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Barry Murphy picks out the best of the week's TV and radio on the various catch-up services in the UK. All programmes are listed in date order and please note: Only available to UK residents.

TV

Mad Men (6/13) – Series three. Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency – Sterling Cooper's British owners unveil their plans to restructure the company and the arrival of young executive Guy MacKendrick causes a commotion among the staff. (Available until: 12:09am Wednesday 17th March 2010)

Watch it nowMad Men (8/13) – Series three. Souvenir. Don takes Betty with him on a business trip, and Pete helps out a neighbour's au pair. (Available until: 10:44pm Wednesday 17th March 2010)

Watch it nowBellamy's People (8/8) – Presenter Gary Bellamy revisits some of


the colourful characters he has encountered on his tour and reflects on what he has learnt about modern Britain. Spoof documentary starring Rhys Thomas, Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Felix Dexter, Lucy Montgomery and Simon Day. (Available until: 10:29pm Thursday 18th March 2010)

Watch it nowStoryville: The Jazz Baroness – Documentary about British heiress Pannonica Rothschild, who defied her family to start a new life in New York after hearing one particular jazz track. Her great niece, Hannah Rothschild, explores how she became a legend in the jazz world and why her relatives are still reluctant to tell her story. Featuring unseen archive footage, contributions from friends and relatives, and the voice of Helen Mirren. (Available until: 2:04am Friday 19th March 2010)

Requiem for Detroit? – Powered by the car industryand designed for a life based around road travel, Detroit was once the embodiment of the American dream. But director Julien Temple's film paints avery different picture, showing how it has now turned into a dystopian post-industrial city that is the stuff of nightmares. However, with the freeways no longer troubled by a rush hour, plants are swallowing up once-thriving areas and the land in the city centre is increasingly turning back to prairie. Will Detroit's future turn out to be in farming as the urban agricultural movement rushes to its aid? (Available until:10:14pm Saturday 20th March 2010)

Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges – The city's influence on music in the 1960s, from the success of Motown to the garage rock scene, which paved the


way for punk. Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper and Martha Reeves contribute. (Available until: 11:59pm Saturday 20th March 2010)

Watch it nowBlues Britannia: Can White Men Play the Blues? – Documentary charting the British love of the musical genre over a 20-year period from the 1950s. Contributors including Keith Richards, Paul Jones, John Mayall and Bill Wyman study the inspiration of American artists such as Muddy Waters, how young white audiences came to love the music, and the increasing international dominance of UK-based performers as the 1970s dawned. (Available until: 5:24am Sunday 21st March 2010)

Blur – No Distance Left to Run – This full-length feature documentary follows Blur on the reunion trail in the summer of 2009 after a ten-year hiatus as they rediscover their music and the friendships thatoriginally inspired the band when they came together at the dawn of the 90s. The film follows the healing of that creative friendship and their emotional triumph at Glastonbury in June, 2009. (Available until: 12:34am Monday 22nd March 2010)

Blues at the BBC – Archive footage of blues performances from the past 50 years. Featuring famous songs by Son House, The Kinks, BB King, John Lee Hooker and Eric Clapton, plus lesser known tracks by Freddie King, Delaney and Bonnie and Long John Baldrey. (Available until: 4:54am Monday 22nd March 2010).

Women (1/3) – Vanessa Engle charts the rise of feminism and examines its effect on modern life, beginning with the ideology of women's liberation in the 1970s. Systematic oppression both in society and the eyes of the law is


explored, and feminist thinkers discuss how and why they became involved in the movement to end it. (Available until: 10:59pm Monday 29th March 2010)

Ali: When Cassius Met the Beatles – Miami 1964: two iconic 20th-century cultural forces came face to face. John Wilson gathers eyewitness accounts of this unique encounter between the king of the ring and the Fab Four, with photographer Harry Benson, writer Robert Lipsyte and fight doctor Ferdie Pacheco.(Available until: 11:02am Saturday 20th March 2010)

Women of the New Wave – Singer Pauline Black meets some of the women who were in the vanguard of the punk revolution and asks what their legacy is for women today. For X-Ray Spex frontwoman, Poly Styrene, it's knowing her own daughter has the confidence to do anything she wantsofficers located four shoe boxes during the search, one of which
contained two live 7.62x39 mm bullets manufactured by Wolf Bullets.
	Kingree also testified at the suppression hearing.  She told the trial court that she had
willingly given permission to the officers to search apartment 105; that she, not her daughter Ashley,
signed the lease to that apartment and was renting the apartment on behalf of Ashley and Ashley's
roommates--not Roberts--and that, though she respected her daughter's privacy, she believed she
had the right to come and go inside that apartment at any time.  And, as the State's brief on appeal
correctly notes, Kingree did not testify that she had, at any point before consenting to the search,
somehow relinquished her common authority over apartment 105.
	Whitney Mack, Ashley's sister, testified Roberts


Ramirez's outward appearance at the time of her death and be able to tell she was then
pregnant.  McClain confirmed, however, that Ramirez was pregnant at the time of her death, that the
unborn child was alive until the mother died, and that the unborn child also died in utero as a result
of Ramirez's death.
 (2)  Robert Nero
	Robert Nero testified that, in the evening hours of December 18, 2003, Roberts was visiting
with Nero at the latter's house when they received a visit from Timothy Green.  The three men visited
for a few minutes, after which Roberts and Green left.  Roberts informed Nero that he would return
later.
	When Roberts returned after midnight, he was accompanied by Green.  Green and Roberts
had with them a rifle wrapped insidea "red, white, and blue" jacket with a "professional logo" on
it.  Nero recognized the rifle, which he described as being an "SK with a clip on it."  Nero had seen
Roberts carrying the gun on a previous occasion.  Roberts handed the rifle to Green, but kept the
jacket in which the gun had been wrapped.  Green then left Nero's house in a light-colored four-door
car, inside of which Nero saw Jackie Tubbs, Shaw, and possibly two more people.
	Later that morning, Roberts admitted to Nero that Shaw had "got[ten] a little bit of blood on
[Roberts'] coat."  Nero testified that Roberts further admitted to having gone with Green and others
to some apartments, and "that they went inside the apartments and shot a couple of people that was
[sic] in


though Nero was adamant that he
was "not guilty" of the murder charge.  Nero also admitted that his only source of income came from
the sale of illegal narcotics and that he was serving a probated sentence for a different felony crime.
		(3)  Semaj Jackson
	At the time of Roberts' trial in this case, Semaj Jackson himself faced a murder charge, along
with codefendants Nero and Roberts.  Jackson testified that, on December 19, 2003, he went to an
area in northern Dallas to pick up Roberts.  After the two returned to Nero's house, Roberts admitted
to both Jackson and Nero that he had been with Shaw and Green on the preceding evening.  Roberts
reportedly admitted that he, Shaw, and Green had broken into Laury's apartment; Shaw then shot
Laury in theface with an "SK" assault rifle.  According to Jackson, Roberts never admitted to having
gone all the way inside the apartment; instead, Jackson testified that Roberts said he had just waited
at the front door of the apartment.
	Later that day, Jackson took Roberts to the house of the latter's grandmother, where Roberts
then retrieved a coat described as bearing an "Atlanta Braves baseball team logo." (7)  It was the same
jacket that Jackson had seen Roberts wearing the previous night.  When Jackson and Roberts
returned home, Roberts reportedly went to the backyard, "lit a barrel on fire, and they threw the coat
in [the barrel]."  Jackson had seen blood spatters on that same jacket earlier that day.
	Finally, Jackson told the jury that he had previously seen


Roberts in possession of an assault
rifle similar to an "AK" or an "SK," but had not seen him in possession of such a weapon since
Roberts was charged with these murders.
 (4)  Tacueescie Gassaway
	At the time she testified at Roberts' trial, Tacueescie Gassaway was confined by the Dallas
County Sheriff.  Gassaway told the jury that Roberts and Shaw were close friends.  Gassaway
admitted she had heard rumors that Shaw and some others had murdered Laury, Thompson, and
Ramirez.  Gassaway had also previously given police a statement in which she had heard that Shaw
had admitted being the person who killed Laury and that Laury was killed in retaliation for an earlier
shooting with which Laury was believed to have been involved.
 (5)  Rick Berry
	RickBerry was one of the first Dallas police officers to arrive at the murder scene on the
morning of December 19, 2003.  Berry described the murder scene as located in a high crime area
of Dallas.  Berry talked to one eyewitness, Curlie Arnick, who had seen several people fleeing
Laury's apartment immediately following the shootings.  Berry said he was told by Arnick that one
of those people fleeing was dressed in a "red and blue" sports jacket similar in appearance to a
Philadelphia 76ers basketball team jacket. (8)  Through his investigation, Berry came to suspect that
Laury, Thompson, and Ramirez were killed in retaliation for a shooting that had occurred earlier that
night at the same apartment complex.
	Berry followed several leads concerning various suspects.  Eventually, Berry was


items.
 (7)  Curlie Arnick
	Curlie Arnick lived in an apartment near the crime scene at the time of the murders.  Shortly
after the shooting occurred, Arnick saw several people running out of Laury's apartment; all those
fleeing were wearing "hoodie" sweatshirts, except for one person.  That person was wearing a
distinctive "red" jacket that appeared to also have a hood.  Arnick noticed that the "red" jacket had
a logo on it, but he could not identify the logo or sports team pictured on the jacket.
	Earlier in the evening, before the shootings occurred, a man dressed in a "red" jacket had
come to Arnick's apartment.  Arnick no longer remembers what that earlier visitor looked like.  He
does, however, believe that the earlier visitor's "red"jacket bore at least a strong resemblance to the
"red" jacket Arnick later saw being worn by one of the people seen fleeing the murder scene.
 (8)  James Vineyard
	James Vineyard recently retired from the Dallas Police Department after twenty-seven years
of service.  Vineyard arrived at the murder scene December 19, 2003.  Vineyard located several
victims inside the apartment.  He found inside the apartment evidence of the discharge of both a
shotgun and an automatic weapon such as a Russian-made AK-47 or a Chinese-made SKS. Vineyard
located evidence that two other types of guns had been used during the murders:  a .40 caliber gun
and a .45 caliber gun.  Vineyard also collected fingerprint evidence at the crime scene.  None of the
fingerprints Vineyard was able to collect were


later determined to match Roberts' fingerprints.

