harm that came Ocean State's way was the resignation of some of its physicians, and claimed increased costs. This harm has to do with the market for physicians' services and the election by physicians of a course which they considered most beneficial to their financial point of view. As a naked proposition, it would seem silly to argue that a policy to pay the same amount for the same services is anticompetitive, even on the part of one who has market power. This, it would seem, is what competition should be all about.
Relying on Kartell v. Blue Shield of Mass., Defendant claimed that prudent buyer was a legitimate defense under a "most favored nations clause" which was designed to protect Blue Cross from paying more for the sameJULIA MELTZER

Julia Meltzer her work takes up subjects ranging from the bureaucracy of secrecy to contemporary politics in the Middle East. She frequently collaborates with Los Angeles based artist David Thorne to produce installations, photographs, and videos that raise questions about the uses of documents and their social, political, and affective impact.
Formerly working under the moniker The Speculative Archive, the artists’ collaborative activities from 1999 to 2003 examined the intersection of state secrecy, memory, and history. Newer works address the use of documents— ranging from images and texts to objects, people, and even physical structures—“to project and claim visions of the future,” according to the artists.
Meltzer taught at HampshireCollege and UC Irvine. She received her BA from BrownUniversity and her MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a


recipient of grants from Art Matters, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship Fund. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria in 2005–6 and is a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009-10. She since 2003 is founder and director of Clockshop, a Los Angeles based non-profit arts and culture organization.run Tracking and others would not; some would have Stampeding Kodo, some Misdirections and others would go for a varying number of Explosive Traps and Freezing Traps but in the end of the day - it was the same deck!

That was until top NA seed for BlizzCon Firebat came to VGVN #3 and brought his own take on the Hunter.

At first sight, it's the same old Rexxar that wrecks nerds on ladder and makes them hate life but there's this one little thing that makes it cool. The deck doesn't run Tracking, or Freezing Trap or even Explosive Trap. It has one Flare for the mirror and against Mage and that's his entire draw engine outside Buzzard/UTH.

A second look, however, reveals the coolness of double Snake Trap, a


line of sight between the ball and the hole. However, these sighting devices also attempt to position the golfer's eye directly above the part of the club which is to contact the ball. For example, in one prior patent the disclosed sighting device includes a surface recessed from the top of the club head and marked with two intersecting perpendicular lines, one line extending in the desired direction of the putting stroke and in alignment with the "sweet spot" (i.e., optimal striking location) on the club face, the other line extending parallel to the club face. A second set of complementary lines are defined in a different plane at the top surface of the club head and are viewed by the golfer as lineal extensions of the recessedlines only when the golfer's head is positioned vertically above the sight, or substantially directly above the impact location between the ball and the club during the putting stroke. This positioning of the golfer' s head, however, does not provide for an optimum putting stroke. By way of explanation, the motion of the club head during a proper putting stroke may be described as follows: first, the club head is moved in a rearward and upward arc during the short backswing; second, during the initial part of the forward swing, the club head reverses direction substantially along the same arcuate path, finally, after impacting against the ball, the club moves through the follow through portion of the swing in an upward and forward direction from the former ball


location along a continuation of the arcuate path. When the golfer's head is directly over the impact point of the ball and club, as intended with the prior art sighting devices, a number of disadvantages result. First, the club head impacts against the ball at the nadis of the arcuate path transversed during the forward swing. This provides a "flush" contact between the club and the ball at impact, applying no topspin to the ball, with the result that the ball tends to initially "take off" in an uncontrolled manner, sometimes being raised off the putting green for the first few inches of its path. A ball thusly struck tends to move off course more readily than does a ball with topspin, and the putt is much moredifficult to control. Second, when the golfer's head is positioned directly above the ball-club head impact, the golfer cannot see the rear side of the ball where the club is going to strike the ball. Accuracy demands that the point of impact on the ball be visible to the golfer.
A recognized problem with prior art golf putters relates to the tendencies of the club head to twist or turn upon impact with the ball, particularly when the impact point is displaced from the "sweet spot". For example, the golf putter club head disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,147,357 (Strop) attempts to enlarge the heel-to-toe length of the "sweet spot" to minimize twisting of the head upon impact. Further, Strop configures the bottom surface of the club head arcuately


(CNN) British Prime Minister Theresa May was accused of leading the UK into a "national crisis" on Monday as she ignored pleas to abandon her widely-criticized Brexit plan.

May announced that she would reschedule a parliamentary vote on her Brexit plan during the week of January 14 -- less than 80 days before Britain is due to leave the European Union on March 29.

"I know this is not everyone's perfect deal. It is a compromise," May said. "But if we let the perfect be the enemy of the good, we risk leaving the EU with no deal."

Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the Prime Minister of "cynically running down the clock" until the UK leaves the EU by offering lawmakers "her deal or no deal." He added that May hadof the opposition in thinking what gives him the best chance in forcing a general election, for at this critical moment in our history we should be thinking not about our parties' interest but the national interest," May said.

Parliamentary vote called off last week

The Prime Minister abruptly called off a vote on her Brexit plan last week, after it became clear it would be defeated. She was then forced to fend off a leadership challenge from rebellious Tory MPs. The challenge failed, but left her weakened politically.

At a European Union summit in Brussels, May failed to secure guarantees that would satisfy her rebels.

Over the weekend, the Sunday Times reported that two of May's allies -- Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington and her Chief of Staff Gavin Barwell --


and the remaining 27 EU nations agree.

The opposition Labour Party favors a general election to break the deadlock -- although that could also require an extension of the Article 50 process. Labour has repeatedly threatened to call a vote of no confidence in May's government should her Brexit bill be defeated or further delayed, a move that could pave the way to a new election.

Should his party fail in its efforts to secure an election, Corbyn has committed to "all options," including a second referendum.

But he has been reluctant to wholeheartedly endorse calls for another referendum, fearful that it would cost the party support in areas of the country that voted in favor of Brexit.

The Liberal Democrats -- a minor opposition party previously in a coalition government withTeaching Globalization: Crossing Borders / Crossing Disciplines

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Call for Nominations for 2016 Metcalf and United Methodist Teaching Awards

The Office of the Provost welcomes faculty members, staff, students, and alumni to submit nominations for the 2016 Metcalf Cup and Prize and Metcalf Awards for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the 2016 United Methodist Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.

Nominations for both awards are due Friday, October 2, 2015.

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Cuban diplomats from Washington visit Valley

In anticipation of renewed trade relations between the U.S. and Cuba, the Regional Chamber and Youngstown State University are hosting two Cuban diplomats this week.

In anticipation of renewed trade relations between the U.S. and Cuba, the Regional Chamber and Youngstown State University are hosting two Cuban diplomats this week.

Deputy Chief Juan Lamigueiro and First Secretary Sergio Vazquez of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C., will tour two Valley companies and engage in trade discussions with local business representatives. Absent of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, both nations, through an exchange of diplomatic notes, established “Interests Sections” in each other’s countries under the legal protection of the Swiss Embassies in Washington and Havana.

The OH-PA Stateline Export Initiative, the culmination of sixpresident of Vista Trade Group in Poland, and Gabriel F. Palmer-Fernandez, director of the Dr. James Dale Ethics Center and professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at YSU.

"The visit to YSU by two members of the Cuban diplomatic corps is a splendid opportunity for our students, especially those in international business, to learn about developing markets and to explore the role of politics and legislation in international trade,” Palmer-Fernandez said.

President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro are scheduled to meet next week at the Summit of the Americas in Panama. It would be the first scheduled meeting between leaders of the two countries in nearly 60 years. Obama announced in December that the U.S. will normalize relations with the Communist island.

“U.S.-Cuba commercial relations are very likely to open


Threatened by Extinction, Female Red Panda Comes to River Safari for Cultivation Program

River Safari has added a female red panda in an international breeding program for endangered animals.

Starting from the Melbourne Zoo, Keta (pronounced “key-ta”) arrived in Singapore in January, said Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which manages River Safari, in a press release on Thursday (August 30).

However, Keta – that turned three years old in December – had not been directly put into her new environment. It took an eight-month guard to gain her trust and get her used to the exhibition, said WRS.

River Safari currently has two male red pandas – namely Karma and Puskar. Karma – that turned six years old in December – has been identified as Keta’s mate.

“Like introducing new animals, it is notuncommon to see small fights at the beginning,” said River Safari assistant curator Halim Ali. Compared to Keta, the six-year-old Karma has darker reddish-orange fur.

Keta will be displayed with the two red pandas until she feels comfortable with her playmates, said WRS.

Red Panda comes from Asia, and is classified as endangered on the International Red List for Red Nature Conservation because of threats such as habitat loss and hunting. There are around 10,000 red pandas left in the wild.


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Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: A Hell of a Lot Better Than a War

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By way of introduction, Bernd Schaefer argued that the Berlin crisis of August 1961 was a central moment in the Cold War and a defining moment for the John F. Kennedy Administration. The construction of the Berlin Wall created a physical, concrete representation of the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. Its historic fall in November 1989, under the pressure of the East German demonstrations and TV camera lights marked, in the hearts and minds of an entire generation, the quasi-official end of the Cold War inEurope.

