and moans that spilled from her lips brought an entirely new level of carnal satisfaction. It didn't matter what position they were in, which roles they assumed, or even their own anatomy- they would find a way forward together, one filled with love and pleasure in equal measure. Unable to stop herself, she gripped the blonde's hips, using what leverage she could manage to thrust up into Elsa while pulling her down harder, reveling in how amazing it felt.

As their passions rose, so did their voices, neither woman particularly concerned about their audience. Anna was dimly aware that their bloodriders were nearby, though seemingly unconcerned with the proceedings down by the water's edge. If any dosh khaleen had taken notice of their actions, they were at least wisefor them all. The strongest, though, were the giddiness and joy evident in her voice. "No! Never!" She laughed, rolling on top of her beloved and glancing down, putting a hand on her wife's belly and imagining it swollen with a child born with their blood coursing through its veins, a near perfect twin for the child she was carrying. "Are you sure?"

Elsa easily matched her enthusiasm. "Certain."

There was a niggling doubt in the back of her mind, how both of them being pregnant at the same time could leave them vulnerable. It was quickly banished as she remembered what Kristoff had said earlier. So long as her conviction never faltered, she had nothing to fear; the blood of ancient dragons was now awakened within her. She'd triumphed


the dosh khaleen's trial, she'd killed her brother to protect her child and wife, and she was ready for the challenges ahead. No mortal posed a threat to her, her wife, or their children. "We shouldn't waste time, then." The redhead moved, slotting herself between her wife's legs once more. "I'd rather return to the Dothraki Sea sooner than later."

"I'm glad we agree." The Khaleesi's eyes sparkled with mirth, though it was quickly giving way to the darkened shade of her desire, wrapping a hand around the back of her neck to coax her in for a deep kiss.

As they fell back into the familiar- yet, somewhat new- rhythm of their lovemaking, Anna took particularly perverse pleasure in looking forward to what the ridiculous old women would havecell phone use of 10 years or more "give a consistent pattern of an increased risk for acoustic neuroma and glioma". The tumors are found mostly on the side of the head that the mobile phone is in contact with.  In July 2008, Dr. Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, warned about the radiation from mobile phones. He stated that there was no definitive proof of the link between mobile phones and brain tumors but there was enough studies that mobile phone usage should be reduced as a precaution. To reduce the amount of radiation being absorbed hands free devices can be used or texting could supplement calls. Calls could also be shortened or limit mobile phone usage in rural areas. Radiation is


are inconsistencies between practices allowed by different airlines and even on the same airline in different countries. For example, Delta Air Lines may allow the use of mobile phones immediately after landing on a domestic flight within the US, whereas they may state "not until the doors are open" on an international flight arriving in the Netherlands. In April 2007 the US Federal Communications Commission officially prohibited passengers' use of cell phones during a flight.

In a similar vein, signs are put up in many countries, such as Canada, the UK and the U.S., at petrol stations prohibiting the use of mobile phones, due to possible safety issues.  However, it is unlikely that mobile phone use can cause any problems,  and in fact "petrol station employees havethemselves spread the rumour about alleged incidents."

Environmental impacts

Like all high structures, cellular antenna masts pose a hazard to low flying aircraft. Towers over a certain height or towers that are close to airports or heliports are normally required to have warning lights. There have been reports that warning lights on cellular masts, TV-towers and other high structures can attract and confuse birds. US authorities estimate that millions of birds are killed near communication towers in the country each year.

Some cellular antenna towers have been camouflaged to make them less obvious on the horizon, and make them look more like a tree.

An example of the way mobile phones and mobile networks have sometimes been perceived as a threat is the widely reported and later discredited claim that mobile


Camaro ZL1 gets custom graphics installed

The owner of this Camaro ZL1 wanted it to stand out in a crowd. After searching online, he found a stripe kit from Superior Auto Design in Florida that he loved. Since the car was in PA, it was not feasible to have them install it. He purchased the kit, and wanted only the best working on his car. We worked a late night and knocked it out of the park. The owner was nice enough to bring it back the next day so we could get some pictures in the daytime.

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Call us today at 724-552-9172 for all of your automotive customization needs!First Report of Phytophthora pseudosyringae on Chestnut Nursery Stock in Spain.
Phytophthora pseudosyringae causes stem necrosis and collar rot of deciduous tree species (Quercus spp., Fagus silvatica, and Alnus glutinosa) in several European countries (1,2). In November 2006, we received diseased Castanea sativa seedlings from a nursery in Galicia (northwest Spain). These plants had tongue-shaped necroses of the inner bark and cambium. Reddish, sunken lesions occurred on the surface of the bark, either in the stem base or higher on the stem. Tissue from the leading edge of the lesions was transferred to a selective V8 agar medium (4) and incubated for 7 days at 20°C in the dark. A Phytophthora sp. was isolated, transferred to cornmeal agar (CMA) and V8 agar, and incubated in the dark. Colonies were


wire rope is divided into two short separate ropes to drive respectively both sides of a travel assembly. Engaged with either side of a travel assembly through an independent tension spring which tends to expand and contract depending on forces applied in scan movements of the travel assembly, each wire rope causes irregular motion of the travel assembly.Hampton Man Is Charged In Shooting Of Officer

August 19, 2008|By DAVID MACAULAY, dmacaulay@dailypress.com 247-7838

HAMPTON — A 20-year-old Hampton man has been charged with attempted capital murder in the shooting of a police officer last week.

Antonio Marquese Brock, of Jamestown Avenue, is accused of shooting an officer twice in the chest at close range during a traffic stop at the intersection of West Mercury Boulevard and North Armistead Avenue on Wednesday.

The officer was providing back-up to a patrol officer who was writing up the driver of a Ford for a traffic infraction. Police say Brock was a passenger in the car that contained three people.

Police spokeswoman Paula Ensley said the officer suffered bruises, but his life was saved by his ballistic vest. He was released from a local hospital


governs as a meritocracy.

4.2. JSRs

In the JCP, the first step to adding a feature to EE was to create a JSR or Java Specification Request. The JSR was a bit like the interface for an EE feature. The JCP Executive Committee reviewed and approved a completed JSR, and then JSR contributors would code it up and make it available to the community.

A good example of this was JSR-339 – or JAX-RS – which was originally proposed in 2011, approved by JCP in 2012 and finally released in 2013.

And while the community could always weigh in while a specification was under discussion, time showed that an implementation-first approach – like in the case of JSR 310, java.time, and Joda Time – tended to create more widely-accepted features and APIs.

So,Q:

Ernie and the Underground Network

I haven't seen Ernie for a few weeks - he's been on holiday in the People's Republic of Kzijekistan (PRK). But yesterday I got an e-mail and thought I would share it with you. It reads as follows:
The history of Kzijekopolis is intriguing. It was founded by Kzijekl the Great, who built a castle atop Mt. Chatcal in the late 18th century. When Kzijekl's wife had identical quadruplets - all boys - the traditional solution would have been to 'retire' the younger sons to distant monasteries. But the midwife made a dreadful mistake - she put them all in the same cot and when the Khan arrived in the birthing chamber it was impossible to tell which was the eldest. Kzijekl decided that all


the boys should be brought up as potential rulers, and on their 21st birthday the true heir would be chosen (by God) via 4 on 4 combat to the death. He built four massive walls to divide the city into quarters, one for each son to live in, so they would not meet before their 21st birthday Battle Royale. It was decreed that no opening could be made in the dividing walls until a single son ruled the Empire, unopposed.
But Kzijekl's plans were dashed when the four brothers met by chance on a holiday to Paris and became friends. On their return they declared themselves co-chairmen of a new Peoples's Republic and 'retired' their father to a distant monastery. As no individual son ruled the Empire, thecity judges decided that the dividing walls must remain unbroken - as they do to the present day. Nowadays the city is divided into four distinct sectors: Arts & Sciences (A&S), Bureaucracy and Administration (B&A), Commerce and Industry (C&I), and Dining and Accommodation (D&A), echoing the brothers' specialties in their chairmanship.
Late in their lives the co-chairmen decided it was inefficient to have to travel via city gates and the ox-cart-laden ring-road just to get to a different city quarter, so they built a subterranean railway with lines passing 'under' the walls. Thus they built the world's first Metro System and ensured efficient intra-city travel without breaking the now sacrosanct laws that the dividing walls should never be breached.

Recently the PRK has became convinced that terrorists are bent


Donald Trump. REUTERS/Mike Stone Donald Trump said on Friday night that the primary debates "seem like a terrible waste of time."

"Aren't these debates ridiculous, though?" the Republican presidential frontrunner asked his supporters at an Oklahoma City rally.

Trump even floated the possibility of not going to the next debate on Thursday, hosted by Fox News.

"How about if I don't do the next debate? Yes?" he asked before reversing himself: "Ah, no, I'll do it."

