aided in his political crusade by his longtime consigliere, Valerie Jarrett, who has moved into the 8,200-square-foot, $5.3-million Kaloroma mansion with the former president and Michelle Obama, long time best friends.

Organizing for America and The Indivisible Team work together and both work off the same manifesto. They are Obama’s militant army.

What they can’t do with troublemakers, the former administration will do with lawyers and lawsuits.

The new DNC chair, Tom Perez was picked by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to lead the fight – the coup – against Trump. He will lead the DNC in the fight to give it legitimacy.

There is also a shadow government, a deep state, leaking classified information every day. The NY Times reported overnight that intelligence was ordered by Obama to gather information beforeThese New £5 Coins are Like a Silver Window Into London's Landmarks

The Royal Mint is set to introduce 3,500 limited edition £5 coins into circulation, as part of a collection titled "Portrait of Britain". Each silver, crown-sized coin will depict one of four British landmarks -- either Elizabeth "home of Big Ben" Tower, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace or Tower Bridge -- and have been made using a trichromatic colour-printing technique which gives them a watercolour-like finish when compared to other standard coins.

Designed by Royal Mint engravers Laura Clancy and Glyn Davis, the coins have been etched in such a way as to offer a view of the landmarks just as a visitor to London would see them -- but undisturbed by a bustle of tourists or crummy weather.


Gordon Brisker needs no introduction
to jazz fans. He played lead tenor in that glorious Woody Herman Four
Brothers band of 1962. That would have been enough to keep most people
going, but Gordon went on from there to work with Lionel Hampton, Louie
Bellson, Tony Bennett, Gerry Mulligan, Anita ODay, Bobby Shew, and
the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. As a clinician and instructor Gordon
has taught at the University of Hawaii, San Diego State University, Mana
College of Wellington, New Zealand, Cincinnati College/Conservatory of
Music, Fullerton College, Ohlone College and the Berklee College of Music
in Boston Massachusetts.

This is a beautiful recording,
both musically and technical. From Mike Nock's truly exciting piano, coaxing
along playfully behind the soloists, then exploding into almost volcanic
energy when he takes off in full flight, to Billy Hart's spirited drumming.
Billy should know how toDec 17, 2016

Frederick Charles Merkle was born December 20, 1888 in Watertown, Wisconsin. The six foot one, right handed hitting first baseman was raised in Toledo Ohio. Merkle was signed by the New York Giants debuting at age 18, as the youngest player in the league in 1907. He only played in 15 games batting .255 going 12-47. In the Crazy baseball year of 1908, he played in 38 games as a utility player at the major league level batting .268 with one HR seven RBIs (11-47) .
Merkle's Boner: During the 1908 baseball season the New York Giants & the Chicago Cubs were involved in a tight pennant race. On September 23rd the Polo Grounds in New York was packed with fans as the two teams battled in


a tie for first place. The score was tied 1-1 going to the bottom of the 9th inning with the Giants Moose McCormick on first base. Nineteen year old Fred Merkle came to the plate and singled to right field, as McCormick moved over to third base on the hit. The next batter Al Bridwell, singled bringing home McCormick with what was looked like the game winning run. The happy Giants fans emptied on the field, on their way to the exit through centerfield which was common in those days.
Fred Merkle jumped for joy, then started walking toward the outfield club house where the locker room was then located. The problem was he never touched second base. Cubs shortstop Johnny Evers screamed to his outfielder Solly Hoffman forthe ball, so he could force Merkle on second base. Evers also alerted umpire Hank O'Day of the situation & the fact he was going to force the runner out. Oddly enough, The same type of play happened a few weeks prior involving the Cubs & the same umpire. Meanwhile the Giants Christy Mathewson saw what was developing on the field & tried to get Merkle back to touch second base. The Giants third base coach" Iron" Joe McGinnity, ran over to cut the ball before it reached Evers. As the ball came in to the infield, it was said McGinnity, Evers as well as a few Giants fans all fought for it.
All hell had broken loose, some accounts say McGinnity got the ball and threw it back


into the stands. Others say a fan grabbed it and was beaten up by Evers& had it taken away from him. Others say the fan who retrieved the ball, got tackled by other Cubs players & they got the ball back tossing it to Evers. Some accounts say a new ball was brought in from the Cubs dugout having nothing to do with the play. Either way Evers ended up with a ball and then he then touched second base to force Merkle out.
Cubs manager Frank Chance argued his point, claiming Merkle never touched second base. Giants manager John McGraw was furious and argued his case that the run had scored & game was over. With hundreds of Giants fans on the field the Umpires were not goingto reverse the call at that time, for fear of their lives.

They met under the stands and decided Merkle was out, and the winning run wouldn't count. The game would end in a 1-1 tie and the rule would from here on forever be enforced. The next day the New York fans awoke to the shocking turn of events in their morning newspaper. As fate would have it, the Giants & the Cubs ended up tied at the end of the regular season. A one game playoff was played at the Polo Grounds to decide the 1908 National League pennant.
Never before in the history of the game had so many people anticipated this much excitement for a game. Crowds began to gather the night before, NYPD had extra


police on site overnight as the crowds gathered. The Giants made sure no one filled up the bleachers on the overnight as well. It is estimated anywhere from 80,000 to 100,000 people tried to get in to the park. People were lined up on the hills of Coonans Bluff, 8th Avenue, & the Speedway which is now the Harlem River Drive. They climbed utility poles & the elevated 8th Ave. train tracks for a view. Some fans burned down a section of the fence to try to get in. One poor fellow was cheering a play & fell off the elevated train tracks from which he was hanging on, to his death. The Giants took a 1-0 lead on a Turkey Mike Donlin double, but the Cubs gotto the Giants ace Christy Mathewson for four runs. In the end the Cubs ended up winning the game 4-2 in a very hostile environment. By game's end they feared for their lives as they exited past the angry crowd. The Cubs went on to win the World Series that year, but haven't won another Championship since some 103 years later.
John McGraw & the Giants team never blamed Merkle for losing the Pennant for them. But the fans as well as the press did, they never forgave him & Merkle took the play to his grave. It would forever be known as "Merkle's Boner" & a somewhat very good career was never recognized.
In 1909 he played behind Fred Tenney who was in his last season as the Giants


first baseman. That year John McGraw's Giants finished in third place, Merkle hit just .191. By the time he was 20 years old, Merkle became the Giants regular first baseman, a spot he would hold for the next six & a half seasons. John McGraw called Merkle a shrewd, aggressive player, as well as a very good hitter.
Merkle hit .292 in his first full season, hitting 35 doubles (4th in the NL) 14 triples (8th in the NL) driving in 70 runs (10th in the NL). At first base he led the league in errors for the first of three straight seasons although he was second in assists, games played & fourth in put outs. He would be in the league's top ten in batting twice, RBIs &extra base hits five times each, doubles, HRs & stolen bases four times each.
In 1911 the Giants won another pennant, Merkle batted a modest .283 but received votes for the MVP Award due to his 49 stolen bases (4th in the NL). He also hit 12 HRs (5th in the NL) & had 84 RBIs (10th in the NL). He struggled in the World Series loss to Connie Mack's Philadelphia A's, batting just .150 with one RBI.
The Giants won the next two pennants as well, losing the World Series to the Boston Red Sox (1912) & Philadelphia A's again ( 1913). In 1912 he had another big year batting .309 with 11 HRs (3rd in the NL) 22 doubles 84 RBIs (9th in the NL) & 37 stolen


bases (5th in the NL). Post Season: In the 1912 World Series he batted .273 driving in a run in the Giants, Game #6 five run first inning Red Sox pitcher Buck O'Brien balked home a run with Merkle at bat, then he doubled to right field driving in a run. Buck Herzog drove in Merkle with another doubles in the next at bat. The Giants went on to a 5-2 World Series clinching win at the Polo Grounds.
In 1913 he fell to a .261 average , with 12 triples & 69 RBIs as New York won the pennant. In that World Series he hit .231 (3-13). The next year Merkle led the league in strike outs (80) as his average fell to .258. In 1915 he reboundedto a .299 average but midway through 1916 he was only hitting .237 when he was traded to the Brooklyn Robins for Lew McCarty. He got to another World Series that year with Brooklyn losing once again to the Boston Red Sox.
The next year his contact was purchased by the Chicago Cubs and he hit .297 his first season there with 25 doubles & 65 RBIs (4th in the NL) while stealing 21 bases. He got to his fifth World Series that year but lost to Boston once again. This would be the last World Series the Boston Red Sox would win until 2004. In Merkle's five World Series he batted .239 (21-88) with one HR, one stolen base, nine walks & nine RBIs in 27 games.
Merkle finished


out his 16 year career with the AL New York club playing in 18 games over the 1925 & 1926 seasons. He batted .273 life time, playing in 1638 games, with 1580 hits 61 HRs 81 triples 290 doubles 733 RBIs 232 stolen bases & a .429 on base %.
Retirement: After baseball he moved to Florida and during the Depression worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). After that he became a partner with a small manufacturer of fishing equipment in Daytona Beach. He refused to talk about baseball to reporters after he left the game. Merkle passed away of natural causes on March 2, 1956 at age 67.
After many years, Fred Merkle has received some love in his hometown of Watertown, Wisconsin. The city's main high schoolbaseball field at Washington Park is named Fred Merkle Field. Also a black plaque honoring him was erected in the park on July 22, 2010. In a humorous remembrance, Merkle's Bar & Grill, is a popular Wrigleyville bar just one block south of Wrigley Field in Chicago. It is named after Fred Merkle, and features his image prominently in the bar's logo and interior.


