have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn't as simple as one could hope.

A sequel to 2002's cult-status film "Suicide Club", director Sion Sono's "Noriko's Dinner Table" tells the compelling and profound tale of the collapse and reconstruction of the family unit. The story follows Noriko Shimabara (Kazue Fukiishi), a seemingly unhappy teenager who lives with her mother, father, and younger sister. To escape reality, Noriko begins to regularly visit the internet site Haikyo.com, a BBS where she begins to chat with other girls just like her. One of the girls, known only by the title "Ueno54", persuades Noriko to runaway to Tokyo so they can meet in person. Noriko willingly accepts and escapes to Tokyo, wherein she meets the realperson behind the mysterious Ueno54 and learns her true name—Kumiko (Tsugumi). What Noriko soon discovers is that Kumiko operates a "family-circle" program, which specializes in taking in young girls and giving them new personalities and families…

School principal Ozawa Gozo rapes his daughter, Mitsuko, after she sees her parents having sex. Her mother Sayuri witness the event. Gozo now rapes both of them as he pleases, while his family is undermined by incest, suicide, and murder... such is the erotic novel wheel-bound novelist Taeko sets on to write. She is assisted by Yuji, a young man who is actually on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, of Taeko's past, and of the locked room in her apartment. But the reality and truth beneath the Grang-Guignol nightmares


Taeko creates might be too much to bear...

Bored with his boring and typical Japanese life, Shin becomes fixated on one of the most crime-ridden places on Earth, the fictional New York City area known as Hazard. He decides to travel there and experience a more dangerous lifestyle first-hand and is quickly indoctrinated as soon as he arrives. After being robbed he meets two Japanese criminals who decide to take him in and together the three of them survive by continuing to commit crimes and scamming people out of their money. Eventually they cross the wrong person and local cops get involved, leading to a drawn-out police chase.

Review:
The history of hardcore punk--the tougher, faster, and more politically minded stepchild of the '70s punk movement that arose in the '80s--isexamined in exuberant detail in Paul Rachman's documentary American Hardcore. Rachman's cameras careen across the landscape of the U.S. to trace the movement's beginnings in cities like Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and New York, and cherrypicks interviews with the musicians that helped shape its sound and impact, including Henry Rollins and Greg Ginn of Black Flag, H.R. (frontman for the highly influential, all-African American outfit Bad Brains), Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat (and now Fugazi), and many others. Hardcore's violent reaction against the Reagan administration and the complacent mindset of middle-class America is also detailed in countless performance footage clips and poster-art reproductions, which do much to dismiss the popular opinion of hardcore as nothing more than mindless hooliganism. Some fans may find the omission of certain bands


a considerable oversight (San Francisco's lethally satirical Dead Kennedys are not mentioned only in passing), but for most punk devotees, American Hardcore will be vital and essential viewing.

Plot:A persiflage on the protest movements of the 60s.
It's hero is the bold and sex-obsessed tom-cat Fritz the Cat, as created by the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb.
Quitting university Fritz the Cat wanders through the hash, Black Panther and Hell's Angels scenes to find to himself.

Prague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town, in amicable rivalry with his friend Dahl for the affections of Lydia, the innkeeper's niece. While the students are celebrating Lydia's birthday, the opera singer Julia Stella arrives at the inn - and Balduin's life begins to unravel. He is immediatelyinfatuated with the glamorous singer - but she is already kept by an admirer, the wealthy and foppish Baron Waldis. How can a poor student hope to compete? The mysterious Dr. Carpis, who also has ties to Julia and is jealous of the Baron, intervenes. But the price will be higher than Balduin can ever imagine. He risks his sanity and his life - perhaps his very soul - haunted by his own reflection.

Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.

Based on the popular manga series "Darling was Gaikokujin." written by Saori


Oguri, & first published in 2002. The manga has sold over 3 million copies. "Darling was Gaikokujin" is based on Saori Oguris own life with her husband Tony Laszio.

Life in the suburbs as a father of two has worn down Jonas. When a victim of a car crash mistakes him for her boyfriend Sebastian, things take a very dramatic turn as the line between truth and deception is erased.

Endgame was written by Samuel Beckett in French in 1956. Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside. Endgame has been critiquedas a play where nothing happens once, as opposed to Waiting for Godot, a play where nothing happens twice. It was apparently Beckett's favourite play.

Santiago, Chile, 1986. Luchito, a 13-year-old boy, masturbates while he obsessively contemplates Manuel, his 16-year-old neighbor, whom he can see standing by a window in an adjacent project building. Oblivious of the gaze of his precocious voyeur, Manuel discovers his sexuality with girl from the neighborhood. The window turns into an erotic cinematographic world that awakens a curiosity in Luchito, with disastrous repercussions for Manuel.

In which a loose 'gang' comprising 18 (or so) men, all (bar one) named Frank, all (bar one or two) permanently wearing sunglasses (day and night, indoor/outdoor), attempt to leave behind their unsatisfactory environment ("crowded homes, ignorance and hunger, not


to mention stuffy buses with irregular timetables"), and, motivated by the hope that the grass is greener elsewhere ("The branch of a rotten tree must seek a healthier trunk,") make their way across a large city (Helsinki?) towards the maybe-mythical zone known as Eira, where "the streets are wide and the air is smooth and fresh."

Will Graham is a former FBI agent who recently retired to Florida with his wife Molly and their young son. Graham was a \'profiler\'; one who profiles criminal\'s behavior and tries to put his mind into the minds of criminals to examine their thoughts while visiting crime scenes. Will is called out of his self-imposed retirement at the request of his former boss Jack Crawford to help the FBI catch an elusive serialkiller, known to the press as the \'Tooth Fairy\', who randomly kills whole families in their houses during nights of the full moon and leaves bite marks on his victims. To try to search for clues to get into the mind of the killer, Will has occasional meetings with Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, a charismatic but very dangerous imprisoned serial killer that Will captured years earlier which nearly drove him insane from the horrific encounter that nearly cost Will\'s life. With some help and hindrance, Will races against the clock before the next full moon when the \'Tooth Fairy\' will strike again. Elsewhere, a local photographer named Francis Dollarhyde, the killer that Will is looking for, struggles to stay undetected while seeing a hope of redemption when be begins


a relationship with a blind woman who is not aware of his double life.

The story centers around veteran assassin Mark Shields as he tracks down, Pelon, the elusive head of the Salazar Crime Cartel. Through twists of fate, Shields ends up with a local woman, Olivia who is also fighting her own demons for the sake of her daughter. Set in the rich and atmospheric backdrop of Tijuana, Mexico, La Linea (The Line) is full of action, drama and finds its soul in the plight of the characters that inhabit the most dangerous city in North America.

Manuel, 9, has an old ball with which he plays football every day in the countryside. He dreams of becoming a great goalkeeper. His wishes seem set to come true when Ernest,his father, gives him a new ball. But an unexpected accident sends the ball flying into a minefield. Despite the danger, Manuel refuses to abandon his treasure… He convinces Julián and Poca Luz, his two friends, to rescue it with him. Amid the adventures and kids games, the signs of armed conflict start to appear in the lives of the inhabitants of La Pradera

A rebellious youth caught up in the student protests of the turbulent 1960s unintentionally kills a policeman before setting out on a violent and passionate crime spree in director Toshio Okuwaki's classic piece of Japanese erotica. Arrested for his crime, the young man is en route to jail when he breaks away from the authorities and stumbles across a beautiful but suicidal young woman on


juice. Other digestive enzymes produced by the pancreas include pancreatic amylase which digests carbohydrates, and pancreatic lipase, cholesterol esterase, and phospholipase which hydrolyze lipids and fats.
The four molecules which control pancreatic secretion are acetylcholine and the hormones, gastrin, cholecystokinin (CCK), and secretin. Acetylcholine is released from the parasympathetic vagus and other cholinergic nerve endings, gastrin is secreted by cells of the stomach, and CCK and secretin are secreted by the upper small intestine. The gastrointestinal (GI) hormones are absorbed into the blood and transported to the pancreas where they stimulate the secretion of enzymes and of sodium bicarbonate and water (which wash the pancreatic enzymes into the duodenum).
The endocrine pancreas consists of islets of Langerhans, whose cells are separated from the exocrine lobules and are distributed throughout theAmbad

Ambad is a town with a municipal council in Jalna district  in the state of Maharashtra, India. Ambad is notable for its temple dedicated to the Hindu goddess Matsyodari. In October of each year, devotees of the goddess gather in Ambad for the Hindu festival of Dashahara. A local tradition claims that the name "Ambad" was given to this city by a Hindu Raja named Ambarisha. According to this tradition, Raja Ambarisha would worship the goddess on a rock hill which resembled a fish. Because of this fish-shaped rock hill, the goddess was named Matsyodari ("in the stomach of fish").  The temple was constructed by Ahilya Devi Holkar, who also has developed Ambad by constructing Pushkarini and Kavandi (water reservoirs). Ambad is 2nd by population in


Rick Santorum has made a campaign promise to bar "hardcore pornography" from American websites, magazines and television, but industry giants who produce much of the nation's porn aren't worried that the crusading candidate will stop the multibillion dollar industry from churning out the next "Deep Throat."

