guy that definitely helped me out. He helped me become the player I am right now. I was sorry to see him go."

"You know it will be emotional," Carter said. "He was part of the family. I think he will get a good reaction when he comes back."

"I'm sure it will be great," Martin said. "It's the first game back after a trade, there will be a lot of emotion and energy in the building. We'll put that aside and go after a win.

"I'm still loving him," Martin added, "but there ain't no love lost between us and the Pistons."

Billups, who guided the Pistons to an NBA title and six straight trips to the conference finals, the longest streak in the NBA since Magic Johnson's Showtime Lakers ofcampaign."The decision comes a week after she laid off her entire campaign staff – in a move first reported by WMUR. She cited financial issues.Earlier this week, she insisted that she was "regrouping" but was maintaining a “skeletal” staff. Her former national campaign manager, however, reiterated that the entire staff had in fact been laid off as of Dec. 31.Williamson brought her unique campaign style to New Hampshire often since joining the race a year ago, accompanied by her former senior adviser and state campaign director, former U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes."Against long odds, Marianne Williamson carried an important holistic message into the national political dialogue about rekindling the spirit of our country as a good and decent nation, founded on high ideals and capable of restoring our shared


a distance between the surface of the layer insulating film under polishing processing and a pattern surface of the previous layer immediately under the layer insulating film (in other words, a film thickness of the layer insulating film). Therefore, assuming an interference light intensity I at time t, the layer insulating film has a film thickness causing an interference light of the intensity I.
Therefore, a focus can be detected by previously calculating or evaluating in an experiment the interference light intensity I at which the film thickness of the layer insulating film is a predetermined thickness which is an endpoint of the CMP processing (in other words, the entire surface of the layer insulating film is uniformly smoothed), by measuring the interference light intensity with the film thicknesslight, and a film thickness of the film formed on the semiconductor device surface is evaluated based on an intensity of a reflected light or a spectral intensity from the film or an intensity of the UV light, thereby detecting an endpoint of polishing processing for the film. According to these method and apparatus, it is possible to increase an accuracy of detecting the endpoint of polishing processing for the film even for a small polishing processing amount or independently of a film structure.
In a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a polishing processing method with an endpoint detection function and its apparatus, wherein the film formed on a wafer surface under polishing processing is irradiated with lights having two or more different wavelengths, a


white light or an ultraviolet (UV) light, and a film thickness of the film formed on the semiconductor device surface is evaluated based on an intensity of a reflected light or a spectral intensity from the film or an intensity of the UV light, thereby detecting an endpoint of polishing processing for the film to terminate the polishing processing. According to these method and apparatus, it is possible to increase an accuracy of detecting the endpoint of polishing processing for the film even for a small polishing processing amount or independently of a film structure.
In accordance with a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, wherein means for evaluating the film thickness is incorporated into a polishing processing machineCMP process can be stabilized and optimized on the basis of a film evaluation result of the film formed on the wafer surface.
Furthermore, in accordance with a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a polishing processing machine, comprising polishing means for polishing a film formed on a wafer surface, irradiation means for irradiating the film formed on the wafer surface during the polishing with the above light or UV light, detection means for detecting a reflected light or the UV light from the film formed on the wafer surface, and a processor circuit section for evaluating a film thickness of the film formed on the wafer surface on the basis of an intensity of the reflected light detected by the detection means, a spectral intensity,


is therefore dependent entirely upon the credibility of the witnesses. The Court resolves that issue in favor of the plaintiff.
Briefly stated, the plaintiff claims that early in the year 1974 he was living in an apartment in an area of Toledo called the Old West End, which is in general a racially mixed area. He decided to buy a house, and located one which pleased him some seven blocks from his apartment. He entered into an informal, unwritten purchase agreement with the owner, and gave the the owner one hundred dollars earnest money. In order to finance the purchase, the plaintiff desired to get a conventional mortgage loan with a ten percent down payment with the assistance of the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (hereafter MGIC). Ultimately he succeededwhite to black. Because of the racial problems there, the only conventional financing available was with a fifty percent down payment. Haugh said that if the plaintiff would look for property elsewhere, he would probably be able to get the financing he wanted.
Later the plaintiff talked with Haugh on two other occasions, with similar talk about the racial character of the neighborhood. Haugh did reduce the amount of down payment to forty percent, and in the last conversation, which was a personal meeting on April 4, 1974, Haugh again elaborated on the racial problems. He sketched a map of the area showing the location of the house, and of Scott High School, which Haugh said had ninety-nine percent black students.
Plaintiff testified to being very much upset by their


conversations.
Plaintiff also offered the testimony of Warren Karmol, Jr. Late in June, 1974, Karmol went to the defendant Company's office and talked to Haugh about getting financing to purchase a house in the area of the property purchased by the plaintiff. Karmol had some slight acquaintance with Haugh, as they had been in high school together. Haugh made similar statements about the racial problems in the neighborhood to Karmol that he had made to the plaintiff.
Haugh flatly denied saying most of what the plaintiff and Karmol attributed to him, and explained the rest as being innocent responses to questions.
The defendant Heinzeroth and Charlotte Roush, the Vice President and Assistant Secretary of the defendant Company, testified that from early in 1973 the Company had confined its activities to F.H.A.This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. The opinions and information provided on this site are original editorial content of Sneaker News.

Are we looking at Under Armour’s next signature guy? Emmanuel Mudiay took an interesting route to get to the NBA, skipping the opportunity to play under legendary coach Larry Brown at SMU to instead head to China for a year to guarantee his family financial stability. At 18 years young, Mudiay inked a deal with Under Armour right out of High School and represented the brand in China even before he was drafted 7th overall by the Denver Nuggets. After a supurb rookie year, Mudiay had an effective Summer


Kathleen Munroe

Kathleen Munroe was born on April 9, 1982 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada as Kathleen Marie Sammon Munroe. She is an actress and producer, known for Patriot (2015), Call Me Fitz (2010) and Resurrection (2014). See full bio »to be a "very routine" traffic stop.

Anderson said police clocked the 24-year-old Peterson going 109 mph, but Peterson told the AP he wasn't driving that fast.

"But I know it was a speeding ticket, and that's what I got issued for," Peterson said.

The stop happened the night before Peterson ran for 85 yards and a touchdown in a 36-10 victory over the Chicago Bears. The All-Pro also fumbled twice, with one of them a turnover for the Vikings.

Peterson said he was headed to the downtown hotel where the team stays the night before home games. He said he was not late at that point.

"After I got pulled over, then I was late," Peterson said.


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but he could also give a run out to 23-year-old Flanagan, who has been blighted by injuries since making his breakthrough back in 2013.

Back then Flanagan excelled at both right-back and on the opposite flank and how Klopp could do with the tough tackler now.

Of course he is going to take plenty of time to return to full match fitness, but if he can get through the game against Exeter unscathed it will be a huge step in the right direction.

This season will be all about getting Flanagan playing again, little and often, with next season the one when Liverpool supporters could see him back to his best if all goes well.

Vincent Ralph

After graduating with a degree in English Literature, Vincent completed a NCTJ-accredited qualification in newspaper andGOP strategist Karl Rove and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean discussed the merits of various media outlets Monday night, unsurprisingly finding themselves on polar opposites of the debate.

Dean spoke positively about NPR, even in the wake of a recent controversy concerning the firing of correspondent Juan Williams over statements he made on Fox News, while Rove claimed that NPR's audience was like Saddam Hussein.

NPR "tell[s] it as they see it, and they usually get it right," Dean said of the radio outlet at a University of Delaware forum, according to Politico's report. And Fox doesn't get it right because Fox is a particular offender at making news instead of reporting it."

Rove reportedly interrupted: "45 percent of NPR listeners were Saddam Hussein."

Along with his strange criticism of NPR, Rove


also blasted the New York Times and other print organizations, saying that they were "overwhelmingly liberal."

"They are systematically liberal, either politically or culturally, and they are unaware of it," Rove said, according to Politico.

Predictably, Rove claimed that Fox News and the Wall Street Journal were the solution to the woes of these outlets.

There's "a greater diversity there than I see in other networks," Rove said of Fox News. "NPR won't tolerate Juan Williams, but Fox will."

