by plaintiff's wife to Mrs. Winsor, the last of these requests being as late as the evening before the accident. Also, although Mr. Winsor had indicated plaintiff's horses could be brought for plaintiff's use, at a later time Mrs. Winsor stated that the two horses there were adequate, and they did not have enough grass for additional animals. However, she also indicated the decision


in this regard was not final.
From the time of his employment about August 15, 1955, to the date of the accident, November 21, 1955, the plaintiff rode both Elmer and Trigger almost daily, alternating *742 them as per his instructions. He preferred Trigger because Elmer was prone to stumble, and he considered Trigger a better horse, gentle, and easier to handle if he had to be loaded into a pickup in the pasture.
Plaintiff testified concerning one incident of difficulty with Trigger prior to the date of the accident, and concerning Mr. Winsor's knowledge, as follows:
"Q. Mr. Padilla, now, about the horses, did you have occasion, in connection with your working with the particular horse in question, in cattle operations around the corral, and have an occasion in whichFrom the file marked WWE will love this: Alberto Del Rio made his debut for AAA at TripleMania tonight as "El Patron" Alberto Del Rio with his father Dos Caras Sr. by cutting a promo about how he experienced a giant monster in America and that was racism, and that they can take away his job but they can't take his pride or dignity. He was then confronted by Perro Aguayo Jr., Konnan and the rest of Los Perros Del Mal, which eventually led to Alberto singlehandedly clearing the ring of the heel stable. UPDATE: WWE released a statement to us that you can read here.


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Rivers United arrive in Madrid for pre-season

Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) club, Rivers United have arrived in Madrid, Spain for the fifth and final phase of pre-season ahead of the 2016/17 campaign.

The contingent of 18 players and eight officials touched down at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airportat exactly 2:35pm local time on Tuesday, December 13.

A brief stop-over in Frankfurt had been observed after the contingent arrived in the German city at 5:20am local time following a six hour, ten minute flight that began at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja by 11:10 pm on Friday, December 12.

The Port Harcourt club began their pre-season preparations on November 1 in Port Harcourt with new and retained players commencing light physical work under the guidance of technical manager, Stanley Eguma.

Theto the storied home of reigning European champions, Real Madrid, the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu has also been lined up.

The technical crew of Rivers United led by manager, Stanley Eguma is also expected to be huge beneficiaries of the programme as a crash course on coaching methodology has already been arranged with the La Liga club.

The Rivers United contingent is due back in Nigeria on Thursday, December 22. Rivers United will represent Nigeria in the 2017 Caf Champions League.


in the formidable task of genetically identifying not just all the species and subspecies of berries, but all the flora and fauna in Norway.

It’s all part of a countrywide project called the Norwegian Barcode of Life (NorBOL). The effort, which is distributed across multiple research centers and has been funded by the Research Council of Norway and other institutions since its launch as a national project in 2014, aims to provide a reference database of all taxa in the country. Researchers hope that the data will provide the basis for monitoring biodiversity, primarily in the Arctic, in the face of climate change.

“In parts of the Arctic, like Svalbard, the increase in temperature as a result of climate change is three times the global rate,” Alsos tells The Scientist.mechanics and how the influenced our play in the next episode. For now though, a beginning…

By mid 2004 I had been playing Eve Online on and off for a year. The game had been largely ignored by the PC gaming world up to that time, and yet the ideas it embodied were fascinating. The dynamic nature of player interaction, the intricacy of economics and combat, the emergent politics: it was heady stuff. I decided to write an eight page feature about my experiences for PC Gamer UK, assuming that this would be my final word on the subject. Needless to say, it was just the beginning. Members of the now defunct State gaming forum read the piece and raised the idea of starting up a corporation for its


members. A handful of the forumites had already been playing the game, and were keen to team-up. Others would create characters from scratch and join in with the project. I would take the lead.

