Wednesday, July 29, 2009

55. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: the True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession, by Allison Hoover Bartlett

There are many kinds of book collectors. Some collect a particular author or subject matter, some incunables and others modern first editions. Most are rational, law-abiding citizens. But sometimes the urge to collect becomes an obsession, as with Sir Thomas Phillipps' desire to own a copy of every book in the world. (I highly recommend A.N.L. Munby's Portrait of an Obsession, a distillation by Nicolas Barker of the five volumes of Phillipps Studies.) And sometimes, as with John Gilkey, the subject of Ms. Bartlett's book, it causes the collector to turn to crime.

Gilkey was (is?) a book thief. He seemsto have wanted books, not for their content, but to have them, to possess them as physical objects, and as a signifier of taste. But, not having the money to build his collection, he took the view that he had a right to have a collection and that, if book sellers charged more than he could afford, he could simply take them. He gathered, often through retail jobs, credit card information, and used this to purchase books.

Bartlett juxtaposes Gilkey's story with that of Ken Sanders, a book seller and one-time chair of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America security committee, who became as obsessed with hunting down Gilkey as Gilkey was with hunting down books to steal.

Bartlett conducted extensive interviews with both, and one of the most interesting


aspects of this book is the way its writing caused the author to become a bit obsessed herself, not so much with books, though she feels a bit of temptation herself, but with the story. She goes with Gilkey, during a time when he was not locked up, to a store from which he had stolen in the past. He reveals to her certain information, and she struggles over whether to pass it on, knowing that, if she does so, he might close his mouth to her and affect her ability to write her book.

There are those who, looking at my double-shelved bookcases, and the piles of books on my floor and most flat surfaces in my apartment, would call me a woman who loves books too much.I feel what Bartlett terms the "sensory enticement" of books, enjoy the feel of a heavy paper with deckle edge, the smell of a leather binding, the heft of a volume in my hand. But I cannot fathom stealing a book, however tempted, and would say, with the medieval scribe, that a book thief should have "his name be erased from the book of the living and not be recorded among the Blessed".

The book is well-written and well-researched (though I noted a couple of errors in legal procedure, these are minor in relation to the book as a whole), and is sure to please all who love books, detective stories, and the psychology of obsession.

56. Bibliomania: a Tale, by Gustave Flaubert

This small volume from the Rodale Press contains


the short story by Flaubert, based upon the true story of a monk who, upon the dispersal of his monastery's library, set himself up as a bookseller in Barcelona. When a rival book dealer outbid him for a unique volume, the rival's home burned down and the man's body was found in the ruins. When the book was found in Don Vincente's home, he was charged with the murder and confessed to it, and others - all people who had bought books from him, books that he could not bear to lose. At his trial for murder, his counsel argued against the alleged motive, contending that the book was not, in fact, unique. This revelation upset DonVincente more than being convicted and sentenced to death!

Flaubert's tale does notfollow Don Vincente's story exactly. Some of the alterations he introduces create a very different sort of character of his protagonist. Giacomo, the former monk, was not a librarian. Indeed, he can barely read. His obsession is for books as objects: "He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odour, its form, its title". His desire for the unique book is "to have it for himself, to be able to show to all Spain, with a smile of insult and pity for the King, for the princes, for the savants, for Baptisto, and say: 'Mine, this book is mine!' and to hold it in his two hands all his life, to fondle it as he touches it, to take in all its fragrance as


he smells it!"

There is a twist at the end of Giacomo's trial that shows how far a man may go to ensure that he and he alone owns a book.

The Rodale Press edition has suitably spooky illustrations by Arthur Wragge (one accompanies this review). Unfortunately, the translator is not identified.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

It was a beautiful day today. The sun was shining, the temperature was, well, temperate, neither too hot nor too chilly. It was the sort of day when one should be outside playing. But, for many, including myself, the joys of perfect summer weather had to give way to the joys of the final, half-price, day of the annual Newberry Library Book Fair.

I fortified myself with a good breakfast, put a few cloth bags and a---
Italianos, Muscovites, and even Americanos ---
Undershirts, underdrawers, kimonos, socks, bedclothes, pajamas;
PInk, red, green, of various tints, shades and colors;
Some with holes in them, some without holes in them;
Tattered, faded, patched, the Female's equally with the Male's I sing.

This is one funny book.

Okay, I got a bit carried away there! I meant to just list what I bought, but I couldn't resist telling more about that one.

I also found:

Jammin' at the Margins: jazz and the American cinema, by Krin Gabbard

The Journal of Major George Washington: An Account of His First Official Mission, Made as Emissary from the Governor of Virginia to the Commandant of the French Forces on the Ohio, Oct. 1753-Jan. 1754 (a facsimile)

The complete guide to Boston's Freedom Trail, which will come in handy on my trip


there in August

Venice Botteghe: Antiques, Bijouterie, Coffee, Cakes, Carpet, Glass... A Handbook for the Self-Assured Shopper, which I hope will come in handy in the not-too-distant future!

Iain Pears' The Titian Committee

Shylock: a Legend and its Legacy

Fay Weldon's Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen

Reading Zen in the Rocks: the Japanese dry landscape garden

Talking Mysteries: conversations with Tony Hillerman (which includes a Jim Chee short story)

Unlawful Occasions, a Henry Cecil book that I don't already have!

Boccacio's The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta

The Story of Kormak, translated by William Morris and published by the William Morris Society, with plates of Morris' manuscript

The Narrowing Stream, by John Mortimer

Lincoln esteemed Washington, a collection of Lincoln's known references to the first President, by Edmond Meany

and last, but certainly not least, "Dear Julia--"; lettersfrom Martha Freeman Esmond to her friend Julia Boyd, of New York, in the days--"When Chicago was young"

I also picked up a couple of books for my sisters: Zydeco, by Ben Sandmel with photographs by Rick Olivier, and Great Buildings of San Francisco: a Photographic Guide, by Robert C. Bernhardi. Both excellent books which I wouldn't mind having myself, should either turn out to be already owned by the intended recipient.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Susan Bielstein is the executive editor for art, architecture, classical studies, and film at the University of Chicago Press. In that capacity, she has dealt with the vexed and complex question of how intellectual property law applies to the visual arts, in the context of the use of images to illustrate academic texts.

Now, it would


their upbringing, social positions and expectations brought them, first, together, and then into conflict. I was, frankly, surprised to find how much I had learned from a book of slightly over 100 pages!

As one who believes that one of the great disadvantages of closed stacks and internet search engines is the minimized opportunity for digression and serendipitous finds, I was delighted to read that this book was the result of Professor Brucker's fascination with a story that he came across while doing research into another matter at the Florentine State Archives. Indeed, he temporarily abandoned that research to concentrate on this story. A man after my own heart!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

If you are going to write a biography of someone who has been the subject of as manyThe Angel's Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Anyone who loved Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind will be enthralled by this story of a young journalist who, after having made his name writing pulp fiction, is hired by a mysterious publisher to create the founding scripture of a new religion. Set in Barcelona in the 1920, the novel follows the career of David Martín as he becomes entranced by the beautiful Cristina Sagnier and ensnared by Andreas Corelli of Éditions de la Lumière.

We again find ourselves visiting the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, where Martín chooses (or is chosen by) a book called Lux Aeterna. (Odd coincidence: I reached this point in the novel just after listening to Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna on the radio.) He soon learns that the


author lived and worked in the house that he himself has bought, but the connections are, in fact, deeper and odder. As Martín hunts for information about that author and his strange employer, he is plunged into mystery upon mystery, and with him we haunt the dark side of Barcelona and of life.

Along with the darkness are humorous bits. When Martín ghostwrites a novel for a wealthy friend that is published at the same time as his own maiden effort under his own name, Zafón takes a jab at critics, as the former that is praised as "a mature, rich work of great quality" while the latter is dismissed as "perhaps this year's worst literary debut". Venal publishers come in for a bit of sniping, as well.

I thinkthat it will be hard for Zafón to top Shadow of the Wind, but The Angel's Game is certainly a fine second novel.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón at International HouseZafón was recently interviewed by 57th Street Books' Tom Flynn, at the University of Chicago's International House.

Comparing The Angel's Game to The Shadow of the Wind, he describe the former as darker, and more complicated, than the latter. They are both parts of what he expects to be a four book "series". "Series" in quotes, because the order of reading is not critical. The experience of the reader will differ depending upon that order, as you combine pieces of a puzzle.

He wanted to use Barcelona as a character. In The Shadow of the Wind, the city was a stagnant, post-Civil War


world, while in The Angel's Game, it is a city in turmoil, exploding with the violence of the Civil War to come. The book reflects the darker nature of the times.

In future books, says Zafón, we will learn more about the Cemetery of Lost Books. The idea for that place came to him originally in Los Angeles, a city that made him think about the destruction of memory. Driving around the county, and finding gargantuan second-hand bookstores like Long Beach's "Acres of Books", a store with corridors of books, housing a demonic cat. With the loss of such stores, we lose not just books, but ideas and a sense of identity.

On literature: many people who become writers experience literature as an ungrateful lover. LIterature tries to figure outthe basic elements of life. When it works, it helps us better understand ourselves and the world.

What books made an impression on him? The world of books itself, of language, words, style. As a child he read everything. He has never trusted the labels we put on books. In his work, he is trying to communicate respect for books.

On the translations of his books: the translator, Lucia Graves, is the daughter of Robert Graves. She read his books and came to him with the idea of translating them into English, although she had never done so professionally. Reading the first pages she translated, he felt she captured the essence of the his book. They worked together - she would translate, he would review it and provide ideas. (He


himself is quite fluent in English.) Says Zafón, you only notice a translation when it doesn't work.

