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MANILA - Senator Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III expects Filipinos to start enjoying lower taxes by 2018, as legislation for reforms are now pending.

"The sponsors were ready in the 16th Congress except that the Executive branch was not enthusiastic about the measure. But now tax reform has been, was promised by President Duterte and Congress is ready," Pimentel said at the sidelines of the 112th anniversary of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).

Pimentel was a special guest at the event, along with Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez.

In his speech, Dominguez tougher news for the agency, saying he is not in favor of raising value added tax (VAT) rates to compensate for lost revenues due to tax reform.

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Beats of Rage is a freeware open source video game and moddable game engine made by Senile Team and inspired by Sega's classic Streets of Rage series. The term "moddable" means that the program allows users to create their own content, and thus their own beat-'em-up game, which is then called a "mod".

The Smokin' Guns game started its life under the name of Western Quake. It was originally developed by a team known as Iron Claw Interactive. They released WQ3 beta 2.0 in 2003, after which development all but ceased. In May 2005, development of Western Quake was taken over of by a bunch of cowboys calling themselves The Smokin' Guns with the blessings of thering. When I first heard the plot synopsis, I nearly groaned — just another Hallmark Channel export in which prison teaches a college-educated white girl some dangerous lessons.

Initially, I seemed to be right. In the first couple of episodes, Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) spends a lot of time mooning around her new minimum level detention facility in upstate in New York, inadvertently offending most of the other prisoners and staff along the way. But the show quickly, and wisely, shifts its focus away from Piper and onto the other prisoners and staff, a cast of women (and men) more diverse and engaging than any other currently on television.

At this point during my ranting about how incredible the characters are in “Orange is the New Black”, most people begin


arguments, we reverse and remand this case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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The record indicates that in January or February of 2007, the Pingleys moved into their home in the East Dailey area of Randolph County, West Virginia. The Pingleys allege that at approximately 2:00 a.m. on April 14, 2007, they awoke and found that their home was flooded with a substantial amount of sewage.[2] The Pingleys contacted HPSD to complain that the sewage backup in their home was caused by problems with HPSD's sewer system. As a result of the damage done to their home by the sewage backup, the Pingleys were forced to move out of their home for three and a half months.
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A Palestinian diplomat speaking to students at the United Nations headquarters in New York told them the Palestinians were proud to be throwing stones at Israeli forces and will continue teaching their children to do so.

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In a recording obtained by Ynet, Abdallah Abushawesh, who serves as a senior adviser to the UN's Development Group and as a member of the Palestinian UN mission, is heard saying in broken English, "We are very clever and very expert at throwing the stones. We are very proud to do that. We will not stop to learn our kids (to do that)."

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To the sound of sniggering from his listeners, Abushawesh went on to say that every Palestinian caught throwing stones byIsrael gets sent to jail. "We are very proud that we are stone throwers. I'm one of them. Now I became a little bit older, but I stay resistant in the name of my kids," he continued.

The Palestinian diplomat later told the students about his own past as a stone-thrower during the first intifada. "I was in high school. I never missed an opportunity to throw stones. This is our life. We develop our resistance every day. We're proud of it," he said.

Abushawesh was speaking to a group of international relations students from McGill University who were at the UN for a tour and a series of meetings as part of their program.

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The students also met with Palestinian envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, who told them


the producers could have found at least a few veterans who supported the war.

The particularly grievous result of all this is that Burns and Novick wrongly reinforce the myth that the US military in Vietnam was an army of unwilling and dispirited draftees—and one composed of an unjust overrepresentation of minorities. But in fact, two-thirds of those who served — and 73% of those who died — were volunteers. With respect to minorities, African-Americans comprised 13.1% of the draftable age group, 12.6% of the military, and 12.2% of the casualties.

The worst case of selective veteran testimony is also, consequently, perhaps the low point of the documentary. Merrill McPeak, an Air Force pilot during the war, praises the plucky North Vietnamese and states point blank that America was onthe wrong side of the fight. This represents but one example of the documentary’s continual assertion of a moral equivalence between the US/South Vietnam and the Vietnamese Communists. This equivalency is specious. To a candid observer, I would think the relative morality of the respective sides—represented in the US case by what we fought to prevent—could easily be reckoned by the final outcome of the conflict.

The core goal of the Vietnamese communists was to unify Vietnam under a communist government. The goal of the United States was, simply, to prevent this; to avert the fall of the Saigon government to a communist insurgency. In the aftermath of the communist victory in 1975, two million Vietnamese fled their country—mostly by boat—with thousands losing their lives in the process. Inside


Vietnam, a million of the south’s best young leaders were sent to re-education camps; more than 50,000 were executed or perished while imprisoned, and others remained imprisoned for as long as 18 years. When it came to everyday concerns such as education, employment, and housing, the communists established a system that punished those who had supported the Saigon government and the United States. Such reprisals extended to their families as well.

Beyond the morally divergent war aims, the two sides also differed morally in their conduct of the war. To its credit, the documentary acknowledges the communist massacre in Hue during the Tet Offensive, although it is given much less attention than the American atrocity at My Lai. There is, of course, no question that US troops committed atrocities.one, discussed it very little even among themselves.

Atrocities committed by Americans in Vietnam were, with the exception of My Lai, actions taken by individuals or small groups. All were in violation of standing orders. The US rules of engagement were, according to Telford Taylor, formerly chief counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials and a critic of many aspects of US Vietnam policy, “virtually impeccable.” Indeed they were so restrictive that they evoked a great deal of criticism from members of Congress appalled at the disabilities placed on American units.

The fact is that fighting a well-trained enemy who operates in highly contested populated areas where civilians often assist the other side is the most difficult form of warfare. The atrocities committed by Americans in Vietnam can be


the Tet Offensive—more than 2,000 locals systematically executed during the brief communist takeover of the city—was perpetrated by the Communists.

The most important distinction is that the deliberate killing of innocent civilians was a crime in the US military, a crime that earned punishment. The United States accepted responsibility for My Lai, something the communists—who deliberately killed thousands of civilians as a matter of policy—have failed to do regarding their evils.

One final complaint. It is significant that Burns and Novick ignore the changes that occurred after 1968. Too many historians who mention the period after Tet 1968 emphasize the diplomatic attempts to extricate the US from the conflict, treating the military effort as nothing more than a holding action. But as William Colby observed in a review of RobertMcNamara’s disgraceful memoir, In Retrospect, by limiting serious consideration of the military situation in Vietnam to the period before mid-1968, historians leave Americans with a record “similar to what we would know if histories of World War II stopped before Stalingrad, Operation Torch in North Africa and Guadalcanal in the Pacific.”

To truly understand the Vietnam War, it is absolutely imperative to come fully to grips with the years after 1968. As Bob Sorley wrote in his book, A Better War, a new team was then in place. Shortly after the Tet offensive, Gen. Creighton Abrams succeeded Gen. William Westmoreland as commander, US Military Assistance Command–Vietnam (USMACV). He joined Ellsworth Bunker, who had assumed the post of US ambassador to the Saigon government the previous spring. Mr. William Colby,


a career CIA officer, soon arrived to coordinate the pacification.

Far from constituting a mere holding action, the approach followed by this new team constituted a positive strategy for ensuring the survival of South Vietnam. Ambassador Bunker, Gen. Abrams, and Mr. Colby

brought different values to their tasks, operated from a different understanding of the nature of the war, and applied different measures of merit and different tactics….as they raced to render the South Vietnamese capable of defending themselves before the last American forces were withdrawn…[in] the process they came very close to achieving the goal of a viable nation and a lasting peace.

The defenders of the conventional wisdom reply that Mr. Sorley’s argument is refuted by the reality that South Vietnam did in fact fall to the North Vietnamesecommunists. The documentary repeats the claim that the South Vietnamese lacked the leadership, skill, character, and endurance of their adversaries. Mr. Sorley acknowledges the shortcomings of the South Vietnamese and agrees that the US would have had to provide continued air, naval, and intelligence support. But, he contends, the real cause of US defeat was that the Nixon administration and Congress threw away the successes achieved by US and South Vietnamese arms.

The proof lay in the 1972 Easter Offensive. This was the biggest offensive push of the war, greater in magnitude than either the 1968 Tet offensive or the final assault of 1975. The US provided massive air and naval support. While there were inevitable failures on the part of some ARVN units, all in all, the South


Vietnamese fought well. Indeed, having blunted the communist thrust, they recaptured territory that had been lost to Hanoi. Finally, so effective was the eleven-day “Christmas bombing” campaign (LINEBACKER II) later that year that the British counterinsurgency expert, Sir Robert Thompson exclaimed, “you had won the war. It was over.”

Of course, three years later, despite the heroic performance of some ARVN units, South Vietnam collapsed against a much weaker, cobbled-together NVA offensive, mainly because of an act that still shames the United States to this day: the congressional decision to cut off military and economic assistance to South Vietnam. Subsequently, President Nixon resigned over Watergate and his successor, constrained by congressional action, defaulted on promises to respond with force to North Vietnamese violations of the peace terms.

