and depression. He testified that he was Krocka's primary counselor in the treatment program from August 1998 to November 1998. He recalled that Krocka was "compliant with recommendations through the course of the treatment."
Psychiatrist Peter Fink testified that he treated Vincent Krocka in the past for depression. He also provided a general definition of depression and its manifestations. He noted that, previously, he had concerns that Krocka was "using alcohol as partial self-medication." But Fink also stated, "Mr. Krocka does not have an alcohol abuse problem at this time."
Donald Zoufal, chief assistant corporation counsel for the City of Chicago, testified that he is the chief for the section of the law department that "deals primarily with allegations [of] systematic police misconduct." In the civil case filed by Krocka,Zoufal acted as a special assistant corporation counsel. He testified that during Krocka's ADA case, he was still paid by the Chicago police department, his pay status as a special assistant corporation counsel did not change, and he did not receive additional pay as such. It was his duty to initiate investigations, but he stated that he did not make determinations on investigations. He initiated the case against Krocka after the federal trial verdict was rendered. Zoufal testified that as general counsel to the superintendent, he is bound by the Department's general orders, including General Order 93-3. He stated that he read Krocka's federal court deposition well in advance of the Board hearing.
Krocka's hearing before the Board closed. The Board's written findings and decision, dated October 29, 1999,


police department when he cross-examined Krocka. As stated earlier, during the federal trial, Zoufal defended the City as a special assistant corporation council and not as counsel to the superintendent.
Krocka avers that the Department never properly obtained the authority to investigate his alleged misconduct, which was more than five years old. In the instant case, while the actions may have occurred over five years ago, the instances were not known to the Department until the federal trial in November 1997. The charges against Krocka were timely filed thereafter.
Krocka also asserts that General Order 93-3 does not allow for the "stacking *590 of CR numbers." A copy of General Order 93-3 was provided in appellees' brief. General Order 93-3, effective January 15, 1993, includes complaints and disciplinary procedures, members'living in Saskatchewan all of our lives. It's only the middle of March. It's not really spring yet. Mother Nature mocks us for our optimism.

This picture was taken a few minutes ago. A huge snowstorm. Travel advisories abound. It's actually worse than it looks in the picture. A total whiteout. If it happened in December we would marvel at its beauty. In March, we just say "blah".

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

The temperature yesterday reached 10 degrees C (50 degrees F). It was only 2 degrees C today but it's quite remarkable how quickly the snow melts once it gets started. The little patch of grass in the backyard now looks like this.

And there is no more snow on the roof to melt.

A view of the park. Only a few


them believe me. Others get it.

A few years ago, I was surprised on my birthday by a large Clifford the Big Red Dog card that was made and delivered by my next-classroom-neighbors, the grade ones and their teacher. The grade ones asked me how old I was and my grade two students chorused, "103". Then one bright little character said, "No, it's her birthday so she's 104!"

I started a new Heritage unit in Social Studies yesterday. I began by explaining to the kids that we were going to find out what childhood life in Saskatchewan was like around 1900 and we would be comparing the lives of First Nations/Metis, pioneers, and Victorian children to their own lives now in 2007. A couple of the little scamps mused, "Hmm,Anna Nicotera (USA)

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Jim Bishop received a B.Sc. (hon) in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry from the University of British Columbia and Sc.D. in Marine Chemistry from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. He held postdoctoral and research positions at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Just before arriving at Berkeley Lab, he was a professor of Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria. He is a member of the faculty in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley where he teaches undergraduate courses on marine geochemistry and oceangraphy. To date, he has spent 79 weeks at sea during 29 oceanographic expeditions.
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Triathletes! Get ready!!! Yellow Cab has just partnered up with the Challenge Philippines Triathlon to be held at CamSur next year 2015. The course for this big international race is designed to be one of the fastest courses in Asia said Mr. David Roth who is the CEO of Leverage Sports Asia and chairman of Challenge Philippines Race.

Mr. David Roth who is the CEO of Leverage Sports Asia

During the press event held at 55 Events Place in Quezon City last July 29, 2014, the organizers shared "The 2014 Challenge Philippines race course in Bataan was proclaimed by many around the world as being the ‘World's Toughest Course,’


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From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” the third in a trilogy of films ...

From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Catch the film's teaser trailer which Warner Bros. Pictures has just revealed below.

“The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and the Company of Dwarves. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadlyforce into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town.

Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo’s frantic attempts to make him see reason drive the Hobbit towards a desperate and dangerous choice. But there are even greater dangers ahead. Unseen by any but the Wizard Gandalf, the great enemy Sauron has sent forth legions of Orcs in a stealth attack upon the Lonely Mountain.

As darkness converges on their escalating conflict, the races of Dwarves, Elves and Men must decide – unite or be destroyed. Bilbo finds himself fighting for his life and the lives of his friends in the epic Battle of the Five Armies, as the


future of Middle-earth hangs in the balance.

“The Hobbit” Trilogy tells a continuous story set in Middle-earth 60 years before “The Lord of the Rings,” which Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson and his team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar®-winning “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”

Tatt Awards 2014 now trims the list down to the top five online mavericks per category as they announce the finalists! The brave, the w...

Tatt Awards 2014 now trims the list down to the top five online mavericks per category as they announce the finalists! The brave, the witty and the bold have made it to the top, and it is now time to pass it on to the rest of theonline community as the voting begins.

The power to choose the best is in your hands. Vote for your favorite finalists at TattAwards.com until August 3, 2014. The remaining fifty percent (50%) of the Tatt awards criteria will be coming from the general public’s votes. The additional half of the criteria is based on content quality, social media impact and relevance to the specific category that were already determined by the Tatt Council during the deliberation phase.

Russell Crowe stars as Noah in the film inspired by the epic story of courage, sacrifice and hope. Directed by visionary filmmaker Darre...

Russell Crowe stars as Noah in the film inspired by the epic story of courage, sacrifice and hope. Directed by visionary filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.

The film is inspired by the story of


Noah. While artistic license has been taken, we believe that this film is true to the essence, values and integrity of a story that is a cornerstone of faith for millions of people worldwide. The biblical story of Noah can be found in the book of Genesis.

Below is a short interview with Russell Crowe

QUESTION: Mr. Crowe, how familiar were you with the story of Noah? CROWE: I was very aware of the story. I had read the Noah story in the bible and had researched several interpretations of the Noah story.

QUESTION: How challenging was it to shoot this film? CROWE: It was very challenging because I was wet most of the time. And it was very, very cold in Iceland.

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Co-presenters are the Department of Tourism Regions 1, 2, 3 and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), Glorietta and Ayala Malls, and supported by the North Philippines Visitors Bureau (NPVB), this three-day event is also sponsored by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), Clark Development Corporation, Maynilad and PhilHydro with Cebu Pacific as the official airline partner and Philippine


by Artemisia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

Knowing his only hope of defeating the overwhelming Persian armada will be to unite all of Greece, Themistokles ultimately leads the charge that will change the course of the war.

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Expressed in in-your-face street art, #CLASHWALL is the collaboration between Converse and renowned street artists Chad Manzo, Archie Geotina and Nicolo Nimor that seeks to disrupt the gray of the city and offers, in lieu of it, dramatic statements in loudest, most vibrant colors.

Converse Sneakers Clash was officially launched last May 2014. Sneakers Clash is aseries of artistic installations that brings together top street artists to transform blank walls into massive art pieces; designed to disrupt and clash against a gray world. Sneakers Clash is directly inspired by the bold and colorful spirit of the Chuck Taylor All Star, with the series now finding its way to Manila.

Inspired by the Spring 2014 Converse All Star sneaker collection, the collection features dynamic color pops and elevated silhouettes to provoke youthful self-expression. The undoubted hero of the collection is the Converse All Star Chuck ’70 – a new take on an American icon.

Timed against the launch of the Spring 2014 Converse All Star sneaker collection, the Sneakers Clash series will be brought to life on Philippine soil through #clashwall. Converse teamed up with 3 local


the Times "always" slants news with an anti-Trump bias.
Before the election the New York Times (in Jim Rutenberg’s Aug. 8 column) declared it was dropping any pretext of journalistic objectivity to slant the news in order to defeat Trump.

It is also telling that NBC claimed the reason it refused to run the story on huge liberal donor Harvey Weinstein was because none of his victims would speak on the record. That did not stop it from relying totally on anonymous sources for Rex Tillerson's alleged "moron" comment about Trump. By the way, last I heard Tillerson had still not been fired, another false NBC report.

One has to wonder where Eric gets his news for him to write today's column. Perhaps it is all from those "respectable news outlets"with "fact checkers."

"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reversed course Tuesday and told Wisconsin officials that the Russian government did not scan the state’s voter registration system, then later reiterated that it still believed it was one of 21 targeted states."

Last I checked, the Department of Homeland Security is an office that is under the jurisdiction, purview, control, of the President of the United States . . . In other words, the source of the story -- the people who alerted the states and put out the news in the first place -- wasn't the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, or any other news or media organization . . . It was the president's own Department of Homeland Security . . . An organization most people


would consider a trusted source of information, wouldn't you say?