 (9)  Tim Taylor
	Tim Taylor, an intensive care and charge nurse at Dallas Methodist Medical Center, testified
that he had tended to a patient named Archie "Fifty" Shaw on the evening of December 18, 2003.
Archie Shaw had been shot in his jaw with a gun.  While Taylor attempted to treat Archie Shaw,
several visitors became agitated and started causing a disruption.   When Taylor heard one of the
visitors say, "That they were going to take care of things," Taylor became so alarmed that he
instituted a "lock down" of the intensive care unit and began removing all visitors and nonessential
personnel out of concern for patient and employee safety.
 (10)  Royale Bolden
	Royale Bolden had beenbegan.
However, when Bowie heard someone kick in the front door, he ran into Virginia Ramirez's bedroom
and jumped out the window.  As Bowie made his escape, he heard a voice he recognized as
belonging to Roberts' codefendant, Shaw.  Bowie did not testify that he had seen Roberts during the
murders, nor did Bowie tell the jury he recognized Roberts' voice among the assailants.
 (13)  Whitney Mack
	Whitney Mack is the sister of Roberts' girlfriend, Ashley.  Roberts sometimes stayed as an
overnight guest at Ashley's apartment.  Whitney testified that she had never seen Roberts with a gun
or any bullets, nor had she ever seen Roberts hanging out with Shaw.
	When the police arrested Roberts, they did so at Ashley's apartment.  When they later
searched the


Author's Note: This story is rated M for adult language and themes, including discussion of sexual violence.

Lex Luthor had been lounging in the Skylight Club when he'd first heard of Superman.

"He's a fellow that flies through the sky!" declared one of the patrons, whose name Lex couldn't recall, a good sign that the man was someone unimportant.

"Impossible," said Lex with a mild tone that nevertheless carried across the room. The conversation at the table stopped, and Lex unfolded himself from his customary chair and walked over to join the three men, holding a martini in one hand. Lex wore a suit, one of his more casual ones that had only cost what a dockworker made in a month. His head was completely free of hair, save for histhick, expressive eyebrows. He was a dashing figure, he knew, muscular and well-proportioned, the result of the delicate care he gave to his body. The man who had been speaking, the one who had said that a man flew through the sky, was wearing a charcoal grey suit that was three months out of fashion.

"Alexander Luthor," he said, holding out his hand. "But everyone calls me Lex. Now, tell me about this flying man, and I'll see what to think of the matter."

"Dimitri Vladkov," said the man. He seemed shaken, but it was difficult to tell whether that was from the personal attention of Lex Luthor or from whatever delusions he was apparently suffering. "There was this car crash down near 1st Ave and 30th Street, you could


see it comin', but all of a sudden this guy swoops down from the sky. He was wearing a funny costume, blue tights and a red cape, with a big 'S' on his chest, and he stops these two cars from hittin' each other, moving fast as lightnin'."

"I see," said Lex with an arched eyebrow. "And how did he fly? Did he flap his wings, like a bird? Did he use engines, like a plane?"

"Well, I didn't see him come down Mr. Luthor, but I saw when he left, and he just stuck his hands up in the air and lifted off, like he was being pulled up by strings." He looked at Lex's face. "Only there weren't no strings, not that I could see, and I lookedDimitri. "He didn't say nothin' afterwards, just looked to make sure that the drivers were alright and then flew away, fast as a racehorse but straight up into the sky. We had all sorts of questions, but he didn't answer none of 'em."

"Thank you," said Lex. He signaled for the barman to get Dimitri a drink, then went back to sit in his customary chair and think.

Heavier than air flight had been given its first practical demonstration almost two decades ago, but to do it without the assistance of a machine was physically impossible. It was highly probable that Dimitri Vladkov had hallucinated, or that he was simply lying for attention. Lex also entertained the notion that the trick of flight had been accomplished by smoke and mirrors,


and that Dimitri had merely been fooled, but he couldn't see what the point of that would be.

Lex frowned, and returned to other thoughts. Yet even as he tried to decide what to do about Nikola Tesla, who was staying in the Hotel Metropolis on LexCorp's dime, his thoughts returned to the improbable story about a man who could fly. With a twitch of his fingers, he signaled for Mercy Graves, his indispensable secretary and the only woman allowed in the Skylight Club before the sun went down.

"A pencil and paper," said Lex. Mercy nodded, and from a large purse she kept at her side produced both for him, nearly before he had asked for them. He'd won Mercy's service in a poker game three years before, andoften wondered how he had managed without her.

It was a simple physics problem, with a high number of variables involved, but Lex was nothing if not quick to attack a problem. He had always liked numbers. After a few minutes of working at it, he had an upper and lower bound estimate on the amount of force that would be required to stop two cars from hitting each other, and another estimate for what it would take to raise a man into the air "as fast as a racehorse". He frowned at the answers.

"Mercy darling, there was very nearly a car accident near 1st Avenue and 30th Street. Be a dear and see if you can't find me some eyewitnesses to speak with." He knew it was foolish,


but if money and power didn't allow you to chase down the things that piqued your curiosity, Lex didn't know what they were good for.

Three hours later, Lex stood at the intersection himself, looking around. Mercy had gotten corroboration from eight witnesses, which only raised further questions. Talking to more people would be useless, especially since their stories had begun to contradict one another fairly quickly. Lex took this as evidence that this wasn't some elaborate ruse, or at least that if it was a ruse it had been constructed by someone sufficiently intelligent. Eyewitness accounts were notoriously unreliable, but most people didn't know this, and so someone running a confidence scheme of some sort would likely have had the confederates agree on a story. Lex looked downIf someone tries this stunt again, I want to know about it."

"He came outta nowhere," said Little Tony.

Lex gave the man a sympathetic nod. "Tell me about him."

"We was robbin' the jewelry store," said Little Tony. "An he came outta nowhere, left the door spinnin' behind him." Little Tony was a giant of a man, ironically named by his fellow thugs who considered that the height of wit.

Lex Luthor had gone legitimate five years ago. Oh, he hired goons from time to time for various bits of dirty work and still maintained contacts in the criminal underworld, as well as receiving cash into a slush fund from enterprises that he'd set in motion long ago - whorehouses, fighting rings, smuggling operations, and things of that nature - but


Lex and Willie had parted ways amicably around the time that Lex was picking up his first doctorate, but they'd always kept in touch, and occasionally they would call in favors. Lex was talking to Little Tony in a small room lit by a bare bulb as the result of one of these favors, as well as a promise to pay for Little Tony's legal expenses. The large man was currently out on bail.

"Leroy spun around and shot at him," said Little Tony. "But the guy moved as fast as lightning, and had his hand around tha barrel of tha shotgun before it even went off."

"Was there a thunderclap?" asked Lex.

Little Tony scratched his head.

"Was there a loud sound that accompanied his movements?" Lex asked. He was outof practice in dealing with people like Little Tony. That had once been his whole life.

"Nah," said Little Tony. "Just like a little breeze, you know?" Not nearly as fast as lightning then, just a turn of phrase that people seemed to like using.

"Leroy missed then?" asked Lex.

"No," said Little Tony, shaking his head. "Hit him square inna chest with the full load."

Lex frowned.

"I'm tellin' a truth," said Little Tony. "Buckshot bounced offa him like it were nothin'."

"Did it tear the costume?" asked Lex.

"The suit?" asked Little Tony. Lex nodded. "Yeah, tore it right up, ripped it good. How'd you know?" Lex hadn't known, he'd just been asking, but it wouldn't do to tell Little Tony that.

"Continue on," said Lex.

"Well, this guy takes Leroy's shotgun right outta his


hands, bends it in two, and drops it to the floor. Guy just got shot in the chest an acts like he didn't even notice. He looks at me and says that we're under arrest, an' I tell him he ain't no cop, an' he says somethin' about a citizen's arrest. An' as he's goin' on 'bout how he's got a legal power or whatever, I rush him. That weren't too smart, because before I know it I'm on my back." Little Tony rubbed the back of his head and let out a sigh.

"Could you see him move?" asked Lex. "When he fought back?"

"Sure," said Little Tony. "An' he didn't hurt me none. It was like I was a little kid to him. All of a sudden Iwas flipped around and laid out on the ground, gentle like he was worried about hurtin' me. Then we just waited for the police to come, since Leroy and I didn't wanna try our luck again. This guy, he gives the police a salute, didn't talk about nothin' but the robbery even though they had all sorts of questions for him, and then flew off."

