Monday, March 30, 2009

It's the 10th anniversary of Operation Allied Force, which was a bombing campaign by NATO in the former Yugoslavia as a response to Slobodan Milosevic's military action in Kosovo. The Kosovo Air Campaign began on March 24, 1999, and ended on June 10, 1999. For first-hand info about related A-10 deployments and A-10 combat missions please check out this very informative online-book: A-10s over Kosovo - The Victory of Airpower over a Fielded Army as Told by the Airmen Who Fought in Operation Allied Force; edited by Christopher E. Haave, Colonel, USAF, and Phil M. Haun, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF; Air University Press, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, December 2003

The AN/AAQ-33 Sniper XR is the latest targeting pod to be introduced to the A-10 Thunderbolt II.Some of first related shots were published in Jake Melampy's The Modern Hog Guide - The A-10 Warthog Exposed, Reid Air Publications, 2007.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Dressed in chemical warfare protective clothing, a 442nd Fighter Wing A-10 Thunderbolt II crew chief salutes an A-10, and its pilot, as it taxis out for an operational readiness exercise mission during the wing's March 2009, unit training assembly. The 442nd FW, an Air Force Reserve Command unit based at Whiteman AFB, Missouri, used the exercise to train its members to be able to continue to operate in all warfare environments. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bill Huntington)Hi-res

by Staff Sgt. Kent Kagarise442nd Fighter Wing

3/27/2009 - WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo. -- The 442nd Fighter Wing was tasked to fly 111 sorties


we are in MOPP four and actively engaged in a launch or recovery, we'll drive on until the job at hand is done and then head for a bunker," said Staff Sgt. Jason McLendon, A-10 crew chief.

"Keeping a positive mental attitude is very important so we joke around a lot. All things considered it's a full day so at the end of the day it's all about resting up for tomorrow,' Sergeant McLendon added.

3/27/2009 - WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo. -- Air Force reservist, Master Sgt. Brian Bass, a structural maintenance supervisor in the 442nd Fighter Wing's 442nd Maintenance Squadron, was recognized by the Air Force as he was awarded the "Hog Star" award, Jan. 27, at the annual World Wide Review conference held at Hill Air Forcehas been a unit to brag on themselves," Sergeant Bass said. "Our expertise and aircraft speak for themselves and always has.

Sergeant Bass, an Air Reserve Technician, was selected from nominees throughout the Guard, Reserve and active duty forces.

Master Sgt. Brian Bass, 442nd Maintenance Squadron, earned the Air Force's "Hog Star" award for outstanding contribution to the overall improvement for the combined Air Force. (Courtesy photo) Full size

Thursday, March 26, 2009

110th Fighter Wing members line up in the snow to watch the last A–10C jet, serial number 80-0258, take its final flight from the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base on Thursday, February 19, 2009. The jet will arrive to its new home, Selfridge Air National Guard Base joining the rest of the fleet which started leaving back in


November. (Photo by Master Sgt. Dale Atkins - extracted from PDF file)Full size

By Tech. Sgt. Jonathan Stein

On the morning of Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009, the 110th Fighter Wing's last A–10C took off for Selfridge Air National Guard Base to serve with the 127th Wing. The departure of the aircraft, tail number 258, marked the end of an era at Battle Creek Air National Guard Base and the beginning of a new one for Selfridge. This particular A–10 had a lot of history with the 110th Fighter Wing as it lost part of an engine to an enemy missile during the 110th's 2003 deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Unlike the November fini–flights, and the upcoming farewell ceremony in July, the event was not attended by family and friends,local politicians or the media. It was just attended by those around the base who wanted to watch 18 years of history taxi out to the runway and make a final take off.

Col. Ronald Wilson, the 110th Operations Commander, was present with his new C–21 patch on the uniform, and while he is prepared for the new missions ahead it is hard to shake off around 3000 flying hours in the A–10 including close to four years ofactive duty, and three major confl icts abroad with Kosovo, Iraq and most recently Afghanistan.

"Guys who fly the A–10 have a unique mission," said Colonel Wilson, "we provide close air support and no other aircraft can do as great a job." His fini-flight took place last November and he said that


climbing out of the cockpit for the very last time was tough. "That flight was a quiet one with many of the pilots reflecting on their experience with the A–10" said Colonel Wilson.

The building that holds the 110th Operations Group is filled with A–10 memorabilia that includes models, pictures, the warthog mascot and more. As the C–21 gains more time on this base the A–10 related items will likely live on in a hallway somewhere in the building. There was talk of giving some of it to Selfridge, but it was determined they have their own memories to make.

The dining facility happens to hold a piece of 258. When the 110th Fighter Wing took the A–10 over to support Operation Iraqi Freedom, Maj. Gary Wolfe was piloting theaircraft when an enemy surface–to–air missile struck the engine. He managed to get the aircraft back to Talil Air Base and a small part of that moment is on display and will remain there now with the actual aircraft across the state.

When Battle Creek first received the A–10 Warthog in 1990, times were different. "The aircraft was camouflaged, nothing was digital, pilots were still looking at paper maps, and eventually things got upgraded from the A–10A to the A–10C," said Colonel Wilson.

"Battle Creek was the only unit to go to one theater of operation and move to another. We did this most recently when we were in Iraq for 10 days and found out we had a new mission in Afghanistan. We have done these three times and


are the only unit to ever have done so," said Colonel Wilson.

As the last A–10 took off one might think it quietly closed the final chapter of a story and mission like no other, but the farewell ceremony coming up in July will give the A–10 the necessary dedication it deserves.

A–10C Pilot Major Shawn Holtz takes his final 'step' to the the last A–10C jet, serial number 80-0258, at Battle Creek Air National Guard Base. Major Holtz flew the aircraft to its new home, Selfridge Air National Guard Base on February 19th, 2009. (Photo by Master Sgt. Dale Atkins - extracted from PDF file)

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

A-10C 78-0633 from the 190th Fighter Squadron, 124th Wing (Idaho ANG), over Nellis AFB, Nevada, on March 4th, 2009. This Hog ison 25 January 2008.

According to the original captions, the following three associated pictures were taken at Spangdahlem AB, Germany, as Capt. Travis Burton prepares for flight on March 20th, 2009. In contrast, EXIF data shows 02 January 2008. (U.S. Air Force photos by Airman 1st Class Staci Miller)

The United States Air Force Academy is proud to announce that two graduates have won the 2009 Colonel James Jabara Award for Airmanship.

[...] Captain Travis A. Burton, class of 2000, distinguished himself through heroic actions on 24 February 2008, while serving as A-10 flight lead assigned to the 81st Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem AB, Germany. On that night, he was tasked to provide close air support for a coalition forces convoy in the vicinity of Sangular Ghar, Afghanistan. The


day later as expected. They should have landed at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, as Trend 41 on October 29th, 2008.

On March 11th, 2009, on the Scramble Message Board was posted that 4 A-10s are at Sigonella and will depart early next day to Lajes and then to CONUS on March 13th.

The re-deployment of four A-10s suggest that Bagram AB was simply overloaded with 20 A-10Cs, 18 F-15E Strike Eagles, probably four to six EA-6B Prowlers and some other aircraft.

I still want to verify the eighth replacement A-10C by serial number. Anybody who can/will help me?

A-10C 79-0179, callsign Hawg 63, from the 74th Fighter Squadron moves into precontact to a tanker over Afghanistan on December 21th, 2008. This aircraft deployed with the original 75th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron aircraftAir Force A-10s and other craft flew into a river valley near the place and laid down withering fire, helping hold back the opposition until U.S. troops could evacuate their wounded.

Absent the rugged, "low 'n slow" Hog, what was a very bad day for these men could have turned out far, far worse.

The Hog has been integral to close-air-support missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the venerable aircraft (first operationally deployed in March 1976) has begun to show its age.

The problem areas were located on the underside of the wings, in the landing gear area just outboard of where the gear attaches to the wing. "[They're] in the skin," said Lt. Col. Jim Marx, deputy commander of the 538th Aircraft Sustainment Group at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.


"It's in what we would describe as the 'aft lower skin' of the wing," said Marx, specifically near the center panels of the landing gear trunnions.

Taking no chances with the welfare of its warfighters, the Air Force originally grounded a full 145 of the 356 A-10s in its active inventory. When this interview was conducted in late January--four to five months into repairs--the number of aircraft whose duty-time was limited had plummeted. "We're down to 55 [aircraft] that are on flight hour limitation," said Lt. Col. Dave Ruth, the A-10's weapon system team chief at Air Combat Command headquarters in Langley, Va.

The A-10s still are flying, and the nature of their missions hasn't changed. They can still get in low 'n slow, still sling armor-piercing shells via theirineffably ugly A-10.

