Olympic National Team, (5th place World Championship Osaka ’03, Bronze European Championship Paris ’01), the Cuban Yamila Zambrano, the Russian Yana Serbova and the Canadian Isabel Letulippe. During the competition the Algerian immediately stood out as the strongest in that category. Soraya Haddad, by now among the best in the international panorama, was African Champion ’03 in Nigeria, won the title again in Tunisi in ’04 and got another prestigious result by coming 2nd at the A category tournament in Hamburg ’04. At the latest edition of THE TRE TORRI she got the gold medal, showing great determination and good technique. She particularly stood out thanks to her performance against the Cuban Yamila Zambrano, prevailing thanks to a (Sumi gaeshi) assessed with a “Waza ari”, which,in our opinion,such a long and brilliant career, a great success in her life, too. At the TRE TORRI she faced quite good opponents such as the Algerian Salima Souakri, certainly the most titled one, twice fifth at the Olympic games in Barcelona ’92 and Sydney ’00, but who will have to settle for the second place on this occasion. Another leading athlete, the German Raffaella Imbriani bronze at the World Championship Osaka ’03 and preparing for Athens ’04, was beaten in the semi-final by Amarilis Savon will come third together with the Belgian Kristel Taelman.

In the -57 Kg. Category the World Champion Munich ’01 Yurisleidis Lupetey won the gold medal. Once again the World Champion Munich ’01, Yurisleidis Lupetey faced in the final Olga Sonina. The Russian athlete ranks


high on the international scene, and qualified for Athens ’04. We should emphasize that for Lupetey the real “final” was facing the German Yvonne Boenisch, in the semifinal. The latter won the silver medal at Osaka ’03. The girl, coached by Norbert Littkopf, is quite good and, in our opinion, there might be a surprise at the Olympic Games in Athens. Let’s wait and see if we are right. In third place, together with Yvonne Boenisch,came the English Sophie Cox, vice-European Champion Bucarest ‘04,qualified for the Olympic Games. She beat the German Roper Miryam, from the selection TSV Grosshadern Munich Bavaria, coached by the technical manager and our old friend Ralph Matusche.

In the – 70 Kg. category Anaisis Hernandez, bronze at the World Championship Munich ’01, won thegold medal. The Cuban girl, a member of the most prestigious team in the tournament, defeats the German Jana Grenzdorfer, from the TSV Grosshadern Munich Bavaria selection team, notwithstanding she sprains her left hand fingers, which inevitably impairs her performance. Anaisis manages to compete and win the golden medal at the 20th edition of THE TRE TORRI. Anaisis is worried about her hand; an operation on her ligaments would not allow her to recover completely in due time. So, the girl coached by Ronaldo will have to perform with her fingers seriously sprained at the Athens Games.
This is the price she must pay to take part in the Olympic Games. In the -70 kg. category Annette Boehm wins the bronze medal., which comes after her best ever performance,


Bronze at Osaka ’03 World Championship. She beats the French Ghislaine Bretteville of Acs Peugeot Mulhouse. In the -70 kg. category, bronze medal for the Slovenian Regina Jernejc who beats the Algerian Ouarden Rachida.

In the -78 kg. category, Gold medal for the vice-World Champion Osaka ’03 Yurisel Laborde. As the saying goes: “...the music goes on...”. No statement is more suitable to describe our satisfaction in sharing her happiness after listening four times to the Cuban national Anthem and seeing the imposing “YuYu”,the nickname of the likeable and cheerful Caribbean Champion, stepping onto the podium. It is an all American final, since she fights the Canadian Amy Cotton, she too qualified for the Athenian Olympic Games, who will have to settle for the second place. A useful experiencefor the two athletes, who shortly might both compete for a more prestigious title. Michela Torrenti, from “Gruppo sportivo Fiamme Gialle” in Rome, is the only Italian atlete to step onto the podium at THE TRE TORRI this year, after winning the final for the third place over the German Esther Ridde of the selection TSV Grosshadern from Munich Bavaria. The other final is won by the German champion Uta Kuhenen, who beats the Russian Eugenia Skvortsova.

In the +78 Kg category gold to the vice-Olympic Champion Sydney ’00 Daima Beltran. In the female heavy weights category, we have well-known athletes such as Daima Beltran Guisado, the German Sandra Koppen, the English Karina Bryant, and others such as the Belgian Tack Linsay, the Canadian Olia Berger, the German Verena


Brindorfer. The only unfortunate event has been the impossibility of playing the final between Daima Beltran Guisado and Karina Bryant, because of a mistake in planning the return flight by the English. We really wonder how such a thing may happen to an athlete taking part in a tournament like the TRE TORRI. We want to mention the only Italian athlete in this category, Giulia Ferrara, to emphasize her willpower in taking part in a competition full of Olympic-level champions.

A short comment on this year’s edition. Athletes at a prestigious international level have taken part in every female category. This is a very satisfactory result reached by our organization.

THE TEAM COMPETITION AT THE TRE TORRI 2004

Another innovation at the TRE TORRI ’04 has been the team competition onBearing in mind comments made on the spur of the moment, new countries will join in next year, with more and more pugnacious and competitive teams, both in the male and female categories.

The following teams have taken part in the male team competition:

1 ALGERIA (Olympic Team)

2 CHINA (National Team)

3 CUBA (Olympic Team)

4 GEORGIA (National Team)

5 GERMANY (Junior National Team)

6 JAPAN (National Team)

7 GREECE (Olympic Team)

8 UZBEKISTAN (Olympic Team)

9 VENEZUELA (Olympic Team)

10 Selection TRE TORRI

The following teams have taken part in the female team competition:

ALGERIA (Olympic Team)

CUBA (Olympic Team)

GERMANY (Olympic Team)

GERMANY (TSV Grosshadern - Munchen)

VENEZUELA (Olympic Team)

Selection TRE TORRI

ITALIAN ATHLETES IN THE TEAM COMPETITION AT THE TRE TORRI 2004

In compliance with regulations, since the Italian Olympic Team has not taken part in the competition, the Organizing Committee has allowed


the creation of an Italian Team, both female and male. Among the participants in the individual competition, we have seen Diego Brambilla, well-known Champion (Bronze at the World Championship in Makuhari 1995 - Japan) and appreciated Judo professional technical coach whom we thank for his collaboration. A team representing the TRE TORRI has created a very good impression after competing with Nation Teams such as Uzbekistan, finalist with Cuba, and the German male Junior team, coached by Richard Trautmann.

Athletes in the male team competition:

60 Kg. Minuto Marco

66 Kg. Falsirollo Enrico

73 Kg. Maserin Roberto

81 Kg. Bagnoli Lorenzo

90 Kg. Stefano Sorelli

-100 Kg. Pasta Mauro

+100 Kg. Brandolin Nicola / Gobbi Fausto

The TRE TORRI female team ended up, by lot, with the Algerian team, led by the Champion Souakri Salima, and withthe Olympic Team lead by Norbert Lipttkof. Of course, the Italian girls were inevitably defeated, in spite of their efforts to make a good impression.

Athletes in the female team competition:

48 Kg. Balsari Diana

52 Kg. Guiducci Martina / Turchet M. Elena

57 Kg. Moretti Laura

63 Kg. Pietrangeli Marina

70 Kg. Radaelli Jasmine

78 Kg. Bellavitis Maddalena

+78 Kg. Absent

THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR FOR TEACHERS AND COACHES

The idea of introducing in the programme of the tournament an International Seminar for teachers and coaches has been a very positive one.

The participation of personalities such as:

Patrick ROUX 6° Dan (a member of the CTN at FFJDA assigned to training)

Didier JANICOT 6° Dan (a member of the CTN at FFJDA assigned to training)

Yves CADOT 4° Dan (export in Eastern Culture and in the Japanese language)

has certainly been a


"Companies whose global profits total $125bn (£86.7bn) cannot credibly claim that they are unable to check where key minerals in their productions come from"

In a report into cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it found children as young as seven working in dangerous conditions. Cobalt is a a vital component of lithium-ion batteries.

The firms said that they had a zero tolerance policy towards child labour.

The DRC produces at least 50% of the world's cobalt. Miners working in the area face long-term health problems and the risk of fatal accidents, according to Amnesty.

It claimed that at least 80 miners had died underground in southern DRC between September 2014 and December 2015.

It also collected the testimonies of children who allegedly work in the mines.

Paul, a 14-year-old orphan,issues related to human rights and labour conditions at the production sites, as well as in the procurement of minerals and other raw materials."

With the 2014 World Cup in Brazil now less than 30 days away, eight workers have died building stadiums for the event. Even one death is a steep price for any sporting event, and this is a black eye for Brazil, which is behind schedule in its preparation. There is also some precedent: Two workers died during construction for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Yet the losses in Brazil and South Africa look minuscule compared with the crisis mounting in Qatar, which is scheduled to host the World Cup in the summer of 2022, despite extremely hot weather. Deaths there could number in


“sponsor” companies to cover the cost of travel and housing. These sponsors then control everything about the workers’ lives in Qatar, including the right to leave. As it stands, Kafala will supply the labor force to build either eight or 12 stadiums for the 2022 World Cup.

