that period global coverage is low – it averages 30% across that time – and many land-based temperatures are very likely to be excessively adjusted and therefore incorrect.

Why is it that a PhD student working from home can find mistakes that the British Met Office, a £226 million institute with 2,100 employees, could not. Significantly, the Met Office, in a statement, said they do not disagree with any of his claims.

Maybe, as President Dwight D. Eisenhower said in his farewell address:

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly becausecapacity only a fraction of the time, when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining. For example, a typical solar plant in the United States operates at only about 15 percent of full capacity and a wind plant only about 25 percent of full capacity, while a coal plant can operate 90 percent of full capacity on a year-round basis.

Third, the output of wind and solar plants is highly variable—year by year, month by month, day by day and hour by hour—compared to a coal-fired plant… Thus more than six solar plants and four wind plants are required to produce the same output with the same degree of reliability as a coal-fired plant of the same capacity.

The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is a not-for-profit organization


12 hours of storage for the entire U.S. (Link)

Dangerous:

Utility scale wind and solar installations require vast expanses of land that affect local habitats. Wind turbines chop up birds and bats, including endangered species. Solar installations burn up birds and other flying animals. Low frequency sound from wind turbines causes a variety of human ailments. The manufacturing and disposal of solar panels put dangerous chemicals into the environment. For example, many PV solar panels rely on polysilicon being manufactured in large quantities and at high quality. A byproduct of polysilicon production is silicon tetrachloride, a highly toxic substance that poses a major environmental hazard. Wherever silicon tetrachloride is dumped, the land becomes totally infertile. A major environmental cost of photovoltaic solar energy is toxic chemical pollution (arsenic, gallium, andby the UN General Assembly.

This report describes the absurdities, inefficiencies, double or even triple waste management structures and horrible consequences of the EU’s erratic green waste policy, its fact-free claim that its waste policy helps to implement the Paris climate agreement, and its dumping of 3 Mt of plastic in China each year, with horrific consequences for the marine environment and health.

The EU has now started to sideline – in the name of circular economy – the highly successful waste incineration policy implemented in seven EU member states – Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden – which all have major waste incineration capacity and now landfill less than 3% of their MSW.

The study notes the best thing to do is bury plastic in landfills or


and beast and some animals understood that they were to provide food for other animals, and for that, the animals and humans would give thanks to those they ate.

So it was on the first day. On that first day, there was the Sun to provide light and warmth and the whole world was beautiful. The first night was a different story. There was only darkness with no stars to punctuate the black sky. So on the second day, the Lord of Creation set out to do something about that. He collected certain bright flowers called Tundra Stars and put them in a big bag. On the second night, the Lord of Creation, using a long stick, carefully placed each Tundra Star in the sky. The Lord of Creationwas very meticulous and placed the stars in patterns like a bead design. This was hard work and before the night was over, the Lord of Creation fell asleep.

As the Lord of Creation slept, Coyote happened upon him. Now, Coyote was a curious beast, and although he was well fed from the fruits of the world, he was always looking for something else, and he saw the bag of Tundra Stars. Coyote sniffed around the bag, then took it and ran off. But as he was running he tripped and dropped the bag which opened and spilled its contents all around the night sky. This commotion awoke the Lord of Creation who saw what Coyote had done. The Lord of Creation chastised Coyote for scattering his stars and


of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Patagonia eyed silkmoth under the Endangered Species Act.”

In my opinion, while these enviros are gaming the system for money, their main purpose is to stop development of new mines in the Patagonia Mountains of Southern Arizona. These properties have the potential to become a major source of lead, zinc, and silver, and the only U.S. source of manganese.

The other major problem with the Endangered Species Act is that, through bureaucratic bungling and bad science, the ESA is particularly poor at recovering endangered species.

The Heritage Foundation has recently published an assessment of the Endangered Species Act entitled: Correcting Falsely “Recovered” and Wrongly Listed Species and Increasing Accountability and Transparency in the Endangered Species Program by RobertPart of the campaign:

Welcome to the AImerica Tournament, where American leaders old, new and unreleased battle it out on u/AlzaboHD's North America Duel Map. Ihn the group stages, the first two civilizations to be defeated are eliminated, and the top two advance to the quarter final, where they match with the top two from another group match.

In this duel, we have Reagan in California, Lincoln in Montana/Wyoming, Roosevelt in Maine, and Polk in Georgia.

Reagan settles Philadelphia, while Polk advances with Austin in Kentucky.

FDR settles Detroit between Wisconsin and Minnesota.

The frozen Canadian tundra finds itself a home for Lincoln with Albany.

Roosevelt completes the Temple of Artemis, and readies another settler.

Cleveland is founded as Polk and Reagan stock up on their military.

In true north/south fashion, Polk declares war on Lincoln!


Lincoln's war bonus may come in handy here, but his divided house is far short of troops.

Soon after, Reagan turns on his fellow republican and declares war.

Lincoln looks pretty much stuffed now, or at least his capital does.

New York falls to Reagan! No longer confined to the Sunshine coast, Reagan now has a real chance at taking on the rest of the continent.

Lincoln cuts his losses with Reagan and shelters in Albany. But, Roosevelt's legion's aren't far behind.

Roosevelt takes Albany! Lincoln is the first elimination in the game, and the first eliminated in the tournament.

Portland, far from any shores, is founded by Polk in his expansion westwards.

Roosevelt constructs another wonder, the Parthenon, and Ronnie founds Houston in Washington.

In a clash of parties and ideologies, Reagan takes the fightto Roosevelt.

In another blow, Polk declares war on Roosevelt. Franklin stands to lose Detroit and possibly his own capital if he doesn't manage to mobilise quickly.

Cleveland comes under heavy Reaganite seige, and so does Detroit.

Reagan decides Cleveland's more than he can chew and picks on Albany instead.

Albany falls, and Detroit comes into the red...

Detroit flips!

Detroit falls back to Polk and it look's like he's there to stay. Roosevelt may now be isolated to the north, but with a settler coming he's not out of the game just yet.

Indeed, as he settles Baltimore, while Cleveland falls under assault again.

Cleveland falls to Polk, cutting Reagan from attacking Roosevelt any further.

Founding St.Louis, FDR peaces with Reagan and tries to protect against Polk.

While Polk is distracted with the Chicago Front, Reagan stabs


him in the back with a declaration of war.

Portland falls to the yellow, while Cleveland loses all health.

As soon as it started, the war between Reagan and Polk ends. This is bad news for Roosevelt, who had been doing a decent job of defending his capital.

Polk and Reagan complete more wonders, and Reagan founds Catholicism in Los Angeles.

Polk founds Sacramento in central Mexico, while Reagan somehow founds Dallas in Cuba.

Polk begins to break down FDR's last line of defence...

...and like that, Chicago falls to Polk's America, exiling the New Dealers to the edge of the map.

While Polk is busy with picking off Roosevelt, Reagan wages war with him again!

Baltimore falls, and Cleveland comes under attack...

...and Cleveland falls to Reagan.

Reagan gains Portland, but it doesn't look like Polk willlose the rest of his gains any time soon. Meanwhile, Roosevelt becomes the second elimination of the game and the tournament.

20 turns later, they decide to make amends after a fruitless war, leaving Reagan and Polk as the two winners of this game.

With that it's time to end; thanks for watching and reading this part of AImerica Tournament!


an extremely weak government would have led to further great crises potentially leading to the destruction of the young nation. The Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, were advocating for the importance of a strong central government around the turn of the century.

Many including Hamilton understood the struggles they faced in wartime a few decades prior. The possibility of eventual failure in anyway led federalists to this previous conclusion. The former ruling document, The Articles of Confederation, and its corrupt often-conflicting policies concerning economic structure of the country prompted Hamilton to turn to loose construction relating to the constitution. Through this new policy of loose construction and by using their own interpretations of 9th amendment regarding the control of banks, Hamilton and the Federalist fashioned a National Bank ofgay-friendly travel destinations 5. Sitges, Spain Getty Lonely Planet's top 10 gay-friendly travel destinations 6. Berlin, Germany Lonely Planet's top 10 gay-friendly travel destinations 7. Mykonos, Greece Mykonos This little Aegean island became famous in the 1960s for the tolerance and vibrant nightlife it offered to gay men and women. Despite competition from party islands such as Ibiza, it still attracts hordes of gay tourists who enjoy the queer camaraderie of its clubs and beaches. The island is named after Mykons, the grandson of Apollo, and the nearby island of Delos, birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, is one of its main attractions. Homosexuality was legalised in Greece in 1951 and male prostitution became legal in 2006. But the fact that the roots of homosexual history are usually traced


back to ancient Greece is surely part of what draws gay people to Mykonos. Lonely Planet's top 10 gay-friendly travel destinations 8. New York City, US Nikada/Getty Images Lonely Planet's top 10 gay-friendly travel destinations 9. Reykjavik, Iceland Lonely Planet's top 10 gay-friendly travel destinations 10. Montevideo, Uruguay

Many influential US religious groups regard being attracted to people of the same sex as undesirable and campaign against equal marriage rights.

Fifteen states in the county have explicit bans on same-sex marriage as a result of political support for such groups.

A similar advert on buses in London was banned by the Mayor in 2012 after it was branded "sad".New View of Vesta Mountain From NASA's Dawn Mission

A new image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a mountain almost three times as high as Mt. Everest, amidst the topography in the south polar region of the giant asteroid Vesta.

The peak of Vesta's south pole mountain, seen in the center of the image, rises about 13 miles (22 kilometers) above the average height of the surrounding terrain. Another impressive structure is a large scarp, a cliff with a steep slope, on the right side of this image. The scarp bounds part of the south polar depression, and the Dawn team's scientists believe features around its base are probably the result of landslides.

