was a huge shot,'' Joseph admitted. "We had a chance to take the lead just previous to that (shot), but couldn't make the shot. They moved the ball well and Wasco hit his only basket of the night. He was ready to hit it, to his credit.''

Burly Leonny Rojas, probably the Comets' fourth man off the bench, also made his presence felt in his spot duty. He cashed a Fazzini feed into a first-quarter layup as he was fouled. It was part of Crestwood's early salvo that set the game's tone and ultimately was the difference between the two evenly matched rivals.

Senior center Luke Casey, who's getting his first taste of the Crestwood-Hazleton Area rivalry this season after

transferring from Nanticoke, stepped up to score 12 points, including 6up big numbers against the Comets. His 36 points led all scorers, with 15 coming on 23 attempts from the foul line. He personally fouled out two Comets: Wasco and backup guard Josh Malkemes.

But aside from Jon Fogarty (12 points), Biasi didn't receive the same kind of help from his teammates that he got from them during their first game against Crestwood.

In fact, Hazleton Area's big men (Kyle Karmonick, Reynal Santana and Hunter Samec) combined for only six points. Karmonick was in foul trouble for most of the game, fouling out with 2:43 left and the Cougars trailing by six.

"Our big guys didn't get a whole lot of touches,'' Joseph said. "One area where we've had to get better as a team is offensive rebounding. With some of


athletic directors from both schools near midcourt to address the situation. Principals Rocco Petrone of Hazleton Area and Chris Gegaris of Crestwood eventually joined the conversation.

Weinstock told them that as PIAA officials, he crew was interested in the players' safety first and foremost. He asked Crestwood officials what they planned to do to keep the floor from getting wet. They decided to keep the gym doors open, put up portable fans and have youngsters towel the floor dry on one end while play was going on on the other.

All seemed to alleviate the condensation issue, which reminded some long-time Hazleton-area fans and a few Standard-Speaker readers of the time when condensation formed on the floor of the old McAdoo High School. They recalled one game in the earlyThe incidence of liability claims in ophthalmology as compared with other specialties.
Ophthalmologists continue to share in the professional liability claims that plague the medical profession. Data have been extrapolated from the April 1987 publication of the United States General Accounting Office (GAO) entitled, "Medical Malpractice Characteristics of Claims Closed in 1984." This document presents information pertaining to the comparative incidence of professional liability claims of ophthalmologists with other specialties.


consisted of testimony of his co-conspirators, the two women of ill repute, the yard boy, and the owner of the house in which the appellant is alleged to have conducted his affair with one of the women. All of these witnesses are criminals of the most unsavory sort. In addition to these witnesses, the Government used the various doctors who supplied the prescriptions and the druggists who filled the prescriptions, together with certain incidental witnesses, to corroborate the testimony of the co-conspirators, Lawder and Aarons.

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The record shows that on June 14, 1953 the appellant, Sidney Smith, then a policeman in the burglary and theft division of the Houston Police Department, stopped Lawder and Aarons, both known drug addicts and ex-convicts, as they were driving down a street inthe conspiracy, August 17, 1953, Lawder purchased hundreds of tablets of dilaudid on prescriptions illegally obtained by him under false pretenses. On the various occasions when the tablets were obtained, Smith would drive Lawder to a doctor's office where he would wait in the car until Lawder returned. He would then drive Lawder to a pharmacy and again wait in the car until the tablets were obtained. The money to purchase the drugs was supplied by Smith or Aarons. The drugs were distributed to the three conspirators and used by them as above indicated.

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Smith took the stand in his own defense. He admitted his association with the criminal witnesses in the case. He explained that association, however, by suggesting that in his work as a policeman, it was


in return for her affection, the dilaudid purchased by Lawder. Such evidence supported the Government's charge that Lawder, Aarons and Smith were illegally obtaining narcotic drugs.

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Appellant also protests against the admission in evidence of notes in Smith's handwriting which appeared to be plans for a robbery to be performed by Smith and Lawder. These notes were introduced in evidence by the Government after Smith had testified that while he knew Lawder, the association was by no means intimate. These notes tended to rebut this testimony. If this case had been tried to a jury, the court probably would have excluded this evidence on the ground of undue prejudice. Since the case was tried to the court, the prejudicial nature of the evidence becomes less apparent. In any event,Import of sterols into mitochondria of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
An in vitro assay was designed to study the import of radiolabeled ergosterol and cholesterol from unilamellar vesicles into isolated mitochondria of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Supply of ergosterol to the mitochondrial surface was enhanced by a cytosolic fraction containing a lipid transfer protein, whereas no such additive to the assay was required for cholesterol transport. Both sterols reached the inner mitochondrial membrane. During import, they were detected in contact sites between the outer and the inner mitochondrial membrane supporting the idea, that these zones are sites of intramitochondrial lipid translocation. Transport of ergosterol between the outer and the inner mitochondrial membrane was not affected by addition of ATP, depletion of ATP caused by treatment of mitochondria with apyrase


Debating Materialism: Cavendish, Hobbes, and More Stewart Duncan Draft of July 2011 1. Introduction Thomas Hobbes's materialism was famous in the seventeenth century, and is still well known today. The materialists who followed Hobbes are less well known. In this paper I discuss the materialist views of one of them, Margaret Cavendish, focusing on the relationship between Cavendish's materialism and the views of her contemporaries Hobbes and Henry More1. The relationship between Cavendish's views and Hobbes's is the better documented. Hobbes worked for the Cavendish family – though Margaret Cavendish reported having almost no interaction with him about philosophical matters – and both Hobbes and Cavendish were materialists, albeit of different sorts.2 There were not the same personal connections between Cavendish and More that there were between herworks in the early 1650s, she claimed to have read only Hobbes's De Cive (Hobbes 1651b) and half of Descartes's Passions of the Soul (Descartes 1650). It is reasonably clear that her basic philosophical views were not formed by extensive engagement with the books of her contemporaries (Cavendish 1655, 'An Epilog to my Philosophical Opinions'). That engagement came later, and resulted in two books of the mid1660s: Philosophical Letters, with its long discussions of Descartes, Hobbes, More, and van Helmont (and shorter discussions of others including Galileo and Charleton) and Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, which focuses on Hooke, Power, and Glanville. 3 Hobbes on some issues and More on others, while carving out a distinctive alternative view.7 The second main claim is that this debate illustrates a more


materialist. In his 1641 Objections to Descartes's Meditations, Hobbes argued that the human mind (mens) was corporeal. However, he did not claim to know that everything was corporeal, claiming instead that there are certain things whose natures we do not know, in particular God and the human soul (anima), the thing that gives us life. Hobbes's materialism was stronger in the 1651 English Leviathan, though he appears still to have thought there that God had an unknown nature. By the 1660s Hobbes thought that everything, including God, was corporeal, describing God as a 'corporeal spirit' (EW 4.306), by which he meant at least that God is extended.15 Despite these developments, Hobbes's view was a sort of materialism throughout his philosophical career. Indeed, when More in the Immortality ofnature. Once more Cavendish's view upsets the neat division, because she both maintained her materialism and believed in a controlling intelligence in the natural, corporeal world, namely the active, and in particular the rational, matter. More defines the spirit of nature as 'A substance incorporeal, but without Sense and Animadversion, pervading the whole Matter of the Universe, and exercising a plastical power therein according to the sundry predispositions and occasions in the parts it works upon, raising such Phaenomena in the World, by directing the parts of the Matter and their Motion, as cannot be resolved into meer Mechanical powers' (IS 450). More goes on to give reasons to believe in such a spirit, by giving a variety of examples of phenomena that cannot, he thinks, be explained


Scripture makes mention of' (PL 227). The story of the witch of Endor is told at 1 Samuel 28. The witch apparently causes Samuel, who has died, to appear to Saul. This is an interesting case, both because it led Cavendish to acknowledge the existence of one witch in the world, and because Hobbes also discussed it. Prophecy is not an art, nor (when it is taken for prediction) a constant vocation, but an extraordinary and temporary employment from God, most often of good men, but sometimes also of the wicked. The woman of Endor, who is said to have had a familiar spirit, and thereby to have raised a phantasm of Samuel, and foretold Saul his death, was not therefore a prophetess; for neither had she anycenturies. London. Broad, Jacqueline. 2002. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -----. 2007. 'Margaret Cavendish and Joseph Glanvill: Science, Religion, and Witchcraft'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 38, 493-505. Cavendish, Margaret. 1653a. Poems and Fancies. London. -----. 1653b. Philosophicall Fancies. London. -----. 1655. Philosophical and Physical Opinions. London. -----. 1664. Philosophical Letters. London. -----. 1666. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. London. -----. 1667. The life of the thrice noble, high and puissant prince William Cavendishe, Duke, Marquess and Earl of Newcastle. London. -----. 1994. The Blazing World and Other Writings. Edited by Kate Lilley. London: Penguin. -----. 2001. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. Edited by Eileen O'Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cunning, David. 2009. 'Margaret Lucas Cavendish' in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford


Joseph. 1666. A Philosophical Endeavour towards the Defence of the Being of Witches and Apparitions. London. -----. 1667. Some Philosophical Considerations touching the Being of Witches and Witchcraft. London. -----. 1668. A Blow at Modern Sadducism. London. -----. 1681. Saducismus Triumphatus. London. Henry, John. 1986. 'A Cambridge Platonist's Materialism: Henry More and the Concept of Soul'. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 49, 172-95. Hobbes, Thomas. 1651a. Leviathan. -----. 1651b. Philosophical Rudiments concerning Government and Society. English translation. London. -----. 1655. De Corpore. -----. 1656. Elements of Philosophy Concerning Body. English translation of Hobbes 1655. -----. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes. Molesworth edition, as reproduced on Past Masters. -----. 1994. Leviathan. Edited by Edwin Curley. Indianapolis: Hackett. Hutton, Sarah. 1990. Ed. Henry More (1614-1687) Tercentenary Studies.Dordrecht: Kluwer. -----. 1997. 'In Dialogue with Thomas Hobbes: Margaret Cavendish's Natural Philosophy'. Women's Writing 4, 421–32. -----. 2003. 'Margaret Cavendish and Henry More' in Stephen Clucas (ed.), A Princely Brave Woman: Essays on Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (Aldershot: Ashgate), 185-98. James, Susan. 1999. 'The Philosophical Innovations of Margaret Cavendish'. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7, 211-44. 28 Jesseph, Douglas. 2005. 'Mechanism, Skepticism, and Witchcraft: More and Glanvill on the Failures of Cartesian Philosophy' in Tad Schmaltz (ed.), Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge), 199-217. Leijenhorst, Cees. 2002. The Mechanization of Aristotelianism. Leiden: Brill. Michaelian, Kourken. 2009. 'Margaret Cavendish's Epistemology'. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17: 31–53. More, Henry. 1659. The Immortality of the Soul. London. -----.


Report: Overwatch Anniversary Event, Game Of The Year Edition Likely On The Way

Recently, tiny hints and leaks have indicated Blizzard is planning something to mark the one-year anniversary of its popular shooter Overwatch, and fans have been waiting on pins and needles for details. Yesterday when a fan asked on Twitter about a date for an anniversary event, the official Twitter account responded, “No timing details yet,” indicating that news is on the way. Today, True Achievements found some more information in its recent scan of the Xbox Live Marketplace, discovering anniversary loot boxes and a Game of the Year edition.

The store description for the Game of the Year edition says it comes with the full game, 10 bonus loot boxes, origin skins for five heroes, a babyDamascus, SANA 8 August — The media office at the Syrian Presidency announced on Wednesday that Mrs. Asmaa al-Assad began the initial stage of treatment of a malignant breast tumor which was discovered in its early stage.

“Strongly, confidently and faithfully, Mrs. Asmaa al-Assad started the first stage of treatment of a malignant tumor in the breast which was discovered in its early stage,” the office said on its Facebook page.

According to the photo published by the media office, Mrs. Asmaa is receiving treatment at one of the military hospitals in Damascus city.

Syria News addenda:

In early 2013, First Lady Asmaa al-Assad visited pediatric cancer patients in the al Birundi hospital, before it was ‘temporarily’ closed down because of attacks by moderately armed terrorists.

In December 2013, the al Kindi University


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April 25, 2013

Arlington's bid for library was late, lean

UNIVERSITY PARK -- Unlikely as it seems now, Arlington once bid to host the Bush Center.
In 2005, Arlington's bid was one of the first eliminated in a process that eventually led as most predicted to Laura Bush's alma mater near the Bushes' once-and-future north Dallas home.
Here's reporter Patrick McGee's story from 2006:

Arlington might have had an outdoor 9-11 memorial and an institution supporting infant democracies around the world if the city had been selected as the site for the George W. Bush presidential library and museum.
This vision for the 43rd president's museum is detailed in a video released by Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck. It was part of a failed bid for the library the city made last year.
The first roundof cuts in October eliminated Arlington along with University of Texas System bids to build the library in either Austin or on the UT-Dallas campus in Richardson.
Still in the running for the multimillion-dollar presidential library and museum are Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the University of Dallas in Irving, Baylor University in Waco and the West Texas Coalition, which is campaigning to get the library built at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Finalists presented their proposals in November to a committee charged with recommending a site. A decision has not been released, and committee representatives could not be reached to comment Tuesday.
Cluck said Arlington's bid committee withheld a portion of the privately produced video that identified a specific site for the presidential library and a 30-page book presented to


economic development presentations.
Arlington's video includes people who are active in the community, such as Jeff Williams, former president of the River Legacy Foundation and dance instructor Persis Forester.
Many of them auditioned for the video, said Kristin Vandergriff, a member of the committee that made Arlington's bid.
Vandergriff said the committee had only two and a half to three weeks to make the video.
Scrambling to get it done, she said, she walked into an Arlington fire station and asked some firefighters to vouch for the city.
"I simply walked over and said, 'Hey would you be interested in helping us?' and they were more than willing to help," she said.
Three of the uniformed firefighters appear on a firetruck bumper talking about how Arlington is a friendly place.
A diverse array of Arlingtonresidents including an Iraqi-American, a Main Street cobbler and schoolchildren also appear, teeming with enthusiasm and promising that Arlington is the perfect place to enshrine the president's letters and legacy.
Turner opens and closes on a leafy walking trail near Ameriquest Field where the Rangers play. The video includes flattering shots of the city, including quaint homes, the Parks at Arlington mall and the University of Texas at Arlington.
Cluck said a little more than $100,000 was raised privately for Arlington's pitch. Vandergriff said Scott Howell & Co. of Dallas produced the video.
Cluck said Arlington could not compete with the $500 million that the 10-city West Texas Coalition said it would spend on the presidential library project.
"We knew we couldn't do that," Cluck said. "It wasn't easy raising $100,000."
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UNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

TIG INSURANCE COMPANY,
Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.
                                                                          No. 97-2637
DEATON, INC.; TRAVELERS INSURANCE
COMPANY,
Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Western District of North Carolina, at Charlotte.
Robert D. Potter, Senior District Judge.
(CA-96-92-3-P)

Argued: June 3, 1998

Decided: December 18, 1998

Before NIEMEYER and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges, and
FABER, United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Westof Ala-
          bama, and are domiciled, supervised, based, and have as
          their principal location of employment, the State of Ala-
          bama.

Marion Poole, Deaton's manager at the Wilson terminal, discussed
this provision with Coffman. When Coffman signed the application,
he agreed to the provision and understood that it became one of the
terms of his employment contract with Deaton. The final approval for
Coffman to drive for Deaton took place in Birmingham, Alabama.
Deaton required Coffman, as a condition of his employment, to travel
in Alabama and other states.

Coffman made his first trip as an interstate truck driver for Deaton
on March 3, 1992; he drove for approximately two


weeks before his
injury. During those two weeks, he made seven trips, which included
pickups and deliveries in six different states, including a pickup in
Alabama. He was on the road continuously from March 3, 1992, until
the time of his accident, and never returned to the Wilson terminal.
Coffman parked his tractor in North Carolina only once -- when he
stopped at his home overnight while traveling from Maryland to
Georgia. The load Coffman was carrying at the time of his injury was
picked up by him at Deaton's terminal in Birmingham, Alabama, and
delivered to Charlotte, North Carolina.

On the other hand, Coffman has been a North Carolina resident at
all relevant times; he was recruited, tested, and informed that he had

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been hired through the Wilson, North Carolina terminal; he completed
his training with a North Carolina driver, beginning or ending all
training trips in North Carolina; he was supervised and received dis-
patching instruction from the Wilson terminal; he began or ended all
of his solo trips for Deaton except one in North Carolina and on that
one, he spent the night in North Carolina; and, he paid state income
taxes only to North Carolina.

Coffman's injury occurred on March 17, 1992, while delivering a
load of steel pipe to a destination in Charlotte, North Carolina. A pipe
fell on his head, paralyzing him from the neck down and leading to
amputation of his left foot. Coffman personally decided to file a
workers compensation claim in North Carolina, believing himself to
be employed there.

At the time


of Coffman's accident, Deaton's policies with both
TIG and Travelers were in effect. Deaton's plan for insuring workers
compensation claims was to have all of its interstate drivers treated
as Alabama employees and covered by the TIG policy. To this end,
Deaton included in its employment application the provision quoted
above to which Coffman acceded. Deaton paid premiums to TIG for
all of its interstate drivers, including Coffman.