Another thing to pay attention to in the AP story is Wisconsin was just one of 21 states contacted and informed of this issue by DHS. I don't know what the other 19 states involved have had to say about the situation, but I do know what MN's Secretary of State had to say about it:

"Statement from Secretary Simon on U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the 2016 election

"September 22, 2017

"Today, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon released a statement following a phone conversation with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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Avenue in the Bayview district when there were lots of boatyards in the area. But the neighborhood changed, and in 1964, the members put the clubhouse on a barge, crewed up a tugboat and floated the club to China Basin. “It was the volunteer spirit of the time,” says Mary Buckman, who is vice commodore. “That was 50 commodores ago, and that spirit is still with us.”

Fifty commodores ago, what is now Mission Bay was a railroad yard; freight trains ran down the streets, and banana boats docked on Mission Creek. The world changed again, and the freight trains vanished, the warehouses closed and the land stood empty, waiting for the next chapter. The Bay View Boat Club and the Mariposa Hunters Point Yacht Club just down theIt’s going to be a full house when Lori Loughlin appears in US District Court in the Seaport Wednesday, one of dozens of parents, coaches, and private admissions counselors charged in the college admissions scandal rocking the world of higher education.

The controversy surrounding Loughlin’s Boston visit didn’t stop the actress from signing autographs and posing for photos with fans outside her Back Bay hotel, according to People magazine.

Loughlin, the one-time star of “Full House,’’ and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, are accused of participating the college bribery scheme, allegedly paying $500,000 to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California.

Loughlin and Giannulli flew into Logan Airport on a private plane on Tuesday, according to People. Loughlin, who in recent years reprised her role as Aunt Becky


for the “Fuller House’’ reboot on Netflix, was greeted by fans at Logan, where she stopped to sign autographs, according to the Daily Mail.

The 54-year-old actress — outfitted in a camel coat, wide-leg gray trousers, and mirrored sunglasses — was also spotted by fans outside her hotel in Copley Square where she signed autographs and posed for pictures. Photos show the actress grinning for cameras.

“Desperate Housewives’’ actress Felicity Huffman also is scheduled to appear in federal court in Boston Wednesday.

Huffman allegedly paid to have her daughter’s SAT scores doctored as part of the admissions scam. The scheme was overseen by William “Rick’’ Singer, who ran a private college counseling service called Edge College & Career Network LLC.

Singer cooperated with investigators and has pleaded guilty to charges in the[Basic sanitary systems and social inequalities in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area]
This article deals with the distribution of financial resources allocated to the basic sanitary systems in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area during the 1975-1991 period. The study analyzes the investments allocated by the local utility company, known as Cedae, using a spatial model produced especially for this research. The model was produced using information from the national demographic census of 1980, the only one developed within the study period. The recent changes as observed are explained on the basis of their relationship to the spatial and political contexts in the metropolis and the country, as well as from the organization of the services themselves. The paper adds important arguments to the discussion over the restructuring


A British ex-public schoolboy is at the centre of a major diplomatic row after being sentenced to 24 strokes of the cane for drugs offences in Singapore.

The case has sparked a rift between Singapore and the UK, which traditionally have close ties.

It has also prompted the intervention of Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his officials, who made clear they ‘strongly oppose the use of corporal punishment’.

London-born Ye Ming Yuen, 29, has also been ordered to serve 20 years in jail after being convicted of seven drug offences, including trafficking

London-born Ye Ming Yuen, 29, who went to £37,000-a-year Westminster School, will be stripped naked and strapped to a large wooden trestle.

Then his buttocks will be flogged 24 times with a 4ft-long rattan cane.

His ‘judicial corporal punishment’ –which will begrant him clemency.

Mr Hunt raised Yuen’s case with Singapore’s minister for foreign affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, while visiting the country last week, and since then Foreign Office officials have made representations on Yuen’s behalf. Human rights groups have condemned Singapore’s use of the cane, saying it breaches the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

Yuen – first arrested over drugs offences in August 2016 – is being held at Changi prison. According to his family, who live in the UK, the only furniture he has in his cell, where he spends 22 hours a day, is a bamboo mat. He is allowed only two visits from family per month.

His younger sister, a 28-year-old development manager, said: ‘Without warning, the prison guards knocked on his cell to impose his caning sentence in


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A former top club DJ in Singapore, his offences include two counts of ‘repeat drug trafficking’ – one of 69g and one of 60g of cannabis. Another offence included drug trafficking of 15g of crystal meth. In his failed appeal bid, he said: ‘Should a shorter sentence be imposed, it would allow me to remain useful in society.

‘I was misled in my youth, in an environment surrounded by drugs, to fall into the dark lure of addiction, oblivious to the hold it had on me.’ Before moving to Singapore in 2007, Yuen – the son of a marketing consultant from China and a Singapore-born marketing executive – was a pupil at Dulwich Prep School in South London andthen Westminster School, whose alumni include Nick Clegg, Peter Ustinov and John Gielgud.

At Westminster School he gained 11 GCSEs – four A*s, six As, and one B. But while at the top public school he ‘got in with the wrong crowd’ and ended up in trouble with the Metropolitan Police.

In 2007, it emerged that Yuen was wanted by Scotland Yard over an alleged forged driving licences scam. A newspaper tracked him down to Singapore, where he reportedly admitted that he manufactured fake documents and sold them to pupils.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: ‘Our consular staff have been assisting a British man and his family since his arrest in Singapore in 2016. We strongly oppose the use of corporal punishment, such as caning, in all cases.’

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Reinhardt Wilhelm styles himself as a champion of a bygone age, who lives by the knightly codes of valor, justice, and courage.

Over thirty years ago, Overwatch was founded to counter the threat of the robot uprisings around the world. Reinhardt, a highly decorated German soldier, was inducted as part of the original Overwatch strike team that put an end to the Omnic Crisis. After the conflict's resolution, Overwatch grew into a global institution, keeping the peace in a war-torn world. Reinhardt proved himself to be one of its most stalwart champions.

Reinhardt's unique ethics and larger-than-life persona earned the admiration of his peers and superiors alike. Never afraid to speak his mind, he was Overwatch's most vocal supporter and, when necessary, its harshest critic, providing a constant reminder thatOverwatch was meant to be a force for good.

Having served into his late fifties, Reinhardt was faced with mandatory retirement from combat operations. Despondent about being removed from active duty, Reinhardt feared that his days of purpose and glory had ended. As times grew darker and Overwatch came under suspicion of corruption and sedition, Reinhardt could only watch as the cause he had dedicated his life to defending surrendered in disgrace.

Though Overwatch was eventually disbanded, Reinhardt was not content to sit idly by while the world fell to disorder. Once again donning his Crusader armor, he has vowed to fight for justice across Europe like a knight of old, defending the innocent and winning hearts and minds with the promise of better days to come.

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Reinhardt Wilhelm was a highly decorated German soldier when the Omnic Crisis began. He joined the German armed force at a young age, seeking for glory.[1] Around that time, he was under the tutelage of Balderich von Adler, the leader of the Crusaders. Reinhardt served with the Crusaders until after the Battle of Eichenwalde. Balderich, originally called to join the newly formed Overwatch strike team, was mortally wounded duringthe battle and chose Reinhardt to be sent as his successor. [2]

Reinhardt had been put in the frontline force of Overwatch, even after the organization had expanded itself into a global institution. During his time at Overwatch he participated in Operation White Dome, during which he saved Torbjörn Lindholm's life and as such he had given him permission by him to name his as of yet unborn child (who would later grow up to become Brigitte) and become their godfather. Later, he was forced to retire before Overwatch collapsed, as he was in his late fifties and his Crusader Armor had fallen into disuse. Regardless, he kept the armor and began traveling Europe with Brigitte.

Reinhardt and Brigitte stopped in a small town that had been taken over by


The Dragons. Brigitte helped to repair the Crusader Armor, and Reinhardt used it to drive the gang out of the village.[3]

Around Christmas time, Reinhardt and Brigitte visited and spent the holidays with Torbjörn and his family.[4]

At the time of the Overwatch recall, Reinhardt was in Nuuk, Greenland.[5] When Reinhardt received Overwatch's agent recall broadcast, he traveled to the ruins of Eichenwalde to pay respects to Balderich, before departing to once again serve in Overwatch as the world's shield.[2]

Possessing a jolly and outgoing disposition, Reinhardt is a rather imaginative juggernaut, always wanting to bring hope and ambition towards the people. He lives by a code of valor and justice, much like the crusaders of medieval history. Although he is at an old age, he never wants to admit itand vows to fight until his last breath, according to his interactions with Mercy. He also really cares about his comrades of Overwatch and will, quite literally, take a bullet (or several) for his friends if he must. His care can be shown by his anger when watching Torbjörn die in a match as well as what he had to say at his former commander Jack Morrison's funeral: "He devoted everything he was to Overwatch. He was our moral compass. Our inspiration. Our friend."

While outside of battle, Reinhardt has multiple different hobbies that he enjoys doing. He seems to show concerns about his appearance such as his tan and hairstyle, as shown by his voice lines when in Watchpoint: Gibraltar and interacting with Pharah. His favorite food is


currywurst, and he loves listening to "classic" music, such as the works of David Hasselhoff.

Reinhardt is also assumed to be a fan of D.Va, as specified when he asks her for an autograph.

