as a member of the Big Eight and Big 12, watched helplessly as Nebraska*scheduled an extra home game each year against Grand Valley State … and still drew 85,000. CU, meanwhile, had to go on the road to face the likes of Georgia, Ohio State, and West Virginia in order to help bring in revenue. Remember the disaster in Toledo a few years back? Remember how is was scheduled for a Friday night so that the game could attract an ESPN payday? Remember how that worked out? Think Nebraska is traveling to play in the Iron Bowl stadium any time soon?
Yes, the idea of an extra non-conference game has its appeal. And yes, Colorado fans would be more likely to have games against high profile non-conference opponents inLondon, set out to do just that. Between 2010 and 2013, she and and her fellow researchers asked 3,000 people about their most frequent earworm, and compared those tunes’ melodic features to other songs that were just as popular during the same time period (based on U.K. music charts), but were not named in the survey.

They found that the songs commonly cited as earworms were more likely to have fast tempos and, overall, fairly generic melodic contours. An example of a common contour pattern can be heard in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, where the first phrase rises in pitch and the second falls, Jakubowski noted in a press release.

This rising-and-falling pitch pattern is followed in other nursery rhymes, as well, which makes them easy for young children to


NEWARK—Newark Public Schools has laid off more than 100 employees across the district who oversee departments such as mathematics, world language and athletics, a district spokeswoman said yesterday.

The decision to eliminate 129 supervisory positions comes as the district aims to create small schools within the 40,000-student district—a shift that would make many of the administrative positions redundant, spokeswoman Renee Harper said.

"When department chairs were first introduced in Newark, they oversaw operations at huge schools," Harper said. "Now that we're moving to smaller school models—which are safer and produce better student achievement results— department chairs will no longer be needed."

The layoffs are scheduled to take effect July 1, but Harper said some administrators will be rehired to fill different roles. Eliminating the positions will save the district roughly $16An image forming apparatus capable of forming an image with a decoloring toner and a non-decoloring toner is proposed. A temperature area in which a toner image by the decoloring toner can be fixed on a sheet and a temperature area in which a toner image by the non-decoloring toner can be fixed on the sheet are different. For example, if the toner image by the decoloring toner is fixed at a fixable temperature of the non-decoloring toner, the toner image fixed on the sheet may be erased in some cases. Thus, it is necessary for the image forming apparatus to control a temperature of a fixing section according to the type of toner used.
The image forming apparatus cannot determine which toner is used until receiving a print


the rotor to enter the gap between the rotor and stator, entering radial flow passages of the stator. The stator does not rotate but remains stationary, so that when the rotor starts to rotate, a vortex flow is generated in the liquids existing in the radial flow passages of the rotor and the stator. Further, a shearing force in conformity with the r.p.m of the rotor is applied to the liquids having entered the gap between the rotor and the stator. Due to the energy of the vortex flow and the shearing force, the two liquids are homogenized and eventually discharged as an emulsion to the exterior through the radial flow passages formed in the stator.
To more efficiently homogenize the two liquids in this rotor/stator type homogenizer, itcompete at WEF and we are thrilled to be part of the show again. We sponsored the award last year and had a great time meeting all of the Vita Flex Victory Pass winners,” White said.

The 2012 Winter Equestrian Festival runs January 11 to April 1, 2012, featuring thousands of horses and riders competing in 15 show rings on the grounds of the newly renovated 100-acre Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) in Wellington, Florida. WEF is well known for being a proving ground for the United States Equestrian Team and serves as a host for selection trials and qualifiers for international events such as the FEI World Cup Finals and the Olympic Games. “Many, many riders who rely on products from Vita Flex Nutrition compete at WEF


and sponsoring the award is a great way for us to give back to the equestrian community,” White said.

Vita Flex Nutrition is endorsed by world-class riders and trainers from all disciplines – from dressage, show jumpers, eventers, drivers and hunters to halter, barrel racers and reining world champions. Many of the riders who endorse Vita Flex® products have represented the United States at international events, from the Olympics to World Championships. “It is very exciting that we have talented international and world class riders who rely on Vita Flex® products as an integral part of their winning teams,” White said.

Vita Flex® products produce winning results and are designed for the extreme performance demands of equine athletes. “Vita Flex Nutrition offers a complete line of nutritional supplements and Iwake your ass up." "All right, I'm coming." "Peace." "HARPER:" ""Kacey had cried a river" ""on Jackson's shoulder that night." ""Not only were the rumored exploits of The Ebony Humper" ""becoming too commonplace for her to handle," ""but she'd also had her fill of false paternity suits" ""and the groupies' crank phone calls." ""Sure, Brian meant the world to her," ""but she wasn't gonna play the fool any longer." ""She wanted revenge." ""The sweetest payback for his random indiscretions" ""would be a personal one of her own." ""But how could Jackson be a part of that?" ""What did he have to gain from that" ""other than the guilt of betraying" ""the brotherhood that he shared with Brian?" ""But he was responsible for bringing them together" ""and thus accountable


October 1982 a St. Louis County police officer discovered defendant asleep behind the wheel of his automobile; the automobile was engaged in "park" gear with the engine running and the lights burning. The vehicle was partially blocking traffic on westbound U.S. Highway 40. The officer aroused defendant and asked him to walk to the rear of the car. He staggered as he walked and experienced difficulty reciting the alphabet when asked to do so by the officer. The officer detected a strong odor of alcohol on defendant's breath. He was then arrested and ultimately charged and convicted of driving while intoxicated. § 577.010.1, RSMo 1982.
Appellant charges the trial court erred in overruling his motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction: he asserts that section 577.010, RSMo 1982, wasExoticizing itself as the “Summer drink of the East", Rooh Afza in Pakistan tastes exactly the same as its Indian counterpart. After East Pakistan became Bangladesh in 1971, the property in Dhaka was transferred to a local entrepreneur, who carried on the legacy that began in Old Delhi’s Lal Kuan.

Hakeem Abdul Majeed included Rooh Afza in his first list of drugs in 1908. A drink made to treat illnesses like heat stroke, dehydration and diarrhoea, Rooh Afza’s Persian name means “one that enhances the spirit and uplifts the soul". Earlier, when there was only a single factory in Old Delhi, Rooh Afza bottles were filled manually and the labels pasted by hand. Today, there is one bottling plant in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, and two in Manesar, Haryana, where


First Time GM is a series of articles dedicated to the newly-minted game master, making his or her first tentative die rolls behind the screen. Today’s article deals with techniques used to prepare for a game. A broader look at the process is here.

GMing is an art form; no two GMs will prepare in exactly the same manner. In addition, the list of techniques for game prep is massive and ever-changing. I’ll try to cover a few big topics, but each GM have to find what works best for them.

First Time Out

For truly first-time GMs, I strongly recommend a published adventure. Preferably one by the writers of the game, for low-level play, using pre-generated characters, and where player choices are somewhat limited (like a dungeon crawl).

Published adventures, especially                      - 4 -

     Mr. Deihl completed his formal education upon graduation

from the eighth grade and has since been engaged in a series of

entrepreneurial business ventures.       Mrs. Deihl, who has an

eleventh grade education, was an integral participant with her

husband in these ventures.    In the early 1980s, petitioners began

to investigate the possibility of developing and marketing a

vitamin complex administered in spray form.       Petitioners in the

mid-1980s acquired a patent for the formula for such a spray

multivitamin and incorporated Mayor to manufacture the product.2

Petitioners jointly own 100 percent of the stock


windows and French

doors, a lighting system, gold-leaf trim, furniture, and interior

design elements.   The residential property also included a

swimming pool, tennis court, fountain, and extensive landscaping.

     Both Mayor and KareMor maintain their principal corporate

office in a complex located on 24th Street in Phoenix, Arizona.4

The complex occupies the east and west sides of the street and

includes multiple buildings and surrounding landscaping.      On the

east side are three buildings:    A two-story office building, a

     4
       The record fails to clarify the precise ownership, as
between petitioners and/or one of their various entities, of this
property.
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manufacturing laboratory, and a storage warehouse.    Five

buildings are located on the west side and consist of both office

and warehouse or industrial space, some of which is leased to

third-party tenants.

     In operating their businesses, petitioners employed the

services of several professional advisers.    Robert J. Hartmann,

an attorney, certified in Arizona as a tax law specialist in past

years and also holding a degree in accounting, met Mr. Deihl in

1983 and became involved in legal work for Mr. Deihl and his

companies.    Mr. Hartmann initially assisted with contract

disputes and organizational issues, and by 1998 approximately 70

percent of his practice was devoted to providing


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Illinois as a C.P.A. in about 1966 and maintained that license

for approximately 20 years.   He thereafter ceased to renew the

license because he had not fulfilled continuing education

requirements.   Mr. Goltz similarly obtained a license to practice

law from the State of Illinois in 1967 or 1968, and he maintained

the license until he was disbarred in 1985 or 1986.