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   II. LOUIS DE BUADE, COMTE DE FRONTENAC  . . . . . . . . . . .   17
  III. FRONTENAC'S FIRST YEARS IN CANADA . . . . . . . . . . . .   33
   IV. GOVERNOR, BISHOP, AND INTENDANT . . . . . . . . . . . . .   51
    V. FRONTENAC'S PUBLIC POLICY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   71
   VI. THE LURID INTERVAL  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .When Tracy or Denonville or Frontenac
led an expedition against the Iroquois, it was fortunate that Canada
could muster a cohort of men who knew woodcraft as well as the Indians.
In days of peace the coureur de bois was looked on with less favour.
The king liked to know where his subjects were at every hour of the day
and night.  A Frenchman at Michilimackinac,[4] unless he were a
missionary or a government agent, incurred severe displeasure, and many
were the edicts which sought to prevent the colonists from taking to
the woods.  But, whatever the laws might say, the coureur de bois could
not be put down.  From time to time he was placed under restraint, but
only for a moment.  The intendant might threaten and the priest might
plead.  It recked


the inhabitants to choose two aldermen and a
mayor.  Since these officials could not serve until they had been
approved by the governor, the change does not appear to have been
wildly radical.  But change of any kind was distasteful to the Bourbon
monarchy, especially if it seemed to point toward freedom.  So when in
due course Frontenac's report of these activities arrived at
Versailles, it was decided that such innovations must be stopped at
once.  The king wished to discourage all memory of the Three Estates,
and Frontenac was told that no part of the Canadian people should be
given a corporate or collective status.  The reprimand, however, did
not reach Canada till the summer of 1673, so that for some months
Frontenac was permitted to view his work with satisfaction.

His next movewas made local governor at that
post, and, in recognition of services already performed, he gained a
grant of nobility.  It is clear that La Salle's forceful personality
made a strong impression at court, and the favours which he received
enabled him, in turn, to secure financial aid from his wealthy
relatives at Rouen.

What followed was the most brilliant, the most exciting, and the most
tragic chapter in the French exploration of America.  La Salle
fulfilled all the conditions upon which he had received the seigneury
at Fort Frontenac, and found financial profit in maintaining the post.
{76} The original wooden structure was replaced by stone, good barracks
were built for the troops, there were bastions upon which nine cannon
announced a warning to the Iroquois, a settlement with well-tilled land
sprang up around the fort, schooners were


conflict
was first foreshadowed in the activities of Sir Edmund Andros, which
followed his appointment as governor of New York in 1674.  He visited
the Mohawks in their own villages, {90} organized a board of Indian
commissioners at Albany, and sought to cement an alliance with the
whole confederacy of the Five Nations.  In opposition to this France
made the formal claim (1677) that by actual residence in the Iroquois
country the Jesuits had brought the Iroquois under French sovereignty.

Iroquois, French, and English thus formed the points of a political
triangle.  Home politics, however--the friendship of Stuart and
Bourbon--tended to postpone the day of reckoning between the English
and French in America.  England and France were not only at peace but
in alliance.  The Treaty of Dover had been signed in 1670, and two
yearsAmerica, gained new vitality, and
assumed an importance they had not possessed in England for many
centuries.  And, while for the moment the organization of the English
colonies was not well suited to offensive war, as we may judge from the
abortive efforts of Phips and Schuyler, this defect could be corrected.
Arising, as it did arise, from a lack of unity among the colonies, it
was even indicative of latent strength.  From one angle, localism seems
selfishness and weakness; from another, it shows the vigorous life of
separate {134} communities, each self-centred and jealous of its
authority because the local instinct is so vitally active.  It only
needed time to broaden the outlook and give the English colonies a
sense of their common interest.  Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts,
by striking their roots each year


KITCHENER — The leathery smell of new barber chairs fills the air in the Al-Othman brothers' recently opened barber shop on Lancaster Street.

For these two Syrian refugees with perfectly coiffed hair, it is the smell of success.

Having arrived in Kitchener only recently, Diyaa and Mahmoud Al-Othman were determined to carry on their trade in their new home.

Diyaa couldn't put into English words how he felt about his new-found success. He is overjoyed.

"In Lebanon we weren't allowed to do this. We couldn't own a house, a car, a business."

Members of the Al-Othman family fled their war-torn home of Homs, Syria, when violence worsened several years ago. They took refuge in neighbouring Lebanon, but as refugees they lived in constant fear and insecurity.

Part of the Al-Othman family — Diyaa, ayounger brother and their mother — were privately sponsored by the congregation of Calvary United Church in St. Jacobs almost three years ago.

The trio arrived in Kitchener on a cold New Year's Day in 2016, part of the wave of nearly a thousand Syrian refugees who arrived in Waterloo Region that year.

Diyaa set to work looking for a job as a barber, a trade he learned from his older brother, Mahmoud. He worked hard for the past two years and waited patiently for Mahmoud to get to Canada as well so they could pursue their dream — to open their own barbershop in Canada.

"This was their plan when they first arrived," said Kathy Kumar, a member of Calvary United. "We're so proud of them."

Mahmoud was a popular hairstylist


when he lived in Syria. Violence forced the family to flee to Lebanon where Mahmoud continued to work as a barber to support his wife and two young girls. He lived in constant fear for his family having escaped conscription in Syria.

Mahmoud and his young family were also sponsored by the St. Jacobs church and arrived in Kitchener earlier this year. Diyaa quit his job at a local barbershop and the two determined brothers set to work looking for a location for their barbershop.

Diyaa said it was difficult to get the barbershop off the ground. Landlords were hesitant to lease space to young Syrian refugees. But they persevered and found an ideal spot in a plaza on Lancaster Street.

"Business has been very good," he said. "It's a verya maximum of Rs. 3,500 per month. The decision will go a long way in generating employment avenues to the rural educated unemployed youth as also ensure adequate teaching facilities to the students in difficult and remote areas.

The News Himachal seeks to cover the entire demographic of the state, going from grass root panchayati level institutions to top echelons of the state. Our website hopes to be a source not just for news, but also a resource and a gateway for happenings in Himachal.


ensure that he dies behind bars. Mueller's lead prosecutor in this case, Andrew Weissmann, is working hard to make sure that happens," Tucker Carlson said.

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He said Weissmann was a staunch supporter of Hillary Clinton and was also in attendance at what was supposed to be her election night victory party at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.

Carlson said that since he was "hoping to celebrate Hillary's victory," the next best thing for Weissmann to do is to "avenge Hillary's defeat."

Weissmann previously prosecuted several high-profile federal cases, including one against the Arthur Andersen accounting firm that was overturned by the Supremethe controllability. However, when the cover is soft, the ball has a poor rebound and a spin rate-lowering effect cannot be achieved, as a result of which the ball tends to travel a shorter distance.
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all environmental and ethnic boundaries. Multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is no longer confined to any one country or to those co-infected with HIV, but has appeared in locations as diverse as eastern Europe, Africa and Asia among health care workers and in the general population. Penicillin-resistant pneumococci are likewise spreading rapidly, while resistant malaria is on the rise, disabling and killing millions of children and adults each year. In 1990, almost all cholera isolates gathered around New Delhi (India) were sensitive to cheap, first-line drugs furazolidone, ampicillin, co-trimoxazole and nalidixic acid. Now, 10 years later, formerly effective drugs are largely useless in the battle to contain cholera epidemics.
In some areas of the world—most notably South-East Asia—98% of all gonorrhoea cases are multi drug-resistant which in turn contributes tooccurs in HIV-infected patients and is more severe in immunosuppressed patients.
Geniculate zoster (Ramsay Hunt's syndrome) results from involvement of the geniculate ganglion. Pain in the ear and facial paralysis occur on the involved side. A vesicular eruption occurs in the external auditory canal, and taste may be lost in the anterior two thirds of the tongue.
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acute lymphocytic leukemia, and Burkitt's lymphoma, occur almost exclusively in young people. Why these cancers occur in the young is not well understood, but genetic predisposition is one factor. However, most cancers are more common in older people. Many cancers, including those of the prostate, stomach, and colon, are most likely to occur after age 60. Over 60 percent of the cancers diagnosed in the United States are in people over 65 years of age. Overall, the risk of developing cancer in the United States doubles every 5 years after age 25. The increased cancer rate is probably a combination of increased and prolonged exposure to carcinogens and weakening of the body's immune system, all associated with a longer life span
Cancer cells develop from normal cells in aA TEENAGE boy allegedly posed as a doctor in a hospital's gynaecology department for over a month before staff realised he was not a member of medical staff.

The 17-year-old wore a white coat bearing the St. Mary's Medical Centre in West Palm Beach as he walked the corridors, WSB-TV reports.

His deception was only spotted when he presented himself with a patient to Dr Sebastian Kent, who worked in the obstetrics and gynaecology department, the network reports.

A police report states the teenager was inside the room when Dr Kent conducted an examination.

"The first thing I thought was, 'I am getting, I am really getting old because these young doctors look younger every year," Dr Kent said.

He then contacted security, who alerted the police.

