ANSI standard on operational radiation safety and training programs, some of which focused on educational institutions and research reactors.

Steven R. Mattmuller

Steven R. Mattmuller serves as the nuclear pharmacist representative on the ACMUI. Mr. Mattmuller was appointed in March 2008.

Mr. Mattmuller received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from Ohio Northern University and a Master of Science in Radiopharmacy from the University of Southern California. Mr. Mattmuller is board certified in nuclear pharmacy by the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties.

Regarding clinical experience, Mr. Mattmuller has held positions in Ohio and Missouri. Following his graduate education Mr. Mattmuller has held staff positions at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Missouri and at Kettering Medical Center in Kettering, Ohio. Currently, Mr. Mattmuller is the Chief Nuclear Pharmacist at Kettering MedicalCenter (KMC).

In his current position he has direct responsibilities for the radiopharmaceuticals used at KMC. This includes the radiopharmaceuticals used in the clinical SPECT diagnostic nuclear medicine and the therapeutic nuclear medicine service. Also included are the cyclotron produced PET radiopharmaceuticals used for the clinical PET diagnostic service and those for the PET research programs.

Mr. Mattmuller has participated in a variety of capacities in several professional societies and has served on numerous institutional and professional society committees. Some notable institutional committee appointments include the Institutional Review Board and the Radiation Safety Committee. The two professional societies he has most actively participated in are the Society of Nuclear Medicine, (Board Member of the Missouri Valley Chapter) and the American Pharmacists Association. Currently he is the Chair-Elect of the Nuclear


Pharmacy Practice Section of the Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management of the American Pharmacists Association.

Michael D. O'Hara, Ph.D.

Michael D. O'Hara, Ph.D., has served as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) representative on the ACMUI since November 2014.

Dr. O'Hara earned his bachelor's degree in biology from D'Youville College in Buffalo, a master's degree in Natural Sciences from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a doctorate of philosphy in Biological Sciences from Wayne State University in Detroit. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Experimental Radiation Oncology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

He remained as a faculty member at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College in the Department of Radiation Oncology. He lead research efforts investigating the impact of chemical agents that modify the thermalresponse of normal and malignant tissues during thermal/radiotherapy and investigated bone marrow transplantation as a method to treat osteogenesis imperfecta. Dr. O'Hara regularly taught an undergraduate course in "Health Physics and Radiation Biology", lectured medical residents and was a member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.

Dr. O'Hara moved to Cordis / a Johnson and Johnson company to manage the firm's radiation therapy efforts involving radioactive endovascular stents and catheter-based radiation sources. He was promoted to a Johnson and Johnson Research Fellow and continued to assist Cordis and other Johnson and Johnson companies with radiation-based therapies.

He joined the Food and Drug Administration in 2004 in the Division of Biology in the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories within the Center for Devices and Radiological Health. His activities


included research studies involving Relative Biological effectiveness of ionizing radiation and the thermal / radiotherapeutic response of human tumor cells. He also served as the chairman of the Animal Care and Use Committee and has served as a member of the CDRH Radiology Standards Committee, the CDRH Radiofrequency Working Group, the Interagency Radiofrequency Working group and the Health and Human Services Radiation Biodosimetry Working Group. Dr. O'Hara served the Office of Device Evaluation and the Office of In Vitro Diagnostics as an Acting Branch Chief and later an Acting Deputy Division Director. He currently serves the Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological health as one of the Deputy Division Directors of the Division of Radiological Health. This division is responsible for the pre-market evaluation, post-market medical devicereporting and compliance for all radiation emitting medical devices.

Christopher J. Palestro, M.D.

Christopher J. Palestro, M.D. serves as the nuclear medicine physician representative on the ACMUI. Dr. Palestro was appointed in September 2011.

Dr. Palestro received a B.S. in Biology from Fordham University, Bronx, NY, and his M.D. from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Guadalajara Mexico. He completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, followed by a residency in Nuclear Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, also in New York City. He was certified by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine in 1982.

From 1982-1985, Dr. Palestro was the Chief of the Section of Nuclear Medicine at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, CT. From 1985-1992, he was an attending physician and assistant clinical director


in the Andre-Meyer Department of Physics-Nuclear Medicine of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. He was appointed an Assistant Professor of Radiology in the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in 1985, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990. In 1992 Dr. Palestro was appointed Chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine of Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY. In the same year he was appointed an Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, NY), and was promoted to Professor in 1996.

In 2007 Dr. Palestro was appointed chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, a position he currently holds.He has been a professor of Radiology at the Hofstra University School of Medicine in partnership with North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System since 2009.

An internationally recognized authority on nuclear medicine imaging of infection, Dr. Palestro has authored or coauthored more than 125 peer reviewed articles, and more than 50 book chapters and review articles. He has served as a reviewer for the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, Radiology, and the New England Journal of Medicine, among others. Dr. Palestro has been an associate editor of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Radiology and the Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. A life member and past chair of the American Board


of Nuclear Medicine, Dr. Palestro currently is chair of the Accredited Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Nuclear Medicine Residency Review Committee. He is a past president of The International Society of Radiolabeled Blood Elements, an organization dedicated to the investigation of nuclear medicine techniques for imaging inflammation and infection. He is chair of the Infection Section of the Society of Nuclear Medicine Procedure Guidelines Task Force, and Vice-chair of the Hematopoietic and Musculoskeletal Sections of that society's Lifelong Learning Self-Assessment Programs. Dr. Palestro has received awards for "Reviewing with Distinction" and "Reviewing with Special Distinction," from the journal Radiology and in 2003 was the recipient of Greater New York Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine "Berson-Yalow Award." He frequently has been selected as one of the"Best Doctors in New York" and as one of the "Best Doctors in America."

John H. Suh, M.D.

John H. Suh, M.D., serves as one of the radiation oncologist representatives on the ACMUI. Dr. Suh was appointed in October 2010.

Dr. Suh received his bachelor's and medical degree from the University of Miami's Honors Program in Medical Education. He then completed his residency and fellowship in radiation oncology at the Cleveland Clinic.

Following his residency, he joined the faculty at the Cleveland Clinic in 1995 where he specialized in neuro-oncology and stereotactic radiosurgery. From 1996 to 2002, he was the residency director. In 1999, he became clinical director for the department. In 2003, he became the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Gamma Knife Center. Since 2006, he has served as Chair of


the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute. He is also Associate Director of the Gamma Knife Center and the Brain Tumor and Neuro-oncology Center at the Cleveland Clinic. He is board certified in radiation oncology and currently serves as the section head for the Central Nervous System/pediatric section for the American Board of Radiology's oral board examination.

His awards have included the National Brain Tumor Foundation Clinical Research Award, Teacher of the Year Award, and selection as one of America's Top Physicians for Cancer. He was the principal investigator for two phase III trials testing a radiation sensitizer with whole brain radiation therapy for patients with brain metastases.

His patient care, research and teaching interests include adult and pediatric brain tumors, Gamma Knife radiosurgery, andinnovative radiation approaches. He has authored over 120 publications and has served as the institutional principal investigator for the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group at the Cleveland Clinic since 1995. Dr. Suh has lectured extensively locally, nationally and internationally. He serves as a reviewer for a number of medical journals and is a member of many professional societies.

Bruce R. Thomadsen, Ph.D.

Bruce R. Thomadsen, Ph.D., serves as the medical physicist in radiation therapy representative on the ACMUI. Dr. Thomadsen was appointed to the ACMUI in October 2007, was appointed Vice Chair of the ACMUI in October 2009, and was appointed Chair of the ACMUI in September 2013.

Dr. Thomadsen is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in radiological physics, the American Board of Health Physics in comprehensive health physics,


and the American Board of Medical Physics in radiation oncology physics. He holds an undergraduate degree in physics and political science from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science degree in physics from Michigan State University, and a master’s and Ph.D. in medical physics from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Thomadsen was a resident in radiological physics at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Dr. Thomadsen served as a medical physicist at Hurley Hospital, in Flint, Michigan and St. Barnabas Medical Center, in Short Hills, New Jersey, before going to the University of Wisconsin, where he has worked since 1975, except for one year (1985-86) on exchange with Copenhagen County Hospital in Denmark. At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Thomadsen has served as the chair of the UniversityRadiation Safety Committee since 1992 and has been very active in clinical service, research, and teaching.

