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Mattias Tedenby has signed a one-way deal with the Devils.

(Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-Ledger)

The Devils have signed Swedish winger Mattias Tedenby to a one-year contract for $600,000.

It is a one-way deal.

Tedenby spent most of last season at Albany (AHL), where he suffered a severe skate cut to the right side of his face on Feb. 15 during a game against Adirondack. However, he came back from the injury after surgery and a subsequent infection and is hopeful of earning a spot with the Devils this season.

In 37 games with Albany last season Tedenby had 19 points (10 goals, nine assists). He played four games for the Devils.announced they will decimate funds held in personal bank accounts to the tune of up to 10% of existing deposits.

You read that right.

The European Union has made the determination that the people of Cyprus are now responsible for the hundreds of billions of dollars in bad bets made by their government and bank financiers, and they are moving to confiscate money directly from the bank accounts of every citizen in the country.

Restrictions have been imposed to stop people emptying their accounts or moving their money out the country after the Cypriot government announced that up to ten per cent of deposits will be seized and used to bailout the island's crisis-hit banking system.

The deal with other eurozone finance ministers is the first time that ordinary citizens' deposits have


Photo: Stephen Lovekin/2010 Getty Images

Photo: Stephen Lovekin/2010 Getty Images

Our spies tell us that it’s official: Bill Murray has agreed to star as FDR in an adaptation of the British radio play Hyde Park On the Hudson to be directed by Morning Glory’s Roger Michell. The project, set up at Focus Features and the UK’s Film4, recounts the quasi-incestuous love affair between the president and his distant cousin, Margaret Stuckley, and takes place on the June 1939 weekend that the British King and Queen visited Roosevelt at his upstate New York cottage, in the first-ever visit to America by a member of the United Kingdom monarchy.

The movie will start shooting in July, with a script by Richard Nelson; he adapted his own 2009 BBC radio play, which aired inOn a wall, 15 keys are aligned. On a table in front of the wall, 14 mold are aligned in between each and every keys. The first key on the left refers to the original. The second key was made out of a mold of the first one. The third key was made out of the a mold of the second one, and so on. On the floor next to the table, remains of the process are left to see.

With this work I want to engage a reflection on the value of uniqueness and the status of the art object in the digital age. In 2016, notions of original and copies are changed. The ease to create seemingly identical objects and the digitalization of the media have lead


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German carriers are more and more desperate. They pay drivers a bonus for recruiting people from competitors.

There are many reasons for the lack of staff in the transport industry. This deficit is growing year by year and carriers are constantly looking for ways to attract drivers. Will bonuses for employee referrals and stealing employees from competitors become a standard in Germany?

In Poland, there is a shortage of about 100,000 truck drivers. In Germany, the staffing gaps in the transport sector are around half as large, but they are growing significantly each year. The average age of professional drivers in this country is high, and according to the German transport union DSLV, ⅔ of truckers will retire in the next 15 years.

No wonder that employers have to resort to


unusual methods for recruiting employees. German carriers were already offering their drivers accommodation and cars for personal use. Many companies also decide to pay bonuses to their employees for recommending a candidate for a driver. The bonus to the salary is intended to encourage drivers to recruit truckers while on the road.In other words, to steal employees from competitors.

The German daily Hessenschau cites the example of a company from Mörfelden-Walldorf in Hessen. The number of trucks at Spedition Sobek is decreasing. There are still 14 more vehicles on the company’s yard. Since November last year, the company has sold two.

“We have orders but we lack drivers,” said Heinz-Peter Sobek, the owner of the company, to the newspaper. The carrier is looking for five drivers in Mörfelden and sixa pattern, it has to do with the Texas echo chamber. What happens in Texas needs to stay in Texas. Otherwise, duck and cover.

Perry drubbed Kay Bailey Hutchison in the 2010 Texas Republican gubernatorial primary by driving way hard right into Teabagger cuckoo-land, talking about how God was on his side, Texas should secede from America and so on. It worked like gangbusters in Texas. He came up more than 40 points from deep behind Hutchison to step ahead of her.

He thought that meant he could get elected president. But when he took his Great Dictator show out on the road, America told him to go back to Texas.

It wasn't just "oops" that did in Perry. It was Social Security as Ponzi scheme, we should send the army


For environmental activists like Jessica Miller, 31, the passage of a major climate bill by the House last month should have been cause for euphoria. Instead she felt cheated.

Ms. Miller, an activist with Greenpeace, had worked hard on her own time to elect Barack Obama because he directly and urgently addressed the issue nearest her heart: climate change.

But over the last few months, as the ambitious climate legislation was watered down in the House without criticism from the president, Ms. Miller became disillusioned. She worried that the bill had been rendered meaningless  or had even undermined some goals Greenpeace had fought for. And she felt that the man she had thought of as her champion seemed oddly prone to compromise.

“I voted for the president, I canvassed forowner was a paycheck stub, but Shelters had little luck getting in touch with the employer who issued the paycheck.

Four days later, Shelters saw a lost and found ad in the Steamboat Pilot & Today that matched the description of the wallet.

