perceived that her mother was also weeping, she turned to her, and said, 'Dear mother, he will wipe away your tears too; for he says, "His own soft hand shall wipe the tears From every weeping eye, And pains and groans, and griefs and fears And death itself shall die." Don't weep for me, dear mother, when I am gone to heaven, for then I shall be happy, then I...Making a game for PC or Mac? You'll probably want access to Steam's 75 million subscribers and their often joked-about spending problem. After all it turns out most people are buying games on Steam that they never even install! Now there's a market you want to tap into!

Steam's almost-monopoly causes some real problems, with gamers often refusing to buy games from you directly, saying "I'd buy it if it was on Steam". A couple of years ago it was basically impossible as an indie dev to get onto Steam. Even with the launch of Greenlight, their crowdsourced vetting service, it was extremely difficult as recently as last September. Fortunately in January Valve started ramping up the number of games they were Greenlighting and right now they are accepting


allegedly untrue statements and omission to make material statements, in engaging in transactions which operated as a fraud and deceit upon purchasers and prospective purchasers of securities, in the organization of Geyser, Aggregates and other corporations, in solicitation of investments in the securities of defendants, in opening and maintenance of bank accounts and transfer of money between bank accounts, and in many other practices, all described at length in the materials referred to above.

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Swallow next points to the fact that, by his affidavit, he had denied the allegations in certain affidavits filed by the Commission to the effect that he had made certain oral representations.

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While the affidavits referred to by Swallow pertain in part to certain oral representations assertedly made by Swallow, the Commission ultimately did not seekWednesday, 19 July 2017

100,000 lightning bolts:1 months rain in 2 hours and a 4ft wall of water which ripped up roads as English village is turned into an "apocalypse"

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The BBC claim 100,000 strikes of lightning bolts struck the Southwest of England last night.

A months total of rain in just a couple of hours caused a 4ft wall of water which ripped up roads in Coverack

Residents described the scene as like an "apocalypse"

Incredible amounts of rain, a months total in just a couple of hours causes a 4ft wall of water which ripped up roads and damaged 50 homes after freak thunderstorms strike along with more than a thousand lightning strikes hit a sleepy Cornwall village in the UK.
Lightning storms have lashed the south-east of England, hours after


a village in Cornwall was cut off by flash floods.
A yellow weather warning was put in place for London and the south east, as forecasters warned of "frequent lightning".
"Thunderstorms are moving towards the London area.
Intense rain, gusty winds, hail and frequent lightning all possible," the Met Office tweeted in the evening.
As the storm rolled in, the lightning strikes were soon trending on Twitter as users, including comedian Bill Bailey, shared dramatic images of the storm.
Earlier in the day, the severe weather had battered the south-west of the country.
Fire crews raced to the small Cornish seaside town of Coverack amid "multiple reports of flooding" as ferocious thunderstorms moved over the area.
Locals said say flash floods from "torrential downpours" in the storms had swamped homes and shops, while market stallshad been "swept away".
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said its crews were attending "multiple flooding-related incidents" in the Coverack area. amid reports people were in "life-threatening situations" with all roads into the town, many on steep cliff inclines, deluged with water.
It was also reported that a couple in their seventies were airlifted from their home as the flash floods hit.
Residents described the scene as like an "apocalypse" and compared it to the devastation in Boscastle several years ago.
Dozens of lightning strikes were captured on camera as hail and torrential rain battered parts of the West country late on Tuesday as summer was rudely interrupted.
At Nare on the south Cornwall coast, 50mm of rain fell in an hour and there were 32 knots of gusting winds.
Reports suggested some people


were trapped in flooded homes and vehicles may have been swept off the road by the torrential rain.
Wendy Davies, who lives in Coverack, said her garden was destroyed but feared many others had lost everything and described it as a scene out of a disaster movie.
Police appealed to people not to approach the area.
A Met Office spokesman said that by 7.30pm, the worst of the weather had already passed over Cornwall and moved over the Irish Sea.
Hampshire was also experiencing some heavy storms on Tuesday evening, some of which were likely to affect parts of Wales.
The spokesman said the storms would pass over quite quickly.
"In Cornwall, the steepness of the area and the hills has enhanced the impact," he added.
The Met Office issued a yellow, severe weather alertOrlando-area Cowboy Church is at home on the range

Jeff KunerthSentinel Staff Writer

Yippee-ki-yay, praise the Lord, and pass the feed bucket.

The Cowboy Church — bringing Jesus to rodeo riders, barrel racers, ranchers, farmers and Western wannabes — is spreading across Florida and the Southeast in a growing effort to bring religion to those who don't much care for church.

"We are seeing a lot of people come into the cowboy-church movement who don't normally go to church," said Jay Avant, pastor of Milltown Cowboy Church near Davenport.

Meeting in barns, horse arenas and pastures, the Cowboy Church appeals to the unpretentious, the plain-spoken and the keepers of the culture of saddles, Stetsons and pointy-toed boots.

There are baptisms in horse troughs, a Cowboy Bible and the Ten Commandments translated into the language


of John Wayne: No foolin' around with another fellow's gal; don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff; honor yer Ma and Pa.

"They don't want it sugarcoated," Avant said. "They want the plain truth, and they want it to where they can understand it."

Avant's two churches — one that meets on a ranch near Davenport and another that congregates in a St. Cloud open-air barn — belong to the Cowboy Church Network of North America, which has grown to more than 60 churches in the Southeast and Canada since its founding in 2004.

"Florida is going to become one of the great states in cowboy churches," said Jeff Smith, executive director of the church network. "It has a great heritage."

Took off in Texas Cowboy churches have been around since the1980s, but the Baptist General Convention of Texas is credited with starting the contemporary movement in 2000. Texas remains the epicenter of boots-and-bridles Christians, with more than 136 cowboy churches, including the nation's largest: the 2,000-member Cowboy Church of Ellis County.

But Florida — especially Central Florida, with its strong ranch culture — has plenty of people attracted by the cowboy-church ethos of "come as you are." Manure on the boots is acceptable.

"They come as they are, and we accept them as they are," said Avant, 48, who pastored three traditional Baptist churches before devoting himself to the cowboy ministry.

Many services take place weekdays for those whose weekends are spent at rodeos, horse shows, county fairs and trail rides. The Milltown church meets during the week on the Heart


H Ranch of former cattleman Clinton Bass, whose daughters barrel-race.

In good weather, the services take place outdoors by the corrals, riding rings and the elevated "birdhouse" where the barrel-racing judges oversee the competition. In poor weather, they take place in the breezeway by the barn amid the smell of hay and feed grain, the sound of thunder and the banging of horses against their stalls.

On a table is a tin bucket with "Donations" written on the side, the closest thing the cowboy church has to a collection plate.

About a dozen people, many in jeans, boots and cowboy hats, sit on metal folding chairs listening to Avant preach his homespun sermon of Christ's sacrifice. He reminds his congregation that Jesus was born in a manger not unlike the horsebarn.

British cowboys? Among those gathered are two British tourists, drawn to the service by the Milltown Cowboy Church sign at the entrance to the ranch. They've been in Orlando for a week, done the Disney thing, the Universal thing, the SeaWorld thing.

None of the attractions seemed so exotic, so ... so genuinely American. They took pictures of the horse trough where cowboy Christians are baptized. They mistook Bass' white ranch house for the church.

"All I knew about cowboys is they ride horses," said Melissa Bullimore, 23. "It was definitely not what I expected. This is exhilarating."

Heather Burrell, 40, said she was impressed by how warm and friendly the church was, but she qualified her comments by saying she was not religious or church-oriented. Turns out, British tourists qualify


The Pakistani military has resumed a search for more than 100 troops who have been buried by an avalanche in the disputed Kashmir region.

The avalanche hit a military camp near the Siachen glacier in the Karakoram branch of the Himalaya mountains.

In all 135 people - including 124 soldiers - are missing. The search was suspended overnight.

India and Pakistan both claim the area and have deployed thousands of troops.

Long rescue mission

The avalanche struck the base in the Gayari district at about 06:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Saturday.

The soldiers are from the Northern Light Infantry regiment, trained in mountain operations, including avalanche rescue.

The military says helicopters, sniffer dogs and troops have been sent to the area to help with the rescue.

The BBC's Orla Guerin, in Islamabad, says the remoteregion is a particularly difficult place to launch a rescue mission, but improving weather conditions are expected to help the operation.

A Pakistani military spokesman, Maj Gen Athar Abbas, said the avalanche that hit the military camp had been "very massive" and it could take several days to complete the rescue operation, which was unprecedented in scale for such a location.

Image copyright AP Image caption The Siachen glacier is in a remote mountain area claimed by both Pakistan and India

He said there had been no communication with any of the missing soldiers.