Service to professional societies has been an important part of Dr. Thomadsen’s career, and he was made a fellow of the American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM). He has served on and chaired many AAPM committees, including the Radiation Safety Committee. He has also been active in the American Brachytherapy Society
and served on panels for the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measures and the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement. Dr. Thomadsen has been active in the Commission on Accreditation of Medical
Physics Education Programs and with the American Board of Radiology both as and examiner and with the maintenance of certificate program.

Brachytherapy physics has been one of the main areas


of Dr. Thomadsen’s research, but he has also been involved in research on quality assurance and patient safety, as well as dosimetry for external-beam radiotherapy.

Laura M. Weil

Laura M. Weil serves as the patients’ rights advocate on the ACMUI. Ms. Weil was appointed in August 2011.

Ms. Weil earned her Bachelors of Arts degree from SUNY Albany. She obtained a Masters degree from Sarah Lawrence College's graduate program in Health Advocacy. Her area of advocacy specialization centers on the rights of human subjects in clinical trial research.

She is Director Emeritus of Sarah Lawrence College's master's degree program in Health Advocacy, where she served on the college's graduate faculty for 13 years. Additionally, she taught courses in clinical ethics at Touro College Health Sciences Program.

She serves on Mount Sinai Beth IsraelMedical Center’s Institutional Review Board, where she is a reviewer of proposed clinical trials with respect to patients’ rights. She has served as a consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, reviewing human subjects research applications for federal funding. Her career includes positions as a patient advocate at several medical centers in New York City, including nine years as the director of patient advocacy at Beth Israel Medical Centers.

Ms. Weil served as president of New York State Society of Patient Representatives and was a board member of the National Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy of the American Hospital Association. She was a founding member on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants and a member of the Metropolitan New York Ethics Network.

James S.


Welsh, M.D.

James S. Welsh, M.D., serves as one of the radiation oncologist representatives on the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI). Dr. Welsh was appointed in February 2007.

Dr. Welsh earned a master’s degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University after graduating with academic distinction from Binghamton University. Dr. Welsh earned his medical degree at Stony Brook School of Medicine and then completed his residency training in radiation oncology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Following his residency, he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins and was an Assistant Professor of Oncology. He then joined the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison where he became a clinical professor of Human Oncology and Medical Physics. He is currently Professor of Neurosurgery, Radiologyand Radiation Oncology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport and is an attending radiation oncologist with the Willis-Knighton Hospital in Shreveport. He is board certified in radiation oncology and neuro-oncology and had composed questions for the written board examination for several years.

Dr Welsh has authored or co-authored numerous scientific papers, review articles and book chapters. His academic awards have included induction into Phi Beta Kappa and the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honors society. He is a fellow of the American College of Radiation Oncology and was the recipient of a clinical teaching award at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center and was selected as one of America’s Top Physicians in radiation oncology.

In 2002, Dr. Welsh was the first physician to treat a patient using helical tomotherapy. In addition


to pioneering research on helical tomotherapy, he has conducted research in the physics and radiobiology of intensity modulated radiation therapy, radiopharmaceutical therapy, electronic brachytherapy and prostate brachytherapy. His research interests include GammaKnife stereotactic radiosurgery for functional disorders, hadron therapy and dose-rate radiobiology. Dr. Welsh has lectured extensively locally, nationally and internationally. He serves on the editorial board for Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment and is associate editor for the American Journal of Clinical Oncology. He presently serves on several professional committees within the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). He holds numerous leadership positions within professional societies including presently serving as the President-Elect for the American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO).

Pat B. Zanzonico, Ph.D.

Pat B. Zanzonico, Ph.D.,serves as the medical physicist in nuclear medicine representative on the ACMUI. Dr. Zanzonico was appointed in March 2010.

Dr. Pat Zanzonico received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Cooper Union and his doctorate degree from the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences. He served as a Research Fellow, Research Associate, and Assistant Member at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) before joining the faculty of the Department of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine) of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in 1984. Dr. Zanzonico is currently Member and Attending Physicist at MSKCC, Co-Head of the Center's Nuclear Medicine Research and Small-Animal Imaging Laboratories, and Chairman of its Committee on Radiation.

Dr. Zanzonico also serves on the Special Contributing Faculty of the Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School at MSKCC and on the


Radioactive Drug Research Committees (RDRCs) at MSKCC and at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical College. He is a member of the Editorial Board and past Associate Editor of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, member of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP) and of the Medical Internal Radionuclide Dosimetry (MIRD) Committee, and an Expert Consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Dr. Zanzonico has over eighty peer-reviewed publications and over sixty-five invited presentations.

Dr. Zanzonico is actively involved in biomedical research on radionuclide-based methods for detecting and localizing tumor hypoxia, immune effector-cell trafficking, patient-specific dosimetry for radionuclide therapies, and small-animal and molecular imaging.Rugby League star Valentine Holmes is reportedly set to make his return to the NRL next season, after his unsuccessful bid to play in the NFL with the New York Jets.

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Dr. Lusis will be responsible for the day-to-day operation ofthe Program Project, with frequent consultation with the Co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Karen Reue. The Administrative Core has been organized to assist the Principal Investigators in this task. One Administrative Assistant, Melenie Resales is located at UCLA. A committee composed of Dr. Lusis, Dr. Davis and Dr. Pajukanta assisted by Ms. Resales will be responsible for the preparation and submission ofthe human use protocols to the Human Subjects Protection Committee. The three major functions of the Administrative Core are: (1) Administrative: This includes functions which are not routine, but require organizational skills and initiative from our senior administrative personnel. These includes the daily supervision of clerical and accounting functions, but also they include translating into action the decisions made byfor the financial health of the Program Project. All personnel matters for the staff of the Program Project are coordinated by the administrative staff; including hiring, merit increases, and termination of Program Project employees. In addition, the Administrative Core is responsible for ordering and receiving all supplies purchased for the Cores and projects located at UCLA. Melenie Resales, Administrative Assistant to the Program Project, is located in an office adjacent to Dr. Lusis and is responsible for day-to-day administrative details and for expediting the decision made by the Principal Investigators. She will work closely with Ms. Freda Azbijari, an accountant, located and paid by the Dept. Of Medicine. Ms. Azbijari coordinates all UCLA and Cedars-Sinai; expenditures, and prepares each month an updated budget report showing how much has


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Stieber collected his third consecutive individual national title Saturday when he defeated Virginia Tech’s Devin Carter, 10-1, and earned the most national titles in OSU wrestling history.

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A few seconds left. The game teeters on these two free throws. The shooter gulps. The packed gym goes silent, save for the tapping of a white cane on the back of the rim. That's right. The shooter's brother is under the hoop, rapping a cane on the rim. That's because the shooter, Matt Steven, is blind.

So why is a blind kid in a competitive CYO game for sighted high schoolers in Upper Darby, Pa.? Because he doesn't like to miss anything -- especially free throws.

Matt, a senior, had been on the St. Laurence CYO team for a year and never played in a game -- never expected to. "He just likes being on the team," says Matt's brother and coach, Joe. Matt shoots free throws every practice,though, making about half. And that's what gave Joe a crazy, unthinkable, wonderful idea.

Before a charity tourney this past February, Joe asked the other teams if Matt could shoot all of St. Laurence's free throws. Amazingly, they agreed. So did the refs. A blind kid was going to be his team's designated shooter. Hey, it's still better than Shaq.

Did that make Matt nervous? "Nah," he says. "I shoot 'em all the time!"

The first game, Matt came in and -- to the crowd's shock -- made his first two. He was escorted back to the bench, where he grinned as if he had just kissed the head cheerleader. He was 4-for-8 that day.

Matt doesn't talk much -- he has a stutter -- so when Joe got home late after


to be treated normal. Not "He does so great for a blind kid!" Just normal.

That's why the free throws meant so much. He'd begged his parents to let him transfer to a regular school -- Monsignor Bonner. And he'd begged his brother to let him join his friends on the CYO team. And then, for the first time in his life, he was going to be one of them.

Which brings us to Matt's moment in that second game. He'd missed his first six free throws, and St. Laurence was down eight to St. Philomena. Then a full-court press pulled the team to within one with 10 seconds left. That's when St. Laurence's best shooter -- 6'4" senior Ryan Haley -- was fouled in the lane. Surely, with thegame on the line, the team stud would shoot his own free throws, right?

Up in the stands, Matt's mom was hoping: Please don't make him shoot these.