The Longevity Equation

The cumulative current rigors of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom today, and Desert Storm two decades ago, have put lots of wear on Warthog airframes. "The high-time airframe is right around 12,000 hrs.," said Master Sgt. Steve Grimes, headquarters Air Combat Command maintenance liaison with the Systems Program Office. "The low-time life is just under 3,000 hrs." On average, Warthogs have racked up around 8,800 flight hrs,, about half the current life expectancy of 16,000 hrs.

Pushing these airplanes through the repair process is imperative. Marx declined to say how much the work will cost, but he does offer an idea of when it will be finished. "We started repairs in the August 2008 timeframe," he said. "We expect that by the summer of


at Hill AFB.

But it is the best way to get at the problem.

Through the classic process of continuous improvement, the U.S. Air Force doesn't sequester its successes, doesn't silo maintenance techniques that work best. At Hill, Shadden said maintainers actually were removing the outer wings to get at the work area. Down at the Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., they were going at it via the Hell Hole. It's "just above the landing gear," said Shadden. "You can open up a couple of panels in the wing and just fit in a small human being."

Davis-Monthan is one of four prime sites where the Air Force is executing the fixes. The others are Hill, a location in Europe, and Korean Airlines in the Republic2009 [J.J.])

From March 4th to 8th, Davis Monthan AFB, Arizona, hosted Air Combat Command's annual Heritage Flight Conference. This event allows civilian and military pilots to train together in preparation for the spring and summer air show seasons.

The historic aircraft that flew in this year's HFC included the P-51 Mustang, A-1 Skyraider, F-4 Phantom II, P-40 Warhawk, and F-86 Sabre. The modern ACC flying demonstration aircraft included the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the F-15C Eagle, the F-15E Strike Eagle, the F-16C Fighting Falcon and the F-22A Raptor.

Approximately 300 people showed up on the designated flying days - Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The A-10C Thunderbolt II demo aircraft for the 2009 season are:

A-10 East Demonstration Team:79-0213 and 79-0223, both from the 74th Fighter Squadron, 23rd Fighter Group, 23rd Wing, Moody AFB,


demo A-10Cs for the 2009 airshow season are lined-up on the ramp. From left: 79-0213 and 79-0223 from A-10 East, 79-0209 and 78-0712 from A-10 West. Visible far left in the background are the two demo F-22A Raptors. (Photo by John Bezosky)Hi-res

Friday, March 13, 2009

Members of Congress want the Air Force to reconsider the future of the 111th Fighter Wing.

Pennsylvania's members of Congress have asked the Pentagon to delay the planned transfer of the Air National Guard's aircraft from the Willow Grove Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Horsham.

In a letter Monday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the state's congressional delegation, including Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey, urged him to delay the distribution of the wing's 17 A-10s beginning as early as April and continuing intothe Willow Grove military base in suburban Philadelphia.

All of the state's House members joined senators Arlen Specter and Bob Casey in signing a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday. They urged him to delay the distribution of a total of 17 A-10 aircraft from the 111th Fighter Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.

The lawmakers are asking for the delay to give the Air Force time to reconsider the future of the unit.

The Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted in 2005 to close the air station, but the state wants to convert Willow Grove into a joint base for homeland security and emergency preparedness.

Pennsylvania's entire congressional delegation is asking the Pentagon to keep National Guard planes at Willow Grove Naval Air Station. It's part of a


12, 2009

3/12/2009 - Lt. Col. Sam Milam, 75th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron commander, and Capt. Jozsef Jonas, a 75th EFS pilot, pose for a photo after completing a close air support mission that helped save lives of coalition troops in southern Afghanistan on February 20th, 2009. The 75th EFS was deployed to Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, to provide close air support to ground troops and convoys as they tried to improve the quality of life for the Afghan people. Captain Jonas, a Hungarian immigrant who is the son of a Soviet tank driver, flies the A-10 Thunderbolt II "tank killer" for the U.S. Air Force. Colonel Milam also flies the A-10 and recently completed a mission that logged more than 10,000 combat flight hours - a historic milestone forthe unit deployed here since last fall. The two pilots, who were deployed here from Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, returned home this week after the 75th EFS completed its six-month rotation. The unit was replaced by its sister squadron, the 74th Fighter Squadron, which is also from Moody AFB. (U.S. Air Force photo) Hi-res

Please, at first let me post the latest news. During the next couple of days I will add some related archives news.

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Combat controller receives Air Force Cross, Purple Heart

by Tech. Sgt. Amaani LyleSecretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Office

3/11/2009 - POPE AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. (AFNS) -- Tears stood in Sue Rhyner's eyes as she talked about her son, who, in a ceremony March 10 here received the Air Force Cross,


the highest military decoration awarded by the service, and a Purple Heart.

Staff Sgt. Zachary Rhyner of the 21st Special Tactics Squadron from Pope Air Force Base, N.C., received the medal for uncommon valor during Operation Enduring Freedom before a crowd of hundreds dotted with combat controllers' red berets.

The decoration is second only to the Medal of Honor, and is awarded by the president.

"This is overwhelming. I couldn't be prouder," Ms. Rhyner said. "Zac is part of an awesome group of individuals who personify teamwork; something he learned early on being one of five children."

Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley presented Sergeant Rhyner the Air Force Cross for his actions during an intense 6.5-hour battle in Shok Valley, Afghanistan, April 6, 2008. The Air Force has notawarded the decoration in more than six years.

"Your actions are now and forever woven into the rich fabric of service, integrity and excellence that has connected generations of America's Airmen since the very inception of airpower," Secretary Donley said to Sergeant Rhyner.

"Rarely do we present an Airman with the Air Force Cross, let alone a Purple Heart, and with good reason. The Air Force Cross is reserved for those who demonstrate unparalleled valor in the face of insurmountable odds."

Secretary Donley added that among the millions who have served, only 192 Air Force Crosses have been awarded.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz also presented Sergeant Rhyner with the Purple Heart. General Schwartz said special forces Soldiers lived to tell the story of the Shok Valley battle thanks


to the courage, tenacity, teamwork, as well as the invaluable and selfless efforts of Sergeant Rhyner.

Despite injuries he sustained as the result of persistent insurgent fire, Sergeant Rhyner coordinated more than 50 aerial attacks to continuously repel the enemy during the beleaguering battle that occurred during his first deployment. According to the decoration citation, Sergeant Rhyner "provided suppressive fire with his M-4 rifle against enemy fire while fellow teammates were extracted from the line of fire."

"The team survived this hellish scene ... not by chance, not by luck and not by the failings of a weak or timid foe," General Schwartz said.

The general spoke emotionally and with gratitude for the team's devotion to duty and courage in the line of fire.

"A grateful nation could not be more proudSEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. -- Ten Soldiers who earned silver stars and an Airman who will receive an Air Force Cross March 10 might not be alive today if it were not for 4th Fighter Wing Airmen providing crucial close-air support during an assault on an insurgent stronghold in Afghanistan's Shok Valley last year.

A 130-man assault force of American and Afghan soldiers was flown into the valley by CH-47 Chinook helicopters April 6, 2008, with a mission to capture a top insurgent target who had been funding the insurgency.

As the assault force assembled near a riverbed in the valley's rocky terrain, two 335th Fighter Squadron F-15E Strike Eagles soared above, providing cover and hunting for potential threats from the insurgents' mountainside village stronghold.

Capt. Prichard Keely, a


weapons system officer from the 335th FS here, maintained constant communication with the assault force on the ground as they moved upriver and tried to assess how they would enter the stronghold.

Using the Strike Eagle's high-fidelity targeting pods, he could see the insurgents preparing to attack.

"I could see people with weapons moving around on top of the houses," Captain Keely said.

The view provided by the Strike Eagle's targeting pod and vantage point was useful for more than just identifying threats.

"They asked me to get them the best route of ingress from the riverbed to the village itself," he said. "I chose the terrain that was least exposed to enemy gunfire and the easiest point of ingress, while avoiding the most mountain climbing."

A small group broke off from themain assault force and proceeded along the suggested route. They made it up a few of the mountain's terraces, when he saw a muzzle flash at a village window followed by one from the small group on the terrace, the captain said.

A firefight erupted with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades screaming down from the stronghold at the group on the terrace and the main assault force still in the valley.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Zachary Rhyner, a joint terminal air controller, was on the terrace. As a JTAC (pronounced jay-tac) and combat controller, his duty is to work alongside the assault force and coordinate air strikes from the ground. As his group was pinned down by enemy gunfire, Sergeant Rhyner called upon airpower to buy the team some time to


happen, and we knew it was one of the only ways they were going to make it out of there."