During his years as a Crusader, Reinhardt was more brash and foolhardy. He thought of only glory for the Crusaders and laughed at Overwatch as some "secret organization" where there is no glory to be won. He would recklessly charge into battle and leave his allies exposed. These actions cost him dearly during the Battle of Eichenwalde, where his thoughtless actions cost both the use of his left eye and the life of his mentor/commander/friend: Balderich Von Alder. It was this loss that developed the unwavering sense of duty and loyalty to Overwatch within Reinhardt, asa few of them.

As Reinhardt generally has to stay with the majority of his team, if heroes like Roadhog hooks a healer away, that means the Reinhardt will be forced to lower his shield and attack the Roadhog, or he will choose to sacrifice the healer, which will leave the team at a major disadvantage.

The large red hero in the middle of the "Overwatch is born" image is an early design of Reinhardt. This concept remains a canon ex-Overwatch agent, who was seen in the Cinematic Trailer and Recall alongside Reinhardt.

"Reinhardt" comes from Old German, with a few possible interpretations: "Regin-hard" (made strong/hard by the gods), "Rain-hard" (strong despite a rain of enemy fire), or "Regin-harti" (strong/wise counsel). His name can also be read as a compound of


old Germanic words "rain" (modern German "rein, wahr" - "pure, true") and "hart" ("Herz, hart" - "heart, hard"). The literal translation is "Pureheart", meaning honest and loyal.

His Crusader Armor is powered by a biofeedback system that allows the user to exhibit superhuman strength.[6]

Reinhardt is currently the tallest character in the game, very closely followed by Roadhog.

With all the known ages of the Overwatch cast, Reinhardt is the oldest.

Reinhardt is also seen telling the story of Junkenstein's Monster in the Halloween comic.

On April 1, 2017 (April Fool's day), anyone who had Reinhardt as their selected hero had a filter applied to their chat messages while playing him. The filter put their messages in all caps, added exclamation marks at the end, and added either "PRECISION GERMAN ENGINEERING!!!!!", "FOR HONOR!!!!!","FOR GLORY!!!!!", "I AM THE ULTIMATE CRUSHING MACHINE!!!", "BRING ME ANOTHER!!!!!", or "CATCHPHRASE!!!" after that.

In a pre-game conversation with Pharah, they both mention a poster, in the Uprising event one of Reinhardt's sprays is the poster

Reinhardt's Bloodhardt and Blackhardt skins replace his rocket hammer with an axe.

Although this is purely aesthetic, it gives the player a slight advantage as the axe takes up less space on the screen than the rocket hammer.

Reinhardt's quotes "German Engineering" and "100% German Power" remarks his proud of German technology and its participation in the science general development, given that many famous and influent scientists were born in Germany.

The "Storm, Earth and Fire" trophy is a reference to the Warcraft III Orcish Horde Shaman hero, whose summoning line was "Storm, Earth, and Fire:


and work to head north.

There’s Kari Holmberg, a dog trainer from Ponoka. Jess Gallagher from Red Deer. Joe Bulhoes, an oilsands worker who had been scheduled to head up to Fort McMurray before the fire started.

And organizer Barry Cherneske, an amateur radio operator leading the charge in a one ton dually with an orange beacon on the roof.

They are exactly as most of Canada would picture Albertans: They listen to country music, they own guns, they tell dirty jokes and they can spend hours passionately arguing the merits of Dodge vs. Toyota trucks.

But together, they’re fulfilling an Alberta tradition that stretches back to the days of homesteading; Mother Nature tries to wipe a piece of the prairies from the map, and a rag-tag army of random Albertans dropSiliwangi military command initiates Citarum River rehabilitation

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Protecting the environment: Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan (center) speaks at a workshop on the rehabilitation of Citarum River in Bandung, West Java, held from Nov.22 to Nov.23. Maj. Gen. Doni Monardo, the newly installed commander of the Military Area Command (Kodam) III/Siliwangi, attended the meeting. (Antara/M.Agung Rajasa)

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Maj. Gen. Doni Monardo, the newly installed commander of the Military Area Command (Kodam) III/Siliwangi in Bandung, West Java, has started his job by urging all elements of society to cooperate to rehabilitate the damaged environment in the province, especially the Citarum River Basin.

He had held at least seven meetings with related stakeholders to discuss the Citarum


River rehabilitation plan.

Doni said the river, which has its upper reaches at Situ Cisanti in Bandung regency, flowed along 269 kilometers and supplied 80 percent of the raw water for Jakarta and its surrounding areas. The river is now in a critical condition, he said.

Doni went on to say that such a situation was worrying and dangerous for 24 million people who lived along the riverbank. The Citarum River is the source of water for 4,200 hectares of paddy fields in Karawang, he said. Once it is polluted, it is very likely that the rice produced will contain poisonous substances.

“Contamination with hazardous and toxic waste is dangerous. The mercury contamination level in the river has been above normal,” said Doni on Sunday.

“We need a centralized command. I hopeThis invention relates to a process for the preservation of plant embryos.
Numerous species of plants may be preserved and stored in the form of cell suspensions, calluses or even meristems.
The storage of plant embryos is justified in many cases, for example for regulating the production of plantlets where it is seasonal or for maintaining a clonal line. The preservation of plant embryos can have various advantages, including for example the possibility of temporarily stopping the development of the embryos, the time required for their transport to the seed bed or for their storage and the possibility of producing artificial seeds.
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A woman was also rescued from the river earlier in the day after a person at Ancarrow's Landing spotted her floating without a flotation device at 7:43 a.m.

Rescue crews heard her yelling just across the Richmond/Henrico County line, according to Lt. Chris Armstrong.

The woman was barely floating above the water, Armstrong said, and it is unclear at this time how she ended up in the water or when and where she entered the river.

She was fully clothed and had no life vest on when she was rescued.

The river, which is at 11.91 feet high, is expected to rise five feet in the next 24 hours.

Armstrong warned people to not get into the water.

"River levels are extremely high AND we recommend that everyone stay out of the water,"foes yet… THE GNOMES OF DEATH.

The Scarifyers began life in 2006 with The Nazad Conspiracy, uniting 1930s ghost story writer Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) with Detective Inspector Lionheart (Nicholas Courtney), as they battled the vengeful spirit of Rasputin. In The Devil of Denge Marsh, Lionheart left the force to set up top-secret government department MI-13, and rescue Dunning from an evil cult and a giant squid. For King and Country saw our heroes save King George VI from an irate resurrected Oliver Cromwell; in The Curse of the Black Comet they travelled to Egypt in the company of Brian Blessed, and in The Secret Weapon of Doom they searched for the titular secret weapon, aided by Nigel Havers and Leslie Phillips. In 2011, Nicholas Courtney passed away, and


new lead actor David Warner was introduced in The Magic Circle, continuing his adventures in 2012’s The Horror of Loch Ness, 2013’s The Thirteen Hallows and 2014’s The King of Winter.

BBC 7 (now Radio 4 Extra) picked up The Scarifyers in 2007, and has continued to broadcast the series ever since. The Radio Times called them ‘rollicking good fun.’

The series is produced by Bafflegab Productions, producers of Baker’s End, starring Tom Baker (finalist in the 2017 BBC Audio Drama Awards); Hammer Films audio anthology Hammer Chillers; and The Brenda and Effie Mysteries, starring Anne Reid (winner of the Gold New York Radio Award for Best Audiobook 2015)The Early Modern Era 1450 - 1750

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As the term, "Early Modern Era" suggests, signs of the modern world are visible in this era. These include globalization of many economies, modern societies and cities and the rising importance of Europe in world affairs.

Atlantic slave trade linked Africa to the Western Hemisphere.

New World silver let Europeans buy their way into Asian markets.

The Columbian exchange created new networks of interaction, and resulted in the greatest mass dying in human history.

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Christianity became a truly world religion.

Russian, Chinese, and Ottoman expansion also played important parts in an emerging global web.

Signs of modernity appeared in several regions; modern population growth, thanks to foods from the Americas; more highly commercialized economies developed in parts of


Eurasia and the Americas, centered in large cities.

Other signs of modernity included emergence of stronger and more cohesive states in various
places which promoted trade, manufacturing, and a common culture.

Many states saw a great increase in their military power, thanks to the “gunpowder revolution.”

Scientific Revolution transformed the worldview of an educated elite in Europe.

European political and military power was very limited in mainland Asia and Africa; Islam was the most rapidly spreading faith in Asia and Africa.

By 1750, Europe, India, and China were comparable in manufacturing output.

For the majority of humankind, the period 1450–1750 marked the continuing development of traditional agrarian societies; the era was as much “late agrarian” as it was “early modern.”

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Halle Berry was one of the highest paid actresses in the 2000s and is the only black woman ever to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress. The 51-year-old mother of two has always been renowned for stunning looks and talent. This superwoman has starred in the X-Men series as well as the 2004 Catwoman film and is currently filming the third edition of the John Wick Franchise.

The resident Kardashian “health freak”—who’s been showing off her killer bikini body in Cannes recently—swears by drinking ghee, a clarified butter, to keep her trim figure. “I have been eating it for years because my grandmother


the top of his career. He was only 29 years old, but he had already made Top Gun, The Color of Money, Rain Man, and Born on the Fourth of July.