Although the region is prone to avalanches, the general said, they tend to occur in "forward bases" at higher altitude, where only 10 or 20 troops are located.

The numbers involved in this incident were so high, he said,


because avalanches were not expected in the immediate area of the camp that was struck.

An avalanche killed 24 Pakistani troops in 2010 - this is believed to be the heaviest loss of life in a previous such incident until now.

Kashmir has been partitioned between India and Pakistan since 1947.

Failure to agree on the status of the territory by diplomatic means has twice brought India and Pakistan to war.

The Siachen glacier is known as the world's highest battlefield, and soldiers have been deployed at elevations of up to 6,700m (22,000 feet).

However, more soldiers have died from the harsh weather conditions there than in combat.the word unexpected, the audience collectively shrank back in their seats. They looked fearful and anxious. That surprised and bothered me. When had the unexpected become something to be feared?

I thought about this for some time. I wanted to write a story in which the unexpected was something great, something that might alter someone's feelings about the unexpected. Perhaps, then, that person's whole view of the future might also be altered.

That was the central impetus for this newest book, The Great Unexpected:

I've had my own great and unexpected event: a call one cold, gray February day in 1995 when I was home alone in England, ready to throw a manuscript-in-progress out the window.

The phone rang. "Walk Two Moons has received the Newbery Medal."

"Cut it out, Tom," I said.


top end side of the pull stud attachment hole. Thereafter, the drawing screw, which has a shaft having a smaller diameter and having external threads formed therein, and a head having a larger diameter, is inserted from the rear end opening of the pull stud attachment hole. Specifically, the drawing screw is inserted with the shaft facing the top end and the head facing the rear end, so that the head adjoins the rear end of the slip seat. At this time, the shaft extends through a central hole of the slip seat, and is screwed in the rear end of the tapered collet. Then, a stopper member is inserted from the rear end opening of the pull stud attachment hole, and is screwed on internal threads formedalong Camden Valley Way (the former Hume Highway and former Cow Pasture Road).

The estate was developed by James Chisholm  on land granted to him in 1829. Located in the centre of the property is a selection of Georgian farm buildings. The homestead was built by James Chisholm  on land granted in 1829 and later renovated, probably in the 1870s, to include the Gothic verandas and porches; the kitchen has been separated forming a courtyard. The house has a long stone flagged front veranda on the north side with two gables breaking the eavesline and marking the entrances. Decorative features include bargeboards in a rustic pattern, shuttered french doors and a front door with fanlight and side lights. The walls are rendered brick.

The current access drive winds


a grove of pepper trees (Schinus molle var.areira), two of which may possibly date from the mid to late 19th century. This species is also scattered throughout the livestock yard and is around the outbuildings and have the same evocative character as the plantings of Belgenny Farm Homestead at Camden South. Further plantings in this area include an old stunted Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla). To the south of the building is a black locust /false acacia tree (Robinia pseudoacacia).

The northern front to the homestead is in the shape of an expansive ellipse, bounded by a formal gravel driveway with a remnant planting of a lone large white cedar (Melia azedarach var.australasica) on the edge of the driveway.

The eastern garden, set out in the gardenesque style, continues thisvulnerable in some way, because of differences in appearance, personality or behavior. This does not mean they are responsible for being bullied. Rather it points to the need to teach children to be accepting of differences, and to help them develop understanding and empathy.

My attention was called to this issue by my 10-year-old granddaughter, who was reading a book called “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio (Random House Children’s Books). She explained that it was about a boy who was born with extreme facial abnormalities. He was entering a mainstream school for the first time in the fifth grade, and was being taunted and bullied by his classmates.

She told me that she, herself, had been in class with an autistic boy. Before the child entered the class, the teacher had


a discussion with them explaining his problems, and how they might be noticed in his behavior. For example, he might repeat certain things, or ask the same questions again, and they should ignore this and not make fun of him. After that, despite his behavior he was accepted as part of the class.

I asked what if anything had helped Auggie, the protagonist of the “Wonder” story. My granddaughter explained that it was the fact that two boys in the class befriended him. This gave Auggie needed support, and also became a model for other children as well. The school principal also made a difference. Children were sent to the principal when their behavior was offensive, and they were made to apologize. Apologies were hard for some kids becauseLCSW, Ed.D., has written for Parents Magazine, Fox.com, Redbook, Disney online and PBS Parents, as well as other publications. She has appeared on PBS, ABC, Fox TV and other networks. Dr. Heffner is the author of “Goodenoughmothering: the Best of the Blog,” as well as “Mothering: the Emotional Experience of Motherhood after Freud and Feminism.” She is a psychotherapist and parent educator in private practice, as well as a senior lecturer of education in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Heffner was a co-founder and served as director of the Nursery School Treatment Center at Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital. And she blogs at www.goodenoughmothering.com.


that the stress caused by the illnesses of both his mother and
his girlfriend, as well as the press of the family business, caused him to forget his probation
obligations. He also claimed that the new charges were a mistake caused by the actions of his
girlfriend.

       From all the evidence presented at the probation revocation hearing, it is clear that the
defendant quit reporting to his probation officer, never attended MRT classes (although he
understood his obligation to go), never made any contribution to the Gallatin Police Department,
never completed any hours of public service work, and did receive new criminal charges,
although the cases had not gone to trial at the time the hearing was conducted.

        When a trial courtdifferent? The guy sucked on an absolutely epic level for FIVE YEARS. It's not like he was just bad as a rookie, or a second year player. Five years is a long, long time.

Maybe: Jets, Bills, Jaguars, sleeper team

Out: Everyone else

People are seriously underestimating Jim Harbaugh and overestimating Alex Smith. Harbough came to San Francisco and one of the first things he did was draft Alex Smith's replacement. The second thing he did was dumb the offense waaaaaay down and put an absolute minimal burden on Smith's shoulders. All he had to do was run plays designed by the best coach in the league and not screw it up, while allowing the Niners dominant defense and running game to do the rest.

Smith's injury is actually the best thing


Former Charity Awards winners reveal what makes a great charity

What makes a great charity? As part of his sponsorship of the Charity Awards, Andy Pitt from Rathbones met with some former winners to find out. David Ainsworth took notes.

What allows some charities to stand out from the others? What factors do all great charities share?

We met with leaders from the Trussell Trust, Leap Confronting Conflict, Volunteering Matters and the Clink Charity, all of which are recent overall winners of the Charity Awards, to find out what they thought were the characteristics they all shared.

Around the table there was a broad agreement about the tenets of a really effective organisation, although some of them are easier to say than to do.

Clarity of mission

One thing which stands out is howvery platform." "She had just got married and come... and it was also the last time I saw her happy... because her husband had to leave that very night... due to some tension at the border, and he was an Airforce pilot." "Since then she often comes here... hoping to see her husband get down from the train... but everybody knows that is impossible because two years back we got to hear.." "that two planes were found missing at the border." "I feel even she knows that her husband is no more... but she still comes here to please one man her husbands father ." "Major General Khanna... a retired army officer and one of the richest men in this town who believes... that till he does not


see the dead body of his son, he is not dead ... he insists that Kiran dutifully fulfills all the traditions of a married girl." "Kiran's sister.in.law, Nandini, is her only friend." "She is the wife of Major Khanna's elder son... who is a computer engineer in the military and is away most of the time." "Nandini loves Kiran like a sister and wants to see her happy." "She has a naughty son named Ayush." "He is the bright light in Kiran's dark life... they laugh, cry, play and fight together." "Kiran forgets all her pains and sorrows and she becomes a child with him." "She is after all just 19 years old." "This is Kiran .who had had come here to laugh and love... hope she getsDay ,the day of love." "Today I am going to begin by telling you a love story." "A story of a boy, a girl and a leaf a story of one of you'll, a boy ... from Gurukul, but there was one difference he was in love, and he had decided that on this day," "he would tell her everything, not worrying about the consequences." "She was standing at the bus stop with her friends... waiting to leave for the college picnic." "The boy had sneaked out of Gurukul and had come running to see her." "He saw her getting into the bus, he immediately took out a pen from his pocket... and tried to find something to write on." "Then he picked up a leaf from the


ground and wrote on it." "Dear Megha, I love you." "He gave it to a kid on the street... and pointed towards the girl." "The kid ran with the leaf towards the girl... who was just about to enterthe bus." "Just then there was a convoy of army trucks which blocked his view, and he could not see the girl." "When the last truck crossed him... he saw that all the girls had already got into the bus." "As he turned, he saw the same kid standing in front of him... holding the leaf." "There was something written on the other side of the leaf... I have waited so long to hearthis ." "Megha." "But, by that time the bus had already left." "He ran behind the bus"Because today Narayan Shankar is a man who did not come out as a winner... in the battle of life he has lost." "He is a sad, stubborn, and lonely man... who just did not understand the meaning of life." "And today, when he looks back, he cannot help but feel that somewhere... all his students, must be sad and lonely, just like him... because he knows, he never smiled at them when they were scared... he never patted their backs when they did well... he never held them in his arms, when they were sad." "Because he always believed that showing any kind of love and affection leads to pain... and pain leads to weakness." "And in this process he became so hard, that he forgot how


Voters across the EU go to the polls on 23-26 May to elect more than 700 MEPs - members of the European Parliament.

