for smuggling Brazilian trucks. Evo called the domestic Bolivian press corps a bunch of "lairs" and said he'd only give interviews to the "more responsible" international press corp, and their standards are so high.

But you know, how ridiculous, the press never lies. I mean only a few days after Evo confronted the Bolivian press corps, La Razón (Bolivia's highest regarded and widest distributed daily) printed a piece of dynamite journalism, following up on the sensational arrest of opposition leader Branko Marinkovic, accompanied by this stellar, clearly non-photoshopped photo showing how it went down. The only problem of course being that it never happened. (This is not a joke, that is actually the picture they published.) One of La Razón's major corporate stake holders until a few days agohas been the Spanish press company Prisa, whose conservative daily El Pais is also known for its inventive coverage of their former colony.

But stupid mistakes like this are never directly politically motivated. It was only coincidence that after a rightwing radio host Jorge Melgar Quete was arrested for calling on air for Evo to be assassinated that the Fox News of Bolivia, Unitel aired this months old tape of government minister Ramon Quintana at a pre-August 10th Recall Referendum rally in Pando calling for voters to "politically bury [Pando Prefect] Leopold Fernadez" in the upcoming vote, which is obviously an equivalent call to violence and somehow implicates the government in the September 11th massacre of 30 campesinos by Fernadez's paramilitary goons. And its only fair and balanced that


every man, woman and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity", he can start by appointing an Ambassador to Bolivia who won't peddle bold face lies or support coup mongers.

On the crazy front, head of the Anti-Defamation League Abraham Foxman denounced Bolivia and Venezuela's decision to cut diplomatic ties with Israel over its genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza claiming this means Evo and Hugo now "stand with the terrorist organization Hamas." According to Foxman, Morales' call for humanity is cause for concern for Bolivia's Jewish community, because apparently without diplomatic contact with Israel Evo is ready to throw all the Juden in concentration camps. God forbid Bolivian Jews might feel more fidelity towards their home than Israeli war crimes. Never mind that under Morales'fast down a country road in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, heading towards his sugar cane fields. He coaxes the red Mercedes over ninety and passes a truck full of peasants, regarding them in his rearview mirror.

"I bet they're headed to La Paz to take over the Congress or something," he says. "A new constitution is going to bring nothing but more problems."

From August 2006 to December 2007, Aguilera was actually part of an assembly that rewrote Bolivia's constitution. The draft will be approved or rejected by a highly anticipated referendum here on January 25.

In the morning on Sunday, January 18, after a heavy rain fell on La Paz, Bolivia, the sun came out, drying the umbrellas of thousands of marchers winding through the city streets. The mobilization was in


in the areas of personal rights and education. In contrast, women’s and other progressive groups had hoped that the new constitution would go further to lay the foundation for more liberal legislation.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

With the Gaza death toll exceeding 1,000 Evo Morales has expelled the Israeli consulate, calling their crimes by the proper name, "genocide".

"Considering these grave attacks against life and humanity, Bolivia will stop having diplomatic relations with Israel."

"The Israeli government's crimes affect global stability and peace and have returned the world to the worst stage of crimes against humanity that we hadn't seen except in World War II and in the last years in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda."

Additionally, Evo will seek charges against Israeli's leadershipfor crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court, andcompelling the UN General Assembly to begin investigations. Bravo (video of speech, Spanish only)

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Contestants for "Miss Hispanamerica 2008" during the October contest with Percy Fernández, the rightwing mayor of Santa Cruz Bolivia made famous in September by his open call for a military coup against Evo Morales, quoted by the NYTimes,

"This government has not learned how to govern, and for that reason I ask the armed forces to overthrow the president of the republic."

Then surprise, surpise! The contest winner Laura Zuniga of Mexico was arrested in December by Mexican police for arms and drug smuggling- her boyfriend only happens to be the brother of "El Doctor", head of the Juarez drug cartel. Promociones Gloria stripped her of the title for "consequence of events of public


Mental Exercise May Help Stave Off Parkinson's

People who have Parkinson's disease may someday find themselves undergoing a mental training regimen that helps them respond better to the drugs they take and to avoid surgery.

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LAWRENCE -- People who have Parkinson's disease may someday find themselves undergoing a mental training regimen that helps them respond better to the drugs they take and to avoid surgery.

But first, the results of animal studies by Richard E. Tessel and his colleagues must be found to work in humans.

"Our studies hint that exercising your brain every day might be just as important as 20 minutes of physical exercise," said Tessel, professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Kansas.

Work by Tessel and Stephen R. Schroeder, director of the KU Institute forsets of rats. Two of the sets contained normal rats. The other two sets contained rats that had had almost all of their dopamine-making cells killed, in effect inducing Parkinson's in them.

One set of normal rats and one set of Parkinson's rats were put through a training regimen that required them to push various levers different numbers of times to get food.

A second set of normal rats and of Parkinson's rats received no training.

After the training, Tessel and Schroeder gave all the rats a dopamine-like drug called apomorphine. They wanted to see if the trained Parkinson's rats that received apomorphine would behave better than the untrained Parkinson's rats that also got the drug.

The researchers found that the normal rats showed little change in behavior in response to the


“Given where the world is today, it is absolutely critical,” he added. “My interest and that of the board is how the Holocaust applies today.”

The Auschwitz installation, the first exhibition to feature major loans of artifacts from the former Nazi concentration camp in occupied Poland, is currently on display in Madrid and has drawn some 600,000 visitors. It will open in New York on May 8 — the date of the Nazi surrender in 1945.

The idea originated with Musealia, a Spanish for-profit company and creator of traveling shows including a world tour of Titanic items. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, on the site of the former camp complex, is receiving a fee to help produce the exhibition and it authorized Musealia and host museums to charge admission, a prospectwhen 7 may 2016 at some point, book only represent scrap value, after all depreciation has been taken. In financial accounting, scra

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economy that feeds 150,000 people. The country's poor salvage what they can from the cast-offs of the electronic revolution: copper, steel, brass. Nassir is one who has cashed in on the opportunities found in old cables and hard-drives. "It’s a good business. I have more and more work", he says. Yet workers pay the price for a few grams of copper; 4 million people die every year because of electronic waste and recycling workers have the lowest life expectancy in Pakistan. In his recycling shop, Akhbar earns 2€ on a good day. It feeds his family of six, but his health has suffered. "This job is dangerous. It’s very toxic". And the toxic legacy is far-reaching - "It’s a catastrophe...especially for the children", warns Saba, an activist forglobal subject you can imagine wanting to know about.

The E-Waste Curse: The deadly effect of dumping E-waste in Pakistan
Pakistan has become an illegal dumping ground for some of the 50 million tons of e-waste created each year. Karachi's poor earn a living from the toxic detritus, but the vicious cycle of consumption could prove fatal.
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Good Reads: What it means to be the "other" in America

This week's better long form stories help us make sense of the deeper cultural issues behind Sunday's Sikh Temple shooting, as well as the immigrant experience in America.

ByScott Baldauf, Staff writerAugust 11, 2012

Between two worlds

The shooting at a Sikh Temple in the Wisconsin town of Oak Creek last Sunday revealed an ugly side to America’s pluralistic society. In a country of immigrants, there are still people who hate or fear those they see as “outsiders,” and when those people have access to semi-automatic weapons, they can put their fear and hatred into action.

The shooter, a former US Army soldier named Wade Michael Page, was a white supremacist, and before he was gunned down by a police officer, Pagethe Arab indistinguishable from the Persian and the Turk, the Shia and the Sunni and the Sikh all taken for one bearded and turbaned body.”

The American dream

Shervin Malekzadeh, an Iranian-American immigrant and visiting assistant professor at Swarthmore College, makes a different point about an immigrant’s life in America. In an article in the Atlantic, marking the recent death of actor Sherman Helmsley, Mr. Malekzadeh, television was the tool for learning about America, and the 1970s comedy hit, “The Jeffersons” was the show that came closest to identifying the challenges of being an immigrant.

Making it in America, making it in terms of the American dream, was compromised for George and Louise by their loss, and it was here that The Jeffersons showed us where the American and immigrant experiences


and outsiders should be the ones doing the studying and accommodating.

Iran seems to be the big bogeyman these days, with its theocracy, questions about its nuclear program, its threats to cut off the Persian Gulf, its support for the embattled Syrian regime, and its continued support for radical militant groups like Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

But the West’s conflict with Iran has been brewing for decades, dating back to the early days of World War I, when British colonial officers arrived in the Persian oilfields to secure fuel for their military fleet. From that day onward, Britain, the United States, and Iran’s ruling elites were locked in a love-hate relationship that leaned heavily on hate.