"I don't see a danger," Michael Lucas, New York's largest producer of gay adult films, told Yahoo News. "There's no danger that he will be the Republican Party nominee."

Santorum's campaign posted a position paper on its website in February that vowed to "vigorously" enforce obscenity laws and restrict the distribution of hardcore pornography, which it says has reached "pandemic" levels. The former Pennsylvania senator said he will "prohibit distribution of hardcore (obscene) pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, inretail shops and through the mail or by common carrier." A spokesman for Santorum's presidential campaign did not return a request for comment.

Lucas, who grew up in the former Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States in 1997 after working in Europe as a male prostitute, founded Lucas Entertainment in 1998, which flourished into a mega-enterprise that produces some of the most lavish gay porn films in the industry. His side company, Lucas Raunch, boasts a repertoire of hardcore fetish videos that are so explicit that Canadian officials banned copies from the country in 2009.

"This is not what Ronald Reagan envisioned," Lucas said after reviewing Santorum's plan. "This is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned. This is what Rick Santorum envisions. And I think the guy is


Kotler, J.), entered June 21, 2016, which, insofar as appealed from, granted the cross motion of defendant Empire City Subway Company (Empire) for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion denied.
Empire failed to establish its entitlement to judgment as a matter of law in this action where plaintiff alleges that she was injured when she tripped and fell on a defect located within a crosswalk. Empire failed to show that the work it performed in the vicinity of plaintiff's fall could not have caused the defect because it was outside the area where plaintiff stated her accident occurred (see Cosme v City of New York, 20 AD3d 320 [1st Dept 2005]; compare Flores v City of New York, 29 AD3d356 [1st Dept 2006]). Although plaintiff did testify that she fell "[a]t least three feet" from the curb that she was approaching and Empire records show that it excavated a trench about 10 to 14 feet from the subject curb, plaintiff also stated that she was not good at measurements and twice described the accident location as being "[a]bout three-quarters" of the way across the intersection, which would be in the area of Empire's trench work.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER
OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.
ENTERED: JANUARY 9, 2018
CLERK


In production of semiconductors, liquid crystals, and the like, there is an operation step in which a thin film is formed on a surface of a substrate (a subject to be processed) such as a wafer or a glass plate, or the surface is cleaned or dried. In the operation step, there is used an apparatus that rotates a substrate mounted on a rotary head at a high speed.
For example, in a thin film forming step, an apparatus called a spin coater is used, which rotates at a high speed a substrate having a coating solution dropped thereon, so as to spread the coating solution by centrifugal force, thereby forming a thin film.
As shown in FIG. 9, a structure of a conventional spin coater mainly includes: a discoidalin an airtight container 58 in a clean environment in order to prevent impurities from mixing into a thin film. Hence, with the rotating shaft 52 being set as a border, a spin coater is usually configured such that the upper part including the spin head 50 is arranged in the airtight container 58, and that the lower part including the driving motor 51 is arranged outside the container 58. With this configuration, since the rotating shaft 52 penetrates though a floor wall 58a of the airtight container 58 in a conventional spin coater, a part penetrated by the rotating shaft 52 is provided with a seal material 57 for maintaining a clean environment in the airtight container.


Pictures: America's 11 most endangered historic places

This Civil War battlefield saw more than 25,000 casualties during a two-day battle between Union and Confederate soldiers. Now, Wal-Mart wants to build a new store within the historic boundaries, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

This Civil War battlefield saw more than 25,000 casualties during a two-day battle between Union and Confederate soldiers. Now, Wal-Mart wants to build a new store within the historic boundaries, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. (Jason Lloyd Clement/National Trust for Historic Preservation)

A U.S. territory and home to the Chamorro people who maintain a culture more than 1,000 years old, is threatened by U.S. military plans to extend operations on the island, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

A U.S. territory andhome to the Chamorro people who maintain a culture more than 1,000 years old, is threatened by U.S. military plans to extend operations on the island, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. (Courtesy Kie Susuico via National Trust for Historic Preservation)

The building, added in 1913 to the Nebraska State Fairgrounds, exchanged ownership with the surrounding fair land to the University of Nebraska when the state moved its fair. The university plans on tearing down the building to make way for a research park.

The building, added in 1913 to the Nebraska State Fairgrounds, exchanged ownership with the surrounding fair land to the University of Nebraska when the state moved its fair. The university plans on tearing down the building to make way for a research park. (Courtesy


Friends of Hinchliffe Stadium via National Trust for Historic Preservation)

These dunes cover 2,500 acres of land along Lake Michigan where the Kalamazoo River flows into the lake. However, the National Trust for Historic Preservation writes, "This cultural landscape and pristine viewshed is now threatened by a proposed 400-acre residential development, including...

These dunes cover 2,500 acres of land along Lake Michigan where the Kalamazoo River flows into the lake. However, the National Trust for Historic Preservation writes, "This cultural landscape and pristine viewshed is now threatened by a proposed 400-acre residential development, including... (MaryLou Graham/NatureShapesPhoto.com via National Trust for Historic Preservation)

This baseball stadium is one of three Negro League facilities left in the country. The stadium has been vacant and unprotected for the past 17 years, leaving mother natureto reclaim the land. According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, weeds, trees and other foliage have begun...

This baseball stadium is one of three Negro League facilities left in the country. The stadium has been vacant and unprotected for the past 17 years, leaving mother nature to reclaim the land. According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, weeds, trees and other foliage have begun... (Courtesy Friends of Hinchliffe Stadium via National Trust for Historic Preservation)

Many of the places on this year's National Trust for Historic Preservation list face financial challenges and budget cuts, decreasing funds available for maintenance. Some places are in threat of being shut down all together, while others are struggling to find the money to keep up with...


normal amounts of rainfall.

Also Read: MEA region urged to use renewable energy in tackling water scarcity

With a shrinking shoreline, the Caspian Sea, located between Europe and Asia, is showing strong declines owing to similar forces with the new report showing diversion and extraction of water from rivers that feed it, for agriculture and industry. Some lakes in the region, such as Aral sea, have disappeared and NASA is warning that in about 1000 years, the same fate would befall the Caspian sea.

James Famiglietti, of the Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California said that it is a major hydrologic change seen for the first time, a very distinctive pattern of the wet land areas of the world getting wetter, in the high latitudes and the tropics, and the dryKevin Hansen equalled his best ever finish in the FIA World Rallycross Championship last weekend in Norway, coming away with a strong fourth in the final.

Although driving as an individual entry, Hansen is part of the Team Peugeot Total squad. His points in the final did not count towards the team’s tally, but the young Swede was still the top finish for the outfit, with brother Timmy Hansen getting caught up in race ruining contact in the final, and Sébastien Loeb failing to make it out of the semi-final stages. The Frenchman was not called to do a joker in one of his qualifying heats, leading to a penalty and a poor spot in the semi-final, automatically putting him on the back foot.

Nevertheless, Kevin Hansen was able to


capitalise on these mistakes, making it into the final for the second time in two rounds, and hassling third-placed Petter Solberg for the final spot on the podium. He is still in search of his first podium in World RX, but with two fourth places under his belt, it looks to be only a matter of time before he goes one place better.

“It was an amazing day and I think my pace has been really good all weekend,” he commented.

“I feel really comfortable with the car and the team and myself. To have yet another good weekend and the pace, it has been amazing. To finish in the final and challenge for the podium is a big step forward. 4th place in the final here in Hell is"It takes a certain kind of human being to inflict wanton violence and death on another person...'

Pretoria, South Africa. Statement by the TAU-SA: "It takes a certain kind of human being to inflict wanton violence and death on another person. This behavior has been endemic throughout history, but almost always within the context of war, or because of religious or ethnic animosity.

In South Africa the perpetrators seem to relish torturing and killing their victims...

"The savagery which hallmarks certain criminal acts in South Africa appears gratuitous however, as if the perpetrators relish torturing and killing their victims. The government and some commentators declare that the particular barbarity against farmers for example, is simply just another murder (or attempted murder), to be categorized as such within the country’s general criminal


past the ANC’s Shell House (now Luthuli House) in solidarity with the Zulu king. Snipers were on the roof of Shell House. They killed at least ten Zulus in cold blood on the express instructions of Nelson Mandela. He told the snipers to use lethal force if necessary to protect Shell House. He then refused police permission to enter the building to conduct an investigation.

He brazenly confirmed this at a press conference, knowing that no one would prosecute him for the deaths of these Zulus. Mr Justice Robert Nugent found in a 1997 judicial enquiry into the shootings that “there was no justification for shooting at the crowd at all, and that the barrage of fire from the ANC was grossly excessive”.

Julius Malema who now (*purportedly*) heads hisNovember 5, 2013: During a recent trial of three black men, it was revealed they broke into a family home in Walkerville, Johannesburg where they assaulted and shot dead Tony Viana, 53, brutally raped and killed his wife Geraldine and tied up and gagged their sobbing son Amaro.

Above: They pushed the young boy into a bath of boiling water to drown him “because he would be able to identify them”. While raping Mrs. Viana, they stood on her face to restrain her. During what was stated to be a "burglary", the family’s dog barked. He was killed by disembowelment. The three black men left the courtroom for their cells laughing, according to Johannesburg’s Beeld newspaper.