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“Can you be the leader with the cast and crew?” Grazer asked Tom Cruise. “Can you set the example?“

Tom isn’t difficult to work with, but Far and Away was a challenging movie to get made. It was an old-fashioned epic, a story of two immigrants leaving Ireland for America at the turn of the last century. We shot in Ireland and the western United States. It got expensive, but it wasn’t overtly commercial. When we figured out what it was going to cost, the studio told me to find ways of cutting the budget.

How Brian Grazer Got InvolvedMiranda Lambert thanks fans for sharing heartbreak, while Shelton and Stefani are in the audience

As Miranda Lambert was making history on Sunday night at the 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards, she took a minute to honor her fans. The sentiment is similar to Lambert’s Album of the Year acceptance speech in 2017, when she said, “I just want to say thank you for letting me use my heartbreak and sharing that with me.” The couple had been dating since 2015, following the country crooner's split from ex-husband Blake Shelton earlier that year. Shelton attended the ACMs with his girlfriend, Gwen Stefani, by his side.


Reid joined Salient Partners, L.P in 2011. He has been Portfolio Manager of Salient Partners, L.P. since January 2011. He also serves as President and Portfolio Manager at Salient Capital Advisors, LLC. He has several years of investment experience. Prior to joining Salient, Mr. Reid was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at RDG Capital LLC. Prior to that, Mr. Reid served as a Senior Vice President at Merrill Lynch from 1997 to 2007. He was a part of the Private Banking and Investment Group at the firm. Mr. Reid served as Managing Partner, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Information Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the Houston Division at Telemus Capital Partners, LLC from May 2007 to June 2010. He joined Telemus Capital Partners, LLC in 2007. Mr.Reid started his career in the financial services industry at Goldman Sachs. He served as a Vice President of the Private Client Group at Goldman Sachs from 1991 to 1996. Mr. Reid was named one of America's Top 100 Wealth Advisors by worth magazine. He was also recognized as a part of America's Top Wealth Management Team in 2006 by Research magazine. He received the Certified Investment Management Analyst designation from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Reid is also registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as a General Securities Representative and a General Securities Principal. He earned an MBA from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University and an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University.

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setting, making this potential treatment approach more practical for providers and more acceptable to patients. With this novel technique no serious AEs were reported. All patients experienced local symptoms after the injection, but in general these were perceived as mild. Local symptoms lasting longer than four weeks were reported by 50% of participants. Only one event, temporomandibular joint dysfunction first reported in the second month of the treatment phase and with unclear relation to the study treatment, was persistent at the end of the follow-up period. The AE profile seems acceptable given the level of disability associated with this disorder. The treatment was well tolerated and, at the end of the study period, nine out of 10 participants wanted to repeat the treatment when needed.

This is the firstTwo survivors found in quake-hit Japan city Ishinomaki Published duration 20 March 2011

image caption The pair survived on yoghurt and other food from the refrigerator

An 80-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy have been plucked from the rubble of a house demolished by the enormous quake which hit Japan nine days ago.

Sumi Abe and Jin Abe - said to be her grandson - "were found under debris", said a police spokesman in Ishinomaki city, Miyagi prefecture, according to AFP news agency.

The two were in the kitchen when the quake hit on 11 March, a doctor said.

They survived as they were able to get yoghurt and other food from the fridge.

The grandson eventually managed to reach the roof of the house where he flagged down a rescue helicopter, reported Japan's


Police authorities in Port Moresby, have approved a public protest by local NGO groups, planned for tomorrow, against actions of the Prime Minister and the government.National Capital District Acting Metropolitan Superintendent Perou N'dranou informed the media this morning, after meeting with his divisional and police station commanders, that he's allowing the People Power Movement-led protest to go ahead tomorrow.This is after receiving a two-weeks notice of the planned event, and agreeing to it.Mr. N'dranou however says, police will be out in full force to provide security to the demonstration, and he is calling on the public in Port Moresby to abide by the law while conducting their assembly.The city's police boss says, there will be no public marching, but people can only gather at the National Archives areaIn 1965, the Toronto Transit Commission was putting the finishing touches on its first (and to date only) major east-west subway. Running just under 13 kilometres from Woodbine to Keele, the $206 million first phase of the Bloor-Danforth line consisted of 20 stations, two bridges, two yards, and was mostly built without the use of tunnel boring machines.

Matching the existing look of the Yonge line, the platforms were modern and spare in style. Basic tiled walls, no public artwork.

On a 31-acre site south of Danforth Ave., west side of Greenwood, the TTC built what was then the largest transit yard in the city. Apart from storage space for 244 individual subway cars, the complex included shops for painting, cleaning, and maintaining rolling stock, as well as equipment for


manufacturing replacement parts.

Before the Greenwood yard, Yonge line subway trains had to be lifted off the tracks and carried over ground to the TTC facility at Bathurst and Davenport for any repairs that couldn't be completed in the basic facilities at Davisville.

The Greenwood site was originally a clay quarry and later a garbage dump. According to Transit Toronto, the TTC had to remove a layer of waste about 23 metres thick before construction of the yard could begin. (At one point the city considered building a sports stadium over the yard, but later balked at the potentially exorbitant cost. Loblaws likewise expressed an interest in covering the site with a supermarket.)

In total, the Greenwood and its much smaller sister at Dundas West station contain about 16 kilometres oftrack--roughly two-thirds the total length of the east-west subway line today.

The yard opened with the rest of the subway in February 1966 and is still in operation today, though it's since been dwarfed in size by the Wilson complex that serves Line 1.

Here's a look back at Greenwood yard when it was brand new.

A colour photo of the newly finished Greenwood yard. Note the bright red, English-built Gloucester trains on the storage tracks. The famous cars were used from 1954 until 1990.

Two H1 series trains over a maintenance pit. These trains were bought specifically for the Bloor-Danforth line in the early 1960s and were used during the opening ceremonies. The last one was retired in 1999.

When trains are in the yard the only way to get inside is


without a roll sign or lights outside one of the service buildings.

A small platform used by drivers at the entrance to the subway portal. From here, trains head north via a complex, split-level intersection beneath Danforth Ave. to enter service.

View of the extensive outdoor storage space at Greenwood. During rush hour, few trains remain in the yard. At night, it's close to full.

Specialized pieces of track for the Greenwood yard were also made in Japan by Nippon Sharyo Siezo Keisha Ltd. In this photo, many of the wooden sleepers that keep the metal rails in place haven't been fixed in place.

When the Scarborough RT opened in 1985 Greenwood also took on responsibility for major repairs of the SRT vehicles. Because there's no direct link between the RT andsubway tracks, cars are lifted off the tracks at McCowan and moved via road.

One of the defining features of the Bloor-Danforth line when it opened was "interlining," which allowed riders in the east and west to access downtown without changing trains thanks to an $8 million Y-shaped intersection between Museum, St. George, and Bay stations. The analogue "next train" displays on the Bloor-Danforth platforms (and, of course, the abandoned Bay Lower station) are relics from the six-month experiment.

Chris Bateman is a staff writer at blogTO. Follow him on Twitter at @chrisbateman.

Images: City of Toronto Archives.


seriously than people in the US do. That's what they said on NPR. I'm sure they have a few beers too. It actually commemorates the death of St. Patrick in 461. He is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland even though they kidnapped him and brought him to Ireland as a slave. He escaped, then went back, what a guy! And now they remember him forever.

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Miss Dirty Feet Again, a photo by batterie61 on Flickr Ahh, Miss Peachy, she has quite the pose going on here, all she REALLY wants is her tummy rubbed. Unfortunately for her she is about to get a bath because she has been out trouncing around in the mud in the backyard. I know we have had very little snowby ship for Spain, the Bulgarians leave a three-volume leatherbound Torah with the father of the film’s main character, Rexhep Hoxha. The Jews say they'll be back for the books—a wedding present—but they never return, partly because Albania was cut off by decades of Communist rule. The books stay put as the years pass.

Hoxha’s family was among many Muslims in Albania that resisted the Nazis and helped shelter Jews. Every country in Europe had its own response to the Germans. Some happily assisted with the deportation of Jews. Others resisted—from deposed rulers to clerics and ordinary people. Albania, a poor and a mostly Muslim country, has an often-overlooked history of serious Nazi resistance.

The film opens as a grey-haired American-Jewish photographer, Norman Gershman, is discovering this forgotten legacy and


sets out on a mission to interview and take pictures of elderly Albanians who hid Jews and their wartimes wards—if they still live. This quest takes him to Rexhep Hoxha, where the heart of the film begins. Gershman is as dogged as he is dazzled by documenting Albania’s forgotten history of Muslims saving Jews.

After discovering that Hoxha has the Torahs—striking evidence that his family sheltered Jews—Gershman learns that Hoxha’s father wanted to give them back to the Bulgarians. Hoxha, a simple man who owns a toy store and is as decent as he is principled, asks the documentarian if he can help find the family who rightly owns the books. The film’s title, Besa, or "promise," is a traditional Albanian creed that compels people to offer safe harborto refugees and binds people to their promises.