The image is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/multimedia/pia14869.html . It was created from a shape model of Vesta, and shows


an oblique perspective view of the topography of the south polar region. The image resolution is about 300 meters per pixel, and the vertical scale is 1.5 times that of the horizontal scale.

Dawn entered orbit around Vesta in July. Members of the mission team will discuss what the spacecraft has seen so far during a news conference at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Minneapolis. Among other things, they'll share their hypotheses on the origins of Vesta's curious craters.

The meeting, at the Minneapolis Convention Center, runs from Oct. 9 to 12, with the Dawn news conference scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 10 a.m. PDT (noon CDT).

The event will air live on the Geological Society of America webcast page at: http://hosted.mediasite.com/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=e8adbee5a37e455fbe199b29129e3b7c1d . Media representativesnot able to attend the meeting may participate by registering at: http://rock.geosociety.org/forms/11_pressConf.asp . More information about the webcast is at: http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/11-63.htm .

The event will also be carried live, with a moderated chat, at: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 .

The news conference panelists are:

Carol Raymond, Dawn deputy principal investigator, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Paul Schenk, Dawn participating scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston

Debra Buczkowski, Dawn participating scientist, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Md.

Federico Tosi, Dawn Visible and Infrared Spectrometer team member, Italian Space Agency, Rome

Following a year at Vesta, the spacecraft will depart in July 2012 for Ceres, where it will arrive in 2015. Dawn's mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL is a division


of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Va., designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team.

More information about the Dawn mission is at: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov . To follow the mission on Twitter, visit: http://www.twitter.com/NASA_Dawn .

Priscilla Vega

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

818-354-1357

Priscilla.r.vega@jpl.nasa.gov

2011-317home in Hollywood and threatening to slit her throat. Hoskins had told the singer's bodyguard that she was meant to be his wife and that if could not have her, he would kill her. After he was released from prison, he was arrested again in July of last year and was sent to another mental health facility in Norwalk, California.


research into the diet by reading Dr. Esselstyn's Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease book and also the China Study. Dennis is now a strong plant based advocate and has seen some amazing success in his own life. Read his success story on his blog.

Today we drove to Lancaster so Cari could participate in a dog fair thingy. On our way home, the standard question came up, "What's for dinner?" Neither Cari or I had a clue so I told her I would "wing it" and make some kind of black bean soup. So I looked through the fridge and cupboards and came up with the recipe below. Because of the diced tomato with fire roasted peppers it has somewhat of a southwest flair. For the corn, I usedwho developed drug-induced SS after systemic treatment with oral isotretinoin (13-cis-retinoic acid) for nodulocystic acne and emphasize the importance of evaluating isotretinoin as a possible, though uncommon, cause of SS.

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A 19-year-old girl presented to the rheumatology clinic because of malaise, polyarthralgia, and weight loss (5 kg), which she experienced during six months before presentation to the clinic. She did not have any fever during presentation to the clinic. During two weeks before presentation to the clinic, she developed very painful and tender skin lesions on her legs and in the suprapubic area. Her medical history was insignificant. She had no history of inflammatory bowel disease or rheumatological disease. She did not have symptoms indicative of contact dermatitis or any history of drug intake, except for the use


annoyance as she felt a paw poke her the side. She could hear voices that were begging for her to open her eyes so they could go outside and play. Another voice followed slowly after, telling them to be quiet and that she'd open her eyes once she was ready.

A few heartbeats later, the kitten's eyes slowly opened. She let out a small squeak and shut them again tightly due to the brightness that nearly blinded her. Swallowflight leaned down and gave her and comforting lick on the head, telling her that it was alright. Slowly, the kit opened her eyes once more allowing them to adjust to the light. She saw a crowd of cats around her there were staring at her. Her pelt felt hot undertheir gazes as she looking around at them.

Why were they just staring at her? Was there something wrong with her? She noticed that one side was completely dark and she turned her head to see better out of her one eye. Why couldn't she see out of her other?

She turned her gaze to her mother, only to freeze up. Her kit-fur puffed out and she flinched back away from Swallowflight, who was looking down at her in concern.

“Bluekit? What's the matter?”

"I-I..." The words died in her throat before she could finish her sentence.

Concerned by all the ruckus a slightly older gray kit had briefly popped his head inside the nursery--distracted from his play--glancing from side to side at the older she-cats who stood around the blue kitten. He


and twitched her ears at the sound of murmuring voices that resonated from within, if what Echokit had said was true then she assumed it would be better that she herself go to get the medicine cat rather than have her son wander around camp; he was quite adventurous and no doubt would have no trouble at all getting there without being distracted, but she had always feared that his small adventures within camp would get him in trouble one day. Skymist rose to her paws, stepping in front of her son before he could go any further.

"You go back and play, I'll handle this," she mewed reassuringly, gently nudging the curious kit back toward the nursery before heading to the medicine den. "Brightfall? You're needed in thenursery..." she called out softly so as not to startle him if he was in the middle of something important at the moment.

The reddish-brown tom raised his head at the sound of his name. The medicine cat rose to his paws as he padded over to Skymist, casting a glance at Pinefrost as he did. "Keep sorting the herbs Pinefrost," he told his apprentice, before he turned his gaze back to the queen. The healer would have been lying if he said he wasn't a tad bit concerned. Was one of the kits alright? What about one of the queens? What of Snowsong? He knew the white-and-gray she-cat was close to kitting, but he didn't think the kits would be coming this soon. They weren't due until another


moon or two at the least. "What's going on in the nursery, Skymist? Do you know?"

"From what I've heard something seems to be wrong with Bluekit," she paused for a moment and looked over her shoulder at the nursery where her son still sat outside waiting for her and Brightfall, "Echokit mainly heard everything, he became curious and decided to listen in on the commotion." Skymist admitted, slightly embarrassed that a kit knew more than her about something as serious as this, yet more worried that the young tom could have misinterpreted the situation. Nothing seemed wrong when they had stepped outside the nursery, the only issue that had appeared was Bluekit being a little late opening her eyes.

With a flick of her tail the gray she-cat turnedaround, leading Brightfall straight to the nursery where Echokit's intrigued gaze followed him closely as they passed. "Will she be okay?" he asked Skymist as he gave pursuit and took a seat by her side inside. She looked down at him with a calm expression, hoping it would ease any troubles in his mind, "yes she'll be fine."

Confusion clouded Brightfall's face at Skymist's words. Something was wrong with Bluekit? What could have possibly shown up? The blue-gray she-kit had been born normally with no problems as far as he or Pinefrost knew. The only thing that had been off with her that she was a bit late in opening her eyes. The medicine cat followed the queen to the nursery, flicking his tail at Echokit in greeting as


he passed by the kit. His ear twitched as he picked up on the tom's question and he purred lightly.

"She'll be fine, Echokit," the reddish-brown tom reassured him as well. "No need to worry." He turned his gaze to Bluekit, bending down to look more closely at the kitten. "Can you tell me what's the matter?"

Her blue-gray fur was ruffled up as she took a small step back from the medicine cat. "Who are you?" Her tiny voice squeaked as she spoke.

Bluekit shifted slightly on her paws, ears folding back against her skull. "I... I can't see," she admitted softly. "Out of one eye."

"Can you tell me which eye?"

She pointed up at her blue eye and Brightfall frowned. His tail twitched as he sat back. "Have you doneanything to poke it?"

She shook her head. "No. I just opened them and couldn't see out of it."

"It's possible you could be blind in that eye, Bluekit." At the she-kit's fearful look, he placed his tail on her small shoulder to calm her down. "It's nothing serious. There are warriors who are often wounded like this in battle and loose the sight in one of their eyes. Is there anything else?"

Bluekit swallowed as she moved closer to the medicine cat. "W-Why is there a shadow?"

Brightfall blinked. "A shadow?"

She pointed a paw at where her mother sat. "There's a shadow right there."

Having listened to the conversation Skymist and Echokit turned their heads toward Swallowflight, just as before they felt more confused than anything. They didn't see a shadow, just


her mother sitting there. Maybe she can only see the shadow of her mother being cast? the gray she-cat speculated, but it didn't make very much sense to her; even though Bluekit was blind, it was only in one eye and surely she would be able to see something when staring directly at it.

Echokit hesitantly stood up and slightly padded over to Swallowflight to inspect her closely to see if there was anything the matter with her appearance, while he didn't see anything wrong with her he was still wary from what Bluekit had claimed to see; without saying anything he retreated quickly back to his mother's side.

Brightfall twitched his tail as he looked over at Swallowflight. He didn't see a shadow at all, just her mother sittingthere, looking rather confused and stunned. It was never good news when a cat found out something was wrong with their kits, but Bluekit would still make a fine warrior, even with being blind in one eye. His whiskers twitched as he watched Echokit stand up and pad over to the queen to see if he could see anything that the younger kit saw, before he quickly returned to Skymist's side.

"There's nothing there but your mother, Bluekit. Can you tell me what you see when you look at her?"

"I see a shadow where she is. It's black and big and..."

"And you're not making this up? This isn't some kit-game, is it?"

"No!" There was clear fear in the kitten's voice as she spoke to the medicine cat. "It's real!


Honest!"

"Swallowflight, could you step out of the den for a moment?" Brightfall questioned, looking over at the she-cat, who's fur was bristling in surprise. "I'd like to test something out."

Without a word, the queen stood up and made her way out of the nursery, mindful of Echokit and Skymist as she walked past them. Once she was outside, the reddish-brown tom looked back at Bluekit.

"Do you still see the shadow?"