     After being introduced to Mr. Deihl, Mr. Goltz was engaged

by Mayor as an independent contractor to perform part-time

accounting and consulting work.   During 1994 or 1995, Mr. Goltz

was hired as a full-time employeeand provided with an office at

the corporate headquarters where he displayed the various

professional degrees and certificates pertaining to his career as

a C.P.A. and attorney in Illinois.     By 1996, the first of the

years in issue, Mr. Goltz served as the accountant and CFO for

both Mayor and KareMor.   Mr. Goltz prepared the original income

tax returns for petitioners, Mayor, and KareMor for 1996 and

1997.

     As the businesses grew throughout the years in issue,

Mr. Goltz became overwhelmed with the volume of work.     An

individual hired to assist him proved to be a poor fit for the

companies and failed to relieve the burden.     The business and tax

records were not computerized and were manually prepared.

Mr. Goltz estimated


his position

as CFO; an individual named Pam Roeper was hired to succeed him

in that role; and Mr. Leo was engaged to reconstruct financial

records, to create general ledgers, and to prepare tax returns

based thereon.    Mr. Goltz stayed with the companies until late

2000 attempting to provide whatever assistance he could to Mr.

Leo.    Between June of 1998 and April of 2000, Mr. Leo prepared

and filed on behalf of petitioners, Mayor, and KareMor amended

returns for 1996 and 1997, and original and (for petitioners

only) amended returns for 1998.

                               OPINION

I.   Preliminary Matters

    above, are

other than generally reasonable and supported by the available

documents.

     E.   Clubs

     One of the many subsets of expenditures deducted by

petitioners under the category referred to as training, meetings,

and/or conventions is outlays to Arizona Club, to Gardiner’s

Resort on Camelback (also referred to as Gardiner’s Tennis

Ranch), and to Gainey Ranch Golf Club.   Mr. Deihl testified that

the Arizona Club is a private social club, charging membership

fees, with restaurant, banquet, and catering facilities.   He

stated that petitioners used the Arizona Club for events such as

business luncheons and training meetings.   They also utilized the

catering services for outside parties at their home.

Additionally, Mr. Deihl testified that the family made personal

use of the club for events including holiday functions


of paint, new bits, and fully magnetized.
Which means f.ex. they can go from Sniper:
To Riot Control:
Leader:
Heavy:
Marksman 2:
Breach and entry:
The cavalry. Judge, Jury and Executioner:

I noticed some 40k stuff posted here, and wanted to show off these conversions I made from amazing bits; previously created by Epoch Studios.
The miniatures below are used in our Necromunda games, and in Tyranid Attack. An older board game release:Golf is a game in which a player, using many types of clubs, hits a ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes. Golf club head manufacturers and designers seek to improve certain performance characteristics such as forgiveness, playability, feel, and sound. In addition, the durability of the golf club head must be maintained while the performance characteristics are enhanced.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) regulations constrain golf club head shapes, sizes, and moments of inertia. Due to theses constraints, golf club manufacturers and designers struggle to produce a club having maximum size and moment of inertia characteristics while maintaining all other golf club head characteristics, such as weight and sufficient durability.


Quentin A was convicted of the robbery of a 13-year-old girl.

Quentin A was convicted of the robbery of a 13-year-old girl. The victim in the case testified that he used a knife to commit the crime, which distinguished it from other crimes involving the theft of property, such as petty larceny, which does not involve the use of force or threats. Mr. A appealed his case to the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court. His defense lawyer argued that Mr. A deserved a new trial since the trial court did not allow the defense to submit expert testimony concerning the validity of eyewitness identifications.

According to the victim, Farhana U., Mr. A approached her as she was walking down the stairs into the subway at Essexand Delancey Streets. Mr. A came within two feet of her and asked for some change. Farhana told Mr. A she did not have any change and continued down the stairs. Mr. A walked past her up the stairs, then came back down and stood in front of her. He proceeded to hold a knife to her neck and demand that she give him the necklace she was wearing. Farhana resisted but Mr. A grabbed the necklace and proceeded to run off up the stairs. Farhana reported the robbery to the token booth clerk.

A police detective interviewed Farhana with her brother present. According to the detective’s report, the victim seemed afraid but was able to describe the person who robbed her as a black man, over six feet


in height and wearing a blue shirt and bandana. The detective prepared a photo lineup which included a man who had been arrested for a robbery in the same general area on May 28. The man Farhana identified as the robber was the same man arrested for the earlier robbery.

Police arrested Mr. A on June 22nd. Farhana was called to the police station and subsequently picked Mr. A out of a lineup. Since the crime involved theft by the use of force, he was charged with robbery rather than a lesser offense such as theft.

Prior to the beginning of jury selection, Mr. A’s attorney filed a motion to present an expert witness on the accuracy of eyewitness identifications. The motion was denied but the court gave Mr. Amarket in the state [and Twin Cities],” Walker wrote to Rove.

Prosecutors allege that Johnson helped coordinate efforts among the Walker campaign, the conservative leaning Club for Growth, and other outside entities like the Republican Governors Association and Americans for Prosperity, a pro-business group backed by the wealthy industrialists Charles and David Koch.

Raising money and coordinating campaign activities with outside groups is a violation of a state law, and, according to prosecutors, “That coordination included a nationwide effort to raise undisclosed funds for an organization which then funded the activities of other organizations supporting or opposing candidates subject to recall.”

The revelations come as Walker finds himself in an increasingly tight reelection race against Mary Burke, a Trek bicycle executive and a former state secretary of commerce. A recent Marquette


all industries, bank and finance companies were hit by 32 percent of NotPetya attacks. Oil and gas corporations saw around a 25 percent share of infections, and manufacturing companies were hit just under 25 percent of the time. Health care were on the receiving end of NotPetya around six percent of the time, followed by the food and beverage, trade, construction, and pharmaceutical industries.

According to the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission, about 60 percent of all targeted cyber attacks in the last two years were directed at small businesses. About 75 percent of phishing attacks, efforts to glean personal information from businesses via faux emails or fake websites, were aimed at small businesses. Worse, the SEC estimates that half of the attacks led the small businesses to fold withinan Iranian citizen and not a Swiss citizen, presumably in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 152(3);[53] (4) she caused Russell McRory, in his capacity as her *385 attorney, to submit a declaration dated to the bankruptcy court, dated March 4, 1998, in which he stated that Soleyman, at the time of his death, owned no bank, brokerage, investment or other type of account, presumably in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 152(3);[54] (5) she caused Mr. McRory, in his capacity as her attorney, to submit a declaration to the bankruptcy court, dated June 12, 1998, in which he stated that Schlegelmilch had informed him that there were no assets in Soleyman's Estate at the time of his death beyond personal effects, furnishings in his home and nonworking automobiles, both


amended complaint, affidavits, and documentary exhibits submitted by both parties.

1. Afsar
Afsar is a resident and citizen of Switzerland.[79] She had an apartment at 15 West 53rd Street in New York City from 1985 through 1997.[80] In the amended complaint, plaintiffs assert that title was held by Savco,[81] of which Afsar allegedly was an officer and part owner. Other evidence suggests that Afsar owned the apartment at the time of its sale on June 23, 1997.[82]
From 1978 through 1996, Afsar had bank accounts at J.P. Morgan in New York that held as much as $25 million to $30 million. From the mid-1980's through the present, she has maintained an account at the New York branch of ABN AMRO, N.V.[83] Although plaintiffs provide no evidentiary support for their allegations abouta RICO scheme with him.[88]

2. Ahmed
Ahmed is a resident and citizen of Switzerland.[89] Plaintiffs allege that he acted as a lender in "several transactions" in New York. They specify two: (1) a 1988 real estate loan of $700,000 to Kingsbrook Partners, which was secured by a mortgage covering land in Orange County, New York, and (2) the 1995 assignment of this mortgage to Sohrab's wholly-owned company, Vahabzadeh & Co., Inc.[90] Defendants' do not dispute these allegations.
Ahmed received promissory notes from Sohrab, including one in the amount of $850,000, on or about October 1, 1991. Furthermore, between late 1993 and 1995, Ahmed and Sohrab engaged in a series of "New York-connected" transactions aimed at making Sohrab appear judgment proof, apparently not in connection with the lawsuits underlying this action.