Steamboat Springs resident Brian Simillion came forward to claim his wallet from Shelters, and he awarded Shelters with $100 for his efforts.

"He kept thanking me and shook my hand, gave me a hug and obviously had a really rough couple of days," Shelters said. "He said it was the best thing that happened to him in a while. It was definitely worth it."

And the $100 reward money was well spent. Shelters used it on his sick kitten, which hadn't yet learned how to cough up a hairball,


\"Don\'t wipe your treacherous mugs with the name of my late brother. You destroyed him, you murdered him!\" -- said the leader of the ruling Polish party, Jarosław Kaczyński, in a heated parliamentary debate in July 2017, while addressing the opposition party leaders. With these words he referred to the alleged responsibility of the former liberal government for the 2010 airplane crash in which the then President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, was killed. Today, the two sides of the political debate in Poland still cannot agree upon the nature of the traumatic event that happened more than eight years ago.

Psychological research on large-scale societal traumas suggests that societies exposed to traumatic events may become more cohesive. Societal traumas can increase altruism and prosocial behavior ([@r29]; [@r33]), enhance ethnocentricresponses ([@r15]), and boost nationalism and patriotism ([@r28]). Linguistic studies of on-line journals after the September 11^th^ attacks point to increased social references immediately after the collective trauma occurred ([@r8]). On the other hand, it is obvious that such traumatic events often lead to deep societal divides and intragroup conflicts -- particularly when they occur in the political domain. The crash of the airplane carrying the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana and the Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira led to the Rwandan Genocide and a violent war in the Democratic Republic Congo. The September 11^th^ attacks in the USA enhanced decades-long partisan conflict between Democrats and Republicans. The massacre in the Beslan school in 2004 escalated Ingush-Ossetian hostilities and led to human rights abuses in Russia. This societal process, known


and organized acts of mourning took place throughout the whole country, including thousands of candles being lit in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, soon to become the center of these commemorative practices. Since the crash in 2010, every month a group of mourners assembles in front of the Presidential Palace to commemorate the late president, and to call for an investigation into the causes of the crash.

The desire to explain the catastrophe has created a rift in Polish society. In a short time, the catastrophe became a breeding ground for conspiracy explanations ([@r5]). The belief in Russian sabotage as the cause of the crash and the potential involvement of the Polish liberal government therein (the so-called "Smolensk Conspiracy"), has been endorsed by 25% of Poles andTune in every weeknight to the University of Utah Esports Twitch stream and you can catch players from universities across the Pacific-12 conference competing in League of Legends, Hearthstone and Rocket League. It is the first league of its kind, an organization bringing together schools from a major conference for esports competitions. The Pacific Alliance of Collegiate Gamers, or PACG, a unique student-operated organization, has been in the midst of its first season since the spring semester opened and will culminate in a conference tournament this April.

PACG, though, was never supposed to exist. In 2016, the Pacific-12 conference committed to the creation of an esports league. It was something Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott and others trumpeted with great enthusiasm as the next big thing for their brand. That


is, until the end of 2017 rolled around and, with hardly a whisper, the would-be Pac-12 Esports League (or whatever they would have called it) disappeared without a trace.

I reported on that story last year for Compete. Pac-12 officials offered little justification for their decision to back out from their plans to either the public or the student organizations hoping to head the Pac-12's new endeavor. An idea that was once “a natural fit for many of our universities located in the technology and media hubs of the country,” as league commissioner Larry Scott put it, was gone in an instant.

“It was on the one-inch line,” A.J. Dimick, esports director at the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering department, told me. Indeed, records discovered via Freedom ofInformation Act requests from Pacific-12 universities revealed the conference was far enough in its plans to engage in licensing deals with multiple game companies. An e-mail from Scott showed the conference had drafted agreements with Riot Games and Electronic Arts, as well as a production partner agreement with the Electronic Sports League and sponsorship deals with Intel and DMG.

What sunk it? A December 2016 e-mail from University of Arizona president Ann Weaver Hart—from the week the conference voted on the proposed 2017 esports league, obtained by Compete—put the concerns of some in the conference starkly:

“...There are legal and compliance issues that have not been fully vetted and that warrant consideration before moving forward. Although this proposal is not for an athletics activity, I understand that Title IX still


in Wisconsin last Tuesday.

Winning the Cowboy State would give Sanders his eighth win in a row, just in time for the high-profile New York primary and upcoming debate with Clinton.

"If you want to talk about math, the truth is that it is very, very, very unlikely either candidate, either Secretary Clinton or Sen. Sanders, will go into the convention with a majority needed of pledged delegates in order to win," Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said in a CNN interview last week.

Wyoming Democratic Party executive director Aimee Van Cleave said regardless of the outcome, the excitement of the race has re-energized Democrats in the Republican-heavy state. "The only word I can use to describe being a Democrat in Wyoming is electrifying," she said.

Politico has the live election results    Blake is a divorced mother of three minor children, ages

8, 10, and 11.   She shares joint custody with her ex-husband.