Rove then lauded the Wall Street Journal, home to his regular column and another progeny of News Corp, the massive media company owned by Rupert Murdoch, which also controls Fox News, the company that pays Rove as a contributor.

Rove's swipe at NPR is consistent with a Republican position -- even at the upperTuesday, March 30, 2010

Global meat production has tripled in the past three decades and could double its present level by 2050, according to a new report on the livestock industry by an international team of scientists and policy experts. The impact of this "livestock revolution" is likely to have significant consequences for human health, the environment and the global economy, the authors conclude.

"The livestock industry is massive and growing," said Harold A. Mooney, co-editor of the two-volume report, Livestock in a Changing Landscape (Island Press). Mooney is a professor of biology and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.

"This is the first time that we've looked at the social, economic, health and environmental impacts of livestock in an integrated way and presented solutions for reducing the


has "seeped down" into other levels of politics. "It's really degrading."

"It shouldn't be normalized," said Assembly member Steve McLaughlin (R-Rensselaer County), who is a sharp-tongued critic of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state government leaders. "I'm not going to say that most people -- many, many people have used that language, myself included. But I don't do it in a public forum and I certainly would never do it in my official capacity as an Assemblyman."

It's not clear why cursing has gone public, though there are theories that Gillibrand and other politicians are doing it to sound more authentic and "real." The vulgarity has turned up at the top level of state government and academia.

In 2016, Cuomo's former top economic development aide SUNY Poly President Alain Kaloyeros, once thehighest paid state employee, wrote on his Facebook page "never kick me when I'm down, because when I get back up ... you're fucked." He made the threat after being arrested on bid-rigging charges involving donors and aides to Cuomo who, despite cultivating a tough-guy image, keeps it clean in public.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno (R-Brunswick), who had a grandfatherly public persona during his years as one of Albany's three men in a room, drops the f-word repeatedly in his recent memoir, "Keep Swinging." Passages of the book are devoted to getting even with those he deems mentally unstable and unworthy opponents, from former Gov. Eliot Spitzer to federal Judge Gary Sharpe, who presided over Bruno's corruption trials.

One of the anecdotes Bruno gleefully retells is Spitzer's 2007


threat to then Assembly member Jim Tedisco (R-Glenville) that he better do what he is told because "I'm a fucking steamroller."

That remark was made in private conversation but quickly became publicly known. Something similar happened to the son of Bruno's successor, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Nassau County), when he was reprimanded for not showing up to work at a job his dad had gotten him.

"Guys like you couldnít shine my shoes," Adam Skelos told a man he worked for whose company had vital business issues before the Senate, according to testimony at the father and son's 2015 corruption trial. "Youíll never amount to anything. If you talk to me like that again, Iíll smash your fucking head in."Today the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) and Health Canada announced a massive joint recall with IKEA involving over 35 million pieces of furniture that can pose a tip over hazard to small children. While we would normally write about the recall itself, a troubling development has caught our attention. A CPSC employee prematurely leaked the recall to staff reporter Tricia Nadolny at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The CPSC and IKEA officially announced the recall this morning, but the Philadelphia Inquirer prematurely broke the story yesterday afternoon. The reporter confirmed in the story that her source works for the CPSC and did not have clearance to discuss the recall publicly. Additionally, the story included quotes from consumer advocates and other interested parties reacting to the recall—indicating that the reporter


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CHICAGO, IL - MARCH 29: Brandon Bollig #52 of the Chicago Blackhawks gets off a shot under pressure from Kevin Shattenkirk #22 of the St. Louis Blues at the United Center on March 29, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)While recovering from illness, qualified teacher Barry Bennett took the time to ponder on how he could share his love of nature with young people, and encourage them to engage with their environment. The result was The Amazing Places Project ...more...

Pending reforms to the UK's school curriculum mean that from September 2014, pupils aged 7-14 can expect to learn gardening skills. Camilla Scaramanga takes a look at some of the initiatives that are already taking the lead......more...

The National Union of Students has a rich history of ethical and environmental work, but our £5 million Students’ Green Fund is undoubtedly our biggest achievement for the sustainability agenda yet, says Dannie Grufferty.more...

Do co-operative schools (trust schools and academies) provide a democratic community based alternative? Mervyn Wilson, Principal of the Co-operative


quinta-feira, 19 de abril de 2018

CRIVILIN back in EnduroGP!

For few season now, we have seen a Brazilian rider come into EnduroGP before the opening round of Brazil’s National Championship. First we saw Romulo BOTTREL (Honda) in 2014 and 2015, and in 2016 - in Gordexola (Euskadi) - we welcomed one of the greatest hopes of South American Enduro: Bruno CRIVILIN (KTM). The young Brazilian is back again in the World Championship for the Portugal – Spain tour!

Very well known in his country for having stood up to the best Junior riders at the SuperEnduro of Belo Horizonte (2016), and for achieving a very strong result during Red Bull Minas 2016 ahead of legendary extreme riders such as Graham JARVIS (Husqvarna).
Despite a knee injury suffered the week before Gordexola,the South American had secured an impressive 11th place on the first day, but he took the wise decision not to start on Day 2 of one of the most difficult Grand Prix of the season with his painful knee.
He was, however, encouraged by this Day 1 result, and CRIVILIN decided to return for 2017 GP of Spain but couldn’t make it at the end. At 21 years old, the friendly Brazilian will once again challenge against the top riders in the Junior category and aim for the Top 10!
CRIVILIN will be bring another fellow during these two Grand Prix, as Patrik CAPILA (Yamaha), coming also from Belo Horizonte, will race in Junior 1!

In view of the talent we saw him display last season in the Spanish Basque


have patrolmen on the highway between Pueblo and Denver on the lookout for this automobile, and if they observed it, to notify agents of the Bureau of Narcotics. Some time prior to midnight on March 18, 1953, a patrolman observed the automobile traveling north toward Denver and followed it into the Town of Castle Rock. There he talked to the defendant Moore, who was driving, and gave him a ticket for a traffic violation. He then followed the automobile as it proceeded in a northerly direction toward Denver. The patrolman notified agents of the Bureau of Narcotics that the automobile was on the way to Denver, and that he would overtake it and stop it before it arrived in Denver.

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After traveling some distance, Moore stopped the automobile andwas in front of it when the highway patrolman approached. Moore told the patrolman that the stop had been made to change drivers, and to permit Wilson to drive the remaining distance to Denver. The patrolman made some search of the automobile immediately, but found nothing. Within a short time, the federal agents arrived and an additional search was made with the same result. The automobile was taken to a garage near the outskirts of Denver by the agents where, with Moore's assistance, it was searched further. Moore testified that he did not consent to the search but he "helped them search, I volunteered to help them search myself because I hadn't did anything". Two marihuana cigarette butts and the "crutch"2 were found in the automobile. Neither Moore


nor Wilson was held at the time. A short time later, they were again stopped on the same highway leading into Denver from the south, and arrested after a chase by the same patrolman at a very high rate of speed. In another search of the automobile, the following morning, a third marihuana cigarette butt was found. All of the searches were made without a search warrant.

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The assignment of error presents only the question of whether the search, in which the first two cigarette butts were found, was illegal in violation of Wilson's constitutional rights. United States Constitution, Amendment 4. The motion to suppress did not allege that the cigarette butts were the property of either Moore or Wilson, and neither claimed them. Wilson did not testify incarefully examined the evidence and have concluded that it was sufficient to present an issue for the jury, although it is not a strong case as to Wilson. The mere riding in an automobile in which marihuana was being transported would not in itself be sufficient to connect a passenger or occupant with the possession or transportation. In this case, however, when the highway patrolman first followed the defendants, the automobile was speeded up to a high rate of speed before it was stopped in Castle Rock. The automobile continued on from Castle Rock, followed by the same patrolman who was in sight of it most of the time. The automobile was stopped by Moore for the purpose of letting Wilson drive it into Denver. After the search


at a garage in Englewood, Moore and Wilson were told that they would not be held, but were instructed to follow the agents to the Denver City Police Station. Instead of doing this, both Moore and Wilson returned back toward Castle Rock on a highway which eventually brought them to a point south of the place on the highway where the automobile was first searched. They were proceeding toward Denver on this highway when they were met by the patrolman who first stopped them. The patrolman recognized the automobile and set out to stop it again. This he was able to do after a chase at a very high rate of speed. Both defendants were taken to the Englewood Police Station in the patrolman's car. No one elsewas in the patrol car except the patrolman and the two defendants. After the defendants were lodged in jail, the patrolman took the patrol car to his home at Castle Rock, locked it, and the next morning delivered it to another patrolman. A short time thereafter, and before anyone else had been in the patrol car, the second patrolman found the package containing the two thousand eight hundred and twenty-two grains of marihuana concealed underneath the front seat where the defendants had ridden when they were being taken to the police station. The testimony was that no one else had been in the car except the patrolmen and the defendants. Under these circumstances, we think the jury was justified in concluding that Moore and Wilson were engaged in


wasn’t scheduled until 8 p.m that night.