Lex frowned. "One final question. How did he know about the robbery?"

"He musta seen us go in," said Little Tony, scratching his head.

"Do you know how rare crime is in Metropolis, all things considered? The idea that he would just happen to be in the neighborhood and spot you go into the jewelry store is - well, not inconceivable, but significantly unlikely enough that


on it, but rest assured even if I'm not with you, we're working towards the same goal for the time being."

The interview came out the next week.

"It makes no sense," said Lex Luthor, setting down the paper.

"Why not?" asked Mercy from her desk.

Lex pointed directly at the offending line. "'Superman told me that he was an alien from the planet Krypton, the last of his kind.'" read Lex. "He's an alien, or so he claims, yet he looks just like a human." Lex lifted the paper to show to Mercy. On the front of The Daily Planet was a picture, with Superman standing right next to Lois Lane. The headline read "Exclusive Interview With The Man of Steel".

"Now then," said Lex, "I will admit that a degree ofabout what Mercy thought, and never had to engage her in unwanted conversation. She was there for him to bounce his thoughts off of, and she knew it, which was what made the whole arrangement work. Before she'd come under his employ, Lex had muttered to himself, which didn't feel nearly so good as speaking aloud to someone. It helped that Mercy was one of the few people that Lex could treat as trusted.

"I don't know," Lex answered. "I need more data. Certainly there are things he says that are inconsistent with reality as I knew it, yet if you had asked me a year ago whether I would see a man like Superman who can bend steel with his hands and fly through the air, I would


uncomfortable.

"If he's telling the truth, he can hear everything that we're saying right now. He can watch us as we speak. When you change your clothes or take a bath, he can look in on you." Mercy was nearly as beautiful as she was competent, though she kept up a rather severe look most of the time, with her hair tied back in a neat bun and her skirts with perfect pleats that fell well below the knee.

"He's doing good," said Mercy. She always gave her honest opinion when he asked it of her, without hesitation, which was another reason she was so valuable to him. "I imagine that he's too much of a hero to watch me."

"He's a hero," said Lex. "For now." He looked down ata pad of paper, where he'd been making revisions to his estimates. "I've run the numbers. Even using the lower bounds for his strength and speed, if he ever decided that he wasn't a hero anymore, he could demolish this city in the space of three hours, down to the last man, woman and child. If we're just talking about the central business district, he could do it in three minutes. He-" Lex stopped. "He can hear everything that we say. He can watch us. He can read the files that are sitting in my drawers. Before anything else, I think it's time to clean house."


abandoned amid concerns that trains using it would hold up GNER services.

A half-hourly service was launched using Class 158s running alternately to  and Bathgate. This service, termed Edinburgh Crossrail, extended from Newcraighall through to Edinburgh Waverley, and continued either onto the North Clyde Line or the Fife Circle Line. The service from Newcraighall through to the North Clyde Line was later electrified as a byproduct of the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link, leaving that from Newcraighall to Dalmeny and through to the Fife Circle Line with diesel trains. Crossrail was a success, and provided forward momentum for the Borders Railway project.

Business case
The full business case for the line was published in mid-2004, showing a modest benefit to cost ratio of 1.01 to 1. The case was in some partclaimed in February 2016 that only 35.5% of services were arriving on time at Tweedbank, which made the Borders Railway one of ScotRail's most poorly-performing services. In addition, reliability issues with the Class 158 units and traincrew problems resulted in at least one train being cancelled on 74 of the 143 days between 31 March 2016 and 20 August 2016. This comprised 14 days of severe disruption due to crew shortages, 18 days as a result of issues with the Class 158s and nine days for signalling failures. Crew shortages came about due to higher than expected levels of sickness as well as the difficulty of replacing staff during a popular period for annual leave. Reliability issues with the Class 158s were encountered during hot weather which caused


previously considered the line for reopening in 2000 when it unsuccessfully applied for £1.4 million from the Scottish Public Transport Fund to develop proposals for the line.

In January 2018, John Lamont, Member of Parliament for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, called for the extension of the Borders Railway to the next phase of HS2.

In June 2019, the Scottish Government confirmed it was considering electrifying the railway.

Feasibility study
In June 2015, the Scottish Infrastructure Minister  Keith Brown confirmed that talks were underway on the commissioning of a feasibility study for an extension to Hawick and Carlisle. Fergus Ewing, Tourism Minister, stated in July 2015 that he would not rule out a further extension, describing the line as "one of the most exciting and most effective events and transport services thatrailway lines in the United Kingdom


Pakistan continues to feel threatened and insulted by Donald Trump’s accusations against Islamabad as well as his desire to include India in the Afghanistan conflict.

Tensions between Pakistan and the United States are running high after Donald Trump accused Islamabad of both harbouring terrorists and failing to fight terrorism more widely. Pakistan not only denies these allegations but feels deeply insulted by the United States.

During his announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan, Donald Trump said the following in respect of Pakistan,

“Third, and finally, I concluded that the security threats we face in Afghanistan and the broader region are immense. Today, 20 U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organisations are active in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the highest concentration in any region anywhere in the world.

For its part, Pakistan often gives safe havenVWC 2020: Pathway to Prominence

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Virginia Wesleyan College unveils strategic plan for 2014-2020

News Release | July 25, 2014

On May 21, 2014, the Virginia Wesleyan College Board of Trustees approved a long-term strategic plan that provides a path for growth and positive change for the College. The approved plan, VWC 2020: Pathway to Prominence, is the result of a two-year collaborative process that involved broad-based stakeholder input from students, alumni, faculty, staff, Board and community members. Implementation of the plan begins in fall 2014.

The plan grew out of the College’s existing mission to prepare each student for a meaningful life and career. It includes a primary goal, five strategic priorities and twenty key actions. Notably, the plan also resulted in the articulation of a new vision for the


Winners and losers from the offseason's early front office changes

While the coaching carousel takes up most of the news space in the opening weeks of the offseason, the fates of those higher up in the organization can have a more lasting effect on the fortunes of a franchise. The ramifications of the 2014 regular season have only just begun to play out, but here's how things stand with seven NFL teams who have already begun significant front office changes.

Winners

Washington Redskins: The hire of new general manager Scot McCloughan was universally lauded as a great get, and for good reason. If McCloughan can keep the personal issues that have bedeviled him at bay, he's as good a personnel man as there is in the NFL. As the San Francisco49ers' vice president of player personnel from 2005-08, the team's general manager from 2008-10, and then the Seattle Seahawks' senior personnel executive from 2010 through 2014, he did as much to build those two powerhouse teams as anyone. McCloughan believes in building for the long haul, he has a great internal clock on when to give up on failed choices, and he understands team dynamics. He's a big believer in physical strength and domination, but he also has an innate instinct for players who simply want to win more than others.

Thus, a franchise that has always been too reactionary throughout the reign of owner Dan Snyder will become one of the models for roster construction -- if McCloughan is allowed to do things his way, and again, if


he can manage those personal demons.

New York Jets: In replacing John Idzik with former Houston Texans director of college scouting Mike Maccagnan, the Jets have at least endeavored to put their football operations in the hands of a man with some personnel experience -- Idzik was a salary cap manager with the Seahawks before he joined the Jets, and his lack of skills specific to the GM job showed through over and over. There are some in the league who believe that Maccagnan doesn't yet have the resume for the fairly major reconstruction project ahead for this team, and his longtime relationship with Jets consultant Charley Casserly -- Casserly hired Maccagnan in Houston in 2000 and in Washington before that -- have some wondering if this is moreand the draft. Head coach Chip Kelly, who was very unhappy about the manner in which Gamble was let go (the two men came to Philly in 2013 and had a strong relationship, by all accounts), was given far more authority in matters of personnel, and former general manager Howie Roseman was bumped up to the position of executive vice president of football operations -- an unwieldy title that will have Roseman dealing with the salary cap and overall strategic matters. In other words, it's Kelly's team from a personnel perspective.

That's a good move in theory, because Kelly's idiosyncratic system would seem to require that he be the one who's selecting the talent for that system, and owner Jeff Lurie may have headed off a power struggle similar


to the one that recently boiled over in San Francisco (more on that in a minute). The question now is whether Kelly has the smarts to hire the guys who knows what he doesn't know, and can do what he can't do, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

Chicago Bears: Former general manager Phil Emery, a very smart man, was nonetheless doomed in his position by three moves: the decision to hire Marc Trestman as his head coach over Bruce Arians, which lost him defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli in the process; the decision to hire Mel Tucker as Marinelli's replacement; and the seven-year, $126.7 million contract extension given to quarterback Jay Cutler last January. Trestman couldn't handle the job, Tucker was a disaster and Cutler wasbenched in favor of Jimmy Clausen late in the season. Emery has been replaced by former Saints director of player personnel Ryan Pace, who received glowing recommendations from New Orleans head coach Sean Payton and general manager Mickey Loomis. Pace would seem to have a better eye for talent and a sharper sense of how to put things together, and he might get John Fox as his head coach in the bargain. Bears fans will have to wait and see Pace's initial decisions, but things appear to be trending up in Chicago.