She looked around the den, seeing the remaining cats that looked at her in concern. The she-kit shook her head. "No... The shadow's gone now," she answered. "I watched the shadow leave when you told Swallowflight to go too."

Could it just be her mother? Brightfall wondered. He had never heard of anything like before. "Do any of us looktoo?" Bluekit's mismatched eyes lit up in joy at the thought of becoming an apprentice soon with her new friend. "Yeah, that sounds like fun! C'mon!"

Without waiting for a reply, the smaller kit raced out of the nursey with a playful purr ringing from her throat. She kept her eyes away from Swallowflight as he mother made her way back inside the den once Brightfall called her back inside. She felt a stab of pity for acting that way to her mother, but she didn't want to look at the shadow cat.

"Are you sure? We don't know what this is..." her words trailed off as Swallowflight made her way back into the nursery, she felt bad for worrying about Bluekit being a potential threat to her own kit


and didn't want her mother to hear her in case it would upset her.

Purring in amusement Echomist raced after her quickly, he skidded to a halt in front of Bluekit and puffed out his chest. "You shall be an apprentice," he began to mimic the roll of a clan leader, "Bluekit, you will hereby be known as Bluepaw and I will be your mentor." The young tom declared proudly, his false maturity soon fading as he bounced lightly around Bluekit cheering her soon-to-be apprentice name. He stopped for a moment and sighed wistfully, "it would be nice if you and I really did become apprentices at the same time. We could train together all the time."

"I know," Brightfall muttered to her as Swallowflight make her way back in.beamed at him, clearly missing the joke her friend told her. She bounced lightly on her paws with a cheerful grin on her face as she hopped around the larger tom like a frog. "Yeah!" she agreed. "That would be really great!"

In turn the gray she-cat frowned at her words, even if Bluekit was different she was still her kit and she figured that she would be more accepting something that couldn't be changed so easily. "She needs you to survive though, what's she gonna do if you decide to reject her. She could end up like Tigerpaw," Skymist's voice grew firm, she might be concerned about the young kit being a threat but this was completely unfair for her.

"She'll change with time, so why are you just


that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with her."

Swallowflight drew her lips back to show her teeth. "Yes, it does," she hissed. Before anything else could be said, she turned and padded out of the nursery.

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The blue-gray she-kit purred. "I hope Willowstar will say yes! She's got to, right? She wouldn't separate us like that." She didn't know if that was true or not, but she hoped it was. Bluekit's ear twitched as she heard pawsteps coming out of the den behind them. She glanced over to see her mother storm out of the den without even so much as looking at the two kits as she went passed them. What had gotten her so angry? Was it something to do with her?

Skymist's fur bristled at the queen's harshflicked his tail in frustration. He watched Swallowflight storm out of the den and shook his head. She just needed time to calm down, was what he told himself. Hearing that there was something wrong with her kit was going to make her angry, and Brightfall prayed to StarClan she didn't mean what she had said. If she didn't take care of Bluekit, then she was going to die.

The reddish-brown tom sighed, sitting back on the ground. Snowsong had sat up, having witnessed all of what had just happened. It was clear the white she-cat wasn't pleased about choice as well. If her narrowed eyes as she watched the black-and-white she-cat leave and bristling fur was any more of a clear sign.

"Swallowflight just needs time. This is hard


on her, hearing that there's something wrong with her kit. If she is serious, you or Snowsong will have to take care of her," he replied, looking at the remaining queens in the nursery. "If you don't, she's not going to survive."

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Bluekit folded her ears back as she watched the shadowy form of her mother trudge off out of FernClan's camp. She didn't know why the darkened cat was so upset. Was it because of her? Had she done something wrong? The smaller kit gazed after the shadowy form of the cat she called mother, she felt as though claws were digging into her pelt with sadness. She had a sinking feeling Swallowfight was mad because of her.

She sighed heavily at the tom's words; it would be ato disturb the she-cat at this point in time, if something was indeed wrong he didn't want to put any pressure on her by asking her a bunch of questions because he was nosey. Echokit turned around quickly wanting to go back to playing with his newfound friend, sadly his heart sank from looking at the sad expression on her face.

"Bluekit? Are you okay?" he asked, moving closer to her in case she needed comfort.

Snowsong dipped her head to Skymist as she looked down at her swollen belly. It wouldn't be long before her kits would be due. Brightfall had guessed she'd have at two maybe three kits. Given how often they kicked inside of her, there was no surprise in the white she-cat's mind that was more


Brightfall piped in after the she-cat had finished. "But the choice is up to you, Skymist."

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The smaller kit was snapped out of her thoughts when Echokit spoke. She blinked a few times as she looked up at him as he made his way over to her. She could tell by the look on the tom-kit's face that he was worried about her. She found herself pressing up against the elder kitten, happy for his company. Her ears still were flat against her skull and her tail hung low to the ground.

"Why does the shadow cat hate me?" Bluekit whispered, her green and blue eyes looking up at her friend with sadness and confusion clouding them, making them almost dull compared to their normal sparkling emerald and sapphire. "DidI do something to make it mad?"

"That's fine with me, I'll take care of them until Snowsong's kits are born and then she can take over," she said feeling relieved that the pregnant she-cat felt like she would be able to handle her kits as well as her soon to be adopted one. Part of her couldn't help but wonder how Swallowflight would react to this, but she had the creeping feeling that she had already decided she wanted nothing to do with her daughter.

Snapping out of her thoughts Skymist looked over to Brightfall, "when should we let Bluekit know?"

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"I..." he thought for a moment, staring down at the small kit; her giving him that look made his heart ache and he desperately wished he could give her


for that long. He was one of the first cats to be nice to her and to care. He was nice and caring. A true friend in her eye.

A small purr rose in her throat as she nuzzled her new friend, deciding to go with what he had said. Swallowflight was most likely upset with what some cat had told her and it was nothing to do with her. She felt a little better by the news and perked back up more to how she acted a few moments ago.

"Okay," Bluekit squeaked out, looking up at her friend with a smile. "What should we do now, Echokit?"

Echokit thought for a moment, they had already played enough and he wanted to take her mind off of the way shediscrimination, with interest thereon, and she requested a permanent injunction requiring the defendant to establish, utilize, and to make known to its employees, objective, job-related and non-discriminatory job qualifications for assignments. She also asked for costs and attorney's fees, as well as other appropriate relief. The defendant moved for summary judgment on June 3, 1985, furnishing the affidavit of Phyllis Patterson, Assistant Director of Human Resources of the North Charles General Hospital. As exhibits to the Patterson affidavit, copies of the Hospital's leave policies were attached. Furthermore, the defendant relied upon the plaintiff's answers to interrogatories. The plaintiff responded to the defendant's motion without any affidavit or other supporting material, arguing only that there were facts in dispute under the complaint tending to show prohibited sex discrimination. The


(CNN) -- Roasted. Burned. Cooked.

Pick your favorite cooking pun to describe the treatment Cooks Source, a heretofore little-known food magazine, is getting after reports it lifted a blogger's article and then gave a peevish response when she complained.

It was hard Friday to find a corner of the internet where talk about Monica Gaudio and her run-in with the magazine's editor wasn't cropping up.

On Wednesday, Gaudio wrote about her discovery on her blog.

She said she learned about it when a friend congratulated her for being published on the site. Gaudio responded that she had never heard of it and that the article in question -- which detailed medieval pie recipes -- had been written for her own site.

She hunted Cooks Source down and proposed a solution: Donate $130, thewas the medieval-style English used in the recipes. She wrote that Griggs went on to tell her the article is now fit to be used in her portfolio and said, perhaps joking, that because the magazine "put some time into rewrites, you should compensate me!"

That's where the internet jumped in. A friend and fellow blogger first wrote about the incident.

The story spread further after such influential Twitter users as fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and science-fiction/geek icon Wil Wheaton (combined, the two have a Twitter audience of 3.2 million) shared it with their followers.

"PROPOSAL: Mendacity will now be measured on the Cook's Source scale, with individual units known as Cheneys," Wheaton wrote Thursday.

The story was "voted up" to the main page of popular news-sharing site Reddit. Another blogger weighed


in under the headline, "World's Dumbest Editor Incurs The Wrath Of The Internet."

At mid-morning Friday, "Cook's Source" remained one of the most-search topics on Google's "Trends" list.

As with virtually every internet phenomenon, Facebook users were chiming in, too.

Cooks Source's Facebook page, which had about 3,300 users who "Like" it as of Friday, was covered in story-stealing jokes and insults.

"Cooks Source got roasted toasted and burnt to a crisp," one user wrote on the page's wall.

"8. Thou Shalt Not Steal - Judith Griggs (there would have been 15 commandments, but Cooks Source took them)," wrote another.

A quick-developing meme in the comments saw users blaming Cooks Source for everything from the death of Laura Palmer on "Twin Peaks" to the Kennedy assassination to the inability to get an iPhone onany U.S. network other than AT&T.

At least several fake Cooks Source pages had also cropped up to mock the magazine.

On Friday, the magazine appeared to have created a new Facebook page.

"A new page as the previous one was hacked," read the "Info" section for "Cooks Source Mag."

A post cryptically said, "The previous regime has been removed," but did not reference Griggs directly.

Later posts seemed to echo Griggs' arguments as quoted by Gaudio.

"There's lots of people here that do not seem to understand a few basics yet they seem to all be experts in the print business," read one.

Read a later post: "For those that have asked POLITELY, no we will not be stopping the magazine, and yes we will be taking further action against anyone caught hacking."

Online foodies


were all over the story.

A photo on Food Network star and Southern-cooking champion Paula Deen's Facebook page showed what the poster said was one of Deen's recipes used on the site.

