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This opportunity isthe BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme she believed menstrual cups were responsible for her minor pelvic organ prolapse, after she had used them for three months.

"I was scared and I was worried," she said. "I didn't know what it might mean in the long term."

How to take out a menstrual cup safely

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Watch pelvic floor physiotherapist Kate Lough explain how to use a menstrual cup.

Pelvic organ prolapse occurs when the group of muscles and tissues that normally support the pelvic organs, called the pelvic floor, becomes weakened and cannot hold the organs in place firmly.

It causes one or more of the organs to drop down from the normal position and bulge into the


ago.

She has two children and had not previously had any prolapse-related issues.

"It was great at first [using the cups]... I was a convert," she said.

But then she encountered a problem.

She was referred by her GP to a gynaecologist, who, she said, told her she had experienced a minor vaginal prolapse "that probably happened because of the cup".

"She advised me not to use the cup any more," she added. "She was not a fan of them at all, especially in women who've already had kids like me."

The Department of Health pointed to NHS advice suggesting physiotherapy was "by far the most cost-effective intervention for preventing and treating mild to moderate prolapse".

It said the NHS Long Term Plan had committed to ensuring "that women have access to multidisciplinary pelvic healthSonya Auer of the University of Glasgow, U.K. Their study appears in the current issue of Global Ecology and Biogeography.

As King explains, "In research on the effects of climate change, studies have shown birds and other organisms shifting north in latitude and others show that species are moving up in elevation, but we're not aware of any others that have looked at both simultaneously."

He and Auer analyzed data collected by thousands of volunteers for the North American Breeding Bird Survey to determine shifts in northern latitude and upper elevation boundaries of 40 songbird species that occurred between two time periods, 1977 to 1981 and 2006 to 2011. The 25-year gap is an adequate time over which climate change effects can be observed, King points out. Across the 40


Resumed Protested Games

Most protests of games are not upheld. There are many reasons for this, with the most frequent two being:

1. The protest had an incorrect basis, such as a disagreement with an umpire's judgment, which cannot be protested.

2. The team lodging the protest won the game, so it was never formally filed.

There have been some games when the protest has been upheld, even when the umpires correctly enforced the rules. Perhaps the most famous case is the George Brett pine tar bat homer on 7/24/83. In that case, the umpires were following the existing rules to the letter when Brett's homer was negated and he was called out. However, AL President Lee MacPhail ruled that the penalty was not within the "spirit of the rules" and reversedball drops back on the field where RF Dixie Walker fields it, relays it to 2B Eddie Stanky, whose throw nails Northey at home. The first base umpire (there was a three man crew in those days) immediately ruled the ball in play, but the other base umpire signaled to Northey that it was a homer, so Northey slowed up. He was ruled out at the plate, and the Cards protested the game saying Northey had been deceived by the umpire and would have scored if he had not slowed down.

In the bottom of the ninth, the Dodgers scored three runs to win the game before the protest by a 3-2 score. NL President Ford Frick, who later became Commissioner, upheld the protest and awarded Northey a home


run. However, he did not order the game resumed in the top of the ninth with the Cards ahead 3-0, which would have been the normal procedure called for by the rules. He allowed the Dodgers' runs to stand and ruled the game a 3-3 tie. (We can only speculate on what he would have decided if the Dodgers had hit a homer in the bottom of the ninth and scored four runs.) All the records counted except for the pitchers' win and loss. The game was replayed in its entirety as part of a doubleheader on August 18 that the Dodgers won.

Retrosheet's Dave Smith wrote an article about this game, which has more details, in the Society for American Baseball Research publication The Baseball Research Journal, Numberof food aid.

The US and its allies described the rocket launch as a disguised missile test, while the North said its aim was only to put a satellite into orbit. The rocket failed soon after takeoff.

Pak, according to the summary, told fellow foreign ministers at the Asean Regional Forum that it was the US which scuppered the February 29 deal and was to blame for tensions on the Korean peninsula.

The United States, Japan and South Korea held a joint meeting on Thursday which warned that “any provocation by North Korea… will be met with a resolute and coordinated response from the international community.”

It also expressed “deep concern about the well-being of the North Korean people and the grave human rights situation in North Korea.”

Pak, in his comments to


Mexican heroin production is growing

Mexican drug gangs have expanded their activities in the US with heroin production doubling in 2008, the US justice department says in a report.

Despite US funding for the war on drugs, trade in marijuana, ecstasy and methamphetamine also grew, the National Drug Threat Assessment said.

The report found that Mexican groups were active in every region of the US.

Gangs were moving an estimated $40bn (£27bn) in cash back into Mexico across the border each year, it added.

Mexico has long been the main conduit for illicit drugs smuggled into the US but this report suggests that the efforts to halt the flow on both sides of the border have had only a limited impact, the BBC's Richard Lister reports from Washington.

In 2007 the US pledged $1.4bn(£0.9bn) over three years to fight the drugs cartels but the following year heroin production in Mexico rose from 17 to 38 metric tonnes.

This, the report says, led to lower heroin prices and more overdose deaths in the US.

Network growth

The report found that Mexican heroin was poised to take a "more significant share" of the market in US cities where South American heroin has traditionally dominated.

For Asian heroin, the US continued to be a secondary market, it said.

The assessment says that Mexican drug suppliers have increased their co-operation with American street and prison gangs to expand their distribution networks.

Speaking in Mexico City earlier this week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for more efforts to tackle the social issues such as poverty that fuel the drugs trade.

Mexico,


Call Of Duty Again Sued Over Another Historical Figure... Who Is A Good Guy In The Game

from the call-of-litigation dept

You may recall that Activision's Call of Duty games have already been the subject of a lawsuit by a historical figure. Previously, notorious figure Manuel Noriega brought a publicity rights case against the game company in the United States, claiming that the game depicted him without his permission. Pretty much everyone agreed that Activision was on solid First Amendment grounds in depicting a historical figure, including Rudy Giuliani, who galloped in to represent Activision and quickly got the case summarily dismissed.

You may have thought that would be the end of all that silliness, but you'd be wrong. Over in France, the family of an Angolan rebel also depicted inmission accomplished.

We explored the city the rest of the day and later that evening, we decided to go out for a low-key, classic New Orleans meal at Royal House Oyster Bar. I had the crawfish ravioli which was excellent. I loved this restaurant because we sat upstairs by the patio by an open-air window/door (pictured below). You know I’m going to share a bit of history, right? So, supposedly Royal House used to be the residence of the Tortorici family. They opened a café on the first level, then the entire building became a popular Italian restaurant, Tortorici’s. It became the fourth longest running restaurant in the French Quarter. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra were regulars at Tortorici’s. So cool. After surviving Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, it


Manhattan

From a facsimile edition of Derek Jarman’s 1972 poetry collection A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, published by Text Centre to mark the 20th anniversary of the filmmaker’s death and illustrated from his personal collection of postcards. More info.

Derek Jarman (1942–1994) was a filmmaker, painter, set designer for theatre and film, memoirist, and a fierce activist for gay rights. His films include Sebastiane (1976), Jubilee (1978), Caravaggio (1986), Aria (1987), Edward II (1991) and Blue (1994). A Finger in the Fishes Mouth is published as part of the year-long celebration of Jarman’s life and work Jarman 2014.from 2 to 7 days. During her heat, a female may mate with several males. After the female's egg has been fertilized, it divides a few times, then it floats free in the uterus for several weeks and does not develop further. In June or July, the embryo attaches to the uterine wall and develops. Young are born 8 weeks later, from August to September. Female pandas deliver 1 to 2 cubs in a rock cavity or hollow tree. Young Baby pandas weigh only 90 to 130 grams (3.5 to 4 oz.) at birth - about 1/900th of its mother's weight. Litters of one or two cubs are born. If two cubs are born, the mother usually abandons the weaker cub, and it dies soon after birth. Infant


the species, individual bamboo species flower, seed, and die. Although bamboo regenerates from seed within a year, it can take up to 20 years before the bamboo can support a panda population again. Often, only one species of bamboo grows in an area. When the bamboo species in one area flowers, pandas have to find other species of bamboo to eat. Often they must move to areas where there are other species of bamboo. Before the panda habitat became fragmented, bamboo flowering may have been an important feature in maintaining a health population- it forced the pandas to move from their home territory and promoted breeding between different populations. As the human population expanded, however, more forests have been cleared for agriculture, grazing, fuel-wood, and timber, and morehuman settlements and roads have been built. Now, pandas live in isolated islands of forest habitat that are not connected with each other and migration is much more difficult. Poaching of pandas is not a great threat, few poachers risk the consequences - up to life imprisonment. However, pandas are sometimes caught in snares set for other animals, such as musk deer and takin. These animals are hunted for their meat. Conservation efforts Panda conservation began in China during the 1940s. This effort was initially restricted to field research. In 1963, the Chinese government created Wolong as a forest reserve and Sichuan province established Wanglang as a nature reserve. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been working with the Chinese government on panda protection since 1980. Panda


alveolar bone. It was concluded that the implantation into the mandible allowed the development, the maturation and the emergence of the tooth \[[@R43]\]. These results are an important indication that the dental stem cells could be used for the replacement of a missing tooth, in human.