During these transactions, Ahmed allegedly made numerous telephone calls and wrote letters to his attorney, Raymond McRory, whose office is in Garden City, New York, and to Sohrab, a resident of Manhattan. Additionally, Ahmed made a business trip to New York in May 1995, during which he received "telecopies" from Mr. McRory at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan.[91]
Plaintiffs allege also that Ahmed attended "six or seven" business meetings in New York with Mr. McRory between 1980 and the present. These meetings allegedly occurred "in 1990, 1992 and 1995 and possibly other years." Plaintiffs make no more specific allegations regarding these meetings.
Ahmed was involved in a business transaction in New York in August 1995 in which Sohrab and Peninsula, allegedly Sohrab's alter ego, conveyed part of their interests incertain limited partnerships to Satinwood and Sphinx Rock (the "Timberland & Tiburon Transaction"). The transaction closed in Garden City, New York. Certain documents related to the transaction were executed by Manou Faily in New York on behalf of Satinwood and Sphinx Rock.[92] Mr. McRory represented Brickellbush, Satinwood, and Sphinx Rock in the transaction[93] and discussed its structural aspects with Ahmed, who apparently acted on behalf of Sphinx Rock.[94]
Plaintiffs allege that Sphinx Rock and Satinwood are investment vehicles that are dominated and controlled by Ahmed. Defendants have admitted in prior motion papers that Sphinx Rock is owned by Ahmed and Satinwood by Sarlima, N.V., a Netherlands Antilles company also owned by him.[95] Plaintiffs produced a July 20, 1995 letter faxed from Manou Faily to Ahmed requesting that Ahmed cause


for delivery to the United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan in which he falsely asserted that he had no documents relating to his deceased brother Soleyman's financial affairs.[101]
Plaintiffs make some further miscellaneous allegations. They contend in the vaguest terms that "Ahmed traveled to New York in early May 1997 and met with his nephew, Sohrab, in connection with the transactions involved in Sohrab's bankruptcy and the instant lawsuit."[102] They specify nothing further regarding the nature of the transactions. Plaintiffs contend also that Ahmed, through various agents including Manou Faily, Sohrab, Iradj, Brickellbush, and Mr. McRory, engaged in "numerous New York-connected transactions."[103] The only such transaction mentioned is the sale of Afsar's apartment in New York. Further, Ahmed allegedly received funds transferred from Mr. McRory's escrow accounts in NewYork on August 25, 1988, March 6, 1990, and sometime in 1993.[104] Plaintiffs produced factual support for their assertion that Ahmed received funds transferred from Mr. McRory's account,[105] but failed to produce a shred of evidence regarding Ahmed's maintenance of accounts in New York.
*392 Finally, plaintiffs contend that Sohrab's acts within New York are attributable to Ahmed because he is a co-conspirator in a RICO scheme with Sohrab.

3. Afiwa
Afiwa is a Panamanian corporation having its principal place of business in Geneva, Switzerland.[106] Allegedly, Afiwa is owned by Ahmed and is an operating company and investment vehicle for him. Plaintiffs allege that Ahmed has manipulated his finances in an attempt to render himself judgment proof and that he uses funds controlled by Afiwa for his personal expenses and personal


demonstrate the requisite agency relationship between the nondomiciliary defendant and the in-state tortfeasor.[125]
Plaintiff alleges that Sohrab committed various bankruptcy frauds in New York, and the Court assumes the sufficiency of these allegations for the sake of argument. Putting aside the requirements of prongs one and two, however, plaintiffs have failed to make a prima facie showing regarding the fourth prong. "The requisite relationship between the defendant and its New York co-conspirator[] is established by a showing that:(a) the defendant had an awareness of the effects in New York of its activity; (b) the activity of the co-conspirator[] was to the benefit of the out-of-state conspirator[]; and (c) the co-conspirator[] acting in New York acted `at the direction or under the control' or `at the request or on behalfeffects in New York of its activity; (b) the activity of the co-conspirator[] was to the benefit of the out-of-state conspirator[]; and (c) the co-conspirator[] acting in New York acted `at the direction or under the control' or `at the request or on behalf of' the out-of-state defendant."[152]
*399 Here, plaintiffs have not satisfied the control prong. They allege that Ahmed exercised de facto control over Soleyman's affairs during the latter part of his life, and that this demonstrates control because the alleged fraudulent conveyance of Sohrab's inheritance occurred as part of the disposition of Soleyman's estate.[153] Plaintiffs allege also that Ahmed had unchallenged authority within his family and called the January 16, 1997 meeting at which the conspiracy began.[154]
These allegations go to Ahmed's alleged control of Vahabzadeh family


the minimum contacts necessary to justify specific jurisdiction, the plaintiff must show that the defendant "purposefully availed" himself of the privilege of doing business in New York and that the defendant could foresee being "haled into court" in the state.[175]
Here, plaintiffs have made a prima facie showing that Ahmed deliberately engaged in a significant business transaction in New York when he caused Sphinx Rock and Satinwood to purchase certain limited partnership interests from Peninsula/Sohrab. Not only did the alleged transaction occur within the state, but Ahmed allegedly contracted with Sohrab, a resident of New York, and made use of the services of Mr. McRory, a New York attorney, to carry out the transaction. In light of plaintiffs' prima facie showing regarding the agency relationship between Ahmed and SatinwoodThis is such a case. New York has a strong interest here in enforcing its debtor-creditor law, as the fraudulent conveyances at issue allegedly were made to frustrate New York judgments. The plaintiffs also have strong interests in litigating in this forum, as the fraudulent conveyance claims are related to their RICO claims against Sohrab and many of the key events surrounding that claim allegedly transpired in New York. The final two factors do not cut strongly one way or the other.
On balance, and taking into consideration the presumption in favor of an exercise of jurisdiction once minimum contacts have been established, the Court finds that exercising personal jurisdiction over Ahmed on Counts One and Two is reasonable for purposes of the Due Process Clause. Accordingly, defendants' motion


[Final voluntary assessment for Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery medical residents: a report on the results and a look at the future].
The idea of establishing an examination that accredits the training of the specialists in orthopaedic surgery at the end of their educational period as residents is subject to controversy. With the aim of encouraging the development of this examination, the present members of the National Commission of the Specialty of Orthopaedics (CNE) have reviewed the results obtained in previous examination. The results of the voluntary final exam for Orthopaedics residents, and of the surveys of participant opinions for the years 2006 to 2011 are presented. The total number of participants was 231, growing from 19 in 2005, to 71 in 2011. The overall mean score in the periodBlack man with a criminal record. Mr. Brooks had been arrested on July 3, 1980 on a charge of burglary. He negotiated with the prosecutor in exchange for leniency on his burglary charge, to furnish information concerning his participation in an ongoing conspiracy to blow up a building in the Bronx. According to Mr. Brooks, the explosion was to take place the following day at the Hunts Point Taxi Exchange, a building owned by Harold Schreiber at which petitioner was employed.
On July 4, 1980, and on three other occasions in July, Brooks, acting as an undercover equipped with a tape recorder, engaged petitioner Michael Roman in several conversations.[2] Brooks testified at length at trial, both on direct and cross-examination, as to his activities and concerning the context in


which the taped conversations had taken place. During the trial, only one and part of another of the taped conversations were introduced by the prosecution for consideration by the jury. Although many of the words on tape are apparently unintelligible (see Ex. 4A, Tr. of July 15, 1980 tape), there are words spoken by Roman on July 15, 1980 which could support the inference that he did intend that the building be destroyed. He was heard discussing a procedure to be effected on the roof of the Taxi Exchange, to block the vents, in order that a gas explosion in the building might be enhanced.
In addition to the tape recording and Brooks' testimony as to the details of the conspiracy, the prosecution presented other witnesses who testified asAgain, at the conclusion of the second round of challenges, the prosecutor had used nine of his fifteen permitted challenges, at least six of which had been used to exclude white persons from the panel. The defense had used seven of their fifteen joint challenges, only one of which was exercised against a white juror. At the end of this round, then, six jurors had been seated permanently; none of whom was white.