"Thank you, this has been forwarded to our legal department," replied Deen or, perhaps more likely, a staffer running the account. Deen was one of several high-profile cooks whose articles appear to have been used on the magazine's site.

It wasn't the only place that online foodies were sounding off.

Some in the culinary community, while not exactly defending Cooks Source, sounded off about the ensuing Web pile-on.

"Not saying the Cook's Source editor isn't cretinous, but it's creepy when we get all lynch-mobby over stupid people with limited influence," Michele Humes, a New York food writer, said on her TwitterIn order to understand what the Fifth Worlder or Indigo race is, we need to understand first what race is, the origins of the concept, and what it means today.

Race serves to group members of a species that have, for a period of time, become geographically or genetically isolated from other members of that species, and as a result have diverged genetically and developed certain shared characteristics that differentiate them from the others.

The practice of dividing humans into races emerged during the Enlightenment as a way of justifying the slavery and oppression forced by European nationals on non-European nationals, a justification which was otherwise impossible from a purely humane standpoint.

In the United States in the 19th century African-Americans, Native Americans, and European-Americans were each classified as different races.


But the criteria for membership in these races were radically different. The government considered anyone with "one drop" of Black blood to be Black. In contrast, Indians were defined by a certain percentage of "Indian blood". And to be White one had to have "pure" White ancestry. These differing criteria for membership in particular races had little to do with biology, and much to do with political relations between Blacks and Indians on the one hand, and Whites on the other.

By these criteria it was very easy for a child to be categorized as Black. This in all likelihood reflects the requirements of the slave economy of the US South, for the vast majority of slaves were classified as Black. Even the child of an enslaved African womanand a White master was considered Black, or "of African descent." More importantly, such a child would be a slave.

In comparison, it was harder for a child to be classified as Indian. After a few generations of interracial marriages, a child might not be considered Indian at all. This in all likelihood reflects the requirements of the US economy during the period of westward expansion, although the greater outward similarity of "Whites" and "Indians" surely played a part in this different treatment. Indians had treaty rights to land, but if an individual with one Indian great-grandparent was no longer classified as Indian, they would lose special rights to land.

In the early to the middle 20th century many scientists began questioning previously accepted causal relationships between biological and cultural


attributes. Some scientists even began questioning the taxonomic validity of race attribution. In the decades immediately after the Second World War, some came to reject the concept of race as a biological fact altogether, at least as it applies to humans.

While many social scientists today view race as a social construct, a growing number of biologists believe that the tendency to view races as a social construct, and not as biologically significant, is incorrect, and influenced not by science, but by racial politics and political correctness. Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele, in Race: The Reality of Human Differences, note that "racial differences in humans exceed the differences that separate subspecies or even species in such other primates as gorillas and chimpanzees," and hold that "race is a biologicallywere also able to identify subgroups within each member's self-reported ethnicity.

These populations correspond roughly with Blumenbach's 19th-century classification of race into Ethiopian (Black), Caucasian (White), Mongolian (Yellow), Malayan (Brown), and American (Red) races.

The Fifthworlder (Indigo) or sixth root race was discovered by husband and wife team Lee Carroll and Jan Tober, and first popularized by the book, The Indigo Children. Carroll also claims to be a channeler for "Kryon," a spiritual entity who predicted the coming of the Indigo Children.

The authors say that "the Indigo Child is a boy or girl who displays a new and unusual set of psychological attributes, revealing a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before." They advise parents to avoid medication on these children, often misdiagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Carroll and Tobers' views


has been classified into two groups: DEP migration and DEP retention. DEP migration uses DEP forces that exert opposite signs of force on different particle types to attract some of the particles and repel others. DEP retention uses the balance between DEP and fluid-flow forces. Particles experiencing repulsive and weak attractive DEP forces are eluted by fluid flow, whereas particles experiencing strong attractive DEP forces are trapped at electrode edges against flow drag.

Dielectrophoresis field-flow fractionation (DEP-FFF), introduced by Davis and Giddings, is a family of chromatographic-like separation methods. In DEP-FFF, DEP forces are combined with drag flow to fractionate a sample of different types of particles. Particles are injected into a carrier flow that passes through the separation chamber, with an external separating force (a DEP force) beingPredicting baccalaureate nursing students' first-semester outcomes: HESI Admission Assessment.
As a means of promoting evidence-based admission selection decisions in a baccalaureate school of nursing, the faculty at a college of nursing in the southeastern part of the United States investigated the value of including preadmission exam scores as one criterion in the admission protocol. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of Elsevier's HESI Admission Assessment (A(2)) exam as a predictor of student success. Four A(2) exams were administered to baccalaureate nursing students: reading comprehension, vocabulary & general knowledge, math, and anatomy & physiology. The mean of reading comprehension scores and vocabulary & general knowledge scores constituted the students' English scores, and the mean of all 4 exam scores constituted the students' A(2) composite scores. A(2)


In a bronze dress, decorated with a combination leopard print and sequins, Elizabeth looked every inch the glamorous guest. As did her cricketer fiancé, Shane Warne, 43, who arrived at the ball in a dapper black dinner jacket.

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American Beauty star Kevin Spacey hosted the event, which was held at Battersea Power Station. The 53-year-old actor entertained his audience first by donning an oversized pair of blue heart-shaped sunglasses and then with imperssions of former Presient Bill Clinton and actor Morgan Freeman. Kevin joked "the only problem with Morgan Freeman hosting this event is that it would roll on for three hours as everything he says is like poetry. He could read the instructions of a flat pack and make it sound like poetry."

Chatshow host Graham Norton and his partner Trevor Patterson showed off their mutual fashion sense as they arrived, with Irish-born Graham wearing a black beaded jacket and Trevor sporting a bright floral bow tie and had a paisley handkerchief tucked in his breast pocket.

Musician of the moment, Emeli Sande, who won three MOBO awards last Sunday, was also spotted enjoying a bright blue cocktail at the annual bash. Whilst heiress and socialite Tamara Ecclestone, singer Eliza Doolittle and JLS star Aston Merrygold were also on the guest list.

Upon her arrival Tamara, who is the daughter of Formula 1 tycoon Bernie Ecclestone, turned heads in a striking, white, floor-length gown. And she attracted more attention during the evening's auction when she purchased an exclusive piece of Karun Kirac jewellery


D.C. United has released Sheanon Williams, John Requejo Jr., and draft picks Afonso Pinheiro and Rafael Andrade Santos from preseason camp. With the team back in D.C. for the next few days, the first round of cuts included the former Vancouver Whitecaps and Philadelphia Union defender Williams, as well as Requejo, a former Club Tijuana left back.

The chances of Pinheiro and Santos making the squad were long to begin with. Both players were taken in the 4th round of last month’s MLS SuperDraft, and players in that position rarely ever make a roster these days.

Williams was the most notable cut of the group, with significant MLS experience dovetailing with United needing to add to their depth at fullback. Given the recent acquisition of Oniel Fisher, who like Williamstakes up a senior roster spot for a considerably lower price point, the writing may have been on the wall for the 27 year old once United traded for the Jamaica international.

This also significantly boosts the chances that Chris Odoi-Atsem will be part of the 2018 squad. The 2017 SuperDraft pick and 2018 non-roster invitee’s known skillset, his familiarity with the returning corps, and his likely supplemental (ie, non-budget) roster status, should make for another young face on the squad. Rob Vincent remains in camp as well, though with United’s long list of midfield acquisitions, his chances of securing a spot on the roster appear remote.

United returns to Florida tomorrow for camp to restart Wednesday, where they will play the Philadelphia Union on Saturday, followed by a midweek


game with the Jacksonville Armada next Wednesday. A trip west for a game against USL expansion side Las Vegas Lights FC on February 24 rounds out the preseason schedule. The Black-and-Red currently have 22 players on the roster, with Yamil Asad expected to be announced shortly (the 23 year old is currently in D.C. with the club).statute, interference with contractual relations, unfair competition, breach of fiduciary duty and fraudulent conversion. All causes of action included the following allegations: Plaintiff RBH Southern California conducts business as a commercial insurance *5 broker in California. Defendant A & A Services, a Maryland corporation, is the sole shareholder of defendant Alexander & Alexander, Inc. (A & A Inc.), a Maryland corporation, which, in turn, is the sole shareholder of defendant Alexander & Alexander of California, Inc. (A & A California), a California corporation. A & A California carries on a business in California similar to that of plaintiff RBH Southern California. Defendant John Bogardus, a resident of New York, is the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of A & A Services. In 1976


plaintiffs entered into a contract with defendant Donald Huff whereby Huff agreed to sell his insurance business, including its goodwill, to plaintiffs. In connection with this contract Huff agreed that within specified areas of California he would not carry on a business similar to the business sold so long as plaintiffs carried on a like business in those areas. Following execution of the purchase and sale contract and Huff's covenant not to compete, Huff commenced employment with plaintiff RBH Southern California and became its president and a member of its board of directors. In 1984, unknown to plaintiffs, defendants A & A Services, A & A Inc. and A & A California (A & A defendants) agreed to aid Huff in breaching his covenant not to compete withplaintiffs. Pursuant to such agreement, in February 1985 Huff terminated his employment with plaintiffs, became an employee of defendant A & A California, and diverted from plaintiffs for the benefit of the A & A defendants certain of the insurance contracts which he had sold to plaintiffs. Defendant John Bogardus had actual or constructive notice of Huff's wrongdoing, including breach of covenant not to compete, but did nothing to put an end to such wrongdoing.
A & A Services and John Bogardus, together with other defendants, moved to quash service of summons upon them on the ground the court lacked personal jurisdiction over them. The motion was granted and plaintiffs thereafter filed an amended complaint which did not name as defendants A & A Services, Bogardus and the other