In a review of Christopher de Bellaigue's biography of former Iranian prime minister Muhammad Mossadegh – aMr Eidelson, who last week revealed the damage to the rat stencils, says he thinks the whole wall should be preserved and possibly displayed in the National Gallery of Victoria. The stencils sat at the top of the blocked entranceway before the new doorway was installed. The recent damage is the latest in a series of mishaps that have destroyed a number of works by the elusive street artist, who painted stencils in city laneways when he visited Melbourne in 2003. "There are another two Banksys in that lane, they are the best Banksys left in Australia," Mr Eidelson says. "Obviously that's an absolute [attraction], three local Banksys. "In 2003 when Banksy visited, that was a seminal moment in street art," he says, that was influential for a


Management Plan notes that street art is by its nature temporary, ephemeral and forever changing." He said the council had no plans to preserve the remaining Banksy works in the laneway. There are precedents for protecting street art and displaying works in public galleries: the original door from the Collingwood mural painted by US street artist Keith Haring in the 1980s now hangs in the NGV. It had been stolen from the site but was later returned to Arts Victoria. The National Gallery of Australian in Canberra also has a substantial collection of Australian street art. Geoff Newton, a Melbourne gallerist who also values cultural gifts (items of significance donated from private collections to public institutions) said there were several arguments about whether street art should be protected.

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"Glee's" Jane Lynch paid tribute to her recently passed co-star Cory Monteith at Sunday's Emmy awards. She spoke about the young actor, who died unexpectedly in July from a toxic mix of alcohol and heroin.

Lynch started by speaking about the "star-quality" and "genuine sweetness" she noticed in Cory when they first met. She called him "a beautiful soul," and remembered how millions "fell in love" with him on screen and off. Lynch said Cory was "not perfect," adding that imperfection is something "many of us here tonight can relate to."

She also had something to something to say to Cory's young fanbase. Lynch reminded them that "this gifted and talented young man" was "worthy" of their love, and promised they would have "loved him even more" if theywere lucky enough to know him personally.

Jane's tribute to Cory at the Emmys was the subject of some controversy before the show, after the son of the late Jack Klugman complained about his father being ignored in the individual tribute segments. The late James Gandolfini, Jean Stapleton, Jonathan Winters and Gary David Goldberg all received individual tributes as well.


Structure and regulation of the Erwinia carotovora subspecies carotovora SCC3193 cellulase gene celV1 and the role of cellulase in phytopathogenicity.
The celV1 gene encoding a secreted cellulase (CelV1) of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora SCC3193 was cloned and its nucleotide sequence determined. The gene contains an open reading frame of 1511 bp and codes for an exported protein of 504 amino acids. The predicted amino acid sequence of CelV1 was highly similar to that of CelV of another E. c. subsp. carotovora strain SCR1193 but completely different from the previously characterized cellulase, CelS, of the strain SCC3193. Gene fusions to the lacZ reporter were employed to characterize the regulation of celV1 and celS. Both genes are coordinately induced in a growth phase-dependent manner and are catabolite repressed. Expression of celV1President Vladimir Putin has claimed Russia is not homophobic, saying the rest of the world has merely branded the country that way.

The Russian leader has claimed other countries, such as the US, is actually far more homophobic.

He was forced to defend his anti-gay laws, the ‘gay propaganda’ law and the ban on people from countries with same-sex marriage adopting Russian children. Putin was speaking with representatives of the Human Rights Council and the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia today (5 December).

‘Russia is not intending to breach the rights of gays though the priority of the country is a traditional family,’ he claimed.

‘The problem with the rights of gays in Russia is a label put on Russia by other states.’

The president claimed the United States, which technically still


A blog provided by University of Georgia Law Library compiling call for papers for conferences/symposiums.

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An abiding theme in law and society scholarship is the relationship between law and social change. Change can arise from many factors including the movement of people with their own traditions and beliefs, and their interaction with the forces of nature that affect the environments in which we live.

The site of the 2016 meeting, New Orleans, embodies as a place the experiences and processes of constant change that lie at the heart of law and society. Legally, socially, politically and geographically, the city has been a site of constant change, from flowing water and shifting siltto see what I might find. In one of them was a key, which I grabbed, placed on the desk, and then returned my hand to shut the drawer. Then I found a cabinet with a keyhole and went to open it.

As I put the key inside, the beam of a guards flashlight flicked across the room and I huddled down behind the desk to avoid his gaze. Eventually he was satisfied with the empty room and turned around. That’s when I opened the cabinet to reveal a massive, sparkling gem, which also conveniently sounded the alarm.

Now the guards knew I was in there. I ducked down again and pulled open the center drawer to find a pistol and some ammo clips. I picked up the gun with


The music of the movie is given by Indian Ocean while the lyrics are penned by Varun Grover.

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Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town. Character Sketches:

Vicky Kaushal as Deepak Chaudhary: Deepak is a 25-year old boy from a Dom family, who burn dead bodies on the ghats of Benares. He is studying civil engineering and also helps out his family too in their work...though he wants to get out of it.

Richa Chadha as Devi Pathak: Devi is a 24 year-old girl working as a receptionist cumcounselor in a coaching center. As girls of her age would be, she's also curious about relationships and sex...unfortunately she gets embroiled in a controversy leading from her desires.

Shweta Tripathi as Shaalu Gupta: Shaalu is an upper-caste beautiful, honest and confident girl. She loves poetry and has a natural charm. She has fallen in love with Deepak...without thinking of the consequences.

Sanjay Mishra as Vidyadhar Pathak: An ex-professor of Sanskrit, Vidyadhar Pathak is a 52-year old Pandit selling 'puja samagri' on a Benaras ghat and also translates books. He also does the mundan sanskar for kids on the ghats and loves to discuss philosophy and history with his ghat neighbors...Devi is his daughter.

Nikhil Sahni as Jhonta: He is a free spirited orphan on the ghats of Benaras. He lives


The Academic RVU: Ten Years Developing a Metric for and Financially Incenting Academic Productivity at Oregon Health & Science University.
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What I did on summer vacation...Penguins Baseball

Caden never really had any interest in playing baseball until this year. However, this spring was a different story. He decided to try his hand at baseball. He was placed on a team that was new to the Ken Berry League, so they did have a lot to learn and a lot to overcome. Many of the teams that they played this year had been playing together since they were 4. The Penguins were not going to let that stop them.

These boys played in weather that was COLD!! Their very first game was played in temperatures of 23 degrees with a windchill of 12 degrees. By the end of the season, they were playing in 106 degree temperatures with


By Easton standards, Dunsby is a newcomer, having lived in town for a decade or so. He will square off against Easton Coalition candidate Val Buckley, a Republican, who has been director of the Easton Senior Center for more than 20 years.

The Republican Town Committee's vacancy subcommittee held a two-hour emergency meeting Friday night to figure out who its candidate ought to be.

"There was a lot of tension because of the short time before the election. Really, the campaign should have started by now," said one member of the panel who spoke on condition of anonymity. "There was campaign material that was already on its way to the printer that had to be canceled."

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Stewart StevensonBanffshire, Scotland

Born in 1946 and brought up in Cupar, Fife, I was educated at the local school - Bell Baxter - and then studied Mathematics at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with a modest degree in 1969. That's also the year Sandra & I married. Her family comes from the North East.

Thirty years later I retired from Bank of Scotland as Director of Technology Innovation and was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2001 as member for Banff & Buchan having first joined the SNP in 1961.

I am a Fellow of The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, a Member at The Institution


of Engineering and Technology, a Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists and an Associate Member of the Highland Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Association.

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Stewart Stevenson, SNP MSP for Banffshire & Buchan Coast, has welcomed new statistics showing an increase in the number of Home Fire Safety Visits in Grampian – and has paid tribute to the hard work and dedication of Scotland’s fire service.

Figures show that the number of Home Fire Safety Visits in Scotland rose from 56,251 in 2012-13 to 70,686 in 2013/14 – including a rise from 947 to 4369 in Grampian.

Mr Stevenson said:

“The men and women working in Scotland’s fire service do excellent work in our communities to promote safety and prevent fires –only one per cent of the total cancer research spend.

17 February 2015

Stewart Stevenson, SNP MSP for Banffshire & Buchan Coast, focused on the ‘unacceptable’ number of teacher vacancies in Moray at Topical Questions in the Scottish Parliament today (Tuesday).

Mr Stevenson asked the Education Secretary Angela Constance what contact was being made with Aberdeenshire Council to establish why the situation had arisen in Moray, and what steps were being taken to address the deficiency.

The Education Secretary said that efforts were being made at local and national level, and that she had met with representatives from Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council and Moray councillors.

She added:

“A number of actions are being taken - at national level, for example, for the fourth year in a row we have increased the number of


students going into initial teacher training. The increase has been disproportionately geared towards the University of Aberdeen, the University of Dundee and the University of the Highlands and Islands to help those geographical areas where there are shortages.

“At local level, as I know from my discussions, councils are using the flexibility of financial incentives and programmes such as the distance learning initial teacher education initiative, which the Government funds, to train up classroom assistants.”

Mr Stevenson welcomed the efforts being made and urged that everything should be done to remedy the situation.

He added:

“I am glad to hear that the Education Secretary is taking the teacher vacancy situation in Moray seriously and that measures are being taken to work towards alleviating the situation.

“The education of children in Moray is paramountpatients across NHS Grampian were seen within the four hour A and E waiting time target in the last three months of 2014.