Trump famously skipped a Fox-hosted debate last month while complaining about Megyn Kelly, one of the moderators for the event. Kelly is set to return as one of the moderators for next week's debate.

At his Friday-night rally in Oklahoma, Trump focused his debate criticism on the predictability of the prime-time bouts. He said he knew whatapproximately the same as the shapes of the electrodes disposed on the top surface of the first piezoelectric substrate 102.
The first and the second piezoelectric substrates 102 and 103 are laminated with an insulating spacer 107 therebetween, and insulating spacers 108 and 109 are laminated on the outwardly facing surfaces of the piezoelectric substrates 102 and 103, respectively. In addition, case substrates 110 and 111 are laminated on the outwardly facing surfaces of the spacers 108 and 109, respectively. The chip-type piezoelectric filter 101 is formed by laminating the above-described components, and by forming external electrodes on the outwardly facing surfaces of the resulting laminate.
The spacers 107 to 109 have through holes 107a to 109a, respectively, which provide sufficient spaces for the piezoelectric filter units 104 and 106


much thinner than conventional devices, and in which the reliability of electrical connection between electrodes is greatly improved and highly reliable. In addition, preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a method of manufacturing the energy-trap piezoelectric filter.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an energy-trap piezoelectric filter includes a first piezoelectric substrate having a first piezoelectric filter unit and a first transfer capacitor unit, a second piezoelectric substrate having a second piezoelectric filter unit and a second transfer capacitor unit, an adhesive layer which is disposed between the first and the second piezoelectric substrates so that a laminate including the first and the second piezoelectric substrates and the adhesive layer is defined, and a plurality of external electrodes disposed on the outwardly facing surfaces ofpiezoelectric filter includes the steps of preparing a first piezoelectric substrate, which includes a first piezoelectric filter unit and a first transfer capacitor unit, and a second piezoelectric substrate, which includes a second piezoelectric filter unit and a second transfer capacitor unit, forming a laminate by laminating the first and the second piezoelectric substrates with an adhesive therebetween, and forming a plurality of external electrodes on the outwardly facing surfaces of the laminate. The elasticity modulus of the adhesive after being cured is preferably in the range of about 0.5 MPa to about 3000 MPa. In addition, the adhesive which is disposed between the first and the second piezoelectric substrates is provided with at least one notch at the edge, and the external electrodes are formed in a


of the adhesive layer is reduced, undesired spurious responses are effectively suppressed and minimized. Moreover, at least one notch is formed at the edge of the adhesive layer, and the material from which the external electrodes are formed is inserted therein. Accordingly, even when the adhesive layer is thin, the connection area between the side surfaces of the adhesive layer and the external electrodes is greatly increased, and the reliability of the external electrodes is significantly enhanced.
When the adhesive layer has a through hole which provides a sufficient space for the first and the second piezoelectric filter units to freely vibrate, stable filter characteristic are obtained.
In addition, when the adhesive layer is constructed of a thermosetting adhesive sheet which is formed in advance, the first and the secondpiezoelectric substrates are easily laminated by disposing the adhesive sheet therebetween and by applying heat to cure the adhesive sheet.
In addition, when the notch is filled with the material from which the external electrodes are formed, reliability of the external electrodes is further improved.
According to a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric film of various preferred embodiments of the present invention, the elasticity modulus of the adhesive that is disposed between the first and the second piezoelectric substrates is in the range of about 0.5 MPa to about 3,000 MPa. Thus, even when the thickness of the adhesive layer is reduced, undesired spurious responses are effectively be suppressed. In addition, since at least one notch is formed on the edge of the adhesive, the reliability of the external electrodes


is greatly improved by inserting the material from which the external electrodes are formed into the notch.
When the thermosetting adhesive sheet that is formed in advance and is cured by heat is used as the adhesive, productivity is greatly improved because of its handiness in the laminating process.
In addition, when the thermosetting adhesive sheet is not in adhesive state under room temperature and becomes adhesive when heat is applied in the adhering process, and does not have fluidity, the adhesive sheet is easily disposed between the first and the second piezoelectric substrates. Accordingly, the adhesive layer is more reliably formed at a desired position by applying heat.
In addition, when the adhesive sheet has a through hole which provides a sufficient space for the first and the second piezoelectricThe star filmed a moment that was deemed too confusing by test audiences.

When audiences walked into Avengers: Endgame, one member of the cast was nowhere to be found on the big screen: Katherine Langford. In October, news broke that the 13 Reasons Why star had filmed scenes for the fourth Avengers film, and speculation swirled about who she could be playing. Hawkeye protege Katy Bishop? A grown version of Ant-Man's daughter Cassie? Death herself? It turns out, she had been cast as an adult version of Morgan Stark, daughter of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo revealed on MTV's Happy Sad Confused podcast that they filmed the scene with Langford that would have mirrored an Avengers: Infinity War scene in which Thanos (Josh


legal aid to PSG if needed.

And though Barcelona promptly accepted the payment directly, Al-Khelaifi said he believed the LFP would still take further legal steps against La Liga.

"It's not for my position to take about it. I think the French league did in a statement yesterday, and they announced the ruling," he said. "This is illegal what they did, La Liga, so I think you should look at their statement and I think they're looking at it in legal. I expect that's what they're going to do next, legally against La Liga."

Overall, however, Al-Khelaifi said he was pleased in how the deal was completed. He said he believes that not only is Neymar's signing PSG's biggest since Qatar Sports Investments bought the club, in 2012, but it's alsoAdditional Photos:

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pairs of letters on pages, a small payment scheme that stopped at the 10th sheet, and three scenarios where:

people wrote their names on the papers they completed, and they were positively acknowledged by the experimentr

people completed and submitted papers with no names and without acknowledgement

people submitted papers that were then shredded, unread, right in front of them

49% of the people who were acknowledged went on to complete ten sheets or more, while only 17% of the people whose work was immediately shredded completed 10 or more. Only 18% of the people whose work was ignored completed ten sheets or more.

Verbal acknowledgment of good work is good, but could it be at odds with the physical message of tossing the paper into the recycling bin? Best to be coherent.ordered the invasion of Cambodia. The Kent State shootings followed a few days later. The spotlight shifted abruptly away from the environment.

But the environment returned to national prominence in the fall of 1970. The Earth Day organizers jumped into the Congressional elections, seeking to defeat a “Dirty Dozen” of incumbent Congressmen. The targets were selected because they had abysmal environmental records, but also because they were in tight races and were from districts with a major environmental issue that voters cared about.

The first of the seven Congressmen we took out that fall was George Fallon from Baltimore. Representative Fallon was chairman of the House Public Works Committee, the “pork” committee, and a powerful opponent of mass transit. Politicians of all stripes took notice: If Fallon was vulnerable, everyone


in politics was vulnerable.

In that single primary election (won by a young upstart named Paul Sarbanes), Earth Day’s organizers had made “the environment” a voting issue. A few weeks after the election — despite the furious opposition of the coal, oil, electric utility, automobile, and steel industries — the Senate version of the 1970 Clean Air Act, authored by U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie, passed the Senate unanimously. It was later adopted by the House on a voice vote.

Air pollution control enjoyed widespread support (much of which had been generated on Earth Day by participants in gas masks and college students burying internal combustion engines — leading to press coverage of depressing facts about air pollution on children). But what fundamentally changed the political dynamics was the intense engagementLOGLINE:
A 4400 whose ability has turned her into a walking plague believes she is the next messiah.

SYNOPSIS:
An entire town of dead people leads Tom and Diana on the grisly trail of Jean DeLynn Baker, a 4400 who has the ability to grow toxin-emitting spores on her hands. It seems Jean has come to the conclusion that the lethality she now possesses is not a curse, but is instead a gift that enables her to "purify humanity." Meanwhile, Matthew Ross joins the 4400 Center as an advisor to Shawn, who has become overwhelmed with a deluge of letters seeking help now that his healing powers have been made public. The Center also finds Lily trying to keep Isabelle at peace while she adjusts to her introduction to her stepsister


Heidi. Elsewhere, still unaware of his role in Jordan Collier's assassination, Kyle reconnects with Wendy; and Diana leaves Maia in the care of her sister, who crosses the line and uses Maia's pre-cognitive abilities for profit.an anthropologist at the University of California, Davis.

Genes that help a species survive and reproduce, like those that foster maternal behavior, are more likely to be inherited by the next generation. “The evolution of altruism across species is linked to the preservation of offspring, and the most hard-core manifestation of this is the occurrence of maternal altruism,” says Stephen Post, president of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Human parents strongly invest in their offspring since they have a limited number of eggs at their disposal, according to Post, who is also a professor of biology, philosophy and theology. He says this underlies the importance of parental tenderness and cherishing.