The Qatar organizing committee reported yesterday that no workers had died building World Cup venues, mostly because construction has not yet begun in earnest. According to the E:60 segment, 184 Nepali workers in Qatar have died in the past year and 680 in the past five years. Currently, 400,000 Nepali workers are in the country. India reports 450 deaths from its emigrants to Qatar in 2012 and 2013. Sharan Burrow, the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), tells Schaapdirective, and sacking them if they take three sick breaks in any three-month period, this would be an apt comparison. It is probably reasonable to assume that tax avoidance is not "constitutionally" a part of the Santa business model as Brad Stone, the author of a new book on Amazon,The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.

In the wake of the BBC documentary, Hywel Francis, the MP for Aberavon, managed to get a meeting last week with Amazon's director of public policy, a meeting he's been trying to get for years. He's reluctant to speak about the complaints he's heard from his constituents but says that "the plant is exceptional in the local area in having no union representation. It's been a long haul to even


the Amazon model so chilling. It's not just the nicey nice jobs that are becoming endangered, such as working in a bookshop, as Hugh Grant did in Notting Hill, or a record store, as the hero did in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, or the jobs that have gone at Borders and Woolworths and Jessops and HMV, it's pretty much everything else too. Next in line is everything: working in the shoe department at John Lewis, or behind the tills at Tesco, or doing their HR, or auditing their accounts, or building their websites, or writing their corporate magazines.

World trade has been the engine of world economic growth in the last 50 years. But many poor countries have been left behind as rich countries have subsidised agriculture and blockedtrustworthy reporting—but good journalism isn’t free. Please support the nation's longest continuously published newspaper serving the African American community by making a contribution.

Several other states and jurisdictions are releasing low-level offenders during the pandemic, including New Jersey, which is temporarily releasing up to 1,000 people in county jails by order of Chief Justice Stuart Rabner. Pennsylvania corrections officials said Wednesday they are considering releasing hundreds of people sitting in state prisons, pending legislation authorizing the move, after two prisoners in Montgomery County tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Last week, Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings said there’s no determination if that will happen in Delaware, where there are more than 4,000 incarcerated people.

The ACLU also has written to Gov. John Carney, asking him to release prisoners who are at


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Sitting at her desk, she practiced her writing exercises as she did every morning. Long before the sun ever poked above house covered hills, she arranged long descriptive sentences into tight paragraphs, molded flowery stanzas and simple quotes into colorful stories. As the darkness began to give way to a brilliant, full blue, she paused to think of the next line. She looked out her window into the brightening backyard. The large space was nearly bare except for a lone wooden chair and a gray shed in the corner of the rectangular yard. There were overgrown shrubs that creeped in from the neighbor’s yard, but in her own, there was nothingbut hard, smooth concrete land. At the point furthest from her window was a red hued wood fence, behind which was a tall wall of eucalyptus trees that blocked the view of the twinkling city lights below. She looked out, and as her mind freed itself from the thoughts of her writing, new thoughts began to crowd in. They were familiar thoughts, more aptly described as recurring worries that she rehashed day after day, year after year. Their forms did not change, their content, nor their frequency. Hour after hour, she wondered and worried about the same things. She felt the same jealous thoughts. She felt the same anger, the same desire for revenge, the same need to cry.She sat at her desk, looking out the window, and


now, tears were reddening her eyes. A salty droplet left a wet streak across her cheek. Alone in her room, she was filled with anger and sadness. Her body was hot and sweaty and a headache lingered at the horizon of her consciousness. Nothing had really happened to her within the last couple of minutes, nothing external. She did not get a phone call with bad news. Her neighbor had not hit her car. Her landlord had not evicted her. She had not had a fight with a friend. To any outside observer, nothing had happened. There was no external event that warranted the desperate need to cry and her elevated pulse. She had not really even moved, and yet, her energy had completely changed.In a brief instant,she had paused and drifted into an unstructured realm of floating thoughts that quickly turned into other ideas and then, just as swiftly, morphed into recurring uncontrolled thoughts. They moved in and out of her mind like wisps of passing clouds. Their entry had been in the moments of her inattention. While her mind was off her work, it began to fill with less intentional thoughts. Gone were her poetic lines and colorful descriptions. Her attention had drifted from her creative task and, as it did so, she had begun to devote more and more of her attention to her endless series of worries. The more she thought about them, the stronger the thoughts were and thus, the bodily sensations grew stronger within her. She was overcome with


sadness. And with each tear that escaped her eyes, with each suffering thought, her negative emotions grew stronger.Like a blazing fire that begins with a small handful of thin twigs, each small worry fed the cauldron of negative emotions. Each small jealous thought added a little more strength and fury and soon, she was overcome with sadness and grief and bitter hatred. She fed it to herself, small bit by small bit, letting it grow in strength until it was impossible let it go. If she had noticed the first distracted negative thought, she could have redirected her attention to her work. Caught quickly and early it would have been easier for her to regain her focus, but a raging fire takes tons of water and ample timeLOS ANGELES -- Dodgers pitching prospect Jose De Leon was finally back the mound on Tuesday night, starting for Triple-A Oklahoma City at Round Rock. He threw three perfect innings in his first game in five weeks.

The right-hander retired all nine batters he faced against the Rangers' affiliate, striking out six, including five strikeouts in a row at one point. He threw 37 pitches. The Round Rock lineup featured seven batters with major league experience, including Joey Gallo, Justin Ruggiano and Ike Davis batting 4-5-6. That trio all struck out against De Leon.

De Leon last pitched five weeks ago, striking out nine in five scoreless innings on May 3. But he missed the last five weeks since then with shoulder soreness, and on Tuesday night is expected to


throw just three innings in his first time back, approximately 40 pitches.

That May 3 start came after staying behind in extended spring training to bulk up for the season. It has been a trying season for De Leon, who entered the season as the Dodgers' second-best pitching prospect. He showed up on national rankings as well, ranked the No. 23 prospect in baseball by Baseball America, 24th by MLB.com, 28th by Baseball Prospectus, and 60th by ESPN.

The 23-year-old right-hander is coming off a season that saw him post a 2.99 ERA in 23 starts between Class-A Rancho Cucamonga and Double-A Tulsa, leading all Dodgers minor leaguers with 163 strikeouts in his 114⅓ innings.

De Leon last pitched on Friday in an extended spring training game in Surprise, Ariz., alongwith Ross Stripling.

To make room for De Leon on the roster, Oklahoma City placed converted outfielder turned pitcher Jordan Schafer on the disabled list. The 29-year-old in his first season on the mound has 26 strikeouts and five walks in 24⅓ innings, but has allowed seven runs on 14 hits in 5⅓ innings with Triple-A after allowing seven runs on 15 hits in 19 innings in Double-A.


Skills Training

Rochester has many opportunities for acclaimed training programs - from high school and secondary education courses to union apprenticeship programs - which serve as great stepping stones into the construction industry. Invest in your future by investing in your career training.

Unionized construction trades have the highest skills in industry training, having programs that date back to over 70 years. The building construction trades union maintain the gold standard in training and development. Check out some of their programs below:

Apprenticeship Programs

Bricklayers

The BAC Local #3 NY has been vital to the development and growth of the masonry and tile fields’ success. Through the apprenticeship program in Rochester, Buffalo, and the Southern Tier, they aim to continue this success by offering masonry apprenticeships that provide training in brick, block, concrete,enable them to provide for themselves and their families, while learning from the most experienced professionals in both training environments. As a result, apprentices are continuously building upon their knowledge and skill base in a practical construction site setting.

Laborers

Laborers' Local 435 provides construction industry vocational training through a full range of classes at the Union Hall and even more classes at the Upstate NY Laborers' Training Facility in Oswego, NY. They offer continuing education programs for members who need to maintain their certifications, develop new skills, and stay current with new trends and technologies. Local 46 strives to ensure safety and productivity among construction laborers through curricular offerings that cover every aspect of construction laborer training.

Operating Engineers

You must apply in person only at the Local 158 District 106


has always been recognized as the best trained and educated individuals in the insulation and abatement industries. The training that members receive, both on the job as well as through the national curriculum provided by the International Insulation Industry Apprentice Training Fund, guarantees the quality craftsman that the Union is proud of.

In addition to the five-year Apprenticeship Programs, Insulator’s Local 26 offers continuing education opportunity that includes journeymen up grade training and certification, as well as an associate’s degree program.

Rochester Careers in Construction, Inc.

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Eastern Monroe Career Center, EMCC

Students learn the fundamentals of commercial and residential construction. First-year students learn the fundamental principles and theoretical concepts of wall, floor, and roof framing, and exterior finishes including windows, doors, siding and roofing. Second-year students focus on dry wall, kitchens and baths, trim and painting, and form-building for concrete structures. Training in home energy audits and truss and soffit construction is included with practical applications on site. Students work


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MCC Corporate College offers technical training for construction workers, plumbers, electricians and other skilled-trade workers. If you’re currently participating in a registered apprenticeship program, you can earn credit through our training courses.

In addition to specific courses, MCC also offers a range of certificates and two-year degrees in the construction field.

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The Building Trades Department is composed of four programs: building construction; heavy equipment operations; masonry; and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. Rewarding careers in the construction industry are open to students graduating from the building trades programs. With the continual development of new building methods and materials, the craftsperson finds it necessary to keep abreast of these developments. Construction, as in many other occupations,Durban - Detectives probing the enduring mystery of notorious paedophile Gert van Rooyen's missing victims are honing their search on the Durban area in the hope of cracking open the 30-year-old cold case and bring closure to the families.

While much of the investigation over the past three decades has concentrated in Pretoria and Johannesburg - where Van Rooyen and his lover and accomplice, Joey Haarhoff spent most of their time - detectives now believe that Durban could hold the key to solving the mystery.

