as you stroll through the curving walkways, arches, gazebos and columns.

Built in 1998, the main features of this garden include the plaza area with twin pavilions, a circular pool at the end of a central lawn walkway from the plaza featuring waterlilies and lotuses, a raised bed along the north wall featuring fragrant plants, a curving walkway on the south side framed by arbors featuring fragrant roses, honeysuckle and wisteria and beds east of the plaza with pillars painted in whimsical colors featuring roses, artemesia, delphinium, thyme, scented geraniums and other fragrant plants. This garden also features stunning containers in unique plant combinations. Under the expert care of Senior Horticulturist, Loddie Dolinski, this garden has flourished over the years. A group of dedicated volunteers assist with the maintenanceword: oil.

Traffic to our various oil futures ticker pages jumped more than 30% in January. In fact, oil overtook Apple in the rankings of top tickers. This had never happened in the time I’ve been with the site.

Yes, there was a lot of interest in China in January, but our readers spoke with their clicks: Oil was the story. Traffic to the Apple quote page, meanwhile, has been down 15% — this despite the best efforts of our good friends at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

But the No. 1 ticker of 2016 has far and away been that of the Dow Jones Industrial Average , which saw a 113% increase in January. This, to me, was a clear measure of the degree of uncertainty in 2016. MarketWatch columnist


Nāga Saṃyutta

The Nāga Saṃyutta is a Buddhist scripture of the Pali Canon. It is the 29th Saṃyutta in the Saṃyutta Nikāya, placed in the Khandha Vaggasaṃyutta.

Content
The Nāga Saṃyutta, also known as the Linked Discourses on Dragons, provides basic accounts of the nature of the nāgas; serpentine deities in Buddhist mythology. The Buddha describes these beings in regards to their mode of birth, hierarchy, as well as the reasons one may be reborn among them.

Suttas
A total of fifty suttas are found in the text. Suttas 11-20 and 21-50 are each abbreviated into a single discourse.
1) Suddhika Sutta
2) Paṇītatara Sutta
3) Uposatha Sutta
4) Dutiyauposatha Sutta
5) Tatiyauposatha Sutta
6) Catutthauposatha Sutta
7) Suta Sutta
8) Dutiyasuta Sutta
9) Tatiyasuta Sutta
10) Catutthasuta Sutta
11-20) Aṇḍajadānūpakārasuttadasaka
21-50) Jalābujādidānūpakārasuttattiṃsaka

English translations
 Sutta Central: Bhikkhu Sujato
 Mettanet Tipitaka Index: Bhikkuni Uppalavanna

See also
Naga
Saṃyutta Nikāya

References

Category:SamyuttaIn the Nude

In the Nude is the third album released by Luther Campbell. It was released on June 8, 1993 for Luke Records and was produced by Mike "Fresh" McCray and John "Swift" Catalon. In the Nude was another success for Luke, reaching #54 on the Billboard 200 and #8 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The album contained several diss tracks towards Luke's then rival, Dr. Dre, most notably "Cowards in Compton" featuring JT Money (who was the vocalist on "Fakin' Like Gangsters", the song from the previous album I Got Shit On My Mind that was an attack on N.W.A) and Clayvoisie. Tweedy Bird Loc, Stank, J, Lil Leak and 4-Clips, dissed Luke for dissing Compton.

In The Nude is the first Luke solo album to be released


After his eventful Grammy weekend, Kanye West called into Ryan Seacrest's program this morning to talk about the awards, Beck, and much more. 'Ye specifically talked the moment when he almost rushed to the stage when Beck won his award, and joked that the voices in his head told him to go up there, but that he ultimately decided against it. He also once again said that Beck is one of the nicest guys he's ever met in music, and that he didn't feel like he had the right to take away his moment.

Ironically enough, Kanye said that Taylor Swift came up to him after the incident and told him that he should have gone up there. On the subject of Swift, 'Ye revealed that they do intendto hit the studio together, and that he wants to work with any artists that have a true fan following and bring passion to their work. Kanye also went in on the Grammy system, and revealed that even if he is nominated next year, he won't attend until they change their voting system.

On his own new music, Kanye talked about the contrast of working with Paul McCartney and said that his level of angst works perfectly with what Paul does in the studio. With the release of his new Yeezy Boost shoe coming up this Saturday, Kanye said that they're going to stream the fashion show this week in 40 locations around the world, and that they will initially drop 9,000 pairs of the shoe in this first


Ivory signs deal with Saints, report says Jets offer trade

New Orleans Saints running back Chris Ivory, a restricted free agent, on Friday signed the one-year tender offer that he received from the team on March 9.

The deal paves the way for Ivory to be traded by the Saints, and apparently the New York Jets are interested.

Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News reported Friday evening that the Jets are “interested in acquiring the bruising 26-year-old running back for a lower draft choice.” Rich Cimini of ESPN New York reported that “there are strong indications the trade will happen.”

Ivory visited the Jets’ training facility on April 12, but they weren’t interested in parting with a second-round pick to obtain his services.

Ivory, the Saints’ leading rusher in 2010 whenhe made the roster as an undrafted free agent, was offered a one-year deal for $2.023 million with a second-round draft pick as compensation.

Ivory, however, was eligible to receive an offer from any other team until Friday. If he had been extended an offer, the Saints would have had a chance to match it or accept a second-round pick in return.

The 6-foot, 222-pound Ivory had 137 carries for 716 yards with five touchdowns and was a consensus NFL All-Rookie team pick in 2010. In three seasons with the Saints, he has rushed for 1,307 yards and 10 TDs.

His 5.1 yards per carry average for his career ranks third in franchise history.


one package design to a second, different package design, the mold plates with integral mold cavities, gates, subrunners and main runner would often be required to be redesigned from the first package design to the second package design, as generally, the mold cavities in the plate would not align with the second design's placement of the chip on the lead frame or flexible board. Thus, there was significant design, engineering, expense, and lag time in redesigning molding plates when changing from a first packaging design to a second packaging design. Additionally, the encapsulation of a chip on a lead frame or on the surface of a flexible board requires an undue amount of encapsulant. Further, the protrusion of the chip beyond the board detracts from the package's protectionUPON THE FOREGOING CITED PAPERS, THIS DECISION/ORDER ON THIS MOTION IS AS FOLLOWS:

Defendant YG Holdings Corp. moves for an Order pursuant to CPLR§3212 granting summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs claims and all cross-claims, in their entirety. Plaintiff opposes.

After a review of the papers presented, all relevant statutes and case law, the Court grants the motion. Factual and procedural background:

In the instant case, plaintiff sues for injuries he allegedly sustained on November 2, 2008, when he tripped and fell over a metal plate that was situated in the middle of the roadway on East 117th Street, New York, New York. Said metal plate was described as being square in shape, approximately 7 to 8 feet long, which covered a hole in the ground. Plaintiff alleges that the area where he


fell was approximately 5 feet away from his girlfriend's vehicle which was parked on the opposite side of East 117th Street.

Consequently, plaintiff commenced the instant action via service of a Summons and Complaint dated January 15, 2010. On March 23, 2010, he filed a Supplemental Summons and Verified Complaint adding defendants YG Holding Corp. (hereinafter, "YG"), and Cypress Construction, (hereinafter, "Cypress"). At the time of the accident, YG was the owner of 205 East 117th Street, the property adjacent to where the plate was situated. Cypress was the general contractor hired by YG to renovate an area in the subject premises. On September 29, 2010, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., (hereinafter, "Con Ed"), filed a third party Summons and Complaint alleging that third party defendants, Felixcondition. YG asserts that during his deposition, plaintiff testified that the area where he fell was approximately five feet away from his girlfriend's car which was parked on the opposite side of East 117th Street.

Additionally, YG annexes an affidavit of Sergio Garretti, its managing agent. In his affidavit, Mr. Garretti avers in pertinent part that YG had hired Cypress to perform some renovation/installation work limited to a commercial kitchen and cellar in the subject premises. Mr. Garretti also avers that he was unaware of Cypress doing any work in the street abutting the aforementioned premises. Moreover, he avers that neither he nor YG were aware of any potential defects existing in the street abutting the aforementioned premises, and that YG was not responsible for creating any defects.

YG also


annexes numerous documents it received from various sources during the discovery process. It first directs the Court's attention to its Exhibit 'G' appended to its motion. Exhibit G is comprised of documentation exchanged by Con Ed during discovery. Said documentation indicates that Con Ed was issued a street opening permit for East 117th Street from Second Avenue to Third Avenue for the installation of gas mains. Said permit was valid from August 13, 2008 to September 12, 2008. A specific document entitled "Emergency Control System Remarks, " indicates that Con Ed was to install a new three inch LPPE gas service at 205 East 117th Street.

YG also directs the Court to its Exhibit "H." Exhibit H is comprised of documentation it received from Felix Associates, LLC, (hereinafter, "Felix").Pursuant to a purchase order between Con Ed and Felix, which was in effect in 2008, Felix was to "furnish supervision, labor, materials, tools and equipment to install various sized gas facilities throughout the borough of Manhattan..." Additionally, these records reflect that on August 19, 2008, Felix began excavating the street in front of the subject premises, to install gas service. The street was subsequently backfilled and re-paved. Felix also installed a valve box in the sidewalk in front of the subject premises, which was then backfilled, and new concrete slabs were put down. Another document is an invoice from Nico Asphalt Paving, Inc., (hereinafter, "Nico"). It is dated October 20, 2008, and notes that Nico had completed the repaving of the street in front of the subject


races and ethnicities. Today, according to the Pew Research Center, one in six newlyweds in the United States is involved in a mixed marriage.