Our early days saw us undertaking typical beginner behaviour: messing about in the friendly areas of Caldari space, running the game’s very basic missions, and practising PvP combat in frigates. We had about a dozen people, and the corporation would never get beyond around twenty five active members in its history. A handful of those who were there at the start are still playing today. In these early days StateCorp trolled the nearby low-security systems for pirates, without much success. It was only when three of the beginners were out and about in their newI had previously made friends via my player corporations from the from first year of the game. That first year would prove to be extremely useful to us in the five that followed, because success in Eve so often relies on contacts and personal relationships. Again and again the people I’d flown with in the first few months of the game would pop up to help with StateCorp’s evolution.

We spent several formative months in the Great Wildlands region, to which we would subsequently return many times. This was our first taste of the alliance game, in which large groups of corporations combined their powers to control, police, and exploit a region of space. Our alliance, the first Foundation, and soon found itself at war with a hostile alliance


the region. As the war unfolded over the course of several weeks, it became clear that Foundation was to be defeated. The fleets began to diminish in size as support ebbed away. Eventually the conflict compelled us to move on from this starter home, and it was the first step in a tour of the galaxy that would last another five years.

We used our Foundation connections to find a second home. This time it was The Forsaken Empire, a couple of regions away in an area known as Tribute. The first few weeks were incredibly exciting. The new owners of Great Wildlands, Veritas Immortalis (-V-) Alliance, attacked, along with a series of pirate gangs, and the Forsaken Empire fleets found themselves embroiled in constant – although not seriousup on their agendas and manifestos, and decided that the tiny Frege Alliance sounded like it was aligned with our values. However, we were now ferociously independent, having flown and fought together for months. We elected not to throw our lot in entirely with this new alliance, and based ourselves at the nearby ISS Borealis.

This was one of the most fascinating projects of early Eve – a publicly funded space station – for which anyone could purchase shares. ISS had, in what was a huge logistical and security exercise – built their second station near Frege space, and was looking for tenants. As a neutral entity to all ISS allowed us to base there for a fee, and it meant that we were set apart, physically, from the


rest of the Frege pilots. This decision had a social effect that would bond the corporation closer together than ever: when we left the surrounds of the station, we did so as a group. Even though we were part of another alliance, the most important thing was the cohesion of StateCorp itself. We became totally self-reliant, within the larger whole.

Possibly our finest moment in this theatre was in combating war targets in high-security space – pirates who had formally declared corporate war on Frege – when we once again baited and destroyed a high value target. This time, however, it was a faction battleship, called a machariel, which was equipped with the most expensive items the game had to offer. We could not believe our luck, and theoutraged pirate took his rant to the official forums – understandably livid that his prize ship could be destroyed by a small fleet of a fraction of the value. As the years unfolded, the loot dropped by overconfident foes were to come to fund an astonishingly large amount of our activities, and cause bitter enmities.

Frege’s time was troubled. They attempted to merge with another alliance, with unhappy outcomes. Soon there was in-fighting, and then a civil war. We took the lead at this point, stomping the dissenters and earning a reputation as some of the most confident members of the small alliance. (One brutal stand-up fight against raiders from far away industrial megaplex Ascendant Frontier sticks in the memory of our pilots to this day, and the battle


Newton upon Derwent

Newton upon Derwent or Newton on Derwent is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately  west of Pocklington and  south of the A1079 at Wilberfoss. It lies 1 mile east of the River Derwent after which the village takes its name.

According to the 2011 UK census, Newton upon Derwent parish had a population of 315, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 282.

History

Newton upon Derwent's  history reflects the history of much of the rural countryside of the Vale of York and to some extent that of other relatively low-lying parts of the North of England. The village, has no Church or Manor House to give it a feeling of importance. Instead itRoman Road between Brough and York may have run through what is now the north end of the village and it is thus possible that there may have been some settlement here in Roman times. Furthermore, some of the villages around Newton were mentioned in the Domesday book and it is unlikely that where the village is now would just have been a blank on the map. Evidently, however, such settlements that there were before 1086 were not sufficient for the area to be called a village. The prefix "iuxta Derwent" was first mentioned in the 13th century and "super Derwent" in the 14th century, presumably to distinguish our Newton from the many others that existed. Why this association with the Derwent was used when the river is


in Berkeley would be interested in my book, but the “barn owl” suggested an interest in the rural, so I submitted the samples for the 27th time. The publisher turned out to be a woman who ran a publishing company by herself and had published only one other book at that time. But she loved my journal, and she and I worked on editing it for three years before it was finally published in 1987.