She has custody of the children on Wednesday nights and is

responsible for transporting the children to school on Thursday

mornings.   From September 15, 2011 through January 19, 2012,

the period charged in the warrants brought against Blake, the

children were repeatedly tardy to school on Thursdays.   Within

the time period of the warrants, the children were tardy two of
the three Thursdays in September, two of the four Thursdays in

October, one of the three Thursdays in which school was in

session in November, all three Thursdays that school was in

session in December, and two of the three Thursdays in January. 1

The tardiness generally ranged from


five to twenty minutes in

length.

     The tardiness of the children on Thursdays was universally

marked as unexcused.    The children's record showed no other

unexcused tardiness.    The school's attendance officer sent the

defendant a letter on November 3, 2011, containing language

attempting to convey defendant's duty to send the children to

school on time. 2   Blake indicated in a December conference with

the attendance officer that she and one of her children had

been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

(ADHD) and that one of her other children was currently being

tested.   Blake stated that some of the tardiness was

attributable to the ADHD, either due to behavioral problems on

the part of the children or due to Blake's own ADHD, for which

she was getting treatment.marriage was chaste, but now a letter from Anne to her brother Wenceslaus reveals that she had just miscarried. How many miscarriages might she have had? See here. So yes, an ectopic pregnancy might indeed have been the cause of her death. Or indeed, so might anything to do with pregnancy.

Richard II is my second favourite king (you all know who’s first!) and both are controversial, albeit for very different reasons. One of the charges against Richard II is that he was something of a Peter Pan, and did not want to grow up. He had portraits painted depicting him as a boy, when he was a mature man. He did not grow a beard until well after the customary time, and he was criticised for his devotion


1086-1094, 04 September 2013): “…Anne of Bohemia, first wife of Richard II, is a rather enigmatic queen but a letter (from British Library Additional 6159) sheds new light on her Bohemian connections and personal life. In a letter written by Anne to her half-brother Wenceslas IV, the queen informs Wenceslas of the successes of mutual acquaintances and requests that further Bohemian ladies be sent to Richard’s court. Anne’s comments offer increased evidence of the connections between the English and Bohemian courts, as well as shedding further light on the activities of the queen. Furthermore, at the end of the letter, Anne also reveals her sorrow over a miscarriage, proving that the couple did not have a chaste marriage…”

Another reference to this letter is in ‘Medieval Women and Theirfamily corporation, Highway Sales (“HS”). Dart used
trailers leased from a third family corporation, Highway Leasing (“HL”). Because
they owned and then leased trucking equipment, HL and HS had significant ordinary
tax losses generated by the accelerated depreciation of their equipment, while
simultaneously enjoying significant operating profits during the years in question.

       On the recommendation of his personal financial advisers, and with the intent
to deduct the depreciation losses of HL and HS from his income, Oren attempted to
restructure his investment in the family’s trucking businesses. He, Dart, HL, and HS
entered into a series of loan transactions whereby Dart loaned, over three years,
approximately $15 million to Oren, who, in turn, made loans totaling the same
amount to HL and HS, both of which, over time, loaned the same


him, which was signed by HS’s president. Dart, Oren, HL, and HS paid all interest
due under the loan agreements by check. Each of the parties to the transactions paid
off their obligations when the Commissioner notified the Orens of the deficiencies
for 1993, 1994, and 1995.

       After the first year of transactions, and again after additional transactions in the
following years, the Orens claimed increased basis in HL and HS and deducted the
corporations’ loses from their income. The Commissioner audited the Orens’ returns
for the three years and disallowed the increase in basis and the deductions. The Orens
timely petitioned the tax court, which held a trial before affirming the
Commissioner’s finding of substantial deficiencies.4 First, the tax court held that the
loans failed to increase the Orens’ basisWhen the 2019-20 NBA season tipped off, there were, by most accounts, no fewer than five teams that could be considered true title contenders: The Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers and Golden State Warriors. Four of those teams remain top-tier contenders. Golden State, meanwhile, has gone in the tank, which might not be the worst thing in the world for that organization.

Outside those teams, parity was, and remains, the word of the season. The Dallas Mavericks and Toronto Raptors look a lot better than expected. The Portland Trail Blazers, Utah Jazz and New Orleans Pelicans look a lot worse. The Denver Nuggets are winning games in an upside-down way, with an elite defense and a sputtering offense. The contrast of the Boston Celtics


for, and the continued development of both Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown has also been encouraging this season for Boston. -- Michael Kaskey-Blomain

The Nets had arguably the biggest offseason in the NBA yet have little to show for it so far. Kevin Durant is sidelined for the season with an Achilles injury, while Kyrie Irving has missed over half of the team's games with a shoulder injury. Caris LeVert has also been out with a thumb injury. Though the Nets have been able to stay competitive, they're not a real threat in the East without at least one of their All-Star additions. Spencer Dinwiddie has done an excellent job of carrying the load for the team in the meantime, but ultimately the Nets will go as far asJames years. They're too young, and too lacking in talent to win games at this level on a consistent basis, and most of the players on the roster won't be around in a few years. They've handed the reigns to first-year head coach John Beilein, but it's far too early to tell whether he'll be a success. You would like to see some development from their young guards -- Collin Sexton, Darius Garland and Kevin Porter Jr. -- but other than that it's already time to start looking ahead to the lottery in Cleveland. -- Jack Maloney