That is a fivefold increase from 1967, when the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Loving v. Virginia, the decision that made interracial marriage legal across the nation. Last month, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Loving decision, The New York Times asked readers the question: Has being in an interracial relationship united or divided your family?

In other words, “how upset were your parents when they learned you were dating a monkey?”

Angela Martano, 29, and Terrel Stokes, 28 Where they met: At work at a nonprofit in Boston. Wedding set for January 2018 Angela: I come from an Italian Roman-Catholic suburban family. Iby coincidence. So we now examine the dictionary definition of the critical words.
The word "latent" derives from the Latin word which means "to lie hidden," and is akin to an ancient German word for den or lair, an ancient Norse word for deceit, a Greek word for escaping notice, and an old Slavic word for lying in wait. While Webster's Third New International Dictionary gives a myriad of usage examples, it provides but two basic definitions, with several variations of the first basic definition. The first definition is "existing in hidden, dormant, or repressed form," as, for example, in the phrase that someone's "sinister qualities, formerly latent, quickened into life." A variation on that is "present or capable of living or developing in a host without producing visible


new door through to their kitchen and block off an existing door to a drawing room. To save money, the husband hires a contractor named O'Reilly, who is totally incompetent. After an initial misunderstanding about the nature of the job (O'Reilly manages to block off all access to the kitchen), he hurries to put things to right before the wife arrives back from a golf excursion. Miraculously he completes the job. It looks fine.
An expert building contractor named Stubbs arrives. The wife, apropos her low opinion of O'Reilly, comments that the work will probably "all fall down by lunch time," and the husband, rather too smug that the bargain-basement contractor O'Reilly has performed so well, retorts (with a pride-goes-before-the-fall confidence), "Well, let's ask a real expert! Do youwords: T.Bird

It wouldn’t be too far off to say that last winter, Bode Merrill embarked upon one of the most ambitious and anticipated snowboard films since Gigi Rüf and Volcom partnered to put out “9191.” He tapped famed lensman and shirtless wündergod Jon Ray to handle everything behind the lens while Bode headed up the on-screen efforts.

Alongside Ozzy Henning, Jesse Paul, Erik Leon and Hans Mindnich, Reckless Abandon was born and it has taken the snowboard world by storm. From the streets of Salt Lake and Minnesota, to the steep and deep of Wyoming and Alaska, this fun-loving cadre got serious and put together perhaps the greatest snowboard movie in nearly a decade.

With Bode at the helm, the movie has more NBDs than any film in recent history


So we felt bad cuz the hostess was SOOOO nice to us that we just ate. Pae and Judy came along and ate with us and had more beer.

We moved again to Point, since Palm was more of a restaurant with a bunch of old ppl. At point, we started playing drinking games and it was fun. Probably the best part of the night. I had a bunch of laughs while playing some of the games. Yong's friend got pretty messed up... probably cuz of the mixing of alcohol and beer.

We then went to Kareoke.. and that's an entirely different story. The night went down hill. Drama this.. drama that.. it's probably all in my head and me thinking to myself that it was wack. But as longthings to show.

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I went to work, and my boss didn't mention anything about the day i didn't show up for work.. err.. ok.

Then i went to GaJu Market to buy sum ramen and the guy gave me a 30pack of Jja Pa Geti for the price of 20pack. He totally made a mistake cuz he gave me the wrong box.. and there was another worker (girl) who kept yelling at him telling him he got the wrong box.. but he just kept yelling back that it was the correct box. HAHAHA. I even told him if it was the correct box cuz if it wasn't i


Obama Transparency: Silence All Critics

There are no lengths Obama will not stoop to silence those who fiercely oppose him. He can hide behind curtains of insulation and plausible deniability, but at the end of the day we know he and his administration are behind the attacks to silence critics.

There are documented instances of his administration threatening reporters and demanding they stop reporting on specific things that the White House feels would embarrass Obama or face their wrath. During his first campaign journalists from three major newspapers were removed from his campaign plane because they had endorsed McCain.

CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson told radio host Laura Ingraham how the White House had cursed and yelled at her because of her reporting on the illegal gun-running operation Fast andFurious. The White House intimidated CBS into not permitting Attkisson to do interviews about Fast and Furious. An Orlando Sentinel reporter was kept locked in a closet until after Joe Biden had concluded speaking at a fundraiser.

The White House denied they had threatened to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering Obama in the Bay Area in April 2011 and then lied about it. CBS News reporter is also on record protesting the limited press access to Obama fundraisers. The Obama truth team (an specious oxymoron if ever there was one) ordered ISP GoDaddy to shut down the political website of private investigator Douglas Hagmann, because it supposedly contained information that was “maliciously harmful to individuals in the government” (read: it exposed


speak out against the racial discord Obama and company practice, we will continue to speak out against the mendacious megalomaniac and keep you informed.

We will not curtsy to the GOP as sycophantic ideologues and we will not be intimidated by Erebusic Marxist-Leninists whose goal is to fundamentally change America.

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Mychal S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. Today he serves as founder and Chairman of the Racial Policy Center (RPC), a think tank he officially founded in September 2015. RPC advocates for a colorblind society. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of a conservative Capitol Hill think tank; and a former member of the think tank National CenterOrigin

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Exitar appears to be kind of a title, a function or a "model" among Celestials, as Uatu stated that if a Exitar died, another one would eventually take his place.[3]

Exitar destroyed the life on worlds which failed the Celestials' tests.[1]

Conflict with the Watchers

During a conflict with The Watchers, Exitar killed The One, the Watcher who collected all the information from his fellow, and was accused to precipitate the end of the universe. In retaliation, Exitar was "murdered" by Sue Storm after she destroyed his brain. Uatu stated that a new Exitar would take his place eventually.[3]

Celestial Gardener

After the death of the Celestial Gardener at the hands of the Apocalypse Twins Exitar arrived on the Earth to destroy it, but before he can do it he is held back


stories are a tear-jerker.

#1: 75 Days of Labor

For many mothers, those 20 days of labor are the most challenging days of their life. Only a mother knows how she can see through those days! Well, if you thought 20 days were long, wait until you hear the story of Joanna Krzysztonek from Poland. Joanna was carrying not one or two but three babies in her womb. So, she had thrice the reason to be happy, you would think. But all this happiness turned into a nightmare when she went into labour pre-term. Soon after, she gave birth to one of the babies. Sadly, the doctors opined that the baby was born too early and died. From then it was a fight against the odds for Joanna. In aneffort to save her two other babies, the doctors suggested Joanna raise both her feet up. For the next two and a half months, Joanna lay perfectly still with her feet up, to keep the babies within the uterus. After this long and arduous wait, she delivered two perfectly healthy babies!

#2: An Emergency Call that became a life-changer

It was a fine day and a day that changed the life of Marc Hadden for once and all. Marc was going about his usual tasks as the first responder to an emergency call on the 911. The brave firefighter rushed to the address and found that the house was ablaze. When he broke inside, Marc found a lady inside who was in her labour. So, his first task was to


get the lady out of the burning house. Once that had been achieved, he tried to arrange for her trip to the hospital. But it was already too late, so Marc helped the lady in delivering the baby right in front of the property. Marc felt a heavenly connection, as soon as he held the baby in his arms. He even ended up naming it “Grace”. The next day, Marc and his wife Beth learned that Grace had been put up for adoption by his mother. So, Marc rushed to the hospital and brought Grace home. Ever since Grace has become her father’s favourite and is a darling for her two brothers – Will and Parker. Marc feels that “Grace is a God’s gift to our family”.

#3: Smilingall the Way

Being told that your child is suffering from cancer is enough to bring down the world upon you. Just think what went through the minds of Adam Lewis’ parents when they were told that their son was terminally ill and there was no cure. The parents took a selfless call right then. They decided to keep this fact hidden from Adam. They feared that prognosis might affect the way he leads his life. On the contrary, they made sure Adam remained happy all the while. Even when Adam went through the pain of Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy and steroid treatments he remained in good spirits. He enjoyed his time in the school as well as with the family. This brave little boy fought against Cancer for a year


was taken to the nearby hospital. Lucky for her, after a 12-hour labour and fight for survival she gave birth to a healthy baby.

#5 Life is a Battle

Every day we fight many battles for existence, but none can even come close to the plight of Drake. Life has been a bed of thorns for Drake. At 10 years of age, he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Drake fought on against this killer disease. And his mother, Jessica Medinger posted pictures depicting the pain Drake had to endure every day on Facebook. Her idea was to make people know how bad it can get. Drake could hardly eat anything and even when he ate something it hardly stayed inside, due to the effects of Chemotherapy. He had toFriday, 4 December 2015

3-year-old dies after teacher made her sit on hot water container [PHOTO]

A three-year-old girl, Haliya Abolore, has died in the Gbagada area of Lagos State after she was allegedly made to sit on a hot water container by her class teacher, identified only as Maryam.

According to a report by Punch, Haliya, who attended a private school on Idoluwo Street, Dosunmu, Lagos Island, was allegedly made to sit on the container on Wednesday, October 21.

It was learnt that Haliya, who suffered burns in her buttocks and private parts, was thereafter rushed to the Lagos Island General Hospital for treatment.

It was gathered that the matter was reported at the Adeniji Adele Police Division, while Maryam was arrested.The school proprietress, Mrs. Bose Shomoade, was also said to have


been invited for questioning by the police, and made to pay parts of the treatment expenses. Haliya, after two weeks, was moved to the Gbagada General Hospital, for further treatment. The girl, however, died on Tuesday.

Speaking with PUNCH Metro, Haliya’s father, Abolore, said he took the incident as a mistake on the part of the teacher, who knew the container had hot water, and made his daughter to sit on it.

