"NATIONAL LEAGUE SERIES PLAYER #" on the front. The back of the tab says (cut along this line), "SAVE THIS VALUABLE STUB FOR YOUR RED MAN BIG LEAGUE STYLE BASEBALL CAP" on all four years the cards were issued. The 1953 tabs are slightly different from the 1952 tabs in that they say "1953 NATIONAL LEAGUE SERIES" or "AMERICAN LEAGUE SERIES" with the player name and the player number below that. The 1954 and 1955 Red Man card tabs simply say "RED MAN ALL-STAR SERIES" preceded by the year.

The 1952 thru 1955 Red Man Tobacco cards consist of 208 cards with 4 cards in the 1954 set having variations due to 3 players changing teams and 2 players sharing the same card number. There are also a totalof 111 different players and managers with 27 of those being Hall of Fame players. The official tobacco card designation for each set by year is as follows, 1952 is T-232, 1953 is T-233, 1954 is T-234 and 1955 is T-235.

The 1952 Red Man Tobacco set consists of 52 cards with 25 National League players and 25 American League players. Both World Series managers, Casey Stengel and Leo Durocher, are included in the set and make up the additional two cards. The 1952 Red Man Tobacco set was the first tobacco issue released since the early teen years, and is considered the most difficult set of the four to collect with tabs intact. Out of all the Red Man Tobacco cards issued, it is believed the Casey Stengel


for a Red Man card was a NM-MT PSA 8 Ted Williams going for a whopping $14,967 in 2001 and another for $13,020 in 2004!

The 1953 Red Man Tobacco set like the 1952 set contains 52 cards, 26 National Leaguers and 26 American Leaguers. There are 22 new players in the set, 12 in the American League and 10 in the National League. The key players in the American League are Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra, Nellie Fox, George Kell, Phil Rizzuto, Early Wynn, Bob Lemon, and Johnny Mize. The National League stars are Richie Ashburn, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Robin Roberts, Red Schoendienst, Enos Slaughter, Duke Snider, Ralph Kiner, Warren Spahn, Hoyt Wilhelm, and Stan Musial.

There have been 1,231 cards graded with only 1 PSA 10, aBoston Red Sox. Card 6A also has two variations of Sam Mele, one on the Baltimore Orioles and the other with the Chicago White Sox. Card A 9A of Dave Philley has him on the Cleveland Indians on one card and the Philadelphia Athletics on another.

The final variations are two cards of 19N, one of Enos Slaughter and the other of Gus Bell, both believed to be short printed. There are 28 new players in the set and among them are Minnie Minoso, Whitey Ford, Jimmy Piersall, Monte Irvin, Gil Hodges, Eddie Mathews, and the return of Willie Mays who missed the entire 1953 season while serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. One difference from the previous sets is that there are no manager cards.

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are no manager cards. There are 25 National League player cards and 25 American League player cards in the set with 23 new players added. Notable additions include Early Wynn, Larry Doby, Jackie Jensen, Ted Kluszewski, and Hoyt Wilhelm. The 1955 Red Man set is the least valuable of the four issued sets but still very desirable to have.

The only other PSA 10 graded Red Man Tobacco card can be found in the 1955 set. Bobby Avila has the honor and is one of a total of 1,288 cards graded. 39 cards or 3% of all graded cards have a PSA 9 designation including a Willie Mays, Whitey Ford, Warren Spahn, Pee Wee Reese, 2 Early Wynn's, and a Duke Snider. PSA 8's total 388 cards or 30%,to be spent on public works programs.

Barney Frank
While the idea dates back to Keynes, a similar term is often attributed to Barney Frank, and seems to have been first used around funding the F-22 fighter:

Criticisms
The most direct economic criticism of military Keynesianism maintains that government expenditures on non-military public goods such as health care, education, mass transit, and infrastructure repair create more jobs than equivalent military expenditures.

Noam Chomsky, a critic of military Keynesianism, contends that military Keynesianism offers the state advantages over non-military Keynesianism. Specifically, military Keynesianism can be implemented with less public interest and participation. "Social spending may well arouse public interest and participation, thus enhancing the threat of democracy; the public cares about hospitals, roads, neighborhoods, and so on, but has no opinion about


denuclearization."

Rhodes conceded the Obama administration was never the subject of similar entreaties.

Instead, he congratulated South Korean President Moon Jae-in for the role he has played in outreach efforts since coming to power in May.

"There never was a time when the diplomatic path emerged," Rhodes said. "It's the South Korean president here who has really taken the initiative with this."

Rhodes served as Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, and was instrumental in crafting the Iran nuclear deal.

Higher Education and the National Science Centre, Poland; the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia; the Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación and Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies (ETH Board, ETH Zurich, PSI, SNF, UniZH, Canton Zurich, and SER); the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taipei; the Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand, Special Task Force for Activating Research and the National Science and Technology Development


RIO Systems – Nine RIO systems were sold during the third quarter, of which eight were installed and customer accepted at domestic sites. These new systems brought MAKO's domestic commercial installed base to 54 RIO systems as of September 30, 2010. In addition, one RIO system was sold to a distributor in Italy which will be initially used by the distributor for demonstration purposes to market the RIO system and RESTORIS implant systems in the Italian orthopedic market.

MAKOplasty Procedure Volume – During the third quarter, 815 MAKOplasty procedures were performed, of which 809 procedures were performed at domestic sites, and our clinical research site in Glasgow, Scotland reported that six procedures were performed at its site. The 815 MAKOplasty procedures represent a 3% increase over procedures performed inthe second quarter of 2010 and a 95% increase over the third quarter of 2009. The average monthly utilization per system was 5.7 procedures during the third quarter of 2010, a decrease from 6.3 procedures per system per month in the second quarter of 2010 and an increase from 5.4 procedures per system per month in the third quarter of 2009. A total of 4,723 procedures had been performed through September 30, 2010, since the first procedure in June 2006.

Clinical Education – In the third quarter, MAKO attended four local conferences where surgeons engaged in RIO interactive hands on demonstrations. Additionally, in the third quarter, MAKO held two BioSkills courses, which are designed to bring together current and prospective MAKOplasty surgeons to share best practices.

"We are pleased with


LIVERPOOL look poised to miss out on Henrikh Mkhitaryan, after the Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder rubbished reports linking him to Anfield.

Reports have been awash recently about Mkhitaryan's future, with Liverpool thought to be in the driving seat for his signature after Ian Ayre cancelled a trip to Rio de Janiero.

The Reds, who have already done some early business in the transfer window, had been told by the Ukraine giants they would have to fork up £20m for his services.

However, Mkhitaryan has poured cold water on the rumours, by making a post on his official Facebook page.

It read: "I am happy to see that people show keen interest in my career but I would like to ask all not only to refrain from making comments but also to prevent theCHENNAI: A Tamil Nadu youth who has fought alongside fighters of the so-called Islamic State in the Iraqi battlefield of Baiji could help Indian agencies unravel details of the outfit's methods, training modules, religious courses, funds and the role of women in battle.Senior home ministry officials describe Subahani Haja Moideen's arrest as the most "prominent" among those of 60 IS recruits over the past two years, saying he is privy to the outfit's operational details.In November 2014, a 23-year old youth from Kalyan (Mumbai), Areeb Majeed , was arrested after he returned from IS territory via Turkey. Majeed, however, was never allowed to go to the war zone, and instead, was asked to clean toilets and provide water to those on the battlefield. Moideen and Majeed are the


only two known Indian IS recruits to have returned home.Moideen, originally from Idukki in Kerala, was picked up from Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu) a few days back as he was preparing to carry out attacks in south India along with a freshly recruited IS module in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. He has been charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).After being radicalized online by IS in late 2014 and early 2015, Moideen claims he left home to fight for the organisation on April 8, 2015. "I told my parents and wife I was going to perform Umrah (pilgrimage). As guided by my handlers, I travelled to Iraq via Istanbul after taking a flight from Chennai on a visit visa," Moideen told the investigators. After reaching Istanbul, sources said,he crossed over to Iraq along with other foreign terrorist fighters, including some from Pakistan and Afghanistan.During his five-month stay in Iraq and Syria , Moideen was trained for three months in Sharia, followed by extensive combat training by the military unit of IS in Mosul "I was trained in a batch of 30-35 recruits, mostly foreign fighters from Afghanistan, Australia, Lebanon, Pakistan and other countries, and my trainer was an Afghan national. It was a hard training schedule during which we were kept in small rooms and trained from morning till evening," Moideen told the investigators.After his training, IS first sent him to a 'staging post' and then to the main battle zone of Baiji in Iraq, where he confronted Iraqi and Kurdish forces, said sources. "I


was paid 100 US dollars per month as subsistence allowance by the IS, along with accommodation and food," he claimed."I reached Istanbul in September and stayed there illegally for two weeks before I approached the Indian consulate. In September-end, I reached India via Mumbai," he said.However, while staying in Tirunelveli where he worked as a jewellery salesman, he once again got in touch with IS handlers over internet and was planning to collect explosives and precursor chemicals from Sivakasi at their instance, said NIA.In last few months, Moideen travelled to Chennai, Coimbatore and other places to meet local contacts as part of the conspiracy to kill Kerala HC judges and RSS leaders.Possible Northward Introgression of a Tropical Lineage of Rhipicephalus sanguineus Ticks at a Site of Emerging Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
Increasing rates of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico underscore the importance of studying the ecology of the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, the vector in that region. This species is reported to comprise distinct tropical and temperate lineages that may differ in vectorial capacity for RMSF and are hypothesized to be limited in their geographical range by climatic conditions. In this study, lineage was determined for ticks from 9 locations in California, Arizona, and Mexico by DNA sequencing of 12S, 16S, and D-loop ribosomal RNA. As expected, sites in northern California and eastern Arizona had temperate-lineage ticks, and phylogenetic analysis revealed


considerable genetic variability among these temperate-lineage ticks. However, tropical-lineage ticks extended north from Oaxaca, Mexico were well established along the entire border from San Diego, California to western Arizona, and were found as far north as Lytle Creek near Los Angeles, California (a site where both lineages were detected). Far less genetic variability in the tropical lineage despite the large geographical distances is supportive of a hypothesis of rapid northward expansion. Discovery of the tropical lineage north of the identified climatic limitations suggests that more work is needed to characterize this tick's ecology, vectorial capacity, expansion, possible evolution, and response to climate change.Q:

Outdoor training my "too-good" dog

My 9-month old Cava Tzu (a Shih Tzu mix) is perfectly pad trained. As a baby, she learned to go on a pad in our kitchen. When we moved apartments, she nicely adapted to going in our new laundry room.
However, when we go away overnight (more than 20 hours), she will go on the floor of our friend's house. She will go in a random place, when nobody's looking. I would like to train her to go outside.
The problem is that my dog is "too good". She won't go in front of people. Additionally, she can and does hold it in for up to 8 hours.
I've tried moving her pad towards the door. Once I move her pad more than a few


1 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-open Publication No. H09-261943) includes a stator to which a rail is mounted, and a slider is slid along the rail to thereby realize the relative movement of the slider to the stator.
Furthermore, the stator is provided with an armature coil and a drive control circuit for supplying driving current to the armature coil, and the slider is mounted with a field magnet. By supplying the driving current to the armature coil, a magnetic thrust force is generated between the stator and the slider so as to slidably move the slider relatively to the stator.
Moreover, in a conventional linear motor, although the motion of the slider is guided by the rail mounted to the stator, the rail also has a function for retaining agap in the direction of the magnetic power caused by the supplying of the driving current to the armature coil. In an arrangement in which any gap does not exist between the stator and the slider in the linear motor, the stator and the slider are stuck together by the magnetic force generated by supplying the driving current to the armature coil, which may adversely result in impossibility of the relative motion of the slider to the stator, and accordingly, it is necessary to control or manage the gap between the stator and the slider of the linear motor.
Furthermore, a conventional structure for controlling the gap between the stator and the slider includes, other than the structure controlled by the installation of the rail as mentioned above in


Saunders is 49 years old. In
addition to suffering from longstanding problems such as back pain, Saunders is
cognitively impaired by major depressive disorder and borderline intellectual
functioning. He held various factory jobs, such as packaging diapers, processing meats,
and packing eggs, before he stopped working because of his impairments. His road to
this court has been protracted. He first applied for benefits in September 2005, alleging
that he had been disabled since mid-2004. Later, he amended his alleged onset date to
August 2009. Since then, four different ALJs have denied his claim, and there have been
several remands concerning the extent of his cognitive difficulties: the first remand was
ordered by the Appeals Counsel, the second by a federal district court, and the third
based on a joint stipulation by Saunders and the Commissioner. The latest remand
orderGlobal support for the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) increased dramatically after international partners made expanded resource commitments following the 2012 London Declaration.^[@IHV072C1]^ This declaration pledged to control or eliminate 10 NTDs by 2020---a goal that was established in support of the earlier WHO *Roadmap for NTDs*,^[@IHV072C2]^ itself a plan detailing specific goals for each of the targeted diseases.

For five of those NTDs---lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis and trachoma---preventive chemotherapy (PC) is the tool of choice for disease control or elimination, and the principal strategy for delivering the PC is mass drug administration (MDA).^[@IHV072C3]^ Whole populations or whole segments of populations identified as living in areas endemic for one or more NTDs are offered the appropriate NTD medications (usually given once-yearly) without having the


international WHO guidelines and recognized best practices.In its first 2 years, this RRR framework has already helped support a diverse portfolio of nearly 100 operational research projects^[@IHV072C7]^ involving 88 partners and 37 ministries of health. In addition to these individual operational research studies, this mechanism has been particularly effective in supporting a major initiative with WHO\'s Africa Regional Office (AFRO) for rapid completion of the mapping of PC-NTDs. Piloting some of the newest diagnostic tools, the AFRO Mapping Initiative will have filled the remaining gaps in defining PC-NTD endemicity in the region by 2016, while at the same time testing these tools for further application to other program needs.

Essential to the success of COR-NTD is communication both with and within the broader NTD community. Through an annual meeting,A high school student’s essay led to the arrest of a man who admitted raping her and her two sisters when they were children.

School officials at Vanguard Tech Center in Fremont, Ohio alerted child services and the sheriff’s office after the unnamed student detailed the years of sexual abuse she and her sisters experienced for a homework assignment about overcoming obstacles. Local CBS News affiliate WTOL reports the man is a member of the student’s family.

Detectives arrested 43-year-old Anthony Knight, who later pled guilty to three felony rape charges and was sentenced to 20 years. He will also have to register as a third tier sex offender, the most severe conviction.

The Associated Press reports that the student was initially reluctant to come forward because the sexual abuse occurred


Vanguard Group immediately vested participants in employer-matching contributions – that is allowed them to "own" employer contributions – rather than making them wait a year or more.

This hurts the majority of Americas, who are job changers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American born in the latter years of the baby boom worked for more than 10 employers between the ages of 23 and 44 alone.

4. Despite the Enron debacle, employers can still get away with matching in company stock, which can potentially be worthless. Incredibly, twelve years after the Enron scandal, it's still legal for employers to contribute stock instead of cash. As a result, nearly one in five of the nation's more than 52 million 401(k) participants have more than 20 percent ofJanuary 28/04 9:29 am - PacificSport Training Camp report

The PacificSport National Cycling Centre recently completed the first road training camp of the 2004 season in Victoria B.C. Representatives from almost every province and the national team were in attendance at the 5 day camp. Riders covered more than 650km in just 5 days. Victoria's mild temperatures and a surprising lack of precipitation made for an ideal training experience.

Day 1 included a grueling 4.5km Individual time trial near the beginning of a six hour training day. For many athletes, this was the first chance to see if their fitness was still intact after the Christmas break. The time trial went from the bottom of Willis Point and up into the forested hills surrounding Durrance Lake. Competition was fierce as


riders tried to catch each other.

The aggressive ride in the morning was balanced by some "soothing power yoga" in the afternoon. Many of the athletes at the Centre have been doing these sessions for several months and are seeing improvements in core strength, stability, balance and flexibility. These sessions help the athletes to work out the fatigue of the day's training and to refocus their minds for the miles ahead.

The second day of training was unique because it was the first time the camp was separated into distinct training groups. This allowed riders to choose their intensity level and modify the duration of the workout. Athletes could select a group that was appropriate to their training needs. This increased individual specificity, coach-athlete interaction, and leadership opportunities for allriders. Each of the training groups at the camp had their own chase vehicle and mechanical support from PacificSport coaches Houshang Amiri and Dan Proulx.

The Malahat (a local climb of nearly 12km at 6-8%) was the feature event of the 2nd day. Athletes were asked to climb in their big chainring at 90-100% effort. The result was an amazing display of fitness and mental toughness. Riders pushed themselves to the limit while chasing their training partners through the thick fog that blanketed the middle part of the climb.

Day 3 saw a repeat of the Malahat climb. Luckily the fog that had made visibility almost zero the previous day, was gone. Riders climbed with tired legs back to the summit before descending to Shawnigan Lake. Riders completed some intervals


in small groups before riding into Mill Bay. The return route climbed back to the top of the Malahat, where traces of snow still lingered on the side of the road from the storms of early January.

Athletes came to Day 4 with a lot of fatigue from the previous three days of training. Carter Hovey said "my legs haven't been this sore for more than a year". Despite the tiredness, 26 athletes participated in the second and final time trial of the week- using the same course as Day 1. Surprisingly, most riders went 15-30 seconds faster than they did on Monday. This improvement can be attributed to athletes finding their form and gaining confidence on the varied terrain of the course. Coach Houshang Amiri said, "the timeposition in the draft of Group 2 to help Group 1 keep up the tempo. This type of commitment and teamwork will help all of the riders at the Centre to increase camaraderie and the success of each training session.

At the end of the camp, the only true casualties were the dozens of inner tubes and broken spokes sitting in the back of the Saunders Subaru chase vehicle. We had nearly 20 flats during this camp. The winner of the prize for "Most Bicycle Destruction" went to Yoshito Tsuji. Yoshito managed to rack up over 6 flat tires and wrecked two perfectly round wheels.

Max Plaxton summed up the camp by saying it was "one of the best ever". From the coaches' perspective, we were certainly impressed with the


director of digital marketing at ADP.

PORTLAND, Ore. (BRAIN) — BikeFlights.com has expanded Buck Up for Bikes, a grassroots advocacy fundraising program, to include two new beneficiary organizations: Trips for Kids and Little Bellas. Additionally, the National Interscholastic Cycling Association and the Amy D. Foundation return as beneficiaries for 2017.

AUSTIN, Texas (BRAIN) — Members of the Professional Bicycle Mechanics Association will be on hand at this month's North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Utah to help assemble bikes before the show and to meet with the show attendees during the March 10-12 event.Overview

Montaña Amarilla above Playa de la Cocina

Within the five and a half hours the regular hiking visitor to the island of La Graciosa has between arrival of the first and departure of the last ferry of the day there are three things he can do: loop the northern half of the island, loop the southern half and climb the island's highpoint Agujjas Grandes. If you rush you can combine the latter two but you won't have much time to take in the views. The southern loop starts at Caleta del Sebo, heads towards Montaña Amarilla at the southern tip of La Graciosa, then heads along the north coast before returning through the "saddle between Montaña del Mojon and Agujas Grandes.