Last October 93.6 per cent in NHS Grampian reached the four hour target, in November this went up to 95 per cent and there were 94.4 per cent in December 2014 seen within the set time. These figures exceeded the national averages which were 91.8 per cent for October and November 2014, and 89.9 per cent for December 2014 respectively.

Mr Stevenson praised the work of staff across Aberdeenshire as this winter has seen unprecedented pressures on A and E departments. Attendances in 2014 were the highest seen in any year since records began. In the quarter ending in December, attendances were up from last year, and


Get your cycles at the ready for Mid & East Antrim’s Bike Week

Residents are being urged to get on their bikes and take part in cycling events across the borough as part of National ‘Bike Week’.

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council is welcoming families of all ages to free events happening across Larne, Carrickfergus and Ballymena during the special week which runs from June 9-17.

In Larne, there will be a family fun cycle in the town centre on Tuesday, June 12, from 7-8pm with a Sprocket Rocket programme for kids and bike maintenance advice. Larne participants are asked to assemble at Broadway, just off Main Street. The route goes along Main Street, Lower Cross Street, Broadway and Point Street.

There will also be a family fun cycle, Sprocket Rocketand advice on Wednesday, June 13, in Carrickfergus town centre from 7-8pm. Riders should meet at High Street before completing their circuit taking in Antrim Street and North Street.

Events in Ballymena include an Olympic Street Velodrome on Sunday, June 10, at Broughshane Street Car Park from 11am-6pm. Street Velodrome will bring all the excitement and drama of Olympic style track pursuit racing with its innovative pop up velodrome, complete with steep banked corners. Bikes, helmets and professional coaching is provided for all ages. There will also be a range of stallholders offering cycling information and cycle related arts and crafts.

On Monday, June 11, from 6.30-9.30pm at Ballymena Showgrounds families can take part in a Sprocket Rocket programme for kids on the 2G pitch, race events on the main


In the midst of an expanse of dry land, thousands of Syrian refugees have been living in Zaatari Camp, Jordan, opened two years ago.

Some have turned to gardening to help them adapt to life in the camp and bring a bit of greenery to the desert landscape that has become their home.

Mohammad Abu Farah, who works at Save the Children youth centre in Zaatari Camp, is providing gardening and landscaping lessons to children in the camp as a form of informal education and psychosocial support.

"When the children arrived at the camp, they had just come from a violent war. Many of them were introverted and struggled in making friends. They were violent to one another," Farah said. "After we started implementing gardening classes, the children learned to workin a team, and started to build friendships."

"Gardening allowed them to make something with their hands, and gave them a sense of accomplishment. We have seen an incredible change in them."

Samar, 48, fled to Jordan with her husband and five children after two of her brothers-in-law were killed.

Zaatari camp has been home to her family for over two years. Prior to the war in Syria, Samar was a headmistress at a secondary school in Daraa and three of her daughters were attending university and studying engineering, architecture and physics.

They had a large house with a beautiful garden. Summers were spent cooking feasts with homegrown vegetables and sipping coffee under the shade of an olive tree.

"When we garden, we feel happy because there's something to do, such as watering


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? Twist the screw all the way into the cork (don't go half-way or you're likely to end up with half a cork).

? Anchor the cork screw's lever (the little notch at the tip of the bottle opener) on the lip of the bottle, hold the neck of the bottle with one hand and lift the corkscrew with the other.

? Pull the cork, twisting gently.

Mr. Saltzstein also stressed that "having a towel handy in order to wipe off any accumulated moisture"Entertainment News

Luke Bryan makes chart history with latest number one

Luke Bryan has another chart-topping hit. But this time the accomplishment has added significance.

Billboard.com says the country star's latest single, "Play It Again" has climbed to number one on the Country Airplay list to mark the ninth time he's led the list.

"Play It Again" leapt over the number two song, Florida Georgia Line's "This Is How We Roll," to take the top spot. Bryan is a featured performer on the duo's hit, making him the first singer to have the number one and number two song on the list since the chart was launched in January 1990.


After beating her sister Venus in the third round of the U.S. Open last week, Williams took time to praise Kaepernick and former 49ers safety Eric Reid for their courage.

"I think every athlete, every human, and definitely every African American should be completely grateful and honored how Colin and Eric are doing so much more for the greater good, so to say," Williams said. "They really use their platform in ways that is really unfathomable.

"I feel like they obviously have great respect from a lot of their peers, especially other athletes, people that really are looking for social change."

Kaepernick, who has been out of the NFL since he took a knee during the national anthem in 2016, was part of a new Nike ad campaign released Monday.in this draft. The point I was trying to make earlier is that teams will try to find the NEXT AJ Green, and they will. It just might not be a prospect with all the hype that Green had.

People said the 2010 draft was one of the strongest of all time, yet go back and look at the first 2 rounds and see how many players busted. Suh and McCoy were both seen as future HOFers, neither one of them lived up to their hype. Sam Bradford is one of the worst starting QBs in the NFL. Eric Berry (the next Ed Reed) has underwhelmed. Rolando McClain might be out of football next year. And so on and so on...

The quality of a given draft is always relative


The government is preparing a plan to entirely surround Israel with a security fence to "protect ourselves from the predators", Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday during a tour of the eastern fence under construction along the length of the Jordanian border.

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The eastern fence is designed to safeguard the airport being built in the Timna Valley, and it includes observation posts. The cost of building the fence's 30 kilometers and fortifying the airport stands at NIS 288 million.

Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touring the eastern fence (Photo: Kobi Gideon)

Netanyahu was accompanied on the tour by Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud), Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, and the GOC Southern Command. (The prime minister alsotoured the area of the airport.) Five of the 30 kilometers approved by the Cabinet have been built since September.

"The advantage of building here and along the Egyptian border is that there are no structures adjacent to the fence, not one kilometer away and not two kilometers away, that could serve as an opening," said the prime minister. "That's not the case in Gaza. This is potentially not the case in Judea and Samaria, where there are structures built adjacent to the separation line you are considering forming, either. When you build a fence there, you have to take into account that tunnels are being built underneath. Those who said that territory doesn't carry importance in the modern era should go to Gaza.

Netanyahu takes air tour of area


the above mentioned folding chairs and the applicant's folding chairs allow carriage in folded state, ease of storage and convenient use in unfolded state. Furthermore, the folding chairs are equipped with various functions such as attachment of a foot rest and storage of miscellaneous articles to further improve a user's convenience.
However, the improvements of the folding chairs are no more than slight increase in their convenience and applications, and they cannot afford seating comfort and stability and protection for a user's vertebral column in use.
In other words, because the folding chairs are constructed by fixedly coupling corner portions of seat sheets to front frame legs and rear frame legs, a user's buttock and vertebral column portions are positioned at the center of the seat sheet, thereby causing thebuttock of a user assumes an arched shape, thereby giving his of her vertebral column unreasonable load when the user sits in the folding chair. Consequently, occurrence of backache is inevitable after long hours of seating, such as while fishing and reading.
Furthermore, since two front corners of a seat sheet are coupled to and supported by front frame legs and two rear corners are coupled to and supported by rear frame legs, a user's body weight is concentrated on the center of a seat sheet, thereby causing a user's buttock portion to be positioned under his knees to have abnormal posture.
In such a posture, because the two front corners of the seat sheet are supported by the front frame legs, a supporting line is generated at a front


years as the resident Quaker Studies teacher at the Pendle Hill retreat center in Wallingford, PA. In 2013 she was the Mullen Writing Fellow at the Earlham School of Religion while working on Our Life is Love.

Marcelle Martin

Carole Spencer writes in the introduction to the book:

Marcelle understands and interprets early Quaker experience in fresh and profound ways because she has lived their journey in her inimitable way … . She enters into their story with empathy, thus parting the veil for the modern reader to cross the threshold into the profound realm of those early Quakers who lived a life of holiness and perfection… . She also displays a gift for telling the inspiring stories of modern Friends, who continue to flesh out that roadmap.Local women featured on 'Breaking Boston' reality series

Three South Shore women are among the cast on the new unscripted series “Breaking Boston,” premiering at 10 p.m. Thursday, March 13, on the A&E Network.

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Three South Shore women are among the cast on the new unscripted series “Breaking Boston,” premiering at 10 p.m. Thursday, March 13, on the A&E Network. The show, from executive producer Mark Wahlberg, follows a group of “working class women coming of age with the odds stacked against them,” according to a press release. Featured on the show are Courtney DeVoy, 25 of Weymouth; Noelle Trudeau, 26, and Valerie LaPaglia, 22, both of Braintree. In 2010, Trudeau appeared on the MTV show “Is She Really Going Out with Him?” – a reality series


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The Patriots trimmed their roster by two players Thursday, waiving undrafted rookie linebacker C.J. Johnson and long snapper Christian Yount.

Yount was the Browns’ long snapper from 2011-14 before being released in May 2015. He had signed with the Patriots in April.

The release of Yount leaves Joe Cardona as the lone long snapper on the Patriots’ roster as the team heads to training camp and seems to affirm that Cardona will be available to play in the NFL this season. He’s a graduate of the Naval Academy who has a service commitment to fulfill.