So what aretotal of 26 days. During the months and years that followed, dozens of mass graves were discovered in and around Huế. Victims included women, men, children, and infants. The estimated death toll was between 2,800 and 6,000 civilians and POWs. Victims were found bound, tortured, and sometimes buried alive. Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Mackubin Thomas Owens is a Providence contributing editor, the dean of academics at the Institute of World Politics, and editor of Orbis. He is the author of US Civil-Military Relations After 9/11: Renegotiating the Civil-Military Bargain. Mac is a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam, where as an infantry platoon and company commander in 1968-1969, he was wounded twice and awarded the Silver Star medal. He retired as a Colonel in 1994. Follow him @MacOwens4


helped the Reds to a famous cup treble, notching a vital brace in the 2-1 FA Cup final against Arsenal as a particular highlight.

He was top scorer for the club in every season from 1998 onwards, but left for Real Madrid in an £8 million move after the sacking of manager Gerard Houllier and a spell on the bench under Rafa Benitez.

His time in the Spanish capital was spent largely on the bench, but Owen found the net on a regular basis for Los Blancos, scoring 19 goals in 43 appearances, with just 15 of those as starts.

However, the arrival of Robinho and Julio Babtista signalled the end for Owen in La Liga after just a season, and he signed for Newcastle the following summer for a feein the region of £16.8 million.

Injuries would blight Owen’s spell at St. James’ Park however, with a thigh problem in pre-season training, a broken metatarsal against Spurs and anterior cruciate ligament damage on World Cup duty with England all hampering his first two seasons with the Toon.

Under Sam Allardyce, he missed spells of action because of a hernia operation and thigh strain, and would score his next goal for the club under a new manager in the shape of Kevin Keegan.

A calf strain would hamper his progress the following year, and it turned out to be a disastrous campaign for the Magpies, with Alan Shearer returning to the club as manager at the end of the season but failing to save them from relegation.

Owen’s contract at Newcastle was


up, and after declining to sign a new deal, Sir Alex Ferguson came calling in a shock move to Manchester United.

Taking the No.7 shirt vacated by Cristiano Ronaldo, the striker delivered in his debut season at Old Trafford, notably scoring the winner against Manchester City in a 4-3 classic, a hat-trick against Wolfsburg in the Champions League and the opening goal in the 2-1 League Cup final win against Aston Villa.

There were even calls for his inclusion in England’s 2010 World Cup squad, but the hamstring strain picked up at Wembley in that clash against the Villains put him out for the rest of the season, and ended his chances of playing in a sixth major international tournament.

With chances at a premium in the following seasons, Owen waslimited to chances in the League and FA Cup in the main, with groin and thigh problems affecting his chances of breaking into the league side further.

After three years of service for the Red Devils, the two parties parted company on good terms, and whilst the move might not have been exactly what Ferguson wanted, he got good value for no money.

And surely that same philosophy applies for a number of other Premier League clubs who need to bolster their attacking lines before the start of the 2012/13 campaign.

There are a handful of clubs – Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea – who would have no room for Owen. Arsenal, having signed a number of forwards already this summer, would also fit into that category.

But what about the rest?


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As a farm machinery mechanic and writer, Dan brings a hands-on approach that only a pro can muster. Along with his In the Shop blog, Dan writes a column by the same name as well as the Shop Series for Farm Journal magazine. Always providing practical information, he is a master at tackling technical topics and making them easy for all of our readers to understand. He and his wife, Becky, live near Bouton, Iowa.

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BATON ROUGE – LSU Athletics is calling on fans far and wide to help one of their own as the Tiger Athletic Foundation has established the Gabriel Mvumvure Fund to assist LSU's former NCAA Champion sprinter in his fight with kidney failure with all contributions going toward his future transplant and recovery.

BATON ROUGE – Success for LSU student-athletes in the classroom reached an all-time high as the NCAA recently reported the Graduation Success Rate score of 88 for the Tigers, four points better than the previous high which was set a year ago.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- It's the holiday shopping season again and LSU Athletics is back with ticket specials for your favorite LSU teams. This year's ticket specials begin today, Nov. 25, and will run through CyberWednesday, January 28, 2009

I'd been meaning to do a post on music for a while. The ten albums (not necessarily) from 2008 that really made the year for me. It was going to be written over break, but then I never actually got around to it. So here at long last is Nathan's list of the 10 albums that made 2008 for me.We'll start at the beginning of the year with a little promo that I got from my friend Duke. Jason Anderson's sophomore release, Tonight actually came out in 2007. With only 8 tracks one would think it's a light release, but he breathlessly plays out pop gems that run almost 10 minutes each. His sound (supposedly a marked departure from his more stripped down acoustic) verges


on motown and classic songs of the later 50s. Favorite song is "July 4, 2004"Following not long on those heals was a release I'd been dearly waiting for. Mike Doughty's fourth release (Fifth if you count Smofe + Smang) post-Soul Coughing "Golden Delicious." Following his first two albums, Skittish and Rockity Roll, Mike filled out his sound with a band reminiscent of the Dave Matthews Band minus the horn section. Scrap on Bass and Pete on drums, and from time to time other artists. For this album they added a fourth, Dan Chen on keys. Favorite Song is "I Just Want the Girl in the Blue Dress to Keep on Dancing"Earlier last year Mike Doughty started a record label The Snack Bar. The first band he signed toLa Vida. It's been topping the charts. It's the best album they've put out yet, filling out their airy synths with more textured and full string sections. I'm in love with the title track.

I recently saw Frightened Rabbit in concert at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor. They played most of their entire album, The Midnight Organ Fight. The first time I heard the album I fell in love with the first track, "The Modern Leper," but in listening to the album in preparation for the concert my favorite song would have to be "Good Arms vs. Bad Arms." The singer has a very unique voice flavored by his thick scotish accent.

Snow Patrol has created a sound that I've been in love with since I started college and


Wild horses have lived in Mesa Verde National Park for many years and are part of the park's natural landscape and history. Each year, thousands of park visitors enjoy seeing the wild horses, as evidenced by the videos and photographs of these beautiful horses that are regularly shared online.

The Park Service has stated that it will decide how to manage the horses based on the comments it receives from the public. Now is our opportunity to encourage the National Park Service to humanely manage these wild horses with PZP birth control, just as it has successfully managed the wild horses of the Assateague National Seashore in Maryland for more than two decades.

The wild horses of Mesa Verde National Park are part of this area's natural landscape and history.They are also an important part of the visitor experience. Each year, thousands of park visitors enjoy viewing the wild horses, as evidenced by the videos and photographs of these beautiful animals that are regularly shared online.

Urge the National Park Service to create a management plan for the wild horses that preserves this unique and historic herd in Mesa Verde National Park and protects their wild, free-roaming behaviors, while managing their numbers through the use of humane and reversible fertility control. The National Park Service has had great success managing a similarly sized wild horse population in the Assateague National Seashore using PZP birth control. The Assateague horses have been managed using PZP for 20 years without a single removal.

Urge the National Park Service to establish the following


38 adult cats.

First, the kitten or cat and their human caregiver were placed together in a room, with the human sitting in a marked circle. If the cat entered the circle, the human could interact with it. After two minutes, the human left, leaving the cat alone. After another two minutes, the human returned to the room, to sit in the circle again.

The entire test was filmed, and the scientists analysed the video to classify the cats' attachment type.

The adult cats only participated in the test once, but the kittens were tested twice - once initially, and once again two months later, after 39 of the kittens had been through a six-week training and socialisation course. The other 31 acted as a control group.

Of the kittens, 9 endednurses produced in the media with the unsexy reality of nursing work...

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Different ways of saying Aluminium

this is a very short question but me and a couple of friends have been discussing this for a little.
Does anyone know why Americans and British people especially insists on saying "Aloominum" and "Aloominium" respectively?

A:

Both forms derive from alum (and related, alumina) because aluminium is one of the elements in it, and was discovered by investigating alum, and -ium as an ending for elements (particularly the most earliest named as elements, like helium, and also metals).
Davy first called it alumium.
However, while he tended toward -ium endings when proposing element names (something he did quite a bit, potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, zirconium and strontium where all isolated by him, and he also proposed silicium and glucium as names which did not get used), there arealso many elements that have names ending in -um but not -ium, such as platinum and molybdenum.
So later he changed the proposed name to aluminum.
Still, as -ium was the more common spelling for new metals, many people added an i into Davy's second proposal, producing aluminium. After Davy's original alumium was forgotten, both aluminum and aluminium were used, with the latter more common everywhere (including North America) because the -ium spelling was the more usual sort of spelling for such a word.
When Charles Martin Hall invented a much cheaper way of producing aluminium, he used the less usual aluminum spelling in an advertisement, despite the fact that he generally tended to use the aluminium spelling. This and subsequent advertisements by Hall, who was the main producer of the


metal at the time, led to aluminum becoming the name that most non-chemists in North America new the metal by.
The impact was not as great on the rest of the world, so aluminium remained more common as the more usual style of name for a metal.

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Animal rights activists break into an animal research centre with the aim to release lab animals from their tormentors. During the raid, the activists are warned by a lab technician not to release the apes which are infected with 'rage'. They don't listen and suffer a frenzied attack from the freshly liberated primates. Fade to black...

Jim wakes up in hospital 28 Days Later. After detatching himself from the equipment he's hooked up to, and grabbing a doctor's gown to hide his modesty, he stumbles through the deserted building, puzzled and concerned that not a single person is around. As he leaves the hospital and wanders the eerily empty streets of London he begins to realise that all is not as it should be.