Fighter jets weren't the only aircraft providing close air support. While Sergeant Rhyner coordinated air strikes with the Strike Eagles, Staff Sgt. Rob Gutierrez, another Air Force JTAC with the main assault force, called in airstrikes from Army AH-64 Apache helicopters. After nearly an hour of fighting, two A-10 Warthogs also arrived. Captain Keely said communication between the various aircraft and between the air and ground forces was executed well, which significantly contributed to the mission.

Combined firepower from the assault force and the aircraft allowed the terrace team to return to the main assault force, though several had been hit by enemy gunfire.

"It was pretty intense," he said. "Itjet he operates. He remains humble about his personal contributions.

"It makes me want to do more," he said. "In our position, we can make a significant difference in the lives of people in the Army and the people of Afghanistan."

3/11/2009 - DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. -- State of the art and historic military aircraft from around the country came here March 4-8 for Air Combat Command's annual Heritage Flight Conference.

The Heritage Flight Conference allows civilian and military pilots to train together in preparation for the spring and summer air show seasons. Heritage formations, during which modern and historic fighters fly together, are a popular highlight event at air shows throughout the United States and Canada.

The historic aircraft that flew in this year's HFC included the P-51 Mustang,


A-1 Sky Raider, F-4 Phantom II, P-40 Warhawk, and F-86 Sabre. The modern ACC flying demonstration aircraft included the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the F-15 Eagle, the F-15E Strike Eagle, the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F-22A Raptor.

Approximately 300 people showed up on the designated flying days, March 6-8, and watched the demonstration flights from bleachers set up on the flight line.

A-10C 79-0213 (marked 23 FG), an F-4 Phantom II, and a P-40 Warhawk fly in formation during the Heritage Flight Conference at Davis-Monthan AFB on March 7th, 2009. Pilots of old and new aircraft come to the HFC every year to practice demonstration flights together before the air show season. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Noah R. Johnson) Hi-res

A-10C 78-0712 (marked 355 FW) flies in formationwith an A-1 Skyraider at the Heritage Flight Conference at Davis-Monthan AFB on March 7th, 2009. The Skyraider, which was employed in combat in Vietnam and Korea, is one of the A-10's attack aircraft predecessors. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Valerie Smith) Hi-res

A-10C 79-0213 (marked 23 FG) flies in formation with an F-4 Phantom II, a P-40 Warhawk, and an F-16C Fighting Falcon during the Heritage Flight Conference at Davis-Monthan AFB on March 7th, 2009. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Valerie Smith) Hi-res

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This blog is dedicated to Marina Naumann, my latest female partner who died after incurable pancreas cancer on June 17, 2010, just only a half year after diagnosis. Marina was the second true wife in my life, and she always


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RELATED: Streetcar project is perhaps example of poor management, according to SDOT

After halting the project last year because it was way over budget, Seattle Mayor Durkan announced Thursday she decided to complete the line, connecting South Lake Union and Capitol Hill.

The line was initially expected to open in 2020. That was before budget concerns and further questions halted the project. It will now open in 2025.

Mayor Durkan also noted that alternatives were looked at to serve theA long talk with DH champion TiddlerCelestial: "It was so amazing, I felt like crying"

Photo: Frederike Schmitt / Dreamhack

Xieyu "TiddlerCelestial" Wang is among the most successful Hearthstone players in the world. The Chinese powerhouse currently holds the #1 rank in the GosuGamers rankings, breaking records nobody before him did. He holds a 67% all-time win-rate - a number more than impressive for a card game player - and just two weeks ago won the biggest Hearthstone event in the west of this year, the $40,000 DreamHack Summer.

This was a success on many levels, for Tiddler and China both. Tiddler himself has been searching for his first major gold for forever, losing the finals of WCA 2014 and Blizzcon 2014 and finishing top four at several other premier events.


Justice Samuel Alito among current justices has been willing to restrict free speech considered by many to be abhorrent, such as protests at a Marine veteran's funeral and videos that depict the mutilating animals.

By contrast, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 8-1 decisions upholding those forms of speech in 2010 and 2011. And he cited the court's past protection of flag burning in controversial 5-4 rulings that upheld the right to spend freely on political campaigns.

"If the First Amendment protects flag burning, funeral protests and Nazi parades — despite the profound offense such spectacles cause — it surely protects political campaign speech despite popular opposition," Roberts wrote in McCutcheon v. FEC, a 2014 case that struck down aggregate limits on campaign contributions.

Trump denounces flag burning, Twitter points outit is constitutional

And Justice Anthony Kennedy, the most frequent swing vote on the court, voted with the majority in the 1989 case despite having been nominated by President Ronald Reagan the year before. "It is poignant but fundamental that the flag protects those who hold it in contempt," Kennedy wrote in a separate concurrence.

That's apparently not the way Trump's inner circle sees it. His spokesman, Jason Miller, called flag burning "completely ridiculous" and "completely despicable" in a contentious interview on CNN Tuesday.

And Trump may have at least one powerful ally if he's serious about trying to make burning the flag illegal. His nominee for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, supported the Senate's 2006 effort to recommend a constitutional amendment to the states.

But the president-elect would face the wrath


his will in 1990!

In order to reconcile his teaching and research work on the compilation of object oriented languages, Dominique Colnet decided therefore to abandon
Smalltalk for Eiffel and to establish a project to kill two birds with one stone: combine interesting research with a free product that would also be useful for teaching.

The SmartEiffel project, originally named SmallEiffel actually commenced
during the year 1994 when Dominique Colnet decided to write his own Eiffel compiler.

Writing an Eiffel compiler is no small undertaking.
Before making this decision, Dominique Colnet had begun to write a new Eiffel class library whose architecture simply corresponded nearly word for word with the base classes one could find at that time in Smalltalk-80 libraries ([GR 1983],
[Goldberg 1984]).
Because of the very bad quality of the commercial Eiffel compilersavailable at that time the decision was taken to write a new one from scratch.
The new compiler was named SmallEiffel to make reference to both Smalltalk
and Eiffel ([OOSC 1988], [ETL 1992]).
An entire year was necessary to write the first version of SmallEiffel and it was not until July 1995 that SmallEiffel was able to compile itself.
Since that time, more than ten years have passed and more than
thirty versions have seen the light of day.

Little SmartEiffel developing into something big?

Starting out as simple research prototype and teaching aid, SmartEiffel has seen its capabilities steadily increase from version to version since 1995.

In 1998, on the occasion of a visit to LORIA by Richard Stallman, president and founder of the FSF (Free Software Foundation), the GNU designation was added to the


Opposing teams should be giving him ticker-tape parades and bouquets of flowers because he's finally leaving.

"It's gone by fast," Hamblin said. "It's been a great ride and I'd like to finish it out on a great note. It's been a tremendous time with the amount of great athletes and teammates I've had, the coaches, all the things that has happen has been awesome."

Since arriving at Arkansas, Hamblin has been named a freshman All-American, led his school to the College World Series for the first time in 15 years and played in three NCAA Tournaments.

Despite a slow start at the plate -- at one point he was hitting only .119 -- Hamblin has demonstrated his final season won't end on a boulevard of broken dreams.

In other words, he's back!

"Youknow, he'll have a game or two and you'll think, 'Oh, what's going on?' but he doesn't let it bother him," Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said. "He's pretty tough. He knows conference is what it's all about. He's had a great conference. He's gotten a lot of big hits for us.

"Danny has been a big part of our success."

In 44 games this season, Hamblin is hitting .261 with 14 home runs and 44 RBIs. In 18 SEC games, he's hit .324 with 8 homers and 19 RBIs.

Hamblin, perhaps the best defensive first basemen in the league, could have taken a final curtain call last year after being drafted in the ninth round by the Oakland A's, but decided to return.

So, why come back?

"Why not?," he said. "You


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In this module you will study the development of modern science fiction, concentrating on major texts from the postwar period. You are expected to acquire a detailed knowledge of the history of science fiction and a critical understanding of the problems of defining it in relation to other forms of literature. You are also expected to gain an understanding of the distinctive pleasures which science fiction offers its readers. The emphasis is on science fiction as a literature of ideas. In this module you will be concerned primarily with science fiction as a literary form rather than with its manifestations in other media, but the demands of adapting science fiction to other media will be considered.


George Eliot) with introductions to lesser-known writers, medical practitioners and performers. You will be assessed through a 3000-word essay at the end of the semester, demonstrating your ability to read two or three texts from the course comparatively and according to their relevant historical and cultural contexts. The choice of questions for this assessment will be made available to you from the beginning of the module.

The Romantic period heralded not only the beginnings of the Modern world, but it also looked towards futures and ideals that humans have not yet obtained: slavery still exists, and yet it was banned in this period; Britain passed the first animal rights legislation in Law, but species are still disappearing and the human relationship with other animals remains uneasy. This was aA MAN without a leg is easy to spot; one without a conscience, less so. This was especially the case in the Andean ski resort of Bariloche in Argentina where, among the wooden Alpine houses built by 19th-century German immigrants, old Nazis would gently go to seed. A Gestapo agent would live here, a confidant of the Führer there; Josef Mengele, the “doctor” of Auschwitz, twice took his driving test at the town hall. And Erich Priebke, an SS captain stationed in Rome during the German occupation, ran the yellow-brick Vienna Delicatessen, where the cold cuts and cheeses were said to be the best in town.

