I shrank deeper into my chair and did my best to avoid everyone's gaze.

"Okay everyone. If there are no further questions, let's conclude the presentation. I'll be available afterward for personal questions."

The group immediately burst into applause and conversation soon followed. People stood and paired off into groups, talking amongst themselves. Kat took my hand and we walked into the group, smiling and shaking hands. Kat waived to a group of the black community organizers, who walked over to us. "Matt, this is Jerome. He's the youth community organizer at the center of equality." I was still beet red as I shook his hand, looking down. "This is Tyrone and Jamal. They're the ones who introduced me to Jerome. We met at that house party for the basketballvoices; Kat and Jerome were making out heavily and breathlessly groping. They opened the door and came inside my stall. I was holding my pathetic little softening pud as I backed up against the wall. "Down on your knees," Kat hissed and pointed to the floor. I obeyed. I knew what was coming next and opened my mouth. She yanked down his gym shorts and pulled out his fat black dick, which was at least twice as big as mine. She grabbed it at the base and guided it into my mouth, where I sucked him dutifully. "Get him hard." She barked. After a moment of earnest slurping on my part, she pulled his dick out of my mouth and led him out of the stall. "Thanks." She


among the eight EC in the Amazon region, and has the largest loss of forest cover, with about 70% of its total area already destroyed ([@B38]; [@B14]).

The diversity of amphibians and reptiles of the Belém Endemism Center is very high, as in other endemic centers, especially those of the eastern Amazon region, such as the ECs Guyana, Xingu and Tapajós: 85 species of snakes further down the Amazon River, in Santarem, state of Pará at EC Tapajós ([@B21]); 62 species of amphibians and reptiles in the Biological Reserve Tapirape, also at Pará, in the EC Xingu ([@B5]); 71 species of amphibians in the National Forest of Carajás, also at the EC Xingu ([@B34]); 175 species of amphibians and reptiles in the National Forest of Saracá-Taquera, in theEC Guianaat Pará ([@B30].); 53 species of snakes for the National Forest of Caxiuanã (at the EC Xingu (Santos-Costa et al. 2015); 78 species of amphibians and reptiles in the northern part of the state of Maranhão ([@B4]). It is noteworthy that the last of these studies includes species of open areas, which are present due to the strong influence of Cerrado vegetation in northern Maranhão, as seen in the inventory of [@B28], which lists 42 species of reptiles for the coastal region of Maranhão, which is characterized by open vegetation and the predominance of coastal dunes.

The species richness of REBIO Gurupi is second only to the richness sampled in the National Forest of Saracá-Taquera in northern Pará, located in the Guyana Endemism Center, more than 1000 km from


of the two spots (Desmond Morgan moves from one to the other, Bolden played both last year, supposed MLB Kenny Demens took the bulk of the TE-seam responsibilities) we're combining the two into an inside LB spot. Differences between the two spots exist, but are thin—according to Mattison, "inside is inside."

DESMOND MORGAN enters his third year as a starter by moving over from the weakside to the middle, as predicted by everyone in the world including myself. This is partly because James Ross demands entry into the starting lineup and partly because Morgan's skillset—thumpin'—was always more suited to the mike. Even when he was at WLB, it was Kenny Demens tasked with following tight ends down the seam. Morgan isn't quite a Sam Sword two-downs-and-out guy, but betweenhe and Ross there's no question who you want dropping into coverage and who you want taking on fullbacks.

The best part of Morgan's game is how running backs stop when he contacts them. Morgan emerged into a bang-you're-dead tackler over the course of the year. Here he takes on a block, sheds it, gets an arm on LeVeon Bell(!), and robs him of most of his momentum:

After his first year this space criticized Morgan's hesitancy (mildly since he was a freshman), something that lasted through the first portion of last season. Michigan would slant the line and get gashed and I eventually pieced together a theory that the linebackers were uncomfortable predicting what would happen on that slant and late to the hole.

As the year progressed (and Washington


and Campbell got more reliable with their angles), that tendency receded:

The linebackers are generally more decisive. The Demens see-gap-hit-gap-eat-soul is one part of it; also you can sense Morgan feeling the play behind that. He eases to the playside a bit to give him an edge on someone who might be releasing backside. He's reading the play through, and he shows up to help at the right spot. There's an air of "I am no longer a confused freshman" to him.

Rough outing with blown assignments; Ross out there on critical last two drives speaks for itself.

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OSU not done, sorry. South Carolina not listed because it was impossible to tell who was who between Morgan and Bolden, and South Carolina ran the tailback five times anyway.

For inside linebackers, anythingabove zero is generally good. After getting 'Bama'd and having issues against Air Force's triple option, Morgan started a run of six straight positive games—some very much so.

Of course, a couple games after I proclaimed him a star in the Nebraska UFR he got edged and outran all day by Northwestern. Hey, he's just not the best guy to take on Venric Mark. It happens. Moving him to the middle should mitigate those issues.

In year three, Mattison believes that Morgan has the mental and physical ability to be top notch as long as he fixes one issue:

"He's so smart. He can make the checks, and he's strong. That allows him to be able to strike a blow, punch and get off blocks. One thing our linebackers have to


year ago. Heitzman is the starter at SDE, but Wormley can be a difference-maker. He's bigger and stronger than Heitzman, and already has a year in the system under his belt (even if a lot of that year was on an exercise bike). He'll get plenty of snaps anyway because of the depth at SDE and Mattison's love of DL rotation. He may never take over the starter label because Michigan doesn't really do the whole "roster update" thing, but I think by the end of the year he's the most effective guy at the position, and he'll be getting ~40% of the snaps.

Also, Norfleet will be the new Steve Breaston, by which I mean at some point a tight end will maddeningly refuse to pitch him theThe central conflict of Vice Principals is a real "whoever wins, everyone else loses"-type situation. Although Danny McBride's loudmouth Neal Gamby has been a more sympathetic figure than Walton Goggins' vicious and sociopathic Lee Russell, there's no denying that neither of these men deserve to be employed by an institution of learning, let alone allowed to sit in the chair of principal. These two may be temporary allies in their war against Dr. Belinda Brown, but make no mistake: In the end, it's going to come down to these two monsters battling it out, and everyone in their wake is going to get pulled into the mess.

Like any dick-measuring contest, like any example of toxic masculinity, the women in orbit around Gamby and Russell are getting the worst


of it.

At the center of it all is Principal Brown, who has been on the receiving end of constant abuse since the moment she walked into this series, and "The Foundation of Learning" finds her dealing with a major blow. In a brilliantly evil scheme concocted by Gamby and Russell, Brown finds herself opening up a new front against a popular English teacher and a massive order of missing textbooks…textbooks that are only missing because her vice principals ensured they were missing. It all ends poorly, with the books turning up at just the right moment to humiliate Brown and earn her a few new enemies within her own school and on the school board.

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But the mistreatment of Vice Principals' women extends beyond the borders of Gamby andRussell's little war of humiliation and sabotage. Russell can't even share a room with his Asian mother-in-law without shrieking in her face. Gamby can't go a few minutes without mistreating the new office receptionist and his idea of an apology is informing her that he's sorry that she's making him be so harsh.

Then there's poor Janelle Gamby (Maya G. Love), whose newfound love of motocross drives her father to try the hobby out for himself. Not because he actually enjoys it and wants his daughter to be happy, but because he can't stand the thought of her bonding with her stepfather, Ray. No child deserves to be caught in the crossfire between exes who hate each other, but no child especially deserves to be used as pawn in


her father's quest to feel better about his own masculinity. The soft-spoken, mild-mannered, and infinitely patient Ray (played with understated deadpan by the reliably great character actor Shea Whigham) is the ultimate foil not only to Gamby, but to the show his character appears in—he's a good guy and a straight shooter and someone who actually takes notice of the people in his life.

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And as the events of "The Foundation of Learning" make clear, Ray is very much an anomaly. Bill Hayden (Mike O'Gorman), the history teacher we first met during that skin-crawling field trip to historic Charleston a few episodes hack, has been shacking up with Amanda Snodgrass (Georgia King). Despite a friendlier disposition and a more measured approach to dealing with students in hisschool, Bill is just as toxic as Russell and Gamby in his core. He casually disposes of Amanda when he's done with her and does it with a smile. He moves onto his new teaching assistant without skipping a beat. He's the kind of quiet monster that pushes Amanda into the arms of Gamby, whose painful humiliation on the motocross track makes him look like the better alternative in that "wounded beast who only needs a hug" kind of way.

How does one mine comedy, even dark and deeply unpleasant comedy, out of awful men being terrible to the women in their lives?