Dallas Mavericks: A+

Never in their wildest dreams did they think this would happen so soon. It's not just that Luka Doncic's trajectory -- Euroleague MVP, NBA Rookie of the Year, NBA MVP


candidate -- is unprecedented; it is that he has elevated the team as much, if not more than his individual game. And it is not just that the 20-year-old is a "once-in-whatever talent," as big man Maxi Kleber called him, it is that Dallas keeps killing teams when the genius takes a seat. The Mavs have the league's best offense and by far the best bench. -- James Herbert

Denver Nuggets: B-

At 14-7, Denver's record is more or less where the masses expected after 21 games. That's a 55-win pace, a slight improvement over last season, but where those wins are coming from brings everything this roster has done into question. The high-powered offense that Nikola Jokic led into the second round last season is currently ranked 20th innever realistically going to contend in this Western Conference. The goal this season was progress, and the Timberwolves have undoubtedly made it. Karl-Anthony Towns is playing like an MVP candidate, a surplus of wing talent is developing in Josh Okogie, Jarrett Culver and Robert Covington, and, of course, Andrew Wiggins appears to have been salvaged in one of the biggest surprises of the early season. Minnesota is still a year or two away, and it certainly needs a new point guard, but the outline of a winner is here. That wasn't the case a year ago. -- Sam Quinn

New Orleans Pelicans: D+

I lowered my expectations after Zion Williamson's injury, but apparently not enough. Despite their depth and the structure that Jrue Holiday, JJ Redick and Derrick Favors were


be the most impressive thing he has ever done. -- James Herbert

Toronto Raptors: B

Considering the fact that they lost a consensus top three player in the NBA over the offseason in Kawhi Leonard and didn't replace him with an external addition, the Raptors' start to the '19-20 season has been impressive. They're a tough, experienced team that is capable of pulling out a win on any given night, and Pascal Siakam has developed into a bona fide star in Leonard's absence. The main question about the Raptors at this point is if they have enough top-tier talent to make some major noise in the postseason again. -- Michael Kaskey-Blomain

Utah Jazz: C+

The Jazz were determined to upgrade their 14th-ranked offense this offseason, and made significant investments in Mike Conleyand Bojan Bogdanovic in order to do so. The results have been borderline disastrous. Utah is ranked 23rd. Conley's statistics have fallen off of a cliff and dragged Joe Ingles' numbers with them. The Jazz bench is among the worst in the NBA, and Donovan Mitchell appears to have plateaued in his third season. Utah's stellar defense will carry it into the postseason, and an easier second-half schedule always boosts its win total, but there was a strong case to be made over the summer that the Jazz was as good as the Lakers or Clippers. They aren't even close with a quarter of the season down. -- Sam Quinn

Washington Wizards: F

Even Bradley Beal can't make this team worth watching. The Wizards manage to find new ways to


Warren Buffett has announced his largest buyout in history, the $38 billion takeover of Portland, Oregon based Precision Castparts. This is almost twice the size of the Heinz takeover, one of his largest prior takeovers.

Heinz and other Buffett enterprises, including Burlington Northern and Pacific Power, are having a strong negative impact on the Oregon economy.

This includes potato farmers in Eastern Oregon who had a win/win long term relationship with Heinz cancelled, and local communities battling to prevent oil and coal from being shipped by rail thru their communities without adequate safety guidelines.

One century ago Republican Theodore Roosevelt was elected president and instituted sweeping changes in government, including the establishment of an estate tax and the national park system. What followed was an economic boom that lasted for years.then to close the fill valve when the camshaft is rotated in the opposite direction.
This assembly, heretofore, would need continual greasing of the O-ring seals and wall portions of the barrel bore against which the seals rub during camshaft rotation with a food grade lubricant but would still wear the seals and wall portions because of the overhung (free floating) load on the cam end of the camshaft which results in wobbling of the camshaft and causes the net contents to vary in the bottle or can.
The resolution of this problem has been to periodically replace the cam assembly (actuator), an expensive and time consuming measure, however, even then the grease situation ruins the integrity of the beverage. This process of lubrication is time consuming and most of


result. Thousands of students who appeared in the exam are waiting for the announcement of their result. The time left in the announcement of the BISE Sahiwal Board 5th Class Result 2020 is very short. Only a few days are remaining and all the students are wished the best of luck for their coming result. Just like every year, the result is going to be announced in March this year too. The date has been finalized by the PEC and is decided to be announced on March 31, 2020. The official website of Bahawalpur board sometime gets its server down due to a load of visitors so ilmkidunya updates all the news of the result on the page and the students are also given the facility to viewAnother accuser has come forward with claims against billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein alleging that he sexually assaulted her in 1996, when she was 26 years old, and molested her then 15-year-old sister.