The TIG policy was supplemented by state specific policies cover-
ing Deaton's workers compensation exposure for intrastate workers
not included in the TIG policy. The Travelers policy provided pri-
mary workers compensation coverage in several states in which Dea-
ton maintained terminals, including North Carolina. Consistent with
Deaton's general plan, the Travelers policy was designed to cover
only local drivers and employees who worked at terminals. Deaton
submitted to the North Carolina Rate BureauSesame Street puppeteer Caroll Spinney
dies at 85 Caroll Spinney Sesame Street
puppeteer behind Big Bird and Oscar dies
at 85 actor retired from show last year
after hand picking successors to play
both characters puppeteer Caroll Spinney
who brought Big Bird and Oscar the
Grouch to life on the iconic children's
television show Sesame Street for half a
century died on Sunday at the age of 85
Spinney died at home in Connecticut
after living for some time with the
movement disorder dystonia which causes
uncontrollable muscle contractions
according to a statement from Sesame
Workshop the nonprofit organization that
produces the show the actor retired from
the show last year having hand-picked
successors to play both Big Bird and
Oscar two very different characters he
helped create delighting millions of
children those characters won a towering
Yellowbird the other a grumpy Green
Monster in a trash can existed in what
many


considered a magical world created
by puppet master Jim Henson and
including pals Bert and Ernie
the lovable Cookie Monster and the goofy
Kermit the Frog spinny once told the New
York Times he had modeled Oscar the
Grouch on a cross between a
magnificently rude restaurant waiter and
a ranting New York cab driver in 1973 a
year after then US President Richard
Nixon made his dramatic trip to China
spinny flew to Beijing for a performance
dressed as big bird he said he only paid
half price for the plane ticket because
the character was only six years old
when Henson died in 1990 big birds sang
Kermit's sweetly melancholy tune it's
not easy being green at a memorial
service Carol was an artistic genius
whose kind and loving view of the world
helped shape and define Sesame Street
from its earliest days in 1969 through
five decadesSesame Workshop said in a
state
his enormous talent and outsized heart
were perfectly suited to playing the
larger-than-life yellow bird who brought
joy to generations of children and
countless fans of all ages around the
world and his lovably cantankerous
grouch gave us all permission to be
cranky once in a while
poignant Lee Spinneys death came as the
show marked its 50th birthday and as it
is lighted with one of America's top
cultural awards the Kennedy Center
Honors at a gala Sunday in Washington
Spinney himself won multiple Daytime
Emmys for his work as well as a Lifetime
Achievement Award he also earned a
Grammy Award for best children's
recording at the time of his retirement
he was quoted as saying that his big
bird alter-ego had opened my mind and
nurtured my soul he hand-picked his
successors in the two major roles after
mentoring them for more than


two decades
a shy child Spinney embraced puppetry
and reportedly owned 70 puppets by the
age of 12 he met Henson at a puppeteers
festival in 1962 and bumped into him
again in 1969 months later he joined
Sesame Street Spinneys life was the
subject of the 2014 documentary I am Big
Bird
the Caroll Spinney story Big Bird the
instantly recognizable giant yellow bird
with a huge beak is more than 2.5 meters
tall Spinney who is 5 feet 10 had to use
his hands and wires to manipulate the
towering puppet guided by a TV monitor
in the costume in 2000 he was named a
living legend by the US Library of
Congress and he has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Henson's family said in a statement that
Spinney managed to perfectly convey the
humor and heart in our father's
creations Big Bird was childlikeAnatomical study of the diaphragm of the opossum (Didelphis albiventris).
The anatomical characteristics of the South American opossum diaphragm were described. Five male and seven female adult opossums, weighing between 700 and 1110 g, were used. Animals were killed by ether inhalation saturation. The abdominal and thoracic walls were dissected and opened, the viscerae were removed and the diaphragm anatomy was described and photographed in situ. After diaphragm removal, some dimensional data were taken and tabled. Primary branches of the phrenic nerves were dissected under a surgical microscope. The secondary branches were studied and described by transillumination after clarification in acetic acid. The opossum diaphragm is domed and has a mean area of 54.33 +/- 3.8 cm2. Well-identified costal, sternal and lumbar parts form the peripheral muscular region. The


Exclusive: President Trump’s calls for reorienting American foreign policy look to be disintegrating in his first two weeks in office as he embraces the neoconservative hostilities toward Iran and Russia, as Andrew Spannaus notes.

By Andrew Spannaus

The Trump Administration’s goal of de-escalating tensions with Russia is meeting stiff resistance in Eastern Europe where many reject the notion that a diplomatic solution can be reached over the issues of Ukraine and NATO expansion.

This reality was on clear display at the 10th Europe-Ukraine Forum held in Rzeszow, Poland, from Jan. 27 to 29, which brought together over 900 government officials, politicians and analysts from across Europe, to discuss how to respond to the new political situation in the United States while continuing to provide support to Kiev’s efforts to bind itselfcloser to the West.

The atmosphere at the Forum – an annual event organized by the Eastern Institute of Warsaw – was more muted than last year, as the reality of the “realpolitik” likely to be adopted by President Trump’s administration sinks in.

The previous forum in 2016 was opened by the American neoconservative Philip Karber, president of the Potomac Foundation, who lamented the “sophistic” reasoning of those who argue against providing military assistance to Ukraine and said he couldn’t wait for the next presidential administration to arrive (when it appeared likely it would be headed by Hillary Clinton or a traditional Republican). Karber noted that President Barack Obama had refused to fully arm the Ukrainians in their battle against Russia.

This wasn’t just idle talk coming from Karber, as we


found out a few months later in 2016, thanks to leaks published by The Intercept last July. It appears that Karber had gone repeatedly to the front lines of the fight in Ukraine to draw up his own – inflated – intelligence reports regarding Russian intervention. He sent the reports to General Philip Breedlove, at the time the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, who in turn used Karber’s figures to challenge the lower estimates drawn up by official intelligence agencies.

General Breedlove then went a step further, seeking to mobilize pressure on President Obama to provide lethal assistance to Ukraine. Despite enlisting the help of prominent individuals such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell and one of Breedlove’s predecessors at NATO, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, Breedlove’s efforts provedby most. Many speakers called for an even more aggressive stance on NATO expansion to include not only Ukraine, but also Sweden, Finland and any other country in Russia’s neighborhood.

Tomasz Szatkowski, Undersecretary of State of the Polish Ministry of National Defense, also said Poland would volunteer to lead a group of nations in creating a first-response network, ready to organize out-of-area military missions in response to Russian aggression. Other officials agreed with the idea of creating an alliance between a group of countries going from the Baltics down through Eastern Europe, to put pressure on the European Union and the United States to head off any potential diplomatic accords with Putin.

The fear among these participants was that Ukraine would lose out in any U.S.-Russian diplomatic accord. They argued


“democracy promotion” projects in Ukraine, contributing to undermining the previous elected government and touching off the civil war between Ukrainian nationalists from the west and ethnic Russians from the east. Gershman also has called for the overthrow of Vladimir Putin in Russia.

A False Narrative

Although the West’s propaganda narrative has obscured the circumstances around the ouster of Ukrainian President Yanukovych on Feb. 22, 2014, the violent putsch has been called the “most blatant coup in history” by George Friedman, the founder of Stratfor and Geopolitical Futures. At the time of the coup, a diplomatic deal had been struck for new elections by the end of the year, but far-right militia groups stepped in to seize control of the government institutions and the coup regime was quickly declared “legitimate” byconsiderably after a ceasefire agreement was hammered out in early 2015. However, on Jan. 28, barely a week into the Trump administration, new fighting broke out around the city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine. Staunchly anti-Russian media outlets and politicians immediately tried to leverage the situation to block any moves by President Trump to press ahead with a diplomatic solution.

However, at the Forum in Rzeszow, there were at least some voices calling for a recognition of the new reality ushered in by the change in approach in Washington. In private discussions several government officials noted that with further NATO expansion probably off the table at this point, there is no alternative to dialogue.

A few speakers, such as Markku Kangaspuro of Finland and former Ukrainian government official Oleksandr Chalyi,


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the need for an international symbol that is visually prominent and easily recognized. The first draft of the symbol was developed using the international symbol for the man's washroom, the colours of the international symbol for wheelchair accessibility, and the black and white checkers of the checkered eye for low vision. It has been redesigned based on an Internet survey.

West Wellington resident Anna-Karina Tabuñar is changing perceptions about disability and employability with a documentary film. Talent Untapped is now entering the post-production period and Tabuñar will be looking for public funding in the spring.

Tabuñar, a veteran anchor for CTV Ottawa between 1996 and 2005, will be asking for $10,000 in support via Kickstarter, a crowd-funding platform, which will be used to make the documentary fully accessible to peopleSuperfan Sean Doolittle reviews 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'

Big Star Wars fan Sean Doolittle was kind enough to take some time away from his rigorous offseason sock-throwing regimen to write a film review of Rogue One ... yes, really! Enjoy it all below, and don't worry -- there are no major spoilers, as Sean knows what he's doing.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the second installment in the Star Wars franchise since Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, and it's the first Star Wars movie ever to be set outside of the episodic sagas that make up the trilogies.

Disney's first Star Wars release, The Force Awakens, directed by J.J. Abrams, was a huge, family-friendly success that brought much-needed excitement and energy back to the franchise.

So there was


expectations for it. "Clear your mind must be."

Maybe that's why the beginning of the film was a little hard to follow for me. Without an opening crawl to provide backstory, the movie starts by zipping around the galaxy, hastily providing you with some much-needed context. The scenes are often very short, and things move so quickly that for the first time in any Star Wars movie, we're shown in the corner of the screen when the movie takes us to a new place in the galaxy -- many of which even the most seasoned Star Wars fans have never heard of before.