Cardona was a fifth-round pick of the Patriots in 2015 and handled all of the team’s long-snapping duties last season.

The Patriots signed Johnson in May. He was a four-year contributor at Ole Miss, where he playedThe present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Aster plant, botanically known as Aster novi-belgii and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘BKATRPU’.
The new Aster plant is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Maasdijk, The Netherlands. The objective of the breeding program was to develop new freely-branching container-type Aster plants with uniform plant habit and attractive inflorescence coloration.
The new Aster plant originated from an open-pollination in July, 2007 in Maasdijk, The Netherlands of a proprietary selection of Aster novi-belgii identified as code number 1001087, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with an unknown selection of Aster novi-belgii, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Aster plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single


flowering plant within the progeny of the stated open-pollination in a controlled environment in Maasdijk, The Netherlands in July, 2008.
Asexual reproduction of the new Aster plant by vegetative tip cuttings was first conducted in Maasdijk, The Netherlands in November, 2008. Asexual reproduction by cuttings has shown that the unique features of this new Aster plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.of operating as a for-profit entity that would create and hold a corpus of assets through the sale of DAO tokens to investors, which assets would then be used to fund ‘projects’,” the SEC described in its report.

However, after DAO tokens were sold but before any projects were funded, an attacker exploited its flawed code and stole approximately one-third of its assets, the SEC detailed. The subsequent investigation into the hack raised questions whether federal securities laws apply to the offer and sale of DAO tokens and whether these tokens were securities. Based on the facts presented, the Commission has determined that:

DAO tokens are securities under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”) and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”).

In the case of The DAO, the


a highly decentralized collection of polities. A comprehensive list of all of its anachronistic components has been made at List of states in the Holy Roman Empire, and would be much too large to fit here.

  Austria – Archduchy of Austria
  Bavaria – Duchy of Bavaria
  Bohemia – Kingdom of Bohemia
  Brandenburg – Margraviate of Brandenburg
  Electoral Palatinate – County Palatine of the Rhine
  – Republic of Florence
  Lorraine – Duchy of Lorraine
  – Duchy of Savoy
  Saxony – Electorate of Saxony
  Switzerland – Swiss Confederacy

Crowns and Unions
Crowns were composite monarchies composed of multiple countries under one ruler.

 Polish–Lithuanian union
 Spain
 Aragon – Crown of Aragon
GENEVA — Myanmar’s civilian leader, a Nobel laureate once extolled as a champion of democracy, could face prosecution for crimes against humanity because of the military’s attacks on Rohingya Muslims and other minority groups, United Nations investigators said on Tuesday.

Their statement was a new sign of how far the leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, had fallen from grace in the three years since she took office, overshadowed by the military’s campaign against the Rohingya.

She was first acclaimed as an icon of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar, having won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and endured many years of house arrest. Now she has become an international pariah for her government’s response to brutal oppressions by Myanmar’s military.

In a report to the United Nations top human rights


the changes new media has wrought in her country and about the process by which she became digitally literate.
Liwen's Digital Journey into the Computer World

Liwen Jin

My first time to touch a computer was in May 1995, when I was about to graduate from a primary school. My parents sent me to a professional institute to let me get some basic training in wielding the computer. However, when I arrived at that summer school, I was totally surprised and even scared by the fact that all of the students there were twenty or thirty something except me, only a 12 year old girl in that big class. During that time, very few Chinese people knew how to operate a computer. Computer education was limited to MS-DOS and keyboarding. Inthat class, though I was the smallest one, I got the highest grade in the final test, which made me pretty confident in utilizing the latest technologies, and it fascinated me with that small magic"box" at that young age.

After that, I had no more experience with the computer until entering high school in 1998. Every high school student in China was supposed to get some elementary computer education. However, the fact was far from the requirements set by the country's National Education Ministry. High school students usually sat in the computer room, busy doing their own homework. Driven by the intense pressure of College Entrance Examinations, high school students usually devoted all of their time to their studies. They did not have weekends, nor extra time to watch


TV or play the computer. They were usually regarded as one of the most "miserable" social groups in China. Besides, the Internet was not popular at all at that time. Getting access to the Internet was very expensive and the speed was quite slow. Without the Internet, a computer is just a dead body without its soul. To me, the computer at that time was an alternative to the typewriter, which had no connections to my daily life or studies at all.

The late 20th and early 21th century was a period when China was fervently riding the wave of the "information economy". The bubble of the dot-com economy in the West brought this fever to China too. The business of computers and dot-com rose to prosperity overnight.

In late2001, my parents bought me a $2,000 personal computer because I was admitted to one of the most famous universities in China. However, it was still rare for college students to carry a personal computer around on campus in that year. I became the first one in my department who owned a personal computer. Fully enjoying the "luxurious" convenience of the computer and the richness of information, I nonetheless slipped into one extreme. I became really immersed in the virtual world. I spent less and less time communicating with my classmates, but more and more time chatting with strangers on the Internet. In different chatting rooms, I disguised myself by different "identities": college student, female artist, singer etc. I enjoyed discussing art, Chinese literature, films, and entertainment news


with different people using different identities. Just as Sherry Turkle says in her book Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, the existence of the Internet has become a place where people are able to forge "cyber-identities" and even get more comfortable being who they are. The Internet possesses the magic to "decentralize" the social identities of users in the virtual world--it strips users of their identities, wealth, social status and social relations in the real world, which makes it possible for online individuals to freely express their opinions and communicate with each other. It "shatters" the "bodies" of people, making their online identities so fragmented and multiple that it becomes really difficult to unify them. Besides, I felt that the separation of onlinethat time. But after I turned him down, he looked so natural and unembarrassed when encountering me on campus. It seemed that the guy on the Internet was not "him" at all. Indeed, the Internet, in this sense, greatly challenged the Chinese tradition of Confucianism which urged people to abide by the principle of moderation and to avoid verbal aggressiveness in any case.

One of the most interesting cyber events during that period was cyber love. It became a fashion especially among college students, since young students had more time surfing on the Internet and they could usually pick up new technologies much more quickly than other social groups. Besides, people do tend to be more frank and audacious in cyberspace. There was a popular love story entitled "First


Intimate Touch" written by a Taiwanese writer on the Internet during that period. It described a tragic cyber love story which got widely spread among college students. In fact, the "First Intimate Touch" also ushered in the prosperity of cyber literature in China. The Internet opened a new door to aspiring writers and connected them closely with the audience. In the past, writing had long been considered as a lonely profession, but when prose and poems got put on the Internet, the instant feedback made writing not so lonely any more. That phenomenon could be regarded as the early stage of the convergence of media producers and consumers.

In 2003, another kind of online community began to fascinate me. That was the online Bulletin Board System (BBS). My university'sBBS was one of the most popular college BBSes. It was usually deemed the virtual home to all NJU (Nanjing University) students, just like Mecca to the Islamic. Even though I have been graduated for nearly two years, I still cannot get rid of the habit of logging into NJU BBS every day to see the latest news and join students' discussions of hot social issues. I thought BBS could be a virtual form of the Habermasian public sphere for the cause of China's democratization. However, I gradually found that online communities like BBS only validated the theory about the principles of the popular mind of large gatherings of people on the Internet. This theory was first proposed by French social theorist Gustave Le Bon in his book


which used a 19th century wood-print image of Japanese soldiers beheading Chinese prisoners, was spotlighted on MIT's home page. Unexpectedly, these images swiftly sparked complaints from the MIT Chinese community. Some Chinese students re-posted the images to several famous college BBSes in China, which stimulated a vehement fever of anti-Japan hatred on China's BBSes. Those "angry young people"began to throw "bricks" on the Internet. Someone even exposed the email address of Professor Shigeru Miyagawa, and instigated people to condemn him via email. Vociferous comments flew around the BBS sphere. Most of them were rude, while truly rational and objective voices were only submerged under the abuse. Obviously, the masses in the blogosphere could easily lose their rationality and follow the "emotional thought process."

In 2004, the term "blog" becamea key word of that year in China. I also joined the crowd to chase that trend. I established my first blog on the Internet and kept writing essays and poems on it. It was really a wonderful place for me to write my meditation on various social, political or cultural issues, and then share with my friends. Compared to BBS, the advantage of the blogosphere lies in its greater rationality than the BBS sphere. On BBS, with their true identities veiled and agitated by mass netizens, people tend to express extreme ideas and they are free of any responsibility for the consequences of their speaking and contents. In the blogosphere, one blog is a separate and independent unit, which is immune to the chaos of the crowd.


Besides, after the advent of blogs I saw a trend of the unification of online identities with offline identities in China. Some bloggers have begun to view their blogs as a virtual spiritual home and uncover their real identities on blogs. In this way, netizens will be more responsible for their online speeches. Thus, blogs were supposed to become a powerful driver to accelerate the democratization process in China. However, it dismayed me again. The swift development of celebrity blogs in 2005 finally brought a rigid hierarchy in China's blogosphere. The popularity of a blog became positively related to the fame of the blogger in real life. Celebrity blogs greatly overshadowed common people's voices, the result of which discouraged ordinary people from participating in the democratization in China.else except your work. The affluence of information on the Internet is thus a virtue as well vice to us. To me, I will continue my journey in this colorful digital world. And I will continue exploiting every chance brought about by new media to promote the democratization in China. I believe that should be regarded as one of the most important missions for overseas Chinese students, to develop and advance our own country along the way of democracy.