Like so much of the comedy in Vice Principals, this is tricky territory for series creator and frequent director Jody Hill to navigate. How does one mine


comedy, even dark and deeply unpleasant comedy, out of awful men being terrible to the women in their lives? It requires a willingness to be misunderstood—to appreciate Hill's work is to acknowledge that he never approves of his characters and never endorses their actions. No one is better at directing badly behaved men (and no one is better at playing them than Danny McBride), but Hill doesn't cheer on his characters. If there's a celebratory tone on display in Vice Principals (and in The Foot Fist Way and Observe and Report and Eastbound & Down), it's deeply ironic, the internal feelings of the characters bleeding into the filmmaking itself. Simply put, Hill and McBride make art about shitty people. They craft comedy out of real sons of bitches.sessions took place on the morning of the first day of both training microcycles, exactly 7 days apart (06:30--07:15). The crossover design was not counterbalanced due to two participant injuries, which resulted in four participants completing the COLL training intervention first and two participants completing the nCOLL training intervention first. The resting metabolic rate (RMR) of participants was assessed 1 day prior to the start of each training microcycle. Internal, external and home-based loads were recorded throughout each assessment microcycle. The study was conducted during the sixth and seventh week of a pre-season period to ensure that participants were adequately conditioned, preventing a possible exaggerated fatigue or energetic response. Pre-existing muscle damage was minimised by avoiding collisions in the week prior to the first training microcycle. Participants abstained from exercise


it is then converted into steam. Accordingly, steam is mostly converted from the water collected in the lowest part of the heating casing in a conventional steam cleaner rather than along the surface of the heating casing.
As a result of the water supplied to the heating casing flowing downward along a straight water path and water mostly being converted into steam in the lowest part of the heating casing, there is a problem of low efficiency in forming steam in conventional steam cleaners.invective.

Moving on to the real --POLITICAL-- deviation:

"Five MPs summoned Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to the Majlis in order to question him about the inaction of the Foreign Ministry towards Islamic awakening in regional countries." [4]

Among the five: Ali Motahhari, the one who speaks the plain truth.

Actually, Salesi's very active--

He's buddying up to Superpower puppet Afghanistan

He's buddying up to Superpower puppet Iraq

He's buddying up to Superpower puppet Pakistan.

This buddying up serves the policy of:

Iranian expansion rather than the policy of Islamic revolution

Iranian detente with The Superpower rather than the policy of Islamic revolution

Iranian peaceful coexistence with Superpower puppet Israel rather than the policy of Islamic revolution.

What else does such a policy dictate?

Buddying up to The Superpower's NATO followers by claiming their puppet counter-revolutionaries in Libya are part of


two in conditions that had changed little.

Initially, the group was addressed by Graeme Hick in his over-arching role as the national men's team's batting coach rather than his partisan position in charge of the eponymous team battling Brad Haddin's XII in this intra-squad practice match.

As the cream of Australia's batting talent listened intently while gathered on the grass beneath the morning sun heralding a mid-week heatwave, the quorum also heard from ex-Test captain Steve Waugh in his guise as mentor to the Ashes squad that will be named on Friday.

Finally, several members of the dozen-strong batting collective including incumbent Test number three Usman Khawaja and returning opener David Warner shared their thoughts on the topic at hand.

Day 2 highlights of Australian intra-squad clash

Which, despite evidence proffered by ascoreboard that showed only one specialist batter – Queensland's Marnus Labuschagne – had posted a score above 30 on a torrid opening day, was not admonishment for under-performance.

Nor was the theme a collective venting of frustration against a playing surface that has been prepared in the best of faith by a host ground staff beset by vagaries including the hot, dry spell in England's south that was broken only by a day of unstinting rain last Friday that further compromised pitch preparation.

Rather, as Warner explained at the close of day two in which he became the only batter thus far to post a half-century, it was to share wisdom on how best to tackle the immediate challenge posed in Southampton, and the broader threat of their Ashes foes.

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forward stride, Will Pucovski through deft touch, Alex Carey using his flair for innovation and Cameron Bancroft on the back of his tight defence, have survived albeit without flourishing.

But none have melded the mental challenge posed by balls delivered at pace that could swing, seam, leap or skid (depending on where they pitched on the problematic surface) with the technical acumen needed to counter them better than Warner.

His 94-ball innings of 58 today was a study of discipline, courage and shot selection until he second-guessed himself and tried to abandon a proposed pull-shot mid-swing, only to spoon a catch to mid-on.

The frustration he felt at surrendering his wicket after such a relentless battle was mitigated only by the knowledge that – unlike most long-form innings – there wouldbe no opportunity to 'cash in' on his diligent occupation given the merciless nature of the pitch and the opposition attack.

Warner credits his enforced return to grade cricket in Sydney last summer for helping him discover the patience needed to get through those times when he's unable to play the game on his preferred terms.

In his earlier incarnation, his method of counter-attack would have been precisely that – taking the game to the bowlers and forcing them to reconsider their plans.

Big, strong, brash with a bit of an ego: Ponting on Stokes

But he admits to being a more mellow soul, who likes to don earphones while training to create a sense of ambient calm, and to think rather than bludgeon his way through tough circumstances such as those


The federal cabinet on Thursday approved the recommendations put forth by a reforms committee to bring the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) in the mainstream, Radio Pakistan reported.

The cabinet had met in Islamabad with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the chair.

Speaking at the meeting, PM Sharif had stressed the need to focus on underdeveloped areas with the aim to improve the living standards of people.

"The time has come that the tribal people will be brought into [the] mainstream to end their sense of deprivation," the reported quoted him as saying.

The premier also said the people of Azad Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and Fata will be given their due share from national resources.

The approved recommendations

Later in the day, Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz shed light onthe recommendations approved in the cabinet meeting.

He said the premier "approved in principle to the recommendations of the committee to mainstream Fata in five years in consultation with different stakeholders of the area".

Provisions will be made through a constitutional amendment to enable the people of Fata to elect their representatives to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in the 2018 elections, said Aziz.

The Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) will also be repealed and replaced by the new Riwaj Regulation for Tribal Areas, in which provisions related to collective responsibility will be omitted, thereby making an individual responsible only for his own acts.

He further said that the National Finance Commission would be requested to consider allocating 3% of the gross federal divisible pool on an annual basis for the implementation of the


Fata Development Plan. This would be in addition to the existing allotment of Rs21 billion from the annual Public Sector Development Programme.

The recommendations also include the target date for repatriation of all IDPs, which is April 30 this year, while reconstruction activities in areas affected by military operations would also be completed by 2018.

The set of reforms were recommended by a six-member committee headed by Aziz.

For more details on the Fata reforms committee's initial recommendations, click here.

Political parties' support for the merger

The committee's report had earlier been removed at the eleventh hour from the agenda for the cabinet's Feb 7 meeting.

The decision had drawn strong criticism from supporters of the merger plan. Major political parties and Fata parliamentarians had announced a protest outside the Parliament on March 12against the delay in approval of the committee's report.

The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) had also staged a sit-in outside the Governor’s House in Peshawar on Feb 26. The protest was called off only after Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra had assured that the cabinet would approve the committee's report before March 12.

Besides JI, other parties — including the Awami National Party, Qaumi Watan Party, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and the PPP — had demanded the immediate merger of Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the abolition of the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), and the representation of tribes in the KP Assembly.

However, the JUI-F and the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, another ally of the PML-N in the Centre, had opposed significant parts of the committee report, including the merger of Fata with KP.

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur


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avoidance manoeuvres or loopholes in the system.

“They love to take advantage of Canadian tax law … and it is happening in other communities too,” Mr. Chodikoff said.

Many of the houses being snapped up are not huge mansions. Increasingly, they are family homes priced out of reach for locals whose taxes pay for public services, and some of whom earn more than the incomes reported by buyers such as Mr. Sun.

Court records show Mr. Sun’s wife lived without him in their pricey Vancouver home for six years while he sent her $260,000 a year from China. They paid $40,000 a year for their children to attend private school in Canada.

When the couple broke up, Mr. Sun stopped supporting the family. In his divorce case last year, he claimed hehas a stunning view of the mountains. It changed ownership three times in five years and is now empty.

The Globe found five out of 13 properties owned by students are empty and four are rented out, suggesting they were bought as investments.

A family friend picking up the mail at one house said the real owner is a business person in China who will not be in Canada for months. At another empty student-owned home, the backyard pool is filled with dirty water and garbage.

Many of the properties registered to homemakers are occupied. Several family members at those homes indicated the heads of the households are transferring wealth to Canada – because it is seen as a small, clean, inexpensive haven.

A homemaker listed as the owner of a $3.5-million


he said, “Just because.”

Even after Mr. Ho began paying Canadian income taxes as a resident in 2011, he claimed his income was only $27,500, the court documents said.

“Many of the concerns about Mr. Ho’s evidence related to how he handled assets and how he reported them for tax and legal purposes,” said the judge, who awarded Ms. Chen a quarter of a million dollars.

In some cases, Chinese investors have said their income was from family gifts and loans, which are tax-exempt.

When millionaire Xiong Hu Li’s wife divorced him in 2013, he ignored court orders to produce financial records, including tax returns. Instead, court records say, he claimed that all the money invested in Vancouver while he was in China came from his parents.

His wife, Rong Yao, had aThe Queen of Canada has presented the queen of CanLit with a rare royal honour.

Queen Elizabeth has named Margaret Atwood a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for her services to literature.

The 79-year-old author of The Handmaid's Tale and its recently released sequel, The Testaments, shook hands with the monarch, who is 93, while accepting the award at a ceremony Friday at Windsor Castle.

Dressed in a dark dress, brightly multicoloured scarf and a wide-brimmed red hat, she told British media that she felt "a bit emotional" in the presence of the queen.

Founded by King George V in 1917, the Companion of Honour is an award for those who have made a major contribution to the arts, science, medicine, or government over a long period. There


are just 65 companions at any time.

"When you see the Queen at her age and her schedule that she puts out, it's an inspiration to everybody, you just keep going," Atwood said after the ceremony.