We've long known from the second paragraph of the opening crawl of the original Star Wars that "Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire'swrongs appear, to me, in our time, to have occupied the conscience of England only too much to the exclusion of other things.”

In my blog, I had referred to the clash between two camps, the realist (Jimmy Mahon, the socialist leader of the Irish Citizens Army played by Brian Gleeson) and the romantic (Patrick Pearse, the poet orator and leader of the rebellion played by Marcus Lamb), the two polar opposites within the rebellious ranks. However, I totally missed the allusion of this premise in the series to Henry James’ thesis that it was only when the two polar opposites joined forces, that the action could begin and the rebellion take off. James in his preface in the novel wrote of his own romantic hero, Hyacinth Robinson, that


and his novel provides the historical background and context missing in the series, such as the role of Millbank Prison by the Thames that held the Fenian rebels who had initiated the raids from post-bellum America into Canada from 1866 to 1871. The Fenian Brotherhood’s attacks on British army forts and customs posts in Canada, all ending in failure, within Upper Canada and subsequently Ontario, strengthened the Orange Order (still the dominant force in my home province when I was a kid). Those raids from the modern founders of terrorism helped lead to Confederation in 1867, the same year that Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. For if the realists brought discipline and organization, the romantics brought a desire for and an expertise in notoriety and theatricality.

The “Revolution” series didbring out the radical rhetoric that made death and dying for a cause a romantic aspiration in the face of those who had white milk in their arteries and veins instead of red blood. The ruthlessness of the rebels, the dramatization of conspiratorial action, was present early on, but not the guile. So in 1885 the Fenians blew up half of Westminster and the Tower in London using Alfred Nobel’s wicked invention. But it would be the disciplined, focused, selfless and implacable Irish-American, Thomas J. Clarke, who had set up an elaborate bomb factory in Birmingham, and was caught, charged with treason and conspiracy, who would make the difference. He initiated the conspiratorial web from his prison cell in Millbank that set off the 1916 Irish Easter Rising.


It was from that prison cell that he wrote his archetypal prison memoir and its depiction of the horrific conditions and the combined stupidity and lack of compassion of the British, and contrasted that with the camaraderie and courage of the prisoners in subverting their jailers. That memoir directly lead to the creation of Amnesty International that would campaign for the release of the prisoners, with the unintended consequence of allowing the rebels to return to Ireland to engage in much more effective Irish revolutionary activity.

Henry James had referred to Ireland as an “accursed isle, “where literature, art, conversation, and society had all been murdered in the name of an ardent nationalism.” In 1907, Joseph Conrad wrote and published the thriller The Secret Agent that would outsell Heartof Darkness. According to Colm Tóibín, Sir Robert Anderson, the police commissioner who had played such an important role in his insistence on treating the rebels as felons rather than political prisoners, as the British army general does in the five part series, published Sidelights on the Home Rule Movement, which inspired Joseph Conrad’s treatise on terrorism. But in Conrad’s foreword to the 1920 edition, he claimed it was the “Greenwich Bomb Outrage” of February 1894 that had inspired him. But it could have been both. When Martial Bourdin blew himself up in Greenwich Park accidentally with his own terrorist bomb (I witnessed the same type of event in Jerusalem in 1978 when a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up outside my classroom window when I was teaching a


class on Hegel at Hebrew University), Conrad called this incident “a blood-stained inanity of so fatuous a kind that it was impossible to fathom its origin by any reasonable or even unreasonable process of thought.” But it is precisely such irrational acts of theatricality, when combined with disciplined political calculation, that, according to Henry James, sets off revolutions.

Responsibility for the planning of the rising was given by Patrick Pearse to Tom Clarke (the tobacconist played by Lalor Roddy in the series) who was killed by the firing squad on the first day of the executions (3 May 1916) alongside Pearse himself, and Séan Mac Diamada, also known as Séan Macdermott, played by Sean Fox, who was killed by the firing squad on the final day of the executionson 12 May 1916. None of these leaders during WWI came within a shadow’s breath of the charismatic and clever, audacious and super-intelligent nineteenth century Irish firebrand, Charles Stewart Parnell. But in the series, the combination of characters, together with an obtuse British leadership, provide the spark that would lead to both a failure in the battle for Dublin by the rebels and a victory by their successors in the war for independence. There is no hint in the series that I recall, and hence the criticisms of lack of context, that both Patrick Pearse and James Joyce, in the footsteps of their fathers, revered Parnell.

Colm fills it in. “The clash between the two (Joyce and Pearse) over ideas of language and cultural identity would make its way


tag group of rebels divided among Irish Volunteers, the Irish Citizen Army, the Gaelic Athletic Association and Redmond’s National Volunteers transformed itself into a divided but effective revolutionary force, which eventually wins, more because of the stupidity of the British command structure than the discipline, organization and wisdom of the revolutionaries whose 1916 Easter rising was such a tremendous failure as a military operation, but such a successful advertisement for rebellion in the face of British obstinacy and perfidy.

Colm and the series both fill in the divisions between the archbishop of Dublin, William Walsh (Barry McGovern) – protection of the church must be our first priority – and the need to identify with the people – the position of the archbishop’s secretary portrayed as Monsignor Mulcahy (Gus McDonagh)rather than Father Michael Curran, but I found this identification somewhat confusing in the series. It was also not clear to me, as Colm points out, that Pearse’s reading of the proclamation in front of the Post Office was met by a small and uninspired crowd. Though that was how it was portrayed in the movie, I thought that this was the product of series budget shortfall rather than a mimetic version of what actually took place.

Colm also makes clear that the choices of properties to occupy ignored seats of power in favour of symbolic locations, and the choice of the centre of the main shopping area and close to Dublin’s north side slums, led to a large number of civilian casualties, unintentionally or otherwise, when combined with


the British use of artillery and large guns clearly in breach of the norms of just war. This barrage that killed a large number of civilians took place in spite of the fact that 200,000 Irishmen were serving in the front lines in Europe and the lives of their relatives would be sacrificed to British indifference to Irish lives. This is conveyed in one dramatic moment with the death of the Irish fusilier’s young boy.

Colm reminds us that the rebellion had cultural as well as political consequences. I remember as an undergraduate reading Sean O’Casey’s 1925 comic portrayal, The Plough and the Stars which captured the rhetorical romanticism of the revolt – I never read or saw the earlier Shadow of a Gunman. The scene of the looterwill refund your money.” Men in coal mines will be proud once again to work as miners – environmental consequences be damned. Just as Trump won against the prognostications of virtually all the pundits, he could beat Hillary. She is vulnerable. The appeal to ignorance is powerful.


Kiddus I - Fire Burn (Shepherd/Dub Store Records JPN) 1979
12"single from the previously released album 'Rockers: Graduation In Zion 1978-1979 (DSR-LP-001)'. Kiddus I originally recorded 'Fire Burn' in 1973 but the master tape went missing. The song was re-recorded at Tuff Gong in 1978 for his debut album 'Jah Power, Jah Glory' but it remained unreleased. Surprisingly, the track has the same bassline to Bunny Wailer's 'Amagideon' and it is said Bunny adopted it from the 'Fire Burn', which were originally recorded in 1973. The most dreadful song amongst his unreleased material and 9 minutes of jazzy performance is just a miracle. The B-side contains a version to the A-side.

Johnny Scar - United Africa (Solomonic/Dub Store Records JPN) 1986
Bunny Wailer, respectfully called “The Blackheart Man”, produced Johnny Scar’sone-off recording ‘United Africa’. The mystic singer wrote this heavy roots song and sang with his unique chant like a voice of the roots reggae icon, Burning Spear. And the song appeared as 12”on the Solomonic Production imprint in 1986.

Leslie Butler - Reggae Rhapsody; Version (Federal/Dub Store Records JPN) 1973
Classic ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, the original version of ‘Reggae Rhapsody’, was written by notable American composer and solo pianist George Gershwin in 1924. Nearly 50 years after, in 1973, Eumir Deodato edited the song and released it on CTI Records, which label was favored by Black music fans at that time. Leslie Butler recorded his keyboard version shortly after the release of Eumir Deodato version. This is another rare recording to be reissued for the very first time from


20 months after killing, pain, questions remain

STOCKTON - The senseless shooting death of an immigrant cab driver still haunts.

Kevin Parrish

STOCKTON - The senseless shooting death of an immigrant cab driver still haunts.

It haunts the family of Luis Javier Palma. It haunts the Stockton Police Department detectives who investigated his September 2011 slaying. It haunts the Catholic priest who presided over his funeral mass 20 months ago.

"His story is particularly sad. He was alone - to die alone in the dark of the night," said the Rev. Dean McFalls, pastor of St. Mary's Church. "There was no motive. This is a classic case of a total lack of respect for life from some people."

Palma would be 46 years old today had he lived. His birthday has prompted family membersto call out for help in solving the case, described by police as an "active investigation," that has had no new leads in months.

"That was one I really wished I could have solved," said Officer Joseph Silva, Stockton police spokesman. He was a homicide investigator in 2011 and remembers well the frustration of trying to find Palma's killer or killers.