There’s been murmurs about ads coming to NBA jerseys soon and now it’s finally happening. The Philadelphia 76ers will become the first team in the NBA and all the four major U.S. sports to sell an ad on a jersey.

Sam Hinkie wanted one thing, for everyone to “trust the process”. So far the process has yielded a stock pile of draft picks, injured players and record losses. Hinkie decided to abruptly step down from his post as general manager and president of basketball operations of the Philadelphia 76ers after three seasons.

Things have been pretty rough lately for Jahlil Okafor. The Philadelphia 76ers star rookie got into a street fight in Boston and reportedly had a gun pulled on him in Philly aboutSAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Pumpkin spice season is just around the corner, which means your favorite latte, candle and canned meat will get a sweet and spicy makeover.

Yes, you read that right. Spam, the iconic canned pork, is releasing Pumpkin Spice Spam on September 23, NBC News confirmed.

The idea was initially brought up as a joke back in 2017 on the Spam Facebook page. Hormel Foods Corp. told NBC that this year, its real. The limited edition Spam will be available online at walmart.com and spam.com.

Other pumpkin spice products are set to drop as early as a few weeks from now. Dunkin’ Donuts will roll out its fall menu on Aug. 21, and Starbucks will follow on Aug. 27.


“This is the dawn of a new India,” proclaimed jubilant party worker Chandar Triparti as he celebrated an improbable victory for Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India’s general election on Thursday.

There is a sense here in India that this result, with the BJP winning an even larger majority than it did in the landslide of 2014, gives an unprecedented mandate to an incumbent prime minister to continue and build on the work of his first term.

Voters across the country told The Independent they backed Mr Modi and his achievements so far, and even those with doubts largely said they were willing to give him one last chance.

Mr Modi’s team spent much of Friday thanking world leaders who had congratulated him on his victory, while theof Ministers for their contribution in India's general election, in New Delhi on May 21, 2019 AFP/Getty Indian General Election 2019 An Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporter shouts slogans and holds the party flag as he celebrates on the vote results day for India's general election in New Delhi on May 23, 2019. - Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked on course on May 23 for a major victory in India's election, with early trends from the election commission showing a clear lead for his party. AFP/Getty Images Indian General Election 2019 Indian election officials count votes using electronic voting machines at a counting center for the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) election, in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India, 23 May 2019. The parliamentary elections,


which began on 11 April 2019, were held in seven phases throughout India and are currently being tabulated. The Lok Sabha elections were held for 542 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats, and a party or alliance needs 272 seats to form a government. EPA Indian General Election 2019 Indian supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dance as they celebrate on the vote results day for India's general election in Siliguri on May 23, 2019. - Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked on course on May 23 for a major victory in India's election, with early trends from the election commission showing a clear lead for his party. AFP/Getty Images Indian General Election 2019 Indian supporters and party workers of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dance as they celebrate onthe vote results day for India's general election in Bangalore on May 23, 2019. - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked on course on May 23 for a major victory in the world's biggest election, with early trends suggesting his Hindu nationalist party will win a bigger majority even than 2014. AFP/Getty Images Indian General Election 2019 Indian supporters and party workers of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dance and hold flags as they celebrate on the vote results day for India's general election in Bangalore on May 23, 2019. - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked on course on May 23 for a major victory in the world's biggest election, with early trends suggesting his Hindu nationalist party will win a bigger majority even than 2014. AFP/Getty Images


Indian General Election 2019 An Indian member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) shouts slogans and shows portraits of party president M.K. Stalin as she celebrates on the vote results day for India's general election in Chennai on May 23, 2019. - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked on course on May 23 for a major victory in the world's biggest election, with early trends suggesting his Hindu nationalist party will win a bigger majority even than 2014. AFP/Getty Images Indian General Election 2019 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, wearing masks dipicting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, celebrate BJP's potential win in the the Lok Sabha election the Lok Sabha elections, in Amritsar, India, 23 May 2019. The Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, elections, which beganon 11 April 2019, is having the results tallied today. The Lok Sabha elections were held for 542 of the 543 lower house seats, and a party or alliance needs 272 seats to form a government. According to initial polling Narendra Modi could retain the position of Prime Minister along with the Bhartya Janta Party. EPA Indian General Election 2019 A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporter wears a mask dipicting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he celebrates BJP's potential win in the the Lok Sabha election the Lok Sabha elections, in Amritsar, India, 23 May 2019. The Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, elections, which began on 11 April 2019, is having the results tallied today. The Lok Sabha elections were held for 542 of the


543 lower house seats, and a party or alliance needs 272 seats to form a government. According to initial polling Narendra Modi could retain the position of Prime Minister along with the Bhartya Janta Party EPA Indian General Election 2019 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters celebrate in their party's Assam state office in Gauhati, India, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party have a commanding lead in early vote counting from the country's six-week general election. AP

Mr Modi has long said his priority is the economic development of India – his most enduring slogan has been “sabka saath, sabka vikas”, meaning “collective efforts, inclusive growth”.

With unemployment at its highest rate in decades, the economy slowing, and major infrastructure like the railways in aParty of Indian politics, the Congress, which has ruled the country for the majority of the years since independence but now seems to be in freefall.

Congress won just 52 seats in Thursday’s results, up only eight on its historic worst-ever performance in 2014 – and that despite supposedly having anti-incumbency sentiment in its favour.

The final blow, it seems, has been the failure of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to secure his home constituency, Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, where the scions of the Nehru-Gandhi family have ruled for generations.

Mr Gandhi offered to resign as party president in the aftermath of the results but looks set to have his offer rejected.

Yet if he stays on, and if efforts continue to promote his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as a successor, then it


on the spot and stop when you reach zero, or they can stay still and then pick a corner on zero. The latter is my preferred choice as it is more about listening to the students moving around the room, rather than merely luck.

The students who are in the corner that the student in the middle picks are then out.

The game continues until there is a winner.

The winner then becomes the one in the centre.

Tip: Think of some really fun name of the corner. Kids, and adults for that matter, love being involved in decisions!

Changing Character

Difficulty: easyAge Range: all ages

This is often a great way to get a class going. It is not really an acting game, but just playing with characters.

Get the students to walk around thefacing away from the students.

One student is chosen to sit in the chair. He/She must then shut their eyes.

Students are then picked from the line to sneak up behind the student in the chair, and in a weird or different voice, they say: Greetings Your Majesty.

This student then returns to their seat in the line.

The student in the chair must guess which student it was.

If the student in the chair gets it right they stay in the chair, and this will continue until they get five right in a row.

If they get in wrong, however, the student who tricked them becomes the one in the chair.

This continues until the game tires.

The Monster Calls All Those Who…

Difficulty: easyAge Range: 6-10

This game works really well at the start of a


else.

Keep the students involved. For instance if you are working on a improvisation game like Freeze Circle stop every now and again and ask the students what they like, what is working etc. Reflection and discussion are really important for learning.

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is Stage Milk's founder and site co-ordinator. He studied Acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), and is now based in Sydney. He vaguely calls himself an actor, and unwittingly runs one of the biggest acting websites in the world.

About the Author

is Stage Milk's founder and site co-ordinator. He studied Acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), and is now based in Sydney. He vaguely calls himself an actor, and unwittingly runs one of the biggest acting websites in theThe A. he patient died, but—the old story—the therapy was a success. Indeed, an Associated Press story heralded the treatment as a major medical break-through. The story, which hit newsstands across the nation on February 15, began hyperbolically, "For the first time, doctors have cured a deadly assault on the body's immune system, saving the life of a week-old baby with an experimental treatment called monoclonal antibodies."