W.R. Smyser's book Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: a Hell of a Lot Better than a War is based on the author's personal experiences at the U.S. Mission in Berlin in the early 1960s, as well as his extensive research since he left the government. He identified four key dates in the Berlin Crisis and explained their importance for the Kennedy Administration and the Cold War. Kennedy and Khrushchev first met at the Vienna Summit on June 3-4, 1961. Khrushchev, Smyser argued, bullied Kennedy because the Soviet leader saw the president's handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion as a sign of weakness.

The second key date, August 13, 1961 was the day that the East Germans began building the Berlin Wall. Smyser, having been alerted at the time


to "strange" activity in East Berlin, recalled driving around the city in the early morning and seeing preparations for construction and an increased police presence on the streets. The title of the book derived from Kennedy's response to the news that the East Germans were building the Wall: to Kennedy it was "a hell of a lot better than a war." Despite the president's belief that the situation in Berlin would not lead to a military confrontation with the Soviets, public pressure forced Kennedy to protest the building of the Wall. To show US resolve, Kennedy sent General Lucius Clay, head of the US military government after the war, to Berlin. Smyser worked as Clay's assistant and witnessed the Checkpoint Charlie stand-off on October 22, 1961, the thirdBerlin in June 1963 was a triumph that reaffirmed American support for the city.

Mary Beth Stein noted that both the construction and the destruction of the Berlin Wall related to keeping East Germans from escaping, first through West Berlin, and then, later, through Eastern Europe. She commented that Smyser's book was engaging and concise, but that it may have benefited from more of the insider's perspective that Smyser could provide. Stein asserted that Kennedy kept West Berlin because of Clay's efforts and understanding of both the Soviets and Berliners. She also pointed to Willy Brandt's policy of Ostpolitik, and his efforts to bridge the gap between East and West, as another defining factor in the eventual collapse of the Wall and the reunification of Germany.

Personal experience provides colorful


insight to history, argued R. Gerald Livingston, who served with Smyser at the U.S. Mission in Berlin and praised him for balancing the personal with the historical. He mentioned a few topics that he thought should be discussed more broadly, including the fact that Khrushchev was at the apex of his power in 1961 and so felt that he could bully Kennedy, as well as the fact that the Berlin press critically recorded every American move. Livingston pointed to the 1961 West Berlin election campaign between Brandt and Adenauer, and the second détente-oriented speech that Kennedy gave in Berlin at the Free University in 1963, as subjects that should be more widely covered. He further discussed the flawed assessments given to Kennedy by his Soviet-hand advisers, as welloptions, including legislation dealing with travel and behested payments.

Still, I must take issue with the editorial's unwarranted potshots at the Latino Caucus (and myself as chairman). Here's why:

Last week, Latino Caucus members attended a screening of "Cesar Chavez," a biography of the late civil rights activist. As we stood with Chavez's son, he noted that the caucus looked very different from when he first came to Sacramento.

Forty years ago, the Chicano Legislative Caucus was formed, with five members, to promote and preserve the rights of Latinos and to develop new leaders. At the time, low Latino representation translated into policies that impeded the economic and social progress of the Latino community.

The Latino Caucus grew by nurturing new generations of leaders. Today, the caucus has 25 members. That's 20


Know your type: DIN

This is the first post in the ‘Know your type’ series, where we will take a look into the origins of some of the most commonly used typefaces in design today. The first typeface to get the treatment is DIN.

Born from the German railway system

The history of the realist sans-serif known today as DIN goes back to 1905. At the time, the Prussian railway created a set of lettering with the purpose of unifying the descriptions on their freight cars. Following a merger of all German state railways in 1920, the master drawings of the Prussian railway became the reference for most railway lettering. Based on the master drawings, the D. Stempel AG foundry released the earliest version of a DIN face in 1923.

A country-widestandard

The typeface was adopted by Germany in 1936 as a standard known as DIN 1451 (DIN is an acronym for Deutsches Institut für Normung—in English, the German Institute for Standardization). The typeface became a standard for traffic signs, street signs, house numbers and license plates. Over the next decades the typeface also found use on various household goods and products, making it synonymous with German design.

Picked up by graphic designers

DIN...is the magic word for everything that can be measured in Germany, including the official German typeface, appropriately...called DIN-Schrift. Since it is available in digital form, this typeface has been picked up by many graphic designers who like it for its lean, geometric lines -German typographer/designer Erik Spiekermann from Stop Stealing Sheep

DIN 1451 comes in two flavors: DIN 1451


Mittelschrift (the main typeface) and DIN 1451 Engschrift (condensed, which should only be used when there is not enough space to use Mittelschrift).

Redesigned in the 90's

In 1995, type designer Albert-Jan Pool expanded DIN 1451 into a more polished form acceptable for graphic design and publishing, known as FF DIN. Today, FF DIN has been widely adopted for use in magazines, advertisements, the web, and corporate logos.

Usage

Variants

With renewed interest among graphic designers in the 2000's, several modern variants of DIN 1451 have been surfacing. Notably, DIN Next (desgined by Akira Kobayashi of Linotype) and PF Din Display/Text (designed by Parachute), each with their own unique take on the classic German typface.

For more on the history of DIN, check out the 5 part series by Albert-Jan Pool published in thePrevalence of asthma and asthma symptoms in a general population sample from northern Italy. European Community Respiratory Health Survey--Italy.
The European Community Respiratory Health Survey is an international survey of the general population which aims to establish whether there are significant variations in the prevalence of asthma among European countries. The present paper reports the prevalence of asthma and asthma-like symptoms in a sample of subjects living in three areas of northern Italy: Turin, Pavia, and Verona. Samples of residents 20-44 years old (3000 subjects in Turin and Verona and 1000 in Pavia) stratified by sex (M:F = 1/1) were randomly selected from local health authority lists in the three participating areas. To correct the observed prevalence estimate for nonresponse bias, a method proposed by Drane was applied. Of


kid on the block does not suffer from the kind of nerves that might ordinarily have been expected of a teenager making his first England start.

It is not, after all, as if the game was devoid of other talking points.

Perhaps Southgate would have liked to dwell on Declan Rice’s successful introduction to England’s starting line-up. It was the night when Harry Kane scored the 22nd goal of his England career, putting him level with Tommy Lawton and Peter Crouch. Raheem Sterling, the team’s outstanding performer again, continued his own scoring run and maybe this was also the night when Ross Barkley, with two of the goals, started to feel like he could dominate, rather than decorate, international matches.

Ultimately, though, this occasion will be added to the list ofSterling’s goal celebration. “Best way to silence the haters (and yeah I mean racists),” came his explanation, relayed via his social media accounts.

As for Southgate, he was visibly upset, saying he would apologise if people thought he should have done more, namely by removing his players from the pitch. He decided that was not the best option because, from previous conversations, he did not think that was what his players would have wanted. As always, the manager spoke with great eloquence and feeling, as someone who clearly cares for the image of the game but, more than anything, for his players and their feelings. He wanted his players to enjoy representing England abroad, he said, not be scarred by the experience.

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It would not say much for England’s credentials, however, if their players were intimidated by a 15,000-capacity stadium where one side of the ground was dwarfed by the trees in the adjacent car park. England assumed control early and it certainly came as a surprise when Michael Keane missed a tackle in his penalty area and Marko Vesovic curled in the opening goal.

Keane will feel a lot better for heading in the equaliser from Barkley’s free-kick, on the half-hour mark, but he should also be acutely aware that his first requirement as one of England’s centre-backs is to keep out the opposition – and he did not manage it.

England never looked vulnerable again and nine minutes later Hudson-Odoi, on theThe aircraft, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 154, was operating in the vicinity of Hit, Iraq, while conducting overhead presence and security in support of Iraqi and multinational troops.

The plane recovered safely aboard Carl Vinson after the mission.

The Carl Vinson Strike Group is charged with a variety of missions. Aircraft from CVW-9 are flying patrols over Iraq and the Gulf to lend assistance to multinational forces if needed. Surface ships, under the command of Destroyer Squadron 31, join the multinational forces in the Gulf conducting Maritime Security Operations, which include protecting Iraqi oil platforms that provide a critical source of income for the new Iraqi government.

The squadrons of CVW-9 include the Blue Diamonds of VFA-146, the Argonauts of VFA-147, the Black Knights of VFA-154, the Death Rattlers


the place.

The question of contemporary has to do with the values a building represents. A contemporary building seizes the spirit of the time, as well as the technology of the time, in a way that has meaning that lasts.”

About Moshe Safdie

Born in 1938 in Haifa, Moshe Safdie is an Israeli-Canadian architect, urban planner, and educator. After graduating in Architecture from McGill University in Montreal, Safdie was an apprentice to Louis Kahn. Safdie is most well-known for his iconic, cellular and prefabricated units for living, Habitat 67, designed early in his career in 1967. Shortly afterward, in 1970, he established a Jerusalem office and was heavily involved in the development of Jerusalem’s new city center. Safdie is also known for his work on the Marina Bay Sands Resort inSingapore, the new Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and The United States Institute of Peace Headquarters in Washington DC.