& A Services is basically in the business of providing corporate management, tax and business planning, executive guidance, administrative support and internal auditing for the various subsidiary corporations in which it has stock interests. Shortly after April 5, 1985, Bogardus received a letter from John Pratt, chairman of the board of plaintiffs. That letter set forth Mr. Pratt's view of the employment of Donald Huff by A & A California and the alleged breach of Huff's noncompetition agreement with plaintiffs. Before he received Pratt's letter Bogardus never had heard of Huff nor had he ever seen Huff's covenant not to compete with plaintiffs. Prior to the time Huff was employed by A & A California Bogardus did not participate in any meeting involving the alleged breach of ahis office is in New York. He holds no position with A & A California. He does not maintain a residence or office in California. He owns no real property in California and does not maintain a bank account there. While he attended meetings of A & A California and personally solicited business for that corporation, he does not regularly travel to California on either business or personal matters; over a period of 10 years he has been in California less than twice a year on the average. In Cornelison v. Chaney, supra, 16 Cal.3d 143, the defendant, an interstate trucker, had made 20 trips a year into California over a period of 7 years to deliver and obtain goods, had an independent contractor relationship with a local


and direct sales activities and public relations; formulate uniform business procedures; execute all contracts; and keep and maintain books of account and other records. While each of the defendants maintained an office in the state of its incorporation, the offices were operated under standard procedures developed by National's chief executive officer; the local managers were vested with limited authority and discharged none of the functions customarily assigned to corporate officers. In reversing an order of dismissal made on the ground defendants were not subject to suit in Georgia, the court stated: "[I]t is apparent that the corporate and business activities of each of the defendants ... are centered in the offices of National in Atlanta. These business activities are managed, directed and completely controlled by National under theadministration of its officers. The defendants are not separate corporate entities but integrated subsidiaries of National. The appearance of corporate autonomy is clearly superficial." (Frazier, III, supra, 349 F.2d at p. 460.)
In Mathes v. National Utility Helicopters Ltd., supra, 68 Cal. App.3d 182, the plaintiff sued various corporations based on a helicopter crash in Indonesia. The defendants included National Utility Helicopters Ltd. (NUH), an Indonesian corporation, and its parent Utility Helicopters, Inc. (Utility), a California corporation; Utility, in turn, was a wholly owned subsidiary of defendant Cordon International Corporation (Cordon), a Delaware corporation with headquarters in California. Officers and employees of Cordon exercised direct control over NUH's annual sales plan and budget; two members of NUH's board of directors were officers and directors of Cordon and Utility and


The Egyptian proposal, initially accepted by Israel, had been the first attempt to end the fighting.

In Gaza, 194 people were killed and more than 1,400 wounded so far, Palestinian health officials said, making it the deadliest confrontation between Israel and Hamas in just over five years.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel resumed its heavy bombardment of Gaza on Tuesday and warned that Hamas ‘‘would pay the price’’ after the Islamic militant group rejected an Egyptian truce plan and instead unleashed more rocket barrages at the Jewish state, causing the first Israeli death in eight days of fighting.

It unraveled in less than a day, a sign that it will be harder than before to reach a truce. Hamas does not consider Egypt’s current rulers — who deposed adeal with Israel on Palestinian statehood.

The Palestinian Authority’s health minister, Jawad Awwad, who had traveled to Gaza to deliver medicine to the territory’s largest hospital, was chased off by stone throwers. Hamas officials later apologized to him.

In Israel, there was also domestic political fallout.

Netanyahu is under a lot of pressure from hawks in his Cabinet and the ruling Likud Party to launch a ground offensive to put an end to the rocket fire. He faced blistering criticism from the right over initially agreeing to the Egyptian truce plan.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called a news conference in which he said Israel should not hesitate and ‘‘go all the way.’’ He said the operation should conclude with the Israeli military controlling all of the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu, meanwhile, fired Deputy Defense


Minister Danny Danon, one of his fiercest critics who didn’t tone down his rhetoric during the offensive. Netanyahu said that by attacking the government at a time of war, Danon played into the hands of Hamas.

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Heller reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Ian Deitch in Jerusalem, Ibrahim Barzak in Gaza City, Mohammed Daraghmeh in Ramallah, West Bank and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.Team Stats

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WALTHAM, Mass. – Junior Lee Russo (Westford, Mass./Westford Acad.) scored two goals off headers, one early and one late, to lead the top-seeded Brandeis University men's soccer team past eighth-seeded Southern Vermont College, 2-0, in the quarterfinals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III New England championship tournament. With the win, the Judges improve to 13-5-1 and move on to host the semifinals and finals, while SVC's finest season comes to a close with a 12-6-1 record.

Russo opened the scoring 9:15 into the game. The play started as rookie back Robbie Lynch (Weymouth, Mass./Weymouth) got free down the right sideline. Lynch sent a laser cross through the box that Russo was able to head home for his seventh goal of the season.


The assist was Lynch's first collegiate point.

Russo tacked on the insurance goal in the 83rd minute, after sophomore back Ben Applefield (Avon, Conn./Avon) dribbled to the endline and sent another hard cross that Russo redirected inside the left post. The assist was Applefield's second of the campaign.

With his eighth goal of the season, Russo moves into Brandeis's career top 24 scoring leaders with 19 goals and eight assists for 46 points. In four career ECAC tournament games, Russo has seven goals, including a four-goal performance in last year's quarterfinal.

The Judges controlled play for the entire game, outshooting SVC, 31-0. The Mountaineers got stellar goalkeeping from rookie Connor Anniello (Scotland, Conn./Windham Tech), who made 12 saves, two shy of his career high. It was Anniello's fifth match of 10some of the most interesting facts and figures ahead of Matchday 23 in Germany's top flight...

Four penalties failed to find the back of the net last weekend, taking the running total for the season up to 13. No single Bundesliga matchday has ever witnessed more than four missed spot-kicks. One game alone accounted for three of the above - Nürnberg's 2-1 win against Eintracht Braunschweig. FCN keeper Raphael Schäfer saved both the visitors' attempts from the spot while his opposite number Martin Petkovic also kept out Hiroshi Kiyotake's 68th-minute effort.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen's Bernd Leno saved his fourth penalty of the season in the 3-1 loss to VfL Wolfsburg and, regardless of being beaten on the rebound by Ricardo Rodriguez, thus becomes the first keeper to block four spot-kicks


of the two organizations that merged to form the US Chess Federation back in 1939 -- IIRC he chaired the meeting that resulted in the merger) when used by in the context of FIDE titles typically refers to the FIDE rating system. Professor Elo created the rating system used by FIDE, and was responsible for calculating the FIDE ratings in the initial years after its adoption. You can read a description of his original system in his book "The Rating Of Chessplayers Past and Present."
Professor Elo created his system with the numeric range it has in order to cause the least amount of disruption to the USCF, which was at the time using the Harkness system; his preference was for a two-digit system as he thought four digitsto purchase the
land and a fund-raising campaign proved unsuccessful. Jeffrey spoke
with Tim in early 2009 when he traveled to Nevada City for the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film
Festival.

Sacramento Beer Week Ed Carroll is considered
an expert on Sacramento's brewing history and he wrote about it
last year. "Sacramento's Breweries" tells the history of beer in
the region up to Prohibition. Jeffrey spoke with Ed about the
area's brews during the inaugural Sacramento
Beer Week last February. Sacramento Beer Week continues through
Saturday, March 5th at a variety of locations around the area.


not won at least their division. He has yet to experience a losing season and likely never will.

12. Charlie Strong: USF

1-year win%: .833 | No. 89 Salary: $1 million

When it comes strictly to wins-per-dollar, no coach is more valuable than Charlie Strong right now. Yes, he did not do as well as hoped with the Longhorns. Whether you blame that failed experiment on his inability to fit the necessary pieces together or the Texas administration, he clearly did something right at Louisville and seems to be at it again with the Bulls. Going 10-2 in his first season is impressive and while he was granted an excellent team, his ability to recruit in Florida should prove to pay off with a consistently successful AAC team.

13. Lincoln Riley: Oklahoma

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Jeff Goodman

05/09/2006

Hasheem Thabeet wasn't very good when he first arrived at Cypress Community Christian (Texas). In fact, coach Mark McClanahan admits he was bad. The big 7-foot-2 native of Tanzania has worked and watched his game grow and his recruitment has also blown up.

Hasheem Thabeet doesn't play like someone who's still making the acclimation to the American game.

The 7-foot-2, 260-pound native of Tanzania came over to the United States less than a year ago. It took him a while, but he's become one of the most sought-after players in the country – especially with the lack of available big men in the spring.

``He's 100 percent better – literally," Cypress Community Christian (Texas) coach Mark McClanahan said. "He wasn't very good at all when he got here.


In fact, he was pretty bad. He didn't know anything, but he's done a great job."

``He has all the skills," added McClanahan. "Great hands, good footwork. He just had to learn by playing. He has great work ethic and loves to play."

Thabeet had only played basketball for two years when he arrived in Houston. Like many kids in his homeland, he grew up playing soccer.

Thabeet runs the court extremely well for someone his size. He's also capable of scoring in the low-post, although he still needs to work on a go-to move. Part of the problem is that when he gets the ball in the paint, the easiest thing for him to do is just dunk over his defender.

Thabeet's biggest asset, though, is his ability to rebound andChicago’s crime rates have lived up to their national notoriety over Labor Day weekend, with shootings killing at least five people and wounding more.