The article was referring to the treatment of Bryan Ahlers, who during surgery to repair a heart defect three days after his birth at Children's Hospital, Buffalo, NY, was given a routine blood transfusion. When rash, fever, diarrhea, and ascites developed, immunologist Byung H. Park, MD, recognized the classic symptoms of graft v host disease (GVHD). This seemed an unlikely response until


Halep is due to face Maria Sharapova, the 2006 singles champion, in the first round at Flushing Meadows. Having been awarded a wild card to the event, Sharapova would not have been on Halep’s list of preferred opponents to kick off her quest for the US Open title. The Russian has won all six of their previous encounters, including a three-set battle in the 2014 Roland Garros final. It is fair to say that a lot has changed for Halep since, including her temperament on-court, and her ability to perform on the big stage. On the other hand, Sharapova is a born champion, whose mental strength and willingness to win are second perhaps only to Serena Williams. Therefore, there is a realistic chance that the first part ofthe jigsaw to enable Venus Williams’ ascension to #1 could come to fruition.

Muguruza’s US Open record

Despite many high-profile predictions tipping Muguruza for the title, including former world #1 Tracy Austin, the current Wimbledon champion has never made it beyond the second round at Flushing Meadows. She has lost two close second round matches in the past two years (the first of which came against then-qualifier Johanna Konta), and she faces a tricky opponent in former World #19 Varvara Lepchenko in the first round. Moreover, she could meet Kristýna Plíšková, twin sister of current world #1 Karolína Plíšková, in the third round. As good as her form in Cincinnati last week was, the fact that she doesn’t have a great record at Flushing Meadows and has tricky opponents in


the draw. Of course, Svitolina reaching the semifinals would preclude Venus from getting to #1, but Kerber has been backed to do well by former champion Kim Clijsters. It is evident that Plíšková has her work cut out for her if she is to go one step further than last year at Flushing Meadows. Svitolina, meanwhile, does not have the easiest of draws herself, with Elena Vesnina and Madison Keys as potential fourth-round opponents, and Kerber as a potential quarterfinal foe.

Tennis players often say, with good reason, that the best way to win a Grand Slam is to take each match as it goes, irrespective of other results. Each time Venus Williams has gotten to the final of a Grand Slam this year, she has done so byhis administration's agenda.

In response to the declaration, Ohio House Minority Leader Armond Budish (D) said in a statement that he had to "check my calendar" to make sure it wasn't April Fool's Day. He continued: "Do you thank teachers and firefighters for the invaluable work before or after you slash their wages and benefits?"

In Wisconsin, Walker's kind words for state workers have prompted similar head shakes. In addition to declaring yesterday "State Employee Recognition Day," the governor's office recently uploaded a little-watched video to YouTube where he said "thank you to the thousands of men and women who work as public servants" and asked citizens to nominate outstanding public workers for recognition. Like Kasich, Walker has moved to take away collective bargaining rights for many public employees.

Viewers of


Walker's video have been assailing the governor as a "hypocrite" in the comments section, and, as of this writing, the video has 9 "likes" and 86 "dislikes." Even so, a Walker spokesperson told the Wisconsin State-Journal that roughly 50 "serious nominations" had already been submitted as of Tuesday. The Wisconsin Capital Times reports that today a group of state employees are rallying outside the Capitol to instead recognize "State Employee Depreciation Day."

Watch Walker's video below.Sid Caesar, a comic actor who came to prominence with the 1950s variety program Your Show of Shows, has passed away.

Former CNN host Larry King tweeted the news Wednesday, calling the 91-year-old Caesar “a dear friend” and a “comic genius.”

Sorry to learn about the passing of Sid Caesar-a dear friend, a comic genius & an American classic- there will never be another one like him — Larry King (@kingsthings) February 12, 2014

Over his nearly 60-year career, Caesar was a familiar face on television and Broadway and in movies. In addition to performing comedy on Your Show of Shows and the subsequent Caesar’s Hour, the actor also made appearances on The Love Boat; Love, American Style; That Girl and The Carol Burnett Show.

He also played Coach Calhoun in the


Star Wars actor Mark Hamill slammed Ivanka Trump for being a 'fraud' in a tweet after she shared a photo of her son dressed as a stormtrooper on social media.

The first daughter is seen in the photo dressed in a black gown alongside her husband Jared Kushner.

One of their sons, presumably Theodore, is seen dressed as the stormtrooper as he poses for the photo.

'The Force is strong in my family,' Ivanka wrote in the caption of the photo.

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill slammed Ivanka Trump for being a 'fraud' in a tweet after she shared a photo of her son dressed as a stormtrooper on social media (pictured)

'The Force is strong in my family,' Ivanka wrote in the caption of the photo. Her caption drew criticism from Hamillwho retweeted the photo with the caption: 'You misspelled "Fraud"' (above)

The Star Wars actor (pictured) also added the hashtag '#GoForceYourself' in his response

Her caption drew criticism from Hamill who retweeted the photo with the caption: 'You misspelled "Fraud".'

Hamill also added the hashtag '#GoForceYourself'.

The actor's comment immediately drew mixed reviews from people who found his comment hilarious and others who thought he was attacking children.

One person tweeted: 'Way to attack a child.'

'Way to attack a child,' another Twitter user wrote.

A third said: 'It's a child in a Star Wars costume, Mark.'

The actor's comment immediately drew mixed reviews from people who found his comment hilarious and others who thought he was attacking children (above)

'Not cool Mark! She's just trying to have a nice Sunday with her family her kids are


was a calf. Bullwinkle approached Barnes, knocked him down, and injured his leg. Following the incident, Richard Moseley's immediate response to Barnes was that "[Bullwinkle's] never done that before."
Each of the Moseleys testified that they had never witnessed Bullwinkle act aggressively prior to his attack on Barnes. In fact, Richard Moseley testified that, prior to the attack, Bullwinkle was treated like a family pet and was always gentle, even allowing children to scratch his head. One of Bullwinkle's handlers testified that "he never was rough with us at all" and that "he was so gentle that he was always the first one in the pen." Furthermore, in his deposition, Barnes testified that he was not contending that Richard Moseley had any knowledge that Bullwinkle was dangerous prior toYesterday, I wrote about Janis Shinwari, an Afghan who served as an interpreter for the U.S. Army for seven years, bravely and honorably, saving the lives of several American soldiers, including Lieutenant (now Captain) Matt Zeller. I heard about Shinwari and Zeller through Becca Heller of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project. There are thousands of cases of Iraqis and Afghans who risked their lives for the U.S., only to have their chance at an American visa endlessly delayed or denied. Shinwari’s story struck me as particularly unjust, because of his extraordinary record of service, and because he had actually received his visa a few weeks ago, only to have it revoked on Saturday, just after he had quit his job, sold all his possessions, and was preparing his


House.

This is just one interpreter’s story. There are thousands of Iraqis and Afghans who earned the trust of their American counterparts under fire and whose visa applications are lost in bureaucratic limbo. Due to inaction in the Senate and ideological extremism in the House, it looks like the Iraqi Special Immigrant Visa program will die on schedule with the end of the fiscal year, at 11:59 P.M. on Monday, September 30th. That will leave unfilled the seventeen thousand visa slots that were mandated by Congress six years ago—a colossal failure of political will in the Bush and Obama Administrations. There’s a chance that the program will be revived in December through the National Defense Authorization Act, but at this point only a fool bets on Congress doing thewas found at a very early stage and surgery (lumpectomy) was preformed in May 2017. By the end of 2017 I had completed all 37 of the required radiation treatments. After 2 years of being cancer free I wanted both my breast to look normal and bring back their youthful look. At my consultation with Dr Zamora he was very pleasant and I could easily talk to him. He reviewed all my medical records and he discussed in detail what he could do to not only take away the scars from the lumpectomy but to give my breast my desired youthful look.It’s been a little over a week since he did the lift and put in the implants. During this time his staff called to check on me