The tour is an easy hike except for the


section between Playa de la Cocina and the summit of Montaña Amarilla. Here you scramble up loose tuff and lava slopes which is not exactly difficult but very strenuous. Consider that you are on a desert island 80km off the coast of Africa (with the Sahara on the eastern end of the strait and you get the idea what awaits you. Heat and aridity definitely is a problem and it pays to supply yourself with sufficient amounts of water at Caleta del Sebo's one and only grocery store.

Getting There

Montaña Amarilla seen above Caleta del Sebo.

See the main page for the itinerary info. In brief:

Fly to Lanzarote

Take LZ1 to Orzola in the north

Take the ferry to Caleta del Sebo on La Graciosa. The route starts at the harbour

After leavingthe ferry turn left and follow the sandy dirt road which leaves Caleta del Sebo in south-westerly direction. While you're still in the village you get a glimpse of the very relaxed life people lead in this place. The road turns into a dirt track as soon as it leaves the village. It generally follows the coast but turns passes some smaller bays further inwards. After some 500 - 1000m you reach the La Graciosa campground. It is not much more than a couple of dunes between which pitching a tent is allowed. There are no sanitary facilities so all campers will ahve to return to Caleta del Sebo for any kind of body hygiene.

From the campground the track heads down to the coastline. It reaches the far


flung Bahia del Salado, which needs to be crossed across a stretch of very loose sand. The bay is home to a salltwater lagoon which only gets filled at very high tides and can dry up in times of hot weather. After reaching the far, southern side of Bahia del Salado the track splits in two. The left hand track ends after several hundred metres while the right one leads through a landscape of dunes where high bushes obstruct the views and make orientation tricky.

The next stage takes you to the small beach Playa Francesca at the closer end of which the track vanishes among rocks. Hike across the rocks to the far end, where a narrow trail heads steeply up and across the sand dune which separatesPlaya Francesca from Playa de laa Cocina. Once upon the dune you will behold the fabulous view of the red and ochre south face of Montaña Amarilla with its tuff caves and formations. A path leads down to the beach, a second leads across the slopes directly to a cave in the south face of the volcano, while a third leads up to a col to the right of the mountain.

Punta del Pobre seen from Montaña Amarilla

This latter path after crossing the col and heading onwards for another 200m leads to a trail intersection. The left hand trail heads up Montaña Amarilla in extremely steep switchback and soon takes you to the upper part of the crater rim. The highest point is in the south-west of the crater,


a second summit can be found in its north. It pays to hike to that second summit because of the fabulous views of the La Graciosa north coast, the Archipelago Chinijo and the brightly red and yellow Punta del Pobre, La Graciosa's southern cape.

Archipelago Chinijo seen through Montaña Amarilla's crater

For the return journey descend the mountain the way you climbed it. At the trail intersection turn northward, heading directly for the eastern tip of Isla de Montaña Clara. There is no trail to speak of - sometimes cairns appear to lead the way, then again a path appears out of nowhere to disappear again after several steps. Head across the dunes towards the north coast and if you stay on track you'll reach a beach at which aactually gets to 100 per cent renewables by 2030 under the Greens plan, however, and its document recognises the difficulties that will be encountered in isolated and stand-alone grids in the Northern Territory and the SWIS in West Australia. Their time-line extends for another 5 years in WA before the closure of the Bluewaters coal generators, and gas is still being used in NT in 2040.

The document publishes a timeline for the closure of each and every coal fired power generator in the country, and it expects a 50 per cent increase in overall grid demand (to more than 327TWh in the National Electricity Market) by 2030, and a further increase to 367TWh by 2040 as electrification in transport and manufacturing continues.

The main policy mechanisms will be a


of the plaintiff in favour of the defendant for a sum of Rs. 4,000.

2. The learned Subordinate Judge has found that the lease and the bond, which were executed on the same day formed one transaction and the two taken together constituted a usufructuary mortgage. That finding has not been contested on appeal.

3. On the 16th June 1885, a second mortgage was executed by the defendant and on the 15th June 18S9, a roka or hand-note was executed by the plaintiff's father in favour of the defendant. On the 16th January 1890, a suit was brought upon this roka and a decree was obtained for a sum of Rs. 1,200 odd. Then on the 27th May of the same year, a suit was brought on the, 2nd mortgagepictures Costa Cola Coca-Cola has paid £3.9bn for Costa Coffee. A cafe chain is a new venture for the global soft drinks giant PA Business news: In pictures RIP Payday Loans A funeral procession for payday loans was held in London on September 2. The future of pay day lenders is in doubt after Wonga, Britain's biggest, went into administration on August 30 PA Business news: In pictures Musk irks investors and directors Elon Musk has concluded that Tesla will remain public. Investors and company directors were angry at Musk for tweeting unexpectedly that he was considering taking Tesla private and share prices had taken a tumble in the following weeks Getty Business news: In pictures Jaguar warning Iconic British car maker Jaguar Land Rover warned on July


Gemalto was chosen only because it undercut the competition, but the UK company also admitted that it was not the cheapest choice in the tendering process. Business news: In pictures Beast from the east economic impact The Beast from the East wiped £4m off of Flybe’s revenues due to flight cancellations, airport closures and delays, according to the budget airline’s estimates. Flybe said it cancelled 994 flights in the three months to 31 March, compared to 372 in the same period last year.

Cameron said he would campaign to keep the UK in the European Union, but that he would resist further political integration.

“Britain has never been fond of the idea that we are part of the same sovereignty. We are a proud independent country,” he said.International Women's Day 2012

Published on 09 March 2012

March 8th 2012 was International Women's Day. To commemorate this, we gathered together photographs of expat women from our Archive.

The collection is diverse, ranging from the 1950s to the 1990s, covering the world from Brunei to Norway. The pictures include a forbidden choir in Saudi Arabia, a Dutch lady being shown how to use a water pump in Bangladesh, and a 1950s expat lady buying wares from a Nigerian tribeman.

One surprising thing we noticed was the lack of photographs in a domestic or workplace setting. Perhaps this is something to think about as you document your expat life - do you only take photos at social events, trips and holidays? Your home and work life might seem less interesting or exciting,


"Deny the Absolute"

Instrumental metal Chicago quartet Pelican have always been an intensely beloved work in progress, subject to unusually harsh and exacting criticisms-- their drummer's time-keeping, the length of their compositions – from a devoted fanbase. It's an odd relationship for a band to have with its core audience, but something about Pelican's expansive art-metal seems to stir intense, possessive feelings. On this alternate version of "Deny The Absolute", a song that appears on their new album the band's latest, Forever Becoming (out October 15 via Southern Lord), they hit one of the most fevered churns they've managed in years, with maligned drummer Larry's hard, effective fills pushing the song forward like a thumb jabbed in your back. Like the best Pelican, it seems to form its ownof the optical signal in a direction generally transverse to the propagation direction and a second waveguide section providing strong confinement of the optical signal in all directions relative to the propagation direction. A tapered neck is provided between the first and said second waveguide sections and a core is defined through the first and second waveguide sections and the tapered neck, and through which the optical signal may propagate in the propagation direction.
The present invention is also directed to a method of fabricating a waveguide having a weakly-confining waveguide section and a strongly-confining waveguide section optically coupled by a neck that simultaneously tapers in two directions.
The invention accordingly comprises the features of construction, combination of elements, and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the disclosure


Photo provided by Binghamton Athletics Kevin McKeown will take over as head coach of the Binghamton men’s lacrosse program. Close

The Binghamton men’s lacrosse team has found a new leader in former BU standout Kevin McKeown. Director of Athletics Patrick Elliott announced last week that McKeown would take over as the team’s head coach.

This is not the first time McKeown has manned the Bearcats’ lacrosse squad. When he first took over in 2011 as interim head coach, the program was in turmoil. Just a month into the season, head coach Ed Stephenson resigned over what he felt was the unjustified suspension of three of his players. Third-year assistant coach McKeown, who had played for the Bearcats as an undergraduate, took charge, steadying the ship and leading BU to anAmerica East (AE) Tournament appearance. This time, however, he will have months, rather than days, to prepare.

“It was certainly a challenge, taking over in the middle of the season,” McKeown said. “This time around I’ll have a little bit more planning time, obviously, going into it.”

He succeeds Scott Nelson, with whom the University chose to part ways following the conclusion of last season. Under Nelson in 2016, the Bearcats finished fifth in the AE, failing to make the playoffs for the second straight year. Nelson compiled a 24-45 record over five seasons at the helm, including a 10-17 mark in conference play.

The spotlight into which McKeown was thrust during his time as interim head coach was not unfamiliar to him: As a Bearcat, he served as the cornerstone


of the program following its transition to Division I. A four-year starting goalie for BU, McKeown became known for using every part of his body, in addition to his stick, to make saves.

As a sophomore in 2004, he was ranked third in the nation with a 7.03 goals against average and became the first Bearcat to be named AE Player of the Year. It was his lockdown presence in the cage that led Binghamton to its first regular-season title as well as a playoff berth that season.

“Our team successes in 2004 stand out,” he said. “Winning the regular-season title and hosting the championship game on campus was awesome. That’s definitely something I want to do again and obviously win it, though, this time.”