The film then sets off on an unpredictable road and unwinds a series of besas. First is Hoxha’s honoring his deceased father’s goal of returning the Hebrew books. Hoxha is amazed that the Bulgarians would flee with few possessions but also the prayer books. The power of the words in the book seem to match the power of his father’s belief that one day their owner would return for them. The second besa is Gershman’s pledge to capture and tell the story of Albania’s Islamic rescuers of Jews.

These pledges are simple, fragile and noble. They get tested in the living world of ambiguities as the Gershman’s role evolves from documentary photographer into protagonist. He jumps at the opportunity, camera crew in


tow, to find the prayer book’s heirs. Hoxha goes along, not seeking limelight or mugging for the camera, because he genuinely believes that returning the books to the descendants of those sheltered by his father will transform their lives. In the end, they succeed. But the results are complicated. Some people are not ready to face a long-buried past, let alone on camera.

I spent nearly two years as a journalist and author fulfilling a besa—writing a book to be published in Holland next year about how an uncle, the most famous Dutch Jewish boxer in the 1930s, kept his young son and wife alive in the first of three Nazi prisons in the war. The truth was not what was told by survivors at family dinners. It was50,000 MERCENARIES TO BE DEPLOYED AGAINST REBELS

Al Qaeda Fighters Included in Israeli Force

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

In a move that surprises all but Middle East experts, Israel has promised Libya’s dictator of over 40 years, Colonel Gaddafi, 50,000 troops to aid in crushing rebels set on overthrowing his his murderous rule. According to news sources inside Israel, “troops” are being hired across Africa, Uganda, Sudan, Chad and the Central Africa Republic, including Al Qaeda fighters, to be deployed against demonstrators and rebel forces currently involved in heavy fighting in a two week old attempt to overthrow the Libyan ruler that has left thousands dead.

In the last 72 hours, rebel leaders have been in contact with Britain and the United States, nations that have promised aid and have


the early 1970s. A consortium of “rogue” states, Iran under the Shah, apartheid South Africa, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Gaddafi’s Libya and Israel sold arms, developed weapons technologies and operated a network of spies, particularly inside the United States, keeping the Soviet Union abreast of NATO military and intelligence secrets and defense plans.

Of the original “Axis of Evil,” only Libya and Israel remain.

“AXIS OF EVIL” NUKES/BLAIR’S VISIT

Libya, in partnership with Israel and the former apartheid regime in South Africa, began developing chemical and germ warfare capabilities. These WMDs were used by the South African forces in Angola and elsewhere, thousands died. Libya funded one of the largest chemical and biological weapons programs in the world, rivaling the former Soviet Union in size, a program thought to be in placeas late as 2004. During the same period, a year after the American invasion of Iraq to end a WMD program now proven non-existent, Libya, with Israeli help, developed a nuclear capability and is said to control several “Hiroshima” style weapons, uranium based fission devices.

As part of this combined program, South Africa built 10 nuclear weapons at their Pelindaba facility between 1975 and 1980.

The three nations performed one successful weapons test, an 18.2 kiloton uranium weapon on September 22, 1979 on Prince Edward Island in the seas north of Antarctica. This test was observed and verified by both US and Soviet nuclear intelligence services and a “weapons signature” was developed. South Africa ended its program in 1990, shipping 6 of the remaining weapons to the US for dismantling.


Three were sold and then transferred to British control and eventually shipped to Oman but disappeared in transit.

One of these weapons exploded in North Korea in 2009, their only successful nuclear test. Two are missing.

In March,2004, we are told by informed sources in Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair made an “emergency” flight to Libya to meet with the Libyan leader, assuring him he would not be facing the fate of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, who had been captured only a few months before by American forces and was awaiting trial.

It is believed that one of the subjects discussed by Blair was the “possibility” that Libya possessed the two missing weapons from South Africa, weapons Britain had failed to recover.

Blair left that meeting with a $200 million oil contract forforces attacked a lightly armed American naval vessel killing or wounding 201 of 296 crew members. American sailors repulsed Israeli attempt to seize the vessel and its crew. USS Liberty survivor, Phil Tourney reports that Israel surveillance planes had tracked the clearly marked American vessel for several hours before the attack Tourney describes as “murderous.”

“Israel still has a life raft from the Liberty, one they had strafed from gunboats who were also firing on fire and rescue personnel, on display in Tel Aviv as a “war trophy.”

Though the crew of the USS Liberty is the most decorated in US Naval history, until recently all were sworn to secrecy and threatened with imprisonment for revealing the details of the Israeli assault.

OBAMA UN VETO NOW CRIPPLES US POLICY

President Obama used


his first United Nations Security Council veto to stop a move toward citing Israel for humanitarian violations against its Palestinian population. In fact, the United States has vetoed UN resolutions calling for humanitarian reforms by Israel and has done so dozens of times.

Now Israel has become militarily involved in Libya, directly against US policy and UN prohibitions and has done so, oddly protected in these acts by the United States and its “ever so reliable” Security Council veto of any move to modify Israeli behavior.

Libyan civilians may well, in days to come, be facing Israeli weaponry and even troops, as have the people of Gaza.

Now American Marines may well be facing that same fate.

Author Details Author Details Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteranof the Vietnam War. He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades. Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues. Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology. Gordon’s Latest Posts


White supremacy has a history in Rochester

There are no Confederate monuments in Monroe County, and no white supremacist rallies are scheduled. But the Rochester area, proud as it is of its role in the anti-slavery movement, does have a history of racist groups and gatherings.

It dates at least to 1872, when the local hero of that anti-slavery movement, Frederick Douglass, had his South Avenue house burned down while he was out of town.

Douglass immediately suspected white supremacists: "One thing I do know, and that is, while Rochester is among the most liberal of northern cities, and its people are among the most humane and highly cultivated, it nevertheless has its full share of that Ku Klux

spirit which makes anything owned by a colored man a little less respectedand secure than when owned by a white citizen."

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The Rochester Union and Advertiser newspaper said the fire was surely an arson, but added, without evidence: "The testimony thus far obtained points strongest to colored persons as the guilty party."

The burning marked the end of Douglass' residence in Rochester. James Duffy School 12 and the recently renamed Frederick Douglass Community Library stand where his house used to be.

In 1922, a Ku Klux Klan meeting hosted by the Knights of Malta, on East Main Street, was exposed after the Democrat and Chronicle intercepted an organizing letter, which promised to inform recipients of the precise time and


date of the meeting after they answered a series of questions, including: "Are you a gentile or a Jew?" and "Do you believe in white supremacy?"

The featured speaker at the meeting was C. Lewis Fowler, a Klan organizer in New York. The Knights of Malta said they were not affiliated with the Klan, but rented their hall to anyone "of good moral character." The newspaper, in a strident editorial, said the Klan was "catering to the worst instincts of human nature, and is undertaking to block the wheels of progress in enlightened thought."

Four years later, the Klan had perhaps its largest ever rally in Monroe County, a "konklave" in downtown East Rochester on Sept. 25 and 26, 1926. Local historian and columnist Arch Merrill reported 40 years laterthat the estimated attendance was 19,000, while a contemporary Democrat and Chronicle account put it at 8,000 on the first day, despite the pouring rain.

The newspaper described it as a "colorful scene," with crosses burning on stage and "members of the organization stroll(ing) around the grounds in full regalia."

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The Democrat and Chronicle's coverage of the event was limited after a reporter and photographer were turned away because the photographer was Catholic. The reporter protested until a Klan leader blew a whistle and summoned about 40 members, some of whom tried to pull the photographer from his car.

Merrill reported there were also KKK gatherings in the 1920s in Fairport, Pittsford, Honeoye Falls and


Brockport, as well as smaller outlying communities.

A 1926 story on a Klan initiation ceremony reported there were about 2,000 members in Rochester, and "would be largely augmented" in the coming months.

A Times-Union reporter went along to a cross burning outside Pittsford in 1933.

"We don't burn crosses; we illuminate them," one of the illuminators told him before setting fire to the cross, 30 feet tall and wrapped in oil-soaked burlap.

In 1957, a black couple, James and Alice Young, attempted to buy a house on Millbank Street in the 19th Ward. After a real estate agent would not arrange the sale, they had a white person buy it and transfer the deed to them.

Shortly thereafter, they received a letter threatening to burn the house down. It was signed, "KKK ofhas fallen below their costs," Ms Ganes-Chase said.

"The coffee market has fallen to near 100 cents per pound, but it is unlikely that the downtrend is over."

Fresh producer protests?

This would extend the losses facing producers who, in Brazil, have a production cost of some 120 cents a pound, Macquarie estimates.

Indeed, growers in Brazil are urging further government support through a coffee pact, proposing measures such as a government coffee stockpile equivalent to 50% of exports, and threatening as-yet-unspecified action by producers if their demands are not met.

Separately, Colombia too, where farmers in February and March blockaded roads to press for state support, could face protests, given fraud which has meant some funds from a government subsidy programme being directed at beans smuggled in from Ecuador and Peru.