Documents filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court by accuser Maria Farmer allege that Epstein hired her in 1995 when she was an art student in New York City to help him purchase works of art but that she was also tasked with manning the door of his Upper East Side mansion to note who came and went.

While working in the position, Farmer claims, she witnessed a “number of school age girls coming to the home.”

Farmer claims that Epstein and his British socialite pal Ghislane Maxwell took an interest in her 15-year-old sister and flew her with them


to their ranch in New Mexico, where they ordered her to take off her clothes and then touched her inappropriately.

“To my knowledge, I was the first person to report Maxwell and Epstein to the FBI. It took a significant amount of bravery for me to make that call because I knew how incredibly powerful and influential both Epstein and Maxwell were, particularly in the art community,” she wrote in the affidavit.

Farmer also alleges that while she was working at a mansion in Ohio in the summer of 1996 Epstein and Maxwell visited and sexually assaulted her.

The documents were filed as exhibits in Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s defamation lawsuit against prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz. Giuffre alleges that for two years starting in 2000, when she was 16 years old, sheUTC coach Russ Huesman shouts to players in a timeout during the Mocs' home football game against the Mercer Bears at Finley Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016, in Chattanooga, Tenn.

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga head football coach Russ Huesman has accepted an offer to become the head coach at the University of Richmond.

Huesman was in Richmond Tuesday and had dinner with the university's athletic director Keith Gill. Also according to sources, Huesman has spoken with several members of the Mocs staff about joining him at Richmond.

Richmond confirmed the hiring in a statement, released Wednesday morning.

"I'm excited to return to Richmond, a place that my family and I dearly love, for the opportunity to be the head coach of this incredibly successful football program," Huesman said in the


UR press release. "The commitment of this university and athletic department to its football program is evident through the recent success and I look forward to building on that success at even greater heights."

Huesman came to UTC in 2009 after spending eight seasons as the Spiders' defensive coordinator, which culminated in a national championship in 2008. He went 59-37 in eight seasons as the Mocs' head coach, including a span of three consecutive Southern Conference championships from 2013-15 and three Football Championship Subdivision playoff appearances from 2014-16.

In Huesman's last four seasons, the Mocs were 36-16 and 25-5 in the SoCon.

Former Richmond head coach Danny Rocco, who left for Colonial Athletic Association rival Delaware, went 10-4 in 2016, with the Spiders — like the Mocs — winning a playoffgame and falling in the second round. He was making $437,000 at Richmond.

"We're excited to have Coach Huesman rejoin the Spider family," Gill said. "Russ Huesman has an excellent understanding of what it takes to be successful here at Richmond, including our expectations of excellence in the classroom and on the gridiron. He was instrumental in our 2008 football national championship so he understands our culture of success."

The Spiders offered Huesman a similar figure, but UTC countered Tuesday afternoon by offering Huesman a pay increase nearing $325,000, according to sources. Included in that amount was going to be a substantial increase to the assistant coaching pool which would have made it one of the best in the country, according to another source.

The Mocs went 9-4 in 2016, falling


Lesson Plan

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Telling Personal Stories Through Art

In this lesson, students explore the connection between art and storytelling, focusing on how art can serve as an empowering, self-actualizing and even cathartic form of self-expression.

Lesson Summary

In this lesson, students explore the connection between art and storytelling, focusing on how art can serve as an empowering, self-actualizing and even cathartic form of self-expression. The video clips provided in this lesson are from Cutie and the Boxer, an Academy Award®-nominated film about the chaotic and unconventional 40-year love affair and creative partnership between action painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko, also an artist. Ushio, who punches canvases with paint-laden gloves, is famous in Japan and in Manhattan's art circles, yet wider recognition has eluded him. Noriko, 21 years his junior, put herof what the artist want to show. (Source: the-artists.org: "Action Painting" http://the-artists.org/artistsbymovement/Action-painting)

Show Clip 2. Ushio was a Neo-Dadaist, part of a group of artists who created work with an emphasis on the importance of the work of art produced rather than on the concept generating the work. The Neo-Dadaist movement was a precursor to pop art and was influenced by many avant-garde artists. Much of the art that was crafted as part of the Neo-Dada movement was made with everyday items. The work of Ushio and similar artists was often criticized as not being art.

Students can examine various art movements through time, with a focus on contemporary movements, to determine not only what influenced their establishment, but also how ideas about art change over time, and on a


New York Times bestseller and Eisner-nominated Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them, and home to a hate...

Joined by a dream-team of artists from around the world, Neil Gaiman - the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of American Gods and the children's book Coraline - returned to the beloved...

Animated Parody Removed from Canadian Newspaper Website

A Canadian political cartoonist who works for the Vancouver Province newspaper says that his animated parody of oil pipeline company Enbridge’s ads was removed from the newspaper’s website, apparently due to pressure from the corporation.

According to a blog post from The Guardian, Dan Murphy’s video was removed by the paper’s owner, Postmedia News, which felt thatchange in Bonn.

Regarding the G20, the leftist leader said earlier that the conclave in London is "the classic among the biggest economies in the world, the most developed and those that are developing", and that "the rules of the game are not very clear".