Autographing my first copies of Windbreak at the publication celebration in California, 1987.

Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains is a daily journal covering one year on the ranch and was favorably reviewed by the New York Times Book Review. But the most enjoyable thing about it has been the responses it hashe had just read the book, and how wonderful it was; “I had no idea how hard it is to be a rancher,” he said, and promised to loan the book to a lot of other folks who would enjoy it.

The year after the book was published, I was named as Writer of the Year by the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English, and inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in honor of my writing. All of this was the good news.

Among the many letters I received about my book, however, was an anonymously sent copy of a letter a reader had sent to Parris Afton Bonds, the author of a romance novel titled That McKenna Woman. The letter said, in part, “I very much


the lawsuit, I obtained copies of the two which had been published, and a manuscript copy of the third, which never appeared in print. All three contained quotations from my book. She made far more money for her books than I did from mine.

I won the lawsuit, but the expenses cost more than the money I was awarded by the court, and also considerably less than the romance writer made from my work. Still, the publisher recalled the first novel in the series, shredded the second before it left the warehouse, and cancelled publication of the third in the series. The author continued to advertise the books on her website for some years after the judgment, though the titles have finally been removed.

One clause in the settlement agreementSometimes when the creative decision is made to put a film in one central and somewhat constricting location, challenges present themselves almost immediately. The challenges require the cast to either adapt or to acquiesce. It can either be respected for the effort, or it will come out looking like Carjacked, the 89-minute feature that is supposed to be intriguing because it's a film about someone being abducted via their own automobile.

The film was written by Michael and Sherry Compton, both first-time writers and also executive producers of the film, which John Bonito (The Marine) directed. Maria Bello (Abduction) plays Lorraine, a single mom who was in (at the very least) a psychologically abusive relationship with her ex-husband, and now takes care of her son. On a late night,


she stops at a convenience store to gas up and pick up food for her and her son, when Roy (Stephen Dorff, Immortals) gets into the car. We find out that Roy is a bank robber, and he needs to meet up with his partner, grab his money and avoid any police checkpoints. As the carjacking continues, Roy starts to talk to Lorraine in a way familiar to her because her ex had done the same thing, and she begins to find a way to fight back to gain control of both her car and her life.

I'm was initially wondering why it is that a direct to video production like this would have Bello as its lead. She is a capable actress and turned in some good performancesbefore, but in a film whose backdrop is almost entirely in the car, she is not up for the challenge here. She spends most of her time looking scared and fearful, and when she starts to fight back, it becomes an unintentionally comic proposition. Then again, doing anything opposite Dorff could be considered comic. He shows little in the way of a charismatic protagonist, and even when the story tries to elevate him as some sort of badass it doesn't work.

When the performances are uninspired, things are left to the story which barely conveys any sense of urgency or suspense. Roy isn't trying to harm Lorraine or her child, and when she starts to resist, it's almost as the villain has become the prototypical wimpy guy who is


is strong and can be spotted in textures on walls, seeing water marks on the hood of a car, and in the closer moments such as the facial hair on Dorff. The film's events are almost entirely in the evening and the black levels are up to the challenge, maintaining a deep and consistent appearance, and in lighter moments the colors look natural (such as on a schoolbus) without being overly vibrant. The disc looked much better than I was expecting.

The Sound:

Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround for the feature, and it is not a bad presentation. Dialogue is consistent through the center channel, and there is low-end fidelity present in moments when needed (like the revving of a car engine, which is kinda predominant here). There are also hintsFormer Tipperary footballer Bill Ryan vividly recalls the events that took place in Croke Park on 21 November 1920, a day subsequently known as Bloody Sunday.

