in the New York Post.

Obama is no stranger to wire tapping. His administration tapped phones and computers of friends and foe alike.

I thought it was interesting that Senator Coon confirmed that the phones were taped. He said that there were "transcripts" of conversations between the campaign and Russia. Then he backed off. But he was all confident that they had transcripts so they must exist right?

Georgie Porgie on ABC is floating the new line of bullshit. He is spouting off that there is a difference between illegal wiretaps and taps signed off on by a judge. That would be true if the judge signed off on wiretapping Trump. The fact that there were two FISA warrants tells us the story. The first one included Trump and was rejecteddirty. Putting the Jug Eared Jesus front and center. It is the only way.

In the meantime he is pushing the travel ban today and soon the Obamacare replacement. He is distracting the media hounds. I think it is a good move.

Agreed. One of the basic principles of war is concentrate your combat power at a time and place where it matters most. He will have them chasing several objectives at the same time and dispersing their effort (remember how I said this time last year he was paying attention in tactics class?).

And he has to fight back. We saw what happened to Bush pere et fils when the Deep State went after them and they just sat there like the gentlemen they are.

I think it is smarter to


the government and Naftogaz Ukrainy, and subsequently a letter to Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Volodymyr Demchyshyn on the issue.

In this letter, the Cypriot companies pointed out that in 2006-2014, Ukraine limited Ukrnafta's right to freely sell residual gas on the market, despite the relevant court decisions.the purchase of the chips, and under a theory of fraudulent misrepresentation. Id. ¶¶ 16-48. Among the responses of CSC in its Answer to the First Amended Complaint ("Answer") are the assertions that CM, "its agents or other parties over which CSC had no control" caused the alleged defects in the computer boards. Answer ¶ 49. CSC further asserts that CM was responsible for the computer board design and "the software components of the computer chip" and that CSC cannot be held liable for damages resultant therefrom. Id. ¶ 51.
The original complaint in this action was filed February 19, 1988, served on the defendants months thereafter and answered by CSC December 14, 1988. The First Amended Complaint was filed August 17, 1989 and answered by CSC September 15,


that, on September 30, 1982, he and CM entered into an "agreement" for the development of hardware and software for control boards using a microprocessor chip, that a prototype was built using *1176 Newman's design and "an Intel chip," that this prototype worked properly and that, after he had learned that CM could not secure an adequate supply of the specified chips from Intel, he had cautioned CM against purchasing chips that were made neither in the United States nor by a "US licensee." Newman continuingly states that he had not been involved in the agreement between CM and CSC to buy UM8049 chips manufactured by UMC and that he had not been involved in arranging for the purchase of those chips. After the chips had been installedin the hoists and the hoists placed in operation, malfunctioning occurred. Newman thereafter cooperated with CM in an attempt to repair and redesign the hoists so that they would operate properly, traveling to Taiwan in February 1985 at the request of CM. He then diagnosed the source of the trouble as the intolerance of the UM8049 chips to "random `electrical noise.'" It evolved that these chips had been manufactured by an offshore producer who was not a US licensee. After Newman had redesigned the hoists, employing a chip meeting his original specifications, they operated properly. Newman then notes that the agreement to purchase the UM8049 chips had been entered into between CM and CSC, that he was never a party to such contract and that he never contracted


least to some extent, inspected the specifications for UMC's chip and reported back to Broyden that he was satisfied that the UMC chip was the equivalent of the Intel chip, confirming what Broyden already believed. Brady Affidavit, Exhibit A at 101, 114-115, 118-122.[3]*1177 CSC specifically points out that Newman's Affidavit makes no mention of the June 1984 trip to Taiwan.
The second subheading of factual references in CSC's Memorandum of Law is entitled "The Involvement of and Wrong-Doing By Newman and Micro Designs." Id. at 4. This section of the Statement of Facts deals with the design and pre-production testing of the control board and hoist as described in the CM-Newman agreement mentioned supra. It should be noted that these allegations also appear to reiterate the affirmative defenses thatand the delivery of the prototype hoist. The second surrounded the hunt for a viable alternative chip after it was discovered that Intel would not supply CM. The third involved Newman's attempts to rectify the problems that arose in either the control board as a whole (CSC's interpretation of the Complaint) or the UMC chip itself (Newman's interpretation).[11]
With regard to this first phase of the relationship, Newman did indeed design the computer control board and its various components and accompaniments, but this was a contractual duty. Other than its brief allegation of negligence, malpractice and the like, CSC's Memorandum of Law and the Brady Affidavit offer no basis for, and often contradict, such an allegation. CSC also asserts that CM relied upon Newman's expertise in selecting the original


the Congress’ prospects, it actually seems to have helped the party. When in the Congress, Jogi would reportedly sabotage the chances of challengers within who could rival his stature, including by ensuring the defeat of their loyal candidates in elections. His exit also seems to have removed the divided command centre problem for the party cadre, and consolidated the Congress with one voice.

3 reasons BJP trails

1. Maoist menace: Chhattisgarh is among the worst Maoist violence-hit states in the country. Even in the run-up to the polls, the Maoists had announced a boycott, and in just 15 days, killed 13 people in six attacks. After being in power for 15 years, the BJP has little explanation for why it has failed at containing the Maoist threat.

Raman Singh is notreimbursements for buiding toilets as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

3. The Jogi-Mayawati alliance: The JCC-BSP joining hands was supposed to harm the Congress more. However, a new alternative popping up in a state witnessing anti-incumbency is not good news for the party in power. The Dalits, irked with the BJP, saw an option in the Mayawati-Jogi tie-up. Also, in several seats, the alliance had fielded candidates who belonged to the caste/community of the BJP candidate.

Also read: Chhattisgarh election results: If Congress wins, will one of these four be the next CM


day soon.

“Look at what the Russian people did with Lenin, Stalin, Putin. As soon as someone is in power for a few years, they become sacred. The Russian people strive for a monarchy; the Russian soul is monarchic,” said Chavchavadze.

At St Basil the Great school, portraits of the tsars look out at pupils from the corridors. A statue of Catherine the Great dominates a hallway, and the student ballroom features vast portraits of eight tsars. The lessons include scripture studies and Latin, and the school’s history textbooks were specially commissioned, to avoid the positive view of much of the Soviet period given by the standard Russian textbooks.

The mission is to ensure that our graduates will be Orthodox patriots, carring the thousand-year traditions of Russia Konstantin Malofeyev, founder

The schoolis the pet project of Konstantin Malofeyev, a mysterious Russian financier known as the “Orthodox oligarch”. Malofeyev, well-connected in the Kremlin, is believed to have funded rebel forces in East Ukraine, and has set up a nationalist, Orthodox Christian television channel, Tsargrad. The school, he said in an interview with the Guardian, is meant to function as “an Orthodox Eton”, which will prepare the new elite for a future Russian monarchy.

“The mission of our school is to ensure that our graduates will be Orthodox patriots who will carry the thousand-year traditions of Russia, not just those of the last 20 or 100 years,” said Malofeyev, from his central Moscow office, adorned with Orthodox icons and a large portrait of Tsar Alexander III, a 19th century ruler known for


his conservatism. “For me it’s very important to restore the traditions that were broken off in 1917.”

Headteacher Zurab Chavchavadze. Photograph: Shaun Walker/Guardian

After the February revolution – named for the month it began in Russia’s then-Juilan calendar – the country embarked on a short liberal experiment, but the provisional government was deposed by Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik uprising in October of the same year. Nicholas II and his family were executed in 1918; many aristocrats fought for the White armies in the Russian civil war, or fled to western Europe or further afield.

During the Soviet period, discussion of the Whites was forbidden. Chavchavadze’s family returned to the Soviet Union in 1947 in a wave of patriotism after victory in the second world war, but his father was quickly arrested asa spy and sent to the Gulag for 25 years, while the family was exiled to Kazakhstan.

In the post-Soviet period there has been renewed interest in the history of the pro-tsarist forces. Nicholas II has been canonised by the Russian Orthodox church. While Vladimir Putin’s administration has expressed admiration for the achievements of the Soviet Union, its foundation in 1917 is regarded as a tragedy, for the bloodshed and turmoil it caused.

Malofeyev, now 42, was born near Moscow to parents who lived in a special housing reservation for Soviet scientists. As a teenager during Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika, he devoured literature about the Whites, and swiftly became a monarchist.

“When I was 14, I read two books which had a huge impact on me,” he recalled. One was the memoirs


of a former tsarist officer who went on to publish an émigré newspaper in Argentina, while the other was Lord of the Rings. “The image of Aragorn returning to Gondor was my second image of monarchy. It also affected my monarchism,” he said.

Taken with the idea of monarchy, Malofeyev wrote a letter to the Paris-based Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich, born in 1917 and considered the head of the imperial family after Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks and other royals died in exile.

After reading Malofeyev’s letter, the duke asked Chavchavadze, who was then working as his assistant, to deliver his reply in person. The pair have stayed in touch ever since.