Don Chandler, a retired Natal Midlands murder and robbery unit detective who was assigned to investigate the 1989 kidnapping of 12-year-old Fiona Harvey of Pietermaritzburg - one of Van Rooyen's KZN victims - believes that the paedophile may have brought all or most of his


victims to Durban.

Chandler who is assisting the Hawks in their investigation on behalf of all the families said that he had been able to trace Van Rooyen to two Durban companies for which he worked for in the late '80s.

He also believes that Van Rooyen and Haarhof may have rented a flat at 101 Victoria Embankment.

He says that Van Rooyen worked as a sub-contractor for a Pinetown based company called Dalclamp industries for four months between August and December 1989. Chandler believes Van Rooyen's employers or the people he was in touch with during this time may hold vital clues in solving the case.

Gert Van Rooyen's old company access card for Dalclamp in Pinetown point to him spending a lot of time in Durban a private investigator says.Picture: Supplied.

Van Rooyen along with Haarhof whom he used to approach the girls are alleged to have kidnapped and killed at least six young girls between 1988 and 1989.

Tracy-Lee Scott-Crossley, 14, disappeared on her way to Cresta shopping mall in Randburg in 1988. Two months later Fiona Harvey, 12, of Pietermaritzburg, disappeared. On June 7, 1989, Joan Horn, 12, of Pretoria, disappeared. A 16-year-old Durban girl, Janet Delport, escaped the couple's clutches after she was abducted in a mall in July 1989. On September 22, 1989, Kempton Park girls, Odette Boucher, 11, and, Anna-Mari Wapenaar, 12, went missing.

The saga, which held South Africa captive as fear gripped the nation, came to an end in January 1990 when their final victim, 16-year-old Joan Booysen escaped from the couple's home


in Capital Park and alert the police.

When Van Rooyen discovered Booysen had escaped and the police were closing in him, he shot and killed Haarhoff and then killed himself.

Since then the search has focused on finding where Van Rooyen dumped the bodies of his victims.

In June 2017, SAPS forensic investigators excavated a number of sites around Blythedale Beach, north of Durban, as it was suspected that the victims were buried there.

Van Rooyen was known to have spent his final holiday close by.

Now, previously unseen photographs of Haarhoff outside Durban's iconic 101 Victoria Embankment block of flats and Van Rooyen's old company access card for Dalclamp in Pinetown point to the couple spending much of their time in Durban, Chandler said.

A photograph of Joey Haarhoff outside Durban's iconic 101Victoria Embankment block of flats points to the couple spending much of their time in Durban. Picture: Supplied

"What is interesting that towards the latter part of 1989, Gert worked for Dalclamp, part of his job was to transport fire door frames from a company in Pretoria and transport them to Durban from where they would sometimes be put on a shipping container and sent to Mauritius," he said.

Chandler believes that people who worked for Dalclamp during this period could provide crucial eye witness testimony on how Van Rooyen operated.

Chandler also believes that while the focus has been over the widely publicised six missing children, there are other victims - black and Indian children - who may also have fallen prey to Van Rooyen and Haarhof.

"There is strong testimony


Fight fans hungry to welcome mixed martial arts' biggest promotion had Baltimore Arena looking almost full by the opening bell. And it hasn't been quiet.

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For many years, Kodak had a display in Grand Central Station in New York that was called the "Colorama". This was a 18x60 FOOT backlit transparency. For most of the 40 years this was in place, the images were created using a larger format original, but there was a classic instance in the 1970's when Kodak bragged that they had used a 35mm Kodachrome transparency to create the image.

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In 2011, at the age of 19, David Ricci volunteered to teach orphans in Kolkata, India. His walk to work ran alongside these train tracks.

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The most affordable - and the least affordable - places for first-time buyers have been revealed by the UK's largest mortgage lender, the Halifax.

Compared to local earnings, the cheapest places to buy are mostly in western Scotland and northern England.

The most expensive are all in London.

East Dunbartonshire, on the northern fringes of Glasgow, is the most-affordable place in the UK. On average, house prices here are just 2.6 times local annual earnings.

By contrast, the least-affordable place is Brent in north London, where house prices are on average 12.5 times local earnings.

The Halifax data also shows that first-time buyers face the highest prices in London, paying £384,000 on average, compared to


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Most affordable places for first-time buyers District Region House prices v. earnings ratio East Dunbartonshire West of Scotland 2.6x Copeland (West Cumbria) North West England 2.9x East Renfrewshire West of Scotland 3x West Dunbartonshire West of Scotland 3.1x Stirling Central Scotland 3.1x Pendle North West England 3.2x Blaenau Gwent South Wales 3.3x North Lanarkshire Central Scotland 3.3x Northumberland North East England 3.3x Mid and East Antrim Northern Ireland 3.4x Source: Halifax/ ONS

The number of people buying houses or flats for the first time is now on the increase, according to the Halifax.

Its figures show that 154,200 buyers were successful in the first half of 2016, compared to 140,500 in the same period the previous year - a 10% rise.

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That picture is strong evidence that the Sumatran rhino is still exploring the forest in Gunung Leuser National Park which is located in Indonesia’s westernmost province. “Sumatran rhino found in the Leuser back after 26 years declared extinct,” said Jamal M. Gawi, Director of the Leuser International Foundation, during his visit to the office of Tempo, Monday.

Rhinos in portrait dated December 9, 2011 at 13:55 pm was not the only individual in the Sumatran rhino 2.6 million hectares of the area. Together with Central officials Gunung Leuser National Park, a team from


rhino. However, the composition of individual males and females could not be ascertained. The estimated age of the whole individual rhinos also uncharted. The team will collect dirt rhinos at the site occurrences for further population analysis.

The emergence of Sumatran rhinos in the Leuser deliberately not publicized widely. The team of researchers from the National Park Foundation and the compact does not disclose information rhino location coordinates. They fear the information will spread to unauthorized parties.

“Rhinos living in ordinary forest that can be entered all. Unlike Javan living in protected forest areas,” said Jamal.

Indonesia has two of the five species of rhinoceros. Besides rhino, Indonesia also has the Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) are only found in the Park is home, Banten. Its population is much smaller than theSumatran rhino, which is about 50 birds. Three other species are the black rhino (Diceros bicornis) and white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) in Africa and the Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in Nepal and India.

The number of Sumatran rhinos continue to decline by 50 percent over the past two decades. The reason is the high poaching for rhino horn and take the rampant encroachment of forest into a live rhinoceros.

Rhino horns appreciated very expensive on the black market. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Fauna (CITES) said horn price could reach U.S. $ 60 thousand per kilogram.

Citizens of China and Vietnam were the main consumers rhino horn. Some people still believe rhino horn is believed to have medicinal and cure headaches, fever, heart disease and even some cancers.

Sumatran rhino conservation


and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) stopped giving hereditary titles.

Between 925 and 1102, the Kingdom of Croatia's nobility had various titles and forms of address that varied from region to region and position to position. The King of Croatia was afforded the right of choosing his royal handle, for example in 1941, Prince Adimone, Duke of Aosta, took the name of King Tomislav II upon his succession to the Croatian throne. Titles were exclusive to members of the King's High Court and included the Queen consort and the following:
Duke (the highest ranking a noble could receive in his majesty's court)
Marquess (a lineage rank through European peerage)
Count (a successive rank to the Marquess)
Baron (title of honor bestowed to a civilian whose actions warranted the title)
The titles were usually followed by theOne of the NFL's top offenses is looking for a shock midseason upgrade.

The New Orleans Saints will bring in Dez Bryant for a workout Tuesday, sources told Jane Slater of NFL Network.

Colleague Ian Rapoport added that the Saints will also host Brandon Marshall and Kamar Aiken.

Bryant has been on the open market since his release from the Dallas Cowboys in April. He turned down a multi-year contract with the Baltimore Ravens a few weeks after being cut and has received minimal interest since.

If Bryant does sign with New Orleans, he arguably couldn't land in a better spot.

Saints head coach Sean Payton is one of the more creative play-callers in the league and the presence of Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara would mean less of a workload for Bryant.

After


Lisa Ann Martin, 54, died May 27. She was born Sept. 11, 1959. She was married to Jay D. Martin; he survives.

She is also survived by her three children, her sister, nieces and nephews, her mother-in-law, a sister-in-law, and two brother-in-laws. She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, and her father-in-law.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, May 31, at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash. Burial will be in LaFontaine I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Friends may call from 2-4 p.m. and from 6-8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Arrangements entrusted to Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service.

Posted on 2014 May 29

Vivian Morris, 83

Vivian Morris, 83, died May 26. She was born Feb. 6, 1931. She was married to Arden Morris; he preceded her in death.

She issurvived by seven sons, two daughters, two brothers, 20 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and one son.

Funeral services will be held Sunday, June 1 at 2 p.m. at Timbercrest Chapel, 2201 East Street, North Manchester. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service.

Posted on 2014 May 28

Gary Keysor, 62

Gary D. Keysor, 62, Van Wert, Ohio, died May 24 at his residence. He was born in Van Wert, Ohio, to the late Kenneth Keysor and Arlene (Hyman) Keysor.

Jane Jones, 91, died May 25. She was born Feb. 24, 1923. She was married to William Jones, Jr.; he preceded her in death.

She is survived by two sons, three grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her


parents, her husband, two brothers, one grandchild and a nephew.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on May 29 at McClain Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the time of service.