On the morning of 21 November 1920, 14 men were killed in a synchronised operation to kill British agents in Dublin directed by Irish Republican Army (IRA) chief of intelligence Michael Collins. In retaliation members of the Auxiliary Division and Royal Irish Constabulary opened fire on the 5,000-strong crowd attending a football match between Dublin and Tipperary in Croke Park, killing 14 and injuring numerous civilians.

You could hear the bullets whizzing, sure it was like a battle.

Bill Ryan describes how he got off the pitch by following a Dublin player. He ended up being held in the Hill 16 terrace and was searched


and questioned until a sympathetic young British officer let him go.

Many of spectators managed to escape from Croke Park through galvanised sheeting levelled to the ground during a stampede in Hill 16.

Michael Hogan was killed on the field and the Hogan stand in Croke Park is named after him.

This episode of ‘Talk of Times Past’ was broadcast on 28 September 1986. The presenter is Brendan O’Reilly.Early management of meningococcal disease.
Sixty-eight cases of meningococcal disease were ascertained at a district hospital in Wessex region over a four year period. Forty-seven of the 68 patients were reported to have a haemorrhagic rash on admission to hospital, three of whom died. Twelve of the 47 had received parenteral antibiotic treatment before admission, and none of these died. The overall case fatality was 4% (3/68). Sixty-three patients were referred by general practitioners. In 19 of the 63 a haemorrhagic rash was described at referral, and a haemorrhagic rash was described in 42 on hospital admission. Thirteen of the 63 received parenteral antibiotic treatment before admission. Such treatment was significantly more likely when the referral letter described a haemorrhagic rash and appeared to be less likely in child


issue with vehicles like buses, delivery trucks, and garbage trucks that spend their lives crawling around cities, since that kind of low-speed, stop-and-go duty cycle plays right into the strengths of an electric powertrain, and the vehicles can recharge at the end of their route. Proterra also developed a high-speed charging system for buses (which it's offering to anyone without licensing fees), although even with its high-voltage system in operation, the 660kWh record-breaking bus would still need at least an hour to get back to a full charge.

The electric medium- and heavy-duty vehicle segment appears to be gathering steam. In addition to Proterra and the Chinese EV bus builder BYD, Daimler recently announced plans to supply short-haul electric trucks to UPS. And both Cummins and Tesla are workingEuropean Council President Donald Tusk looks on during a joint news conference with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the end of the European Union leaders summit dominated by Brexit, in Brussels, Belgium October 18, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The chairman of European Union leaders Donald Tusk said on Saturday he received a request from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for an extension of the Brexit deadline of Oct. 31, as required by the British parliament.

“The extension request has just arrived. I will now start consulting EU leaders on how to react,” Tusk said on Twitter.

Johnson asked Tusk to delay the deadline for Britain’s exit from the European Union until the end of January 2020, as envisaged by the Benn Act passed by the British


The so-called area leader of the PKK terror organization in Turkey's southeastern Mardin province was killed in an airstrike carried out by the Turkish military on Tuesday.Faruk Atan, the high-profile terrorist who used the codename 'Botan', was killed along with other PKK leaders in the airstrike that targeted the terrorists in the countryside of Mardin.According to intelligence sources, Atan was preparing for terror acts in Mardin and adjacent Şırnak provinces.The intelligence was reportedly given by someone inside the terrorist group alongside Atan, whom were getting together to determine a future strategy for terrorist attacks against security forces in Nusaybin and İdil districts where operations are ongoing.Previously on September 16, 2015, İsmail Aydemir (codenamed Baran), the so-called eastern Tunceli (Dersim) province area leader of PKK, was again killed byNewly appointed Director of Public Works for Wicomico County Lee Beauchamp is pictured at the Newland Park Landfill in Wicomico County. The position had been vacant since 2008.

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After a scandal and five years without an official director, a Salisbury native has officially taken over the Wicomico County Department of Public Works.

Lee Beauchamp, who spent time as a civil engineer in the private sector and in government, has started making plans for the county's ailing roads and a potential revamp of its recycling program.