McKeown, who earned an All-American honorablemention in 2004, remains the most accomplished goalkeeper in program history. During his career he recorded 509 saves in 55 games and averaged 7.51 goals against per game. In 2014 he was inducted into the Binghamton Athletics Hall of Fame.

For the past two seasons, he served as defensive coordinator at Bellarmine, leading the Knights to their first playoff appearance in school history. Previously, he served in the same role at Siena.

The new coach looks to utilize his successful history with the program as he takes charge of a squad that struggled last season, winning just two conference matchups. McKeown believes his experience as both a player and coach will provide him with a level of credibility moving forward.

“Having walked in their shoes for four years, I know what


Kinetics of the male gametogenesis.
The kinetics of the male gametogenesis during the pregonadal period, prespermatogenesis, and "early" spermatogenesis has been described in detail. Concerning spermatogenesis in the adult individual reference is made to the articles of Courot, Hochereau-de Reviers and Ortavant (1970) and of Clermont (1972). The comparison of female and male gametogenesis (Fig. 1) shows that the "gonia stage" (asterisks) of the female germ cells is limited to one proliferation wave only, whereas the "gonia stage" of the male germ cells consists of a first proliferation wave, comparable to that of oogonia, a preparative phase to initiate spermatogenesis, and a second proliferation wave with renewal and differentiation of the spermatogonia. Germ cells in the "gonia stage" are highly sensitive towards ionising radiation and cytostatic drugs.A casting call appears to be underway for one of Marvels major characters.

With Season 2 officially on a go ahead for Netflix and Marvel's brilliant Daredevil series, it appears as if the show is going to introduce none other than Daredevil's love interest Elektra.

Audition videos popped up yesterday of two actresses believed to be trying out for the role.

The two actresses in the videos are apparently actresses Shiva Kalaiselvan and Louisa Mignone, both of which were featured in scenes of the apparent "Elektra" interacting with a criminal first, and then a college Matt Murdock.

As things normally go, there aren’t any obvious mentions of Elektra in the videos, but the conclusion, seems to point at them reading for the role as Elektra. And the fact that they removed so


Astros say goodbye to National League with 2nd straight 100-loss season in Crane's 1st year

HOUSTON – The Houston Astros' last season in the National League was a forgettable one.

The Astros said goodbye to the senior circuit with a whimper, posting their second straight 100-loss season before moving to the American League West for 2013.

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Houston finished with the worst record in the majors for the second year and its 55-107 mark is the worst in franchise history, one game below last year's finish, in Jim Crane's first season as owner.

This group of Astros never really had a chance after the few remaining veterans were jettisoned before the trade deadline and they were forced to play with a roster comprised of just one player who made more than $1 million.Ichiro Kaga

was a Japanese sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres and men's 200 metres events at the 1920 Summer Olympics. His niece is the actress Mariko Kaga.

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280 km cycle which started at 0530 under the cover of darkness in Noosa. The first photo is heading out and not long into it under the watchful eye of the technical officials as the field of athletes started to spread out, the 2nd photo is in the heat of the day which kept my Support Crew (Ray Boardman, Derrick McMillan and Scott Cordwell) busy throughout, providing me electrolyte drinks and food (chicken drumsticks, sausage rolls, Tim Tam biscuits, etc were great, but sticky donuts just made a mess of my hands and handle bars much to the delight of my support crew), the last photo is near the end of the day as we come back in towards Noosa with the fabulous view of the Ocean. Photo’sthe US, but also when trucks and SUVs are the most popular vehicles in the US, perhaps Rivian could be forgiven for this acute focus. Perhaps the US is just their target market?

The United States leads the way regarding charging locations, with over 17,500, Germany has over 11,500, and the Netherlands almost 8000. These countries are well equipped to host adventures in a Rivian, however at least to a certain extent, some things are out of Rivian’s control. One of the adventure capitals of the world, India, has just 17 charging points, whilst Sweden, despite being towards the top of the list with almost 1500, has very disparate locations as you head further north. It’s worth mentioning that Norway fares much better. Meanwhile, you might be okay heading


Oasis release their new single, and are storming back into Uk charts beating off competition from Doves and dance acts, and knockin off from the top "Pop Idol" minor bro Gareth Gates with his Unchained melody after three weeks he was at the top.See the review of The Hindu Times in thereview section after April 23.

Back after a wide break!

Starting from End of April 2002, sorry for the delay ;)

Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has spoken about his recent recording sessions with Oasis singer and now songwriter too Liam Gallagher. Speaking in this morning's London Metro newspaper, he said: "I played with Liam on some songs he'd written last winter. He's got a load of really good tunes. He comes up with the weirdest chords, and just writesfrom the heart really. "It's not easy being him. I respect him because in his mind he thinks Elvis sold out, Mick Jagger sold out and John Lydon sold out and he's going to be the first person in his position to not do that." How lovely!

Radiohead have won the prestigious Q Award 2001 for Best Act In The World today beating off competition among others from U2 and Travis.

In the maintime, for the first ever Top Of The Pops Awards, supposed-to-be favourite of everyone Robbie Williams has seen not a single nomination for him in any of the cathegories instituted."It's not our fault" claimed the responsible of TOTP Awards "all nominees and all results are and will be decided upon public's preferences: we have to consider the


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Queens County (Brathwaite Nelson, J.), entered March 11, 2015, which granted the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability, and (2), as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the same court entered September 28, 2015, as denied that branch of their motion which was for leave to renew their opposition to the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability.
ORDERED that the order entered March 11, 2015, is affirmed; and it is further,
ORDERED that the order entered September 28, 2015, is affirmed insofar as appealed from; and it further,
ORDERED that one bill of costs is awarded to the plaintiff.
The plaintiff allegedly was injured when his vehicle was struck in the rear by a vehicle owned by the defendantPremier Utility Services, LLC, and operated by the defendant Dennis Roach. The plaintiff commenced this action against the defendants to recover damages for personal injuries. After issue was joined, but before discovery, the plaintiff moved for summary judgment on the issue of liability based, inter alia, upon his affidavit wherein he stated that the defendants' vehicle struck his vehicle in the rear as he was in the process of bringing it to a gradual and complete stop at a red light. The defendants opposed the motion, arguing both that the motion was premature since discovery had yet to take place and that a triable issue of fact existed as to the plaintiff's comparative fault. They submitted an affidavit from Roach, who stated that prior to the accident he


was traveling behind the plaintiff's vehicle, with another vehicle in between them. He stated that the plaintiff stopped suddenly for a light that was changing from yellow to red, and the other vehicle was forced to change lanes in order to avoid hitting the plaintiff's vehicle. Roach stated that he immediately applied pressure to the brakes, but his vehicle slid into the plaintiff's vehicle because it had been raining and the roadway was wet. In the order appealed from entered March 11, 2015, the Supreme Court granted the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability.
The defendants then moved, inter alia, for leave to renew their opposition to the plaintiff's motion, based, in part, upon excerpts of the transcript of the plaintiff's deposition, which occurred afterthe plaintiff's motion had been granted. In the order appealed from entered September [*2]28, 2015, the Supreme Court denied that branch of the defendants' motion. The defendants appeal.
"A plaintiff in a personal injury action who moves for summary judgment on the issue of liability has the burden of establishing, prima facie, both that the defendant was negligent and that he or she was free from comparative fault" (Pivetz v Brusco, 145 AD3d 806, 807; see Pouncey v New York City Tr. Auth., 135 AD3d 728, 730). Here, the plaintiff established his prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law through his affidavit, which demonstrated that he was not comparatively at fault for the happening of the subject accident and that the defendant driver was negligent (see


smartphones in April-June, a 10% rise from last year, according to IDC, a research firm. IDC expects growth to continue in the rest of 2019. But it is a mixed bag in consumer durables, which reported a 2% growth in manufacturing output in April-June over last year.Air-conditioners and refrigerators saw their sales rise 20% and 15%, respectively, in the same period, thanks to an unusually hot summer, according to Kamal Nandi, president of the Consumer Electronics and Appliances Manufacturers Association. AC sales had declined 5% and TV sales had risen 3% in the first quarter of 2018-19. India had a heat wave for 32 straight days this year, the longest since 1988, according to Skymet Weather Services.Television sales, however, did not grow despite the Cricket World Cup. Variousfirst eight weeks
of service, while the second and third assaults occurred
sometime between June 1958 and June 1960. However, in a
February 2005 PTSD questionnaire, the Veteran indicated that
the first two assaults occurred within twenty-four hours.
Specifically, he stated that the first beating took place on
July 26, 1958 and he was also beaten by the same people the
following morning. The Veteran contends that he developed a
cyst on his neck as a result of the assaults and suffered
extensive damage to his teeth requiring multiple extractions.
See, e.g., the VA Form 9 dated February 2005.
The Veteran indicates that the third assault occurred on
approximately August 22, 1959. See the Veteran's PTSD
questionnaire dated February 2005. The Veteran states that
he did not report the August 1959 assault, but his injuries
were witnessed by his wife. To corroborate this