MEPs represent more than 500 million EU citizens from 28 countries.

Skip MEPs MEPs can represent a national political party or they can stand as independents. They each represent a region of their home country. End of MEPs

The last European elections were held in 2014.

What does the European Parliament do?

The parliament is the only directly-elected EU institution.

Skip directly-elected The parliament is elected using a system of proportional representation. Seats are awarded to parties in direct proportion to their share of the vote. End of directly-elected

After the MEPs are elected, most join bigger political groups in the EU parliament.

Skip bigger political groups In the outgoing parliament - 751seats in total - there were eight big political groups. The largest was the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), with 217 seats. Next came the centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D), with 186 seats.The other groups were: European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), including the UK Conservatives, with 76, the liberals (ALDE - 68 seats), a left-wing group (GUE/NGL - 52), the Greens (52) and two nationalist, Eurosceptic groups (78 total) plus independents (21). End of bigger political groups

The main job of the EU parliament is to pass laws, working with ministers from the member states, who are collectively known as the Council.

Skip the Council Together with the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union is the main decision-making body of the EU. The Council approves a law if


there is a qualified majority: at least 55% of members (16 out of 28 states) and representing at least 65% of the EU population. End of the Council

MEPs also monitor the work of the European Commission, which drafts EU laws and enforces EU rules.

Is the UK in or out of these elections?

The UK voted to leave the EU in 2016 – and was expected to leave by 29 March 2019 – but UK politicians have been unable to agree an exit deal.

Skip unable to agree an exit deal If the UK does not hold European elections on 23 May it will have to leave on 1 June without a deal, the EU says. The UK has until 31 October to reach a deal – provided it holds Europeanelections. End of unable to agree an exit deal

The UK is legally obliged to take part in the elections, unless it approves a Withdrawal Agreement by 22 May, enabling it to leave the EU with a deal.

Skip Withdrawal Agreement The agreement was completed in November, but remains stuck, mainly because many MPs oppose the “backstop” for Northern Ireland. The “backstop” is the part of the agreement that sets out a way to keep free movement across the Northern Ireland border, but critics say it would undermine UK sovereignty. End of Withdrawal Agreement

That looks unlikely, as MPs have already rejected it three times.

So who could win in Europe?

In recent years anti-EU politicians have been gaining ground and - though they are unlikely to gain a majority in the new


the EU reached a deal with Turkey to stop migrant boats. End of migrant crisis.

There was a nationalist backlash, especially in Germany, Hungary, Austria and Poland.

Many voters want more determined action to tackle climate change, an issue highlighted by Greta Thunberg and her Fridays for Future youth campaign.

Skip Greta Thunberg Swedish 16-year-old Greta Thunberg launched a worldwide protest movement when, in the summer of 2018, she skipped school to press for action on climate change. Thousands of school students followed her example, and many adults were inspired to protest too. End of Greta Thunberg

The eurozone debt crisis gripped Europe between 2010 and 2012, but anxiety about the euro has declined since then.

Skip eurozone debt crisis The world financial crisis exposed massive over-borrowing by governments in southern Europe, especiallyGreece. Greece got an EU bailout totalling €289bn (£250bn), to keep it in the eurozone. The crisis hit confidence in the euro. End of eurozone debt crisis

Which are the countries to watch?

Besides Brexit uncertainty in the UK, anxiety about immigration could influence voting in several countries, to the advantage of nationalist and populist parties.

One of those countries is Italy where the government is a nationalist-populist coalition between Matteo Salvini's right-wing, anti-immigration League and Five Star.

Skip League and Five Star These were the winning parties in Italy’s March 2018 election. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of the League is their best-known politician – he refuses to accept migrant boats, saying people who arrive illegally must be deported. End of League and Five Star

The League has forged an election alliance with


the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the Finns Party and the Danish People's Party.

Skip Alternative for Germany (AfD) AfD is against the euro and sees Islam as alien to German culture. It is the main opposition party in the German parliament. End of Alternative for Germany (AfD)

France is also one to watch. It is the first European election for President Emmanuel Macron’s liberal La République en Marche (LREM).has been accomplished in mammals by several different methods. First, in mammals including the mouse, pig, goat, sheep and cow, a transgene is microinjected into the pronucleus of a fertilized egg, which is then placed in the uterus of a foster mother where it gives rise to a founder animal carrying the transgene in its germline. The transgene is engineered to carry a promoter with specific regulatory sequences directing the expression of the foreign protein to a particular cell type. Since the transgene inserts randomly into the genome, position effects at the site of the transgene's insertion into the genome may variably cause decreased levels of transgene expression. This approach also requires characterization of the promoter such that sequences necessary to direct expression of the transgene in the


In a vat of liquid nitrogen on storage platform 17, the youngest person ever to be put into cryogenic storage has been waiting for the future for one year and eight months.

Matheryn “Einz” Naovaratpong was two when she was diagnosed with a rare form of terminal brain cancer. “She showed fighting spirit since she was born,” her father Sahatorn Naovaratpong tells me. “Her cry was the loudest in the nursery.”

Einz died shortly before her third birthday. Her parents preserved her at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Arizona shortly after. They were accused, over and over, of partaking in a bizarre and misguided form of grieving, and clinging to false hope.

Sahatorn and Nareerat Naovaratpong—both of whom hold PhDs in science and engineering—argue that cryonics is a misunderstood branchcryonics firm in the world. Its only true competitors are the Cryonics Institute located near Detroit—a 7,000-square-foot facility that currently hosts 100 preserved individuals—and CryoRus near Moscow—the world’s first cryonics firm based outside the United States, and home to 51 corpsicles. More has bigger plans. His team is currently planning an expansion that would allow Alcor to store over 1,000 preservations.

“There is a disconnect between conventional medical practices and the emerging field of cryonics. Holding on to hope before death—no matter how futile, medically speaking—is more socially acceptable.”

Futurist Robert Ettinger came up with the idea of cryonics in the 1960s, but it was Frederick and Linda Chamberlain who formed a nonprofit organization in 1972 dedicated to cooling recently deceased people down to liquid nitrogen temperatures, and maintaining their


sprung back to life. “It’s not strange, therefore, for a kid who grew up on a path towards science to learn about cryonics and to know about an organization like Alcor.”

As his daughter neared death, Sahatorn told his wife that they should have Matheryn preserved at Alcor. His suggestion was not received well, but Nareerat was eventually swayed by her husband’s insistence. She says it was a very difficult decision.

Once she made up her mind to have Matheryn preserved at Alcor—a decision she says was motivated purely by the power of reason—she had to explain it to the rest of the family, a process that took many months. Eventually, “everyone accepted and was prepared to be united in bringing Einz into the future.”

“We are Buddhists,” Nareerat says. “InZach Galifianakis Pays Tribute to “Annie” on “SNL”

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NEW YORK - JULY 19: Actor Zach Galifianakis attends the "Dinner For Schmucks" premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre on July 19, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Zach Galifianakis may have set the latest fashion trend of the year: the Little Orphan Annie.

During his monologue last night when he hosted Saturday Night Live, "The Hangover" star took off his shirt and pants, which revealed underneath the famous red dress worn by the legendary comic character. (The only thing missing was a curly redheaded wig). Galifianakis lip-synched to the tune of “Tomorrow” from the musical while turning the pages of a poster board that revealed such messages as: “Thanks for the applause,”


The choice of Sarah Palin as McCain's VP nominee is about as good as McCain can do, but in reality we have to ask ourselves: Who is Sarah Palin? First, she's a small-town mayor (Wasilla, AK had 5500 people in 2000) turned governor of a tiny state for less than two years. She's also extremely conservative on at least one issue (abortion) that puts her at odds with every independent or left-leaning woman in America. How stupid does McCain think women in this country are?

It's the height of hypocrisy for McCain to slam Obama for his supposed lack of experience and then go ahead and pick someone with even less experience than Obama to inherit the presidency in the event of a tragedy. After all, Obama has beenfirst case, where there are no restrictive measures in the future, and two other cases where the population promotes social isolation keeping it at 50 % until the end of the epidemic and, lastly, raising the percentage of the quarantined population by 20 % from April 10, that is, the comparison between the absence of social isolation measures, and measures reaching 50 % and 70 % of the population, respectively

In the first case, a worrying scenario occurs, where the peak of contamination reaches practically 39 % of the population on April 13. In the second case, the 50 % reduction in the susceptibility of the population results in a peak of contamination that reaches around 18.3 % of the Brazilian population on May 5, which consists of a


teams, the total impact on the city's economy would be but a fraction of a per cent.