Round 3
The remaining six seats were then filled. After further questioning, and the dismissal of one juror for cause, the prosecutor challenged one of the six and defense counsel excused two others. It may be inferred from the lack of objection by defense counsel, and by certain unchallenged comments of the prosecutor on the record, that


the prosecutor of an invidious, racially motivated exercise of at least one peremptory in Round 6. As to the other such peremptory exercise in that Round, rather than verbalize a reason, the prosecutor withdrew his challenge of a white juror, in the tradition of the child whose fingers had been caught in the cookie jar.
The "reasons" given at the federal habeas hearing were likewise childish and pretextual, as well as unbelievable. The prosecutor testified at the federal habeas hearing before me. I do not say that he wilfully perjured himself in 1985 with respect to his motivations and subjective thinking at the voir dire conducted in 1981. However, he in effect concedes, and I find, that due to the passage of time, he has no present recollection ofLaparoscopic surgeries are applied more and more widely. In order to prevent iatrogenic infections, the usage of disposable trocars used in laparoscopic surgeries becomes larger and larger. The trend of simplifying structures, the trend of reducing costs and improving performance on the basis of ensuring operational performance has become the direction of trocar improvement.
A radial sealing assembly of the prior art normally comprises an upper pressing plate, a protection sheet, a positioning plate, a funnel-shaped sealing ring, a lower pressing plate and a corrugated sealing ring. After positioning pins of the upper pressing plate sequentially pass through mounting holes of the protection sheet and mounting holes of the corrugated sealing ring, the protection sheet and the corrugated sealing ring are mounted between the upper pressing plate and the


positioning plate. After positioning pins of the lower pressing plate pass through mounting holes of the funnel-shaped sealing ring, the funnel-shaped sealing ring is fixed between the lower pressing plate and the positioning plate. By means of the interference fit between the positioning pins and the mounting holes, the upper pressing plate and the lower pressing plate are respectively fixedly connected to the positioning plate. Because the mounting edge of the corrugated sealing ring is compressed between the upper pressing plate and the positioning plate while the funnel-shaped sealing ring is compressed between the lower pressing plate and the positioning plate, under the elastic effect of the elastic material of the sealing rings, the upper pressing plate or the lower pressing plate can easily get loose from thepositioning plate, which causes the radial sealing assembly to leak air, and as a result, the air tightness of an end sealing piece and an entire trocar is affected. Therefore, the radial sealing assembly, end sealing piece and trocar in the prior art need to be improved.


For a decade, Randy Scheunemann has been a campaign staffer to John McCain, an ideological ally in the fight to contain Russian power -- and a lobbyist seeking the Arizona senator's support for former Soviet states.

Their long relationship is typical in Washington, where Sen. McCain has served in Congress since 1983, and it helps illustrate why the Republican presidential candidate is on the defense over ties to lobbyists.

The...J.K. Rowling In Support Of Black Hermione

J.K. Rowling Supports Casting Of Black Actress As Hermione In Harry Potter Play

A Black actress named Noma Dumezweni has been cast as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts I & II, the play set to premiere next year in London. And J.K. Rowling "loves" it.

When asked on Twitter what she thinks of the casting, the author responded: "Canon: brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione." (Rowling also added a kissy-face emoji.)

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child finds the Potter threesome in adulthood. Harry is now an "overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic," and his son, Albus, "must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted."


According to the synopsis: "As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places." Jamie Parker is set to play Harry and Paul Thornley will take on the role of Ron. Parker, Thornley, and Dumezweni all have extensive theater credits. Dumezweni won an Olivier Award in 2006 for her work in A Raisin in the Sun.

Other former members of the Potter-verse have also expressed their support. Matthew Lewis who plays Neville Longbottom in the movies, responded to a tweet asking his "thoughts" by saying: "And Neville Longbottom was blonde. I really don't care. Good luck to her." Evanna Lynch, who played Luna Lovegood in the films, tweeted:

Tbh new Hermione is black, Harry looks like Ron, when I wasinaugural session of the CII National Conclave on Employee Relations.ET had first reported on August 11 that the government may raise the minimum wages in the country by as much as 25 per cent and also make them binding on all states, a move aimed at giving an indirect boost to the rural economy.Aggarwal added that the labour ministry is conscious of the need to pay the minimum wages to every worker and that it has launched several initiatives to consolidate and rationalize the labour laws.Since labour is a subject under the Concurrent List, both the Centre and the states fix minimum wages for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers in their jurisdictions.The ministry recently increased the national floor-level minimum wage to Rs 160 per day from Rs 137


to blossom, what constitutes evidence for life, and even what constitutes life itself. These are the same questions that scientists might ask when searching for alien life. In addition, astrobiologists research the possibility of life based on other metabolisms and elements, the survivability of Earth's organisms on other planets or spacecrafts, planetary and solar system evolution, and space geochemistry.

Biogeochemistry
Biogeochemistry is a systems science that synthesizes the study of biological, geological, and chemical processes to understand the reactions and composition of the natural environment. It is concerned primarily with global elemental cycles, such as that of nitrogen and carbon. The father of biogeochemistry was James Lovelock, whose “Gaia hypothesis” proposed that Earth's biological, chemical, and geologic systems interact to stabilize the conditions on Earth that support life.

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Located in western Skagit County, La Conner was once county seat and most populous town in the Skagit Valley. Bounded by farmland, the Swinomish Channel and the Swinomish Indian Reservation, it was an up-to-date town and lively terminus for river steamers bringing timber and lumber down from the upper Skagit, and port for farm commodities grown in the surrounding delta flatlands. Its brief county seat status was lost to Mount Vernon in 1883 and a series of economic misfortunes caused the town to slowly fade and be left in the backwaters for decades. With its sweeping waterfront and business district overseen by "The Hill," the wooded, residential midtown bluff, it's a scenic, historic time capsule. The inherent beauty of the environs, the atmospherics, and


the cheap rent of the moldering town attracted artists and eccentrics. In 1937, Morris Graves (1910-2001), who was to become a painter of international renown, came to town and brought his artist friends. These bohemians mixed with rough and tumble fishermen, tow boatmen, and farm hands. Resident novelist Tom Robbins says of the town they created: "That this was an intersection of art and fishing and farming is what’s interesting and unusual and singular to this community” (Hood).

Beginning With Failure

In 1867, on the banks of the Swinomish slough opposite the village of the Swinomish tribe, Alonzo Low built a small trading post on the site of what was to become La Conner. Low's family was among the original party that landed on Alki point (when Alonzo was 2)went on to found Seattle; they resettled later in Snohomish where they were substantial pioneers.

The young Alonzo abandoned his failing effort after 14 months, but in 1869, John S.Conner came from Olympia and bought the land upon which the town subsequently grew. His wife, the former Louisa Ann Siegfried, 27, became the only white woman in the area.

Diking and Clearing

White settlers had been in the Skagit delta area since the mid-1860s. Nova Scotian Michael Sullivan and Sam Calhoun from New Brunswick and their large families had begun the monumental task of building dikes to claim rich new farmland from the marshy tangle of creeks and sloughs and protect it from high tides, and annual flooding.

There was an enormous natural logjam near the mouth of the Skagit River, which


prohibited upstream access and travel. Settlers were forced to locate homesteads in the dense timber along the river below the jam, and few did until the logjam was cleared in the late 1870s. La Conner had early success because it was below the jam and a major part of its downfall was the clearing of the Mt. Vernon "Big Bend" jam.

Conner renamed the Swinomish Post Office and his new town site by combining Louisa’s initials with their surname to make a high-toned, French-sounding "LaConner."

A Thriving Port

In 1873, James and George Gaches purchased Conner's store and with Conner and others started brokering produce growing on the flats. Planted heavily with oats for the horses of Seattle and California, Skagit Valley provided a major energy source of the day. LaConner began to thrive.

Steam ships and freighters plying the coastline chose the new town for a snug harbor protected from the elements. Pioneer businessmen came to town; Joseph Dwelley opened a furniture store, the Gaches brothers ran a mercantile, Conner opened a hotel, as did John McGlenn. A. G. Tillinghast opened his seed company at the entrance to town in 1885, which served mail order catalog customers nationwide until 2003.

In 1873, a newspaper first published in Whatcom County as the Bellingham Bay Mail moved to La Conner. It became the Puget Sound Mail and the newspaper of record. It was the oldest continuously published weekly in the state until its demise in the early 1980s.

Towns and Counties Compete

At first, in the Washington Territory, Whatcom and Skagit were one


county, but as Skagit generated more wealth, secessionist grumbling could be heard. Skagit County historian Dick Fallis says the major impetus for independence came about 1880, when the massive logjam that had blocked the Skagit River at Mt.Vernon was finally cleared. The river now could be used as a shipping artery between Puget Sound and the upriver forests and hills, which was good for mining and great for the logging market with its veracious appetite in the rapidly developing Washington Territory. Mount Vernon, incorporated in 1877, and little more than a soggy bend in the river, was now in position to become a major city.