Jin Liwen hails from China, where she received her undergraduate degree in media and communications from Nanjing University followed up by studies in American politics and history and international relations at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. She interned in the news commentary division at


China's largest media organization, China Central Television (CCTV), and worked as a journalist at News Probe, an investigative documentary series that addressed the problems of marginal populations such as homosexuals and AIDS patients. This experience encouraged Liwen to turn her academic work towards a critical investigation of the relationship between various media forms (traditional media, blogs and online bulletin board systems) and the development of a democratic culture and public sphere. At CMS, she is eager to continue her research into the role of media in facilitating political democratization and international cultural understanding.Service: The private counterpart to the government-built R101 designed by Barnes Wallis. Based at government airship establishment at Cardington, Bedfordshire for trials. Made a trans-Atlantic flight to Canada in July 1930, reaching Saint-Hubert, Quebec in 78 hours. Return flight in August took just 58 hours. After the crash of R101, the British rigid airship program was terminated and R100 was sold for scrap in Nov 1931.


it calls ‘curated, immersive experiences’ led by different experts in a particular city. After contacting me, we worked hard on the tricky task of coming up with the idea for a food-related walking tour of one part […]

To launch its new London site, US food media outlet Eater hosted a panel discussion in July looking at issues and things to celebrate about the London restaurant industry in 2017. Chaired by its editor Adam Coghlan, I featured as a panellist alongside ES Magazine […]

Pergola on The Roof Winter is a series of restaurants on a roof above the old BBC building in White City, West London, open throughout the autumn / winter of 2016. Run by Incipio Events, the company responsible for the successful Feast and Little Feast streetfood festivals, as well […]

Given my background in food journalism and street food blogging, Unilever’s development team asked me to lead them on a tour of four of London’s street food markets, both old and new. We spent a day looking at and discussing different emerging street food trends, […]

The events team at London Fields bar and restaurant, Wringer & Mangle, asked me to curate a series of eight supper clubs celebrating the different local food and food cultures of East London. Throughout April, May and early June 2016, we hosted a full house […]

Pergola on The Roof was a special pop-up involving the set-up of 3-4 restaurants on a roof above the old BBC building in White City, West London, open throughout the summer of 2016. Over


On Thursday afternoon, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stood alongside U.S. President Donald Trump for a press conference in the Rose Garden, where Trump spoke of both his “strong working relationship” and “great personal friendship” with the Japanese prime minister.

The U.S. president, days away from a historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, thanked Abe for his help in making the meeting happen, said the meeting could result in something “great” for Japan, and reassured the prime minister that he would “continue to be in very close communication in the weeks ahead, including [on] the issue of Japanese abductees.” Abe for his part praised Trump’s leadership and pledged to make “every effort” to make the summit a success.

On the surface, this exchange looked like a fairly routineexchange between the two leaders, not dissimilar from their last meeting at Mar-a-Lago in April. Trump’s effusive praise of his relationship with Abe, forged over rounds of golf in Florida and in Japan and dozens of phone calls, and his promise to discuss Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea when he meets with Kim seemed carefully crafted to help Abe, embattled by scandal months before he prepares a bid for a third term as ruling party leader that would enable him to serve another three years as prime minister. Abe is eager to show the Japanese people that his special relationship with the U.S. president makes him irreplaceable as Japan’s leader.

However, listening carefully to the two leaders talk Thursday, the most notable feature of the press conference was


relationship with the U.S. president to boost his standing at home and abroad. But despite concerns that Trump could “abandon” Japan in talks, Japan could still benefit from efforts that reduce the risk of war on the Korean peninsula. There is little silver lining for Japan or Abe from trade friction with the U.S., which therefore poses a particularly acute challenge to Abe’s bid for another three years in power.

As the Trump administration increases pressure on Japan through unilateral tariffs, Abe has to strike an increasingly difficult balance. He has to defend Japan’s economic interests while avoiding an overt break with Trump that threatens cooperation in other areas. He ultimately has to show that his close relationship delivers positive results for Japan, making him irreplaceable as prime minister.

Noa certain size to file an annual report on the work they’ve done to clear deforestation – and other issues – from their supply chains. France already has a similar law, put in place in 2017. ClientEarth, the Forest Coalition and the Greener UK coalition have been leading calls for such a requirement to be included in the current environment law. ClientEarth is also among a number of organisations pushing the EU to look at similar regulation to fulfil the aims set by the deforestation communication published in July.

Additional reporting by Nadeem Badshah and John Siddle

Rise of the ‘wonder bean’: from deforestation to your plate

Home to the screaming hairy armadillo: the forest the world forgot


President Donald Trump has signed a bill reopening the US Government, ending a 69-hour display of partisan dysfunction after Democrats reluctantly voted to temporarily pay for resumed operations.

Key points: Legislation to renew funding easily passes Senate and House

Legislation to renew funding easily passes Senate and House Donald Trump signs bill behind closed doors in the White House

Donald Trump signs bill behind closed doors in the White House Mr Trump says Democrats "have come to their senses"

The Democrats relented in return for Republican assurances that the Senate would soon take up the plight of young immigrant "Dreamers" and other contentious issues.

The vote set the stage for hundreds of thousands of federal workers to return, cutting short what could have become a messy and costly impasse.

The House approved the measureshortly thereafter, and Mr Trump later signed it behind closed doors at the White House, allowing Government to reopen through until February 8.

The measure needed 60 votes, and Democrats provided 33 of the 81 it got. Eighteen senators, including members of both parties, were opposed.

Most Democrats had initially opposed the funding bill, demanding that the Senate also approve protections for Dreamers.

Democratic leaders — worried about being blamed for a disruptive shutdown — accepted a Republican promise to hold a full Senate debate over immigration and the 700,000 Dreamers who were brought to the United States illegally as children.

Mr Trump's negotiations with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer collapsed on Friday into recriminations and finger pointing and the deal to reopen the Government was cut without him.

The Republican President took


spent the day at home after being furloughed from his job at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

"It was essentially a lunch break," Mr Chapel, who works at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, joked.

What is a Dreamer? A child of unauthorised immigrants to the US

A child of unauthorised immigrants to the US Many have gone to school in the US and identify as American

Many have gone to school in the US and identify as American Takes its name from an unpassed 2001 bill that would allow pathway to US citizenship

Takes its name from an unpassed 2001 bill that would allow pathway to US citizenship Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was designed to provide relief from threat of deportation

DeferredAction for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was designed to provide relief from threat of deportation A two-year, renewable DACA authorisation allows for reprieve from deportation, work rights, drivers' licence and bank accounts Source: National Immigration Law Centre

"I'm a much more relaxed federal employee now that I have had a nice lunch break."

The shutdown undercut Mr Trump's self-crafted image as a dealmaker who would repair the broken culture in Washington.

It forced Mr Trump to cancel a weekend trip to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and created uncertainty around his scheduled trip this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The US Government cannot fully operate without funding bills that are voted on in Congress regularly.

Washington has been hampered by frequent threats of a shutdown in recent years as the


see. But if you were to put the frog into a pan of water that is at the frog's body temperature, and then slowly turn up the heat, the frog will stay in the water -- even to the point of boiling alive.

This is because the frog would not notice the gradual change in temperature: Alcohol-ism works the same way: the heat is constantly turned up, but nobody notices - because it's so gradual: cunning, deceptive, and baffling!

It is a progressive "disaster". Initially, people may start out with casually accepting unacceptable behavior(s); "Oh, he/she didn't mean that, she/he just had too much to drink last night". But a few years down the road the behaviour will have slowly grown more and more intolerable, but it is still beinglike Dead Rising, the Fatal Frame franchise, and Beyond Good and Evil (one of my favorite games of all time, by the way) that use photography, but it was never the main focus of the game. The one game I could think of that used photography as a major mechanic besides the Fatal Frame franchise was a PlayStation 3 game called Afrika. Recently in an interview with Polygon, the director of the soon-to-be-released Pokémon X & Y games, Junichi Masuda, who is best known for working on the Pokémon franchise and games like Drill Dozer and HarmoKnight, was asked about a sequel to this fan favorite Pokémon game. Of course, he didn’t give a straight answer as to whether they have an idea about doing for a sequel


An incredibly rare car is set to hit Bonhams auction house in December and could be sold for as much as £350,000 – not least because it once had an A-list owner. The Facel Vega II was sold between the years of 1962 and 1964 and built up quite a following in its short life. Joan Collins, Stirling Moss, Pablo Picasso and Frank Sinatra have all been credited to have owned one in their lifetime, but this particular model was driven by former-Beatle Ringo Starr.