"I think the biggest challenge we are going to have here is uniting the two divisions within public works, which is solid waste and roads," Beauchamp said. "I'd like to see us rebrand and unite the two divisions together." ...


130,000 attend historic FlightFest air show

Crowds view Airbus A330 and historic aircraft in Ireland’s biggest air show

An estimated 130,000 spectators watched the FlightFest air show in Dublin today. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

Two Aer Corps Casa escorted by four PC9 aircraft, flying over the river Liffey, at the FlightFest in Dublin today. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

A DHL Boeing 757 flies by the Poolbeg Power Station. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

An estimated 130,000 people lined the Liffey today to watch over 30 aircraft participate in the FlightFest airshow. Two R-V7s and an Airbus A330 started the show which was billed as the biggest fly-past in Irish aviation history.

The fly-past took place between the East Link Bridge and the Talbot Memorial Bridge and was brought to a close byhouses in Latin America, complete with "friendly" military dictatorships and US-trained and inspired death-squads, first in Brazil, then Stroessner in Paraguay. Duvalier in Haiti. Somoza in Nicaragua. Pinochet in Chile. Viola/Videla et. al. in Argentina....... On and on ad nauseam...

-Marcos in the Philippines

-Park Chung Hee in South Korea

-Suharto and the massacres in Indonesia in 1965, upward of 500,000 dead

-The Southeast Asian holocaust: Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. 3 to 5 million dead, who can count that many corpses or what's left of them after napalm and phosphorus and Speedy Express.....!!!???

-Indonesia's invasion of East Timor, blessed by Kissinger and Jerry Ford to Adam Malik the day before the invasion started, resulting in a greater percentage of deaths relative to population than in Pol Pot's Kamputchea at the exact same time

-Support for


Q:

SQL get group value only if parameters exist in entire group values

I have a problem that I would like to solve in Oracle SQL. Given the table below, I would like to query it so that I pass it a list NAMEs and if they represent a single ANIMAL group, the return is that ANIMAL string.

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|DOG   |LACY  |
|DOG   |CHAMP |
|DOG   |BUDDY |
|CAT   |MUFFIN|
|CAT   |CHAMP |
|FISH  |WANDA |
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    where NAME in ('CHAMP', 'MUFFIN')
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Because the parameters did not contain all of the cat names, but itabout transferring Jews to Palestine.

Livingstone said the following on radio:

When Hitler won his election in 1932 his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews.

There’s a lot of information about this out there – Lenni Brenner even wrote a book on the subject. Livingstone’s mistake was both to express himself slackly in the heat of the moment and to refer to a history that was supposed to have been disappeared down the memory hole. But what he is saying is, in essence, true.

He could have gone further, in fact. A century ago, many European anti-semites, including most members of the British government that formulated the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to create


One of our all time favorites. In the area of the Silver Jack reservoir. 20 miles of gravel/dirt road to get there, but campground is paved. Beautiful groves of Aspen. Water available at faucet, clean vault restrooms. Closest dump station is at Cimarron Visitor Center campground on highway 50, 20 miles away. Access to lots of back country hiking, Jeeping. Price reflects use of Senior Pass. We camped at Silver Jack in a Fifth Wheel.Gypsum drywalls, also known as wallboards, or just boards, are formed by sandwiching a core of wet gypsum plaster between two sheets of heavy paper. After the plaster core dries and sets, the sandwich becomes a rigid, very strong, and naturally fire-resistant building material. Gypsum in its natural state contains water, which releases steam when exposed to a fire's heat. Because the conversion of the water to steam consumes heat energy, heat transfer from the fire is retarded. Specific fire retardant compositions may also be added to the gypsum plaster to make drywall having yet a greater fire resistance. Gypsum drywall is an important building material throughout the world.
In building a structure, gypsum drywall is nailed to underlying supports to form the walls and other surfaces of the


right to Amazon and ordered this DVD/CD. It is a bit disappointing that all of the songs from the DVD are not on the CD. The sound quality is excellent on both the DVD and CD. Some "live" recordings can disappoint but this one does not at all.