'Neither of us expected to win this,' the Canadian author said of her and her British co-winner's rule-defying victory. 0:57

Earlier this month Atwood was one of two recipients of the Booker Prize, in a rare joint win with British author Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other.

Other Companions of Honour include actress Dame Maggie Smith, former British prime minister John Major and South African Archbishop and human rights activist Desmond Tutu.stats from NBA.com and Synergy Sports Technology

Charges drawn (total)

Anyone who watched February's All-Star game quickly became acquainted with Lowry's penchant for seeking out and drawing offensive fouls, so it's not a surprise to see his name at the top of the list. Harrell doesn't seem like a typical charge-drawer, but with his lack of shot-blocking as an undersized center, it makes sense that he's adept at beating penetrators to the spot and getting into perfect position. Wagner is by far the biggest shock of the group -- not only because he's not yet a big name in NBA circles, but also because of his staggering lack of minutes compared to the others atop this list.

Due to injuries, the second-year center has played over 1,000 fewer minutes than Lowry


touch.

Distance traveled (per game)

It should come as no surprise that the players who run the most per game are all shooting guards who consistently work off of screens. Not only that, but they also spend a lot of time chasing opposing shooting guards around screens on the other end, which adds up to a serious workout every game. Watch how much distance McCollum covers on this typical Blazers possession, with Booker chasing him most of the way.

Average speed (miles per hour)

It's not always how far you travel -- sometimes it's how fast -- and Murray has a sizeable lead on the rest of the league in that department. The third-year guard uses his long legs and speed to get around the court faster than any player in theNBA on offense (5.12 miles per hour), and moves quickly on the defensive end as well (4.23 MPH) as he chases some of the league's fastest players at both guard positions.

Passes made (per game)

You'd expect facilitators like Jokic (essentially the Nuggets' point guard in the half court) and Simmons (the 76ers' actual point guard) to move the ball quite a bit during the game -- they're both among the league leaders in assists. However, Sabonis might come as a bit of a shock, making more passes per game than playmakers like LeBron James and Lonzo Ball. Sabonis is third on the Pacers in assists, but consistently initiates their offense either at the top of the key or in the post through dribble hand-offs, which means he's passing the


player in the league. It's no surprise that Harris and Dunn, two long, hustling wings, are also quick to the ball when it's up for grabs. Notably, LeBron James is sixth on the list, grabbing 61.3 percent of defensive loose balls he goes for.out of them, out of instinct. Black, short wavy heart, much in the style of traditional Pedro Fernández, with dress pants and pressed shirt. Like a colonial Latin city trapped in the glory of silverscreen epics.

There's a kind of old, traditional life, with the old crafters, the shoemakers, the coffee plantation owners and workers, the small farmers, taylors, artists, teachers, professors and so on. The galant, sober old men, the old ladies that leave the door of the house open and sit on their rocking chairs watching the TV, but more interested about who walks by on the street. The house of one of the finest president's this country ever had, son of this town (unlike another son that meant the biggest disgrace the country and the town


ever suffered), the elderly, retired group of men who gather every afternoon at the main square, before the Parrish, to talk about politics, philosophy, the world, the weather, life. The town's band playing every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening.

More than a sense of safety, it leakes into the open soul a sense of pride and belonging I can't explain otherwise. It's your very tight, very own culture that nobody else with your same nationality, but from any other provice can't get. We are not as conservative and catholic as the Cartago residents are famous for, not was gay (not in the homosexual sense), cheerful, humble and resourceful as the residents of Alajuela. We are not as flavorful as the residents of Limón, nor as quite and hardworking asVOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Deputies arrested a man early Monday morning after a family said they woke up to find him inside their home while they slept.

According to his arrest report, deputies said 36-year-old Felipe Silba "removed the screen, opened, and climbed through an unlocked window."

A woman who said she woke up to find Silba in her bedroom called 911.

"I heard our bedroom door open, and a guy walked in our closet," she told a dispatcher. "I don’t know where he went in the house, but my husband woke up, and he got our gun safe, and he got our gun."

She told the dispatcher her husband -- wearing only a T-shirt and boxer shorts -- was holding Silba in the driveway until Volusia County deputies could arrive.

"My husband


has him in the driveway at gunpoint," she told the dispatcher. "The guy is not moving. Yeah, he said, 'I have him at gunpoint. '"

The family told deputies they did not know Silba.

Investigators said Silba told them he was trying to meet up with a woman and got the wrong house.

Silba was already on probation for a previous arrest. Because of that, he's being held at the Volusia County Jail on no bond.

Amazon may not be the preferred streaming option for most people, but it sure does have the exclusives to back up its business. It's offerings include lauded dramas like The Man In The High Castle, Mozart In The Jungle, and Bosch but its comedies are just as well received. Head of Half Hour Programming for Amazon Joe Lewis said that the company is launching four comedy series (both new and old) in September to make it "comedy month" during the summer TCAs yesterday.

September will see the premiere of Tig Notaro's One Mississippi on the 9th as well as Woody Allen's Crisis in Six Scenes on the 30th. The former stars Notaro and follows her career after her mother passed away and the comedian was struck with a myriad


of diseases. The latter series stars Allen, Miley Cyrus and Elaine May in a six episode show about a family in the 60's as they're visited by a a guest who changes their world. Comedy month will also have the premiere of Fleabag from Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the 16th and the less funny, more sad Transparent season three on the 23rd. There is still no word on the remake of The Tick.

Amazon also announced the fate of the John Goodman led Alpha House. The series had two seasons before going off the internet airwaves in 2014. It's been in limbo since then but Amazon Studio chief Roy Price announced during Amazon's TCA conference that the show is "not a current show," citing that current political climates may affectHundreds of children streamed into Sacramento’s brand new McKinley Park playground…almost a year to the day after the old playground burned down.

With an impersonator of President William McKinley assisting, two hundred children counted down from ten before bursting through a McKinley Park banner and into the new playground.

The children ran in fifty different directions, many not knowing what to climb on first. But Jace Deboo and his little brother, Gavin knew exactly where they were headed –the new train.

Gavin shouted, "All aboard!" while older brother congratulated him on a job well done.

As the kids ran from the train to the bridge to the giant clubhouse, parents, like Mike Fahn, tried to keep track. Fahn was one of hundreds of volunteers who helped with construction around the park.

“I came


and cool.”

The ideas of a thousand school children were considered by the designers of the park. The city says it will go back to those kids to get their reactions to the new McKinley Park playground.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Why the Democrats Want You to Believe We Live In A Democracy

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – In a swift victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House approved a historically huge $819 billion stimulus bill Wednesday night with spending increases and tax cuts at the heart of the young administration's plan to revive a badly ailing economy. The vote was 244-188, with


Republicans unanimous in opposition despite Obama's frequent pleas for bipartisan support.

"This recovery plan will save or create more than three million new jobs over the next few years," the president said in a written statement released moments after the House voted. Still later, he welcomed congressional leaders of both parties to the White House for drinks as he continued to lobby for the legislation.

Earlier, Obama declared, "We don't have a moment to spare" as congressional allies hastened to do his bidding in the face of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The vote sent the bill to the Senate, where debate could begin as early as Monday on companion measure already taking shape. Democratic leaders have pledged to have legislation ready for Obama's signature by mid-February.

Atax cuts and contained too much spending, much of it wasteful, and would fall far short of administration's predictions of job creation.

The party's leader, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, said the measure "won't create many jobs, but it will create plenty of programs and projects through slow-moving government spending." A GOP alternative, comprised almost entirely of tax cuts, was defeated, 266-170. [MORE]


working lives of people in opposite corners of American society. Walter Wyckoff 1888, a well-connected son of missionaries, chose to explore the lives of late 19th-century laborers by becoming one. A century later, Karen Ho *03 prepared to write her dissertation on the culture of Wall Street by landing a job at an investment bank. Some things, these two scholars learned, cannot be taught in a classroom — even one at Princeton.Fukushima Affect on Ocean Bigger than That of Chernobyl

Among the casualties of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan was the country's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

A result of the loss of electricity, overheating at the power plant led to significant releases of iodine, cesium and other radioisotopes to the environment.

Japanese officials recently raised the severity of the nuclear power plant incident to level seven, the highest level on the international scale and comparable only to the Chernobyl incident 25 years ago, said Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

"When it comes to the oceans, however," said Buesseler, "the impact of Fukushima exceeds Chernobyl."

Radionuclides in seawater have been reported from the Fukushima plant's discharge canals, from coastal waters five to 10


kilometers south of the plant, and from 30 kilometers offshore.

"Levels of some radionuclides are at least an order of magnitude higher than the highest levels in 1986 in the Baltic and Black Seas, the two ocean water bodies closest to Chernobyl," said Buesseler.

He has been awarded a rapid-response grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences to establish baseline concentrations of several radionuclides in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

"Finding this information early on is key to understanding the severity of the releases and related public health issues," said Buesseler.

He and colleagues will establish a baseline radionuclide data set for the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, using an east-to-west network of sampling stations where the ability to retrieve ocean water samples already exists.

Researchers learned much from Chernobylabout the fate of radioactive falloutdelivered to the oceans, and about using that fallout as a "tracer" for how fast ocean waters mix and sediments accumulate.

"After Chernobyl, fallout was measured not only in samples close to the site, such as those in the Black Sea, but as far afield as the north Pacific Ocean," Buesseler said.