He compares the economic impact of a professional baseball team on a given city as roughly equivalent to that of a mid-sized department store.

Yet unlike department stores, the average cost of a new baseball stadium — to say nothing of the cost of a franchise to play in it — is somewhere in the billion-dollar range.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has already said that "not a penny" of public money will be spent on a new baseball stadium — unless Montrealers agree to it in a referendum .

Meanwhile, the CAQ government has said it's open to contributing funds to pay for the building of a new stadium, as long as a private consortiumdown this road before, and clearly neither the Olympic Stadium nor the first iteration of the Expos provided any consequential long-term economic stimulus. Pro sports is entertainment, full stop.

Building a new stadium in a different part of town isn't going to change the basic economics of pro sports either: the league holds all the cards, cities are played against one another to see who contributes the most to a given expansion or relocation project, and the economic stimulus provided — particularly when weighed against the public investment — is typically neutral or negligible.

Stephen Bronfman, a Montreal businessman involved in efforts to bring baseball back to the city, sat down with Premier François Legault late last year to talk baseball. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)

Groupe Montréal, a group of affluent Montrealers


Bay Area Renters Go On Strike, Citing Shelter Orders for Income Loss

Wednesday marked a new month, and for many across the Bay Area, the rent is due.

But for those who have lost income recently because of shelter in place orders, business is not as usual, and the nationwide effort to stem the coronavirus spread has prevented them from being able to write their rent checks.

A statewide order extends the time renters have to respond to an eviction notice, and around the Bay Area, there are some eviction bans with varying restrictions, but as it stands, the rent will still be due eventually.

Matt Haney was one of the San Francisco supervisors to hold a video conference with elected officials from eight cities around the country to collectively call forhere. Also known as kettle ponds, these pingos date back to the ice age, and Pingo is the Eskimo word for “hill”. As the glaciers retreated, they left hard masses of ice which eventually had soil over them. Then, as the climate became warmer and the ice melted away, the soil on top formed depressions, leaving a hole filled with water – hence the Pingo was formed.

If you'd like to walk the "Ice Age to Royalty" Norfolk Stately Homes walk, Explore Norfolk UK has put together a special package to take in this the Pingo Trail, as well as visiting Oxburgh Hall, Sandringham House and a couple of walks around these stately homes. For more information, click on the link above.

Pingo Ponds

Most of the Pingos that were in


anti-diabetic activity provided some clues as to the bioactive constituents of medicinal plants with known anti-diabetic activity, as well as the rationale for the traditional use of some medicinal plants.

Several plants were identified as new sources rich in compounds with potential anti-diabetic activity, and included Argemone ochroleuca, Clivia miniata, Crinum bulbispermum, Danais fragans, Dioscorea dregeana, Dodonaea angustifolia, Eucomis autumnalis, Gnidia kraussiana, Melianthus comosus, Mondia whitei, Pelargonium sidoides, Typha capensis, Vinca minor, Voacanga Africana, and Xysmalobium undulatum. These plants represent a good initial point for exploratory *in vitro* anti-diabetic studies. As for the compounds, a total of 28 compounds were identified as having favorable ADMET properties, and importantly, several of these were identified as novel potential multi-targeted anti-diabetic compounds, such as crotofoline A, erythraline, henningsiine, nauclefidine, vinburnine, and voaphylline.Get UP's Newsletter!

Andy Joshua

Andy Joshua was graduated from The College of William and Mary, where he received a BS in Physics, and from the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, where he received an MS in International Security Policy. He is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Eastern University where he is studying Organizational Leadership with a concentration in Educational Leadership.

As principal of the UrbanPromise Academy, he brings many years of experience and training, and a passion for the importance of a quality education in the lives of young people. His engaging and innovative approaches to urban youth ministry and education have been instrumental in the success of UrbanPromise teens and college students.

Now in his 18th year with our organization, Andy has worked in a variety


of capacities at UrbanPromise--as the children and youth ministry director, the StreetLeader director, a work crew coordinator, teacher, and coordinator of Christian development. Through his years of experience with urban youth, he has developed a voice for speaking on social justice issues, youth development, and effective methods for working with teens. Mr. Joshua lives in North Camden with his wife and three children.to events in a player's life - major injuries will force a premature career decline (if they're still young, normal improvement will somewhat counteract that) while players who remain relatively healthy will have more years of productivity. With a bit of luck, a few players will remain superstars much longer than most.

Each August, FHM performs a retirement check according to each player's current age, Aging rating, and number of seasons left on his contract. While the game is aggressive about ensuring that quality free agents find new homes during the offseason, players at lower levels will likely end up retiring if they don't receive any contract offers.

In general, most players in high-level leagues who have productive careers and remain free of major injuries will probably retire in their


A shrine set up to commemorate the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attacks has been vandalised four times in the last two weeks. The satirical paper has refused to be cowed, however, and will publish its next edition tomorrow.

Following the attacks by Islamist gunmen which claimed 17 lives, a shrine was set up in Place de la Republique in central Paris consisting of flowers, photos, and notes left by various well-wishers.

It was set up by a group, “17 Never Again” who tend to the shrine, light candles, and cover the notes with plastic. But according to Sabrina Deliry, the head of the group, the shrine has been vandalised four times over the last two weeks, with the objects being torn up, scattered, and kicked around.

“We’re sickened and disgusted,”day to eliminate sexual violence, Jordan has embarked on a campaign known as the 16 days of activism against Gender-Based Violence. The over two week-long event in Jordan began on the International Day to Eliminate Violence against Women and is scheduled to end on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2016.

A major issue propelling campaign in Jordan is Penal Code 308, which states, similarly to Iraq, that if a man rapes or sexually assaults a woman under 18, he can escape prosecution by marrying her and staying with her for three to five years. While the Jordanian parliament recently amended the law by criminalizing rape within marriage, it still allows those individuals who sexually assault women to escape punishment if it was “consensual.”

Activists led by the Sisterhood Is


Legal abortion mortality in the United States: 1972 to 1982.
Between 1972 and 1982, 186 women died as a result of legal abortion in the United States. The overall death rate resulting from legal abortion dropped nearly fivefold, from 4.1 per 100,000 abortions in 1972 to 0.8 in 1982. Women who were older, black, of high parity, and had abortions at a later gestational age were at increased risk of death throughout the 11 years of surveillance. During this period, the death rate decreased for abortions at all stages of gestation; the greatest decrease was with abortions performed during the second trimester. For the entire interval, mortality rates were highest for abortions performed by hysterotomy or hysterectomy and lowest for abortions performed by curettage. Before 1977, the most commonworried that the government will further roll back the supports their party brought in while in government.

"Doug Ford has not prioritized low-income people," Liberal legislator Marie-France Lalonde said in a statement. "They are concerned about what might come -- even more cuts to services for those who need this support the most."

The government announced in July it was "winding down" a pilot project that provided payments to 4,000 low-income earners in cities such as Hamilton, Brantford, Thunder Bay and Lindsay.

At the time, Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod called the program, launched by the Liberals in 2017 and set to run for three years, a "disincentive to get people back to work."

Anti-poverty advocates denounced the move, with one group pledging to defend against what it called Premier Doug Ford's


Harold Bloom was one of Yale’s most illustrious professors. Most of my friends in the Literature department were his acolytes, clustering around him at office hours for his bon mots about Pater and Wilde. He called students, male and female both, “my dear” and “my child.” Beautiful, brilliant students surrounded him. He was a vortex of power and intellectual charisma.

I, personally, was at once drawn to him intellectually and slightly scared of him. I had audited a famous course he taught, and he had reached out to me then and invited me to talk with him. Since he was so intellectually selective, I was “sick with excitement” at the prospect, as I wrote in an account—details changed to disguise his identity—in one of my books, Promiscuities.

His aura wasone of her tenured professors assaulted her sexually. The professor asked her to dinner, she said, with himself and a dean. At the last minute, she was told the dean could not come. After dinner, he insisted they have a drink at his pied-à-terre nearby, and she had one glass of wine. He started making advances; she resisted, saying “No, no” several times, but then started experiencing blackouts. When she regained intermittent consciousness, she says, he had removed her clothes and penetrated her.

Deeply traumatized, Powell had her bruises documented at the hospital. She also called the police, but was made to feel there would be no point in bringing a criminal charge against someone she knew. “But I filed a grievance at Yale. Immediately, they brought in the


But Kelly claimed that in the aftermath of the assault, the college was too slow to respond to her concerns—not least that she was living in the same place as, and attending a class with, her attacker. She also alleged that, in an open forum to discuss the attack with students, Dean Richard Wood defamed her by telling those gathered that what Nolan had done was “not legal rape.” Kelly was so distraught that she dropped out of her courses and eventually finished her studies late.