And Haley really was going to shoot them, until he looked over at Matt on the bench. "And I thought, He comes to every game, he never misses a practice, he cheers us on. He deserves a shot. I mean, it's everyone's dream to make those shots."

So out comes Matt. And for the first time, the St. Phil fans aren't rooting for him. In fact, they look like they'd prefer that he shoot straight into the hot dog table. "That might have been the best moment of all for Matt," recalls Joe. "For once, he was just normal."

Now the ball bounces under


Matt's hand. Now the picture shakes in Mom's viewfinder. Now the rim pings from the cane.

Matt lets go. Off the backboard and through. Tie game. Crowd goes berserk. Says Joe: "I think it helped that he's blind. He couldn't see the crowd, the scoreboard, his teammates' faces."

The crowd stills again. Dribble. Tap. Shoot. Bank. Swish! Up by one. The gym windows nearly break.

St. Phil's players forget to give Matt time to get off the court. They race the ball up. Nine guys are running around Matt, who's trying to find a way to the bench. Make that 10, since Ryan's already off the bench and pressing. Make that 11, since Joe -- tears in his eyes -- is trying to get to Matt. Chaos. Joy. Wonder.

St. Phil's desperatestruck by how often language can peg a student with an unshakable label. A student labeled a "troublemaker" may live up to this expectation until the day he graduates. If my task as an educator is to help young people reach their own potential, then assigning a label, be it pejorative or apparently harmless ("theater-kid"), can crimp their personal freedom to grow, transform, and express themselves.

If this limiting effect is true when labeling individuals, it is multiply true when labeling groups of people, communities, and nations. During the Cold War, non-industrialized nations without market economies were described as the "Third World." This hierarchical language placed the United States, Europe, and Australia in a privileged position over Africa, Asia, and Latin America.


at the Capital Times for all the details. My account will be drawing on Elbow’s patient sleuthing, but I also want to recall the glorious, not to mention the inglorious, days of this old house.

Designed by Rapp and Rapp, premiere theatre architects, the New Orpheum opened in 1927. (It was initially called that because it superseded the Orpheum, a vaudeville house in another part of town, which was soon renamed the Garrick and specialized in live theatre.) The New Orpheum’s lavish French Renaissance foyer swept up to a staircase leading to the balcony. The auditorium held over 2400 seats, making it the biggest theatre in town until the slightly larger Capitol was built across the street a year later, also by Rapp and Rapp.

The New Orpheum (hereafter, theOrpheum) was one of those picture palaces that aimed to elevate the filmgoing experience while also being a good community citizen. It had a corps of ushers, a smoking lounge, and a reputation for punctilious service. The theatre sponsored community events too. When the local newspaper launched a marbles tournament, the Orpheum held a screening for 2000 kids.

The kids came early and jammed the State street side of the New Orpheum, so it was necessary to call extra policemen to handle the traffic. Once inside the theatre they yelled and applauded the two comedy features which were shown for them, and practically jumped out of their seats during the showing of “Why Sailors Go Wrong.”

Six months before the 1929 stock market crash, the Orpheum was reportedly selling 20,000-25,000


the chain, and soon afterward RKO cut a deal with the Fox Film Corporation to take over the Strand (1400 seats). The swap permitted Fox to dominate Milwaukee in exchange for making Madison an RKO town for first-run films. Of course, in good oligopolistic fashion the RKO theatres showed films from all the studios, as did the second-run houses.

I’ve been unable to determine at what point RKO lost control of its Madison screens. [But see the P. S. below.] Presumably it was after the 1948 divorcement decrees severed Hollywood studios from control of theatres. At some point the Milwaukee entrepreneur Dean Fitzgerald acquired seven local houses, including the Orpheum, under the rubric of the Madison Twentieth Century Theater Corporation.

In 1969, a second screen was carved out of thebackstage area of the Orpheum and the minuscule theatre that resulted was called the Stage Door. The contrast with the imposing classic house was startling: the Stage Door was almost certainly the worst theatre in town. Then it declined even more. By the end, with its spidery movable chairs and dank atmosphere, it was reminiscent of the storefront theatres of the nickelodeon era, except that they were surely more comfortable.

Less than heavy traffic

Capital Times advertisement, September 1973.

When Kristin and I came to Madison in 1973, we saw a sort of Sargasso Sea of old movie houses. The Majestic, a decrepit vaudeville house built on a plan as cockeyed as an Escher drawing, was showing X-rated fare, kung-fu, and double-bill repertory. It became a Landmark calendar house. A neighborhood


house, the Atwood (aka the Eastwood and the Cinema), built in 1930, screened porn and kiddie shows , though not together. The Esquire also offered sex: arty (The Story of O) or not (Dr. Feelgood, with Harry Reems). The mammoth Strand was still functioning as a first-run house; Star Wars played there for months. The Middleton (seating 500 or so) was designed as a Quonset hut in 1946, and was said to have been built in a week. By our day it was playing second run. The Capitol, where I saw The Exorcist, was still operating too. Every year one theatre or another seemed to run the endlessly popular Eastwood Dollars trilogy.

The mall cinemas were emerging as single-screeners or duplexes. They got the premiere first-run pictures like TheMs. Brews Lounge (Nude Dancing Daily), and The Dangle strip club.

One by one the theatres were closed or converted to other uses. The Capitol became part of an arts complex. The Orpheum remained the only more or less intact movie house from the old days. By 1998, Dean Fitzgerald was ready to sell it.

Two forces were contending for the property. As part of a plan to revitalize the downtown area, the Madison Idea Foundation proposed putting in an IMAX facility. But preservationists objected that an IMAX setup would wreck the layout of the house. By contrast, restaurant owner Henry Doane (right) favored restoration. He proposed to rehabilitate the old place respectfully and use it for art films, film festivals, and live music. He also wanted to install an


upscale café and bar.

Doane won the City Council’s approval and in 1999 he purchased the Orpheum. Throughout the 2000s, thanks to some clever programmers, it played remarkably eclectic fare, from Arnaud Depleschin ‘s A Christmas Tale to Matthew Barney’s Cremaster cycle (running two weeks, no less). In addition, Doane’s plan to revive the Orpheum as a live music venue, with booze, was finding some success. The grand house that had hosted Gene Krupa, Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, and Journey now had popular indie bands. When local critic Rob Thomas drew up his list of ten-best shows for the decade, Orpheum concerts took five places. Most memorably, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones played to a packed house the night after the World Trade Tower attacks, highlighted by a versionof “God Bless America.”

Drinks plus dining plus music kept the Orpheum doors open, but by the late 2000s the place was obviously not flourishing. There were rumors that distributors, long unpaid, were withholding films. The place was becoming disheveled, with seats broken, that stratospheric ceiling ominously peeling, and the sound system a fog of distortion.

Worse, even though most Madisonians had an affection for the old house, nobody much went there to watch a film. Things had started promisingly: Doane’s introduction to the movie business was the blistering summer of Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace and The Blair Witch Project. But that was an atypical season. During the 2000s, most of the biggest audiences showed up during the Wisconsin Film Festival. It was indeed thrilling to see the


stockholder in Orpheum of Madison. A few years before, Fleming had sold Crave to Christina Bishop, his secretary and girlfriend at the time, under the rubric of a new company Evarc (Crave spelled backward).

There were some curious incidents over these years. There were three fires at the Orpheum, at least two considered by the police to be arson. So far no arrests have been made in the cases. There was also reportedly a break-in, during which a computer was stolen. Perhaps the strangest incident involves the fate of Kuzmenko’s payment. Elbow’s article reports Fleming’s account:

He withdrew the $175,000 he got from Kuzmenko in $100 bills from his bank account, put the cash in a plastic bag and handed it over to a guy identified in court records asthat Doane’s original company, Orpheum Theatre Co. of Madison, would be evicted from the premises. Doane replied he knew nothing about this, and indeed he was not evicted. Moreover, he argued that Fleming was making purchases for his own company but billing their original one. And Fleming, he claimed, had changed the door locks. The ALRC, declining to step into the middle of the feud, decided to let Doane’s original company hold the license until ownership was clarified.

Auction fever

That fracas took place a year ago, but things really got going this spring. While Doane was suing Fleming to regain control of the building, the Orpheum faced foreclosure because of unpaid bills. In April it went on the auction block.

Enter Gus Paras (right), once Fleming friend and now Fleming


and live music, with a bar and perhaps a café. As movies evicted vaudeville from the Orpheum in the 1930s, so now live performance has replaced movies. The drama and comedy have moved off the screen into the streets, the Common Council, and the halls of justice.