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Denver Broncos: Monday's announcement that John Fox and the Broncos had agreed to part ways was a surprise to those not familiar with the tension between Fox and team EVP John Elway that had been simmering for


until Dan Quinn is available to be interviewed and going that way, but this could still blow up in Elway's face.

San Francisco 49ers: It was long known that head coach Jim Harbaugh and general manager Trent Baalke -- two very intense individuals -- did not have the best relationship through Harbaugh's four seasons in San Francisco. Similarly to Denver's situation, it became a scenario in which the building wasn't big enough for both men, and Harbaugh took off for Michigan to coach his alma mater. With that, the 49ers were left with an undefined coaching search that may leave them with current defensive line coach Jim Tomsula or the aforementioned Gase. And Baalke, whose last few drafts have been anything but spectacular, is left with the corner office.

Didof the 1970s Steelers. Blank also gave pro and college scouting duties to former Bill Belichick assistant and ex-Kansas City Chiefs GM Scott Pioli, with Dimitroff ostensibly taking more of an overseer's role. Pioli's draft history was hit-and-miss in Kansas City from 2009-12, with far more misses than hits, and there were several reports indicating that Pioli's divisive personality led to the departure of many longstanding employees. Perhaps Pioli has learned from his mistakes, but the early outlook is not good.

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Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Hampshire," dated January 18, 1994 (DiClerico, C.J.). This is a core proceeding in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 157(b).

BACKGROUND[2]
Netria is an electronics broker based in Exeter, New Hampshire. Netria receives *35 orders for computer components and fills the orders by procuring the components from its vendors. Graham worked for Netria as a salesperson for approximately one year and voluntarily resigned on October 18, 2005, the same day he began working for First Trade Solutions, Ltd. ("First Trade"), a direct competitor of Netria. First Trade is based in Dover, New Hampshire. The controversy herein arose primarily from Graham's actions in the days surrounding his change of employment.
On October 418, Graham went to Netria at 6:00 a.m.  earlier than he normally arrivedthe pricing information, vendor information, and customer information from his Yahoo! account to his First Trade computer. The pricing information was apparently comprised mainly of a listing of the prices that Netria charged customers for computer equipment. The vendor information included vendors from whom Netria could purchase computer equipment. The customer information included contact information, buying history, and future *36 needs. Although Graham is no longer employed by First Trade, he acknowledged in his deposition that several of the customers cultivated by Netria did business with him after he moved to First Trade.
On or about November 10, 2005, weeks after Graham began working for First Trade, Netria filed an eight-count complaint in superior court against Graham, First Trade, and two other individuals involved with First Trade. (Pl.'s Ex.


froth First Trade  while he was still employed by Netria. All the while he destroyed and deleted evidence of his actions, even after being ordered not to do so by the superior court. Graham admitted in his deposition that his actions were unethical.
Graham offers as justification that he did not sign a non-competition agreement with Netria, that he thought the customers he solicited were his rather than Netria's, and that the alleged criminal acts of Netria give Netria unclean hands. First, the wrongfulness of his actions is not mitigated by the absence of a noncompetition agreement. Certainly, the absence of such an agreement did not preclude the superior court from finding that Graham misappropriated trade secrets. Second, the secretiveness of his actions belie Graham's statement in hisat all black worship services. Fisher Tiger’s activities with the Sun Pirates ultimately spat in the face of Fishman Queen Otohime’s tireless efforts to forge positive relations between humans and fishmen, and his refusal to accept a human blood transfusion had a massive ripple effect on the fishmen’s community, including planting the seed of hatred in the youth of the Fishman District, which contradicted Fisher’s desire for the hatred to end with his generation.

Catcher Freeman, another possibly Nat Turner-inspired character from The Boondocks.

Fast-forward to Hody Jones, just another kid from the hood, who reveres Arlong and the pirates. Some people looked up to fireman, others to basketball players, some to politicians, and some even to preachers. Some people looked up to the Al Pacinos and the Robert De


Larry King Reveals He Considered Ending His Life After Health Complications | Frank Buckley Interviews

Larry King is a talk-show host who currently appears on Ora.Tv and Hulu hosting Larry King Now and PolitiKING with Larry King. He began his career on radio in Miami in the 1950s and became nationally known as the host of the Mutual Broadcasting System’s overnight radio program The Larry King Show which launched in 1978. From 1985-2010, he hosted Larry King Live on CNN.

During this podcast, Larry discusses his life and career and reveals that after a stroke in March, he considered suicide. “I thought I was just going to bite the bullet. I didn’t want to live this way,” Larry King told Frank Buckley Interviews.”I didn’t want to live dependent on others.cylindrical shaft portion of a single fiber ferrule is an effective datum for polishing purposes for at least two reasons. First, the outer diameter of the cylindrical shaft of a single fiber ferrule has a predefined relationship with the longitudinal axis of the optical fiber bore, namely, the longitudinal axes of the optical fiber bore and the cylindrical shaft of the single fiber ferrule are usually coincident. Secondly, the outer diameter of the cylindrical shaft portion of a single fiber ferrule is required to be precisely formed since the outer diameter of the cylindrical shaft of a single fiber ferrule is also utilized to align the optical fiber upon which the ferrule is mounted with another optical fiber during the process of mating a pair of single fiber


much less cost effective technique for producing multifiber connectors.
While the exterior surfaces of a multifiber ferrule could be formed more precisely to serve as a polishing datum in much the same fashion as the outer diameter of a cylindrical single fiber ferrule, the manufacture of a multifiber ferrule having precisely formed exterior surfaces would disadvantageously increase the cost of the multifiber ferrule. As such, multifiber ferrules are not generally formed with precisely defined exterior surfaces for use as polishing datums even though the use of such precisely defined exterior surfaces as polishing datums would permit a multifiber connector to be preassembled prior to polishing the front surface of the multifiber ferrule.
As described above, a variety of techniques are available for polishing the front surface of the ferrule. Withrespect to multifiber ferrules, however, conventional polishing techniques dictate that the front surface be polished after the multifiber ferrule has been mounted upon the plurality of optical fibers, but prior to assembling the multifiber ferrule. In view of the increased costs and inefficiencies incurred to polish the multifiber ferrule in a disassembled state and to then subsequently assemble a multifiber connector including the polished ferrule in the field, it would be desirable to develop other polishing techniques to permit the front surface of a multifiber ferrule to be precisely polished following assembly of a multifiber connector.
A ferrule is therefore provided according to one embodiment of the present invention that includes a ferrule body defining a longitudinally extending groove that can serve as an alignment feature for polishing operations.


alignment rib having a semicircular cross-section, the jig body effectively establishes two lines of contact with the ferrule. In addition, by supporting the opposite side of the ferrule with the support element, a third region of contact is established, thereby insuring that the ferrule is held by the polishing jig in an aligned and secure fashion even after the ferrule has been incorporated into a multifiber ferrule. As such, the longitudinally extending groove defined by the ferrule can serve as the datum during polishing of the front surface thereof, even after the ferrule has been assembled into a connector.blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

With nearly 800 videos, Davey Wavey is a globe-trotting gay YouTube personality and travel guru with nearly 300 million video views from fans around the world.

Washington (CNN) – "No single ’cause’ of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests" was identified in a wide-ranging report released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Wednesday. The report was presented by a group of.

Washington (CNN) – "No single ’cause’ of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests" was identified in a wide-ranging report released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Wednesday. The report was presented by a group of.

Going live today on iTunes, their TouchCast app allows creators to produce content and enhance videos with embeddable features like live


Syrian Christians 'pray for peace'

IN the heart of Damascus, more than 1000 people have attended Christmas mass, praying for peace to return to Syria after almost two years of bloodshed.

"I pray that peace and safety returns to the hearts of all Syrians," said Heba Shawi, 24, a Catholic attending mass at Notre Dame church in the Damascus district of Qusur on Monday.

"I hope the smiles come back to children's faces."

In other years, majority Christian areas in central Damascus were heavily decorated for the festive season. This year, only one Nativity crib is on display in the city.

Though Christmas mass is usually held at midnight, the absence of security in Damascus, especially at night, prompted organisers to hold this year's service at 6pm.

But despite the violence raging just kilometresChief Keef’s Motion To Dismiss Drug Charges Denied By Judge

Legal woes are continuing to plague Chief Keef’s music career. Sosa’s motion to dismiss a drug charge in Sioux Falls was denied by a judge in South Dakota, the Associated Press reports.

Sosa, whose real name is Keith Cozart, was arrested in June 2017 at the Sioux Falls airport when drugs were found in his carry-on bag. The Glo Gang boss was in town of a performance at the University of Sioux Falls.

Sosa pleaded not guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges for possessing marijuana, edible and drug paraphernalia.

Last week, a Second Circuit Court judge denied Sosa’s motion to dismiss a charge of possession of a controlled substance, The Argus Leader reports. Their reasoning was the TC-infused edibles Sosa had are


due to insufficient capital and finances, he could not go further and his invention could not enter the next phase.

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The Birth of Modern AC in The United States For The Global Market

In 1902, an engineer named Wills Carrier built a machine for a publishing company to control humidity so that the ink on the paper doesn’t spread. This was one of the first successful models of AC. Willis Carrier is also known as the father of modern AC and he went on to set up the first factory for AC production in the world. After the successful invention of the air conditioner by Willis Carrier, people felt a need for air conditioner at home and personal use.