In March 2003, Judge Janet Hall permitted the matter to proceed to a trial, stating that a jury could find that “Yale’s failure to provide Kelly with accommodations, either academic, or residential, immediately following Nolan’s assault of her, was clearly unreasonable given allthe circumstances of which it was aware.” Six months later, Yale settled for an undisclosed sum.

Stephanie Urie, a former graduate student at the Divinity School and now a hospice chaplain, filed her lawsuit against Yale just last month. Her most alarming allegation was that from 1997 onward, the Divinity School faculty had knowledge that the Reverend Gilbert Bond, an associate professor at the Divinity School and Urie’s mentor, “had engaged in gender discrimination and sexual harassment towards female students” but that they had failed to take “reasonable action to prevent the recurrence of gender discrimination and sexual harassment.” She also claimed Yale failed to protect her from Bond after she filed a grievance.

Bond denied the allegations to the Yale Daily News and also stated he was not her


from trying to emulate his father on the acoustic guitar. By the 5th and 6th grade, Ben was forced into playing acoustic bass.

“Up until the 5th grade, I played violin, but then, my elementary school band needed a bass player. Later, in High School, I became part of a jazz trio, and that’s where I really learned to play the bass more proficiently.

“This led me to study at Berklee College of Music in Massachusetts, where I met Wayne (the guitarist) and Platzman (the drummer) who are in the band now.”

A few years later, a telephone call from Wayne led Ben to make the decision of pursuing performance and songwriting full-time with Imagine Dragons.

“Wayne started Imagine Dragons when he moved back to his hometown in Provo, Utah. Then, heCurrently, the turbocharging technology is becoming more and more popular for its capacity of effectively enhancing the efficiency of the engine. It has become one of the main trends for energy saving and environmental protection in the gasoline energy times. At present, a lot of electromagnetic valves are widely applied in the field of turbocharged engines. However, most electromagnetic valves existing in the market include an electromagnetic circuit comprising a coil winding wrapped around the coil holder, a static core, a dynamic core, a magnetic conductive disc and a magnetic cover, etc., wherein, the dynamic core is generally hollow and in most movably mounted on the guide pin with its radial outward surface. With the rapid development of electronic technology at home and abroad, the demand for all


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Chan Chut works as a laborer in various parts of the U.S and Mexico. At the Pacific Union Railroad Camp, he appears performing a variety of odd jobs such as repairing railroad tracks and loading supplies at the warehouse. In El Matadero he can be seen working in the back room of the local slaughterhouse, as well as lounging around a campfire with an opium pipe. He also appears sometimes in multiplayer, usually in and around Blackwater on horseback. Chan also works as a stagecoach driver in New Austin.

During evenings in El Matadero, instead of joining his fellow immigrants at the collection of tents near the edge of town, Chan will remain on his own at a small campsite just behind the slaughterhouse, hinting that he may bea loner.

Like most Chinese characters in the game, Chan Chut speaks in the Cantonese dialect of Chinese, hinting at his place of origin in Guangdong province.

Chan Chut can also be translated as "陈七", the word "陈" (Chan) is a fairly common family name in China, while the word "七" (Chut) means seven. It probably means he's the seventh's son in his family.


Los Alamos County began operating the landfill in 1974. Municipal solid waste from the community and Los Alamos National Lab was buried in the landfill from about 1974 to 2008. In 2008, the Los Alamos County landfill was closed and the Eco Station was constructed. The Eco Station serves as a transfer station to handle the majority of the solid waste generated in Los Alamos. Solid waste is transported off the hill daily for final disposal at the Rio Rancho landfill, over 80 miles away. Mixed recycling is sent to Friedman Recycling in Albuquerque. Electronics, appliances, tires and household hazardous waste (paints, chemicals, etc.) are also sent off the hill for proper disposal. Glass is sent to BuRRT in Santa Fe, organic trimmings are chipped for mulch andadopted Resolution 06-18 stating that all new County buildings must meet LEED Silver certification. As stated on the U.S. Green Building Council's website, LEED certified buildings focus on "improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts." LEED certified facilities are also more comfortable for workers, thereby helping to increase worker productivity and wellness.

The new Pajarito Cliffs Site and the Justice Center were completed in 2010 and followed LEED standards.

Eco Station Green Building Facts:

35% water savings through low flow fixtures

92% construction waste recycled

25% recycled content in the facility

Solar heat and hot water thanks to a grant from New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Dept.


in California where there are no cars allowed.

Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park

Getting to the Channel Islands requires some effort, but with the chance to encounter dolphin pods, mola molas, and whales in the Santa Barbara Channel, the one hour Island Packers boat ride to Santa Cruz Island is all part of the fun. While camping is allowed year round on all 5 of the islands in Channel Islands National Park, the Scorpion Ranch campground at Santa Cruz is the most accessible for a weekend jaunt and also has the most developed facilities. Once the ferry lands on the island, it is a half mile walk from the pier to the large campground, which sits in a grove of trees surrounded by grasslands and coastal sage scrub.on Santa Cruz Island!

Angel Island State Park Campground

With ferries departing from all over the San Francisco Bay area, Angel Island State Park in the middle of the Bay offers a quick and quiet escape from the commotion of the city. Coastal campsites are spread out all over the island, with views of the SF Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, the famous cityscape, and the rolling Marin Headlands. All sites have potable water and a pit toilet. To explore the island, hit the trail to the top of Mt. Livermore, the island’s tallest point, or rent a bike from the Angel Island Company and cruise around the island’s permitter. When that stomach starts to growl, head to the Angel Island Cantina for lunch and wash down some super


y racontait la mort subite de son fils tout en mêlant son histoire à la réécriture d'un roman de l'âge classique. Dans son livre, on lisait : « Dans notre monde, la mort d'un enfant, ou une autre mort aussi cruelle, est devenue une chose oubliée dans notre vie de tous les jours, au point qu'il faille expressément la raconter sous forme de récit. » Et cette phrase — portée par tout le roman — sonnait à mes oreilles comme une bénédiction qui m'était adressée depuis nulle part, comme un encouragement à ne pas laisser se perdre — dans la mesure de mes faibles moyens d'écrivain — la trace de ce quelque chose de discret et poignant dont le monde ne voulait rien savoir.

Ce qui m'intéressait le plusqu'avec son visage souriant et pâle, son crâne lisse et blanc, elle ressemblait au petit fantôme gentil des dessins animés. Elle avait aimé que nous la comparions à ce doux personnage triste, toujours en quête d'une amitié vraie que sa situation de spectre suscitant partout l'effroi, sa condition mélancolique l'enfermant dans l'univers irréel de la nuit lui interdisaient de connaître. C'était peut-être un sort qu'insoucieusement nous lui avions jeté. Elle revenait vers nous sous la forme à laquelle nous l'avions condamnée.

Mais je ne croyais pas aux fantômes. Pauline était morte. Lorsque j'avais vu son corps s'agiter sous les soubresauts de l'agonie, j'avais moi-même demandé au médecin-réanimateur qu'on lui injecte la dose de Penthotal qui la délivrerait de l'atrocité (assourdie par les drogues) où elle se débattait. Je l'avais


TOPO CHICO THE LEGEND

The Princess and the Mole

This is the legend speaks of the virtues of the water that has given its name, since 1895, to one of the most important drinks in all of Mexico: Topo Chico Mineral Water.

There was a beautiful Aztec princess who suffered a terrible disease, so strange that none of her father’s doctors, Moctezuma I Ilhuicamina, successor in 1440 of the king Itzcoatl had been able to cure.

Desperate, the King turned to the older priests in the kingdom to find a cure for his beautiful daughter. They told him that according to the timeless stories of travelers, in a far away northern land, there was a strange and hidden spring whose waters flowed at high temperatures, waters in which one only needed tobathe in or drink from to regain vigor, joy, strength and health.

Encouraged by this news, Moctezuma I ordered an immediate expedition to take his daughter to this amazing spring. After traveling long and rugged roads, the expedition and the Princess reached a fertile valley flanked by mountains. To the east they saw a mountain with the form of woman's face (now “Cerro de la Silla”) and also found a mole-shaped hill, from whose slopes flowed the prodigal spring.

After spending some time there, taking baths and drinking water from the spring, the daughter of Moctezuma I, his priests and chiefs returned to the Anahuac lands optimistic, strong, happy and healthy. The news about the recovery of the Princess spread throughout the kingdom and has passed from generation to generation


call which was exposed by a whistleblower last week.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post has reported that US Attorney-General William Barr held private meetings with Italian and British intelligence officials to ask for assistance in the investigation of the Mueller inquiry.

A source told the paper Mr Barr visited Italy last week, and not for the first time.

Why is Australia move controversial?