surgeon use a machine to view my pacemaker leads during his surgery. This surgeon stated it was not necessary, that he had x-rays to go by. However, during his surgery he fractured a lead to my heart causing an irregular EKG which he gave to my sister just stating I probably needed to follow up with my cardiologist because the EKG was abnormal. I went to Florida Hospital Ormond the same day from home by ambulance where they discovered this surgeon fractured a lead to my heart. The entire pacemaker with new leads had to be done by Shands in Gainesville and this surgeon never apologized and like a fool I decided to give him a second chance at which time he wanted to do more fat transfersareola, or dark-colored skin around the nipple (periareolar incision), in the armpit (transaxillary incision), or under the breast fold (sub-mammary incision). Once the incision has been made, a pocket is created either directly behind the breast tissue (subglandular) or beneath the pectoralis muscle (submuscular) for implant placement. After making the pocket, Dr. Zamora will place the implants directly behind the breast tissue or beneath the pectoral muscle and on top of the chest wall. Saline implants are filled with sterile salt water. The saline implant is inserted empty, and once it is in place, it is then filled with saline. . Silicone breast implants are pre-filled with silicone, a substance that mimics human fat, prior to surgery. Finally, the incision is then stitched up once your implant has


up, I had huge bulges under my eyes. I assumed it was swelling. Not. He decided to practice fat transfers under my eyes. After returning multiple returns to his office, he finally admitted it was a fat transfer, and he couldnt do anything to correct it. He told me "you signed the paperwork" I still have bulges under my eyes! Be warned. Im disfigured for life. NOT TRUE: Dr. Zamora and his staff are professional and dedicated. Delivers what they promise with compassion. Dr. Zamora has the eye of an artist, and the skill of a top surgeon.

Marissa Walker

23:19 27 Nov 19

Dr. Zamora and his staff are beyond excellent. His bedside manner is unmatched and I loved how comfortable he made me feel before and after my procedure.an unpaid bill that I never received

Brittni Owen

14:01 09 May 19

I had a breast augmentation done here a few months ago and the entire process from start to finish was a breeze. Everyone in the office is very kind as well as Dr. Zamora himself. I felt totally at ease the day of surgery and had no problems with recovery after.

April blair carlson

12:19 09 May 19

I couldn't agree more with all of the other 5 star reviews. From Joanne, Jada, Dr. Zamora, Melanie, Carry to Desiree (Dr. Zamora's wife's name?) And the ones not mentioned. All exceptional. Dr. Zamora knows what he is doing.

cheryl brandon

13:23 22 Apr 19

10 Stars Again! I had an eye lift, face lift, and neck lift February 2018 by Dr. Zamora. I had the


It is fitting that the metaphor used by the White House Correspondents Association in describing CNN's coverage of the Kavanaugh hearing is a musical one, because the only way to describe the media's self-congratulation lately is that it's "tone-deaf."

The cable news networks have committed multiple errors of judgement and fact on everything from Russian collusion to Jussie Smollet to the Florida election to Catholic students, but that has not stopped the WHCA from offering praise for that coverage.

CNN's overall coverage was marked and marred by not only mistakes and even smears, but by extensive speculative opining from anchors and reporters alike. The network published and aired preposterously flimsy accusations, associated Kavanaugh with rape an average of ten times a day over an 18-day period reviewed by the MediaResearch Center, and by the way brought their favorite "celebrity" attorney Michael Avenatti on air over and over to talk about it.

(What has Avenatti been up to lately, you may ask? Here you go)

For all that, their coverage on the day of the confirmation is being lauded by the White House Correspondents Association with an honorable mention for the 'Merriman Smith Award in broadcast' with the following glowing review.

CNN's coverage on the day of the hearings on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was aggressive, relied on deep sourcing and felt like one was watching a symphony. The news-making moments in which Sen. Jeff Flake, R-AZ, was confronted by two women was just a piece of the extensive coverage that followed every angle, all day.

The actual winner of the


award was Fox News Channel's Ed Henry, for his devastating interview with EPA's Scott Pruitt.

That the mention is specific to the day of the hearing does not abrogate the necessity of reviewing the network's overall coverage, and certainly should have weighed into the decision to praise the network's broadcast on that particular day. Especially considering that many of those stories, including the Avenatti story, were brought up on air throughout that very day, most of which was otherwise dedicated to live streaming video from the hearing.

At Newsbusters, they have an extensive takedown of the awards being handed out, and the bad or erroneous coverage that has been overlooked.

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February 20, 2007

Dr. Daniel Adler is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. His ongoing research in the southern Caucasus investigates the nature of Neanderthal-modern human interactions and Neanderthal extinction. Dr Adler is a two times recipient of Wenner-Gren funding for his archaeological research. His dissertation research "Late Middle Palaeolithic Patterns of Lithic Reduction, Land-Use, and Mobility in the Southern Caucasus," at Harvard University was funded in 2002 and he then continued to receive a Post-Ph.D. Research Grant to support his work on the "The Mashavera Gorge Palaeolithic Project".

Results from this collaborative research in the Georgian Republic suggest that Neanderthal-modern human coexistence in the southern Caucasus was probably very short, and the major behavioral edge


allowing modern human populations to grow at the expense of the Neanderthals was a cultural one, namely their ability to establish larger extended social networks and exploit larger territories. These behaviors in and of themselves likely elevated individual and group fitness, affording a considerable competitive advantage. From a purely ecological perspective Dr. Adler argues that the transition from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in the southern Caucasus represents the replacement of one top predator (Neanderthals) by another (modern humans), with little discernable shift in the predator-prey hierarchy, the medium¬large game hunted, or their seasons of exploitation. In terms of resource and niche preference he suggests that local Neanderthal and modern human populations were sympatric to the point of exclusion.refreshments of yours once I've had a look at the Syth, if you'll direct me to the outer wall."

Ishabal covered a smile with one well-groomed hand. "I shall do better. I shall take you there myself." She stopped a passing footman with a snap of the fingers and murmured something to him. As he hastened back the way she had come, Ishabal pointed to another hallway. "This way." She led Tris down through the axis of the palace, into a wide room. It held an enclosed staircase that led onto the inner wall that surrounded the palace. From there they took an enclosed bridge to the outer wall that followed High Street on one side of the palace, and the cliffs on the other three sides.

"Don't you like


Kugisko from Daja, while Jak flirted and teased Sandry until she laughingly talked about Duke Vedris and some of the mishaps her student Pasco had gotten into. In the withdrawing room after supper the servants brought wine, tea, and fruit juice for them all, as well as cheeses and biscuits. Chime enchanted them with her flights in the air, candles and firelight throwing brightly colored flashes from her glassy body. When the travelers began to show weariness, Ealaga instructed the maids to show them to their rooms.

Sandry was asleep the moment she crawled under the blankets. She didn't know how long she stayed that way before someone grabbed her hand. She sat bolt upright, ready to launch a fistful of power against her attacker's clothes, and opened herthe rose garden. He had little to pack now that his things from the palace were bundled up. He placed his personal _shakkan_ on a stone bench so it could soak up sunlight while not moving and proceeded to give the garden a last inspection.

Ambros found him while he strengthened the roses against parasites. "I had thought she would finally see it is her duty to stay and represent her people," Ambros told Briar without preamble. "To represent them in the Noble Assembly. You must reason with her."

"She's in no mood for reason, or didn't you notice?" Briar asked, viewing one rose's leaves and stems from every angle. "Besides, she's got duties at home, too. Didn't she tell you? She's one of His Grace's two top people. She


It's not _your_ family."

_No_ , said Daja. _But it's his. And frankly, he's put a great deal more work into it than you have._

_There's one way you can make sure Berenene doesn't win_ anything, Briar said. _After all you put us through there, you ought to be decent enough to admit it._

_It's_ mine, argued Sandry, though the remark felt watery and overused to her.

_How much more rich than disgusting rich do you want to be?_ asked Briar.

_Sometimes you owe your people a little less pride and a little more respect_ , Daja added.

"I refuse to listen!" cried Sandry. She tossed her embroidery into the basket, forgetting that Chime was in it. Her exit ruined by the dragon's unhappy scratching noises, she uncovered Chime and set her on theA New Jersey group that claimed it could “cure” gay people and make them straight has been ordered to pay $72,400 in damages to its former clients, after being found by a jury to have broken the state’s consumer fraud protection law.