Posted on 2014 May 28

Connie Guy, 62

Connie J. (Wehr) Guy, 62, died May 22. She was born July 31, 1951. She was married to Greg Guy; he preceded her in death.

She is survived by her father, one sister, one brother, a nephew, and two step nieces. She was preceded in death by her mother, her husband and an infant sister.

Funeral services will be held at Glancy - H. Brown & Son Funeral Home, 203 N Matilda St., Warren on Friday, May 30 at 11 a.m. Visitation will be at the funeral home on May29 from 4-8 p.m. and again from 10-11 a.m. Friday, prior to the service.

Posted on 2014 May 27

Jacqueline Forney, 84

Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Forney, 84, died May 25. She was born Sept. 24, 1929. She was married to Wayne Forney; he preceded her in death.

She is survived by one daughter, one sister, five grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, and 12 great, great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, three grandsons, and two sisters.

Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 30 at Memorial Lawns Cemetery, 1100 Manchester Avenue, Wabash.


that year, Billy H. Harbour ("Debtor") was placed in involuntary bankruptcy by his creditors. On March 11, 1982, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia placed Harbour in a Chapter 11 reorganization as a debtor-in-possession of his assets. The court appointed Donald W. Huffman as Trustee in bankruptcy for Harbour on February 8, 1983. On September 13, 1983, the court converted the bankruptcy from a Chapter 11 reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation.
On February 7, 1985, Trustee Huffman ("Plaintiff") initiated an adversary proceeding to recover assets Harbour transferred before he was placed in bankruptcy. In his Complaint, Huffman named as Defendants two of Harbour's alleged personal friends, James M. Brandon and D. Kylene Barker Brandon. Huffman also named as Defendants four Florida corporations ownedImitation in toddlers as a function of motor and verbal aspects of modeling.
This study investigated the effects of the motor and verbal aspects of modeling on imitation. The subjects were 2- and 3-year-old children (N = 96). The child's imitation responses were recorded during the play period that followed each modeled act. Each child observed the model in one of four modeling conditions. In Condition 1, the model "flew" a telephone while saying that he or she was flying an airplane. Imitation was recorded as motor if the child flew the telephone but was recorded as verbal and realistic if the child flew an airplane. In Condition 2, the model flew an airplane while saying that he or she was flying a telephone. Imitation was recorded as verbal


if the child flew the telephone. In Condition 3, the model flew an airplane and said that he or she was flying an airplane. If the child flew an airplane, imitation was scored as motor, verbal, and realistic. In Condition 4, the model flew a telephone and said that he or she was flying a telephone. Imitation was scored as motor and verbal if the child flew the telephone but was scored as realistic if the child flew the airplane. In Condition 1, 2-year-olds displayed more motor imitation than 3-year-olds, and 3-year-olds displayed more verbal-reality imitation than 2-year-olds. Boys displayed more motor imitation than girls. There were no age or sex differences in Condition 2. In Condition 3, 2-year-olds imitated more than 3-year-olds, with 3-year-old girls imitating theof George Brett, Gordon has settled into his current role as one of the best all-around outfielders in baseball. Gordon was originally drafted as a third baseman in 2005. He made his MLB debut in 2007, when he compiled 2.0 WAR in 151 games. After another solid season in 2008, he missed a lot of the 2009 and 2010 seasons with injuries before transitioning to the outfield. He was worth a career-high 6.6 WAR in 2014 after hitting .266/.351/.432 with 19 home runs and 74 RBI. Gordon will be 31 years old on Opening Day in 2015.

Why should we care?

Since shifting to left field full-time in 2011, Gordon has amassed 22.3 WAR. He has excelled in all facets of the game, but is best known for his outstanding


defense. Gordon has won three consecutive Gold Gloves and will probably pick up his fourth after leading the American League with a whopping 27 defensive runs saved in 2014. He was tied for 11th in the American League with eight assists, but this may be because teams have learned their lesson. Gordon had thrown out 17 baserunners in each of the previous three seasons. His 62 assists since the start of the 2011 season are far and away the highest total in baseball.

Gordon has also hit .283/.356/.453 during the past four seasons. He gets extra base hits in bunches, including a league-leading 51 doubles in 2012. Gordon homered 19 times last year, the third time he has done so since 2011. If we go back to his daysviolation of NCAA rules, but one characteristic links them all.

Brown was disciplined just a few weeks ago by the NCAA.

This came when it was unveiled that SMU was partaking in academic fraud pertaining to its basketball team.

The discovery by the NCAA was that a former basketball administrator was completing online courses for Keith Frazier to keep him eligible for NCAA participation.

Brown was handed a suspension for part of this year, a postseason ban for this year and was stripped of several scholarships.

Williams was involved in a scandal just in the last couple of years, where it was uncovered that the University of North Carolina was conducting fake classes for members of its basketball team to give them the necessary grades to compete in the NCAA.

North Carolina’s penalties were


minor considering the magnitude of this scandal. It received a one-year placement on accreditation probation.

Boeheim was the latest coach to go down prior to this past week. His program at Syracuse University was providing players with stipends for their services in the community.

Boeheim received a penalty that stripped him of scholarships, suspended him for several conference games this year and vacated more than 100 of his wins.

The similarity between all of them is that they all remain coaches at the school they violated rules at and this has to have Pitino smiling.We update the most recent article for Sittercity.com as well as promotion Coupon code specially for Sittercity.com

Runaway teen who fears family after Christian conversion ordered to DCF custody

She looked more like a timid child clinging to her protector than an Ohio teen runaway brazen enough to flee her Muslim family out of fear for her life.

The girl, who turned 17 on Monday, is at the center of a custody dispute in Orlando, where she sought help from a family she barely knew -- a pastor and his wife willing to take in a teen who feared her own family's retribution because she converted to Christianity.

The Orlando Sentinel is not identifying the teen because of her age.

The girl appeared before a crowded courtroom full of lawyers and spectators on


Monday when an Orange Circuit Court Judge ordered her into Department of Children and Families emergency custody.

It was another in a series of legal decisions in a complicated case: Beyond the girl's religious preferences, the court must solve jurisdictional issues related to child services and courts.

In addition, the teen, a native of Sri Lanka, is not a U.S. citizen.

Her dispute with her family became news several weeks ago when the girl ran away from her home in Columbus, Ohio. She hitch-hiked to a Greyhound station and boarded a bus to Orlando.

Once here, she borrowed a cell phone to call Beverly Lorenz, who with husband Blake Lorenz is a pastor of Global Revolution Church in Orlando. The Lorenzes met the girl through a prayer group on Facebook.

Although the girlwas a stranger, Beverly Lorenz told her they would house her. The teen told the Lorenzes she feared her family would hurt her, kill her or send her back to Sri Lanka, Beverly Lorenz said.

"We are doing everything we can to protect her," said Blake Lorenz, who said he has been told his life may be in jeopardy.

Meanwhile, the girl's parents reported to Ohio law enforcement authorities that their daughter was missing. They put together a flier, with her picture on it, asking for tips to her whereabouts.

Beverly Lorenz said they called an abuse hotline, prompting a visit on Friday from the Orlando police. Officers picked up the girl to be placed in state custody.

The Lorenzes appeared in court with the teen Monday, as did her father from


Ohio.

When the petite girl walked into court, she immediately bolted for Beverly Lorenz, who held her. The teen then joined Blake Lorenz at a table with lawyers. He comforted her throughout the entire hearing with his arm around her shoulder.

Rosa Gonzalez, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, told Orange Circuit Judge Gail A. Adams the teen is in fear for her life. The sight of her father makes the teen "frantic and hysterical," Gonzalez said.

The teen's father said little during the hearing.

Reached by a Sentinel reporter by phone, the girl's mother said little. "Yes, of course" her daughter would be safe should a judge eventually order her back there, she said.

And her father would not harm his daughter if she wanted to be a Christian, the womansaid. She referred other questions to her husband. He did not answer his cell phone after the hearing.

Gonzalez said her organization, which sends pro bono lawyers to work on cases involving Christian issues, is concerned the teen could be returned to her parents.

"We don't take those threats lightly," she said.

Imam Hatim Hamidullah, with the Islamic Society of Central Florida, said the Muslim faith does not call for a father to hurt his child, should she convert to another religion.

"It is not Islam for the father to bring harm upon his blood daughter or any other human being because of anger," he said. "Our position is to exhaust all measures that would bring peace and harmony back to the family," Hamidullah said. "Being angry and threatening the life of


Zombie Zombie return with ("Rituals Of A New World"), a new record that looks beyond the confines of human life and towards an imagined, abstract world. Last time out in 2010, the band took on the genius of seminal film score composer John Carpenter, with a series of bewitching takes on some of his finest work. Rituels d’un Nouveau Monde however closes the door on that chapter of the group and sees them stride in an entirely new direction.

Etienne Jaumet (analogue and modular synthesizers, rhythms boxes, effects and vocals) and Cosmic Neman (drums and percussion) began recording last spring in between the Jaumet and Neman’s various other projects - the former additionally has a solo project whilst the latter is part of Herman Dune. Instrumental to the newof a small business wants to move on, like Wiman, he or she has three potential paths: close the business, sell it to investors or to a competitor or let the employees purchase it.

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By Sandy NelsonFinance New Mexico

When the owner of a small business wants to move on, whether to retire or to pursue other ventures, he or she has three potential paths: close the business, sell it to investors or to a competitor or let the employees purchase it.

Each option has consequences for a community that relies on local businesses for jobs and revenue generation.