Jim meets up with Selina and


Mark who rescue him when he is persued by infected citizens of the city. After explaining the epidemic of rage which destroyed the population, they find Jim's parents dead in their home from an overdose. They took the easy way out, rather than be victim to the infected. After a battle at the house Mark is killed and Selina and Jim have to make it on their own.

The pair of survivors see a signal from a tower block and meet up with another couple, Frank and his daughter Hannah who've heard a radio broadcast from Manchester telling them that the army has a stronghold with a solution to the plague.

The four set off on the journey north to try to find safety with the armed forces and meetan all too confusing subject for modern SJWs). But if we are to learn anything from that time it is that Hitler succeeded because the liberals failed to provide real life economic solutions to the people. And when push came to shove, no one was willing to take in the Jews. This ultimately led to the creation of Israel, as the West found it easier to dump all the Jewish people in Palestine rather than take them in ourselves. This goes to show how thin our liberal society really is.

Trump is clearly overplaying his hand. He is as stupid as he is evil as he is paranoid. His method is fear first, plan later. He would be wise to adopt an Obama level of deportations, Bush bomb drops


A 17-year-old girl from Delhi was allegedly raped by 27 people in a Jaipur hotel. The victim, who is a resident of Mangolpuri area, was taken to Jaipur by the accused Rocky and his wife on the pretext of a job in the city on August 30.

The couple left the girl alone in the hotel room where she was repeatedly raped by 27 people including some members of the hotel staff for almost 24 hours before she managed to flee.

The girl reached Delhi and lodged a complaint at the local police station. So far, police have confirmed the involvement of only 10 people. Six accused have been arrested whereas, the hunt is on to nab the remaining culprits.

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to as Compress, is a corporation engaged in the compressing and storage of cotton in Hinds County. J.H. Brent, a resident of Hinds County, is an electrical contractor and is hereinafter referred to as Brent.
The Gin had sent all of its ginned cotton, with only one exception, to Compress for a period of thirty-five years. The business relationship between Compress and Gin was good, and both desired that it remain so. Gin loaded the cotton on Gin's trucks and delivered it to the Compress as fast as a truckload, twenty-eight to thirty bales, could be ginned from raw cotton and loaded for delivery. An electric hoist was used in lifting the bales of cotton from the gin platform and loading them on the trucks.
Brent had been employed byCompress as an electrician to repair or alter the electric system at its Jackson plant from time to time prior to October 17, 1961. Brent was paid by Compress on a labor and material basis *110 upon the completion of each particular job. He was never an employee of Compress, but an independent contractor.
Brent was never employed by Gin in any manner on this or any other occasion. His acquaintance with the Swilleys was limited to two occasions, one when Brent was shown the location of the electric hoist, and the other being October 17, 1961, the date of the fire, when Brent installed a hoist owned by Brent and told the Swilleys' that they could use it.
Several days prior to October 17, 1961, Gin began having trouble


with the electric hoist. After an unsuccessful attempt by Gin to have the hoist repaired, one of the Swilleys contacted Compress with reference to the difficulties with the hoist, and Compress, through its manager, Gardner, agreed to send another hoist to Gin. This hoist was conveyed to the gin and installed by Gardner. It worked satisfactorily for several days and then it became inoperable. Gardner was notified by Gin of the difficulty with the hoist Compress had installed; whereupon Compress engaged Brent to repair either the Gin hoist or the Compress hoist so that the cotton could be loaded and moved to Compress. Brent went to the gin and repaired one of the hoists. The next day Gin again had difficulties with the hoist and called Gardner withreference thereto, and Gardner again contacted Brent. Brent advised Gardner that he was aware of the situation at the gin and suggested that he had a hoist which he would lend Gin until the other hoists could be repaired. He was then directed by Gardner to "Please take it on out there and get it running." Brent installed this hoist on the morning of October 17, 1961, tested it by lifting two bales of cotton, informed Gin that it was ready for use, and departed. The proof showed without dispute that several electric wires, which ran from the rear of the gin to an outside power pole, were near the loading boom and the electric hoist which *111 was suspended therefrom. The testimony is in dispute whether Brent


warned Gin with reference to these electric wires.
Within fifteen minutes after Brent's departure and after three or four bales of cotton had been loaded upon a truck, and while another bale was being lifted by the hoist, sparks began to come from the hoist, setting the cotton on fire, resulting in the burning of 105 bales.
After the fire, the hoist was examined by an electrician while still in place at the gin. During this examination when the hoist was put in operation, the whole thing blazed up. Thereafter the electrician inspected the capacitor, a part of the electric motor, and, according to his testimony, the insulation on one of the wires was worn out and "the insulation gave way," and a small hole was burned at the bottomhoist made contact with one of the wires leading from the gin to the power pole.
The electric hoist was given to Brent some two months prior to its installment at the gin. Upon receiving this used hoist, Brent took it to Flannigan Electric Motor Shop in the City of Jackson with instructions to put it in good running condition. The hoist was inspected, repaired, and, according to Flannigan, put in good running condition. The hull of the capacitor was not removed as it was not necessary to do so in order to repair the hoist and put it in proper condition, according to the testimony of Flannigan. After the repair Flannigan tested the hoist to establish its proper functioning by installing it on an "A-frame" and lifting a


ton or two with it. It was found to be in good condition, and Flannigan returned it to Brent, who used the hoist once before installing it at the gin, and on that occasion it operated satisfactorily.
The electrical wires near the hoist running from the gin to the power pole were examined after the fire and the insulation was in sound and unbroken condition. This is undisputed.
The evidence is in conflict as to whether a reasonable inspection of the hoist was made before the fire. It conflicts also as to whether the fire was started by sparks originating from a short within the hoist or from the outside thereof.
Gin brought suit for damages as a result of the burning of the cotton, and charged that the defendants, asmaterial basis. In carrying out his contract with Compress, Brent realized the situation at the gin  the fact that the cotton was piling up without any hoist to load it so it could be moved from the gin to Compress  and conceived the idea of lending Gin a hoist he owned. He called Gardner, Compress manager, and suggested the use of his hoist. Gardner directed Brent to take the hoist to the gin and install it, which Brent did with the assistance of his helper. It was Brent's idea to lend his hoist to Gin, and he installed it at the gin with the understanding that he would charge Compress for his and his helper's labor, plus any materials, if any, that he might use in


connection with the installation. Compress expected reimbursement from Gin. Furnishing Gin the hoist and its installation constituted part of the performance of Brent's contract with Compress, the purpose of which was to get a hoist in operation at the gin. We are of the opinion that Brent had a direct and immediate financial interest in supplying the hoist to Gin, and was not a gratuitous bailor, as he contends. Brent should not be held to have a lesser degree of responsibility than Compress, for Brent was the owner and physical possessor of the hoist, and of the three parties involved in this case, the only one who had superior knowledge concerning electrical equipment, and was the only one who had the opportunity to use reasonable care to seemerit.
For the reasons stated, the case is reversed as to both Compress and Brent and remanded for a new trial.
Reversed and remanded.
All Justices concur, except Ethridge and Patterson, JJ., who dissent in part.
PATTERSON, J., dissenting in part  concurring in part.
I dissent from the opinion of the majority as it is my opinion that the relationship between Brent and the Gin was that of a gratuitous bailment with the attendant duty of the gratuitous bailor to warn the bailee of any known defects in the bailed chattel. I concur in the result as to Compress.
In regard to the former, I note that Brent was an independent electrical contractor; that he was hired by Compress to repair the defective hoist; that he was to be paid by Compress on


a labor and material basis, as he had been paid in the past, for the performance of specific tasks. He was a business stranger to the owners of the Gin, had never been hired by them and expected no pay from them. From the entire record I can detect neither tangible nor conjectural hope of remuneration or reward to Brent from the Gin for either his services or the use of his hoist, the use of the hoist as between these two being for the benefit of the Gin only. Under these facts I am of the opinion that Brent was a gratuitous bailor to the Gin. See 8 Am.Jur.2d Bailments sec. 15 (1963) as follows: "The general rules for distinguishing a bailment for hire from a bailmentshipment was any way connected with, or in aid of, appellee's business of transporting such products at such future time as the business of the creosoting company required... . We think this charge, when taken in connection with all the averments of the declaration as to the business relations between the appellees and the creosoting company, is too indefinite and sets forth facts too remote to constitute a business interest on the part of the appellees in the mere intra-plant movement of the creosoting company's products." (Emphasis ours.) Appellee cites no authority to the effect that Brent is other than a gratuitous bailor nor does he argue to the contrary.
A gratuitous bailor owes only a duty to his bailee to warn of known defects in the instrument or


1743 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1743.

Events
Johann Elias Schlegel becomes secretary to an ambassador at the Danish court.
A legal deposit law requires a copy of every book printed in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to be deposited in the Magliabechiana library in Florence.