Some customers called it “the Nazi deli”. Very few cared. Mr Priebke was a fine-looking, straight-backed, hard-working man, with the ingrained courtesy of


someone who had spent his formative years as a waiter at the Savoy Hotel in London and on the Italian Riviera. Arriving in Argentina without a bean in 1948, he had worked his way up to become a pillar of Bariloche society. He also taught at the German school, and ran the meetings of the German-Argentine Cultural Association. At their dinner-dances he was famous for waltzing and polka-ing the night away.

He did not hide his past; he lived under his own name. But he was not expansive. So he was both polite and surprised when in April 1994, wearing his Bavarian hat, he was stopped on his way to his car by Sam Donaldson of ABC’s “Primetime Live”, who charged him, on camera, with killing civilians at theArdeatine Caves outside Rome on March 24th 1944, and with killing children. In all 335 men and boys had been rounded up and shot, by far the worst reprisal of the war in Italy. Each prisoner had had his hands tied behind his back, and had been shot in the back of the head. And Priebke had been there, as a young man, doing it. “No, no,” he answered, laughing, turning his head as if to bat off a troublesome fly. “Not at all.”

He then backtracked a little, struggling with his rusty English. There might have been some civilians killed, but they were “morely terrorists”, communists. They had blown up 33 members of a group of German soldiers in the Via Rasella the day before, and (with a


grim little smile) “for every German soldier, ten Italians had to die.” But “I didn’t shot anybody.” Besides, “that was our order.” Such things, he told Mr Donaldson, happened in war.

A British military tribunal in 1946 had acquitted him of the massacre for that reason. The ABC interview now forced his extradition from Argentina to Italy to face murder charges, but in 1996 an Italian court also acquitted him. His defence had not changed. The massacre had been ordered directly by Hitler: impossible to disobey it. His commanding officer had said that if any officer refused to take part in the shooting, he would be shot too. Priebke himself was not really a soldier, but had been recruited into the Gestapo as a translator and liaison with theItalian police. He didn’t want to kill anyone, it was a terrible experience, but he feared what might happen to his wife and his two young sons, George and Ingo, if he disobeyed.

This story had eased his path in the post-war years, when he escaped from a British prisoner-of-war camp, lived under an alias for two years in the Tyrol, and fled to Argentina with forged papers supplied by the Vatican. But the Ardeatine massacre had his eager prints all over it. It was he who worked all night on March 23rd-24th to draw up a list of victims—most of them already in prison for left-wing activity, but many not charged. Some he put on the list simply because they were Jewish. (Sending Jews to the camps, however,


he said he had never done, for practical reasons: “We needed the railway cars for other things.”)

At the caves he read out the name as each prisoner came forward, and checked off the list when he fell. By some mistake, he had added five extra names on his own initiative; they were shot too, as otherwise they would have exposed the massacre. Two prisoners he shot personally—he admitted it—with “an Italian machine pistol”. He stayed in charge of proceedings as his fellow officers, tanked up with cognac, grew more careless in their aim. When one soldier seemed unable to shoot, Preibke, the great waltzer, seized him round the waist and made him do it.

A body in limbo

The verdict that he had simply followed orders therefore crumbled away. Hehad been an enthusiast who now showed no remorse, convivially offering journalists wine when they came to discuss it; he slept soundly, “because you get over things”. In 1998 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes. As he was in his mid-80s, this was commuted to comfortable house arrest in Rome. The hatred he aroused there erupted only after his death, when no Catholic church was allowed to give him a funeral and his body, refused burial, lay in limbo at a military airport.

Even Bariloche, his “paradise”, did not want to take him. The town feared adding to its Nazi reputation. Among the gingerbread houses under the high peaks, his neighbours recalled a “gentleman” and some good charcuterie. He had regularly taken communion, supporters noted; therefore


The administration of US President Donald Trump is committed to eliminating former President Barack Obama's Climate Action Plan to negate its harmful policies and improve the lives of American workers, according to the America First Energy Plan released by the White House on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — According to the America First Energy Plan, elimination of Obama's Climate Action Plan will result in wages' increase by over $30 billion in the upcoming years.

"President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the US rule," the plan said. "Lifting these restrictions will greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next seven years."

The Trump administration is also committed to lowering costs, maximizing the useof US resources and achieving energy independence, including from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel, the plan explained.

Moreover, the plan calls for the renewal of the US coal industry with an emphasis on clean coal technology.

The protection of air and water, as well as the conservation of natural reserves and resources will remain a high priority for the new administration as well.

"Protecting clean air and clean water, conserving our natural habitats, and preserving our natural reserves and resources will remain a high priority," the plan added.

Earlier on Friday, Trump was sworn in as the forty-fifth president of the United States.


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Tallowbox Mountain was named in the 1880s for the pioneers' custom of preserving venison tallow in a tallowbox.

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was there.

My sister sent me an email with an article written by Dr Jack Wheeler recently. Some of the highlights of which are below.

The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No résumé, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.

He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya. Only a small part of him is African Black from his LuoThe greenback surged to its highest level against major currencies in more than 13 years and US debt yields hit near one-year high on investor expectations the Donald Trump presidency will boost the US economy.

The dollar rose above its so-called “double top” seen in March and December of 2015, hitting the highest level since 2003. A double top is a term used by analysts to describe the rise of a stock, a drop, another rise to the same level as the original rise, and finally another drop. Breaking the double top is considered as a bullish sign.

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"The United States has been leading globalization but now voters said they had enough. They said they want to stop the fall in their wages with fiscal spending and protectionism. This


Bob Gates And The Militarization Of Foreign Policy

July 16, 2008

Defense Secretary Gates's warning against the "militarization of American foreign policy" is the opening salvo in what should be a larger debate about the role of the DoD in shaping U.S. foreign policy. As this Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistspiece notes:

[S]ome parts of the U.S. government are also looking for ways to shape an alternative to the policies pursued in Baghdad for the past four years. This search for a different approach focuses both on the front end (how to prevent such conflicts in the future) and on the back end (how to cope with the aftermath when they do). Call these "shaping" and "stabilization and reconstruction."

Strikingly, this search seems to preoccupy the military more than the civilian branchesAt one event I attended last week, for example, an SAIC Pentagon consultant suggested the disparity between the DoD and every other agency is now so big that it would be most organizationally efficient to fold all foreign policy functions into the Pentagon. (Call it the single-payer theory of national security.)

In places like Africa, the resource bias towards the DoD is already causing trouble for the United States. Over the past few months, there has been a continent-wide uproar over AFRICOM, the Pentagon's new command designed to "shape" Africa by providing reconstruction, security, and development assistance.

African countries are opposed to making the U.S. military the face of American aid efforts--as is Secretary Gates, judging by his remarks last night--but the fact is that we're relying on the Pentagon


the inferences that may reasonably be drawn from such evidence."  Id. Under this standard of review, the record establishes the following facts.

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At the end of 1993, Woodworker, a manufacturer and supplier of woodworking tools and equipment, was shopping for insurance coverage for its employees.  It was dissatisfied with its previous insurer, Washington National, for processing claims inefficiently and inaccurately.  Woodworker received bids from several insurance companies, including Principal Mutual, through its insurance broker, Nadyne Shimada.

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Woodworker had previous experience with different types of insurance contracts.  Washington National had provided Woodworker with a contingent premium contract, also known as a retrospective premium agreement.  Under such an agreement, the insurer sets two rates, the preliminary premium and the contract premium.  During the course of the"incurred but not reported" expenses deviated from the industry norm and significantly impacted Woodworker's renewal program.  Principal Mutual did not disclose this to Woodworker until February 1995.  In addition, while the contract mentioned pooling charges, it did not indicate that such charges could equal up to 15% of the contract premium.  Even though Woodworker paid $178,000 in premiums in 1994, its claims would have to have been less than $50,000 to avoid an end of the year surcharge.  Had Woodworker known this prior to March 1, 1994, it would not have contracted with Principal Mutual.