Stephen Wiman, former owner of Good Water Company in Santa Fe, never considered closing the independent water company he purchased in 2005 when he exited the company 11


said. "Then the recession hit, and only those who had to treat their water were interested. Customers who viewed our services as a luxury started to disappear because of the cost of equipment and service."

Wiman mulled the decision to sell for a few years before he listed the company. He tried to sell to competitors eager to acquire his customer base and willing to retain core employees. "No one in my family was interested (in buying the business), and my key employee was not interested," he said.

After about six months, Wiman took the business off the market when his broker told him it was overpriced. He listed at a lower price with another broker, and it sold. "I was just ready then to get out, and selling andmoving on became more important than the money. I think I sold the company for what it was really worth."

The new owner kept the employees who wanted to stay though some later left over differences with how the new owners approached customer service, compensation and other matters.

"These intangibles are difficult to assess in the sales process," Wiman conceded, and as much as he wanted to find a buyer who shared his vision and values, he knew the new owner was free to downsize or overhaul the company as they saw fit.

"It is probably very difficult to find a buyer that will run the business as you would approve," he said, "but that is part of the territory when you sell and move on to other things. I was


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The Washington Nationals filled out their primary TV broadcasting crew yesterday by hiring Ron Darling, a 13-year big league pitcher and former broadcaster for ESPN, Fox Sports Net and College Sports Television, as game analyst.

Darling, 44, joins former Baltimore Orioles and Washington Bullets play-by-play man Mel Proctor. The pair will debut today on WDCA-TV (Channel 20) for the Nationals’ season opener in Philadelphia. The hires were made by Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), the new regional network controlled by the Orioles that will show both clubs, with input from Nationals president Tony Tavares.

Darling, after a number of freelance and guest broadcasting slots, will have his first full-time job in the business. Like Proctor, Darling also has several acting creditsCyrus Smith is also a man possessed of the kind of high moral qualities common in Verne's protagonists. He is selfless, noble, honest, courageous, and utterly devoted to his companions. His practical knowledge of physics, chemistry, botany, navigation, and many other fields enables the Mysterious Island's colonists to quickly establish a thriving mini-civilization in isolation from the rest of the world. Smith is, however, annoyed and secretive regarding the fact that the colony has been mysteriously saved many times by a benefactor who refuses to reveal himself, causing his own achievements to seem less significant.


There is no love lost between the Phoenix Suns and Marcus Morris.

The Suns traded the forward to the Detroit Pistons earlier this month in a move that on the surface seemed meant to clear salary cap space, but was also likely meant to help fix what had been a somewhat dysfunctional locker room.

While Morris — who averaged 10.4 points and 4.8 rebounds per game last season — may not have been particularly well liked in the Valley (especially after he got into a shouting match with head coach Jeff Hornacek in January), truth is most Suns fans probably forgot about him once he was traded out of town.

Then Thursday night happened, and Marcus decided to take a shot at his former team in a tweet to a formerLeeds United saved most of their business until the back end of the transfer window, with the new additions still adapting to Marcelo Bielsa.

Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford has told the Yorkshire Evening Post that it could take him a while longer before he adapts to Marcelo Bielsa’s system at Elland Road.

Bamford was brought in for Leeds in a £7 million deal this summer, but the striker has generally been held in reserve so far.

The forward was given a chance in the cup in midweek, and he scored to help Leeds beat Bolton Wanderers.

However, Bamford admits that he deserves to be behind Kemar Roofe at the moment, as he is still adjusting to Bielsa’s style.

“He (Roofe) has had the whole of pre-season with the manager, working on his


this seat in the U.S. Senate for two decades before Trump appointed him to lead the Justice Department. Sessions was known in the Senate for his leadership among Republicans on economic nationalist issues like immigration, trade, national security especially when it comes to China, and standing up for American workers against special interests.

Sessions was also the first U.S. Senator to endorse President Trump in 2016, doing so early in the race before the Alabama primaries at a rally just outside Huntsville. Only a few House Republicans had endorsed Trump, an outsider in GOP politics, before Sessions’ game-changing endorsement helped the now president begin to wrap up the nomination and win over the GOP.

Sessions later served as Trump’s attorney general, but his old seat in a special election fellto Democrat Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) due in large part to problems with the appointed now former Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) and more significantly issues with the 2017 special election GOP nominee former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.

Since then, several candidates including Byrne, Tuberville, and Moore again have all announced bids for the seat—and then Sessions joined the race late in the game at the filing deadline. President Trump last week tweeted a poll conducted right after Sessions joined the race that showed Sessions in the lead over Tuberville by 4 points—Sessions at 35 and Tuberville at 31—while Byrne was down at 12 percent.

That poll was conducted from Dec. 1 to Dec. 3 in late 2019, just a few days after Sessions formally entered the race,


Early Outcomes of the New UK Deceased Donor Kidney Fast-Track Offering Scheme.
The UK Kidney Fast-Track Scheme (KFTS) was introduced in 2012 to identify kidneys at high risk of discard and to rapidly facilitate transplantation. A retrospective analysis of kidneys transplanted through the KFTS was undertaken. UK Transplant Registry data were collected on deceased donor kidneys implanted between November 1, 2012, and April 30, 2015, (donation after brain death [DBD] donors) and March 1, 2013, and April 30, 2015 (donation after circulatory death [DCD] donors). Posttransplant outcomes included 1-year estimated glomerular filtration rate and death-censored graft survival (DCGS). Over the study period, 523 deceased donor kidneys were transplanted through the KFTS and 4174 via the standard National Kidney Allocation Scheme (NKAS). Kidneys in the KFTS were more likely toThe rally in global banking stocks is underpinned by expectations that the new US administration will reduce the new regulations imposed in the wake of the 2008/2009 financial crisis. However, the dangers posed by a large financial sector have, in fact, not gone away. In the US and globally, the combination of too big to fail plus a relaxation in measures designed to modest reduce financial sector make be laying the foundation for another financial crisis.

In the lead up to 2008, parallel to increasing debt levels, the size of banks rose sharply, especially relative to the size of certain economies. By 2007, bank assets in many developed countries had reached in excess of 100 per cent of gross domestic product (“GDP”).

In 2007, bank assets in the US were


identified problems are amplified by the leverage of financial firms. In the last 20 years, capital ratios and liquidity reserves of banks have fallen sharply. Leverage is increasingly used to drive higher and more volatile returns on equity. During the GFC, the high leverage, both on and off-balance sheet, accentuated the problems.

Sixth, the increase in size of the banking system, risk and complexity is implicitly underwritten by the state, a fact which is recognised by rating agencies. It typically takes the form of deposit insurance, liquidity insurance and implied capital support. Given the central role of banks in payments and credit provisions, it is difficult for governments to allow banks to fail.

The Bank of England’s Andrew Haldane wrote about “a progressive rise in banking risk and an accompanyingall government bonds, 41 per cent (around Euro 300 billion) and 15 per cent (around Euro 240 billion).

The banking system has also gained from such policies such as quantitative easing (“QE”). Liquidity fuelled asset price rises has also encouraged a return of dubious banking practices.

In a 2013 study McKinsey found that in the US between 2007 and 2012, lower interest rates resulted in a net transfer from households, pension funds, insurers and foreign investors to the government, non-financial business and banks of around US$1.36 trillion. The benefit to US banks was around $150 billion from an increase in effective net interest margins and a cumulative increase in net interest income.

In Europe and the UK, loose monetary policy and low rates benefited governments and non-financial business but banks lost


that it provides a record that can be used if the detention and/or search is the subject of a complaint, concern or questions from a member of the public," according to a memo Moore issued.

Moore issued it Jan. 14, five days before he retired. Ten days later, Esquivel suspended it "until further notice."

Moore understood the technological dimension wasn't yet in place, but he declared the policy "effective immediately" in his memo because he wanted his officers to get in the habit of taking down the information, according to city officials familiar with the drafting process. Moore declined to comment for this story.

Some in the rank and file initially balked at the breadth of the policy, which covered a wide array of detentions and searches. It was criticized asReviews

Joana Serrat is a prolific Spanish singer-songwriter with a long lasting love of American Roots and Country Rock music. ‘Dripping Springs’ is Joana’s fourth album in five years and she travelled from her home in Vic, Barcelona to the Texas Hill Country, just outside Austin, and Israel Nash’s Plum Creek Sound studio. For the recording, Israel Nash and Joana conscripted a marvellous group of musicians steeped in modern Americana, but unfortunately, they number far too many to mention here. The album was engineered by Grammy Award winning Ted Young and produced by Israel Nash.

‘Western Cold Wind’ rolls in grandly in full band mode before Joana’s voice enters all sweetness and hints of husk. She has a lovely voice but it is difficult to define and the nearest reference


seemed natural for Dan to fill reams of notebook paper with sketches, scribbles and assorted visual experimentation. He failed the first assignment of his academic career by coloring the balloons instead of counting them. Undaunted by such inauspicious beginnings, he went on to win a string of prestigious awards: in the third grade he won 2nd place in a national safety poster con...

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CHENEY, Wash. –Megan Kritscher snapped the single-season program record for blocked shots but the Sacramento State women's basketball team was held to a season-low in points as the Hornets lost, 63-49, at Eastern Washington in a Big Sky Conference game at Reese Court.