Reviewed by ltrain - I will FINALLY be able to see this concert again

In keeping with the consistent theme expressed by those privileged enough to see it, the Sade tour of 2011 was one of the best put-together tour performances you could have seen.

To give some background to it, I went to see the performance they did in Philadelphia, PA. Which was the second city of the first week of the tour. I initially bought the tickets in the fall ofsinging and playing performance. There was actually some creative thought put into the visual, as well. There were specific theme, costume and stage set-ups, according to each song. Of which, there was plenty of them included to satisfy any fan's preferences.

Reviewed by the way, I consistently say THEY because Sade is more than just a singer being backed up by some replaceable musicians. It is a GROUP. In more ways than one, I have discovered. Four core members (Sade Adu-lead singer, Stuart Matthewman-guitar/saxophone, Paul Spencer Denman-bass, Andrew Hale-keyboards) composing, playing and performing together since BEFORE their first album release in 1984. All performances and record sales divided equally amongst the members. With almost every song in their repertoire, written by a member or members in the group. As


I've watched this concert at least ten times in the month and a half I've owned it. Sade and her band truly are the soldiers of love!! They put on a SHOW for every band to try to be great enough to emulate. Sade sets the standard of perfection, mind, heart, body and soul. Heaven most definitely is missing an Angel while Sade performs for us mere mortals. To have her in your living room is as good as sitting in the front row to see and listen to Her and the Band. The new songs she introduced as well as some of her all time favorites were off the charts!! Their sheer greatness on this DVD is immeasurable by any standard. I also need to mention thesecond section, center second row. The pounding of the bass drum signaling the start of John Legend's set beginning with Rolling In the Deep. Yes John Legend, not Adele. Must have been his favorite song at the time (as well as everybody else's!!). Excellent opening act.

Now the moment we have been waiting for with Soldier of Love, the opening from Apocalypse Now!! First thing I thought of anyway! Then the diva rising from the floor with the rest of her band!!! What a build up!! From then on, one after the other; Your Love is King, Skin to the dramatic opening of Smooth Operator & that kick ass bass solo that I never get tired of (& neither does Sade by her reaction!!). The lighting, sets, alternate, rockier


her LP "Soldier Of Love" (Debut at #1 in the U.S. and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks) produced a sound and feel that
made every one want to see Sade and Co. in concert after a 10 year hiatus from the stage as well!

With sold out shows on the original legs of the tour and the success of the LP, Sade extended the tour to Australia adding
dates, with a final show for this tour in Abu Dhabi making this the band's first WORLD TOUR and rounding success!!

They performed in front of over a half a million fans, many of the dates sold out in a tour that grossed over $53 million.

The 2011 concert dvd/cd combo debut at number 1 in the U.S. as well! Making Sade theyourself to achieve success. This disc and Sade's career in general, can serve as a blue print for so many young artists (male and female) who unfortunately mistake radio play for achievement and an uncovered body for talent. She truly raises the bar.

Thanks Sade for two decades of wonderful music.

Reviewed by BOUDJELAL SAMIR - Five Stars

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Reviewed by Leslie - A Treasure

A real Treasure

Reviewed by Heather Shields - Fast!

Absolutely gorgeous! Super fast delivery!

Reviewed by R. Jones - Sade Live!

Wow!!!!!
Finally hooked up my Blu-Ray and the first video I played was Sade's live concert. After reading all the reviews here and listening to the live release, I had to have it to see the visuals. Amazing, the lighting, Sade, the band. This video just makes me wish I was at


the actual concert. Yet, seeing it on Blu-ray is probably the best seat in the house. The visuals are almost as amazing as the band itself. The music is so well arranged, you would almost feel like you are listening to her CDs. From the intro to the end, Sade live is great. I hope it doesnt take her another ten years to release another album of new material and tour. This release definitely makes me want to experience it live. I remember hearing of her tour and seeing the ticket prices. After watching this video, I completely understand why the prices were high. GREAT show!!!!!! I cant say anymore, just great.