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The present application describes systems and techniques relating to radio frequency identification (RFID) tag assembly, for example, attachment of an RFID module to an antenna.
In the manufacture of RFID tags, one of the more costly aspects is the attachment of RFID chips to the antennas. RFID chips have been put into RFID modules that can be tested before being attached to the antennas, but the assembly process conventionally involves multiple separate processes, such as testing of the modules in sheet form, cutting of the modules, and then hand picking the good modules from a sheet and applying them to a reel of antennas.New insights on how to adjust the release profile from coated pellets by varying the molecular weight of ethyl cellulose in the coating film.
The major aims of this work were to study the effect of the molecular weight (Mw) of ethyl cellulose (EC) on the drug release profile from metoprolol succinate pellets coated with films comprising EC and hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) with a weight ratio of 70:30, and to understand the mechanisms behind the different release profiles. A broad range of Mws was used, and the kinetics of drug release and HPC leaching followed. The higher the Mw of EC, the slower the HPC leaching and the drug release processes. Drug release occurred by diffusion through the pores created in the coating by the HPC leaching. A novel


the ultrasonic energy source relative to each other while emitting ultrasonic energy from the ultrasonic energy source; and aligning the propagation axis of the ultrasonic energy with the central axis of each cavity of the plurality of cavities.
In another aspect, the present invention provides an electroplating apparatus with a tank having a tank volume; an anode located within the tank volume; a cathode located within the tank volume, wherein the cathode includes a plating surface; an ultrasonic energy source located within the tank volume, the ultrasonic energy source located directly between the anode and the cathode and oriented to emit ultrasonic energy at the plating surface; and movement apparatus providing relative movement between the ultrasonic energy source and the cathode while the ultrasonic energy source and the cathodeAlfred Mallory Edgar was born on July 10, 1837, in Greenbrier County, [West] Virginia, the son of Archer Edgar and Nancy Howe Pearis. Their mill, known as Edgar's Mill, is now the site of present day Ronceverte, West Virginia. At the outbreak of the Civil War, the family owned ten slaves, five males and five females, ranging in age from 7 to 39 years old.

On May 9, 1861, at 23 years of age, Alfred volunteered for service in the Greenbrier Rifles, which would become part of the 27th Virginia Infantry, a regiment in the famous Stonewall Brigade of the Confederate Army. The Stonewall Brigade received their name from their legendary commander, General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. The 27th Virginia fought in many of the major campaigns and battles


of the Civil War, including First Manassas, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the 1864 battles of the Wilderness. Edgar was wounded in the left shoulder at the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on May 12, 1864, and was made a prisoner of war. He was sent to Fort Delaware until he became part of a group that would be known as The Immortal 600. This group of Confederate officers were taken to Morris Island, South Carolina, at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, and exposed to enemy artillery fire for 45 days in an attempt to silence the Confederate gunners manning Fort Sumter. This was in retaliation for the Confederate Army imprisoning 50 Union Army officers and using them as human shieldsagainst federal artillery in the city of Charleston, in an attempt to stop Union artillery from firing upon the city. Edgar was finally released on June 16, 1865.

In June, 1875, he married Lydia McNeel, daughter of Col. Paul McNeel, whom he had met while a student at the old Lewisburg Academy. They settled at Hillsboro in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, where he was a farmer and stockman. Captain Edgar died in Pocahontas County on October 8, 1913, and is buried in the McNeel Cemetery. Later in life, he wrote his reminiscences of the war. This work presents those memoirs with only minimal editing. It is the compelling personal account of a young Confederate soldier describing his dramatic experience in the Civil War and its impact on his life,


family, and community.

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My Reminiscences of the Civil War with the Stonewall Brigade and the Immortal 600

Jaynell Graham, staff writer, Pocahontas Times

December 15, 2011

One hundred and fifty years ago, at the age of 23, Alfred Mallory Edgar left the comfort of the “Old Edgar Homestead” in what is now Ronceverte and volunteered to take up arms as a member of the Greenbrier Rifles, which later became part of the 27th Virginia Infantry, a regiment in the famous Stonewall Brigade of the Confederate Army.”

It is appropriate that this year, the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, Edgar's memoirs were published in a book titled, “My Reminiscences of the Civil War with the Stonewall Brigade and the Immortal 600.” Edgar's grandson, Allan N. Clower, of Ronceverte, finalized thiswork, which began with Edgar's writing, the text of which was safely preserved by Clower's grandmother, Caroline Crouch Edgar.

“My efforts to complete Great-grandfather Edgar's reminiscences of The War Between the States are in memory of my grandfather, Allan Penick Edgar; my aunt, Ann Davis Edgar; and my mother, Carolyn Edgar Clower,” Clower writes. “Each of them worked to complete this over many years but was interrupted by the demands of children, school, work, and death.”

Alfred Mallory Edgar was born July 10, 1837, in Greenbrier County, the son of Archer Edgar and Nancy Howe Pearis. At the beginning of the Civil War the family owned ten slaves, five male and five female. Though not a large holding of field and household help, life was comfortable, and it was a


far cry from where Edgar found himself as a soldier, and later as a prisoner of war. Edgar's story begins as he prepares to leave his home. “It is the 14th day of May, 1861. The morning is bright and the air balmy. The singing birds, as they fly through the shade trees, and a few spring blossoms starting up over the large green yard of the “Old Edgar Homestead” seem to vie with each other, to make the surrounding of the neat, white cottage, with its long porches and tall columns, cheerful and everybody happy.” But the family is not happy, as their son and brother will soon leave the idyllic setting for the unknown land of war. “A fine lunch is prepared, but one thing isFederals have crossed the Gauley River and are marching on Lewisburg. Desperate to return to protect their own homes, the pleas of Edgar and other soldiers were denied by their commanding officers, who threatened military discipline if they persisted. In the end, it was merely a rumor and the families of the Greenbrier Valley were in no danger, at the time.

As the company moved toward Manassas, Edgar recalled the words of his friend, John Fry, of the Shriver Grays of Wheeling. “Alfred, we are going to have a tremendous battle, and I am going to be killed.” And of the First Battle of Manassas, Edgar writes, “...panic commences and the whole Federal force retreats in great disorder. Throwing away their guns, knapsacks, and running at breakneck speed, over


on the floor during his visits. At the Battle of Port Republic, Edgar is injured, but makes the decision to heal on his own. “I hope soon to regain the use of my arm, and decline going to the hospital, for which I have an even greater horror than for a battlefield.”

Edgar writes of the Battle of Lewisburg. Though not part of his military service, he thought it would make his writing more interesting to the Edgar family. But his reminiscence of the Battle of Chancellorsville in which the beloved Stonewall Jackson was gravely injured tells of that great loss. “We felt that he [Jackson] was guided directly from the mouth of Jehovah, as was Joshua when he led the Israelites to battle. This we felt almost tothe verge of idolatry. I believed the same feeling persuaded most of the Stonewall Brigade.”

Adding to the horrors of the battlefield, Edgar tells of the infestation of body lice which “became a natural and unavoidable consequence of war. Lice was considered a more convincing evidence of a faithful soldier than brass buttons,” he writes. Following a furlough at home, Edgar is taken prisoner of war at Spotsylvania Courthouse. He is held at Fort Delaware, Morris Island, South Carolina, and Fort Pulaski, Georgia. During this time, it is the brass buttons from his coat that help to bring him comfort. In “dire want of a blanket,” Edgar carved rings from the buttons of his uniform and sold them to the Yankees, using the money to purchase a “double U.S.


Blanket.” After years of battle and imprisonment, Edgar writes of that acquisition, “I thought I was rich.”

The end of captivity drew near with the news, “Richmond has fallen” and Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. Edgar was released June 17, 1865. But Edgar endured loss in realms other than the battlefield. By the end of the war, both of his parents were gone and he returned to the “homestead,” the landscape of which had changed as well during the war years. Rev. James C. Johnson wrote of Edgar's return home. “During his absence his father and mother had died and the feeble and discouraged soldier came home to find a lonely hearthstone and new economic conditions. Like thousands of returned veterans he addressed himself resolutely to thetask of conserving the shattered fortunes of the family and adjusting himself to the changed condition that the war had brought. He lived quietly in Greenbrier County until June 1875, when he married Miss Lydia, daughter of Col. Paul McNeel, and thereafter took up his residence in the Little Levels of Pocahontas County, there to spend the remaining years of life in the quiet pursuits of farmer and stock raiser.” Moffett McNeel, of Hillsboro, is the last surviving grandchild of Captain Edgar.


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Courtesy of the Diocese of Jefferson City

Mystery ‘angel’ priest identified, comes forward in blog comment

Courtesy of the Diocese of Jefferson City

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Diocese of Jefferson City announced that it has identified the priest who appeared out of nowhere to help save a woman from a car wreck. A release said that the priest is Reverend Patrick Dowling, a priest of the Jefferson City Diocese.

On the morning of August 4, Dowling was traveling between mass assignments in northern and central Missouri when he arrived at the scene. According to


a comment he left on an article in the National Catholic Register, Dowling asked the Sheriff’s permission and approached the scene. He said he absolved and anointed Katie and prayed that her leg would be left unhurt, and then gave way to rescue personnel as he prayed the rosary silently.

The Diocese confirmed his comments and said that Dowling was pleased he could help through performing his ministry. He also said he was one of many that helped and thanked first responders, law enforcement and the medical team that assisted Katie Lentz. Dowling was on the highway because another priest had called in sick, he wrote.