In the new South Africa, peoples of entirely different values, history, race, backgrounds and


in South Africa. Violence and mayhem are rising (70,000 of us killed since 1994), like corruption, environmental degradation and intolerance among South Africa’s linguistic and ethnic groups. Foreign Africans, like white farmers, are routinely killed and more often than not the police and the criminal justice system are turning a blind eye.

The city of Pretoria, with the Voortrekker Monument in the foreground

"To many people overseas, South Africa is a lost cause, a sinking ship only worth abandoning. Yet, the very failure of our society presents a powerful argument against political correctness that may still save us and European civilization. It will take decades for Europe or North America to reach the state of advanced decay that South Africa finds itself in. We are ahead of the curve, asEurope. There is some evidence that most of Northern Europe spoke dialects very similar to Afrikaans from 1300 to 1600 when Low German was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League, a forerunner of the European Union which bound hundreds of cities together, from Russia to England and the Low Countries.

"This trade and seafarer’s tongue finally beached right here in South Africa in 1652. We nurtured and cared for this language which today, against the hostility of the state and global corporations who would like to see it disappear, remains a vehicle for cultural and scientific expression, for teaching anything from law to mathematics, from film to cooking, from information technology to accounting or high finance.

The Afrikaners have become hardy and strong after more than three centuries in


Africa:

Above: "After more than three centuries in Africa, we have become hardy and strong. Is there any other country in the world where blacks have to impose racial quotas favouring themselves because they feel threatened by the sporting prowess of whites? Not to mention the most radical affirmative action programme on earth, in order to starve us economically, intellectually, even literally, so as to prevent us from producing food on our farms, like we have done since the 1650s!

The battle for South Africa is not over. One would have thought our fate was sealed in 1994 when Nelson Mandela became president of this country, after the dismal failure of the then Afrikaner leadership during the negotiations at Kempton Park. An avowed communist and co-conspirator of the East GermanLeone while he was in office.

He writes: "In the age of social media, people communicate their horror and despair at being captives in this, our “paradise of cruelty”. Policing our language (...) is a poor substitute for the lack of policing elsewhere. As the twentieth century has shown, utopias are always dangerous, be they fascist or communist. Every utopia has turned into its mirror image, a dystopia replete with genocide. South Africa’s pursuit of a racial biopolitics known as “transformation”, as well as extreme forms of cultural relativism, have unleashed hitherto unknown social consequences.

South Africa: the rape and murder capital of the world:

"In the domain of sexual violence at least, the country has earned the dubious title of “rape capital of the world” and it regularly tops international


by Dr. Mabille in her critique of insipid Western feminism) does not go far enough in explaining South Africa’s journey upriver into the heart of darkness. We really lack the concepts to understand the enormity of what we are faced with.

He writes that "the retreat of Afrikaner power in South Africa has been coterminous with the resurgence of African belief systems, including witchcraft and ritual murders. The old Afrikaner government, while encouraging African ethnic identities, saw fit to suppress witchcraft and ritual murder by making it a criminal offence. Prior to becoming the first president of a united South African republic, Charles Robberts Swart introduced the Suppression of Witchcraft Act 3 of 1957 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Suppression_Act,_1957

--" In the early nineties South Africa experienced hundreds of killings associated with witchcraft andoccult beliefs, leading to the Commission of Inquiry into Witchcraft Violence and Ritual Murders.

The murky role of occult beliefs during the SA revolution:

"We still do not understand the role that occult beliefs played during the revolution, especially in establishing hegemonic black politics and racial nationalism. The necklace, that symbol of revolution, is pregnant with ethnographic and cultural meaning. There is also evidence that young “comrades” intimidated traditional healers to extract money from clients and that the accusation of being a witch was used to eliminate political opponents.

Mrs. Winnie Madikizala-Mandela, that international heroine and former wife of Nelson Mandela, subscribed to the Maoist doctrine – ‘kill one, scare a thousand’ – that support is gained through terror and horror. She notoriously stated in 1986:

…'with our boxes of matches and


our necklaces we shall liberate this country.'

Above: A necklace killing whereby a tyre is placed around the victim's neck, filled with petrol and then set alight.

South Africa's political system is tending towards sado-masochism...

He writes: "Child and even baby rape is another ghastly phenomenon indicating that South Africa has navigated to a new, alien moral code. Stating that "white men sometimes do it in some other country too", hardly mitigates the particular horror that it has assumed here in South Africa:

The British Guardian ran an article on 12 March 2009 entitled, “Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores ‘corrective’ attacks“. The Guardian’s website contains an accompanying video interview with lesbian rape victims, as well as young black men who are outspoken in their support of “correctivebeen killed.

"One could even argue that the very structure of the South African political system is tending towards sado-masochism.

Whites warned to 'be more submissive'...

The new CEO of the liberal Institute of Race Relations, Dr Frans Cronjé, argued in Rapport that:

'whites should assume a far more submissive role in South Africa, lest they expose themselves to some form of collective revenge during a Second Revolution'. According to Cronjé, such a revolution will be …'a violent, racist and destructive transition from a reconciling democratic state to a hostile, black nationalist state… After the Second Revolution, white South Africans will lose their homes, their jobs and their businesses." -

The above was a brief extract from the original article: Read PRAAG and SUPPORT Dan Roodt every day- especially financially! He remains the


in which victims were left badly injured and traumatised - but had survived. Details of all the recorded attacks can be read on http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports

Five political parties in South Africa engage in massive hatespeech incitement against whites as part of election-propaganda:

This wave of hate-crimes must be seen against the background of the constant stream of publicity surrounding the presidential election in 2014 - which has seen at least five political parties in South Africa engage in excessive, inciting hatespeech against specifically the very small minority of 'white' ('Afrikaner and Boer') population (3,4million) in South Africa.

"The pre-genocidal wartalk in South Africa against Whites (Afrikaners, Boers, and white English-speakers) is reaching new heights, with five different political parties all calling openly for the destruction of all the whites, namely: the Africanagainst characteristics of the victim considered integral to the person's social identity:This includes the person's race, ethnicity, or religion. Some relatively broad hate-crime laws also include sexual orientation and mental or physical disability among the characteristics that define a hate crime.

Above: Centurion, The Reeds: 47-year-old Mrs Susan Nel was shot dead on Saturday-evening Oct 26 2013 next to her husband in their car by black gunmen who ran after their car, one gunman caught up with them and fired a shot through the driver's window: shooting Mrs Nel through the back of her skull. She died shortly after arrival at hospital.

The SAPS has confirmed the murder of Mr John van Staden 84, who was found murdered at 6am by his 2 little grandchildren: Disa Street, Touwsrivier. Karoo. He


was found by his small grandchildren when they woke up at 6am.

Being forced to watch while 5 blacks crush your partner's skull with a plumbing wrench is ordinary crime? KZN farmer Dan Knight was murdered because the company he hired to harvest timber did not pay THEIR black employees in time. His partner, Ms Beth Butcher, recounted her horror at being forced to watch the attack. By “forced”, in a radio interview: her head was held and turned towards the victim by force, and her eyes were forced open by one of the attackers, so that she could witness for herself the sheer horror of Mr Knight’s head literally being beaten to a pulp by his attackers and pulverized by a plumber's wrench. Multiply the above horrific, barbaricbeing murdered --

more than double the number of police officers murdered. And certainly farming (in normal societies) should be much safer than policing.' TAU-SA maintains records of every farm murder for which they can find a town name, a police case number and the names of victims. Thus far this year there have been 181 farm-attacks - (2013: 171 by this time last year). During those attacks 54 farmers have already been murdered (compared to the entire year of 2012).Especially the farm attacks in KZN showed a dramatic increase. "Before this year's attacks, the last farm attack in KZN was in 2007. This year there have already been 21 attacks and nine murders,' said Van de Graaf. In the East Cape there were no farm murders last year


of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... 'Ex-NASCAR driver Mayfield arrested on drug charge

By The Associated Press
| 12:12 p.m.Nov. 2, 2011

Former NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield is seen in an undated photo provided by the Catawba County, N.C., Office of the Sheriff. Mayfield has been charged with possession of methamphetamine. The 42-year-old former Sprint Cup driver was arrested Tuesday night, Nov. 1, 2011 at his home in the western North Carolina town of Catawba, according to the Catawba County Sheriff's Office. (AP Photo/Catawba County, N.C., Office of the Sheriff)
— AP

Former NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield is seen in an undated photo provided by the Catawba County, N.C., Office of the Sheriff. Mayfield has been charged with possession of methamphetamine. The 42-year-old former Sprint Cup driver was arrested Tuesday night, Nov. 1, 2011 at his home in the


WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on Thursday on a bill intended to make sweeping changes to the financial regulatory system.

If enacted, the Financial Choice Act will roll back major portions of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and change significant aspects of the bank oversight process. It was outlined a year ago by Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas, the Republican chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.

Here are some of the most significant changes in the nearly 600-page Financial Choice Act:

The Consumer Agency

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a core creation of Dodd-Frank, would be significantly overhauled by the bill. The bureau would be restructured as an executive-branch agency with a single director who could be removed at will by the president. Right now, theDrones over America. Are they spying on you?