50. The City of Dreaming Books, by Walter Moers

At Lindworm Castle in the country of Zamoria, every young dinosaur has an authorial godfather who is responsible for his literary education and training. When young Optimus Yarnspinner's godfather, Dancelot Wordwright, dies, he leaves his charge a manuscript of such surpassing genius, a piece of writing so perfectly right, that Optimus decides that he must find the author and learn from him.

And so he leaves home and heads for the city of Bookholm, a town that "reeks of old books", where the inhabitants walk with "stacks of books under their arms - indeed, many tow whole handcarts laden with reading matter". But as heby an odd form of music, the populace madly invades the bookstores, "sweeping books off the shelves regardless of title or author, price or condition . . . I had been smitten with an insatiable hunger for books and only one thing could cure it: buy, buy, buy!" Sounds like me at the Newberry Library Book Fair.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

What is the loss of art, compared to the murder of millions of human beings? Perhaps little. Yet art is part of what makes us human, and the destruction and theft of art because of its associations with people of a particular ethnicity is soul murder.

During World War II, the Germans looted the great museums and the great private collections of Europe. Much of this loot has never been


recovered, and, even where it has, much of it has not or cannot be restituted, because of lack of records, resistance from its current "owners" or because there are no survivors left to reclaim it.

This is the historical backdrop for Sara Houghteling's beautiful first novel.

Max Berenzon (a nod, perhaps, in the direction of Bernard B?) is the son of a Parisian art dealer and his concert pianist wife. Though his father, Daniel, spends hours with him, getting him to memorize the paintings in his exhibitions, Max is not encouraged to enter the business, but rather is urged to go to medical school. Daniel instead hires as assistants young curators from the Louvre, with one of whom, Rose Clément, Max will fall in love. Despite that time spent together,there is no real closeness between Max and his father, and his one attempt at sharing in the business ends in disaster, as he bids on a Manet that turns out to be a forgery. Then the war closes in and the Berenzons flee to the town of Le Puy, and hide in the home of a gentile.

The Germans are routed from Paris. It is August, 1944, and the Berenzons return to their home to find thee had been a fire, and that the paintings in the gallery vault have disappeard. They will learn that many more entrusted to a bank vault are also gone. Max begins his attempts to find and recover his father's collection. In the process, he learns family secrets that go a long way


to explaining that lack of closeness, that lack of encouragement, that he experienced.

The first, pre-war, part of this novel describes a Paris under the cloud of the coming war. The warnings are there, observed. Some heed the warnings, others, like Max's friend Bertrand's family, cannot believe that the service and sacrifice they have given France will not protect them.

The second part I found even more compelling, as Max learns the extent of the losses. These are not merely losses of art, but losses of trust, learning of how other dealers have turned a blind eye to the sources of what is now hanging on their walls. But there is honor and bravery, too. Believed by some to be a collaborator, Rose (whose character is based on a realperson, Rose Valland) has, in fact, spent the war protecting art, letting the Resistance know the trains on which it is being spirited out, so they will not be bombed, secretly documenting what art the Germans have taken. She is living now with her piles of paper, knowing they will be needed.

Art is important. Its loss, particularly under these circumstances, is a tragedy. But Houghteling does not let us forget the greater loss, the loss of life under circumstances which are almost unimaginable. While Max searches for the lost paintings, he is also searching for news of his friend, Bertrand, and is taken under the wing of a survivor of the camps, who wonders when he will learn the news of his wife and son. There is a


particularly compelling passage in which Max's wartime experience at LePuy is contrasted with that of Chaim Tenenwurzeil:

"It was at Auschwitz that [Chaim] learned of the German surrender at Stalingrad, thus locating his arrival there in February of 1943.

"That same winter, I was in Le Puy, where the stark, bare tree branches were like Chinese calligraphy against the sky. After a storm, Monsieur Bickart enlisted me to shake the snow from their boughs so they would not be damaged . . .

"The winter Chaim was first interned, Mother embroidered handkerchiefs for us all and gave them out on Christmas morning, out of respect for our host. We drank a fierce hot cider, then Father and Mother played belote while Monsieur Bickart stirred the fire, lost in thought, with theflush of the fire and the cider in his cheeks."

Suffering is relative.

This is a stunning debut novel, well-researched, with characters who are psychologically believeable. The portraits Houghteling draws of Paris in the days before and after the fall of Paris have the absolute ring of truth.

Friday, July 3, 2009

"The following day, no one died." Thus begins this odd little book in which Saramago imagines what happens in a country in which no one dies. People who should die remain just this side of death. At first, the country rejoices. Death is vanquished! But then reality sets in. Who will care for those who ought to be dead? What will become of undertakers, and the issuers of life insurance policies? The Catholic Church realizes that if there is no


death, there could no resurrection, and therefore no point to having a church. When it is discovered that death's hiatus is confined to one country, a profitable business springs up to smuggle across the border those who ought to be dead.

Then, after several months of no one dying, a letter on violet-colored paper mysteriously appears on the desk of the director-general of television, a letter from death (small "d", as she insists). Te letter announces that people will start to die again, but that from now on they will receive due warning from her, in the form of a violet-colored letter. So death begins again, but, to her surprise, one letter keeps coming back to her. The intended recipient does not die on schedule. She, curious, follows him.Severe anemia, sickle cell disease, and thalassemia as risk factors for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy in developing countries.
Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy are one of main causes for maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality in developing countries. This study is to determine whether specific types of anemia are risk factors for hypertensive disorders during pregnancy in developing countries. Using data from the World Health Organization Global Survey for Maternal and Perinatal Health, collected in hospitals in six African and six Latin American countries from 2007 to 2008 and in four Asian countries from 2004 to 2005, we examined the associations between severe anemia, sickle cell disease and thalassemia, and gestational hypertension or preeclampsia/eclampsia. A total of 214,067, 112,531, and 9,325 women were included in the analyses on severe anemia,


Stories of a German family in England

Personal accounts of life on the Front line and at home sent to a Colonel debarred from active service in the First World War, will be on display for the first time at Nymans.

At the outbreak of the war, Colonel Leonard Messel of Nymans in West Sussex was debarred from active service on account of his German ancestry. Keen to play his part, instead he devoted his time to training battalions of the Royal East Kent Regiment known as the Buffs. It was these young men who wrote to him throughout the war.

To mark the centenary of the First World War, Nymans is displaying selected contents of some of the 491 letters Colonel Messel received alongside audio recordings.

Visitors will also be ableto discover the impact of the war on other people within the Nymans circle, from Leonard’s father Ludwig, who is said to have died broken-hearted by the conflict between the two nations he loved, to his wife Maud and her household who worked tirelessly at the nearby VAD hospital.

Highlightsof the exhibition

Highlights will include:

• Leonard Messel’s personal copy of transcribed letters, which he treasured and carried with him. Known to be at least 70 years old, the book miraculously survived a devastating fire at Nymans in 1947.

• A new insight into the personal stories of several soldiers from the Buffs.

• A look at the anti-German sentiment and First World War propaganda of the time.

Discovering the letters

The personal nature of the soldiers’ letters illustrates the close bond that existed between


Hospital, Rouen

The Colonel continued to provide comfort and support to his men and their families throughout the war, writing personal notes to those whose sons were never to return:

“Dear Col Messel
I had no idea until after his death what a favourite he (Harold) seems to have been with everyone; from the High Commis of New Zealand in whose employ he was, and all heads of departments, down to small shopkeepers in our neighbourhood who have spoken to me in the same strain. He was so awfully keen too, to get to the front, and to do his ‘bit’.

The letters also highlight the Colonel’s understanding of the divide that existed between his own privileged lifestyle and the desperate personal circumstances of some of his soldiers.

Other letters bring home thehimself and then by his grand-daughter Victoria.

“Leonard had copies of the letters made into a book which he is said to have treasured, and which thankfully survived a huge fire at Nymans in 1947. We can only imagine what it must have been like for him, having to stay behind while the men he had trained gave their lives for their country. He must have written hundreds of letters to them, and to their families, which obviously gave them great solace. This is their story, and this is our tribute to them all.”

‘The Great War - Stories of a German family in England’ runs from 14 June to 31 August.


Saturday, 8 November 2014

Review: Psipunk

When people talk about the antecedents of the Cyberpunk genre, there's another science fictional sub-genre that comes to prominence: the psychic detective story. Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man, PKD's Minority Report, Larry Niven's The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton... all importantprecursors of cyberpunk, and all books I've somehow managed not to read. The genre had a brief revival in the 1990s with Katherine Kerr's Polar City Blues and Peter Hamilton's Greg Mandel trilogy. That latter example is something I have read; in fact those stories were my introduction to cyberpunk.

So psychic-cyberpunk (psiberpunk?) story has precedent, but a surprisingly limited history in games - perhaps when faced with Shadowrun, genre purists simply decided to put aside anything that stank of magic. So Jacob Wood's Psi-Punk,the rules were, Fudge was the most commonly raised suggestion. As a system, it's very easy to, uh, hack (pun both unintended and unavoidable...).It's a kinda magic

Someone mentions "cyberpunk" to a photographer, out come the hideous blue-white LED set-ups, every time #askmehowIknow
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) October 23, 2014

I kid, I kid...The electronic edition of Psi-Punk comes in a neatly laid out, bookmarked PDF, complete with an electric blue-white cover. In the grand tradition of every cyberpunk game written since the Matrix, the covers and page borders are full of endearing little grey 1s and 0s. The B&W artwork is fun, "pink mohawk" and not trying to be too serious. I can't tell if the piece on PDF page 124 is the stupidest or the absolute best piece of


that the CIA never did interrogations," said John Prados, a senior fellow at the National Security Archive. "The manual cited in the Senate report was created for that purpose."