Cossack troops on patrol in St Petersburg during the Russian Revolution. Photograph: Slava KatamidzeCollection/Getty Images

Malofeyev went on to study law at Moscow State University, writing his dissertation on the constitutional mechanism by which modern Russia could reintroduce monarchy, before going into banking and rapidly becoming one of Russia’s richest men. He tapped up Chavchavadze to head his school, which moved into its new premises in 2012. Its graduates, Malofeyev hopes, will provide the backbone of the “inevitable” future tsarist order in Russia.

Malofeyev said career politicians are venal and focused on electoral success, while monarchs can rule without the dirty business of politics intervening. He does not count Putin among the list of grubby democratic politicians, as the Russian president was handpicked by Boris Yeltsin.

“He never tried to get elected; he was found and put in place, and turned out to be


age of four months and almost all are at school (preescolar) full-time from the age of three. All children have the right to free education, however in many schools the demand simply outweighs the number of places resulting in a point system at the initial stages and then often a lottery is drawn with many parents unable to secure a place at the first school of their choice. Unlike in many European countries, there is limited job mobility within Catalonia, meaning that children normally remain at one school for the duration of their education and therefore it is not as common for places to open at a later stage. Bridget Nelson, of Planet English, offers an interesting insight into the education system: "International Schools generally have better facilities,at nurseries (guarderias) at the age of four months and almost all are at school (preescolar) full-time from the age of three. All children have the right to free education, however in many schools the demand simply outweighs the number of places resulting in a point system at the initial stages and then often a lottery is drawn with many parents unable to secure a place at the first school of their choice. Unlike in many European countries, there is limited job mobility within Catalonia, meaning that children normally remain at one school for the duration of their education and therefore it is not as common for places to open at a later stage. Bridget Nelson, of Planet English, offers an interesting insight into the education system: "International


for you and playing for you would be my biggest asset going into interviews. Actually it's been my biggest liability.'

"We've laughed about it. He's said to me on more than one occasion, 'It's best for you to distance yourself from me and our system.' "

Shaw has spent the past two seasons as the Indiana Pacers' associate coach, partly serving as a mentor for head coach Frank Vogel.

"When he gets an opportunity," Vogel said, "he's going to be a coach of the year candidate every single year."In addition, the shootout (previously used in the 1986–87 season) was reintroduced to the league, to decide a winner in games which remained tied following the overtime period. The team winning a shootout was credited with a win, and the losing team with an overtime loss. [1]

The AHL also announced a series of experimental rule changes, most notably a restricted area for goaltenders. Playing the puck outside the restricted area results in an automatic two-minute delay of game penalty.

The 18th AHL All-Star Classic was played on February 14, 2005, at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire. Team PlanetUSA defeated team Canada 5-4 in a shootout win. In the skills competition held the night before, team PlanetUSA defeated team Canada 17-13. [2]


Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Critical and reflective thinking (2)

In my previous post, I noted that the phrases 'critical thinking' and 'reflective thinking' are often used interchangeably and that both terms have Kantian connotations that suggest a focus on thinking about one's thoughts.

In the previous post, I noted that in addition to Dewey, another anglophone philosopher in the early 20th Century, George Ladd, used 'critical thinking' and 'reflective thinking' as meaning largely the same thing. A third philosopher to exhibit this pattern is Rupert Clendon Lodge. (Marshall
McLuhan was one of Lodge's students at the University of Manitoba.)

In a 1920 paper, Lodge clarifies what he means by 'critical' and 'reflective'. First, says Lodge, we must recognize that judgment is produced by

... reflection upon sensory experience. The
primitive sensuous consciousness is split up,THN.com Blog: How third lines help win championships

With a Hart Trophy winner, his identical twin, a Selke finalist and a perennial Vezina candidate already in the lineup, the Vancouver Canucks’ main goal in the off-season was to bulk up a third line that on many nights was outworked and overmatched in 2009-10 – especially when they met the Chicago Blackhawks in the post-season.

Sure there was buzz around creating a new defense – with Keith Ballard being brought in for some spare youth parts, Dan Hamhuis coming in from free agency and Kevin Bieksa a hot rumor mill topic throughout the summer – but it was the third forward unit that needed to be upgraded most. On many nights having Kyle Wellwood as the third pivot wasn’t good enough


Hedge fund magnate John Paulson - who reportedly made $5 billion personally last year - reacted recently to Occupy Wall Street protesters by talking about how much the top 1% of New York City families pay in income taxes. What he didn't talk about was how the same 1% made nearly half (44%) of all the income in the city, or that when all state and local taxes are taken into account, the richest taxpayers in fact pay a lower percentage of their total income in taxes than do people in the middle.

Meanwhile, with unemployment levels stubbornly high, median family income declining and public services under budget pressure, times are getting tougher for almost everyone else.

Public school class sizes in New York City - already far higher thanis going up in New York City, now standing at nearly one in three, with even higher numbers in the Bronx and Brooklyn. Using the census figures, median family income in the city has fallen in real terms to a level equivalent to where it was 30 years ago.

Thousands of white-collar and blue-collar families that had been - on the basis of two or three jobs per couple - barely making it every week are now sliding into poverty. And the services that help keep the city livable for them - public schools, public transportation, safe streets - are threatened even more, as Mayor Bloomberg is planning even further cuts next year.

Since 1980, the United States has seen a disturbing pattern of growing income inequality. The real income


of middle-class families had effectively doubled between 1945 and 1980 nationwide; at the same time, the top 1% of earners nationwide were doing pretty well, collecting about 10% of all income.

But what had been good fortune for the top earners became a bonanza at the expense of a middle class with declining living standards. Since 1980, the richest 1% in the United States has more than doubled its share of national income to 23%. In New York State that percentage is even higher, 35%; and the richest make New York City, with their 44% share of income, the national poster child for income inequality.

Huge fortunes have been built from deregulation and Wall Street's new ability to make gigantic bets - generally with other people's money - in theWhere: Roswell New Mexico
Date: 07/02/47
At 20:55 hours, a security patrol at east permitter of the Roswell Army Air Field, reported seeing 3 Unidentified Flying Objects passing over the Star-Lite Drive-In Theater.

This photo was taken by patrol

The UFO's were headed straight to the air field. At 21:30 all 3 UFO's came across the air field. At that time troops opened fire with antiaircraft guns. 2 of the UFO's evaded the fire and disappeared from site. The 3rd UFO was struck and began to shoot flames from the area hit. The injured ship headed back toward the edge of town. It went across 6 mill hill and crash landed in a field.

1948Project Silver Screen was created, to study the connection between the large number of Drive-In Theaters being built and


the growing number of UFO siteings around them. The data showed that the Aliens some how controlled where the Drive-In would be built. Most were located around city's generally just outside of the city limits. Most of the Drive-In theaters were built with the screen between the road and the parking area. With generally farm fields or woods in the rear area. This allowed UFO's to hover about 1 mile away from the screen and be undetected.

1955 We made a major discovery, with the new FM radio band we found that the UFO was transmitting a pulsating signal at the screen, while the movie was being played.

1958 High frequency radio detection devices were mounted on trucks. These were taken to Drive-In Theaters across the U.S.. The team oflow power. The UFO did not seen to detect the signal. The transmitter was increased to half power, at that time observers, who were stationed in a near by farmhouse, noticed a change in the UFO. The UFO lights began to come on and off. It began to move around slightly. What ever the scientist were doing with the signal was having an effect on the UFO. At that point the transmitter was turned up to maximum. The UFO tried to shut down their signal and move but our signal was overriding. Within 3 minutes the UFO exploded. People at the Drive-In did not notice anything due to the line of trees and the distance the UFO was at. The transmitter was shut down. The van was leaving


the Drive-In when 2 other UFO's came from the other side of the screen firing lasers. Killing people and destroying the Drive-In.

There were 34 deaths and 87 people hospitalized. To cover up the disaster 5 oil storage tanks across the road at the refinery were exploded. The impact from the blast destroyed the balance of the screen and caused additional cars to explode. The people who claimed they were attacked
by UFO's were told by Fire and Rescue workers that they saw the tops of the storage tanks flying through the air.

In 1969 Microwave signals were intercepted coming off of the Sky-Vue Drive-In Screen, Summersville, KY. Researchers found that a UFO located about 2 miles away was using the screen as a giant collector, like a satalite dish. TheBubbleStream

Geraldine Birch

The Swastika Tattoo

Synopsis

The Swastika Tatto is about a German U-boat crewman who is captured by the Americans during WWII and sent to a POW camp in Arizona where he labors picking cotton for a Jewish farmer and comes face-to-face with the bigotry and intolerance he learned as a Hitler Youth. Through long months of internment, his only joy is his friendship with the farmer’s son who shows him the true meaning of humanity, individualism, and democracy and just as his repatriation to Germany is in sight, his camp bunk-mate is brutally murdered and he realizes he is the next target of the hard-core Nazis who really control the Arizona prison camp.

Author Biography

Writing has been my passion since I sat down at my mother's old Remington typewriter at


received a first place award from the National Newspaper Association. While awards mean one’s work is recognized and appreciated by judges, nothing thrills me more than having someone tell me they have enjoyed my books. I have recently finished my memoir, Vision of a Happy Life, and plan to bring a few chapters onto Bublish.