Picture thousands of drone aircraft buzzing around the United States– peering from the sky at breaches in border security, wildfires about to become major conflagrations, patches of marijuana grown illegally deep within national forests, or environmental scofflaws polluting the land, air, and water.

By some government estimates, as many as 30,000 drones could be part of intelligence gathering and law enforcement here in the United States within the next ten years. Operated by agencies down to the local level, this would be in addition to the 110 current and planned drone activity sites run by the military services in 39 states, reported this week by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a non-government research project.

The presence of drones in the US was


A Washington think tank is recruiting the mastermind behind the best-selling "Call of Duty" video games to help policy wonks imagine future wars America may have to fight

A Washington think tank is recruiting the mastermind behind the best-selling "Call of Duty" video games to help policy wonks imagine future wars America may have to fight.

Dave Anthony, whose blockbuster gaming franchise has earned billions of dollars, is among a group of writers and producers enlisted by the Atlantic Council to look at how armed conflicts might evolve in the 21st Century.

The initiative, "The Art of Future War Project," which launches next week, was born when Steven Grundman, a former Pentagon official now at the Atlantic Council, found himself impressed by the story line of a video game his sonwas playing.

The game, "Call of Duty: Black Ops II," depicts a cold war set in 2025 between China and the United States, with the rival powers vying for coveted rare earth elements.

"He was struck how realistic our portrayal in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops II' was of a future conflict," Anthony told AFP in an interview.

To come up with that game's plot, Anthony gathered an eclectic group that included screenwriter David Goyer, who worked on the Batman films; author Peter Singer who has written about drone warfare; and Oliver North, the retired Marine officer turned television personality who rose to fame in the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s.

"You get everybody in a room like that, and all the different perspectives come together," Anthony said from his home in


Yet from the moment my plane touched down, it was like walking into a poisoned fog.

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At my Marriott hotel, there were televisions tuned to the news at the shuttle bus stop outside the facility, televisions blaring in the lobby and in the gym. There were individual televisions in the booths at the hotel restaurant and, of course, a bank of televisions above the restaurant's bar. I had arrived tired and hungry and in need of a snack and a glass of wine. By the time my order came, I mostly just needed the wine.

A few days later as I headed back home on Saturday, I was walking through the Atlanta airport. From every gate in my terminal, ergo every gate in the airport, the cable news network wasblasting a Trump rally in Colorado. "Is she going to keep Huma [Abedin]?" Trump was asking crowd. "Huma's been a problem. Do we agree? Huma. Huma's been a problem. I wonder if Huma's going to stay there. And I hope they haven't given Huma immunity. Because it seemed like every person who walked down the sidewalk got immunity. I hope they didn't give Huma immunity because she knows the real story. She knows what's going on. She knows what's going on."

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On and on, he rambled furiously. I felt my chest tighten. Here was this man, this powerful, angry man who treats women like garbage, yet again whipping a crowd into a frenzy by excoriating a female.

I went up to my gate agent, pointed to the television and said,


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AISLANDERS DOWN RHODE ISLAND IN GEORGIA STATE INVITATIONAL

The
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women's basketball team beat
Rhode Island by a 75-67 score at the Georgia State
Invitational.

The
win marks the first back-to-back wins by the Islanders and brings
their season record to 4-7.
Rhode Island falls to 5-7 on the year.

Jade Davis
continued her hot streak, leading the team in scoring for the sixth
game in a row while scoring 15 points, one of four Islanders in
double digits. The team
overall shot 53.6% for the game.

"We shot the
ball well today." said Head
Coach Robert Robinson. "We
knocked down our open shots and out post players did well getting
position on the inside."

In the first
half, the Islanders jumped out to an early lead and never let up as
they never trailed throughout the game. Davis put TAMUCC ahead before the
clock ever started, as


Rhode Island was assessed a technical foul
on the bench and Davis made 1-of-2 free throws to make it 1-0.

A Smith jumper
and a three-pointer by Shaye Montgomery quickly gave the Islanders
a 6-0 lead one minute into the game.

TAMUCC steadily
built their lead to as many as 13 points in the first half at
32-19. The Islanders ended
the first half just as strong, scoring the last four points on
LaToya Thomas and Adrienne Scott jumpers to take a 12 point lead
into the half at 36-24.

In the second
half, the Islanders held steady, never leading by less than six
points and stretching their advantage to as many as 18 at 64-46
with 5:24 left in the game.

The second half
is where Davis made her mark, scoring 10 of her 15 points. Montgomery added seven points
and pulled down fiverebounds as well in the second half.

The Islanders
defense held Rams leading scorer Sierra Cooper to only six points
in the game, nearly cutting her 11.5 average in half. The Islander defense forced 19
turnovers while making nine steals.

"We did a good
job guarding Cooper today."
said Robinson. "We go into
the games looking to limit the other teams' top threat and we did
that well for a full 40 minutes out there today."

The win for the
Islanders gives them a 1-0 series advantage as this was the first
ever meeting between the two teams.

Davis led the
Islanders in scoring with 15 points. Montgomery scored 13, Scott scored 12
and Sarah Davidson added 10 points. Smith led the team with six rebounds
while Montgomery had five.

"I thought
Adrienne did a good job out there today." said Robinson. "She has been gaining


confidence
the past few games and she did really well today in the post on
both the offense and defensive ends."

The Islanders
now take on tournament host Georgia State on Tuesday at 3 PM CST in
the championship game of the invitational.

"Georgia State
is fairly similar to Rhode Island in that they like to press and
get the ball inside to their post players." said Robinson. "This is a good chance for us to get a
win and to build momentum heading into Southland Conference
play."

Georgia State
advanced to the game by beating Mississippi Valley State by a 70-60
score in the opening game of the tournament. The Panthers are now 6-3 on the year
heading into the game against the Islanders.Players will be seeing much needed changes to six cards in an upcoming Hearthstone patch set to take place after the Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) playoffs come to an end.

Upcoming Hearthstone patch will have players scrambling to get creative

Hearthstone’s latest expansion, The Witchwood, released April 12th and brought drastic changes to the meta. While the expansion introduced new cards and the new game mechanic, Echo, The Year of the Mammoth ended and with it saw the rotation of Whispers of the Old Gods, One Night in Karazhan, and Mean Streets of Gadgetzan out of the Standard format of the game. These changes paved the way for the Warlock and Paladin classes to take reign at the top of the ranked ladder. With the upcoming Hearthstone patch, various cards


of virtues that made names like Schumacher, Rossi, Federer, Ali, Armstrong and Woods so iconic - although none managed a run of success as enduring as Loeb's.

Has he overcome a sufficient calibre of rival during his career to warrant comparison with such greats? I humbly think so. Finn Marcus Gronholm was a standout driver of the fiercely competitive McRae/Burns/Makinen/Sainz era, winning the world championship twice. Although Gronholm came desperately close to beating Loeb in the title race on two occasions, he just didn't ever have the measure of the Frenchman.

Loeb himself admits that always having had the fastest car in the service park has been central to his success, but we must remember that he was instrumental in their development (particularly of the C4 and the current DS3).points are, then nail them.

What inevitably follows is victory. That breeds huge confidence in his own abilities and methods, which means he's capable of resisting the temptation to become more aggressive in the heat of a battle. He instead channels his competitive spirit into driving perfectly, into better hitting the optimum points on every corner.

Loeb is unique in his ability to do this. When the other drivers in the service park want to go faster, they 'push harder'. They brake later, get on the power earlier, try to carry more speed around a corner. They start to miss turn in points or run wide onto loose gravel, shedding time. When they see that Loeb has still gone faster, they believe that the Frenchman must be pushing even harder


lock at it and prodding at the throttle.

It's going to take an accurate replication of these principles by a very talented driver if Loeb is to be beaten in the world championship. Of course, Citroen might one year build a duff car or Loeb could suffer a string of unfortunate incidents, but in performance and consistency terms, he remains in a league of his own. He mightn't be beaten before he retires, and with a two-year contract with Citroen in place, that might just take him to 10 titles.

And he's untouchable on Tarmac

The eight-time world champion is responsible for rendering the flamboyant driving style of many a Finn completely outdated. For some that'll be a shame, harmful as it was to the spectacle of rallying. Loeb has forcedSecurity Council considers Pyongyang a would-be proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and its nuclear testing a threat to international peace and stability. North Korea dismisses that as a double standard, and claims the right to build nuclear weapons as a defense against the United States, which has been seen as enemy No. 1 since the 1950-53 Korean War. The U.S. stations more than 28,000 troops in South Korea to protect its ally.

Tuesday's test is North Korea's first since young leader Kim Jong Un took power of a country long estranged from the West. The test will likely be portrayed in North Korea as a strong move to defend the nation against foreign aggression, particularly from the U.S.

"The test was conducted in a safe and perfect way on


a high level, with the use of a smaller and light A-bomb, unlike the previous ones, yet with great explosive power," North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said.

The U.N. Security Council recently punished North Korea for a rocket launch in December that the U.N. and Washington called a cover for a banned long-range missile test. Pyongyang said it was a peaceful launch of a satellite into space. In condemning that launch, the council demanded a stop to future launches and ordered North Korea to respect a ban on nuclear activity - or face "significant action" by the U.N.