Like Post, Toth recognizes the uniqueness of humans. But she points


not even realizing that we'd fallen asleep." "Was there God?" "Paolo went to perform in South America - and there was a railway accident." "He was declared dead." "The train was badly burned and some victims were never identified." "But his violin remained intact and was sent to his parents." "Years later, when I'd already married Suvi's grandfather " "I heard that Paolo was not dead." "He had lain unconscious in the hospital for months - and had slowly recovered." "He could no longer play the violin - and after returning here in Italy, he became a winegrower." "You never saw him again?" "Your grandpa was a jealous man, so I never dared to contact him." "He sent me a letter, though." "I answered it, telling that IRadio

Fianna Fáil TD Wright to stand down

Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin North, GV Wright, has announced he will not contest the next General Election.

In a statement, Deputy Wright said he believed it was time for a younger person to take on the role, and that he wished to effect a change in career at a time when he felt capable of taking on new challenges.

He is the second sitting TD in the constituency, after Labour's Sean Ryan, to announce he will be standing down at the end of the current Dáil.

The other sitting TDs are Jim Glennon of Fianna Fáil and Green Party leader Trevor Sargent.

Deputy Wright said he had every confidence that his work will be continued by Deputy Jim Glennon and Councillors Michael Kennedy and Darragh


O'Brien.

Deputy Wright was a TD from 1987 to 1989, and from 1997 to date, and was a Senator from 1982 to 1987, and from 1989 to 1997, being Fianna Fáil leader in the Upper House from 1992 to 1997.

He was a member of Dublin County Council, and later Fingal County Council, from 1985 to 2004.

At the Mahon Tribunal, lobbyist Frank Dunlop has claimed he made a payment of £7,000 to Mr Wright when he was a member of Dublin County Council.

He is a former Dublin Gaelic footballer and a former international basketball player and coach.

He was involved in controversy two years ago after a road collision in which a woman pedestrian was injured.

Deputy Wright was fined €900 and banned from driving for two years for drink driving followingthe incident on the North Strand in Dublin on 18 September 2003.

He had publicly admitted knocking down the woman pedestrian in the incident, which happened while he was on his way home from Leinster House.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has paid tribute to Deputy Wright.

In a statement, Mr Ahern said he was 'a hard-working, competent and popular public representative, whose enthusiasm, experience and good humour would be missed by the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party.'


nations largest nuclear handling plant?

Potatoes, Beer, and Trout

“The Snake River aquifer is huge—about 10,000 square miles (25,000 square kilometers)—and provides both drinking water and irrigation water to several hundred thousand people.

Water for agriculture is critical to the state. Idaho produces 30 percent of the potatoes grown in the United States and 25 percent of the barley used by the nation’s beer breweries.

The aquifer also supports the state’s trout farming industry, which supplies 75 percent of all commercial rainbow trout in the United States. “

At issue are 10 to 12 acres (4 to 5 hectares) of radioactive nuclear waste buried in shallow pits and trenches at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), the second largest nuclear facility in the United States.

The federal government began burying the plutonium-contaminatedDesignated Survivor season 2 premiere date

Is the series Designated Survivor renewed for season 2? We want to know the premiere date in 2017 on ABC! Please, hurry up!

The series Designated Survivor proved to be excellent right from the start! The first episode has received a lot of praise from experts and now the representatives of the ABC need to think seriously about the renewal of the project for a second season.

To show their sympathy for this series, right holders informed the viewers that instead of initially ordered 13 episodes the first season would consist of 22.

This step increases the chances of the series Designated Survivor for financing for the second season, say the critics, but the main factor that will influence the decision of the ABC is the


at the "Aphrodite and the Gods of Love" exhibit at the San Antonio Museum of Art on Sept. 10, 2012.

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Guiding principles. Alcoholics Anonymous has the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions to overcome addiction. The Twelve Steps guide the individual in AA, while the Twelve Traditions govern the AA group.

Photo: Ira Schechtel and his wife, Catherine, give each other a goodbye kiss in front of La Villita "Sober City" as they part ways to go to different events during the International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous on July 2, 2010.

12 in time. Besides 12 months making a year, the number also evenly splits the day by the 12-hour clock and divides evenlyup for an injury-riddled A&M football team down to 11 players. Gill never left the sidelines, and A&M went on to beat Centre College 22-14. The gesture lives on with A&M's student body representing that 12th player.

Photo: A statue of the original 12th man, E. King Gill, stands in front of Texas A&M's Kyle Field.

The 12th Man at Texas A&M University. The Aggie tradition dates back to January, 2, 1922, when student E. King Gill got called out of the stands to suit up for an injury-riddled A&M football team down to 11

The Cowboys never forget No. 12. Before he turned joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1969, Roger Staubach wore the No. 12 on his Naval Academy jersey. The academy retired his jersey at his graduation ceremony. The


Cowboys don't officially retire jersey numbers. However, the franchise has never reissued the jersey No. 12, which the Hall of Fame quarterback wore for Dallas until 1979.

Photo: Staubach rolls out of the pocket during a Cowboys game in the 1979 season.

The Cowboys never forget No. 12. Before he turned joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1969, Roger Staubach wore the No. 12 on his Naval Academy jersey. The academy retired his jersey at his graduation ceremony. The

San Antonio's own No. 12 in the rafters. In March, the... Photo-3879703.53772 - San Antonio Express-News

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Three times the "Angry Men." Reginald Rose's powerful 1954 teleplay "Twelve Angry Men" was also rewritten for the stage in 1955 with the same name and then as the 1957 movie "12 Angry Men" starringHenry Fonda.

Photo: Jack Lemmon (far left), the lone juror among 12 who holds out for innocence in a capital murder case, stars in a television revival of "Twelve Angry Men." Standing from left to right are Mykelti Williamson, James Gandolfini, Tony Danza, Edward James Olmos, William Peterson, Ossie Davis and Courtney B. Vance. Seated from left to right are Lemmon, George C. Scott, Hume Cronyn, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Dorian Harewood.

Three times the "Angry Men." Reginald Rose's powerful 1954 teleplay "Twelve Angry Men" was also rewritten for the stage in 1955 with the same name and then as the 1957 movie "12 Angry Men" starring Henry Fonda.


the game tied cost Shen the game. They got so caught up on the foul being called that they forgot they still had a chance to win or go into overtime.
Shen’s game plan from the start was to be as physical as possible with #15, he was being elbowed, held and bumped all game long, its a part of the game. Shen was using its physicality to try and get a good shooter off of his game. I think fox high school sports show vilified #15 showing him “lower his shoulder and run over a Shen player” Come on the Shen kid hit a good shot and was talking trash, blocking #15′s path down the court and as soon as contact was made he flopped like a trucka bully and a complete jerk. Getting dragged off the court by his Athletic Director should be the final highlight of his sorry career. His lack of leadership and outburst at the end of the game and the actions by a couple of his players brought on the boos. They should have left the court immediately but they chose to make a spectacle. Hey, they are playing a varsity sport and if you can’t take booing you should play tennis.

In today’s game story, it really is pertinent to talk about Ken Strube since he is the all-time wins leader in Section II history be it boys or girls basketball. His last game is a big story even if it is a big win for Albany. I understand that


Manga debuted in 1997 & was 60% finished in 2012

The second issue of the "Dai One Piece Shimbun" promotional publication printed an interview with One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda on Wednesday. In the interview, Oda states that he has finished around 65% of the manga. He adds that he cannot do any more long stories besides One Piece .

Oda previously mentioned in a previous issue of the One Piece Shimbun in 2012 that he had finished around 60% of the story.Biography

I am orginally from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. I studied Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge obtaining 1st Class Honours in 1991 and finished my PhD in 1995. I worked under the supervision of Paul Shellard in the Relativity Group in DAMTP and my thesis title was "String radiation, interactions and constraints." I was elected a research fellow of Trinity in 1995 and was also awarded a PPARC postdoctoral fellowship. As a postdoc I spent the 2 years at Imperial College in the theoretical physics group and 4 years back in DAMTP. In 1999 I was awarded a PPARC advanced research fellowship. In September 2001 I moved to the University of Manchester where I have been ever since. I am a member of the Astrophysics group within the School of


J. Scott Hauger, Ph.D.

Dr. Scott Hauger joined the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in April 2010. His area of expertise is that of science, technology and society, including issues of global change; environmental security; science diplomacy; barriers to international research collaboration; and innovation theory, policy and practices. He has a special interest in China and its emerging role as a leader in innovation-based economic development.