But the cost of an air conditioner was too highwas to provide a pleasant cold environment to viewers so that they can enjoy a movie pleasantly.

History of Air Conditioners in the Motor Vehicles

Automobile manufacturers understood the needs and demands of consumers once residential ACs were invented. In 1939, Packard Motor Car Company started to install an air conditioner in their cars. This trick revolutionized the car industry by adding more comfort to the journey. Unfortunately, the first experiment was not much effective and affordable since it took up too much space in the car. But the future of air conditioned cars looked bright in the coming years.

After the World War 2, an economic boom took place in USA and people started to adapt to the air conditioner lifestyle quickly. More than 1 million air conditioner units were


sold at the end of 1953. In 1970, central AC knocked on people doors. This air conditioner unit had a condenser, a coil, and an air fan. The air was passed over coils blasted through home ventilation systems. The demand for air conditioners increases outside the border of United States and countries like United Kingdom, France, Japan and other countries started to manufacture and import AC in their countries.

Some researcher discovered that emissions produced by an air conditioner harmed the Earth’s ozone layer. This became the primary topic of climate change. Governments across the world amended the law and provided guidelines for air conditioner manufacturers. The manufacturer developed more convenient and less harmful, nature-friendly cooling machines. By 2013 87% United States consumers owned an air conditioner in theirMental Health Directorate

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to die.”

Eighteen people from the station were taken to Medstar Washington hospital, most of them for smoke inhalation, according to spokeswoman So Young Pak. She said 11 were treated and released. Of the seven still in the hospital by 8pm on Monday, one was in a critical condition and one was in a serious condition, she said.

George Washington University hospital spokesman Matt Brock said in an email that 34 patients suffering from smoke inhalation had been brought there and their conditions varied.

The Washington Post reported that 40 people were taken to Howard University hospital.

The source of the smoke was not immediately known.Source: Knicks to nix STAT's Dream camp

USA TODAY SportsThe Knicks would rather Amar'e Stoudemire not work out with Hakeem Olajuwon this summer, according to a source.

The Knicks have decided that it's best for Amar'e Stoudemire to rest his oft-injured knees rather than participate in Hakeem Olajuwon's camp for big men, a source with knowledge of the decision confirmed.

Stoudemire worked on his post moves at Olajuwon's camp for two weeks last August. He was scheduled to do so again this month but plans have changed due to concerns over the health of his knees. The source with knowledge of the decision says there is nothing currently wrong with Stoudemire's knees. The source described the decision as precautionary. Due to previous knee troubles, Stoudemire will play with a minutes limit


this season. He is expected to be capped at 20 minutes per game.

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"They just want him to be healthy for the season and to put him in position to have a successful season," the source said.

The New York Post first reported the news that Stoudemire would be skipping the camp. The source with knowledge of the talks stressed that nothing was set in stone at this point, but as of Friday afternoon, the plan was for Amar'e to skip the camp.

Stoudemire's co-agent, Travis King, told ESPNNewYork.com's Jared Zwerling that the plan is up in the air at this point. Stoudemire coached the Canadian team in the Maccabiah Games and is currently touring Israel.

"Not sure if he is still going," King said. "Waiting to meetwith him once he returns from Israel."

Carmelo Anthony was expected to participate in the Hakeem Camp as well, but the source said that he is unlikely to do so.

Olajuwon has trained a myriad of players at his compound in Houston. He reportedly charges $50,000 per week for the training sessions.

Stoudemire's work with Olajuwon appeared to pay off last season. During his brief time on the floor, Stoudemire was effective in the post, averaging 14.2 points on five rebounds.

He was limited to just 29 games due to arthroscopic surgeries on his left and right knees to clear out debris.


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CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA – The Bernie Sanders who took the stage Saturday night in Cedar Rapids was a more polished version of the Bernie Sanders Vermonters have known for years.

The senator from Vermont's tirade against inequality and injustice he delivered in Iowa just two days before the state’s presidential caucus was familiar stuff for anyone who has known Sanders for years. These were the same themes that marked his run for office as mayor, congressman and U.S. senator.

But the pitch was more polished, buffed by countless deliveries on the campaign trail. He still sounded like a professor giving a lecture he has delivered for years. Yet he rolled with the audience, riding their pitch, even laughing at their jokes. He looked likedhe was having a good time.

This was a Sanders with fewer rough edges, who was less of the ideological steamroller who seemed only interested in making his point, but still full of his trademark fire and brimstone.

This was Sanders the presidential candidate, hardly slick and still too wonky, but more than an angry old man on the fringes of the political spectrum. Sanders was still angry, but he used his anger as a rallying cry to draw others into the fight – and his campaign. His immediate mission was to fire up his supporters so that they would turn out on Monday to caucus for him. .

And the crowd ate it up. The Grand Ballroom of the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in downtown Cedar Rapids lit up as


matter and the tribunal serves as the jury.[1]

B. Factual and Procedural Background
This case arises from a hearing under this statutory scheme in which the Appellant, Cara Sajko, challenged the termination of her employment as a science teacher at Male Traditional High School in Jefferson County. The superintendent of the Jefferson County Schools had sought to terminate Appellant's employment because of numerous alleged incidents of insubordination and conduct unbecoming a teacher that had led to multiple written reprimands and warnings and two suspensions. The superintendent informed Appellant of his intention to terminate her employment by a letter dated March 28, 2005, which detailed the history of alleged incidents.
*292 The letter was hand-delivered to Appellant's home. According to the person who delivered the letter, Appellant received it the same day,March 28. According to Appellant's collective bargaining representative, Appellant admitted that she received the letter on March 28. Appellant, however, has denied that she received the letter that day.
Appellant employed an attorney on April 6. Her counsel claimed that he tried to contact the general counsel for the Jefferson County Schools that day and the next, but the general counsel was out of the office. After business hours on April 7, Appellant's counsel faxed to the general counsel's office a copy of a letter giving notice under KRS 161.790(3) of Appellant's intention to answer the charges against her. Copies of this letter were also mailed to the Schools' counsel and the Commissioner of Education that same day, but they were not received until April 8. It is the


the letter. He did, however, note that affidavits from the person who delivered the letter and Appellant's own collective bargaining representative indicated that Appellant received the letter on March 28. He also noted that Appellant denied these claims. He then stated, "If recognition of this day [March 28] results in a ruling that petitioner gave her notice one day late, then a preliminary evidentiary hearing would need to be held regarding Petitioner's denial of the affidavit assertions."
The hearing officer went on to deny the motion. He held that KRS 161.790(3) was ambiguous as to whether the notice it required had to be received by the superintendent and commissioner within ten days or simply put in the mail. After examining various policies apparent from the statute, he decided thatsuperintendent's decision to terminate the Appellant's employment was appropriate and affirmed the decision, in effect, reaching the same result as if she had not timely filed her notice but with the added right of judicial review of the decision on the merits.
*293 Both sides sought review by the Jefferson Circuit Court, which upheld the tribunal's decision in all respects. As to the issue currently before this Court, the circuit court found that the superintendent's letter was delivered on March 28 and that the notice in response was due April 7, but that there was "no basis to reverse the tribunal's determination" and that the "tribunal was within its statutory authority to accept and hear Sajko's appeal in the manner it stated."
The Court of Appeals affirmed and upheld the


it's not clear what will happen to these funds when we leave the EU, some experts say any loss will disproportionately affect poorer regions.

If one thing's certain, Cornwall will pull together and fight for a brighter future.

There are nine UK regions in the top ten of northern Europe’s most deprived areas.

West Wales, Cornwall, Durham, Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire, Shropshire/Staffordshire, Lancashire, Northern Ireland and East Yorkshire/North Lincolnshire are joined by the Belgian region of Hainaut, the only non-UK entry in the top ten.

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In contrast, inner London is ranked as the richest area in northern Europe, meaning the gap between the richest and poorest region in the UK is the widest in the EU.

The Inequality Briefing, a non-political platform which analyses information on national inequality, said the reason the UKVallarsi, DOMINIC, an Italian priest, b. at Verona, November 13, 1702; d. there, August 14, 1771. He studied with the Jesuits at Verona and after his elevation to the priesthood occupied himself chiefly in archaeological and Patristic studies. In his searches for manuscripts and other antiquities he was aided financially by the City of Verona and its bishop, as well as by Benedict XIV, who gave him a benefice in the Diocese of Vicenza and appointed him reviser for the Oriental languages at the Holy Office. He was also highly respected for his archaeological learning by such men as Muratori, Zeno, Mazzuchelli, and others. His one fault was his great dogmatism in expressing his opinions and his lack of appreciation of the learning of others. His chief work


second volume, which was to contain the Latin translations of Rufinus, did not appear.

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President Donald Trump's insults about MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski this week, when he called her "crazy" and accused her of "bleeding badly from a facelift," are part of a long history of Trump criticizing women based on their appearances.

Trump has insulted women publicly countless times in his professional life. He has referred to women as "fat," "disgusting," "ugly," a "piece of ass" and rated women's physical appearances on a numbers scale. Trump has ranked the famous women he wants to sleep with and compared women to buildings or works of art. In addition to his words, multiple women have accused Trump of sexual assault and sexual harassment. He has denied the allegations against him.