Another study of 2009, demonstrated the successful functional tooth replacement in mouse by the transplantation of a bioengineered tooth on the alveolar bone, in the area of the missing tooth \[[@R44]\]. Dental epithelial and mesenchymal molar tooth germ-derived stem cells were cultured and combined with a biomaterial, prior to transplantation into the alveolar bone of the mouse in the area of the missing teeth. In particular, the upper first molar was extracted and the transplantation took place three weeks later, to allow thewhile pregnant; two were operated upon during the first trimester, four during the second and three during the third. Three required common bile duct exploration and three had intraoperative cholangiograms. Elective abortion was not recommended to the six patients because of radiation exposure. Two of nine had premature contractions develop that were controlled with tocolytic agents. There were no spontaneous abortions. The mean Apgar scores for neonates born subsequent to cholecystectomy was virtually identical to neonates born to patients in whom cholecystectomy was deferred. It is concluded that the diagnosis and surgical treatment of cholelithiasis can be safely undertaken in the pregnant patient without fetal loss. Delaying appropriate surgical therapy no longer seems warranted.


SYDNEY, Australia — Early on the morning of Dec. 27, Phoebe Meagher, a wildlife conservation officer at Taronga Zoo, set off on a rescue mission with colleagues from the zoo and academics from the University of New South Wales. Several platypuses were trapped in quickly shrinking bodies of water in Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve in the Australian Capital Territory, and wildfires were fast approaching. There was a window of a few days before the park would be entirely closed off to the public, and two weeks until the bodies of water would be completely dry.

A five-hour drive brought the team to what was once a lake. Now, it was mostly deep, sucking mud. The air was hot and smoky. “Initially we thought we weren’t going to be trapping until664 F.2d 346
Joseph K. BONACORSA, Plaintiff-Appellant,v.William G. BARRY, as Chairman, and Bertram D. Sarafan, asMembers of the New York State Racing and WageringBoard, Division of Harness Racing,Defendants-Appellees.
No. 294, Docket 81-7465.
United States Court of Appeals,Second Circuit.
Argued Oct. 30, 1981.Decided Nov. 6, 1981.

Joseph A. Faraldo, Kew Gardens, N. Y., for plaintiff-appellant.
Frederick K. Mehlman, Asst. Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, George D. Zuckerman, Asst. Sol. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.
Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge and PIERCE, District Judge.*
PER CURIAM:

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Joseph K. Bonacorsa appeals from the dismissal of his complaint by Mary Johnson Lowe, J. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of


memorandum and order dated January 26, 1981, the district court adopted the magistrate's recommendation.  Thereafter, the judge determined that appellant's proposed amended complaint still failed to establish a denial of equal protection; in an opinion dated June 12, 1981, the judge affirmed the earlier ruling and dismissed the complaint.  Appellant challenges this decision but he does not raise on appeal the claim that the Board's rule is unconstitutionally vague.  Appellant argues only that the court's decision banned appellant from racing for life in violation of the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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In 1973, appellant was indicted, and in 1974, convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with an investigation by a special grand jury of harness racing in the May 13, 1998.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. (No. 1:95-CV-
784-WBH), Willis B.Hunt, Jr., Judge.

Before DUBINA, Circuit Judge, and HILL and GIBSON*, Senior Circuit Judges.

       JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

       USCO Distribution Services, Inc. appeals from the summary judgment entered against it in

favor of its landlord, Hood Brothers Partners, Inc. Hood Brothers sued to terminate two long-term

leases of property used for a warehouse. The leases were first signed in 1961 and 1972,

respectively, and both leases have been amended to extend the term until 1998, with options until

2013. The annual rental was to remain the same throughout the life of the leases. Hood Brothers

claims that USCO's predecessor in interest


under the leases, Uniroyal, Inc., repudiated the leases by

undergoing corporate dissolution without making adequate provision for its liability under the

leases. The district court entered summary judgment for Hood Brothers, and USCO appeals. We

reverse and remand for entry of judgment in favor of USCO.

       The original tenant on the leases was Uniroyal. Uniroyal assigned its interest in the leases

to one of its subsidiaries, an entity named USCO (now known as "old USCO"). Just before Uniroyal

   *
    Honorable John R. Gibson, Senior U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by
designation.
dissolved in 1986, old USCO subleased the property to the USCO involved in this suit. Uniroyal

dissolved old USCO and received back ownership of the prime leases, although, of course,the

subleases to new USCO were still in effect. Later, after the present controversy began to take shape,

Uniroyal decided an assignment was preferable to a sublease, and so executed an assignment of the

leases to new USCO. Both the sublease and the assignment are permitted under the leases, which

provide that the tenant can sublease or assign the leases without the landlord's permission, but that

the original tenant will nevertheless remain liable on the leases.

         After subleasing the property to new USCO, Uniroyal filed its articles of dissolution in

December 1986. Uniroyal was a New Jersey corporation. Under New Jersey law,1 upon dissolution

a corporation does not cease to exist, but continues its corporate existence for the purpose of

winding up its affairs. N.J. Stat. Ann. §


tenant leased land used for a shopping center

for a 99-year term. As inflation rendered the rental terms unfavorable to the landlord, the landlord

attempted to avoid the lease on the ground that the corporate tenant had dissolved and assigned the

lease to another corporation as part of a corporate reorganization. The New Jersey Supreme Court

rejected the argument that the tenant's dissolution amounted to a repudiation of the lease. The court

analogized the dissolution of a corporate tenant to the death of an individual tenant; in either case,

the tenant's successors in interest ordinarily continue to be subject to the burdens and entitled to the

benefits of the lease. 613 A.2d at 1165-66. The court reasoned that this general rule enhanced the

stability of leases and was consistent with the reasonable expectations of the parties.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

Departing United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley told the world 2019 will mean a fresh start for her in at least one other sense — adopting a new Twitter handle as she moves out of her public diplomacy role and, at least temporarily, into private life.

Haley announced Tuesday on the social media site that State Department rules required her to shut down her @AmbNikkiHaley account, with more than 1.6 million followers, and to clear "the followers, the history, the pictures, and all other content."

Due to State Dept rules that were changed by the outgoing administration, I have had to clear my personal Twitter account that I have had for years. The followers, the history,


the pictures, and all other content. Please refollow and retweet this to your friends. Here’s to 2019! — Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) January 1, 2019

While her tweets and other content still appeared under her old handle after midnight Tuesday, the one-time South Carolina governor began posting new information as @NikkiHaley. And, as of early Wednesday, she already had accumulated 151,000 followers.

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A former State Department official during the Obama administration said on twitter that restrictions were placed on social media use to try to assure that ambassadors and other officials didn’t attempt to build their social media followings at the expense of U.S. objectives.

Some have speculated that Haley, 46, willto the TV. There were many Indians brought over by IBM to work at the company I was at. You can imagine how that was received by the people still employed by the company. Their friends and coworkers were laid off so someone can come over from another country, who barely speaks English, and do the same job for half the pay?

And American companies wonder why people have no loyalty to them anymore.

My IT career was working with mainframes and peripheral devices since the end of the 70's until 2005, and I had to relocate temporarily to the LA area to get my foot in the door. My previous employer closed their San Diego branch, and I found that the market is so specialized that you are only


the country's growth prospects.

Proponents of the bonus cap say the payments encouraged bankers to take massive risks at the expense of the long-term future of their businesses, which helped to destabilize the financial system and trigger the 2008-2009 financial crisis.

The bonus cap is part of a wider package of financial laws that will require all European banks to hold more capital and liquidity reserves in an effort to shield taxpayers from having to pay for more expensive bailouts.

"The most comprehensive and most far-reaching banking regulation in the history of the EU is ready for the final vote," said the European Parliament's chief negotiator, lawmaker Othmar Karas. The plenary will vote on the legislation next month, he added.

The package, implementing the internationally agreed Basel III rules on banks' capitalmoney from the side of investors in the companies of Amit Bhardwaj. In some cases, investors did not invest the money directly in Amit’s firms and the money was invested through a shell company, owned by a person named Sanchit, who has been arrested earlier and lodged in Burail jail. We have identified five more persons, including four residing in Delhi and one in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, who were assisting Amit Bhardwaj. These five will be arrested shortly." India has been a hotbed for crypto scams with numerous arrests made over the past year. But pervasive fraud schemes have led to regulatory backlash in the second most-populous country in the world. The Indian government has been leaning towards antagonistic policies. Moreover, the nation's central bank recently argued before


WASHINGTON, DC, November 9, 2012 (ENS) – South Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia exaggerated the fuel economy estimates for the majority of their 2012 and 2013 vehicles offered for sale in the United States and must re-label the vehicles and reimburse owners.

The discrepancy was uncovered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, acting on consumer complaints about Hyundai and Kia vehicles.