French firm Facel delivered around 2,900 cars in its history, with an aim to be stylish, luxurious and produce high-speeds. As they were hand-built, the vehicles were expensive when released, sitting in the same category as models produce by Rolls-Royce.

The company however went bankruptafter unsuccessfully attempting to enter the engine manufacturing sector. Therefore, the Facel II would end up being one of the last V8-engined models from the brand. After launching in 1954, Facel eventually had to close in 1964.

Ringo bought the car for around £5,750 in 1964, the equivalent of around £42,000 in today’s money. However, at auction, it could make over eight times that amount when it goes under the hammer at the end of the year.

The vehicle comes in right-hand-drive and features a 6.7-litre engine in addition to a manual gearbox. Only 182 models of the Facel II were ever made. While the Facel II is rare in itself for being right-hand-drive – with only 26 of the model ever made with this feature – the car is


even more sought after, as it is one of just two of the four-seat coupes ever made with its exact specifications.

With an exterior that delivers the aesthetics of a 1960’s American sedan, but with a distinct air of luxury, the vehicle is featured in burgundy and looks in excellent condition.

Not only will the car appeal to fans of classic cars and French motoring history, lovers of the Beatles are also expected to be fighting for the impressive model.

Sholto Gilbertson, director in the Bonhams collector car department, said: “As Ringo drove this car, he would have listened on the car radio to the Beatles’ total domination of the pop charts.

“This car has to be one of the rarest and most collectable modern classic cars given its almost unique engineeringand its place as part of pop music history.”

In addition to the former Beatle’s previously-owned car, the December 1st auction – to be held in London – will see a collection of rare Ecurie Ecosse race cars – built by a Scottish-based team that was famed for having won the 24 hour Le Mans race in 1956 and 1957 – go on sale.

Cars owned by members of The Beatles have gone on sale at auction before and have earned a very pretty penny.

In 2012, Paul McCartney’s 1964 Aston Martin DB5 sold for £344,400 at auction, hitting the middle of its estimate between £300,000 and £380,000.


efficient and creating less traffic. For the rich the hybrid is a way to buy into the car-pool lane and ease their minds for their instant green lifestyle.

Not only is resale value a concern for the other 95% of Americans - new clean Diesel technology is about to be launched. GM, VW, etc. The vehicles made for the masses who have budgets. This new diesel technology will provide sedans with 45 plus MPG highway! In addition the dual mode hybrids will be out shortly - providing both city and highway fuel efficiency.

We are still early in the adaption stage - those who must have the latest, those who want the car-pool lane, and those born again environmentalist who use it to attack or judge others.

Thrifty people buy hybridsare successful at responding to this challenge, as the educational development and success of our future physicians depends on it.

Much has been written about generational differences in medical education, often framed as a "culture clash" between baby boomer/generation X educators and generation Y (millennial) learners. The millennial generation, born between 1981 and 1996, was the first to grow up with almost lifelong access to the Internet and has been described as "highly educated, optimistic about their future" and invested in "integrity and social responsibility."[@bib1] However, many of our current medical students, especially preclinical students in their first and second years, are no longer in the millennial generation but in fact part of generation Z (born in 1997 or later). Generation Z is "hyperconnected and facile with computers and


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Drunk dad makes 8 year old drive & it doesn't end well

A 46-year-old man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was too drunk to drive and wise enough to make the decision not to, but stupid enough to think it was a good idea to have his 8-year-old son drive for him instead. Oh yeah! Frank Gordon Conwaytold his 8-year-old son to drive a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee right before midnight on August 4. The little boy sat on his father's lap drove the SUV through yards, a street, a parking lot and then straight into a tree.

The police interviewed Conway and his son at Indiana Regional Medical Center. Conway said "he did not see a problem" with letting his son drive. ¡Diosmío!

The little boy told police that he had been sitting between his father's legs and driving the SUV, but that he accidentally hit the wrong pedal and that's why they crashed into the tree. The little boy has injuries on the left side of his face and his sternum because of the accident. He could have been killed!

This father is ridiculous. He gets drunk while he's supposed to be taking care of his kid and he doesn't even stay at home where at least his kid could have gone to bed, instead he has the kid out close to midnight and then he has the kid drive?

Of course the father has been arrested. I hope the boy's mother managed to slap him hard before he was taken to


Daily Archives: 2011-03-08

“Caught between their boss’ anti-lobbyist rhetoric and the reality of governing, President Barack Obama’s aides often steer meetings with lobbyists to a complex just off the White House grounds – and several of the lobbyists involved say they believe the choice of venue is no accident. It allows the Obama […]

“Actor Matt Damon — who was one of the President’s earliest and best-known celebrity supporters during his 2008 campaign—said point blank that he was unhappy with the way the country is being run in an interview with Piers Morgan last night. He also slammed the President for failing to follow through […]PAPER has always been a place of opportunity, a place that spotlights new talent and people who are doing tremendous things. We've spent over 20 years bringing you the Beautiful People issue, which identified amazing people who were doing things differently and using their creativity, ideas and success to transform culture and create new opportunities for artists, audiences and fans. This year, we have decided to rename the portfolio and call it exactly what it is: PAPER People. — Drew Elliott, Editor-in-Chief

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Michael Avenatti calls it like he sees it, and the Left loves him for it.

The Los Angeles-based lawyer, who has emerged as one of Donald Trump's most visible — and effective — opponents, first rose to national prominence for his work


representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuits against Trump and his fixer, Michael Cohen, that stem from her alleged affair with the President. Avenatti's bold soundbites and keen media savvy have led some to draw comparisons between the lawyer and the man in the Oval Office, but that's where the similarities stop. As anyone who has watched Avenatti on TV — or who has followed his pro bono work reuniting migrant families who were separated at the border — can attest, while POTUS punches down when targeting the disenfranchised and powerless in his attacks, Avenatti punches up, defending those whose voices aren't being heard. When Trump and his team "go low, we hit harder," the lawyer says of his strategy. (And as we've seen so far, he'smore. He also said that if he chooses to run, he will not accept money from corporate PACs.

While he's been busy exploring his long-term options, in the short-term, Avenatti has also been stumping for Democratic candidates up for election during the 2018 midterms. And then, of course, he's still working hard on the ongoing matter that was responsible for thrusting him into the spotlight in the first place: Stormy Daniels' lawsuits. In her civil suit against Donald Trump and Michael Cohen seeking to get out of the non-disclosure agreement she signed on the grounds that Trump himself never signed the document and that both the NDA and the $130,000 "hush money" Cohen paid her along with it were campaign finance violations, things seem to be slowly, but surely,


going their way. A major — and helpful — development occurred three weeks ago when Cohen pleaded guilty in court to a variety of charges including the aforementioned campaign finance violation and implicated the President in the process, saying in his plea that Trump knew of the payment and that it was arranged "for the principal purpose of influencing the election." While Daniels' lawsuit may have to wait to move forward until after Cohen gets sentenced in December, in the meantime, Avenatti has been, in his own words, "chomping at the bit" to depose Donald Trump himself. While lawyers and pundits think it's unlikely that the President will voluntarily sit for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, it's a tantalizing — albeit far from certain — prospectand then shipped thousands of miles away and then, in many cases, lost.

And I would submit that in the event that there was a white family from the Midwest, from the state of Missouri, where I grew up, for instance, if they traveled to the Middle East somewhere and if one of the governments in the Middle East stripped their children from them as they came into the country and then lost them and refused to return them, that would be an international incident of epic proportions. And here we are in the United States adopting a policy that allows for thousands of families to effectively be destroyed. But this isn't going to end once these families are reunited. We've already seen this in connection with the families


Following on from the unveiling of the new HTC Vive Pro headset during this year’s CES 2018 technology show, which took place in Las Vegas earlier this month. A new photographs have been released showing the virtual reality motion controllers of the new HTC Vive Pro, finished in their distinctive blue colour. As well as a first glimpse at the new SteamVR 2.0 tracking base stations (in the background) which will also be launched hopefully sometime during 2018.

Very little is known about the specifications of the new HTC Vive Pro virtual reality headset, but what we do know is that it will provide a higher resolution when compared to the current HTC Vive headset. The Pro VR headset will also support the new SteamVR 2.0 base stations, secondby a central authority but instead emerges out of many smaller parts as they compete and coordinate. Nobody plans a modern capitalist economy, but one falls out of millions of individuals working, innovating, improvising, and consuming.

13 Describe some of the controversies in interpreting Hayek’s thought.

While Hayek was a preeminent economist squarely in the Austrian tradition he was not simply a follower of Mises. He differed from Mises in his interpretation of the socialist calculation debate: while Mises believed that collective ownership of the means of production made an effective socialist economy impossible, Hayek is thought to have believed it merely made an effective socialist economy really, really unlikely.

Hayek pointed out that there are two kinds of ‘liberalism’: a rationalist variety that derives laissez-faire deductively from first principles, and


Nationalökonomie, and Human Action was a version so extensively revised and updated as to be a whole new book.

14 Did the American economics profession welcome Mises?

He had some allies and students, he found a teaching position at the New York University Graduate School of Business, and he found a publisher for Human Action, but by and large no, he was not welcomed by America’s economic intellectuals.