New books

Fiction
Comte de Caylus – les Contes orientaux
William Rufus Chetwood – The Twins (prose fiction)
Henry Fielding – The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great in Miscellanies, with A Journey from This World to the Next
Eliza Haywood – Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Nobleman
Aaron Hill – The Fanciad
Marguerite de Lubert – La Princesse Camion (Princess Camion)
Benjamin Martin – A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Geography, and Astronomy
Diego de Torres Villarroel – Vida

Drama
Charles Simon Favart – Le Coqpatterns 4a and 4b are connected to via holes 8c and 8d formed in a plurality of laminated magnetic material sheets 7c and 7d, respectively.
Thereby, lead conductor portions are formed by coupling a plurality of via holes 8c and 8d. The via holes 8c and 8d exposed to the surfaces of the magnetic material sheets 7c and 7d placed at both ends are connected to the external terminal electrodes 5a and 5b. These external terminal conductors 5a and 5b are formed on the both end faces along the length of the chip and on portions of the faces adjacent to these end faces.
In the conventional multi-laminated chip inductors 6 of the longitudinal stack type described above, the external terminal electrodes 5a and 5b are formed on both end


coil for a predetermined layer, and forming an external terminal electrode formed on a face nearly parallel to the winding center-line of the coil and connected to the lead internal conductor, a multi-laminated inductor having the chip with a laminated structure having the coil buried therein and the external terminal electrode formed on the chip surface and connected to the coil is configured.
According to this multi-laminated inductor, the external terminal electrodes are formed on the faces parallel to the winding center-line of a coil, so that the magnetic flux generated by the passage of electric current through the coil does not intersect the external terminal electrodes surface. Thus, eddy current within the external terminal electrodes is prevented from generating, and so increasing the loss generated by the eddyand has its intersection point at the center of the insulating material sheet and their four edges reach to the four edges of the insulating material, and the second lead internal conductor is formed like a linear shape with a predetermined width and placed so that one end thereof is connected to the first lead internal conductor nearly at the center of the insulating material sheet and the other end thereof is connected to a predetermined spot of the end of the coil.
According to this multi-laminated inductor, the coil and the external terminal electrode are electrically connected by means of the first and second lead internal conductors. Since these first and second lead conductors are formed like a cross and linear shape respectively, the area intersecting the magnetic


lead internal conductor nearly at the center of the insulating material sheet and the other end thereof may be connected to a predetermined spot of the end of the coil.
This multi-laminated inductor has the first and second lead internal conductors establishing an electrical connection between an end of the coil and an external terminal electrode. Since these first and second lead internal conductors are formed like a linear shape, the area intersecting the magnetic flux generated by the coil can be minimized. Thus, Eddy current can be prevented from generating within the first and second lead internal conductor. Also, the chip is shaped like a rectangular solid and the insulating material sheets are shaped like a square, and the first lead internal conductor is exposed to the fourcan reduce the stress produced at the external terminal electrodes due to the bending of the board. Thus, the occurrence of connection failure between the electrodes on the board and the external terminal electrodes can be reduced.
Further, according to the invention, the multi-laminated inductor described above is provided with the external terminal electrodes formed on both end portions, along the winding center-line of a coil, in each of the two faces nearly parallel to the winding center-line of the coil and adjacent to the face which are opposed to a board surface when mounted on the board and parallel to an orbital centerline of the coil.
This multi-laminated inductor can provide a long distance between the external terminal electrodes which are formed on both end portions along the winding


center-line of the coil. Therefore, when the inductor is mounted on a board, the stress produced at the external terminal electrodes due to the bending of the board can be reduced. Further, the multi-laminated inductor allows to be mounted on a board so that the external terminal electrodes may be perpendicular to the board surface. Pairs of the external terminal electrodes are disposed, respectively, on the two surfaces of the chip that are perpendicular to the board surface. Thus, at the time of reflow, the Manhattan phenomenon that a chip rises up can be prevented from occurring.
Also, according to the invention, the multi-laminated inductor is made of a coil having a winding layer having a coil conductor formed and a lead layer laminated outside the turn layer, andthe White House Council of Economic Advisers and as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,” said Chairman Enzi. “He has dedicated his career to managing teams focused on strengthening the economy by providing policy makers and the public with superior economic analysis and information. I thank Mr. Elmendorf for his service and look forward to working with Dr. Hall as Congress begins the difficult task of addressing our nation’s chronic overspending, which threatens America’s future.”

In addition the work above, Dr. Hall also has experience serving in leadership or management in the United States Treasury, the International Trade Commission, the Department of Commerce, and the Executive Office of the President. He served as the 13th Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) tasked


On Monday afternoon, reporters stationed inside Trump Tower begged Martin Luther King III to attack President-elect Trump over tweets concerning Democratic Congressman John Lewis (Ga.) following a meeting on the day honoring King’s father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

King began by stating that he and Trump had “a very constructive meeting” with most of the focus on voting rights, but reporters quickly shifted the topic to Lewis.

ABC correspondent Tom Llamas snuck in the first pathetic question, trying to bait King into blasting Trump: “Mr. King, as you know, Representative Lewis still has the scars from the March on Selma. Were you offended by the President-elect's tweet that Representative Lewis is all talk and no action?”

King responded by stating Lewis is, like “many others,” a “bridge builder” but added            (Filed: April 8, 2009)

                            OPINION OF THE COURT

RENDELL, Circuit Judge.

   * Honorable John R. Padova, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the
     Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation.
       Appellant Shirley Williams owns and resides in a home in National Park, New

Jersey that is adjacent to a site designed, owned, and maintained by the U.S. Army Corps

of Engineers (“Corps of Engineers”) for depositing materials occasionally dredged from

the Delaware River. Williams filed suit against the


United States and the local

government alleging that the defendants were liable, on negligence and other theories, for

flood damage to her home that began in 2003. The District Court dismissed Appellant’s

claims against the United States for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and then dismissed

her remaining claims against the local government after declining to exercise

supplemental jurisdiction. For the reasons discussed below, we will AFFIRM.

                                     I. Background

       One of the responsibilities of the Corps of Engineers is to develop and maintain the

navigable waterways of the United States, and thisincludes the regular dredging of the

Delaware River. In furtherance of this responsibility, the Corps of Engineers operates

and maintains the National Park Contained Disposal Facility (“NPCDF”) located in

National Park, New Jersey. The NPCDF is undeveloped property with various channels

and devices used to manage the drainage of water from dredging deposits left in the

facility. The Corps of Engineers has operated the NPCDF since 1961, acquired title in

1971, and made improvements to the facility in the 1970s and 1980s. Dredged material is

comprised mostly of water, and the Corps of Engineers uses disposal facilities, such as

NPCDF to allow the material to dry over a period of years. The NPCDF has not been


                        2
used for the disposal of dredged materials since 2001.

       Appellant built her home near the northeast corner of the NPCDF in 1976. From

1976 until 2003, she had no problems with regard to water infiltration. However,

Appellant claims that, since 2003, she has experienced ongoing flooding in her basement

and related moisture problems. The Corps of Engineers investigated the matter at her

request, and performed certain work on the drainage ditch behind her house in 2003.

When the flooding problem persisted, Appellant filed suit in 2006 against both the United

States1 and Borough of National Park.

       Williams offeredreports made by Horace Albert Reeves, Jr., a civil engineer and

architect, (“Reeves Reports”) as expert opinions on her behalf regarding the causes for the

flooding. The United States moved to strike these reports, and for summary judgment on

several grounds. The District Court granted the motion to strike the Reeves Reports

pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 702. After striking the reports, the Court concluded that

Appellant failed to produce evidence to demonstrate that the Corps of Engineers’ conduct

was not immune from suit, and dismissed the claims against the United States for lack of

subject matter jurisdiction. The Court then dismissed the remaining claims against the

Borough of National Park after declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction. In her

brief, Appellant concentrates her arguments almost entirely on challenging the District

  1
   Williams originally


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The other big quirk was the giant pink carstache, which drivers attached to the front of their cars, and would overwhelmingly become the symbol of the service.

Tying it all together was the motto that Lyft adopted for its service: “Your friend with a car.”

Following through on this motto, however, carried with it a certain set of expectations for Lyft passengers — mainly that they would sit up front and chat with the driver throughout the ride, just as they would with one of their friends.

In its earliest days the Lyft team spent


a lot of time selecting and training its drivers with all of this in mind. From the time the service initially launched in San Francisco and even up until it entered its second market, Los Angeles, drivers were individually screened before being added to the platform. For a while, co-founders Zimmer and Green even interviewed potential drivers themselves.

At launch, Lyft did all this partly out of necessity. After all, unlike the taxi industry, there was no standardization around the make or model that one of its peer-to-peer drivers would drive up in. Having a big pink mustache on the grill was an easy way to help passengers identify the car that was picking them up.

(It also had the side benefit of creating a fair amount of buzz andcar drivers that Uber partnered with at the time, Lyft was using regular people and their cars to power its local transportation service.

Positioning a driver as “Your friend with a car” was one way to help instill trust on the customer side of things, and to differentiate itself as an alternative to the silent or sometimes surly taxi drivers passengers had been used to.

Changes In The Competitive Environment

Things change over time, however. As the service matures, the same features that helped Lyft win over its earliest customers two years ago aren’t as useful in the current competitive environment.

Again, some of the shift was born of necessity. After all, it’s difficult to scale community when your supply of drivers is constrained.

Lyft first saw this about six months into its


elections for the Foundation's Board of Directors.

Projects
Projects are the primary means by which the Foundation acts in support of its goals.  Projects are advocate managed activities with their own objectives, budgets, and volunteer support teams.  Each project pursues what its members think they can accomplish using the skills they have.  Advocates working each project assume the responsibility for keeping them aligned with Foundation objectives as best they can.  This mostly decentralized approach to action is intentional and a core tradition of the Foundation.