Steven Elbow follows up his main story here. If anything develops, he will probably report on it in his blog.

The Orpheum website reflects the chaotic state of its circumstances. Videos of the ALRC hearings, from which my three portraits of the protagonists are taken, may be streamed here and here. In late June, Eric Fleming conducted a brief video tour of the Orpheum’s restorations. The most recent application from Kuzmenko’s company requests that the liquor license begin on 1 July 2012 andend on 30 June 2012. Will the fun never stop?

Some accounts date the Orpheum from 1926, but it opened in March 1927. (See, for example, “New Orpheum’s First Birthday Cake,” The Capital Times, 3 April 1928, 3.) To view more magnificent Orpheum photos from the Wisconsin Historical Society collection, go here. The color shot of the Lobby Restaurant is from the Onion. (The Onion originated–where else?–in Madison.) The color shot of the missing front rows is from the 2010 Wisconsin Film Festival. For a sense of what a wedding looks like in the Orpheum, go to Valo Photography.

Wisconsin’s mad flight from sobriety is documented in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel‘s award-winning series. As far as I know, nothing much has changed since that 2008 survey.

P.S. 15 July 2012: Douglas Gomery


writes that RKO probably lost its grip on the Orpheum and other theatres much earlier than I speculated:

The Film Daily Yearbook of 1931 lists RKO holdings in Wisconsin: Madison, the Capitol & Orpheum; Milwaukee, the Riverside; and Racine, the Downtown (literally). In 1932 RKO goes into bankruptcy, and all its Wisconsin holdings disappear from FDY. My guess is that the Orpheum and other houses became locally owned.

Douglas wrote the definitive book on American exhibition, Shared Pleasures, and I thank him for the correction.

P.P.S. 16 July: My original post indicated that Kuzmenko won the Orpheum temporarily before she proved unable to make the down payment. Steve Elbow corrected my claim on this: what she acquired at auction was actually the 300 block property, which had been folded with theplug pin board securing the plug pins, which protrude from the outer surface of the outer casing.
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The inner case has a lower separating wall integral therewith and made of a plastic, the periphery of which sealingly abuts on the inner surface of the outer casing. The inner case secures an electronic parts board above the lower separating wall. Furthermore, the inner case secures a plug board parallel to the case under the lower separating wall. The electronic parts board and the plug board are connected by metal pins. One end of each of the metal pins is fixed to the electronic parts board and the other is fixed to the plug board. Each of the metal


pins pierces through a hole and is retained in the inner case. The outer casing has an open end which is closed by a bottom cover. The bottom cover has a plurality of through holes for plug pins which extend outwardly from the outer casing.
The construction of the electric shaver is characterized by the simplicity of construction and ease of assembly, wherein. the electronic parts board and the plug board are fixed on the inner case and the inner case is then inserted into the outer casing. The advantage of the electric shaver according to the present invention is obtained by the construction wherein the inner case is formed integrally with the lower separating wall abutting on the internal surface of the outer casing, and the electronic partsafter the most thrilling and famous surf on Oahu, this coffee is unapologetically intense and delivers a kick. Aloha Island Bonzai Pipeline is USDA-certified organic and available in 8oz bags of whole bean or ground coffee.

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did the students from the other schools. DP was not associated with income, gender, BMI, stress level, or course load. The majority of the students had inadequate DPs, which inadequacy was associated with both the age of the student and the school that he or she attended.The Film Daily Yearbook, 1930 has this listed as the Atlantic Theatre, with 474 seats and listed as closed. In the 1941 and 1943 editions it is listed as the Scott Theatre with 452 seats and again is listed as closed. By 1950 it is not listed.


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The rule of the Roman Empire is said to have been from 27 BC to 476 AD. There are several factors that contributed to the Roman Empire Fall. These events that led to the fall spanned 500 years ans are as follows:
1. Conflict between the Emperor and the Senate
One of the factors that contributed to the decline of the empire was the friction between the Emperor and the Senate. The Emperor has the power over Rome’s religious, civil and military affairs while the Senate is in an advisory position. Much like the set-up of governments today (except that there is a separation between the Church and the State and that legislation now falls into the hands of the senate and congress). Although there were emperors whowere competent, there were also emperors who were spoiled and power hungry. They led immoral and corrupt lifestyles that led to the unrest in society.
2. The Weakening of Morals
During the span of 500 years, Rome saw the decline or weakening in morals in the upper classes, most especially the emperor. Emperors like Caligula, Elagabalus, Tiberius, Nero, and Commodus all engaged in immoral activities that include promiscuity, large consumption of alcohol, gambling and sadistic cruelty towards man and animals.
3. Corruption in Government and the Praetorian Guard
The Praetorian Guard is an elite group of soldiers responsible for guarding the emperor. They can be seen as the modern Presidential Security Group. After many years, the Praetoria Guard somehow held influence on who will be the next Emperor. If an Emperor holds


and enemy knowledge of Roman Military Strategies
Another factor that led to the fall was the heavy funding for the military and enemy knowledge of the moves of the Roman army. War costs money; there was constant fighting as barbarians saw the decline in the empire. To keep the empire, the Emperor and other officials have to keep on sending men to battle, and this has proven to be very costly. Another factor was enemy knowledge of the tactics used by the Roman Army. The last and most disastrous sack Rome experienced was when it fell to the Visigoths led by a former Roman soldier named Alaric.
Thus, history reveals that the primary reason for the fall of the Roman Empire was the differences between the communal and patriarchal forcesthat gave rise to various internal and external wars, thereby furnishing the decline of the great empire.

One of the most notable periods in the history of the United States is the Industrial Revolution. It is also a major period in global history not only in the US. The industrial revolution period is the period of improved production levels and improved efficiency. The technology, of course, played a major part. The medieval and ancient times had witnessed the long and strenuous hours of hand labor. But because of this hard labor, a paradigm shift occurred involving the manufacturing arena.
The innovation of making use of energy resources and other forms of power resources instead of people working long hours relying heavily on hand labor has been made possible because of


link between humans and nature.
Nevertheless, all of these considerations and understandings do not change the proven fact that the Industrial Revolution created a lasting impact on the world life patterns and operating mechanisms. Be those industrial wireless controls industrial wireless hands-free operation, the strength of its impact can never be ignored. Technological innovations have introduced the best and the worst of consequences of it.
One of the most notable periods in the history of the United States is the Industrial Revolution. It is also a major period in global history not only in the US. It was a period characterized by time efficiency and productivity.
The technology, of course, played a major part. Long and strenuous manual labor was a thing int he ancient and medieval period. But this veryBANJA LUKA – Primary school students from a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina went to a five-day excursion, and after some time it turned out that seven schoolgirls got pregnant on it. Illustration National Coordinator for Reproductive Health of the Republika Srpska Nenad Babici said that children engage in sexual relations as early as at age of 13 or 14 and added that primary school students from a small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina went to a five-day trip, and after some time it turned out that seven schoolgirls got pregnant on it. He said that the reason for this was the neglect of parents, but also educational institutions, toward the education of children.

Babic said that early engagement in sexual relations later leads to a series of


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I've been here at EGX Rezzed in Tobacco Dock, London which as some of you may know is home to numerous indie dev studios. But in here amongst the startups, there are also some of the big boys. The subject of this interview is none other than Rich Aldridge of Creative Assembly. It's fair to say that much of Rich's life in recent times has been devoted to creating a piece of gaming history. Total War as a franchise marked 15 years in existence last year and in many ways the future has never looked brighter.