The transcript of the call between Mr Morrison and Mr Trump was restricted within the White House to a small number of the president's aides, reports said - contrary to normal protocol.

The same restrictions were reportedly placed on the Ukraine call, raising concerns that White House staff were attempting to conceal records of the president's conversations with certain foreign leaders.

The president has been under increased scrutiny over his interactions withforeign leaders since impeachment proceedings began.

media caption 'Mueller didn't have any material to work with', says President Trump

The Mueller inquiry investigated whether Mr Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election. Its findings, released in April, did not establish that the Trump campaign criminally conspired with Russia to influence the election.

The inquiry infuriated Mr Trump and he relentlessly criticised it as a "witch hunt". In May he announced that Mr Barr would look into how the inquiry originated.

Questions have also been raised about Mr Barr's personal involvement in the investigation and the fact that he has in turn closely involved Mr Trump - it was he who asked the president to facilitate contact with foreign officials.

How is this different from the Ukraine phone call?

One of the key


allegations that led to impeachment proceedings was that Mr Trump had made it clear Ukraine should "play ball" in investigating Mr Biden and his son, the implication being that otherwise Kiev would not receive $400m (€367m; £325m) in military aid.

There was no such issue of military aid linked to the call with Mr Morrison.

Also, while the Ukraine call is linked to the serious issue of potential influencing of an upcoming US election, the Australian one refers to events around a past election.

White House spokesman Hogan Gidley suggested this was uncontroversial.

"I'm old enough to remember when Democrats actually wanted to find out what happened in the 2016 election," he said.

What did Australia say?

Australia's ambassador to the US, Joe Hockey, wrote to the White House shortly after Mr Trump's announcementoffering to help with any review, Australian media reported.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Australian government said it had "always been ready to assist and co-operate with efforts that help shed further light on the matters under investigation".

"The PM confirmed this readiness again," the statement said.

Australia's conservative leader is among Mr Trump's closest international allies and received the rare honour of a state dinner at the White House last week.

The call which discussed the Mueller investigation took place shortly before that visit, according to the New York Times.

How is Australia linked to Trump-Russia inquiry?

The Trump-Russia investigation was partly triggered by Australian officials communicating a top diplomat's concerns to the FBI.

Alexander Downer, then Australia's High Commissioner to the UK, said former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos had told him in


menu, was discovered growing in Tokyo weeks after the 15th March explosion, and in mustard spinach imported to Singapore from Shizuoka (south of Tokyo). Now some people are concerned that rice being grown in the north may be mixed with uncontaminated rice grown in the south. According to NHK, already, rice stocks are low, as many people are stocking up ahead of the harvest season beginning now. A friend of mine went shopping in Nagoya city with a dosimeter (a radiation measuring device) and found that cucumbers in his supermarket had high levels of radiation. I wish I could get a dosimeter, they are so hard to get.

It was reported today that beef at 2,300 Becquerel of radiation, the legal limit is 500, was found in Tokyo. ThePorter and Chester Institute's Pinning Ceremony

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Karriane Sterling hugs Kathleen Bhatti MSN RN, after receiving her pin during a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for the Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute's first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

Karriane Sterling hugs Kathleen Bhatti MSN RN, after receiving her pin during a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for the Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute's first ever graduating class of ... more

Graduate Stephanie Smith gets her hair braided into a ponytail by her daughter Abby, 11, before the start of the Porter and Chester Institute's Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses from its Stratford campus


at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

Graduate Stephanie Smith gets her hair braided into a ponytail by her daughter Abby, 11, before the start of the Porter and Chester Institute's Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning andCandle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

Guest speaker John Goldbeck, Campus Director of the Porter and Chester Institute's Stratford and Watertown campus, talks during a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses from its Stratford campus at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

Guest speaker John Goldbeck, Campus Director of the Porter and Chester Institute's Stratford and Watertown campus, talks during a Pinning and Candle


Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of ... more

Graduating nurses Debbieann Brown-Davis and Amanda Cassidy, right, wave to family members during the Porter and Chester Institute's Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses from its Stratford campus at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

Graduating nurses Debbieann Brown-Davis and Amanda Cassidy, right, wave to family members during the Porter and Chester Institute's Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of ... more

Graduate Stephanie Smith during the Porter and Chester Institute's Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses from its Stratford campus at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

Graduate StephanieSmith during the Porter and Chester Institute's Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses from its Stratford campus at Bunnell High School in ... more

Kathleen Bhatti MSN RN, fastens a pin onto graduating nurse Vatsana Bratton, during a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for the Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute's first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its


first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porterand Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in


Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony forits first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

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Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High Schoolin Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony


for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

The Stratford campus of Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, 2014. less

The Stratford campusof Porter and Chester Institute held a Pinning and Candle Lighting Ceremony for its first ever graduating class of nurses at Bunnell High School in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday January 23, ... more

Four-year-old Connor Shea, of Seymour, laughs as The Crabgrass Puppet Theater performs "The Day it Snowed Tortillas," Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, at Irving School in Derby, Conn., where Connor's mom teaches fourth grade. The show was free for all students, staff and friends. less

Four-year-old Connor Shea, of Seymour, laughs as The Crabgrass Puppet Theater performs "The Day it Snowed Tortillas," Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014, at Irving School in Derby, Conn., where Connor's mom teaches ... more


should NOT presume that will translate into wins. The only way this team plays to win is by playing the vets and sitting the youth.

Zeller is basically replacing Humphries in the big man rotation. Now Sully can get more time at the 4, which is good for him, but depending on how much Bass is used it could spell problems for Olynyk.

But Is Zeller an upgrade over Humphries production last season? IDK, Humphries was probably our most consistent player last year, Zeller because of his youth will probably not be as productive night in night out.

Smart hopefully will be taking Bayless' role. I say hopefully because Thornton could suck up a ton of Smarts minutes if Stevens decides winning meaningless regular season games is more important than developingin China, but the models are an option in addition to four-cylinder versions.

Many Chinese consumers, however, perceive cars with three-cylinder engines as noisier and prone to vibrating, and sales began to tumble in third quarter of 2018. Last year, GM’s China sales fell 15% to 3.09 million vehicles, its second straight year of steep declines and the lowest level since 2012.

The move was “too quick, too radical and lacked sophisticated planning,” a senior Shanghai-based sales manager at a Buick dealership told Reuters.

The sales manager, who was not authorised to speak to media and declined to be identified, said his company was among hundreds of dealers which lobbied GM to change the plan at dealer conferences.

GM China President Matt Tsien told investors in New York on Wednesday that consumers


have been reluctant to accept three-cylinder engines, and confirmed that later this year the automaker will offer four-cylinder engines in certain models currently offered only with the smaller engines.

By resurrecting four-cylinder options for key models, the hope is that GM, which reports fourth-quarter earnings later on Wednesday, can regain some of the ground it has lost at a time when the new coronavirus is threatening to sink sales in the first quarter.

The outbreak is only adding to pain caused by to a slowing economy, U.S.-China trade tensions, and new emission rules, as well as fierce competition from Toyota Motor Corp 7203.T and Volkswagen AG VOWG_p.DE.

SAIC-GM, the Detroit automaker's main venture with SAIC Motor 600104.SS, is seeking approval for four-cylinder versions of two mass-market sedans, Buick's Excelle GT andChevrolet's Cruze, government documents show.

Those two versions are slated to hit the market sometime in the second quarter, two people with knowledge of the matter said, adding that four-cylinder versions of the Buick Verano sedan and Encore GX sport utility vehicle were also under consideration.

A Shanghai-based GM spokeswoman said the automaker will continue to offer three- and four-cylinder engines in the future but declined to comment on product plans.


rests directly on the product contained in the mould and presses the product by means of the pressure-hooking system.
Said hooking system consists of a horizontal crosspiece assembled above the lid, and bearing at its two ends two hinged arms having a rack-shaped profile facing the mould. The crosspiece is assembled on two fixed pillars on said lid and it is kept spaced from the lid itself by two helical springs inserted around said pillars; the rack-arms, at the very moment of closing, hook on the projecting rim of the mould with their teeth, and the closure is strongly secured by the two return helical springs which push said crosspiece upwards, thus forcing the two rack-arms into interference with the rim of the mould.
Though all moulds have the structuremachine performs a working cycle of a discontinuous type, as it subjects to the operations just one mould at a time, on which mould the machine performs sequentially the operations mentioned above. The further mould to be subjected to such process can only be accepted after the preceding empty container has been evacuated. Such feature, which makes the machine's productivity unacceptably low, derives from the structure of the apparatus itself: the fundamental element on which the machine's design is based is a "container", substantially in the shape of a U. the mould to be opened is housed and locked in said container, which is rotatable about a horizontal axis between an upright position in which the mould placed in it is deprived of its lid, and an upside


down position in which the product drops out of the open mould onto an underlying conveyor. Said container is provided with a removable "adaptation block", that can be changed so as to fit with the particular kind of mould undergoing the process.
It is to be remarked that, once the product is unloaded from the mould, the empty mould goes back to the upright position together with the "container" of the machine, then it is discharged, and only at that moment another mould to be opened can be fed.
In order to obviate the drawback of the excessive slowness of the working rhythm, a variant is suggested by the same patent mentioned above consisting in a double "container", which is capable of accepting a mould in the upright position andplayers might not form the only route of "success" in a game, but they would definitely be the most efficient path. In Castle Marrach, this is clearly the only way to go, because socialization is the heart of the game. However, even in The Eternal City, where you could spend your time training and killing monsters, you're not going to find the true heart of the game until you start interacting with other people.