15 Was Mises a believer in logical positivism?

No. He penned a critique of it called The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method, and was dismayed to see some of Hayek’s implicit endorsements of neo-positivism.

The World Systems Project is going to begin with a thorough examination of Austrian economics, starting with Robert P. Murphy’s outstanding “Austrian Economics Home Study Course“. TheFrom where he stands, Nate McLouth can look back at his journey and smile. He has certainly earned it. The 32-year-old with slick blonde hair from Whitehall, Mich., has the job security of a two-year deal with the Washington Nationals worth $10.75 million , plus a third-year option. The Nationals have playoff aspirations, and he is their first outfield option off the bench. He is in a comfortable place with teammates from other stops along his nine-year major league career.

Less than two years ago, he was nowhere close to any of this. The Pittsburgh Pirates released him and his .140 batting average on May 31, 2012. He had struggled the previous two-plus years, too, posting a .229 average with the Atlanta Braves. He was once an all-star and


overlapped with in Pittsburgh and in Atlanta. He wanted to know about living in Washington and the city. “This is the place I wanted to be of all the teams I was talking to by far,” said McLouth, who could have received more playing time for other potential suitors.

So far, McLouth is fitting in with his new teammates. He knows several from previous stints. With the Braves in 2009, he played with relievers Rafael Soriano and Mike Gonzalez, who was with the Nationals in 2012 and signed a minor league deal with Washington this week. By then, McLouth was already a nearly fluent Spanish speaker, having honed the Spanish he learned in high school and in the minor leagues.

But one day, Gonzalez told Soriano about McLouth’s Spanish. AtNationals have playoff aspirations, and he is their first outfield option off the bench. He is in a comfortable place with teammates from other stops along his nine-year major league career.

Less than two years ago, he was nowhere close to any of this. The Pittsburgh Pirates released him and his .140 batting average on May 31, 2012. He had struggled the previous two-plus years, too, posting a .229 average with the Atlanta Braves. He was once an all-star and a Gold Glove winner, but that summer, after he was cut, he was back home in Knoxville, Tenn. He hoped to relax with his wife, Lindsay, and their two dogs, but he couldn’t.

“It was strange,” McLouth said earlier this week, seated at his locker inside the Nationals’ clubhouse at


the undersigned granted. Ms. Finn said she would obtain
and file the medical records.

         On October 19, 2012, petitioner filed a Certificate of Completion, stating that she had
filed a complete set of medical records.

         On November 13, 2012, the undersigned issued an Order to Show Cause why the case
should not be dismissed based on the medical records showing that the same symptoms about
which petitioner complained Gardasil caused had occurred prior to vaccination on two occasions,
i.e., in May and June 2007, which her treating doctors attributed to a virus. The undersigned
suggested in the Order to Show Cause that if petitioner wanted to continue her petition, she
should amend her petition to allege significant aggravation. Inthe dosage of
Elavil three times. Id. at ¶¶ 24, 27, 30. He also prescribed Ativan. Id. at ¶ 30. Hypnosis failed
to resolved petitioner’s headaches. Id. at ¶ 31. On September 8, 2009, Dr. Nichter discontinued
Ativan and started petitioner on Cymbalta. Id. at ¶ 32. On September 16, 2009, petitioner tried
Reglan and Depakote, and a higher dosage of Inderal and Cymbalta. Id. at ¶ 34.

         On October 6, 2009, petitioner saw Dr. Nichter because she was having syncopal
episodes: she would see black spots and fall to the floor. Id. at ¶ 35. He noted petitioner had
tachycardia, and weaned her off Inderal. Dr. Nichter said physical therapy was imperative. Id.
On October 21, 2009, petitioner took Ambien for sleep issues. Id. at ¶


headache.)

       On December 19, 2014, the parties filed a stipulation of interim attorneys’ fees and costs.
The undersigned issued a decision on the same date, awarding interim attorneys’ fees and costs
based on the stipulation.

    On May 14, 2015, respondent filed a supplemental expert report of Dr. Rosé. Ex.
AAAAAA.

       On June 11, 2015, petitioner filed additional medical records. Exs. 552, 553.

        On June 15, 2015, petitioner filed her affidavit. Ex. 554. Petitioner states that on
February 15, 2009, she developed a sore throat, fatigue, a low-grade temperature, and swollen
glands, which continued for about one week. Id. at ¶ 5. On February 20, 2009, she developed a
very painful headache. Id.at ¶ 6. On February 21, 2009, her headache worsened and felt like it
was 9 out of 10 on the pain scale. Id. at 7. She also had nausea, photophobia, and phonophobia.
She had no appetite and refused to eat or drink. She lay on the couch in a dark, quiet room and
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did not move. Id. Petitioner saw her primary care physician, Dr. Kennette, on February 26,
2009. Id. at ¶ 8. Dr. Kennette diagnosed her with migraines and prescribed


Lortabs and Imitrex.
Id. On May 4, 2009, petitioner saw Dr. Magdi Sobeih, a pediatric neurologist, who concluded
there was nothing wrong with petitioner and suggested petitioner see a psychiatrist or
psychologist, which petitioner stated was extremely upsetting to her and traumatized her. Id. at ¶
16. She saw Dr. Steven Sandler, a pediatric psychiatrist, at the end of summer 2009, who told
her he did not suspect her symptoms were psychosomatic, but his attempt to help her headaches
with hypnosis failed. Id. at ¶ 25. Once petitioner started school in September 2009, her
headaches worsened and her improvement in her ability to walk and her gait declined, resulting
in her not attending school. Id. at ¶ 27. On October 6, 2009, petitioner saw Dr. Nichter. At this
point, she was having dizzy episodes where she wouldsee black spots and fall to the floor. Id. at
¶ 29. She also had tachycardia. Id. On October 21, 2009, she saw Dr. Sandler again 5 for
sleeping issues. Id. at ¶ 30. He prescribed Ambien, which resulted in her having severe
disorientation and hallucinations. Dr. Sandler then prescribed Trazadone, but she did not take it
for fear of side effects. Id. On November 6, 2009, she saw Dr. Charles Rheeman, a neuro-
ophthalmologist, for her difficulties in reading but he thought that stress was causing those
problems. She became very upset “because I knew I was suffering from something that was real
and the doctor’s opinion seemed to dismiss everything I had been going through.” Id. at ¶ 33.
On March 1, 2010, petitioner saw Dr. Nichter who questioned the diagnosis of POTS and
petitioner’s


July 21, 2015, respondent filed Ex. AAAAAAA (or for easier reading, Ex. 7A),
consisting of a medical history, dated August 1, 2010, which petitioner’s father prepared and
from which he testified. Petitioner’s father notes that petitioner’s first post-vaccination headache
occurred on February 20, 2009, which was five days after she had a severe sore throat, fatigue, a
low-grade temperature, and swollen glands, but 11 weeks and two days after her second Gardasil
vaccination, administered on December 3, 2008. Ex. 7A, at 1. He dates her inability to walk to
March 2, 2009, or 12 weeks (three months) after her second Gardasil vaccination, describing her
inability as an inability to find balance to walk, although never any true vertigo or nystagmus.
She would just seem to collapse onto the floor. She would describe her legs as just                                        6
syndrome. Id. Petitioner’s father notes that from September 2010 to June 2011, petitioner was
back to school full time and missed only two weeks in total. He states she easily fatigued and
always had a headache. Her school absences were related to fatigue or headache worsening. Id.
Petitioner’s father’s chronology ends after June 2011.

        On October 28, 2015, petitioner filed her posthearing brief.

        On February 1 29, 2016, respondent filed her posthearing brief.


April 25, 2006, petitioner saw Dr. Uhl on an urgent basis because of a new injury to
her right lower extremity. Id. at 7. She gave a history that her leg fell through a beach chair and
she hit her ankle. She had increased pain in her foot, ankle, and knee. She said her knee was
bruised. Dr. Uhl evaluated petitioner’s knee and found it was not particularly bruised or tender.
The ankle was slightly tender. X-rays showed absolutely no displacement from the initial films.
Dr. Uhl suspected this was a contusion. Id.

       On May 6, 2006, petitioner saw Dr. Uhl, complaining of pain in her foot, which was
slowly improving. Id. at 8.

         On June 26, 2006, petitioner sawDr. John A. DiPreta, another orthopedist with the same
group as Dr. Uhl. Id. at 9. He said petitioner had a history of recurrent ankle injuries. Petitioner
and her mother felt she had not really gotten any better and the ankle was not quite right. She
had pain in various parts of her ankle since her injury. Petitioner had another injury on June 25,
2006 after getting out of the pool when her ankle gave out. She had sharp, shooting pains.
Petitioner and her mother were quite frustrated because they felt this interfered with petitioner’s
ability to participate in activities. On physical examination, her sensory exam was normal. The
range of motion of her ankle, hindfoot, and midfoot were within normal limits. Strength
measured 4+/5. X-rays were unremarkable. Dr. DiPreta’s impression was petitioner had right
ankle pain.