Safdie Architects, Habitat 67 housing complex, Montreal, Canada, 1967; photo James Brittain

The unbuilt Habitat NY housing complex, New York; image courtesy of Safdie Architects

Safdie Architects, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; 2005; photo Timothy Hursley

Safdie Architects, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC; 2009; photo Timothy Hursley

Safdie Architects, Kauffman Center for Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, 2011; photo Timothy Hursley

Safdie Architects, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2011; photo Timothy Hursley

Safdie Architects, Marina Bay Sands integrated resort, Singapore, 2011; photo Timothy Hursley

About Time-Space-Existence

Time, space and existence. These three concepts sketch out the contours of the world around us — a fact especially true within architecture. Taking these words as its starting point,


2010, the Garcias stopped making payments on the loans. In June
2010, Bancorp noticed default and its election to sell under the deed of trust as to the
$170,000 loan. In October 2010, Bancorp noticed the trustee’s sale as to the $170,000
loan, stating the estimated pay off amount. Bancorp noticed default and election to sell
under the deed of trust as to the $205,000 loan also in October 2010.
       In the interim, the Garcias transferred their full interest in the property to Gabriel
Ortiz as a gift via a grant deed in September 2010 without obtaining Bancorp’s consent.
Around that time, the Garcias also executed a partnership agreement with Ortiz. The
objectives of the partnership were for the parties to develop and perform construction on
the property, and forOrtiz to obtain financing for the property to satisfy the defaults on
the loans from Bancorp.
       The trustee’s sale was noticed for December 15, 2010. Two days before the
scheduled sale, Ortiz transferred a 25 percent interest in the property back to Guadalupe
Garcia, who immediately filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy to stay the sale. Almost a
month later, Guadalupe Garcia’s bankruptcy action was dismissed. Guadalupe Garcia
filed for bankruptcy two more times in January and March 2011; these two bankruptcy
actions were also dismissed.
       In March 2011, the Garcias sued Bancorp to enjoin the foreclosure sale. Based on
an arbitration agreement signed by the Garcias in relation to the deeds of trust, the parties
arbitrated the Garcias’ claims. In November 2011, the arbitrator


full to Ortiz, only after the
Garcias had been in default for six months and after Bancorp had already issued and
recorded notice of default and its election to sell the property. At that same time, Ortiz
had formed a partnership with the Garcias for the purpose of securing financing to pay
off arrearages on the Bancorp loans and developing the property, as evidenced by the
written partnership agreement signed by Ortiz and Ortiz’s testimony regarding the nature
of the partnership. Ortiz also testified that he knew that the property had been in default
for six or seven months and that he had unsuccessfully attempted to obtain loans several
times to pay off the default to Bancorp.
       Furthermore, two days before the first noticed foreclosure sale, Ortiz conveyed
25 percent ofof economic dependency during the marriage, and the skills and education necessary to return to the workforce rather than an overriding emphasis on the marital lifestyle and the ability to replicate the marital lifestyle at the end of the chosen term. Applying these principles and the well-supported finding that the mental health problems affecting the supported spouse will not interfere with her ability to obtain and sustain employment, we affirm a ten-year period of limited duration alimony.
The parties were married on March 17, 1996. Their marriage endured for over nine years. They have two children. Their oldest daughter was born in May 1998; their youngest daughter in May 2001. One child attends public school; the other attends a local private school.
At the time of trial, plaintiff J.E.V. was


forty-four years old and defendant K.V. was thirty-seven years old. They first met in 1994 when plaintiff was a dermatology resident at medical school in Texas. At that time, defendant was a recent college graduate with a degree in recreation and tourism.
After graduation, defendant earned approximately $28,000 a year as a sales representative for a national payroll service. The couple lived together for one year, married, and then moved to California so plaintiff could participate in a one-year fellowship. Defendant continued to work for the same firm in California earning up to $65,000 annually.
Plaintiff accepted a position as director of surgical service at a major hospital in central New Jersey, where the couple relocated. Defendant continued to work for the same firm in New Jersey, but left thefirm because of the breadth of the territory assigned to her. She took a position as a pharmaceutical sales representative, separating from employment when she became pregnant.
Plaintiff opened his own dermatology practice in central New Jersey in July 2001. He focused on a sophisticated surgical procedure used to remove skin cancer. Defendant became involved in numerous charitable and fundraising events and sought to promote her husband's practice. She also performed market and demographic research geared toward the opening of the practice. When the practice *1005 opened, she worked as office manager and administrator.
Plaintiff testified that defendant was initially in charge of the finances, submitting all billing forms to the billing service, hiring, firing, and public relations. After about six months, plaintiff and defendant hired an office manager and


defendant became the overseer of the office manager and remained in charge of most of the financial aspects of the practice until the parties separated. Plaintiff claimed defendant worked on billing about one hour per night and worked about twenty hours per week in total for the practice.
Following the birth of their oldest daughter in May 1998, the parties hired a full-time nurse and then a full-time nanny to care for the child. They purchased a house close to plaintiff's office in March 1999. When their second child was born in May 2001, the parties hired a second full-time nanny, who was also a housekeeper, and also a part-time weekend nanny.
Defendant has a history of mental and emotional problems. Starting in 2002, she began to experience a greatdeal of anxiety. She began seeing a psychiatrist in early 2003. He diagnosed her with mania and anxiety and prescribed three medications to help manage her condition. Defendant changed doctors in early 2004. Her new psychologist and members of his practice altered defendant's medications. Starting in Fall 2005, defendant was hospitalized three times.
Defendant's treating psychiatrist diagnosed her with bipolar disorder. She also had symptoms of borderline personality disorder. Defendant testified that the side effects from her medications could produce dry mouth, a lisp, dry eyes, dizziness, gastro-intestinal upsets, weight gain, irritability, and suicidal thoughts. She stated that when she experienced unpleasant side effects, she stopped taking her medication, then conferred with her treating doctor to adjust the medications. Plaintiff did not dispute defendant's struggles with bipolar disorder and


personable during the interview" and her presentation influenced his opinion because "appearance ... can certainly have an impact on a potential employer." He also testified that defendant informed him of her health concerns but she did not provide a physician's opinion to verify her self report. He noted, however, defendant demonstrated to him that she was not interested in employment. He concluded she was capable of reentering the job market and earning $45,000 to $55,000 per annum.
Judge Jacobson awarded defendant limited duration alimony of $25,527 per month for the first two years and $23,403 per month for the next eight years. She ordered alimony to cease in August 2019, when the youngest child turns eighteen and presumably enters college.
In setting the type, term, and amount of alimony, Judgethe workforce is supported by the record. The judge relied not only on the medical evidence that the vast majority of persons with the same diagnosis are able to work but also on her observations of defendant throughout the eighteen-day trial and the evidence of defendant's various activities. Without discounting the effects of defendant's mental illness, the record demonstrates a woman fully involved in the life of her children and community. She travels widely. Her activities, such as tennis and fund-raising, require skill and dedication of time, energy and attention. Moreover, the judge observed defendant throughout the trial taking notes and consulting with her attorney. She was attentive and fully engaged emotionally and intellectually during the litigation process.
Finally, the term and amount of the award represent a fair


and equitable response to the particular facts of this case. The ten-year term fashioned by the trial judge permits defendant to remain the primary caretaker of her children, with the considerable assistance of the household help she has enjoyed throughout the lives of her children, until the younger child enters college. In short, given the intermediate term of the marriage, defendant's age, and the limited duration of the very affluent lifestyle defendant wishes to maintain, coupled with the finding that defendant's mental health condition did not render her totally and permanently disabled, the ten-year and generous limited duration award fashioned by Judge Jacobson is an equitable response to the circumstance of both parties.

II
Defendant contends that Judge Jacobson erred in denying her request for a Mallamo[2] credit relative tothe irritative zone (area of cortex that generates interictal spikes) and ictal onset zone (area of cortex that initiates or generates seizures)[@B8].

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A 4-year old girl suffered four prolonged autonomic seizures. She had not experienced any initial precipitating injury such as perinatal problems, head trauma, central nervous system infection, febrile convulsion, etc. The first seizure occurred 1 year before the fourth seizure. The fourth seizure occurred half an hour after falling asleep; she awoke suddenly, stared blankly, looked pale, and then vomited for 10 minutes. She could not respond to verbal commands during the late stage of vomiting. Afterward, her eyes deviated to the right side and clonic movements of the right arm followed. The hemi-clonic seizures lasted 10 to 15 minutes. After being unresponsive and flaccid for


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HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 17, 2013 – Bailie Key of Montgomery, Texas/Texas Dreams, won the junior women's all-around with a score of 118.550 points after the second of two days of competition at the P&G Gymnastics Championships at Hartford's (Conn.) XL Center. Lauren Hernandez of Old Bridge, N.J./MG Elite, won the silver medal with 116.650 points, and Amelia Hundley of Hamilton, Ohio/Cincinnati, finished third with 113.750 points. Women's competition continues tonight with the final day of the senior women's division, which includes 2012 Olympic team gold-medalists McKayla Maroney of Long Beach, Calif./All-Olympia, and Kyla Ross of Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max.

Key began her competition on the floor exercise, posting a combined score of 29.750 points that earned her the event title. Key tumbled four clean passes: an Arabian doublefront to stag jump; one-and-a-half twist through to a triple twist; front double full punch front; and a double pike dismount. She also showed perfect positions in her leaps. In the second rotation, Key vaulted a double-twisting Yurchenko for 14.750 points. On bars, Key improved her performance from the first day of competition with a Stalder-full to full-twisting double tuck dismount for 14.100 points and fourth place in the event rankings at 28.050. Key finished her competition on the balance beam, hitting a flip flop, flip flop layout series and a triple full dismount for a two-day total of 30.900 points and the beam title.