He added that the school brought an undisclosed sum of money for the girl’s treatment before she eventually died.

He said, “She was first taken to the Lagos Island General Hospital. Later, she was taken to the Gbagada General Hospital. We have spent about N300,000 on her treatment. The proprietress gave us N5,000 on the day of the incident.One week later, she visited the girl. She gave some money to my wife’s mother.

“The school teacher has been arrested and detained after the matter was reported at the Adeniji Adele division. The teacher was careless. He knew the container was used to keep hot water and she still sat her on it. All my daughter’s private parts were burnt. She was asked to sit on a container containing hot water.“My wife is distraught. She has been taken to our family house in Kwara State. Haliya is our jewel. We are so sad to lose her.”

The Coordinator, Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, Mrs. Lola Vivour Adeniyi, said they had written to the state Ministry of Education to investigate the school.

She said, “It is sad. The


abuse of the three-year-old occurred when she suffered horrific burns. She was made to sit on a container of hot water in her school. We have just been informed that she died on Tuesday.

“Apparently, she stopped responding to treatment and the pain was too severe. We have also informed the Ministry of Education about the incident.”

A doctor in the hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “The girl died due to complications from the burns.”Wantto win $500?

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Who Started Valentine's Day Anyway?

Like most relationships, the holiday devoted to love has a twisted history.

Contrary to popular belief, Valentine's Day is not entirely the construct of an evil axis led by the florist's guild, les chocolatiers, and a few profit-mongering greeting card conglomerates. Was it made popular by these nefarious forces? No question. But it had a history long before.

It All Started With A Matchmaking Saint...

The Catholic Church recognizes at least three martyred saints called Valentine or Valentinus. The legend most attributed to the holiday, though, is about a man executed by the Roman Emperor Claudius for marrying people clandestinely. The legend further states that Valentine sent the first, well, Valentine—a note to the daughter of his jailer, with whom he was


besotted. This, if it occurred, was around 270 AD.

Some scholars conjecture that our current timing for celebrating St. Valentine's Day (mid-February) is a holdover from a Roman fertility celebration that culminated in singles randomly being paired off. Like an Italian key party.

The bones of someone presumed to be St. Valentine were given to an Irish church by Pope Gregory XVI in 1836. You can see the casket any Valentine's Day at Our Lady of Mount Carmel at Whitefriar Street in Dublin. Meanwhile the oldest-known Valentine in existence—sent by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife after his capture during the Battle of Agincourt—is on display in the British Museum.

The Valentine's Day that we celebrate probably kicked off in Great Britain in the 1600s. And Americans probably got intoit around the 18th- Century. The first cards to be mass-produced in the US were created by Esther Howland in 1840. This earned her the moniker Mother of the Valentine. She should be called the Mother of Hallmark.

How We Celebrate Today

The Greeting Card Association estimates that 1 billion cards are sent annually. Hallmark claims that 50% of its V-Day cards are bought in the 6 days preceding Feb 14th. 180 million roses were purchased for Valentine's Day in 2005 and accounted for 34% of the annual sales dollars. $2.4 billion was spent on jewelry in February 2005, presumably largely for Valentine's Day. And sadly 15% of flowers are self-sent.

Best: Sleepless in Seattle

Worst: Fifty Shades of Grey

The movie might help to get you guys in the mood, but you


confirmation of the election and a dispensation for consecration by a single bishop. On August 23, 1725, Pope Benedict XIII issued a condemnation of the election of Barchman Wuytiers as Archbishop of Utrecht. The papal condemnation was even harsher than that of Barchman Wuytier's predecessor, Steenoven, suggesting that both Archbishop Steenoven and a priest named Theodore Doncker, who was present at Steenoven's consecration, died due to divine vengeance. Doncker, who was actually still alive, would later use the false statement of his death in the condemnation to argue against papal infallibility.

On September 30, 1725, in the Church of St. James and St. Augustine in The Hague, Barchman Wuytiers was consecrated Archbishop of Utrecht by Bishop Dominique Marie Varlet. He received more than 100 letters of congratulation, signed byThe Stone King

A waterfall of broken stones Cascades down the coarse surface Of the stone wall near my school. In the sparkling afternoon light, A dull rainbow shines from the stone Of faded reds and oranges, and murky yellows.

The rocks are fragilely held together By a carpet of evergreen moss And willowy grasses tummeled by the breeze. Leaves dance on the flat roofs of granite, And hold to the base like shy children. Its touch is hard and cold to my skin. Out of place in nature’s play The rock wall towers over us, Its dull eyes watching every passing day.

I have never payed much attention to its dour, fatherly observance. Nor have I noticed how every winter Under its heavy burden of ice and snow Though it


The Chicago Cubs will introduce Joe Maddon as their next manager at a press conference on Monday, the team said in a news release Friday, hours after announcing the firing of former manager Rick Renteria.

The Chicago Cubs will introduce Joe Maddon as their next manager at a press conference on Monday, the team said Friday just hours after announcing the firing of former manager Rick Renteria.

Maddon, the former manager of the Tampa Bay Rays, exercised an out clause in his contract last Friday, leaving him free to sign with any other team. Maddon's agent said Maddon was prepared to sit out the 2015 season if necessary.

When Maddon opted out, it was speculated that he would follow longtime Rays general manager and vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedmanto the Los Angeles Dodgers, who hired Friedman as their president the week before Maddon opted out. But Friedman reiterated immediately that manager Don Mattingly would return next season.

Renteria was fired by the Cubs on Friday afternoon. In a statement, Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said the team informed Renteria of Maddon's candidacy last week and told him that it is making "a change" on Friday.

Epstein had said in September that Renteria would return in 2015. Renteria said Monday that he was aware of the speculation about his position but that he was focused on his job as manager.

Maddon compiled a 754-705 record in nine years in Tampa Bay. He won two American League manager of the year awards and took the Rays to the only


four playoff berths in franchise history, including a World Series appearance in 2008.

CORCORAN: Biggest offseason storylines

The Cubs have finished in last place in the National League Central in each of the last two seasons but have multiple young prospects and young players prepared to make an impact on the major league roster, including Jorge Soler, Javier Baez and 2014 All-Stars Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo.

- Ben Estes and Chris JohnsonI have contributed a chapter to the latest GCWA (Gulf Coast Writers Association) anthology called Mississippi Profiles. I wrote about an ancestor, Claudius V.H. Davis, who fought in the Civil War and was later awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Peachtree Creek. He was one of only 50 recipients of the medal.

The book just came out and the ebook is being worked on, but I know it is available at some locally owned bookstores on the Gulf Coast, namely Southern Bound Book Shop on Eisenhower in Biloxi.

My father in law is dying of brain cancer. He had an egg-sized tumor removed two months ago and underwent all kinds of chemo and radiation and now he can barely move or talk. We


Q:

What was the standard ancient term for a thermopolium?

This page on thermopolia reports a quotation from Mary Beard, classics professor at Cambridge University:

“The best way to escape a diet of bread, cheese and fruit, eaten in small lodginggs over a shop or workshop, where there were limited or no facilities for cooking anything more interesting, was to eat out. Pompeii has long been thought of as a cheap café culture, with bars, taverns and thermopolia (as they are often called in modern guidebooks, though this was certainly not the standard ancient term) lining the streets, catching the passing trade—from visitors with time on their hands to local residents with nowhere nice of their own to be. In fact the masonry counters facing the pavements, with large jars (dolia)offered.
Here is an exhaustive excerpt from Gustav Hermansen's "Ostia: Aspects of Roman City Life" (he gives credit to Tönnes Kleberg in the first line):

The main result of his research is that there are six important names for establishments in this category: caupona, deversorium, hospitium, popina, stabulum, and taberna. These six words are distributed three ways:
The caupona, deversorium, hospitium, popina and stabulum denote what modern languages would call hotels: houses where travellers could put up for the night and at the same time could have their meals and could drink. A stabulum originally meant a stable, and in this connection it stands for a hotel where one could stop in with one's horse. As Latin literature shows, however, it did not matter whether one brought a horse or not!
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King Falls AM centers on a lonely little mountain town's late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants.New shows available the 1st and 15th of every month! Be sure to start from Sammy's first show (May 1st, 2015) to stay up to date with all your King Falls favorites.QUEENS — A 17-year-old girl who was pushed onto the subway tracks managed to wedge herself between the rails and platform and was narrowly missed by an oncoming 7 train Saturday, police said.

The girl, whose name was not immediately released, was on the Manhattan-bound platform of the 103rd Street-Corona Plaza station at about 8:40 p.m. when a man came up behind her and pushed her into the path of an oncoming 7 train, NYPD officials said.

The girl crawled to the side of the tracks and positioned herself between the platform and the train's wheels, police said.

The train's operator hit the emergency brakes and the girl was removed from the tracks, police said.

She was treated at Elmhurst Hospital for minor injuries, police said.

The suspect, who can be seen in


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There are various airports that operate within Westchester County. Westchester County Airport (HPN) is one of Westchester County’s primary airports with at least domestic flights and international flights departing from its runways every week. As of today, Westchester County Airport (HPN) offers nonstop flights to cities and has airlines operating out of it.Some of Westchester County’s other primary airports include; LaGuardia Airport(LGA), offering nonstop flights to cities, with airlines operating out of it on at least domestic flights and international flights each week. Teterboro Airport (TEB) features nonstop flights to cities and has airlines operating out of it on at least domestic flights and international flights each week. John F. Kennedy Intl Airport (JFK) offers nonstop flights to cities and has airlines operating out of it on at least domestic flights and international flights on a weekly basis. Lastly, Newark Liberty Intl Airport (EWR) has airlines operating out it with nonstop flights to cities and at least domestic flights and international flights every week.