Because the atmosphere and oceans are linked, scientists would expect radionuclides present in the atmosphere also to appear in the ocean, albeit at very low levels, said chemical oceanographer Henrieta Dulaiova of the University of Hawaii.

Dulaiova has also been awarded a rapid-response grant from NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences to study the fallout.

She is monitoring ocean waters to establish baseline concentrations of radionuclides, and to determine the spreading of released radionuclides.

"Like the people


Performing the Bakla in The Care Divas: Crossdressing, Affective Labor, and the Glimpse of the Cosmopolitan.
This essay is a close reading of The Care Divas, a Filipino musical revolving around the struggle of five Filipino caregivers in Israel who also struggle with their sexual identities as bakla (Filipino homosexual). The analysis is both an affirmation and a critique of the performance. In the affirmation, the musical is argued to present a social reality that is intended for and in need of interrogation: the Filipino bakla. The musical implicitly features the bakla as a cosmopolitan. At the outset, this cosmopolitan disposition comes from the fact that the characters are migrant workers (caregivers). But more importantly, the cosmopolitan character is from a responsibility toward the other anchored within a genuinecaring as implicated in the affective labor of these caregiver characters. In the critique, the essay marks some problematic limitations in the treatment of the bakla. In doing so, the musical, despite its attempt to present a social reality, is a problem play, a social drama touching social issues--realistic in approach, but the representation seems like an editorial. In the final analysis, The Care Divas is argued to seemingly fail because artists are not able to see the complexity of their chosen subject in a bigger picture.


A first-of-its-kind bilingual anthology of Hebrew and Arabic prose and poetry has recently been released in Israel, offering an example of the potential for collaboration despite heightened tensions between Arabs and Jews.

Unlike previous translations between the languages, it is published by one of Israel's leading publishers and focuses on daily life and love as much as on politics.

Called "Two," the collection is published by Keter Publishing House, and aims to launch a dialogue between young, contemporary writers in both languages. The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unavoidably present in the anthology, but it is not the dominant theme. The best poems and stories approach political questions obliquely, framing them in unexpected ways.

"Love is no less political than politics," says Rajaa Natour, a poet who has contributed two love poemsto the volume. As a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, she is part of the country's 20 percent Arab minority whose experiences are often unfamiliar to the Jewish majority.

"Through the translation, my voice as a Palestinian woman will reach Jewish women who are not in, and do not know, my day-to-day life and reveal my emotional world. If I wasn't translated to Hebrew, I would never reach them."

The project, begun in 2008, originally included Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well. But failed peace initiatives and three Israel-Gaza conflicts eventually led all of them to withdraw. However, the inclusion of Palestinians living within Israel still marks a significant accomplishment, especially given the heightened tensions during last summer's Gaza war.

While Arabic literature has been translated into Hebrew


before, and vice versa, those translations have focused on established authors. "Two" aims to bring together a younger generation of poets and fiction writers who are unfamiliar to readers of the other language. The 70+ poems and short stories included in the collection all appear twice, in the original and in Hebrew or Arabic translation.

Hebrew and Arabic share common linguistic roots and a long history of literary interaction, but in Israel today Hebrew and Arabic readers are largely unfamiliar with each other's language and literature.

"The community of writers in Hebrew and writers in Arabic live in parallel and publish in parallel, and they hardly meet," says Almog Behar, an Israeli novelist and poet and one of the book's editors, along with Tamer Massalha and Tamar Weiss-Gabbay.

Get the Monitorwent to Baby Dolls, a strip club at the outskirts
of Paris.  Marion's sister-in-law, Selina Noel, saw the two men at the club and testified that, while
at the strip club, Maynard was behaving obnoxiously–cursing and being loud.  This conduct was
reported to a bouncer at the club, who asked Maynard to leave.  Outside the club, Maynard became
aggressive and combative toward the bouncer.  Marion, on the other hand, acted in a calm manner
and wanted to leave without further incident.  Marion helped the bouncer get Maynard into the
passenger's side of the vehicle.  At approximately 11:30 or 11:40 p.m., Marion drove the truck away
from the club.  According to the bouncer, however, the vehicle stopped at the end of the club's
parking lot.  The two men exited


the vehicle, switched positions, and then continued driving away,
now with Maynard at the wheel.
            No one knew the whereabouts of the two men after they left the club until approximately
12:23 a.m., when two men, Phillip Strickland and Chad Bramblett, came upon a one-car accident
on FM 196 approximately two miles south of FM 195.  According to Strickland and Bramblett, both
Maynard and Marion were located outside the vehicle, lying on the road.  One man was near the
vehicle on the passenger's side, and the other a short distance from the vehicle toward the middle of
the road.  Neither man appeared conscious.  The car caught fire very soon after the two men arrived
at the accident scene.  The two men pulled the man near the passenger's side of thevehicle away
from his location near the burning car.  According to Bramblett, it was obvious the man near the car
was already deceased.  Strickland woke the other man.  Danya Heise, another passerby whom
Strickland and Bramblett flagged down, instructed Maynard not to move and told him she was going
to call the police.  To this, Maynard protested calling the police, got up from the road, and wandered
into the nearby wooded area.
            Volunteer firefighters arrived shortly thereafter, followed by Trooper James Kain of the
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) at 12:30 a.m.  Paramedics arrived at 12:38 a.m. and
confirmed that one occupant of the vehicle was deceased.  Kain identified the deceased man as
Jimmy Marion through an identification card on his person, and he and Captain L. D. Ruthart


of the
Lamar County Sheriff's Office then began a search for the other occupant.  Ten minutes later, Ruthart
found the other occupant, identified as Maynard, lying in a ditch beside the road 228 feet from the
accident scene.  Paramedics immobilized Maynard, placed him in an ambulance, and, at Kain's
request, drew blood from Maynard before transporting him to the hospital.
            Maynard was treated for minor injuries at the hospital.  Blood samples taken at the hospital
revealed that Maynard had a .16 blood alcohol content.  Kain arrived at the hospital an hour or two
later.  He asked Maynard where Marion was in the car, and Maynard responded Marion was a
passenger.
  Maynard also told Kain he had pulled Marion out of the car.  Results of the DPS tests
performed onthe blood taken at the accident scene yielded a blood alcohol content of .17.
            As part of the investigation of the accident, several photographs were taken of the scene,
depicting the damage to the vehicle, the position of Marion's body in relation to the car, and the
marks indicating the nature of the impact.  Later, by examining the accident scene, Kain and
Lieutenant Bob Hundley of the Paris Police Department also gathered measurements to create a
computer-generated diagram representing the trajectory and points of impact associated with the
accident.
Sufficiency of the Evidence
            One commits intoxication manslaughter if he or she operates a motor vehicle in a public
place while he or she was intoxicated and that, by reason of that intoxication, caused the death of
another by accident or mistake.  Tex. Pen. Code


over, but both occupants survived.  Id.  A witness who from his home saw the accident
occur testified that he went to the overturned car and saw that Young was toward the front and the
other occupant was toward the back.  Id.  With no other evidence Young was driving the vehicle at
the time of the accident, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed his conviction for murder
without malice.
 Id. at 424.
            Maynard also relies heavily on  Coleman v. State, 704 S.W.2d 511 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st
Dist.] 1986, pet. ref'd), in which the court reversed a driving while intoxicated conviction based on
insufficient evidence to establish that the appellant was driving the vehicle involved in a two-car
accident.  In response to an officer's questions at the accident scene, Coleman statedhe had been
driving.  Id. at 511.  Coleman also told another officer he had "run into" the vehicle in front of him.
Id.  Aside from these extrajudicial confessions, there was no evidence presented that Coleman was
the driver of the vehicle at the time of the accident.  Id.  As a result, the court reversed his conviction.
Id. at 512.
Legal Sufficiency
            Marion's widow, Shawna, testified that Marion rarely drove and that he did not have a
driver's license.  Maynard had been driving the vehicle involved in the accident earlier in the day.
The bouncer at the club where the two men were last seen testified that, while Marion first drove the
car from the club, the two men exited the vehicle, crossed behind the car to switch positions,


and
Maynard drove off the club parking lot.
            Testimony of Strickland and Bramblett, the two men who first arrived at the accident scene,
that Marion's body was positioned near the passenger's side of the car supports the conclusion that
Maynard was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident.  Marion's position is confirmed by the
fact that his blood was pooled near the passenger's side door.  Maynard's flight from the accident
scene on hearing that witnesses were going to summon the police and his subsequent reluctance to
talk to the police indicate he was driving the vehicle and feared what might happen as a result of his
involvement.
            The investigation of the accident revealed that the vehicle left the road at a forty-five-degree
angle and collided with trees alongside the road.  Theinitial impact occurred at the front of the car
on the passenger's side.  The momentum of the car caused it to spin into a second impact at the
passenger's side of the car.  The third and final impact along the tree line occurred at the rear of the
car and sent it another thirty-two feet back toward the road, leaving the car in the position in which
it was found partially on the road.  The points of impact are consistent with substantial damage to
the passenger's side of the vehicle as reflected in the photographs taken of the accident scene.  It
stands to reason that a person located in the passenger's seat of the vehicle could sustain far more
substantial injuries than a person located elsewhere in the car.
  Maynard