Hernandez, who was 21st at the 2012 U.S. Championships, soared to second in the all-around with eight solid routines. In the first rotation, Hernandez


commanded the crowd's attention on floor exercise, committing to her choreography and cleanly landing her tumbling passes for a two-day total of 29.100 points and the silver floor medal. Hernandez earned the silver medal on bars, scoring 28.450 points for a routine that included a high Ricna and stuck her full-twisting double tuck dismount. Hernandez finished her competition by tying for the bronze on balance beam with 29.400 points.

Hundley, third in the all-around, won the title on uneven bars. She competed a clean routine with a Ricna release, a van Leeuwen transition and a Stalder to immediate full-twisting double tuck dismount for a combined score of 28.550 points. Hundley earned the bronze medal on floor with her upbeat routine featuring a double layout mount and a high doublestart lists, live scoring and more, are available at PGChamps.com. USA Gymnastics is also providing enhanced event coverage on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Fans can connect with gymnastics enthusiasts around the world by using the event's official hashtag, #PGChamps.

Tickets are still available. Single-session tickets range in price from $20 to $99. Multi-session packages are also available: men's package – all men's sessions (junior and senior), Aug. 16 and 18, $85-135; women's first day of competition package – junior and senior women's sessions, Aug. 15, $70-125; women's final day of competition package — junior and senior women's sessions, Aug. 17, $85-135; and men's and women's package – senior women on Aug. 17 and senior men on Aug. 18, $85-135. All-session tickets, which range in price from $125-$395, are also


on sale, and the top-priced ticket is for the best seat location and includes an autographed commemorative poster. Prices include facility fees and vary according to ticket location. Tickets are available through several different avenues: Ticketmaster.com; calling 1-800-745-3000; or the Public Power Ticket Office at the XL Center. For group tickets, please call 860-548-2000.

Fan Activities

From morning fitness at the Old State House to the 50th Anniversary Museum and the Capital City's Taste of the Championships, fans will have plenty of opportunities for fun while they enjoy the exciting week of competition in Hartford.

The following is a quick overview of the fan activities available during the P&G Championships. For the most up-to-date and complete information on all event and fan activities, go to PGChamps.com.

Morning fitness . Downtown workers andfans can start the day off right by joining gymnastics coaches and celebrities for a free morning workout, led by local Hartford fitness fanatics and Olympian John Macready, at the Old State House. On Thursday, Aug. 15, and Friday, Aug. 16, USA Gymnastics is hosting "Get up, get fit!", a morning fitness session from 6:30-7:30 a.m. Thursday's session features a boot camp and Pilates, with Friday's session including a boot camp and yoga. Companies making the sessions possible are P&G, Under Armour, Hartford Healthcare, Civic Mind, Downtown Yoga and Whole Foods.

Capital City's Taste of the Championships . Six restaurants are creating special menu items as part of the Capital City's Taste of the Championships. From Aug. 15-17, Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra and legendary gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi will


review and taste the signature dishes, which are also being reviewed by a nutritionist with USA Gymnastics' partner St. Vincent Sports Performance to determine the healthiest dish. The six restaurants are: Agave, 100 Allyn St.; City Steam Brewery Café, 942 Main St.; DISH Bar & Grill, 900 Main St.; Feng Asian Bistro, 93 Asylum St.; Max Downtown, 185 Asylum St.; and Salute, 100 Trumbull St., #2.

"Let's Eat." "Let's Eat" is a network of 10 Hartford restaurants that are offering a 20-percent discount to P&G Championships ticket and credential holders, as well as those with a USA Gymnastics Congress credential. The participating restaurants are: Black Bear Saloon at 187 Allyn St.; Burger Baby at 283 Asylum St.; Carbone's Ristorante at 588 Franklin Ave.; DISH Bar & Grill at 900Main St.; Front Street Bistro at 39 Front St.; Hot Tomato's at One Union Place; Peppercorn's Grill at 357 Main St.; Salute Restaurant at 100 Trumbull St.; The Russian Lady at 100 Ann Uccello St.; and The Tavern Downtown at 201 Ann Uccello St.

USA Gymnastics 50th anniversary museum, celebrating 50 years of champions . Open to the general public, the museum will feature a combination of pictures, historical items, mementoes and videos that tell the story of USA Gymnastics and its first 50 years of accomplishments and champions. It will also include historical leotards from GK Elite and equipment from AAI. Admission is free. The museum officially opens at 10 a.m. on Aug. 15, and several well-known gymnasts are expected to be on hand for the opening. The


museum is open from 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 15, to Saturday, Aug. 17, and from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 18. Two autograph sessions will be held each day, and the celebrity gymnasts signing autographs are expected to include Olympic gold medalists Shannon Miller, Carly Patterson and Paul Hamm; members of Team Hilton HHonors, including Olympic silver-medalist Jonathan Horton, Leyva and Orozco; and members of both the 2007 Women's World Championships Team (team champions) and the 2012 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team. Check PGChamps.com daily for the updated autograph schedule.

USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame . Also at the XL Center, the 2007 Women's World Championships Team and women's gymnastics members of the Hall of Fame will be recognized for their achievements on Thursday, Aug. 15, with themen's Hall of Famers introduced on Friday, Aug. 16. The Fierce Five and the 2007 Women's World Championships Team are members of the 2013 class of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame. The members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Women's Team, aka the Fierce Five, are Gabrielle Douglas of Virginia Beach, Va./Chow's Gymnastics and Dance, McKayla Maroney of Long Beach, Calif./All-Olympia Gymnastics, Aly Raisman of Needham, Mass./Brestyan's American Gymnastics, Kyla Ross of Aliso Viejo, Calif./Gym-Max, and Jordyn Wieber of DeWitt, Mich./Gedderts' Twistars USA. The 2007 World Championships Team includes Ivana Hong of Laguna Hills, Calif., Shawn Johnson of West Des Moines, Iowa, Nastia Liukin of Parker, Texas, Samantha Peszek of Indianapolis, Ind., Alicia Sacramone of Winchester, Mass., and Shayla Worley of Orlando, along with alternate Bridget Sloan of


Pittsboro, Ind.

2012 Olympic reunion . Fans will get to see Fierce Five reunited with the other eight Olympians, and the alternates, for the first time since last fall's conclusion of the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions, and help USA Gymnastics celebrate their accomplishments on Saturday, Aug. 17, at the XL Center. The members of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team are: women – Douglas, Maroney, Raisman, Ross and Wieber; men –Dalton, Jonathan Horton of Houston/Team Hilton HHonors (Cypress Gymnastics), Leyva, Mikulak and Orozco; rhythmic gymnastics –Zetlin; and trampoline –Gluckstein and Vinsant. The replacement athletes who will be in attendance are: women – Sarah Finnegan of St. Louis, Mo./Great American Gymnastics Express, Anna Li of Aurora, Ill./Legacy Elite Gymnastics, and Price; men –Christopher Brooks of Houston/Team Hilton HHonors (Cypress Academyof Gymnastics), Legendre, and Naddour; and trampoline – Logan Dooley of Lake Forest, Calif./World Elite Gymnastics, and Dakota Earnest of Plains, Texas/Acrospirits.

USA Gymnastics Fitness Zone . Kids can have fun and gain knowledge about the importance of fitness through the interactive USA Gymnastics Fitness Zone. The zone features activities in building strength, flexibility, cardiovascular exercise and nutrition. The Fitness Zone will be featured on the concourse at the XL Center.

WGYM. WGYM, the in-house radio broadcast for men's and women's gymnastics, provides running commentary on the competition, as well as fun facts about the sport and the competitors. Olympic gold medalists Amanda Borden, Paul Hamm and Shannon Miller will serve as hosts for the broadcasts. Radios will be available at the XL Center.

Merchandise. Fans can purchase everything gymnastics from


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When a vehicle turns, the suspension permits the vehicle body to rotate about its longitudinal axis in response to the rolling force exerted on the body during the turn. Typically, vehicle passengers experience this effect as a tilt of the vehicle body, with the side of the body on theoutside of the curve being relatively lower than the side of the body on the inside.
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making landfall, the slow-moving storm has killed at least nine people, forced 30,000 people to seek emergency shelter and paralysed Houston, the fourth most-populous city in the country.

Harvey has continued to bring record-breaking rains and catastrophic flooding, drawing comparisons with Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans 12 years ago, killing 1,800 people.

Former President George W. Bush was widely criticised for his administration’s handling of the response to that disaster, taking a heavy toll on public support of his administration.

Harvey, which has been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, is expected to reach Louisiana early on Wednesday – one day after the 12th anniversary of Katrina hitting the state.

Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro, reporting from Houston, said that while many Trump supporters will be welcoming his visit, manyHurricane Katrina and New York and New Jersey come back from Superstorm Sandy.

Among other things, the grants help people without flood insurance coverage rebuild their homes. In the 2017 budget, the Republican-led Congress restored some of the block grant money.

Thousands rescued

Some 3,500 people already have been rescued from high waters in the Houston area with police, firefighters and National Guard troops continuing to try to locate those marooned in high waters.

About 9,000 evacuees were staying at Houston’s George R Brown Convention Center and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said his office had asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assets to allow the city to shelter another 10,000 people.