Fans of the series are reliable, as evidenced by the years of success the franchise has had. But some quarters have been calling out for the IP to branch out from the historicalhung over, tired, played a sub-optimal deck, and played poorly. That's an accurate high-level summary of my Vintage exploits. Done.The Old School was unreal, as could be expected.I was matched up round one against fellow Chicago Lord, Matt Slack who wrecked me in two quick games and went on to get fourth place in the event. I can't beat Matt in any format, so this is to be expected.I played against Evan Nyquist, of Atlanta and the Team Tusk crew, in an earlier round of the event. I got pretty lucky, but he still held on for a long time. He was super fun to play against, and was a beast in Chaos Orb -flipping.We chatted Old School and had a great time. He mentions our match and


match), of another Atlanta-based crew, the Tax Men, on White Weenie. He was so drunk that he had a hard time coming in to play our match (by the time he won, he had no idea that he had actually won, was nowhere to be found, and when finally found, thought that he had to play another match). Despite his state of mind, he absolutely wrecked my in two games, top-decking an Armageddon for the win the turn before I could play my Wrath of God My final loss was to John Grudzina on a pretty stock build of the deck (with Factories and The Hive ). It was standard bad beats—his draws were better than mine, and in a control matchup, that will do it.In the endassembled on a foundation constructed at the construction site in advance by specialized workers (carpenters). Therefore, it takes time to disassemble such a prefabricated house once built. Thus, the prefabricated house is not easy to move from the construction site.
Meanwhile, a trailer house used as a dwelling which can be moved to any installation site is proposed in Japanese Utility Model Registration No. 3127532. Such a trailer house has already been assembled with a predetermined room arrangement, and is pulled and moved to an installation site, using a trailer truck or the like. At the destination, the trailer house can be used as a dwelling in which people live a life.
However, the above-described prefabricated house is inconvenient, because the prefabricated house is fastened at the construction site and


Uncovering the Promise and Peril of Intelligent Computing

Investors are used to seeing the Dow Jones Industrial Average register five-figure values. The Dow has consistently closed above 10,000 points since the end of 2003, except for a few months during the darkest days of the global financial crisis. However, until the 1980s, Dow-watchers were most familiar with three-digit index values. The history of the three-digit Dow is far more extensive than the four- or five-digit Dow, and this history began on Jan. 12, 1906, the first day that the Dow closed with a three-digit value since its 1896 creation.

The Dow's closing value of 100 represented a 144% increase in the decade since Charles Dow first published it. In those days, the Dow had only 12 components, two of whichwere the preferred shares of U.S. Rubber -- now part of Michelin -- and U.S. Steel . The Dow's impressive rise with such limited variety is even more striking considering the woes of Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad, a component that The New York Times derided as one "advertis[ing] the fact that it is virtually cornered" and said that "the position of the stock is so well known that even the bucketshops are afraid of it." The moribund company merged with U.S. Steel, its largest rival, in the aftermath of the Panic of 1907.

The Dow couldn't sustain its hold on 100 for very long. By mid-February of 1906, the index again slipped beneath the three-digit level, vindicating the brokers who told the Times on Jan. 12 that "we


and chemicals. Juniper Networks and Rackspace Hosting confirmed that they had been targeted, and reports also identified defense contractor Northrop Grumman and Dow Chemical among the prime targets.

Google's investigation found that intellectual property had been stolen, and that the Gmail accounts of a number of human-rights advocates had been illicitly accessed. As the investigation unfolded, both corporate and political reports began to claim that the intrusions were directed and supported by the Chinese government. Further digging traced the source of the hacks to a massive Chinese vocational school whose computer network was operated by a company linked to Baidu , China's leading search engine.

Operation Aurora's masterminds suffered no apparent repercussions in the aftermath of Google's announcements and the subsequent public debate. The hacking group continued to actively attackthe computer systems of major American corporations more than two years after their initial exposure. Google moved its Chinese operations to Hong Kong shortly after the news broke, where they have remained ever since.

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do ... On Jan 12, 1992, the supercomputer HAL-9000 became operational. The central character in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (in the book, HAL becomes operational on the same day in 1997) has influenced technologists and futurists ever since the film's release in 1968.

Many of the advances HAL embodied have since come true, although a bit later than expected. Apple , which recruited HAL for a Super Bowl ad touting its Macs' Y2K compliance, has recently popularized a "human touch" in natural language processing and speech recognition with


membership meeting. Pursuant to a motion from the floor, the members voted to re-open nominations until April 3, 1991. Nominations were re-opened for all offices not just those for which no candidates were nominated.
A Bloomsburg professor, William Acierno, submitted his name as a candidate for vice-president. Plaintiff complained that it was improper to re-open nominations for offices which already had candidates. After checking with the union's central office in Harrisburg, BUFA agreed with Saini. Acierno was asked to withdraw his nomination and did so.
The election was held April 11 and 12, 1991. Union by-laws permit votes to be cast for write-in candidates. A total of one-hundred-forty-two votes were cast in the vice-presidential race. Of those, Saini received 65 votes. Acierno received 48 votes as a write-in candidate. Twenty-ninevotes were cast in favor of other write-in candidates. Since no one candidate received a majority of the votes cast, union by-laws required a run-off election between the two candidates with the highest number of votes, Acierno and Saini.
Plaintiff boycotted the run-off election in protest, taking the position that union by-laws did not authorize a run-off election and that he should be declared the winner. He stated his views on the subject in an open letter to the Bloomsburg faculty sent out before the run-off election. The election was held over plaintiff's objection. Acierno received 81 votes and was declared the winner. Saini received 29 votes. Plaintiff alleges that BUFA and Dalton discriminated against him in conducting the election in the manner that they did.
Plaintiff also complains about


Another sign of growing traction for AMD Epyc processors, Nikhef, the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics, has expanded its datacenter with single-socket Dell EMC PowerEdge R6415 servers powered by the 32-core AMD Epyc processor. The institute, a partnership of The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and five Dutch universities (Radboud University, University of Groningen, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University and VU University Amsterdam), is using the new hardware to support a broad array of subatomic physics-driven projects.

Experts in the fields of particle physics and astroparticle physics, the 175 scientists from Nikhef address the great physical questions of our time, pertaining to the elementary building blocks of our universe, their mutual forces and the structure of space and time. Nikhef is engaged in world-leading international projects, sucha genre that I have not heard after that in my life. That music made me dizzy and we decided to leave the place.

After roaming around the city, we finally came back to our hotel at midnight. As we had only few hours to catch our flight early in the morning, we decided to go to the Marriott lounge bar and to our pleasant surprise a Filipino band was playing English songs there. There were not many people in the lounge at that time. Seeing us, the Filipino girls got excited because they finally had three people who were able to understand what they were singing.

One of those girls initiated a conversation with us and when she found that we loved western music, she invited me to join


Donald Trump is often said to be unprecedented in American history, and in some respects he is. But not entirely.

There is one other demagogue in the age of mass democracy and mass media who paved the way for Trump. Though he never got all the way to the White House, he was for a period an immensely influential political figure. His contemporary, the American novelist Wallace Stenger, described him in terms that apply equally to Trump: “a shifty manipulator of the truth and a man ambitious for personal power”.cinema + discussion: blog

The prospect of Ramin Bahrani’s new Fahrenheit 451 adaptation for HBO (airing tomorrow on May 19) was an enticing one. With a cast featuring Michael B Jordan (whom I loved in Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther) as Montag, Michael Shannon as Beatty, and Sofia Boutella as Clarisse, it promised to be an all-too-relevant study of control and government manipulation in the age of fake news. At a moment when the arts are under threat from funding cuts and disinterested leaders, and the humanities are as devalued as the humanity of anyone who isn’t straight, white and male, the film might offer a vital critique of our imperilled literary culture.

In the film, Bahrani neatly addresses the rise of digital media by introducing a sinister surveillance system,


profusely, knelt and begged for forgiveness, and Wu Zetian did not take any actions against him at the time.

Fall from power
However, the Wu clan princes, still despising Ji Xu, reported in 700 that Ji's younger brother had submitted false documentations in order to be made an official.  As a result, Ji Xu was demoted to be the sheriff of Angu County (安固, in modern Wenzhou, Zhejiang).  Before he departed, he had a last meeting with Wu Zetian, in which he wept and stated, "I am departing far from the palace gate, and I may never see Your Imperial Majesty again.  However, I have some final words."  Wu Zetian ordered him to sit down and asked him what he had to say.  HeAre we really doing enough to find asteroids, especially the smaller ones that could destroy a city? A private initiative urges a rapid ramp-up of the search effort — but not everyone agrees.

"There are a million asteroids in our solar system that have the potential to strike Earth and destroy a city, yet we have discovered just 1% of them."

This is the premise behind Asteroid Day, a private initiative backed by well-known science communicators, celebrities, astronauts, and scientists that calls for a "rapid hundred-fold acceleration of the discovery and tracking of Near-Earth Asteroids to 100,000 per year within the next ten years." To raise the public's awareness of the threat from space, they've declared June 30th "Asteroid Day" — as a reminder of the Tunguska event, during which


into the ocean," Christensen adds. He sees the B612 Foundation as one of the driving forces behind Asteroid Day. Established by former astronauts Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart, this organization is trying to raise funds to build and launch a space-based infrared survey telescope to search for NEOs. "The B612 foundation has provided a steady stream of fear-based press releases over the last few years in order to scare up funding for their project," says Christensen. This tone is also found in Asteroid Day's declaration, he adds. "It is full of language that turns asteroids into menacing killers, injecting an inordinate amount of fear into what could be a reasoned discussion about the asteroid-impact threat."