was treated for minor
injuries from the accident; Marion suffered "major" skull fractures caused by blunt force trauma.
Indeed, this conclusion was confirmed by the conversation at the hospital in which Maynard told
Kain that Marion was a passenger in the car.
            Additionally, Shawna managed to place a call to the jail and spoke with Maynard later on the
day of the accident.  Shawna testified Maynard told her something popped up in the road and he
swerved.  When asked by counsel to clarify to whom "he" referred to in the original conversation,
Shawna made clear that Maynard told her it was Maynard who swerved.  In the letter to his cousin
Shawna, Marion's widow, Maynard apologizes "that this happened" and that he asks himself every
night "why him" and "not me."  Althoughto testimony of the bouncer as to who was driving approximately forty-five minutes before the accident, coupled with the physical evidence at the scene that supports the
bouncer's testimony, and Maynard's own admissions.  Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable
to the jury's verdict of guilty, we conclude the evidence is sufficient to enable a rational jury to
conclude Maynard was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident and overrule Maynard's
contention to the contrary.
Factual Sufficiency
            Maynard contends the bouncer's testimony that he saw Maynard and Marion switch positions
at the edge of the club's parking lot is undermined by the photographs taken at the Baby Dolls'
premises.  Maynard maintains the bouncer could not have seen such a switch from such a distance
and at such a vantage point.  However,


as the State points out, the record does not clearly indicate
the bouncer's exact location when he saw the men exit the vehicle.  Therefore, the photographs do
little to undermine the bouncer's testimony.  Additionally, the jury was well within its authority in
resolving any conflict raised by the photographs and the testimony.
            Maynard also makes much of the fact that photographs taken at the accident scene show that
the passenger's side door is open and the driver's side door is closed.  He argues he opened the
passenger's side door and pulled Marion from his position in the driver's seat through the passenger
area and out the passenger door.  However, the State counters with the explanation, supported by
Maynard's testimony at the hospital and other evidence, that he opened the passenger's side door
whenAmerican History

Our boys have traveled all over Europe visiting sites from history and studying fabulous artwork, now it’s time to take them to visit the historic sites of America. We’ve already toured Washington DC several times, Mount Vernon, visited Gettysburg, Philadelphia and Valley Forge, the home of Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and James Madison, Appomattox Court House and more. This summer we purchased a travel trailer and went on a month long trip from North Carolina to Maine. We stopped in NYC to see the Statue of Liberty and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, camped near the beach at Cape Cod, Plimouth Plantation, walked the Freedom Trail in Boston and visited the Museum of Fine Arts, Concord & Lexington battlefields, visited the New Hampshire state capitol (where Ethan


INTERVIEW

Test cricket shake-up beneficial for Bangladesh: Nazmul Hasan

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Under Nazmul Hasan's watch, young players have burst through the ranks. © Cricbuzz

Nazmul Hasan Papon, the first elected president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), has been central to the country's rapid rise in the international cricket circuits. Son of late president Zillur Rahman, Hasan first took over as BCB chief in October 2012 after his predecessor Mustafa Kamal was elevated as vice president of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Later in July 2013, when a Supreme Court ruling modified the BCB constitution, he was elected unanimously to the top job in Bangladesh cricket.

Hasan, a strict disciplinarian, caught the attention of the cricket world when he decided to slap a six-month ban on star player Shakib Al Hasan forhis alleged misbehaviour with then new coach Chandika Hathurasinghe. Under his watch, young players such as Mustafizur Rahman, Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed and others have burst through the ranks.

In this interview, he speaks about his vision as the head of BCB, BCCI and the proposed abolishment of the 'Big Three', and Bangladesh's Test future, among other things.

Excerpts:

How did you get into cricket to become the first elected BCB president?

I was actually involved with cricket for a long time. Abahani cricket league is very popular since liberation and one of the clubs is Abohani and I was there [He served as a president for a decade]. The first decision [to become president] wasn't mine. At that I was nominated by the government in the adhoc committee. Then there


your help on," he told the business group.

Gov. Bill Haslam jumped in a couple of days after Ramsey's speech last April, telling a workforce-development forum about his exasperation at the media focus on what he called the "craziest" of bills, while substantial issues like his overhaul of school standards went underreported.

He cited the Democrat-sponsored "Saggy Pants Bill" barring students from exposing underwear or "body parts in an indecent manner," but there were many others sponsored by Republicans that dominated the 2012 legislative session. Bills like the ones banning teachers from discussing gay issues, allowing teachers to question the science behind the theory of evolution, barring such "gateway sexual activity" among teens as hand-holding, and reversing the private Vanderbilt University's anti-discrimination policy for student organizations on campus.

Many serious issuesdon't get adequate media review, but it would be hard to make the case about a disproportionate focus on gun and social issues given the number and nature of bills lawmakers have already filed as the new two-year term of the General Assembly gears up. After a two-week recess, the assembly reconvenes Jan. 28 to get down to work.

As states outside the South consider new gun restrictions in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre, Tennessee Republicans are moving beyond their four-year-old push to expand gun rights: Bills have also been filed purporting to criminalize federal law officers who try to enforce any new federal gun regulations in the state.

Rep. Joe Carr, R-Murfreesboro, who is considering running for Congress, filed House Bill 42 declaring "Any federal law, statute,


year of legislation affecting the Memphis-Shelby County school districts merger and the efforts by the suburban cities to create new school districts, in response to a federal court's ruling that delayed new suburban districts.

Medicaid expansion under the federal health reform law. Kelsey has filed Senate Bill 1 that prohibits Tennessee from participating in the provision that would expand Medicaid eligibility to people with incomes up to 138 percent of poverty level, but hospitals are pushing for the expansion and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a conservative hero, last week stunned fellow Republicans by saying Arizona should participate in the expansion. The additional costs will be fully funded by the federal government for three years, then phase down to 90 percent.

Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and Shelby County Mayor MarkCouncil included Alabama State Representative Merika Coleman, Ohio State Representative Stephanie Howse, Florida State Representative Cindy Polo, Arizona State Representative Raquel Terán and Georgia State Senator Nikema Williams. During the fact-finding trip from November 12 to 15, the state legislators visited leading activists and a human rights lawyer who handles cases of the incarcerated women; a sex education program working with adolescents, who account for one third of all births in the country; the country’s primary maternity hospital where physicians care for pregnant girls as young as 10-years-old and women with high-risk pregnancies; a former congressman and leading businesswoman who are addressing the private sector on this issue, among others.

During their visit to Izalco prison, the legislators met with the 13 women currently incarcerated. These women, who were


prosecuted after experiencing obstetric emergencies, including miscarriages and stillbirths, all come from low-income communities. The majority have other children, however, they have not seen their families for an extended period of time. Following the prison, the delegation met with four freed women, including Teodora del Carmen Vazquez, who was released in 2018 after serving 10 years in prison, to talk about reuniting with their families and the challenges of reentering society and finding work.

The fact-finding trip provided a rare opportunity to compare and contrast societal challenges that stem from abortion bans in El Salvador and the United States, and what might happen in the U.S. if abortion bans are allowed to go into effect.

The trend of introducing abortion bans in U.S. state legislatures has gained steam this pastwomen for aggravated homicide if they are suspected of having an abortion, even in cases when women have suffered a miscarriage or obstetric emergency.

Earlier this year, the case of Evelyn Hernández made international headlines after she was tried a second time with aggravated homicide having delivered and lost her pregnancy she did not know she was expecting that resulted from rape. Hernández was previously sentenced to 30 years in prison and served three years before being released in early 2019. She was retried a second time in August 2019 and acquitted of all charges. However, the attorney general’s office is currently appealing the judge’s decision, opening the possibility of a third trial.

“This delegation demonstrated tremendous empathy as they traveled within El Salvador, looked these women and girls in


Four people died climbing Mount Everest in four separate incidents over the weekend. An American doctor from Alabama was one of the victims.

There are growing concerns the world's tallest mountain is overcrowded, making the climb even more dangerous.

It's a record year on Mount Everest. Nepalese authorities have issued more than 370 climbing permits to foreigners, the most since they started regulating the climb in 1953.

A February 2016 file photo of trekkers passing through a glacier at the Mount Everest base camp in Nepal. Tashi Sherpa/AP

At least 150 people are trying to summit the mountain Monday and Tuesday.

After an avalanche in 2014, followed by an earthquake in 2015, Everest climbing returned to some sense of normalcy last year. But this new normal can be chaotic, Jeff Glor reports, withmore guides competing for business and more aspiring climbers willing to hire them.

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One of them was 50-year-old Roland Yearwood, a primary care doctor from Georgiana, Alabama. He reportedly survived a 2015 avalanche on Everest that killed 18 people, only to die attempting a climb Sunday morning. He was less than 2,000 feet from the summit, in an area known as Everest's "death zone."

"This is an area where the oxygen content drops to less than 35 percent," said climber Jon Kedrowski, a doctor who summited Everest in 2012. "Because of the lack of oxygen, the body starts to literally consume itself, and when that happens, the body will shut down."

Kedrowski says the large number of climbers causes traffic jams near the top, where dozens of mountaineers often


Military LAND Act would dilute the National
Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) by allowing a federal agency head to
single-handedly block an historic property from being classified as a culturally protected site.

The bill specifically would require the Secretary of the
Interior to alert the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources anytime a federally owned property is
reviewed for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places for
designation as a National Historic Landmark or for nomination to the World
Heritage List. Items that qualify would include
those that are significant to American history, architecture, archaeology, engineering,
and culture. The bill would allow the head of any federal agency
managing historic properties to object on the grounds of national security.