Past projects include The Watch, an asteroid and comet detection and research project, Permission to Dream, connecting students around the world through the wonder of space and astronomy, sponsorship of conferences, and the Space Settlement Project in marketing space to thestraight in at number one on the other side of the charts this week, knocking Rihanna’s fifth effort ‘Loud‘ into second place, after dominating the UK charts in recent weeks.

Another new entry in the album charts comes from rock band White Lies with their second album ‘Ritual’, which charted at number three, following on from their impressive debut album which hit the number one spot. Adele’s debut album ‘19‘ also re-appears in the top ten this week at number eight, ahead of the release of her new album ‘21‘ out tomorrow.

Though I’m not a huge fan of Bruno Mars, it would be hard to dismiss his talent and deny that he has been extremely successful in his career so far, and I think he will go on to


noughties, as voted by you…

10. MGMT – TIME TO PRETEND

Written by: Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser

This debut single by American psychedelic rock band MGMT was the opener from their first album Oracular Spectacular, released back in 2008. Just like many other MGMT songs, the track was hugely critically acclaimed, and was also a favourite for media usage, being played in TV advertisements all around the world.

Despite the widespread love for this song, it never really took off commercially, not performing well in barely any charts across the globe. But regardless of its average chart performance, the song has become one of the most loved of the noughties, with many bands performing cover versions since its release.

‘Time to Pretend’ is famous for its synth riff which serves as the introfor the song. The inspiration for the music in the song is certainly a strange one: “We wrote Time to Pretend our senior year of college, and the music was inspired by a praying mantis we had in our house. She laid eggs and it died, and we laid the egg case on this kinda model pirate ship on the mantle piece, and the eggs hatched and all these baby praying mantises were climbing up the rigging of the ship, and it was pretty crazy…” Pretty crazy indeed! The song tells the story of an aspiring rock performer, dreaming of a famous rock stars life, resulting in a genius piece of work.

9. GREEN DAY – BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS

Written by: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool

Released in


2004 as a single from their fantastic album ‘American Idiot’, ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ has become one of the legendary Green Day’s signature songs.

However, there were criticisms from fans of British band Oasis that Green Day had ripped off the chord progression from their song ‘Wonderwall’ for this song, but despite this, the song went on to receive critical and commercial success, even winning a Grammy for Record of the Year at the 2006 ceremony, and going on to become their most successful song ever in the United States.

Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote all of the lyrics, whilst in his son Joey’s bedroom. It is sung from the point of view of Jesus of Suburbia, the main character from the concept album ‘American Idiot’. A rock anthemchanged due to a ‘running joke’ in the studio. Oh well, it’s catchy!

The song was a success, particularly in the UK where it peaked at number one, and was #14 in the End of Decade chart. It is also the third most downloaded digital single ever in the UK. Despite its following in the UK, the song didn’t really take off in the US, peaking at #56 on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite this, the song is one of the bands most famous, and a favourite at their live shows.

7. M.I.A. – PAPER PLANES

Written by: Mathangi Arulpragasam, Wesley Pentz

‘Paper Planes’ was the breakthrough into the mainstream for Sri Lankan rapper/singer M.I.A. The song became a surprise hit from her 2007 album ‘Kala’, after it gained attention from being


is also 3 new starter Pokemon at the start of the games. Pokemon Black & White is set to be the re boot of the Pokemon francise which hits stores across the Europe on the 4th March. Both games have been revamped to make the experience even better for player! Like previous Pokémon games, Black and White follow the journey of a Pokémon trainer as he/she trains and battles Pokémon to compete in Gyms and defeating the Elite Four, while destroying the evil plans of a criminal organization, in this case, Team Plasma.

Pokemon Black & White can be set in theUnova Region or the Isshu Region. These new locations are far away from Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh. Will you be buying Pokemon Black or White? I willcertainly be buying both!

Personally, I am looking foward to the release of the new games. I’ve been a Pokemon fan since the age of 8, I’ve watched the development of the games and I must say that all the previous games have been excellent.

Pop singer and icon Lady Gaga has given fans a small taster of a track for her upcoming album Born This Way, set to be released in May this year.

Gaga, who is set to release her eagerly anticipated new single next month, was cast as musical director for the unveiling of a new fashion collection for men by designer Thierry Mugler at a show in Paris. She announced that whilst the models took to the catwalk, she had remixed an as-of-yet untitled track from the


Chandigarh gets the Cleanest City of India title

Chandigarh, known as the city beautiful has ranked number 1 among the top 10 cleanest cities of India. The list of the cleanest cities was prepared after a survey done by Ministry of Urban Development (Government of India), in the year 2014. All cities were given a specific colour out of Green, Black, Red and Blue based on the cleanness and greenery in that particular city. Along with the colour code, a rating was given to each city keeping in mind various factors such as hygiene conditions, road side litter, public dustbins etc.

List of Top 10 Cleanest cities of India

Below is a list of 10 cities which made to the list of cleanest cities of India along with their ratings.

It isclear from the rating that there is no city in India which can compete with Cahndigarh. Chandigarh is truly the city beautiful. With a score of 73.48 it ranks at number 1 and is role model for all other cities of India. It is shocking that major cities of India like Mumbai and Bangalore have not made it to the top 10. However, New Delhi and Delhi Cant. stand at position 4 and 5 respectively. This is due to the fact that Mumbai and Bangalore have good living standard, good infrastructure and are more developed. But we are taking about the cleanest cities.

The news of Chandigarh being the cleanest city in India has made Chandigarhians proud. The swatch Bharat mission of our Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a


Ombres Malvants: 2) blue pills

"So he knows they don't look quite right, yeah, but he takes one anyway."

Rafael was shouting to be heard over the thrumming bass, and his face flickered from deep shadow to shock white in the strobe light. "And straight away he has the hardest cock ever. Like he could drill metal with this thing."

Joan, pissed out of his mind, laughed too soon at this. Tomàs raised an eyebrow, and he and Xavi waited to hear more.

"Well when the girl sees it, she panics or something - I don't know - but she just walks out, straight out of his apartment," Rafael continued. "So now he's pissed off, standing there with a huge hard-on and nowhere to put it."

Another giggle from Joan, who was leaningheavily on the wall beside them.

"Shut up, Joan," said Rafael. "Anyway, he sits around for a while, probably watches some porn, has a wank, but he notices that it's not going down. This is two, three hours later, and he's still as hard as Ronaldo's abs."

They all pretend to spit at the mention of the hated Ronaldo.

"Next morning it's the same. Eventually he gives in, goes to the hospital to get some help. Well nothing can fix it, right? They do every test they can, and nothing is working. So finally they give him a CAT scan, and then they see it. Inside his dick, down the whole length, there's a set of tiny vertebrae - a complete spine. There's ribs and a sternum - his cock has


a whole skeleton inside it, keeping it hard."

"Bullshit!" said Xavi, beer spraying from his mouth.

"It's true," Rafael replied evenly. "This guy had the world's first literal boner!"

They all laughed then, Joan swaying recklessly. Xavi, skeptical as always, wanted to litigate the details, but Tomàs was quieter. Nowadays the line between urban myth and reality seemed porous.

He brought himself back to the conversation. "I think you're full of shit, Raf."

"Two suppliers confirmed it," said Rafael. "They even told me where they got the stuff from. You don't believe I know all the right people?"

He had a point. Tomàs, Xavi and Rafael had been on the force together, before Tomàs left. Raf had been dealing on the side for years, leaning on a network of contacts picked up in hisday job.

Tomàs laughed. "You know the people, but I wouldn't believe the shit they tell you. Anyway, no-one needs a pill to get it up when the women here are so hot."

Joan slurred something from which only "hot" and "your sister" were intelligible. Tomàs cuffed him on the back of the head.

"Bring her up again, friend, and …" They both knew threat was empty. As Tomàs' cousin, Joan's drunken cracks about Tomàs' sister were a well-worn part of their friendship.

Joan wandered off to take a piss, and Xavi to get the next round of drinks. Now was Tomàs' opportunity. He leaned closer to avoid shouting over the pounding music.

"Raf, do you know if there is a local supplier for ketamine, midazolam, that sort of thing?"

Rafael's eyes widened slightly.


vets?"

"Most of them. Anything else that might work?"

"There's a guy I've heard about, from the US, does special requests. You want his number?"

"Sure, some time."

Then Xavi returned with their beers, so Tomàs changed the subject.

Another dead end. And nothing from the Foundation in two days. What was going on? The frustration, combined with the flashing lights and sonic bombardment, were putting Tomàs on edge.

Joan never came back from the toilets, and they didn't bother looking for him. Rafael danced for a while, then left with some girl - not his girlfriend. By 3am, Tomàs was bored. He and Xavi left the club, strolling back through the streets of El Raval, talking of past exploits.

The old buildings and their shadows gathered closer around them. On this lane, there wasan extra shadow. Hanging from a lamppost, swinging in a slight circle, was a human leg, a rope slung around the ankle. Blood had trickled from the thick stump of the thigh, adding a further dark stain in the circle of lamplight.

"Deu meu!" Xavi had stopped dead, looking up.

Tomàs, in contrast, was looking ahead to the shape dangling beneath the next lamp. And the next. And the next.

From the third hung a head, with a neck and one torn off shoulder. Flesh hung in glistening ribbons; stark bone protruded. The face was staring, a single grey feather - perhaps a pigeon's - jammed into each eye.

Xavi was first to speak. "Jesus Christ. That's Raf."