Kritscher swatted six shots against the Eagles but needed only five entering the game to break Heidi Carroll's previous record of 83 blocks. Kritscher now has 85 blocked shots this season and ranks No. 2 in the NCAA, averaging 4.0 per game. She is 15 blocks away from matching the Big Sky Conference record of 100, set by Eastern Washington's Brenda Souther during the 1983-84 season.

While Kritscher shined on the defensive end, the Hornets (12-9,


Daredevil Lucinda Grange perches on the eagle's head on the corner of New York's Chrysler Building in Manhattan, New York City. Alex Shaw / Barcroft USA Adventure photographer Lucinda Grange stands on the top of New York's Chrysler Building with the Empire State Building visible in the background in New York City. Lucinda Grange / Barcroft USA Adventure photographer Lucinda Grange sits atop the Carpe Diem building at night in the central business district of Paris, France. Lucinda Grange / Barcroft USA Adventure photographer Lucinda Grange poses atop the Forth Rail Bridge, after scaling the structure at night in Queensferry, Scotland. Lucinda Grange / Barcroft USA A picture of adventure photographer Lucinda Grange stood on the Transporter Bridge in Newport, Wales. Lucinda Grange / Barcroft USA Explorers (L- R) Mark Explo, Bradley Garrett and Luca Urban, descend beneath London to find the underground River Fleet in London, England. Lucinda Grange / Barcroft USA A photograph taken by adventure photographer Lucinda Grange from the top of the Herccilio Luz Bridge in Florianopolis, Brazil. Lucinda Grange / Barcroft USA A photograph taken by adventure photographer Lucinda Grange of her friend Max sat on the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Lucinda Grange / Barcroft USA Ad Up Next Close Former Dinkins aide named de Blasio's DEP commisioner Another old government hand from the David Dinkins administration is... 8 View Slideshow Back Continue Share this: Facebook

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of the part near the head, curing the adhesive, or annealing, case hardening, or tempering the part.
One type of power supply used in induction heating is a resonant or a quasi-resonant power supply. As used herein resonant power supply refers to both resonant and quasi-resonant power supplies. A resonant induction heating power supply has an output tank formed by the induction coil or induction head and a capacitor. Current is provided to the tank from a current source and current will circulate within the tank. The current from the current source replenishes the energy in the tank reduced by losses and energy transferred to the work piece. Generally, the tank current facilitates power to the head.
It is desirable in some ways to operate induction heaters at a hightreat the workpiece. This energy depends on, among other things, the energy delivered to the head, the losses in the head, and the relative position of the head to the workpiece (which affects coupling). Some prior art controllers used with inverter based power supplies measure the current delivered to the head. However, in resonant or quasi-resonant induction heaters the resonating current in the tank should be measured.
It is also desirable to be able to determine the tank current so that the user of the equipment knows how much current is flowing in the head and to prevent the capacitors which form the tank from being destroyed by to much current and/or voltage. The current from the current source replenishes the current in the tank due to losses and


The relationship between tooth mineralization and early radiographic evidence of the ulnar sesamoid.
The relationship between early radiographic evidence of calcification of the adductor sesamoid of the first metacarpophalangeal joint and the state of maturity of certain teeth was investigated. Data were obtained from the records of one hundred and forty children of Caucasoid origin, comprising ninety-three girls and forty-seven boys. Calcification of the adductor sesamoid was closely related to the completion of root mineralization of the mandibular canine prior to apical closure. No significant sex differences were noted in the state of maturation of the tooth in relation to this particular stage of skeletal development. Correlations among the remaining teeth studied were low, the distribution of calcification stages being widely dispersed with significant sex differences evident. Based on2012–13 FK Khazar Lankaran season

The Khazar Lankaran 2012-13 season is Khazar Lankaran's eighth Azerbaijan Premier League season. Khazar Lankaran finished in 8th place in the league, after competing in the Relegation Championship during the second half of the season. They also reached the final of the Azerbaijan Cup, eventually losing to Neftchi Baku on penalties after a 0-0 draw. They competed in the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League, getting knocked out by Lech Poznań of Poland at the Second Qualifying Round stage having previously defeated Nõmme Kalju of Estonia, 4-2, in the First Qualifying Round. Khazar started the season under Yunis Huseinov, until he resigned on 31 October 2012. Erik Roqueta Capilla was appointed as their caretaker manager on 1 November 2012. On 14 November 2012, Carles Martorell Baqués


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The Hollywood Theatre will soon offer travelers another way to pass the time at Portland International Airport.

(The Oregonian/Oregonlive)

A movie theater is coming soon to Portland International Airport.

Northeast Portland's Hollywood Theatre plans to open an annex at PDX as early as late spring.

The theater is slated to seat 18, with standing room for another 10 to 20 people and a space for live performances.

It will screen short films, typically one to five minutes long, said Doug Whyte, the nonprofit theater's executive director. The program will spotlight Portland artists, as well as films about the city and the state of Oregon.

No "experience" will last longer than 20 minutes because travelers aren't used to spending lots of time in airport galleries, said Justen Harn, director of programs and community engagement.

Regional artistsGCRTA and CareSource.          She alleged that she suffered injuries from six

accidents while a passenger of GCRTA and that the accidents were the result of the

alleged negligence of the bus drivers. The dates of the alleged accidents were April 8

and December 6, 2012; and June 12, June 17, June 27, and October 4, 2013. The

complaint also made brief references to CareSource, without asserting allegations of

wrongdoing or particular facts to support a viable claim for fraud. The complaint listed a

number of miscellaneous torts to be considered in the action. On March 24, 2015, the

trial court dismissed the first action “without prejudice for want of prosecution.”

       {¶3} On March 25, 2016, appellant refiled a complaint against


to not resign him in 2017, so he took what was left of his talents to Phillidelphia, where he made two starts before opting for season ending Tommy John surgery.

The rest is history in the making. Bucholz signed a minor league deal with Arizona, and he’s done nothing but succeed since. Buchholz has only given up more than 2 ER in a start twice this season, and yet still the Diamondbacks won both of those games. He’s averaging more than 6 innings per start, and most recently is coming off of a complete game gem on the road.

The big reasons for his success thus far have been his cutter and his changeup. Opponents own a measley .317 SLG rate on his cutter, while no one has hit itQ:

Anime/cartoon: Tony and his 2 companions find the gems that fit into the legendary book

Tony, a boy from Earth, was running in a race and stopped to do his laces, is pulled over into the other world while his soon to be female companion tries to steal the book, thinking that she is the chosen one. But her master caught her and made her listen to reason.
Tony and the girl soon end up fighting people among their enemies. Tony has a rock which was given to him by his grandfather, he threw it as instructed by the girl and a blue beast that looks like a dog came. He helped them fight. The girl had her own one. Their other companion, male, also joined when the master told


this series.

A:

This is Magi-Nation (2007-2010).
From Wikipedia:

Three thousand years ago in the Moonlands, the evil Shadow Magi Agram was sealed inside the planet's Core by the Core Glyph and the Dreamstones which provided its power. Now he plans to escape by using his Shadow Geysers to weaken his prison in order to bring the Moonlands under his control, and only a Magi known as the "Final Dreamer" can stop him. A young boy from Earth, Tony Jones, is summoned into the Moonlands as he is believed to be this Final Dreamer. He joins forces with the apprentice Magi, Edyn, and the Shadow Stalker, Strag, on a mission to gather the Dreamstones before Agram is set free. Using the Book of Elders, the three travel through the Moonlands while combattingthe forces of Agram and gaining an ever-growing collection of Dream Creatures from the Moonlands that they visit.

You can see Tony summoning the "blue dog" (Furok) in the video below.

The book is the Book of Elders; per the wikia:

The Book of Elders is a book that was made by the elders of the Moonlands in order to trap Agram within the Core. The book gave clues to guide Tony, Edyn, and Strag to find the Dreamstones. Once all of the Dreamstones are inserted into the book's cover, the Core Glyph is formed and can imprison Shadow Magi in the Core.

You can see Edyn remembering she spilt tea on the authentic book in this scene.


Synovitis/tenosynovitis

Also known as:
Tenosynovitis

Synovitis is the inflammation of a synovial (joint-lining) membrane. It is usually painful, particularly on motion, and is characterized by swelling, due to effusion (fluid collection) in a synovial sac.

Providence Health & Services in Oregon is a not-for-profit Catholic network of hospitals, care centers, health plans, physicians, clinics, home health care and affiliated services guided by a Mission of caring that the Sisters of Providence began in the West nearly 160 years ago.Nearly a quarter of condos in Vancouver are empty or occupied by non-residents in some dense areas of downtown, a signal that investors play a significant role in the city's housing market.

And the city overall has a much higher rate of empty apartments and houses than other Canadian cities, with a rate closer to places like New York and San Francisco at the height of their mortgage crisis in 2010.

Downtown, the rate is so high that it's as though there were 35 towers at 20 storeys apiece – empty.

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That's the latest discovery that adjunct UBC planning professor Andrew Yan made when he analyzed 2011 census numbers to try to add more information to the contentious debate over whether Vancouver is turning into a high-end resort


three streets – Davie, Denman, and Robson – that are packed with busy small shops and restaurants.

Mr. Yan said that the high numbers of empty apartments don't prove there's a problem with foreign investors, but they do indicate that Vancouver has a large proportion of general investor buyers, be they offshore or Canadian.

Housing analyst Tsur Somerville, director of UBC's Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate, said the data he has seen also indicate that Vancouver built more housing in the 2006-2011 period than the number of new households that were added to the city's ranks.

That means investors. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as those units are occupied, said Mr. Somerville, also on the panel.