report, the
Veteran offered a statement from his wife dated February 2005
in which she states that she met the Veteran at an off-base
gas station and found him to be "totally bloody and beaten;
face and eyes were filled with cuts and abrasions; eyes were
swollen shut." See the statement of M.C. dated February
2005. She further stated that the Veteran refused to seek
medical treatment due to fear of retaliation.
Crucially, aside from the recent statements of the Veteran
and his spouse, made in connection with the Veteran's claim
for monetary benefits from the government [which would
obviously benefit the spouse as well as the Veteran], the
record contains not a scintilla of evidence which indicates
that the Veteran was assaulted in service.
The Board has thoroughly reviewed the Veteran's service
treatment records and notes that the Veteran was treated for
amention of his
alleged in-service assaults. The Board finds it significant
that the Veteran did not raise the issue of in-service
assaults until May 2003, over forty years after his discharge
from military service.
In the June 2004 PTSD questionnaire, the Veteran also vaguely
asserted "a jeep accident during driver's training" and
"lack of medical attention" as in-service stressors. The
Board notes that service treatment records are pertinently
absent any indication that the Veteran was involved in a jeep
accident during his military service. Moreover, there is
absolutely no evidence, aside from the Veteran's own
statements, that the Veteran failed to receive appropriate
medical attention during service.
The Board places far greater probative value on the
pertinently negative contemporaneous service department
records than it does on the more recent statements of the
Veteran and his spouse. See Curry v. Brown, 7 Vet. App. 59,
68 (1994)


psychiatric disability during his military
service. However, after reviewing the file, the Board
believes that service connection may be granted based on
continuity of symptomatology. See
38 C.F.R. § 3.303(b), discussed above.
The Veteran asserts that he began to experience nervous
trouble and anxiety during his military service.
Consistently, the Veteran did note a history of "nervous
trouble" in his May 1960 separation examination report. The
Veteran stated that he used amphetamines following service to
give him the courage to "go out." See the Start of Care
Assessment dated May 2003. According to him, he landed in
legal trouble in 1973, stopped using amphetamines and did
not work again. Further, the Veteran reports that he sought
medical treatment for his extreme anxiety, including
agoraphobia, immediately following his discharge from
military service.
The Veteran and his spouse report that the Veteran received
treatment from 1960-1977 for "nerves".Wilson Smith (“Smith”), the man whom Creel was

later convicted of murdering, through Irene Plangman.      Plangman

had become acquainted with Mrs. Joan Smith (“Joan”) through

business dealings, and Plangman lived briefly with the Smiths.

During that time, Plangman and Creel were sexually intimate.

Creel sold Joan some jewelry, and Plangman acted as an

intermediary in the transaction.       When Joan was unable to raise

the purchase price, Creel became angry over the sale and

Plangman’s friendship with the Smiths.      Creel contacted Julie

Woodley about posing as a potential buyer for some property that

the Smiths had for sale.   According to Woodley, Creel wanted to

talk to the owners about money owed to him.      Woodley arranged by

telephone for


   Removing the duct

tape revealed a knotted red cloth wedged in the mouth.    Based on

the state of decomposition, the examiner testified that the body

had been buried for months.

     The medical examiner expressed the opinion that the manner

of death was “homicide,” based upon the fact that the person was

bound, the mouth was stuffed with a gag, and the hands and feet

were tied and bound.   Although the autopsy revealed that Smith

suffered from moderate coronary artery disease and the examiner

admitted it was possible that heart failure caused the death, the

examiner insisted he would still classify the death as a

homicide.   According to the examiner, the gag in the mouth was

more dangerous than the duct tape, because a gag typicallyevidence concerned

Plangman.   Cuellar testified Plangman had begun acting as an

informant six days before Creel’s arrest, and that, although

Cuellar did not instruct Plangman to obtain information, he was

hopeful she would supply it to him. Creel testified that when he

was in jail Plangman urged him to write her letters.    Creel

argued Plangman assisted Cuellar in finding Woodley in exchange

for Cuellar’s help in getting the jewelry returned from Joan.

Creel testified he did not know Plangman provided information to

Cuellar until Cuellar later named her as an informant at a court

hearing.

     Creel also presented newly discovered evidence of his

alleged innocence.    Creel proffered evidence that Smith had

signed a document transferring title to a car after Creel had

been arrested.    Creel argued


Turkey Celebrate Historic Medal Success

Turning Point: As Turkey threatened to blow their historic moment in spectacular style as Sharon Lammerink almost saved the day for the Netherlands with a spectacular three triples in quick succession, Emel Güler calmly sunk a jumper with just over a minute left to make it an all-important two-shot game.

Game Heroes: The excellent Olcay Cakir and Ayse Cora combined for 32 points to lead the way while Özge Kavurmacioglu played an important cameo with a couple of pivotal three-pointers coming off the bench.

Stats Don't Lie: Netherlands were 0-18 from three-point range until the late intervention of Lammerink who hit three in a row during the last couple of minutes.

Olcay Cakir had 15 points and six assists for Turkey

Turkey survived a dramatic late rally bythe Netherlands to make history at the U20 European Championship Women in Debrecen by winning 58-56 to take bronze and their first ever medal at a women's youth event.

Having been on top throughout the game, Turkey almost blew it right at the death, but none of that will matter now the win is in the books and the players can reflect on being the team that wrote a new chapter in Turkish women's basketball.

Trailing 21-10, Turkey threatened to blow the Netherlands away but thankfully for head coach Rene Spandauw, the Dutch players finished the opening ten minutes with back-to-back scores from Richelle van der Keijl and Maxime Essenstam to narrow the gap.

And, the good work continued into the second quarter when Sharon Lammerink got the Netherlands to within


two points at 22-20.

But, point guard Olcay Cakir was again showing her quality and also finding her range, sinking successive three-pointers to push Turkey out ahead again.

In keeping with the up and down nature of an entertaining first half packed with scoring runs, the Netherlands hit back but having again made it a one-shot game at 30-28, they allowed Turkey one more burst and it proved decisive.

They continued to light it up from the perimeter and after yet more triples by Cakir and Özge Kavurmacioglu, the Dutch hit the locker rooms 40-28 behind and knowing defensively, they had to improve when they re-emerged.

And they did, holding Turkey scoreless for almost five minutes until Cakir stepped forward to end her teams' worrying drought.

With the Netherlands looking like they couldpossibly threaten the superiority of Turkey during the third quarter, their new-found momentum was swiftly killed-off by Ayse Cora and Kavurmacioglu who hit successive three-pointers to re-establish a double-figure lead at 50-38.

However as they did all game, the Dutch just kept going and this time, it was their turn to rejoice from behind the three-point line as Lammerink sunk a simply stunning three triples in a row in an incredible ending.

This helped the Netherlands get within two points but the ice-cool Emel Güler nailed the shot that ultimately won the game and ended what would have been an epic and fairytale finish for the crestfallen Dutch.


Exclusive: Pundit Thomas Friedman says the new Ukraine regime “shares our values” but as much of the world marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi Holocaust finally being ended by Russian and U.S. armies politicians in Kiev were busy honoring Ukraine’s Nazi collaborators, writes Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

The U.S.-backed Ukrainian government came up with a curious way to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust being brought to an end. The parliament in Kiev voted to extend official recognition to Ukrainian fascists who collaborated with the Nazis in killing Jews.

Though Official Washington and the mainstream U.S. media continue to dutifully ignore the key role played by neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s February 2014 coup and in the post-coup regime’s subsequent military offensives against ethnic Russians in the east, Ukrainian politicianscollaborated with the Nazis in their orgy of mass murder against Jews, Poles and other minority groups. The UIA also joined with the Nazis in fighting against the Soviet Union’s Red Army, although some UIA elements did ultimately turn against the Germans over their occupation of Ukraine.

Ukraine was the site of several major Holocaust atrocities including the infamous massacre at Babi Yar in Kiev, where local Ukrainian fascists worked alongside the Nazi SS in funneling tens of thousands of Jews to a ravine where they were slaughtered and buried.

According to the Jerusalem Post, the Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned Ukraine’s recognition of the UIA as well as a second bill that equated Communist and Nazi crimes.

“The passage of a ban on Nazism and Communism equates the most genocidal regime


Ukraine’s legacy of Nazi collaboration, one of the heroes honored during the Maidan protests, which led to the Feb. 22, 2014 coup, was Stepan Bandera, an OUN leader who worked with the Nazis before falling out with them over issues of Ukrainian independence.

After spearheading the 2014 coup, the neo-Nazi and ultra-nationalist militias from western Ukraine were enlisted as the shock troops to attack ethnic Russian cities in eastern Ukraine, which had been the political base for ousted President Yanukovych. Even though some of those militias sported Swastikas and SS symbols, the mainstream U.S. news media either ignored those inconvenient realities or acknowledged them in the final paragraphs of long stories. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Seeing No Neo-Nazi Militias in Ukraine.”]

The recognition of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was demanded last Octoberby Ukraine’s right-wing and neo-Nazi groups, including the Svoboda party and the Right Sektor, which surrounded the parliament in Kiev with 8,000 protesters.

At that time, with U.S. officials sensitive to the image of the Ukrainian government caving in to rioters carrying neo-Nazi banners, the legislation was defeated. However, in recent weeks with the Kiev leadership leaning more heavily on the neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalists to carry out the war against ethnic Russians in the east, more concessions are being made to the extremists.

Lurches to the Right

These lurches to the right have again been largely ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, which continues to blame the ethnic Russians for not submitting to the post-coup regime in Kiev and to demonize Russian President Vladimir Putin as the supposed instigator of


leadership.

The larger historical context is that Nazism has been deeply rooted in western Ukraine since World War II, especially in cities like Lviv, where a cemetery to the veterans of the Galician SS, a Ukrainian affiliate of the Nazi SS, is maintained. These old passions were brought to the surface again in the battle to oust Yanukovych and sever historic ties to Russia.