Among the historical examples Prados cited was Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko, who was interrogated for several years at the hands of the CIA. Nosenko was handled "abusively enough" that the agency would later give him a cash payment, Prados said.

Here’s how Nosenko’s experience was described in his 2008 New York Times obituary:

"After numerous lie-detector tests and many interrogation sessions, the CIA. determined that Mr. Nosenko was telling the truth. He was released in 1967, given $80,000 and a new name and sent to spend the rest of his life somewhere in the South, with occasional trips to Langley, Va., toRainbow's end : a Richard Jury novel

Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury flies to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where an address links three women murdered in England. One died in Salisbury's Roman ruins, a second in Exeter Cathedral and a third at the Tate Gallery in London. By the author of The Horse You Came in on.

概要：

Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury flies to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where an address links three women murdered in England. One died in Salisbury's Roman ruins, a second in Exeter Cathedral and a third at the Tate Gallery in London. By the author of The Horse You Came in on.


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Meet Audrey

She loves drawing and playing with her friends. Months ago, Audrey started experiencing abdominal pain, fever and fatigue. Her parents took her to their doctor. After multiple tests, she was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a soft-tissue cancer. Before long Audrey started experiencing significant treatment side effects, including heart and neurologic problems, landing her in the ICU with an uncertain prognosis.

Audrey is not alone. More than 400 individuals in the US will be diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma in 2019, mostly children and teens. Most will experience serious side effects, like Audrey, due to treatment. Many will relapse with difficult to treat mutations.

We are here for them. We are here for Audrey.

Created in 2015, on research from world leading chemist Dr. Jindřich “Henry” Kopeček, ourArmed with some of the top young players in the NHL, the Toronto Maple Leafs ended a three-year Stanley Cup Playoff drought by finishing as the second wild card from the Eastern Conference last season.

Led by center Auston Matthews, the No. 1 pick in the 2016 NHL Draft, the Maple Leafs had three of the top four rookie scorers in the League last season. Matthews, who won the Calder Trophy, was first with 69 points (40 goals, 29 assists). Forwards William Nylander (22 goals, 39 assists) and Mitchell Marner (19 goals, 42 assists) finished tied for third with 61 points each.

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With teams having a better idea of what to expect from the Maple Leafs' talented young core this season, the road to the playoffs


last season. … Ron Hainsey, D: He signed a two-year, $6 million contract on July 1 after joining the Pittsburgh Penguins prior to the NHL Trade Deadline last season. Hainsey, 36, had eight points in 25 playoff games to help the Penguins win the Stanley Cup.

Video: F Patrick Marleau signs 3-year deal with Maple Leafs

Key departure

Brian Boyle, C: Acquired by the Maple Leafs prior to the trade deadline from the Tampa Bay Lightning, Boyle became an unrestricted free agent and signed a two-year contract with the New Jersey Devils on July 1. The 32-year-old has 169 points (93 goals, 76 assists) in 624 NHL games for the Maple Leafs, Lightning, New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings.

Video: ANA@TBL: Boyle goes five-hole for eventual SO winner

On the cusp

Kasperi Kapanen,F: Scored two goals for the Maple Leafs in the first round of the playoffs after having 43 points (18 goals, 25 assists) in 43 AHL games. Kapanen, 21, has a strong chance to make the NHL roster out of training camp. … Jeremy Bracco, F: A second-round pick (No. 61) in the 2015 NHL Draft, Bracco split last season between Windsor and Kitchener in the Ontario Hockey League, and had 25 goals and 58 assists in 57 games. The 20-year-old had two goals and three assists in seven playoff games for Windsor. … Travis Dermott, D: Another second-round pick (No. 34) by the Maple Leafs in 2015, Dermott, 20, took a big step in his first season of professional hockey. He had 24 points (five goals, 19


assists) and 60 penalty minutes in 59 games for the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League. He also had five points in 11 Calder Cup Playoff games. … Rinat Valiev, D: The 22-year-old made his NHL debut last season and was held without a point in 10 games. A third-round pick (No. 68) in the 2014 NHL Draft, Valiev had 13 points and 79 penalty minutes in 47 games for the Marlies. … Andrew Nielsen, D: Entering his second full season as a professional, Nielsen (6-foot-3, 207 pounds) had 14 goals, 25 assists and 82 penalty minutes in 74 games for the Marlies. The 20-year-old was selected by the Maple Leafs in the third round (No. 65) of the 2015 draft.

What they still need

Another defenseman to helpthem become more structurally sound in their own zone. The Maple Leafs allowed 234 goals last season (22nd in the NHL), a statistic that will need to improve if they hope to build on what they accomplished last season.

Pete Jensen's fantasy focus

The Maple Leafs had the best rookie core in the League last season with Matthews, Marner and Nylander, and have a chance to take a further step forward fantasy-wise. An often-forgotten name among that group is defenseman Nikita Zaitsev, who sustained a concussion late in the season but has enormous potential playing on the first power-play unit with his fellow second-year players and Marleau this season. Zaitsev's 36 points were third among rookie NHL defensemen (Zach Werenski, 47; Brady Skjei, 39), and his 12 power-play points were


ROME — Ten-man Roma scored a late equalizer to salvage a 1-1 draw with Juventus on Monday and keep alive its faint Serie A title hopes.

Former Barcelona midfielder Seydou Keita headed in following a free kick in the 78th minute at the Stadio Olimpico after Carlos Tevez had given Juventus the lead 14 minutes earlier with a curling free kick.

Tevez's goal came shortly after Vasilios Torosidis was shown a second yellow card for a debatable foul on Arturo Vidal, marking the fourth red for Roma in its last four Serie A meetings with Juventus.

The latest red card could revive controversy that followed the teams' first meeting this season in October, which Juventus won 3-2 with the aid of glaring refereeing errors.

The rematch was a physical test that saw11 yellow cards branded.

It marked Roma's sixth consecutive draw at home and the Giallorossi's seventh stalemate in their last eight matches.

"We needed three points and nothing else," Keita said.

Juventus maintained a nine-point lead over Roma with 13 rounds remaining, while Roma moved four points ahead of third-place Napoli in the race for a direct Champions League berth.

"I'm pleased with what we did until the 70th minute," Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said. "In the second half we improved a lot, we took the lead, but then we stopped playing.

"The season still has a long way to go and we're going to have to win more matches, especially on the road," Allegri added. "We took a step forward but we're still far from reaching our goal."

"Down a goal with 10


men, a reaction like that shows the squad is alive and has personality and character," Roma coach Rudi Garcia said. "Now we've got to focus on defending second place.

"The match was very tactical with the goals coming from set pieces," Garcia added.

The match started 15 minutes late to show solidarity for crisis-hit Parma, which is on the verge of financial failure and has had its last two matches postponed indefinitely.

Neither side produced clear chances in a tense and physical first half that saw no shots on goal.

The closest either team came to scoring early on came when Kostas Manolas intercepted a cross from Alvaro Morata and nearly redirected it into his own net in the 22nd.

On the half-hour mark, Keita couldn't take advantage of a close-range opportunity andgoalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon quickly collected the danger.

Juventus winger Roberto Pereyra dribbled past three defenders to set up Tevez in the 42nd but the Argentine's shot was deflected wide.

Both sides came out with more aggression for the second half and a long, angled shot from Vidal went just wide in the 50th.

It wasn't until just after the hour mark, though, that the course of the match changed. That was when Torosidis was whistled for what appeared to be a light touch on Vidal.

With Juve free-kick specialist Andrea Pirlo missing due to injury, Tevez stepped up, and curled the ensuing free kick over Roma's wall and inside the left post from 22 yards. Roma goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis was left standing rooted as the ball sailed past him into the


net.

It was Tevez's 15th goal of the season, moving one ahead of Inter Milan's Mauro Icardi atop the league scoring chart.

Buffon then preserved the lead by pushing wide a header from Manolas in the 72nd.

In the 77th, Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini — the recipient of Luis Suarez's bite at the World Cup — was shown a yellow for a foul on Roma substitute Juan Iturbe just outside the area on the right flank. Florenzi's ensuing free kick was redirected by Keita beyond the reach of Buffon with Juventus midfielder Claudio Marchisio claiming the last touch in a failed attempt to deny the goal-bound effort.conduct's prohibition on lobbying the NSW government for 18 months upon leaving office.

However, he said that given the club is in Queensland, he could not foresee a circumstance under which this would happen.

Mr Annesley gained an early profile by raising the issue of sports gambling in his inaugural speech to Parliament.

He voiced his concern at the ‘‘enormous growth of gambling on sporting events and specifically the relatively recent advent of more exotic bet types, previously unavailable’’.

This type of betting was ‘‘potentially the most significant threat to the integrity of sport we have ever confronted’’.

Last year, Mr Annesley oversaw the introduction of laws which impose jail sentences of up to 10 years for match fixing, race fixing and other forms of corruption in sport.

Mr Annesley was appointed to cabinet


shortly after being elected as the member for Miranda at the 2011 election.

The resignation will spark a byelection in Miranda.

In a statement, Premier Barry O’Farrell said Mr Annesley was ‘‘an exceptionally valuable member of the team and has handled his sports portfolio with skill and expertise’’.

‘‘Everyone knows Graham’s passion for rugby league and his background in the game as both a referee and sports administrator,’’ Mr O’Farrell said.

‘‘While this is obviously a decision I regret, I understand why Graham has decided to pursue the opportunity put to him by the Titans.’’stigma and prejudice from the time of the Black Death and early outbreaks of cholera to the 1918 influenza pandemic ([@R2]) and to the first influenza pandemic of the twenty-first century, the 2009 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 outbreak ([@R3]).