After an October 24, 1883, vote in the Territorial Legislature quashing Skagit's hopes of independence, the powerful Whatcom representatives packed up and went home.But La Conner Council member (the Council was the territorial equivalent of the present state senate) James Power, and House member Orrin Kincaid of Mount Vernon pushed a quick measure through both houses on November 28, 1883, creating Skagit County.

It wasn't the cleanest method, says Fallis, but it worked. "There was a little chicanery, a little drama there," he says.

A week later, three special commissioners organized the county government and made La Conner the county seat. On 2nd Street, in what is now known as the La Conner Civic Garden Club, the first County Auditor, H. P. Downs had his office and for want of a safe, kept official records in a soapbox nailed to the wall. The Garden Club, built in 1875 as a community building and


over the years used as a grange hall, schoolhouse, federal court, district court, and church is still in use, a community building once more.

But La Conner couldn't hold on to the title of county seat. It was the largest of the three competing towns, Mount Vernon, Anacortes and Sedro-Woolley, but competition between the latter two split the county vote in a November 1884, election and Mt.Vernon won the county seat title by 250 votes.

Although healthy for a few decades to come, this defeat marked the beginning of a slide that would eventually lead to the era that a dog could (and often would) nap undisturbed midday in the middle of First Street.

In 1891, George Gaches built the Gaches Mansion, which since has been used as an art museum,hospital, and apartment house. It survived a near devastating fire in 1973. Restored by community efforts, it was the first home of the Museum of Northwest Art, now located on First Street. The Gaches Mansion is currently the La Conner Quilt Museum.

Tugboat Town

The Swinomish Channel is a navigable man-made cut through what was once called Swinomish Slough, a shallow collection of tidal sloughs, extensive salt marshes, and mud flats. In 1892, Congress approved a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging and diking project to make it an inland passage. Completed in l937, the 11-mile-long channel separates Fidalgo Island from the mainland connecting Padilla Bay on the north with Saratoga Passage to the south through a notoriously narrow opening called "Hole in the Wall." The Channel is used extensively


by fishing boats, tugs, recreational craft, and shallow-draught freight vessels. Dredging the Channel made La Conner into a working waterfront and vital to such longtime employers as Dunlap Towing, with its log towing operations, which has been based in La Conner since 1925.

A faltering fishing industry, devastating floods, the Great Depression, and lack of rail access were reasons for the tailing off of La Conner's prosperity. By its location, it was always a port town, but while other towns scrambled for a rail link or terminus, La Conner spurned the idea. Resident historian Roberta Nelson wrote in the Skagit Valley Herald in 1974, "The early settlers, displaying a trait that has lasted to this day, opposed the railroad because they feared it would scare the cows and disturbthe peace. The rejection of the railroad resulted in the business development of other Skagit towns" (Nelson). La Conner was by-passed by the railroad in favor of Burlington in 1889.

Artists Arrive

La Conner's Skagit Valley setting was a magnet for artists. Skagit-born Richard Gilkey, who lived most of his creative life on nearby Fir Island, described it eloquently for a 1982 exhibition of Northwest artists at Osaka's National Museum of Art.

"The landscape in which I work is a rural agricultural river delta, rich with sloughs, marshes, and farmland. Immediately to the East rise the Cascade Mountains, deeply forested and laced with waterfalls, which flow from snow-covered peaks to rivers running seaward. The nearby rocky, islanded coastline sustains ancient firs, wind-torn, gnarled, and dwarfed, bonsai in nature. Mosses and lichens


derogative term they could come up with. But he won them over, because Morris [was] a man of tremendous charm" (Hood ).

Graves's long life was lived all over the world -- in La Conner only briefly -- but he built a house and Japanese garden nearby on a nearly inaccessible, precipitous hilltop on Fidalgo Island that he called "The Rock." Over time this is where he did some of his most important painting. After Graves had broken the ice, other artists such as painters Anderson, Mark Tobey (1890-1976), Ken Callahan (l906-1986); sculptor/painters Clayton James, wife Barbara, and others came to La Conner and environs. Anderson moved to town permanently in 1959 and painted there until his death. Graves inspired locals like Richard Gilkey (1925-1997) and Anacortes sculptor PhillipMcCracken to return to the Skagit (Ament).

In 1953, Life magazine, a hugely popular magazine not known for chronicling art, much less the godforsaken Pacific Northwest, featured Graves, Tobey, Callahan, and Anderson in a four-color spread dubbing them the "Mystic Painters of the Northwest" and their work, the "Northwest School." It was the first flicker of recognition of artists from the West by the East Coast art establishment and suddenly they were acclaimed internationally.

It was more than the physical beauty that pulled a new generation of artists and bohemians to La Conner. Novelist Robbins, and painters like Charlie Krafft, Bill Slater, Paul Hansen, and others arrived in the 1960s and 1970s. Locals, by then, had a name for such folk: hippies. La Connerites had grown accustomed to perplexing eccentrics


in their tiny town and had, in the meantime, been producing a few homegrown ones.

Empty Storefronts, Rotting Pilings

This era is the one that Robbins and many residents still harken to. Most of the storefronts were empty and boarded up, the pilings beneath the waterfront were rotting. Los Angeles Times reporter Bette Thompson thrilled LA urbanites describing First Street in 1978:

"A horse drawn wagon carries Pioneer Day celebrators down the street. Warm smiles appear on the wrinkled faces of an Indian man and his wife who sell carvings and necklaces. At the Den of Antiquity, yellow curtains strung on the outside of the windows move gently in the breeze ... a sign invites customers to ring the doorbell; if the proprietress likes their looks she will open up theshop.

"Barefoot youth stroll the main street beating a bass drum and proclaiming another performance of their sidewalk vaudeville troupe ...[after the performance] Hesitant applause comes from the crowd, and a young woman in granny glasses and Shirley Temple ringlets passes a faded satin tap-dancing slipper among the spectators for donations."

A cranky yet beguiling mutt named Dirty Biter was owned and maintained by the whole town. He died in 1982 in a tragic dogfight and a First Street park now bears his name. The 1890s tavern shook with live rock music and the city fathers decreed that only waltzing was allowed because of the condition of the building's rotting pilings. The La Conner Tavern (still very much in business) played country music and bluegrass and catered to a blue-collar


crowd salted mightily with the hip and the hirsute.

Local cronies sat daily in the funky North American Scandinavian ambience of the dining room of the Nordic Inn & Old Planters [sic] Hotel at the notorious Round Table gossiping and shooting dice for coffee. Thompson wrote "Indians sell their catches of king salmon to the Lighthouse Inn, and the chef puts on a sidewalk show grilling the steaks over wood he cuts himself."

Former mayor, "Red" Reynolds, a local character in his 70's could be seen in a fright wig lounging barelegged in front of his dusty "Hole in the Wall" antiques store, sound asleep every afternoon (Duncan).

"You could be yourself to the fullest extent, the town had a high tolerance for people who liked an easier way of lifewhere their eccentricities -- dress and unusual behavior were tolerated no matter how vile..." says Robbins (Hood).

The Sewer Wars

Civic singularity, crankiness, and the rejection (or robust questioning) of conventional wisdom, and authority (especially out-of-town authority) marked the history of La Conner and is alive and well today.

Whether "La Conner" should be spelled as one or two words has always been a contentious topic. Some old-timers, the local paper, the State of Washington and the U.S. Post Office use the one word John Conner originally coined; but the incorporated town itself, other old timers, and many modern entities such as the Chamber of Commerce, La Conner school district, and Skagit County all insist on "La Conner," which, in French at least, is more correct.

In 1957, residents liked the international


red base coat so much on the new bridge connecting the south end of town with Fidalgo Island and the Swinomish Reservation, they insisted on a topcoat of the same color. After much wrangling and finger shaking at state officials, the arching steel span that's come to be known as the Rainbow Bridge became the only orange bridge in a state full of green bridges. (Duncan)

A major factor in La Conner's years of stubborn stagnation was its lack of sewers. Septic tanks bubbled up in back yards at high tide and First Street toilets flushed directly into the Channel. Old structures were grandfathered in, but without modern sewer disposal, new construction could not be underwritten by lending institutions and was banned by state environmental laws. This preserved thetown's old buildings, made for cheap rents and "an easier way of life," but economic growth was stifled for more than 40 years.

As always, La Connerites were sharply divided on the subject. Many opposed it on the grounds that life would change forever. Roberta Nelson, whose sentiments were on the side of commerce, wrote, "Many stumbling blocks were placed along the way in hope of preventing the realization of the sewer project" (Nelson).

Tom Robbins, reflecting the view of many residents who still fight commercial growth in the town says, "When they put the sewer in, that’s when this town started going wrong."