The storm broke Texas rainfall records at one measuring site south of Houston, which recorded 49.32 inches (1.25 metres) of precipitation


since the storm’s start. The rainfall is more than the region typically sees in a year and exceeds 48 inches (122cm) recorded in 1978.

Harvey has roiled energy markets and wrought damage estimated to be in the billions of dollars, with rebuilding likely to last beyond Trump’s four-year term in office.

It is expected to produce another 6 to 12 inches (15-30cm) of rain through Thursday over parts of the upper Texas coast into southwestern Louisiana, the National Weather Service said.

The floods could destroy as much as $20bn in insured property, making the storm one of the costliest in history for US insurers, according to Wall Street analysts.of its Republican allies turned their backs on Donald Trump. Now, they’re finding common cause with Trump over his pick to lead the State Department: Tillerson, who has long orbited their same political, philanthropic and business circles. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Throughout the presidential campaign, the Bush family and many of its Republican allies turned their backs on Donald Trump. Now, they’re finding common cause with Trump over his pick to lead the State Department: Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who has long orbited their same political, philanthropic and business worlds.

Former President George W. Bush, who has largely avoided politics since leaving office in 2009, heaped praise on Tillerson in a recent phone call to Sen. Bob Corker, the Tennessee lawmaker who will oversee the secretary


of state confirmation hearings. Jeb Bush, Tillerson’s preferred candidate in the 2016 race, called the Exxon executive a “good man and accomplished leader.”

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Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates — Bush’s vice president, secretary of state and secretary of defense — have all offered glowing endorsements. Gates, who runs a consulting firm with Rice that represents Exxon, first put Tillerson on Trump’s radar when the president-elect was dissatisfied with his more conventional options.

Despite the high-level backing, Tillerson faces obstacles in his path to Foggy Bottom. He has no government experience, having spent his whole career at Exxon. Senators in both parties have raised questions about his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a relationship that’s particularly eye-catching given uncertainty about Trump’s own connections to Russia.

Corker said that whiletake the Republican Party in a new direction, both in style and substance. He showed no reverence for the Bush family during the campaign, blasting George W. Bush over the Iraq war and deriding his administration’s focus on nation building abroad. He was particularly hard on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who ran against Trump in the GOP primaries.

Trump transition officials say the Bush family has not coordinated its support for Tillerson with the president-elect, though Gates and Rice did directly offer their support to Trump’s team.

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Like the Bush family, Tillerson has strong ties to Texas and its vast oil industry. Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush ran oil companies before going into politics. Tillerson, a native of Wichita Falls, Texas, joined Exxon out of college


governor, according to people who know both men. The ties have moved beyond the political realm and into philanthropy, with some of Exxon’s efforts overlapping with Bush’s foundation, including on women’s empowerment issues.

Tillerson’s philanthropic work on behalf of Exxon has also overlapped with Jeb Bush, who promoted STEM education — science, technology, engineering and math — as governor of Florida. When Jeb Bush joined the crowded field of Republicans running for president in 2016, he quickly became Tillerson’s choice. The executive donated to both Bush’s campaign and his super PAC.

Campaign finance records show Tillerson has been a regular donor to other establishment Republicans who cringed at the prospect of Trump becoming the party’s nominee. He gave money to Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential campaign who Trump alsoThe cyclone that brought about the devastating winds that battered the UK in the great storm of October 1987 was exceptional in both its strength and path across the south of the country.

This is the finding of a new study which has analysed the places where sting jets  an area that develops in some cyclones and causes strong surface winds  appear in the North Atlantic and how often they do so.

Presenting their results today, Friday 11 May, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, researchers from the University of Reading and Monash University, Australia, studied the hundred most intense storms to have occurred across the North Atlantic in the past twenty years

Of the 100 storms studied, they found that around 30 per cent of the storms


had the potential to produce sting jets but these seemed to originate in relatively warmer, more southerly latitudes, out at sea.

A sting jet originates in a cyclone at an altitude of five kilometres within layers of moist ascending air. As the jet of air descends, it passes through clouds of ice crystals that cool it down, increasing its density and causing it to accelerate to speeds of up to 100 mph.

These strong winds appear in regions of a cyclone where they would not usually occur according to previous models.

"This descending jet is called a sting jet due to its location at the tip of the cloud head that wraps around the storm centre. This cloud resembles a scorpion's tail because of its hooked shape and is therefore describedjet storms are becoming more frequent. It really remains a question of chance.

"Using a technique similar to the one we used here, it would be possible to see signs of the potential for sting jets some six hours in advance. However, their time and length scales are so small that forecasting their actual occurrence remains a very difficult task," continued Dr Martínez-Alvarado.

Great storm of October 1987

Occurred on the night of 15-16 October 1987

Worst storm to hit England since great storm of 1703

Storm was responsible for the death of at least 22 people in England and France

Around 15 million trees were blown down during the storm

The strongest winds recorded on UK land were 115 mph (100 knots) at Shoreham on the Sussex coast

Explore further Hurricanes: Category 6 listing possible

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Witnesses recount events leading to grisly murder in Pingree

Published at 11:37 am, April 7, 2017 |

Updated at 12:00 pm, April 7, 2017

BLACKFOOT – Thirty-year-old David Lee Davis sustained gunshot wounds from two separate shooters, but a forensic specialist testified Thursday that he died from a final shot to the back of his head.

Witnesses testified during the preliminary hearing for Melonie Smith — the Bingham County woman accused of inflicting the fatal shot — that the defendant admitted she had killed Davis at her Pingree residence on Feb. 10.

Magistrate Judge James Barrett forwarded the case to Seventh District Court following the daylong hearing and Smith will be arraigned on April 17.

Forensic Pathologist Charles O. Garrison conducted an autopsy in the case on Feb. 15. Garrison told the court Daviswas shot once in each thigh, but he said those were from a small caliber weapon and were not fatal, he also said the wounds had been bandaged.

The shot that killed Davis came from a larger weapon and was fired — execution-style — into the back of his head destroying his skull. Garrison said toxic levels of methamphetamine and hydrocodone were present in Davis’ blood when he was killed.

Bingham County Coroner Mike Gardener told the court he was called to the scene on Feb. 12. When he arrived at Smith’s residence located at 631 South 1600 West in rural Bingham County, Davis’ body was located in the kitchen and was wrapped in black plastic and bound with wire.

Bingham County Prosecutor Cleve Colson called Guy Lopez to the stand


Thursday. Lopez was the man who alerted law enforcement to the shooting in Pingree.

Lopez told the court that he met Smith through a friend and had visited her mobile home in Pingree three times. He considered her a friend and when she called him on Feb. 10 and said that she needed help, he told her to pick him up. Smith along with her three dogs, picked Lopez up in Blackfoot and he learned about the shooting as they drove to Pingree. He said Smith was distraught and told him that she had shot someone and that the body was in her kitchen.

Lopez said the defendant told him that when Davis exited his vehicle another man, Kevin Day, shot him in the legs.

Day was a former roommate ofDavis, who was at Smith’s home that night. During Day’s testimony, he said he didn’t like Davis due to past conflicts. He said he shot Davis twice, then gave Smith the pistol and fled the scene. He was eventually arrested in California. His case was sealed as of Thursday, and no motive for the shooting was given. Details of the arrest are also unclear.

Day has been charged with aggravated battery and use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony. He testified as part of a plea deal.

Witnesses said that despite being shot, Davis made it inside the mobile house.

“(Smith) said he was on his knees by the couch and he was telling her that he didn’t want to die, that he wanted to see his


kids again and that he needed a doctor,” Lopez said. “(Smith) said she gave him two (hydrocodone) for the pain and a glass of water and when he reached to set the water down, she shot him in the head with an armor piercing .45-70 … she said it was like putting a dog out of its misery.”

The witness said Smith also pointed out tissue and bone matter that she had attempted to burn in her wood stove and she told him that Davis had been shot two days earlier.

Lopez said Smith gave him pain killers and a beer and he was at the house for about an hour before Lopez told Smith that she would need kerosene to burn the body and that they could get itat in Pocatello, beat him and his girlfriend and warned him not to testify against Smith. He said he did not report the attack.

Public Defender James Archibald is representing Smith in the case and he asked Lopez if he had submitted to a polygraph exam. The witness stated that he had not.

Marie Baker of Pocatello, took the stand as a witness in the case. Baker said Davis was her best friend.

She and Davis went to the Fort Hall Casino the night he was killed and Davis invited her to go to Pingree to “get high” and he told her that they would have all the methamphetamine they wanted.

Baker said she declined, but she let him take her car and rode back to Pocatello with someone else, that was


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O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
E. T. A. Hoffmann, "Nussknacker und Mausekönig" (The Nutcracker and the Mouse King)
Robert E. Howard, "Golden Hope" Christmas
Arthur Machen, A New Christmas Carol
Ruben Saillens, "Le Père Martin"
Frank R. Stockton, The Great Staircase at Landover Hall
Frank R. Stockton, Old Applejoy's Ghost
Leo Tolstoy, "Papa Panov's Special Christmas" (translation of Saillens)
Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales
Philip Van Doren Stern, The Greatest Gift
Kurt Vonnegut, While Mortals Sleep (book of short stories)
Edgar Wallace, Christmas Eve at the China Dog
Stanley Waterloo, Christmas 200,000 BC

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L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Cornelia Funke, When Santa Fell to Earth
Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Astrid Lindgren, Brenda Brave Helps Grandmother (Kajsa Kavat hjälper mormor)
Astrid Lindgren, A Calf for Christmas (När Bäckhultarn for till stan)
AstridBrain cancer, and poverty too

A Chicago man lost his job, home, insurance coverage after being diagnosed with glioblastoma. Now he pins hopes on free care.