"The problem is vacant units since that's demand for real estate withoutVancouver's "non-resident" category had the same rate as Calgary's, it would have had only about 16,500 empty units on Census Day – the level to be expected in a regular city, where some part of the housing stock is always going to be empty for one reason or another. Instead, more than 22,000 units showed up in that category. An analysis for the whole Lower Mainland shows that it has between 15,000 and 20,000 more empty units, proportionally, than the Calgary or Toronto metropolitan regions.


and police soon spotted Sewell in his car and gave chase. A police officer saw smoke coming from the car, indicating that its engine had blown. Sewell exited the slowing car without stopping it, and the car struck a light pole. Sewell fell to the ground, was struck by a police car, got up and attempted to flee on foot. Police quickly apprehended him and noted that Sewell acted irrationally and incoherently. According to defendant, at the time of the robbery he was under the influence of crack cocaine, which he had smoked nearly continuously since the day before in the company of his girlfriend and another friend.

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State prosecutors charged Sewell in a three-count indictment with second- and third-degree robbery and third-degree grand larceny. Following a one-day benchtrial, the Monroe County court acquitted Sewell of the charges on May 3, 1999. The state court found that Sewell lacked the criminal intent necessary for liability under state law due to his intoxicated state at the time of the robbery.

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On July 29, 1999, a federal grand jury charged Sewell in a one- count indictment with violating 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) based on the same incident. The court arraigned Sewell on October 5, 1999, and law enforcement officials took him into custody. A jury trial took place from March 20 through 22, 2000, and the jury returned a guilty verdict. During the trial, the district court precluded evidence that Sewell was intoxicated on cocaine at the time of the bank robbery. The district court also refused defendant's request


that he was too intoxicated to know what he was doing during the robbery, Sewell contested the evidence that he actually did it. During his cross- examination of the victim teller, he highlighted inconsistencies in her descriptions of the holdup note and of the hat he was wearing. He elicited from a police officer the fact that the government had failed to obtain fingerprint evidence. During closing arguments, he accused the victim teller and a witness teller of being interested witnesses who had reason to lie. Finally, he specifically disputed that his actions satisfied the statutory element of intimidation, which again is apart from the issue of whether he had knowledge of his intimidating actions at the time of the robbery. We accordingly see no clear error incompeting ideology attempting to usurp the need for any sort of action to end this misery. He is a blackhole, sucking the light and energy out of our marches. He has been louder, with a seemingly-unlimited amount of energy. He should have been kicked out of our presence and shut down. His chanting turned a section of the masses looking on in support of our march against us; he was able to frame us as misguided, petulant youth, while his two-word catchphrase was the actual salvation—and not communism. It was our march, and a plan of action must be taken to neutralize non-state enemies of the people. In essence, he is nothing more than an opportunist, and a snitch who in the past has gotten our comrades arrested.

Kidnapped


DeWayne Wickham

Opinion contributor

I don’t know how long it was after August 1619, when the first enslaved Africans were brought ashore to Virginia, that my ancestors ended up in America. But I know my family’s journey from slavery to freedom was an arduous one.

While the United States didn’t end slavery until 1865, the importation of African men, women and children into this country for use as chattel was banned in 1807. That was the same year that John Wickham, the most prominent attorney in Virginia, joined the team of lawyers that represented Aaron Burr in his treason trial.

Somehow, my ancestors — who most likely came from a stretch of West Africa that includes Togo, Benin, Cameroon and Congo, according to a DNA search — became the property of theWickham family. My great-grandfather, John Cassius Wickham, was born in 1847.

A Civil War battle and a family name

My great-grandfather was still enslaved when the Civil War broke out in 1861. The head of the white Wickham clan at that time was Williams Carter Wickham, who quickly rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate Army. In 1864, Gen. Wickham fought in the war’s biggest cavalry engagement, not far from Hickory Hill, his 3,300 acre plantation.

It was called the Battle of Trevilian Station, and I suspect my great-grandfather was close enough to the fighting to inhale the pungent smell of musket powder. Years later he named one of his sons — my grandfather — Trevillian Wickham.

400 years after slaves came to America:

Enslaved Africans landed in Virginia in


the pursuit of happiness” that the Founding Fathers said was the inalienable right of citizens.

This, I suspect, is why some 198,000 black Americans served in the Union Army and Navy during the Civil War. Twenty-three of them received the Medal of Honor, this nation’s highest honor for courageous acts in combat. And I think it’s the reason my father followed in his father’s footsteps.

The United States was drawn into World War II in December 1941. My father, John Trevillian Wickham, listed on military records as a “semiskilled” warehouseman, enlisted in the Army a year after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. At 20 years old, he was already married with a wife and son.

Between the two wars, my grandfather held a succession of dead-end, low-paying jobs. But hismonths of the war in Europe. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the Allied forces, put out a call for volunteers to fill the depleted ranks of his white combat units. My father was one of more than 2,000 black soldiers who stepped forward.

He was assigned to the 56th Armored Infantry Battalion of the 12th Armored Division. For his service in that unit, my father received a Bronze Star. Even so, after the war he struggled to find a job that lifted our family out of poverty. When I was born, my parents gave me the middle name of Trevillian and took me home to a small apartment in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore that in 2015 become ground zero for a racial uprising.

On Dec. 17, 1954,


The KKK

The Ku Klux Klan was the most infamous, white supremacist, American hate group of all. The Klan saw itself as a Christian organization, targeting Catholics and Jews. They burned crosses; had parades and marches, all of them on the purpose of denouncing immigrants, Blacks, gays, and lesbians -- in addition to the religious groups they already targeted. The Klan was founded in 1866, and extended into almost every Southern state by 1970.

"We are a Christian militant organization and are ever ready to stand behind the Protestant Church as long as it remains Protestant. We are not Anti-Catholic, Anti-Jew, Anti-Negro, or Anti-anything, but are PRO-AMERICAN." -KKK Members 1923 Letter to Reverend Gus RamageBrazilian father and Irish mother who are divorced, Marques lived with his mother and sister in Ireland since childhood. Marques later worked and lived in his father’s Dublin home for years, prior to a police raid and his apprehension from the residence in August of 2013. Neighbors described Marques as a recluse who spent most of his days in solitude on his computer. The amended criminal complaint against Marques alleges that between July 24, 2008 and July 29, 2013, the facilitator “conspired to advertise and to distribute child pornography, and aided and abetted the advertising and distribution of child pornography by allegedly operating a free, anonymous web hosting service (AHS) located on the “dark web”, an area of the Internet that is only accessible by means of special


software, allowing users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceable. ” Around the same time that Marques began facilitating child pornography sites, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children reported that child pornography files submitted between 2005 to 2009, for the purposes of identifying children, increased by 432%.

Marques’ Freedom Hosting harbored more than 500 servers in Europe, providing anonymity to sites like PedoEmpire, Love Zone and Lolita City. In 2011, a group identifying as “Anonymous,” carried out a mission they described as “Operation Darknet,” in which they briefly took down 40 sites allegedly trading in child abuse images. Lolita City was among those sites targeted by Anonymous. The group then published the identities of 1500 site users. One member of the Anonymous group is alleged towith the anonymous hosting service as well as the two targeted websites under scrutiny. Agents then traced the location of the server to France, and in working with the French police, discovered the server was registered under Marques with a billing address listed in Las Vegas. Investigators then discovered the account held by Marques at the private mailing facility in Las Vegas listed a forwarding address in Dublin, Ireland. FBI then contacted the Irish state police, who surveilled the address and confirmed Marques lived at the residence.

On July 29, 2013, the Irish state police raided Marques’ home, apprehended the suspect, and confiscated his computer. Then a few days later, Freedom Hosting website went down, and several child abuse sites were reportedly infected with JavaScript exploits, making it possible


to identify site users and their IP addresses.

Photo Credit: Collins Courts

Marques remained in custody in Ireland while fighting extradition to the United States for six years. He was finally extradited in March of 2019. Authorities seized approximately $155,000 from Marques, who admitted that his business was “very successful,” during his extradition hearing. Then in February of 2020, Marques pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to advertise child abuse images. He faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison, with a maximum of 30 years possible. The plea agreement is seeking a sentence of 15 to 21 years in prison, though the US district judge is not bound by these parameters. No further details of the plea agreement have been reported, though there is speculation as toThe police say a 33-year-old woman fatally gunned down in East Vancouver was the intended target of the brazen shooting, but her family believes she was an innocent bystander.

The murder of Janice Nicole Bryant marks the city's eighth homicide of 2017.

Officers found Bryant suffering from gunshot wounds after being called to East 7th Avenue and St. Catherines Street, not far from China Creek Park, shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday.

She was rushed to hospital but succumbed to her injuries shortly after arriving.

Camille Brockmann said she heard three gunshots that "echoed through the whole neighbourhood."

“It’s very, very shocking because this is a very safe neighbourhood,” she told CTV Vancouver.

Const. Jason Doucette said investigators don't believe the shooting was random, and the victim’s background will form part of the department’s investigation.

"We're


general public are at risk, but are concerned about the fact the murder happened in a high-traffic residential area close to a park used by families.

"This was a careless act. The person who pulled the trigger appears to know they were in a populated area," Doucette said.

Witnesses said a silver Toyota that had its windshield shot out was seen driving away from the area after the gunfire rang out.

Sammy Ahmed said one witness was able to get the first three digits of the license plate of the vehicle.