In the past, the EPA’s audit testing has occasionally uncovered individual vehicles with incorrect label values and required the manufacturer to re-label the vehicle. This has happened twice since 2000.

But the agency says this is the first time that a large number of vehicles from the same manufacturer have deviated so widely from their stated fuel economy values.

About 900,000 vehicles in 13 different Hyundai and Kai models are affected.Scott embodies the body language so completely that it simply plays as drama (and comedy). In another scene, scurrying around the War Room, he slips, falls to a knee, rights himself, and carries on. Kubrick the perfectionist left the unplanned slip in the film, because Scott made it seem convincing, and not an accident.

``Dr. Strangelove'' (1964) is filled with great comic performances, and just as well, because there's so little else in the movie apart from faces, bodies and words. Kubrick shot it on four principal locations (an office, the perimeter of an Air Force base, the ``War Room,'' and the interior of a B-52 bomber). His special effects are competent but not dazzling (we are obviously looking at model planes over Russia). The War Room, one of


1st round, 28th overall in 2014

Why? Josh Ho-Sang is as controversial as a hockey player can be. That being said, Ho-Sang is an incredible talent and might be the hidden gem of the 2014 first round. The Islanders took Ho-Sang with the 28th pick that year, and he’s been nothing but lights-out in the OHL ever since.

Although he does struggle with some off-ice attitude problems, Ho-Sang could potentially crack the Islanders lineup as soon as next season. Ho-Sang took part in the Islanders camp in 2015, but was sent home after he allegedly forgot to set an alarm. That said, the Isles could potentially lose forwards: Matt Martin, Frans Nielsen and Kyle Okposo to free agency this season, and if they do that leaves major holes in Newand tremendous leadership characteristics. Does this sound familiar? Well once upon a time the Boston Bruins drafted a player that plays a very similar game to Crouse – and that’s Milan Lucic.

Lucic, now with the Los Angeles Kings, won the Stanley Cup with the Bruins back in 2010 and has proved himself to be a very useful player in this league. Back to Crouse. Crouse could very-well sneak onto the Panthers out of training camp – or at the very least get a 12-game tryout with them in the beginning of the season. At 6’4″, 212 pounds, he is likely the only player on this list who is physically ready for the NHL. He would be a nice addition to the already huge top-six Florida already has too.

4.


Pavel Zacha, Sarnia Sting (Left wing/Centre)

Drafted: New Jersey Devils, 1st round, 6th overall in 2015

Why? The Devils liked what they saw from Zacha at the end of training camp last season, but his one assist in four preseason games wasn’t enough production for management to keep him. Zacha was then sent back down to the OHL, where he played in his second season with the Sarnia Sting and once again put up above-average numbers (64 points in 51 games).

At 6’3″, 213, Zacha has a big frame that the Devils could certainly use next season. Travis Zajac isn’t getting any younger, and his production over the last two seasons has been less than spectacular. Zacha may be the best available player to fill the 32-year-old’s place in the middlehigh on this list – but his proven consistency and leadership qualities could find the 19-year-old playing with the Yotes next season.

2.Dylan Strome, Erie Otters (Centre)

Drafted: Arizona Coyotes, 1st round, 3rd overall in 2015

Why? The Coyotes drafted Strome with full intentions of him becoming their No. 1 centre some time in the near future. Strome’s size is his biggest advantage, tied with his tremendous skill and Arizona’s lack of depth up the middle, the 18-year-old could find himself playing in the desert come October. At the end of the season, the Yotes were using Antoine Vermette to centre their first line, and no disrespect to Vermette, but a younger, bigger, more skilled Strome was drafted to fill that role.

1.Mitch Marner, London Knights (Centre)

Drafted: Toronto Maple Leafs, 1st round,


A Landmark Year for Korean Genre Cinema

by Pierce Conran

Post date: 16 September 2016

News category: Blog

Image: Yourself and Yours - Dir. Hong Sang-soo

A few more pages remain before we replace our calendars, but it’s already clear that 2016 will go down as a great year for Korean films, particularly its genre cinema. Fan favourites such as Park Chan-wook, Kim Jee-woon and Na Hong-jin have returned with some of their best work and a host of other filmmakers have also put themselves on the map.

When the lineup of the Cannes Film Festival was announced in April, it was already clear that it was going to be a very special year for Korean cinema. Landing in competition for the third time, following Oldboy and Thirst, Park Chan-wook introduced The Handmaiden, acritical darlings, but summer had plenty more in store. Ranking second to Train to Busan at the summer box office was another disaster film with a clear social agenda, the rescue drama Tunnel. Director Kim Seong-hun proved that A Hard Day wasn’t a fluke with an intimate yet ambitious, if at times overreaching story. The season also boasted two more hits, the Korean War drama Operation Chromite and Colonial Era drama The Last Princess. With easy scapegoats, North Korea for the former and Japan for the latter, each capitalised on conservative themes to draw in older viewers. Notably, Liam Neeson played General MacArthur in Operation Chromite, though it’s hardly a role he’ll be remembered for.

Another film that didn’t find a large audience, but has steadily earned a cult


and white biopic Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet, set during (when else?) the Colonial Era and both HONG Sang-soo and KIM Ki-duk will debut their latest works on the fall festival circuit, with Yourself and Yours and The Net. The latter marking something of a return to form for the enfant terrible, following a pair of much-maligned outings.

A few more big titles, including the Toronto-invited thriller Asura: The City of Madness, are waiting in the wings, and surely a least a handful of small treasures will be revealed when the Busan International Film Festival opens in October, but even if the curtain were to come down now, few could deny that 2016 has been one of the best years for Korean films in recent memory.The Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, under which Lord Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment, is healthy once again.

Patna: The Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, under which Lord Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment, is healthy once again.

"The Bodhi tree is fully healthy now," said Subhash Nautiyal, one of the two scientists from the Dehradun-based Forest Research Institute (FRI).

Nautiyal said he and his colleague Nirmal Sudhir Kumar removed concrete slabs around the base of the Bodhi tree to resurrect it in a way, after there were fears that it would die out.

"It will help the tree to receive water and nutrition in its roots," he said.

Nautiyal, a plant physiologist, along with plant pathologist Kumar were roped in to examine the tree, Bodh Gaya Temple Management Committee


member secretary Nangzey Dorje said on Wednesday.

A few dry branches of the tree will be pruned on Wednesday keeping in mind the safety of pilgrims and tourists.

The temple had sought the help of FRI in 2007 after the Bodhi tree was affected with a milibug disease.

It was in Bodh Gaya, about 100 km from here, that Lord Buddha attained enlightenment over 2,500 years ago. The 1,500-year-old temple stands behind the sacred tree.

IANSHome Reviews Arnim Whisler February 21st, 2018 - 12:00 PM

Heartland rocker releases round two

At this point in his career, it’s pretty safe to assume anything Brian Fallon does will be one of two genres: punk or folk-rock. His mother was a member of a folk singing group before he was born. He grew up in New Jersey, heavily influenced by both The Misfits and Bruce Springsteen. He’s known best as the lead singer, guitarist and primary songwriter of The Gaslight Anthem, a band that combined the best of both genres: Fallon’s songwriting had the urgency of punk, but the soul of blue-collar heartland legends such as Tom Petty, John Mellencamp and The Boss. The Gaslight Anthem went on an indefinite hiatus in early 2015, which gave Fallon more


to the post. In a post-Merrick Garland world — where Republicans blocked Obama’s Supreme Court nominee for nearly a year, allowing President Donald Trump to name Neil Gorsuch to the high court — there is less willingness for Democrats to roll over on this issue. It would take a two-thirds majority of the Senate to expel Menendez.

Stevens didn’t leave office until January 2009 after he lost his reelection race that year. And Williams did not resign from the Senate until March 11, 1982, long after his May 1, 1981, conviction.States exercised its reserved right to terminate the contractor's work.  Thereafter, the United States instituted this action against Jacobs to require him to turn over to the Navy Department personal property drawings and other documents acquired, made or developed by Jacobs during the course of the work under the contract.  Jacobs filed a number of counterclaims, which the court disallowed in part, and, to the extent it found that counterclaims meritorious, it concluded that in this action in equity the United States could be required to pay over some $20,072.91, which the court found to be due to Jacobs under the contract.  An order was entered requiring Jacobs to permit the copying of all relevant drawings and documents, but conditioning the right of the United


States to obtain the copies upon a delivery to the clerk of the court of a check payable to Jacobs in the amount found to be due him.  The order provided that Jacobs could obtain the check, after the United States had obtained copies of his drawings and other documents, upon signing a release of all other claims against the United States under the contract and filing a certificate of compliance with the patent provisions of the contract.

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Both parties appealed to this court.  We affirmed the order of the District Court, holding specifically that the Navy had the right to terminate work by Jacobs under the contract and approving the District Court's conditioning enforcement of the rights of the United States upon its paying into theaction brought against him by the United States, Jacobs filed a motion in which he again sought to obtain an order requiring the United States to pay to Maryland sales and use taxes.  Additionally, he sought reimbursement for certain expenses he alleged he had incurred and compensation for harassment, to which he claimed he had been subjected.