July 13, 2008|By Judith Graham, TRIBUNE REPORTER

Curtis King has lost almost everything since being diagnosed with a brain tumor.

His job. His income. His room in a South Side motel. His belongings -- most of them thrown out on the street.

King, 45, has glioblastoma, the same cancer Sen. Edward Kennedy is confronting in Boston with a team of influential associates, friends and family at his side.

In Chicago, King has no one. He lives in a homeless shelter in a room with five strangers, alone with his fear. When he can, King follows what's happening with Kennedy on the Internet, trying to pick up bits and


both eyebrows. "But this cancer, it's worse than all of that."

King's confrontation with the disease began in early March, when he awoke one morning feeling like an insect had alighted on a twitching eyelid. It was an early sign of a seizure, though he didn't know it at the time.

At work at a South Side manufacturing plant a few hours later, King was driving a forklift when his left side suddenly went numb and the vehicle crashed into a wall. An ambulance was quickly called.

At MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, the MRI scan showed a tennis-ball-size tumor deep in his brain. The surgery removed about half; getting rid of the rest was too dangerous.

"You may not make it to your birthday" in September, King remembers a doctor telling him.

"Ihaven't been right since," said King, a former gang member who has an extensive criminal record. "I've been past depressed."

A month after his emergency admission, King walked out of rehabilitation carrying a prescription for chemotherapy pills that cost $9,000 a month -- a charge his union-based insurance wouldn't cover and he couldn't pay when the pharmacist told him it was his responsibility.

"I never had a problem like this. I didn't know what to do," he said.

Looking for help, King walked into the emergency room at Stroger Hospital in early April, where doctors took another set of scans and staff signed him up for free therapy and medications, which he continues to take. "I had to try to save myself," he said.

"Every day, I wake up and feel like


For A Girl And Her Horses, A Bumpy Ride To Adulthood

Anton DiSclafani teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls is her first novel.

Nina Subin
/ Courtesy of Riverhead Books

Anton DiSclafani's debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, is a painstakingly constructed ode to a young girl's sexual awakening — just ladylike enough to be more bodice unbuttoner than bodice ripper. Like Rumer Godden's classic 1958 novel, The Greengage Summer, this is perhaps one of the classier books a young teen would hide under her covers to read with a flashlight. It features a 15-year-old narrator, Theodora "Thea" Atwell, whose family banishes her to a North Carolina equestrian boarding school in 1930. There's been a scandal. The Great Depression is closingin.

Thea describes herself as "a wrong girl if there ever was one." From another girl, this might come across as a plea for sympathy, but this watchful, bold teenager, who begins her stay at Yonahlossee by poking through her new roommates' closets, never seems to seek pity. She begins the novel convinced that whatever she did — and it doesn't take long to figure out it has to do with sex — was a violation of society's rules. "My character was not what it should have been. Nobody had told me that, but I knew." She is both innocent and fallen.

DiSclafani cuts back and forth between two richly imagined time frames and settings. In the past, there is Thea's paradisiacal Florida home with its citrus groves and endless


summer. There she rode her pony, Sasi, and hunted for snakes with her slightly older cousin Georgie and her twin brother, Sam, a childlike boy with a gift for calming animals. In the present at Yonahlossee, where the sweet iced tea is addictively "thick and syrupy," and the three stone barns and five riding rings appear as palaces to a horse-obsessed girl, she cautiously adjusts to the camp's complex social hierarchy.

Although all the girls wear the same white uniforms of skirts and blouses with virginal Peter Pan collars, scholarship students mix with the upper-middle-class campers, like Thea, and the very wealthy, who, despite the Depression, arrive with ruby earrings or their own champion horses in tow. Teasing out the details of Thea's tragic secret in flashbacks, DiSclafani introducesa new love interest nearly as inappropriate as the boy at the heart of the original scandal. Her language is formal, almost deliberately stilted — except when it comes to the sex — and her stately pacing as controlled as a horse being led through a dressage competition.

As guilty as Thea feels for her transgressions, she's angry with her parents for sending her away, and while she reads their letters for news of Sam, she refuses to answer them. Instead she loses herself in novels (lots of Edith Wharton and E.M. Forster, natural choices for a girl looking for tantalizing undercurrents of sexuality) — and horses, naturally. Like legions of teenage girls before her, the resentful Thea frequently feels powerless, but never on a horse. Not when she's


need would not exist anymore."

While Thea's motivations would doubtless be described by someone of her era as "urges," they are more complex than that. When she was 15, Thea's mother said to Sam, right in front of her: "Thea's a girl. ...She doesn't matter like you do." I, for one, can't blame this budding feminist for refuting that statement with everything she's got, even if it means she finds her power — and her glory — in reducing the most patriarchal figure at Yonahlossee to a man lying in the North Carolina dirt, begging her not to stop.

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March 14, 2016

Putin: Withdrawal Of Russian Forces From Syria Starting March 15

This is an extremely interesting and likely very smart move. Putin again catches everyone off guard.

TASS reports:

Putin orders to begin withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria from March 15

March 14, 20:40 UTC+3 The Russian leader hopes the withdrawal of Russian troops will become a good motivation for launching negotiations between political forces in the country MOSCOW, March 14. /TASS/. Putin orders Russian defense minister to begin withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria from March 15. The Russian president said he hopes the start of the withdrawal of Russian troops will become a good motivation for launching negotiations between political forces of that country and instructed the foreign minister to intensify Russia’s participation in organization of peace processin Syria.

Via other sources Putin said: The armed forces achieved their goals in Syria. The two Air Force and Naval bases in Syria will stay and operate normally. The move was in agreement with the Syrian government.

I believe that, for this to have happened, there must be a deal in place with the U.S. to wind up the Syria situation. What did Putin get in return?

And what units will actually pull out? Three military cooks departing while civilians take up their jobs?

The tide of the war on Syria has changed. There is no longer a danger that Assad will lose the fight.

There were some Russian artillery and special forces units taking part in the ground operations in north Latakia. Latakia is now mostly cleaned up and the Russian


Italian police have arrested alleged supporters of the elusive head of the Sicilian mafia, uncovering a secret network of messages that allowed the fugitive boss to give orders to his mobster allies.

Police said in a statement that their "Year Zero" operation, which led to 22 arrests in towns near the Sicilian city of Trapani where Matteo Messina Denaro's criminal empire is based, allowed them to uncover a system of paper notes, or "pizzini", that he uses to communicate to his underlings.

Denaro is believed to be the head of Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian mafia.

"The operation is part of the larger investigative operation aimed at the capture of the fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro, also through the progressive weakening of his criminal networks and economic resources," the statement said.

The suspects haveLightning is a well known natural hazard. Every year in the United States, lightning kills approximately one hundred people and injures on the order of a thousand. Approximately 50 million cloud-to-ground lightning discharges occur each year in the U.S. Damage to equipment and disruption of commercial and industrial operations is measured in billions of dollars. For these reasons, and for many safety-related and equipment protection purposes, it is desirable to provide objective information about impending electrical storms, active thunderstorms and expiring thunderstorms.
Instruments known as electric-field meters are currently used to measure atmospheric electric fields at the surface of the earth. Almost all such electric-field meters are based on a design originally developed by C. T. R. Wilson in the early part of the 20th Century. One of the


is effected by means of three axially extending locating pins positioned to engage three holes located at 120 degree intervals in the engine flywheel (for use with manual transmissions) or engine-mounted flexible drive plate (for use with automatic transmissions). Thus, all that is necessary to establish a mechanical driving connection between the engine and the dynamometer is to bring the axes of these two units into substantial alignment, bring the pins of the dynamometer adapter into angular alignment with the holes in the flywheel or flexible drive plate and then bolt the two units together with two air-driven bolts.
Early experience with this unit produced several structural failures in the dynamometers. The source of the excessive or unusual loading on the dynamometer was not readily apparent, but it wasplate. With the pins and holes out of registry, tightening of the two clamping bolts resulted in the pins resiliently flexing the drive plate toward the engine. Thus, the axial deflection of the drive plate produced a large axially directed load on the pins, which load was transmitted through the entire adapter structure into the input shaft of the dynamometer, ultimately producing failure of the dynamometer.
A second source of dynamometer failures was traced to the nature of the engine configuration. A change in the firing program of the V-6 engine from one calling for firing of cylinders at three of the four 90 degree intervals of each revolution of the crankshaft to a program wherein a cylinder fired at every 120 degree interval of rotation produced three torque


This year's curiously warm winter in Inuvik, N.W.T., is having some serious repercussions for the town's tourism industry.

As of late February, the average temperature sat around 10 degrees warmer than usual, at –16.5 C, and the heat has persisted through March as well.

Kylik Kisoun Taylor runs Tundra North Tours, a company that spends about a month every winter building an ice village for tourists about 60 kilometres north of Inuvik.