Dr. Hauger’s military service included active duty as a staff officer at a NATO Army Group headquarters in Izmir, Turkey, and eleven years in the U.S. Army Reserves in the fields of strategic intelligence and civil affairs. His career has spanned the research and innovation enterprise across the private, academic, non-profit and government sectors. In the 1980s, he was founder and CEO ofApplied Concepts Corporation, a high tech, small business firm providing technology assessment and technology development services in areas including alternative energy, automation and robotics, and technology and disability as well as defense. In the 1990s, he led in the establishment of a branch program in graduate education in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech’s Northern Virginia Center, serving working professionals in the Washington, D.C., area. He then served as a program director at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where he oversaw four national programs in the science and policy arena, and was the founding director of the AAAS Research Competitiveness Program. As a consultant and as an adjunct staff member of the Institute for Defense Analyses, he has worked in a variety of


areas related to energy independence and environmental sustainability. Prior to joining APCSS, Dr. Hauger served as a Research Professor and Vice President for Government and Business Relations at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI), where he developed an interest in issues of climate change and security, and worked to establish research collaborations with sister research institutes in Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Middle East.

Dr. Hauger’s education includes bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry, from Stetson and the Johns Hopkins Universities, followed by an M.A. in history (University of Chicago) and a doctorate in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech. He has broad experience in interdisciplinary education and research: He has developed and taught graduate-level courses in the history and philosophy of science and in science policy,A few hours after scoring the first pole position of his Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama career, 17-year-old Riley Dickinson went on to take his first career victory in the penultimate round of the 2019 season.

Dickinson led from start to finish but had to hold off Roman De Angelis in the No. 79 Kelly-Moss Road and Race Porsche throughout.

The youngster from New Braunfels, Texas, beat De Angelis to the line by 1.060 seconds.

The runner-up result for De Angelis was more than enough to give the Canadian the 2019 GT3 Cup Challenge USA championship in the Platinum Cup class for Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars built between 2017 and 2019.

With one race still to come Friday morning, De Angelis holds an insurmountable, 62-point lead over No. 7


Wright Racing Porsche driver Max Root with a maximum of 35 points still available.

It’s the second championship in the matter of a few weeks for De Angelis, who last month wrapped up the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada by Yokohama championship.

Alan Metni rounded out the Platinum Cup podium with a third-place showing in the No. 99 AM Motorsports/Kelly-Moss Porsche, prevailing in a heated battle for much of the race with Root.

Metni also picked up his seventh victory of the season in the Platinum Masters class for drivers 45 years of age and over.

The win coupled with a 12th-place class finish by Fred Poordad in the No. 20 Wright Motorsports Porsche means that Metni will wrap up his second consecutive Platinum Masters title as soon as he rolls offthe starting grid for the race tomorrow morning.

Jeff Mosing finished second in Platinum Masters aboard the No. 68 Topp Racing Porsche, while Bill Smith made it two Topp cars on the podium with a third-place class run in the No. 42 Kung Fu Saloon Porsche.

Another Masters class driver, David Brule, was the winner of the Yokohama Hard Charger Award as the Platinum Cup driver who improved the most overall positions from start to finish in Race 1.

Brule drove the No. 48 Kelly-Moss Racing Porsche from 20th on the starting grid to 14th at the checkered flag.

In the Gold Cup class for Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars built between 2014 and 2016, Sebastian Carazo claimed his 11th class victory of the season and wrapped up the season championship in


the No. 27 NGT Motorsport Porsche. Carazo also has finished on the podium in all 15 races this season and now leads Rob Ferriol by 50 points, 511-461.

Ferriol finished second in Gold Cup the No. 5 Moorespeed Porsche ahead of Curt Swearingin, who finished third in the No. 17 ACI Motorsports Porsche.

The 2019 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama season draws to a close with one more 45-minute race beginning at 10:10 a.m. ET Friday.

RESULTS: Race 1the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on January 8 to Demo 11 New VR Learning Games. Virtual Reality (VR) is an emerging area in education that holds promise for enriching student learning both in and out of the classroom. VR can immerse students in hands-on situations that often times would… Read more »


denationalisation and deportation plans, the regional body has not been able to sway the Dominican Republic on the matter, as, according to international reports, these activities could begin as early as this week.

In a statement on Jamaica's participation in the recently concluded summit of the EU/Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Nicholson said that after lengthy discussions at a CARIFORUM-European Union high-level meeting, "both sides agreed on the importance of the principles of the status of citizenship and the presumption that persons shall not be rendered stateless".

He said too that the meeting also agreed that "consideration would be given to proposals for appropriate benchmarks and monitoring mechanisms" to be presented by CARIFORUM.

The Dominican Republic is the only non-Caricom member of CARIFORUM, which comprises African, Caribbean and Pacificcountries.

For decades, Haitians in search of a better life have gone to the Dominican Republic, with which their country share the island of Hispaniola, many of them remaining and expanding, or starting families. But after a series of legislative changes to immigration policies, the Dominican Republic has revoked the citizenship of over 200,000 persons with Haitian roots, and in September 2013 denationalised this group of Dominicans.

Following international pressure, the Government established a mechanism to allow denationalised Dominicans to register as foreigners for two years, after which they could reapply for citizenship. Haitian migrants living there were also allowed to apply for legal residency.

With the mid-June deadline now passed, Dominican authorities seem set on expelling hundreds of thousands of those people who have not registered, irrespective of their nationality.

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attaches to the struts of the motorcycle main frame, thus enabling the rear wheel to arcuately move independently of the frame. The swing arm includes a pair of wheel mounts located on a wheel axis spaced to receive the rear wheel. The swing arm further includes pairs of arms extending from each of the wheel mounts and connectors connecting each pair of arms. Each connector is joined to the other connector by an upper transverse cross member and a lower transverse cross member. An intermediate transverse cross member extends through the connectors and through the frame struts of the motorcycle main frame. The swing arm is pivotal about this intermediate transverse cross member. The connectors have the same general size and shape as the frame struts of theHIT THE JURY'S EARS TODAY IN DAY 9 OF THE LEVI CHAVEZ MURDER TRIAL. CHAVEZ'S WIFE, TERA, WAS SEEING ANOTHER A-P-D OFFICER. BUT HE BROKE IT OFF WITH HER. AND A FEW WEEKS LATER... SHE WAS FOUND DEAD. ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER ANNA VELASQUEZ IS LIVE WITH DETAILS. ANNA TANYA A-P-D OFFICER NICK WHEELER SAYS TERA FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM. BUT HE DIDN'T, AND REFUSED TO LEAVE HIS WIFE SAMANTHA. HE INSISTED... SHE NEVER INDICATED SHE WANTED TO HURT HERSELF. NICK WHEELER TESTIFIED HE AND TERA CHAVEZ'S AFFAIR BEGAN IN AUGUST OF 2007 HE FIRST MET HER A COUPLE MONTHS BEFORE THAT... WHEN HIS WIFE TOOK HIM TO STYLE AMERICA SO TERA COULD CUT HIS HAIR. 2/2:23 one day i received a text message from a number


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question.The fear of God by the average Nigerian is tied to superstition. When he is fired from work, the witches in his village are at work; perhaps that old,lonely hag that he calls Grand Ma is the purveyor of his woes. And when he has been unemployed for years, then it must be Bola that innocent girl he used and dumped while at school. When his car breaks down, the witches from his wife’s family are trying to frustrate him. When he is sick, it must be a curse from Iyabo the girl he impregnated and jilted. When he does not get the contract he had lobbied for and spent huge amounts of money facilitating, he remembers Pastor Jacob who had told him to sow a cash seedWhat will happen, if…? Six years went by, three albums - with »Blind Rage« being our first number one charting album! But we will never forget that we hadn’t played many concerts with Uwe Lulis and Christopher Williams before we walked onto the stage at Bang your Head!!! Festival. Everyone was nervous - it was the first gig for Christopher Williams in Germany and the first show for Uwe in Germany with ACCEPT… he was aware of the presence of his fans and friends, and we knew that our fans were anxious to meet the new members! The beginning of the show was a thrill, but when we left the stage, it was clear: it had sparked!”

Wolf Hoffmann and Uwe Lulis doing their perfectly synchronised headbanging is just


The Priest’s University & Other Quebec Curios

The history of Montreal’s, and, by extension, Quebec’s educational institutions paint a fascinating picture as to how and for whom education in this province served, and continues to serve today. Quebec has eighteen universities, three of which are English (Bishop’s, McGill, and Concordia).

Laval University, Université Laval for those of us who know better, is the oldest university in Quebec. Some of its buildings date back to the time around French colonisation. Laval, founded in 1663 but not granted its royal charter that conferred its status as a university in 1852 by Queen Victoria, has an undergraduate population today of just under twenty-nine thousand and a postgraduate population of just under nine thousand. Primarily a research university, that is, a university that offersmany programmes that lead to academia, Laval offers what a typical university of such classification would offer: law, medicine, dentistry, and loads and loads of Master’s and PhDs. Prime Ministers St. Laurent, Mulroney, and Chrétien all graduated from Laval, as well as Premiers Jean Lesage, Lucien Bouchard, and René Lévesque, and many others.