Maureen Sullivan of the Office of the Deputy Undersecretary
of Defense (Installations and Environment)of
the United States.” The NHPA is one of several legislative descendants of President
Theodore Roosevelt’s Antiquities Act of 1906.

Having been passed by the House, the Military
LAND Act now will be considered by the Senate.

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After a roadside investigation, the officer arrested Mr. Bednarz, who at the Police Department registered a blood-alcohol reading of 0.19 percent on a breath test, police said. Under state law, a driver is considered impaired at .08 percent.

Mr. Bednarz was found guilty in the Dudley ocourt f drunken driving in January 1988 and October 1991, and of the same offense in Worcester's Central District Court in October 1995.

In the Worcester court, he was placed on probation for drunken driving in March 1988.the financial crisis.

Job growth in the Rust Belt and beyond

Trump won the presidency in part because of his strength in the former industrial stronghold around the Great Lakes that is often called the Rust Belt. He won the swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. He also flipped some counties that had voted for Obama in the previous two elections — perhaps because of his message of boosting the manufacturing sector resonated in areas that have seen good-paying manufacturing jobs disappear.

The bottom line: From 2010 to 2015, counties with greater than average manufacturing activity lost about 50 manufacturing jobs a year on average -- a total of roughly 430,000 jobs. By comparison, the nation added just shy of 900,000 net manufacturing jobs over this period, suggesting


the Rust Belt states

Trump hasn’t put much stock in the national unemployment rate before, but perhaps he will take a different attitude once his administration is in charge of it. That might be especially true for the regions known as the Rust Belt — especially the former manufacturing strongholds of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana, where voter support was instrumental in Trump's election. Compared with the national average, the unemployment rate in those five states has been elevated — though it fell to 5 percent, in line with the average for the other 45 states, in 2015.

The bottom line: Economists say unemployment rates this low will be hard to beat, but watch for them to stay stable or fall below 5 percent in Rust Belt states underThe Presidential Oath: Not Always Perfect, But It Gets The Job Done

Barack Obama takes the oath of office beside his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha, right, and Malia, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2009.

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President Obama takes the oath of office for a second term on Sunday and Monday. By the time he is through Monday, he and President Franklin D. Roosevelt will be the only two presidents to have taken the presidential oath four times — Roosevelt because he was elected four times, and Obama because he will have taken the oath twice the first time and twice the second.

Obama took the oath twice in 2009 because he and Chief Justice John Roberts messed it


up a bit the first time and redid it a second time in private to quell any questions about Obama being president.

The president is taking the oath twice this time because technically, Inauguration Day falls on Sunday, Jan. 20, and the modern tradition has been that when that happens, the president takes a private oath on Sunday and does it again in public for the big ceremonial event on Monday.

It wasn't always like that. The first two presidents whose inauguration days fell on a Sunday waited until Monday to take the oath. The legal authority for doing that was none other than the founding father and great Chief Justice John Marshall.

In 1821, then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams wrote to Marshall noting that the inauguration of President Jamesballoting.

The next president to be sworn in privately was Woodrow Wilson, on a Sunday. He allegedly feared leaving the country without a sitting president for a whole day at a time when the nation was on the brink of entering World War I.

After that, tradition seemed to take hold when Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday. Dwight Eisenhower was sworn in privately for his second term and then again on Monday at the public inauguration. Ronald Reagan also had a private ceremony on Sunday for his second term; and even though it was called a private ceremony, it was broadcast. Obama's Sunday ceremony will also be televised.

The presidential oath is the only one spelled out in the Constitution and the shortest of any official oath. Interestingly, not included


in the Constitution are the words used by perhaps all presidents: "So help me God."

In fact, George Washington may not have said those words. He set the standard for future presidents in many matters. Even though he was a general, he wore civilian clothes. He took the oath on a Bible, and for a long time it was believed he said, "So help me God" at the end of the oath. That, however, is not so clear any more, as Amar observes.

"In my last book in 2005, I actually suggested that he did. I now think that I goofed," the Yale professor says.

The source for all the stories about Washington saying, "So help me God" was a biographer who claimed to have attended the inauguration at age 6and to have heard Washington say those words. But none of the very detailed contemporaneous accounts of the inauguration mentioned the first president adding, "So help me God" to the oath spelled out in the Constitution, and the writer who popularized the notion decades later, Washington Irving, was a famous fabulist, and he was known for making things up.

Obama's first oath-taking ran into a snafu over pauses. Roberts wrote out the oath as he planned to administer it, marking the places where he intended to pause for Obama to repeat the words. He had the card emailed to the designated congressional staffer handling these matters. But as Jeffrey Toobin reports in his book, The Oath, the card never made it to Obama's people.

At the ceremony, things quickly went


awry, with Obama interrupting where he thought the first pause would be, and the chief justice, who had memorized the oath but not brought a copy with him, becoming flustered, saying the words in the wrong order.

The ensuing blogosphere furor suggesting that Obama was not president provoked White House counsel Gregory Craig to call Roberts two days later and ask him to administer the oath a second time, in private. And so Roberts, on his way home from work, stopped at the White House on Jan. 22, 2009, to do just that.

"It was done flawlessly," Craig says, noting, "there's a videotape of it somewhere."

As it turns out, this was hardly the first time that the oath had been botched. In 1929, when Chief Justice William Howard Taft sworehe was elected four times, and Obama because he ended up having to take the oath twice the first time and twice the second. NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg explains.

NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: Mr. Obama took the oath of office twice last time because he and the chief justice messed it up a bit the first time and did it a second in private to quell any question about his being president. He's taking the oath twice this time because technically, Inauguration Day is today, Sunday, and the modern tradition has been that when that happens, the president takes a private oath on Sunday and does it again in public for the big ceremonial event on Monday.

It wasn't always like that. The first two presidents whose inauguration days


in 1849. Rutherford Hayes was the first president to be sworn in privately, before the public event. But he did it on a Saturday. The rumor is that he did it to forestall any chance that his election opponent would challenge the disputed outcome of the balloting. The next time a president was sworn in privately was Woodrow Wilson, on a Sunday. He allegedly feared leaving the country without a sitting president for a whole day at a time when the nation was on the brink of entering World War I.

After that, tradition seemed to take hold when Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday. Dwight Eisenhower was sworn in privately for his second term and then on Monday again at the formal inauguration. Ronald Reagan did the samething; and even though the Sunday oath was called a private ceremony, it was broadcast. President Obama's will be too. The presidential oath is the only one spelled out in the Constitution and it's shortest of any official oath. Interestingly, not included in the Constitution are the words used by perhaps all presidents: So help me God. I say perhaps because George Washington may not have used those words. He set the standard for future presidents in many matters. Even though he was a general, he wore civilian clothes. He took the oath on a Bible, and for a long time it was believed he said so help me God. That, however, is not so clear any more, as Professor Amar observes.

AMAR: In my last book in 2005,


He had the card emailed to the designated congressional staffer handling these matters. But as Jeffrey Toobin reports in his book, "The Oath," the card never made it to Obama's people. And at the ceremony, things quickly went awry, with Obama interrupting where he thought the first pause would be, and the chief justice, who had memorized the oath and not brought a copy with him, becoming flustered, and saying the words in the wrong order. The ensuing blogosphere furor suggesting that Obama was not president provoked the White House counsel, Gregory Craig, to call Roberts two days later and ask him to administer the oath a second time in private. And so Chief Justice Roberts, on his way home from work, stopped at the White House toSTEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Two high school football stars were found guilty on Sunday of raping a 16-year-old girl last summer in a case that drew national attention for the way social media spurred the initial prosecution and later helped galvanize national outrage.

Because the victim did not remember what had happened, scores of text messages and cellphone pictures provided much of the evidence. They were proof as well, some said, that Steubenville High School’s powerhouse football team held too much sway over other teenagers, who documented and traded pictures of the assault while doing little or nothing to protect the girl.

One of the football players, Trent Mays, 17, who had been a quarterback, was sentenced to serve at least two years in the state juvenile system. The other, Ma’lik


the Edmonton City Council.  He finished ninth of eleven candidates, and was not elected (the top five were).  After this, he did not seek election again until 1914, when he was elected as a school trustee.  He served his two-year term in this position, but did not seek re-election at its conclusion.

In the 1924 election, Gibbs was elected as an alderman running on the Labour slate, finishing fourth of eleven candidates.  He finished first of twelve candidates in his 1926 re-election attempt, and was similarly re-elected in the 1928 (first of fourteen candidates), 1930 (second of twelve), and 1932 (first of fifteen) re-election attempts.  While on city council, he participated in Labour's first de facto majority on Council (while Labour only had fiveWithout warning the service then cancelled Ms Cassin's carer allowance, despite the fact that James was still reliant on his mother for care and living at home. When Ms Cassin questioned why her payment had been cancelled, she was told she had to get a medical form signed from James's doctor confirming his diagnosis. "It’s just a battle a parent with a child with a disability doesn’t need. Having to continually get our GP to confirm a diagnosis that is never going to change is such a waste of time," Ms Cassin said. So she got a letter from her doctor confirming James "still had" Down Syndrome; but her frustration didn't end there. She was then asked to change her carer's payment to reflect she was the carer


of an adult and not a child - which required her to speak with Centrelink about the care she gave James, and again, provide the doctor's note.