"I think women are beautiful — I think certain women are more beautiful than others,Last season of The Bachelor ended with a twist and a bang after protagonist Arie Luyendyk Jr. dumped his chosen bride-to-be, contestant Becca Kufrin, on camera. In an unprecedented move, he ultimately proposed to the runner-up, becoming one of the franchise’s most infamous villains but also setting up the arc for the current season of The Bachelorette. This iteration of the show was designed to — finally — give Kufrin the televised happily-ever-after of her dreams. The motto accompanying the unveiling of her official Bachelorette portrait was her own no-nonsense catchphrase: “Let’s do the damn thing!”

But, as usual, most of the best drama and comic relief on this season of The Bachelorette, the show’s 14th, has come not from Becca herself but from the antics of and squabbles


this is depicted in a very different register than the portrayals of stoic or mysterious straight white men in “prestige” television dramas. This season, for instance, Blake told Becca during his “hometown date” about the trauma of witnessing a school shooting as a teenager, while his mother talked about his panic attacks after a previous heartbreak. This kind of open embrace of masculine emotion is rare in the television landscape, whether scripted or reality.

Contestants during the swimsuit portion of the "Mr. America" pageant in Season 9.

The Bacheloretteis still a show designed primarily for a straight, white audience, and when it engages with identities outside of that it almost always stumbles, often in quite calculated ways. With all the shirtless mud wrestling and group workouts, the show has longwomen who preceded her.

In many ways, The Bachelorette waffles — often problematically — between idealizing male vulnerability, exposing toxic masculinity, and making comedy out of a “bros will be boys” ethos. And the Bachelorette herself is set up as a kind of arbiter of these questions.

Early in each season the majority of the guys are playing caricatures, but by the end there are at least two or three that we're supposed to take seriously and consider "good" enough for the woman at the center of it. This season offers an interesting contrast between Kufrin’s two finalists, with each man representing a kind of contradiction in himself: In the finale, airing Monday, she will choose between Blake — a classically hunky former high school football star who is also


Q:

Pre-2000s novel about tourism through time travel

I am pretty sure this was a novel, but I can't pin down the time when it might have been written (though it was likely between the 1980s and early 2000s). As I recall the plot, tourists were taken back in time by guides to see places and witness important events (one of the darker versions was the Black Death era).
I also remember that they tried hard not to change history and so the guides had to hide from their future selves.

A:

Tour guides hiding from themselves is a detail mentioned in Robert Silverberg's "Up the Line" (1969). As per Wikipedia:

Silverberg's narrative includes some cleverly worked out details about
  the problems of time-travel tourism. For example, the number of
 has "some concern" about potential estrogenic exposures to the brains and prostate glands of fetuses, infants and children. Other agencies say that they have lingering, unresolved "questions" about how our body processes compounds and chemicals that mimic estrogen, and what damage these chemicals really cause.

Much of those questions largely circle around how prolonged exposure to the estrogenic chemicals in childhood or adulthood could affect reproduction and growth; how low-dose exposure at sensitive developmental stages could affect children and babies later in life; and how parental exposure could affect the next generation. Studies have shown links between BPA, BPS, and Phthalates and cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and a host of other illnesses.

In Hollywood's 1967 classic film "The Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, Ben Braddock a recent law


Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances acknowledges that some scientists have raised concerns about the rat testing, but claims its own information shows that the breed responds appropriately.

Another controversy in the government's approach to testing concerns the amount of estrogenic chemical that it considered harmful. Government agencies use methods drawn from the science of toxicology, otherwise known as "the dose makes the poison" camp. The FDA toxicologists look at the highest dose you can administer without causing a harmful effect. They use adult animals and type indicators like body weight, organ weight, and litter size. Private researchers like Theo Colborn are quick to point out that hormone disrupters work differently. Their greatest damage occurs at dose levels thousands of times less than what the government would termSafety Commission (CPSC) banned PVC from baby toys. The baby toy industry responded by softening toys with a Phthalate called DINP, which appeared less likely to cause problems in rats and mice. However, in the late 1990s, some scientists found evidence that DINP could cause liver problems in rodents. The CPSC did not take action because they said the risk was minor because the babies did not chew on the toys long enough for the exposure to be a problem. As the independent reports disagreeing with the CPSC began to filter up to Congressional Representatives, they took action. In early 2009 Congress passed the ban on PVC and all Phthalates after concluding that the chemicals posed a risk to children who chew on their toys. This act of


placed in garbage. There is stick enforcement of the required recycle laws, and overall recycle rates for municipal trash have risen to almost 40 percent. Currently, Austria boasts a rate of 63 percent while the U.S. reports a 34 percent recycle rate. This means that we threw away, into landfills, over 161 million tons of recyclables. The U.S. recycling industry is thought to employ over a million workers and generates over $236 billion in annual revenue. We could do more.

Back to the Bottle Deposit

A number of U.S. states, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Vermont have passed laws that establish deposits or refund values by encouraging reusing and recycling of beverage containers. This is known as a Bottle bill or containerthink of as eco-friendly, the city has recently undergone a green renaissance. That's why it's not surprising that the city has recycling laws that are as tough as its nickname of The Steel City. Every Pittsburgh resident, institution and business is required to participate in curbside recycling programs. Like San Francisco, the City of Pittsburgh will even fine recycling law offenders after multiple infractions. The state recently toughened these laws by refusing to accept electronic equipment for curbside waste pick up, so Pittsburgh residential and commercial customers must now also participate in electronic recycling.

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While the U.S. has done very little, BPA has been banned by Canadian Government, and many other European countries due to the world-wide health concerns. With BPA


patient have the right to make decisions about your own health and medical conditions. The only exception to this rule is the emergency situation for which medical care is needed immediately to prevent serious or irreversible harm. Therefore, you must voluntarily give your informed consent for treatment, and for most medical tests and procedures. The legal term for failing to obtain informed consent before performing a test or procedure on a patient is called battery - a form of assault.

At the end of the day, we have some personal choices we can make to reduce our exposure to the toxic chemicals in food packaging. Plastics are in our lives to stay, and the alien is always going to be in our kitchens, threating our health. Our lives arethat provide milk in returnable glass bottles rather than plastic or plastic-coated cardboard. All cardboard milk containers are coated inside and out with plastic, not wax. Check out local dairies in your area to see if this is offered. Go Glass. Here are 10 reasons to move from plastic food containers to those made from glass:

1. Glass is free of toxic chemicals and won't leach into your food

2. Glass is dishwasher safe; plastic on the other hand degrades each time it's washed and heated

3. Glass preserves the quality and flavor of the food

4. Glass won't absorb smells or stains like plastic does

5. Glass is actually a lot more economical, even if plastic is cheap, plastic will eventually break down but glass can last a life time

6. Glass is


the speech of neighboring cities of Changshu, Jiaxing and Suzhou, categorized into Su-Hu-Jia dialect subgroup (苏沪嘉小片) of Wu Chinese by linguistists. People mingling between those areas do not need to code-switch to Mandarin when they speak to each other. However, there are noticeable tonal and phonological changes, which do not impede intelligibility. As the dialect continuum of Wu continues to further distances, however, significant changes occur in phonology and lexicon to the point that it is no longer possible to converse intelligibly. Most Shanghainese speakers find that by Wuxi, differences become significant and that the Wuxi dialect would take weeks to months for a Shanghainese-speaker to learn fully. Similarly, Hangzhou dialect is understood by most Shanghainese-speakers, but it is considered "rougher" and does not have as much glideOne of the savviest picks of last year's NBA draft was made by the Milwaukee Bucks, when they grabbed Giannis Antetokounmpo with the 15th overall pick. The Greek Freak was just a bundle of springy limbs and a fresh face at the time, but he quickly became a player who matters. There is another baby-faced, athletic freak from Europe lurking at the bottom of this year's draft boards, and he may very well end up becoming this year's answer to Antetokounmpo. Call him the Swiss Freak, if you'd like.

His name is Clint Capela. He's a 6-foot-11, 20-year-old power forward who plays in the French Pro A League, and he's projected to be selected somewhere in the 20s during tonight's draft. You should begin orienting yourself with Capela by


homeless, HUD reasons that those doubled up are not in danger of being street-based and are not homeless. Kelly says that local agencies tend to base their definition on whether their funding is federal or locally based.

The Inter-Faith Housing Alliance in Ambler, Pennsylvania, is one such agency that works to provide temporary housing for families. Founded in 1982, Interfaith is now part of Your Way Home of Montgomery County, a HUD-mandated coordinated effort that brought all the shelters in the county under one umbrella to provide resources and referrals to those in need of shelter. Last year alone the agency served 43 adults and 71 children, with help from over 900 volunteers.

It is a surprise to many in the county (the second wealthiest in the state) that homelessnessan explosion of online courses, including massive open online offerings from new ventures like Coursera and edX, the University of the People remains unique.

Classes at the university are 10 weeks long, and have 20 to 30 students — often from as many different countries — who have weekly homework and quizzes. The university depends largely on volunteer labor. Mr. Reshef said some 3,000 professors have offered to volunteer, although so far the university has only been able to use about 100 of them.

Its deans are volunteers from New York University and Columbia.

“Many people have been attracted by the possibility of opening opportunities for students from so many different backgrounds,” Mr. Reshef said.