The hospital said the boy "never had


(Doctor Strange & the Sorcerers Supreme I#1) -
After Camelot sorcerer Merlin traveled to the present day to inform
Sorcerer Supreme Dr. Strange that a darkness unleashed in the present
day was affecting the Camelot era, Merlin led Dr. Strange into the
Backroads of Time, warning him of the "memory leeches." Revealing that
he was aware that the creatures fed on memories, Dr. Strange informed
Merlin that he was familiar with the creatures and their base of
operations within the Backroads of Time. Merlin commended Dr. Strange
on his knowledge of the "memory leeches" and asked if Strange's axe
worked better than the present day state of magic. Strange followed up,
admitting that he hated time travel, and threatened to the sick the
"memory leeches" on Merlin if Merlin didn't explain why they had
ventured into the Backroads of Time.

Comments:Man killed by LAPD dropped from Explorer program

High-speed chase ended on the 101 Freeway

Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — The 19-year-old man fatally shot by L.A. police officers in a hail of gunfire on the 101 Freeway had once been in the Los Angeles Police Department Explorer Academy but was removed for disciplinary reasons, officials said.

Police would not say what the disciplinary reasons were nor when exactly Abdul Arian was in the program, but they confirmed Thursday that he had once been part of the academy that teaches students about careers in law enforcement.

Arian, who was killed Thursday morning after a high-speed chase ended on the 101 Freeway in Woodland Hills, had wanted to become a police officer, his family said.


Grade II Titanium that's been sandblasted matte gray, a design feature that's continued through to the Titanium bracelet, and its ETA 2894-2 mechanical self-winding movement is visible through the transparent sapphire crystal case backing.

There's a monochrome gray Titanium dial under a scratch-resistant, anti-reflective sapphire crystal. The hands and indexes, flange on the right side, the 20-minute zone, and the contours of the counters at the 6 and 9 o'clock positions have all been given a dose of luminous material. The 20-minute scale on the unidirectional rotating bezel has also been similarly treated, though showing blue instead of the green glow from the other indicators.

As the name suggests, the Dive Master 500 is water resistant to up to 500 meters (1,650 ft), and features protected screw down crown andRobyn Byrd and Katie Rice were teenage Ren & Stimpy fans who wanted to make cartoons. They say they were preyed upon by the creator of the show, John Kricfalusi, who admitted to having had a 16-year-old girlfriend when approached by BuzzFeed News.

Robyn Byrd thought her plan was working when the letter from her hero arrived in the mail. It was 1994, and the 13-year-old had sent the creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show a video of herself talking about her drawings and the animation career she envisioned; she thought if she got the attention of the studio behind the hit Nickelodeon show, she might get a job there someday. John Kricfalusi’s effusive letter, Byrd said, seemed like the first step toward her dream. She could hardly


believe he’d responded. “I had built up these characters and this mythos of Ren & Stimpy in my head,” Byrd, now 37, told BuzzFeed News. “It was exciting.” Soon, she said, she began receiving boxes of toys and art supplies from 39-year-old Kricfalusi, better known as John K. He helped her get her first AOL account, through which he convinced her he could help her become a great artist. He visited her at the trailer park where she lived in Tucson, Arizona. “I thought I was still his little cute friend,” she said. And then, when she was still in 11th grade, he flew her to Los Angeles to show her his studio and talk about her future. She said that on the same trip, in a roomwith a sliding glass door that led to his pool, he touched her genitals through her pajamas as she lay frozen on a blanket he’d placed on the floor. She was 16. In the summer of 1997, before her senior year of high school, he flew her to Los Angeles again, where Byrd had an internship at Spumco, Kricfalusi’s studio, and lived with him as his 16-year-old girlfriend and intern. After finishing her senior year in Tucson, the tiny, dark-haired girl moved in with Kricfalusi permanently at age 17. She told herself that Kricfalusi was helping to launch her career; in the end, she fled animation to get away from him. Since October, a national reckoning with sexual assault and harassment has not only felled dozens of prominent


men, but also caused allegations made in the past to resurface. In some ways, the old transgressions are the most uncomfortable: They implicate not just the alleged abusers, but everyone who knew about the stories and chose to overlook them.

Albert L. Ortega / WireImage John Kricfalusi

Although sexual abuse allegations against Kricfalusi have never been made public before, his relationship with Byrd has been an open secret within animation — so open that “a girl he had been dating since she was fifteen years old” was referenced briefly in a book about the history of Ren & Stimpy. Tony Mora, an art director at Warner Bros., and Gabe Swarr, a producer at Warner Bros., worked alongside Byrd at Spumco. The male artists said stories of how Kricfalusi sexually harassed& Stimpy as an influence. After Nickelodeon fired the perpetually behind-schedule artist from Ren & Stimpy in 1992, he became an early proponent of art and shows made just for the internet. His output has slowed down, but he enjoys a living-legend stature that prompted 3,562 people to fund a Kickstarter campaign for his short Cans Without Labels, which he screened at a prestigious animation film festival in 2016. He made art for Miley Cyrus’s 2014 Bangerz tour; he animated two credit sequences on The Simpsons, the most recent in 2015. Until the publication of this story, his portrait hung on the wall at Nickelodeon. On Kricfalusi’s behalf, an attorney responded to a detailed list of allegations in this story with the following statement: “The 1990s were a


underage girl Kricfalusi groomed for a relationship. In 2008, long after she last saw Kricfalusi, Byrd reconnected with an old internet friend: the artist Katie Rice. Kricfalusi introduced them through AOL in the mid-’90s, when they were still children, telling them he’d hire them both at Spumco someday. Although Kricfalusi never had a physical sexual relationship with Rice, he began hitting on her when she was a minor, she said, behavior that ranged from writing her flirty letters (“I bet you’ll be up to no good. Just like me,” he wrote in 1996) to masturbating while she was on the phone. In 2000, when Rice was 18 and trying to break into animation, Kricfalusi offered her a job. Once she started working for him, Rice said, he persistentlytips.” Rice and Kricfalusi met a few times in Los Angeles, and they kept talking after she moved with her parents from California to Lake Tahoe in 1996 when she was entering 10th grade at age 14. They never had physical sexual contact, but when Rice lived in Nevada, she remembers several late-night phone calls during which Kricfalusi said, “Repeat after me: John’s dick slides in my puzzy” (his pronunciation of the word) while he masturbated on the other end of the line. She refused. Rice, who was naive about sex, said she didn’t realize what he was doing at first — until, all of a sudden, she did. Christine Nockels, a high school friend of Rice who later worked at Spumco, said Rice told her about the


masturbation when they were classmates. The conversations left Rice shaken, but she trusted him. Lonely in her new school in Nevada, she viewed him as her only friend. He attended her 15th birthday party, which he later confirmed on a DVD extra for the 2003 Ren & Stimpy reboot. (“I was at her 15th birthday party. We’ll tell you that backstory a little bit later,” he said with a grin.) She was devastated when he abruptly stopped talking to her in early 1997.

Courtesy Byrd Kricfalusi and a 15-year-old Byrd in 1996

That same winter, Kricfalusi flew out to visit Byrd, then a high school junior, at home in Arizona. They had sex for the first time at a nearby hotel, she said, and put into motion a series ofdecisions that would reshape the rest of her teenage years. She’d move in with Kricfalusi for the summer and intern at Spumco, then complete her senior year at a private school in Arizona, and he would cover the tuition. He told her he could give her an animation career in Los Angeles when she graduated. She and her mother believed him.

So when the young artist and writer moved in with Kricfalusi in the summer of 1997, part of her was happy. As an intern, she was making copies, keeping art organized, and learning how to be an animator. “I made my dream come true,” Byrd said. “That’s why I sent the tape when I was 13.” Everything in California was new and exciting, including, to some degree, her


The artist she shared an office with, Swarr, who was in his early twenties at the time, remembers her frequently crying.

“I was like, ‘Who’s that little girl?’”

Despite the volatility, this seemed like a break to her: Kricfalusi was teaching her a trade. And, over the course of more than 600 blog posts reviewed by BuzzFeed News, Kricfalusi portrays himself as a uniquely qualified molder of young minds. It’s the same image he presented to Byrd and Rice, and to many of the fans, mostly men in their twenties, who he hired at Spumco in the 1990s and early 2000s. They were inexperienced young people who, Mora and Swarr said, believed deeply in the art Spumco was making. It was a small studio that usually had between 10 and30 artists at a time, most of them convinced they were doing something defiant by working there. Derrick J. Wyatt, an artist who started working at Spumco in 1999, told BuzzFeed News the studio was a “cult of personality” centered on Kricfalusi. After Byrd graduated from high school at 17 in 1998, Kricfalusi hired her to work at Spumco and she moved back into his Los Angeles home. As Byrd grew up in the studio, her coworkers, many of whom were not much older than she was, were aware of the teen’s romantic relationship with their boss. Mora got an internship at Spumco in 1997, around the age of 24, and when he first started seeing Byrd around the studio, “I was like, ‘Who’s that little girl?’” he


said. The relationship was odd to him, but it seemed to be accepted at the studio, where former employees say Kricfalusi fostered a libertine atmosphere in which taking offense was itself offensive. They were making shows with sexual themes; there were raunchy nude drawings on display. Mora said Kricfalusi left out a drawing he made of Byrd, naked, with a dog ejaculating on her. Sometime between 1998 and 2000, Mora went to a party at Kricfalusi’s house that has bothered him for years. He remembered Byrd, who was no older than 20, was drunk and seemed to be drifting in and out of consciousness when Kricfalusi called Mora over to him. “And then he pulled out these Polaroids of Robyn basically — how can you say it? —as an adult woman.”