Reviewed by Chief Tek - Sade Rocks

Saw the concert in Arizona and it was great. Wanted theThis was right after the presidential election. Liberals on the city council proposed a resolution that would welcome immigrants to Homer, including undocumented immigrants and Muslims.

Trump supporters on the city council rightly recognized it as a slap against their guy.

And as Brian reported, it became the most bitter political fight anyone in the town could remember. Truly turned people against each other in a very ugly way. Led to a recall election. They had their own email scandal.

Everyone in town seemed to take a side.

Except apparently, this one guy ... Ben Tyrer. 27 years old. Who is not into the news. Never followed immigration as an issue – it just never interested him – but now that everyone he knew was fighting over this resolution, he thought he


should have an opinion.

And so he went on the internet and started doing something new for him. He started visiting news sites, to figure out for himself: Would it be okay to welcome immigrants into Homer?

Brian did a story about what happened.

As Ben told Brian, when it came to news he was basically a baby learning to walk. Brian said in the story: “His understanding was that publications like The New York Times and The Washington Post had a bad rap, so he didn't really spend too much time there. He would go to a site like the BBC, but worried maybe they were giving him a liberal bent. So then he'd go to a site like this conservative Canadian one he found, The Rebel. But he knewto "never perform field sobriety tests." At this time, Thom observed that Thompson's eyes were bloodshot and that his pupils were atypically dilated. Thom urged Thompson to take the tests, telling him that if he refused he would be arrested for DUI. Thompson again refused and was placed under arrest and transported to the Twin Falls County Jail. At the jail, Thom read Thompson the standard advisory form prescribed by Idaho Code § 18-8002A(2), which informed Thompson that if he refused evidentiary testing for alcohol his driver's license would be suspended, subject to his right to request a hearing to show cause for the refusal. Thom then asked Thompson submit to a breath test, but Thompson refused. Upon his refusal, Thompson's driver's license was seized pursuant to I.C.


Hunt's name to stand for "sexism in science" simply stops. Though it is true that he "made headlines", continuing to use him in this way amounts to propagating a falsehood.

The other problem is that it uses cases of supposed sexism in science to frame a discussion of gender inequality in science.** The conflation is these two issues is actually something that Tim Hunt has an opinion about, and he went on the record with it long ago, without causing any particular controversy. In the Lab Times in July of 2014, he said that he did not "think there is any discrimination" in science but had to "admit the inequalities in the outcomes, especially at the higher end, are quite staggering." He also asked "why women being under-represented inthese residual subjective biases (in a word, sexism) by calling out individuals when they occasionally express them does more harm than good. In any case, when we talk about inequalities of outcomes we should certainly take the many possible confounders that stem from demonstrable differences—some of which are invoked by Urry—between the sexes into account and weighing them before we conclude that the inequalities are a significant effect of sexism.

Saturday, December 19, 2015

On December 9, 2015, Connie St Louis was interviewed by Aoibhinn Ní Shuilleabháin at Sci:Com 2015 in Athlone, Ireland. The intereview, including the Q & A was scheduled for 45 minutes and appears to have been done by video. The blurb called Tim Hunt's remarks one of "the biggest science communications stories of the year" and


coverage of Mary Collins' decision to move to Japan in the Guardian. I'm working towards a time when the Seoul episode is no longer written about in that way. The story should be remembered something like this, which I would suggest as a correction to the Guardian's article if I thought it would help:

Hunt, who won the Nobel prize in 2001, lost his honorary post at University College London after he spoke at a lunch for female science journalists in South Korea. His wife, Professor Mary Collins, a prominent immunologist, also at UCL, was enraged by the way UCL treated her husband. She said that the university had behaved in “an utterly unacceptable way”. She has since left UCL for a position in Japan.