Then, she didn't hear back for over a month. After a number of phone calls back and forth with the service to check on the status of her claim, she was eventually told there had been an IT problem and a delay in reinstating her payment. Over three months later, Ms Cassin was eventually backpaid the amount she was owed - but she said she was ultimately left frustrated with her experience. Ms Cassin said it was the second time she been asked to confirm her son "still had" Down Syndrome since she first supplied Centrelink with his diagnosis when he wasMrs Chitty started her business in 1897 at ‘Rose Cottage’, Main Road and was one of the first general stores to open in Biggin hill. Biggin Hill stores continued training until the 1950’s. A picture and bill – head of the stores is shown below.

Mr Edward David Abraham sold Groceries and material at the Post Office. The locals would not have had high incomes and would probably therefore make their own cloths and bake their own bread.

The Maps of 1909 show how the land was divided and numbered and how much Biggin Hill had developed since the earlier maps of 1868.

Another important store in Biggin Hill was Temple’s store. Mr. Thomas Temple opened his first store in about 1908. This store was made from sheds and tents and


was situated at the corner of Polesteeple Hill and Stock Hill. A small car park is now on this site. Within a short time temples had moved up the hill to the corner of Hillcrest Road and Polesteeple Hill, which has since been named Temple Road. Temples were to stay in business until the 1960’s when the shop and family home next door were knocked down to make way for housing development. Temples had a claim to “supply your every want”. If they did not have the goods in stock, the were obtained in a short time.

Temples would probably have served people at the northern end of Biggin Hill, Whereas the people living towards the southern end would have had Hall’s Store at Westerham Hill to shop at.

Oneother study out of the University of Houston, researchers report in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry that the brains of lab rodents tend to respond very similarly, though not identically, to exercise and alcohol—and that the neurological high is markedly stronger when both activities are performed instead of just one. It's possible, one researcher posits, that by drinking after a workout we're subconsciously seeking to extend the euphoria of the workout. And the authors of the first study observe that while exercise "has intuitive appeal as an alternative activity" for drinking, "the literature does not support this approach as a universal, primary prevention strategy." Meanwhile, drinking during the daytime is on the rise, reports the Telegraph. (One study has found that moderate drinking is associated with longer life


David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two men involved in a New Haven drug trafficking organization were sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven.

SAN JUAN—A federal grand jury indicted 13 individuals yesterday as a result of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), and the Puerto Rico Department of Justice.

Twelve individuals are facing federal or state charges in connection with their alleged roles in the distribution of narcotics or firearms in the Chicago area. The investigation that led to the charges, dubbed Operation Devil’s Playground, targeted narcotics and weapons trafficking by alleged members and associates of the Satan Disciplesstreet gang on the southwest side of Chicago.

Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney, Middle District of Georgia, announces the sentencing of the following individuals before the Honorable Hugh Lawson, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, on March 26, 2012.

NEW ORLEANS—BRIAN RIGGINS, age 42, a resident of New Orleans, was found guilty yesterday in a five-count second superseding indictment of being a member of a five kilogram cocaine conspiracy and related drug and firearm charges by a federal jury after a two-day trial, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.

United States Attorney Robert Pitman announced that in Midland this afternoon, 42-year-old Francisco Sauseda and 40-year-old Armando Sauseda, Sr., were sentenced to life in federal prison for their roles in two drug-related homicides in 2009. On September 30,


In Spring of 2017, NASA revealed their plans for what the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket would be used for: to build the Deep Space Gateway, a space station in cis-lunar orbit that’ll serve as a stepping stone to the exploration of the Solar System.

Until today, it was assumed that this would be a NASA project, with the agency constructing the station over the course of several launches of the SLS from 2021 through 2026, delivering the 4 major modules. The details were hazy, though, with the various components in development with various contractors.

Today, however, NASA and the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos announced that they’ll be building the Deep Space Gateway together. They signed an agreement in Australia at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia,and announced the news to the world.

What will Russia be contributing? According to TASS, Russian officials said that they’d be providing one to three modules for the station, as well as the docking mechanism that spacecraft would use when approaching the station.

Russia also offered to carry some of the station parts on their new super heavy lift rocket. They didn’t specify the rocket, but that sounds like the Angara rocket which is in development, and is expected to make its first flights over the next few years.

The Deep Space Gateway will serve as the primary destination for NASA’s human space exploration efforts, once the SLS and Orion Crew Module are completed. The first launch of SLS will carry an unmanned Orion capsule on a trans-lunar flight in 2018.


Australian Space Agency) to come on board.

Of course, the Russians were involved in the construction of the International Space Station. They provided the Zarya module for propulsion and navigational guidance, then the Zvezda for living quarters, and the Pirs, Poisk and Rassvet docking modules.

They’ve also provided half the support of the station, including astronauts, and provide the only way to get humans up to the station, on their Soyuz rockets.

Until recently, Russia had been threatening to pull their support of the International Space Station, before it was ready for retirement. But earlier this year, they agreed to support ISS until 2024, and even to 2028 if necessary.

They’ve also been continuing work on their Multi-Purpose Laboratory Module (MLM), which was originally planned for launch in 2007, and is nowThis page is about the meanings of the acronym/abbreviation/shorthand NN in the Computing field in general and in the Software terminology in particular.

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Netscape Navigator is a proprietary web browser. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corp and was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared. This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation after the late 1990s.
The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of Microsoft's antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft Corporation's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system


was a monopolistic and illegal business practice. The decision came too late for Netscape however, as Internet Explorer had by then become the dominant web browser in Windows.
The Netscape Navigator web browser was succeeded by Netscape Communicator. Netscape Communicator's 4.x source code was the base for the Netscape-developed Mozilla Application Suite, which was later renamed SeaMonkey. Netscape's Mozilla Suite also served as the base for a browser-only spinoff called Mozilla Firefox and Netscape versions 6 through 9.For Annie Schmidt it began in 2014, with a stranger on a bus.

Ms. Schmidt was in Colorado Springs for a workshop held by the newly created Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, or FAC Net. On the way to a field trip, she found herself sitting beside Justice Jones of the Austin Fire Department, discussing his extensive work on post-fire recovery.

Later that summer, as the Carlton Complex Fire tore through 256,000 acres of north-central Washington, Schmidt, then-director of the Chumstick Wildfire Stewardship Coalition in Leavenworth, Wash., remembered the conversation and called Mr. Jones. “I said, ‘I need to know everything you know about recovery, like, yesterday,’ ” she says.

The information was a godsend for fire managers, who were stretched thin as hundreds of homes burned across Okanogan County, Schmidt


groups participate in workshops, access resources and tools online, and share with one another decades of wisdom around wildfire resilience.

When 'boots on ground' aren't enough

For the past century the responsibility of managing wildfires has fallen largely to agencies – such as fire departments, the Forest Service, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency – that have dealt with fires in a quasi-military fashion. The structured, hierarchical nature of that response ensured clear command structures and communication in efforts to put out fires.

But the past 20 years have seen fires grow increasingly catastrophic. Part of it was the build-up of small trees, shrubs, and other flammable debris that turned some communities into tinderboxes – a result of 100 years of fire suppression. As the West’s summers grow hotter and drier,said it did without going into a high speed stall."

"The airplane won't go that fast when you start pulling those high G maneuvers. That plane would have fallen out of the sky..."

Russ Wittenburg, commercial and Air Force Pilot who has experience flying the Boeing 757

On November 22nd, 2004, a private jet on route to Houston to pick up George Bush, Senior clipped a single light pole and crashed a minute away from landing at Houston's Hobby Airport. The wing ripped off upon impact, scattering debris over a hundred yards. And yet, Flight 77 managed to tear five light poles completely out of the ground, without damaging either the wings or the light poles themselves. Instead, they seemed to have just popped out of the ground.

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the workers at the scrap yard overlooking the crash site, was also one of the first people to view the smoking crater. She told AFP that the hole was five to six feet deep and smaller than the 24-foot trailer in her front yard. She described hearing an explosion, like an atomic bomb, not a crash.

Ultra-rare news footage from the crash site of United Flight 93 which has never been seen again since 9/11

She said she called 911 and stayed on the line as she ran across the reclaimed land of the former strip mine to within 15 feet of the smoking crater. She said that she did not see any evidence of a plane then or at anytime during the excavation at the site.

Earliest reports from thethe Pentagon on a flight path over Arlington Cemetery or its Naval Annex. However, initial reports from individuals very close to the crash were strange: they spoke of "a shrill noise", an "airplane which seemed to be able to hold eight or twelve persons", "something that made the sound of a missile", "like a cruise missile with wings" . It was difficult to find reports of anyone who clearly stated that they saw a Boeing aircraft in the moment of striking the Pentagon.

I'm with you. The part of the Pentagon that was destroyed was very specific ... it had recently been "renovated" and was mostly empty (I recently heard they were storing financial records there, as well). If it were an actual plane hitting the Pentagon, wouldn't they


Developmental regulation of adult cortical morphology and behavior: an animal model for mental retardation.
The purpose of this study was to examine the behavioral performance in adult mice which, as neonates, had received lesions to cortically projecting, cholinergic basal forebrain neurons. The nucleus basalis magnocellularis (nBM) provides the primary cholinergic innervation to cerebral cortex. Lesions in the nBM in neonatal mice result in transient cholinergic denervation and persistent abnormalities in cortical morphology and cytoarchitecture. These cortical abnormalities resemble pathologies observed in a number of developmental disabilities in humans, including Down Syndrome. Balb/CByJ mice received lesions to the nBM 12-24 hr after birth; littermates served as controls. Behavioral testing began 8 weeks after the lesion and included assessments of spontaneous motor activity, retention (a passive avoidance task) and cognition (theOne of the most important periods of the religious calendar for Catholics and Protestants alike began Wednesday, March 5, with ashes on the foreheads of the devout.