A jury of seven men and women took about three hours to reach what is being hailed as a landmark civil-rights verdict on Thursday against the founders of Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing (Jonah), a group that said it had provided “gay conversion therapy” to clients largely from the Jewish faith.

The group was sued by three former clients and two mothers of ex-clients, who collectively told the court in Jersey City that they had suffered great psychological damage as well as considerable financial loss as a


result of the fraudulent program.

The lawsuit, launched by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is believed to have been the first in the US to use consumer protection laws to challenge the controversial practice. Most of the major professional bodies including the American Psychiatric Association and American Psychological Association have long denounced the treatment, and many states have also moved to restrict its practice. The White House supports a ban.

Gay conversion therapy court case begins: 'Jonah lied – they made it worse' Read more

David Dinielli, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s deputy legal director who led the challenge, said the verdict was a seminal moment in the LGBT struggle in America.

“Conversion therapy and homophobia are based on the same central lie – that gay people are broken and need tobe fixed,” he said. “Conversion therapists, including the defendants in this case, sell fake cures that don’t work and can seriously harm the unsuspecting people who fall into this trap.”

In the course of the three-week trial, former clients pressing the lawsuit recounted their experiences at the hands of Jonah’s so-called therapists. Benjamin Unger, who was 19 at the time he sought help from Jonah, said the company assured him that its course could “remove” his attraction towards other men.

He said that Arthur Goldberg, a co-founder of Jonah and one of the defendants in the case, had told him the treatment was scientific and had successfully helped hundreds of people convert from gay to straight in three to four years.

After the verdict, Unger, now 27, said in a statement:


The Donkey Kong high score record has been shattered three times this year with Steve Wiebe recapturing the title from his King of Kong rival Billy Mitchell.

Hank Chien took the title from Billy Mitchell this past March. Chien beat Mitchell's 3 year record.

Mitchell reclaimed his title in July with a score of 1,062,800. This month, Steve Wiebe beat Mitchell's score by hitting 1,064,500.

According to Twin Galaxies, Wiebe set the top Donkey Kong score record in spring 2007. His efforts were documented in the film The King of Kong.

[Pic]et al. 2003a) proposed (based on the above data as well as other information on distribution, morphometrics, and life history parameters) that the southern and northern subpopulations of the Franciscana each be divided into two management stocks. The range limits for each stock were defined as provisional Franciscana Management Areas (FMAs), as follows: FMA I coastal waters of Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro states, Brazil (note that with increased survey effort, confirmation of the hiatus in the Espírito Santo State will require further division of this FMA); FMA II São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina states, Brazil; FMA III coastal waters of Rio Grande do Sul State, southern Brazil and Uruguay; and FMA IV coastal waters of Argentina, including the provinces of Buenos Aires, Rio Negro and


Hilchos Chanukah

During the Second Temple, the Greek empire reigned (over Israel),1 and they (the Greeks) passed decrees against the Jews and (tried) to erase their religion, and did not allow them to carry out Torah (study) or the commandments. They put their hands on their property and their daughters. They entered the Temple, destroyed and made the pure unclean. The Jews were in great distress because of them and were much oppressed, until the G-d of their fathers had mercy on them, delivering them from their hands and saving them. Then overcame, the sons of the Hasmonean High Priest, (the Greeks) and killed them and saved the Jews from their hands. They appointed a king from the Priests, and the kingdom of Israel was restored for more thanQ:

Word order in "one only of the 12 dead astronauts"

During all the years she had sat in the garden in the cold evenings, too tired to bring herself to bed, she had been sustained by her concern for one only of the 12 dead astronauts orbiting the night sky.

The Dead Astronaut by  J. G. Ballard
I wonder why it's  one only of the 12 dead astronauts, not only one of the 12 dead astronauts or  one of the only 12 dead astronauts.

A:

Of the two hypotheticals you offer,

only one of the 12 dead astronauts

would have been technically correct, but sounded like a reproach, as if the narrator/author was criticizing her for being concerned with only one of them.  By putting "one" first, the author ducks an


St. John Ophthalmic Hospital. An ancient tradition of service revived in the Holy Land.
In Jerusalem in 1888, the Hospital of St. John was founded to combat the eye diseases prevalent in the Middle East. Since that time, this institution has survived world wars and local ones, and the geographic confusion created by redefinition of national borders. The author reviews the remarkable 90-year history of this institution, with special emphasis on her 13-year personal association there.posted above,…which happens to be located at one of the potential blazes I pointed out (that Forrest could easily have used as a marker,…from his plane):

“The Lisa, Menard, and Morrison Fur Company is also credited with building a trading post at the Three Forks in Montana, but this is questionable–to the Mountain Man a fort was usually a log barricade. The fur trappers arrived at the Three Forks on April 3, 1810, and a trapping party was attacked on April 12th. Five trappers were killed. The rest of the party forted up behind a log barricade. Tired of staying behind the barricade, George Drouillard and two Delaware Indians went up the Gallatin River to trap where they were killed by the Blackfeet.”

Forrest is pictured at a Mountain Man


found out about what we were doing there, and we gave them a couple apples we still had, so everyone came away happy.JWe also met the head of the village, who happens to be the brother/brother-in-law of the family that was retrieving cassava.They offered us some fresh peanuts.

So that's a little of my upcountry adventures. Last weekend Krystal, Juan, Missy and I biked about 40 km up to a nicer area of beach and spent some time relaxing, strung our hammocks up in a little shack, and spent the night. I was definitely the slow poke of the biking group, at one point a man with a very nice bike came up behind me. We had a half conversation in French, and at one point he tried toMark Latham.

A change.org petition has been launched against the Australian Financial Review to stop publishing former Labor Leader Mark Latham's "offensive and derogatory" articles on female journalists.

The petition, created on Tuesday night by Melbourne author and Daily Life contributor Kasey Edwards, calls on the AFR to drop Latham as a columnist and to cease promoting further sexist, personal attacks on women on its website.

"No quality news organisation should publish dangerously personal, underhanded attacks on female journalists and pretend they are legitimate comment," writes Edwards.

Last month, the AFR - owned by Fairfax Media, which also publishes this site - ran an article by Latham titled 'Why Left Feminists Don't Like Kids'. The piece, which has since been heavily criticised on social media, slammed Pryor for revealing in a Good


carefully orchestrated 17-month campaign by the Trump administration to remake the Supreme Court before the 2018 midterms, when there is an outside chance that Republicans could lose their majority. For conservatives, Kennedy’s seat was seen as one of the keys to rolling back abortion rights—on the campaign trail, Trump pledged to appoint a justice who would overturn Roe v. Wade. But first, Trump had to demonstrate to Kennedy that he could be trusted to nominate quality jurists to the Supreme Court. The campaign was multifaceted: over the course of several months, Trump systematically nominated three of Kennedy’s former clerks for plum judicial posts. While he criticized other, more conservative members of the court, he lavished praise on Kennedy—despite the fact that the justice has been pilloried by the‘high level’ of their competition.

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Torrey is from Oakland, CA, and majors in media studies and American studies at Claremont McKenna College, where she swims distance freestyle for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps team. Outside of SwimSwam, she has bylines at Yahoo Sports, SB Nation, and The Student Life newspaper.