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As would be expected, Principal Mutual's omissions resulted in a significant charge at the end of 1994 as well as a large rate increase for the following year.  Severe


particularly apposite to the instant case.  There, an employer sued insurance professionals under Virginia's malpractice law.  See id. at 1464.   The insurance professionals had misadvised the employer about employee benefit plans and had designed an inadequate plan for it.  See id. at 1461.   Once the plan went into effect, the insurance professionals served as the Plan Administrator and Plan Supervisor.  See id.   The Fourth Circuit rejected the defendants' claims that ERISA preempted the employer's claims, noting:

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Quite simply, Delany's claim is not aimed at a plan administrator at all since the defendants are sued in their capacities as insurance professionals for actions taken in that capacity.  Indeed, defendants' malpractice, if any, took place before they began to actTAMPA, Fla. – The United Soccer League surpassed the 1 million attendance mark on Saturday night, as the league’s record-setting season at the turnstiles continued in another exciting weekend of action.

The USL reached the mark faster than in any previous season, and keeps the league on course to surpass the 2-million mark for attendance this season. The official midway point of the 480-game regular season arrives on Sunday with the contest between Bethlehem Steel FC and the New York Red Bulls II at Goodman Stadium the 240th of the year.

Saturday night’s game between Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 – which saw the Switchbacks rally to earn a 2-2 draw at Weidner Field – proved the contest to send the league past the 1-million mark,


On the second season of the HBO series The Leftovers, various religious cultists and ordinary, lost people have converged outside of a Texas town, turning the area into a seedy apocalyptic carnival. That’s what it felt like outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where burly hellfire prophets hoisted signs condemning sinners, Hare Krishnas chanted, and protesters and Trump supporters swirled together in packed streets while rows of stone-faced police lined the sidewalks. But the end-of-the-world feeling came from more than just the throngs of believers. It came from the fact that a bizarre and inconceivable calamity has been visited upon us, and yet ordinary life grinds on. A major party has just nominated Donald Trump for president.

In the end, the feared clashes between protesters and armed Trumpafter the person who has placed their hand on a hot frying pan has sent the message to the brain via the afferent pathway, the cerebral cortex then sends the message via the efferent neurone pathway to the muscles within the arm, to contract and instantly pull his or her hand away from the frying pan.

Within the Nervous System there are two main areas, these include: The Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Nervous System.

The Central Nervous System includes the brain and the spinal cord. These two organs control many of the functions of the human body. The brain is the command center for the body. The brain stem (where the brain meets the spinal cord) controls many vital functions required to control life, such as: heart rate


and diaphragm movement for respiration. The spinal cord is the main hub of communication signals, in which all peripheral afferent and efferent messages are transmitted.

The Peripheral Nervous System controls the messages to and from the brain and peripheries. The Peripheral Nervous System can further broken down into the Autonomic and the Somatic Nervous System.

The Somatic Nervous System is also identified as the Voluntary Nervous System, in which the person can transmit controlled messages from the Brain to the peripheries in order to control movement.

An example of the Somatic Nervous System includes: the Brain sending the message to the legs to move its arms. This causes the Somatic Nervous System to transmit a message through the peripheries through to the muscles in the arm to stimulate contraction and skeletalTop 5 Wins of Rashad Evans’ Career

5. Sean Salmon (UFC Fight Night 8 / January 25, 2007)

Salmon is far from the biggest name Evans has faced and beaten. Still, mentioning the match-up instantly produces an image of a stiff Salmon falling backward to the mat after getting blasted in the face with a head kick. It was a seminal moment in Evans’ career, showing he had evolved as a fighter and possessed explosive power to go with his excellent wrestling ability. The highlight reel finish also propelled him into the upper-echelon of the division and he hasn’t looked back since.

4. Dan Henderson (UFC 161 / June 15, 2013)

Evans’ most recent victory was important for a few reasons. First, it came against one of the finest fighters to ever


it only involved the winners of TUF 1 and TUF 2 facing off the storyline behind Evans-Griffin would have been fine. However, the bout also happened to involve the light heavyweight title Griffin had won earlier in the year from Quinton Jackson. Griffin’s size advantage paid off early and plenty of folks had him up 2-0 after the first two frames. Come the third, the momentum immediately changed after Griffin slipped and ended up on his back. Evans attacked from above and, after some attempts at defending the ground/pound, Griffin gave in to the shots and was forced to tap. Evans would go on to lose the belt to Lyoto Machida in his first defense but, regardless, he will always be linked to the championship based on beatingabove "rural development"
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For the past 21 months, South Asians for Obama (SAFO) has spearheaded a movement to rally the South Asian American community behind Senator Obama. SAFO's efforts to organize this increasingly politically active constituency not only helped secure Obama's groundbreaking victory, but also engaged a new generation of South Asians in the political process. SAFO's organization, which consisted of thousands of activated volunteers located in chapters across the country, worked to educate and register voters, raise contributions and engage in get-out-the vote efforts that contributed to unprecedented voter turnout, particularly in the key battleground states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida, which were critical to Obama's victory.

SOUTH ASIANS FOR OBAMA RALLIES COMMUNITY TO ELECT OBAMACommunity Offers Unprecedented Support for Historic Presidential Bid

WASHINGTON, DC, November 4, 2008 – Senator BarackObama made history tonight when he was elected as the 44th President of the United States of America. For the past 21 months, South Asians for Obama (SAFO) has spearheaded a movement to rally the South Asian American community behind Senator Obama. SAFO's efforts to organize this increasingly politically active constituency not only helped secure Obama's groundbreaking victory, but also engaged a new generation of South Asians in the political process. SAFO's organization, which consisted of thousands of activated volunteers located in chapters across the country, worked to educate and register voters, raise contributions and engage in get-out-the vote efforts that contributed to unprecedented voter turnout, particularly in the key battleground states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida, which were critical to Obama's victory.

"When we started SAFO, our


it engages in the political process for years to come."

About SAFOSouth Asians for Obama (SAFO) is a grassroots movement created to mobilize the South Asian community in America to support Barack Obama for President of the United States in 2008. For more information, visit www.safo2008.com.

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For further information about this topic, or to schedule an interview, please contact Hrishi Karthikeyan at (646) 498-7731 or at hrishi1@gmail.com.

For the past 21 months, South Asians for Obama (SAFO) has spearheaded a movement to rally the South Asian American community behind Senator Obama. SAFO's efforts to organize this increasingly politically active constituency not only helped secure Obama's groundbreaking victory, but also engaged a new generation of South Asians in the political process. SAFO's organization, which consisted of thousands of activated volunteerslocated in chapters across the country, worked to educate and register voters, raise contributions and engage in get-out-the vote efforts that contributed to unprecedented voter turnout, particularly in the key battleground states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida, which were critical to Obama's victory.


Q:

when was the battle?

Recently, an old grave were discovered in Italy. On the grave was written a mysterious inscription (originally in italian but translated in english there).

Here lies an italian soldier who died in battle
12016485 is the multiplication of his day and month of death,
his age when he died, his number of children and finally,
the number of years between his death and Boru's death

Hint:

 France was part of the war.

Hint2:

 He had less than 10 children

Source: strongly inspired by Diophante.fr website

A:

It would appear that our soldier died on:

 September 13, 1515, at the age of 41, leaving behind 5 children. He died during the Battle of Marignano, a conflict between France and the Old Swiss Confederacy, taking place near Milan, Italy.

I deduced this by:

 Finding the prime factorizationPerceptions of house officers working in hospitals of Lahore about joining the field of anaesthesiology as a career.
To determine the perceptions of house officers working in hospitals about joining anaesthesiology as a career. This quantitative, descriptive questionnaire-based study was carried out from September 2014 to February 2015 in 26 teaching hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan, and comprised house officers. Those with at least three months of working experience in anaesthesiology were included. They were approached in their respective departments and a validated self-reporting questionnaire was delivered to them and received back by hand. SPSS 16 was used for data analysis. Of the 73 house officers approached, 53(72.6%) responded; 35(66%) men and 18(33%) women. Overall, 25(47.16%) respondents refused to join anaesthesiology as a career and 27(50.94%) included it in their


editions and translations of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. As a result, comments with many stars actually may be referring to an entirely different translation. Likewise, hardbound references don't match up with the paperback versions. I'd recommend that you find a copy somewhere and look at the text yourself before you order.

It was interesting to see that one reviewer went looking for a copy of the Modern Library edition of "Meditations" as a gift, and had to settle for a different translation.

There was a time when many publishers had in print their own editions -- usually "gift editions," in a range of prices -- of the little book, "To Himself," by the second-century Roman patrician Marcus Annius Catilius Severus (121-180 C.E.), known after his marriage as Marcus Annius Verus --almost always titled something like "The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius," and most commonly some version (little choice disguised as many choices) of George Long's 1862 translation of the Greek original, originally published as "The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus."

For Marcus, besides receiving an excellent education in Greek, which he seems to have used as naturally as Latin, went on, through a process of adoption and co-optation, to rule the Roman Empire, beginning in 161 with the death of Antoninus Pius, his uncle, who had adopted him as heir, using a third version of his name. For moderns, he is usually just Marcus Aurelius; I found it a bit of shock to see him as just another "Antoninus" in ancient texts.