Anyone with information on the killing is asked to call the Vancouver Police Department's Major Crime Section at 604-717-2500.

Tipsters who want to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

With files from CTV's Ben Miljure and Jon WoodwardChina is the first non-EU state to announce its participation to the so-called Juncker plan launched last year by the Commission's president.

Neither Katainen nor Ma Kai, the Chinese vice-prime minister he met, gave any indication on the amount of China's participation in the plan. Details should be settled before the end of the year.

"Europe has confidence in the Chinese economy and China has confidence in European economic recovery," Ma said.

Katainen and Ma agreed in addition to set up a joint working group aimed at developing cooperation on investment. The group will include experts from the EU Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Silk Road Fund, a $40-billion fund established last year to support China's so-called Silk Road infrastructure plan across Asia.

They also discussed increased cooperation between


China and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), with possible Chinese membership in the EBRD.

Silk Road

Katainen was in the Chinese capital with two colleagues, transport commissioner Violeta Bulc and digital economy commissioner Guenther Oettinger.

Bulc attended the signing of a EU-China Connectivity Platform. The deal is aimed at developing synergies between China's "One Belt One Road" initiative - the plan including the Silk Road and a so-called Maritime Silk Road in the south-Asian seas - and EU plans such as the Trans-European Transport Network policy - a set of projects to improve rail, road and fluvial connections in Europe.

The scheme will "promote employment, growth and development in our countries," Bulc said.

5G

Oettinger, for his part, signed a joint declaration with Chinese minister of industry and information technology Miaotie-in found tons of success in 2012.The greatest example is, which opened in nationwide release less than two weeks after the presidential election; by the end of the year, it has racked up a remarkable $134.2 million, and it still has plenty of money left to earn.wasn't quite as political as—the context of the Iranian Hostage Crisis was secondary to the espionage thrills—though its $108.7 million gross in 2012 is still remarkable for a movie with such heavy real-world subject matter.On the lighter end, Will Ferrell Zach Galifianakis comedyquietly wound up being one of the biggest comedy hits of the year with $86.9 million. Finally,became the second-highest-grossing political documentary ever with $33.5 million. Channing Tatum went in to 2012 as a punch-line and came out of the year


Trends in prenatal ultrasound use in the United States: 1995 to 2006.
While controversy continues about the appropriateness of routine ultrasound screening, there are little data on actual clinical practices or trends in the United States. To examine changes in prenatal ultrasound utilization over time and determine whether ultrasound utilization is associated with maternal age, race/ethnicity, payer status, region of the country, or pregnancy risk group. Data on prenatal visits to office-based physicians and hospital outpatient departments from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey in 1995 to 2000, 2005, and 2006. Prenatal ultrasound use as recorded by a checkbox on the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey survey forms. We calculated the percent of visitsare VERY good, and available on Amazon ).Dinner was Cioppino paired with their very refreshing (it's July in Texas) Rose' and their Sangiovese.I've got to say, the Cioppino was the second best I've ever had. The first being My Mom's (of course, she'd haunt me forever if I said differently).I think this guy stole her recipe. Truth be told, he's correct when he says Cioppino is not so much a recipe as a technique. Mom's was great, last night's was pretty close.But that's not the story, today.So we're in the barrel room of the winery, (the only place cool enough to house 28 folks, in July in Texas) and folks are starting to settle in to their seats. We're sitting down at one end next to the Winemaker.


of the nose section as it separated from the aircraft. My parachute was still attached, but it was damaged. (I found out later, his parachute had absorbed a 20MM round that would have hit him in the torso.) As I pulled the ripcord, it was all tangled. I managed to get it partially untangled before I hit the ground, but I still hit pretty hard.""Where was this?""An airfield (Villacoublay) just southwest of Paris."

"So you spent some time with the Germans?""Yes, in Stalag Luft III." (Didn't realize it at the time, but....Great Escape)His voice lowered. "Those were the 'Hungry' times." I knew not to press this issue."When were you liberated?""April 30th 1945, by George Patton's 3rd Army."Much to my dismay, at that point the rest of his party returnedand took him home.Several things struck me. First he was 94 years old and got around with only a cane. That meant when all this took place, he was 20, maybe barely 21.He very vividly remembered the dates, cited above, and joy was still very apparent in his voice 70+ years after the fact when he mentioned being liberated.As a kid, I read about these missions. In ROTC, we studied these missions, as a Fighter Pilot I studied these missions,. as a Staff Officer, I studied these missions. I knew there were losses, severe losses. But....You read mission reports like this and it's too easy to say "Oh, Only 1 KIA, 3 WIA and 21 MIA, that's not too bad."Unless one of those numbers is you or someone


you love.

Col, then 2LT, Carruthers is front row, first on the left. A few in the photo were not on the mission. The rest were killed.Source

As a Marine I take great pride in what Marines accomplished in the Pacific in World War II. Casualties were heavy against an implacable foe. But I never understood how impressive the record of the Eighth Air Force was until I visited the Mighty Eighth Museum located right off I-95 in Savannah, GA. When you realize that they flew day after day, and took losses that often exceeded 50% it is hard to comprehend such bravery. In fact, the Eighth Air Force suffered more casualties that the entire Marine Corps in World War II. Gentlemen of the Mighty Eighth, I salute you!

And youI talked to his neighbor (the folks that brought him to the winery) and told them about the Nimitz Museum's Living History program and asked that they mention it to him. Hopefully, he'll take them up on it.

Exactly my thought, OAFS. I had a carrier qualified Naval Aviator instruct me in Statics, Dynamics, and Strength of Materials in college. He was tough but fair. We used to joke about him coming to class with armor under his suit. Mr. Copenhaver. His name still gives me shivers...

One of our math professors was a spook pilot in VietNam. He told us he wanted to write about it, but he wouldn't live long enough to outlast the Top Secret clearance on what he did!! A friend's dad in High School was


a Marine, wounded on Iwo Jima. They were everywhere you went. High School chemistry teacher was a tank commander in Korea (kept a picture of his tank in his desk!!!!), deacon at my church was 2nd ID from 51-52 in Korea. Nicest man I ever met was with Patton from 12-44 throgh 2 years of occupation duty in Germany.

I miss those guys. They were the one's I looked to when I needed advice or direction...

I read and "studied" those stories too. Even got to listen to and occasionally shoot the shit with a few of those guys at SERE and other training venues. At some point the reality of those lost, MIA, and KIA numbers began to sink in. The Eighth Air Force lost more killed during theto tell. That's why I like the link Sarge has in the sidebar entitled "War Tales". Has stories from just regular folk that did their duty. It's a good reminder that the military is real people not numbers.

As I have mentioned here before, my dad was a B-17 pilot and flew 35 combat missions over Europe with this group--

http://www.447bg.com/

He flew his first mission January 2, 1945. I never heard him bring up the topic in conversation, but he was comfortable talking about it when asked. One day, while he was visiting our family (especially to see his grandkids) he and I got to talking about his tour. He said that no one on his crew was ever injured, but that they came back on three engines "more than


once". At the end of the conversation, he summed it all up in one word. He said it was a "lark". Without saying so, he was comparing himself to men like Col. Carruthers.

For anyone interested, another descendant of a 447th air crew member has put up a huge amount of group records and info on Smugmug. Here's the link--

Here's another site you might find useful as well, especially as it is interactive.

http://www.americanairmuseum.com/

I found the following image there--

https://447bg.smugmug.com/

It looks to me to have been taken from a ship in the low squadron, with the high squadron in the background. It always brings to mind something I read awhile back. Seems a German fighter pilot was transferred from the Eastern Front to the Western Front. He later remarked upon seeingHis work at the Vigo Ordnance Plant was classified, and he never talked about it even though at least part of it was declassified while he was still alive and cogent. My mother remembers that "he took a lot of showers" and "had to wear special protective clothing."

From what I've been able to find out, Wikipedia's summary is good:

"When it was conceived, the initial plan was for the Vigo Plant to be a production facility for anthrax and botulinum toxin. The 1944 order converting the plant to a BW facility directed that it become a factory capable of producing 275,000 [botulinum] bombs or one million anthrax bombs per month. The core of the Vigo Plant's BW operation was the anthrax fermenters installed during the renovations in 1944. There


were 12 20,000 gallon fermenter tanks at Vigo, the total of 240,000 gallons which made it the largest bacterial mass-production line anywhere in the world at the time.

After U.S. BW scientists worked through the problems presented by trying to mass-produce bombs that were to be filled with a deadly biological agent, the production line was essentially ready to operate. The line would fill the British four pound anthrax bombs with an anthrax slurry and then cluster them into the M26 cluster adapter, to form the M33 cluster bomb. Before production could begin, however, safety testing commenced. The scientific director of the U.S. BW program, Ira Baldwin, selected Walter Nevius, a specialist in pathogen containment, to lead the safety inspections which began when he arrived at Vigo in thecycle continuesab.

Right motivation for receiving education

Another important principle of Buddhist pedagogy is Right Motivation for Receiving Education. It starts from administration and faculty affirming that learning is an individual experience and everyone learns differently. Before and after enrollment, students meet with their counselors, who help them discover their natural gifts and the spiritual purpose and meaning of their life. Students are taught that the right motivation for success in education and career must rise from their own heart and mind. By following this principle, students at Buddhist Universities do not measure their success in terms of the “money power” and status they will acquire after graduation; rather, they see their years in college as the beginning of a lifelong process of self-improvement and mastering those virtues and skills