And yet Laval University has its roots in religion. Along with Laval, the Quebec Seminary was founded the same year, its mission to form priests to, well, conquer the people with religion. The Quebec Seminary would merge with the Université Laval shortly after. Laval and the Quebec Seminary were both founded by François de Montmorency-Laval, the first Bishop of New France—who doesn’t want a university named after them, after all? When the British conquered New France,


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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde by poet and writer Lavinia Greenlaw.

One of the great works of English literature, this powerful, compelling story explores love from its first tentative beginnings through to passionate sensuality and eventual tragic disillusionment. Lavinia Greenlaw's new version for radio brings Chaucer's language up-to-date for a modern audience while remaining true to his original poetic intention.

The five titles shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013, administered in partnership with BookTrust. Contains: Mrs Fox by Sarah Hall read by Andrea Riseborough, Barmouth by Lisa Blower read by Rebekah Staton, Prepositions by Lionel Shriver read by Nancy Crane, Notes from the House of Spirits by Lucy Wood read by Hattie Morahan, We Are Watching Something Terrible


officer equipped with a Motorola P25 APX 7000 Portable Radio stood in the back of the room. A Motorola MCC 7500 IP Dispatch Console sat in the front of the room.

After pointing out a blip on the screen that showed where the officer was, the officer began running. The blip changed colors to indicate he was in foot pursuit.

When he made it to the front of the room, he pulled his OC and deployed. Again, the blip shifted, indicating a change in the situation.

Finally, he pulled his gun, and the blip responded.

The software can also be programmed to turn on the camera in the lapel microphone when a certain event occurs (such as an officer’s weapon being unholstered).

Pretty impressive. This technology would allow a dispatcher to see thatsolutions to come.

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Michelle Perin spent seven and a half years as a police telecommunications operator with the City of Phoenix (Ariz.) Police Department. She is a Navy veteran and holds a graduate degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Indiana State University. Her publication credits include Law Enforcement Technology, Law & Order, Beyond the Badge, Police Chief, Police Times, and Police Magazine. Michelle has done volunteer work as an advocate for sexual assault victims and veterans. She is currently a volunteer firefighter in the small Oregon town in which she lives. She rides a Triumph America with the Patriot Guard honoring those who have served our nation. She currently works at Jasper Mountain, a psychiatric residential treatment facility for severely traumatized children. Michelle enjoys spending time


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away from the free position if the inhibiting element is in the area around the free position. According to the invention, the inhibiting element must inhibit or block in the vicinity of the free position.
Beside the inhibit position and the free position, the inhibiting element preferably also has a third defined position, known as the xe2x80x9crest positionxe2x80x9d, in which the restoring means exerts no force on the inhibiting element. The inhibiting element inhibits the lock cylinder in the rest position. The restoring means exerts on the inhibiting element a restoring force directed away from the free position when the inhibiting element is between the free position and the rest position and the inhibiting element inhibits the lock cylinder in the rest position and in positions between the restRichard T. Walker: the fallibility of intent at the di Rosa

February 7 to April 26 2015
Richard T. Walker: the fallibility of intent
Location: Gatehouse Gallery

di Rosa presents the first Bay Area institutional solo exhibition by British-born, San Francisco-based artist Richard T. Walker and the inauguration of a new artist residency partnership with Stags’ Leap Winery. Lending an outsider perspective to the limitless bounds of the American West, Walker explores the complex intersections of language, music, and the human condition amidst the backdrop of the natural environment. Informed by a range of influences—from the romantic sublime to early on-the-run road films—Walker shares his investigations within the panoramic landscape through photography, video, performance, music, and sculptural installation. The exhibition builds on Walker’s ongoing quest for a transcendent means of communication with


In the hospital ER where she works, Mary is used to chaos. But lately, every aspect of her life seems adrift. She's feeling disconnected from herself. Voices appear in her head. And the vivid, disturbing dreams she's had all her life are becoming more intense. Then she meets Michael. He's handsome, enigmatic, and knows more than he can say. In his company, she slowly remembers the truth about herself.

Falling Light: Game of Shadows, Book 2

Having finally reunited, and fought off the Deceiver for now, Mary and Michael race up the Michigan peninsula to meet Astra before police forces catch up with them. But the closer they get, the less Mary is willing to trust a woman who by her own admission will do anything to finish the Deceiver-evenif it means killing Michael and Mary to try again in another life. As they face their final battle, Michael's loyalties are tested, making him vulnerable just when Mary needs him most.

Midnight's Kiss: Elder Races, Book 8

Ever since their scorching affair ended years ago, Julian, the Nightkind King, and Melisande, daughter of the Light Fae Queen, have tried to put the past behind them - and distance between them. But when a war breaks out between Julian and Justine, a powerful Vampyre of the Nightkind council, they find themselves thrown together under treacherous circumstances....

Night's Honor: Elder Races, Book 7

On the run from her former employer, Tess knows that she's vulnerable on her own amongst the Elder Races. That's why she decides to audition to become the human attendant


of a powerful Vampyre of the Nightkind demesne. But while her position affords her the safety she seeks, her protector turns out to be more than she bargained for.

Destiny's Tarot: An Elder Races Collection, #4.5

As a coroner, medusa Seremela Telemar has always felt more comfortable chatting over a dead body than over drinks. But when her wild niece, Vetta, runs off to Devil's Gate, a lawless town that has sprung up overnight in a modern-day gold rush, she knows she has to extricate her before the rebellious girl gets into real trouble. Though she's confident in her head snakes' ability to defend her against attackers, Seremela is still a bit nervous about braving this modern-day Wild West by herself.

Divine Tarot: An Elder Races Collection

Alice Clark, a Wyr andschoolteacher, has had two friends murdered in as many days, and she's just found the body of a third. She arrives at the scene only minutes before Gideon Riehl, a wolf Wyr and current detective in the Wyr Division of Violent Crime - and, as Alice oh-so-inconveniently recognizes at first sight, her mate. But the sudden connection Riehl and Alice feel is complicated when the murders are linked to a serial killer who last struck seven years ago, killing seven people in seven days. They have just one night before the killer strikes again. And every sign points to Alice as the next victim.

Kinked: A Novel of the Elder Races, Book 6

As a harpy, Sentinel Aryal is accustomed to dealing with hate, but Sentinel Quentin Caeravorn manages to


inspire in her a burning ire unlike anything she's ever known. Aryal believes the new Sentinel to be a criminal, and vows to take him out as soon as the opportunity arises. But the harpy's incessant wrath has pushed Quentin to the limit, and forces him to make a deadly vow of his own. To put an end to the conflict, Dragos, Lord of the Wyr, sends them on a reconnaissance mission to the Elven land of Numenlaur.

The Wicked: A Novella of the Elder Races

For a librarian with a focus on rare magic books, Olivia's new job is a dream come true. She has been hired as part of a team to help manage the safe transportation of the collection of books owned by the Vampyre sorceress CarlingSeveran. The fact that the library is located on a mysterious island in an Other land only heightens the adventure. Head of security for the expedition, Sebastian Hale is tired of his rootless life of adventure and finds himself attracted to the calm, beautiful librarian. But he is living a personal nightmare.

Pia Saves The Day: A Novella of the Elder Races, Book 6

In the latest story of the Elder Races, two mates face their deadliest challenge yet-each other… Pia and Dragos's magical young son Liam (the Peanut), is growing at an unprecedented rate, and if that isn't enough, he is also exhibiting new, and unpredictable, magical gifts. To protect him, the concerned parents decide to move to upstate New York. Both Dragos and Pia relish the idea of


leaving behind the city. They finally have the space to indulge their Wyr side, and Liam can grow in safety.

Peanut Goes to School: A Short Story of the Elder Races

Dragos Cuelebre is no longer the only dragon. Dragos’s son Liam Cuelebre (a.k.a. Peanut) is springing into existence, reminiscent of the first of the Elder Races who were born at the beginning of the world. At just six months of age, he has already grown to the size of a large five-year-old boy. He can read, write in complete sentences, and his math skills are off the chart. A white dragon in his Wyr form, Liam also holds more power than almost anyone else.

A Dragon's Family Album: A Collection of the Elder Races

"Dragos Takes a Holiday": When the Cuelebrehunting for ancient treasure buried beneath the waves and keeping track of their son, Liam - a.k.a. Peanut, whose Wyr abilities are manifesting far ahead of schedule - it's a miracle that Pia and Dragos can get any time together. They're determined to make the most of each moment, no matter who tries to get in their way.

Lord's Fall: Elder Races, Book 5

Before she met Dragos, half-human half-Wyr Pia Giovanni was alone and on the run. Now, she's mated, pregnant, and heading south to repair the Wyr's frayed relationship with the Elves. Being separated from Dragos is painful, but for the good of the Wyr demesne they need to figure out how to be partners, in more places than just the bedroom. In New York to preside over


the Sentinel Games, Dragos is worried about his mate, but knows that finding two replacement sentinels is essential to show the rest of the Elder Races just how strong and brutal the Wyr demesne can be.