The 82-year-old leader, who formally stepped down last year in favour of younger brother Raul Castro, also pointed out the friction between G20 leaders over the regulation of the international system.

Citing a report by the Britain based charity Oxfam, Castro said the $8.42 trillion public money committed by the governments of the rich world to rescue the banking sector could have been used to eliminate world poverty in the next 50 years.

Regarding the ongoing climate change meeting in Bonn, Castro said he was not quite


hopeful of its success.

"Strong contradictions exist regarding the contribution that the economies should make," Castro said, referring to arguments between the rich world and emerging powers such as China and India, whose leaders say the brunt of the cost of reducing greenhouse emissions should be borne by Europe and the US.

He added that while the Antarctic ice cap is melting at a faster rate, the "sceptics are crying that the scientists are exaggerating" and continue to dream "such feeble hopes".

Fidel Castro was sidelined in July 2006 by a near fatal intestinal illness. During his convalescence, he began writing "Reflections" on a wide range of matters.Thursday, May 18, 2017

Victorian Stable to Sleek Boutique -- 1122 Madison Avenue

In the second half of the 19th century Newport, Rhode Island, saw the rise of magnificent palaces, known as "cottages." Most of the opulent residences served their affluent owners only during the glittering summer season. In September and October those millionaires migrated back to New York City.

The King family, however, was different. While Edward King and his wife, the former Mary Augusta Leroy, maintained a fine home in New York, they listed Newport, where Edward had been born, as their permanent address. Their villa, designed by Richard Upjohn and completed in 1846, was the town's grandest at the time. Edward was repeatedly listed as the largest payer of property taxes in Newport.

When Edward died in 1875, The


New York Times noted "He was well known in all the leading business centres of the country. He amassed a fortune in the tea and silk trade in China, and was one of the most active business men of the day...He owned considerable real estate in New-York."

King's estate was estimated at about $5 million--more than $110 million today. Mary, somewhat surprisingly, continued wheeling and dealing in Manhattan real estate. Among the properties she owned were Nos. 1116 through 1122 Madison Avenue between 83rd and 84th Streets. No. 1122 Madison was among her less impressive properties, a 35-foot wide "private stable."

The last quarter of the century saw a drastic change in the neighborhood just a block east of Central Park. Carriage houses, for the most part, were being constructedon the opposite side of Park Avenue, farther away from the new, upscale homes. Mary had the old stables converted to a commercial building. The second floor windows and loft opening were dressed up with bracketed cornices, and a decorative balustrade with urn-like finials perched above the roof line.

Mary diligently kept the little store building up to date. In October 1898 she hired architect Edward Smith to remove the old extension in the rear and rebuild the back wall. Then in 1901 she commissioned architects Bannister & Schell to design new show windows. The $2,000 renovations resulted in up-to-date "arcade windows," the modern innovation that recessed the store entrance between deep, glass-fronted display spaces. It was most likely at this time that the first floor was divided into


two shops.

Austin Finegan moved his real estate business into half of the renovated structure. He stayed here for several years. On Election Day in 1902 the address was leased by the city as a polling space.

Mary A. King died in her Fifth Avenue mansion on May 3, 1905. Her real estate holdings were distributed mostly between the two surviving of her seven children. The Madison Avenue store went to Edith R. King, the widow of her son, Leroy.

Around 1910 Frederick W. Cohn was the first of a string of tenants involved in the electrical contracting business. In 1911 he was appointed secretary of the new Consolidated Building Trades Employers' Association.

Cohn was followed by Russo Brothers, electricians, who signed a lease in May of 1914. They renewed the contractin 1922. One year earlier another tradition was begun when the Margolis Antiques Shop moved into the other half.

New-York Tribune, October 30, 1921 (copyright expired)

Ethel King sold No. 1122 Madison Avenue to the 27 East Eighty-Third Street Corp. in 1921. The firm converted the second floor to "non-housekeeping apartments." The Department of Buildings included a stark warning in its Certificate of Occupancy:

Cooking in more than Two of the apartments will render this building liable to immediate vacation by the Tenement House Department

The Margolis Shop remained here at least through 1928. The tradition was continued by Frank Lustig Antiques in the 1960s, Frank Silberman's Art & Ends antiques shop in the 1970s, and Pascoe and Solomon, Inc., dealers in art pottery beginning around 1979.

In 1937 Russo Brothers had erected


Could prime minister Tony Abbott have had a spot of liquidation playing on his mind when he dropped Malcolm Turnbull into the ocean during question time on Thursday?