The University of the People, almost from the start, has attracted high-level support, with partnerships or backing


from New York University, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the OpenCourseWare Consortium and many others. In August, Microsoft agreed to provide scholarships, mentoring and job opportunities to 1,000 African students who enroll at the University of the People.Opening Pandora's box: parental anxiety and the assessment of childhood murmurs.
Most family physicians and pediatricians recognize the induction of parental anxiety when a newly diagnosed childhood murmur is discussed with a child's parent. To assess parental anxiety before and after consultation with a pediatric cardiologist for assessment of a childhood murmur. The study investigated the relationship between anxiety and parental understanding of murmurs, and assessed the possible role of the primary physician's initial diagnosis of the child's murmur on the anxiety level of parents. One hundred ninety-five consecutive parents who presented with their child to the Alberta Children's Hospital Cardiology Clinic, Calgary, Alberta, were recruited. The children were referred for an initial consultation with a pediatric cardiologist for assessment of a heart murmur noted previously by the referring


scores on parental understanding and lower levels of parental anxiety. The present study confirms that the finding of a childhood murmur by the family doctor or pediatrician induces significant parental anxiety, even when the presumptive diagnosis is that of an 'innocent' murmur. Pediatric cardiology consultation decreases parental anxiety, even in parents whose child has been given a diagnosis of pathology. The correlation between poor understanding of murmurs and high parental anxiety suggests that further study is required on the role of the referring physician in augmenting parental understanding of the term 'heart murmur' and the referral process.Acyl coenzyme A cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) is an enzyme serving for catalyzing the synthesis of cholesteryl ester from cholesterol, playing an important role in the metabolism of cholesterol and intake of cholesterol in the digestive organs.
In recent years, it has been clarified that when the activity of ACAT present in the small intestine or the liver is suppressed, elevation of blood cholesterol can be effectively prevented, and a number of studies have heretofore been undertaken regarding ACAT inhibitors.
The present inventors focused on ACAT in vascular wall and studied on the selective inhibitors against this type of ACAT, thus leading to the finding that azole compounds having a cyclic diamine structure, particularly cyclic diamine derivatives of formula (5′):
(wherein A denotes NH, an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, Wa


to Wd denote CH or any one of the Wa to Wd denotes a nitrogen atom, Ra denotes a lower alkylthio group, a lower alkoxy or halo-lower alkoxy group, a lower alkoxy lower alkoxy group, each of Rb, Rc, and Rd denotes a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a lower alkoxy carbonyl group, a halo-lower alkyl group, a halo-lower alkoxy group, a lower alkoxy lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy lower alkoxy group, a hydroxy lower alkyl group, a hydroxy lower alkoxy group, a lower alkylcarbonyl group, a lower alkylthio group, a lower alkylsulfinyl group, a lower alkylsulfonyl group, a nitro group, or a cyano group, m is 1 or 2, and n is an integer of 1 to 6)Pay No Respect hit the studio this summer to record 'Hope For The Hopeless', a four track EP and their first release since 2012 and the first introduction to Pay No Respect as a five piece. With new member and second guitarist Jack Price in tow, this new turning point promises to be more dynamic, louder and heavier than before.
'Hope For The Hopeless' has 3 brand new crushing hardcore anthems and a rework of their 'This World Is Ours' a track which has never been released but it's official video has had over 153,000 views. The EP will be recorded in July 2014 at Hidden Tracks Studios by Oz Craggs (Feed The Rhino, Bass Player) and Artwork will be supplied by 'Too Many Skulls' (Slayer, Machine Head, Earth


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Debra Sweet is the Director of World Can’t Wait, initiated in 2005 to “drive out the Bush regime” by repudiating its program, forcing it from office through a mass, independent movement and reversing the direction it had launched. Based in New York City, she leads World Can’t Wait in its continuing efforts to stop the crimes of our government, including the unjust occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture and detention codes, as well as reversing the fascist direction of U.S. society, from the surveillance state to the criminalization of abortion and immigrants. She has worked with abortion providers for twenty-five years, organizing community support and helping them withstand anti-abortion violence. Since the age of 19, when she confronted Richard Nixon during a face-to-face meeting and toldhim to stop the war in Vietnam, she has been a leader in the opposition to U.S. wars and invasions. Debra says, “Stop thinking like an American, and start thinking about humanity!”

Dennis
Loo is an award-winning sociologist, co-editor of Impeach the
President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney, Associate Professor of
Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona and an honors graduate in Government from
Harvard. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the
University of California at Santa Cruz. He is a former journalist and
his research specialties include polling, public policy-making, social
movements, and criminology.He can be reached via his blog: http://dennisloo.blogspot.com

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WikiLeaks has released some of the most damning evidence yet against the ongoing occuptions in Iraq and Afghanistan. For current news compiled about WikiLeaks, see wlcentral.org. To find out more about accused Wikileaker Bradley Manning, see bradleymanning.org.

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Followers of Glenn Beck have described themselves as "students of history" and "historians." Everyone who opposes Beck's racist, reactionary agenda needs to know and bring out the real history of the U.S. and the world in order to, and as part of, politically opposing this agenda.

Miller Francis, former writer for Rolling Stone, sent this quote from Bertolt Brecht to explain why he donated:

"Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.that U.S. soldiers killed the family in their house.

In some respects, this is worse than Bush. First, because Obama has claimed the right to assassinate American citizens whom he suspects of “terrorism,” merely on the grounds of his own suspicion or that of the CIA, something Bush never claimed publicly. Second, Obama says that the government can detain you indefinitely, even if you have been exonerated in a trial, and he has publicly floated the idea of “preventive detention." Third, the Obama administration, in expanding the use of unmanned drone attacks, argues that the U.S. has the authority under international law to use such lethal force and extrajudicial killing in sovereign countries with which it is not at war.

Such measures by Bush were widely considered by liberals and


with the war crimes he plans.

People in this country have to get visibly and loudly into the streets in protest; on the airwaves, on the Internet, and everywhere, to denounce this coming attack.

No, not in our name! Humanity and the planet come first. No to U.S. planetary domination.

Voices from November 2nd, 2005 Protests:

(The movement to drive out the Bush regime was launched with protests across the country on Nov. 2nd, 2005, the anniversary of Bush's "re-election. Below are statements in support of the Nov. 2nd protests.)

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(On Jan. 31st, 2006, the night of Bush's state of the
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followed by a rally demanding "Bush Step Down" in Washington, DC the
following Saturday, Feb. 4th. Below are statements madebefore or
during the state of emergency protests.)

Sunsara Taylor is a writer for Revolution Newspaper and sits on the
Advisory Board of The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime. She
has appeared on/in The New York Times, The O'Reilly Factor, CNN's
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OnlineJournal.com, OpEdNews.com, SmirkingChimp.com, and numerous blogs.

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World Can't Wait is a national movement formed to halt and reverse the terrible program of war, repression and theocracy that was initiated by the Bush / Cheney regime and the ongoing crimes that continue to this day. Founded in 2005, the original mission of The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime was to "create a political situation where the Bush administration's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking U.S. society is reversed."

Based on the truth and holding to principle, the organization has continued to mobilize serious political resistance aimed at actuallystopping the "war OF terror" with all its associated outrages of political repression, brutal torture and more which continue under the Obama administration. In 2010, World Can't Wait published the statement Crimes are Crimes - No Matter Who Does Them in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Humanist, and Rolling Stone online. In 2013, World Can't Wait published the statement Close Guantanamo Now in The New York Times and The Progressive.

Current mission statement:

The World Can’t Wait organizes people living in the United States to repudiate and stop the fascist direction initiated by the Bush Regime, including: the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the global “war of terror” of torture, rendition and spying; and the culture of bigotry,


joint main body, the washer being provided with a circle of recess outside, and two side surfaces of the recess being outward inclined surfaces; the ball joint housing is provided with a circle of bulge therein, the bulge being adapted to the recess of the washer; in the ball joint locking structure described in the above patent document, through tightly screwing the adjusting knob, the support seat bears an upward pressure, and in turn applies a pressure to the ball joint main body, and the ball joint main body at the same time applies a pressure to the washer; with the increase of the pressure on the support seat, the locking force on the ball joint main body also increases gradually; in the gradual increase process of thelocking force, the two inclined surfaces of the outer-ring recess of the washer expand outward and deform, increasing the force bearing area of the ball joint main body and the washer, thereby increasing the locking force on the ball joint main body; and in the ball joint locking structure, the ball joint main body bears pressure simultaneously in the upper and lower directions, and the locking effect is better.
The ball joint locking structure described in the above patent document mainly has the following disadvantages: in the ball joint locking structure, the ball joint main body is in contact with both the washer and the support seat via its curved surface, and no matter the ball joint main body is in a rotating state or locking state, the lower


Spelman College, which is dedicated to the education of African American women, this school year started a policy to formally enroll transgender students. Morehouse and Spelman are part of the Atlanta University Center Consortium. Agnes Scott College, a women's college in Decatur, admits students who identify as female, transgender, agender, gender fluid or non-binary.

David A. Thomas, the 12th president of Morehouse College, is one of two presidents at the college who did not have ties to a historically black college or university before taking the role as president. The other president, Benjamin Mays, is displayed in an oil painting in the background. ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM

Thomas said when he took office in January 2018 he wanted to implement a formal policy concerning transgender students. He consulted Spelman’s presidentto exterminate most of the Wedge
Pack wolves in Northeast Washington."