China expressed firm opposition to Tuesday's test but called for a calm response by all sides. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi summoned North Korea's ambassador and delivered a "stern representation"and demanded that North Korea "swiftly return to the correct channel of dialogue and negotiation," the ministry said in a statement.

The timing of the test is significant. It came hours before Obama's speech and only days before the Saturday birthday of Kim Jong Un's father, late leader Kim Jong Il, whose memory North Korean propaganda has repeatedly linked to the country's nuclear ambitions.

This year also marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, and in late February South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye will be inaugurated.

In Pyongyang, where it was snowing Tuesday, North Koreans gathered around televisions to watch a 3 p.m. TV broadcast announcing the nuclear test.

The test shows the world that North Korea is a "nuclear weapons state that


to 6 kilotons, respectively, spokesman Kim Min-seok said. By comparison, U.S. nuclear bombs that flattened Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II were estimated at 13 kilotons and 22 kilotons, respectively, Kim said.

The test is a product of North Korea's military-first, or songun, policy, and shows Kim Jong Un is running the country much as his father did, said Daniel Pinkston of the International Crisis Group think tank.

The other part of a credible North Korean nuclear deterrent is its missile program. While it has capable short and medium-range missiles, it has struggled in tests of technology for long-range missiles needed to carry bombs to the United States, although it successfully launched the satellite in December.

North Korea isn't close to having a nuclear bomb it can use on the...

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Out actor Jim Parsons is calling on Houston voters to uphold the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).

HERO prohibits discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on more than a dozen characteristics including race, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Opponents of the law forced it onto Tuesday's ballot. Early voting ended Friday.

In an email to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest LGBT rights advocate, Parsons endorsed Proposition 1, the ballot initiative that would keep the law in place.

“My roots in Houston run deep and I still have family and many friends who live there so, even though I can't vote in this upcoming election, the outcome of this particular issue will still have an effect on me and the ones that I love,” said Parsons, whoeven discrimination within their own caravan," Volk said.

"Not only was the caravan being discriminated again, but there was also an entire sub-group of the caravan being pushed further back," Volk said. "Kickxy-Vixen Styles noticed that too and contacted us and asked if we wanted to put on a show, so we did that to raise some funds and shed some light on what was happening."

Volk said drag queens in the community were excited to take part in the event, with people who typically work at other venues joining in on the performance.

Eighteen drag queens participated in the November 29th show at MO's Bar and Grill in San Diego, California to raise funds for LGBTQ asylum seekers who have traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to make asylum claims in


Jovetić's week:

10th: Joins Sevilla.

12th: Scores on his debut.

15th: Scores the goal to end Real Madrid's 40-game unbeaten run. pic.twitter.com/09ANwRQFzp — Premier League (@EPLBible) January 15, 2017

Real has a game in hand on both Sevilla and Barcelona, which is just two points adrift after the latest round of games.of which was not contested before

the district court. The escape occurred in June 2003, twenty-three months into a

24-month sentence Vickery was serving at the Federal Correctional Institute in

Forrest City, Arkansas for violating the conditions of his supervised release on a

previous conviction for transporting stolen property across state lines. With his

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Germany offering 3 Million Jobs to Pakistanis

Pakistan received a letter from the German ministry of foreign affairs. In it, Germany had demanded Pakistan to create a scheme in order to offer them trained workers.

According to a report by Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur(KNA), which is a German news agency, quoted under the pretense of Spiegel Online. It mentioned that the Europe Branch of the German foreign office wrote a letter to the Pakistani foreign commission. It was asking Pakistan to provide a skilled workforce for jobs. It is precisely mentioned in the letter what kind of workers are required and which areas will they fit in.

As implied by the report, Germany requires 3 million skilled people from Pakistan. This includes computer experts and engineers.

KNA stated that the letter was sent onWASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Sunday called the London attacks an "evil slaughter" and said the United States would do everything it could in its power to assist the United Kingdom to bring those responsible to justice."This bloodshed must end. This bloodshed will end," Trump said in brief remarks after a gala event at Ford's Theater in Washington.On Saturday night, attackers killed at least seven people by ramming a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing revelers in nearby bars. Police shot dead the three male assailants in the Borough Market area near London Bridge within eight minutes of receiving the first emergency call.


of animal studies exploring the biological effects of fasting, and several short-term human studies looking at the acute effects, scientists do not know what happens to a human body when it consistently undergoes intermittent fasts over several years.

To try to tease out the long-term effects of fasting on a human body, a team of scientists from Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah, tracked over 2,000 patients for nearly five years. The patients were enrolled into the study during the course of a cardiac catheterization procedure, and then followed for several years to ascertain long-term cardiovascular health and overall mortality.

The unique part of the research was the fact that a large portion of the cohort were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.that we felt it could happen, that it was only a matter of time that it would happen, and it has.”

Iraq is evolving, Talabani says, into a Kurdistan in the north, and into central Sunnistan—both of which reject Shia Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s increasing authoritarianism—and a Shia state in the south. There is still time, he says, before all-out civil war, for Maliki to reconsider and apply the constitution, which allows for devolved federalist-style governance, but that window is rapidly closing.

Years ago, the Kurds turned away from Baghdad to Ankara, in the hopes of finding a new regional champion. And, surprise surprise, in Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, they found such a partner. In a striking turnaround from 2007, when the Turks were so afraid of Kurdish


disease is caused by bacteria, usually Bartonella henselae, and passed between cats by fleas. The bacteria are also present in flea dirt — the official name for flea feces — which build up in the cats' fur. It gets on their paws and in their mouths when they groom themselves. If a person is scratched by contaminated claws, they're at risk of getting the disease.

The study combed health insurance claims from 2005 to 2013, and charted when and where cat-scratch disease is most likely to strike. It found that about 12,000 people will be diagnosed with cat-scratch disease each year, and 500 of them will be sick enough to be hospitalized.

Many of those infected will be children, probably because of the ways kids play with cats. And most2008, Danagoulian has committed himself to these challenges, generating new technologies that reduce nuclear security threats in the near term and that offer game-changing options in the arena of nuclear nonproliferation and treaty verification.

This work has brought significant notice. This year the U.S. Department of Energy named him as a member of its Consortium of Monitoring, Technology, and Verification. And for scientific and engineering achievements that bear important implications for the field, he was just awarded the 2019 Radiation Science and Technology Award from the American Nuclear Society.

Verify, then trust

One of Danagoulian’s key research thrusts is development of a method for verifying the authenticity of nuclear warheads. His most recent work in the area, published in the Sept. 30 Nature Communications and coauthored by nuclear science and engineering


of the Soviet public didn’t perceive nuclear weapons as an existential threat. “The party regulated all debate, and while my own father knew a lot and discussed with me the devastating power of the bomb, most people knew little about fallout and nuclear winter,” he recalls. “Then suddenly, in the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was all about peace, but no one could really say what it meant to try to prevent nuclear war.”

Smitten with math, he decided to become a physicist. After moving to the United States with his family in 1993, he attended first North Carolina State University, then MIT as an undergraduate, where he was warmly welcomed by the nuclear physics group.

Then came doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he investigatedIn Pakistan, Carrying On a Legacy of Answering SOS CallsBy SABA IMTIAZ MARCH 15, 2017 The New York Times

KARACHI, Pakistan — For decades, the sight of Abdul Sattar Edhi pleading for donations was enough to press even the most tightfisted of Pakistanis into reaching for their wallets.

Such was the impact of Mr. Edhi, a humanitarian icon in Pakistan who died last summer after a prolonged illness. In a country where many citizens have given up on the government, Mr. Edhi’s expansive philanthropic network acts as a benefactor, providing everything from emergency assistance to welfare services.

Now his son Faisal Edhi is carrying on his legacy and trying to ensure the survival of the philanthropic foundation at a time when donors have grown tired of being asked to respond to


card is still affixed to the wall, along with a fading calendar that juxtaposes his image with that of Mother Teresa, and a framed commemorative stamp issued by the government after his death.

In the later years of his life, he made headlines with politically charged statements, like calling for a military takeover of Pakistan, and declaring politicians corrupt, or sounding alarmist notes about the state of the country.

At work, he would meet with the dozens of people who needed assistance with everything from adoptions to ambulances, or answer the phone himself, a rarity in a country where meeting anyone requires going through layers of middlemen and assistants.

It is the part of the job with which Faisal Edhi is still struggling. “I’m stretched,” he said.
The foundation is managed bylast few years.”

He is excited about an ambitious new project to train midwives, nurses and paramedic staff at an Edhi-run hospital, just as he worries about the financial health of the organization.

Islamic charities, he said, have undercut individual donations to Edhi by dividing people along sectarian lines, since Islamic charities are often closely linked to a particular sect.

Religious pressures have long been a challenge for the foundation. Detractors of the elder Mr. Edhi accused him of apostasy and questioned why he would rescue and take in abandoned babies, or work for non-Muslims.
Faisal Edhi recalled that people from the family’s Bantva Memon ethnic community would even sometimes refuse to greet his father.