Timothy Spahr, former director of the IAU's Minor Planet Center, concurs: "Much of theeach table offering 5-10 different wines. As such, I was not…

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In Part 1 of my attendance at the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Fair, I reviewed wines of New Zealand and Argentina. Here in Part 2, I’ll cover the rest of the world (or at least parts that I had a…

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In the first part of my notes on the 31st Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival I talked about BC wines as this was the featured region. But there was more than just BC wines at the


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Burgundy produces arguably the the most characterful wines in the world. For those who don’t know, Burgundy is famous primarily for Pinot Noir and for Chardonnay, but also is known for Gamay (which makes Nouveau Boujoulais). The region is divided…

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Alsace, located in eastern France, has a long history of wine making. The Rhine River flows through the Alsace region and the wine trade from the 12th to the 16th century was almost monopolized by Strasbourg and Cologne as the…Epilogue 17

She noticed the care slowing down, just as she had noticed it circling many times, cruising. The car stopped and she watched the window slowly wind down. She tottered over towards it, balanced on perilous heels, and leaned forward, deliberately revealing her deep, inviting cleavage.

"So what'll it be, lover?"

The phrase still felt uncomfortable on her lips, as did the whole experience, but she was learning quickly.


An airstrike hits an outdoor market in Idlib, leaving a child’s severed torso lying in the street among scattered plasticware and household items. Another hits a residential neighborhood in Aleppo sending a stream of wounded people to the hospitals. Shelling kills a woman and three children outside of Damascus. Hours after the United States and Russia announced an agreement for what Secretary of State John Kerry called “a genuine reduction in violence” in Syria, the regime of president Bashar al-Assad responded with what appeared to be a surge in violence on Saturday.

The renewed shelling and airstrikes in rebel-held sections of Syria comes two days before the agreement is set to go into effect, in time for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. For Syrians living the reality of aof the agreement as been made public, but Kerry described the terms of the deal in broad terms. The agreement calls on Russia to restrain the Assad government, with whom it is allied, from carrying out indiscriminate attacks in opposition-held areas. Following a seven-day “period of reduced violence,” the agreement then calls for the U.S. and Russia to work together to launch strikes against both ISIS and al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, formerly known as the Nusra Front.

The agreement comes nearly a year after Russia intervened in Syria, unleashing a devastating campaign of airstrikes that strengthened Assad’s campaign to reclaim key areas of the country lost to the rebels and jihadist groups over five years of war. If it succeeds, the accord would have the US cooperate in a


more targeted air war that singles out extremist groups.

In Syria, the announced agreement raised more questions than it answered. One key question is how the U.S. and Russia would implement the plan to cooperate on airstrikes against Nusra. Unlike ISIS, Nusra is allied with other, more mainstream rebel groups. The group announced a formal split with al-Qaeda in July, and in August it played a central role in a rebel alliance that succeeded in breaking the siege of the opposition-held section of the city of Aleppo, a move that won it some public support in the long-suffering rebel-held section of the city. The group also re-shaped its own public image, and now calls itself Jabhat Fateh al-Sham.

Nusra’s presence among other opposition groups poses a dilemma that has contributedthey will play in a posible ceasefire. Along with Russia, Iran also supports the Assad regime, along with Iraqi militias and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. In August, Turkey also sent tanks into Syria to support rebels retaking Syrian border towns from ISIS. Excluded from any potential ceasefire, the jihadists of the Islamic State could also play a spoiler role, carrying out attacks on civilians.

Fred Hof, a former State Department Special Adviser on Syria, said in an email, “If, in the end, Russian airstrikes in Syria are subjected to an American veto and the Assad regime is kept from striking civilian neighborhoods, something of great value will have been accomplished. Nothing good can happen politically in Syria unless civilians are removed from the Assad regime and Russian bullseye.


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by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: East Asian Tigers, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan

Japan has gone first to be last having been just overtaken in the last year or two by South Korea on a per capita real GDP basis, PPP. The Lost Decade certainly has taken its toll on Japanese relative prosperity. Singapore overtook Japan in the 1970s – a testament to the Singapore miracle. Hong Kong too overtook Japan on a purchasing power basis in the mid-1990s followed not long after by Taiwan. Singapore is seriously rich.

Source: The Conference Board. 2015. The Conference Board Total Economy Database™, May 2015, http://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/Houston Zoo reinstates 'no gun' signs despite controversy

Photo: Craig Hlavaty | Houston Chronicle A "weapons prohibited" sign has been reinstalled at the Houston Zoo...

The Houston Zoo has reinstalled a series of signs that prohibit the carry of firearms into the gates of the family-friendly attraction almost three months after being forced to take them down at threat of legal action.

Attorney Edwin Walker with Texas Law Shield, a legal services firm for gun owners, sent a demand letter to the Houston Zoo and its corporate entity and the city's parks and recreation department on Sept. 3 asking that they take down all 30.06 (guns prohibited) signs at the zoo.

The signs came down just a week or so after the letter was received and read.

After the signs came down the


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John Reed was the kind of man who, one instant, might touch you to your very core -- send a symphony into the marrow of your bones. But he was also the type who, the next instant, might prove exasperatingly shallow. Such was his sad contradiction. There he'd be reciting something truly something -- but reciting it at the exclusive room of the trendiest possible of-the-second club to an audience of those beautiful and ambitious New Yorkers who, though not always successful at it, were the most "willing, " in the name of glory, to lead lives unexamined and vapid.

His tragic and untimely demise unfolded at a juncture when I was most disgusted with him -- for not a month earlier, his reprehensible behavior hadon industry-specific drivers, restraints, opportunities and challenges in the hematologic malignancies market. The scope of this report covers the hematologic malignancies market by its major segments, which include the types, applications, and the major geographic regions.

KEY BENEFITS OF THE REPORT

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Understanding of the strategies that are being adopted by the key players in this market to stay competitive

Valuable insights into the key technological and market trends impacting this market

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The hematologic malignancies market is growing at a rapid pace during the forecasted period mainly because of rise in number of patients suffering from blood cancer around the world. Due to this there is also an increasing focus on development of new treatments for cancer, which


is promoting the market growth.

The key market players in the oncology sector are collaborating and entering into partnerships and acquisitions to develop new treatment techniques which are creating more growth opportunities for the hematologic malignancies market. The new regulatory policies required for new drugs approval is driving the market growth further.

The global hematologic malignancies market is divided into four major geographical segments which are North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of the World (RoW). The North America region holds the highest market share of the hematologic malignancies market and proves to be the largest revenue contributor. The region continues to dominate the global market during the forecasted period because of availability of large number of key players, well-established healthcare infrastructure, and presence of effective drugs for treatment ofAP

It took Bernard Pollard only five minutes into the preseason to get his first personal foul as a Tennessee Titan.

Early in the first quarter of Thursday night’s game, Washington quarterback Kirk Cousins hit receiver Aldrick Robinson for 15 yards along the sideline. Pollard ran up to Robinson, lowered his head, and drilled him in the back just as he was stepping out of bounds. He was flagged for unnecessary roughness and the Titans were penalized 15 yards.