Author Insight

Social Status is Everything

In post-war Germany, social status was incredibly important. One of my main characters, Hermann Meier feels out of his league at the commissioning of U-26.

Book Excerpt

The Swastika Tattoo

Hermann Meier sat straight in his chair in the bow torpedo room of U-26. He was incredibly uncomfortable, although he tried desperately not to show it by wiping his sweaty hands carefully under the table with the clean white handkerchief he always carriedin his pocket.

Someone touched his shoulder, and when he looked up, he saw it was one of the shipyard owners, a man of great wealth and prestige. The man smiled at Hermann.

“She is beautiful, is she not, Hermann?” said Ludwig von Clausen, referring to the 750-ton boat designed to prove to Great Britain the strength of theKriegsmarine, the Third Reich’s new war navy.

“Yes,” Hermann replied, shyly. That von Clausen would even speak to him was of momentary shock. He took a large gulp of air to calm his nerves, making a mental note to relate the day’s events to Luise.

Hermann noticed the U-boat’s deadly torpedo tubes were hid behind bright swastika flags. Fine linen tablecloths covered the long table along with colorful spring flowers, and champagne glasses were


placed in front of every chair. Hermann nodded to several men he knew who were senior yard managers, but he did not have the slightest knowledge who the rest of the guests were, although he guessed they were dignitaries from the Third Reich and the German Navy.

At the head of the table was a man Hermann had not seen before. To the left of the unknown man wasKapitänleutnantHartmann. Suddenly the unknown man stood and as he did, Hermann realized with a shock he wasKriegsmarineCommander-in-Chief Erich Raeder. Everyone, including Hermann stood up.

A prim man, Raeder did not smile but instead seemed to look straight ahead at no one in particular. “This is a momentous day,” Raeder said. “I am extremely grateful to the men at AG Weser for theirwork on this magnificent U-boat. She will be of great pride to theKriegsmarineand to the Third Reich. U-26 and her sister boat, U-25, is but the beginning of a new life for the U-boat arm of the German Navy. The German people need never worry again about the security of their ports.”

Everyone applauded and then theKapitänleutnantpopped open a bottle of champagne to the roar of the crowd. Crewman suddenly appeared and opened more bottles to fill the guests’ glasses. When all was ready, the crowd lifted their arms high with champagne bubbling over onto the tablecloths.


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With over 8 decades of history, the iconic Fairmont Peace Hotel was a favourite with the local elite and foreign celebrities, including Charlie Chaplin. World-renowned Old Jazz Band and lavish art deco styles await guests. The hotel overlooks The Bund and Huangpu River. Luxurious rooms at Fairmont decorated in calming pastels feature a DVD player and flat-screen TV. An iPod dock and espresso machine are also included. En suite bathrooms offer upscale amenities and a bathtub for a pampering soak. Fairmont Peace Hotel is located right next the Bund and is a 5-minute walk from Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street. It is a 20-minute ride from Hongqiao International Airport. Pudong International Airport is a 40-minute drive away. Guests can pamper themselves with a swim in the indoor poolpenalties for anyone who tries to manipulate the voting or
registering process.

This act has had a significant impact on voter registration. In the
first quarter of 1995 (when the act was implemented), two million new
voters were registered. Georgia registered 180,000 voters in a
three-month period, compared to 85,000 for the entire preceding year.
In the first quarter, Florida registered 400,000. In addition, during
the first year of implementation, 40% of newly registered voters were
under the age of 30. Finally, the two-year period after implementation
witnessed one of the largest registration increases in American
history. Indeed, the National Voter Registration Act has been
instrumental in broadening the base of American democracy.

"Most Californians register to vote not because a political cause has touched their heart, but rather because they checked a box on a form at the Department


VANCOUVER, BC - Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced on Thursday that the club has signed defender Jake Nerwinski to an MLS contract for 2017, with options for 2018, 2019, and 2020.

The right back from the University of Connecticut was the seventh overall selection in the 2017 MLS SuperDraft last month. Nerwinski will be added to the team's roster pending receipt of his Canadian work permit.

Whitecaps FC right back Jake Nerwinski

Recorded five goals and 17 assists in 81 appearances at the University of Connecticut

Three-time selection to All-American Athletic Conference Team

Co-captained at Connecticut as junior and senior

"Good kid, excellent mentality," said manager Carl Robinson. "Jake has come in and done very well. He understands the game, very fit, and will provide competition for Sheanon (Williams) at the right back position."

Nerwinski, 22,started each of the three preseason matches in the team's recent trip to the United Kingdom, equaling the team-lead in minutes played with 230.

"I'm extremely happy to officially be a member of the Whitecaps FC family and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else," said Nerwinski. "I am thankful to the Wasserman Media Group and my agent, and I am especially grateful for the all support I received from my family. I am also thankful to coach Robinson and the entire club for giving me this opportunity. I can't wait to get started and give everything I have to this club and city."

A co-captain in his last two years at Connecticut, Nerwinski tallied five goals and 17 assists in his four seasons in Mansfield, starting 75 of his


81 appearances for the Huskies.

The six-foot, 175-pound right back was a three-time member of the All-American Athletic Conference Team, earning a first-team selection in 2016. The two-year captain also received NSCAA All-East Region accolades, being named to the Second Team as a junior, then to the First Team in his final year.

The Lawrenceville, New Jersey native was an All-District player in each of his four years at his hometown's Notre Dame High School. As a senior, the team captain was honoured with All-State, All-Area, and All-Colonial Valley Conference team selections, as well as his side's Most Valuable Player award.

Nerwinski played youth soccer with the New Jersey Soccer Association 04 Development Academy team.

At the international level, Nerwinski was invited to the United States men's national team U-23 college identificationcamp in July 2015.

Whitecaps FC resume preseason play when they face expansion side Minnesota United FC in the 2017 Timbers Preseason Tournament tonight, Thursday, February 9 at Providence Park. Watch the match live on whitecapsfc.com. Kickoff is at 5 p.m. PT.

The 2017 season kicks off with the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal series against New York Red Bulls. The first leg is set for Wednesday, February 22, at Red Bull Arena, and the return leg will take place on Thursday, March 2, at BC Place. MLS regular season action starts on Sunday, March 5, when Whitecaps FC host Philadelphia Union at BC Place.

Jakob Nerwinski

Position: Right back

Height: 6-0

Weight: 175

Date of Birth: October 17, 1994 in Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Hometown: Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Citizenship: United States

Status: Domestic

Last Club: University of Connecticut Huskies (NCAA


After Hurricane Katrina, which struck eight years ago August 29, and the collapse of the levee system—a system entirely designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—Louisiana wanted a new kind of local levee board, one made up of flood experts instead of political appointees. So, with 81 percent of the vote, the state's citizens passed a constitutional amendment that created the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East (SLFPAE), a reform board that oversees the levee system of greater New Orleans on the east bank of the Mississippi River, and of which I am a member.

The members of this levee board are nominated by a committee that includes deans of the state's engineering schools and representatives of good-government groups; the governor must appoint board members fromcreated includes the entire Louisiana coast, all the way from Texas to Mississippi.

This coast has no rocks; in essence it's all a kind of mud held together by the roots of plants. Because of man-made interventions in natural processes, the land-building in Louisiana has reversed itself. Since 1932, Louisiana has lost nearly 2,000 square miles of coastal lands, an area roughly the size of Delaware. If you put Delaware between New Orleans and the ocean, the city wouldn't need any levees. Coastal land is the buffer that protects people from hurricanes.

There are multiple causes of Louisiana's land loss. They include levees, the shipping industry, and dams 2,000 miles upriver. The dams, which prevent upriver sediment from entering the river, are important; the river used to carry 400 million


English common law traditions, but Louisiana's is based on "civil law," which goes back to the Romans. For centuries, and included in state statutes for 200 years, is a concept called "servitude of drain." This prohibits one party from increasing the flow of water on someone else's property. By destroying coastal land, the industry increased the surge coming our way. It broke this law.

There is little question about the facts of the case. Bob Bea, formerly Shell's chief offshore engineer and head of a National Science Foundation study that investigated the failures during Katrina, stated in an affidavit for the state in another legal action, not for us, that industry "activities have contributed significantly to the loss of natural defenses . . . In several important cases, itFurthermore, the Board of Appeal took the view that that analysis does not misconstrue the judgment of 21 January 2010 in Audi v OHIM, C‑398/08 P, ECR, EU:C:2010:29, inasmuch as, in the present case, the mark applied for had not been rejected on the ground that it was a promotional slogan, but on the ground that it was not perceived by the relevant public as an indication of the commercial origin of the services concerned because it was a banal slogan with a clear and unambiguous laudatory meaning. Lastly, the Board of Appeal stated that, in the case which gave rise to the judgment in Audi v OHIM, the slogan in question was also widely known on account of its use over a period of many years, which


Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China.

40 The fact remains, as OHIM observes, that all those possible meanings put forward by the applicant still denote positive connotations of the sign applied for in relation to the services at issue. In all the cases, even when the scenario to which the applicant refers is problematic, the message conveyed is positive for the relevant public, since it logically means that the services offered are thought to be appropriate for facing the new situation and providing solutions for the new challenges in terms of business opportunities.