Exposure to carcinogens and mortality in a cohort of restoration workers of water-damaged library materials following the River Arno flooding in Florence, 4 November 1966.
In Florence, Italy, the Arno River overflowed on 4 November 1966 and the rare library collections of the National Central Library in Florence (FNCL) were flooded. A Restoration Centre was immediately set up. For book restoration many toxic chemicals were used, such as chlorinated solvents, ethylene oxide (EtO), formaldehyde, petroleum distillates, and pesticides. The study's aims were: (I) to document the restoration process, (II) to identify the potential chemical exposures, (III) to evaluate the mortality experience of restorers. A small cohort of 168 workers was identified. The restorers were employed in the FNCL's Restoration Centre during the years 1967-1976. We excluded 9 subjects fromExclusive: Marc Evan Jackson will host the six-part series diving into the creation and history of the beloved NBC comedy.

To the growing list of TV shows getting their own official podcast, add the Nine-Nine. In anticipation of the show’s upcoming Season 7, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” is launching a six-part series that will dig into the on- and off-screen history of the NBC comedy, with all episodes available Monday, February 3.

Rather than focus on new episodes on a week-by-week basis, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The Podcast” will devote each of its six episodes to a previous season of the show. The podcast will feature interviews with co-creator Dan Goor and a number of the show’s core cast members. For a lineup of who’s part of the series, check out a trailer with


The Maastricht Treaty originally required that all members of the European Union join the euro once certain economic criteria are met.  In November 2007 the Finance Minister Plamen Oresharski stated that his goal was to comply with all five convergence criteria by 2009 and adopt the euro in 2012.

Besides not complying with the requirement to be an ERM-II member for two years, Bulgaria also did not satisfy the price stability criterion in 2008. Bulgaria's inflation in the 12 months from April 2007 to March 2008 reached 9.4%, well above the reference value limit at 3.2%. However, Bulgaria fulfilled the state budget criterion of only having a deficit at maximum 3% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).  The country had posted surpluses since 2003, which inengulfed Cheerios' new ad is symptomatic of the larger problem with today's Republican Party: its core constituency out side of Christofascists (although there is significant overlap of the groups) is out and out racists, KKK members and open white supremacists. The GOP continues to cling to the racial hatred of the past and refuses to open its eyes to the reality that no matter what it and its racist base does, the nation's demographics are changing and will continue to change towards a more diverse population where whites in some areas will be a minority. A column in the New York Times looks at the problem in the context of the efforts at comprehensive immigration reform. Here are excerpts:

As a new effort at comprehensive immigration reform inches its


perpetuity.

And not to harp on the issue, but most of these racist members of the GOP base claim to be "godly Christians." The hypocrisy is nearly complete.

Much like the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, the Southern Baptist Convention is obsessed with persecuting and maintaining anti-gay bigotry. And also like the Catholic Church hierarchy, the SBC leadership continually turns a blind eye to pastors who sexually abuse children and youth. Indeed, they almost act as if it was the child or youth who somehow solicited their own abuse. (The Assemblies of God crowd is little better) Illustrative of the SBC's anti-gay obsession, ABPNews is reporting that the SBC will likely adopt a resolution urging its 47,000 member churches to severe their ties with the Boy Scouts of America now thatthe Roman Catholic Church in Australia continues to be dragged into public view as the government inquiry into sexual abuse of children continues. One can only hope that Australian Catholics will react like their counterparts in Ireland who have largely walked away from the morally bankrupt institutional Church. As a parent of three children, there is absolutely nothing that enrages me more than the callousness of the Church hierarchy which literally did not give a damn about victims of abuse. Worse yet, in many instances victims and their families were visited by henchmen for the hierarchy - e.g., Former Knights of Columbus Supreme Chaplain, Bishop Daily and former New York Archbishop Egan acted as such thugs for Cardinal Law - and intimidated into silence. ABC News (Australia) looks


8, all eyes are on Justice Anthony Kennedy, the likely swing vote in the gay marriage cases.

Kennedy described the issue of gay marriage as "uncharted waters" when the court first heard arguments in March. He expressed support for gay rights as he has in the past but questioned the timing of a decision
because "we have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years
of history or more." He also acknowledged that Proposition 8 causes the
children of gay parents "immediate legal injury."

Three states and three countries have legalized gay marriage since
March with more legislation pending, and the shift towards equality
could influence the Justice who has previously cited world opinion and national consensus as reason to abolish the death penalty for juveniles.

Does Kennedy - and John Roberts for that matter- really want to be on the wrong side of history and rank in the annals of history with justices who supported slavery and segregation?

With Michele Bachmann mercifully not running for re-election in 2014 and poised to ride off into the political sunset with her lisping husband "Marcia" Bachmann, the question becomes who in the GOP will replace Bachmann as the "Queen of Crazy" in Congress? Obviously, it will need to be someone seriously delusional, with religious extremist beliefs and generally utterly detached from objective reality. Given the serious insanity of many of the Congressional Republicans, there are plenty of would be candidates. However, a piece in Esquire referenced at Civil Commotion suggests that the heir apparent to the title is Vicky Hartzler (pictured above) , who represents


most certainly did not study what it claimed to cover. In short, the study was a fraudulent piece that was funded by Christofascists for the very purpose of misleading the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts considering gay rights cases. In short, the "study" is more akin to something Paul Cameron might produce rather than a serious scientific study. Now a reviewer of the work has slammed Regnerus and his propaganda piece "study." Here are highlights from The New Civil Rights Movement:

The Regnerus anti-gay parenting “study” by Mark Regnerus (image, above) is “deeply flawed” and as a result, the author himself is “disgraced,” says the study’s top appointed scholarly reviewer.

In a lengthy interview with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Darren Sherkat, a professor of sociology at Southern Illinoisthird big-name figure in recent months to leave Congress — Jim DeMint of South Carolina resigned from the Senate in January to take over the Heritage Foundation. And in November, Florida Rep. Allen West, another conservative bomb thrower, lost reelection.

Ironically, the retirement may improve Republicans’ chances of holding Minnesota’s conservative 6th Congressional District, which broke for Mitt Romney by nearly 15 percentage points in 2012. Democrats had Bachmann at the top of their target list after she barely survived reelection last year. The Democrat who came close to defeating her, Jim Graves, was gearing up for a rematch.

In Graves, she was up against an opponent who came within 5,000 votes — or 1.2 percent points — of unseating her last November. Graves, a wealthy hotel company executive who


like to depict gays as sexual predators, but legitimate research shows that it is not the gays who do the bulk of the sexual molesting. It's the ostensible straight males - many of who are married to women - who are the real threat to children and youths. The Boy Scouts of America may have pandered to public opinion, but their action did nothing to make young scouts safer from molestation.

In 2009 it seemed that Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats went out of their way to piss off members of the Democrat base and to give the impression that nothing was being accomplished legislatively. The consequence here in Virginia was that the Democrat base stayed home on election day in November, 2009 and Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnelldistrict which was redrawn in a ridiculous manner to make sure that hate group founder endorsed Scott Rigell would be re-elected. But for the outrageous changes to his district, Rigell likely would have lost in 2012. A story in USA Today looks at how districts were redrawn to package whites and conservatives together to block GOP losses. Here are story highlights:

Momentum to overhaul the nation's immigration laws is fueled by the
growing political influence of Hispanics in America, but in the U.S.
House there is diminishing incentive for Republicans to support the
effort because their constituents have become whiter, more conservative
and less diverse than the nation as a whole.

In 2012, the congressional district lines that make up the 435-seat
chamber were redrawn as part of the once-a-decade process to balance out
population shifts.

GOP-led


redistricting efforts moved areas with
high concentrations of predominantly Democratic minority voters out of
GOP dominant districts and into Democratic-heavy districts, thereby
making both districts less competitive in a general election.

According to the non-partisan Cook Political Report,
House Republicans today represent 6.6 million fewer minorities than in
2002 — the last time the lines were redrawn. The average GOP district is
now 75% white, up 2 percentage points after the 2012 reconfiguration,
while the average Democratic district is 51% white, down one percentage
point since 2002.

"What's amazing is Republicans were able to
actually make their districts ... whiter in the 2012 round of
redistricting even though minorities were responsible for most of the
growth of the U.S. population in the past 10 years," said David
Wasserman, an election analyst for the Cook Report.

The 2010 redistricting resulted in a stronger GOPgrip on the House, but
also a political climate where incumbents are more vulnerable to
primary challenges than general election battles, election analysts say,
boosting the political pressure on incumbents to appeal to base voters.
And voters in the Republican base are skeptical of proposals to make
immigration easier.

Conservative Super PACs are already forming to target Republicans on immigration."It
must be defeated in its entirety, period," said Lorie Medina, a Tea
Party activist who chairs the Real Conservatives National Committee. The
group has vowed to find and fund primary challengers to any Republican
who supports a legislative overhaul similar to the Senate proposal,
which the group considers an "amnesty" bill.

In short, the open racism and toxic nature of the GOP continues to intensify.

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<<< Sacha M'Baye is jaw-dropping in this shot from Wonderland magazine. He was lensed by Xevi Muntané. More manikins later.

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>>> Portuguese journalist and gay activist Carlos Castro found tortured and murdered in New York City hotel. His male model companion, Renato Seabra, a recent contestant on a Portuguese reality TV show, castrated him with a wine corkscrew before finally killing him "to get rid of Castro's homosexual demons". More on this story here.

<<< This is absolutely heartbreaking: "The first black-owned gay bar in New York City and one of the oldest black gay bars in the United States", the Starlite Lounge, which closed last year, has been turned into mobile phone shop. From Brownstoner: "One of Brooklyn's oldest gay bars and its first black-owned gay bar isjust another soulless storefront devoid of its past life."