But Mr. Edhi is adamant about upholding the policies set by his father, such as the foundation’s refusal


Out in Heaven. In 2001, the band released their eighth studio album, Bravery Repetition and Noise. It includes the track "Sailor", a re-work of a song originally performed by The Cryan' Shames.

In 2003, the band released their ninth studio album, And This Is Our Music. "And This Is Our Music" was a step in a new direction for Newcombe and the group creatively, and emphasized more of the electronic music Newcombe had explored in the beginning days of the group. The album's title has been called a reference to the identically-titled, but distinct, albums This Is Our Music by the artists Galaxie 500 and Ornette Coleman.

In 2005, the band released the EP We Are the Radio on Newcombe's own label, The Committee to Keep Music Evil, which featuresThe appeal trial of Amanda Knox enters its’ final stages in a Perugia, Italy courtroom Friday, with a verdict expected to be handed down in less than a week.

Knox, 24, entered court wearing a pink top and looking nervous as prosecutors began their closing arguments in the hearing which will determine if the American exchange student will go free.

As RadarOnline.com has previously reported, Knox, from Seattle, WA., is appealing her conviction of sexually assaulting and murdering her one-time roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, with the help of two other men on the night of November 1, 2007; in December 2009, Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

Prosecutors — who were humiliated earlier this month when the credibility of DNA evidence investigators originally collected was brought to task


1. Field of Invention
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A number of percutaneous intravascular procedures have been developed for treating stenotic atherosclerotic regions of a patient's vasculature to restore adequate blood flow. The most successful of these treatments is percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA). In PTA, a catheter, having an expansible distal end usually in the form of an inflatable balloon, is positioned in the blood vessel at the stenotic site. The expansible end is expanded to dilate the vessel to restore adequateOccupy Cincinnati

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It's reported that the Occupy evictions were 'coordinated' through conference calls by city mayors, questions of who organized these calls remaining. What's also known is that 'the troubled' were encouraged by authorities to join Occupy, with many seizing upon the outcome of this as the 'manufactured pretext' for the recent nationwide sweeps.

With the 'homeless and troubled' having come to Occupy, bringing the kinds of issues they sadly too often mean, an 'excuse' for police action to evict Occupy developed, one that's been readily pounced upon. Of course, reports that 'the troubled' were sent to Occupy by police and other authorities have appeared, raising questions if Occupy was 'set-up' for both the ongoing evictions and the


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The present invention relates to a cellular communications system, and more particularly to a transmission power control technique in a base station.
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In code division multiple access (CDMA) systems, soft handover is a well-known technique where a mobile station is simultaneously communicating with multiple base stations, allowing hitless connection switching by making a connection to a new base station while maintaining a connection to an old base station. Soft handover provides diversity, which is a method of using independent fading signals received on several transmission paths all carrying the same message to improve the reliability of the transmission.
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As described before, during the soft handover operation, a plurality of base stations transmit the same signal to a signal mobile station. In this case, the transmission timing of the signal is adjusted so that the signals transmitted by the base stations arrive at the mobile station within an acceptable time deviation. Since propagation distances from the mobile station to the base stations vary from base station to baseGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

President Barack Obama's decision this week to increase America's training of Iraqi troops fighting ISIS was not what he contemplated when he completed a withdrawal of ground troops from the country in 2011.

But a lot has changed since he boasted of fulfilling that campaign promise.

Namely, ISIS.

The rise of the terror organization, aided by political strife that turned local Sunnis against the Iraqi government, has forced Obama to rethink his Iraq strategy.

In what critics see as a reversal, Obama said Wednesday he would send 450 military personnel to train Iraqi military at a base in Anbar province, where it has been losing ground to ISIS. That is in addition to the more than 3,000


Americans already on the ground in advisory and training roles.

On Thursday, the Pentagon said it was considering opening additional bases in the Anbar area to expand those training operations.

"It's just more of what we've done before, which hasn't worked," said David Phillips, director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights.

He called the moves "throwing good money after bad."

Islamic State group militants stand with a captured Iraqi army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, 155 miles north of Baghdad. AP file

But others caution against viewing this week's moves as evidence that Obama is going back on his word.

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Instead,forces are already training Iraqi forces at the al-Assad air base west of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, which ISIS seized from the Iraqis last month. After that defeat, Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi asked American officials for more help.

The loss in Ramadi and other key locations showed America that there was not enough local will to fight ISIS, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said.

Michael O'Hanlon, co-director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution, said Obama shouldn't get bogged down in failing to completely pull Americans out of Iraq and instead take pride in the fact that the U.S. presence in overseas military operations has decreased dramatically.

"It's true that what's happening now isn't what President Obama wanted when he came into the White


House or when he decided to leave Iraq in 2011, but the world's changed," O'Hanlon said.

One of the Iraqi military's biggest weaknesses is logistics: it has trouble keeping troops supplied at the front, said Austin Long, a professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. "If some of these trainers and advisers help get that logistics system moving, you could probably push back into Ramadi effectively."

But it's wrong to assume that a few hundred more American troops will solve the internal friction between the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, Long added.

"There are a lot of political problems that trainers and artillery support are not going to fix," he said.

David Schenker, director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, saidTop 10 Universities in Pakistan By Ranking

Introduction, Best Top 10 Universities in Pakistan 2016

Below the Top 10 Universities in Pakistan by rankings:

Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi – Ranking #10

Institute of Business Administration is a university in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistan ranking #10 in the Pakistan top universities. Its motto is “Leadership and Ideas for Tomorrow“. It was established in 1955. It is a State university. The President of this university Dr.Ishrat Hussain. The total students studying in this university are 1,600.

Aga Khan University (AKU)- Ranking #9

Aga Khan University is a university in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.Pakistan ranking #4 in the Pakistan top universities. It was established in 1983. It is a Private university. The President of this university Firoz Rasul.

Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan – Ranking #8

Bahauddin Zakariya University


is a university in Multan, Pakistan. Pakistan ranking #8 in the Pakistan top universities. Its motto is “Knowledge Is Power“. It was established in 1975. It is a Public university. The President of this university Muhammad Zafarullah. The total students studying in this university are 8,076.

University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore – Ranking #7

University of Engineering & Technology (UET) is a university in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan ranking #7 in the Pakistan top universities. Its motto is “Read in the name thy Lord who creates“. It was established in 1921. It is a Public university. The President of this Governor of Punjab. The total students studying in this university are 8,865.

International Islamic University is a university in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan ranking #6 in the Pakistan top universities.It was established in 1980. It is a Govt university. The President of this university is Dr. Anwar Husain Siddiqui. The total students studying in this university are 28,000.

The university of Karachi is a university in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Pakistan ranking #5 in the Pakistan top universities. Its motto is “O my Lord! Advance me in Knowledge“. It was established in June 1951. It is a Public university. The President of this university is Governor of Sindh.The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Karachi is Dr. Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui. The total students studying in this university are 24,000.

National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (FAST) is a university in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Pakistan ranking #4 in the Pakistan top universities. It’s motto is “Who has taught (the writing)


by the Pen, Has taught man that which He Knew not“. It was established on July 1, 2000. It is a Private university. The President of this university Senator Wasim Sajjad. The total students studying in this university are 6,000.

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) is a university in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan ranking #3 in the Pakistan top universities. It was established in 1984. It is a Private university. The President of this university is Dr. Adil Najam. The total students studying in this university are 4,015.

National University of Sciences & Technology is a university in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Karachi, Risalpur, Pakistan. Pakistan ranking #2 in the Pakistan top universities. Its motto is “A Progressive Vision for the Future“. It was established in 1991.It is a Public university.The President of this university is Prime Minister of Pakistan. The total students studying in this university are 7,196.

University of Punjab – Ranking #1

The university of Punjab is a university in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan ranking #1 in the Pakistan top universities. Its motto is “Urdu (Iman, Etihad, Discipline)”. It was established in 1882. It is a Public university. The President of this university is Mujahid Kamran. The total students studying in this university are 30,000.

This was the complete list according to the Top 10 Universities in Pakistan with all types of activities, researches and analysis).


Farm Bill, is meant to encourage biofuel development, according to the USDA, which is running the program through the Farm Service Agency.

In 2008, CVEC began operating a flexible fuel biomass gasifier designed by Frontline BioEnergy of Ames, Iowa. Wood chips now fuel CVEC’s gasifier, but in time, it will run primarily on corncobs, Friese says, with up to 70% of the energy coming from that fuel source. Reaching that goal will require more than 100,000 acres of cobs a year.

In 2008, the ethanol maker bought about 3,200 acres of corncobs to test-burn in its newly commissioned gasifier. The first year, CVEC took on the role of custom combiner, Friese says, handling cob harvest and transportation.

In 2009, with commercial cob harvesting equipment available for lease in Minnesota, farmers managedlike New York, Pennsylvania or Texas. But those large states hold a bigger share of the caucus when they’re dominated by a single party, like California is now. For instance, in the 1946 election, Texas elected Democrats to all 21 of its House seats, which amounted to 11 percent of all House Democrats; the party was in the minority that year after a GOP wave. And New York, which had the most representatives before California took over, sometimes had more seats than any other state in both parties’ caucuses, as it did in 1948 and 1960. Back when California was less of a single-party state, it occasionally pulled off the same feat, including as recently as 2006, when it led the Democratic caucus and tied Texas for the


from the Republican Party, which campaigned in support of the proposition, and drove those voters into the arms of the Democratic Party. Now the California GOP seems almost like an endangered species, a development punctuated by the complete wipeout of Republican members from Orange County — a traditional home of California conservatism — in the midterm election.