41 Consequently, even as a laudatory or promotional slogan, the sign INVESTING FOR A NEW WORLD is not sufficiently original or resonant to require at least some interpretation, thoughtorder to allow proper scrutiny of the staffing and public safety issues after Ministers return to the MOJ after the general election.

Confirm that each of the Sodexo-owned CRCs must abide by the terms of the contract that the company signed with the MOJ to honour the terms of the national enhanced voluntary redundancy scheme (EVR) if voluntary redundancies eventually take place, and that MOJ will enforce this contractual term if Sodexo refuses to abide by its provisions.

Lodged a national dispute at the National Negotiating Council (NNC) at the meeting on Friday 17 April, over the risk to the national agreement on EVR and asked for the Joint Secretaries of the NNC to also instruct the 6 Sodexo-owned CRCs to halt work on the proposed redundancies pending resolution of


John Hunter Nemechek and William Byron.

BRISTOL, Tenn. – The world’s best Late Model racers will descend upon the World’s Fastest Half-Mile in 2017 when Bristol Motor Speedway, The Last Great Colosseum and one of the most famous short tracks in the world, hosts the Inaugural U.S. Nationals of Short Track Racing, May 19-21.

The signature event will be sanctioned by five different sanctioning bodies and for the first time in stock car racing history, will bring together six top categories of racing to compete on the same track in one spectacular weekend of action. Champion Racing Association powered by JEGS (CRA), who took the lead sanction body role in developing this event, will be co-sanctioning the Super Late Model race with their ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS alonghelping to build this event through his long standing relationship with Bristol Motor Speedway."

"It is thrilling that Vore's Compact Touring Series racers, along with five other great stock car divisions will get the chance to make history with the U.S. Nationals of Short Track Racing presented by Vore's Welding & Steel at Bristol Motor Speedway," commented Steve Vore, owner of the Vore’s Welding & Steel and the Vore’s Compact Touring Series.

For the modifieds, ICAR/Top Speed Modified Series owner Dave Muzillo noted, “I’m looking forward to bringing these types of modifieds that race all around the country, together at one race track, and watch them battle it out for the title at this historic event…it will be exciting!”

Multiple NASCAR Cup, Xfinity and Camping World Truck series drivers are expected


to compete in this major event at BMS. Several past winners of similar high profile Super Late Model events include Kyle Busch, Chase Elliott, Erik Jones, John Hunter Nemechek and William Byron.

"This is an epic announcement for short track fans, drivers, teams, and sponsors," said Chris Ragle, CARS Tour Series director. "This will be the marquee event of asphalt short track racing next year, period. Obviously races like the Snowball Derby, Winchester 400, and Martinsville 300 for Late Model Stocks are crown jewel events, but nothing can compare to competing and putting on an event at Bristol Motor Speedway."

The six categories of racing to be featured at the U.S. Nationals of Short Track Racing presented by Vore’s Welding & Steel are:

Super Late Models – The premier division ofasphalt short track racing cars in the United States. These cars typically feature 600-plus horsepower engines under the hood of a custom built chassis weighing around 2,750 pounds.

Pro Late Models – These racecars are similar to those in Super Late Model but they all must utilize a specific factory crate engine. The crate engines are built by the participating auto manufacturers, including General Motors and Ford.

Late Model Stocks – These machines evolved in the Carolinas and are raced primarily at weekly asphalt tracks located throughout the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. These cars weigh approximately 3,100 pounds and their engines pump out about 400 horsepower.

Street Stocks – This entry category is a popular developmental opportunity for those who aspire to gain experience and become future stars of


key ideas being presented in his article “Building the State, Making the Nation: The Bases and Limits of State Centralization in “Modern” Peru”.

Nugent presents us with a detailed history of the department and city of Chachapoyas in Northeastern Perú over the past century. Early in the 20th century the national capital in Lima exercised little direct authority over the department given its physical isolation and the fact that it was not connected by a proper road to the rest of the country. Instead, the department was controlled by a group of powerful families, castas, who controlled not land, but local politics. They used this political hegemony to staff and control all the positions of the state, most importantly the police force. Their main source of income was thetaxes that they were able to extract from the population. The castas ruled, but they did so by occupying the positions of the state that in the early 1930s began to change its relationship to these local elites. In 1931 the National Election Law introduced a secret ballot, extended the franchise and made voting obligatory and generally weakened the control of the castas over local elections. In 1933 the local police force was abolished and a well-trained Guardia Civil composed of people from outside the region took its place. The national state began to exert its control over local administrative appointments and particularly the collection and allocation of tax revenues. Also important was educational transformation. Prior to 1930 the castas had appointed all the teachers in the department


and did so as part of a clientelistic political strategy to keep power. After 1930 the national Ministry of Education gradually began to exercise control over appointments.

Clearly what was going on here was the extension of state authority and power to integrate Chachapoyas more firmly into the Peruvian state. Nugent shows that though this might have been highly adverse for the castas, it was not so for everyone. Most important, what put this dynamic of expansion into motion was not some autonomous impulse from Lima coercively imposed, but local demands from Chachapoyas.

Chachapoyas was the fiefdom of the castas, but Perú had a constitution which enshrined things like the rule of law, security of property. During the 1920s Nugent shows how social mobilization in Chachapoyas, mostly started by afew elites who had got an education in Lima, began to demand the end of casta rule. Critically, they demanded the expansion of state power as a tool to free the society from the rule of the castas who they saw as violators of their basic rights as Peruvian citizens. As Nugent puts it

In the first phase (in the 1930s) the state was proclaimed the legitimate protector and potential liberator of a self-defined “moral community” – a local, marginalized group that sought to free itself from the control of local powerholders – who actively assisted the state in effecting a more complete integration of regional territory and nationalization of regional population.

So this is James Scott’s thesis upside down! Rather than fleeing from the state and resisting it, ordinary


US-based Canadian mountain jumper dies in Italy

ROME (AP) — A Canadian extreme sportsman died during a parachute jump in Italy’s Dolomite mountains after he crashed between two rock towers, Italian rescuers said Wednesday.

Mario Richard, 47, was jumping from a 1,000-meter (3,300-foot) peak in the Val di Fossa near Bolzano on Monday when he apparently failed to clear a rock by three meters, said Gino Comelli, of the Alpine rescue service in Val di Fassa who was one of the rescuers at the scene.

“There are two mountain walls connected by a rock. Richard arrived three meters too low, on this rock. Then, he rolled over in a canal,” Comelli told The Associated Press.

Richard was jumping with a group of Italians and Canadians, wearing a webbed wingsuit designed to provideextra lift for flight. He had already done three successful jumps from the same peak the previous day, Comelli said.

Richard lived in Utah, where he helped run Moab B.A.S.E. Adventures. B.A.S.E. stands for Building, Antenna, Span, Earth — the different platforms used by jumpers.

His remains were being held in the nearby town of Canazei, pending cremation and repatriation to the United States, according to Rita Marchetti from Canazei’s city hall.

Richard is the second well-known jumper to die in a week. Mark Sutton, the skydiver who parachuted into London’s Olympic Stadium during the opening of London’s 2012 Games, died Aug. 14 in Switzerland when he crashed into a rocky ridge.


Business Association elects new board,
officers

During the annual meeting on September 16, 2003, The Cedar Mill Business
Association selected a new board of directors and a new executive
committee. Returning as president is Brian Harvey of American Family Insurance.
Peter
Leonard, Library Director, will serve as Vice President/President
Elect. Linda Teufel of Teufel Nursery will continue as Secretary, and June
Newcomer of
Mr. James Hairstyling will continue as Treasurer.in there, missy?"

"Yes, sir. But he's sleeping."

"I'll wait. Got no place else to be." I noticed that one sleeve of the man's jacket was empty, pinned across his body in a hollow embrace. He'd come to see my father about his arm, no doubt. Although Father's passion was clock making, and he used to be a machinist at the navy yard, he tinkered with mechanical devices of all sorts, including body parts.

With his other hand, the man skillfully pinched a wad of tobacco from a snuff tin, dropped it back into his pocket, then pressed the leaves into his cheek. His fingers moved with the grace and dexterity of an illusionist doing a card trick. He leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.

Delicate morning light drifted in


what's in the other room?"

Geeno's face fell. "I try to help some little creatures but . . ." He looked down at the floor. "I kill them. They not at all like clocks."

I'd never seen him so sad. "Geeno, it's not your fault. You can't fix a living thing."

"But they hurt. They need someone to help them."

I wondered if Geeno's desire to help the broken creatures stemmed from his parents' death and his life alone here. I wished he could go to school, have a mother to take care of him, cook for him. I wished he had a little magic in his life.

"I show you?" He stood and pointed to the small door.

"Sure, you go first." I hoped the scorpion he'd shown me wasn't running loose backshe meant. "Hurricane! What are you insinuating?"

"Please don't say anything to Katalina," she whispered, glancing back to the tent's entrance, "but I think your mother was Mr. Moralis's mistress."