<<< The GLBT History Museum - America's first museum dedicated to GBLT history - has opened in San Francisco. Facebook gallery of pictures here.

||| Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Problem isn't gays, it's bigots. "I'll never know how many homosexuals I served with. Two for sure. The first one left the service after graduating top of his class from tech school, discharged for voluntarily disclosing his sexuality. The other came out to me after I'd known him for a bit. By the time he told me he was gay, I already knew. We ALL knew. How? Well, while the rest of us were talking about sex, he never talked about it. Ever. See, if public discussion of sexuality is a problem,


it is OUR problem. We heterosexuals just can't shut up about it."

||| Museum of Censored Art launched. "Two men who were ejected and banned for life from the Smithsonian last month for protesting the censorship of a video piece from a gay exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery say they plan to set up a Museum of Censored Art in a trailer parked outside the building." More.

<<< This is Cornelius Dupree Jr., who served 30 years for rape and robbery committed in 1979. He has finally been exonerated by DNA evidence. Dupree was twice offered the chance to cut short his sentence, on the condition he admitted his guilt.

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||| More on 5-year-old "Princess Boy" DysonKilodavis. We first heard about Dyson and his amazing family back in October.

>>> Nature, not nurture! Born This Way is a blog that encourages readers to "submit pictures from their childhood that capture them showing the beginnings of their innate LGBT selves."

||| First Mark Twain, now Mark Knopfler: The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council bans the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing, citing its use of the word "faggot."

UK

>>> A very Soho tale of a naked priest, a gay sailor twink, and a gay RAF serviceman.

<<< More on the phenomenon of straight boys kissing: 89% of students polled were happy to kiss another man on the lips through friendship, and almost 40% had engaged in "sustained kissing, initially for shock value, but now just for 'a laugh'."

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think of the couple acquiring a baby, you can't argue with this: "Elton John and David Furnish are about to give an affluent, loving home to a baby that need not have been born at all. That same home and same love were offered to a child who's growing up in an orphanage, with HIV, amid who knows what kind of emotional and physical deprivation. Just another bit of good denied to the world, by people in power who think they know best."

<<< Ibis international hotel group is hosting anti-gay Islamic hate preachers this weekend.

>>> The extraordinary life and death of David Burgess. "Last October, detectives were called to investigate the death of a woman under a London tube train. But as they traced her final moments, theydiscovered that she was, in fact, David Burgess, one of the most brilliant immigration lawyers of his generation. Here, Burgess's family and friends tell, for the first time, the complicated story of the loving father, brilliant colleague, sensitive woman and courageous person they knew."

<<< The Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive - the UK's only national independent GBLT news archive - moves to London.

||| From the BBC Archive, Male Homosexual, first broadcast in January 1965 - two years before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales - gay men discuss "their problem".

EUROPE

>>> SPAIN: City Council of Madrid takes action against Madrid Gay Pride "for causing alarming noise levels, with serious deterioration of the environment, and with the aggravating circumstance of recidivism in the residential area of Chueca as


a result of the activities organized by them, within the said event."

||| JAMAICA: Standing up for human rights. "As Caricom citizens, we are proud that a majority of Caribbean nations stood up in the United Nations General Assembly on December 22 and voted together, in the words of the Rwanda delegation, to 'recognise that ... people (of different sexual orientation) continue to be the target of murder in many of our societies, and they are more at risk than many ... other groups'."

||| ZIMBABWE: Frank Malaba, the first Zimbabwean actor to come out has announced his engagement to South African boyfriend Lee Lucas Strydom, below.

||| UGANDA: The country's top opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, says the country's police have more pressing tasks than investigating homosexuality: "This is something thatis done in the privacy of people's rooms, between consenting adults." He is challenging President Yoweri Museveni in elections to be held next month.

||| We are free to be gay in Uganda – for the moment. "The ban on the outing of homosexuals in Uganda's media is a victory for human rights. But the anti-homosexuality bill, still under parliamentary discussion, means we can't give up the fight."

||| GHANA: A history of homosexuality in Ghana: "Homosexuality became known when tourists, international workers and even missionaries flooded the country in the 70s. Those within the group who were homosexuals invited innocent boys to their houses, flushed them with gifts and money and promised to send them to the rich countries. This was one of the ways they used to have


be."

>>> Review: Annabel, by Kathleen Winter: "It is exceedingly rare for there to be intersex characters in literature..."

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||| Review: Dancing Ledge, by Derek Jarman. "First published privately as Queerlife in the 1970s, Dancing Ledge is Jarman's own account of his life and art."

FILM

>>> Scenes from famous films recreated using Lego bricks by Alex Eylar (16 more pictures).

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<<< HMV to close 60 stores as sales tumble. HMV is one of the last major "bricks and mortar" entertainment retailers on the British high street.

||| How music-buying habits have changed. Sarfraz Manzoor writes, "If and when record stores do disappear, our lives and our culture will be diminished because they are a tangible reminder of when music offered more than virtual pleasures."

||| Gerry Rafferty, the singer and songwriter, is dead. He was 63. Rafferty had a hit in 1978 with Baker Street, "a drive-time favourite that tackles drink, depression and sex."

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literally in his element while we were in Italy.

Carl was a remarkable man, in the truest sense of the word. The purpose, commitment and tenacity he exhibited in his professional life were exceptional, as were his compassion, caring and desire to help. While the intensity with which he thought, spoke and gestured could be almost frightening at times, few doubted his good intentions. Those who had the privilege of knowing Carl well also saw the other end of his emotional spectrum. Although he was usually boisterous, he could also be very calm, quiet and contemplative.

In fact, Carl was a bundle of contradictions. High strung and easy going. Profound and vulgar. Deeply serious and (more frequently) smiling and laughing. A very active and competent speaker, but also one ofRecover Girl takes a turn this time, as I'm going to start releasing episodes that contain stories from my live storytelling show, Hammer(ed) Time. It takes place every other month in LA, has been an LA Weekly pick of the week and is being developed into a video series.

This episode features previous podcast guest Eddie Pepitone, a national treasure to the part of the nation that knows him. This was the theme of The Bitter Buddha, the critically acclaimed documentary about his life, and is also occasionally a part of his stand-up act. As a comedian and actor, he’s been on WTF and Conan repeatedly, as well as on The Last Comic Standing, The Sarah Silverman Program, Happy Endings, Flight of the Concords, 2 Broke Girls, It’s Always


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 Bruner, Edward M. 1989b. "Of Cannibals, Tourists, and Ethnographers." Cultural Anthropology 4 (4): 438–45.
 Bruner, Edward M. 1991. “The Transformation of Self in Tourism.” Annals of Tourism Research 18 (2): 238–50.
 Bruner, Edward M. 1993b. “Lincoln’s New Salem as a Contested Site.” Museum Anthropology 17 (3): 14–25.
 Bruner, Edward M. 1994. “Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction.” American Anthropologist 96winning ticket was bought in Worcester. It has urged the woman to get in touch and send it in within 30 days.The National Lottery operator said: "If anybody believes they have bought the ticket and think they may have lost it, or washed it in their jeans, or it's been stolen, they need to make a claim within 30 days."The prize money is half the record Lotto jackpot win - shared with a couple from Scotland, who claimed their prize within days of the January 9 draw.Camelot said it would not reveal the exact location where the ticket was purchased, but hoped that by naming the area could increase local interest and help find the winner.Even though the prize total was shared, the sum is still the biggest


Story highlights There is confusion about the extent and severity of injuries as a result of the blast

An explosives-laden car smashed into a vehicle from the U.S. Consulate

The attack took place near the offices of the consulate and UNHCR

The consulate has been the target of earlier attacks

An explosives-filled car slammed into a U.S. Consulate vehicle in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, authorities said.

There was confusion about the extent and severity of injuries as a result of the blast.

Victoria Nuland, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said "two U.S. personnel and two Pakistani staff of the Consulate were injured and are receiving medical treatment." No U.S. consular employees were killed, she said.

She said U.S. authorities were "seeking further information about other victims of this heinous act."

Nuland'stook away the people who'd been traveling in it.

As a result, Riaz said, he had no information about the people who were in the consular vehicle.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the bomber was apparently targeting a U.S. Consulate van filled with both Americans and Pakistanis.

"Let me just very clearly condemn the attack on our consulate personnel in Peshawar, Pakistan. We pray for the safe recovery of both American and Pakistani victims and once again we deplore the cowardly act of suicide bombing and terrorism," she said.

Clinton praised the response of Pakistani authorities, saying some of the injured were airlifted to hospitals in Islamabad.

The attack took place in an area of the city where several international agencies have offices. In addition to the U.S. Consulate, the U.N.


refugee agency, UNHCR, is in the area.

Peshawar is about 190 kilometers (120 miles) from the country's capital, Islamabad.

In May 2011, a remote-controlled car bomb targeted a convoy of U.S. Consulate vehicles in Peshawar, killing one person and wounding 11. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

In April 2010, three explosions went off in rapid succession near the consulate.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, of which Peshawar is the capital, is rife with Islamic extremists and has been the site of recent clashes between Pakistani security forces and militants.

It was formerly known as North West Frontier province, a name assigned during British colonial rule. The ruling party changed the name to reflect the province's majority Pashtun population.to believe he was a public official, and insisted on making him stand spreadeagled up against his car." "He never forgot that, not so much because of the indignity to him, but that others did not believe an African American might be a city councilmember."

In February 2009, McIver announced his decision to not seek reelection.

McIver died on March 9, 2013, at the age of 71 in Seattle.