Under any name, he has been popular,


excellent first introduction to the book, and graceful reading for those with no interest in looking further. It has brief but helpful notes, and a glossary of names, which helps keep the notes short and to the point. Some will follow his references to more advanced treatments, including textual as well as philosophical problems.

As for Marcus Aurelius, he is generally regarded as one of the greatest, and certainly the most morally and intellectually impressive, of all Roman Emperors. Gibbon tended to see the Empire's real decline as subsequent to his death, a view not without its reflection in the recent motion picture "Gladiator." The transitions by appointment from Trajan to Hadrian to Antoninus Pius to Marcus produced one of the most successful set of reigns in history (ifmainly from a strictly Roman and Imperial point of view). It is perhaps the best historically-documented counterpart of the Chinese tradition of the Sage Emperors who chose as heirs the Most Virtuous (or Most Effective) subjects, instead of favored sons.

The policy had precedents in Roman history, although none so successful for so long. Family loyalty was admired, and inheritance gave access to key property, including the slaves in the bureaucracy, and the loyalty of followers (veteran soldiers, freedmen and other clients); yet the whole dynastic principle was suspect as un-Roman. It was in part accidental, Antoninus, for example, himself almost a last-minute substitute, having no son to be his heir. Marcus Aurelius designated his son Commodus as successor, with less fortunate consequences, after the death of his first


choice; although Commodus' evil reputation may reflect his political and military failures, and the interests of his successors, as much as his personality.

So one might expect from the great Emperor Marcus Aurelius some manifesto on statesmanship, or imperial strategy, or at least good government. In fact, his twelve books (booklets, really) of little notes "to himself" contain reflections on fate, on moral lessons from classical literature, on religion, on human nature. They are probably the last thing one would expect of a Supreme Autocrat and Generalissimo.

Nor are they an exposition of a philosophic system; no surprise that some reviewers, apparently expecting one, have found them unsatisfying.

The first three books have titles (some are subscripts in the manuscript tradition, but, like Hays, I think they are misplaced). "On thetranslation with new introduction, etc., World's Classics, 1990, and Oxford World's Classics, 1998), and two competitors for the student and general reader markets, respectively, by G.M.A. Grube (originally Library of Liberal Arts, Bobbs-Merrill, 1963) and Maxwell Staniforth (Penguin Classics, 1964), which have been in and out of print (but mostly in) for four decades. Of these, I much prefer Hays -- although the additional material in the World's Classics edition(s) is worth a look. (Staniforth, by the way, says that "a couple of generations ago" major publishers had "elegant miniature" editions of classics, usually including the "Meditations" -- those I remember from the 1960s themselves were full-sized, and distinguished only by gilt edges and/or slipcovers and/or presentation pages.)

It also joins the highly-praised contemporary version, "The Emperor's Handbook: A


eclectic, but grants that, if asked, he would have identified himself with Stocism.

The movement was founded by Zeno of Citium (or Kition), born on Cyprus (about 336 B.C.E.) in a family said to be part Phoenician, who taught in the Stoa Poikile, or "Painted Walkway," in Athens, from some point after 313 to his death about 261 B.C.E. It was one of the key movements of Hellenistic times, and found a ready reception among upper class Romans as well. Teaching calm in the face of stress, and endorsing acceptance of public obligations, including religion, it is traditionally paired with, and contrasted to, Epicureanism, which taught avoidance of excessive pain and pleasure, withdrawal into private life, and the pointlessness of traditional religion. (Not hedonism, as popularly imagined; nor didIt is also a fascinating tour of the mind of Marcus Aurelius, the military leader, emperor, educator, philanthropist, and philosopher who remains one of history's most noble protagonists, and whose writings reveal the loneliness of his soul without being bitter.This is a must-have book for the nightstand of anyone living a contemplative life, a profound precursor to modern self-help books written by a Renaissance man who lived centuries before the Renaissance.There is no plot to summarize here, no accurate generalizations to be made. One gets the idea that these are thoughts the author jotted down, sometimes between appointments and sometimes after months of contemplation. Often they are obvious, sometimes they are obscure. They can seem rooted in history, and at times based on today's current events. They can


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There had been indications, laid out by Deadspin’s David Bixenspan, that the league could present itself as a conservative alternative to the NFL in response to players kneeling during the national anthem. McMahon is a longtime ally of Donald Trump and Trump appointed his wife, Linda, as head of the Small Business Administration. McMahon declined to say Thursday whether Trump would be involved in or approve of the league.


Beavers Head Coach, Gary Anderson has announced Open Tryouts for the Beaver Football team. If you are able to provide a brief medical history, are in good standing with Oregon State University and have D1 eligibility remaining then don't miss your shot to try out!

Find Oregon State’s official announcement here.

Oregon State has had a history of successful walk-ons making an impact. Head Coach Wayne Tinkle held open basketball try outs when he first accepted the job and a number of players made the team and played a big role.

Last year, Clemson held open tryouts and they went on to play in the college football playoffs and eventually the National Championship.

It seems to be pretty commonplace in college football to hold open try outs. The list of walk-ons whoGardai at the scene of a fatal stabbing at Clinchs court, North Strand, Dublin Picture credit: Damien Eagers / INM

Gardai at the scene of a fatal stabbing at Clinchs court, North Strand, Dublin Picture credit: Damien Eagers / INM

A MAN has been arrested after another man was killed in a stabbing incident in the North Strand area of Dublin City in the early hours of Friday.

The alarm was raised at around 4am at Clinchs Court, North Strand after a man in his 40s received fatal stab wounds in an attack.

Gardaí were alerted to the incident and the man who was seriously injured was removed to the Mater Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

A second man, in his mid 40s, was also injured and removed to St. James


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More than 140,000 people have lost their lives since conflict broke out in Syria over three years ago. According to figures released by the United Nations, anywhere from 8.6 to 10.4 million Syrians have been displaced – more than one third of the population. Most of them qualify as internally displaced.

Only 2.5 to 3 million Syrians have fled the country, residing mostly in refugee camps in the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. Official numbers indicate that around 2.4%, or roughly 60,000 refugees have ended up in the European Union, most of them in Germany and Sweden.

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September 1990, Sprint's sales force was divided into two distinct groups:  the National Accounts Division (NAD), which sold to customers that billed over $100,000 per month;  and the Business Market Group (BMG) which sold to customers that billed under $100,000.  Just prior to reorganization, Margie Bingham was manager of NAD and reported to the Regional Director, Marilyn Deas.  Ryan Sothan was the manager of BMG, and Scott Miller and Jay Anders each managed a group of sales representatives in BMG.  Kriss worked as a sales representative for Scott Miller, who had hired her.  851 F.Supp. at 1352.

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Kriss performed well above her assigned sales quotas.  While she attained outstanding sales numbers, she also experienced problems in servicing and maintaining her accounts afterin the BMG, namely Miller, Anders, and Sothan.  Bingham held a series of meetings with Miller and Anders, which Sothan sometimes attended.

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Bingham began the process by stating that there were three representatives she would not consider for transfer to the new BMG.  One of them was Kriss.  Bingham had a bad impression of Kriss from the TRO incident.  Bingham testified that if Miller had pushed for Kriss, she would have been willing to enter the debate and examine Kriss's personnel file and performance reviews.  Miller did not raise any objection to Kriss being excluded.  The district court faulted Miller's silence.  "He did not point out her superior sales performance or awards that would have reflected favorably on Kriss.  At the


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Nor would an application of the criteria set out in McDonnell Douglas have availed the plaintiff.  The district court discussed McDonnell Douglas in a footnote:

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Plaintiff has established a prima facie case of discrimination because she is a member of a protected class, she was qualified for a position in the New BMG, she was denied the position, and the position was awarded to non protected class members.  Sprint's articulated non-discriminatory reason for its failure to transfer Kriss is that it was Margie Bingham's decision, not Scott Miller's.  ...  Scott Miller's significant role in the selection process and Bingham's heavy reliance on the input of Miller and Anders, renders the proffered reason pretextual.

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Move Over Mozart began in the Seattle area in 1994. The founder, Pamela Cornell, took many of the program's ideas from another piano school, also called Move Over Mozart, located in Sonoma County, California. Since its opening, Move Over Mozart has had the opportunity to introduce thousands of children to the piano and music. One of our yearly highlights has been our Spring Recital, which gives all the children, beginning 3 year olds to advanced 12 year olds, the opportunity to perform on a concert grand piano. Through all the years, our mission has been to bring the joy of music and piano playing to all children, regardless of social status or income without compromising our quality.

Piano Classes are currently offered through community centers in Bellevue and Kirkland.