Hunt became embroiled in controversyundistinguished professor of physics at the University of Zurich, and all college teachers deserve a Christmas holiday. But this was no ordinary vacation. Leaving his wife at home, Schrödinger booked a villa in the Swiss Alps for two and a half weeks, taking with him his notebooks, two pearls, and an old Viennese girlfriend. Schrödinger’s self-appointed mission was to save the patched-up creaky quantum theory of the time. The Viennese-born physicist placed a pearl in each ear to screen out any distracting noises. The he placed the girlfriend in bed for inspiration. Schrödinger had his work cut out for him He had to create a new theory and keep the lady happy. Fortunately he was up to the task. (Don’t become a physicist unless you are prepared for


Daily Mail was writing about St Louis’ CV, Nelson takes quite a different tone, and her compassion for how the subject must feeling is certainly less measured.

Several high profile scientists defended Hunt in UK national newspapers and Hunt and his wife received a sympathetic treatment in The Observer together with supportive comments from female academics. In contrast, St Louis’ treatment by the press was the opposite of sympathetic. It was ferocious. In August, she described her mood to me as “veering between depression and a nervous breakdown”.

Much of the attention was focused on her CV. It appeared badly edited and contained a number of errors as well as omissions. “Many people add a sheen to their CV but one statement was obviously stretching the truth: describing herself asother "fallout". In the days immediately after the story broke, Tim Hunt lost an honorary post at UCL, and resigned both from the ERC and an awards committee at the Royal Society. Presumably his contributions had been valued up until then by these institutions, but they would no longer be able to draw on his experience. He had been scheduled to participate in a webinar for the AAAS, but the participants here, too, would have to do without his advice about how to "persevere in science". That webinar had been organized in conjunction with this year's Lindau meeting, which Hunt also decided against attending because of the scandal. Then, in July, things got downright terrible. Hunt's appearance at a conference in Ferrara was cancelled because of what appears


I just quoted:

All journalists should be free to report the facts — no matter how inconvenient they may be. Hunt’s unscripted and thoughtless words dismayed many women in science. If his comments hadn’t been in front of journalists, it would have simply passed the world by.

That's roughly my assessment of the situation as well, though I would question the meaning of the word "many" in this context. The actual amount women that Hunt dismayed was determined mainly by the Twitter campaign that followed, not the dozens of women he was actually speaking his words to. In any case, is it really true that the "inconvenience" that was caused to Hunt, his colleagues, his students, his family, his research networks, his waiting audiences, as well as the "inconvenience" thathis mouth at that moment. He was just trying to be entertaining among intelligent people. To suggest that Hunt is "responsible", not just for the opinions that the people in the room that day formed about his relative charm as a public speaker, but also the opinion that the global readership of, say, the Guardian formed about his absolute "views" about women in science, based on what was made of a decidedly half-assed tweet by Connie St Louis, is entirely out of proportion. We're talking about two minutes of extemporaneous speech. If his words were poorly chosen they should have fallen flat, not gone down in infamy.

Saturday, December 05, 2015

This morning I noticed a puzzling tweet by Dan Waddell that made me have a closer look at the


of ambient sexism in Hunt's environment, and he could at most be accused of not properly restraining his poor taste in front of an audience of apparently very vulnerable women that might be "harmed" by his words. So this suggestion that an argument in defense of Hunt might commit one to the idea that Hunt's actual and admitted failing in the lab was "his inability to keep his hands off the lasses in his lab" came out of left field for me. Was there something I had missed about the current state of the case against Hunt? Had the narrative, if you will, shifted again?

So I returned to Higgins and Waddell's piece and did indeed find a rather stronger condemnation of Hunt than I thought was current amongbalance of the evidence shows that he's not seriously concerned about the ability of women, as a gender, to deal with criticism.) I think the idea that he traffics in "damaging sexist stereotypes", by contrast, is directly contradicted by his record of respectful collaboration with women throughout his career. I thought maybe the word "bolster" was supposed allow that his toast only unintentionally offered support to those stereotypes, but the next part of the sentence unmistakably attributes a "view" to Tim Hunt that is so ridiculous that I think we have to conclude that Higgins and Waddell have, as they say, jumped the shark.

Actually, the sentence is a bit difficult to parse. It's not clear whether they are saying that (a) Hunt's view (that labs are "highly sexualised