The muscle behind the U.S.-backed Maidan protests against Yanukovych came from neo-Nazi militias trained in western Ukraine, organized into 100-man brigades and bused to Kiev. After the coup, neo-Nazi leader Andriy Parubiy, who was commander of the Maidan “self-defense forces,” was elevated to national security chief and soon announced that the Maidan militia forces would be incorporated into the National Guard and sent to eastern Ukrainewould eventually continue his father's work as publisher of the Punch.

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Arrangements begin for body of shooter's mother

The Lowell Sun

Updated:
12/19/2012 06:37:57 AM EST

By Joe Amarante

Digital First Media

Among the flood of reports on the Newtown school slayings has been one saying that the bodies of shooter Adam Lanza and his mother Nancy remain unclaimed, raising new questions about the Lanzas' extended family and state procedure.

But arrangements for burial are in the works, at least for the mother, Chief State Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver confirmed Tuesday.

"There is a funeral home, out of state and whose name is as yet unknown to me, who wants to claim the body discreetly," Carver said. That state is apparently New Hampshire, where the former Nancy Jean Champion was raised in Kingston, just north of the Massachusetts line.

"The police in New Hampshire are alreadyin 1998. Their amicable divorce brought Nancy $240,000 a year and more in alimony and child support, so she didn't have to work again, except to care for Adam, who didn't learn to drive until recently.

She became a gun enthusiast and Friday was killed by four .22-caliber bullets to the head from a gun that was not among those taken to the school Friday, Carver told ctnow.com.

Cascio speculated the estate would be paying for the Lanza burials.

"In this case, the next of kin for the mother would be the older son (Ryan)," he said. "The next of kin for the boy is the father."

Cascio said the state's funeral directors, including Howard Hill of New Haven and the Eriksons at Beecher and Bennett in Hamden, are volunteering work on


each pilot.

Complete each of the three daily quests from the Evangelion pilots to receive EVA Coins.

Complete Mu Lung Dojo up to the 5th floor twice, defeat Zakum and collect the Faded Eye of Fire he drops, and complete Monster Park twice.

The pilots have several daily quests so that they can learn more about Maple World.

Accept the quest from each Evangelion pilot from the event notifier on the left side of the screen to begin.

The Evangelion pilots are unfamiliar with Maple World, and are curious to know more about it!

Rewards:

UTC: February 28 (after maintenance) – March 27 at 11:59 PM

Requirement: Lv. 33 and above (Zero characters must have completed up to Chapter 2).

Defeat the 4th Angel within the time limit to receive EVA Coins.

Work together with other players toJump is activated.

Mercedes

Rolling Moonsault : Changed increasing damage of Rising Rush and Aerial Barrage to increasing damage by % point.

Lightning Edge : Changed increasing damage of Gust Dive to increasing damage by % point.

Spikes Royale : Increased Damage and changed increasing Tornado’s damage to increasing damage by % point.

Ishtar's Ring : Added increase to Unicorn Spike’s damage by % point but removed increasing damage of Stunning Strikes functionality.

Gust Dive : Increased the Damage and Number of Attacks.

Aerial Barrage : Changed the increasing damage attack of Rising Rush to increasing damage by % point.

Rising Rush : Damage and the last attack's number of hits has been increased.

Elven Grace : A function has been added that increases damage to normal monsters.

Phantom

Luminous

Demon Slayer

Raven Storm : Invincibility has been added during skill


the hit box of Mechanic's Mech was large in an upward direction when the tank was in a sitting position.

Fixed an error where the character moved to the wrong spot when Summon Daggers, Summon Shotgun, and Summon Decoy Bomb skill was used while moving quickly.THE first academy in Britain to be rated “outstanding” by inspectors is being investigated by the Department for Education (DfE) after claims it is sidelining non-Muslim staff.

A former employee of Park View Academy in the inner-city Alum Rock area of Birmingham is understood to have claimed that non-Muslim staff were being treated unfairly.

The employee also alleged that the academy, which has been approved to oversee two other schools in Birmingham, has been attempting to teach Islamic studies despite not being a faith-based state school.

Last year Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, received a complaint from a member of staff at Park View that the school in effect excluded female students from after-school tennis classes by ruling that they could not be taught tennis by


Cleveland: “The City on a Hill” 1901-1909

In the fall of 1900, after an absence of six years, Tom Loftin Johnson had returned to Cleveland to devote himself to the cause of reform by taking part in municipal politics. He was already well-known as a former congressman and as an eccentric millionaire who had become a disciple of Henry George. Johnson had recently sold the last of the street-railway lines and steel mills which had been the source of his wealth, in order to free himself from business cares. His opportunity to enter upon his new political career was, however, as fortuitously timed as had been that of Samuel Jones in Toledo.

Within weeks of his return he was unexpectedly importuned to run for mayor. There had been a popularRadical as this platform was, every plank except the single tax was familiar campaign talk in Cleveland. William Akers, who was to be Johnson’s Republican opponent, came out for three-cent fares and a municipal light plant.

Johnson’s prospects were promising. He enjoyed a well-established reputation in both political and business circles. Twice he had been elected to Congress from one of the Cleveland districts and had endeared himself to the party professionals by his lavish expenditures. Charles P. Salen, who had managed those campaigns, had launched the Johnson boom for mayor in the hope that the candidate’s wealth would again fill the party coffers. His candidacy was further aided by strife among the Republicans, which weakened his opponent. On the other hand, Johnson helped to heal the factionalism which


had plagued his own party. A Bryan supporter since 1896, Johnson commanded the support of the silver wing, which had threatened to bolt if the incumbent mayor, John Farley, a Gold Democrat, had been renominated. Even though Farley became a dissenter himself and tried to develop a Democratic movement for the Republican Akers, the old mayor was so discredited by his inefficient administration and favoritism to the railroad interests that his endorsement was a bane rather than a blessing. The influential Democratic paper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, gave Johnson its backing.

Because of his former prominence in the transport industry of the city, the nominee could also count on the support of some of his old business friends who regarded him as a bargain mayor. Others, notably Mark Hanna,took seriously his commitment to Georgian doctrines and advised their friends to vote against this dangerous man. Another group at the opposite end of the political spectrum also accepted his beliefs as sincere. Peter Witt and Tom Fitzsimmons, old Populists and managers of Jones’s successful Cuyahoga County campaign in 1899, threw themselves behind Johnson’s election. They made a nonpartisan fight for him in the immigrant-labor wards as they had for Jones.

In the campaign Johnson was accused of being a tax dodger and of being a hypocrite in now advocating a three-cent fare, whereas, as an owner of street railways, he had charged a higher rate. Instead of responding in kind, with smear charges against his Republican opponent, Johnson answered the criticisms directly and briefly, then addressed himself to


educational talks on the swollen values of public-utility franchises that went untaxed, the inequalities of taxation in general, and the need for public improvements. He disappointed the professionals by keeping his campaign expenditures within the limits prescribed by the Corrupt Practices Act and by refusing to promise any jobs. At the election on April 1 he won by a plurality of six thousand votes. He carried the immigrant wards of the West Side by three thousand and made heavy inroads in the East End wards, bulwarks of Republicanism. With characteristic impetuosity, Johnson, instead of waiting the customary two weeks, took office two days later to prevent a threatened action he considered hostile to the city’s interest.

What was the true character of this new mayor? Was he a dangerousradical, as Mark Hanna insisted, or a politician

ambitious for personal honor and success as most of the newspapers believed? His past career had been so paradoxical that mixed interpretations of his character and motives were inevitable.

Tom Johnson had been born on July 18, 1854, the son of an Arkansas cotton planter and slaveowner. His earliest

memories were of the Civil War, which began when he was seven. While the father served in the Confederate army, the family led a nomadic existence. When peace came, the Johnsons were in Staunton, Virginia, where they remained for the next four years, too poor to move from their temporary home. Tom experienced there the gnawing uncertainty of poverty and also received his first lesson in monopoly, as a newsboy. A railroad conductor, taking


a fancy to him, agreed to give the boy exclusive rights to sell the newspapers which the train brought from other cities. Since these were the only papers available in Staunton, and the demand was brisk, Tom was able to collect a handsome premium. Although five weeks later a change in conductors abruptly ended the scheme, Tom, meanwhile, had earned eighty-eight dollars, enough to enable the family to move to Louisville, Kentucky, where the father hoped to make a fresh start among relatives and friends. In his autobiography Johnson says that he never forgot the lesson of this first business venture: to place his money and energy behind a business where there was little or no competition.

In Louisville Tom soon took a job with a street-railway company ownedby two friends of his father, Biderman DuPont and Alfred V. DuPont, advancing from office boy to secretary, then to superintendent of the road. While in the service of the DuPonts he invented a fare box which netted him twenty to thirty thousand dollars. With this saving and a loan of thirty thousand dollars from Biderman DuPont, Johnson in 1876 purchased the majority of the stock of an Indianapolis street-railway company, thus embarking upon his own at the age of twenty-two. Three years later he entered the street-railway field in Cleveland.

The most aggressive of the several companies then existing in Cleveland was one in which Mark Hanna was interested. Hanna’s company initiated the fight against this interloper and won the first round, but Johnson came back, winning rounds


two and three. After his defeat in their third clash, Hanna proposed that the two form a partnership, for, as he pointed out, to join his own talent in finance and politics to Johnson’s skill as a street-railway manager would make a profitable combination.

Johnson, however, declined, giving as his reason that they were too much alike, that they “would make good opponents, but not good partners.” Opponents they remained, in business and politics. The battleground for their fight was the Cleveland City Council chamber, where they vied for franchises. Mark Hanna taught Johnson to play politics as the only means of remaining in the Cleveland transit field. Johnson never resorted to bribery, yet whenever he wanted favors from the council, he contributed to the campaign funds of bothparties, a form of indirect corruption against which he later inveighed.