Oracle's Moon: Elder Races Series #4

When Grace Andreas's sister, Petra, and her husband are both killed, Grace inherits the power and responsibilities of the Oracle of Louisville, as well as her sister's two young children - neither of which she is prepared for. Then Khalil, Demonkind and Djinn prince of House Marid, decides to make himself a part of the household, both as guardian and counterpoint to Grace's impudence towards the Elder Races.

Serpent's Kiss: Elder Races Series #3

In order to save his friend's life, Wyr sentinel Rune Ainissesthai made a bargain with VampyreQueen Carling - without knowing what she would ask from him in return. But when Rune attempts to make good on his debt, he finds a woman on the edge.

Chase the Darkness: Alpha Pack Series # 7

Believed dead by his packmates, Micah Chase, a wolf shifter and Dreamwalker, was held captive for months, subject to tortures that left him physically scarred and emotionally unsettled. Now under the care of the Alpha Pack's doctors, he's been prescribed an experimental healing drug, but he still can't shake the nightmares. Even more damning is that Micah's problems pose a danger to his team, and if he doesn't get himself under control, they'll all suffer a terrible fate.

Fated

Cara Paulsen does not give up easily. A scientist and a single mother, she's used


to fighting for what she wants, keeping a cool head, and doing whatever it takes to protect her daughter Janie. But "whatever it takes" has never before included a shotgun wedding to a dangerous-looking stranger with an attitude problem....

Storm's Heart: Elder Races Series #2

During the rule of her murderous Dark Fae uncle, Thistle "Tricks" Periwinkle found sanctuary among the Wyr in New York. Her ethereal beauty and sparkling personality won the hearts of the public, but after her uncle's death, there are those who don't want to see her ascend to the throne. Able to wield thunder and lightning, Wyr sentinel Tiago Black Eagle has ruled the skies for centuries. He's sent to protect Tricks when she's almost assassinated in Chicago....

A Sorceress of His Own: Gifted Ones, Book1

Since the day Lord Dillon earned his spurs, rumors of his savagery on the battlefield have preceded him into every room, stilling tongues and sparking fear. Weary of battle, he wishes only to find a woman he can wed who will approach him not with fear but with the tenderness that has been absent from his life for so long. Yet only the wisewoman seems invariably at ease in his presence.

Claimed

Emma Paulsen is a geneticist driven by science. But she's also a psychic, so when a dark, good-hearted vampire frees her from the clutches of the evil Kurjans, she realizes he must be the man who's been haunting her dreams. But with a virus threatening vampires' mates, Emma may discover a whole new meaning of "lovesick"....

Dragon Bound: Elder


bond to the woman who has begun to crack the shell around his heart?

Tempted

On the run from a mental institution and her vindictive half brother, it's safe to say that Sarah Pringle's happy life as a schoolteacher is on hold. Too bad that as far as self-defense goes, "run and hide" is the best she's got. And with the monsters that started her escape hot on her heels, that's not going to cut it for long....

Tristan's Lyceum Wolves: Immortals of New Orleans, Book 3

Charismatic and powerful Lyceum Wolves' Alpha, Tristan Livingston, is out for revenge after a devastating attack on his pack. Not only did he survive a building collapse, he orchestrated the rebuild of his chic, state-of-the-art nightclub within a week. Determined to mete out justice, herescues a beautiful witness who may be the key to helping him find the perpetrators.

Three Hours: Seven, Book 5

Naya James is a confident woman who also happens to be an exotic dancer. She doesn't care if people judge her, just so long as they don't disrespect her. Life has been good, but when two dancers from her club are kidnapped, Naya risks everything to uncover the truth.

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In the hospital ER where she works, Mary is used to chaos. But lately, every aspect of her life seems adrift. She's feeling disconnected from herself. Voices appear in her head. And the vivid, disturbing dreams she's had all her life are becoming more intense. Then she meets Michael. He's handsome, enigmatic, and knows more than he can say. In his


company, she slowly remembers the truth about herself.

Thousands of years ago, there were eight of them. The one called the Deceiver came to destroy the world, and the other seven followed to stop him. Reincarnated over and over, they carry on - and Mary finds herself drawn into the battle once again. And the more she learns, the more she realizes that Michael will go to any lengths to destroy the Deceiver.

Then she remembers who killed her during her last life, nine hundred years ago...Michael.

Firstly, nothing like Elder Races - this is a cleverly written but dark alien story about 7 cosmic beings coming to Earth after one of their evil criminals named The Deceiver, escaped and it is their jobs to catch him. They each had toDetroit Red Wings forward Luke Witkowski has been suspended 10 games for his role in Wednesday's line brawl against the Calgary Flames, the Department of Player Safety announced.

After Witkowski was sent off the ice for a fight late the third period, he interrupted his route to the dressing room and came back to the playing surface upon being prodded by the stick of Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk, resulting in an automatic 10-game ban, per NHL rules.

The entire sequence can be seen here:

Tkachuk will face a discipline hearing Friday.

Witkowski is in his first season with the Red Wings, and has been held pointless through eight games so far.


Returning home around noon Tuesday, Roger Luther drove up Colesville Road in Kirkwood to meet a swarm of law enforcement vehicles. A helicopter was flying overhead.

As he quickly learned from area news outlets, New York State Police were in the midst of a manhunt for a suspect who allegedly fled the scene of an 9:45 a.m. crash on Interstate 81. The suspect had been driving a stolen 2016 Audi from Florida.

New York State Police arrested the suspect: John Mehne, 25, a resident Sarasota in Florida who has Ithaca-area ties. He's was charged with felony counts of first-degree robbery, third-degree criminal possession of stolen property, first-degree burglary and aggravated cruelty to animals. He's being held in the Broome County jail.

More charges are being considered and state police are stillinvestigating.

Luther, who is Broome County's historian, recalled Wednesday how police had alerted area residents to stay inside while the suspect was on the loose. In response to their warning, after arriving home on Springer Road, he closed the garage door and locked up the house.

That's when his wife looked out a window. A man, seemingly covered in mud and unclothed, walked into view.

Luther called 911 and peeked outside another window of his home.

"The guy's in my chicken coop, he's totally naked and covered with mud, and he's chasing my chickens," Luther told the Press & Sun-Bulletin/pressconnects on Wednesday. "When I saw him in the chicken coop, I was just shaken."

Luther said the suspect had been crouched down. It looked like he was trying to catch the chickens.

The coop


housed seven chickens, but after Tuesday's incident, one remained unaccounted for — a trail of feathers led from the coop toward a neighboring residence.

The manhunt in Kirkwood

Broome County Sheriff's deputies and the Binghamton Police Department assisted state troopers during Tuesday's search. A K-9 unit also was employed to track down the suspect.

The search effort encompassed the areas of Duell, Colesville and Springer roads.

New York State Police said Mehne crashed on I-81 North about three miles north of the Pennsylvania line. The Audi became disabled after hitting a guiderail.

When traffic slowed, Mehne allegedly jumped on a van then onto a pickup truck for about 1½ miles before fleeing into a wooded area on foot.

After 4 p.m., authorities got a call from a Duell Road resident: Mehne had allegedly beenin seven years.

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Andy Reid, Chiefs

You’d think that a coach with Reid’s track record in Philadelphia over 14 years wouldn’t need to jump-start his rep. But Reid did, and he pulled it off in Year 1 in Kansas City last year. After all the near-misses with the Eagles, a Lombardi Trophy is hardly inevitable, but if and when Reid wins one, he jumps up several notches on this list.

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John Harbaugh, Ravens

His success is almost taken for granted in Baltimore, but not anywhere else. One of the more inspired and unconventional coaching hires in recent years, Harbaugh proved the franchise’s wisdom with playoff trips in his first five seasons, three AFC title games and a Super Bowl win. The unknown Harbaugh brother will never be anonymous again.

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two games with Curtis Painter at quarterback instead of Peyton Manning in 2011. Those are two harsh ways to judge a coach, too harsh to blot out a Super Bowl trip and a division title in his other two seasons leading the Colts post-Tony Dungy. Super Bowl winners in Indy and Baltimore swear by him as a coordinator. He’s just what the Lions need.

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Rex Ryan, Jets

For all the bluster, Ryan keeps proving that he can coach 'em up, especially on defense. If he’s far from a master of evaluating and developing quarterbacks, he’s a Ph.D. in getting the players to rally behind him, pusing the right buttons and taking the heat to deflect it from them. He’s still tilting at windmills, though. He wants to scale Patriotsyears will define him as part of the upper echelon or as good-but-not-great.

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Bruce Arians, Cardinals

The Cardinals have had sporadic success over the decades in the desert, but Arians is in position to bring sustained success. He’s off to a fine start, both in his interim days in Indianapolis and his initial 10-win season in Arizona. Two significant obstacles: the top-heavy division, and the franchise quarterback. Carson Palmer isn’t the long-term answer.