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The Opposition was busily trying to upset Abbott's boat with a query regarding people smugglers and the allegation that the government was now paying them to turn around their boats and disappear back over the horizon.Christian college I attended, to the pastoral and theological books I read, to the seminary from which I graduated, to the thousands of sermons I …Read More

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From the linden flower to linden honey--volatile constituents of linden nectar, the extract of bee-stomach and ripe honey.
Honey is produced by honeybees (Apis mellifera), which collect nectar from flowers, digest it in their bodies, and deposit it in honeycombs, where it develops into ripe honey. We studied the evolution of the volatile constituents from the nectar of linden blossoms (Tilia cordata) to honey via the 'intermediate' honeybee. The sampling of the contents of the honey stomach or honey sack of the bee is unique. Extracts were prepared from nectar, from the liquid of the honey stomach, and from ripe honey. The chemistry is extremely complex, and compounds spanning from monoterpenes (hydrocarbons, ethers, aldehydes, acids, and bifunctional derivatives), isoprenoids, aromatic compounds (phenylpropanoids, phenols), and products degraded from fatty acidsOne Nation Senator Pauline Hanson is calling for the Labor candidate for Hervey Bay to be disendorsed over allegations he "physically" assaulted his One Nation opponent.

During Senator Hanson's trip to the electorate, cameras captured a run-in between her and the ALP candidate Adrian Tantari.

Senator Hanson claimed Mr Tantari gave her the finger as she was driving away from the polling booths.

"I was driving off and he actually gives me the finger, and that was not good enough, so I actually stopped the car in the middle of the road," she said.

"I went over and I confronted him and told him I will not put up with bullying and it's not good enough.

"We don't need people like him on the floor of Parliament and now I'm actually calling on


[Premier Annastacia] Palaszczuk to get rid of him — disendorse him."

Senator Hanson said her candidate for Hervey Bay, Damien Huxham, had been targeted by Mr Tantari before.

"He [Mr Tantari] has actually bullied Damien at the polling booth — physically — and he's nothing but aggressive and he's a nasty piece of work," Senator Hanson said.

"He's a bully and we don't need that."

Mr Huxham said Mr Tantari had used profanities about him on social media and had uploaded a video attacking Mr Huxham for not being in town for one week of the election campaign.

"He actually came up to me and tried to grab me twice, and threatened me, which I actually reported to police," Mr Huxham said.

Mr Tantari has denied any conflict between himself and the One NationGagiano, hoped that the helicopters would be ready around June 2007, indicating the "extremely worrying factor of time that the project was taking to reach maturity", attributing the delays to the exodus of personnel from Denel as well as its financial problems. This has forced the SAAF to assess alternative defence development partners.

One airframe was damaged beyond repair on 3 August 2005 after an "uncontrolled landing".

On 17 May 2007, Denel group CEO Shaun Liebenberg announced a decision to cease further development and funding for the Rooivalk as an export product following its failure to win the Turkish attack helicopter tender against the Agusta A129 Mangusta.

During November 2007, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota announced in Parliament, that the SAAF was to invest R962 million (about US$137 million in 2007 exchange


Sunshine Act, this portion of the meeting was open to
the public.
AGENDA ITEM 1: Chairman's Report
NSB Committees
The Chairman established two Committees:
The 1999 Vannevar Bush Award Committee chaired by Dr. Greenwood, with
Drs. Jones, Tapia and Washington as members.
The International Issues in Science and Engineering Committee chaired by
Dr. Natalicio, with Drs. Ferguson, Gaillard, Jaskolski and Sequeira as
members.
AGENDA ITEM 2: Director's Report
a. Fiscal Year 2000 Budget
Dr. Rita Colwell, NSF Director, announced that the President's Fiscal
Year 2000 budget was delivered to Congress. A press conference to
present the budget was held February 1, organized by the White House
Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) and attended by Dr. Neal
Lane, Assistant to the President for Science & Technology and other
Federal agency heads. The budget includes a six percent increase for
NSF. One major item in theNSF budget is $146 million for a new
Information Technology initiative (IT2). Also included was a $50
million biocomplexity initiative and $7.5 million for a Graduate
Teaching Fellows Programs.
Also on February 1, the NSF Director held a press conference on the
NSF's budget request, and met representatives of the science and
engineering (S&E) research education communities, and with key
congressional staff members. The Director also spoke to the Association
of American Universities Council on Federal Relations, and a group of
executives from S&E societies and associations. The overall reaction to
the budget is good, and NSF continues to make the case for the national
importance of the new IT2 initiative.
b. Congressional Hearings
The Director announced that hearings on the budget proposal will begin
on March 4, with testimony before the House Appropriation Subcommittee,
on March 16, before the House Basic Research


Subcommittee, and on March
23 before the Senate VA, HUD and Independent Agencies Committee. In
late February Dr. Bordogna will represent NSF at a Congressional hearing
on the Interagency National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program. Other
anticipated hearings will involve IT2, the Antarctic Program, and the
Freedom of Information data release issue.
AGENDA ITEM 3: Framework for Revising the NSF Strategic Plan
Dr. Colwell reminded members that the original NSF Strategic Plan NSF in
a Changing World (NSF-95-24) was approved in 1994, and the Foundation's
strategic plan for 1997-2003 under the Government Performance and
Results Act (GPRA) was approved in 1997. The GPRA strategic plan is due
for revision by March 2000. The revised plan will maintain the themes
of the 1994 publication, and will capture NSF's expanded roles and
responsibilities over the past four years, as well as addressing future
expansion. Shethe GPRA revision to staff. The Director and Chair
stated that members would be notified as to the contact person and the
means for communicating ideas. Dr. Colwell reiterated the importance on
gathering information on what research cannot be funded by the NSF
constrained budget and reminded members that it is also important to
obtain the backing of the science and engineering communities to support
an increased budget.
Dr. Washington asked the Director to describe discussions with Congress
regarding an increased budget. She answered that discussions have
focused on what NSF and the nation should be doing in the 21st century.
There seems to be strong support for science, math and engineering
education. She also noted that there are some misconceptions that NSF
cannot handle big projects. Using the South Pole Station redevelopment
and Gemini telescopes as examples, she stated that