Production of bio-oil rich in acetic acid and phenol from fast pyrolysis of palm residues using a fluidized bed reactor: Influence of activated carbons.
In this study, palm residues were pyrolyzed in a bench-scale (3kg/h) fast pyrolysis plant equipped with a fluidized bed reactor and bio-oil separation system for the production of bio-oil rich in acetic acid and phenol. Pyrolysis experiments were performed to investigate the effects of reaction temperature and the types and amounts of activated carbon on the bio-oil composition. The maximum bio-oil yield obtained was approximately 47wt% at a reaction temperature of 515°C. The main compounds produced from the bio-oils were acetic acid, hydroxyacetone, phenol, and phenolic compounds such as cresol, xylenol, and pyrocatechol. When coal-derived activated carbon was applied, the acetic acid and phenol yieldstestified Scooby and Cave called him that night and asked him to come finish some songs.
Dick, the owner/victim, arrived at the studio shortly thereafter and told defendant to leave. He and defendant exchanged words and a heated argument ensued.[2] Naughty, Little Guy, Cave, and Nick left the room and went downstairs. Champ, who was sitting at the mixing board, remained in the room while the victim and defendant continued to argue. Champ stated he could not hear what was being said between the victim and defendant because he was wearing headphones.
Meanwhile, a commotion began at the bottom of the stairs outside the second floor recording studio when Naughty attempted to re-enter the building. Cave tried to lock the door at the bottom of the stairs to prevent Naughty


from going back up the stairs to the recording studio. Cave explained he was trying to calm down the situation. Nick stated he left the room where the victim and defendant were arguing because he heard a noise. When he went to the stairs, Nick saw Naughty trying to enter the building and Cave trying to stop him. Nick went down the stairs to talk to Naughty at which time he saw that Naughty had a gun. Defendant then came down the stairs and took the gun from Naughty.
*958 Defendant went back into the recording studio where Champ and the victim were. According to Champ, defendant walked into the room and put the .38 caliber gun to the victim's neck. The victim then drew his own gun. Champexplained that the two started hollering and fell into a tussle trying to grab each other's gun. Champ heard two gunshots at which time he fell to the floor and crawled out of the room. As he was crawling out, he looked back one last time and saw the victim on the floor against the wall with defendant standing over the victim.
Champ stated he stumbled down the stairs and out of the building where he saw Cave and Nick. Once outside, Champ, Cave, and Nick heard a third gunshot. Nick then saw defendant exit the building carrying two guns: one in his hand and the other in his crotch area. A sports utility vehicle/truck pulled up next to the building and defendant got in and left.
Defendant claims he


went back into the recording studio to retrieve his personal belongings. He testified that the victim shot at him as soon as he entered the room and that he fired back. Defendant stated he and the victim started wrestling at which time he shot the victim in the neck. He explained they were still wrestling when the victim was shot in the head with his own gun. Defendant stated that both he and the victim were holding the gun when it discharged. He testified that he took both guns from the scene because his gun was jammed and he was not sure who was coming up the stairs to the studio.
After defendant left the building, Nick and Champ went back to the studio where Nick saw the victimlying on the floor, bent up against a table, in a pool of blood. The two went back to the gas station down the street where Cave was waiting and told him that Nick was dead. Instead of calling the police, Cave called Scooby, who subsequently came to the scene.
At approximately 9:00 p.m., a Domino's pizza delivery man arrived at the recording studio to deliver a pizza. It was his second pizza delivery to the studio that night, the first delivery occurring between 6:30 p.m.  7:00 p.m. During his first delivery, the delivery man found the wrought iron fence door at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the recording studio locked. He called the recording studio from his cell phone and three men came down


the stairs and paid for the pizza. On his second delivery, the iron fence door was open. The delivery man proceeded up the stairs and found the door to the studio ajar. He went inside announcing "Domino's." There was no response so he continued to walk further into the studio where he found the victim lying on the floor with a pool of blood around his head. He ran back to his truck, called the store, and told his manager what he found. His manager then called the police.
The police arrived at the scene at which time Nick and Champ left in a taxi cab while Scooby and Cave stayed and talked to the police. During the course of the investigation, the police developed defendant and Naughty assuspects. Naughty was arrested approximately one week after the murder and defendant was arrested over one year later in California. Prior to defendant's arrest, he forwarded a videotaped statement and handwritten statement to Naughty's attorney admitting his involvement in the murder. However, defendant claimed he shot the victim in self-defense. At trial, defendant again admitted he shot the victim but suggested it was self-defense.
An autopsy revealed the victim suffered two gunshot wounds: one to the neck which was fired at close range where the muzzle of the gun was in contact with his *959 skin, and one to the head fired from an intermediate range, between ten to twelve inches away, which was the lethal wound.

SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE
On appeal, defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence used


and the victim were involved in a heated argument prior to the shooting. At some point during the argument, defendant exited the room leaving the victim and Champ behind. Instead of leaving the building, defendant obtained a gun from his friend, Naughty, and returned to the room where the victim was. While defendant testified he took the gun from Naughty to prevent a shooting, his actions proved otherwise. The only eyewitness, Champ, stated that defendant walked back into the room, immediately walked over to the victim who was on the telephone, and placed the gun to the victim's neck. It was only at this point that the victim pulled his gun. A reasonable juror could have concluded that defendant was the aggressor.
Defendant contends Champ's testimony could not bebelieved because he was a heroin addict that had entered into a plea agreement with the state prior to trial. Champ was fully questioned in front of the jury about his conviction and any deals he had with the state. He explained that at some point after the murder he was convicted of possession of heroin with the intent to distribute and sentenced to fifteen years. He specifically testified he was not offered any deals or promised anything for his testimony in the present case. On cross-examination, Champ denied he had any concerns about how his testimony would affect his current parole. The jury heard this testimony and was fully aware of the dynamics involved.
Defendant admitted numerous times during his testimony that he could have left the studio


at any time during the argument but chose not to. He explained he returned to the room to gather his things. Defendant admitted that when he returned to the room he did not consider his life to be at risk. Although defendant testified the victim threatened to kill him, none of the other witnesses corroborated this portion of his testimony. By his own admission, defendant did not believe his life was in imminent danger when he returned to the room with a gun.
Additionally, defendant shot the victim twice. Defendant contends he fired the second shot into the victim's head during a continued struggle over the guns. However, according to Dr. Susan Garcia, the forensic pathologist, the victim would not have been capable of a vigorous fight after thefirst shot which caused a debilitating wound. Defendant also claims the shot into the victim's head was made with the victim's own gun during the struggle thereby suggesting it accidentally discharged. But, the physical evidence showed the victim was shot in the head with a .38 caliber gun. The record clearly established that the victim possessed a .40 caliber gun and defendant possessed the.38 caliber gun. Finally, defendant asserts he shot at the victim only after the victim shot at him. Defendant contends four shots were fired suggesting the first and third shots were fired by the victim and the second and fourth were fired by defendant in self-defense. The evidence showed otherwise. The physical evidence showed only three shots were fired; a fact corroborated by all the


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Slavoj Žižek ( (listen) SLAH-voy ZHEE-zhek;
Slovene: [ˈslaʋɔj ˈʒiʒɛk]; born 21
March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher. He
is a professor at the Institute for Sociology
and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana
and international director of the Birkbeck
Institute for the Humanities of the University
of London. He works in subjects including
continental philosophy, political theory,
cultural studies, psychoanalysis, film criticism,
Marxism, Hegelianism and theology.
In 1989, Žižek published his first English
text, The Sublime Object of Ideology, in which
he departed from traditional Marxist theory
to develop a materialist conception of ideology
that drew heavily on Lacanian psychoanalysis
and Hegelian idealism. His early theoretical
work became increasingly eclectic and political
in the 1990s, dealing frequently in the critical
analysis of disparate forms of popular culture
and making him a popular figure of the academic
left. A critic of capitalism, neoliberalism
and political correctness, Žižek calls himself
a political radical,and his work has been
characterized as challenging orthodoxies of
both the political right and the social-liberal
universities.Žižek's idiosyncratic style,
popular academic works, frequent magazine
op-eds, and critical assimilation of high
and low culture have gained him international
influence, controversy, criticism and a substantial
audience outside academe. In 2012, Foreign
Policy listed Žižek on its list of Top 100
Global Thinkers, calling him "a celebrity
philosopher" while elsewhere he has been dubbed
the "Elvis of cultural theory" and "the most
dangerous philosopher in the West". Žižek's
work was chronicled in a 2005 documentary
film entitled Zizek! A scholarly journal,
the International Journal of Žižek Studies,
was founded to engage his work.
== Biography ==
===
Early life ===
Žižek was born in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia,
Yugoslavia, into a middle-class family. His
father Jože Žižek was an economist and
civil servant from the region of Prekmurje
in eastern Slovenia. His mother Vesna, native
of