Courtesy Robyn Byrd Kricfalusi and Byrd on Christmas Eve in 2000

In 2000, Byrd briefly broke up with Kricfalusi and moved out of the house she shared with him in LA. The pair would reunite a few months later, but in the meantime, Kricfalusi contacted Rice, who was then 18 years old and reeling from an art school rejection letter. He asked her to come work at Spumco. Receipts signed by Kricfalusi and saved by Rice show he paid for her stay at the Voyager Motor Inn in June 2000.

Rice worked for Kricfalusi on and off from age 18 to about 25, starting as an inker and moving on to layout and character design. In 2000, Byrd and Rice both worked at the studio, but the


childhood internet friends never spoke face-to-face; Swarr remembers the women working at opposite ends of Spumco. Mora and Swarr believed that Kricfalusi hired Rice as a replacement for Byrd. At 19, Byrd thought so too. She said it seemed to her at the time that Kricfalusi was replacing her with a younger woman. Byrd left Kricfalusi for good in 2002. Once she was gone, he focused more attention on Rice. In emails, Kricfalusi demanded her professional loyalty. He also continued to pressure her for affection. Through a lawyer, Kricfalusi denied harassing Rice, saying, "John's avid pursuit of her romantically was all after the company went out of business and he was no longer her employer." But around the time of the new Ren & Stimpy show, which wasproduced by Spumco and employed Rice, he wrote her a letter expressing sadness over his breakup, and also told Rice she was pretty and that he wished he could cuddle with her.

Spumco / Spike Animation Studio Rice and Kricfalusi on the DVD intro to the Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon "Naked Beach Frenzy."

On Oct. 19, 2004, when Rice was working at Disney, 49-year-old Kricfalusi contacted Rice via her work email. He wrote that he’d been resentful, as a 41-year-old man, of the classmate Rice liked when she was 15. “You used to make me very jealous … and you would never admit you liked me in a romantic way.” At the end of that email, he begged her to be in a relationship with him, writing, “I


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Younger still by half a generation were Justus Buchler, Robert Cumming, Charles Frankel, Albert Hofstadter, and Richard Taylor , all of whom save Hofstadter were in their middle to late forties when I joined the department.[I have written about Justus at the beginning of Chapter Two of Volume One of these Memoirs, but I shall repeat myself here for the sake of continuity.My apologies to faithful readers.]Justus, who was of course then chairman, was an intensely serious man embarked on an effort to spell out a full-scale totally original metaphysical theory in a series of writings.Justus was extremely intelligent, very widely read in philosophy, and in every way the very model of a modern philosophy professor.The only problem was that nobody was interested in what


together by Hegel, and yet look how far he went.

Bob Cumming was tall, slender, and very waspy in appearance.He was a student of the history of political philosophy and regularly co-taught a very popular course on political theory with a quite well known political scientist, David Truman, who was Dean of the College when I joined the faculty, and was subsequently elevated to the Provostship, positioning him to be the next President of the University.Bob seemed very laid back in manner, and in my naive insular fashion, I was quite surprised to discover, several years later, that he took an active role in supporting undergraduate men who resisted being drafted into the Army to fight in Viet Nam.It seemed that you didn't have to be loud-mouthed and Jewishlike me to have good politics.

Charles Frankel, who was the same age as Bob Cumming, was a student of Ernest Nagel whose work centered on social philosophy and the philosophy of history.The Social Science Research Council decided to underwrite an international conference on democracy in the Developing World [as former European colonies were then called], and Charles agreed to organize it.He was half way through issuing the invitations and making the arrangements for a meeting to be held in a lavish Italian villa belonging to the Rockefeller Foundation when Lyndon Johnson tapped him to be Assistant Secretary for Cultural and Educational Affairs.On his way out the door to Washington, D. C., Charles turned the conference over to me, and I completed the planning for the affair.I flew off


to Italy to spend a week sitting around a square table with scholars and diplomats from all over the world.My job was to write up a report and turn it into the SSRC after the conference had ended.My most vivid memory of the week, which was for the most part rather tedious, was sitting at the table and looking idly at Lucien Pye, seated at the adjacent side, so that I had a sort of sideways view of him.Pye, then in his mid-forties, was an MIT political scientist who even then had gained a considerable reputation in his field.He was very much a Democratic Cold Warrior, along the lines of Henry Jackson and Jack Kennedy.One day, when the conversation had moved to another part of the table, Ilooked over and caught him in an unguarded moment.His face revealed a deep depression that was completely at odds with his usual hail fellow well met manner.I did not know what it meant, but I was sure I had seen into his soul.On the way home from the conference, I stopped off in London to do a little antique shopping at Liberty's of London.Liberty's is of course best known for its fabrics, especially a sheer weave called Liberty Lawn, but it also had a small, rather select collection of English antiques.I found a splendideighteenth century Georgian bureau bookcase, which I bought on the spot for 1400 pounds or so.I arranged with Turner & Davies to have it shipped back to our apartment, and called Cindy to tell her


the exciting news.

Frankel resigned from the State Department two years later to protest America's accelerating involvement in the Viet Nam war, and returned to Columbia.Tragically, he and his wife were murdered in their Westchester home by a burglar in 1979.

I have almost no memory of Hofstadter, possibly because he left in '67 to join the U. C. Santa Cruz department.Albert's field was aesthetics, and he and our colleague, Richard Kuhns, published some things together.

Richard Taylor was a newcomer to the department, having arrived only a year before I.He had transferred from Brown, where, rumor was, he had married John Ladd's former wife, and felt it better to get out of Providence.Dick was living in a large apartment that looked across 116th st. to the Columbia Law School.He hadBooks named Fred Wieck had conceived the idea of bringing out a series of big, handsome books lavishly bound in half calf with the general title Harper Guides.There would be a Harper Guide to Art, a Harper Guide to History, a Harper Guide to Music, and so forth.Arthur had been recruited to edit the Harper Guide to Philosophy.I asked Wieck once who would ever read these books, since I could not imagine assigning one in a course."Well," he said, giving me some insight into the deeper logic of the publishing world, "we are aiming more at the book buying than at the book reading public."Apparently Harper's sales division had ascertained that there was a gap on the shelves of Middle American living rooms waiting to be filled.

The Harper


a month of sessions."I'll do it," I said, "when do you want the essay?""Is the end of next summer too soon?" he asked."You'll have it" I promised.

Charlie Parsons was not showing up until the following year.I think he had a fellowship or a year off.

And then there was Sidney.

Sidney Morgenbesser, when I got to Columbia, was a forty-four year burly, handsome man with a broad face and an even broader New York accent.Sidney had studied at CCNY and then at Penn under Nelson Goodman.He had also been ordained as a Rabbi after completing his studies at Jewish Theological Seminary, though he did not actually believe in God.He was ferociously brilliant, polymathically learned, witty, charming, deeply moral, a man whom it was impossible not to love.Sidney published very littlein his life, but he generated ten thousand wonderful stories that are part of the folklore of philosophy, of Columbia, and of New York City.He was probably the best unpublished philosopher since Socrates.These memoirs of my Columbia days will contain many Morgenbesser stories, beyond those I have already told, although in deference to my readers, I will try not to repeat any that are already well known.The Wikipedia entry on Sidney has a lovely selection of them, which I commend to you.

This was not the first time I was meeting Sidney.In late 1949, I visited my big sister, Barbara, at Swarthmore College, where she was a student, as part of my very limited look at possible colleges for myself [once again, see Memoirs, Volume One, Chapter One --


block in Harlem.The did a before-and-after sequence on an apartment being upgraded, and during the before segment, as the camera panned around the ratty looking apartment, I suddenly had an epiphany."My God," I thought, "that looks just like our apartment.We live in a slum!]

There are striking similarities between the physical locations of the University of Chicago and Columbia, but also major differences.Like Chicago, Columbia is situated cheek-by-jowl with a large Black community -- the most famous Black community in America.Like Chicago, Columbia bought up real estate and managed it in an attempt to preserve a White enclave.But whereas Chicago is insular, inward-looking, isolated from downtown, Columbia bleeds into Manhattan so that it is sometimes difficult to feel where the university stops and the rest of the city begins.Notfor nothing does Columbia call itself "Columbia University in the City of New York."

The bulk of the university consisted then of a rectangle orientednorth-south, with Broadway on its west flank, Amsterdam Avenue to its east, 114th street to the south and 120th street to the north.The cross streets from 115th to 119th were blocked off, creating something of a campus, although it did not feel like either Harvard Yard or the Quadrangle.The heart of the university was a large grassy open area crisscrossed by walks, with the administration building, Low Library, at the north end and the real library, Butler, at the south.If you have seen Ghostbusters or the Barbra Streisand Jeff Bridges movie The Mirror Has Two Faces or countless other films, you have seen that space.It


is one of the most recognizable places in Manhattan.