Space Empires, as it originally existed, caught our eyes not only because it was well designed and well implemented, but also because it met one of our three criteria. You had to engage in diplomacy to achieve the best success in the game. Without it, you were almost certain to go down in flames.

So, after


last month in Trials, Triumphs & Trivialities #61, Building Block Examples: The Hologram Nexus.

In the first part of this series of articles, Trials, Triumphs & Trivialities #62, Galactic Empires, Part One: Failing at Succession I offered a number of reasons why our previous science fiction game, Galactic Emperor: Succession failed. One that I didn't really talk about was the problems with Succession's own Chat Theatre.

Succession was built in a beautiful space station, 3 or 5 times as large as what I put together for Hegemony (maybe more). It included terrific maps and very cool dynamic rooms which renamed themselves based on who was doing the best in the game (so that the leading Overlords always got the choicest locales).

Unfortunately the space station was also largely purposeless. There wereThe invention relates to a constant velocity universal ball joint having an outer joint part with circumferentially distributed, substantially longitudinally extending inner ball tracks; an inner joint part with circumferentially distributed, substantially longitudinally extending outer ball tracks, the ball tracks in the outer joint part and inner joint part being arranged in pairs and positioned opposite one another while jointly accommodating a torque transmitting ball and participating or cooperating in controlling the balls towards and onto the plane which bisects the angle formed by the rotational axes of the outer joint part and inner joint part at articulation of the joint parts relative to one another, i.e. the angle-bisecting plane. The joint further has a cage which, in circumferentially distributed windows holds the balls in a common plane


into the axial end regions, the tracks are capable of accommodating limited circumferential forces only, which means that corresponding forces additionally have to be accommodated by the cage. As a result, the strength limit of the cage is again disadvantageously reduced.
It is the object of the present invention to improve a constant velocity universal ball joint of the initially mentioned type in such a way that the forces applied to the ball cage are reduced and that, as a result, the load bearing capacity of the cage under torque is increased when the joint is in an articulated condition.
The objective is achieved in that the ball tracks in the outer joint part and inner joint part are designed in such a way that, with coaxial axes and correspondingcentral planes of the outer and inner joint parts, in a radial projection onto the axes, they form with their center lines an angle relative to one another on both sides of the respective central planes, which deviates from zero and which decreases towards their axial ends.
With reference to fixed joints, the relative positions of the axes and central planes of the outer and inner joint parts mentioned above define the aligned joint in two ways, whereas with reference to plunging joints, they define the aligned joint in the central position of the possible plunging distance.
This means that with an articulated joint, the tracks especially in the articulation plane in the region of large angles no longer apply any control forces to the balls as soon as they


joint parts are inclined in the same direction, i.e. they extend essentially parallel relative to one another in each joint part, respectively.
According to a second preferred embodiment, the tracks of each of the two joint parts are arranged across the circumference so as to extend alternately at different angles of inclination. This improves the effectiveness of the control mechanisms.
As far as the track depth is concerned, the tracks may be designed in such a way that, like threads, they extend along their entire length at a constant distance from the respective rotational axis, with the end portions being axis-parallel. Alternately, it is also possible to design the tracks as inclined tangents at a circle positioned in the central plane of the joint, in which case the respective distanceSansa still hasn't recovered from the death of her family and refuses to eat despite Tyrion's requests that she do so. She receives a gift from an unexpected source. It's time for the royal wedding and King Joffrey is on his worst behavior with Tyrion the object of his dislike. He adores the sword given to him by his grandfather but uses it to chop up a book given to him by Tyrion. At the reception after the wedding ceremony, a drunken Joffrey ridicules his uncle and orders him to become his cup bearer. Tyrion does as he's told but Joffrey gets his comeuppance. Meanwhile, Lord Bolton returns home to find what his bastard son did to Theon Greyjoy. Written by garykmcd


Chinatown Falls on Hard Times

Monday, January 23, 2006

Much of the Jewish Lower East Side has been lost over time replaced by new immigrants from other parts of the world, particularly China. Those seeking their fortunes in Manhattan's Chinatown are in for a surprise -- Chinatown has fallen on hard times. Its economy has not bounced back since the street closures caused by the collapse of the World Trade Towers on 9-11, but other factors have contributed to the downturn, too. Reporter Wilma Consul takes a look, and asks what's ahead for the neighborhood that was once an important immigrant enclave in the City.

REPORTER: Wiggling through the crowd of tourists and shoppers on Chinatown's main drag, Canal Street, the smell of fresh fish and cigarette smoke waft through theair. It's not immediately obvious that this neighborhood is still struggling.

But veer off to Mott Street, where many old timers say Chinatown began, and you'll hear a different story.

PAUL LEE: So we're standing at the old Kam Kuo Supermarket, was here for 30 years at 7-9 Mott Street, and just now it's an empty building.

REPORTER: Paul Lee has witnessed the changes on this street. He ran the family business, the 32 Mott Street General Store, until it closed in 2004, after 113 years in business.

LEE: In addition, let's see, 12 Mott was an import-export store. They were doing well before 9-11. They've closed and moved away since then. - And now, it's a hair salon. But it was empty for a good 6 months to a year. Just


at the corner, there was a 30- to 40-year-old dim sum, coffee shop. They closed about 3 days ago.

REPORTER: Closures have been widespread in Chinatown. The thousands who used to walk up from the World Trade Center area and fill the restaurants at lunchtime have dwindled.

Park Row, also a major artery to Chinatown, had been closed for security reasons. There is still only restricted access because of its proximity to Police Headquarters.

It's easy to blame September 11th for Chinatown's ailing economy. But according to Peter Kwong, professor at Hunter College and author of numerous books on Chinese Americans, Chinatown's slump did not start then.

PETER KWONG: 9-11 exposed something that's already decaying and rotting. Sure it make it worse, but it did not cause Chinatown's economic problems.

REPORTER: The reasonsare more complex. Kwong points to the garment factories that, at one time, supplied up to 20,000 customers daily to the small steamy restaurants and tiny storefront shops. High rents forced the garment business out to the outer boroughs.

It takes only 20 minutes from Mott Street to get to 8th Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn via a mini-van - it's a transportation alternative that only Chinese people seem to know about.

Sunset Park is where some of those garment factories set up shop. 61st street is lined with warehouse buildings. Something written in Chinese gets Kwong's attention.

KWONG: This is a sign written on red cloth. It says: looking for somebody who is experienced in sewing. Those who are interested, please call, and it gives the number, asking for Mr.


Century 21 Realty on East 15th and Avenue U posts classified ads for two-bedroom condos priced at 425-thousand dollars.

KWONG: The ads are all in Chinese. Mr. Andrew Gun is the manager. But you can see in this office, there are Russians as well as Chinese. They are selling real estate to Chinese as well as Russian immigrants.

Avenue U has not exactly attained full Chinatown status. On one block, you can see a Chinese bakery next to a pizzeria, around the corner from a Latino store.

Kwong says it will take a few more years before Avenue U reaches the vitality of New York's most active and largest Chinese hub: Flushing, Queens.

The number 7 train and the Long Island Rail Road will get you to the heart of Flushing.

WELLINGTON CHEN:dressed in a bikini outfit so you know it has to be a comedy.

REPORTER: This Queens Chinatown resembles parts of Hong Kong and Taiwan, where most of the 140-thousand Chinese immigrants in Queens came from. This middle class community elected the first Chinese member of the New York City Council, John Lui.

As the revitalization efforts of Manhattan's Chinatown move forward, many people wonder if the goal is to replicate what's been built in Flushing. Especially since Wellington Chen is the new director of the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation.

CHEN: This is not what I'm trying to do for Chinatown at all. The two of them are totally different. I agreed to go down there to level the playing field, because I see the growth here. And there'll be


four billion dollars invested in this neighborhood, do you think there'll be a billion dollar invested in Chinatown? No way. (CONSUL: Why not?) - The incomes are poor, the educational levels are far lower, profit margins are marginal. But there's the vitality. So there's the struggle.