And before that, State Senator Kevin Ranker (D-Orcas Island) called
the agency a "failure" for not exhausting nonlethal tricks to keep the
Wedge wolves out of the Diamond M Ranch's cattle, reports KING 5 in a
story that "went national" when it was picked up by MSNBC.

Saying he's "disappointed," Ranker ominously warned in a letter, "I
can tell you, however, as the chair of the committee with oversight over
the Department of Fish & Wildlife, this story is far from over."

He's head of Natural Resources and Marine Waters. Two years ago his
committee held hearings on and passed a bill merging WDFW with State
Parks; it ultimately did not pass.

Noting that wildlife managers in Montana have killed 74 wolves this year alone for livestock depredations, Rich


policy lead, says wolf
research in other states indicates a sort of all-or-nothing pack-wide
behavior when it comes to viewing livestock as a prey base.

Wyoming has 21 confirmed packs with an active breeding pair, Pozzanghera said, and only three have taken to targeting livestock.

"Eighteen of those 21 packs," he said, "have not had livestock predation patterns."

And finally, bringing this back around to Washington, WDFW's Facebook
post announcing it had killed off the GPS-collared male last Friday
morning is up to a probable record of 774 comments.

That's roughly twice as many as any previous thread on the agency's page -- and all those were wolves too.

The rancor will only continue this Friday -- wolf advocates are
organizing rides to Olympia and the commission meeting while Stevens
County Cattlemen are petitioning the citizen oversight panel to

People v Silva (2019 NY Slip Op 06103)

People v Silva

2019 NY Slip Op 06103

Decided on August 7, 2019

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on August 7, 2019
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX
JOSEPH J. MALTESE, JJ.

2015-10123
 (Ind. No. 7366/13)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,
vKarl Silva, appellant.

Samuel K. F. Jones, Mt. Vernon, NY, for appellant, and appellant pro se.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove, Jodi L. Mandel, and Jordan Cerruti of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County


Henderson Gleaner

The Henderson Gleaner (or, simply, The Gleaner) is the daily newspaper in Henderson, Kentucky.

The Gleaner publishes Tuesday through Sunday mornings. It hasn't published on Mondays since its founding in the 1880s.

The Gleaner was locally owned for more than a century, but was purchased by A. H. Belo in March 1997 before being acquired by the E. W. Scripps Company on October 31, 2000, when it became part of the Evansville Courier & Press. Scripps later divested their newspaper holdings, and on April 1, 2015 the Journal Media Group became the owners.

In April 2016, Gannett announced it had acquired Journal Media Group, including The Gleaner.

History

Clarence Christian (C .C.) Givens founded The Gleaner in 1883 in Providence, Kentucky, located approximately 35 miles south of Henderson. Givens remained there forThis report presents detailed statistics from the 1960 Census on the marital status of persons 14 years old and over and data for married couples cross-classified by selected characteristics of husband and wife. All of the statistics are based on a 5-percent sample. The report contains data on the following subjects: color or race, Nativity and Parentage, Years of School Completed, whether married more than once, years since first marriage, occupation, and Income In 1959. This report shows statistics for the United States, Urbanized Areas combined, and the South. In addition, some of the tables show figures for regions and for the urban, rural-nonfarm, and rural-farm parts of the United States.

Complete-count statistics on persons 14 years old and over by marital status are presented for States, their urban


and rural parts, counties, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Urbanized Areas, places of 1,000 or more, and minor civil divisions in chapter B of each State part of Volume 1, Characteristics of the Population. Similar data are shown for census tracts in the Series PHC(1) reports. In addition, chapter B of Volume I, Part I, United States Summary, shows statistics on marital status for the United States, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, outlying areas of sovereignty or jurisdiction, and the United States population abroad. For States and the rural-farm population of counties, statistics on marital status and married couples based on the 25-percert sample are presented in chapter C of Volume I. Chapter D of Volume I presents 25-percent sample statistics on marital status, by age, color, and sexfor the United States, urban and rural, regions, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and counties of 250,000 or more.

Statistics on marital status, for family and subfamily heads by presence of children under 18 years old, and for unrelated individuals, based on the 25-percent sample, are presented for States and their urban and rural parts in chapter D of Volume I, and for census tracts in the Series PHC(1) reports.

Several other reports in Series PC(2) and PC(3) contain additional information on marital status and married couples. Report PC(2)-4A, Families, presents statistics based on the 5-percent sample on the marital status of heads of households, families, and subfamilies, by number of children. Report PC(2)-3A, Women by Number of Children Ever Born, presents 5-percent sample statistics on marital status of women 15


years old and over by number of children ever born and statistics on age of husband and age of wife for women 15 to 49 years old. Report PC(2)-4B, Persons by family Characteristics, presents 5-percent sample statistics on the marital status of persons 14 years old and over, by detailed family status, age, color, and sex, for the United States and Urbanized Areas, and on the marital status of persons living with one or both parents, by age, color, and sex, for the United States, its urban and rural parts, and the South. Most other reports in Series PC(2) and PC(3) include information on marital status.

Statistics on persons 14-years old and over by abridged marital status categories based on a complete count for States, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas,of children ever born, Years of School Completed, and labor force status. Statistics on marital status for females 15 to 59 years old were also published in Volume IV, part 5, chapter C, Fertility, by age of woman, Years of School Completed, and labor force status, for the United States, urban and rural. Marital status by selected characteristics of women was also shown for States. Statistics on marital status by household status and labor force status for the United States, urban and rural, were shown in 1950 Census of Population, Volume IV, chapter 1A, Employment and Personal Characteristics. Additional statistics on marital status were presented in nearly all of the special reports in Volume IV of the 1950 Census of Population.

Statistics on duration of first marriage and age


at first marriage for 1940, and on duration of first marriage for 1910, were published in the 1940 reports which appeared under the General title Differential Fertility-1940 and 1910.

Annual estimates of the population by marital status and age based on the Current Population Survey are published in Current Population Reports, Series P-20. Occasional reports in this series present more detailed information pertaining to marital status. Series P-20, No. 108, "Marriage, Fertility, and Childspacing: August 1959" presented statistics on marital status by age at first marriage, year of first marriage, and color. Series P-20, No. 88, "Household and family Characteristics: March 1958," presented statistics on married couples by ages of husband and wife. Other reports in the P-20 Series for earlier years presented additional detailed statistics on subjects relatedbecalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.

About Rabbit Redux

"A triumph."

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The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom–known to all as Rabbit, one of America’s most famous literary characters–finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How he resolves or further complicates his problems makes for a novel of the first order.

About John Updike

John Updike was the author of more


than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William… More about John Updike

About John Updike

John Updike was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William… More about John Updike

About John Updike

John Updike was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National BookFormer world No. 1 Andy Murray plans to return to tennis at the Fever-Tree Championships at London's Queen's Club.

If all goes well there, Murray is hoping to play doubles at Wimbledon as well.

The 32-year-old Scot has not played since having a right hip resurfacing operation in January, surgery he opted for after the persistent pain had become too much to handle.

Less than six months after he feared his career could be over, Murray is set to begin his comeback -- in doubles only -- at the Queen's Club event, which begins on June 17.

"I am really excited to return to the match court for the first time since my surgery," Murray said in a statement. "Queen's has always been a special place for me and it's the perfect


place to return. It's where I won my first ATP match, my first title in Britain and on grass, and it's been my most successful tournament overall. I'm not yet ready to return to the singles court, but I've been pain-free for a few months now. I've made good progress in training and on the practice court, and this is the next step for me as I try to return to the tour."

Though he hopes to play doubles at Wimbledon in July, Murray is still considered to be "extremely unlikely" to play singles as he continues to recover full fitness and test out his hip in a match situation.

"I always thought he would find a way to come back," Rafael Nadal said from the French Open. "He's youngand very passionate about the game. It's great news."

The surgery removed the damaged bone and cartilage within his right hip socket, replacing it with a metal shell.

In March, Murray said he was pain-free for the first time in several years and that he would know by the end of May if he was on track to make a return in time for the grass-court season.

On Sunday, the two-time former Wimbledon champion posted a video of himself on Instagram serving and running toward the net. On Monday, it was confirmed that he is on the entry list for Queen's, where he is provisionally entered with Spain's Feliciano Lopez.

In January, he said he would be having the operation in the knowledge that it could mean the end of his career


but that if it worked, he would work as hard as possible to make a comeback, as long as he was pain-free.

The return to full fitness last year of doubles specialist Bob Bryan after a similar operation gave Murray hope, and his mother, Judy Murray, had said in Melbourne in January that she felt he was "not done with tennis."

Last month, Jamie Murray said he would not be playing doubles with Andy at Wimbledon this summer because he felt it was too soon for his younger brother to be at full speed to have a shot at the title.I was about to fold a pair of jacks when my little brother died. I was seated at a round table in the hospital waiting room with two cousins and my brother-in-law, taking a break from the prayer meeting my family had convened in the adjoining space. Not a very Christian way to avoid the assembly, in retrospect, but we were playing for artificial sweetener packets, so it wasn't really gambling. Besides, that level of deep and intense intercession is draining. I was exhausted, and I was losing, and then the room went weirdly quiet.

It was December 4, 2003. My younger brother, Luke, had reached down to change a CD in his car stereo on his way to school that morning, when he crossed the double yellows and