Columbia sits on the upper west side of Manhattan, in a community called Morningside Heights [think Annie Hall].If you stand on either Broadway or Amsterdam and look south, you see a long straight avenue going downhill for quite a stretch.Columbia is perched almost on the highest part of the Heights.Our apartment was half a block from the university:415 W. 115th st., apt. 51.That portion of 115th street is a single block between Amsterdam and Morningside Drive, soI was not even two blocks from my office in Philosophy Hall.Morningside Drive runs along the western edge of Morningside Park, a vertiginously steep bit of land that falls away from Morningside Heights to Harlem below.It quite effectively divides the university from the Blackback in that time, seeing things in my mind as I experienced them.Randall and the others will always be, to me, ancient relics, distinguished, hoary, survivors of a bygone age.The fact that I am now eleven years older than Randall was then makes no impression on my memories whatsoever.]

Randall had made his name, at the age of twenty-seven, with the publication of The Making of the Modern Mind, and had an enormous, and deserved, reputation in the Columbia community.He had been one of the architects of the famous Contemporary Civilization course required of all undergraduates, Columbia's answer to the Hutchins revolution and a forerunner of General Education at Harvard.Randall's principal focus was on the Greeks, so we did not really have much in common philosophically, but he and


Assistant Professor, you had a maid who came in before breakfast and left after washing up the dinner dishes.Once you got tenure, however, you hired a full-time servant who lived in a little room behind the kitchen that had its own bathroom.She cooked, cleaned, and baby-sat, and each summer, when you went to Europe, she came along to look after the children and handle the trunks.For a brief moment, I had a glimpse of an era that would not, I was sure, come again.

Two other senior professors, Horace Friess and James Gutman, were less academically distinguished than Randall, but both had played important roles in the Ethical Culture Society, a progressive, secular spinoff of Reformed Judaism founded by Felix Adler in the 1870's.The Society, readers of the earlierportions of this memoir will recall, had been responsible for the creation of the Child Study Association, where my mother worked until her first heart attack in 1950.It was through Child Study that my parents found Shaker Village Work Camp for me, as well as Dr. Bertram Schaffner, my first psychiatrist [Memoirs, Volume One, Chapter One -- see Blog post, June 28, 2009].Algernon Black of the Ethical Culture Society was also the founder of the Encampment for Citizenship, where my sister danced with Marshall Cohen.In coming to Columbia, I was entering a world that was complicatedly intertwined with my family.

The fourth grand old man was Ernest Nagel, a distinguished philosopher of science and the teacher or mentor of several of the younger men in the department.Nagel was really


more like my adoptive uncle than a colleague.He was just nineteen days older than my father, and the two of them had known each other as undergraduates at City College, along with my uncle Bob, then a professor of Astronomy and Physics at CCNY, and Sidney Hook.I still have an old photograph of my father, my uncle, Nagel, and my grandmother gathered around a little telescope in the Catskills, where my grandmother took the children every summer.

Only slightly younger than Randall and the others was the great humanist scholar Paul OskarKristeller.I had encountered Paul's work on The Renaissance while preparing myself to teach Soc Sci 5 at Harvard, and, as with Alan Gewirth at Chicago, I was tremendously impressed that I was going to be able to callmyself his colleague.Paul had been educated in Germany, and was then forced first to flee Germany and then Italy because of the rise of fascism, a fact that played a large role in his reaction to the events of '68.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

When I left Justus Buchler's office I caught a cab to Grand Central Station for the trip back to Boston.There was still snow on the ground as the cab drove south through Central Park.I leaned back against the seat, looked out, and thought to myself, "This is it.This is where I am going to live for the rest of my life.My career is now a success.I am an Ivy League Philosophy professor."It was fourteen years since I had taken that same train from Grand Central Station


to begin my college education as a sixteen year old Freshman.I was pretty pleased with myself.

Chicago's response to the Columbia offer was extremely generous, the suspicions of the undergraduates notwithstanding.On the spot, they agreed to match the promotion and tenure and top Columbia's salary offer of $11,000 by a thousand dollars.I was genuinely flattered, but we decided to make the move to New York.

Cindy had applied for and won a fellowship from the American Association of University Women for the academic year '64-65 so that she could complete the writing of her dissertation.We put the money in our bank account [or thought we did -- see Chapter Six of Volume One], for use when we started living in New York.Meanwhile, we prepared to leave for Europe.Since Cindy wasphobic about flying, we went by ocean liner -- the United States out, the France back.Our first stop was in France, where we spent a week or so.We actually had a meal at Tour D'Argent, then a three star restaurant but now demoted to one star.I ordered the quennelles and their signature dish, the pressed duck.It was quite good.We also bought some Limoges china to take with us to our New York apartment.Then it was on to London, where Cindy would spend time doing research for her doctoral dissertation.The principal venue for her research was Dr. Williams' Library, a private library located in Gordon Square containing a splendid collection of Nonconformist Protestant literature.

Gordon Square is, or was in those days, a picture book little lozenge shaped square around


and I did not even attempt Sir Charles Grandison.One day, I took myself to the British Museum, and talked my way into the famous Reading Room [not then knowing that it was there that Karl Marx plotted the downfall of the capitalist order.]I filled out a slip, and forty-five minutes later a runner delivered to my desk David Hume's own copy of a Treatise of Human Nature.As I have many times made clear, I am not a religious person, but when I held that book in my hand, I did feel as though an Angel of the Lord had brushed his wings against me.

Probably the most memorable moment of our London stay, at least for me, was an outing to Trafalgar Square, where we saw A Hard Day'sof the few pieces of antique furniture that were included in my portion of the household furnishings when Cindy and I separated twenty-two years later, and it sits today in the living room of the condominium that Susie and I bought in Chapel Hill.I also had a tailor in the North End make me a suit from some tweedy woolen fabric we had found, but alas it is some decades since I have been able to fit into it.

With Cindy's research completed, it was time for us to sail home to the United States and begin our life in New York.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Cindy and I really wanted to stay in Cambridge when my visiting year at Wellesley was over, and we did everything we could think of


give my paper on the Fundamental Problem of Political Theory, which seemed fine with them, so I went down to New York and took a cab from Grand Central to Morningside Heights.It was my first time back on the campus since that summer evening in 1955 [see Volume One, Chapter Three -- Blog post June 28, 2009].The Philosophy Department at Columbia is located in Philosophy Hall, appropriately enough, behind a reproduction of Rodin's The Thinker.The layout of the building is rather odd, with the department offices on the seventh floor, even though that is only the fifth floor up from ground level.My talk was delivered not to a general audience but to the members of the department, who had gathered in the seminar room down the hall fromthe office, under a watchful photograph of former department member John Dewey.I thought things went well, although Jimmy Gutman asked some rather skeptical questions about my argument.Afterward, I took the train back to Boston.

The time has come for me to tell the story of how I was hired by Columbia University.This is all going to sound very odd to younger readers, so some words of preparation and background are called for. Back when I was a student and then a young untenured professor, there were really only ten universities in America at which one could usefully study Philosophy at the doctoral level:Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Michigan, Stanford, Berkeley, and UCLA.When one of those departments had an opening, someone would pick up the phone or drop a


had done doctoral studies overseas, every one of the tenured professors at those ten schools had a doctorate from one of the ten schools.It was a totally closed loop.What is more, there were several binary linkages.Everyone at Columbia and Chicago had a doctorate from Chicago or Columbia.Everyone at Michigan came either from Harvard or from Michigan itself.No school on the East Coast had a tenured member who had done his work on the West Coast [they were all men, by the way].

In 1964, Lyndon Johnson pressured the Congress into passing the Civil Rights Act, Title VII of which mandated the appointment of an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or, as it quickly came to be known, E. E. O. C.Over time, hiring in the Academy was totally transformed.All schools,even Harvard, began to publish announcements of open positions, and job descriptions routinely described the hiring university or college as an EEOC institution.The annual meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association ceased to be a clubby gathering of old boys and young wannabes chatting, back-slapping, and idly listening to talks, and became a job market flooded with anxious young job seekers waiting to be called up to hotel rooms for preliminary interviews.In the old days, when a philosophy student reached the job stage, he or she [there were even then a few women, although of course virtually no one of color] would be taken in tow by the dissertation director at the Convention smoker.Circulating around the room, the professor would grab a colleague from another


school by the elbow and introduce him to the student, who would then be left to make as good an impression as possible while shifting from foot to foot.

I didn't think anything of the Columbia talk -- just another speaking gig -- until suddenly one day, I was called by the Chairman, Justus Buchler, who told me he would like me to come down to discuss becoming a senior member of the department.So there it was!All the stories were true.Write a book, get it published, and land a top job.I was beside myself with delight.I was, as they say in professional baseball, moving up to the Show.As I have said, Cindy and I wanted to stay in Boston, but neither of us had had any success in generatingappointment, it would not go through.The department had been looking for an ethicist for some time, and had settled on Joel Feinberg -- hardly surprising, since Joel was one of the leading young ethicists in the country.But four people said no, and that left them without a candidate.Apparently, after my talk, at the next department meeting, Sidney Morgenbesser looked around the room and asked, in his broad, nasal New York accent, "Why don't we hire Bob?"Nobody could think of a good reason why they shouldn't hire me, so they told Justus to make the call.

O.k., that explained me.But why hire Charlie to teach Kant?That turns out to have been a consequence of the fact that Arnold Koslo got married.He and Charlie were friends, so Charlie came down from


up into three more or less compatible groups and inviting them for three successive nights.For each party, we would make a large bowl of eggnog, lay out cups and all, conjure up some eats, and welcome in that night's cohort.My Wellesley connections were part of the group invited for the third night, but Ellen Haring, the Philosophy Department Chair, got her wires crossed and showed up on the second night instead.I was surprised when she rang the doorbell, but I just greeted her and invited her in.I have often thought that when she got home, she might have consulted her date book, realized her mistake, and then wondered whether we gave a party every night.