Given the size of California’s congressional delegation, it will be interesting to see what issues California Democrats pursue — especially as relates to President Trump. Several members of the state’s delegation are in line to take over key leadership positions in the House, which would give them more power to take on the president, if they choose. For example, Rep. Adam Schiff, the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, will getThe exposed photosensitive material is superimposed on an image receiving material, then the image recorded on the photosensitive material is transferred to the image receiving material. The exposure box is put on the transfer box, and these boxes are located in position and secured by means of pins.
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                  (January 9, 2015)

Before TJOFLAT, WILSON and JILL PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:
                Case: 13-15774   Date Filed: 01/09/2015    Page: 2 of 8

      On July 3, 2005, Linda Nicolas arrived at the Miami International Airport on

a flight from Haiti with a kilo of cocaine concealed in her lower abdomen over

which she work a skin-tight pair of elastic biker shorts. She aroused the suspicion

of Customs officers and, on inspection, the cocaine was discovered. On

questioning by Special Agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

(“ICE”), Nicolas admitted that she wasattempting to smuggle cocaine into the

United States. She said that she was to have been met at the airport by a man who

would escort her and the smuggled cocaine to Bradenton, Florida.

      Nicolas agreed to cooperate with the agents and gave them a description of

the man she was to meet. Under the agents’ supervision, Nicolas led them to the

location in the airport where the meeting was to take place, and they spotted a man

make eye contact with her and make subtle gestures to summon her. The agents

seized the man, Rigal Baptiste, the appellant, and detained him. Special Agents

McBride and Morales interviewed Baptiste, and he admitted making arrangements

for Nicolas to travel to Haiti to pick up a quantity of cocaine; he was to deliver


dispute in the South China Sea. China has rejected the ruling, as has Taiwan.

Despite the decision, the Philippines has been rapidly improving relations and cooperating with China on various issues.

China has lifted a ban on the import of bananas and mangos from the Philippines. As a result, Philippines’ export to the mainland and Hong Kong surged 34 percent in the first five months of the year.

“It will only grow faster because it is only now we are getting to see a fuller impact of this relationship, the fuller impact of the benefits of having a revived and renewed relationship,” said Lopez.

The Philippines’ wants GDP to grow seven to eight percent in the coming five years, and China is a very important factor, he added.symbolically destroyed. While working for German overseas television in Berlin a few years after the Wall came down, Anna Funder became interested in the stories of ordinary citizens of the former East Berlin, as well as those who had enforced the rules of the German Democratic Republic. Those stories are collected in Stasiland, an award-winning work of investigative nonfiction being published in the United States for the first time.

Funder spoke with ordinary citizens who had been the focus of attention from the Stasi, the East German secret police, as well as with Stasi agents. Granted, very few citizens were not the focus of Stasi attention at one time or another. Descriptions of Stasi facilities and actions sound as if they come straight out of a spy novel; however,


in a living death of emotions. In a terrible risk, Rom exposes himself to the vial of blood folded into the old leather of the journal. His change is fearful and fraught with mind-bending emotion. A once-pious observer of the Order's passionless statues, he is filled with uncontrollable impulses. He is filled with love.

He is undone, terrified, and alone in the desolate world.

Comments: It’s a safe bet that this novel wouldn’t have crossed my radar without the Faith & Fiction Roundtable, which is part of the reason I wanted to be part of that group. Forbidden - the first volume in a planned trilogy called The Books of Mortals - was the subject of our September discussion, although it actually didn’t prompt a very active conversation. A faircataloged on LibraryThing; I purchased a newer edition for this reading.)Reason for reading: re-read spurred by current events

Opening lines: “We slept in what had once been the gymnasium. The floor was of varnished wood, with stripes and circles painted on it, for the games that were formerly played there; the hoops for the basketball nets were still in place, though the nets were gone. A balcony ran around the room, for the spectators, and I thought I could smell, faintly like an afterimage, the pungent scent of sweat, shot through with the sweet taint of chewing gum and perfume from the watching girls, felt-skirted as I knew from pictures, later in miniskirts, then pants, then in one earring, spiky green-streaked hair.”

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of


Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable.

Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now....

Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathingNational Book Award nomination for her first book, the memoir A Slant of Sun: One Child’s Courage, Beth Kephart wasn’t on my radar at all until just a couple of years ago, when I became aware that she had connections to a fewgoodfriends, who led me to her blog. Beth Kephart Books quickly became part of my required daily blog-reading, but I have to admit I resisted her books themselves for a while longer. While Beth has published nonfiction in a few genres, notably memoir and history, her most recent books are young-adult fiction, and for some time, I was highly ambivalent about expanding my reading into that particular category, being many years past that vintage.

Eventually, my enjoyment of her blog and other bloggers’ praise of her books


Large Animal Facilities - "The Macro / Micro Isolator"

Scott Stirton, Smith Carter

Abstract:

The research, development and technologies of the small animal
micro-isolators dedicated to rodents, have yet to evolve at the
large animal housing level. Mr. Stirton in his presentation titled
the " The Macro- 'Micro Isolator' will outline the environmental
protection considerations embodied in containment and housing strategies
for large animals. Large animal containment facility design solutions
are predicated on the notion of environmental, animal, and personnel
safety. Safeguarding the people working with large animals, the
animal themselves and the environment requires operational, functional
and technical prowess to achieve success. Discussion will focus
on the concerns of airborne, carcass and water contamination and
sterilization strategies.Are reputations like sandcastles, all washed away sooner or later by the tides of fashion?

This is a good time to ask these questions. George Steiner turned 90 this year. A major biography of Susan Sontag was published last month. And Harold Bloom died on 14 October. All three were once hugely influential cultural critics, among the best-known on either side of the Atlantic.

Steiner has published more than 20 books, writing on subjects from Heidegger to the legacy of Antigone in Western thought. He taught at Cambridge and for 20 years was the professor of comparative literature at Geneva. But, above all, he bridged the gap between academic criticism and the general reader. He wrote for the Sunday Times and succeeded Edmund Wilson as the lead critic of the


New Yorker (writing 134 reviews in 31 years). He was a regular presence on TV and radio. I met him in the mid-1980s and produced several programmes with him for Channel 4, Radio 4 and The Late Show on BBC Two, where he debated Freud with the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, TS Eliot’s anti-Semitism with Christopher Ricks, and the legacy of French theory with Bernard-Henri Lévy.

Steiner’s range and fluency were remarkable, on the page or on the screen. He was not a dry-as-dust academic who wrote unread monographs. Instead, he asked big, important questions: why do the humanities not civilise? Do tyrannies produce greater art than democracies? Is tragedy dead? Is it possible, he writes in his intellectual memoir Errata (1974), that civilisation as we have known it formore than 2,000 years is coming to an end? “Will there come again a Plato or a Mozart, a Shakespeare or a Rembrandt, a Divine Comedy or a Critique of Pure Judgement?”

Steiner’s greatest achievements, though, are threefold. He was the first major English-speaking critic to talk about the Holocaust, to say that we cannot think about postwar Western culture without asking what happened in the heart of Europe in the 20th century. Second, he introduced a whole generation to the extraordinary writers and thinkers of the central European avant-garde. In the words of one critic, Steiner told “those who would listen in Britain about Heidegger, Benjamin and Paul Celan – the great German philosophers and poets. Now work on those figures is an industry, but he was a


lone voice in the Sixties.”

Finally, he had an extraordinary gift for creating a dramatic sense of the great encounters in literature and criticism. He wrote of Paul Celan, a Holocaust survivor but also perhaps the greatest modern poet in the German language, visiting Martin Heidegger, the greatest German philosopher of the 20th century, to confront him and ask how he could support Hitler.

When I first met Steiner, we had lunch at The Three Horseshoes in Madingley outside Cambridge. This pub, he told me, was where the critic and literary theorist IA Richards had supervised William Empson – supervisions which led to the writing of Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), one of the classics of 20th-century literary criticism. At another lunch, ten years later, Maastricht was in the news.Steiner leaned forward and clutched my arm: “D’Artagnan died at the siege of Maastricht.” For him, every place, every news story, was part of a web of references in the history of Western culture. For countless people, he brought a civilisation to life. But I worry, as he enters his nineties, if his reputation will last. Of all those names, IA Richards and Empson, Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin, who will endure?