He questioned whether petitioner had some sort of deconditioning and would benefit
from physical therapy. Id.

       On March 30, 2007, petitioner saw Dr. Uhl for pain to the end of her right thumb. Id. at
10. X-rays were negative for fracture and the thumb did not droop. Id.

         On June 6, 2007, when petitioner was 13 years old, she went to Pond View Pediatrics,
complaining that, for the prior six days, she had had severe headaches, great sensitivity to light,
and dizziness. Med. recs. Ex. 12, at 16 (same record at Ex. 574, at 3). She said she felt as if she
were on a boat. Id. She was afebrile and did not have cold symptoms. Id. When sheThis episode resolved within 24 hours. Id. Petitioner
said she had been fine until about one week previously when she again developed a headache
similar to the previous headache. Id. It was bilateral and frontal. Id. She had only a mild
amount of dizziness. Id. She also had photophobia, phonophobia, and associated nausea. Id.
She saw her primary care physician, who recommended she have a neurology consult. Id. She
had some associated nausea, but no vomiting. Id. In addition, petitioner had been at the
Emergency Department on June 7, 2007 for the same problem, during which she participated in
tests, including a brain MRI. The test results were normal, except for a complete blood count,
which had an elevated white count of 10,600. Id. On physical examination, petitioner was
sitting in a darkened room and appeared to


a trip with her family. It was unclear what was the etiology for her fatigue
when she was walking. Dr. Kennette told her to keep a log. Med. recs. Ex. 12, at 11 (same
record at Ex. 574, at 2.)

       On December 10, 2007, petitioner saw Dr. Uhl, complaining of injuring her right ankle
again. Med. recs. Ex. 14, at 12. Dr. Uhl suspected a ligament sprain. Id.

        On January 9, 2008, petitioner saw Dr. Uhl, who noted she was improving following her
sixth ankle sprain. Id. at 13. She needed to go to physical therapy. Id.

       On March 14, 2008, petitioner saw Dr. Uhl with an injured left thumb. Id. at 14.     On June 9, 2008, petitioner returned to Dr. Uhl, having made minimal progress. Id. at 20.
She was unable to move her thumb particularly well. She had spasms when attempting to do so.
Her hand was not particularly swollen. Dr. Uhl suspected petitioner had a complex regional pain
syndrome in addition to her microtrabecular fractures. Id.

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       On June 30, 2008, petitioner returned to Dr. Uhl, having reinjured her left thumb. Id. at
22.


Dr. Uhl for a left distal fibula fracture. Id. at 25.
She was having problems with the cast rubbing her big toe. Dr. Uhl did not even see a fracture
on x-ray. But he thought she did have one. Id.

       On September 22, 2008, petitioner returned to Dr. Uhl. Her left ankle fracture was
healing slowly. Id. at 24.

        On October 8, 2008, petitioner saw Dr. Uhl, having reinjured her left ankle. Id. at 26. X-
rays did not show any specific abnormalities. Id.

        On December 3, 2008, petitioner received her second Gardasil vaccination. Med. recs.
Ex. 13, at 3.

        On February 26, 2009, two andMarch 3, 2009, petitioner’s EBV nuclear antigen was weakly positive at 1:10. 10 Med.
recs. Ex. 8, at 16.

        On March 6, 2009, petitioner went to the Albany Medical Center Emergency Department
where she saw Dr. Joshua J. Hurwitz, who admitted her as an in-patient. Med. recs. Ex. 1, at 4.
Petitioner said she had two and one-half weeks of migraine headache pain (putting onset in the
third week of February 2009, or two and three-quarters months after the second Gardasil
vaccination.) Id. She complained of alternating symptoms of pressure, stabbing, multilocational
pain, bitemporal pressure, vertigo, nausea and vomiting with low-grade fever. Id. She stated she
had had one previous episode like this in July 2008 (one month before her first Gardasil
vaccination) when she had a couple of


2009, Dr. Kennette filled out a VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event
Reporting System) form, writing that petitioner received Gardasil on December 3, 2008 and the
onset of her vaccine reaction on February 21, 2009 or eleven weeks and three days later. Med.
recs. Ex. 12, at 34. The only adverse event Dr. Kennette described was protracted headache. Id.
Dr. Kennette states on the VAERS form that petitioner recovered. Id.

        On April 6, 2009, petitioner and her parents saw Dr. Nichter again. Med. recs. Ex. 1, at
16. She had slight improvement, but on Thursday night and Friday, she was working on a school
project and sleep was difficult. Id. On Friday, her headaches were 9/10 to 10/10, bitemporal,
and crushing, associated with photophobia, and phonophobia. Id. She did not1, at 19.

        On April 13, 2009, petitioner and her parents saw Dr. Nichter again. Med. recs. Ex. 1, at
19. She had significant photophobia, but her blurred vision resolved. Id. She had a slight
improvement in appetite. Id. Besides her headaches, her gait was of concern. Id. Her legs
seemed to her as if they were going to give in. Id. At times, she had more of a slither to the
ground than a frank direct fall from a standing position. Id. She had a little left neck tenderness
that appeared mild. Id. After a physical examination, Dr. Nichter wrote her migraines had


around, more on the right side. She
described it as vise-like, which then progressed to a pressure-like headache. She stated it felt as
if someone were dropping an anvil on it. She described pressure all around her head. None of
the therapeutic interventions made any difference. Loud noise or attempts to read made her
headaches worse. Her appetite decreased and she lost ten pounds. Certain smells bothered her.
She complained of dizziness. She felt unsteady and needed to lean on a wall. This resulted in
her inability to ambulate effectively. She tended to slide along a wall. “There has been some
suggestion of temporal association according to the family with [petitioner] having received the
HPV vaccine and then subsequently had the sore throat and a week later having headaches.” Id.
Because of her headaches, her doctor startedan eating disorder, migraine
headaches, and vertigo. Petitioner gave a history that, over the prior three months, she had
episodes of debilitating headache and dizziness, as well as photophobia, nausea, and
phonophobia. She had tried several medications including Antivert and Depakene without
improvement. She had a normal head MRI. All lab work, including Lyme titer, was normal. Id.
Dr. Mouzakes wrote that petitioner’s physical examination was reassuring. Id. at 2. He ordered
that petitioner have an ENG study for further evaluation of her inner ear balance system. He also
ordered an audiogram to evaluate her middle and inner ear findings. Since petitioner had missed
more than three months of school, he would expedite the ENG testing. Id.

       On May 13, 2009, petitioner had audiologic testing at the hearing center at


of a chair or a wall. Id. At night, she would fall to the floor and sort of
get up to go to the bathroom. Id. She stated it was difficult for her to concentrate even with a
homebound school program for a few hours. Id. She was unable to walk, and had decreased
appetite. Id. Smell or fragrance of food was problematic. Id. at 22-23. On physical
examination, she bore weight but had swaying when she tried to walk. Id. at 23. However,
when Dr. Nichter swayed in the opposite direction while walking with petitioner, petitioner
seemed to adjust her swaying and, when he moved her arm in a different way, she also adjusted
accordingly. Id. When Dr. Nichter tested her sensation, petitioner said “sharp” when he placed a
dull object on her leg. Id.especially in the left leg. During assisted standing, petitioner
held her left leg abducted and externally rotated at her hip, with the knee in hyperextension.
While attempting assisted steps, petitioner circumducted her left leg (circled her leg from the hip
to generate swing phase), showed plantar flexion (foot drop), and then hyperextended her knee
upon weight bearing with a flat foot placement that maintained her left ankle in a plantar flexed
position. Id. Petitioner had generalized muscle weakness throughout her trunk and extremities
due to deconditioning. During manual muscle testing, she had strength within functional limits
through her trunk and extremities at a good minus grade with the exception of left ankle eversion


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and supination control, which was fair. Petitioner was able to lie down and sit up on her own,
but her movement showed decomposition, which was slow and mechanical like a puppet. She
showed incoordination in all functional movement. Her grip strength was weak, but her writing
skills remained intact. Id. P-T Steck recommended physical therapy three times a week. Id. at
4. She spoke with petitioner’s neurologist and pediatrician, and her neurologist would see her
again. Her symptoms and movement pattern were typical for cerebellar involvement. In
addition, her limited diet and nutrition had an effect on her symptoms. P-T Steck recommended
an ophthalmologist examine petitioner considering her visualthe following week. Perhaps petitioner should have a
lumbar puncture. Id.

        On August 17, 2009, petitioner and her parents saw Dr. Nichter. Med. recs. Ex. 1, at 31.
Petitioner underwent EMG and nerve conduction studies, which were normal. Since Dr. Nichter
last saw petitioner on July 6, 2009, she had had “enormous variability.” Id. She could walk on a
board, walk independently, and, on one occasion, walk a few miles. The headaches were
variable, from mild to so severe she was weeping. She had photophobia and phonophobia. She
had a significant decrease in appetite. Petitioner’s father was researching vaccine-related
individuals. Id. On physical examination, petitioner could walk and move from chair to
standing. Id. at 32. She took several steps walking on her own and leaned on the side