Quarantine (from the Italian "quaranta," meaning 40) was adopted as an obligatory means of separating persons, animals, and goods that may have been exposed to a contagious disease. Since the fourteenth century, quarantine has been the cornerstone of a coordinated disease-control strategy, including isolation, sanitary cordons, bills of health issued to ships, fumigation, disinfection, and regulation of groups of persons who were believed to be responsible for spreading the infection ([@R4],[@R5]).

Plague
======

Organized institutional responses to disease control began during the plague epidemic of 1347--1352 ([@R6]). The plague was initially spread by sailors, rats,


and cargo arriving in Sicily from the eastern Mediterranean ([@R6],[@R7]); it quickly spread throughout Italy, decimating the populations of powerful city-states like Florence, Venice, and Genoa ([@R8]). The pestilence then moved from ports in Italy to ports in France and Spain ([@R9]). From northeastern Italy, the plague crossed the Alps and affected populations in Austria and central Europe. Toward the end of the fourteenth century, the epidemic had abated but not disappeared; outbreaks of pneumonic and septicemic plague occurred in different cities during the next 350 years ([@R8]).

Medicine was impotent against plague ([@R8]); the only way to escape infection was to avoid contact with infected persons and contaminated objects. Thus, some city-states prevented strangers from entering their cities, particularly, merchants ([@R10]) and minority groups, such as Jews andpersons with leprosy. A sanitary cordon---not to be broken on pain of death---was imposed by armed guards along transit routes and at access points to cities. Implementation of these measures required rapid, firm action by authorities, including prompt mobilization of repressive police forces. A rigid separation between healthy and infected persons was initially accomplished through the use of makeshift camps ([@R10]).

Quarantine was first introduced in 1377 in Dubrovnik on Croatia's Dalmatian Coast ([@R11]), and the first permanent plague hospital (lazaretto) was opened by the Republic of Venice in 1423 on the small island of Santa Maria di Nazareth. The lazaretto was commonly referred to as Nazarethum or Lazarethum because of the resemblance of the word lazaretto to the biblical name Lazarus ([@R12]). In 1467, Genoa adopted the Venetian


was improved ([@R13]--[@R15]).

In connection with the Levantine trade, the next step taken to reduce the spread of disease was to establish bills of health that detailed the sanitary status of a ship's port of origin ([@R14]). After notification of a fresh outbreak of plague along the eastern Mediterranean Sea, port cities to the west were closed to ships arriving from plague-infected areas ([@R15]). The first city to perfect a system of maritime cordons was Venice, which because of its particular geographic configuration and its prominence as a commercial center, was dangerously exposed ([@R12],[@R15],[@R16]). The arrival of boats suspected of carrying plague was signaled with a flag that would be seen by lookouts on the church tower of San Marco. The captain was taken in a lifeboat to thecountries.

The first English quarantine regulations, drawn up in 1663, provided for the confinement (in the Thames estuary) of ships with suspected plague-infected passengers or crew. In 1683 in Marseille, new laws required that all persons suspected of having plague be quarantined and disinfected. In ports in North America, quarantine was introduced during the same decade that attempts were being made to control yellow fever, which first appeared in New York and Boston in 1688 and 1691, respectively ([@R18]). In some colonies, the fear of smallpox outbreaks, which coincided with the arrival of ships, induced health authorities to order mandatory home isolation of persons with smallpox ([@R19]), even though another controversial strategy, inoculation, was being used to protect against the disease. In the United States, quarantine legislation, which until


1796 was the responsibility of states, was implemented in port cities threatened by yellow fever from the West Indies ([@R18]). In 1720, quarantine measures were prescribed during an epidemic of plague that broke out in Marseille and ravaged the Mediterranean seaboard of France and caused great apprehension in England. In England, the Quarantine Act of 1710 was renewed in 1721 and 1733 and again in 1743 during the disastrous epidemic at Messina, Sicily ([@R19]). A system of active surveillance was established in the major Levantine cities. The network, formed by consuls of various countries, connected the great Mediterranean ports of western Europe ([@R15]).

Cholera
=======

By the eighteenth century, the appearance of yellow fever in Mediterranean ports of France, Spain, and Italy forced governments to introduce rules involving the use ofquarantine ([@R18]). But in the nineteenth century, another, even more frightening scourge, cholera, was approaching ([@R20]). Cholera emerged during a period of increasing globalization caused by technological changes in transportation, a drastic decrease in travel time by steamships and railways, and a rise in trade. Cholera, the "Asiatic disease," reached Europe in 1830 and the United States in 1832, terrifying the populations ([@R21]*--*[@R24]). Despite progress regarding the cause and transmission of cholera, there was no effective medical response ([@R25]).

During the first wave of cholera outbreaks, the strategies adopted by health officials were essentially those that had been used against plague. New lazarettos were planned at western ports, and an extensive structure was established near Bordeaux, France ([@R26]). At European ports, ships were barred entry if they had "unclean


during the cholera epidemic of 1865--1866. (Photograph in the author\'s possession).](12-0312-F3){#F3}

A turning point in the history of quarantine came after the pathogenic agents of the most feared epidemic diseases were identified between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. International prophylaxis against cholera, plague, and yellow fever began to be considered separately. In light of the newer knowledge, a restructuring of the international regulations was approved in 1903 by the 11th Sanitary Conference, at which the famed convention of 184 articles was signed ([@R31]).

Influenza
=========

In 1911, the eleventh edition of Encyclopedia Britannica emphasized that "the old sanitary preventive system of detention of ships and men" was "a thing of the past" ([@R34]). At the time, the battle against infectious diseases seemed about to be won, and the old health practices would([@R31]), could not play any role during the outbreak. At the beginning of the pandemic, the medical officers of the army isolated soldiers with signs or symptoms, but the disease, which was extremely contagious, quickly spread, infecting persons in nearly every country. Various responses to the pandemic were tried. Health authorities in major cities of the Western world implemented a range of disease-containment strategies, including the closure of schools, churches, and theaters and the suspension of public gatherings. In Paris, a sporting event, in which 10,000 youths were to participate, was postponed ([@R36]). Yale University canceled all on-campus public meetings, and some churches in Italy suspended confessions and funeral ceremonies. Physicians encouraged the use of measures like respiratory hygiene and social distancing. However, the measures were implemented too


affected the local populations ([@R3]). The role that the media would play in influencing public opinion in the future began to take shape. Newspapers took conflicting positions on health measures and contributed to the spread of panic. The largest and most influential newspaper in Italy, Corriere della Sera, was forced by civil authorities to stop reporting the number of deaths (150--180 deaths/day) in Milan because the reports caused great anxiety among the citizenry. In war-torn nations, censorship caused a lack of communication and transparency regarding the decision-making process, leading to confusion and misunderstanding of disease-control measures and devices, such as face masks (ironically named "muzzles" in Italian) ([@R35]).

During the second influenza pandemic of the twentieth century, the "Asian flu" pandemic of 1957--1958, some countries implemented measures to controlspread of the disease. The illness was generally milder than that caused by the 1918 influenza, and the global situation differed. Understanding of influenza had advanced greatly: the pathogenic agent had been identified in 1933, vaccines for seasonal epidemics were available, and antimicrobial drugs were available to treat complications. In addition, the World Health Organization had implemented a global influenza surveillance network that provided early warning when novel influenza (H2N2) virus, began spreading in China in February 1957 and worldwide later that year. Vaccines had been developed in Western countries but were not yet available when the pandemic began to spread simultaneously with the opening of schools in several countries. Control measures (e.g., closure of asylums and nurseries, bans on public gatherings) varied from country to country but,


at best, merely postponed the onset of disease for a few weeks ([@R38]). This scenario was repeated during the influenza A(H3N2) pandemic of 1968--1969, the third and mildest influenza pandemic of the twentieth century. The virus was first detected in Hong Kong in early 1968 and was introduced into the United States in September 1968 by US Marines returning from Vietnam. In the winter of 1968--69, the virus spread around the world; the effect was limited and there were no specific containment measures.

A new chapter in the history of quarantine opened in the early twenty-first century as traditional intervention measures were resurrected in response to the global crisis precipitated by the emergence of SARS, an especially challenging threat to public health worldwide. SARS, which originated in Guangdong Province,2003 SARS outbreak and the 2009 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic. The history of quarantine---how it began, how it was used in the past, and how it is used in the modern era---is a fascinating topic in history of sanitation. Over the centuries, from the time of the Black Death to the first pandemics of the twenty-first century, public health control measures have been an essential way to reduce contact between persons sick with a disease and persons susceptible to the disease. In the absence of pharmaceutical interventions, such measures helped contain infection, delay the spread of disease, avert terror and death, and maintain the infrastructure of society.

Quarantine and other public health practices are effective and valuable ways to control communicable disease outbreaks and public anxiety, but these strategies have


for his help with English language editing.

This work was conducted with financial support from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Sassari.

Prof Tognotti is a professor of the history of medicine and human sciences at the University of Sassari. Her primary research interest is the history of epidemic and pandemic disease in the modern era.
Let's get this straight: the so-called RoastBusters who were the subject of a 3 News report last night are rapists. I'm hardly the first to say this: people in their own social networks seem to have been telling them the same for at least a year.

I discovered today that a friend's teenage daughter had encountered them. They tried to make her get into the boot of a car. She didn't, and she told her mum about it. Their actions might have been news to most of us last night, but it appears that they're known amongst their own. And that will be just as they like it.

Are these young men performing acts they've seen in pornography? Yes. But there's more to it than that. They're narcissists and bullies


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For instance, along with all linked accounts. Although she mentioned the name of the investorsIt should come as little surprise that the Shawinigan Cataractes – a team with a chief logo and a caricature mascot named Thomas Hawk (aka Tomahawk) – would take yet another insensitive misstep.