REPORTER: Chen bristles at the implications that he would gentrify Chinatown because he's viewed as a developer. He points out that he spent 13 years volunteering on community boards.

Chen says he's driven to champion the needs of the voiceless because of his lineage. The son of nurse and a U.S. Army translator during World War II, Chen lived in Singapore, Brazil and South Africa, countries where he saw the disparity between the rich and poor. Chen says his Chinese name defines who helife and culture in the City. Today, the need to go there for fresh bamboo shoots or fine Chinese cuisine is no longer true. Other immigrants from Asia have formed their own enclaves where they can eat their food and buy Asian ingredients.

A good place to contemplate what the new Chinatown could be is at the Silk Road Place, a cafe-slash-art house, packed with young people, Chinese and non-Chinese. A Lower East Side vegetarian restaurant has a concession here.

On stage is singer/songwriter Kevin So.

Friday night is TeaBag time, an open mic event founded by Telly Wong. He's a Chinatown kid who still lives in the neighborhood.

TELLY WONG: I think the future of Chinatown lies in collaborations with China and HongKong. Chinese have always been into import/export. The Chinese


is the core of New York's Chinatown.

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“Unflinching . . .specialist at the San Rafael, California Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, concluded that whooping cough, pertussis, occurs more among vaccinated children than children not vaccinated for pertussis with the DtaP vaccine that replaced the DTP vaccine." [B]

The entire tainted history of vaccines has been riddled with fraud and deception. Without a working knowledge of the medical tyranny festering in America and the Western World, including the real history of vaccines, Americans cannot defend themselves in this war, which has been raging since the early 1800s.

"As a matter of fact, pertussis has been on the rise since pertussis vaccinations have increased. In 2010, a mumps outbreak occurred among 1000 children in upper New Jersey and lower New York. Almost 80% of them had been vaccinated with MMR (measles, mumps &


attenuated virus (or in most cases, multiple viral strains, DNA and RNA).

"Throughout the 1980s, official agencies reported several outbreaks of measles occurring among children who had been vaccinated in various locations including an Illinois junior high and high school, a Massachusetts high school, a region in France, and a rural area near Helisinki, Finland.

Both USA schools had well over 90% of children vaccinated against measles " that's the herd immunity mark for a given population. The bogus herd immunity claim serves to create more revenue while blaming parents who refuse vaccinations for endangering humanity. "[B] *

According to Barbara Loe-Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit charity dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right forcompany of non-vaccinated people.

" Sir Duminie Corigan, M.D. when acting as one of the the committee in 1871, on the Vaccination Act [In England ], said: " An unvaccinated child is like a bag of gunpowder which might blow up the whole school, and ought not, therefore, to be admitted to a school unless he is vaccinated" - [A]

However, it was during a major outbreak of small pox in the 1880s and 1890s that some enlightened, and apparently not bought off, officials in the City of Leicester, England, a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, after reviewing the history and data concerning vaccinations and noting increases in the number of people infected with small-pox seemed correlated with vaccination, decided to go against the


church of medicine and ban vaccinations for all those in the city.

Then just as now:

"Concerns over vaccine safety, effectiveness, and governmental infringement on personal liberty and freedom through compulsory vaccination stoked the fires of the anti-vaccination movement. People began to resist the government and chose to pay fines. Some even accepted imprisonment rather than allowing vaccinations for themselves of their children. The public backlash culminated in the Great Demonstration in Leicester, England in 1885.

That same year, Leicester"s government, which had pushed for vaccination through the use of fines and jail time, was replaced with a new government that was opposed to compulsory vaccination. By 1887 the vaccination coverage rates had dropped to 10 percent. " [A]

The so-called Leicester method relied on quarantine of small pox patients and disinfectionof homes. The city believed this method was inexpensive and effective means to eliminate vaccinations.

According to an article in the "The Times", March 24, 1885:

"The last decade has witnessed an extraordinary decrease in vaccinations, but, nevertheless, the town has enjoyed an almost entire immunity from the small-pox...

The result is that in every instance the disease has been promptly and completely stamped out at paltry expense. Under such a system the Corporation have expressed their opinion that vaccination is unnecessary, as they claim to deal with disease in a more direct and much more efficacious manner. This and a widespread belief that death and disease have resulted from the operation of vaccination."

Stunningly, the success of the Leicester method was not seen in towns and cities that forced citizens to


v. Wood, 211 F.3d 480, 482 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 121 S.Ct. 254 (2000). Because Wildman's habeas petition is without merit, we affirm the district court's order.

BACKGROUND

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On December 11, 1991, Wildman was convicted in Oregon state court of one count of attempted murder, one count of first-degree assault, two counts of arson, and one count of menacing. The convictions were supported by evidence of domestic violence against Wildman's former wife, Faye Wildman. Evidence at trial established that on or between August 1, 1989 and January 1, 1990, Wildman committed arson by starting a fire which damaged the interior of the home in which Wildman and his wife were living. In late October or early November 1990, Wildman committed menacing by holding a gun to Mrs. Wildman's head, anddischarging the gun close to her head.

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On the evening of May 1, 1991, after arguing with Mrs. Wildman, Wildman started a fire outside their home. Mrs. Wildman asked Wildman to leave. When he refused, Mrs. Wildman attempted to leave herself. As she was trying to open her car door, Wildman pushed her to the ground, poured a flammable liquid on her and ignited her with a lighter. Wildman was also engulfed in the resulting flames. Wildman directed Mrs. Wildman to roll on the ground to put out the flames. When that didn't work, Wildman doused the flames with a garden hose.

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Wildman drove himself and Mrs. Wildman to the hospital. While en route, the two agreed to report that their burns resulted from an accident. In the days following


the incident, Wildman told several different versions of how he and his wife were injured. Mrs. Wildman, however, did not change her story until May 8, 1991. In an interview with an Oregon detective, Mrs. Wildman related that after an argument, Wildman pushed her to the ground, doused her with gasoline, and lit her with a lighter.

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Before trial, the State moved to consolidate charges against Wildman from four separate indictments. The court granted the State's motion, but severed a felon-in-possession charge connected with Wildman's menacing count.

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During Wildman's first trial, his counsel did not call a ballistics or arson expert. After Wildman's conviction, the trial court sentenced him to 72 months on one arson conviction, 40 months on the other arson conviction, 72 months on the attempted murder conviction,260 months on the first-degree assault conviction, and 12 months on the menacing conviction. All sentences were ordered to be served consecutively.

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On October 13, 1992, Wildman was tried on the felon-in-possession charge. For that trial, Wildman's trial counsel retained a ballistics expert. The ballistics expert did not physically examine the bullet hole discovered in a wall in the Wildmans' home. However, he testified that a gun held two to three feet off the floor and three feet away from the wall could not have followed the near-horizontal path reflected in a photograph depicting the trajectory of the bullet hole. The expert's testimony contradicted Mrs. Wildman's testimony that Wildman pushed her to the floor; held a gun to her head which was three feet above the floor and three


were based on essentially the same facts -that Wildman threatened his wife and discharged a firearm close to her head. In the second trial, trial counsel retained a ballistics expert who testified that the trajectory of the bullet that entered the wall was inconsistent with Mrs. Wildman testimony regarding the position of the gun when it was fired. The jury, thereafter, returned a verdict of acquittal in the second trial.

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The fact that Wildman was acquitted on the felon-in-possession charge when the ballistic expert testified, however, does not compel a conclusion that counsel was constitutionally required to retain a similar expert when defending against the menacing charge in the first trial. Wildman's acquittal on the felon-in-possession charge may not have been the result of the ballistics expert's testimony, as[Experience of a nursing student in an interdisciplinary team: factory of ideas].
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Image caption Afghan Taliban fighters are being urged to end their insurgency

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Afghan Taliban, has been freed from jail in Pakistan.

The Afghan government welcomed the move, as it sees him as one of the few senior Taliban figures willing to negotiate a peace deal to end unrest.

Mullah Baradar is one of the four men who founded the Taliban movement in Afghanistan in 1994.

He became a linchpin of the insurgency after the Taliban was toppled by the US-led invasion in 2001.

He was captured in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2010.

Analysis More than 30 Taliban members have been released from Pakistani jails in recent months, but Mullah Baradar is the one that the Afghan government is waiting for. A political adviser to theKabul government team which addresses the issue of Taliban peace negotiations, Ismail Qasim Yar, said the government is ready to negotiate, but there is little room for manoeuvre. He made it clear that there can be no change to the constitution, one of the demands of the Taliban. But he said that since Mullah Baradar was "inclined towards a political solution," then his release might make a solution possible.

Mullah Baradar held several senior positions in the Taliban government before its fall in 2001. He then fled to Pakistan and for some years was the Taliban's military commander as they regrouped to fight a guerrilla war.

He was reportedly arrested in a secret raid by CIA and Pakistani agents.

The BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says releasing one of the founders