In the late 1880’s Johnson invented a girder groove rail, “a steam railroad ‘T’ rail with a street-railroad wearing surface,” and an associate, Arthur J. Moxham, invented a process to roll it. After contracting with a steel company to manufacture these rails for a year, the profits were so attractive that in 1889 the two men built their own mill outside Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Six years later Johnson expanded his steel operations, erecting a new mill at Lorain, Ohio, a village west of Cleveland on Lake Erie. In locating his plant here he revealed his business acumen and foresight, for only a few others in 1895 recognized the natural advantage of this site in insuring low transportation costs of


raw materials.

While pursuing his steel enterprises he was no less vigorous in the management and promotion of his street-railway interests. Selling his Indianapolis system at a good profit, he bought a part interest in the Sixth Street Line in St. Louis. His Cleveland lines were electrified and merged into a corporation, popularly known as “The Big Consolidated,” at a substantial advantage to Johnson. In 1894 he also accepted the management of the Detroit street-railway system, purchased by the R. T. Wilson Company of New York, in which Johnson had a large interest. A dilapidated, run-down road, operating with horses and mules, Johnson rebuilt it into a modern, efficient system, electrically equipped throughout. His last venture as a private street-railway manager was in Brooklyn from 1896 to 1898. Incollecting art treasures, dabbling in politics. It was scarcely suspected that he would war against those monopolies which had brought him fortune and become the champion of social democratic reform. His enemies always suspected his sincerity. Yet his political career is a testament to the genuineness of his new faith. The man responsible for his conversion was Henry George.

Johnson, in his autobiography, has told the story of his chance introduction to George’s writings. In 1883 on one of his frequent business trips between Cleveland and Indianapolis, a news vender offered him a book called Social Problems by a new author, Henry George. Thinking that it was another jeremiad against the social evils of vice and crime, Johnson was about to turn it down when the conductor of the


train persuaded him that the book would interest him since it dealt with street railways, taxation, and land. Johnson read it almost without stopping and bought all the other books, including Progress and Poverty, that George had written. To Johnson, George’s analysis and solution “sounded true—all of it.” Nevertheless he was reluctant to believe it. Distrustful of his own judgment of a theoretical dissertation, he persuaded his lawyer and his business partner to read Progress and Poverty. Both assured him that George was logically consistent. Since Johnson had been certain from the outset that the basic facts were right, this now convinced him that the argument was sound.

Johnson offered little explanation why George’s ideas attracted him so immediately and powerfully, yet there are certain clues. He had analert, inquiring mind that had been devoted almost exclusively to engineering and business problems, but it was capable of responding to the challenge of broad social questions. Furthermore, because he lacked formal education and an interest in reading, he had not previously explored the realm of political and social theory. Purely by chance he happened upon George as his guide. George appealed to him because he struck a responsive chord of humanitarianism that the younger man scarcely knew he possessed and because his message, though buttressed with erudition, was simple and direct. It was easy for Johnson to grasp George’s “proof” that monopoly was a social wrong, to contrast that with the opposite belief he had long held, and to discover that his old view was egocentric, antisocial,


and destructive. It was no more difficult for him to grasp George’s specific and practical remedy: the elimination of the land monopoly by the single tax and thus the restoration of equal opportunity to all.

The effect of these ideas on Johnson was soon reinforced by the power of George’s personality. The two men met in 1885 and began a friendship which strengthened with the years until George’s death in 1897. Their relationship was one of pupil and teacher; Johnson was thirty-one, George forty-six in the year they met. The older man drew Johnson into politics first as a financial backer, later as a speaker in his campaigns in New York. Under George’s inspiration Johnson ran four times for Congress from the Twenty-First Congressional District of Ohio. Defeated in1888, he ran successfully in the next two elections, then failed of a third term in the Republican landslide of 1894. During his four years in the House of Representatives he consistently voted for tariff reductions, including that on the steel rails he manufactured. He and five collaborators read into the Congressional Record George’s treatise, Protection or Free Trade; and the six parts were assembled in a pamphlet of which Johnson distributed over a million copies, each selling for one cent. In 1897 Johnson was manager of Henry George’s last campaign for mayor of New York, the strain of which cost George his life. Johnson had remained in business throughout this formative period of his political development on the theory that making money to promote the cause would


be his most effective contribution. By 1898, however, he was confident that his political apprenticeship was complete, that he should follow the advice of his teacher and lead a political crusade of his own for the Georgian reforms, and that the place to begin was the city.

When Johnson assumed the duties of mayor of Cleveland, he was forty-seven and in the prime of life. He was of medium height, comfortably stout, his expanded girth a witness to his love of good food. His curly black hair, finely cut nose, mouth, and chin gave his features a Grecian cast in profile. His eyes were bright, always darting about. Genial and jovial, he generally wore a smile, an irresistible smile that disarmed enemies and heartened supporters. His manner was unaffectedand easy unless aroused; then he could be gruff though never abusive. He treated opponents fairly.

Johnson’s formal schooling lasted only a little more than a year, but with characteristic drive and energy he sought to remedy this by self-improvement after he entered politics. He considered his four years in Congress the equivalent of a college education, with Henry George, his frequent visitor in Washington, as tutor. While mayor, he hired a teacher and learned French at the breakfast table, and at night, before retiring, he did a stint in a volume on political science.

In this and other ways he resembled his Toledo counterpart, Samuel M. Jones, with whom he had formed a friendship in the Bryan campaign of 1900. The two men were attracted to each other by


reforms; Carl Nau, watchdog of the city’s finances; Antoine Biderman DuPont, the son of Johnson’s first benefactor and his traction expert in the street-railway fight; and the Mayor’s private secretary, Walter Burr Gongwer, a young reporter of promise whom the Plain Dealer reluctantly released. These men from many walks of life were inspired by a common ideal: the success of the city experiment. They liked their work; they talked shop at their parties. “Theirs,” wrote Lincoln Steffens, “is a sense of pride and preoccupation such as I have never felt.”

Of this wide circle four stand out, pre-eminent in their devotion to Johnson and in their contribution to the cause: Baker, Cooley, Witt, and Howe. Johnson’s chief lieutenant and heir was Newton D. Baker. He was born in 1871in Martinsburg, West Virginia, a border community where feelings aroused by the Civil War and Reconstruction ran high. Baker’s own family had been split by the war. His grandfather Elias Baker had remained loyal to the Union but his own father, after whom he was named, served in the First Virginia Cavalry. Although the father accepted the Northern victory, he continued to be a staunch Southern Democrat and inculcated in his son a strong sense of loyalty to that party.

In other ways Newton Baker, Sr., who was a doctor and a man of culture, influenced the son. He helped to mold the boy’s taste for history and government, and he picked out the new Johns Hopkins University as the college the young man was to attend. There the


son took courses with Professor Woodrow Wilson in political science and listened to the professor at the dinner table in the boarding house where they lived together. Young Baker graduated in 1892, took a year of postgraduate study in jurisprudence and Roman law, and, finally, another year at William and Mary in an accelerated course in American law.

Upon admission to the bar in 1894, the young lawyer opened an office in Martinsburg, where he practiced law for the next five years with one interruption in 1896-97 when he went to Washington, D.C., to become private secretary to Postmaster-General William L. Wilson in President Cleveland’s cabinet. In 1899, at the age of twenty-seven, he decided to seek another community — one with brighter prospects than the declining Martinsburg couldcrowd laughed as the wispy Baker came forward, but that speech made the reputation of Judge Foran’s “boy.” It was different, it was compelling. Baker’s oratory was not of the old school; his delivery was clear-toned, graceful, simple, and convincing.

When Johnson returned to Cleveland and was elected mayor, Foran told him about Baker. The young lawyer had already begun to interest himself in the social and civic work of Cleveland. Fred Howe invited him to join a social service club at the YMCA, which conducted a vigorous program for the welfare of children and workingmen. Johnson, immediately attracted to Baker, brought him into the administration first as the legal adviser to one of the tax boards and then, when an opening occurred, as assistant law director.

In later years,


when Baker had become a conservative on economic issues, there was speculation among his old friends on why he had ever joined the Johnson reform movement. His interests were bookish, and his temperament was cautious and judicious. His one previous experience had warned him, he confessed to a friend, that he was not a politician. In 1896 he had followed the conservative course, bolting the Bryan ticket and voting with the Gold Democrats. Yet his choice in 1901 was deliberate; he rejected an offer to join a law firm with one of the most lucrative practices in Cleveland to accept a poorly paid legal post in the city government. No doubt his decision was prompted as much by his heart as by his mind. He was moved bythe suffering and wretchedness of the poor of Cleveland, which he experienced for the first time. But the most impelling influence was unquestionably Tom Johnson, whom Baker came to love with a devotion that few men inspire. Responding to Johnson’s tutelage, the young lawyer became a convert to the principles of Henry George and to the Mayor’s “Democratic selective socialism,” as Baker once called it. Baker’s political creed was simple: “I am a follower of Tom Johnson.” He won the confidence of the Mayor as no other man did, and his loyalty never wavered.

In 1903 he was elected to head the city’s law department, where he served for four consecutive terms, surviving Johnson’s defeat in 1909. A tireless, efficient worker, Baker bore the burden of the law suits


and injunctions with which the public utilities pelted the city during Johnson’s administration, and he was in the thick of every campaign, preaching the Johnson causes. His diction was so beautiful that radical ideas from his lips lost their terror. He was a fighter whom opponents respected because he was fair and without personal malice. His was a great contribution to the Cleveland experiment as Johnson’s principal aide and later his successor in the mayor’s office.