"We had about eight igloos out there and tents set up, and ice sculptures and a fire pit, things like that," said Kisoun-Taylor. "Our whole village fell down, like everything is destroyed."

When it's up and running, the village is a place where tourists can play cultural games, eat traditional foods, view the aurora, snowshoe, and hike. At night, theysleep in an igloo.

An aerial view of the igloo village from last year. (Submitted by Kylik Kisoun Taylor)

Kisoun Taylor says his team and his customers have adapted to the warm weather. A few of the igloos were still in good enough condition to be fixed so they could be used at night, when it got cold again. During the day, the group spent more time outside, basking in the sunshine that melted their village.

"We set up a picnic table … and we could still snowmobile around so it was still great," he said.

Usually the village starts falling prey to the sun in late April, so this year's melt is significantly earlier than usual. Kisoun Taylor says his team is just rolling with the punches, working to rebuild the


village for the next group of tourists he's set to host.

"That's the North," said Kisoun-Taylor. "If it bothers you, you're probably living in the wrong place."

Next year, he said he's planning to invest in equipment to help insulate the snow and ice structures from the sunshine.

No parking on ice during jamboree: organizers

The impact of this warm weather isn't limited to Tundra North Tours. Inuvik's premier spring festival, the Muskrat Jamboree, is also forced to adapt.

Greta Sittichinli is the chair of the committee that organizes the event, which is entering its 62nd year.

Greta Sittichinli says organizers are asking people not to park on the ice during this weekend's Muskrat Jamboree. (Submitted by Greta Sittichinli)

Usually everybody just heads down to the Mackenzie River, parks their trucks on the ice andLED, and transfers the picture back to the paired instrument. A modification was made to the operating system to auto-start the Python software at boot-up. An Android smartphone application was developed for user interface and image processing. A Google Nexus 6P (Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Shenzhen, China) smartphone was selected for the development process, as it was the most recent Android instrument produced. The application was developed targeting Android software development kit (SDK) version 25, which runs on the newest Android Nougat OS and can support Android devices that use minimum SDK version 19, also known as Android KitKat. The user interface (UI) collected user inputs related to the test being performed, such as the name of the sample and the sample type. Also, it automatically fetches date,


engineers and designers can finally plan and realize the future that they have long promised.

Enrico Dini dreamt of buildings, construction and impossible shapes. He has long been inspired by Antoni Gaudi’s architecture and loves the ambition with which Gaudi practiced. Dini became a civil engineer and later branched out into making machines, all the while dreaming of impossible shapes. For Dini, thinking about having to build with concrete and brick and the required use of scaffolding and manpower seemed outdated and inefficient. Rather than accept the constraints of the current building methods, in 2004 he invented and patented a full scale 3D printing method that used epoxy to bind sand. Enrico could now 3D print buildings.

In 2007, Enrico went back to his invention and did away with theand the building element with the ambition of one day being able to transport the 3D printing machine to the moon and build structures made of the same sand/dust found on the surface of the moon.

Markus Kayser was born near Hannover, Germany in 1983. He studied 3D Furniture and Product Design at London Metropolitan University from 2004 – 2008 and continued 2009 with the study of Product Design at the Royal College of Art and gained his Master in 2011. Markus Kayser Studio was set up in London, UK in 2011. From early works of furniture and lights in his father’s farm workshop through to today Markus Kayser developed an understanding of materials, processes and technologies which he sees as being key in combination with the natural given.


makes his products as well as his experimental works digestible without losing its depths in content.

In August 2010 he took his first solar machine – the Sun-Cutter – to the Egyptian desert in a suitcase. This was a solar-powered, semi-automated low-tech laser cutter, that used the power of the sun to drive it and directly harnessed its rays through a glass ball lens to ‘laser’ cut 2D components using a cam-guided system. The Sun-Cutter produced components in thin plywood with an aesthetic quality that was a curious hybrid of machine-made and “nature craft” due to the crudeness of its mechanism and cutting beam optics, alongside variations in solar intensity due to weather fluctuations.

In the deserts of the world two elements dominate – sun and sand. The former offerscounterparts of the computer-drawn 3D designs inputted by the designer. By using the sun’s rays instead of a laser and sand instead of resins, he had the basis of an entirely new solar-powered machine and production process for making glass objects that taps into the abundant supplies of sun and sand to be found in the deserts of the world.

His first manually-operated solar-sintering machine was tested in February 2011 in the Moroccan desert with encouraging results that led to the development of the current larger and fully-automated computer driven version – the Solar-Sinter. The Solar-Sinter was completed in mid-May and later that month he took this experimental machine to the Sahara desert near Siwa, Egypt, for a two week testing period. The machine and the results of these


Jordan Morris discusses what it's like taking on the role of leader and mentor for the U.S. national team in January camp. (1:56)

Former United States international Eddie Johnson took to social media on Friday to question Jordan Morris' new contract with the Seattle Sounders, asking, "What has he done?"

Morris, 24, missed the entire 2018 MLS season after tearing his ACL in February, but Seattle still gave him a new five-year contract reportedly worth an average of $1 million a year.

And Johnson posted a long caption on Instagram next to a screenshot of the The Athletic's story on Morris' contract, concluding with, "How you get a Mil a year with no World Cup under your belt and never played in Europe coming off a ACL injury."

According to MLS PlayersEddie Johnson (@eddie_johnson7) December 8, 2018

Morris made his U.S. national team debut just after the 2014 World Cup while still a student at Stanford, where he won an NCAA national championship and the Hermann Trophy as national player of the year. Werder Bremen offered him a deal to play in Germany out of college after a trial, but he decided to join the Sounders and was named MLS Rookie of the Year in 2016.

The striker has scored five goals in 25 international appearances, including the winner in the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup final, but he missed the crucial World Cup qualifiers that fall with a hamstring injury as the U.S. failed to secure its place in Russia last summer, before the knee injury wiped out his 2018.

Johnson was


selected in the 2001 MLS draft as a 16-year-old and played in the U.S. until he joined English Premier League club Fulham in 2008. He spent much of his time out on loan with second-tier clubs Cardiff City and Preston North End as well as Greek club Aris before returning to MLS in 2012.

He played in the 2006 World Cup and was one of the final cuts on the 2010 squad. He scored the goal that qualified the U.S. for the 2014 World Cup but was left off the final team. After he made 63 national team appearances, the heart issue ended his career at age 31 in 2015.

Johnson scored 71 of his 90 goals in his club career in MLS and added 19 international goals.of the research project. "We want to engineer, from the start, a full-blown intelligent character and converse with him in an interactive environment like the holodeck from Star Trek."

Currently, Bringsjord is stocking his synthetic character will all sorts of facts, figures, family trivia and personal beliefs gleaned from what he calls his "full-time guinea pig," a graduate student that has agreed to bare all for his synthetic doppelganger. The synthetic character will be able to converse with other human-controlled avatars about his educational and family history, his personal pastimes, and even his feelings and beliefs.

"This synthetic person based on our mathematical theory will carry on a conversation about himself, including his own mental states and the mental states of others," said Bringsjord. "Our artificial intelligence algorithm is now


making this possible, but we need a supercomputer to get real-time performance."

The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) is donating the supercomputer time this fall, when the Turing-test demonstration will open along with RPI's new Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). There, the Turing test will be limited to controlling avatars in a virtual world--probably Second Life. Both the synthetic character and his human doppelganger will be operating different avatars. If the human-operators can't tell who the RPI synthetic character is, then it passes the Turing test

Mental states

The key to the realism of RPI's synthetic characters, according to Bringsjord, is that RPI is modeling the mental states of others--in particular, one's beliefs about others' mental states.

"Our synthetic characters have correlates of the mental states experienced by allThis story was produced in collaboration with Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines and was supported by a grant from the Solutions Journalism Network.

Tina Russell drives along one of the main roads in Kent, Washington, about a half hour south of Seattle. She’s taking me to the place where her niece, Alyssa McLemore, used to live. We speed down a street neatly lined with suburban-style homes when we make a right turn.

She points to a peach house with Christmas lights hanging in the window.

It's not far from where Alyssa McLemore was last seen before she went missing — a busy intersection with an entrance to state Route 167 and Interstate Highway 5 — which connects California, Oregon and Washington. It’s here that a witness saw Alyssa McLemore talking to a


that do get logged into systems are misclassified because the officer looked at someone and assumed or didn't enter the information in and the system defaults to white.”

The database now includes more than 5,000 names — a few going back to the early 20th century, though most are from the past 20 years.

Lucchesi says she filed numerous records requests with law enforcement agencies across the United States. She also keeps track of missing women in Canada. The database now includes more than 5,000 names — a few going back to the early 20th century, though most are from the past 20 years. She says that number is an undercount.

Lucchesi says the database is a keeper of names. But it’s also data about Native women and girls collected byShe points to a few people on the banner. One of them is Leland Tso, a Navajo man and father of three. Yatsayte says Navajo men are also going missing and murdered. And she says their families deserve some peace.

Tiara Shorty, who is also a Navajo Nation citizen and is Tso’s niece, says her family is heartbroken over his murder. “He was the glue that kept everyone together,” Shorty said. “He knew what was going on. What events were going on. He knew people's birthdays; he knew numbers by heart.”