I was still convinced that I needed to enter a full-scale psychoanalysis, but Icould not do that until I knew where I was going to be for an extended period of years, so I compromised by again seeking once-a-week therapy.My first therapist was Dr. Max Day, who rather startled me by turning out to have read my big cover story article on Herman Kahn in The New Republic two years earlier.Day was a very sympathetic character, and helped me in an on-going way to deal with the marital problems I was having.When he had to leave town, he handed me on to a Dr. Limentani, a perfectly decent man who had the misfortune to be hard of hearing.It was really weird trying to free associate in the presence of someone who had to cup a hand behind his ear and ask


me to repeat myself.

I had continued my efforts in the campaign for nuclear disarmament, and the stress of arguing with people day after day about the threat of an accidental nuclear war was beginning to take its toll on me.I talked to Limentani about my fears, and he made a valiant effort to separate what was rational about them from what might be a neurotic element.By that time I really knew what I was talking about, and I was very sensitive, as you can imagine, to the slightest suggestion that it was all in my head.

One day, I found myself in the upstairs lounge of the Harvard Freshman Union, trying to persuade a skeptical member of the Harvard faculty of the seriousness of the dangers of an accidentalwalked up, pulled out a gun, and shot him dead, though in fact you could not actually see any of this in the crush of police and spectators.

As luck would have it, Cindy's parents were scheduled to come to town a few days later, and although it was a business trip, we would be seeing them for dinner.Once again, a little back story is called for.Jim Griffin was a self-made man.He had never finished high school, and had entered the Sears Roebuck ranks before the war, when it was still possible to do that without educational credentials.Sears, which in those days was one of America's great corporations, was organized along regional lines.Griffin rose first to be the manager of a store in Louisville, and then to be head


of the Cleveland group of Sears stores, one of the largest and most important groups in the country.His progress was guided by the President of the company, who had taken Griffin under his wing.The natural next step would have been a regional vice-presidency, a position which by then called for at the very least a college degree.Griffin was passed over, but the Sears President created a new slot for him in the Chicago home office:Vice President of Public Relations.

Now Sears wanted to build a new store in Boston at a location not zoned for so large a commercial enterprise, and a zoning waiver was needed.In the Boston of that time, the way to accomplish this was for money to change hands.The go-between was a shady character referred tosimply as "the Egyptian," and Jim Griffin was the bagman.The Griffins had become friendly with two brothers of Greek extraction, Tom and John Pappas, who played an important role in Boston political life, and were facilitating the payoff.The Pappas family owed its money to the importation of Greek olives and other delicacies, with the result that for several years Cindy and I received large bags of pistachio nuts each Christmas.We were invited to join the Griffins for a dinner in a fabled North End Italian restaurant, along with John and Katherine Pappas, their daughter, and an impecunious young man of impeccable Greek aristocratic extraction to whom the Pappas were trying to marry off the daughter.

Boston Democrats were divided into two camps, those allied with the Kennedys and those


allied with the McCormacks.The McCormack faction had been riding high because its leader, John McCormack had ascended to the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives, but the election of Jack Kennedy had totally tilted the balance in the other direction.The Pappas brothers were part of the McCormack faction, and at dinner, there was ill-concealed glee at the assassination.That night, for the first time, I had Fettuccini Alfredo.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

The response to my question has convinced me that there will be small but interested group willing to go into the weeds with me and learn about the use and abuse of formal models in philosophy, political science, and the law. It will take me some time to set this up, figure out how to scan diagramsin the Academy.The Excel spreadsheet on which I record the sales of all of my books shows that over a nine year period, from its publication in 1963 until Harvard allowed it to go out of print in 1972, it sold a total of 2226 copies, earning $4,264.That is a tiny fraction of the sales of some of my more successful books, but it may well have been a decent share of all the people in the United States seriously interested in studying Kant's First Critique.In '72, a new editor took over Harvard University Press and, in an effort to improve its bottom line, summarily consigned a long backlist of books to the trash heap.On December 12, 1972, Nanine Hutchinson wrote to me that my book was "placed


in the very last row of one course and never ever said a word.When I graded the midterm examinations, I was startled to discover that she was far and away the best student in the class.

There was one rule that I enforced with unbending rigor.I had heard from an old hand that Wellesley students had a tendency to come to one's office and cry.I told my classes that if anyone came to my office and cried, I would jump out of the window.

Wellesley was, and still is, a breathtakingly beautiful campus, set in a picture postcard town outside of Boston.The grounds were exquisitely laid out, and perfectly manicured.Shortly before I got there, a gorgeous new Faculty Club had been opened on the shores of a little lake.One satat the rates then being charged.

Since we were living in Cambridge, my life was there rather than in Wellesley.For part of the year, I carpooled with Dave Ferry, a tall, lanky English Professor whose wife, Ann, taught in the Harvard English Department and had at one point been Cindy's teacher.Both Dave and Ann became quite eminent, Ann having the distinction of being the first woman to hold a full-time tenured position in the Harvard English Department.They had two children, and Wikipedia tells me that their son, Stephen, is now a photojournalist, but forty-seven years ago, when I was driving out to Wellesley with Dave, he was a little boy.The Ferrys wanted very much to get him into the Shady Hill School, a toney private school to which many


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Therefore, in the plastic polarized lenses in the related art, there has been a demand for a plastic polarized lens, which has suppressed occurrence of the peeling-off of the polarized film during a downstream process of polishing the periphery of the lens, excellent water resistance, and suppressed uncomfortable feeling during wearing, and is capable of producing a thin product or the like.
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26 June 2014 11:16

Marcos Rojo says scoring his first goal for Argentina at a World Cup is "what dreams are made of" after the defender bundled home the winner in his team's 3-2 win over Nigeria on Wednesday.

Rojo, who has made 24 appearances for his country, deflected a corner into the net off his knee to ensure Argentina took maximum points against the Super Eagles and progressed as group winners.

"To score my first goal for Argentina, and for it to come at the World Cup and to secure three points for us - that's what dreams are made of," Rojo told FIFA's official website.

"I couldn't ask for more, although it wasn't a particularly beautiful goal."

Rojo's effort, together with two more goals for the unstoppable


3D model of the main building at Mudhmar Est (the room where the weapons were found is in the middle of the building on the left).

An exceptional collection of bronze weapons dating from the Iron Age II (900-600 BC) has been uncovered near Adam, in the Sultanate of Oman. The remains were discovered scattered on the ground in a building belonging to what is thought to be a religious complex, during excavations carried out by the French archaeological mission in central Oman. In particular, they include two complete quivers and weapons made of metal, including two bows, objects that are for the most part non-functional and hitherto unknown in the Arabian Peninsula. Additional archaeological research, which began in 2011 in the region, will be needed to elucidate thepolitical system, social practices and rituals existing in the Arabian Peninsula at the time. Headed by Guillaume Gernez from the Laboratoire Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (CNRS / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), the excavations also involved the Laboratoire Archéorient (CNRS / Université Lyon 2). The campaign was notably supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, as well as by Oman's Ministry of Heritage and Culture.

The region of Adam is located at the frontier between Oman's oasis and desert regions. It was completely unexplored from an archaeological point of view until the French archaeological mission in central Oman (formerly French archaeological mission in Adam), headed since 2011 by Guillaume Gernez, carried out its first explorations in 2007. Discovered


in 2009, the site known as Mudhmar East consists of two main buildings and several additional facilities. It is located at the foot of Jabal Mudhmar, near one of the largest valleys in Oman and at a strategic crossing of several trade routes.

With a length of 15 meters, the larger of the two buildings is located on the slope of Jabal Mudhmar and is made of cut sandstone blocks and earth bricks. It is in this building, in a small, apparently doorless room, that the team uncovered an exceptional collection of bronze weapons. Dating from the Iron Age II (900-600 BC), these objects appear to have fallen off furniture or shelves on which they were placed. Alternatively, they may have hung on the walls of the room.

Mudhmar Estfive battle-axes, five daggers with crescent-shaped pommels (characteristic of the Iron Age II), around fifty arrowheads, and five complete bows. The bows are made up of a flat, curved bowstave bent at both ends, which are connected by a string made of bronze. The size of the bows (70 cm on average), and above all the material used, shows that they were imitations of bows made of perishable materials (wood and tendons). Objects of this type have never been found before: bows made of metal were totally unknown in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East until now.

Mudhmar Est – Two quivers made of copper/bronze, during the excavation. Credit: Guillaume Gernez / Mission archéologique française en Oman central.

This exceptional discovery provides new information about weaponry during the Iron


Age in the eastern Arabian Peninsula and about social practices at the time. The non-utilitarian nature of most of the weapons may indicate that they were designed to be offered to a deity of war, and/or as a key element in social practices not yet understood by the archaeologists. The first hypothesis is reinforced by the presence in the site's second building of several fragments of ceramic incense burners and small bronze snakes, objects often associated with ritual practices at that time. Future excavations should provide a better understanding of the role of the complex, which intrigues archaeologists.