"This is one of those cases that I remember because Mr. Palma was working and providing for his family at the time of the homicide. I know someone out there has information."

Silva has been promoted and the investigation is now in the hands of his former partner, Detective Charles Harris.

There have been more than 100 Stockton homicides since Palma was shot and killed behind the wheel of his light


green taxi cab. He was the 26th victim in 2011 as the city established a new record for homicides at 58 that year. In 2012, Stockton broke that record with 71 homicides.

"It's been almost two years," said Claudia Palma, his 42-year-old niece. "We haven't heard anything. No witnesses at all. He's been forgotten about. I don't want people to take it lightly that a life was taken.

"It's been very frustrating and hard."

About 20 family members will gather Saturday at Olivet Memorial Park in Colma, just south of San Francisco, to remember Palma's birthday. For many in his extended family, the tall, strong man was a patriarch, his niece said.

Reconstructing what happened the morning he was killed has been particularly difficult.

He was shot at 1:44 a.m. on Sept. 4,2011, a Sunday morning. Palma lived a mile or so away and left the television on at home when he responded to the phone call for service. Palma was on call 24 hours a day.

It is uncertain whether he had already picked up a fare and was headed home or he was still on the way when he was shot.

At the intersection of Lincoln and Washington streets, underneath the Crosstown Freeway, witnessed described seeing his taxi parked near an overpass. Shots rang out.

"Witnesses looked toward the sound of the gunfire," Silva said, "and they saw two people running away."

The only thing taken was his cellphone.

Palma was 44.

Family members speculate that maybe his car broke down. "If you ask me, he was at the wrong place at the wrong


time and the wrong people came by," Claudi Palma said. "You would think someone would talk by now, but there's been nothing. That's why we're so puzzled."

Silva said the police department scoured the area surrounding Lincoln and Washington, distributing fliers along the nearby slough and at the Stockton Shelter for the Homeless and at St. Mary's Interfaith Dining Hall.

No one has come forth with credible information.

Claudi Palma said her uncle, always careful, never felt threatened and had no enemies. "But a lot of us are really afraid," she said, "because we don't have any answers. This person is still out there. It could be anyone."

Palma, born in Managua, Nicaragua, had moved with his family to the Bay Area as a child. He was one of 12 siblings. Hehad worked as a cab driver for more than a decade before opening his own, independent company, Stockton's All Town Cab & Shuttle Services. "He was on cloud nine," his niece said. "He was so excited about having his own business. It had been his dream for a long time."

Silva said he too was frustrated. "Someone out there knows what happened," he said. "Speaking for all the homicide detectives, we do bond with the families. In the early stages, you are in contact with them almost daily. You want to learn as much about the victim as you can."

McFalls still wonders about the life cut short.

"There are unknown saints, people who are anonymous in practicing their faith," the downtown priest said. "We take them for granted until they


movements. The student learns how his tensions and emotional state limit his breathing to only a small part of the volume of his lungs.

As much as the student learns, he is limited in his progress by the very structures of consciousness he is using to learn. The original natural consciousness (Tao) was re-shaped to fit into the structure of the culture. Its function was narrowed and limited. This was especially true after the industrial revolution, when their bosses viewed workers as parts of the machinery of the factory.

Creative, alive people would have a hard time working in a factory. Now in our computer age, we are entering another narrowing and limiting of the full function of consciousness, even while we have more access to information. Many people knowHyundai aims to be the biggest producer of electric cars in Europe this year after launching output of a battery-powered version of the Kona at its Czech Republic plant.

Hyundai will begin production of the Kona Electric in March at its factory in Nosovice 380 km (236 miles) east of Prague, the company said in a news release on Thursday.

Gasoline, gasoline-electric hybrid and diesel versions of the small SUV will continue to be imported into Europe from Korea.

The automaker will also increase supplies to Europe of the Kona Electric from its Ulsan plant in South Korea.

The moves will triple the availability of its Kona Electric for customers in Europe and drastically reduce delivery times, Hyundai said.

"Since going on sale in 2018, demand for the Kona Electric has surpassed expectations,


and the increased capacity is intended to keep up with rising demand," Hyundai said.

Hyundai said this year it will provide more than 80,000 units of zero-emissions vehicles to European customers, including the Kona Electric, Ioniq Electric and the Nexo fuel cell car.

More than 60,000 of these vehicles could be the Kona Electric, Hyundai said.

"With this development, Hyundai expects to become the biggest provider of zero-emissions vehicles in Europe in 2020," the company said.

Hyundai most likely will procure batteries for the Kona Electric in Europe and an announcement is expected in the next weeks. Korean battery makers LG Chem and SK Innovation have plants in Europe -- in Poland and Hungary, respectively.

The Kona is Hyundai's second bestseller in Europe after the Tucson compact SUV. European sales of the KonaCommunity Sports

Former Lancaster Bruins basketball star Sindarius Thornwell has been honored by the Southeastern Conference, selected to the SEC’s All-Defensive squad.
Thornwell is a force on both ends of the court for the Gamecocks.
Not only an offensive threat from both inside the lane and beyond the arc, he consistently guards the opponent’s top offensive threat on the defensive end.

Makenzy Mills and Taylor Teague, two Lancaster County seventh graders, are headed to the 2016 USA Swimming Eastern Section Southern Zone Age Group Championships in Atlanta, Ga. March 11-13.
The swimmers compete for Ms. Anne Small at the USC-Lancaster extension of the Upper Palmetto YMCA Stingrays.
On Feb. 12-15, the duo competed in the USA Swimming S.C. State Competition in Greenville.

The South Carolina Gamecocks will end their 12-year NCAA men’s tournament drought this


season.
I got the certain word from the judge earlier this week.
Gamecock radio network color analyst, the Honorable Casey Manning, a state circuit judge, was in town for General Sessions Court.
Judge Manning granted me a court time out and gave his view on the Gamecocks’ postseason hoops hopes.

The “Net Results” Sun City Carolina Lakes’ 65-and-over ladies tennis team concluded an inspiring season recently in Dothan, Ala., losing to a powerful Arkansas team in the Sectional Finals.
The team qualified for the South Carolina State Championships by winning the Mid Carolina Tennis League regular season with a record of 5-1.
The state championship was played in Hilton Head on Nov. 6-9.

The Rucker Rams capped a season’s hoops sweep of rival South to capture the middle school boys conference championship with a 46-41win over the Mustangs at the Lancaster High School gym on Thursday night.
The Rams’ five-point comeback win gave Rucker a sweep of Mustangs for the season.
Rucker posted a 37-21 win back in December at the South gym, but the hardwood rematch was tougher.
South led 19-18 at the half, but Rucker rallied to take a 27-26 lead after three periods and held on for the 46-41 victory.

Lancaster is due a golden football.
To be more specific, the late Jim “Butch” Duncan, a former Barr Street High School great and Lancaster Athletic Hall of Famer, is due one of those golden footballs, which in the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl, is given to a coach or player who played in a past Super Bowl.

The NFC Champion and Super Bowl 50-bound


Carolina Panthers insist they will follow the same game plan, which has been a fine formula for their success this season.
The Cats say they will use the two-week preparation plan they followed at the end of the regular season to the divisional playoff game with Seattle. Following the Carolina Blue-print for success has set the Panthers as the “cat’s meow,” with a distinct roar across the NFL.
One tweak for the Panthers is their attire for Super Bowl L.

Mustapha Elgazar of Pageland repeated his win in the Resolute Reindeer 5K held at the University of South Carolina Lancaster on Dec. 12.
Elgazar posted an 18:51 to top the field. A year ago, Elgazar ran an 18:55 to take the victory in the Resolute Reindeer 5K.
The second overall male finisher wasMatthew Collins with a 19:13 and Walker Kirkley was third in 19:58.
Andrea Brunsvold of Lancaster ran a 23:25 to finish as the top overall female. Brunsvold was followed by Elizabeth Monroe in a 23:36 and Sydney Cauthen was third in 24:18.

Clemson battling Alabama is nothing new to former Tigers’ great Jimmy Catoe, who starred at old Kershaw High School under the late Bill Few before heading to play at Tigertown under the legendary Frank Howard in the mid-1960s.
For Catoe, a crackerjack linebacker in his day at Clemson, facing the Tide is old helmet, uh, “old hat,” akin to “Bear” Bryant’s familiar black and white “hounds tooth” cover.