The pro-sewer forces led by Mayor Fred Martin were victorious and the sewer lines and waste water facility was completed in 1974. Sleepy, backwater, bohemian La Conner


started to reawaken to twentieth century realities.

Development of La Conner's present tourist-driven, service-based economy began in earnest. The Port of Skagit County built a marina on the north end. Shelter Bay, a gated community of aging and affluent outsiders sprang up just over the bridge on the Swinomish Reservation. Renovation of old houses and crumbling storefronts began, and vacant lots started filling up with new construction. Hotels, bed & breakfasts, and fine dining restaurants, were established. As Puget Sound salmon fishing wound down, the marina filled with yachts. Moore-Clark, a hatchery fish-food processing plant and longtime industrial employer, closed in 1992. The building lost its industrial zoning, and stands ready for commercial development. (O'Donnell)

Tourists for Tulips

Tulips, planted for bulbs in the surrounding flatland by Dutch immigrants, had beenblooming away in masses of vibrant colors for 50 years, but no one paid much attention In 1982, after a Seattle travel agent "discovered" the blooms, the first tour bus rolled into town. La Conner is in the direct path of a tulip tourist tsunami that provides a much-needed cash influx in early spring for the retailers, but drives residents crazy with traffic gridlock in the narrow streets and on farm roads.

In 1965, a La Conner landmark was hauled into town on a barge to a prominent waterfront location. Dunlap Towing had bought the old Bellingham Yacht Club clubhouse and installed the funky rambling wooden structure with its decks and faux lighthouse tower, which became a destination restaurant called the Lighthouse Inn.

In 1968 Skagit County Historical Museum was


built at the very top of the La Conner hill. Once known as "Autoview Hill" for its spectacular 360 degree view of Skagit Bay, Swinomish Channel, Mt Baker, and the flats, the site had been a tourist site since the invention of the auto. An observation deck is a feature of the excellent museum, which features lively exhibits and a good research library.

In 1981, the Valley Museum of Northwest Art, devoted to presenting the works of major Northwest artists, opened on the second floor of the Gaches Mansion. An intrepid La Connerite, Art Hupy (1924-2003) had a vision of a small regional museum in La Conner, a venue so important as "place" for so many Northwest artists. Hupy, a former free-lance photographer for United Press International, Sunset, andTime, had a reputation for warm, powerful photos of Northwest artists. For years, he and his wife Rita doggedly raised money, built membership, plagued patrons, and cajoled artists, all the while searching for a permanent location.

Now located on First Street and known as the Museum of Northwest Art, it is recognized as a serious museum devoted to preserving and displaying the exceptional art of the region including works by Morris Graves, Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson. It also has continual exhibitions of contemporary artists and is a source of education on Northwest art.

Sources:Cheechacos All: The Pioneering of Skagit County ed. by Margaret Willis (Skagit County Historical Society, 1973); The Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties (1906, Interstate Publishing); Deloris Tarzan Ament, Iridescent Light: The Emergence


of Northwest Art (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002); William Cumming, Sketchbook: A Memoir of the 1930's and the Northwest School (University of Washington Press, 1984); "Mystic Painters of the Northwest" Life magazine, September 28, 1953 p. 84; Bette Thompson, "Norse and Indian Lore Blend in Fishing Town," The Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1978; Roberta Nelson, "LaConner Legends: Long History of Starts, Stops," The Skagit Valley Herald, December 20, 1974; Roberta Nelson, "Tillinghast's in LaConner: Seed Firm Maintains Tradition," The Skagit Valley Herald, April, 1975; "LaConner Is State's Most Colorful, Past and Present," Puget Sound Mail, March 15, 1962; Michael Hood, "Blooming Hell," The Seattle Weekly, June 9-15, 1999; Michael Hood Interviews with Dick Fallis, January 2004; Michael Hood interview with Dan O'Donnell, December 2003; Michael Hoodinterviews with Tom Robbins, January 1983, June 1998, September 2002.Note: This essay was revised on April 10, 2014.

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Introduction by Staughton Lynd

During more than twenty years as an industrial worker, unionist, and organizer among seamen, auto workers, teamsters and construction workers, Stan Weir became impressed by the importance of informal work groups. The informal or primary work group is:

that team which works together daily in face-to-face communication with one another, placed by technology and pushed into socialization by the needs of production. It is literally a family at work torn by hate and love, conflict and common interest. It disciplines its members most


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After four years of agitation and after a large number of A-men had retired, the union and the employers decided to take the 1959 B-men into what almost amounted to full membership. All were investigated and all were promoted but a group of eighty-two which contained those


who had taken the lead in criticizing Bridges' policies affecting the B-men. The eighty-two, Weir among them, were fired after a secret trial which was opposed by the local union. Accusations against them involved late payment of dues for which they had paid fines, and chiseling in accepting work assignments out of turn. Ten years later a number of those who were deregistered were still attempting to get a hearing and reinstatement to their jobs via the courts.

Stan Weir is at present an instructor at the University of Illinois. He has written several influential essays based on his experience, including "USA—the Labor Revolt," first published in the International Socialist Journal (Rome, Italy), April and June 1967 (reprinted in American Society, Inc., Maurice Zeitlin, ed., 1970, and in AmericanLabor Radicalism, Staughton Lynd, ed., 1973); and "Class Forces in the 1970's," Radical America, May-June 1972. His articles on longshore have appeared in New Politics. There are substantial similarities in the life events of Stan Weir and Harvey Swados' fictional character Joe Link in Standing Fast.

[The above was written by Staughton Lynd as an introduction to the following article in the book he edited called Rank and File: Personal Histories of Working-Class Organizers (Beacon Press, 1973)]

The Informal Work Group By Stan Weir

The whole early part of my life was dominated by the idea that solutions to all that's wrong lie in individual morality. But my life experience, like that of most people, sent me messages which constantly contradicted this idea. I came to have a different idea, that


you had to have a cause that was bigger than you because that was the only real freedom—living at one with a total society rather than just for oneself. It's impossible to know precisely where one gets that idea, but I came to know that the corruption of individual humans is the result of corrupt and outdated institutions.

My grandmother was a scrubwoman in office buildings in downtown Los Angeles. My mother quit high school in the tenth grade and became an apprentice dressmaker at fifty cents a week. She met my father when she was working at the Post Office. A year later they married and I was born a year after that, in 1921, the year that women got the vote.

I didn't know my father. That marriagelasted five months after my birth. Both my great grandfather and grandfather died in the early '20s. That left me with a family that was female-dominated. My uncle was an important member of our household but due to the Depression, his unemployment and resulting alcoholism, he was constantly held up as an example of what not to be. My block in East Los Angeles was made up of close and long-time neighbors. They worked hard. They were poor, generous, warm and at the same time petty and suspicious of anyone not like themselves; that is, not of English, Scotch, Irish, or German stock. Most of all they wanted the happiness they felt could come from obtaining "a steady job." When two Armenian families moved in at the bottom


of the block there was a temporary but noticeable resistance. Real socialization and integration did not materialize. In 1944, a freeway cut through and made the separation of the lower part of the block permanent.

All through school there were not more than three teachers who related to me on my own terms—really only one, a young Armenian substitute teacher. I was to give one of the speeches at the graduation ceremony from junior high school. My speech was called, "Our Flag, the Star Spangled Banner." In rehearsal, I walked up onto the stage to give the speech in a very sloppy manner. The teacher in charge of the ceremony had a fit of anger and in front of everybody told me off and said, "If ever I seewas doing us a great favor) invited the five boys who were known to be going on to college to his house for dinner. He explained to us how to get a commission in the Armed Forces when the U. S. finally got into the war. He told how he had gotten a commission in the Army as a young man in World War I and how we could do the same, that we should not get caught being privates in the Army. He told us how to work the angles through Congressmen.

It was very oppressive for us to know that the war was going on in Europe. I think this is one of the reasons why we threw ourselves into the "swing era" so hard. That was


a big part of my life. Dancing and listening to the swingbands, and the security of the group that was doing it, was a way of putting behind the thought of that oncoming war. We all knew one another and all the males wore suits that were at least slightly zoot.

I always thought in grammar school that it would be different in junior high—we'd start learning the truth. In junior high I thought it would be in high school. And in high school I thought it would be in college. I went to Los Angeles Junior College in February1940, and it appeared to me that that was finally going to be so. I had a professor of English named Richard Lillard. He was a liberal from the JohnDewey tradition and he provided an analysis of society and the world around us that made sense to me. It was

liberating and I listened hard to every word he spoke. But toward the end of the semester I asked him, "This is all fine but where does one go to put into practice these ideas?"