It was: their friend had been ripped apart and pieces hung from every lamppost on


the street. But for Tomàs, the impact of that recognition had been overwhelmed by a further realisation. From the corner of Rafael's mouth, like a mockery of a tongue, poked the end of a squirrel tail.

In a tipsy panic, Xavi had run back to the mouth of the street, pulling out his phone to call the police. Tomàs reached up and pulled the tail from his friend's dead lips, then walked quickly further down the lane. On the sixth lamp was an arm. The hand still clutched Rafael's phone.

Tomàs couldn't tell if he was thinking quickly or not at all. Looking to make sure Xavi was still distant, he took the phone, using Rafael's thumb to unlock it and change the passcode. As he let go of thesevered limb, the shock, combined with the alcohol, caught up with him. He staggered to the nearest wall and vomited beer and bile, then collapsed next to the stinking mess, suddenly unable to do anything more.

Hours later, after the police arrived and he had given his statement thrice over, after the sun had risen and made the hanging tableau somehow more grotesque in daylight, Tomàs was finally released, and dragged himself back into his apartment. He needed sleep desperately, but first he wanted to look at Rafael's phone.

There were no unread messages, no missed calls - not even from Raf's girlfriend. Scrolling through the contacts, Tomàs saw some names he recognised, but nothing unusual. Until he saw an overseas number - a US code - with the name


A final message gave him the address. An apartment in Barceloneta, near the port. He grabbed an apple from the counter, stopped back to pick up his phone, and headed out.

Somehow it was mid-afternoon already. Tomàs walked the cramped streets of the Barceloneta district, smelling salt and fish-guts. Once he found the address, there was little to do but go up. This was as close to a lead as he was likely to get.

The apartment building was decrepit, narrow stairs behind the unlocked front door. He walked past them to the ground floor apartment, noting the mildewed hallway. Wishing he still had his gun, Tomàs knocked.

The man who answered was short, wearing jeans and a garish Hilfiger polo. Cheap sunglasses were lodged in his gelled hair. Tomàs glimpsedyou take this, and I show you how deep this shit goes."

The man held out one hand. In it was a capsule, the colour of fresh blood.

Tomàs choked down a laugh. Was this shithead quoting him The Matrix?

He saw the man react, knew he had to speak. "Shouldn't you offer me a second pill to choose?" was the best he could muster.

It was the wrong response. The man was instantly on edge. "You fucking police?" he barked.

There was no way to recover the situation; he would have to be direct. Tomàs started forward, the man dropped the capsule, and they grappled, crashing into piles of boxes. The man wasn't trained, and Tomàs almost had him in a chokehold, when the room's bulb flickered rapidly and suddenly all sound


seemed dampened and spongy.

The man gasped, "It's coming!"

In hesitation, Tomàs relaxed his grip. The floor seemed to slide diagonally away, and he fell. The man seemed to anticipate this and slipped from his grasp, kicking wildly and catching Tomàs on the temple. Spots in his vision, he saw the man escaping through the front door as the room swam.

When his thoughts cleared, Tomàs was lying next to the red capsule, unsure of how much time had passed. His watch and phone now disagreed on the time. There was no natural light. The air in the room felt slippery, like it was his mind that had fallen earlier, not his body. This was not a good place.

The door was locked. No amount of hammering at it produced a result.Tomàs got his phone out again, and realised with horror that he had picked up Raf's by mistake. He had no way to contact the Foundation, and calling anyone else would reveal his theft to the police. His mind was starting to race through possibilities when the bulb flickered again and went out.

Trying to breathe slowly, Tomàs lit the phone's torch and searched for an exit. Every room was stacked with mismatched boxes. It was very quiet. Lit only by the torch, the apartment felt large, larger than was possible for the building. Finally, in a back room, there was a wooden door.

He reached out for the handle, and the whole door rattled and shook. Tomàs sprang back. A low wet growl rumbled on the other side. Something


a cluster of blue tablets. The lid read "dado sleepy pill for animal party". Tomàs tried to calm his breathing.

Its a big animal, ok?

yes sure be fine. method adapt to animal type

R u certain? u said not to give to big animals

3tla5ol12

What?

sorry hamster on phone.

The door shuddered, and a corner snapped off. Behind it, Tomàs could see a dark, writhing mass. The stench was stronger. Another crash. The top of the doorframe fell.

Is it ok?!

u trust dado?

The phone's light faded as its battery died. Tomàs looked down at the pills in one hand, the red capsule in the other. The growling and chittering beyond the door had thickened to a constant roar. On the next blow, the door gave a thunderous crack.

He closed his eyes and flung thehandful of blue pills at the bottom of the doorway.

For a second, the frenzied noises continued. Then silence. Tomàs' ears rang.

All at once, the temperature dropped. Tomàs felt the hair on his arms stand on end, and the dim light from behind the door showed his breath frosting.

The warmth was being sucked out of the room. Clouds of condensation vented through the cracks in the door. From beyond it came a hissing, bubbling cacophony, rising to a hideously human shriek. It twisted into convulsive retching, the scrabbling becoming frantic. A tide of ichor was flowing beneath the door, the black bile freezing almost as it issued, as the water vapour froze on the door itself. It creaked ominously, then shattered inwards.

Tomàs tensed, expecting to be mauled. Finally, slowly,


is provided at a position away from the printed coil substrate 103. In the magnet 104, a south pole and a north pole are adjacent to each other.
In the arrangement, when a current is applied to the printed coil substrate 103, currents in inversed directions are applied to both lateral portions 103A, 103B of the printed coil substrate 103, where a driving force Fa is generated between the lateral portion 103A and the opposing south pole and a driving force Fb is generated between the lateral portion 103B and the opposing north pole.
In the magnet 104, since a magnetic field line Mo generated from the north pole toward the south pole is curved, the driving force Fa heads to the lower right in FIG. 1, and the drivingforce Fb heads to the upper right in FIG. 1.
In the driving forces Fa, Fb, components of forces FaT, FbT along the tracking direction T act effectively as driving forces, the center of the driving forces in the tracking direction is in the vicinity of the lateral sides of the lens holder 101. On the other hand, the center of gravity O of the lens holder 101 substantially coincides with the optical axis of the objective lens 102, so that the center of driving force and the center of gravity O are away from each other in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the objective lens 102.
Thus, when the lens holder 101 is moved in the tracking direction T, a torque NT acts around an axis


passing through the center of gravity O of the lens holder 101 and parallel to the optical axis of the objective lens 102 in a counterclockwise direction in FIG. 1 due to the components of forces FaT, FbT of the driving forces Fa, Fb. Further, a torque NU also acts in the counterclockwise direction as the torque NT due to components of forces FaU, FbU orthogonal to the components of forces FaT, FbT of the driving forces Fa, Fb.
Since the torques NT, NU act on the lens holder 101, an unwanted rotational resonance is generated in the lens holder 101.
To prevent the inconvenience described above, in the conventional technology, the printed coil substrates 103 are attached to both lateral sides opposing each other of the lens holder 101Afferent connections to the amygdaloid complex of the rat and cat: II. Afferents from the hypothalamus and the basal telencephalon.
The projections from the basal telencephalon and hypothalamus to each nucleus of the amygdaloid complex of the rat, and to the central amygdala of the cat, were investigated by the use of retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP). The enzyme was injected stereotaxically by microiontophoresis, using three different approaches. The ventral pallidum (Heimer, '78) and ventral part of the globus pallidus were found to project to the lateral and basolateral nuclei of the amygdala. The substantia innominata projects diffusely to the entire amygdaloid complex, except to the lateral nucleus and the caudal part of the medial nucleus. The anterior amygdaloid area shows a similar projection field, the only difference


being that this structure does not project to any parts of the medial nucleus. The dorsal subdivision of the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract sends fibers to the ipsilateral as well as the contralateral basolateral nucleus, and possibly to the ipsilateral basomedial and cortical amygdala. The ventral subdivision of the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract was massively labeled after an injection in the ipsilateral central nucleus, but this injection affected the commissural component of the stria terminalis. The nucleus of the horizontal limb of the diagonal band of Broca connects with the medial, central, and anterior cortical nuclei, whereas the bed nucleus of stria terminalis and medial preoptic area are related to the medial nucleus predominantly. the lateral preoptic area is only weakly labeled after intra-amygdaloidHRP injections. The hypothalamo-amygdaloid projections terminate preponderantly in the medial part of the amygdaloid complex. Thus, axons from neurons in the area dorsal and medial to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus distribute to the medial nucleus and intra-amygdaloid part of the bed nucleus of stria terminalis. Most of the amygdalopetal fibers from the ventromedial, ventral premammillary, and arcuate nuclei of the hypothalamus end in the medial nucleus, but some extend into the central nucleus. A few fibers from the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus reach the basolateral nucleus. The lateral hypothalamic area projects heavily to the central nucleus, and more sparsely to the medial and basolateral nuclei. The dorsal hypothalamic area and supramammillary nucleus show restricted projections to the central and basolateral nuclei, respectively. There are only


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"Ada Lovelace is Lord Byron's child, and her mother, Lady Byron, did not want her to turn out to be like her father, a romantic poet," says Isaacson. So Lady Byron "had her tutored almost exclusively in mathematics as if that were an antidote to being poetic."