Domestic violence charges and ethics violation

On October 10, 2007, McIver was arrested at his South Seattle home on domestic violence charges following an altercation that occurred with his wife early that morning. Charges were subsequently dropped as his wife refused to testify.

In May 2008 McIver was accused by Seattle's Ethics office of violating the city's conflict-of-interest law by awarding a $37,000 no-bid


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Menes (ca. 3100-3000 BC) - united Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom.
Hammurabi (c.1792-1750 BC) - first king of the Babylonian Empire.
Cyrus the Great (ca.576-530 BC) - founder of the Persian Empire.
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) - king of Macedon; he conquered most of the
world known to the ancient Greeks, never losing a battle.
Asoka (304-232 BC) - emperor of India who converted to and spread Buddhism.
Qin Shi Huang (260-210 BC) - Chinese Emperor; unified China, initiated construction
of the Great Wall of China.
Hannibal (247-183 BC) Carthaginian military commander and politician.
Julius Caesar (c.100-44 BC) - Roman military and political leader; key role
in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
...

Humanitarians
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) - political and spiritual leader of India and the
Indian independence movement. In India, he is recognizedas the Father of the
Nation.
Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986) - a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews
leave the Soviet Union while serving as the consul of the Empire of Japan to
Lithuania.
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-c.1947) - worked at great personal risk to save thousands
of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them protective passports from
the Swedish embassy.
...

Explorers and Pioneers
Marco Polo (c.1254-1324) - one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road
to China.
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) - discoverer of the Americas.
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) - Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer.
Vespucci's voyages became widely known in Europe. In 1507, a world map was produced
which named the new continent "America" after Vespucci's first name,
Amerigo.
Vasco da Gama (c.1469-1524) Portuguese explorer, the first person to sail directly
from Europe to India.....


'Let's talk gold medals'

PARALYMPIAN gold medalist Lee Pearson was quizzed by school children in a special question and answer session.

Dozens of youngsters had a chance to speak to the star – who is the most successful equestrian rider in Paralympic history – during the event in Leek.

Schools across the area were invited to the headquarters of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council for the event, with two children from each having the chance to meet the sportsman, have their photograph taken with him, and even try on some of his 10 gold medals.

Among his achievements, the 38-year-old scooped a gold, silver and bronze medal at this year's Paralympics in London.

Lee, who lives in Bagnall, said: "It went really well. It was embarrassing listening to people say nice things about mepeople to take part in sport."

Holly Clarke, aged 10, from St Luke's Primary School, Endon, said: "I liked listening to everyone's questions and finding out all about Lee. I had seen him in the Paralympics on television. He seems like a really nice person. This has inspired me more to try my best for everything I do."

Holy's fellow student Rhys Davies, aged 10, said: "I enjoyed getting to know Lee a bit more. I asked him what emotions he felt when he got a gold medal and he said he was very happy."'

Council leader Sybil Ralphs said: "It was a fantastic opportunity for all these young people here today to see a genuine role model. He is an inspiration to all young people and someone they can look


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Further reading

  |Book review on Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Article retrieved March 10, 2006.

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External links

 The Russian Railway Service Corp in Japan and Siberia
 The Story of the American Expeditionary Forces
 Guarding the Railroad, Taming the Cossacks The U.S. Army in Russia, 1918–1920 at The National Archives
 The Czech Legion Web site of the Czech Legion Project, contains historical information and many photos.
 The Bullet That Fought America's Secret Siberian War Video produced by the PBS Series Historyan A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.


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There were 6,614 households, out of which 22.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.7% were married couples living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.9% were non-families. 33.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size wascolored by his experiences of the war, during which Japanese music was associated with militaristic and nationalistic cultural ideals. In his own words: “There may be folk music with strength and beauty, but I cannot be completely honest in this kind of music. I want a more active relationship to the present. Folk music in a ‘contemporary style’ is nothing but a deception.” So severe was his enmity with tradition that he famously destroyed several of his own works upon discovering that he had unintentionally incorporated “nationalistic” elements of traditional Japanese scales. An early proponent of musique concrète, his work has often been cast as in synchronicity with Pierre Schaeffer; however, neither were aware of the other at the time (though Takemitsu was an ardent admirer of John


Cage).

Still, despite his fierce commitment to avant-garde experimentation, by the 1960s he had started to more deliberately incorporate traditional Japanese scales, elements of folk songs, the tones and modes of Gagaku, and, as evidenced in Kwaidan, ancient instruments like the biwa.

A quartet of heavily stylized supernatural vignettes rendered in intensely saturated color, Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan was the most expensive film in the history of Japanese cinema at the time of its release. Takemitsu turned out a score ambitious enough to match, channeling his ambivalence towards tradition into a mangled, strangled take on the folk sounds of his upbringing. Silence acts as a prominent texture, but in between the strained gaps are twisted shakahuchi lines, shrieking winds, ghostly metallic clangs, splitting wood, an occasional distant drum, Noh-style vocals recallinga storied mass suicide on a battle ship, and a whole lot of that biwa, played with such venomous ferocity that one can only wonder how many strings had to be replaced over the course of recording. Sparse, horrific, and very potent. Enjoy, and happy Halloween!

Phew has had a decade-spanning, genre-hopping career and has cemented herself as an experimental music icon. She was a member of Aunt Sally, a punk band at the heart of the Kansai No Wave scene, and has collaborated with an incredible list of musical luminaries. Her debut self-titled record from 1981 has been canonized by Japanese record collectors and post punk devotees alike. Still, it’s perhaps now, working with only her collection of analog hardware, that she’s at her most powerful. She has


old, though he had already worked with David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto, and went on to become one of Japan’s most sought-after producers and engineers. I feel as if this record has been steadily opening up for me over the past year, finally cracking wide during (surprise surprise) a headphones listen. It might feel a bit austere at first, and there are definitely a few explicit nods to western minimalism, but it’s deceptively generous, even lush. Incisive modern classical, a few bits of very Japanese smooth jazz, and an avant-garde sensibility. Featuring some songwriting from Yasuaki Shimizu and a slew of razor-sharp session musicians. An incredible network of moody textures, all perfectly atmospheric. Part of the perennial favorite Music Interior series, the entirety of which will probably beprolific avante-garde jazz composer Seigen Ono, the album is another entry in the phenomenal Music Interiors series released from 1984 to 1985, including a couple albums by Ono himself as well as Yoshio Suzuki. Worth exploring!

Supremely beautiful recording from German minimalist composer and author of the 1978 book Through Music to the Self: How to Appreciate and Experience Music Anew, which I swear I was reading in my town’s library growing up when I was supposed to be doing readings about the Civil War.

The album looks and feels likes something that might have made its way into my library stack as well. Recorded at the Academy of Music in München with pipe organ, conch, and Tibetan cymbals, this is a pipe organ study, exploring a range of moods


style. Much of the recordings’ dynamism relies on Velez’s virtuosic performance on the Irish frame drum, the Bodhrán, with its signature scraping and clacking. As in his other recordings, he uses the drum as a resonant instrument, not simply as a tool to move the music along.

Recorded in Madrid for the Spanish label Grabacionnes Accidentales (“Accidental Recordings”), this was released in 1985, the same year as another gem from the same label, Prima Travesia by Finis Africae.

Arguably the definitive work from Penguin Cafe Orchestra, the project of UK-born composer and musician Simon Jeffes. Jeffes saw PCO as the ongoing soundtrack to a dream he had had while suffering from food poisoning in the south of France, as well as a vessel through which to explore his interest inScenic Artist

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The scenic artists primary responsibility is to work under the direction of the Charge Artist and Scenic Designer to develop paint treatments and paint all set and some prop pieces for all Palace Professional Theatre performances. Specific Responsibilities include:

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(Canada-4 stores), MKS Spices 'N Things (Australia-Victoria), Asian Food Centre (Canada-Ontario),  India Town Food Centre (Canada-Ontario)
 Japanese: Marukai (US-14 stores), Nijiya Market (US, 12 stores), Mitsuwa Marketplace (US, 11 stores), Uwajimaya (Greater Seattle and Greater Portland, OR), Yaohan (defunct)
 Korean: H Mart (61 stores as of 2018), Zion Market & Zion Mart (US, 6 stores), Assi Market (US, 3 stores), Arirang Supermarket (US, 2 stores), Galleria Supermarket (Canada - Greater Toronto)
 Taiwanese: 99 Ranch Market (US, 42 stores), T & T Supermarket (Canada), 168 Market (US-6 stores)

Online
Due to concentration of immigrant communities in metropolitan areas, few Asian supermarket chain stores are located in non-metro areas.  In order to better compete and serve this market, a few of these chains have begun online sales, which compete directlywith the likes of general online merchandisers such as Amazon.com, Walmart.com, and Rakuten.

In Asia
Major operators in Asia like Aeon and Jusco operate somewhat like Asian supermarkets, as they offer products not normally found in their home countries; as such they serve as a platform for foreign cuisines and foods.

Operations
Most of these supermarkets are started and operated by Asian immigrant entrepreneurs and their families. Others are started by investors of existing corporate conglomerates already headquartered in Asia, namely Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Asian supermarkets can range from small mom-and-pop grocery stores to large big-box stores and may cater specifically to one ethnic Asian immigrant group or to a wide pan-Asian crowd. They serve the generally unserved or underserved immigrant and descendant population. They are usually


the main attraction for food shopping within overseas Asian shopping malls and Chinatowns.  Asian supermarkets may re-occupy older buildings formerly anchored by mainstream regional or national supermarket chains.Chinese shopping centers and supermarkets have been constructed using traditional Chinese architecture, and provide services catered toward immigrant customers. Examples include Asian restaurants, beauty salons, bakeries, foreign film rental stores, travel agencies, book stores, and other businesses.