His full comment was:

I had Mass in Ewing MO as the regular priest was sick. As I was returning, I arrived at the scene.The authorities were redirecting traffic. I waited till it was possible to drive up closer. I parked behind a large vehicle about 150 yards from the scene. I asked the Sheriff’s permission and approached the scene of the accident.

I absolved and anointed Katie, and, at her request, prayed that her leg would not hurt. Then I stepped aside to where some rescue personnel and the pilot were waiting, and prayed the rosary silently. I left when the helicopter was about to take off, and before I got to my car it was on its way to Quincy.

I was amazed at the calmness of the two Highway patrol men. The sergeant was completely in control, amazingly calm. Everybody worked as harmoniously as a Swiss watch despite the critical nature


My life with a house full of girls and the boy who is changing everything.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Katie

I mentioned yesterday that we took Katie to the neurologist. The reason we took her was because I have been worrying that her hand muscles were weak and that she might need occupational therapy to strengthen them. Our pediatrician said that we needed to start with an evaluation from a neurologist, so off we went.

After giving Katie a very thorough examination, the neurologist was very impressed with how advanced she is mentally, but said he was unimpressed with her lack of hand strength. He said that if I wasn't worried about it, he wouldn't send her for occupational therapy, but he was going to, just in case I'm right. He alsoUS exploits Georgia crisis to push through Polish missile deal

By Stefan Steinberg

21 August 2008

The agreement signed Wednesday by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to establish a missile defence shield on Polish soil marks a major turning point in international political relations.

The deal permits the US to set up a new missile system in the heart of Europe. In addition, Poland will receive 96 Patriot missiles, a permanent garrison of American troops and, most significantly, Washington’s commitment to come to the country’s defence, independently of the NATO alliance.

From its inception, the US government has insisted that the proposal to set up a missile defence system in Eastern Europe was strictly of a defensive character. The circumstances under which the deal was


rushed through last week—after 18 months of intense negotiations between Washington and Warsaw—only serves to confirm the opposite: the missile system is of an offensive character and is designed for use against Russia.

The pact signed by Rice and Sikorski dramatically increases the possibility of a confrontation between the two nations with the world’s biggest arsenals of nuclear weapons—Russia and the US—with central Europe as a primary battlefield.

Both Warsaw and Washington have sought to deny that the closing of the deal last week was bound up with the conflict between Georgia and Russia. Following its finalisation last Thursday, the chief US negotiator, John Rood, told the press: “This is not linked to the situation in Georgia”.

In Washington, White House spokesperson Dana Perino assured journalists that the timing of thethe heels of a concerted anti-Russian campaign led by the Polish President Lech Kaczynski. Just two days before the finalisation of the missile pact, Kaczynski appeared alongside Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili at an anti-Russian rally in Tbilisi to proclaim, “We are here to take up the fight (against Russia).”

For its part, the conservative Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, which welcomes the missile system, pointed candidly to the direct link between the deal and the conflict in the Caucasus: “Contrary to the official version presented by Prime Minister Tusk and the US State Department, the war in Georgia played a key role in accelerating the Polish-American negotiations on the defence shield. It is the war that has prompted Tusk to give the go-ahead for the signing of the agreement.”

In fact,


the former Soviet bloc have included the installation of a number of authoritarian regimes which lack any genuine broad popular base such as those of Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia and Viktor Yushchenko in the Ukraine, as well as the regime in Poland. The most common characteristics of these administrations are rabid anti-communism, national chauvinism, contempt for genuine democratic processes and an unwavering adherence to the precepts of the free market.

Such regimes are inherently unstable, both internally and in relation to their neighbours. Now, the US administration has agreed to install a new weapons system in Poland directed against its biggest neighbour, while at the same time guaranteeing to come to the military assistance of the Polish government when necessary. This is a recipe for new conflict and war.Nothing could more clearly express the utter recklessness of US foreign policy.

The dramatic increase of tensions in Eastern Europe eerily recalls the build up to the Second World War. Throughout the 1930s, the German dictator Adolf Hitler professed his peaceful intentions while at the same time undertaking a series of provocations as part of his plan to fundamentally redraw the map of Europe in Germany’s interests. It was precisely in Poland where a global war that would claim over 70 million lives broke out in September 1939.

Prior to leaving for Brussels for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers on Tuesday, the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, wagged her finger and warned that Russia was playing a “dangerous game” in Georgia. The US and its NATO allies would


girlfriend’s death, responded with little hesitation: the memory he would never forget from the 2012 season was the moment he learned his girlfriend was dead.

That sequence of events in December was one of many being pored over Thursday — by journalists and bloggers, students at Notre Dame and an American public trying to figure out the truth at the heart of one of the most bizarre of sports stories.

Was Te’o a sympathetic victim of a cruel fraud, or a calculating participant in a phony story that had been milked to aid his bid for the Heisman Trophy?

The series of events in early December, though, like so much else that has emerged about Te’o and his girlfriend in the last 48 hours, is hardly conclusive. Te’o, in giving theinterview on Dec. 8, quite possibly was nothing more than a frightened and confused young man, unsure himself of what was going on or what to say.

On Thursday, a day of little clarity and deepening mystery, Notre Dame stuck by its official version: Te’o was the target of a meanspirited and vicious hoax, and the university’s hired investigators had determined that it involved a vast cast of characters, all engaged in an effort to humiliate a humble, private and perhaps somewhat naïve young man in the public spotlight.

Te’o, for his part, did not speak. His agent did not offer a statement, and a rumored interview on national television never occurred. His agent told The Associated Press that he had been in Bradenton, Fla., training at the IMG Academy


relationship going back years, but one that became “official” on Oct. 15, 2011. He said it was a relationship that mostly existed on the phone. In one moment during the interview, he said his girlfriend had seen him at a game during his sophomore year, when they were just acquaintances.

Again, it is far from clear from the interview whether Te’o was perpetuating a fraud or accurately, if awkwardly, relating the details of what had been an exclusively online relationship, one he was perhaps embarrassed was nothing more than that given all the attention it had received.

Closer to Notre Dame’s home base, The South Bend Tribune was explaining a story it published in October that included the detail that Te’o had met the girlfriend in person back in 2009.

Theconditions have not previously been accounted in the official inventory of the area. Evaporative emissions from light-duty vehicles in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City were estimated to be 39 % of the total annual amount of hydrocarbons emitted. Vehicles built before 1992 (16 % of the fleet) were found to be responsible for 43 % of the total hydrocarbon emissions from exhausts and 31 % of the evaporative emissions of organic compounds. The relatively high amounts of volatile organic compounds emitted from older vehicles found in this study show that strong emission controls need to be implemented in order to decrease the contribution of evaporative emissions of this fraction of the fleet.


Galaxy star and U.S. soccer great Landon Donovan announces he will retire after this season

Landon Donovan, considered by many to be the best American soccer player in history, said Thursday that he plans to retire after finishing this season with the Galaxy.

"After careful deliberation and after many conversations with those closest to me, I have decided that this will be my last season as a professional soccer player," Donovan wrote on his Facebook page.

The Galaxy confirmed his pending retirement plans on its website and planned a news conference later Thursday where Donovan's formal announcement was expected.

"We respect his decision to retire at the end of the season," Galaxy Coach Bruce Arena said in a statement. "Landon Donovan is one of the most significant figures in the history ofsoccer in the United States."

Donovan's decision came one day after he scored the winning goal in Major League Soccer's All-Star Game, where he made a record 14th consecutive appearance.

That's one of many records Donovan holds. He also has the career MLS scoring record with 138 goals and is the leading scorer in MLS playoff history with 22 goals.

He's also the all-time leader in goals (57) for the U.S. men's national team as well as in World Cup game appearances (12) and goals (five).

His decision also capped a bittersweet year for the 32-year-old native of Ontario, who began his MLS career with the San Jose Earthquakes in 2001.

After Donovan took a three-month sabbatical at the start of World Cup qualifying in 2013, the U.S. Coach Juergen Klinsmann cut Donovan


from the team in May before the World Cup began, setting off a firestorm of debate over whether the move was warranted.

Regardless, Donovan said on his Facebook page that "I feel incredibly blessed and lucky to have played a role in the remarkable growth of MLS and US Soccer during my playing career."Afghan Whigs, and Motörhead.

Emerging Artists

British psych rock group Temples only formed in mid 2012, but almost immediate support from the blogosphere and supporting Primal Scream, Kasabian, Beady Eye & Tame Impala on tour throughout 2013 only helped gain traction. And if you are a fan of Tame Impala, be sure to catch this hyper-buzzy act for their first West Coast show. Their stock should rise quickly as their debut LP Sun Structures releases February 10th.

It has now become a tradition for at least one member of the Odd Future clan to be represented on the bill since their debut, and this year the title goes to producing duo Syd the Kid and Matt Martians as The Internet. Their take on trip-hop and electronic soul is a refreshing breath


of air for the LA collective as Syd moves from behind the decks to feature her lovely vocals at the forefront. Sure to turn a few heads.

Enigmatic trio Factory Floor bathe in drone and noise, ultimately outputting sound somewhere between minimalist techno and experimental house. Releasing their self-titled debut LP in 2013 through DFA, Factory Floor is relatively popular overseas, yet the dance outfit is on the bottom line of the poster for Sunday. The London-based act might offer a good reason to get to the Polo Fields early on day three.