The dead included a man, 18, shot in the chest and head while standing on a sidewalk; a man, 32, shot in the neck by a man wearing a mask; and a woman, 30, struck in the back of the head while standing in an alley, WMAQ reported.

Killed on Sunday were a 25-year-old man who was caught in a crossfire in Rogers Park on the city's North Side, and a 41-year-old man who was shot in the chest on the far South Side, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Victims of nonfatal shootings on Sunday included an 11-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl, the Sun-Times report said.

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the world of BDO after Kamasylvia. Dreagan will be a region that requires a new form of party play, and Dragons will be killable in the new region. Dreagan is scheduled to go live in the game early next year.

▲ Dreagan, the new region that will be added in the future.

▲ Dragons will be killable in Dreagan

New servers for underaged players

In order to allow more people to enjoy BDO, servers for underaged players (15 or order) will be added. The new servers will be separate from the existing servers, but the underaged players will be able to move to the “adult” servers once they meet the age requirement. The new servers for underaged players will open on Dec 21st.

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Police in Washington have fired on a woman in a car after she struck a police vehicle near the US Capitol and tried to run over several officers.

The woman was not shot, Washington Metropolitan Police spokesperson Rachel Reid told the BBC, and no injuries have been reported.

She was taken into custody and the incident prompted a lockdown at one of the Congress buildings.

The incident follows driving attacks last week in London and Brussels.

But Capitol Police spokeswoman Eva Malecki said the incident was "criminal in nature with no nexus to terrorism".

Image copyright AP Image caption Cameras captured the suspect's arrest

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Local media have identified the woman as Taleah Everett, 20.

Her aunt, Bonnie Everett, told NBC News that her niece has bipolar disorder, and may have become frustrated by slow-moving traffic.

The incident occurred after officers observed an "erratic and aggressive driver" and tried to pull her car over.

The driver made a U-turn, nearly striking several officers in the process.

Hearings on Capitol Hill are continuing as normal, and tourists have been allowed to return to the area.A private investigative project, bound by no rules of procedure, is answerable only to ratings and the ethics of its makers. Illustration by Simon Prades

Argosy began in 1882 as a magazine for children and ceased publication ninety-six years later as soft-core porn for men, but for ten years in between it was the home of a true-crime column by Erle Stanley Gardner, the man who gave the world Perry Mason. In eighty-two novels, six films, and nearly three hundred television episodes, Mason, a criminal-defense lawyer, took on seemingly guilty clients and proved their innocence. In the magazine, Gardner, who had practiced law before turning to writing, attempted to do something similar—except that there his “clients” were real people, already convicted and behind bars. All of them met the


same criteria: they were impoverished, they insisted that they were blameless, they were serving life sentences for serious crimes, and they had exhausted their legal options. Gardner called his column “The Court of Last Resort.”

To help investigate his cases, Gardner assembled a committee of crime experts, including a private detective, a handwriting analyst, a former prison warden, and a homicide specialist with degrees in both medicine and law. They examined dozens of cases between September of 1948 and October of 1958, ranging from an African-American sentenced to die for killing a Virginia police officer after a car chase—even though he didn’t know how to drive—to a nine-fingered convict serving time for the strangling death of a victim whose neck bore ten finger marks.

The man who didn’t know howThin Blue Line,” a 1988 Errol Morris documentary about Randall Dale Adams, who was sentenced to death for the 1976 murder of a police officer; “Paradise Lost,” a series of documentaries by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about three teen-agers found guilty of murdering three second-grade boys in West Memphis in 1993; and “The Staircase,” a television miniseries by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade about the novelist Michael Peterson, found guilty of murdering his wife in 2001. Peterson has been granted a new trial. Randall Dale Adams was exonerated a year after “The Thin Blue Line” was released. Shortly before the final “Paradise Lost” documentary was completed, in 2011, all three of its subjects were freed from prison on the basis of DNA evidence.

In the past fifteen months, this canon


has grown considerably in both content and prestige. First came “Serial,” co-created by Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder, which revisited the case of Adnan Syed, convicted for the 1999 murder of his high-school classmate and former girlfriend, eighteen-year-old Hae Min Lee. That was followed by Andrew Jarecki’s “The Jinx,” a six-part HBO documentary that, uncharacteristically for the genre, sought to implicate rather than exonerate its subject, Robert Durst. A New York real-estate heir, Durst was acquitted in one murder case, is currently awaiting trial in another, and has long been suspected in the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathleen Durst.

The latest addition to this canon is Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos’s “Making a Murderer,” a ten-episode Netflix documentary that examines the 2007 conviction of a Wisconsin man namedwith the criminal-justice system. In July of 1985, Avery was picked up by the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department after a woman named Penny Beerntsen was brutally attacked while out for a run in a Wisconsin state park. Beerntsen, who had been conscious throughout most of the attack, deliberately sought to memorize her assailant’s features, and subsequently picked Avery out of both a photo array and a live lineup. At trial six months later, Avery was found guilty and sentenced to thirty-two years in prison. He served eighteen of those before being exonerated by DNA testing, a technology not available at the time of the trial. That DNA test also identified Beerntsen’s actual assailant: a man named Gregory Allen, who was, by then, imprisoned for another assault.

This was bad


news for the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Department. As the public learned soon after the exoneration, local police had gone to the sheriff’s department within days after the attack to report that Allen may have been responsible; the department, convinced that it had the right man, declined to investigate. Ten years later, while serving time, Allen confessed to the assault. Again, the sheriff’s department was alerted and, again, no one acted; Avery remained in prison for another eight years. In light of this information, he filed a lawsuit against the county for thirty-six million dollars.

In 2005, while the defendants in that civil suit were being deposed, Avery was arrested again—this time for the murder of a twenty-five-year-old photographer named Teresa Halbach. Four months later, his sixteen-year-old nephew, Brendan Dassey,John Curtis: How have returns for your college football portfolio been?

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Sep 29, 2008 at 12:01 AMSep 29, 2008 at 10:53 AM

Just like the stock market, many thought the 2008 college football season couldn’t surpass the calamity of 2007; but just like those people on Wall Street, this season has been even more treacherous than last year.

John Curtis

Did you lose stock in your college football team this season?

Just like the stock market, many thought the 2008 college football season couldn’t surpass the calamity of 2007; but just like those people on Wall Street, this season has been even more treacherous than last year.

East Carolina beats West Virginia and Virginia Tech to open the season; Vanderbilt is in the Top 25 for the first time since the 1980s; and to


top it all off, three of the top four teams in the Associated Press poll lost, knocking out the Pac-10 and Big 10. And we’re not into October yet.

It’s like the Dow Jones — sports edition. But, unlike the stock market, this one could be fun to watch.

We have the Southern California Trojans to thank for the college football version of the crashing market. Many columnists said that the possibility of USC or Ohio State reaching the BCS championship game was pretty certain considering many felt the rest of the teams in the Pac-10 and Big 10 conferences were down this year. The Trojans pounded the Buckeyes and looked to have an easy road to the title game despite the lackluster teams on the Pacific Coast they havehome matchup against No. 16 Kansas. Texas opens up league play at Colorado before their game with the Sooners. And both teams have to play Texas Tech, ranked No. 7 in their polls.

Missouri doesn’t get much of a break despite not having to play Oklahoma or Texas Tech during the regular season. The Tigers play at Nebraska this week, then hosts Oklahoma State before traveling to Texas for a game in Austin on Oct. 18.

If Alabama and LSU stay unbeaten until their matchup on Nov. 8 — and that would be a feat itself considering the schedule — then they could be playing for No. 1 if all of the Big 12 teams falter. LSU plays at Florida on Oct. 11 and also hosts Georgia two weeks later.


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In 1570, Thomas Wilson translated Demosthenes' Olynthiacs and Philippics during a period of considerable tension in Anglo-Spanish relations. What appears at first sight to be a work of classical humanism was simultaneously a hard-hitting piece of anti-Spanish propaganda and a critique of Elizabethan foreign policy. By controlling the typography of the translation and adding polemical marginalia and otherperipheral material, Wilson masterfully directed his readers' interpretation of the text. He unequivocally advocated military intervention in the Netherlands as the consequences of inaction would be dire: England would lose its current bulwark against Spain's military might, just as Athens had lost Olynthus. Wilson deliberately appealed to the intellectual background of those Tudor statesmen who formed the 'Cambridge Connection' in the Elizabethan government. Moreover, he articulated his message without compromising the integrity of Demosthenes' text or his own humanist credentials. By subtly reconfiguring the role of Demosthenes from orator to statesman, Wilson gave his orations greater political authority. Wilson's Demosthenes also marked an important moment in English intellectual history: it clearly politicises classical translation.


Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren was called back to Israel to take part in an emergency meeting convened this weekend by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so that Oren could pass on messages sent by the US administration and Congress in the wake of tensions between the two countries.

The tensions and lightening visit stem from the US's outrage at Israel's decision to back out of their commitment to a terror prosecution involving a Chinese bank allegedly laundering monies for Hamas so that Netanyahu and his family could embark on their State visit to the country last May.

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This weekend Nahum Barnea and Shimon Shiffer from Yedioth Ahronoth broke the story and revealed that the Chinese government threatened to cancel Netanyahu's visit if Israel refused to promise thatsenior Israeli defense officials would refrain from testifying against the Bank of China in a federal court trial currently underway in New York.

According to the report, China conditioned Netanyahu's visit on the demand the officials retract their promise to testify in the trial being led by the family of terror victim.

PM, wife Sara on Great Wall (Photo: Avi Ohayon, GPO)

The case itself is a civil suit filed by Sheryl and Yekutiel Wultz from Florida, whose son Daniel was killed in terror attack in Tel Aviv in 2006 when he was only 16 years old.