The following semester I went to UCLA. I was in the Westgard Co-op. It was a co-op eating group. I was introduced to it by a friend of mine I had gone to high school with named John Slevin. He was a Molokan, a member of a fundamentalist Christian pacifist sect from the Ukraine near Armenia. His pacifism hadn't had a great effect on me until the war got very close. Then it became


apparent that he was going to be a conscientious objector. He was in conscientious objector camps for four years and he led a strike as a CO. That made him a felon and for life he has literally been blackballed out

of any career because of it—and he is a great human. I didn't finish my third semester at college. I could see no point in it. I had had a philosophy course in which the professor effectively tore down what he called the metaphysical temple and philosophically destroyed any basis for my belief in God, and I went with Professor Piatt every step of the way. But he had nothing to supplant it with. At this point I was developing a lot of cynicism about the world aroundof both worlds.

I became an apprentice seaman in the Merchant Marine. I was then accepted as a U. S. Merchant Marine cadet and midshipman in the Naval Reserve, went into training, and went out on a merchant ship as a deck cadet. Living with the officers topside, I saw that this was an aristocracy. The contempt that the officers had for the men in the foc'sle (forecastle) was a fact of life. The first day on that ship I appeared on the boat deck with my midshipman's uniform on. The deckhands looked up at me and I saw in their faces that look of pity for the worthlessness of the contribution that anyone could make who would be wearing such an outfit. To them, that uniform symbolized useless


activity.

They knew something about the ability they had to make that ship go from port to port with or possibly even without officers. They were a highly conscious group of men from the strikes of the '30s, an experience which was still fresh in their minds. They were involved, even on that ship, in job actions from time to time. Several among them were ex-IWWs; they believed in direct action.

Within three months, I was working on deck with them as a seaman, wearing the same clothes they were wearing which I got out of the slop chest. They saw that I was interested. They went out of their way to teach me all of the skills, the wire and line (rope) splices, the knots and hitches, and tomake a deck sailor out of me. They wanted to win me away from the "topside" for good. So they started telling me the history of the strikes to win the hiring hall; the fights to destroy the "fink hall" and the "fink book," which had been parts of the government-employer controlled hiring system. Prior to 1934 on the West Coast, when you got off a ship, if the skipper wrote anything other than "VG," very good, in your continuous discharge or fink book, then you were marked and couldn't get another American ship. Carrying the continuous discharge book meant you carried your own blackball in your pocket.

So they pumped all this history into me. And then they would quiz me. "What happened on such-and-such a date?" "What's


Bloody Thursday?" "What were the big demands?" "What was the 1934 award?" "Why were we able to win victories before getting a collective bargaining contract?" "Who's Lunchbox?" (That was Harry Lundeberg, the secretary-treasurer of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific.) "What's a Lunchbox Stetson?" (That was the sailors' name for the traditional white cap of the West Coast maritime workers.)

On that ship I had finally found a cause and a vehicle for pursuing it. These guys were involved, day to day, in establishing dignity for themselves and thousands of others, and policing all the things that they had done to obtain that dignity. I saw the boatswain tell the chief mate on that ship, "Get off the deck while we're working. Come and see me before 8:00 inwere being trampled on because of the no-strike pledge. We were losing the gains of the 1930s because of the war, and that in particular kept me in political opposition to the war throughout the war. World War II was being used by employers to wipe out the gains made by labor a few years earlier and the democratic gains previously won by the general citizenry. When I finally became political it was through the only socialist organization that maintained political opposition to World War II. This was the Workers Party, later renamed the Independent Socialist League, whose leading personality was Max Shachtman.

One day, still early in the war, I came out on the deck of a Moore-McCormack ship on which I was deck delegate and I spotted


we left port, he was the authority on almost all subjects in arguments on almost any question.

This man, who introduced me to socialism, was a visionary and had created in his mind a vision of a better society. He was a developed intellectual. He knew music, art and literature and a lot about natural sciences, and he was able to apply all those things to a vision of a better society. That was very attractive to me and many of the men on that ship.

When we got to Australia, he visited one of the famous rank-and-file organizers of the Australian labor movement. From that old man, who was retired, he got a number of copies of The New International, The Fourth International, The Militant, and Labor Action. Hewas that he was paying attention to what people were doing rather than trying to impose a Utopia upon them. He had analyzed the French Revolutions, the communes and the forms that people themselves had produced and was trying to systematize it in some democratic way so that they would have some control of their own destiny. Being a militant delegate began to take on new meanings.

I began to understand that the reason why merchant seamen were often in the forefront of militant labor activity or revolutionary activity throughout the world was because, as citizens of a ship after it left the dock, they were really citizens of a molecular state, a total state in which the captain is the dictator. There is the middle class—licensed officers. And


sup or the NMU] and neither side would abide criticism of any kind.

The men coming out now from the Sailors Union were saying, "We got to get a white union in here." On that dock, the messmen in the cafeteria and the room stewards in the hotel were Filipinos who were bitterly anti-union because of the experience that they’d had in the original union organization campaigns years before when the union had rejected them as members. I grabbed one of the men who had made some Jim Crow statements and pulled him behind a shed and demanded to know, who sent him out? It turned out that he had been sent, not from the Sailors Union hall but from the SIU tanker office in Richmond, headed by HalBanks, a man who was later to get into the news as a strikebreaker in Canada for the American SIU. He was open about his bigotry. Some among those he worked closely with said he boasted membership in the Ku Klux Klan and was often armed. I phoned the head of the SUP, Harry Lundeberg. He had been challenged about Banks before and to me, like to the others, he said, "Well, Red, the man's doing a good job for us over there and we have to overlook some of his faults you know.''

I immediately got myself shipped out on one of Standard's tankers. Two months later the NLRB representation election took place. I piled off the ship the same day. Eighty-five per cent voted for the SUP-SIU.


mainstream shoreside society and I wanted a broader social life. I remember one night I was in Port Avila on a tanker and the moon came up over those California foothills in the east. It was New Year's Eve and I realized how many guys my age were ashore having a good time and here I was with my ass on a cold tank top watching nothing but the moon come up. So I got a ship, a Grace Line run, and paid off in New York. That was the last time I ever shipped offshore.

Part II

I went to the national office of the Workers Party and Max Shachtman asked me, "What are you going to do now. Red?" I said, "Well, I'm going to go to Sanearly days after the war they couldn't keep anyone working there. People'd hire in in the morning and quit by noon. Some of them never even got far enough down the line to report to the foreman when they saw what it was like. So every day you'd start off with almost the full complement of personnel and by noon you were already taking over half another man's job. The work was really oppressive. Those who worked any length of time on the Ford line called the place "the prison." I would come home every night battered by the violence of the work.

Every day at quitting time, at the five-minute whistle for clean-up, the men would all line up waiting for the second bell to ring, like at


the chassis of the car. He couldn't lift the motors high enough into the air to clear the other men's heads if he was going to make the drop into the car at the right time, so he had to move them horizontally over the men's heads at about a five foot height. He had to yell constantly, all day long, "Watch your head…Heads up, heads up." The man was a nervous wreck. He would say after work, talking to himself, "Well, I only hit three men today. Why don't the dummies get out of my way? They know I have todo it this way to make it on the job."

But then came the day when one of the pneumatic air wrenches hit me on the side ofthe jaw, because of a faulty clutch, and knocked off half a tooth. I walked out. That was my last day at Ford's.

There I was without a job in auto. The very next morning I went and got a job at Chevrolet in East Oakland where I stayed for two years. Most of the people in that local were Portuguese-Americans from East Oakland. There was a great deal of Jim Crow amongst them because American society was constantly trying to put them in the position of the American blacks. Their way of avoiding that situation had been to say, "Look, we're not American blacks. We're American Portuguese. We have our own Latin culture and we're proud of that culture." So for both good and bad reasons, to express


their own culture, they were Jim Crow. The East Oakland, California plant and the Atlanta, Georgia plant of Chevrolet were the last two all-white GM plants in the country.

I pushed a resolution on the floor of the union that we should go to management to bring blacks into the plant. There was opposition to it in the rank and file and the leadership of the shop unit (which was mostly from the then dominant section of the left) went along with those Jim Crow sentiments in order to maintain their hold on the leadership. But then they were in the position of being in violation of the United Automobile Workers constitution. That couldn't go on for too long and I realized that it would come up again.

When Iwho talks and lectures a lot, but who simply throws out an idea and sees if that idea is workable and acceptable. We won that sit-down. We were opposed by the leadership of the local for doing that, and they tried to get us for it but we survived.