In the next few weeks, churches and individuals will observe Lent, a 40-day period of spiritual growth. Although many behaviors such as prayer and almsgiving will intensify during the weeks leading up to Easter, self-denial is perhaps the most renowned.

At Christ the King Cathedral School, students are taught from a young age about the practice of Lent and its symbolism, and even students from non-Catholic families are required to participate in the Ash Wednesday Mass.

Sitting around a table in the school library Friday, March 7, students talked about what they're giving up.

For 7-year-olds Emily Roark and Colter Swim, their sacrifice this year


will be candy.

"I like candy so much, so I wanted to give it up for Lent because it's bad for your teeth," Colter said.

Colter said he also plans to pray a lot more and read the Bible every night.

Ashlyn Griffin, 11, said she won't be eating chocolate during this Lenten season.

"I gave up chocolate for Lent because I really like it, and I realize Jesus gave up a lot for us," Ashlyn said. "He gave up his life. He was very generous with himself for us."

Though those sacrifices may seem petty to some in light of what Christ endured, Bishop Plácido Rodriguez of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lubbock said they are to be respected.

"They're learning little things at their level of understanding. We cannot belittle them," heto fast, to abstain, do penance and pray because the Redeemer is coming.

Easter symbolizes the end of Lent, representing the Redeemer's arrival. But in a way, Lent does not end in 40 days, Rodriguez said. The sinful behaviors Christians put off for the period are not to begin again after Easter.

"We're living in grace, living with God's favor free from sin," Rodriguez said. "Jesus came and offered his entire life for us. You can also see the journey of Jesus toward Jerusalem in order that he be scourged and mocked and be condemned to death. ... He freely took up the cross in order to redeem us. He did battle with the devil and then beat him on his own area - in death itself."

Rodriguez said the picture


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Marie Laurencin1885–1956

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Marie Laurencin 1885-1956

French painter, designer, illustrator, etcher and
lithographer. Born in Paris. Studied at the Académie Humbert, where Braque was a fellow pupil. Met Picasso, André Salmon and Apollinaire; influenced by Picasso and Matisse, and began to paint pictures mainly of sloe-eyed girls in a decorative,
arabesque-like style. Painted 'Apollinaire, Picasso and their Friends' 1909. Though never a true Cubist, was included at Apollinaire's request in the first group manifestation of Cubism at the Salon des Indépendants 1911. First one-woman exhibition
at the Galeries Barbazanges, Paris, 1912. Spent 1914-20 in Spain and Germany, then returned to Paris. Illustrated a number of books with etchings, lithographs or watercolours; also designed sets and costumes for the ballet and the theatre, including
Diaghilev's Les Biches in 1924, and dresses and textilesnext scheduled court appearance is a Jan. 13 preliminary hearing.

According to the Madison County Circuit Clerk website, Warren was sentenced to five years in prison in connection with a 2013 attempted residential burglary conviction. Warren was released from prison and placed on parole on Nov. 21, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records.

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An Illinois State Police trooper was hit by a tractor trailer while working a crash scene on I55 near Collinsville. He was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries and is the 14th cop hit by a car in 2019.


If Alfred Hitchcock were alive and still making films, Dunkirk is a movie he might have made, even if in his lifetime he didn’t tackle what turns out to be a surprisingly stirring tale of pure survival in war. The telling of the Dunkirk evacuation of eventually about 300,000 soldiers in the spring of 1940 has provided a challenge met with great success for writer-director Christopher Nolan. It retains the scale of some of his larger films such as the Dark Knight series, Inception and Interstellar, blended with a more intimate and structurally fascinating project like his earlier works Memento and Following.

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As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), Dunkirk isn’t a World War II film in the classic sense but more likea thriller centered on the nail-biting rescue attempt of some 400,000 British soldiers stuck like sitting ducks on the beaches of the French town where these brave men end up after trying to help French, Belgian and Canadian troops stave off the aggressive invading forces of Germany, about 18 months before America was attacked at Pearl Harbor. But as Nolan tells it, this is no ordinary story of courage in the face of heavy adversity in war, but instead a look at disparate participants all brought together with a simple goal: to bring these men home.

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Anyone who ever saw Memento knows Nolan is a fan of playing with time and structure, incorporating a


get to the Mole (a pier) and a safer position where Commander Bolton (an excellent Kenneth Branagh) and his associates are located.

In the air are a number of fighter planes, most prominently one pilot in particular. That pilot is portrayed in a nearly wordless performance by Tom Hardy, once again hidden behind a mask of sorts, so he nicely plays it with his eyes. And on the sea, in the film’s most compelling and suspenseful sequences, is a boat captained by a patriotic British citizen named Dawson (a wonderful and understated Mark Rylance) who has brought along teen son Peter (Tom Glynn-Carney) and Peter’s friend George (Barry Keoghan) in a bid to pick up as many soldiers as they can fit on their boat to take back tomoving way. Even without much dialogue, and perhaps because of that, this is a brilliant example of the art of screenwriting at its essence.

Of course Dunkirk will have special meaning for the British, who still use the phrase “the Dunkirk Spirit” to describe their own continued resilience, but Nolan has made a movie I think is universal and perfectly timed at this point in history where even small individual examples of heroism like this are hard to come by. He also reminds us what big-scale epic filmmaking can look like in the service of a very uniquely human event. Shot mostly with Imax cameras in 65MM, the film is a must see in the giant-screen format as well as 70MM film projection. Nolan got Warner Bros to make


about 125 engagements possible in the now-almost-nonexistent big-screen 70MM film format once used for movies like Lawrence of Arabia and 2001: A Space Odyssey. I saw it in 70MM film, and it was simply stunning, and sweetly nostalgic to see reel changes again. Make every attempt to see this on as big a screen as you possibly can. This is not Netflix, or meant to be watched on an iPhone.

The craft of the movie is extraordinary as you might expect, with ace sound work, tight and superb editing from Lee Smith, a subtly unnerving career-best musical score from Hans Zimmer, and stunning cinematography from Hoyt Van Hoytema, both on water and in the skies, where aerial footage is as good as it gets. Nolan and Emma Thomas produced.Four Al Qaeda men killed in US drone strike

SANAA: Four members of Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch, including a local commander, were killed in a suspected US drone strike on a vehicle travelling east of the capital Sanaa, two local officials said on Saturday.

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They said the attack in Marib province, controlled by forces loyal to exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, occurred late on Friday. A local commander of the militant Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), known as Abu Khaled al-Sanaani, was killed along with three associates, they said.

It was the second drone strike in two days to target a local commander of the Islamist militant group regarded by US officials as one of the most dangerous branches of Al Qaeda.

A drone strike on a vehicle in al-Bayda


province in central Yemen killed a senior AQAP leader known as Abdallah al-Sanaani, identified as a regional commander of the group, on Thursday.

The United States has been using drones to target the Islamist militant group which has exploited Yemen’s civil war to carve out a foothold in the impoverished country. Several leaders of the group have been killed by drone strikes in recent years.

US officials have said AQAP is one of the most potent security threats in the Middle East. The group, whose attacks have mainly targeted the Yemeni government and the Iran-allied Houthi group, claimed responsibility for an attack last year on the Paris office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.Delays expected near Coppin State for Bishop Robinson procession

Drivers could experience delays around Coppin State University on Saturday as mourners gather for the funeral of former Baltimore police commissioner Bishop L. Robinson, Sr.

At about 12:45 p.m. a funeral procession will depart the university for Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens. The procession will travel north on the Jones Falls Expressway to the Baltimore Beltway. It will continue north on I-83 before exiting at Padonia Road and traveling east toward the cemetery, police said.


Committee brings in several experts to expand upon the testimony of attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales (see January 6, 2005 and January 6, 2005). One of the most outspoken critics is Yale Law School dean Harold Koh. Koh had worked in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) under Ronald Reagan, and later served as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor in the Clinton administration. He is a vocal critic of the Bush administration’s detention policies at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Koh had once worked closely with OLC lawyer John Yoo, the author of numerous torture memos (see October 4, 2001, November 6-10, 2001, November 20, 2001, December 21, 2001, December 28, 2001, January 9, 2002, January 11, 2002, January 14, 2002, January 22,2002, January 24-26, 2002, March 13, 2002, July 22, 2002, August 1, 2002, August 1, 2002, and March 14, 2003) and opinions expanding the power of the president (see September 21, 2001, September 25, 2001, September 25, 2001, October 23, 2001, October 23, 2001, and June 27, 2002), but now, without explicitly mentioning Yoo by name, he repudiates his former student’s legal positions. Gonzales worked closely with Yoo to craft the administration’s positions on wiretapping, torture, the inherent power of the president, and other issues. “Having worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations, and for more than two years as an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel, I am familiar with how legal opinions like this are sought and drafted,” Koh states. “I further sympathize with the