Lovelace saw the poetry in math. At 17, she went to a London salon and met Charles Babbage. He showed her plans for a machine that he believed would be able to do complex mathematical calculations. He asked Lovelace to write about his work for a scholarly journal. In her article, Lovelace expresses a vision for his machine that goes beyond calculations.

She envisioned that "a computer can do anything that can be noted logically," explains Isaacson. "Words, pictures and music, notjust numbers. She understands how you take an instruction set and load it into the machine, and she even does an example, which is programming Bernoulli numbers, an incredibly complicated sequence of numbers."

Babbage's machine was never built. But his designs and Lovelace's notes were read by people building the first computer a century later.

The women who would program one of the world's earliest electronic computers, however, knew nothing of Lovelace and Babbage.

As part of the oral history project of the Computer History Museum, Jean Jennings Bartik recalled how she got the job working on that computer. She was doing calculations on rocket and cannon trajectories by hand in 1945. A job opened to work on a new machine.

"This announcement came around that they were looking for operators of


a new machine they were building called the ENIAC," recalls Bartik. "Of course, I had no idea what it was, but I knew it wasn't doing hand calculation."

Bartik was one of six female mathematicians who created programs for one of the world's first fully electronic general-purpose computers. Isaacson says the men didn't think it was an important job.

"Men were interested in building, the hardware," says Isaacson, "doing the circuits, figuring out the machinery. And women were very good mathematicians back then."

Isaacson says in the 1930s female math majors were fairly common — though mostly they went off to teach. But during World War II, these skilled women signed up to help with the war effort.

Bartik told a live audience at the Computer History Museum in 2008 that thejob lacked prestige. The ENIAC wasn't working the day before its first demo. Bartik's team worked late into the night and got it working.

"They all went out to dinner at the announcement," she says. "We weren't invited and there we were. People never recognized, they never acted as though we knew what we were doing. I mean, we were in a lot of pictures."

At the time, though, media outlets didn't name the women in the pictures. After the war, Bartik and her team went on to work on the UNIVAC, one of the first major commercial computers.

The women joined up with Grace Hopper, a tenured math professor who joined the Navy Reserve during the war. Walter Isaacson says Hopper had a breakthrough. She found a way to program


probably a teenage boy that was in the computer club in high school."

For decades the women who pioneered the computer revolution were often overlooked, but not in Isaacson's book about the history of the digital revolution.

"When they have been written out of the history, you don't have great role models," says Isaacson. "But when you learn about the women who programmed ENIAC or Grace Hopper or Ada Lovelace ... it happened to my daughter. She read about all these people when she was in high school, and she became a math and computer science geek."

Lovelace, the mathematician, died when she was 36. The women who worked on the ENIAC have all passed away, as has Grace Hopper. But every time you write on a computer, play a musicwater was made opaque with black ink. A platform (10 cm in diameter) was submerged 2 cm below the water surface and placed at the midpoint of one quadrant. Room lights illuminated the pool, and the visual cues around the room (window, cabinets, furniture) were kept consistent. A video camera was placed above the center of the pool and connected to a video tracking system. During each training session, the rats were placed in the pool at a specified starting position and allowed to swim freely until they found the Morris water maze. The time required to escape (escape latency) was recorded. Rats that found the platform within 120 s were allowed to remain on it for 20 s and were then returned to their home cages. If


of its product.”

Lawrence G. Keane, senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the industry’s trade association, said in an e-mail that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “does not want manufacturers to play Jr. G-man.” He also highlighted a number of ways the association had worked with the A.T.F. — including an education program to prevent people from illegally buying guns and transferring them to people barred from doing so that was more than a decade old — as evidence of the industry’s commitment.

The lawsuits were bolstered, however, by testimony from several former industry insiders. The most prominent was Robert Ricker, a former lawyer for the National Rifle Association and executive director of the American Shooting Sports Council, the main gun industry trade associationbefore it was disbanded.

“Leaders in the industry have consistently resisted taking constructive voluntary action to prevent firearms from ending up in the illegal gun market and have sought to silence others within the industry who have advocated reform,” Mr. Ricker wrote in a 2003 affidavit on behalf of the City of San Diego.

Mr. Ricker detailed the backlash from the N.R.A. and trade groups against anyone who pressed for changes to industry practices. Because of his calls for reform, Mr. Ricker, who died of cancer in 2009, said he was forced to resign as the head of the trade group.

Another insider, Robert Hass, a former Smith & Wesson executive, testified that “the nature of the product demands that its distribution be handled in such a way as to minimize


Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I should first like to thank the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe and its organs for kindly inviting me to speak to you.
I am particularly pleased to find myself in Strasbourg today, addressing
the oldest and most representative of the European institutions,
which is this year celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of its
inception. Thirty years of hopes and disappointments, of progress
and of obstacles, but, in any event, of untiring toil towards the
union of the European peoples, through which the Council of Europe
has responded positively to the hopes expressed in the Message to
Europeans.

In addressing this Assembly I cannot forget the crucial part
it played in Spain’s accession to the Council of Europe, causing
it to depart in some ways from custom, in both form and timing,
so that its faithproposal
is both an obvious demonstration of the vitality of the Council
of Europe’s most eminent achievement and an important step towards
the gradual realisation of Europe’s most significant contribution
to human history: the dignity and freedom of mankind.

The Council of Europe’s work devoted to man, his rights and
his fundamental freedoms prompts me to mention some of its aspects.
First, the measures taken to bring about a constant improvement
in the environment and the quality of life; second, the efforts
to help migrant workers and their families, for whom whatever is
done can never be enough; and, finally, the deep concern for youth
and for stimulating the enthusiasm of young Europeans for the construction
of Europe. This last aspect is essential, for the Council of Europe
has never, at any time, ignored the need to be concerned with the
European


Nearly twelve years ago, the Pearl Brewing Company in downtown San Antonio turned off its boilers, emptied its tanks and the production of the beer moved to Fort Worth. It left behind a historic but derelict 22-acre complex, anchored by a towering brew house. To the dismay of San Antonians who remembered the glory days of Pearl — the brewery was one of the larger employers in the city — it looked like the property was destined to be razed, its iconic redbrick smokestack most likely replaced with a boxy distribution center.

Enter Silver Ventures, a private equity firm led by San Antonio native Christopher “Kit” Goldsbury. The CEO considered the brewery a brick-and-mortar symbol of his city’s entrepreneurial spirit and rich industrial past. When he told his advisersdaily digest of Texas news, plus the latest from Texas Monthly

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Documentary about how disco music soundtracked gay liberation, foregrounded female desire in the age of feminism and led to the birth of modern club culture as we know it today.

Documentary about how a much-derided music actually changed the world. Between 1969 and 1979 disco soundtracked gay liberation, foregrounded female desire in the age of feminism and led to the birth of modern club culture as we know it today, before taking the world by storm. With contributions from Nile Rodgers, Robin Gibb, Kathy Sledge and Ian Schrager.set of Rs 100 and Rs 5 coins in silver depicting Jamsetji’s bust, has been fabricated by the Kolkata mint of the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India and would be priced at Rs 4,500 each. Initially, only a dozen sets have been sent for being presented to the dignitaries.

In the past, Jamsetji has been honoured by India Post through release of stamps — one in 1958 to mark the golden jubilee of the steel industry in India and another in 1965 in recognition of his contribution to the industrialisation of India.

So far, coins have only been minted in honour of the freedom struggle, freedom fighters, events, scientists, temples, institutions and organisations.

Born on March 3, 1839 in Navsari (then part of the princely state of Baroda), Jamsetji


was the first businessman in a family of Parsi Zoroastrian priests. Besides setting up a hotel, he initiated an iron and steel company, a world-class learning institution and a hydroelectric plant.

Only the hotel — Taj Mahal in Mumbai — became a reality during his lifetime. Tata Iron and Steel Company Ltd (now Tata Steel) came into being in 1907, three years after his death in May 1904, and is ranked among the world’s top steel companies.

The Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore and Tata Hydroelectric Power Supply Company were set up by his successors to establish his planned Tata Group, now India’s biggest conglomerate company.

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For all theA variety of bulldozers, front-end loaders and other relatively large work machines include a cab mounted on a work machine body. An operator sits inside the cab, from which he or she can drive and operate the machine in a well known manner. Access to the cab is typically by way of steps or a ladder on the side of the body, allowing an operator or service technician to climb to an operator platform adjacent to or surrounding the cab.
Such work machines often operate in rugged terrain such as above-ground and underground mines, construction and demolition sites and similarly extreme environments, subjecting the work machine and work machine body to constant wear and tear. For example, a bulldozer pushing a large pile of rubble may be travelling essentially


of duck and cover argue that thousands could be saved by following the simple advice, without which, to give one easily understand example, people, being naturally inquisitive, would instead run to windows to try to locate the source of the immensely bright flash generated at the instant of the explosion. During which time, unbeknownst to them, the slower moving blast wave would rapidly be advancing toward their position, only to arrive and cause a window glass implosion, shredding onlookers.[3]

In the Testimony of Dr. Hiroshi Sawachika for example, although he was sufficiently far away from the Hiroshima bomb himself and not behind a pane of window glass when the blast wave arrived, those in his company who were, had serious blast injury wounds, with broken glass and pieces ofwood stuck into them.[4]

According to the 1946 book Hiroshima and other books which cover both bombings,[5] in the days between the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II, some survivors of the first bombing went to Nagasaki and taught others about ducking after the atomic flash and particularly the dangers of window glass. As a result of this timely warning, far fewer of those informed by them in Nagasaki died in the initial blast when compared to those who were in in similar surroundings but were caught completely unaware. The general population was not warned of the heat/blast danger following an atomic flash because of the bomb’s new and unknown nature. Many people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki died while searching the skies curiously


for the source of the brilliant flash.