## Chapter Seventeen

Violence in the Streets

Hurricane told me that she'd seen my mother secretly visit Mr. Moralis on numerous occasions in the months leading up to the Midsummer's Eve festival. "I didn't know who she was until I saw her come into the tent with your father. A moment later, your father snatched you away from Indigo."

"Don't be ridiculous." My mother would not have told me to come find Mr. Moralis if she was having an adulterous affair with him. But I had a bitter tang in my mouth. I asked Hurricane if she'd said this to anyone else. She


him to me. "I know."

Geeno's chin quivered, and he ran off as quickly as he'd appeared. I wished I could go console him.

My father checked my bandaged arm. "Did Khan tell you about the assembly?"

"No. What assembly?"

"Khan told me you gave him the combination to a safe in Roland Malice's office. He and Tony snuck in and opened it."

"What?"

"Inside the safe was a letter signed by your old boss. It incriminates his father, Tyber Malice, and Ogden Boggs, among others, in a scheme to poison the water, to control the laborers."

"A letter? This is the answer to our prayers. It's evidence."

"That's correct." My father nodded. "And as we know, the authorities are corrupt, and Tammany Hall probably knew about the plan, so Khan brought it to the newspapers.In his latest novel, French writer Michel Houellebecq presents a controversial situation: The year is 2022, and France has become an Islamicized country where universities have to teach the Koran, women have to wear the veil and polygamy is legal. The book, which created a stir in France, went on sale Jan. 7. That day, a group of terrorists killed 12 people at the headquarters of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Also on Jan. 7, German Chancellor Angela Merkel met British Prime Minister David Cameron in London. Although the formal reason for the meeting was to discuss the upcoming G-7 summit, the two leaders also discussed Cameron's proposals to limit migration in Europe. Finally, a much less publicized event took place in Germany that day: A group of politicians


from the Euroskeptic Alternative for Germany party met with members of Pegida, the anti-Islam protest group that has staged large protests in Dresden and minor protests in other German cities.

The date of these four episodes is only a coincidence, but the issues involved are not. A growing number of Europeans believe that people from other cultures are threatening their national identities and livelihoods. The emergence of Germany's Pegida movement, which opposes the "Islamization" of Germany, the terrorist attack in Paris and the recent attacks against mosques in Sweden put the focus on Muslims. But the Europeans' fear and mistrust of "foreigners" is a much broader phenomenon that goes beyond the issue of Islam-related violence. What is actually happening is that Europe is rediscovering nationalism.

The Limits of European Integration

Europetraditionally has been a cradle for nationalism. From the romantic nationalism of the 19th century to the totalitarianism of the 20th century, Europeans have long defined themselves by a strong sentiment of national belonging, often linked to language, ethnicity and religion, and distrust of foreigners. The love for the place you were born, the trust of the people who surround you, and the fear of what strangers could do to you and your community is a basic human feeling. But in Europe, nationalism is particularly notable for the sheer scale of death and destruction it historically has brought to the Continent.

Conscious of the dangers of nationalism, after World War II Europeans sought to weaken the nation-state and progressively replace it with the European Union, a grouping of supranational


also leading to a crisis of representation; a growing number of citizens no longer feel represented by mainstream political parties, unions and other traditional institutions.

The second element is immigration. The economic crisis is affecting the Continent unevenly; countries in northern Europe generally are faring better than those in the south. In addition, the European Union's enlargement in the mid 2000s opened the door for immigration from countries in the former Communist bloc. As a result, countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands are dealing with immigration from southern and eastern EU countries.

Moreover, Europe's economic crisis coincides with a deepening of the chronic instability in the Middle East and the Levant. This instability has led to a refugee crisis in Europe as hundreds of thousands ofcultural barriers, many foreigners find it hard to feel at home in their new countries of residence. In some cases, this situation continues for generations.

Youth unemployment, lack of opportunities and social discrimination were some of the triggers of the French riots of 2005. A decade later, nothing much has changed in France in terms of integration, while the economic crisis has compounded some of the country's structural problems, and Islamist groups such as the Islamic State are successfully using social networks to attract Western European youth.

European nationals returning home after receiving training in the Middle East perpetrated many of the recent terrorist attacks in Europe. Since the outbreak of civil war in Syria, more than 550 Islamists reportedly have left Germany to travel to the region. Slightly more


than half of them held German citizenship. French media recently reported that some 400 French nationals are fighting in Syria. There is a vicious cycle of young men and women who feel disenfranchised and discriminated against turning to violence — which only fuels anti-immigration and anti-Islam rhetoric.

Political Systems Under Duress

Western European governments are under considerable stress. They have to deal with immigration from less-developed EU nations while trying to assimilate the asylum seekers that arrive from the Mediterranean. Simultaneously, they face the emergence of anti-immigration parties (from the National Front in France to the U.K. Independence Party in the United Kingdom) and recurring terrorist attacks by nationals who received training in the Middle East. Many Western European countries have to deal with these problems alongside stagnating economies andpervasively high unemployment. The combination of economic malaise and resistance to immigration is seriously challenging the cohesion of the European Union.

National and regional governments are questioning the Schengen agreement, which eliminates border controls among most EU member states. In recent months, a debate erupted when the government of the German state of Bavaria accused the Italian government of allowing asylum seekers (who, according to EU norms, should have remained in Italy) to leave the country and request asylum somewhere else in the bloc. Rome demanded more solidarity among EU members in the reception of refugees. From Bavaria's point of view, the Schengen agreement should be suspended. From Italy's point of view, the European Union cannot force its coastal nations to bear the sole responsibility of housing the asylum


on EU immigration. Germany quickly dismissed the idea, and London eventually abandoned it. But the fact that a moderate government in a core EU country is making these proposals reflects the extent to which the debate over migration in the European Union is no longer at the ideological fringes of the political spectrum.

After decades of post-war supranationalism, the Europeans are once again discussing their national identities. The French tried to start a discussion in 2009, when then-President Nicolas Sarkozy launched a public debate on "what it means to be French" — an exercise that degenerated quickly into a discussion of the role of Muslims in the country. The Pegida protests led to similar debates in Germany, a country that for historical reasons feels extremely uncomfortable with the topicMeek Mill should get new trial before a new judge, district attorney says

PHILADELPHIA - The district attorney of Philadelphia is calling for a new trial for rapper Meek Mill before a new judge.

The brief submitted Wednesday by District Attorney Larry Krasner says former Judge Genece Brinkley's court "abused its discretion" in 2017 in sentencing Mill to two to four years for violating an old gun charge.

Mill, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, was released after serving four months. Mill's sentence for a minor probation violation became a lightning rod for criminal justice reform .

Krasner, who has called for Brinkley's removal in the past, said Mill should get a new trial before a different judge. The brief criticized Brinkley for checking up on Mill at a homeless shelter


and November (OPV+VAS); in 2005, campaigns were in November (OPV only) and December (OPV+VAS).

The OPV campaigns were conducted by staff from the three health centres in the study area. They went from house to house. The nurses were accompanied by trained HDSS fieldworkers who had lists of all children in the study area generated from the HDSS database. Fieldworkers were followed by a supervisor for at least 1 day during the 4-day long campaigns. The fieldworkers registered the presence of the children, and whether they received OPV (and VAS) on that day, or whether they had received it elsewhere.

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The timing of the campaigns was decided by national public health authorities. The authors decided after the campaigns had occurred to examine whether the campaigns had an impact onin the community got the campaign-OPV on the first day of the campaign.

During the conduct of the present RCT, there was a national MV campaign (5/2006). The children in the two-dose trial were exempted from taking part in the MV campaign.[@R3] In addition, there were national VAS campaigns in November 2003, and VAS and mebendazole campaigns in May and December 2006, July and December 2007, July 2008, and January and July of 2009. These VAS campaigns did not affect the mortality rate within the MV trial; the mortality rate after VAS campaigns versus before VAS campaigns was 0.92 (0.63 to 1.35).

*Outcome measures and models*: We present deaths and observation time together with MRR (two-dose/one-dose MV) from a Cox model with age as the underlying time scale and stratified


tenure on the soap.  The title is also likely a play on Tucker's Luck, a spin-off of the children's series Grange Hill.
 Patrick Kielty's Streets of Fundom, where Patrick Kielty performs various completely meaningless actions while roaming the streets of Britain, such as wearing a Viking helmet, climbing onto the back of a man dressed as a cartoon Hitler and then letting off party poppers each time he passes an elderly woman.

Television
The TVGoHome format itself, or elements derived from it, have featured within several television comedy and entertainment programmes.

A TVGoHome comedy sketch show was produced in 2001, consisting of six half-hour episodes broadcast on E4, later compiled into a smaller number of 'highlights' shows for broadcast on Channel 4. It was written by Brooker, among others, andMen have long sought to derive energy from the sun. Many of such endeavors are described in the book "Solar Energy" by Daniel Behrman, published by Little Brown & Co., copyright 1976. Such book describes, for example, the use of concave mirrors to perform burning experiments, and the use of a burning glass by Lavoisier which was turned to follow the sun. More recent work includes the use of a field of many mirrors which are turned to follow the sun and which reflect their incident rays onto a boiler. The Honeywell company is presently employing a parabolic trough collector which is tipped to face the sun and which is turned to follow the sun by clockwork. Other methods of tracking the sun by solar energy collectors are


24 mpg city and 31 mpg highway, FWD Outlander Sport models fitted with the CVT are the most efficient of the various configurations, though the advantage is negligible. In fact, the EPA suggests all variants will average 24 mpg around town, and even the AWD Outlander Sport is expected to return 29 mpg on the highway.