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.meanwhile, much time had elapsed since the United States had deposited with the clerk of the court its check payable to Jacobs as required by the original order.  Jacobs had not taken down this check nor had he filed a release or a certificate of compliance with the patent provisions of the Navy contract, as required by the original order of the District Court.  Whatever other reason he may


have had for not having done so, the pendency of the question of his right of reimbursement for any Maryland sales and use taxes, which he might be required to pay furnished some reason for his not executing the release in the form prescribed in the original order of the District Court.  Apparently, Jacobs did not undertake to obtain a modification of the prescribed terms of the release to except from its provision his contingent claim for reimbursement for sales and use taxes paid by him.

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The United States filed a motion in the original proceeding, in which it sought the return of its check because of Jacobs' noncompliance with the conditions for its delivery to him.

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Messrs. Covington & Burling, of Washington, D.C., came upon the scene inone of the earliest chapters of this book.  They represented Jacobs in the original action brought in the District Court, but had withdrawn from the case under circumstances later to be mentioned.  They re-entered the scene, seeking the allowance of an attorney's fee and the assistance of the court in securing its payment out of the funds represented by the check of the United States, then in the hands of the court.

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Still later, Maryland undertook to assert a lien for the sales and use taxes it claimed to be due by Jacobs, and the United States claimed a lien for certain income taxes it had assessed against Jacobs.

11
After further hearings, the District Court decided that the fund represented by the Government's check for $20,072.91, was created


through the efforts of the attorneys, Covington & Burling, by reason of which fact it was authorized to determine and allow a reasonable attorney's fee.  The court further decided that the motion in which Jacobs sought to require the United States to pay the Maryland sales and use taxes and reimburse him for certain expenses and to compensate him for other claimed losses did not state a claim upon which relief could be granted.  Mr. Jacobs did not appear at these hearings.  He was then temporarily residing in Victoria, British Columbia, from whence he communicated with the court by mail, but he was not present in Baltimore to execute releases, and his communications with the court indicated that he had no intention of signing releasesor certificates of compliance with the patent provisions of the Navy contract.  The District Judge concluded, under those circumstances, that the interests of the United States were adequately protected by its adjudication of all of the claims that Jacobs had asserted under the contract, by the Statute of Limitations, and, as to the patent provisions of the contract, by its possession of copies of all of Jacobs' drawings and other relevant documents.  The Court appointed its Clerk receiver for Jacobs, with instructions to endorse the check of the United States in the name of Jacobs and to deposit the funds in the registry of the court, subject to the further order of the Court.  It stayed the effectiveness of the order pending an appeal to


who has not sought it by motion,7 and the court, upon its own initiative, may set aside a judgment that is void.8

14
Here, however, each of the original parties to the action, the United States and Jacobs, filed motions seeking modification of the judgment.  The United States sought a return of the check, which it had delivered to the clerk in compliance with the judgment's requirement, while Jacobs sought to impose further liabilities upon the United States by virtue of the Maryland sales and use tax matter.  Meanwhile, Messrs. Covington & Burling, who were allowed to intervene, had filed a motion seeking relief which the District Court subsequently granted.  Since both of the original parties were seeking modification of the judgment, surely the court was notto Messrs. Covington & Burling without obtaining a release from Jacobs and a certificate of compliance with the patent provisions of the contract.  At this late date, however, neither the release nor the certificate of compliance appears necessary to protection of the interests of the United States.

17
As we have noted, contract NOrd 10531 was terminated in 1953.  In this action Jacobs has asserted a great many claims under that contract, all of which have been adjudicated, and the United States is fully protected by the judgment.  Individual officers and employees of the United States are protected against claims by Jacobs under principles of res judicata and collateral estoppel.  It is also agreed that the Statute of Limitations now bars any claim which might be


asserted by Jacobs, despite the judgment.

18
The Government suggests that Jacobs has displayed a litigious nature, and that he would be less likely to attempt enforcement of baseless claims against the United States in the future if he now signed a release.  That may be, but the District Court was not necessarily required to provide the United States with protection against baseless claims which could not be successfully asserted against it.  So long as the United States was fully protected against the assertion of any enforceable claim, it was within the range of the District Court's discretion to dispense with the requirement that Jacobs agree that he would assert no claim.

19
Similarly, we think that a certificate by Jacobs that he had complied with the patent provisions ofinstruments confirming the license rights of the United States.

21
Jacobs actually sought a patent on his electronic navigation and position finding system, the basis of the bombing system he undertook to develop.  The Commissioner declined to issue a patent and Jacobs brought a suit against him in the District Court for the District of Columbia.  The District Court held the claims unpatentable over the prior art, and this decision was affirmed on appeal.9

22
It is suggested, however, that although the system, as a whole, may be unpatentable, specific features of it might be.  Abstractly, this is true, but the United States for several years has had in its possession copies of all of Jacobs' drawings and other documents developed by him in the performance of the contract.


handling and disbursement of the proceeds of the check.

The Appeal of Jacobs

24
On his appeal, Jacobs contends that no fee should have been allowed to Messrs. Covington & Burling, and the court should not have dismissed his motion to require the United States to pay the Maryland sales and use taxes, to reimburse him for certain expenses, and to compensate him for harassment.

25
As to the attorneys' fees, he first contends that the attorneys forfeited their right to any fee when they declined to urge, as a defense in the original action, that termination of his work under the contract was not in the interest of the national defense.  Jacobs, with the high opinion of his own work which one might expect, wanted to undertake to prove that hisbombing system was essential to the national defense, and the officers of the United States who terminated his work under the contract were acting contrary to the national interest and beyond the bounds of their discretionary powers.  His attorneys at the original trial, having developed other defenses and counterclaims, declined to proceed with that defense and sought to withdraw from the case and obtain a postponement to permit Jacobs to engage other counsel.  The District Court declined to permit the attorneys to withdraw, and Jacobs, with apparent reluctance, acquiesced in the advice of his attorneys to abandon the defense based upon his conception of the national interest.  Later, however, the District Court permitted Jacobs, appearing in his proper person, to present that defense, and he


contends that the Court had no power to determine and allow attorneys' fees payable out of the proceeds of the Government's check.  He appears to found this contention on the notion that the proceeds of the check are not a fund created as a result of the efforts of the attorneys in his behalf.  It is plain, however, that they are.

28
The District Court in its opinion of November 6, 195911 carefully considered its power to determine and allow reasonable attorneys' fees under the circumstances.  For the reasons there stated, we affirm its determination and its allowance of a fee to Messrs. Covington & Burling, payable out of the proceeds of the check.12

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As to Jacobs' claims arising out of the assessment by Maryland of sales andArkansas for Medical Sciences, United States

[^2]: Reviewed by: Barbara Wróblewska, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research (PAN), Poland; Julio Villena, CONICET Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos (CERELA), Argentina

[^3]: This article was submitted to Nutritional Immunology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Immunology


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Yuzuru Hanyu

Figure Skating JPN

YuzuruHanyu

Birth date12/07/1994

BirthplaceSendai

HometownSendai

ResidenceToronto

Height/Weight
5'7"/ 125 lbs

Olympics2014

Biography

Yuzuru Hanyu became the first man to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating for Japan when he won at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Since then, he’s become a nearly unstoppable force when he competes at his best. He’s set the highest-ever recorded scores in the short program, free skate, and overall total. He has won the Japanese national championships four: 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. He withdrew from nationals in 2017 with the flu. He set another record by becoming the first man to win four consecutive Grand Prix Final titles, in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Hanyu is coached by two-time Olympic silver medalist Brian Orser in Toronto, Canada. At the rink, there is a wall with the names ofOlympic and world champions that have trained there; Hanyu says he looks at it when he is tired. Another of Orser’s pupils, Spain’s Javier Fernandez, is one of Hanyu’s major rivals. Hanyu won the world title in 2014, Fernandez claimed the title in 2015 and 2016, but in 2017, Hanyu took his title back.

Hanyu opened his season at the Autumn Classic, where he earned silver behind Fernandez. At his first Grand Prix assignment in Russia, Hanyu finished second behind American rival Nathan Chen. Hanyu was set to compete on home ice at the Grand Prix in Japan, but injured himself in warm-up and had to withdraw. He subsequently missed the Grand Prix Final and Japanese nationals, but is expected to return to full health by PyeongChang.


Manly Sea Eagles prop Darcy Lussick can stop packing his bags as there will be no mid-season transfer to Super League for the rugged front rower.

The 27-year-old made his return to rugby league from a month-long ankle injury on Saturday at Lottoland, starting in the front row for Blacktown, the Sea Eagles' Intrust Super Premiership side.

Less than two hours later Manly's NRL team took a bad hit - two hits to be exact.

They lost key forwards Curtis Sironen and Kelepi Tanginoa with season-ending knee ligament tears during the 16-point win over the Canberra Raiders.