Their latest in cultural appropriation comes in the form of an ill-guided marketing campaign which features three players: captain Anthony Beauvillier, Alexis D’Aoust and Samuel Girard – none of whom identify as First Nations - dressed up in the stereotypical warrior motif complete with war paint and braided hair with beads and feathers in team colours.

It’s stunning to think someone with the Quebec league team thought this was a good idea.

The slogan for the campaign is the equally tone deaf: “My History. My Colours”

Former Halifax Mooseheads captain Trey Lewis, a Mi'kmaq from the Elsipogtog First Nation


million miles visiting 112 countries as secretary of state. "Hillary Clinton is really the rare candidate with a long track record," said Elizabeth Saunders, a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The former secretary will try to make that background an asset in the campaign, arguing the country can ill afford a president who needs on-the-job training. "Our new commander in chief will walk into the Oval Office and find a world of hard choices and tough problems," Clinton told an audience at Stanford this spring. "So the stakes could not be higher."

2. She's more hawkish than President Obama

Clinton is less reticent when it comes to deploying military force than President Obama. While she hasn't advocated large-scale ground operations, she has pushed for the creation of "safezones" in Syria, and she was a strong advocate for the U.S. military intervention in Libya. "Her default preference seems to be for action," Saunders said. "People have described her as having a preference for being 'caught trying.' She'd rather do something and be criticized for it than be criticized for doing nothing at all." That distinguishes Clinton's foreign policy approach from Obama's, whose instinctive caution has been summed up by the phrase, "Don't Do Stupid [Stuff]."

3. She might not be that hawkish

If Obama's caution is, in part, a reaction to the excesses of the George W. Bush era, Clinton's more aggressive posture might reflect a reversion to the mean. But don't expect her to go overboard. After all, she paid a political price for backing Bush's invasion


of Iraq in 2003, as well as the Libyan intervention in 2011, which left a violent vacuum in which four Americans were later killed in Benghazi.

"Given the fact that many of her decisions to use military force have come back to haunt the United States generally and Hillary Clinton specifically, she may well have to temper some of those hawkish instincts in the service of prudence. And the reality is that we have very bad options," said veteran Middle East diplomat Aaron David Miller of the Woodrow Wilson Center. Clinton has criticized some of the more hawkish proposals from Republican candidates for indiscriminate bombing of ISIS. "Proposing that doesn't make you sound tough. It makes you sound like you're in over your head," Clinton said at Stanford. "Slogansaren't a strategy. Loose cannons tend to misfire. What America needs is strong, smart, steady leadership to wage and win this struggle."

4. She's concerned about alliances

Compared to her remaining presidential rivals Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, Clinton is a committed internationalist. "For decades, Republican and Democratic administrations have understood that America's alliances make us stronger," Clinton told the Stanford audience in March. "Turning our back on our alliances or turning our alliance into a protection racket would reverse decades of bipartisan American leadership and send a dangerous signal to friend and foe alike."

Erstwhile Republican White House hopeful Carly Fiorina complained that all of Clinton's globetrotting as secretary of state produced little in the way of concrete agreements. But the Council on Foreign Relations' Saunders says that's too simplistic.


novo, ORS 419A.200(5), to determine whether clear and convincing evidence in the record supports the termination of father's rights. We affirm.
Father is a veteran of the Vietnam War, honorably discharged in 1970, who suffers from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He admits to past use of controlled substances, including heroin, while he was serving in Vietnam, the frequent use of "speed" after returning to the United States, and ten years of alcohol abuse thereafter. He was convicted on drug charges and imprisoned for two years in Missouri in 1989. Within a *1233 year of the birth of his first child in 1997, he was arrested twice for assault and once for possession of a controlled substance. He has been hospitalized at veterans' hospitals and received treatment related to hisinto custody following an assault in which Shackelford had an open wound on her head. Apparently, Shackelford also has assaulted father. Father stated that, on many occasions, he has had to protect himself from Shackelford.
On February 17, 1997, Shackelford gave birth to a daughter, S, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene. S is father's first child. Because Shackelford had admitted to occasional marijuana use, Dr. Joehnk, S's pediatrician, performed a drug screen on the infant that proved negative. Joehnk apparently reported to the State Office for Services to Children and Families (SCF) that the child had been drug screened. On learning of the report to SCF, Shackelford, whose parental rights to an older child, A, had been terminated two weeks earlier, became very upset and, ultimately, struck Joehnk


in the face. Father, who was with Shackelford at the hospital, attempted to calm and restrain her. Later, father spoke with Joehnk and pleaded with him to understand Shackelford's emotional background and not to "take to heart what had just transpired."
One or two days later, SCF caseworkers visited Shackelford and father at the hospital and expressed concerns for the safety of S because of Shackelford's inability to care for her older child, A. Among other things, Shackelford was unable to supervise A, had abused alcohol, and had been unable to protect A from a man who was a danger to him. Additionally, Shackelford had tested positive for THC (marijuana) during her pregnancy with S. SCF also was concerned because "[t]he child's father fails to recognize the risk ofthat he and Shackelford did not want anything from SCF, except to have "SCF outta my life and out of our lives." At this meeting, Fellez asked father to sign a release that would allow SCF to review his veteran's records for the purpose of assessing his mental and emotional condition, and to determine the services that he might require to allow him to function as a parent. Father denied Fellez's request, stating, "I don't feel like my military records should be anybody's business *1234 but mine." According to Fellez, the meeting, which began on a positive note, continued to deteriorate until Shackelford and father "both stormed out."
Although he never signed the SCF service agreement, father visited S often from February to August of 1997. Of the 31


visits that one SCF worker supervised, father missed only three scheduled visits. On each occasion that he missed a visit, he appears to have given both notice and an explanation for his failure to attend the scheduled visits. The SCF worker who observed father during these visits testified that he appeared very caring and loving.
While father's interactions with S were generally good, his interactions with Shackelford during those visits were not. Shackelford and father would often fight. During one of the visits, the two engaged in an escalating fight over how best to care for S. At other times, arguments among Shackelford, father, and SCF staff created problems. During one visit, the couple fought because Shackelford wanted to show her "clean UA" report to Fellez, but father didnot want her "to give SCF more ammo" to use against them. One SCF worker stated that there were "a couple of times where it would get loud or [where she] felt out of control" and had "to call supervisors or caseworkers." On one occasion, Shackelford attempted to hit one of the caseworkers. In August 1997, at a hearing to determine whether visits should continue, Shackelford "threw something at the judge." At that time, SCF asked the juvenile court to suspend Shackelford and father's visits based on the altercations between Shackelford and father, and those with the SCF staff. The court granted SCF's request and father has not seen his daughter, S, since those visitations were suspended.
On December 27, 1997, Shackelford gave birth to her and father's second


Sierzega's visit, father was "yelling quite a bit" at her and the police, and C lay in a crib next to a dirty diaper. Sierzega later expressed concern that the crib mattress was not covered with a sheet, and that Shackelford was feeding C from bottles that appeared to have been sitting out for some time.
Shortly after SCF took custody of C, father and his attorney met with Sierzega to discuss SCF services and the release of father's veteran's records. SCF contended that they needed to assess father's mental health in order to evaluate his fitness as a parent and his need for treatment. That concern precipitated SCF's repeated requests for father's veteran's records relating to his past mental health care. Further, SCF expressed concerns about father's admittedPTSD and reports of domestic violence between Shackelford and him. At this meeting, SCF told father that his ability to visit the children was dependent upon the release of those records. During the time period leading up to the termination of father's parental rights, SCF made repeated requests for the records, all of which father either denied or ignored.
In February of 1998, the juvenile court entered a dispositional order with regard to the older child, S. That order provided that, among other things, Shackelford and father were each to complete a comprehensive psychological evaluation. Father met with Dr. Basham for the evaluation. Basham diagnosed father with: (1) cannabis dependence in early full remission; (2) PTSD; and (3) paranoid personality disorder. It was Basham's opinion that a paranoid personality


disorder, when combined with his PTSD, "caused him to be a risk for a small child." Lastly, Basham noted that father's relationship with Shackelford exacerbates his mental health problems. After reviewing Basham's report, Sierzega informed father, in a letter, that SCF expected him to complete a drug and alcohol evaluation within 30 days and to obtain a urinalysis within 24 hours, and that failure to meet those conditions could result in the filing of a petition to terminate his parental rights. In response to the letter, father scheduled a drug and alcohol evaluation, but he failed to appear at the appointed time and date.
In December 1998, SCF filed a petition to terminate father's parental rights. At the termination hearing held in August 1999, father testified that he wasa parent and that SCF's, and eventually the court's, continued requests for the records were obsessive and unreasonable. He characterizes this issue on appeal as follows:
"It appears that the state became focused on Father's unwillingness to release his military records, and refused to allow Father to visit his children, and failed to work with him in any other regard, so long as this release was not obtained."
The trial court found SCF's requests for those records to be important in order to allow an accurate assessment of father's mental condition and its role in his ability to parent his children. Basham noted that having those records would have been helpful in assessing long-term problems because
"[t]he longevity of the condition is often crucial and if there are prior mental health


termination of father's parental rights is in the children's best interests. ORS 419B.500. Father is not amenable to treatment for his personality disorder, he is distrustful of social services, he is unwilling to submit to a drug test or treatment, he is resistant to participation in needed parenting classes, and he does not appear to recognize that he has any inadequacies as a parent; nor did he recognize Shackelford's deficiencies. Unfortunately, it follows that he is unlikely to change. S and C have been in foster care since they were born and have not seen father since January 12, 1998. In view of father's failure to recognize his limitations or to seek treatment, there is no reasonable prospect that the children can safely be returned to father's carePages

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Some might remember last week when the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) went into a screaming meltdown of horrified outrage, on Facebook (oops--Facebook apparently didn't like that one, and took it down), on their blog, at Opposing Views, and over and over again on their Twitter feed. What has them stomping their little feet is our various responses to the Brady Campaign's "Too Many Victims" candle burning and "gun control" party on Jan. 8.