Safety Ratings and TechnologyIn crash tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport received an overall rating of 4 (out of 5) stars. In tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), the 2014 Outlander Sport received an "Acceptable" rating for small overlap front-impact protection; the Outlander Sport was also named a "Top Safety Pick" by the Institute.

In terms of equipment, the 2014 OutlanderWawrzyniec Cyl

Wawrzyniec Cyl (July 2, 1900 – February 7, 1974) was a Polish footballer (striker or defender) who played all of his career in ŁKS Łódź. He played four times for Poland national football team from 1923 to 1925. He represented Poland at 1924 Summer Olympics.

References
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could be play-acting. Shahrol takes
the bum rap, and perhaps will be amply rewarded sometime in the future. The thing
to do on urgent basis, to borrow a favourite
term from the report, is to shield the PM at at costs.

Let us
start from the very beginning. 1MDB was born out of the death of another.

We will
never know what made the Terengganu government gave up TIA and ceded the SWF to
1MDB. Power and money in the hands of another become one’s enemy as the Terengganu
government found out. With power and money concentrated in the hands of Najib,
the man whose motto is cash is king can do whatever he wishes.

The hasil
minyak tertunggak means what? - does it mean the federal government held
back RM6billion of money due to the state? If the federal governmentthe outset.

Why did the
Terengganu Government object to government guarantee to secure the RM5 billion
loan? Was it because the terms of the guarantee were so onerous? Or as
suggested on page 9 of The Report (PAC Report), the agreement for the issuance
of the Islamic IOU, violated the terms set out and wanted by MBI Terengganu.

The MB of Terengganu
then must now reveal to all what were the terms of the MBI set out.

In ancient days,
the Terengganu warrior Megat Panji Alam was killed when he was stabled from
behind. This time, the Terengganu government was stabled by backbone-less Najib.
Najib buggered TIA into giving up and 1MDB came into being. Its birth was preceded
by the killing of TIA.

Right from
the beginning, Shahrol Azrai is singled out as a culprit for rushing ahead and ignoring
the terms


Street Artist Kidult Vandalizes Marc Jacobs NYC Boutique

The infamous street artist Kidult vandalized a Marc Jacobs NYC storefront, as he checks off yet another high-profile designer from his hitlist. The SoHo boutique was tagged with the word "ART" scrawled across the brick exterior in fluroscent pink spray paint.

Kidult is known for his series of defaced designer storefronts where the likes of Hermes, Christian Louboutin, Céline and Louis Vuitton have all reserved their fair share of paint. The artist's website also shows other works providing cheeky parodies of clothing brands like Supreme and YSL.

The street artist states on his site the reasoning behind his vandalistic retail works is to provide a commentary on how luxury brands have abused graffiti art for commercial purposes. These labels have glamorized the naturea desired charge to the toner particles, and further transports the charged toner particles to a surface of a photoreceptor to thereby form a toner image on the photoreceptor. The ferrite carrier particles remaining on a development roll holding a magnet are again returned from the development roll to the development box, mixed and stirred with fresh toner particles, and used repeatedly in a definite period.
In a two-component developer, unlike a one-component developer, ferrite carrier particles have functions of being mixed and stirred with toner particles to charge the toner particles and transporting the toner particles, and have good controllability on designing a developer. Therefore, the two-component developer is suitable for full-color development apparatuses requiring a high image quality, high-speed printing apparatuses requiring reliability and durability in image


Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is a serious complications, the diagnosis of which is often delayed due to the masking of symptoms and unusual presentations. ACS is a surgical emergency and definitive treatment being fasciotomy. We describe a case of a 21-year-old male with history of sustaining a blast injury alongwith loss of consciousness for 10 min following the injury and a nose bleed. On arrival at the hospital, his Glasgow Coma Scale was 15/15. He gave a history of regular alcohol consumption. There was no other significant medical history.

The trauma protocol revealed fractures of the right medial malleolus with an open wound, left proximal tibia, and right zygomatic arch and abrasions to the face, hands, and legs. Computed tomography of the brain showed scalp hematoma and an otherwiseindia

Updated: Jun 01, 2019 21:26 IST

A 25-year-old tourist guide lost his life while saving five people after their raft capsized in Lidder river flowing through south Kashmir’s Pahalgam. The incident happened late on Friday, when a couple from West Bengal, along with their guide and two locals, insisted Dar to take them rafting in Lidder river. According to an official, Dar accompanied the five as their tourist guide despite locals advising him against it due to the strong river currents. The raft capsized at a rafting point in Mawoora, Pahalgam, after it was caught in a sudden gust of wind and all the people on board fell. Dar rescued all five but, while helping others, the strong river currents swept him away.

Chief Executive Officer (Pahalgam), Nasir Ahmad Lone,


The preoperative examination revealed a healthy man with no evidence of lymphadenopathy.

An endoscopic intranasal ethmoidotomy was performed under general anesthesia. Intraoperatively, the lesion was seen to arise from the anterior ethmoid sinus and abutted the lacrimal sac; the margin in the coronal plane extended from the frontal recess to the maxillary ostium. A biopsy of frozen tissue was performed and the histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of osteoma. An electric drill was used to resect the tumor in the nasal cavity. However, the anterolateral margin of the osteoma extending into the orbit was not visible. A 3-cm incision was therefore made between the inner canthus and anterior aspect of the nasal bones to expose the anterolateral margin of the tumor. The osteoma was removed using a drill andBlast rips through a bus in the Kizilay neighbourhood, killing at least 37 people in the last attack to hit Turkey

At least 37 people have died after a car bomb exploded in the Turkish capital Ankara, less than a month after a suicide car bomber killed dozens of military personnel and civilians in the city.

Mehmet Muezzinoglu, the health minister, said a further 71 people were still being treated in hospital, with 15 in a serious condition. At least one or two of the dead were attackers, he said. The Ankara governor’s office also confirmed that the explosion was caused by a car bomb.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed to defeat terrorists who have staged a series of attacks on Turkey in the past 18 months.

“These attacks, which threaten our


of responsibility for the attack. Turkish media reported that the interior minister, Efkan Ala, talked to Erdoğan via telephone to inform him about details of the blast. The prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, met leading security officials.

Later, a court in Ankara banned Twitter and Facebook after images from the scene of the blast were shared online.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest People and security forces gather around the wreckage of a car at the scene of a blast in Ankara. Photograph: Erol Uceem/AFP/Getty Images

Less than a month ago, a car bomb killed 29 people and wounded at least 60 others in Ankara. The militant Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) claimed responsibility for the attack and said on its website that the bombing came in retaliation for ongoing security operations in the predominantly Kurdishhas suffered a string of bloody terrorist attacks in the past 19 months, most of which were blamed on Isis militants, who are said to be responsible for at least four bomb attacks on Turkish soil since June 2015. Last October, a twin suicide attack targeting a peace rally organised by Kurdish and leftist groups in Ankara killed 103 people and wounded 250 more in the deadliest terrorist attack in the country’s recent history.

On 11 March, the US embassy in Ankara issued a warned about a potential terrorist attack that might target Turkish government buildings.


Lincoln Center now hosts New York’s semi-annual Fashion Week, but this spring a different kind of catwalk will unfold at the culture hub. A slightly skewed pedestrian bridge designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) will span across 65th Street, linking the main campus to the Rose Building and Juilliard. The bridge represents the last component of the Center’s renovation project. After an extensive effort to remove the bulky Milstein Plaza, which loomed over 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, the street finally saw daylight for the first time in decades. But foot traffic between Julliard, the Rose building, and the main campus remains heavy. It’s a major concern for the dancers from the School of American Ballet, some as young as seven, who must now navigateLeonid Razvozzhayev says he was seized in Ukraine and taken to Russia, where he was forced to sign a confession, the group says. Authorities deny the claim.

MOSCOW — An opposition activist being held by Russian authorities says he was kidnapped from Ukraine, tortured and forced to sign a confession, a human rights group said Wednesday.

Leonid Razvozzhayev told five members of the Public Observer Commission on Tuesday night that he was abducted Friday in Kiev, smuggled back to Russia and subjected to ill treatment and psychological torment that compelled him to sign and read on videotape a 10-page confession of plotting to organize mass disturbances.

After meeting with the activist, commission leader Valery Borshchev expressed grave concerns that Russian authorities were returning to Stalinist methods of suppressing dissent.

"I am afraid


our country is stepping into a new stage: the restoration of ways and methods of the Stalinist period," Borshchev, a dissident during the Soviet era, said at a news conference Wednesday in Moscow. "This kidnapping demonstrates that we are returning to the same system of persecuting dissent successfully used by the regime in the '30s and '40s, which is a very alarming signal."