In recent years, some mainstream markets have attempted to compete with Asian supermarkets for the minority customer base by stocking certain Asian goods as well as directing marketing towards various Asian ethnic immigrant populations. Conversely, some Asian supermarkets attempt to appeal to the general population. Asian markets are reputed to have lower prices than the mainstream chains.

Asian supermarkets represent a new trend in whichInformationen zur Tour Lana to San Ippolito (St. Hippolyt)

Tour Hauptmerkmale

This hike in the area of Merano (Meran) runs from Lana to San Ippolito (St. Hippolyt), a little alpine chapel with a gorgeous setting.

Directions

This hike from Lana to San Ippolito (St. Hippolyt) starts from the Roggia di Brandis (Brandiswaalweg) Trail, which runs alongside a Waal water channel, in Lana di Sotto (Niederlana), following Trail No. 1 above the Museum of Fruit Growing (Obstbaumuseum) towards Foiana (Völlan). Then take the Brünnlerweg Trail through deciduous forests and orchards and past Mair am Gatter Farm and Aichholz Farm. From the centre of Foiana, continue along Via Bagnia (Badlweg), which starts behind the Farmer's Museum (Bauernmuseum) and then continues through the forest on a shady trail (No. 10) to Bagni di Foiana (Völlaner


105th birthday

His illustration was an illumination, and his rhyme — sublime.

The man known as Dr. Seuss would have been 105 Monday, which is also designated as Read Across America Day. To celebrate, children across Southwest Florida have kicked off a week celebrating Seuss and all things literary by diving headlong into reading.

"They're like sponges," said Terri Mancuso, a first-grade teacher, of her 6- and 7-year-olds. "The more stories, the better. They love hearing stories. They just love it."

In Mancuso's classroom at Spring Creek Elementary School, students munched on green eggs and biscuits, an homage to the much-loved and oft-quoted Dr. Seuss book, "Green Eggs and Ham."

Monday morning, Mancuso circulated around the room helping her students assemble construction paper red-and-white-striped hats a la "The Cat In the Hat." Thisgets them talking about the inspiration for their headgear.

Don munched on his biscuit, thinking about this, but his green eggs sat untouched.

"I'm saving them for last," he said with a knowing smile.

In his stovepipe red and white hat, Steve Alvarez, 7, read "The Cat in the Hat" with ease and confidence.

"I read this book and I have it at home," said Steve. "It has rhyming words and it's funny."

Mancuso said Steve and his classmates are at the perfect age to develop a love for reading — Read Across America Day is designed to instill that love in everyone, but particularly new readers.

"It's really important that they're read to and with," said Mancuso. "Not only are they learning to read, but it's quality time with mom and dad, and


that's important."

Over the school's student-run newscast, students sang happy birthday to Theodor Geisel, known in literary life as Dr. Seuss, the force behind a collection of books credited with bringing joy to children learning to read. Seuss, who wrote his first children's book in 1937, was influenced significantly by a report published in "Life" magazine in 1954 that concluded that children were not learning to read because their books were boring.

On Monday at Bonita Springs Elementary School, first-grade students Emmie Weeks and Madison Owens, both 6, read a book at the opposite end of the spectrum.

"It was about a girl who was flying over the stars," said Madison, who took turns reading pages with Emmie, her best friend.

Emmie and Madison perched on a beanbag chair to read "TarBeach," a story about a girl living in New York City who uses her family's evenings on their building's tar paper roof to imagine flying through the city and over the George Washington Bridge.

"‘I can fly,'" Madison read. "‘That means I'm free to go wherever I want for the rest of my life.'"

Emmie explains what she enjoys about reading: "Sometimes, when you read a book, you feel like you're doing (what the characters are.)"

And then there's the challenge.

"The big words — I can sound them out," Emmie said.

She is great at it too, helping Madison when she gets stuck on "floodlights" and "girders."

Florida Gulf Coast University intern Cassandra Siwarski worked with the children in teacher Bev Laney's first grade class, using Read Across America day to engage the


group of advanced readers in a deeper exploration of literature. Each pair of students read a book about a different culture or ethnicity: African, Japanese and Native-American figuring prominently in their studies. Afterwards, students rotated among stations, writing their own books and researching their subjects on a computerized encyclopedia.

"The good thing about reading is it plays across all subject areas: math, science, social studies," said Siwarski. "This is a higher-level reading group for first grade. They've got the basics — the question is ‘how can I extend that?'"

For Madison and Emmie, that extension came when Siwarski asked them to write their own books.

"We're going to write about a girl ..." Madison said.

"... Who goes to Paris," Emmie added.

"And maybe the girl who goes to Paris has green hair,"Bobbi Kristina Brown: Medical Examiner Knows Her Cause of Death

Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unconscious in a bathtub inside her Roswell, Georgia home back on January 31st. She had never regained consciousness when she passed away on July 26th.

Shortly before she died, a conservator for Bobbi Kristina Brown filed a civil lawsuit against Nick Gordon, her boyfriend, alleging he physically abused her in the days before she was discovered in that bathtub, and that he stole money from her bank account. After Bobbi Kristina Brown died, the lawsuit was amended to a wrongful death lawsuit.

It was announced late this past week that the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy on Bobbi Kristina Brown knows her cause of death. The results haven’t been released, however, because of the ongoing


Best Dressed, Best in Step, Best Laughs, Best Listening, Kids are Best, Judges Know Best, Best Elementary/Middle School Entry, Best High School Band and Best of Show. First place winners get cash prizes. Parade watchers get giggles.

Civic Stadium will get some attention this year as everyone is invited for a rally and entertainment outside the stadium at the end of the parade. Samba Ja and Kudana bands in the parade will lead a procession to Civic for the gathering with “special guests,” more music and refreshments. The rally is in support of efforts to save and restore the historic stadium and keep it from becoming another shopping center and parking lot.

Festival of Eugene was planned in a hurry following the surprise cancellation of the Eugene Celebration two monthsago by Kesey Enterprises. Wedding and event planner Krysta Albert had already organized the Health and Wellness Celebration as part of the Eugene Celebration, and decided to expand it to fill the gap and make it free. The nonprofit Festival of Eugene started off downtown on 5th Avenue, but ran into time constraints and other problems. She then attempted to relocate to Alton Baker Park, and it finally landed at Skinner Butte Park, which is along the river and bike path a few blocks north of 5th Street Public Market. Donations and enthusiasm have kept this project alive despite numerous obstacles.

Last we heard, the festival is still on for Skinner Butte Park 4 to 10 pm Friday and 11 am to 10 pm Saturday. There will be local


Saločiai (Salat in Yiddish) is located in northern Lithuania, on the
shores of the Musa (Musha) River, about 23 km (14 miles) west of the district
administrative center of Birzai (Birzh). It was mentioned for the first time in
historical documents in 1514. A commercial route connected Posvol (Pasvalys) to
Bauska in Latvia through Salat. As early as 1525, several shops and pubs could
be found in Salat. During the wars with the Swedes (1700-1721) the town was
burned down. During the Russian rule (1795-1915) Salat was first included in
the Vilna Province and from 1843 onwards was in the Kovno Province
(Gubernia). From 1915 to 1918 the town was under the German military
rule and during the period of Independent Lithuania (1918-1940), it was considered
a county administrative center.

Jewish Settlement before World War II

Jews began to settlein Salat in the nineteenth century. A community of
Karaites lived in the area from the seventeenth century until the middle of the
nineteenth century. In the 1880s approximately eighty Jewish families lived in
the villages around Salat. They barely survived, working as craftsmen and
trading agricultural products in neighboring villages. The catholic priest of
Salat preached to the village peasants not to rent their houses to Jews,
threatening them with refusals to hear their confessions. The rabbi of Posvol
tried to convince the priest to stop inciting the peasants against the Jews.
Eventually he succeeded, and the priest became a sympathizer of the Jews.

A Loans and Savings fund was established in Salat before World War I.

In spring of 1915, the Russian military exiled Salat Jews deep into Russia.
After the war only a fraction of the


exiled residents returned to their town.

Following the law of autonomies for minorities issued by the new Lithuanian
government, the minister for Jewish affairs Dr. Menahem (Max) Soloveitshik
ordered elections to community committees (Va'adei Kehilah) to be held in the
summer of 1919. A community committee of five members was elected in Salat. The
committee worked from 1920 until the end of 1925 and covered all aspects of
Jewish life.

The first census performed by the Lithuanian government in 1923 showed 621
residents in Salat, including 174 (28%) Jews. Salat Jews worked in trade and
agriculture. Their main source of income was weekly market days (Tuesdays) and
the annual fairs.

According to the government survey of 1931, in Salat there were seven shops,
all Jewish owned; a grocery, a textile, two haberdashery and domestic tools,
one cosmetic store and two others.In addition to these stores, there were five
other small Jewish shops.

The market square in Salat

According to the same survey, there were five Jewish-owned light industry
enterprises; one for shoes, one dye and two candy factories and one bakery.

In 1939, there were fifteen telephones in town, only one belonging to a Jew.

Salat had a synagogue and a Jewish school. Among the rabbis who served in Salat
was Josef, son of Mosheh Yafe, (1846-1893), who died in Manchester, England. In
1910 Hayim-Shaul Levitan became the official rabbi and he was replaced by the
last rabbi of Salat, Rabbi Mosheh-Yonah Vainer, who was murdered in the
Holocaust.

Many Salat Jews belonged to the Zionist camp. Most of the Zionist parties had
supporters in the town. In 1934, an Urban Training Kibbutz of HeHalutz was
formed. At the elections for


the Zionist congresses Salat Jews voted as shown:

CongressNo.