CSGV's little temper tantrum specifically mentioned blog posts by several gun rights advocacy bloggers, including my St.


his family received conflicting reports about his boyfriend’s fate. In the end, they learned that Kaufman was among the 14 killed at the regional center.

Kaufman’s employer, a contractor for the center, hadn’t been able to reach him either.

When Reyes heard that survivors were being brought to a local community center, he rushed there and waited.

A few hours later, around 4 p.m., Reyes got good news. His cousin had posted on Facebook that Kaufman was alive. He had been shot in the arm but would survive -- at least that is the information she had received from the girlfriend of one of Kaufman’s disabled clients.

Officials at the community center confirmed a similar story to Reyes’ uncle, Greg Johnson. Kaufman was in surgery and out of danger, but nobody couldfour over-the-counter sleeping pills and fell asleep well after midnight. He still didn’t know.

The couple -- who considered themselves free spirits and shared a love of horror movies -- had been together for nearly three years. Reyes said Kaufman engaged everybody he met in conversation, often holding up the grocery store check-out line. He refused to get a driver’s license, saying he didn’t want to give up the daily rides to and from work with Reyes.

Kaufman, who was adopted by an aunt and uncle after his parents died, spent much of his childhood in Pasadena but moved to Rialto during high school.

He had worked at the social services center for about five years.

Thursday morning at Reyes’ house in Rialto, where he lives with his parents, he waited for


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The Secret Service director, who was hired two years ago to restore discipline and morale after a series of scandals and lapses at the agency that protects the president, said on Tuesday that he would retire next month, giving President Trump the chance to install his own choice.

Under the director, Joseph P. Clancy, the Secret Service successfully handled the challenges of a presidential campaign and a papal visit, among others; hired more agents; and began a reorganization intended to correct past failures. But morale continues to suffer. Last year, an annual survey of places to work within the federal government ranked the Secret Service dead last among more than 300 agencies.

In 2012, Secret Service agents working in Colombia to prepare for a visit by President Barack Obama broughtprostitutes to their hotel rooms, leading to the dismissal or resignation of several agents. In 2014, the agency failed to prevent an armed guard working for a private security agency from riding in an elevator with Mr. Obama, a violation of Secret Service protocols. Days later, a knife-wielding man scaled the White House fence, ran across the lawn and entered the building before agents stopped him.

Subsequent investigations into the agency revealed several instances of people slipping through security screening and getting close to the president. After Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, became a prominent critic of the agency, it emerged that dozens of agents had improperly gained access to his 2003 application to be a Secret Service agent, and that at least one official had suggested leaking


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Friday, December 30, 2016

Shri Ashutosh Tripathi: Director
General Department of Posts is going to retire on 31st December-2016.

Felicitation was given by NFPE,
Secretary General & President at Dak Bhawan today on 30th
December-2016 and extended best wishes on behalf of NFPE for his happy, healthy
and peaceful retired life.

Shri Ashutosh Tripathi is an officer
of positive approach and during his period
as Member(P) and DG, Post, so many problems of staff were settled and
he never gave opportunity to staff
side to go on strike or on any serious
agitational programmes. Whenever there was any problem in Circles also
he invited NFPE leadership and settled.

FOR INFORMATION OF ALL GENERAL SECRETARIES
/NFPE OFFICE BEARERS /ALL CIRCLE, DIVISIONAL AND BRANCH SECRETARIES OF NFPE
UNIONS

Dear Comrades,

As you are aware
that the NFPE in its Federal Secretariat held on 19.12.2016, has unanimously
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LONDON: OPEC oil output hit the lowest in two decades in May as Saudi Arabia and other members started to deliver a record supply cut, a Reuters survey found, although Nigeria and Iraq are laggards in making their share of the reduction.On average, the 13-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped 24.77 million barrels per day (bpd) this month, the survey found, down 5.91 million bpd from April's revised figure.OPEC and its allies last month agreed to an output cut to offset a slump in demand and prices caused by the coronavirus crisis. An easing of government lockdowns and lower supply have helped oil prices more than double compared with a 21-year low below $16 a barrel in April. "OPEC has made a strong start in


May with its latest production cut, lowering supply by 5 million bpd versus April," Daniel Gerber, chief executive of Petro-Logistics, which assesses OPEC supply by tracking tanker shipments, told Reuters."However, compliance is far from perfect. With … [Read more...] about OPEC delivers three quarters of record oil cut in May: survey

LONDON: OPEC oil output hit the lowest in two decades in May as Saudi Arabia and other members started to deliver a record supply cut, a Reuters survey found, although Nigeria and Iraq are laggards in making their share of the reduction.On average, the 13-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped 24.77 million barrels per day (bpd) this month, the survey found, down 5.91 million bpd from April's revised figure.OPEC and its allies last month agreed toan output cut to offset a slump in demand and prices caused by the coronavirus crisis. An easing of government lockdowns and lower supply have helped oil prices more than double compared with a 21-year low below $16 a barrel in April. "OPEC has made a strong start in May with its latest production cut, lowering supply by 5 million bpd versus April," Daniel Gerber, chief executive of Petro-Logistics, which assesses OPEC supply by tracking tanker shipments, told Reuters."However, compliance is far from perfect. With … [Read more...] about OPEC delivers three quarters of record oil cut in May

LONDON: Oil prices were dragged sharply lower on Friday by weak US fuel demand, fears of a second wave of coronavirus cases in South Korea and a worsening in US-China


The Chemung County Chamber of Commerce MFG Day Task Force is proud to continue to grow
"Made in Chemung County" MFG Day after a successful first year in 2016.

MFG Day is the first Friday of October each year. The day highlights the importance of manufacturing to the economy, provides manufacturers with the opportunity to showcase the potential of modern manufacturing, and fosters interest in its many rewarding careers.

In 2016, more than 2,800 MFG Day events were held across the U.S. The initiative is well-established and far-reaching, and its mission is particularly vital for Chemung County, a community that's fortunate to have an exceptionally strong base of manufacturers.

For more information about National Manufacturing Day, please visit www.mfgday.comOulad Teima

Oulad Teima also known as Houara is a city in Taroudannt Province, Souss-Massa, Morocco. According to the 2014 Moroccan census it had a population of 89,387, up from 66,183 in the 2004 census.

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[The elderly patient at the General Hospital of Santo António. Analysis of one year of admissions].
A retrospective analysis was made on 3850 elderly patients who were admitted to the Santo António General Hospital during one year. There were 2029 women and 1821 men. Their mean age was 74 years. They represented 16.4% of the totality of the patients admitted in the same period of time at the same hospital. The main diagnosis presented on each discharge register was made according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, 9th Revision. For each of the 17 groups of diagnosis found and for the total group were drawn: number of cases, sex, mean age, the average length of stay, mortality and Departments they were admitted to.symbol of the group, perhaps the most popular pop culture reference would be
Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.
Toward the end of the movie, the protagonist V outfits thousands of citizens in a black
cloaks and Fawkes masks to create an anonymous army of sympathizers fed up with the totalitarian
government. This scene is perhaps the ultimate symbolism for the group as we know it; an
army of oppressed citizens finally fed up with an abusive regime that has stripped them
of privacy, civil liberty and ultimately power.

Chuck Palahniuk's
Fight Club touches on broad leanings of Anonymous members. The idea of a near cult-like group
engaging in diverse projects under the names 'Project Mischief' and 'Project Mayhem' certainly
draws parallels to Anonymous. Members of the group determine their own level of involvement,
a strong theme of Anonymous. Ultimately,


slowly learning that fact. And we're
very, very pissed off.

Another Alan Moore graphic novel, The Watchmen, highlights several aspects of the Anonymous
collective; post-modern anti-heroes willing to do evil things to avoid
a greater evil, a cast of characters confront and challenge both morality
and alignment, redefining the popular concept of heroes embodying good.
One of the running themes throughout the novel is the idea of "who watches
the watchmen?"

The Dark Knight introduces people to a purely chaotic evil actor, The Joker, who the butler Alfred draws
an allegory to. He tells Bruce Wayne of a bandit he helped chase in a forest who was throwing away the
jewels he stole, saying "Some men aren't looking for anything logical ... [they] just want to see the world burn." Wayne asks how he was
ultimately caught. Alfred replies,New Vikings QB Josh Freeman in no hurry to be starter

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Josh Freeman didn't pick the Minnesota Vikings because he was promised a shot at becoming the starting quarterback.

Freeman said Monday night that one of the reasons he chose the Vikings over other possible destinations is because the presence of starter Christian Ponder will allow him to "pump the brakes" after a wild final few weeks in Tampa Bay that included his demotion, reports of his inclusion in the NFL's drug program and his eventual release last Thursday.