Russia's Investigative Committee, which previously said Razvozzhayev had turned himself in and confessed voluntarily, denied Wednesday that he had been abused in custody.

"The Investigative Committee didn't receive any official statements from Leonid Razvozzhayev about torture, kidnapping or any other illegal activities," Vladimir Markin, the committee's spokesman, said in televised remarks, adding that the agency would investigate the activist's charges.

Razvozzhayev, together with opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov andanother associate, Konstantin Lebedev, was accused this month in a documentary aired by the pro-Kremlin NTV television network of meeting with politicians from neighboring Georgia to discuss funding subversive activities in Russia.

Georgia is the only post-Soviet republic that doesn't have diplomatic relations with Russia. The two countries waged a five-day war in August 2008 over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, regions that have declared their independence from Georgia and have been recognized by Russia and a handful of other countries.

Lebedev was arrested last week, and rights activists said they believe Udaltsov will be arrested Friday.

On Wednesday, a United Nations official in Kiev said Razvozzhayev was in the Ukrainian capital on Friday seeking asylum and was told to speak to lawyers with a local nongovernmental organization.

The NGO's lawyers "got alarmed


by his prolonged absence and tried to get in touch with him on his cell, which appeared to be switched off," Alexandra Makovskaya, a spokeswoman at the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Kiev, said in a phone interview.

Razvozzhayev surfaced in Moscow on Sunday afternoon escorted by guards in a district court to face charges. A video posted on YouTube featured him shouting out before being put into a waiting minivan: "They tortured me for two days after kidnapping in Kiev!"

Borshchev and his colleagues said at the news conference Wednesday that Razvozzhayev appeared anxious and spoke with difficulty when they met with him at Moscow's Lefortovo prison.

Borshchev said the activist told them he was on a Kiev street seeking food during lunchtime Friday when fourmen, three of them wearing masks, pushed him into a minivan, bound his wrists and ankles with handcuffs linked so that he had to bend over forward, and covered his eyes. The few words spoken by one kidnapper carried a Ukrainian accent, Razvozzhayev said. After five hours of driving, the van stopped somewhere, presumably on the Russian-Ukrainian border, and he was handed over to four other men in another van who took him to a nearby house.

Razvozzhayev told the rights group he was held in the basement for two days without food or a toilet, still handcuffed and chained, and was shoved around and subjected to psychological torture.

"The masked men told him, 'You are outside the law here,'" Borshchev said. "They told him that they will bury him


and no one will know where his grave is."

Razvozzhayev told them his captors also threatened to kill his wife and two children unless he confessed in writing to the things they dictated, adding that he finally broke when they threatened him with an injection that they said would make him an idiot for life.

Borshchev said he expects the video of Razvozzhayev's confession to appear soon on federal television.

Said Zoya Svetova, the rights group's secretary, "I am very much afraid that now operatives and investigators will work with him again and try to persuade him to write that all he told us was untrue."

Later in the day, satirical writer Viktor Shenderovich picketed in front of the Federal Security Service, the successor agency to the KGB, with a sign reading,Bush tour sparks violent protests in Latin America

A military police agent lashes out at a demonstrator in Sao Paulo during a protest against the visit of US President George W. Bush on Thursday in the main avenue of Brazil's economic capital.

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The beginning of US President George W. Bush's five-nation Latin American tour sparked protests across the region on Thursday, with thousands of demonstrators and police clashing in Brazil and students in Colombia lobbing explosives at authorities.

More than 6,000 students, environmentalists and left-leaning Brazilians held a largely peaceful march through the heart of Sao Paulo before police fired tear gas at protesters and beat them with batons. Hundreds fled and ducked into businesses to avoid the chaos, some of them bloodied.

Authorities did not say how many people had


been injured, but Brazilian media said at least 18 people were hurt and news photographs showed injured people being carried away.

Protesters said scuffles broke out when radical demonstrators provoked officers and threw rocks and sticks at them -- but said police overreacted. A police officer who declined to give his name in keeping with department policy confirmed that extremists appeared to cause the confrontations.

After the clash, the protest continued peacefully but with far fewer people. The marchers waved communist flags and railed against Bush, the war in Iraq and the ethanol proposal. Almost all had departed by sundown, and the streets were calm several hours later when Bush arrived in Sao Paulo.

In the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, more than 500 people yelled "Get Out, Imperialist!" asof meddling in the South American nation's internal affairs by sending some US$700 million a year in mostly military aid.

Colombia is beefing up security in the capital for Bush's visit tomorrow, the first by a sitting US president since Ronald Reagan in 1982. About 21,000 security agents will patrol the capital.

Asked about the protests, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Bush "enjoys traveling to thriving democracies where freedom of speech and expression are the law of the land. He has a positive agenda here that we believe the people of Brazil and the rest of the Americas will benefit from."

Some protesters in Brazil carried stalks of sugarcane -- which is used to make ethanol -- and a banner reading: "For every liter of ethanol produced, 4 liters of


fresh water are consumed, monoculture is destroying the nation's greatest asset."

"Bush and the United States go to war to control oil reserves, and now Bush and his pals are trying to control the production of ethanol in Brazil. And that has to be stopped," said Suzanne Pereira dos Santos of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement.Clinical tetrad of arthritis, urethritis, conjunctivitis, and mucocutaneous lesions (HLA-B27-associated spondyloarthropathy, Reiter syndrome): report of a case.
A 21-year-old male patient with the clinical tetrad of arthritis, urethritis, conjunctivitis, and mucocutaneous lesions, commonly known as Reiter syndrome was presented. He was hospitalized in poor condition, with fever, bilateral conjunctivitis, swollen and painful knee and tarsal joints, low back pain, Achilles tendonitis, dactilitis, keratoderma blenorrhagica, purulent urethritis, circinate balanitis, and oral erosive lesions. Radiography and Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT) showed sacroileitis, spondilosis thoracalis, and arthritis of the feet. The laboratory studies revealed anemia, neutrophilic leukocytosis, elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), hypoalbuminemia, negative rheumatoid factor, pyuria, proteinuria, and the presence of HLA-B27. The microbiological examinations of samples from pustular lesions, throat, eyes, urethra, stool, and blood were sterile. Urethral smear was


The Lakers will not renew Andre Ingram 's contract, and will send the 33-year-old back to the South Bay Lakers after his latest stint with the team. (AP/Nuccio DiNuzzo)

It appears that Andre Ingram’s latest stint with the Los Angeles Lakers has come to an end.

The Lakers — who signed Ingram to a 10-day contract earlier this month, nearly one year after he made his NBA debut as a 32-year-old with the franchise in perhaps the best feel-good story of last season — are not renewing his contract, according to Bill Oram of The Athletic.

The Lakers are not renewing Andre Ingram's 10-day contract, source says. — Bill Oram (@billoram) March 20, 2019

Ingram will return to the South Bay Lakers for their final two games of the season this week,last year, too, before he was sent back to the G League.

Ingram — who has been in the developmental league for 11 seasons and is the leader in games played in the league — has averaged 8.6 points and 2.7 rebounds in 35 games for the South Bay Lakers this season.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Luck's big secret is finally out. He's been throwing a football for weeks — and now he's throwing in public, too.

Nearly 17 months after undergoing surgery on his injured right shoulder, Luck jogged onto the practice field Tuesday wearing a red jersey, strapping on a helmet and picking up a special ball as he started throwing in front of reporters for the first time since October.

No, it wasn't a regulation NFL ball and the longest pass he attempted was only about a 20-yard lob, but it still was progress.David Benkof

An article in the September issue of GQ discuses the recent increase in same-sex rape in the military. It reports, with many examples, that most victims of sexual assault in the armed forces are men, and that their rapists are nearly always other men.

Military Sexual Trauma (MST) is on the rise for both men and women, according to a Pentagon report earlier this year that was widely covered in news outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, and CNN.

But virtually none of that coverage addressed an obvious aspect of the problem: the 2011 introduction of open service by gays and bisexuals undoubtedly has increased the incidence of sexual assault against men in uniform. Despite repeated LGBT assurances that integrating gays


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Once the keys find their way to the ignition, she gives the key a turn, hoping that the car fired up on the first try.

In the truck, Garcia pulls out and starts to circle around the house to the front.

Bart jumps on the ATV and gets it started quickly. Turning the bars around to the left, he throws


up gravel into the pickup as he accelerates around the house to where Danny is now running down the road.

After dropping the keys, Amy dives down to get them but they aren't where she first thought and she has to turn to look for them. Just as she spots a glint next to her door, Millie says, "Amyamyamyamyamyamy!" Amy looks up and the second walker is closing on the jeep as she jams the key into the ignition. The dead slams his arm down, shuddering the vehicle and Millie and Jay start screaming. The key turns and after a few stutters, it turns over humming steadily. Amy slams it into gear and stomps the accelerator, spinning the wheels until they grab, and follows Garcia around. Then she seesin vain as the man cannot hear all the way in the other vehicle. Turning to the next best option, she gives repeated short blasts of the horn hoping to attract the man's attention, hoping the solider would know what to do. All the while, in the back her head the crazy thought of Pin him! Pin him! ran through her mind.