The second man in the Johnson “cabinet” was Harris R. Cooley, a graduate of Hiram College and Oberlin Theological Seminary and a former pastor of the Cedar Avenue Disciple Church of Cleveland. The friendship between the two began in the early 1880’s when Johnson became one of Cooley’s parishioners. Since his student daysCooley had developed a strong interest in social work. His father, the superintendent of Cleveland’s Bethel Union, had introduced him to the problems of a charity organization, and several trips to England brought him firsthand knowledge of the social settlement movement and the Salvation Army. He shared Samuel Jones’s belief that the teachings of Jesus could be made to work in industrial and social relations. He shared Tom Johnson’s commitment to the teachings of Henry George.

In 1901 the Mayor appointed Cooley director of the department of charities and correction because “he is just the man to carry out my ideas of reform in the treatment of the unfortunate. . . .”

Many were scornful at first of this “preacher-in-politics,” but his character and ability won the confidence of the


people. He served until the end of 1909. With a minister’s gift for imagery and parable, he could rend the hearts of his listeners with tales of misery and misfortune and then inspire them with a vision of what the city could do for the fallen members of society. The council never refused an appeal from him for appropriations. His service to the humanitarian cause in Cleveland was exceptional, and his work won national notice.

The most fiery radical as well as the most colorful personality of the Johnson circle was Peter Witt, whose inheritance and background prepared him for the role he was to play. He was born a rebel; his parents were exiled German Forty-eighters. One of eleven children, he was forced by his father’s inability tofeed so many mouths to leave school and go to work at thirteen; thus he knew early the sting of poverty. After trying various trades he learned that of an iron molder, only to have this means of livelihood cut off in his early twenties when he was blacklisted for organizing a strike. Embittered by such treatment, he became a determined foe of the industrial order that had outlawed him. He joined the Populist crusade against the hated monopolists and discovered that he had a talent for speaking and organizing that was serviceable in politics.

He and Johnson first met in 1894 at a tent rally that the then congressman was leading in his campaign for re-election. Witt and some friends appeared during a long harangue by a Democratic


henchman and began to heckle the speaker. Instead of ordering them out of the tent, Johnson invited Witt to come to the platform and speak his mind. Such fair play inspired mutual respect and understanding which ripened into friendship. The two soon discovered another tie: their common allegiance to the theories of Henry George. Johnson praised Witt as a man of “sturdy honesty” and “unswerving fidelity to principle.” In any job he tackled, Witt showed marked ability and ingenuity, first as head of the “Tax School” in Johnson’s first administration and then as city clerk from 1903 to 1909. His specialty was publicizing the taxation issue. In campaign talks he introduced stereopticon slides to illustrate his tax lecture and lashed out at tax dodgers, excoriating them with hisepithets.

Conservatives anathematized him as an anarchist. Within the Johnson circle he spoke his mind with the same vehemence, lecturing anyone, from the Mayor down, who he felt was at fault. Publicly he ripped apart Charles Salen, Johnson’s chief lieutenant in the state Democratic hierarchy, for a breach of faith. Privately he voiced his suspicions of Newton Baker’s sincerity. The Johnson group passed off his remarks as the barbed thrusts of the court jester, but his later political career suffered from the indiscretions into which his quick, sharp tongue betrayed him. To the Johnson movement he was important as a gadfly, as an orator who dramatized the reform issues, and as a dynamic lieutenant who commanded the loyalty of the immigrant workers.

The student of the Johnson experiment was Frederic


C. Howe. He was born in 1867 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, the only son of a respected middle-class merchant. In his autobiography he described the environment of his youth as “a comfortable little world, Republican in politics, careful in conduct, Methodist in religion.” There he lived until he graduated from the local Allegheny College. Then at the age of twenty-two he left Meadville to begin the slow, painful process of unlearning the canons he had been taught. He enrolled at Johns Hopkins to work for a Ph.D. in history and politics, spent a summer at the University of Halle in Germany, and supported himself as a newspaper reporter. Although he had trained himself for a career in journalism, he could not find a job in that field in thehard times of 1892-93. Disillusioned by this failure, he turned to the study of law at the University of Maryland and New York law schools. In 1894 he settled in Cleveland, joining the firm of Harry and James Garfield, sons of the former President. His association with the Garfields was a happy and profitable one. But Howe was driven by his Methodist-Quaker inheritance to do more than make a success of the law; he threw himself into social settlement work and assumed the secretaryship of the Municipal Association of Cleveland, which had just been founded to promote good government.

In 1901, the year Johnson campaigned for mayor, Howe ran for council as a reform candidate on the Republican ticket. After hearing one of Johnson’s talks he was so impressed


by the directness and simplicity of the message that he called upon him at his office. In the course of that conversation Howe, who had admired the logic of Progress and Poverty but had remained unconvinced by its message, was converted to the Georgian faith. The young lawyer whose mind had been stripped of old shibboleths was poised and eager for conversion to a new set of values, but he needed Johnson as a catalyst. Howe became one of the Mayor’s most grateful pupils; his affection for the older man was only exceeded by that of Baker. In the city council, to which he was elected, Howe became a spokesman for the Mayor and shifted his allegiance from the Republicans to the Democrats. Later he served the Johnsoncause in the Ohio Senate, 1906—8. He also served as one of four assessors in a scientific reappraisal of Cleveland real estate in 1910, an account of which he entitled, “Single-taxing a City”—at best a half-truth. Taxation was one of his major interests, and to that subject he contributed several significant studies.

In his sincere, candid autobiography Howe has attempted to analyze his own complex nature and his reactions during the period when he was a member of the Johnson circle. Both a lawyer and a politician, he tells us that he liked neither the law nor politics. Perhaps his distaste for both arose from the duality of his career, which, in retrospect, seemed to him almost schizophrenic. As a lawyer he served railroads and public utilities; as an


investor he bought their securities and built a comfortable estate upon their earnings; but as a Johnsonian Democrat he fought on the side of the people against the special privileges of those same corporations. Intellectually he was able to rationalize this duality by the same defense that Johnson has made familiar: the money he took from privilege would give him the greater freedom to fight privilege. Emotionally, however, this split existence took its toll. He could barely tolerate the snubs from old friends and the social ostracism which his political principles and activities brought upon him. For that reason he was glad in 1910 to abandon the law, politics, and the Cleveland scene itself for New York and to make a fresh start in journalism, which had remainedhis first love.

Long before he departed, however, he had already made his mark as one of the most persuasive publicists for municipal reform. In 1905 he published The City the Hope of Democracy, which marshaled in scholarly form all the arguments to support the thesis of the Cleveland group that the city was the dominant force in our twentieth-century civilization and there democracy would be reborn—”a democracy that will possess the instincts of the past along with a belief in co-operative effort to relieve the costs which city life entails.” Howe instilled into this book his passionate love for the city and painted glowingly his vision of what the cities across the land could become. The essay had a profound effect beyond the Johnson circle; it influenced the


fight for street railways and later an officer in Baker’s administration; Herbert Bigelow and Daniel Kiefer of Cincinnati. Brand Whitlock, the Toledo mayor and single taxer, leaned heavily upon Johnson and his circle for inspiration, advice, and campaign assistance. Johnson gave encouragement to Mark Fagan, a George disciple in New Jersey, in his campaign for reform. Following his defeat for re-election in 1909, Johnson was treasurer of the Joseph Fels Fund of America, established by the wealthy manufacturer of naphtha soap to promote the single tax. In two journalistic ventures Johnson financially supported Louis F. Post, friend and disciple of Henry George.

Johnson’s loyalty to Georgian doctrine was unflagging; his last public address was delivered at a single-tax rally in Cleveland. Although he never made it a central issuethey disapproved of his association with the Democratic party. Johnson, however, would have nothing to do with organizing a single-tax party. With his intuitive political sense he adopted the most direct way to win victories for his ideas: to infiltrate and capture the organization of the Democratic party and make it a vehicle for his purpose. He selected that party not only because of his personal identification with it but also because in Ohio it had attracted a group of like-minded men eager for change.

During his first term in the mayor’s office Johnson gained control of the Democratic city and county committees and built an organization loyal to him, which he and his successor, Newton Baker, dominated for fifteen years. Johnson succeeded in spreading his authority to the


state Democratic organization for two years, 1902-3, long enough to bridle the power of John R. McLean in party councils. Many of Johnson’s methods were scarcely distinguishable from those of his opponents. He bossed party conventions, wrote the platforms, prepared the slate of candidates, and expected the convention to rubber-stamp his work. The professional Democratic politicians, interested in office and patronage and indifferent to his program, accepted this dictation so long as Johnson mustered the votes for victory at the polls. They measured men and ideas by their popularity.

Nevertheless, in other respects Johnson’s methods differed radically from those of the conventional boss. Primary elections were conducted honestly. Compulsory political assessments from public employees were forbidden; the heaviest burden of campaign expenses Johnson carried himself until his financial reversesin 1908 made that no longer possible. The breath of bribery or scandal never touched any convention Johnson dominated. To Johnson, loyalty to the party meant loyalty to the principles of the party platform. Those who were unfaithful he exposed and drove from political life. Faithful party henchmen were rewarded by being given priority in patronage and job appointments, but the men chosen had to be capable. Johnson never hesitated to select an able Republican for an important post, nor would he permit a conscientious city employee to be removed because of his party label. As his movement progressed in Cleveland, he gave less and less consideration to place hunters in the party and became increasingly nonpartisan in all except name. Johnson transformed the local Democracy of Cleveland