Hula in the high country

On the surface, not much remains of Iosepa, a Polynesian settlement of Mormon converts that briefly flourished in Utah’s Skull Valley. A few gravestones and a fire hydrant linger in the desert where once more than 200 Hawaiians, Samoans and other Pacific Islanders settled to be closer to the mother church in the late 19th century. (By 1917, the church had sent most of them back to Hawaii to found a new temple, leaving Iosepa a ghost town.)

But now Benjamin Pykles, an anthropologist from the State University of New York at Potsdam is digging below the surface. The first archaeological survey of Iosepa—the Hawaiian word for “Joseph” after missionary Joseph Smith—has so far turned up an assortment of typical pioneer paraphernalia: shotgun shells, glassware,buttons. But fish bones, chicken skulls and other food finds supplement the official history of these unusual pioneers. (According to the Iosepa Historical Association, settlers stuck to their culinary traditions when possible. For instance, they replaced traditional island poi with a cornstarch and flour concoction.)

Pykles has also discovered that the town was arranged on a grid with the church in the center, like other Mormon towns. And it was built to endure.

"This was supposed to be a permanent settlement," Pykles told The Salt Lake Tribune. "Its size and the amount of money they put into it points to that conclusion."

Though Utah’s original Polynesians left the desert in the dust, the state now has the second largest population of Polynesians in the country. And they are proud of Iosepa.


Since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on Friday, internet users in the bloc have had to deal with unforeseen consequences, including US newspapers blocking access and some companies suspending support for their products.

The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel – all newspapers owned by Tronc media company – displayed messages saying their websites are "currently unavailable in most European countries."

"We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market," said the Los Angeles Times on its website.

Tronc-owned newspapers in the US shut down access to people in the EU

Instapaper, a bookmarking service owned by Pinterest, suspended its service to European clients as it makes "changes in lightAlthough Google has complied with the ruling, it has done so reluctantly, warning that it could make the internet as "free as the world's least free place."

Fighting for the internet: Social media, governments and tech companies Blanket ban In May 2017, Ukraine imposed sanctions on Russian social media platforms and web services. The blanket ban affected millions of Ukrainian citizens, many of whom were anxious about their data. The move prompted young Ukrainians to protest on the streets, calling for the government to reinstate access to platforms that included VKontakte (VK), Russia's largest social network.

Fighting for the internet: Social media, governments and tech companies Safe Harbor In 2015, the European Court of Justice ruled that Safe Harbor, a 15-year-old pact between the US and EU that allowed the


transfer of personal data without prior approval, was effectively invalid. Austrian law student Max Schrems launched the legal proceedings against Facebook in response to revelations made by former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, Edward Snowden.

Fighting for the internet: Social media, governments and tech companies Regulation In China, the use of social media is highly regulated by the government. Beijing has effectively blocked access to thousands of websites and platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. Instead, China offers its citizens access to local social media platforms, such as Weibo and WeChat, which boast hundreds of millions of monthly users.

Fighting for the internet: Social media, governments and tech companies Twitter bans Russia-linked accounts Many politicians and media outlets blame Russia's influence for Donald Trump's election victory in 2016.Moscow reportedly used Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Instagram to shape public opinion on key issues. In October 2017, Twitter suspended over 2,750 accounts due to alleged Russian propaganda. The platform also banned ads from RT (formerly Russia Today) and the Sputnik news agency.

Fighting for the internet: Social media, governments and tech companies Facebook announces propaganda-linked tool With social media under pressure for allowing alleged Russian meddling, Facebook announced a new project to combat such efforts in November 2017. The upcoming page will give users a chance to check if they "liked" or followed an alleged propaganda account on Facebook or Instagram. Meanwhile, Facebook has come under fire for not protecting user data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Author: Lewis Sanders IV (dj)

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Woody Allen's new film A Rainy Day in New York has been left in limbo by its production company Amazon Studios.

The film, a romantic comedy starring Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez and Jude Law, had been expected to premiere this year. But now Amazon has said “no release date has ever been set for the film," in a statement given to Page Six.

The director had signed a five-movie deal in 2016 with Amazon Studios, which is contractually obliged to release the film. But the company reportedly struggled to convince cinemas to distribute the first film from that partnership, Wonder Wheel, which subsequently flopped at the box office.

The Oscar-winner has become an increasingly controversial figure in recent months. The rise of the #MeToo and Time's Up anti-sexual harassment campaigns sparkedVoyager's top speed of Warp 9.9 given what they allow Voyager to achieve in the final episode, "Endgame".

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Jeff Strunk gets a big win and other short track news

Jeff Strunk battled back a solid field to win the $50,000 prize at Grandville. Photo by NASCAR

In recognition of the track’s 50th anniversary season, Pennsylvania’s Grandview Speedway presented the biggest race in its history Saturday night, offering $50,000 to win the annual Freedom 76 modified race at the third-mile dirt track.

Longtime track regular Jeff Strunk fought off a stellar field of locals and invaders to claim the largest payday of his racing career before a packed house at the Bruce and Theresa Rogers owned facility.

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Jamie Lathroum banked $20,000 for the biggest victory of his dirt late model career when he won Saturday night’s 33rd annual USA 100 at Virginia Motor Speedway.

Lathroum, the 2005 late model trackSome firms outright refused to meet him; others, who initially seemed interested, dropped out at the last minute. Following four weeks of scouting, and a move from Norwich to London, Ball finally found his lawyers: Edmonds Marshall McMahon (EMM), a London-based firm specialised in private prosecution cases.

When revealing his hiring, in late September 2016, Ball made a pivot from the anti-Brexit side of the argument to pro-truth ecumenism, announcing that he had instructed EMM to work on the possible prosecution of figures both on the Leave and the Remain side. (That would cost him one Remain supporter, who asked to get back his £100 donation.)

But hiring EMM was not the end of it. “I discovered that working with lawyers is immensely expensive. And unless you have hundreds of


who had repeatedly made different claims about a verifiable figure, in a string of press or broadcast appearances?

Boris Johnson was always going to be an easy target. As a frontman of the Vote Leave campaign, he had given speeches at countless rallies and events. His interviews and videoed appearances were all over the place in Sky’s archive. He had written his Daily Telegraph columns. He had repeatedly appeared next to a red bus featuring the £350m-a-week figure. Virtually no other politician, either on the Leave or the Remain side, had been in the public spotlight as much, and left so much material for Ball to argue his case.

Read next How the Cummings myth crumbled How the Cummings myth crumbled

Ball and his team found that Johnson – at thein which any honest official, once caught, struggles vainly for release. The only beneficiaries of this web are the nameless spider architects who have a vested interest in chaos, conflict and controversy.Dennis Love, "Can Reform Beat Apathy?" Los Angeles Daily News, April 9, 1997

At the time of his death he was a member of the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission. As president of the commission, Callicott called for a Congressional investigation of the United States Olympic Committee in the wake of  decision by that body to give support to Detroit, Michigan, for the 1968 Summer Olympics instead of Los Angeles, which had entered a bid. Speaking for the Los Angeles delegation to an Olympic Committee meeting in  Chicago, which he headed, he said that the committee "likes


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Senior setter Bart Kowalski leads the Gaucho men's volleyball team with 857 assists so far this season. In the team's last win against IPFW, Kowalski set up his teammates 45 times to help UCSB beat the No. 8 ranked school. He is currently ranked fourth on the MPSF assist list as well as helping the
Gauchos climb the charts to second in team assists. The Polish-born Kowalski has been instrumental this season in the Gauchos' attempt to realize the MPSF championship dream. The Gauchos are currently fourth in the nation as well as fourth in the MPSF. They are scheduled to take on No. 3 BYU this weekend. The Cougars are onAnalysis of supermarket in california

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A common symptom of midlife in men is to suddenly become more emotional. Men who have felt very little emotion for years find themselves moved to tears at movies, or find a lump in their throat when thinking about their family. A 50-year-old friend confided recently that he gets choked up at news stories about people being rescued. This can be distressing, as we don't want to appear weak in front

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A common symptom of midlife in men is to suddenly become more emotional. Men who have felt very little emotion for years find themselves moved to tears at movies, or find a lump in their throat when thinking about their family. A 50-year-old friend confided recently that heThe prevalence of overweight was of 47% for men and 39% for women, obesity was around 11% for both sexes. Direct association was observed between overweight and level of schooling among men and inverse association among women. Obesity was more frequent among men living with a partner and was associated neither with level of schooling nor skin color. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was higher among black women and women who lived with a partner. The presence of diabetes, systemic arterial hypertension and dyslipidemias, as well as the subject perceiving his/her health as regular or poor, were also reported by the interviewees with overweight or obesity. While approximately one out of every two interviewees was classified as being overweight, obesity was reported by one out of every


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The British grandmother on death row in Bali may lose her chance to appeal against her death sentence after failing to sign the necessary paperwork.