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Mike McCoy, Chargers

Excellent start in San Diego, with the entire team and with Philip Rivers. McCoy earned his way onto a lot of teams’ short lists with his work in Denver, with Manning and with Tim Tebow. An inability to make up ground against the Broncos and Chiefs in the AFC West in the next few


Trump calls for New York terror suspect to get death penalty

President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. Thomson Reuters

Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday that the suspect behind Tuesday's terror attack in New York City should get the death penalty.

Trump previously called the justice system "a joke" and said he would consider sending the suspect to Guantanamo Bay.

The president's tweet could actually jeopardize the legal case against the suspect.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for the death penalty for the man suspected of carrying out the deadly terrorist attack in New York City.

"NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang ISIS flag in his hospital room. He killed 8 people, badly injured 12. SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!" Trump tweeted late Wednesdaynight.

The tweet comes one day after 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov steered a truck into cyclists and pedestrians down a Manhattan bike path before being shot and taken into police custody. On Wednesday, Trump called for harsh punishment for Saipov, describing the US justice system as "a joke and a laughing stock" and saying he was considering sending the suspect to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

But Wednesday night's tweet was a startling escalation of rhetoric in legal proceedings that have barely begun, let alone led to a sentence. Federal prosecutors filed terrorism charges against the suspect, an Uzbeki immigrant, on Wednesday.

Law-enforcement officials who spoke to Saipov on Wednesday said the suspect told them he was " proud" of his actions and requested a flag of the Islamic


State to hang in his hospital room, a detail Trump referenced in his tweet.

Moments after the tweet, political observers and ethics experts criticized the president for possibly jeopardizing a potential legal case against Saipov. Trump's comments have played into legal cases before — just this week, a military judge said he would likely opt for a lighter sentence for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who walked off his Army post and was captured by the Taliban in 2009, in light of Trump's past suggestions that he should be executed.

"Mr. President, we all know he should get the death penalty. But when *you* say it, it makes it harder for DOJ to make that happen," tweeted Andrew McCarthy, the former assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.Clube does not condone and repudiates the chants of fans that took place on Sunday night in the Heriberto Hülse stadium, during the match against the Chapecoense Football Association, in the final round of the Santa Catarina Championship," they said in a statement on Monday night.

"This type of chant from a small number fans does not express the principles of the Criciúma Esporte Clube and its great fanbase, that has enormous respect not only for Chapecoense, but all the clubs in Santa Catarina, Brazil and worldwide

"The song chanted by half a dozen fans is of deeply bad taste and does not match the sporting spirit that guides Criciúma Esporte Clube.


it or not, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a big flop. It does not care a fig for what it is supposed to do: promote and protect human rights in general, and freedom of association, assembly, expression, belief and religion, sexual preference and women's rights and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities in particular.

The past record of the UNHRC shows it has overlooked rights violations in a large part of the world in general and the Middle East in particular. The UNHRC has notoriously been obsessed with inventing rights violations by Israel, the Middle East's only democracy, where women and minorities -- the most oppressed sections in most of the nations in the world -- enjoy equality in law and practice both. Since March 2006,when the UN General Assembly brought the UNHRC into existence, it has condemned Israel 61 times, compared to just 55 condemnations of all other nations in the world combined.

How many times has the UNHRC condemned states such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, which oppress their own citizens -- women and minorities in particular -- and inspire many states to follow them?

What makes the UNHRC ignore such rights violations? The answer is simple: most of the member states of the Council are themselves the worst violators of the rights of their own citizens, and they are trying to save each other through a conspiracy of corruption.

The mandate of the UNHRC Advisory Committee experts is too restrictive for them to look into the rights abuses of the states they themselves


group.

Although the McGowan Davis Report also criticized Hamas for violence against Israeli citizens, its net effect amounted to equating Hamas, a lawless, terrorist actor, with Israel, a democratic state with a sound judicial system.

That approach to life is something that most member states of the UN Human Rights Council have in common with Hamas. Neither group seems to believe in secular democracy or human rights. The Hamas Charter preaches the politics of hatred and violence against Israel, but Hamas does not spare even its own people, whom it used freely during the war last year as cannon-fodder before the eyes of international television crews. Hamas threw many of the more progressive Palestinians off the highest floors of buildings in Gaza when it took over in 2007 and expelledofficials of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah. Hamas activities have also included the support of the so-called "Axis of Resistance": Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Jihad.

After Hamas's parent movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, came to power in Cairo, then Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi blessed Hamas.

In June 2014, senior Hamas leaders Khaled Mashaal, Fauzi Barhum, and Mushir al-Masri praised the abduction and murder of the three Jewish teenagers.

When Hamas was raining rockets down on Israel, most members of the UN Human Rights Council seemed unconcerned that Jerusalem might have had moral and legal obligations to protect its citizens by resorting to "Operation Protective Edge," aimed at countering more than 11,000 attacks from Gaza into Israel since Israel totally withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

Given the pattern of


Secret Service arrested a Chinese national identified as Yujing Zhang after she managed to get past past initial security at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend with President Donald Trump in town.

Zhang had four cell phones, laptop, external hard drive, and a thumb drive. The complaint against her stated the thumb drive had “malicious software.”

From WPTV:

The woman, identified as Yujing Zhang, said she was there to “go to the pool,” when first approached by a Secret Service agent, an affidavit said. Mar-a-Lago security could not find her on the access list so security contacted the manager of the Beach Club who said Zhang is the last name of a member of the private club, the report said. Because of a perceived language barrier, it was believed she was a relativeof a club member and allowed on the property, an investigator said. A valet driving a golf cart picked up Zhang and asked her where she wanted to go but she didn’t know, the affidavit stated. She ended up in a main reception area where she told a curious receptionist that she was there to attend a United Nations Chinese American Association that evening, a Secret Service agent said. The receptionist knew that event didn’t exist and determined Zhang was not on an access list, according to the affidavit. Escorted off the property and questioned by an agent, Zhang claimed her Chinese friend ‘Charles’ told her to travel from Shanghai, China to Palm Beach and to speak with a member of President Trump’s family about Chinese and American


foreign economic relations, an agent wrote in the affidavit.

Zhang faces charges of making false statements to a federal officer and entering restricted grounds. Both are federal charges. She can receive up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The incident has brought up more security issues at Mar-a-Lago when Trump is in town since it remains open for members and their guests. Laurence Leamer, who wrote a book on the resort, told The Washington Post that security checks have “impressed” him, but remains skeptical since the club remains open for so many people.

Other members told WaPo that Zhang’s ease to navigate through Mar-a-Lago shocked them:

People who have recently hosted events at Mar-a-Lago said they were surprised by the apparent ease with which Zhang breached the club’s perimeter,An unusual cause of ischemic claudication: a case report.
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Three days the ape-man spent in resting and recuperating, eating fruits and nuts and the smaller animals that were most easily bagged, and upon the fourth he set out to explore the valley and search for the great apes. Time was a negligible factor in the equation of life--it was all the same to Tarzan if he reached the west coast in a month or a year or three years. All time was his and all Africa. His was absolute freedom--the last tie that had bound him to civilization and custom had been severed. He was alone but he was not exactly lonely. The greater part of his life had been spent thus, and though there was no other of his kind, he was at all times surroundedby the jungle peoples for whom familiarity had bred no contempt within his breast. The least of them interested him, and, too, there were those with whom he always made friends easily, and there were his hereditary enemies whose presence gave a spice to life that might otherwise have become humdrum and monotonous.

And so it was that on the fourth day he set out to explore the valley and search for his fellow-apes. He had proceeded southward for a short distance when his nostrils were assailed by the scent of man, of Gomangani, the black man. There were many of them, and mixed with their scent was another-that of a she Tarmangani.

Swinging through the trees Tarzan approached the authors of these disturbing scents. He came warily from the


flank, but paying no attention to the wind, for he knew that man with his dull senses could apprehend him only through his eyes or ears and then only when comparatively close. Had he been stalking Numa or Sheeta he would have circled about until his quarry was upwind from him, thus taking practically all the advantage up to the very moment that he came within sight or hearing; but in the stalking of the dull clod, man, he approached with almost contemptuous indifference, so that all the jungle about him knew that he was passing--all but the men he stalked.

From the dense foliage of a great tree he watched them pass--a disreputable mob of blacks, some garbed in the uniform of German East African native troops, otherswearing a single garment of the same uniform, while many had reverted to the simple dress of their forbears--approximating nudity. There were many black women with them, laughing and talking as they kept pace with the men, all of whom were armed with German rifles and equipped with German belts and ammunition.

There were no white officers there, but it was none the less apparent to Tarzan that these men were from some German native command, and he guessed that they had slain their officers and taken to the jungle with their women, or had stolen some from native villages through which they must have passed. It was evident that they were putting as much ground between themselves and the coast as possible and doubtless were seeking some impenetrable


fastness of the vast interior where they might inaugurate a reign of terror among the primitively armed inhabitants and by raiding, looting, and rape grow rich in goods and women at the expense of the district upon which they settled themselves.