According to the suit, the money used by Hamas to undertake the terror attack reached the terrorist group through a money laundering scheme run the Chinese bank in which some $6 million were laundered through


trade.

The story has invoked the rage of the White House, a number of US congressmen and Jewish organizations active in the US who were flabbergasted by the decision to back out of a legal battle against the funding of international terror only in an attempt to prevent harm from coming to Netanyahu's visit.

Mr. Terror

On Sunday, during the meeting called by Netanyahu, Oren was meant to stress to the additional participants – among them ambassador designate Ron Dermer – that the Americans view with severity Israel's decision to cave into China's pressure and prevent testimonies which would legally link Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to the Bank of China.

Oren was also to convey the American shock that Netanyahu, who the Americans call "Mr. Terror" for his zero tolerance approachto terror, would take such decision.

Congress, Oren was indented to say, sees the move as nothing short of betrayal by Israel of the US, both in regards to the international war on terror and in regards to the struggle for hegemonic control raging between the West and the rising eastern powerhouse.

The crux of Oren's mission was to inform the Israel administration of the US's intent on advancing legal procedures against the Bank of China; to inform them that if the security officials fail to show up in court they would be subpoenaed; and additional subpoenas would also be filed against Oren, Dermer and National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror

In addition to the suit filed by the Wultz family, the Bank of China also faces a lawsuit by Attorney Nitsana


Darshan-Leitner of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, representing 22 Israel families – the relatives of the victims of the suicide bombing in an Eilat bakery as well the Mercaz Harav shooting - that is being discussed instate courts throughout the US.

According to Darshan-Leitner, these cases are also structured around the testimonies of security officials and could fail should the officials fail to testify.

The Prime Minister's Office did not respond to the story Sunday evening.

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Tokyo Metro Co and Urban Renaissance (UR) Agency have announced that the city’s newest subway station, Toranomon Hills Station, will open on the Hibiya line early next summer in time for the Tokyo Olympics.

The Toranomon area is currently undergoing redevelopment to transform it into an international business hub. In addition, Tokyo Metro and UR plan to promote community development by connecting the existing Toranomon Station on the Ginza line with Toranomon Hills Station via an underground passage.

Construction started on Toranomon Hills Station in February 2016. The Hibiya line operates between Kita-Senju and Naka-Meguro stations. The new station will be between Kasumigaseki and Kamiyacho stations. Officials said the construction site is 80% completed.

This is the first station to be added to the Hibiya line since it was completed before


Former players slam PCB for sacking Sarfaraz as captain in all three formats

Pakistan coach Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis were also targeted and blamed for engineering the ouster of Sarfaraz.

Sarfaraz Ahmed has been replaced as Test captain by Azhar Ali while Babar Azam will take over in T20s. (Photo: Twitter)

Karachi: Pakistan's former stalwarts on Sunday lashed out at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for acting in haste in removing Sarfaraz Ahmed as captain in all three formats of the game.

Most of the former captains and players termed the removal of Sarfaraz on Friday as unjust. Not surprisingly the head coach and chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis were also targeted and blamed for engineering the ouster of Sarfaraz.

Sarfaraz has been replaced as Test captain bynumber one in T20 cricket and he is a fighter. This is a decision taken in haste and it could also affect the career of Babar."

Former captain Rashid Latif minced no words in stating that the Board had erred by making Babar captain of the T20 side.

"He is a selfish player and we have seen this in international cricket and now in the national T20 championship. Sarfaraz is not a selfish captain and sacrificed his position many times for the team. He did not deserve this treatment," he said.

Former skipper Moin Khan said he was shocked at the way the Board had treated Sarfaraz.

"He (Sarfaraz) has shown himself to be a fine captain and yes he was struggling a bit for form but when a senior player is


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Anatomy of a Victory: CIA's Covert
Afghan War

By: Steve Coll, 'Washington Post', July 19, 1992

A specially equipped C-141 Starlifter transport
carrying William Casey touched down at a military air
base south of Islamabad in October 1984 for a secret
visit by the CIA director to plan strategy for the war
against Soviet forces in Afghanistan. Helicopters lifted
Casey to three secret training camps near the Afghan
border, where he watched mujaheddin rebels fire heavy
weapons and learn to make bombs with CIA-supplied plastic
explosives and detonators.

During the visit, Casey startled his Pakistani hosts
by proposing that they take the Afghan war into enemy
territory -- into the Soviet Union itself. Casey wanted
to ship subversive propaganda through Afghanistan


to the
Soviet Union's predominantly Muslim southern republics.
The Pakistanis agreed, and the CIA soon supplied
thousands of Korans, as well as books on Soviet
atrocities in Uzbekistan and tracts on historical heroes
of Uzbek nationalism, according to Pakistani and Western
officials.

"We can do a lot of damage to the Soviet Union,"
Casey said, according to Mohammed Yousaf, a Pakistani
general who attended the meeting.

Casey's visit was a prelude to a secret Reagan
administration decision in March 1985, reflected in
National Security Decision Directive 166, to sharply
escalate U.S. covert action in Afghanistan, according to
Western officials. Abandoning a policy of simple
harassment of Soviet occupiers, the Reagan team decided
secretly to let loose on the Afghan battlefield an array
of U.S. high technology and military expertise in an
effort to hit and demoralize Soviet commanders and
soldiers. Casey saw it as a prime opportunityto strike
at an overextended, potentially vulnerable Soviet empire.

Eight years after Casey's visit to Pakistan, the
Soviet Union is no more. Afghanistan has fallen to the
heavily armed, fraticidal mujaheddin rebels. The Afghans
themselves did the fighting and dying -- and ultimately
won their war against the Soviets -- and not all of them
laud the CIA's role in their victory. But even some sharp
critics of the CIA agree that in military terms, its
secret 1985 escalation of covert support to the
mujaheddin made a major difference in Afghanistan, the
last battlefield of the long Cold War.

How the Reagan administration decided to go for
victory in the Afghan war between 1984 and 1988 has been
shrouded in secrecy and clouded by the sharply divergent
political agendas of those involved. But with the triumph
of the mujaheddin rebels over Afghanistan's leftist
government in


April and the demise of the Soviet Union,
some intelligence officials involved have decided to
reveal how the covert escalation was carried out.

The most prominent of these former intelligence
officers is Yousaf, the Pakistani general who supervised
the covert war between 1983 and 1987 and who last month
published in Europe and Pakistan a detailed account of
his role and that of the CIA, titled "The Bear Trap."

This article and another to follow are based on
extensive interviews with Yousaf as well as with more
than a dozen senior Western officials who confirmed
Yousaf's disclosures and elaborated on them.

U.S. officials worried about what might happen if
aspects of their stepped-up covert action were exposed --
or if the program succeeded too well and provoked the
Soviets to react in hot anger. The escalation that began
in 1985 "was directed at killingRussian military
officers," one Western official said. "That
caused a lot of nervousness."

One source of jitters was that Pakistani intelligence
officers -- partly inspired by Casey -- began
independently to train Afghans and funnel CIA supplies
for scattered strikes against military installations,
factories and storage depots within Soviet territory.

The attacks later alarmed U.S. officials in
Washington, who saw military raids on Soviet territory as
"an incredible escalation," according to Graham
Fuller, then a senior U.S. intelligence official who
counseled against any such raids. Fearing a large-scale
Soviet response and the fallout of such attacks on U.S.-Soviet
diplomacy, the Reagan administration blocked the transfer
to Pakistan of detailed satellite photographs of military
targets inside the Soviet Union, other U.S. officials
said.

To Yousaf, who managed the Koran-smuggling program and
the guerrilla raids inside Soviet territory, the United
States ultimately "chickened out" on the
question of taking the secret


Afghan war onto Soviet soil.
Nonetheless, Yousaf recalled, Casey was "ruthless in
his approach, and he had a built-in hatred for the
Soviets."

An intelligence coup in 1984 and 1985 triggered the
Reagan administration's decision to escalate the covert
progam in Afghanistan, according to Western officials.
The United States received highly specific, sensitive
information about Kremlin politics and new Soviet war
plans in Afghanistan. Already under pressure from
Congress and conservative activists to expand its support
to the mujaheddin, the Reagan administration moved in
response to this intelligence to open up its high-technology
arsenal to aid the Afghan rebels.

Beginning in 1985, the CIA supplied mujaheddin rebels
with extensive satellite reconnaissance data of Soviet
targets on the Afghan battlefield, plans for military
operations based on the satellite intelligence,
intercepts of Soviet communications, secret
communications networks for the rebels, delayed timing
devices for tons of C-4 plastic explosives forurban
sabotage and sophisticated guerrilla attacks, long-range
sniper rifles, a targeting device for mortars that was
linked to a U.S. Navy satellite, wire-guided anti-tank
missiles, and other equipment.

The move to upgrade aid to the mujaheddin roughly
coincided with the well-known decision in 1986 to provide
the mujaheddin with sophisticated, U.S.-made Stinger
antiaircraft missiles. Before the missiles arrived,
however, those involved in the covert war wrestled with a
wide-ranging and at times divisive debate over how far
they should go in challenging the Soviet Union in
Afghanistan.

Roots of the Rebellion

In 1980, not long after Soviet forces invaded
Afghanistan to prop up a sympathetic leftist government,
President Jimmy Carter signed the first -- and for many
years the only -- presidential "finding" on
Afghanistan, the classified directive required by U.S.
law to begin covert operations, according to several
Western sources familiar with the Carter document.