Clemson University football fans are excited about the Tigers’ upcoming clash with Alabama to decide college football’s national champion.
The No. 1 Tigers,


Job Posting: Special Collections Instruction Librarian, University of Colorado (Boulder)

Special Collections Instruction Librarian (University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, Colorado)
The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries invites applications from creative librarians to apply for the position of Special Collections Instruction Librarian. As the largest research library in the Rocky Mountain region, the University Libraries is committed to providing instruction to the CU campus and the Front Range higher education community. Promoting use of and access to rare materials and primary source material in support of teaching and research to the campus and broader public is a significant goal of the Libraries. Special subject collections include, but are not limited to, mountaineering (18th century to the present travel and exploration), 19th through 21st century photobooks, and the history ofscience. The Special Collections Instruction Librarian participates as a member of the department in designing and implementing instruction and outreach programs, providing traditional and virtual reference services, developing online exhibits, facilitating donor relations, and engaging in special projects with campus cultural resources (e.g., CU Museum of Natural History, Heritage Center, National Snow and Ice Data Center, and CU Art Museum colleagues). This position will manage and develop literary manuscript collections, including those containing electronic formats. Creating Encoded Archival Description (EAD) guides is essential. Other responsibilities include working with the Faculty Director of Special Collections in collection development activities. The Special Collections Department serves the students and faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the State of Colorado at large. Instruction and outreach services include work with


For the first time, "The Bachelorette" is set to feature a deceased contestant, Eric Hill, and star Andi Dorfman says viewers deserve to see such an "incredible" person that the cast and crew got to know and love.

Hill died at age 32 in a paragliding accident in April and is one of 25 men who competed for her heart on the upcoming 10th season of the dating series. Dorfman talked to OTRC.com about Hill, dubbed an explorer from Citrus Heights, California, and why the "Bachelorette" season 10 is dedicated to him. The show returns on Monday, May 19.

"I mean, obviously, to hear sad news like that, is shocking, it's tragic," she said. "Me, the cast, the entire crew, whether it's sound or ? camera or, you know, producerson "The Bachelorette" before his death. OTRC.com has learned that the majority of scenes for seasons of the show and parent series "The Bachelor" are filmed weeks before the finales, which feature the finalist contestants and which are shot closer to the season premieres in a bid to avoid paparazzi leaking spoilers.

Reporting by Cari Skillman of KABC Television, which produces the entertainment show "On The Red Carpet" (check for local TV listings).


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Sullivan also had a great interest in Irish history and Irish manuscripts all his life, and employed native scribes in preparing editions of Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) and the Annals of the Four Masters which never saw print. He died in Dublin on 1 March 1766. His son, William Francis Sullivan (1756–1830) served in the United States Navy, and published plays and poems.

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New Delhi (CNN) India's most valuable literature prize has crowned south Indian writer Benyamin its inaugural winner for his novel "Jasmine Days," a story of a young women caught up in the Arab Spring protests of 2011.

The prize , funded by UK construction giant JCB, awarded Benyamin $34,000 at a lavish event in New Delhi on Wednesday evening, with an additional $6,000 for Shahnaz Habib, who translated the book from Malayalam into English.

"The courage shown by Benyamin in 'Jasmine Days' in examining some of the most important conflicts of our times is exceptional" said Vivek Shanbhag, author and chair of the 2018 JCB Prize for Literature judging panel. "The novel provides powerful insights into the violence associated with change."

Benyamin has described the book as a "metaphor for theframework, such as the one employed in the present work for modeling immersed geometries, there are more than one methods of decomposing the system. As there are two separate domains, namely the Lagragian domain and Eulerian domain, combined or separate domain decomposition strategies may be employed. Three of the most commonly used approaches for decomposing a Lagrangian-Eulerian system are task parallelism, atomic decomposition, and spatial decomposition [@kuan13]. In task parallelism the Lagrangian and Eulerian workload are assigned to separate set of processors. In atomic decomposition, after the Eulerian domain is decomposed, the Lagrangian domain is divided equally among all the processors. Spatial decomposition decomposes the Lagrangian domain on the basis of the Eulerian decomposition. Both task parallelism and atomic decomposition, due to non locality of the Eulerian and


"The highest and noblest product of the age. I have a theory that it is made of cherubs’ wings, the glory of a tropical dawn, the red clouds of a sunset, and fragments of long lost epic songs of dead heroes."(Rudyard Kipling writing about Pisco in his 1899 book, From Sea to Sea)

Who We Are

Pisco Peru began operations in 2005 on a mission to bring quality pisco to the Australian bar scene and to the more sophisticated drink connoisseur. This venture is operated by Luis Almenara and sons Carlos and Andy, looking after the Australian operations and family member Augusto del Solar based in Peru, looking after production and packaging, we can claim to definitely know our stuff when it comes to pisco - The Sprit of Peru.

PiscoNoFit State Living Archive

No Fit State Circus, a leading UK circus company, came to us to help them build an online archive and interactive experience that would convey the company's unique past.

Founded thirty years ago by five skint friends who were unemployed in recession-era Britain, NoFit State navigated a series of crises (financial, meteorological, logistical, personal) to become the UK's largest circus company, today running two buildings in their hometown, Cardiff, and playing each year to audiences in the tens of thousands. The question they're asked the most: How did you do it?

Drawing on the company's extraordinary stock of energetic, unbelievable, ribald stories, we designed and constructed the online archive From Balls Up to Bianco to answer this question. The website was launched in December 2015 alongside an


The latest attempt at a competitor for the National Football League, the Alliance of American Football, will be kicking off it’s inaugural season the week after the Super Bowl. When those teams take the field, a couple of faces familiar to fans of the Minnesota Vikings will be patrolling the sidelines for two of the eight teams.

Former Vikings’ head coach Brad Childress will be the head coach of the Atlanta franchise in the AAF, while former Vikings’ assistant Mike Singletary will be the head coach of the Memphis franchise.

Childress was head coach of the Vikings from 2006 until mid-2010, most notably leading the Vikings to the NFC Championship Game in 2009. Singletary served as an assistant to Leslie Frazier from 2011 to 2013.

The remaining franchises will be ledby a lot of familiar names:

Birmingham - Tim Lewis, former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach for several NFL teams.

Orlando - Steve Spurrier, former University of Florida, University of South Carolina, and Washington Redskins head coach.

Phoenix - Rick Neuheisel, former Washington, Colorado, and UCLA head coach.

Salt Lake City - Dennis Erickson, former Miami (FL) head coach, among other college destinations. He also coached the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers.

San Antonio - Mike Riley, former San Diego Chargers head coach.

San Diego - Mike Martz, former St. Louis Rams head coach and offensive coordinator for several NFL teams.

I’m not sure of the quality of football that the AAF is going to provide at this point, but for those of us that want our football fix, the


in the Clerks office of the District court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.'

Cartographer

Samuel Augustus Mitchell (March 20, 1792 - December 20, 1868) Senior began his map publishing career in the early 1830s. Having worked as a school teacher, Mitchell was frustrated with the low quality and inaccuracy of school texts of the period. His first maps were an attempt to rectify this problem. In the next 20 years Mitchell would become the most prominent American map publisher of the mid-19th century. Mitchell worked with prominent engravers J. H. Young, H. S. Tanner, and H. N. Burroughs before attaining the full copyright on his maps in 1847. In 1849 Mitchell teamed up with printer Cowperthwait & Company to produce the Mitchell's Universal Atlas and the Mitchell's General Atlas.In the late 1850s most of the Mitchell copyrights were bought by Desilver and Co. who continued to publish his maps, many with modified borders and color schemes, until Mitchell's son, Samuel Augustus Mitchell Junior, entered the picture. S.A. Mitchell Jr. purchased most of the copyrights back from Desilver and, from 1860 on, published his own New General Atlas. The younger Mitchell became as prominent as his father and published atlases well into the late 1880s when most of the copyrights were again sold and the Mitchell firm closed its doors for the final time.

Source

A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics Of The World. (1853 issue)

Condition

Very good condition. Overall toning and minor offsetting. Blank on verso.

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in particular Luis Ho, for organizing and hosting such a successful meeting. I would also like to thank all my collaborators on the work reported in this paper, with a special thanks to Guinevere Kauffmann who is leading the SDSS project on AGN hosts.

Funding for the creation and distribution of the SDSS Archive has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, and the Max Planck Society. The SDSS Web site is http://www.sdss.org/.

The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are The University of Chicago, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, The Johns HopkinsA multi-cell battery charger having a cell holder adapted for receiving and charging various size rechargeable cells, such as cylindrical and rectangular shaped rechargeable cells.

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What is claimed is:

1. A battery charger comprising a holder having a generally rectangular base with a pair of upstanding first and second side walls, an upstanding front wall and an upstanding rear wall; a first conductive terminal contact means having a first upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the first side wall and a second upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the rear wall; a second conductive terminal contact means having a first upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the second side wall and a second upstanding conductive terminal member disposed


adjacent to and interior of the rear wall; a third conductive terminal contact means having two upstanding conductive terminal members disposed adjacent to and interior of the front wall; said second conductive terminal member of the first conductive terminal contact means and said second terminal member of the second conductive terminal contact means aligned substantially in the same plane and spaced apart from the conductive terminal members of the third terminal contact means by a distance to accommodate lengthwise a "D" size [about 2.25 inches (5.7 cm)] recharageable cell in pressure contact therebetween; said first conductive terminal member of the first conductive terminal contact means disposed and spaced apart from said first conductive terminal member of the second conductive contact means by a distance to accommodate two tandemmembers having substantially cylindrical recesses to accommodate the width of an "AA" size cell, the first member being spaced apart from the third member by a distance sufficient to accommodate the width of a "D" size cell therebetween; and wherein the inner walls of said members proximal the longitudinal center axis of the holder are spaced apart sufficiently to define the axially disposed longitudinal groove.