Suddenly Lussick has become an even more valuable commodity as Manly's forward depth is tested.

The Sea Eagles confirmed to NRL.com on Monday that any plans to release him to either the Leeds Rhinos or TorontoWolfpack in Super League had been put on hold.

The 193cm prop is into his third of a three-year deal with the Sea Eagles and is one of 12 players off contract in 2018.

His plans to become a regular member of Manly's forwards rotation in 2018 were stymied when Lussick suffered a high ankle sprain in the opening set of a February trial game against the Cronulla Sharks.

Manly still has front rowers Lloyd Perrett, Shaun Lane and Taniela Paseka, alongside regular starters and Kiwi internationals Martin Taupau and Addin Fonua-Blake.

Back-rowers Frank Winterstein and Lewis Brown, who have been on the outer recently in the NRL side, would come back into contention, as well as former South Sydney back-rower Jack Gosiewski.

However, Gosiewski picked up an injury with Blacktown last Saturday


House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined at right by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., talks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 6, 2018.

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump and top Republicans dined on filet mignon at the White House this week, just hours after House Speaker Paul Ryan announced his stunning retirement, Trump and Ryan's top lieutenant found themselves with a moment alone.

Do you really want to be the next speaker of the House, Trump asked Kevin McCarthy, one of his closest allies in Congress. The Californian — the leading but undeclared contender — told the president he wants the job, according to two sources familiar with the conversation.

McCarthy emerged from the Wednesday evening chat confident he had Trump's backing to succeedbe viewed as beholden to the whims of the unpredictable president. Others bristle at the idea of presidential meddling in their contest.

"This is a matter to be decided by the legislative branch of government, not the executive branch," Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., said of Trump supporting a candidate.

Still, the Trump factor will be hard to avoid. With Ryan's departure slated for January, Republicans will lose another establishment force who, at times, pushed back at Trump.

It's far from clear McCarthy intends to play the same role.

He was one of Trump's earliest supporters and has never flinched as Trump endured criticism for his comments on women, minorities and others.

Since Trump's election, the two have advertised their close relationship and a buddy-movie-style bond. Aides say the two men speak frequently. Trump


sometimes calls out "my Kevin" at events.

It's a partnership that's benefited both men.

In McCarthy, Trump has a Capitol Hill confidant who fits the president's tendency to pluck allies from central casting — McCarthy looks the part of the silver-haired politician with his sharp suits and ready smile. McCarthy boosts his conservative credentials every time he is able to flash his link to Trump.

Neither man is tethered to strict GOP dogma, which creates space for the deal-making both favor. Both like to rely on gut political instincts than expertise in guiding decisions.

In one speed bump in their relationship, The Washington Post reported that a leaked 2016 audiotape included a suggestion by McCarthy that Trump was being paid by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom Trump repeatedly praised during the presidentialtop, McCarthy's grasp on the top job is uncertain. In 2015, his effort to succeed Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, flopped in just a few days as he failed to corral enough votes, especially from conservatives.

As if to underscore that problem, a leader of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus said he's "open to running" and has been encouraged by colleagues to do so. A candidacy by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, would seem all but certain to fall short and would be widely viewed as a way for that group's roughly 30 members to win leverage by trading their support for promises of leadership and committee posts.

Ryan's successor will need to secure 218 GOP votes because the entire House votes on the speaker and all Democrats would be sure to


marketing around 80 value-added products from them.

Vishweshwara Bhat, Chief Executive Officer of Kadamba Marketing, told BusinessLine that the co-operative came into existence at a time when there was a threat of a ban on arecanut in the country. The founders then went in search of alternative crops and produce available in the district, and held meetings in various villages to provide a market for such alternative crops.

He said that by 2009 the co-operative was procuring most of the produce available in Uttara Kannada district from growers and tribal people. Some of them include soapnut, kokum, honey, amla, bird’s eye chilli, and various spice items.

Procurement methods

According to Bhat, Kadamba’s initiative to procure such produce even in small quantities from growers and the practice of immediate payment has helped growersto slumber in a solitary wilderness, we think it reasonable to conclude she endangered herself in these circumstances.  Hogue, her abilities substantially impaired from alcohol, was alone in a national park at night, unequipped for camping, asleep in a vehicle with an open window, not within a designated campground or shelter.  That conduct constitutes the violation punishable under the regulation.  In her vulnerable condition, Hogue could neither defend herself against humans or animals, nor take care of herself had she to leave her car for any reason.  Ironically, her only means of escape from danger was her automobile, which she was in no condition to drive.  After park rangers discovered her in this condition, they would have acted irresponsibly had they left her


Republican Grassley to ask Trump Jr to testify to Senate panel: CNN

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, a Republican, planned to send a letter on Thursday to Donald Trump Jr to ask him to testify before his committee in a public session, CNN reported.

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Dead rats have been used to smuggle contraband into a prison in England.

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Three of the rodents were found inside the perimeter fence at HMP Guys Marsh in Dorset in what is thought to have been the first case of its kind.

Staff patrolling the prison opened the rats up after noticing that their stomachs had been stitched up.

They found that the rats' insides had been removed and replaced with five mobile phones and chargers, three SIM cards, cigarette papers, and drugs including spice and cannabis.

Image: The case is the first recorded use of a rat to transport contraband

The rats had been thrown over the prison fence and a prisoner had been waiting to collect them, according to the Ministry of Justice.

In the 12 monthsMaking medicine indigenous: homeopathy in South India.
Historical studies of homeopathy in Europe and the USA have focused on practitioners' attempts to emphasize 'modern' and 'scientific' approaches. Studies of homeopathy in India have focused on a process of Indianization. Arguing against such unilineal trajectories, this paper situates homeopathy in South India within the context of shifting relations between 'scientific' and 'indigenous' systems of medicine. Three time periods are considered. From 1924 through 1934, homeopathy was singled out by Government of Madras officials as 'scientific', as contrasted with the 'indigenous' Ayurvedic, Siddha, and Unani systems of medicine. From 1947 through 1960, both 'indigenous' and 'scientific' interpretations of homeopathy were put forward by different factions. An honorary director of homeopathy proposed the Indianization of homeopathy, and its reconciliation with Ayurveda; this


A dog in Australia proved its loyalty after sticking by a 3-year-old girl for an entire night after she got lost in the bushlands of Australia on Friday.

The girl, named Aurora, had wandered off from her home in Warwick, located about 105 miles southwest of Brisbane, prompting a search involving more than 100 people, ABC News reported.

Aurora was found at 8 a.m. the next day with the dog named Max, a 14-year-old Australian Cattle Dog who is deaf and partially blind.

State Emergency Services area controller Ian Phipps told ABC News the pair were found just over a mile from the house, but still on the family property.

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on the Principles of Morality, with which the System ends. As the second and third volumes of the Principles of Sociology are as yet unpublished, this instalment of the succeeding work appears out of its place.

I have been led thus to deviate from the order originally set down, by the fear that persistence in conforming to it might result in leaving the final work of the series unexecuted. Hints, repeated of late years with increasing frequency and distinctness, have shown me that health may permanently fail, even if life does not end, before I reach the last part of the task I have marked out for myself. This last part of the task it is, to which I regard all the preceding parts as subsidiary. Written as farprovide the necessaries of life for his family, or otherwise acts in a manner injurious to their bodies or minds. Similarly of the education given to them, or provided for them. Goodness or badness is affirmed of it (often with little consistency, however) according as its methods are so adapted to physical and psychical requirements, as to further the children's lives for the time being, while preparing them for carrying on complete and prolonged adult life.

Most emphatic, however, are the applications of the words good and bad to conduct throughout that third division of it comprising the deeds by which men affect one another. In maintaining their own lives and fostering their offspring, men's adjustments of acts to ends are so apt to hinder the kindred adjustments of


train which met with a fatal disaster, and who call it a “mercy” to have escaped injury from a falling chimney-pot—men who, in such cases, recognize physical causation no more than do the uncivilized or semi-civilized. The Veddah who thinks that failure to hit an animal with his arrow, resulted from inadequate invocation of an ancestral spirit, and the Christian priest who says prayers over a sick man in the expectation that the course of his disease will so be stayed, differ only in respect of the agent from whom they expect supernatural aid and the phenomena to be altered by him: the necessary relations among causes and effects are tacitly ignored by the last as much as by the first. Deficient belief in causation is, indeed, exemplifiedthis case, as in the other cases, the connexion between cause and effect is one that cannot be established, or altered, by any authority external to the phenomena themselves. Again, let us say that instead of being stopped after passing his mouth, that which he would swallow is stopped before reaching his mouth; so that day after day the man is required to waste his tissues in getting food, and day after day the food he has got to meet this waste, he is forcibly prevented from eating. As before, the progress towards death by starvation is inevitable—the connexion between acts and effects is independent of any alleged theological or political authority. And similarly if, being forced by the whip to labour, no adequate return in food is


but also to his belongings—if we observe how impoverishment hinders the rearing of his children, by entailing under-feeding or inadequate clothing, resulting perhaps in the death of some and the constitutional injury of others; we see that by the necessary connexions of things these acts, besides tending primarily to lower the life of the individual aggressed upon, tend, secondarily, to lower the lives of all his family, and, thirdly to lower the life of society at large; which is damaged by whatever damages its units.