the Gorizia Hills in the Slovenian Littoral,
was an accountant in a state enterprise. His
parents were atheists. He spent most of his
childhood in the coastal town of Portorož,
where he was exposed to Western film, theory
and popular culture. When Slavoj was a teenager
his family moved back to Ljubljana where he
attended Bežigrad High School. In the 1960s
and early 1970s, Slavoj encountered western
philosophy in Zagreb.
=== Education ===
In 1967, during an era of liberalization in
Titoist Yugoslavia, Žižek enrolled at the
University of Ljubljana and studied philosophy
and sociology.He had already begun reading
French structuralists prior to entering university,
and in 1967 he published the first translation
of a text by Jacques Derrida into Slovenian.
An early influence at university, Božidar
Debenjak, taught the philosophy of German
idealism and introduced the thought of the
Frankfurt School to Slovenia. Debenjak's reading
of Marx's Das Kapitalfrom the perspective
of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit influenced
many future Slovenian philosophers, including
Žižek.Žižek frequented the circles of
dissident intellectuals, including the Heideggerian
philosophers Tine Hribar and Ivo Urbančič,
and published articles in alternative magazines,
such as Praxis, Tribuna and Problemi, which
he also edited. In 1971 he accepted a job
as an assistant researcher with the promise
of tenure, but was dismissed after his Master's
thesis was denounced by the authorities of
being "non-Marxist". He graduated from the
University of Ljubljana in 1981 with a Doctor
of Arts in Philosophy for his dissertation
entitled The Theoretical and Practical Relevance
of French Structuralism.He spent the next
few years undertaking national service in
the Yugoslav army in Karlovac.
=== Career ===
During the 1980s, Žižek edited and translated
Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, and Louis Althusser.
He used Jacques Lacan's work to interpret
Hegelian and Marxist philosophy.
In 1985, Žižek completed a second


doctorate
(Doctor of Philosophy in psychoanalysis) at
the University of Paris VIII under Jacques-Alain
Miller and François Regnault.
He wrote the introduction to Slovene translations
of G. K. Chesterton's and John Le Carré's
detective novels.
In 1988, he published his first book dedicated
entirely to film theory. He achieved international
recognition as a social theorist with the
1989 publication of his first book in English,
The Sublime Object of Ideology.Žižek has
been publishing in journals such as Lacanian
Ink and In These Times in the United States,
the New Left Review and The London Review
of Books in the United Kingdom, and with the
Slovenian left-liberal magazine Mladina and
newspapers Dnevnik and Delo. He also cooperates
with the Polish leftist magazine Krytyka Polityczna,
regional southeast European left-wing journal
Novi Plamen, and serves on the editorial board
of the psychoanalytical journal Problemi.
Žižek is a series editor of the Northwestern
University Pressseries Diaeresis that publishes
works that "deal not only with philosophy,
but also will intervene at the levels of ideology
critique, politics, and art theory."
===
Politics ===
In the late 1980s, Žižek came to public
attention as a columnist for the alternative
youth magazine Mladina, which was critical
of Tito's policies, Yugoslav politics, especially
the militarization of society. He was a member
of the Communist Party of Slovenia until October
1988, when he quit in protest against the
JBTZ trial together with 32 other Slovenian
intellectuals. Between 1988 and 1990, he was
actively involved in several political and
civil society movements which fought for the
democratization of Slovenia, most notably
the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights.
In the first free elections in 1990, he ran
as the Liberal Democratic Party's candidate
for Slovenian presidency (an office formally
abolished in the 1991 constitution).Despite
his activity in liberal democratic


he described himself as a
"radical leftist." The following year Žižek
appeared in the Arte documentary Marx Reloaded
in which he defended the idea of communism.
In 2013, he corresponded with imprisoned Russian
activist and Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.All
hearts were beating for you as long as you
were perceived as just another version of
the liberal-democratic protest against the
authoritarian state. The moment it became
clear that you rejected global capitalism,
reporting on Pussy Riot became much more ambiguous.
In 2016, during a conversation with Gary Younge
at a Guardian Live event, Žižek endorsed
Donald Trump for the US presidency. He described
Trump as a paradox, basically a centrist liberal
in most of his positions, desperately trying
to mask this by dirty jokes and stupidities.
In an opinion piece, published e.g. in Die
Zeit, he described Hillary Clinton as the
much less suitable alternative. The inaccuracy
andwere asked to
choose between doing things like this to earn
money and becoming fully employed as an American
academic, kissing ass to get a tenured post,
I would with pleasure choose writing for such
journals!"Žižek and his thought have been
the subject of several documentaries. The
1996 Liebe Dein Symptom wie Dich selbst! is
a German documentary on him. In the 2004 The
Reality of the Virtual, Žižek gave a one-hour
lecture on his interpretation of Lacan's tripartite
thesis of the imaginary, the symbolic, and
the real. Zizek! is a 2005 documentary by
Astra Taylor on his philosophy. The 2006 The
Pervert's Guide to Cinema and 2012 The Pervert's
Guide to Ideology also portray Žižek's ideas
and cultural criticism. Examined Life (2008)
features Žižek speaking about his conception
of ecology at a garbage dump. He was also
featured in the 2011 Marx Reloaded, directed
by Jason Barker.Foreign


Policy named Žižek
one of its 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers "for
giving voice to an era of absurdity."
===
Personal life ===
Žižek has been married three times: firstly,
to Renata Salecl, another Slovene philosopher;
secondly, to fashion model Analia Hounie,
daughter of an Argentine Lacanian psychoanalyst;
and thirdly, to the Slovene journalist Jela
Krečič, daughter of the architectural historian
Peter Krečič. He has a son.He is a fluent
speaker of Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, French,
German and English. He claims to be more or
less fluent in Spanish.
=== Impact ===
His body of writing spans dense theoretical
polemics, academic tomes, and accessible introductory
books; in addition, he has taken part in various
film projects, including two documentary collaborations
with director Sophie Fiennes, The Pervert's
Guide to Cinema (2006) and The Pervert's Guide
to Ideology (2012). His work has impacted
both academic and widespread public audiences
(see for example his commentaryin the 2003
Abercrombie and Fitch Quarterly).
Hundreds of academics have addressed aspects
of Žižek's work in professional papers,
and in 2007, the International Journal of
Žižek Studies was established for the discussion
of his work.
== Thought ==
=== Ontology, ideology, and the Real ===
Žižek argues:
Against Karl Marx's concept of ideology as
described in The German Ideology, false consciousness
prevents people from seeing how things really
are. Building upon Althusser, ideology is
thoroughly unconscious and functions as a
series of justifications and spontaneous socio-symbolic
rituals which support virtual authorities.
The Real is not experienced as something which
is ordered in a way that gives satisfactory
meaning to all its parts in relation to one
another. Instead the Real is experienced as
through the lens of hegemonic systems of representation
and reproduction, while resisting full inscription
into ordering system ascribed to it. This
in turn may lead subjects to experience


in the
process of transiting the contradictions;
or the real is a "minimal difference", the
gap between the infinite judgement of a reductionist
materialism and experience as lived, the "Parallax"
of dialectical antagonisms are inherent to
reality itself and dialectical materialism
(contra Friedrich Engels) is a new materialist
Hegelianism, incorporating the insights of
Lacanian psychoanalysis, set theory, quantum
physics, and contemporary continental philosophy.
=== Political thought and the postmodern subject
===
Žižek argues:
The state is a system of regulatory institutions
that shape our behavior. Its power is purely
symbolic and has no normative force outside
of collective behavior. In this way, the term
the law signifies society's basic principles,
which enable interaction by prohibiting certain
acts.
Political decisions have become depoliticized
and accepted as natural conclusions. For example,
controversial policy decisions (such as reductions
in social welfare spending) are presented
as apparently "objective" necessities. Although
governments make claims about increased citizen
participation and democracy,the important
decisions are still made in the interests
of capital. The two-party system dominant
in the United States and elsewhere produces
a similar illusion. It is still necessary
to engage in particular conflicts – such
as labor disputes – but the trick is to
relate these individual events to the larger
struggle. Particular demands, if executed
well, might serve as metaphorical condensation
for the system and its injustices. The real
political conflict is between an ordered structure
of society and those without a place in it.
In stark contrast to the intellectual tenets
of the European "universalist Left" in general,
and those Jürgen Habermas defined as postnational
in particular, pro-sovereignty and pro-independence
processes opened in Europe are good.
The postmodern subject is cynical toward official
institutions, yet at the same time believes
in conspiracies. When we lost our shared belief
in a single power, we constructed another
of the