The Carter finding


sought to aid Afghan rebels in
"harassment" of Soviet occupying forces in
Afghanistan through secret supplies of light weapons and
other assistance. The finding did not talk of driving
Soviet forces out of Afghanistan or defeating them
militarily, goals few considered possible at the time,
these sources said.

The cornerstone of the program was that the United
States, through the CIA, would provide funds, some
weapons and general supervision of support for the
mujaheddin rebels, but day-to-day operations and direct
contact with the mujaheddin would be left to the
Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI. The
hands-off U.S. role contrasted with CIA operations in
Nicaragua and Angola.

Saudi Arabia agreed to match U.S. financial
contributions to the mujaheddin and distributed funds
directly to ISI. China sold weapons to the CIA and
donated a smaller number directly to Pakistan, but the
extent of China's role has been oneof the secret war's
most closely guarded secrets.

In all, the United States funneled more than $ 2
billion in guns and money to the mujaheddin during the
1980s, according to U.S. officials. It was the largest
covert action program since World War II.

In the first years after the Reagan administration
inherited the Carter program, the covert Afghan war
"tended to be handled out of Casey's back pocket,"
recalled Ronald Spiers, a former U.S. ambassador to
Pakistan, the base of the Afghan rebels. Mainly from
China's government, the CIA purchased assault rifles,
grenade launchers, mines and SA-7 light antiaircraft
weapons, and then arranged for shipment to Pakistan. Most
of the weapons dated to the Korean War or earlier. The
amounts were significant -- 10,000 tons of arms and
ammunition in 1983, according to Yousaf -- but a fraction
of what they would be in


just a few years.

Beginning in 1984, Soviet forces in Afghanistan began
to experiment with new and more aggressive tactics
against the mujaheddin, based on the use of Soviet
special forces, called the Spetsnaz, in helicopter-borne
assaults on Afghan rebel supply lines. As these tactics
succeeded, Soviet commanders pursued them increasingly,
to the point where some U.S. congressmen who traveled
with the mujaheddin -- including Rep. Charles Wilson (D-Tex.)
and Sen. Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.) -- believed that the
war might turn against the rebels.

The new Soviet tactics reflected a perception in the
Kremlin that the Red Army was in danger of becoming
bogged down in Afghanistan and needed to take decisive
steps to win the war, according to sensitive intelligence
that reached the Reagan administration in 1984 and 1985,
Western officials said. The intelligence came from the
upper reaches of the Soviet Defense Ministryand
indicated that Soviet hard-liners were pushing a plan to
attempt to win the Afghan war within two years, sources
said.

The new war plan was to be implemented by Gen. Mikhail
Zaitsev, who was transferred from the prestigious command
of Soviet forces in Germany to run the Soviet war in
Afghanistan in the spring of 1985, just as Mikhail
Gorbachev was battling hard-line rivals to take power in
a Kremlin succession struggle.

Cracking the Kremlin's Strategy

The intelligence about Soviet war plans in Afghanistan
was highly specific, according to Western sources. The
Soviets intended to deploy one-third of their total
Spetsnaz forces in Afghanistan -- nearly 2,000 "highly
trained and motivated" paratroops, according to
Yousaf. In addition, the Soviets intended to dispatch a
stronger KGB presence to assist the special forces and
regular troops, and they intended to deploy some of the
Soviet Union's most sophisticated


battlefield
communications equipment, referred to by some as the
"Omsk vans" -- mobile, integrated
communications centers that would permit interception of
mujaheddin battlefield communications and rapid,
coordinated aerial attacks on rebel targets, such as the
kind that were demoralizing the rebels by 1984.

At the Pentagon, U.S. military officers pored over the
intelligence, considering plans to thwart the Soviet
escalation, officials said. The answers they came up
with, said a Western official, were to provide "secure
communications [for the Afghan rebels], kill the gunships
and the fighter cover, better routes for [mujaheddin]
infiltration, and get to work on [Soviet] targets"
in Afghanistan, including the Omsk vans, through the use
of satellite reconnaissance and increased, specialized
guerrilla training.

"There was a demand from my friends [in the CIA]
to capture a vehicle intact with this sort of
communications," recalled Yousaf, referring to the
newly introduced mobile Soviet facilities. Unfortunately,
despitemuch effort, Yousaf said, "we never
succeeded in that."

"Spetsnaz was key," said Vincent
Cannistraro, a CIA operations officer who was posted at
the time as director of intelligence programs at the
National Security Council. Not only did communications
improve, but the Spetsnaz forces were willing to fight
aggressively and at night. The problem, Cannistraro said,
was that as the Soviets moved to escalate, the U.S. aid
was "just enough to get a very brave people killed"
because it encouraged the mujaheddin to fight but did not
provide them with the means to win.

Conservatives in the Reagan administration and
especially in Congress saw the CIA as part of the problem.
Humphrey, the former senator and a leading conservative
supporter of the mujaheddin, found the CIA "really,
really reluctant" to increase the quality of support
for the Afghan rebels to meet Soviet escalation. For
their part,


CIA officers felt the war was not going as
badly as some skeptics thought, and they worried that it
might not be possible to preserve secrecy in the midst of
a major escalation. A sympathetic U.S. official said the
agency's key decision-makers "did not question the
wisdom" of the escalation, but were "simply
careful."

In March 1985, President Reagan signed National
Security Decision Directive 166, and national security
adviser Robert D. McFarlane signed an extensive annex,
augmenting the original Carter intelligence finding that
focused on "harassment" of Soviet occupying
forces, according to several sources. Although it covered
diplomatic and humanitarian objectives as well, the new,
detailed Reagan directive used bold language to authorize
stepped-up covert military aid to the mujaheddin, and it
made clear that the secret Afghan war had a new goal: to
defeat Soviet troops in Afghanistan through covert action
and encourage a Sovietwithdrawal.

New Covert U.S. Aid

The new covert U.S. assistance began with a dramatic
increase in arms supplies -- a steady rise to 65,000 tons
annually by 1987, according to Yousaf -- as well as what
he called a "ceaseless stream" of CIA and
Pentagon specialists who traveled to the secret
headquarters of Pakistan's ISI on the main road near
Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

There the CIA specialists met with Pakistani
intelligence officers to help plan operations for the
Afghan rebels. At any one time during the Afghan fighting
season, as many as 11 ISI teams trained and supplied by
the CIA accompanied the mujaheddin across the border to
supervise attacks, according to Yousaf and Western
sources. The teams attacked airports, railroads, fuel
depots, electricity pylons, bridges and roads, the
sources said.

CIA and Pentagon specialists offered detailed
satellite photographs and ink maps of Soviet targets
around Afghanistan. The CIA


station chief in Islamabad
ferried U.S. intercepts of Soviet battlefield
communications.

Other CIA specialists and military officers supplied
secure communications gear and trained Pakistani
instructors on how to use it. Experts on psychological
warfare brought propaganda and books. Demolitions experts
gave instructions on the explosives needed to destroy key
targets such as bridges, tunnels and fuel depots. They
also supplied chemical and electronic timing devices and
remote control switches for delayed bombs and rockets
that could be shot without a mujaheddin rebel present at
the firing site.

The new efforts focused on strategic targets such as
the Termez Bridge between Afghanistan and the Soviet
Union. "We got the information like current speed of
the water, current depth of the water, the width of the
pillars, which would be the best way to demolish,"
Yousaf said. In Washington, CIA lawyers debated whether
it was legal to blow uppylons on the Soviet side of the
bridge as opposed to the Afghan side, in keeping with the
decision not to support military action across the Soviet
border, a Western official said.

Despite several attempts, Afghan rebels trained in the
new program never brought the Termez Bridge down, though
they did damage and destroy other targets, such as
pipelines and depots, in the sensitive border area,
Western and Pakistani sources said.

The most valuable intelligence provided by the
Americans was the satellite reconnaissance, Yousaf said.
Soon the wall of Yousaf's office was covered with
detailed maps of Soviet targets in Afghanistan such as
airfields, armories and military buildings. The maps came
with CIA assessments of how best to approach the target,
possible routes of withdrawal, and analysis of how Soviet
troops might respond to an attack. "They would say
there are the vehicles, and there


is the [river bank],
and there is the tank," Yousaf said.

The first antiaircraft systems used by the mujaheddin
were the Swiss-made Oerlikon heavy gun and the British-made
Blowpipe missile, according to Yousaf and Western sources.
When these proved ineffective, the United States sent the
Stinger. Pakistani officers traveled to the United States
for training on the Stinger in June 1986 and then set up
a secret mujaheddin Stinger training facility in
Rawalpindi, complete with an electronic simulator made in
the United States. The simulator allowed mujaheddin
trainees to aim and fire at a large screen without
actually shooting off expensive missiles, Yousaf said.
The screen marked the missile's track and calculated
whether the trainee would have hit his airborne target.

Ultimately, the effectiveness of such training and
battlefield intelligence depended on the mujaheddin
themselves; their performance and willingness to employ
disciplined tactics varied greatly. YousafSpatial relationships between astrocytes and classical plaque components.
Four biopsies of the brain cortex of patients with Alzheimer's disease were used for ultrastructural studies. Three-dimensional reconstruction and morphometric studies of three classical plaques were carried out to determine the distribution of the astrocytes and their processes, and spatial relationships between astrocytes and plaque components. Morphologic and morphometric studies showed marked ultrastructural changes in the astrocytes located in the vicinity of the plaque. Proliferating processes of the two or three astrocytes nearest to the plaque become part of the plaque. Processes of hypertrophic astrocytes touch neighboring vessels, neurons, and amyloid deposits. The volume of the peripheral amyloid deposits in the classical plaques examined exceeds the volume of the amyloid star by about 26%. Amyloid of the classical plaque periphery appears