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A more distinct meaning will now be seen in the statement that the utilitarianism which recognizes only the principles of conduct reached by induction, is but preparatory to the utilitarianism which deduces these principles from the processes of life as carriedits successive stages: first collections of facts; then inductions from them; and lastly deductive interpretations of these, as corollaries from a universal principle of action among masses in space. Accounts of structures and tabulations of strata, grouped and compared, have led gradually to the assigning of various classes of geological changes to igneous and aqueous actions; and it is now tacitly admitted that Geology becomes a science proper, only as fast as such changes are explained in terms of those natural processes which have arisen in the cooling and solidifying Earth, exposed to the Sun's heat and the action of the Moon upon its ocean. The science of life has been, and is still, exhibiting a like series of steps: the evolution of organic forms at large, is


with the facts. It is thus too in his family life. He maintains marital relations that are definite in contrast with the relations that result from breach of the marriage contract; and as a father, fitting his behaviour with care to the nature of each child and to the occasion, he avoids the too much and the too little of praise or blame, reward or penalty. Nor is it otherwise in his miscellaneous acts. To say that he deals equitably with those he employs, whether they behave well or ill, is to say that he adjusts his acts to their deserts; and to say that he is judicious in his charities, is to say that he portions out his aid with discrimination instead of distributing it indiscriminately tofor the rest of his days, and makes him useless to himself and others. Now the account is of a youth who, persisting in gymnastic feats spite of scarcely bearable straining, bursts a blood-vessel, and, long laid on the shelf, is permanently damaged; while now it is of a man in middle life who, pushing muscular effort to painful excess, suddenly brings on hernia. In this family is a case of aphasia, spreading paralysis, and death, caused by eating too little and doing too much; in that, softening of the brain has been brought on by ceaseless mental efforts against which the feelings hourly protested; and in others, less serious brain-affections have been contracted by over-study continued regardless of discomfort and the cravings for fresh air and exercise.∗


Even without accumulating special examples, the truth is forced on us by the visible traits of classes. The careworn man of business too long at his office, the cadaverous barrister poring half the night over his briefs, the feeble factory hands and unhealthy seamstresses passing long hours in bad air, the anæmic, flat-chested school girls, bending over many lessons and forbidden boisterous play, no less than Sheffield grinders who die of suffocating dust, and peasants crippled with rheumatism due to exposure, show us the wide-spread miseries caused by persevering in actions repugnant to the sensations and neglecting actions which the sensations prompt. Nay the evidence is still more extensive and
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conspicuous. What are the puny malformed children, seen in poverty-stricken districts, but children whose appetites forconforming to their practice. The savage nature, originating the conception of a savage deity, evolves a theory of supernatural control sufficiently stringent and cruel to influence his conduct. With submission to despotic government severe enough in its restraints to keep in order barbarous natures, there grows up a theory of divine right to rule, and the duty of absolute submission. Where war is made the business of life by the existence of warlike neighbours, virtues which are required for war come to be regarded as supreme virtues; while, contrariwise, when industrialism has grown predominant, the violence and the deception which warriors glory in come to be held criminal. In like manner, then, there arises a tolerable adjustment of the actually-accepted (not the nominally-accepted) theory of right living, to


restraint distinguished as religious. For a long time these three sets of restraints, with their correlative sanctions, though becoming separate in consciousness, remain co-extensive; and do so because they mostly refer to one end—success in war. The duty of blood-revenge is insisted on even while yet nothing to be called social organization exists. As the chief gains predominance, the killing of enemies becomes a political duty; and as the anger of the dead chief comes to be dreaded, the killing of enemies becomes a religious duty. Loyalty to the ruler while he lives and after he dies, is increasingly shown by holding life at his disposal for purposes of war. The earliest enacted punishments are those for insubordination and for breaches of observances which express subordination—all of themmilitant in origin. While the divine injunctions, originally traditions of the dead king's will, mainly refer to the destruction of peoples with whom he was at enmity; and divine anger or approval are conceived as determined by the degrees in which subjection to him is shown, directly by worship and indirectly by fulfilling these injunctions. The Fijian, who is said on entering the other world to commend himself by narrating his successes in battle, and who, when alive, is described as sometimes greatly distressed if he thinks he has not killed enemies enough to
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please his gods, shows us the resulting ideas and feelings; and reminds us of kindred ideas and feelings betrayed by ancient races. To all which add that the control of social opinion,


the way shown, arise beliefs concerning the divine disapproval of these minor, as well as of the major, civil offences: ending, occasionally, in a set of religious injunctions harmonizing with, and enforcing, the political injunctions. While simultaneously there develops, as before, a social sanction for these rules of internal conduct, strengthening the political and religious sanctions.

But now observe that while these three controls, political, religious, and social, severally lead men to subordinate proximate satisfactions to remote satisfactions; and while they are in this respect like the moral control, which habitually requires the subjection of simple presentative feelings to complex representative feelings and postponement of present to future; yet they do not constitute the moral control, but are only preparatory to it—are controls within which the moral control evolves.or by a representation of the horror and hatred excited in fellow men; but by a representation of the necessary natural results—the infliction of death-agony on the victim, the destruction of all his possibilities of happiness, the entailed sufferings to his belongings. Neither the thought of imprisonment, nor of divine anger, nor of social disgrace, is that which constitutes the moral check on theft; but the thought of injury to the person robbed, joined with a vague consciousness of the general evils caused by disregard of proprietary rights. Those who reprobate the adulterer on moral grounds, have their minds filled, not with ideas of an action for damages, or of future punishment following the breach of a commandment, or of loss of reputation; but they are occupied with


answered—How does there arise the feeling of moral obligation in general? Whence comes the sentiment of duty, considered as distinct from the several sentiments which prompt temperance, providence, kindness, justice, truthfulness, &c.? The answer is that it is an abstract sentiment generated in a manner analogous to that in which abstract ideas are generated.

The idea of each colour had originally entire concreteness given to it by an object possessing the colour; as some of the unmodified names, such as orange and violet, show us. The dissociation of each colour from the object specially associated with it in thought at the outset, went on as fast as the colour came to be associated in thought with objects unlike the first, and unlike one another. The idea of orange wasthe evolution of society, made possible by institutions maintaining order, and associating in men's minds the sense of obligation with prescribed acts and with desistances from forbidden acts, there arose opportunities for seeing the bad consequences naturally flowing from the conduct interdicted and the good consequences from the conduct required. Hence eventually grew up moral aversions and approvals: experience of the intrinsic effects necessarily here coming later than experience of the extrinsic effects, and therefore producing its results later.

The thoughts and feelings constituting these moral aversions and approvals, being all along closely connected with the thoughts and feelings constituting fears of political, religious, and social penalties, necessarily came to participate in the accompanying sense of obligation. The coercive element in the consciousness of duties at large, evolved by


for subordinating individual lives to the general life, decreases; and with approach to a peaceful state, the general life, having from the beginning had furtherance of individual lives as its ultimate purpose, comes to have this as its proximate purpose.

During the transitional stages there are necessitated successive compromises between the moral code which asserts the claims of the society versus those of the individual, and the moral code which asserts the claims of the individual versus those of the society. And evidently each such compromise, though for the time being authoritative, admits of no consistent or definite expression.

But gradually as war declines—gradually as the compulsory co-operation needful in dealing with external enemies becomes unnecessary, and leaves behind the voluntary co-operation which effectually achieves internal sustentation; there grows increasinglya billiard player makes yields no pleasure. Whence then does the pleasure of making it arise? Partly from the fresh proof of capability which the player gives to himself, and partly from the imagined admiration of those who witness the proof of his capability: the last being the chief, since he soon tires of making cannons in the absence of witnesses. When from games which, yielding the pleasures of success, yield no pleasure derived from the end considered intrinsically, we pass to sports in which the end has intrinsic value as a source of pleasure, we see substantially the same thing. Though the bird which the sportsman brings down is useful as food, yet his satisfaction arises mainly from having made a good shot, and from having added


of profits. And these ends precede in time and obligation the effecting of profitable sales, just as the effecting of profitable sales precedes the end of money-making, and just as the end of money-making precedes the end of satisfactory living. His book-keeping best exemplifies the principle at large. Entries to the debtor or creditor sides are being made all through the day; the items are classified and arranged in such way that at a moment's notice the state of each account may be ascertained; and then, from time to time, the books are balanced, and it is required that the result shall come right to a penny: satisfaction following proved correctness, and annoyance being caused by error. If you ask why all this elaborate process, so remote fromthe happiness of each individual will be greatest when his nature is so moulded to the requirements of his life, that all his faculties find their due activities in daily driving and tending cattle, milking, migrating, and so forth. The members of a community otherwise similar, which is permanently settled, will severally achieve their greatest happiness when their natures have become such that a fixed habitat, and the occupations necessitated by it, supply the spheres in which each instinct and emotion is exercised and brings the concomitant pleasure. The citizens of a large nation industrially organized, have reached their possible ideal of happiness, when the producing, distributing, and other activities, are such in their kinds and amounts, that each citizen finds in them a place for all his


the cold hand into hot water, the agreeable feeling gradually diminishes as the hand warms.