Lindsay Sandiford, 56, from Teesside, who was sentenced this week for importing nearly five kilograms of cocaine into Bali, is understood to blame her lawyer after prosecutors had asked that she be jailed for 15 years. She is searching for someone else to represent her.

Sandiford was given seven days to appeal but she has yet to sign the power of attorney that, under Bali’s laws, will allow her lawyer, Esra Karokaro, to continue actingDeath of at least 20 in Saudi coalition attack on market is a stark reminder that civilians bear brunt of war, says EU.

The European Union has expressed concern over civilian deaths in Yemen after Saudi-led forces killed at least 20 civilians in an air raid last week.

The bombing of a market in the northern Saada province was a “stark reminder that Yemeni civilians are the ones bearing the brunt of a war that has devastated their country,” the EU said in a statement on Monday.

The war in Yemen threatens to undermine regional stability, the bloc said, reiterating a call for dialogue.

“The EU is increasingly worried by the humanitarian situation in the country, on the verge of widespread famine and most recently hit by a cholera outbreak.”

Speaking from Brussels,


more than two years against Houthi rebels.

The country has since been plunged into a civil war in which the exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, is trying to roll back gains made by the Iran-aligned Houthi group that controls most of northern Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.

In March, an air raid by Saudi-led forces killed 22 people and wounded dozens when it struck a market in western Yemen near the Red Sea fishing town of Khoukha.

The war in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world, has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than three million and ruined much of the impoverished country’s infrastructure.

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The Canberra Raiders have confirmed the signing of England International half George Williams on a three-year deal commencing in 2020.

Williams has played 172 Super League matches for the Wigan Warriors since making his debut in 2013, winning two Super League championships with Wigan in 2016 and 2018, alongside current Raiders forward John Bateman.

He’s also excelled at test level for England, representing his nation on 10 occasions.

Raiders CEO Don Furner said the club was excited about Williams joining the Raiders in 2020 and wished him all the best for the remainder of his time with Wigan.

“George is an experienced half who joins us after a very successful career with Wigan in the Super League,” Furner said. “The clubs had success in recent times in recruiting proven performers from thecritic or a fan. It is a goosebump-worthy recording that can bring you to tears with both its poignant melody and its potent lyrics. As a testament to the songs impact, “Talladega” is currently nominated for CMA’s Single of the Year.

It is only fitting, then, that this multi-platinum recording artist served as the honorary pace car driver earlier this week at the CampingWorld.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. Prior to the start of the third and final race of the Contender Round in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Church led the 43-driver field around the track.

Coincidentally, the CampingWorld.com 500 originated just about the same time that Church began his career as a country star. In its ten year history, the race boasts an esteemed list of champions


RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli soldiers at a bus station in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israel’s military said, hours after Israeli forces killed two Hamas fugitives it blamed for earlier deadly attacks.

People stand in a damaged house where a Palestinian gunman was killed by Israeli forces, near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank December 13, 2018. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, said the gunman had climbed from a car at a junction near Ofra settlement and opened fire at Israeli troops and civilians standing nearby. In addition to the two soldiers killed, a third was wounded.

The attack took place near the site of a drive-by shooting on Sunday that wounded seven Israelis, including a pregnant womanwhose baby was delivered prematurely and later died.

In earlier overnight swoops in the West Bank, Israel also said on Thursday its commandos had killed the Palestinian behind Sunday’s attack, as well as another wanted for an Oct 7 shooting at a settlement industrial park that killed a man and a woman, both civilians.

The West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem were captured by Israel in a 1967 war. Palestinians hope to establish a state in the three territories.

The West Bank is under Israeli military occupation, with the Palestinian Authority exercising limited self-rule. Israel has withdrawn its settlers and soldiers from Gaza but maintains a blockade on the coastal strip, which is now controlled by the armed Islamist group Hamas.

In two other incidents on Thursday, police said a Palestinian


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This is an appeal from a rule ranking the claims of four banks, all creditors of defendant, Wallace M. Davis, Jr. The lower court ranked the banks in chronological order of their seizures as follows:
1) Exchange National Bank;
2) The National Bank of Commerce in New Orleans;
3) The Metropolitan Bank of Jefferson; and
4) The Jackson-Hinds Bank.
The Jackson-Hinds Bank appealed, urging that the seizures of the other three banks were invalid and that it should therefore be ranked first. The National Bank of Commerce in New Orleans, ranked second, appealed claiming to rank first and alleging that the Exchange National Bank's seizure was invalid. With respect to the two banks ranked below it, it concurred with the trial court's judgment.
The facts are not disputed. Wallace M. Davis,Jr. is a non-resident of Louisiana, presently residing in Texas. At the time of his departure from the state, he was indebted to various creditors including the plaintiff in rule herein, The Jackson-Hinds Bank. The creditors involved in the present case were pursuing defendant's interest in property inherited from his father, Wallace M. Davis. By judgment of possession, Mrs. Leona Mae Knoderer Davis, defendant's mother, was given the usufruct of certain property and her son, the defendant, was given the naked ownership. It is this interest which the banks sought to seize. The Exchange National Bank, The National Bank of Commerce in New Orleans, and the Metropolitan Bank of Jefferson effected their seizures during the administration of the succession of Wallace M. Davis and The Jackson-Hinds Bank seized


13:3867.
13:3865. "The seizing creditor shall have a notice of seizure served upon the parties to the suit, and the effect thereof shall be to give such seizing creditor a lien or preference on whatever is realized by his debtor out of the suit. After such notice of seizure the litigants cannot dismiss the suit or make any valid sale, compromise or adjustment of the suit to the prejudice of the seizing creditor or without his consent unless the amount to be received by the debtor in the compromise is sufficient to satisfy the seizing creditor's claim, in which event, the litigant offering the compromise must first satisfy the seizing creditor and obtain from him a release of the seizure under penalty of being liable to the creditor forabove discussion, we find this to be a valid seizure ranking Metropolitan Bank of Jefferson third.
The Jackson-Hinds Bank seized pursuant to a non-resident writ of attachment and garnishment obtained in proceedings No. 488-787 of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Jackson-Hinds seized the naked ownership interest rather than the interest in the succession proceeding because a judgment of possession had previously been rendered. The property in which Davis had the naked ownership interest was in the possession of Mrs. Davis, his mother, a resident of Orleans Parish, who was the usufructuary of the property and who was made garnishee. The seizure was formally valid in all respects but must rank fourth because it occurred fourth in point of time.
After examining each seizure we conclude that


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abstract: 'In currently popular cosmological scenarios – all variants of the cold dark matter (CDM) cosmogony – some time beyond a redshift of 15, stars within the numerous small halos that condense with virial temperatures $\sim 10^4\,$K created the first heavy elements; these protogalactic systems, together perhaps with an early population of mini-quasars, generated the ultraviolet radiation and mechanical energy that reheated and reionized the cosmos. The history of the Universe during and soon after these crucial formative stages is recorded in the thermal, ionization, and chemical state of the all-pervading intergalactic medium (IGM), which contains most of the ordinary baryonic material left over from the big bang. Throughout the epoch of structure formation, the IGM becomes clumpy under the influence of gravity, and acts as a sourcethis initiative,” Mehra, known for movies like “Rang De Basanti” and “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag”, told IANS over phone from Mumbai.

On Friday (Janruary 1), the government announced the formation of the Benegal Committee to recommend a holistic framework for the country’s film censor board, and to suggest changes in the Cinematograph Act, so that artistic creativity and freedom are not curtailed.

Led by 81-year-old Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner Benegal, an auteur of parallel Indian cinema, the panel also includes ad guru Piyush Pandey, veteran film journalist Bhawana Somaaya, National Film Development Corporation managing director Nina Lath Gupta, and the joint secretary (Films) in the information and broadcasting ministry as the Member Convenor, besides Mehra.

Also read: Censorship issues must be looked at from time to time: Shyam Benegal

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can best distinguish between them.

Paul Steinhardt is a theoretical physicist, an Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University and coauthor (with Neil Turok) of "Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang." This piece originally appeared as a speech by Steinhardt at an event in 2002. It has been excerpted here as it appears in "The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos." Copyright © 2014 by Edge Foundation Inc. Published by Harper PerennialWith an Austin Hooper touchdown catch in the first quarter of Sunday's contest against the 49ers, the Falcon set a new franchise scoring record by notching 448 points in 2016 (a Josh Harris XP made it 449). Previously, the most points Atlanta tallied in one season was 442 in 1998, when the team won the NFC championship and appeared in Super Bowl XXXIII.

By the time the dust settled, the scoreboard showed a '41' next to the Falcons. It was the fifth time this year the Falcons had scored 40 points or more, and it leaves the team with 469 points after 14 games. The Falcons are now averaging 33.5 points per game.