"Right at the beginning, right when I heard I got cut, it was kind of, 'I want to get back in there right away,' but in all honesty, from the standpoint of a career move, the


April 24, 1964, the plaintiff, Apache Tank Lines, Inc., a corporation of the state of Idaho, purchased from the defendant, a corporation of the state of Oregon, a tank-trailer; the plaintiff, Apache Tank Lines, leased the tank-trailer to the Cowboy Oil Company. The Cowboy Oil Company was operating the tank-trailer at the time of the incident out of which this action arose. The sale of the tank-trailer was consummated outside the state of Utah.
The plaintiffs claim that the defendant was negligent in the manufacture of the tank-trailer in that it was equipped with a defective coupling which failed while the equipment was being operated by the Cowboy Oil Company at Price, Utah. Plaintiffs further claim that at the time of the purchase of the tank-trailer the defendant representedstate of Utah and was actually engaged in business in the State. In October, 1963, defendant's employee was withdrawn from the state of Utah, and since that date the defendant has not had an employee residing in the State. Since October, 1963, the defendant has not maintained an office in the State, nor has it maintained a telephone listing or bank account within the State, nor has it carried on other business activities except in interstate commerce.
The defendant's certificate of authority to do business within the State was revoked by the Secretary of State, pursuant to Sec. 16-10-117, U.C.A. 1953, on February 28, 1964, for failure to file its report. It is the plaintiffs' contention that the defendant, once having qualified to do business within the state of


downtown Tampa.
The airport rail line may also demonstrate, as Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpe suggests, the value of developing rail in relatively short links.
The TIA system could easily be connected to a mass transit terminal in the West Shore area. Lopano says the people mover could also be run around the airport’s perimeter and connected to a system that would utilize the CSX tracks north of the airport.
In any event, Lopano’s master plan is impressive, providing more space for domestic and international flights, improving security and baggage handling and continuing the airport’s emphasis on passenger conveniences — walking distances are kept under 700 feet.
The entire project will enable the airport to handle nearly 35 million passengers a year, about double what it does now.
But even if those numbersmeans I have plenty of advanced notice to schedule my next New York trip…

Per Andrew Gross, Dylan McIlrath, Marek Hrivik, Ryan Haggerty, and Oscar Lindberg did not survive training camp, and have been assigned to the Hartford Wolf Pack. All of them had strong camps, but it became a numbers game after a while. All four will get big minutes in Hartford instead of sitting in the press box with the Rangers. It’s also very nice to have injury reserves ready for duty.

Tonight is the preseason finale for the Rangers in New Jersey, as the Rangers take on the Devils. There are still a lot of tough roster decisions to be made, as the team will be trimmed to 22 players on Monday. Kevin Hayes, who was supposed


to build such a facility on Notre Dame's campus, so ND LEEF will be located on 28 acres of land in St. Patrick's County Park near the St. Joseph River, Tank said.

"It's a beautiful area with quite a bit of land," she said.

Conversations between the St. Joseph County Parks System and Notre Dame regarding the project began two years ago, Tank said.

ND LEEF will benefit various members of the community. The St. Joseph County Parks System plans to provide environmental education through ND LEEF to local K-12 students, adults continuing their education and nontraditional learners, she said.

Notre Dame will collaborate with the St. Joseph County Parks System to create appropriate curricula for these programs. The facility will also cater to visiting scientists and researchers from other academic institutions.

NDLEEF is still in the design and development stage, Tank said. She estimates the design will be finalized in April or May, with construction beginning in June. ND-EIC staff is working closely with faculty members of the Notre Dame College of Architecture to design the facility.

Tank estimates that construction may take four months to complete.

She said this new facility will be one of a kind.

"There are experimental facilities all over the country," Tank said, "but no one has ever done one where you have all of the systems linked together. This makes it very different."


BEIJING/TAIPEI • Chinese aircraft have again flown around self-ruled Taiwan in what China's air force yesterday called a "sacred mission", as Taiwan denounced its big neighbour over what it called a policy of military intimidation.

H-6K bombers, Su-30 and J-11 fighters and reconnaissance aircraft took part in a patrol around Taiwan, air force spokesman Shen Jinke told the official Xinhua news agency yesterday.

China's Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Ma Xiaoguang said the air force fly-by served as a warning against those pushing for Taiwanese independence.

China has ramped up military exercises around Taiwan in the past year, including flying bombers and other military aircraft around it.

"The motherland is in our hearts, and the jewelled island is in the bosom of the motherland," H-6K captain Zhai Peisong was quoted as saying ina statement on the Chinese airforce's microblog yesterday.

"Defending the beautiful rivers and mountains of the motherland is the sacred mission of air force pilots."

Taiwan, claimed by Beijing as Chinese territory, is one of China's most sensitive issues and a potential military flashpoint.

More recently, China has been incensed by Taiwan Premier William Lai's comments that it deemed were in support of Taiwan independence, though Taipei says Mr Lai's position remains that the status quo between Taiwan and the mainland should be maintained.

Taiwan's Defence Ministry said two Chinese H-6K bombers had flown around the island on Wednesday afternoon, passing first through the Miyako Strait, to Taiwan's north-east, then back to base via the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines.

Later that day, Chinese state media said the military had also


conducted live-fire drills with helicopters along its south-east coast, without confirming whether the exercises took place in the sensitive Taiwan Strait.

State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of helicopters firing missiles at distant objects in the waterway.

China had said the live-fire drills would happen on Wednesday off the city of Quanzhou, in between two groups of islands close to China's coast but which Taiwan has controlled since 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island after the Chinese civil war.

Taiwan's China policymaking Mainland Affairs Council said the drills as well as the Chinese air force fly-by amounted to "military intimidation".

"Our determination to defend the country's sovereign dignity will never give in to any threat or inducement of force," it said.

The latest Chinese military action follows strong warnings last monthby Chinese President Xi Jinping against any Taiwan separatism.

China's hostility towards Taiwan has grown since Ms Tsai Ing-wen from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party became President of the island in 2016.

China fears she wants to push for independence. Ms Tsai says she is committed to peace and maintaining the status quo across the Taiwan Strait, but will defend Taiwan's security.

Ms Tsai on Wednesday began a visit to the southern African nation of Swaziland, one of only 20 countries which maintain formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

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FISHERS — A California-based autonomous vehicle company has announced plans to move its headquarters to Fishers. The company is also planning to launch an autonomous vehicle pilot program in the city.

PerceptIn, currently based in Santa Clara, Calif., plans to create up to 50 new, high-wage jobs by 2022 and will establish its headquarters at the Indiana IoT Lab - Fishers.

"When we launched the Indiana IoT Lab in 2017, a company like PerceptIn is exactly who we had in mind to propel our city even further as a leading city for tech," Mayor Scott Fadness said. "Fishers is made for entrepreneurs, and today we are happy to support the future of transportation technology through this pilot program and in support of our newest Fishers company, PerceptIn."

The pilot program, setRowde ice cream parlour notches up another award

As award follows award, an ice cream parlour and cafe in Rowde knows it has found the winning recipe.

The hat-trick of accolades for Rowdey Cow began with a Taste of the West gold award for the cafe and tea rooms category last year, a highly commended award in the start-up category in the Countryside Alliance Awards south western regional final and most recently the Trip Advisor Certificate for Excellence for 2014.

Sue Thompson, who runs Rowdey Cow on her father Adrian White’s dairy farm, said: “This is my first attempt at a business and I’m really pleased with how it is going and the awards show that others think we are doing something right.

"The Trip Advisor award is based on getting consistently


On the morning of January 14, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office sent a small army to 2928 Magnolia Street in Oakland, California. With the house flanked by police dressed in military fatigues and an armored vehicle standing nearby, the sheriff’s men arrested two mothers after breaking the door down with a battering ram in a pre-dawn raid.

The two women are part of a collective of unhoused and marginally housed mothers called Moms 4 Housing. They, and two other mothers, had been occupying the vacant house with their children since November, though the property has remained empty for years. More than just a way to take shelter, the mothers’ residency in the empty home was a protest against the larger housing crisis that has gripped Oakland, which has somethe Civil Rights Movement in the rural South. OakCLT provides “community ownership of land and resident control of housing” in order to remove property from the speculative market.

Oakland, once considered “undesirable” in the Bay Area, has become a relatively new frontier for developers and tech workers alike to settle. As a result, the city has seen its black residents pushed out: between 2001 to 2011 the black population dropped by 25 percent. But in a city where empty houses outnumber the homeless four-to-one, these property arrangements can only be maintained through force.

Two days after the raid, Misty Cross, one of the moms arrested, recounted the experience on Democracy Now! :

Once the sheriffs actually made their way through the door to get in a little bit, they sent in


Toys are very popular to children nowadays, and a plenty of toys for bath use commercially available, such as a rubber yellow duck, have a function of spraying water. The yellow duck is made of plastic having a cavity for containing water therein, and a small opening at the mouth for spraying water. When the duck is pressed externally, air in the cavity can be released, resulting in a pressure difference between the internal cavity and the external duck. And water can be flowed into the cavity when the said duck is disposed in water due the pressure difference, while the water can be sprayed from the small opening when the duck full of water is pressed externally. However, there in only one opening at the mouth forto Wisconsin from any
jurisdiction in the United States. On July 22, 2001, Schreiber was arrested by
police in Hammond, Indiana, for drunk driving and resisting arrest. He was booked
into the Lake County, Indiana, Jail; pursuant to a recently enacted county
ordinance, Schreiber was also assessed a $25 “processing fee.” The next day jailers
were asked by Wisconsin corrections officials to hold Schreiber pending extradition
on a violation of probation warrant charging him with absconding from probation
supervision.1 The Wisconsin officials also sent to Lake County a copy of Schreiber’s
waiver of extradition. Schreiber then executed a similar waiver in Lake County on
July 24 and, that same day, was ordered by a county magistrate to be turned over to
Wisconsin authorities. Schreiber was transported back to Columbia County on
August 6, though, as his Lake County jailers


Journal American Rhododendron Society

Rhododendron Research Foundation
August E. Kehr and Alfred S. Martin, for the Trustees

The Research 100 project which was completed in 1974 through nearly optimum participation by members of the Society, indicated many important trends. The responding members definitely indicated that they would like to see more direct efforts by the Society in solving a variety of problems encountered by growers in all sections of the country. Prior to this time, strong feelings had been evidenced in National Board meetings that research was an area too long neglected as a goal for the Society. Discussions at Board meetings during 1974 and 1975 led to the adoption of a proposal by the Research Committee to fund a limited number of projects with monies developed by the Seed Exchange.It was also decided that it would be advantageous to set up a Research Foundation which could collect and administer funds to continue research projects for the benefit of the Society's members. This idea was announced to the membership at the 1975 annual meeting and enthusiastically received.
The president was empowered by the Board to appoint Trustees of the Foundation and to have drawn a completed Trust document. Largely through the efforts of Judson Brooks, the Trust Agreement was finalized and approved both by legal counsel and the Trustees of the Foundation early last Spring. The president outlined the main provisions of the Trust Agreement and gave a short description of the objectives and methods of operation to the annual meeting in Philadelphia on May 22 this year. Following


Tensions remain high in Egypt after Mubarak released from prison

CAIRO A medical helicopter Thursday flew former military strongman Hosni Mubarak away from prison a day after a court ordered him released, as two of the rival forces driving Egypt’s political crisis crossed paths in the street under the glares of gun-toting soldiers.