The hit was, indeed, unnecessary: Pollard didn’t need to hit Robinson at all, as Robinson’s momentum was already taking him out of bounds. And even if Pollard felt that he needed to make absolutely certain that Robinson was going out of bounds, Pollard could have done that by shoving Robinson with his


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NEW DELHI: The juvenile offender in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case is set to walk out of the special home in the next few days, after the Delhi high court on Friday refused to stay his release citing lack of any legal provision to intervene.A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath instead directed the Juvenile Justice Board and Delhi government to chart out a plan for his “social mainstreaming” once the JJB interacts and consults him on his post-release rehabilitation. He is likely to come out of the home on Sunday when he finishes the three-year term.“Jurm jeet gaya, hum haar gaye (Crimeplan on providing him with a one-time financial grant of Rs 10,000 and a sewing machine so that he can rent a tailoring shop. As per the WCD scheme, custody of the juvenile can be handed to the parents but counsellors should accompany the family to their village or any other destination.In his petition, Swamy had claimed there was a lacuna in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000, as amended in 2011. Swamy maintained that “no provision has been made in the Act, to provide for vicious unregenerate convicted juveniles who despite having undergone the reformation process for the maximum penalty of three years custody in a special home, continue to be a menace to society.”The Supreme Court had earlier rejected Swamy's petition challenging


the constitutional validity of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000.But HC on Friday converted his plea into a PIL and decided to examine how juveniles convicted for heinous crimes can be best tackled. Six persons, including the juvenile, brutally assaulted and raped a 23-year-old girl in a moving bus in south Delhi on December 16, 2012. The victim succumbed to her injuries in a Singapore hospital on December 29, 2012.Convicts Mukesh, Vinay, Pawan and Akshay were awarded death penalty by the trial court, later upheld confirmed by the Delhi high court. Their appeals are pending before the Supreme Court. Accused Ram Singh had allegedly committed suicide in Tihar Jail on March 11, 2013. Proceedings against him were dropped following his death.Eugene police officers could arrest individuals who are trespassing on planter strips — the narrow areas of land between sidewalks and curbs — under a proposed revision to city law that will be subject to a public hearing Monday night.

The move comes amid public concerns about homeless people camping or loitering and leaving garbage and other debris on the strips that are visible to residents and passing motorists.

Monday's meeting before the Eugene City Council begins at 7:30 p.m. in Harris Hall, located within the Public Service Building, 125 E. Eighth Ave. The public hearing will begin after the council's public comment period.

Planter strips provide a buffer between motorists on the streets and walkers on the sidewalk. They also can beautify the streetscape with plants, flowers and street trees.

Under


envisaged financial inclusion at a time when there was no governmental intervention to make things better for the poor and marginalized. Before the advent of Islam, the poor never enjoyed the state support. More often, they were left to fend for themselves. Even today in the absence of assured assistance from the state, the poor and marginalized sections of the society find themselves at the mercy of market forces.

Historically, the mechanism for financial inclusion in Islam may be linked to economic exigencies in the early period of the Islamic era in particular and the moral and ethical obligations of the Islamic state in general. Before the migration of the Prophet from Makkah to Madinah in 622 CE, the economic condition of Muslims, except in the case of atwo serious problems. First, it was necessary to find a way of accommodating the migrants into the city’s economic system. Secondly, the Makkans in their frustration had sent an ultimatum to the Madinans, saying “Our enemy is amongst you. Kill him or drive him out, otherwise we shall take the necessary steps”. The Prophet met these two challenges bravely. He succeeded in overcoming almost every odd before him. Using his farsightedness and economic wisdom, the Prophet in due course of time changed the course of history of the world.

The Prophet summoned the ansar and muhajirun and paired every muhajir with a nasir as his brother. The ansar readily accepted the arrangement and shared their property, movable and immovable, with their brothers-in-Islam. The Prophet also appealed for donations for


to the poor and needy was arranged. This entire process was given the place of ibadah and termed as zakah. For the first time in the history of world religions, Islam accorded made the financial inclusion of the poor and needy into a religious tenet.

The second means of financial inclusion is the practice of infaq, where there is a regular and compulsory transfer of funds in favour of poor and needy all though the year. The volume of transfer is voluntary but transfer per se is compulsory. In fact, in Quran, the word infaq is repeated more than zakah. The Islamic means of zakah and infaq, on one hand improved financial position of the poor and marginalized, on the other, these two inflicted a severe blow to theWashington (CNN) All four liberals on the Supreme Court dissented in Monday's 5-4 case upholding Ohio's method of removing voters from its rolls.

Justice Stephen Breyer led the charge, interpreting the National Voter Registration Act, also known as the motor voter law, as barring Ohio's process. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor joined the dissent in full.

But then, on her own, Sotomayor went further and focused on something else: the impact the ruling will have on minority voters.

"Our democracy rests on the ability of all individuals, regardless of race, income or status, to exercise their right to vote," she wrote in a separate five-page dissent.

Her opinion earned a rebuke from conservative Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion. It also prompted some to question if


Anderson Cooper Coming to Daytime

Anderson Cooper has finalized a deal to host a syndicated daytime talk show set to launch in fall 2011.

The show is from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and its Telepictures production unit.

In making the announcement on Thursday, Warner Bros. Domestic Television president Ken Werner noted the "great opportunity in the marketplace" next year when the dominant daytime personality Oprah Winfrey exits for cable and OWN.

"Fall '11 begins a transition period when long established franchises are leaving the air and making way for a new generation of shows," said Werner in a statement. "Anderson Cooper is one of the most distinctive voices of the next generation of television. His popularity and skills uniquely position him to be the next big syndication franchise."

Cooper will also executiveproduce the program, which will aim to present daytime subjects grounded in journalism.

Copper is no stranger to daytime: he's made more than 30 appearances on Disney-ABC's Live with Regis and Kelly, substituting for Regis Philbin, and multiple appearances on CBS Television Distribution's Oprah.

"The format is unique and you can really go in-depth on a wide range of fascinating and compelling stories," said Cooper in a statement. "With this new program I hope to relay important information and relate to people and the audience in a completely different way."

At the same time, Cooper has extended his contract with CNN.

Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide announced Cooper's contract extension Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but Walton noted in a statement that Cooper will be "with us for


years to come."

The news comes as former HLN chief Ken Jautz moves into the top executive spot at CNN and while the network is re-inventing the majority of its primetime line-up, an overhaul necessitated by foundering ratings. Indeed, Cooper's 10 p.m. program finished the just completed third quarter down more than 40% year-to-year among total viewers and adults 25-54.

While silver-haired Cooper has made his name as a newsman, he built his fame on outwardly emotional response to many of the news stories he's covered, particularly when Hurricane Katrina caused wide destruction in the Gulf Coast in 2005.

Although Warner Bros. is known for taking a slow and steady approach when it comes to selling shows, the company will ask for cash license fees in a TV station market thathas somewhat recovered since the downturn of 2008, and that will have more money to spend due to an influx of retransmission consent fees, political advertising and the coming end of CBS Television Distribution's very expensive Oprah.

Most TV stations have already made programming decisions with regard to how to fill the time slots that will be vacated by Oprah after this season, the show's 25th, comes to a close. But syndicators also expect other time slots to become available, although stations aren't expected to make any decisions about what shows will stay and what will go until after the November ratings results come out, at the earliest.

Distributors are keeping a close eye on the NBC owned stations, which operate in top markets. The group this fall launched three


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Ms Taylor claimed Mr Stanard, who represented about 32,000 people living in Utah’s District 62, first approached her on 7 March 2017.

He allegedly wrote: “Looking at your website. Can you meet?”

In a second text he added: “Would need to be tonight. Only in town a little. Anytime. Can do in or out. At hotel in downtown SL.”

They exchanged a string of messages but Ms Taylor was unavailable because her 10-year-old son was sick.

He messaged her again the following month but she was again unavailable, and they met for the first time at a hotel in downtown Saltoperating primarily in brothels or loitering in public.

The allegations against Mr Stanard created a backlash in fiercely Republican Utah, where the majority of the populace is Mormon and politics is heavily influenced by the church.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ doctrine bars sexual activity outside of marriage and adultery is regarded as one of the greatest of all the sins next to murder.

In 2016, Utah also became the first to decry pornography as a public health crisis in a bill that Mr Stanard supported.


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Thiago Falgetano, was born in 1983 in Sao Paulo, "Falge" is known by the abbreviation of his last name since he was in high school. The love for art comes from when he was just a child drawing all over the walls and the furniture on his house. At school he was a problem because all he wanted to do was draw on the desks, walls, and even on the bathrooms.

This desire to draw all over the place was fulfilled in 1990 when Falge had his first contact with "pixacao" (tagging) and started to admire the work of other "pixadores" (taggers) and learn more about the culture. Along with that he made some friendships with older "pixadores" that had a huge influenceon his works.

In 1995 he bought his first can of spray paint and called some friends to go tag, after that day it became and addiction that he followed daily for a long period. But it got to a point where he wanted something more complex instead of just tagging his name on the walls.

In 1997 one of his friends from school showed him a magazine specialized in graffiti. It was love at first sight, he was fascinated with the magazine he had on his hands because back then it wasn't a lot of graffitis on the city, and it was hard to find a book or a magazine about this theme. In that very moment he left the "pixacao" behind and started to study drawing until he


in our running, in our attack play. On defense just holding them back. They are a good team, a good defensive team, good attacking team. Defensively I think we stepped up huge and that helped us moving forward.”