4. The battery charger of claim 2 wherein the first upstanding conductive terminal member of the first conductive terminal contact means comprises three separate upstanding terminals, each of which is aligned at one end of one of the longitudinal grooves; wherein the first upstanding conductive terminal member of the second conductive terminal contact means comprises three separate upstanding terminals, each of which is aligned


at the opposite end of one of the longitudinal grooves; wherein each of the upstanding conductive terminal members of the third conductive terminal contact means is aligned at one end of one of the transverse grooves; wherein the second upstanding conductive terminal member of the first conductive terminal contact means is aligned at the opposite end of one of the transverse grooves; and wherein the second upstanding conductive terminal member of the second conductive terminal contact means is aligned at the opposite end of the other transverse groove.

5. The battery charger of claim 4 wherein a first resistive element is connected in series between the second conductive terminal contact means and the upstanding terminal member of said second conductive terminal contact means disposed in alignment with one ofthe pair of longitudinal grooves, and a second resistive element is connected in series between the second conductive terminal contact means and the upstanding terminal member of said second conductive terminal contact means disposed in alignment with the other of the pair of longitudinal grooves.

6. The battery charger of claim 1, or 5 wherein a resistive element is connected in series between the second conductive terminal means and the second snap battery terminal.

7. A battery charger comprising a holder having a generally rectangular base with a pair of upstanding first and second side walls, an upstanding front wall and an upstanding rear wall; a first conductive terminal contact means having a first upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the first side wall and a


second upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the rear wall; a second conductive terminal contact means having a first upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the second side wall and a second flexible upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the rear wall; a third conductive terminal contact means having two upstanding conductive terminal members disposed adjacent to and interior of the front wall; said second conductive terminal member of the first conductive terminal contact means and said second terminal member of the second conductive terminal contact means aligned substantially in the same plane and spaced apart from the conductive terminal members of the third terminal contact means by a distance to accommodate lengthwise a "D" sizethe rear wall; wherein the first terminal member of the second contact means projects from the second side wall and the second terminal member of the second contact means projects from the rear wall; wherein one terminal member of the third contact means is disposed opposite the second terminal member of the first contact means and projects from the front wall; the second terminal member of the third contact means is disposed opposite the second terminal member of the second contact means and is recess mounted in the front wall, and wherein the first conductive terminal contact means has a first snap battery terminal disposed in the base and wherein a second snap battery terminal in electrical contact with the second conductive terminal contact means is disposed adjacent


the axially disposed longitudinal groove.

11. The battery charger of claim 9 wherein the first upstanding conductive terminal member of the first conductive terminal contact means comprises three separate upstanding terminals, each of which is aligned at one end of one of the longitudinal grooves; wherein the first upstanding conductive terminal member of the second conductive terminal contact means comprises three separate upstanding terminals, each of which is aligned at the opposite end of one of the longitudinal grooves; wherein each of the upstanding conductive terminal members of the third conductive terminal contact means is aligned at one end of one of the transverse grooves; wherein the second upstanding conductive terminal member of the first conductive terminal contact means is aligned at the opposite end of one of theTHE INVENTION

The invention relates to a battery charger comprising a holder having a generally rectangular base with a pair of upstanding first and second side walls, an upstanding front wall and an upstanding rear wall; a first conductive terminal contact means having a first upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the first side wall and a second upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the rear wall; a second conductive terminal contact means having a first upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the second side wall and a second flexible upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the rear wall; a third conductive terminal contact means having two upstanding conductive terminal members disposed adjacent


contact means and said second conductive terminal contact means connected across a transformer and current rectifier adapted for plugging into a conventional alternating-current power supply line; the improvement wherein the first terminal member of the first contact means is recess mounted in the first side wall and the second terminal member of the first contact means is recess mounted in the rear wall; wherein the first terminal member of the second contact means projects from the second side wall and the second terminal member of the second contact means projects from the rear wall; and wherein one first terminal member of the third contact means is disposed opposite the second terminal member of the first contact means and projects from the front wall, and the second terminal memberof the third contact means is disposed opposite the second terminal member of the second contact means and is recess mounted in the front wall.

The invention also relates to a battery charger comprising a holder having a generally rectangular base with a pair of upstanding first and second side walls, an upstanding front wall and an upstanding rear wall; a first conductive terminal contact means having a first upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the first side wall and a second upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the rear wall; a second conductive terminal contact means having a first upstanding conductive terminal member disposed adjacent to and interior of the second side wall and a second upstanding conductive terminal member


Back-up point guard, Jeremy Lin, shined in his first season with the Charlotte Hornets but his time with the team may be short-lived as he is an unrestricted free agent this summer.

Jeremy Lin was an absolute steal for the Charlotte Hornets this season. There should not be any debate about that. He was one of the team’s best and most consistent players. His game fit perfectly into what Charlotte was trying to accomplish this season by completely changing their offensive scheme.

After signing a two-year/$4.3 million deal with the Hornets in the off-season, Lin proved that his value far exceeded his contract. He was a premier back-up point guard in the NBA and he even received some votes for sixth man of the year this season. Not many back-uppoint guard were better than Jeremy this year.

Lin averaged 11.7 points per game, a career high 3.2 rebounds per game, and 3.0 assists per game this past season. He shot 41.2% from the field and 33.6% from the three-point line. Jeremy also appeared in 78 games for Charlotte and only missed four games all year. He also started 13 games and averaged 26.3 minutes per game.

Jeremy fit perfectly into head coach, Steve Clifford’s, system this season as he ran the second unit and even played with the starters down the stretch of close games. Lin was a valuable player to Charlotte this year and his ability to run the pick-and-roll was a huge plus for the team. Many doubted Lin’s abilities entering the season but he proved that


facilities upgrade--a commodity.

Very few schools have VR labs, but even the ones that do struggle with using them to design meaningful learning. The absence of mission-driven learning results, once again, in a commoditized facilities upgrade.

By contrast, the innovation that Kearney is offering--a Catholic education for an age of exponential change--cannot be commodified. By starting with Mission, Kearney has provided the fuel for their innovation journey. And by focusing on Vision, they have identified a North Star (Thursday's post will address identifying an "innovation North Star"). As their Culture continues to align with that Vision, they will find themselves completing their leapfrog moment.were already in a good spot before the trade deadline, but adding another first to that is a big, big positive.

Now they just have to knock it out of the park at the draft.

Carolina Hurricanes: Did the most to upgrade their team

How often does a bonafide second-line centre signed with term, in his prime, become available on the trade market? It almost never happens. But there was one available on Monday, and the Hurricanes roped in 26-year-old Vincent Trocheck for what looks like a steal of a deal.

No slight on Erik Haula and Lucas Wallmark, who came back in the trade. Haula is a pending UFA and could turn out to be a rental, while Wallmark is a middle-six forward who leans more towards the third line side


of the way through the following season. They made a pivot towards more of an analytical approach, then went the complete opposite direction one year later.

In the expansion draft, they gave Vegas two thirds of their top line to protect, presumably, Nick Bjugstad, Mark Pysyk or Alex Petrovic — two of which aren’t even with the team anymore.

Who knows what the plan is there. But they walk out of the deadline having lost a deal to two teams they are directly competing against for a playoff spot — Carolina and Toronto (who they moved Denis Malgin to). They are the day’s biggest loser, hands down.

Vancouver Canucks: Devastating injury news and a busy division around them

To be fair to GM Jim Benning, he already made his move a weekThe terraced rim of the large crater named Urvara can be seen at the upper left in this view from Ceres. Urvara is 106 miles (170 kilometers) wide.

This image shows terrain in the southern hemisphere of the dwarf planet. Dawn took this image on Oct. 14, 2015, from an altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers). It has a resolution of 450 feet (140 meters) per pixel.

Dawn's mission is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK, Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research,


Jill pushed open the door to the study.
The room was huge, infact it was one of the largest rooms in the house,
with wall to wall bookshelves just teaming with old and ancient hard backs.
The musty air hit her nostrils which signified that the room itself was
left without a regular cleaning for quite some time.She heard the sound of her grandmother’s voice
in the hallway outside calling her name. Jill became apprehensive
of what she might say; finding her in the old study as the old lady guarded
everything from prying eyes. Visitors were rare these days and Jill
felt privileged to be there.“Ahh, there you are.” the old lady said as
she was being wheel chaired into the study by her aid. Jill smiled
and looked around her. “You can leave us now.” theand I can remember it quite clearly.
Something that I will never forget.”

“Tell me about it?” Jill asked excitedly.
The old lady smiled and thought different about telling her tale.
It was afterall a secret that only she and another knew about. Jill
insisted on knowing the tale, her inquisitive mind needed to know everything
there was. The old lady thought for a while and then came to terms
with her age. She was dying and the secret would die with her.
But then why should it? It was all in the past now and the way people
think today was so different to then.

The two sat together in the garden later that
day in the shade of the trees that were plotted here and there. It
was tea on the lawn, and the chance for the old


lady to tell her story
to Jill.