When people are indoors, running to windows to investigate the source of bright flashes in the sky still remains a common inquisitive human response to experiencing a flash, so although the advice to duck and cover is over half a century old, ballistic glass lacerations caused the majority of the 1000 human injuries following the Chelyabinsk meteorair burst of February 15, 2013.[6] This natural human behavior was also observed amongst people in the vicinity of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and therefore a human behavior advised against in duck and cover advice, and in the film of the same name.[7][8]

The dangers of viewing explosions behind common window glass was known of before the nuclear age began, being a common source of injury and deathfrom large chemical explosions, with one such incident being the 1944 Port Chicago explosion, where about 4,600 tons (4,173 metric tons)[9] of chemical explosive accidentally detonated in a series of events. Survivor, Robert Routh, reported enjoying the sight of the wonderfully bright fireball and then suddenly never seeing anything again, as following the blast arriving, he was permanently blinded by the window he was viewing the fireball from, shards of which pierced his eyes and face.[10]

Similar to duck and cover is the advice to "Drop, Cover and Hold On" which is taught in areas prone to earthquakes. Schools in some tornado-prone areas of the United States also practice tornado drills that involve children squatting and covering the backs of their heads.[11][12]

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1954 test shot Nectar of Operation Castle produced


of the Bank of Japan, a reinforced concrete building, at the time of the nuclear explosion,[28][29] and to highlight the protection conferred to an individual who is below ground during a nuclear air burst, Eizo Nomura survived the same blast at Hiroshima at a distance of 170 meters from ground zero.[30] Nomura, who was in the basement of what is now known as the rest house, also a reinforced concrete building,[30] lived into his early 80s.[31][32][33]

In contrast to these cases of survival, the unknown person sitting outside on the steps of the Sumitomo Bank next door to the Bank of Japan on the morning of the bombing—and therefore fully exposed—suffered what would have eventually been lethal third-degree burns from the near instant nuclear weaponflash if they hadn't thenpromptly been killed by the slower moving blast wave, when it reached them, ~1 second later.[34]

To elucidate the effects on lying flat on the ground in attenuating a weapons blast, Miyoko Matsubara, one of the Hiroshima maidens, when recounting the bombing in an interview in 1999, said that she was outdoors and less than 1 mile from the hypocenter of the Little Boy bomb. Upon observing the nuclear weapons silent flash she quickly lay flat on the ground, while those who were standing directly next to her, and her other fellow students, had simply disappeared from her sight when the blast wave arrived and blew them away.[35][36][37]

Position of the body can have a considerable influence in protection from blast effects. Lying prone on the ground will often materially


capable of throwing human bodies into objects or throwing objects at high velocity, both with lethal results, rendering casualties highly dependent on surroundings.[17][39] For example, Sumiteru Taniguchi recounts that, while clinging to the tremoring road surface after the fat man detonation, he witnessing another child being blown away, the destruction of buildings around him and stones flying through the air.[40] Similarly, Akihiro Takahashi and his classmates were blown by the blast of Little Boy by a distance of about 10 meters, having survived due to not colliding with any walls etc. during his flight through the air,[41] Likewise, Katsuichi Hosoya has a near identical testimony.[42]

During the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor explosion, a fourth-grade teacher in Chelyabinsk, Yulia Karbysheva, saved 44 children from potentially life-threatening ballistic window glass cuts byNagasaki on August 9, 1945 during the dropping of the 20-kiloton Fat Man bomb, this photo displays that 1st- and 2nd-degree burn injuries he experienced on his unclothed skin, the shoulder and arm, while the thin vest garment of clothing that he was wearing at the time of the explosion completely protected his stomach and lower chest from experiencing similar burns. A clearer color restored version of this picture is also available.[51]

The advice to cover one's exposed skin with anything that can cast a shadow, like the picnic blanket and newspaper used by the family in the film, may seem absurd at first when one considers the capabilities of a nuclear weapon, but even the thinnest of barriers such as cloth or plant leaves would reduce the severity


will have a line-of-sight with the nuclear fireball. However as a result of the high altitude of the explosion, most of the radioactive bomb debris/ is dispersed into the stratosphere, with a great column of air therefore placed between the vast majority of the bomb debris/fission reaction products and people on the ground for a number of crucial days before it falls out of the atmosphere in a comparatively dilute fashion, this "delayed fallout" is henceforth not an immediate concern to those near the blast. On the other hand, the only time that fallout is rapidly concentrated in a potentially lethal fashion in the local/regional area around the explosion is when the nuclear fireball makes contact with the ground surface, with an explosion that does so, being aptlywind, this caused the 23 crew members on a Japanese fishing boat known as the Lucky Dragon to come down with acute radiation sickness with varying degrees of seriousness and due to complications in the treatment of the ship's radio operator months after the exposure, resulted in his death.

It is, however, unlikely that a well-funded belligerent with nuclear weapons would waste their weapons with fuzing to explode below or on the surface, as both test shot Baker, and Castle Bravo were respectively. Instead, to maximize the range of city blast destruction and immediate death, an air burst is preferred,[68] as the ~ 500 meter explosion heights of the only nuclear weapons used on cities, Little Boy and Fat Man also attests to.[69] Moreover, with air bursts the total


pamphlets of the 1950s and 1960s, including the prompt advice of ducking and covering.[82]

In U.S. Army training, soldiers are taught to fall immediately down, covering face and hands in much the same way as is described by the advice to duck and cover.[101]

The exercises of Cold War civil defense are seen by historian Guy Oakes in 1994, as having less practical use than psychological use: to keep the danger of nuclear war high on the public mind, while also attempting to assure the American people that something could be done to defend against nuclear attack.[102] However, according to contemporary Cold War civil defense pamphlets, like Civil Defence why we need it released in 1981, civil defense countermeasures were presented as analogous to seat belts, and that the suggestionin a tornado drill, lining up along an interior wall and covering their heads. Tornado drills are an important element in tornado preparedness. Similar to other evidence based safety drills, they teach effective countermeasures and therefore increase survival rates if/when a tornado hits.

Ducking and covering does have certain applications in other, more natural disasters. In states prone to tornadoes, school children are urged to "duck and cover" against a solid inner wall of a school, if time does not permit seeking better shelter—such as a storm cellar—during a tornado warning. The tactic is also widely practiced in schools in states along the West Coast of the United States, where earthquakes are commonplace. Ducking and covering in either scenario would theoretically afford significant protection from falling or flying debris.

Earthquakes[edit]

In


the leading edge of the blast wave is traveling at the speed of sound, and it continues at this speed as it moves farther away from ground zero."

^Original caption: "Shadow" of band valve wheel on paint of a gas holder at Hiroshima. Radiant heat instantly burned paint where the heat rays were not obstructed. 6,300 feet from ground zero (Japanese photo). United States Strategic Bombing Survey, The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (United States Government Printing Office: Washington, 1946) Chapter 3.

^Malik (1985) describes how various values were recorded for the B-29's altitude at the moment of bomb release over Hiroshima. The strike report said 30,200 ft, the official history said 31,600 ft, Commander Parson's log entry was 32,700 ft, and the navigator's log was 31,060and need only be briefly stated.

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Phan is a 20 year old citizen of the Republic of Vietnam and is a permanent resident alien of the United States.  His foster father, Steven A. Standiford, is a citizen and resident of Virginia.  As a result of polio, Phan is unable to walk without aid.  He achieves mobility by means of crutches and leg braces, a wheelchair and a motor vehicle specially equipped with hand controls.  He is "severely handicapped" as defined in the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. Secs. 701 et. seq.

6
Phan graduated from Washington & Lee High School, Arlington, Virginia, in June, 1984.  After consulting with his high school guidance counselor to determine which colleges were accessible to the mobility impaired, Phan


applied for admission to St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina, a non-profit liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian synod of North Carolina.  Although church related,1 the primary purpose of St. Andrews is to provide collegiate or graduate education and not to provide religious training by theological education.

7
Phan was accepted at St. Andrews and he was granted financial assistance from St. Andrews in the amount of $7,600 for the 1984-85 academic year contingent upon his matriculation in September, 1984.

8
Phan and his foster father both sought financial assistance from the Commonwealth, under its program of financial aid to the handicapped, financed approximately 80% by the federal government and approximately 20% by Virginia.  Phan was determined to be eligible for a grant.

9
Virginia has no policy againstpersons eligible for grants using out-of-state institutions for higher learning.  While recipients are encouraged to use in-state facilities, they may, with the approval of the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services, obtain training services out-of-state.  Virginia has paid for handicapped students to attend church-related schools in Virginia, such as Liberty Baptist College, Eastern Mennonite College, Virginia Union University, Virginia Wesleyan College, Terrum College and the University of Richmond.  The primary purpose of these institutions is to provide collegiate or graduate education and not to provide religious training or theological education.  Virginia has paid for handicapped students to attend nonchurch-related schools throughout Virginia and elsewhere throughout the nation including schools in California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Maryland and Georgia.

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Phan has been denied financial aid to attend