Between two of the black women marched a slender white girl. She was hatless and with torn and disheveled clothing that had evidently once been a trim riding habit. Her coat was gone and her waist half torn from her body. Occasionally and without apparent provocation one or the other of the Negresses struck or pushed her roughly. Tarzan watched through half-closed eyes. His first impulse was to leap among them and bear the girl from their cruel clutches. He had recognized her immediately and it was becausewarrior suggested to his mind the pleasures of black-baiting--an amusement and a sport in which he had grown ever more proficient since that long-gone day when Kulonga, the son of Mbonga, the chief, had cast his unfortunate spear at Kala, the ape-man's foster mother.

The last man, who must have stopped for some purpose, was fully a quarter of a mile in rear of the party. He was hurrying to catch up when Tarzan saw him, and as he passed beneath the tree in which the ape-man perched above the trail, a silent noose dropped deftly about his neck. The main body still was in plain sight, and as the frightened man voiced a piercing shriek of terror, they looked back to see his body rise as though by


had seen him rise into the tree and since then many eyes had been fastened upon the spot, yet there was no sign of him. One, more venturesome than his fellows, volunteered to climb into the tree and investigate. He was gone but a minute or two and when he dropped to earth again he swore that there was no sign of a creature there.

Perplexed, and by this time a bit awed, the blacks drew slowly away from the spot and with many backward glances and less laughing continued upon their journey until, when about a mile beyond the spot at which their fellow had disappeared, those in the lead saw him peering from behind a tree at one side of the trail just in front of them.With shouts to their companions that he had been found they ran forwards; but those who were first to reach the tree stopped suddenly and shrank back, their eyes rolling fearfully first in one direction and then in another as though they expected some nameless horror to leap out upon them.

Nor was their terror without foundation. Impaled upon the end of a broken branch the head of their companion was propped behind the tree so that it appeared to be looking out at them from the opposite side of the bole.

It was then that many wished to turn back, arguing that they had offended some demon of the wood upon whose preserve they had trespassed; but Usanga refused to listen to them, assuring them that inevitable torture and


them suddenly upon the headless body of their erstwhile companion lying directly in their path, and they were again plunged into the depth of fear and gloomy forebodings.

So utterly inexplicable and uncanny had the entire occurrence been that there was not a one of them who could find a ray of comfort penetrating the dead blackness of its ominous portent. What had happened to one of their number each conceived as being a wholly possible fate for himself--in fact quite his probable fate. If such a thing could happen in broad daylight what frightful thing might not fall to their lot when night had enshrouded them in her mantle of darkness. They trembled in anticipation.

The white girl in their midst was no less mystified than they; but farless moved, since sudden death was the most merciful fate to which she might now look forward. So far she had been subjected to nothing worse than the petty cruelties of the women, while, on the other hand, it had alone been the presence of the women that had saved her from worse treatment at the hands of some of the men--notably the brutal, black sergeant, Usanga. His own woman was of the party--a veritable giantess, a virago of the first magnitude--and she was evidently the only thing in the world of which Usanga stood in awe. Even though she was particularly cruel to the young woman, the latter believed that she was her sole protection from the degraded black tyrant.

Late in the afternoon the band came upon


a small palisaded village of thatched huts set in a clearing in the jungle close beside a placid river. At their approach the villagers came pouring out, and Usanga advanced with two of his warriors to palaver with the chief. The experiences of the day had so shaken the nerves of the black sergeant that he was ready to treat with these people rather than take their village by force of arms, as would ordinarily have been his preference; but now a vague conviction influenced him that there watched over this part of the jungle a powerful demon who wielded miraculous power for evil against those who offended him. First Usanga would learn how these villagers stood with this savage god and if they had his good willin return for flour, goats, and fowl, and a certain number of huts that were to be turned over to the visitors. The details having been settled after an hour or more of that bickering argument of which the native African is so fond, the newcomers entered the village where they were assigned to huts.

Bertha Kircher found herself alone in a small hut to the palisade at the far end of the village street, and though she was neither bound nor guarded, she was assured by Usanga that she could not escape the village without running into almost certain death in the jungle, which the villagers assured them was infested by lions of great size and ferocity. "Be good to Usanga," he concluded, "and no harm will befall


alone and away from the eyes of her captors for the first time since the previous night, the girl immediately took advantage of the opportunity to assure herself that the papers she had taken from the body of Hauptmann Fritz Schneider were still safely sewn inside one of her undergarments.

Alas! Of what value could they now ever be to her beloved country? But habit and loyalty were so strong within her that she still clung to the determined hope of eventually delivering the little packet to her chief.

The natives seemed to have forgotten her existence--no one came near the hut, not even to bring her food. She could hear them at the other end of the village laughing and yelling and knew that they were celebrating with foodand native beer--knowledge which only increased her apprehension. To be prisoner in a native village in the very heart of an unexplored region of Central Africa--the only white woman among a band of drunken Negroes! The very thought appalled her. Yet there was a slight promise in the fact that she had so far been unmolested--the promise that they might, indeed, have forgotten her and that soon they might become so hopelessly drunk as to be harmless.

Darkness had fallen and still no one came. The girl wondered if she dared venture forth in search of Naratu, Usanga's woman, for Usanga might not forget that he had promised to return. No one was near as she stepped out of the hut and made her way toward the part of


the village where the revelers were making merry about a fire. As she approached she saw the villagers and their guests squatting in a large circle about the blaze before which a half-dozen naked warriors leaped and bent and stamped in some grotesque dance. Pots of food and gourds of drink were being passed about among the audience. Dirty hands were plunged into the food pots and the captured portions devoured so greedily that one might have thought the entire community had been upon the point of starvation. The gourds they held to their lips until the beer ran down their chins and the vessels were wrested from them by greedy neighbors. The drink had now begun to take noticeable effect upon most of them, with the resultthat they were beginning to give themselves up to utter and licentious abandon.

As the girl came nearer, keeping in the shadow of the huts, looking for Naratu she was suddenly discovered by one upon the edge of the crowd--a huge woman, who rose, shrieking, and came toward her. From her aspect the white girl thought that the woman meant literally to tear her to pieces. So utterly wanton and uncalled-for was the attack that it found the girl entirely unprepared, and what would have happened had not a warrior interfered may only be guessed. And then Usanga, noting the interruption, came lurching forward to question her.

"What do you want," he cried, "food and drink? Come with me!" and he threw an arm about her and dragged her toward


the circle.

"No!" she cried, "I want Naratu. Where is Naratu?"

This seemed to sober the black for a moment as though he had temporarily forgotten his better half. He cast quick, fearful glances about, and then, evidently assured that Naratu had noticed nothing, he ordered the warrior who was still holding the infuriated black woman from the white girl to take the latter back to her hut and to remain there on guard over her.

First appropriating a gourd of beer for himself the warrior motioned the girl to precede him, and thus guarded she returned to her hut, the fellow squatting down just outside the doorway, where he confined his attentions for some time to the gourd.

Bertha Kircher sat down at the far side of the hut awaiting sheknew not what impending fate. She could not sleep so filled was her mind with wild schemes of escape though each new one must always be discarded as impractical. Half an hour after the warrior had returned her to her prison he rose and entered the hut, where he tried to engage in conversation with her. Groping across the interior he leaned his short spear against the wall and sat down beside her, and as he talked he edged closer and closer until at last he could reach out and touch her. Shrinking, she drew away.

"Do not touch me!" she cried. "I will tell Usanga if you do not leave me alone, and you know what he will do to you."

The man only laughed drunkenly, and, reaching out


his hand, grabbed her arm and dragged her toward him. She fought and cried aloud for Usanga and at the same instant the entrance to the hut was darkened by the form of a man.

"What is the matter?" shouted the newcomer in the deep tones that the girl recognized as belonging to the black sergeant. He had come, but would she be any better off? She knew that she would not unless she could play upon Usanga's fear of his woman.

When Usanga found what had happened he kicked the warrior out of the hut and bade him begone, and when the fellow had disappeared, muttering and grumbling, the sergeant approached the white girl. He was very drunk, so drunk that several times she succeeded in eluding him andtwice she pushed him so violently away that he stumbled and fell.

Finally he became enraged and rushing upon her, seized her in his long, apelike arms. Striking at his face with clenched fists she tried to protect herself and drive him away. She threatened him with the wrath of Naratu, and at that he changed his tactics and began to plead, and as he argued with her, promising her safety and eventual freedom, the warrior he had kicked out of the hut made his staggering way to the hut occupied by Naratu.

Usanga finding that pleas and promises were as unavailing as threats, at last lost both his patience and his head, seizing the girl roughly, and simultaneously there burst into the hut a raging demon of jealousy. Naratu