Marion Moore had been married to her husband
just six months. They were both scientists and their work in search
of rare plants took them all over the world, even before they were married.
She learned a great deal from Francis as he was her tutor at university
before they teamed up. He was tall handsome and very much an intellectual
as much as she was. They were very much in love and matched each
other perfect. Marion was shorter than he and so petite, but she
had brains as well as beauty and both became well known in their Royal
Society circle of colleagues.

The Amazon River, as wide as the sea, took
them deeper into the rainforest as they travelled for days on end to reach
a certain location on the riverbarge. The waters seemed calm, but
they were infested by creatures that would do men harm from small waterbound
insects to the ferocious caymen. And to be safe the barge passed by the
southern bank by only a few metres, so that the location they sought could
be easily found.

Marion wanted so much to swim or bathe to clean
her body from the sweat caused by the humid climate. Francis insisted
there was no way they could until they found what they were looking for.

Barku and his fellow navigator Tino, comprised
of the crew. Both young men, indians who had lived on the banks of
the mighty Amazon all their lives knew the river well. Barku was
the most handsome of the two and Marion knew that he had been watching
her closely.

Barku understood the English language well
and


watched from the stern as Marion argued with her husband over the issue
of washing. She glanced at Barku and smiled and he returned the gesture.
She had been flirting with him since their journey along the river began
and Francis, too busy to notice, ignored it. Their mission was so
intense that the couple had not made love since they arrived weeks ago
at Belem. Marion was becoming unsatisfied and not only desperate,
but her intentions looked toward the young navigator.

Night fell once more. The barge was moored
up to the bank with only the sound of the rainforest creatures to be heard.
The natural wildness of such a place was something both erry and profound.
Marion was still restless, unable to sleep unless she could wash.

Marion ordered Barku to fill a pail full
of fresh waterand bring it to her on deck. Barku followed her instructions
as she stripped herself from the clothes she wore. He watched as
the beautiful english girl took each item of clothing from her body and
then she faced him. He was taken by her splendour as he looked at
her in amazement. His eyes looked upon her long blonde hair which
cascaded over her shoulders. The pale skin of her breasts tipped with the
most succulent of pink erect nipples made him feel so aroused. “Barku,
pour the water over my head slowly.” she commanded. To him
it was an heaven sent pleasure from the gods as he watched her lather her
skin, so smooth, so wet and glistening in the combined light of the lanterns
and moonshine. She knew how she made him feel and insisted


he remain
beside her. Tino brought another fresh pail of cool water to rinse
away the soap and then headed back to the cabin after Barku’s stare of
disapproval.

Marion smiled at him, promoting him to
pour the second pail over her. The cool water flowed over her body as she
swept her hands over her skin to clear the soap. She looked at him
and her eyes said everything about how she felt for him. No words
were spoken and both of them knew that this was going somewhere further
somehow. But not that night.

The dawn soon came and once more the
barge headed up river. Francis was sure that they were near the village
he was looking for as he tried to make sense of the old maps. Marion,
still feeling the worst for their long journey, preparedday Francis and Marion were
guests to the people of the village as they exchanged gifts and used Tino
to interpret their strange dialect in order to get some exacting location
for what they searched for. The location was a clearing just over
the hill where they would find a stream leading into a still pond.
In there was to be found the variety of rare lily they sought. The
only place that it had been discovered and it was their mission to collect
samples for the Royal Botanic Gardens.

That evening Francis fell ill.
He was plagued by the onset of recurring malaria and in no fit condition
to make the walk to the clearing the following morning. He arranged
for Marion and Barku to make the journey alone.

Tino could smell the rain coming in the
air and turned


on his back
and led the way, chopping at the vines and clearing a way through the forest.
The rain filtered down through the tree canopy above, which made it more
wetter for them. There was the occasion when Marion would get her
boots caught in the vines and fall over. Barku was there to free
her with his trusty machete.

Soon they reached the hillside and the
muddy ridge trail that would lead to the stream. Marion looked at
the condition of the path. On one side a drop of twenty metres and
on the other a steep wall of rock that went up to another forest level.
In parts the path was so thin, that it needed to be negotiated one foot
at a time. The rain alone would make it hard to keep a steady hold.

Barkulooked at her. Her hat was
so wet it lay flat against the top of her head and the jacket and trousers
she wore outlined her naked physique. Barku himself was now becoming
nervous. The path itself was going to be dangerous. “Lady,
I think we should go back.”

“No way Barku, we go on.” Marion
commanded. “Any ideas?” Barku looked at her and then at the
way ahead. Was it worth their lives just to be alone with her?
The twenty-metre drop fell into a lower level of dense forest. He
looked up and saw the pits in the side of the precipitous cliff.
Maybe there was a way of climbing over to the other side? They had
no rope and it would take hours to make one from the strongest vines.
For a river navigator, this was one


tough mission into territory that was
out of his depth.

Marion pinned him against a tree and
kissed him. Slowly the kiss turned passionate and she looked deep
into his eyes. “Barku, you have to get me to that stream. If
you do this, then I promise you something you have only dreamed about.”
Once more the young man was fired with ardour to achieve their goal.

Barku led the way slowly along the ledge.
His hands gripped the sharp rock, cutting into the skin and grazing fingers
as he held on tight. The weighted haversack pulled against his balance
in the wrong direction. The rain soaked through his dark hair, sending
drops of water into his eyes. Marion followed, holding onto his belt
dangerously. One slip and they would both fall to their untimely
end. He realised that he waspetrified of heights, but remained brave
against his own nerves. She slipped now and then, which made them
both recount their situation before moving on further. She gave him
reassuring looks every so often, realising herself that he was under stress.
Marion needed his strength to carry out her mission.

They spent many hours negotiating the
ledge until eventually the rain stopped. A few metres on and the
ledge widened into a path again. They hugged each other with delight
that they had survived the toughest part of the trek so far. But
the return journey however was to repeat their experiences. She allowed
Barku to kiss her passionately once more, this time it was more meaningful
to both of them.

Together they walked along the path until
they both heard the sound of the stream ahead. With quickness in
their pace


they found the place that they were looking for.

The stream cascaded in a waterfall into
the wide pool. It was surrounded by a high ridge of rock in a semi-circular
shape. All around the side of the pool itself were hundreds of multi-coloured
flowering plants and vines. The pool was populated by so many different
varieties of lily. To Marion, it was what she expected to find.
But for Barku, it was one of the toughest trips he had ever made in his
life.

Marion pointed out the plants as she
excitedly came across them. The names she used meant nothing to him.
He just looked at her, absorbing her beauty and to him she was the most
prettiest flower around as far as he was concerned. Without hesitation,
she removed her clothes and dived into the pool. Hewatched on for
a while admiring her form in the clear fresh water.

“Barku, come and join me.” she called
to him. There was no one else around, not even another mammal, for
this was just a place reserved by nature for the plants, birds and insects.
They were alone.

Together they swam naked. Marion
collected the rare lilies she found of interest and Barku carefully packed
them into plastic containers. Then they both swam toward the refreshing
waterfall and showered in its crystal cascade. The sight became too
much for him to take. He could not hold on to his emotions any longer.
The golden hair and fair skinned angel was his for the taking.

He gently pushed her against the soft
grass of the bank and she put her arms around him. His manhood hard
against her thigh felt good


to her. Marion was waiting for this moment
to happen. Barku took her pale breasts in his hands and cupped them.
Her irresistible pink nipples drew his lips upon them and he kissed them
gently, swirling his tongue around their pliant texture, enticing them
into hardened nubs. That feeling was what she had craved for such
a long time. Sex with Francis was so clinical, so quick. Atleast
with Barku, she could savour the real wild passion that she expected he
had untamed within him.

His hand caressed her skin as it moved
down her body, finding the tuft of pubic hair with his fingers he searched
for the opening through her lips to her love cavern, welcoming his fingers
with the warmth of her juices within. He knew exactly what to do
as he found her clitoris. She wasno different to all the local girls
he had made love to. She had everything he wanted. But what
made it more important to him was, she was the untouchable yellow hair
angel from far far away.

He watched her eyes roll as he gently
manipulated her into an orgasmic frenzy. She cried out in loud whispers
for more. Slowly he slipped his stealth manhood into her, its length
penetrating deep inside made her gasp and then he began to probe her, gently
at first, moving faster still by each stroke. Marion was taken to
the levels of ecstasy she never knew existed. For Barku, he was doing
what he knew and enjoyed, but this time it was special. This was
his prize for risking both their lives and something for him to remember
for the rest of his life


to come.

There was no point in rushing back to
the village. Marion gathered the plastic containers and packed them
safely into the haversack. Together they languished naked by the
pool, playing and enjoying their time in such a beautiful isolated part
of the world. Marion turned her head to look up as Barku ran his
hands over her smooth skin. She saw a single orchid growing on its
own. She had seen nothing like it ever before and to her it was unique
in its colours and form. “I have to take this.” she said. Barku
looked up and reached for it and gently snapped its stem, bringing it to
her face. The scent was so exotic and nothing in comparison to anything
she had known before.

Jill looked at her grandmother and smiled.
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