In all this I was learning from and being counseled by an old-time fighter who had led the sit-down strike at the Richmond Ford plant in the early '30s. His name was Luis Guido. He was one of the greatest men I have ever met—a true yet unsung hero. He would never take a union administrative job. For over thirty years as shop committeeman he fought the Ford and General Motors corporations to create a better life for himself and


plant.

I got married while I was working in auto. My wife came out of a West Virginia coal mining family and we had a lot of basic values in common from the first. In addition to developing a career and family, she found no insurmountable problems living a life whose routine was regularly broken by job crisis and economic insecurity.

It was in that period right after I met her that the Oakland general strike occurred. The Oakland general strike was called by no leader. It was unique, I think, in general strikes in this country. There was a strike of women who were the clerks at Kahn's and at Hastings' department stores and it had been going on for months. The Teamsters had begun to refuse to makethe policeman told him, "This is a scab trucking firm coming in from L.A. to take stuff to Kahn's and Hastings'." Well, that truck driver, that bus driver, or that street car conductor, didn't get back on his vehicle. Truck drivers got off their trucks and that increased till those trucks and those buses and those street cars just piled up and thousands of people were stranded in town.

In a small way it was a holiday. The normal criteria for what was acceptable conduct disappeared. No one knew what to do and there were no leaders. No one called it. Pretty soon the strikers began forming into committees on the street comers. Certain shopkeepers were told to shut down and drug stores to stay open. Bars could stay


I want to shake square like anybody else." I immediately started getting only two days work a week. I quit and got a job driving a truck steady.

In that local, which was a local for industrial laundry wagon drivers, there was a terrible situation. The working conditions that had been built up by the membership of the local were slowly being sold each year, bit by bit, for nickel and dime wage increases.

Rebellion in that local developed, which I led, and I became chairman of the Negotiating Committee. The secretary of the local, it turned out, colluded with management and I was fired on a flimsy pretext that couldn't hold water. While I was awaiting the arbitration, the men in the local, through collections each week, paid mydo you mean?" What he meant was that the settlement must be damn good, for Walter Reuther had sacrificed an opportunity in which the ranks were willing to give their full energies to a fight for working conditions, just to get that improvement in the economic package.

In 1956, I got laid off in a cutback of 1700 men because the boom in auto was over. And by the time they called me back on the basis of seniority I was already back in the Bay Area. But it was in that period, 1955 and 1956, probably the biggest auto years in the postwar period, that some of the insights into the future began to occur to me. I knew from my experience in auto at this point that


A tsunami swept across Indonesia's islands of Sumatra and Java the night of December 22, just before 9:30 p.m. local time. There was no notice for the wall of water, which left devastation in its wake. Though casualties are likely to rise as missing people are located, at least 220 are confirmed dead and more than 800 are injured.

The reason behind the lack of warning is the surprise source of the waves: Unlike past events triggered by earthquakes, this tsunami was most likely caused by the collapse of an offshore volcano.

The geologic beast in question, Anak Krakatau, has been undergoing a stuttering eruption since June 18 of this year. While more detailed information about the exact sequence of events leading to the tsunami is still emerging, much oflatte and the caramel Frappuccino.

While not entirely new, the flat white is something of a newish phenomenon in the United States, where coffee menus at small cafés haven’t changed all that much for decades. In the ’90s, I worked in a properly independent coffee shop called the Thirsty Mind in western Massachusetts (it sold local art, used books, and kibbeh). We offered the same espresso menu you’d see in most cafés today: cappuccino, latte, mocha, cortado, macchiato, and plain ol’ espresso. The flat white, which came out of the coffee scene in Australia and New Zealand sometime in the 1980s (its exact origin story is much contested, and both countries have laid claim to inventing it), hadn’t yet made it over.

In the world of third-wave coffee—where regionally sourced


renewal and extension notes given by the appellant, Wortham. This note, and all of the intervening notes in the series were signed by Wortham. Each note was paid by Wortham except the last on which suit was brought. The first in the series of renewal and extension notes was signed by Wortham, was in the sum of $7,250.00, and was dated March 14, 1964. This original note in the series was given in renewal and extension *613 of a balance of $7,250.00 owing on the indebtedness of Fuller Toys, Inc., a corporation, to the appellee bank. The original indebtedness of Fuller Toys was evidenced by a $10,000.00 promissory note which was signed by its president, W. A. Fuller, only. Wortham had agreed to endorse the Fuller Toy Corporationnote but did not do so.
At the time the original note of Fuller Toys, Inc. was given to the bank, Wortham was a director and stockholder of Fuller Toys. The day before the corporation's note was given, Wortham wrote the bank and stated that he would personally endorse the Fuller Toy corporation note. His letter to the bank stated that he would sign the note the following week when he returned from Oklahoma City. Wortham did not subsequently sign this note, however, and it therefore bore only one signature, that of W. A. Fuller, as the corporation's president. Thereafter, the amount due on the note was reduced from $10,000.00 to $7,250.00 by payments made by the corporation.
The Fuller Toy corporation note subsequently became delinquent. Wortham was called on


by the bank to fulfill the obligation of the corporation by paying the current interest and executing a renewal and extension note in the sum due. Wortham responded by paying the interest due and by signing and delivering the first in the series of renewal and extension notes.
Appellant brings three points of error, the first being, "The trial court erred in rendering judgment on the promissory note." While this point falls short of directing the attention of the court to the particular error relied upon it is determined from the ensuing argument and response thereto that appellant's essential contention is that of failure of consideration. It will be so considered.
First, we determine that there was ample consideration for the agreement of Wortham to endorse the corporation's note asowned at least 50% of the shares of the corporation. Wortham was in no sense a stranger to the original transaction; he had prior knowledge of the authorization for the corporation to secure the loan.
We secondly determine that there was good and valuable consideration for the execution by Wortham of the original renewal and extension note that he signed personally. At the time that this occurred, it is apparent that the bank had two viable causes of action. First the bank had a cause of action against the appellant Wortham for failure to endorse the corporation note. Second, the bank had a cause of action against the corporation on the note itself because of its delinquency. Both of these causes of action were relinquished by the bank in


Pope Francis will visit the poor in a favela and meet young prisoners when he travels to Brazil on his first international trip as pontiff in July, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

Francis, who has said he wants to make concern for the poor a hallmark of his papacy, will visit the Manguinhos slum in Rio de Janeiro on the fourth day of his July 22-29 trip to the world's largest Catholic country.

Manguinhos is one of Rio's most visible favelas, wedged between a busy highway and a former oil refinery and near the main airport and large military bases.

The shantytown, which the pope will visit on July 25, had a long history of drug-related violence, but a police occupation late last year kicked out many of the drug andgun traffickers.

Manguinhos, home to about 35,000 poor people, is one of the communities that have been part of a community policing operation that has reduced violence in the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro.

The pope will also meet young prisoners who will be brought to the archbishop's residence for the occasion.

The main purpose of the trip is for the pope to preside at the Catholic Church's World Day of Youth, an international gathering sometimes dubbed a "Catholic Woodstock" that takes place in a different city every two years.

The World Day of Youth celebrations start on July 23 and end on July 28.

Francis, the first non-European pope in 1,300 years on, arrives on the afternoon of July 22 and will rest the next day to overcome jet lag, according to


the official programme of the trip released by the Vatican.

On July 24, he will fly by helicopter to the city of Aparecida, about 240 km (150 miles) southwest of Rio de Janeiro, to visit the national shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, whom the Church honours at the patroness of Brazil.

That evening he visits a hospital in Rio that treats AIDS patients.

The pope's participation in World Youth Day events starts on the evening of July 25 in Rio's famed Copacabana Beach area and culminates with a huge open-air Mass in the Guaratiba area of the city on July 28.

During the trip he will also address Brazil's political and business leaders.

The trip is expected to be the only one abroad for the pope this year. The former Cardinal JorgeLiverpool advance to second place

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Liverpool’s Egyptian midfielder Mohamed Salah (L) vies with Newcastle United’s English defender Jamaal Lascelles during the English Premier League football match at Anfield in Liverpool on Saturday. AFP PHOTO

AFP, LONDON: Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane fired Liverpool into second place in the Premier League with a 2-0 victory against Newcastle, while Tottenham cemented their top four berth as Son Heung-Min inspired a 2-0 win over Huddersfield on Saturday.

Salah struck in the 40th minute at Anfield to maintain his superb form in his first season with Liverpool following his move from Roma.

The Egypt winger took Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's pass and shot low under Martin Dubravka for his 32nd goal of the season and his eighth in his last seven appearances.

Liverpool took complete control