These few instances will carry home the truth, manifest enough to all who observe, that the receipt of each agreeable sensation depends primarily on the existence of a structure which is called into play; and, secondarily, on the condition of that structure, as fitting it or unfitting it for activity.

§66. The truth that emotional pleasures are made possible, partly by the existence of correlative structures and partly by the states of those structures, is equally undeniable.

Observe the animal which, leading a life demanding solitary habits, has an adapted organization, and it gives no sign of need for the presence of its kind. Observe, conversely, a gregarious animal separated from the herd, and you seemarks of unhappiness while the separation continues, and equally distinct marks of joy on joining its companions. In the one case there is no nervous structure which finds its sphere of action in the gregarious state; and in the other case such a structure exists. As was implied by instances cited in the last chapter for another purpose, animals leading lives involving particular kinds of activities, have become so constituted that pursuance of those activities, exercising the correlative structures, yields the associated pleasures. Beasts of prey confined in dens, show us by their pacings from side to side the endeavour to obtain, as well as they can, the satisfactions that accompany roaming about in their natural habitats; and that gratification in the expenditure of their locomotive energies shown


the altruism of the family to social altruism.

A fact to be first noted is that only where altruistic relations in the domestic group have reached highly-developed forms, do there arise conditions making possible full development of altruistic relations in the political group. Tribes in which promiscuity prevails or in which the marital relations are transitory, and tribes in which poly-andry entails in another way indefinite relationships, are incapable of much organization. Nor do peoples who are habitually polygamous, show themselves able to take on those high forms of social co-operation which demand due subordination of self to others. Only where monogamic marriage has become general and eventually universal—only where there have consequently been established the
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closest ties of blood—only where family altruism has been most fostered,are, the higher rises the rate of interest, the larger becomes the amount of capital hoarded, the greater are the impediments to industry. The further
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traders and people in general go beyond their means, and hypothecate the property of others in speculation, the more serious are those commercial panics which bring disasters on multitudes and injuriously affect all.

This introduces us to yet a third way in which such personal welfare as results from the proportioning of benefits gained to labours given, depends on the making of certain sacrifices for social welfare. The man who, expending his energies wholly on private affairs refuses to take trouble about public affairs, pluming himself on his wisdom in minding his own business, is blind to the fact that his own


their action cannot act incessantly without exhaustion and accompanying satiety, has the implication that intervals during which altruistic activities absorb the energies, are intervals during which the capacity for egoistic pleasure is recovering its full degree. The sensitiveness to purely personal enjoyments is maintained at a higher pitch by those who minister to the enjoyments of others, than it is by those who devote themselves wholly to personal enjoyments.

This which is manifest even while the tide of life is high, becomes still more manifest as life ebbs. It is in maturity and old age that we especially see how, as egoistic pleasures grow faint, altruistic actions come in to revive them in new forms. The contrast between the child's delight in the novelties daily revealed, and the indifferencemodern times, in which the sanguinary forms but a small part while a large part, dealing with the gentler affections, enlists the feelings of readers on behalf of the weak; we are shown that with the development of a more altruistic nature, there has been opened a sphere of enjoyment inaccessible to the callous egoism of barbarous times. So, too, between the fiction of the past and the fiction of the present, there is the difference that while the one was almost exclusively occupied with the doings of the ruling classes, and found its plots in their antagonisms and deeds of violence, the other, chiefly taking stories of peaceful life for its subjects, and to a considerable extent the life of the humbler classes, discloses a new world


and usages of mankind. This compromise between egoism and altruism has been slowly establishing itself; and towards recognition of its propriety, men's actual beliefs, as distinguished from their nominal beliefs, have been gradually approaching. Social evolution has been bringing about a state in which the claims of the individual to the proceeds of his activities, and to such satisfactions as they bring, are more and more positively asserted; at the same time that insistance on others' claims, and habitual
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respect for them, have been increasing. Among the rudest savages personal interests are very vaguely distinguished from the interests of others. In early stages of civilization, the proportioning of benefits to efforts is extremely rude: slaves and serfs get for work, arbitrary amounts of food and shelter:condition of an unsympathetic treatment of some by others.

But even could the militant régime forthwith end, the hindrances to development of sympathy would still be great. Though cessation of war would imply increased adaptation of man to social life, and decrease of sundry evils, yet there would remain much non-adaptation and much consequent unhappiness. In the first place, that form of nature which has generated and still generates wars, though by implication raised to a higher form, would not at once be raised to so high a form that there would cease all injustices and the pains they cause. For a considerable period after predatory activities had ended, the defects of the predatory nature would continue: entailing their slowly-diminishing evils. In the second place, the ill-adjustment of the


Two may here be noted. In the first place, self-abnegations often repeated imply on the part of the actor a tacit ascription of relative selfishness to others who profit by the self-abnegations. Even with men as they are, there occasionally arises a feeling among those for whom sacrifices are frequently made, that they are being insulted by the assumption that they are ready to receive them; and in the mind of the actor also, there sometimes grows up a recognition of this feeling on their part, and a consequent check on his too great or too frequent surrenders of pleasure. Obviously in more developed natures, this kind of check must act still more promptly. In the second place, when, as the hypothesis implies, altruistic pleasures have reached adecide which of the alternatives is relatively right. Two examples will suffice. Here is a merchant who loses by the failure of a man indebted to him. Unless he gets help he himself will fail; and if he fails he will bring disaster not only on his family but on all who have given him credit. Even if by borrowing he is enabled to meet immediate engagements, he is not safe; for the time is one of panic, and others of his debtors by going to the wall may put him in further difficulties. Shall he ask a friend for a loan? On the one hand, is it not wrong forthwith to bring on himself, his family, and those who have business relations with him, the evils of


in the beliefs of moralists at large. Though not definitely acknowledged it is vaguely implied in many of their propositions.

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From early times downwards we find in ethical speculations, references to the ideal man, his acts, his feelings, his judgments. Well-doing is conceived by Sokrates as the doing of “the best man,” who “as a husbandman, performs well the duties of husbandry; as a surgeon, the duties of the medical art; in political life, his duty towards the commonwealth.” Plato, in Minos, as a standard to which State-law should conform, “postulates the decision of some ideal wise man;” and in Laches the wise man's knowledge of good and evil is supposed to furnish the standard: disregarding “the maxims of the existing society” as unscientific, Plato regardsstock which, traced back a few generations, ramifies everywhere through the society, and participates in its average nature, there must, notwithstanding marked individual diversities, be preserved such community as prevents anyone from reaching an ideal form while the rest remain far below it. In the second place, ideal conduct, such as ethical theory is concerned with, is not possible for the ideal man in the midst of men otherwise constituted. An absolutely just or perfectly sympathetic person, could not live and act according to his nature in a tribe of cannibals. Among people who are treacherous and utterly without scruple, entire truthfulness and openness must bring ruin. If all around recognize only the law of the strongest, one whose nature will not allow him to inflict pain on


organism, necessitates that, alike for its total life and the lives of its units, there similarly shall be maintained a due proportion between returns and labours: the natural relation between work and welfare shall be preserved intact. Justice, which formulates the
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range of conduct and limitations to conduct hence arising, is at once the most important division of Ethics and the division which admits of the greatest definiteness. That principle of equivalence which meets us when we seek its roots in the laws of individual life, involves the idea of measure; and on passing to social life, the same principle introduces us to the conception of equity or equalness, in the relations of citizens to one another: the elements of the questions arising are quantitative, andthe figures for one year reflected performance in the previous year.

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What does Tuco throw away in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" when they reach the graveyard?

Right when "The Ecstasy of Gold" starts to play, after he's done being shot with the cannon (really weird, by the way, that they camped out only 100 yards from the graveyard and yet he tried to steal a horse to go to it) he jumps for joy and then throws a bunch of papers away.  What were the papers?
That scene can be viewed by this link

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It's a map, either hand drawn or official. The map could be coded in such a way that only Tuco understands it.
Earlier on before the bridge explosion and the drunk captain, Tuco pulls it out looks at it and says to Blondie,

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The owner of a town auto shop sold forged vehicle inspection stickers to an undercover informant during a two-month investigation that resulted in three arrests, the Albany County Sheriff's Office said.

While searching Spike's Auto Sales at 239 River Road, deputies said they also found nunchucks weapons and prescription drugs along with stacks of forged inspection stickers.

Spero Damopoulos sold three inspection stickers to the informant for $40 to $80 apiece, Sheriff Craig Apple said.