Laura Mvula may not be a name you are familiar with, but she has made waves the past year in her native UK as her debut album peaked nicely on the charts, and she received a solidhelp track the flow of money financing terrorist organizations around the world.

The CIA does not collect information on transfers that occur within the United States or on those that take place bank-to-bank. The majority of the transactions recorded take place entirely outside of the United States, the newspaper said, but some do involve cash that enters or leaves the country. In some cases, Social Security numbers are used in an attempt to connect the flow of money to a single individual.

According to the New York Times, the FISA courts have barred the CIA from learning the identities of any Americans unless there is a link to a terrorist organization. The paper also cited “several officials” saying that multiple government-run bulk collection programs are still working in secrecy and


Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything. In a recent interview, he talked with Pacific Standard about some common misconceptions and surprising truths regarding teaching and learning.

Boser is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focuses on education. His previous books include The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why it Matters. Learn Better was named by Amazon as one of the 10 best new books published in March.

Why, for all our concerns about education, do we pay so little attention to teaching methods?

One issue is the belief that a really charismatic teacher can teach anything. This mythical teacher jumps up on tables and engages students. This undermines theJo Cox's husband, Brendan, posted a picture of his wife on Twitter shortly after she was attacked (Brendan Cox/Twitter)

Labour MP Jo Cox has been killed in her constituency in Birstall, West Yorkshire. Here are the latest updates:

Labour MP Jo Cox has died after being attacked in her constituency near Leeds.

An eyewitness said the 41-year-old mother of two was left lying bleeding on the pavement after the incident in Birstall, West Yorkshire.

The attack took place near the town's library where she held advice surgeries.

Ms Cox was elected to the seat of Batley and Spen at the last general election in 2015.

The suspect was named locally as Thomas Mair.

Ms Cox was regarded by Labour colleagues as one of the brightest stars among the intake of MPs who joined the Commons


at last year’s general election.

The 41-year-old former head of humanitarian campaigning at Oxfam made a mark by calling repeatedly for Britain to do more to help the victims of Syria’s civil war. She remained in regular contact with former colleagues in the aid world who are working to help refugees in the region. She called Commons debates on the plight of the refugees and believed the UK Government should do more both to help the victims and use its influence to bring an end to the conflict.

Mair's house was sealed off by police who were guarding the property as forensic officers worked in the garden.

Neighbours said he had lived there for more than 30 years - on his own for the last two decades since the deaths ofsaid Bennett Gershman, a former New York City prosecutor who teaches at Pace University Law School and has written textbooks about prosecutorial misconduct.

"It sounds like the type of violation that the judge won't find to be in contempt," said George Bird, a certified criminal law specialist and defense attorney in Torrance.

Girolami two weeks ago forbade attorneys on both sides from discussing evidence in the case. He also could rule today on another defense motion to lift the gag order.

Brazelton last week told The Bee he wants to take the case to a preliminary hearing, rather than to a grand jury where he could lay out his evidence behind closed doors.

He said the move is needed to because leaks to the media and speculation on television talk shows force


fifth, despite most facilities across Sierra Leone being functional and adequately staffed, the study said.

The world's worst recorded Ebola outbreak, which has killed 11,300 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since it began in December 2013, has set back progress on maternal health in the country, the report's lead researcher Susan Jones said.

Maternal death rates halved in Sierra Leone between 1990 and 2013, yet it is still has one of the highest rates in the world - more than one in 100 women dies in childbirth - according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

"Now we can rebuild public confidence through education campaigns for both women and their partners, so they understand how Ebola is and isn't spread," Jones said.

"Also, it's important... to encourage women who do useservices to encourage others to do the same," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Despite a persistent shortage of health workers, facilities across Sierra Leone had similar numbers of doctors, midwives and nurses during the Ebola outbreak as in the previous year, and were ready to provide maternal care, according to the study.

Nurses interviewed for the study said that many pregnant women refused to go to health centres because they were afraid of being diagnosed with Ebola, while others chose to visit traditional healers and herbalists instead.

Sierra Leone released its last two known Ebola patients 10 days ago and began a new 42-day countdown to being officially declared free of the virus.

The study called for stronger referral systems, a postgraduate medical training programme and initiatives to inform the public


about the importance of antenatal and postnatal care and assisted childbirth.

It was commissioned by the international development charity Voluntary Service Overseas and carried out in partnership with WaterAid and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and Sanitation.

(Reporting By Kieran Guilbert, editing by Tim Pearce. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.he moved to France in 1516 under the patronage of King Francis I, who purchased the painting after Leonardo’s death. The painting remained in royal palaces for more than three centuries so few people saw it. After the French Revolution, when it was hung in the Louvre, the “people’s museum” identified La Joconde (French for La Gioconda, its Italian name) as the wife of the merchant Francesco del Giocondo.

The del Giocondo family faded from Florentine history, and little was known about Mona (Madame) Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo. After the portrait was stolen in 1911, speculation about the model’s identity sprang up. Among the suggested possibilities were a marchesa, a duchess, a Medici mistress, even Leonardo himself. Only in the last two decades have archival researchers unearthed documents identifying


Lisa as the sitter and verifying the dates of her birth and death.

Why did Leonardo choose to paint someone who, as you put it, had “no title, no fortune, [and] no claim to power or prestige”?

There are many theories. Leonardo may have simply needed money, and Lisa’s husband was an affluent merchant who had just bought a new home for his growing family. Francesco may have wanted to honor his wife, who had recently given birth to their second son. But Leonardo turned down more prestigious commissions, so it seems that he deliberately chose to paint Lisa rather than anyone else.

Even though Leonardo was living in Milan during most of Lisa’s life, when he returned to Florence in 1500, his father—who had legal dealings with Francesco del Giocondo—mayalso know that he first focused on her facial features, leaving the background to be finished later.

Leonardo took the unfinished portrait with him when he was summoned to Milan in 1506 and continued working on it for decades, adding thousands of feather-light brush strokes to create the nuances called sfumatore.

In the course of your research, what discovery was most exciting for you? Most surprising?

The most exciting discoveries came when I actually walked the streets of Mona Lisa’s Florence and visited the places where she lived—from the squalid lane in the Oltrarno where she was born to her grandparents’ home to the street where she lived with her family. I saw the nunneries where she placed her daughters and spent eerie but magical hours in the convent, just steps


from her family home, where she lived the last years of her life, died, and was buried. The more time I spent in these places, the more alive this real Renaissance became in my imagination.

The most surprising revelations concerned the lives of Renaissance women—from childhood to adolescence (when most entered arranged marriages) to their daily lives as wives and mothers. Florentine women were not “liberated” in our sense of the word, but they were strong. They not only held up half the sky but served as the glue that held all aspects of Florentine society together. The woman whom Leonardo immortalized was no victim but a fully dimensional, confident, intelligent, intriguing, flesh-and-blood woman.

In the book, you recall meeting what might very well be Lisa’s last living descendants. Whatof the fastest growing real estate areas in the country and a perfect location to host this year’s ‘San…

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As the 2016 presidential elections approach, the public expects the regular surge of television and print ads – those extolling theor later in the republic of letters. If
it came to him less than soon, celebrity came to Godwin none too late for
its perfect enjoyment. He was still in his thirty-eighth year, when he
published _Political Justice_,--the work for which Robinson is said to
have paid him, at different times, sums amounting to a thousand guineas;
the work that made him famous as a teacher of philosophical Radicalism.
If it made him the best-abused man of the three kingdoms, this daring and
in some respects superlatively unsound book rendered him the idol of
political enthusiasts in every quarter of the country. Unalluring in
design, repellent in style, usually guarded in expression, sold at a price
that kept it from the hands of the multitude whom it was intended chiefly
to benefit, the frigid and passionless work, whose principles


public
worship, in accordance with the ordinances and requirements of the Church
of England. The favourers of the Free Contract (who had for many years
talked of Marian Evans and her genius as though they had a peculiar
property in them, and of her _nom-de-plume_ as though it were sheer
profanity to hint that George Eliot could be wrong about anything) were
comically moved and troubled by the incident, which told them how little
(with all their fussy talkativeness) they had known of the great
novelist's reverence for the sanctity of marriage, and for every usage
tending to hallow it in the minds of men and women. In like manner were
the enemies of Marriage disturbed some ninety years since on hearing that,
after all he had written and said against lawful wedlock, and after living
with her for monthshim.
Had the statement countenanced and confirmed these scandalous stories, the
fact of Mrs. Fuseli's intimacy with Mary would no doubt have made against
Knowles. But according to the statement, there was no reason why Mrs.
Fuseli should have ceased to be friendly with Mary, though at the close of
1792 she thought Mary had better keep away from Fuseli's house and
presence for a short time. On the other hand according to the statement,
there were several reasons why Mrs. Fuseli should think generously and
tenderly of Mary, who in the heat of her wild and fantastic passion had
not wronged her, or wished to wrong her; had dealt frankly and fairly with
her, and thrown herself upon her with entreaties for sympathy. As he
admits this fact is his _strongest fact_ against the story, Mr. Kegan Paul
admits