They jumped back on the score board when fullback Seth Halliman sent a pass outside to inside center Mika Kruse for a try in the corner.

When a Seawolf was presented a yellow card, the Raptors kept their foot on the gas. De Achaval exploited the Raptors’ man advantage with a grubber into the in-goal that was jumped on by London for his second try of the match.

The Raptors finally put an end to their 33-point streak when Connor Cook rumbled into for the final points of the match.

From there on out,degradation, compromised heathcare practices, and movement of people from areas of low to high endemicity \[[@B16]\]. Death rates of over 60 times the baseline have been recorded among refugees and displaced people, with over three-quarters of these deaths caused by communicable diseases \[[@B17]\].

Following the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, local health care system in these Northern areas collapsed and help was summoned from all major cities of the country. International aid was also sought by the government, which was reciprocated significantly by the United Nations, the Red Crescent Society and other donor agencies. Not only did these relief organizations provide the necessary field and camp hospitals, but also offered the much-needed healthcare services to the affectees of the earthquake. Emergency health-providing facilities, clinics, operating rooms and laboratories were established


study we have attempted to evaluate the effects of the earthquake of 2005, in the afflicted community residing in the Northern areas of Pakistan. We analyzed the prevalence, and any potential rise thereof following the disaster, of blood borne infections in the earthquake-afflicted communities HIV and HCV infections were used as indicators of blood-borne infections. We report here that no cases of HIV were found in the earthquake-affected areas immediately or 11 months following the disaster. We, however, recorded a 3.26% prevalence of HCV in the same population immediately following the disaster. Slightly higher (5.51%), albeit statistically non-significant, prevalence of HCV was recorded 11 months after the disaster.

Disasters are considered a major public health concern. They may cause an unexpected number of deaths, injuries, or illness in the— In April 1775, the mighty British Army marched on the towns of Concord, Massachusetts, intending to capture and destroy Colonial military supplies. Afterwards, rebel militiamen counterattacked, forcing the British regulars to retreat back to Boston. Thus began the Revolutionary War.

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Image copyright NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI Image caption This strange terrain is on the eastern edge of the new colour image from the Ralph camera

A great swathe of Pluto that features a strange rippling terrain is perhaps the highlight of the latest image release from the New Horizons mission.

The Nasa probe, which flew by the dwarf planet in July, continues to downlink its data, and as it comes in, the scientists get to work on it.

The ripples stretch for many hundreds of km.

"It looks more like tree bark or dragon scales than geology," observed mission team member Bill McKinnon.

"This'll really take time to figure out; maybe it's some combination of internal tectonic forces and ice sublimation driven by Pluto's faint sunlight," the Washington University, St Louis, scientist said in a USYet another London lassy is making her debut in the Tamil Film Industry. Samira is a former Miss UK (2009) winner. Amy Jackson too made her debut in Kollywood, after she won a beauty pageant contest. Samira plays the lead lady in the upcoming film, Vinnai Thodu.

Incidentally, the name of the director is also Vijay (Same as the director of Madrasapattinam, who introduced Amy). Tej, who played the protagonist in Gandham, plays the lead in this romantic flick. The film has been shot in Chennai, Bangalore, Mysore and London.


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History

Origin

Rocketed from the dying planet Krypton by his scientist father, Jor-L, baby Kal-L landed in Smallville, where he was found and raised by John and Mary Kent. Instilled with their moral values, and finding himself possessed of powers beyond those of regular men, Clark Kent took on the identity of Superman, the greatest hero of Earth-Two.

Early Years

Superman was born Kal-L of the planet Krypton. His father was the esteemed scientist, Jor-L, and his mother was a librarian named, Lora. While Kal-L was still a toddler, his father discovered that the planet Krypton teetered on the brink of absolute destruction. Realizing that there was not enough time to save everyone on the planet, he deposited his son inside of a specially designed rocket ship and launched him into outerspace. As Kal-L's rocket broke the atmosphere, the planet Krypton exploded. After traveling through space for an indeterminate amount of time, his rocket eventually crash-landed in a small farming community named Smallville, on the planet Earth. Though at first placed in an orphanage, Kal-l was soon adapted by the Kents and given the name Clark. Over time he discovered his many powers. Mary (Ma) Kent later died and when John (Pa) Kent was on his death bed, he made Clark promise to use his powers for the good of mankind. Taking the advice to heart, Clark created the identity of Superman.

Superman Begins

Clark earned himself a job as a reporter at the Daily Star after turning in a story about Superman's first public act. Unlike the later portrayals of


the character, Superman was NOT originally considered a hero and was in fact regarded as a vigilante working outside and at times against the established legal authorities. Many of the earliest public actions showed Kal-L engaging in aggressive actions against wife beaters, slum lords and various other social criminals which included corrupt politicians and law officials. As time progressed, Kal-L began to fight against larger more direct and obvious criminal organizations which gathered his public identity as a hero most notably against the Earth-Two Alexei Luthor, who unlike the Earth-One Lex Luthor still had his red hair and a far more bloodthirsty nature. As Clark Kent, he reported on his own costumed adventures and was eventually partnered with Lois Lane, a courageous female reporter who had a crushon Superman but didn't think much of the timid Clark Kent. Lane and Kent would usually butt heads with each other on getting the most adventurous stories mostly on Superman. But the two eventually became respectful of each other. Lane would eventually start to suspect that Kent and Superman were one and the same based on Kent's continual missing absences whenever Superman would appear and Kent's extensive detailed reports before Lane could phone in the story despite being at the scene of the adventure. Lane would eventually confirm her suspicions resulting her marrying Kent in the 1950s. These stories would be later printed as the "Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Superman" in the DC "Superman Family" series.

Powers and Weaknesses

Kal-L was originally unaware of his powers and his own


nature as a Kryptonian, thinking of himself as an advanced human of Earth. Kal-L's superpowers were a result of his Kryptonian heritage, whereby the Kryptonians native to his original universe had known superhuman abilities and powers. As the character progressed, so did his power levels. For example, Kal-L was able to progress to actual flight where originally he could only leap about an eighth of a mile. His strength level increased to extensive power levels where he started out merely lifting cars and was later shown in 1940s adventures as being able to lift and throw army tanks. His first clue to his alien nature was discovered when he battled Dan Rivers aka "Swami Riva". The green stone Riva wore in his turban was actually Kryptonite. Superman defeatedRiva and then went on a voyage of discovery to find out the stone's origins. Superman was able to time travel under his own power to watch his father Jor-L and the events that led to him being sent to Earth.

After his return to current time, Kal-L continued to battle an ever increasing amount of advanced villians including the Puzzler, The Archer, Ultra-Humanite, Toyman, Prankster, Funny Face, and many more. During one battle with Funny Face, Superman clashed with an unliving duplicate of his psuedo-criminal identity of the Flying Tiger (possessing powers and weaknesses comparable to his original, not unlike Bizarro).

But while most of these villains were usually operating on scientific based equipment, Superman found his most effective villian in the form of the short mostly purple suited


mystical imp, Mister Mxyztplk. Mister Mxyztplk exclusively used magic to completely frustrate Kal-L time and time again which were used to interfere with Kal-L's abilities. But because most of Mister Mxyztplk's capers were done more to frustrate and annoy than cause harm and physical death, many of Mister Mxyztplk's pranks had no lasting detrimental effects on Kal-L or the inhabitants of the third dimension unlike the Earth-One version Mister Mxyzptlk who is shown to be far more dangerous even occasionally killing Earth-One inhabitants as part of his experimentations. Kal-L was a formidable presence and helped to establish the Justice Society of America. Due to various personal adventures, Superman was only able to join the Justice Society as an honorary member. He would later join the reformed team underthe World War II incarnation called the All-Star Squadron.

1950s

After establishing himself as one of the premiere heroes of Earth-Two, Kent later started to focus on his personal life, advancing his own reporter career to become the Lead Investigative Reporter for the Daily Star. But always mindful of his dual persona, Kent kept his ambitions in check and Kent largely remained a retiring persona. This would change in the early 1950s when two of Kal-L's enemies would fight to see which nature was more powerful the advanced science of Colonel Tomorrow or the ancient mystical powers of the Wizard. After several defeats at the hands of the "Man of Tomorrow" Colonel Tomorrow challenged the boasted powers of the Wizard to prove its effectiveness over his own super-science against their