Bart takes the ATV across the road and into the field to the right of it giving Danny a chance to cut across and hop on which would lead the walkers into the field and open the road up for the other vehicles, he just hoped Danny notices and thinks the same thing.

When Garcia doesn't respond quickly enough, Amy takes matters into her own hands and stomps


the accelerator of the Jeep just a little too hard. The Jeep hits the truck as Garcia is making the turn onto the road and the walker is thrown down in front of the Jeep. Amy rolls over him as she attempts to control the now careening vehicle. The Jeep ends up in the ditch across the road. Garcia turns the wheel first one way and then another as he slams the brakes and comes to a stop short of the trees north of the house.

Bart takes the ATV along the other side of the ditch that Amy now rests in and accelerates past the walkers intent on the lieutenant. The trailer causes him to go slowly but still quicker than the dead and they watch as hepasses now intent on him.

Danny turns at the sound of the Jeep hitting the truck and sees Bart approaching. He climbs on when the ATV pulls along side.

Once the Jeep stopped, Amy let loose a short expletive. Checking back she sees Jay's banged up condition and begins to mentally berate herself. "Well get that looked at as soon as we're safe honey, okay?" she calls over her shoulder, not really giving the boy a chance to respond before looking at her situation, trying to find the quickest and easiest way back onto the road.


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contributing to delinquency. The maximum sentence for the incest charge is 10 years in prison. The child, a boy, was born in September, the station reported. Steven Pladl was released on a $1 million bond. Katie Pladl’s bond is also $1 million but as of last week she was still being held in a North Carolina jail. They appeared in court last week. The charges were brought in Virginia where authorities believe the relationship began.

As Michigan Rep. John Conyers Jr. has resisted calls from within the Democratic Party to resign over allegations of sexual harassment, some people close to his grandnephew, Michigan Sen. Ian Conyers, have been asking a different question: When is the time for the 29-year-old to seriously consider running if there is a special election?Apparently that time is now. Reached by BuzzFeed News, Ian Conyers said he was focused on his re-election campaign for state Senate, but had given serious thought to running for his great uncle’s seat. “If he resigns or retires, I will run for the seat,” he...

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An online petition calling for the impeachment of a Montana judge over the sentencing of a 40-year-old man to 60 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to raping his 12-year-old daughter has more than 30,000 signatures. The man was sentenced to the jail time, plus a 30-year suspended prison term last week as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. District Judge John McKeon gave the man credit for time served, meaning he would spend only an additional 43 days in jail as long as he met the conditions of his probation. The plea agreement had recommended a 25-year...

GLASGOW, Mont. -- An eastern Montana man has been given a 30-year suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to raping his 12-year-old daughter last year. District Judge John McKeonsentenced the man to 60 days in jail for incest, giving him credit for 17 already served, the Glasgow Courier reported. The man also was ordered to complete community-based sex-offender treatment and register as a sex offender. The Associated Press is not naming the man to avoid identifying the victim of a sexual assault. Deputy Valley County Attorney Dylan Jensen recommended a 100-year prison sentence with 75 years suspended - as...

We do not generally celebrate the birthdays of saints. We celebrate the date of their deaths, because how we end our lives is more important than how we begin them. However, St. John the Baptist is one of the two exceptions to this rule. We celebrate both the conception and the birth of St. John as well as


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An Oklahoma mother and daughter are behind bars after it was revealed they had an incestuous marriage. Patricia Ann Spann, 43, and Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 25, were married in March 2016 in Comanche County. It has since been revealed that Patricia Spann, also known as Patricia Clayton, was previously married to one of her sons, Jody Calvin Spann, in 2008.

DUNCAN, Okla. – A mother and daughter from Oklahoma are accused of having an incestuous marriage. Patricia Spann, 43, and Misty Spann, 25, were married in March 2016Indianapolis Colts Football

Each week Colts.com will take a look at the rest of the AFC South and review the previous weekend’s games.

Patriots 42, Texans 14

-The Texans suffered their second loss of the season on Monday night. New England jumped out to a 21-0 halftime lead and the deficit was too much for the Texans to rally from. Houston wide receiver Andre Johnson had eight catches for 95 yards on against the Patriots. The Texans two losses have come against the Packers and Patriots and they hold head-to-head tiebreakers against the Broncos and Ravens. Houston still remains atop the AFC with a one game lead and finishes the season with two games against Indianapolis sandwiched around a home date with Minnesota.

NEXT GAME: Indianapolis, Sunday at 1:00 p.m.

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the early history of the Republic and finally brought the US Civil War; the postwar lawlessness in the states of the former Confederacy was the petri dish for the development of the Klan and the debasement of the Democratic Party into the party of Southern resistance to equality.

Dr. King scorned the proponents of states’ rights, their “lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification,” and yet – the Civil Rights movement was a popular bottom-up uprising against the de facto Jim Crow of the post-World War II US, its schools still segregated, the military just beginning to integrate, the power structure still casually white supremacist even among members of the modernizing coastal Democratic Party. The legacy of the New Deal, still revered and preserved by those samea lost NBA All-star Game in a state where basketball has near-religious cachet. We may forget that the original impetus for that law was bigoted Republican legislators clamping down on a gender-identification statute in Charlotte that allowed transgender persons freedom to choose facilities on their own.

Provocations like that have ballooned under the Trump regime, which is rolling back improvements in everyone’s quality of life. Cities and even states are fighting back. But as David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic, bad things are still happening, particularly in states where Republicans control all branches of government.

As Graham put it in a piece reposted in Route Fifty, “there has been a major wave of state preemption laws around the country in recent years, the fruit of an era in which


Derek E. Davis, introduced a bill in the 2017 Assembly session that would have pre-empted local county governments like Montgomery, or Baltimore city, from raising the minimum wage beyond that set by the legislature for the state.

Davis is chair of the powerful House Economic Matters Committee, where pro-worker bills traditionally go to die, year after year, at the hands of a largely conservative though Democratic-dominated committee.

“Under the measure — which is similar to laws in place in Oklahoma, Alabama, South Carolina, Texas and Missouri — local governments could only set base pay for their own employees,” the WaPo reported.

Pushback was immediate and loud, and the bill went nowhere. Counties wanted more autonomy, regardless of their generosity or lack of it, and advocates for working families like Progressive Marylandas well.

The goal of my project was to emphasize the need for society to stop placing such high importance on gender, and all the expectations gender warrants. I've created a stimulating visual packed with information from many sources, colorful imagery, and my own personal views of this pressing topic.

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Figure skater Czisny has been where Flatt is going

Rachael Flatt's decision to defer her Stanford education a year received a rousing endorsement from someone who knows. Alissa Czisny, who preceded Flatt's 2010 national title with the 2009 crown, graduated from Bowling Green State last May.

For four years, Czisny trained and studied, studied and trained, while her competitors merely trained and trained and trained.

Both will skate Sunday at the Pepsi Center as part of the Smucker's Stars on Ice exhibition. They'll be joined by the likes of Aspen native Jeremy Abbott, the current U.S. men's champion, and former world champion Todd Eldridge.

Czisny, 22, is the only one in the group with a college degree summa cum laude. She's also the only one with


the proper perspective on Flatt, who has never received anything but an A, taking a year off academics.

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"It's probably a smart idea, because you can always go to school," Czisny said Friday morning from the tour's stop in Dallas. "But there's a point where you can no longer have a skating career."

Logistics made it easier for Czisny. She grew up in Bowling Green and lived her first two years of college at home. She took her last two years online while training outside Detroit and doing part-time modeling.

Her Olympic dreams and modeling aspirations weren't going to get in the way of Western Civ.

"School's always been important for my family," Czisny said. "That's something they always said came first, so I grew up thinkingthat way. When I got offered a scholarship to Bowling Green, I took it because I couldn't afford school and skating."

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She wasn't your basic public figure in class, either. In 2006 she won outstanding sophomore of the year award in international studies and the first-year Russian student award. Flatt can ask her all about college academics but not about all-campus keggers.

Czisny was as serious about school as skating. Her classmates didn't know she was a Grand Prix finalist at 18 until "Ice Diaries" followed her around school for a feature.

"It was a lot of work," she said. "I'd study at the rink during my break. I'd study in the car. I'd study at home after skating."

The 2009 national title showed she could balance, but with school out of


the way this past year, she couldn't translate the extra time into an Olympic berth. At Nationals in Spokane, Wash., she finished 10th.

"The Olympics have always been my dream," Czisny said. "I wanted it too much, and I got scared."

She was going to watch more Olympic curling on TV than figure skating but changed her mind, saying, "I decided to watch and learn."

Spokane made the timing of her recent coaching switch curious. She dropped Julianne Berlin for Yuka Sato and Jason Dungjen, the couple she saw help Abbott defend his national title while she trained in the same rink in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Don't read too much into it, Czisny said. She had been with Berlin for 12 years. Sometimes skaters change for change's sake. Abbott used the sameAddress: 1010 S. Preston St., Louisville, KY. Two ghost signs are visible in the same area of this building -- Ohio Valley Bag & Burlap as well as Enro Shirt Co. Burkhardt Company, a custom woodworking business, is now located in the building. The...

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