This collection of weapons was formed at a time when metallurgical production was on the rise in the eastern Arabian Peninsula during the Iron Age. This economic and technical development wenthand-in-hand with an increasingly complex society, as shown by the proliferation of fortified sites and monumental architecture. However, understanding the political system and social structure of this pre-literate society remains a difficult task. Continued archaeological exploration of the site and its immediate surroundings, as well as of the central region of Oman, will be key to reconstructing the dawn of history in the Arabian Peninsula.

Mudhmar Est – Unfinished axe made of copper/bronze. Credit: Guillaume Gernez / Mission archéologique française en Oman central.

Mudhmar Est – Non-utilitarian bow, entirely made of copper/bronze. Credit: Guillaume Gernez / Mission archéologique française en Oman central

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Over the weekend, we heard the sad news about the tragic passing away of the iconic US house producer, vocalist and Daft Punk collaborator, Romanthony. Having helped shape the distinctive disco and funk-influenced sound of house tunes during the era of the 90s - 00s, the producer Anthony Moore released several seminal tracks on the likes of Thomas Bangalter's label Roulé, Compuphonic and his own label, Black Male Records. Here we pay tribute to the hugely influential figure with ten of our most favourite songs as produced, worked on or sung by the legend.

Buzzin Cuzzins - Let Me Show You Love (Re-Edit)A classic Romanthony track released under his Buzzin Cuzzins alias. This is the re-edit fromNew research has suggested that 32% of people support Scottish independence.

The British Social Attitudes report questioned more than 3,000 people across the UK on subjects such as the NHS, devolution and immigration.

The SNP-run Scottish government is planning to hold a referendum on independence in autumn 2014.

The attitudes survey, which devotes one chapter to Scottish independence, concludes the Union has never been closer to being dissolved.

The annual questionnaire attempts to gauge the mood of Britons on a range of issues and this year it included the views of 1,200 people in Scotland.

The 32% who supported independence was nine points higher than in 2010 but two points lower than in 2005.

However, the research also suggested 43% of people in Scotland wanted Holyrood to make "all" decisions.

The higher figure emerged in


all decisions 2011 - 43%

2010 - 28% Those in England who said Scotland should leave the UK 2011 - 26%

1997 - 14% Those in England who believe Scotland gets more than its fair share of public spending 2011 - 44%

2007 - 32%

2000 - 21% Read more from the chapter authors John Curtice and Rachel Ormston

South of the border, there appeared to be a big rise in the number of people saying Scotland should leave the Union with 26% saying the country should go - up from 14% in 1997.

The report's authors, Prof John Curtice of Strathclyde University and Rachel Ormston who is research director at ScotCen, said opinion in England could prove pivotal to the future make-up of the UK.

Prof Curtice told BBC Scotland that the latest surveyby Scottish Secretary Michael Moore.

Ian Davidson, Labour MP and chairman of the Commons' Scottish Affairs Committee, said he was keen to have "further input" before the process is complete.

His comments came as Mr Moore prepared to appear before the committee at Westminster later.

Mr Moore has been holding talks with Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP minister with a special remit for the referendum.


City wants boat project moved from yard

A dispute over a resident's long-term boat restoration project appears to be headed to court after the Newport Beach, Calif., city council decided to pursue a court order to get the boat moved.

Dennis Holland's house has a century-old, 72-foot boat called Shawnee in the yard. The restoration project is years away from completion, and Holland has been accruing fines since February, the Orange County Register reported.

“Dennis has been advised to lawyer up for a fight of some kind,” his friend Don Rypinski told the newspaper. “We are still hopeful that we can work with the city personnel directly and mitigate the situation by agreeing on a mutually acceptable plan and time frame for the boat's completion — at least to the pointSide of Grand Rapids between Bridge St. and First St., 616 Lofts on Alabama marries the old with the new. While these are two very different buildings, they share a common community with 420 Alabama repurposing the historic Hyatt building and 421 Alabama...

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Keeping My Son Active With Challenger Sports - British Soccer Camp!

My eleven year old son loves sports. Ever since he was four years old he has been playing soccer whether it be on an organized team or in a soccer camp. It has been really neat to see how much he has progressed in the sport over the years. When out summer first started I searched for different camps for my kids and when I found Challenger Sports – British Soccer Camps for my son I knew it was a camp he would want to do. I was right, he loved it! My husband and I have never seen him so excited each day before and after the camp.

So, what makes Challenger Sports – British Soccer Camp differentup a bit by adding a different themes such as crazy hair night, flag day, etc. Since my husband stayed and watched our son at the camp he reported back how he improved on his skills through the camp and saw a excitement in him of the sport he has not seen in awhile. The last evening of the camp they handed out awards and certificates to the children which had a personalized note to the kids from their coaches which was a special touch. My son is already asking when he can go back! In his eyes next summer will not come quick enough so he can go back to Challenger Sports – British Soccer Camp!

Signing my son up for this camp was super easy as it


a focus on individuality, struggle against unjust authority, and were frequently anti-Communist. To repeat the cringy boomertarian meme, “socially liberal, fiscally conservative.”

The Futurians and their literary adjacents were often writing utopianist thinky-stories that aimed to make a socialist future more palatable within the fandom. While many today are focusing on a hard sci-fi vs. soft/”pulpy” sci-fi divide, they’re forgetting that there were really three kinds of SFF stories: Adventure, Riddle/Puzzle, and Thinky Stories.

Sci-fi wasn’t being disconnected from Fantasy–what was happening was that the Thinky Story crowd used some hardliners of the Riddle/Puzzle-only crowd to denigrate the aspects of the Adventure stuff that they found unseemly: dames, the implausible, and in some case AmericaTM. From there, they would press the attack that it was white, capitalist, and imperialist. Byclass. The setting is the planet Halcyon, where a group of humans have been laboring in the mud pits of an open-air prison. The point-of-view characters are the humans Marin and Siobhan, respectively a soldier and a scientist, who make a daring escape in the opening scene. True to the magazine’s promise, the story whisks along from one adventure to the next as the heroes encounter strange beasts and unlikely allies in a fun, serviceable story reminiscent of the science fantasy planetary adventures of yesteryear.

With “Wild Star Rising”, the reader gets drawn into the action one small step at a time. The seamless merger of sci-fi and fantasy results in an epic conflict that kicks off around the time of the final destruction of Atlantis. The points where


the story running concurrent with Erlik and First Marker. Frank Brunner, whose work you’ll see shared by @70sscifiart, did the covers for the 2001-2002 #WildStarscomics.

These comics, along with Erlik and First Marker, would be collected into Wild Stars: The Book of Circles.

Another 2002 comic, Prairie Bay: Force Majeure would expand the #WildStarsuniverse into the future.

Prairie Bay: Force Majeure tells the story of a young woman who falls afoul of a tough military commander and her escape, the circumstances surrounding which lead to a telepathic alien dinosaur getting its hands on a powerful alien artifact, the Marzanti Trident.

Rather than continue the comic, Force Majeure was expanded into a novel of which the comic served as a couple of chapters. In revenge for his defeat, Carthage has kidnapped First Marker’s2013 Spaghetti Dinner

EAT SPAGHETTI. SUPPORT DOGS.

After the success of the 2012 Lawrenceville Gourmet Spaghetti Dinner, the Bernard Dog Run committee is pleased to announce the return of the Spaghetti Dinner community fundraising event this fall!

The 2013 Lawrenceville Gourmet Spaghetti Dinner, benefiting the recently opened Bernard Dog Run, will be held on Friday, October 4, 2013 at the Teamster Temple in Lawrenceville.

“The 2012 Lawrenceville Gourmet Spaghetti Dinner was, by all accounts, an overwhelming success for the Bernard Dog Run Initiative,” said event chair Chris Lugo. Months after the successful 2012 event, the Bernard Dog Run was officially opened to the public on October 4, 2012.

“In 2013, we look to again host the Gourmet Spaghetti Dinner which will directly benefit the newly opened Bernard Dog Run that was built for


$12 in advance | $15 at the door | Children under 10 – FREE!

About the Bernard Dog Run and Lawrenceville Gourmet Spaghetti Dinner

The Bernard Dog Run initiative started in 2008 with the sole mission of establishing a community off-leash dog park that is well-maintained, safe and enjoyable for the dogs and dog owners of Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood.

Read more about the Bernard Dog Run

The initiative was named in honor of the late Jay Bernard–a Lawrenceville resident, entrepreneur and abandoned dog advocate. Mr. Bernard pioneered neighborhood involvement in Lawrenceville, serving as a catalyst for community activities including Art All Night, the Joy of Cookies Tour and the Lawrenceville House Tour.

Bernard founded The Boys of Lawrenceville and created its Gourmet Spaghetti Dinner fund-raiser in 2004 to benefit local families and organizations.Business Law Hub

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Four phenomenon appear to play a role in the process of electroporation. The first is the phenomenon of dielectric breakdown. Dielectric breakdown refers to the ability of a high electric field to create a small pore or hole in a cell membrane. Once a pore is created, a cell can be loaded with a biologically-active substances. The second phenomenon is the dielectric bunching effect, which refers to the mutual self attraction produced by the placement of vesicles in a uniform electric field. The third phenomenon is that of vesicle fusion. Vesicle fusion refers to the tendency of membranes of biological vesicles, which have had pores formed by dielectric breakdowns, to couple together at their mutual dialectic breakdown sites


Electron diffraction from dodecagonal oxide thin film. Credit: Nature 502, 215–218 (10 October 2013) doi:10.1038/nature12514

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working at Germany's Martin-Luther-Universität has discovered a new form of a 12-sidded quasicrystal. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they accidently created the previously unknown crystalline structured material while investigating interfacing properties between various substances.