Leland Tso Credit: Courtesy of Leland Tso's family

Tso was last seen on July 4, 2016, in Wheatfields, Arizona, where Shorty’s family is from. Witnesses say he was getting into a white truck in Navajo, New Mexico, on his way


by Strathblane and Baldernock; on the South by Calder and
Kirkintilloch; on the East by Kilsyth; forming a distinct commissariot along with Hamilton,
stiled the commissariot of Hamilton and Campsie.

It is presumed, that the winding appearance of the strath in general, and particularly of the
glens near which the parish church is situated, has given rise to the name Campsie, or Camsi, which
in the Celtic language, is said to signify crooked Strath or Glen. Of course, the Clachan of
Campsie, is, the place of worship of the crooked glens.

Indeed, if we attend carefully to the appearance which this district presents to those who view it
from any of the neighbouring stations, particularly the bending of the hills in the form of an
amphitheatre, above the village of Clachan, from which five streams, pouring downHe served in India against Tippoo Sahib. Fellow Royal Society 10th July 1795. There is a portrait of his face on the uniform of a Red Ensign, owned by Kittybrewster Ltd on loan to WRA. Married Edinburgh 3rd August 1793 Magdalen Pasley (born Lisbon 6th January 1772, died Annan 23rd October 1853). 12 recorded children.

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Lt. John Pasley Dirom Born Annan 6th November 1794. Died Annan 2nd June 1857. Distinguished military career included service at Waterloo. He had a son with Margaret Rome (born 6th January 1794, died Dumfries 8th July 1857. Margaret would later marry John Gilchrist.) He subsequently married 1836 Mrs Eliza Hansard (died Durran Hill, Carlisle 16th September 1851) - presumably a widow. The marriage was childless.

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for these data has been inherited notes. Important published sources include The Book of the Duffs by our Henrietta andAlistair Tayler, published 1914 by T & A Constable. Reference has also been madeto the Annals of Banff by William Cramond 1893

Over the years a large amount of work has been undertakenon the genealogy of the Dirom family by Doug Taylor who hasbeen generous both with encouragement and in sharing the results of hisresearches. The compilers are also grateful for information received from SarahVoller, from Dirom scions in Virginia, especially Chris Dirom, as well as from ReneAnderson, Karl Williams of the excellent Dumfriesand Galloway Family History Society , Susan Telford and from Dennis Nicklaus whose ownextensive genealogywebsite is well worth a visit. Residual mistakes remain the responsibilityof the compilersYork Police Detective Michael Mendez Sr., the lead investigating officer, said the girl knew the teens before the incident outside the York Fair, also known as "America's First Fair."

All three were members of the Central York High School football team and are charged as adults.

West York Police Chief Matt Millsaps said two of the teens were picked up without incident Tuesday. The third made arrangements to surrender to authorities at the York County courthouse on Tuesday.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the three had posted $25,000 bail each, but were waiting at York County Prison to speak with probation on the conditions of their supervised bail. The three were released on Wednesday night.

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it was a good question. He suggested talking with the superintendent.

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West York detective talks about investigation, arrests in rape outside York Fair West York police detective Michael Mendez, talks about the three teens charged with raping a 14-year-old girl they lured from the York Fair on Sept. 16.

The investigation

Minutes after midnight on Sept. 17, West Manchester Township Police were called to York Hospital for a report of a sexual assault, according to a search warrant filed by West York Police.

Once there, West Manchester Township Police spoke with the 14-year-old victim who said she was assaulted after leaving the fair, the warrant states. The attack occurredsometime between 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Sept. 16.

The victim "advised she was taken to unknown locations, where she was forced to perform oral sex on three males and then forced to have sexual intercourse with ... them."

The girl identified Miller and Mercedes by their first and last names and knew her third assailant only as "Daishon." West Manchester Township Police established Richardson as the third suspect and determined the assaults occurred in the borough of West York, the warrant states.

Mendez interviewed the victim on Sept. 22.

She told police she went to the York Fair to meet up with friends, according to an affidavit of probable cause. While they were walking around, the three suspects followed behind them.

She said the boys told her they wanted to show


her something and to follow them. They left the fairgrounds and eventually walked to a business parking lot across from an athletic field at a West York Area school. Mercedes allegedly put a gun to her head, told her to get on her knees and to perform a sex act.

She told investigators that she did what they told her to do because she was afraid she would be killed.

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She was forced to perform oral sex on all three suspects, the affidavit states.

They then walked to an unknown yard that had a "well," the victim told investigators. The suspects took turns holding her down andsexually assaulted her, the affidavit states.

Mendez said the "well" actually was a crumbling fire pit in a West York resident's back yard.

The victim said that after the second round of sexual assaults, she was thrown roughly into a maroon SUV or van and was driven back to the fairgrounds. Mendez said investigators did not know who owned the vehicle or who was driving.

Mendez said the girl then went home, told a relative what had happened and was taken to York Hospital for a forensic rape examination. Hospital staff contacted the police.

The victim told police the assault was photographed or videotaped. Mendez explained that the girl, while being assaulted, saw a light from a cellphone and thought one of the teens took a photo or a video.

Sometime later, the


girl said she received a text picture from Miller showing him holding the gun she said was used to threaten her.

She also said that Miller texted her telling her she was beautiful and that Richardson texted her telling her to stop lying, according to the affidavit.

Mendez said the teens' cell phones were confiscated and examined. No video or pictures were recovered.

If you've been a victim of sexual assault, you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.

Rick Lee, Anthony Machcinski, Geoffrey Morrow, and Ted Czech of the York Daily Record contributed to this report.President Trump announced his ninth wave of U.S. attorney nominations on Friday, tapping four individuals to serve as federal prosecutors in Nebraska, New Hampshire, Delaware and Oregon.

The president nominated Joseph Kelly, currently the district attorney for Lancaster County in Nebraska; Scott Murray, the district attorney for Merrimack County in New Hampshire; David Weiss, the acting U.S. attorney for Delaware; and Billy Williams, the court-appointed U.S. attorney for Oregon.

The latest slate of nominations comes weeks after Trump faced criticism for nominating a disproportionate number of male U.S. Attorneys (41) versus women (one).

"That is a striking gender gap for one of the most consequential law enforcement roles nationwide," Supreme Court biographer Joan Biskupic wrote in September.

White House officials have moved quickly to find candidates for vacant U.S. attorney slots across


A team of scientists from an American university say they have reinvented the bicycle wheel.

The Copenhagen Wheel is a hub containing motor and batteries which can be fitted to the rear wheel of almost any bike, providing a boost to the cyclist whenever needed, say developers.

It has been unveiled at the UN Climate Summit by the team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Commentary from the BBC's Martine Croxall.to be on offense. We need to be fighting for something, not just against.”

In his campaign launch video, Morse, Holyoke’s youngest and first openly gay mayor, discusses the city’s revitalization under his leadership, his parents’ struggles with poverty, and his pledge to take no corporate PAC money. Since his election in 2011, at the age of 22, Morse has implemented a needle exchange program to fight the opioid epidemic, become the first mayor in the state to endorse legalizing marijuana, and declared Holyoke a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants.

Neal, 70, who first assumed office in 1989, has long seemed ripe for a primary challenge. Progressives have pointed to his reticence to call for impeachment hearings, his prior support for the Hyde Amendment, and his relationship with lobbyists and


facing the same candidate again in Marie Newman.

Just last year, Massachusetts was home to a massive primary upset when Pressley defeated Rep. Mike Capuano (D-MA), who had served for 20 years in the 7th Congressional District, before being elected to the House.Despite promises made by Iran’s new President, Hassan Rowhani, that women’s civil rights will improve under his government, a city councilor has been barred from office for being “too sexy,” British daily The Times reported on Wednesday.

Nina Siakhali Moradi was prevented from taking up a post on the city council in Qazvin, the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, 100 miles north west of Tehran, after her election was overturned by religious conservatives.

Even with more than 10,000 votes in the June election, putting her 14th out of 163 candidates and winning her a council seat, the 27-year-old engineer and website designer had her political career cut short because she was deemed too attractive to take up the post.

“We don’t want a catwalk model on the council,” a senior


official in Qazvin told local press.

Moradi ran under the slogan “Young ideas for a young future,” pushing for better women’s rights in Qazvin, the restoration of the old city and greater youth involvement in town planning. She had been vetted and approved as a candidate by Iran’s judiciary and intelligence services. Her liberal views appeared popular with the electorate, The Times reported.

Moradi’s campaign posters showed her wearing strict hijab without a strand of hair on display. Despite this, conservative religious groups launched protests to demand her disqualification as soon as her election was confirmed.

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In a letter to the governor of Qazvin, a coalition of religious groups condemned the “vulgar and anti-religious” posters and said they breached Islamic law.

News website IranWire reported that there were other objections to her(CNN) South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's recent rise in the 2020 presidential race has featured a steady stream of attacks against Vice President Mike Pence, the former Indiana governor who had a working relationship with the mayor during his time as the head of the state.

Pence himself has not responded to the pointed attacks, but on Tuesday, second lady Karen Pence and the vice president's spokesperson pushed back on Buttigieg's critcisms.

"They've always had a great relationship," Karen Pence said on Fox News host Brian Kilmeade's radio show on Tuesday. "It's funny because I don't think the vice president does have a problem with him, but I think it's helping Pete to get some notoriety by saying that about the vice president."

The comment comes after Alyssa Farah, Pence's