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I also first met Susan Sontag in the mid-1980s. She was in London to present a programme for Channel 4 about the great choreographer Pina Bausch. She had recently recorded a programme with John Berger about storytelling and at the last minute she had to drop out of a programme I was producing about Claude Lanzmann’s Holocaust


Sontag appears), she was everywhere. In the early 1960s she was in New York, writing about what was hip and cool. She opposed the Vietnam War and in 1968 and 1969 she was in Havana and Hanoi. In the early 1970s she debated feminism with Norman Mailer and Germaine Greer at New York City Town Hall. By the 1980s, she had denounced Castro and communism. “Communism is fascism – successful fascism, if you will,” she declared. She was on the cover of Vanity Fair in the celebrity-mania days of 1980s New York, but she also wrote about Aids at the height of the epidemic. In 1993 she directed Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo, then under siege from the Serbs. A decade later, she was writing about 9/11 andphotos of tortured prisoners in Abu Ghraib.

Moser’s Sontag biography has been widely reviewed, here and in the US, but she only died 15 years ago. Who will be writing about her in 20 years’ time? Or 50?

Harold Bloom died just after the Sontag biography came out. He was an extraordinary figure who taught at Yale from the 1950s. In its heyday, it was the most famous literature department anywhere, the home of literary theory in the English-speaking world. Bloom was prolific. He wrote big books on big subjects: the Romantics, the Bible, Shakespeare, the “Western Canon”. His fascinating readings also contributed to the turn towards studying the Old Testament.

In the days after he died on 14 October, there were a number of mentions on social media and obituaries


in some of the newspapers. However, despite Bloom’s enormous range and erudition, who will be talking about him outside the academy in a few decades? In 1982, the London Review of Books published a 4,000-word piece called “Wild, Fierce Yale” about Bloom and his colleagues. Literary fashion has moved on.

When the philosopher Bryan Magee died in July there were numerous tributes online and in the papers. But on the BBC, where he had made his name presenting Men of Ideas (1978) and The Great Philosophers (1987), there was nothing. No tributes, no repeats, not even on iPlayer.

Critic at large: Susan Sontag was a ubiquitous cultural presence and celebrity from the 1960s

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That determines whose reputation will endure? While they are alive, television matters. During the 1980s and 1990s, Sontag,came knocking at their door. Perhaps this was what enraged Peter Cook when Dudley Moore made his breakthrough films in Hollywood. Cook was acclaimed as the most brilliant comedian of his day. Moore was his sidekick. A gifted musician and a good comedian, but not as good as Cook. More than 50 years after Beyond the Fringe, how many remember what a comic genius Cook was?

When Cook died in 1995, Stephen Fry paid a tribute to him on The Late Show. Fry was then both hugely successful on TV and appearing on stage at the same time. His comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, was very good but somewhat in his shadow. Now, after House and The Night Manager, it is clear that Laurie was seriously underrated. Will Fry’s reputation


The poll results follow a tumultuous week on the presidential campaign trail, which began with Clinton sidelined due to a bout of pneumonia that caused her to hastily leave an event. It ended with a renewed look at Trump's years of insinuations regarding President Obama's birthplace, with the GOP nominee acknowledging for the first time that Obama was born in the United States but also falsely blaming Clinton for starting the rumors about the president's citizenship.Genome-wide identification and expression profiling of the Wnt gene family in three bivalve molluscs.
Cellular signaling initiated by various secreted, cysteine-rich Wnt proteins plays essential roles in regulating animal development and cell stemness. By virtue of its functional diversity and importance, the Wnt gene family has received substantial research interests in a variety of animal species, from invertebrates to vertebrates. However, for bivalve molluscs, one of the ancient bilaterian groups with high morphological diversity, systematic identification and analysis of the Wnt gene family remain lacking. To shed some light on the evolutionary dynamics of this gene family and obtain a more comprehensive understanding, we analyzed the characteristics of the Wnt gene family in three bivalve molluscs, with both genome and extensive transcriptomic resources. Investigation of genomic signatures, functional domains


When Norton engineer Walter William Moore defected from Birmingham to Neckarsulm, Germany, in 1929, his new German bosses must have been feeling pleased with their coup. After all, Moore had designed a TT-winning overhead camshaft Norton for the Brits, and now he was going to put NSU on the path to victory.

Moore, a short, slim Welshman with sharp features, had joined Norton as race team manager in March 1924 and was immediately tasked with turning the pushrod Model 18 into a winner for the Isle of Man TT that June. The engine was certainly fast enough, but the dummy belt rim brakes were not up to the speeds that the 490cc Model 18 was capable of: In 1922, Norton had taken the 500cc World Record at 144.68kmh (approximately90mph) for the flying kilometer.

Ever the practical engineer, Moore modified the Model 18 racers with a rear drum brake sourced from the Ford Model T. He also improved the lubrication system with a Best & Lloyd mechanical oil pump to replace the hand plunger pump. Then he climbed into the sidecar of an outfit hauled by a 588cc version of the Model 18 and enjoyed the ride as George Tucker gave Norton victory in only the second sidecar TT — they won by just a few seconds short of half an hour! A few days later, Alec Bennett took the Senior TT laurels with the Model 18. MC

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to assure fair housing." According to the city, it not only seeks economic relief, but also aims to fulfill the Fair Housing Act's commitment to "provide ... fair housing throughout the United States."

Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968 to counteract widespread residential segregation and unequal housing and economic conditions, which had resulted in large part from discriminatory lending policies and white flight. The statute bans a range of discriminatory housing practices, including discriminatory lending. Its creators viewed fair housing as a "basic keystone" in solving the poverty, unrest and crime that had gripped the nation's inner cities.

In a brief filed with the court, some two dozen cities argue that Miami has accused Bank of America and Wells Fargo of committing "precisely" the forms of discrimination thatoriginally gave rise to the Fair Housing Act. Cities including Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Kansas City, observe that municipalities "affected by high foreclosure rates are beginning to resemble the inner-city areas roiled by violence and poverty in the 1960s."

The banks contend that Miami cannot sue because the city has not shown that discriminatory lending practices were the "proximate cause" of its drop in property tax revenue. While there is little doubt that foreclosures lead to empty houses, which in turn lead to blight and lower property values, the banks argue that economic downturns can be just as responsible as the terms of any loan or series of loans—whether they are discriminatory or not.

The conservative Cato Institute also cautions that, if Miami can sue the banks under the Fair


Mary Agnes Chase

1869–1963. Standard IPNI form: Chase

Mary Agnes Chase, née Merrill, was an American botanist who worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution. She is considered one of the world's outstanding agrostologists and is known for her work on the study of grasses, and also for her work as a suffragist. Chase was born in Iroquois County, Illinois and held no formal education beyond grammar school. That aside, she made significant contributions to the field of botany, authored over 70 scientific publications, and was conferred with an honorary doctorate in science from the University of Illinois. She specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in North- as well as and South America. Her Smithsonian Field Books collection from 1897 to1959 is archived in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

In 1901, Chase became a botanical assistant at the Field Museum of Natural History under Charles Frederick Millspaugh, where her work was featured in two museum publications: Plantae Utowanae (1900) and Plantae Yucatanae (1904). Two years later, Chase joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a botanical illustrator and eventually became a scientific assistant in systematic agrostology (1907), assistant botanist (1923), and associate botanist (1925), all under Albert Spear Hitchcock. Chase worked with Hitchcock for almost twenty years, collaborating closely and also publishing, for instance The North American Species of Panicum (1910).

Following Hitchcock's death in 1936, Chase succeeded him to become senior botanist in charge of systematic agrostology and custodian of the Section of Grasses, Division of Plants at the


United States National Museum (USNM). Chase retired from the USDA in 1939, but continued her work as custodian of the USNM grass herbarium until her death in 1963. She was an Honorary Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution (1959) and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (1961). Agnesia is named in her honour (a monotypic genus of herbaceous South American bamboo in the grass family).

Chase experienced discrimination based on her gender in the scientific field, for example, being excluded from expeditions to Panama in 1911 and 1912 because the expedition's benefactors feared the presence of women researchers would distract men. During World War I, Chase marched with Alice Paul and was jailed several times for her activities. In 1918, she was arrested at the Silent Sentinels rally picketingthe White House; she refused bail and was held for 10 days, where she instigated a hunger-strike and was force-fed. The USDA accused her of "conduct unbecoming a government employee," but Hitchcock helped her keep her job. Chase was also an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

See also: Distinguished authors of previous months


Britain’s Mcrae confirms World RX entry

Britain’s Alister McRae – younger brother of the late rally legend Colin McRae – will join the FIA World Rallycross Championship for the final four rounds of the 2017 season. He will replace Guy Wilks in the LOCO Energy Polo RX Supercar and his first event will be at Loheac (France) in just under two weeks’ time (1-3 September).

McRae - who hails from Scotland but is now based in Perth, Australia - has a rich background in rallying having contested over 75 WRC events in the past with Subaru, Hyundai and Mitsubishi. He has also competed in the Chinese Rally Championship, the Dakar Rally and most recently the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC), which he won in 2011.

“It’s great to get the opportunitya certain way.

The next speaker was Brad Stenger from the New York Times on how they use APIs to communicate data and how these APIs are used in terms by the great number of writers and developers that depend on either the data or the news produced by the NYT.

And the workshop was concluded by the brilliant presentation of Jo Guldi, an historian whose work revolves around the representation of time and representation of space. She told us about several revolutions that completely changed how people approached maps. One of such events was the rebirth of the British road system, which went from a state of complete disarray in the 16th century to become a vital infrastructure in the 18th century. When Britain started to have a usable