Mubarak was whisked to a nearby military hospital – where Egypt’s prime minster ordered him held under house arrest – seven weeks and one day after the army ousted his successor, Mohammad Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who won Egypt’s first democratic presidential election.

Mubarak’s release was technically required by law. But it added to the political tensions, as it was widely seen as the latest sign that Egypt is returning to military rule more than two yearsafter the Arab Spring uprising that forced Mubarak from power, paving the way for Morsi’s election.

The 85-year-old Mubarak – clad in a white shirt, khaki pants, black socks and white loafers – was shown in a photograph released by the army being lifted into a military helicopter as he lay on a gurney, adding to rumors that he has been suffering ill health. According to the state news agency, Mubarak asked to be transferred to the military facility for his house arrest.

Over and over, television news stations replayed video of the helicopter, which was labeled “Flying Hospital,” as it landed at the Maadi Military Hospital and two men dressed in white wheeled the gurney toward the back of the aircraft.

As Mubarak was carried out, an ambulance pulled up,


curfew.

Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters have been arrested, including more than a dozen leaders.

State-run media reported fresh arrests on Thursday, including Ahmed Aref, a Muslim Brotherhood spokesman who was outspoken in condemning the coup on social media.

In a related development, the Egypt Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered an additional 15 days of preventive detention of the Brotherhood’s spiritual leader, Mohammad Badie, while it investigates new allegations related to the deaths and torture of protesters at a sit-in site set up by Morsi supporters, the Al-Ahram newspaper reported.

More violence was feared for Friday, when the Muslim Brotherhood has called for new protests to demand Morsi’s reinstatement and the end of the military-appointed transitional civilian government. Morsi hasn’t been seen since his ouster, his whereabouts are unknown and he’sSeattle. Hickey's delegation met with Hunthausen and others to investigate his administrative and pastoral practices. The investigation concluded that Hunthausen had exercised "weak doctrinal leadership" in a number of areas, including allowing children to receive the sacrament of Communion without first having received the sacrament of penance.

Donald Wuerl, later Bishop of Pittsburgh and Archbishop of Washington, was controversially named an auxiliary bishop with special powers. According to Thomas Bokenkotter, "A resolution of the affair was finally announced by the Vatican in April after it accepted the report of a commission that recommended that Hunthausen's authority be restored and a coadjutor bishop be appointed. Hunthausen stoutly maintains that his archdiocese has remained fundamentally the same and was never in violation of Vatican doctrine; nor has he had to alter


Heat policy in effect again at US Open

The marathon tussle continued in the fifth and final set, Thiem fending off a triple break point by coming from love-40 down to make Nadal serve to stay in the championship and three-time US Open victor did before prevailing in a do-or-die tie-breaker.

He didn't cast his eyes toward the support team in his box, or send his racquets out to be restrung.

"The match was special for its different phases", Nadal said afterwards. "Not insane, but tough", Nadal said. "I needed to move forward, to change that dynamic, and I did".

The match, which carried on until after 2 a.m. before ending 0-6 6-4 7-5 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (7-5), was Nadal's longest at the U.S. Open.

"In the first set I only won sevenpoints, I hadn't started and it could've been very unpleasant". That's one more today.

Nadal trailed by a break in the third set before taking it.

Rafael Nadal acknowledged he was fortunate to claim a thrilling US Open quarter-final victory over Dominic Thiem, who he conceded did everything possible to claim victory.

"I just said "I am very sorry. He is young and has plenty of time to win tournaments". The quarterfinal exit marks the deepest run Thiem has made at a major other than Roland Garros. "He's a fighter, he has a great attitude".

Remarkably, Thiem was the first top-20 player Nadal has faced at Flushing Meadows since his final win over Novak Djokovic in 2013.

"It's going to be stuck in my mind", he said. "Tennis is cruel sometimes because I


think this match didn't really deserve a loser. But there has to be one".

For the finals of the U.S. Open to Nadal, being the primary racket of the world, will compete with Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, sown by the third quantity. Thiem, energized after extending the match, held serve to start the set, while Nadal had brushed off the signs of discouragement from the end of the fourth.

Nadal was completely dismantled by Thiem in the first set as the American crowd was shocked into silence in NY, the Austrian hitting vaporising forehands and backhands to wrap up the opener in just 24 minutes - tallying 13 winners, five aces and 24 points in total compared to just seven from the former. Thiem collected 24 of the openingon the incident, his spokesman Eric Phillips wrote on Twitter . Kennedy International Airport in New York City was being quarantined after many passengers reported feeling sick.

'Up to' five people found dead in Perth home
Maria Manfredini, a long-term resident in the area, described the incident as "tragic on every level". Assistant Commissioner Steel said there were "no ongoing safety concerns" at the scene.

Missouri college drops Nike over new Kaepernick ad campaign
It's amusing watching a company that uses child slave labor overseas to make their products all of a sudden become humanitarians. The LA Lakers star said he stood for "anybody who believes in change" before adding "I stand with Nike all day, every day".

Hollywood actor Burt Reynolds dead at 82
Considered a major heartthrob in his day, Reynolds' love


life was often a topic of interest among his fans and the media. With the news of his passing, many people took to Twitter to send their condolences and remember the legendary actor.

Nishikori takes revenge on Cilic
On Wednesday, Osaka only needed 12 winners because a whopping 31 of her other points came via unforced errors by Tsurenko. The pair both reached their first grand slam final here in 2014, with Cilic going on to claim a straight-sets victory.

Naomi Osaka heading a 'new generation'
Viewers also offered an outpouring of sympathy for Osaka, whose first Grand Slam win is tied up in the controversy. More voices are needed to do the same". "If I'm honest I was coaching , I don't think she looked at me", he said.

Millions trapped inIdlib prepare for worst
Back in March, President Trump seemed to announce a new Syria policy without notifying anyone else in government. UN Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura said there were "all the ingredients for a ideal storm", Reuters reported.

Williams crushes Sevastova to reach US Open final
The 36-year-old American will play Japan's Naomi Osaka in Saturday's final after the 20th seed beat Madison Keys . Serena's antics ruined Osaka's moment, the same way they did to Kim Clijsters and Sam Stosur years before.


Last summer was a relatively quiet affair in the transfer market. But this year it promises to be a frenzy, fired by wide-scale disappointment. With the exception of Liverpool, all European superclubs will be forced to spend big to compensate for a strong sense of underachievement.

The Bundesliga, one of the more stable leagues, will see plenty of ins and outs too. While Bayern Munich are rebuilding, Borussia Dortmund are expected to ship out half a dozen squad players to make room for three to four fairly big signings. The fall-out will be felt throughout the league as well as in Germany's national team. Some of the more well-known names in Joachim Low's squad, as well as a couple of players who only stopped wearing the white and blackshirt recently, are either openly available or weighing up a move.

It's no secret in Munich, for example, that Jerome Boateng is for sale following Bayern's move for Lucas Hernandez (Atletico, €80 million) and Benjamin Pavard (Stuttgart, €35m). Boateng, 30, nearly left at the beginning of the current campaign -- Manchester United and Paris Saint Germain were interested -- and is happy to move on after repeated fall-outs with the club's hierarchy. Sources close to the 2014 World Cup winner see Italy as his most realistic destination.

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Timo Werner's departure from RB Leipzig is a slightly more complicated affair, with the Germany forward having signalled his intention to run down his contract, which expires in 2020. Sources


to sanction the sale of Callum Hudson-Odoi to Munich has freed up additional funds to bring Werner's move forward by a year. A fee in the region of €40m should see the the striker join up with former Stuttgart youth teammates Serge Gnabry and Joshua Kimmich once more.

Even Bayern's money doesn't extend to spending the best part of €100m on Kai Havertz at the same time, however. Bayer Leverkusen's golden boy has been the best player in the league this year, and there's a queue of clubs that'd be willing to sign the 19-year-old playmaker in a heartbeat if the price tag were a little less prohibitive.

Sources close to the midfielder told ESPN that Havertz is in no hurry to leave the BayArena but a lot will hingeStrasse. They'll have to come up with a strategy to avoid that scenario quickly. In Havertz's camp, there's mild surprise that Germany's biggest club are still dithering to set the wheels in motion.

Timo Werner is expected to complete a move to Bayern Munich this summer. HASAN BRATIC/AFP/Getty Images

Leverkusen have told Havertz that his career would be best-served by another year as their leading player, next to his good friend and Germany teammate Julian Brandt who's also the subject of intense speculation. Brandt, 23, has a €25m release clause that undersells his market value by about 50 percent; the attacking midfielder is basically free to choose his next destination and thus in high-demand.

Sources close to the decision-makers at Leverkusen see Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool as the most likely contenders.