Year

TotalShkalim

Total Votes

Labor Party

ZS

ZZ

Revisionists

General Zionists

A

B

Grosmanists

Mizrakhi

18

1933

31

17

7

5

1

1

19

1935

25

21

4

21

1939

30

15

5

4

Nat

Block

1939

4

Yisahar Ber Falkenson was born in Salat in 1764, and qualified as a Doctor of
Medicine in Berlin. Falkenson was a friend of the philosopher Mosheh Mendelson.
He published poems in German: the German poet Goethe wrote a review on
Falkenson's book entitled Gedichte eines polnischen Juden (Poems
of a Polish Jew).

During World War II and Afterwards

In June 1940, Lithuania was annexed to the Soviet Union and became a Soviet
Republic. Following new rules, the majority of the factories and shops
belonging to the Jews of Salat were nationalized and commissars were appointed
to manage them. All Zionist parties and youth organizations were dismantled and
Hebrew educational institutions were closed. At this time about 25 Jewish
families lived in Salat.

The Germans arrived in Salat a few daysafter the German army invaded the Soviet
Union on June 22nd, 1941. The Lithuanian nationalists, who by then were
well organized, immediately murdered thirteen Jews and six Lithuanians, looting
everything they could get their hands on. In August 1941, the Lithuanians
transferred the remaining Salat Jews to Posvol (Pasvalys). There they were kept
together with local Jews and others who were brought from towns and villages in
the area. On the morning of August 26th, 1941 (3rd
of Elul, 5701) many large trucks arrived in the town. The Jews were forced
onto them and transported to Zadeikiai forest, about 4.5 km. from Posvol, near
the Pyvesa River. There all were shot and buried in the freshly dug pits prepared
in advance. In these pits 1,358 men, women and children were buried.

The mass grave in Zadeikiai forest

The monument on


and Sandro Botticelli. The art scholar Bernard Berenson regarded him as a follower of Cosimo Rosselli.

References
 Cristina Acidini Luchinat, History, art, faith in the churches of Florence, Giunti Publishing, Florence 2001, p. 53.

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Category:Italian male paintersThe parliamentary initiative was backed by Swiss People's Party member Walter Wobmann Keystone

By one vote, the Swiss House of Representatives has passed a parliamentary initiative that would ban the wearing of burkas in the country. However, the measure must still pass the Senate to become law, a tall order given its political make-up.

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On Tuesday, the larger of Switzerland’s two parliamentary chambers voted 88 to 87 with ten abstentions to support the measure.

In arguing against the parliamentary initiative, centre-right Radical Party parliamentarian Kurt Fluri pointed out that banning burkas – a full face and body covering with a grid covering the eyes – had nothing to do with security and


effects of a lack of testosterone on the brain. The results showed up clearly here, too.

"The area of the brain that controls sex drive - the sexual dimorphic nucleus - had half as many neurons in the mice that had received paracetamol as the control mice. The inhibition of testosterone also led to a halving of the activity in an area of the brain that is significant for male characteristics," he explains.

Also affects female fertility

This study focused on the effect of paracetamol on masculine characteristics but paracetamol during pregnancy also has the potential to influence the subsequent lives of female mice. In 2016, the researchers published a study showing that female mice had fewer eggs in their ovaries if their mothers had had paracetamol during pregnancy. This ledfrom the combine's feeder mechanism into the front of the cylinder and passes between the rub bars on the cylinder and the grate to rub the desired seeds out of the crop material. The desired seeds pass through the grate and are collected in the combine while the balance of the crop material passes through the combine back onto the field.
A common problem with combines is that crop material will sometimes jam between the cylinder and the grate, causing the cylinder to stop rotating. The crop material enters the front of the grate where the clearance between the cylinder and grate is greatest, and as it moves rearward and the clearance decreases, the crop material can jam, either when the crop material is damp, or when the crop


material enters in a wad or lump. The crop material must be then be cleared from the area between the cylinder and the grate before harvesting can proceed. Typically to clear the crop material, the grate is moved downward to increase the clearance between the cylinder and grate to the maximum clearance available. The cylinder is then rotated in a reverse direction such that the bottom of the cylinder moves forward with respect to the grate, and the crop material moves forward from the low clearance area at the rear of the grate to the higher clearance area at the front of the grate where it loosens and can be manually removed through an access port typically provided on the combine.
In order to rotate the cylinder in theglance. I saw the book Bella, which I saw as a movie, by Lisa Samson. Embrace Me looked interesting so I grabbed it, checked it out, and went home.

It read so fast. I really enjoyed the stories and how everything intertwined. It was kind of tricky at the beginning as Ms. Samson bounced back and forth between two stories - one in 2004 and one in 2008. But the story was so interesting with the circus people, the pastor who didn't feel like he really knew the Lord, and the way forgiveness is a theme throughout the book.

The book starts out with a pastor who has built a mega-church and has ran away from it. He wasn't really in love with Jesus, he was in love with power,


A riot a boxing match featuring Derby's Myron Mills left a teenager fighting for his life and "should have been avoided".

Chairs and glasses were thrown as violence erupted between rival fans in the late stages of a title contest involving Mills at Walsall Town Hall on Saturday night.

The trouble then spilled outside, where a 19-year-old, believed to be a local man, was reportedly stabbed and taken to hospital in a critical condition. Another man has been treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Around 100 people were involved in the fighting inside the hall, which started in the ninth round of a 10-round IBF Youth Lightweight title bout between Mills, a highly-rated 21-year-old from the One Nation gym in Derby, and West Midlands fighter Luke Paddock.

Forensics teams at work on thescene in Walsall (Image: Birmingham Mail)

Mills, who stepped in at short notice to take the fight, was the winner by a majority points decision but his manager and uncle, Clifton Mitchell, said the crowd trouble took the shine off what could be a big stepping stone in the career of his young boxer.

Mitchell is also owner of Security Alert UK, which has grown to be one of the leading events security companies in the country and regularly oversees crowd safety at world title and top domestic boxing events involving tens of thousands of fans at major venues such as the O2 Arena in London.

From his position in the Mills’ corner when the riot broke out, Mitchell said he could see the violence should have been snuffed out more


their release for months, if not years.

While most children remain with one of their parents, my research has found that separation of families is common. This includes the removal of young men on their 18th birthdays from their families with no warning or follow-up as to their whereabouts.

The mandatory incarceration of asylum-seeker children is an uncommon practice globally. It contravenes important human rights instruments to which Australia is a signatory, most notably the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This states:

No child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily … (This) shall be used only as measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.

The degree of despair felt by children and their families is well-documented and goes back manyyears.

In 2004, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) published A Last Resort? National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention. This document outlined the privations of the lives of those held in detention centres in Australia, including the famous case of Shayan Badraie. He was detained for nearly two years, witnessing attempted suicide, self-harming and violence that resulted in several hospital admissions before the family was released.

The report also documents physical assault by guards, mental illness and lack of appropriate food, shelter and education.

Read more: Accusations of deliberate, cruel abuse of refugee children must prompt a more humane approach

A Last Resort not only documents terrible human rights abuses, but the ongoing effects on those who experienced them. But, far from ending the incarceration of children and their


Topographic organization of convergent projections to the thalamus from the inferior colliculus and spinal cord in the rat.
The purpose of this study was to identify thalamic areas receiving convergent sensory inputs from acoustic and spinal projection systems in the rat. The topographic distribution of afferents to the thalamus from the inferior colliculus and spinal cord was examined by using WGA-HRP as an anterograde axonal tracer. Following injections in the inferior colliculus, terminal labeling was present in ventral, medial, and dorsal divisions of the medial genicuate body (MGB) and in adjacent areas of the posterior thalamus, including the posterior limitans nucleus, the posterior intralaminar nucleus, the marginal zone, the peripeduncular region, the lateral or parvicellular part of the subparafascicular nucleus, and a region intercalated between the posterior limitans nucleusand the suprageniculate nucleus. In the caudal thalamus spinal projections remained in the reticular formation medial to the collicular terminal field. At intermediate levels of the MG, however, the spinal projection began to overlap the collicular field, terminating in the medial division of the MG and in the posterior intralaminar nucleus, the marginal zone, the lateral subparafascicular nucleus, and the area between the suprageniculate and posterior limitans nuclei. More rostrally, the convergent field expanded to include aspects of the dorsal MG division. The extent to which afferent projections to the thalamus from the inferior colliculus and spinal cord converge is thus graded in the caudorostral plane, with the greatest overlap occurring at the level of the rostral third of the MGB. These observations identify potential areas of acoustic


A twelve-hour flight from Shanghai to San Francisco has its drawbacks, but one of the plusses is the chance to catch up on a whole slew of movies. Oddly enough, it was under these circumstances that I finally saw Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth. Since I found him persuasive on the big points, let me mention only a small one: the "frog in boiling water" myth that simply won't go away.

Everyone who has heard a political speech knows this story: You put a frog into a pot of boiling water, and it jumps right out. But if you put it in a pot of nice comfortable water and then turn on the heat, the frog will complacently let himself be boiled. One standard version of the storyTimothy Firth and Whitney Bashaw try to balance snowballs as they walk on East Olive Street in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood after measurable snow fell for the first time in two years in the city.

Timothy Firth and Whitney Bashaw try to balance snowballs as they walk on East Olive Street in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood after measurable snow fell for the first time in two years in the city.

Lea Tsukimura, 2, checks out snow for the first time with her grandmother Mary Myers in the Ravenna neighborhood after snow fell in Seattle for the first time in two years on Friday, December 20, 2013.

Lea Tsukimura, 2, checks out snow for the first time with her grandmother Mary Myers in the Ravenna neighborhood after snow fell in Seattle for