Deputies found another 50 phony stickers when they searched the auto shop, along with four nunchuck sticks and several hydrocodone pills, Apple said.

Spero Damopoulos, 48, of Glenmont, Nicholas Damopoulos, 47, of Schenectady and Labatte, 32, of Loudonville were each charged with felony criminal possession of a forged instrument, criminal possession of a weapon and misdemeanor criminalFriday, January 27, 2006

So there he was standing on the corner under the light, usual spot for horse players reading the form sheets. This is not a good time to interrupt a horse player. I learned that first hand, and a do mean hand, from my father. Believe me, first and foremost Beansy was a horse player. "How's it going?" I stammered. "Not bad," he responded. "With a little luck I could break even today." In horse player parlance, that is a good day, when you break even. As one horse player said to another, "I hope I break even today, I need the money."

I asked if he had seen any hockey games this year and he replied that he had not. "I wanted to go to Mark's


game but they wanted 250 scungilli's to sit in the nose bleeds." The 'nose bleeds' are what we called the blue seats in the old days. "Do you know how many exacta's I can play with 250 scungilli's?" he asked, not really expecting an answer from a heretic like me. Told that he missed a great night, he looked skyward and said he really did miss a good night but it had nothing to do with hockey.

Asked about whether he had followed any games he replied that he had and noticed that the checking had picked up a bit. He was impressed with the hitting of Darius Kasparaitis the last few games which he said reminded him of "Leaping" Lou Fontinato, who played with the Rangers in the50's and 60's. He had quite a run, and I do mean run, until he ran into Gordie Howe at the Garden one night. In a fairly one sided brawl Mr. Hockey did a number on Leaping Louie which kind of put an end to Louie's running days. But Beansy liked that kind of player as we all did. I mentioned to Beansy that Kaspy's hitting reminded me more of Bill Moe, who played for the Rangers from 1944-45 to 1948-49. Moe usually came in low, well below the knees, and it was beautiful watching the opponents doing cartwheels as they crashed to the ice.

I mentioned to Beansy that the Sabre coach, Lindy Ruff, complained that Kasparaitis put a dirty hit on his player, Tim Connolly, the Sabre's


leading scoring. Ruff labeled Kasparaitis "a cheap shot artist." "Cheap shot artist?" bellowed Beansy, "that hypocrite! Where was he when Mike Grier ran Kasparaitis into the glass in Buffalo." Mike Grier ran Kasparaitis into the boards? "Hey!" said Beansy, "I read it in one of your columns." Sure enough, I went back to check and on November 23, 2005, The Ranger Pundit wrote:

"Mike Grier charged Kasparaitis into the boards and as Darius was skating off bleeding a Sabre punched him in the back of the head."

There was no outcry from Lindy Ruff then. I guess that was yesterday's news.

Grier went after Kasparaitis that night in Buffalo trying to goad him and did the same thing in the Garden. Maybe the next time we play them, one more game,Poets

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Lee Ann Roripaugh was born in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1965. She holds an MM in music history, a BM in piano performance, and an MFA in creative writing, all from Indiana University.

Her first volume of poetry, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books, 1999), was selected by Ishmael Reed for the National Poetry Series. She is also the author of tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed, 2019), Dandarians (Milkweed Editions, 2014), On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009), and Year of the Snake (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose.

Roripaugh’s other honors include an Academy of American Poets Prize, an AWP Intro Award, and the 1995 Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize.

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The Ramsey case is already so memorable to so many, and its been made even more familiar by the flood of coverage it received in 2016 for the 20th anniversary of the tragedy. With a case that iconic, what can you really make up? It's impossible to know for sure until the project hits Netflix, but the angle chosen by Casting JonBenét does give us some clues.

The documentary hybrid is helmed by director Kitty Green, who elected to build around a perspective of the tragedy that hasn't yet been explored as deeply as the others: the community that the Ramsey Family lived in. Green didn't have access to the family themselves, which is just as well, because that element of the case has been pounded into thethe persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people."

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Essentially, there are only two sins. The first comes under the category of sexual perversion: incest, homosexuality and bestiality. The second comes under the category of killing children by sacrificing them to Molech.

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Sexual perversion and killing one's own children. Homosexual marriage and abortion. And incest, if you are following the news, is on the rise world wide.

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The Greek Renaissance in Italy

Louise Ropes Loomis

The American Historical Review, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Jan., 1908), pp. 246-258

Abstract

The history of culture in Italian cities of the fifteenth century has long been considered a fascinating record of vivid, brilliant personalities who displayed a delightful enthusiasm for pictures, statues and cathedrals, antique coins, strange manuscripts and Ciceronian rhetoric. The causes of the rapid development of artistic and historical feeling that gave the period its peculiar character have never been altogether determined. But writers of reputation have occasionally ventured the opinion that the revival of the study of the classical literatures, in particular of the Greek language and the Greek writers, which marked the opening of the century, supplied the needed stimulus to the Italian intellect and set it free foreverfrom the bondage of mnedieval ignorance and superstition; in short, that out of the revival of Greek grew the Italian Renaissance. The revival itself, they tell us, was due largely to the influence of Petrarch, “the first modern man”. He it was who scorned scholasticism, and found his comfort in the Latin classics and set his contemporaries and successors to inquiring how a knowledge of the Greek tongue could be regained. It is the purpose of this paper to present a few considerations bearing upon this theory and to inquire whether the much-vaunted recovery of Greek in the fifteenth century had in fact the significance and value which are currently ascribed to it.

In the beginning one may be saved from the danger of regarding the fifteenth-century movement as


unprecedented and unique by a hasty preliminary glance at the work accomplished in a similar direction by the schoolmen of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. During those centuries, it is enough to remember, Latin translations of Euclid, Ptolemy, two or three dialogues of Plato and almost the whole of Aristotle were introduced into western Europe and widely and seriously studied. The effect of the influx of new learning was to enrich and broaden immediately the scientific and philosophical courses of the schools and to quicken and educate thought along many lines. Both Plato and Aristotle soon had disciples who applied the methods of reasoning and the knowledge gained from their works to discussions of religion and dogma.

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The op-ed came three days after hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in cities across the country to demand an end to gun violence. The March for Our Lives rallies were organized in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., last month.

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Stevens wrote that the Second Amendment has been misinterpreted in recent decades to extend beyond its original intent to allow citizens to form militias in


and granted his request. The matter was continued to October 27, 2006.
On October 27, 2006, both sides announced ready for trial, and Judge Dymant stated the case would be transferred for assignment to a trial court on the following Monday. During a discussion of whether the proceeding was a *449 second strike case, the prosecutor stated the People's position that it was a presumptive second strike case, and the court asked, "[What] is the People's offer?" The prosecutor advised it had offered two years in prison; Conners stated his counteroffer was dismissal. The court then stated that "the maximum exposure as a second strike is three years doubled. That's high term for six, plus one-third, that's eight, 16 months. So that would be seven years, four months. [¶]Yasuyuki, who then lived in Japan. Vilma Cooper, an escrow agent who testified at trial, received an escrow package from Hector Laino, a person she believed to be a licensed real estate broker. Fremont Investment & Loan received a loan application it believed to be legitimate, and funded two trust deed loans amounting to well over $250,000. Cooper processed the paperwork, and received a wire transfer from Fremont funding the loans. Relying on fraudulent escrow instructions, Cooper disbursed the funds, including a check for $125,159.71 of the loan proceeds to the I Will Step Foundation. The check for these funds, endorsed by Conners's wife, Janie Burns, was deposited in the Foundation's account at the Bank of America on January 3, 2003.
Thereafter, five checks were written on the Foundation's


account, signed by Janie Burns and payable to Wallace Conners. These were dated January 14, 2003 ($9,500), January 16, 2003 ($9,500), January 18, 2003 ($9,755.60), January 21, 2003 ($9,000), and January 22, 2003 ($6,500). In one case (the January 16th check), Conners's name was lined out and replaced with "Cash." Angela Hernandez, a custodian of records for the Bank of America, testified that cash was paid out to the endorser (Conners) of the five checks. Hernandez also testified that the average balance in the Foundation's account for the months preceding and following these transactions (December 2002 and February 2003) was less than $1,000.
The Foundation's address, as shown on the Foundation's checks to Conners, was 3540 Wilshire Boulevard. The escrow instructions for the sale of the Smith property, purportedlysigned by Smith and her dead brother as well as the buyer, showed both the buyer's and the seller's mailing addresses as 3540 Wilshire Boulevard, # 1042. Fremont's loan package included an address certification for the purported borrower, Yanase Yasuyuki, showing 3540 Wilshire Boulevard, # 1042, as the borrower's mailing address, and a rent verification request on the borrower which was sent to a property management company at 3540 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1042 (and signed by "Jennie Burins"). A search of Conners's home, which he shared with his wife and children, resulted in documents showing Conners had an office at 3540 Wilshire Boulevard, # 1042, and that the rent for that office and telephone service for that office were billed to him. The documents also showed a note,