Quasicrystals are substances that look a lot like crystals but have one major exception—the pattern of their structure is non-repeating. They were first discovered in 1982 by Daniel Shechtman—he won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for it in 2011. Since that time they have been created in the lab in various ways and have even been found in nature—as part of a meteorite that fell in Russia (which becausegoing off the deep end in terms of rhetoric.

When it began, NOM cleverly played up the “we are unfairly being called bigots because we simply want to protect marriage” meme. And that was because of the savvy of its founder, Maggie Gallagher.

But now with Gallagher handing the reins of the group to Brian Brown, the organization has abandoned all pretenses of martyrdom and is headed straight for crazy-talk territory.

This was evident when it joined forces in its “Summer for Marriage” tour with one Louis J. Marinelli III, a man who not only cites the discredited work of Paul Cameron, but is also very vocal in the belief that gays want to cause all sorts of mischief from molesting children to creating polygamous relationships.

(Gays and lesbians) are not being


The banana E2 gene family: Genomic identification, characterization, expression profiling analysis.
The E2 is at the center of a cascade of Ub1 transfers, and it links activation of the Ub1 by E1 to its eventual E3-catalyzed attachment to substrate. Although the genome-wide analysis of this family has been performed in some species, little is known about analysis of E2 genes in banana. In this study, 74 E2 genes of banana were identified and phylogenetically clustered into thirteen subgroups. The predicted banana E2 genes were distributed across all 11 chromosomes at different densities. Additionally, the E2 domain, gene structure and motif compositions were analyzed. The expression of all of the banana E2 genes was analyzed in the root, stem, leaf, flower organs, five stages of fruit development and under abioticSubstrate-constituted three-liquid-phase system: a green, highly efficient and recoverable platform for interfacial enzymatic reactions.
Highly efficient interfacial enzymatic hydrolysis of oil was achieved in a three-liquid-phase system, wherein the substrate constituted one of the phases. The enlarged interfacial area and relieved product inhibition were responsible for the high catalytic efficiency. Convenient product isolation and the high reusability of the enzyme were also demonstrated.


A man who killed three children before hanging their mutilated bodies on garden railings outside their home has been cleared for release by the Parole Board.

David McGreavy killed Paul Ralph, four, and his sisters Dawn, two, and nine-month-old Samantha in their Worcester home in 1973.

Paul had been strangled, Dawn was found with her throat cut, and Samantha died from a compound fracture to the skull.

McGreavy, now 67, a family friend and lodger, then impaled their bodies on the spiked garden railings of a house in Gillam Street, Rainbow Hill.

He claimed he killed the children because one of them would not stop crying, and was sentenced to life for the murders.

The Parole Board confirmed that a panel directed his release following an oral hearing.

MORE: Teens and children had 45,000deaths at music festivals for almost two decades.

"There's an abundance of evidence in support of pill testing, and saturation policing probably makes festivals more dangerous," he said.

Dr Caldicott said pill testing was "only controversial in the eyes of people who haven't looked into it and read about it, in the eyes of science and medicine these moves are not at all controversial".

Gary Christian, from Drug Free Australia, told the ABC: "The reason that we have deaths is that some people don't tolerate MDMA, and other individuals mix their drugs, and no amount of pill testing will ... stop them from dying."

Julie Tam, the mother of Josh Tam, who died aged 22 at the Lost Paradise festival last December, said she was surprised by the leak and urged for


the May 2019 local elections and the seat was retaken by Barbara Ashwood for the Liberal Democrats.

Councillors and electoral divisions

Coat of arms
The coat of arms were granted on 1 November 1976. The blazon reads: "Or three Palets wavy alternating with two Palets Azure a Bordure Gules flory on the inner edge Or; the Shield ensigned by a Mural Crown Or." The motto is 'CORDE UNO SAPIENTES SIMUS' which translates as "With one heart let us be men and women of understanding".

Lender option borrower option loans
The council has long term lender option borrower option loans (LOBOs) totalling £79.5 million with Barclays, Dexia and Siemens Financial Services.

See also
Cambridgeshire County Council elections

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Category:1965 disestablishments inlonger. Members of the city's Liquor Control Review Board on Monday expressed frustration when they heard an update on the legal struggle. The Keg, 810 Grove St., saw its local liquor license revoked Jan. 30 by order of Evanston Mayor...

The village is considering lining up behind a system to tag beer kegs in an effort to track adults who supply minors with alcohol. Later this month, village trustees will consider requiring liquor stores to put a tag on the barrels that often are a popular party attraction this time of year. The tag identifies the purchaser for police if underage people are caught drinking. In other towns where similar laws have been enacted, a deposit of $70 is required and is not refunded...

Wine connoisseurs were upset when they


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Police set a beer quota on an annual spring block party that draws thousands of drunken revelers, but Saturday's partiers were not exactly tapped out: The limit was four kegs per household. The keg crackdown for the annual Mifflin Street block party near the University of Wisconsin still gives each apartment 700 to800 beers. Last year, some houses had up to 50 kegs and were essentially operating unlicensed taverns out of their kitchens and front porches, acting Police Assistant Chief Luis...

Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said today that she expects the state's Liquor Control Commission to uphold her January decision to revoke The Keg of Evanston's liquor license. The mayor made her comments prior to a city liquor board meeting, where she serves as liquor commissioner. Tisdahl revoked the bar's license due to what she called public safety concerns spawned from repeated underage drinking violations at the bar, 810 Grove...

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Citing public safety concerns spawned from repeated underage drinking violations, Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl issued an order today revoking The Keg of Evanston's liquor license. "It is always an extremely difficult decision to revoke a license of a local business, but I have to also consider the health and welfare of the community as a whole," Tisdahl saidillustrates an order by which the main winding 23 and the sub winding 24 are wound through the twenty-four stator slots 21a of the conventional single phase induction motor. As illustrated, the conventional single phase induction motor has the winding structure of a distributed windingxe2x80x94so called concentric winding for the main winding 23 and the sub winding 24.
In the distributed winding, the main winding 23 enters into the fourteenth slot (14th), and passes through the eleventh (11th), fifteenth (15th), tenth (10th), sixteenth (16th), ninth (9th), seventeenth (17th), eighth (8th), eighteenth (18th) and seventh (7th) slots and then re-enters into the twenty-third (23rd) slot, before passing through the second (2nd), twenty-second (22nd), third (3rd), twenty-first (21st), fourth (4th), twentieth (20th), fifth (5th), nineteenth (19th), and sixth (6th) slots, and


then is drawn out. The sub winding 24 enters into the twelfth slot (12th), and passes through the first (1st), eleventh (11th), second (2nd), tenth (10th), third (3rd), ninth (9th), and fourth (4th) slots, and then re-enters into the thirteenth (13th) slot, before passing through the twenty-fourth (24th), fourteenth (14th), twenty-third (23rd), fifteenth (15th), twenty-second (22nd), sixteenth (16th), and twenty-first (21st) slots and then is drawn out.
In the conventional single phase induction motor, the main winding 23 and the sub winding 24 of the stator 21 are concentrically wound through the slots in an outward or inward direction, inevitably requiring an increased length of the coil end and subsequent cost increases and excessive use of copper.
In addition to the problem of increased length of the coil end dueto the distributed winding structure of the main winding 23 and the sub winding 24, the conventional single phase induction motor also has a problem caused due to the structure in which the winding protrudes from opposing sides of the stator 21. That is, since the winding protrudes from the opposite sides of the stator 21, additional processes like forming, lacing and cleaning are required for the purpose of tidying up the winding, and as a result,productivity deteriorates due to the increased manufacturing processes and other resulting difficulties.
Further, since the main winding 23 and the sub winding 24 each protrude from opposite sides of the stator 21, the size of compressor inevitably unnecessarily increases.
The present invention overcomes the above-mentioned problems of the prior art. Accordingly, it is an


winding are wound through the slots of the stator in this centralized winding structure, the coil end length is greatly reduced, and as a result, the material costs and copper loss can also be reduced greatly.
Further, according to the present invention, the main winding and the sub winding, are wound through the slots of the stator, and do not protrude from opposite sides of the stator too much. Accordingly, processes like forming, lacing and cleaning to tidy up the protruded portion of the main winding and the sub winding, can be omitted, and therefore, the manufacturing process becomes simplified.
According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the stator has sixteen slots, and the main winding is inserted into slot (1a) of the stator, then passed consecutively throughslots (2b), (4f), (3e), (5i), (6j), (8n), (7m), and then drawn out, while the sub winding is inserted into slot (2c) of the stator, then passed consecutively through slots (3d), (5h), (4g), (6k), (7l), (8o), (1p), and then drawn out.
The main winding is also inserted into slot (1a) of the stator, then passed consecutively through slots (2b), (2c), (3d), (7l), (6k), (6j), (5i), and then drawn out, while the sub winding is inserted into slot (7m) of the stator, then passed consecutively through slots (8n), (8o), (1p), (5h), (4g), (4f), (3e), and then drawn out.
Also, the main winding is inserted into slot (1a) of the stator, then passed consecutively through slots (2b), (2c), (3d), (3e), (4f), (8n), (7m), (7l), (6k), (6j) and (5i), and then drawn out, while