this is not the case.
Congress is also interested in knowing that NSF takes prioritization
seriously. Several members commented that NSF may be positioned to seek
other funding to leverage expansion of science and education funding.
The Director noted that she and Dr. Kelly were exploring those
possibilities.
The Board unanimously approved the process for revising the NSF
Strategic Plan described by the NSF Director
Presentation: A Demographic Perspective on our Nation's Future
The National Science Board heard a presentation entitled "A Demographic
Perspective on our Nation's Future" by Dr. Peter A. Morrison of the RAND
Corporation. Dr. Morrison discussed the global context of decreasing
numbers of births per family, lower fertility rates leading to higher
percentages of adults in the population, and increased numbers of women
in the workforce. Dr. Morrison then provided detailed perspectives in
four major areas for the U.S.:possible, preferably with a press event
followed by publication of op-ed pieces. As part of a unanimous vote of
approval, the Board authorized Dr. Gaillard, the TIMSS Task Force Chair,
and Dr. Suzuki, the Education & Human Resources (EHR) Committee Chair,
to approve the final revisions in preparation for a release. Issuing
both a paper and an electronic version available at the NSB web site was
recommended. The NSB Chairman expressed the hope that the report would
be issued before the end of February 1999.
AGENDA ITEM 5: Other Business
There was no other business and the Chairman called for the next agenda
item.
AGENDA ITEM 7: Symposium on Environmental Research, Education and
Assessment
The Symposium on Environmental Research, Education and Assessment was
opened by
Dr. Eamon Kelly, Chair, National Science Board. Welcoming remarks were
provided by Mr. Barry Munitz, President, The Getty Center


and Dr. Rita
Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation.
Dr. Jane Lubchenco, NSB member and Chair of the NSB Task Force on the
Environment, gave an overview of the symposium. Members of the Board
moderated.
The keynote address was presented by Dr. Kathryn Sullivan of the
Columbus, Ohio, Center of Science and Industry. Dr. Sullivan emphasized
that we need a common understanding of key issues and that assessments
are required to facilitate communication among scientists, decision
makers, and individuals. She exhorted NSF to look creatively at this
issue. Dr. Sullivan also suggested that NSF advance fresh approaches to
education, emphasizing lifelong learning via community education in
addition to the traditional support for schooling.
The session entitled Emerging Interdisciplinary Opportunities featured
Drs. Pamela Matson (Stanford University), David Schimel (National Center
for Atmospheric Research), Simon Levin (Princeton University), and Jerry
Melillo (The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA)biophysical sciences that
should be recognized and addressed early on in interdisciplinary
research endeavors.
The fourth session was entitled From Reaction to Proaction and featured
talks by Dr. William Clark (Harvard University), Dr. Terry Yates
(University of New Mexico) and Ambassador Richard Benedick (Battelle
Pacific Northwest Laboratory). All three speakers focused on how
credible scientific research can be used to improve the basis for
decision making. Dr. Clark discussed assessments in general, emphasizing
that they are as much process as product. He articulated several areas
in which NSF could support---or continue to support--- assessment
research. Dr. Yates discussed a specific example at the intersection of
ecology and human disease, emphasizing the enormous importance of
long-term, interdisciplinary research in developing a useful predictive
understanding of the Hantavirus and related diseases. Dr. Yates also
pointed out the key significance of maintenance of data sets, samples,
and


specimens in furthering the research. Ambassador Benedick discussed
examples of assessments in his experience, and spoke about a need for
new institutional structures and processes to complement existing NSF
programs in the environment area. Ambassador Benedick recommended an
entity that would be isolated from political pressure but informed by
stakeholder concerns and support peer-reviewed environmental research.
The final session, Enabling Partnerships, included talks by Drs. Berrien
Moore (University of New Hampshire), Rosina Bierbaum (Office of Science
and Technology Policy), and Geoff Heal (Columbia University). These
speakers discussed commonalities and distinctions among international
partnerships, federal partnerships, and cross-disciplinary partnerships.
The issues they discussed included new approaches for international
funding and funding of large-scale or long-term national efforts, new
directions for the environmental research establishment, and environment
viewed as infrastructure.
NONAGENDA ITEM: Statement on Scientific Research Data Access
The Board approved a statement on scientific researchstatewide were invited to join in the celebration as residents, staff and supporters observed the century with Open Houses, displays marking milestones along the decades, and the telling of stories associated with the state’s development.

While eligible Arizona residents continue to make application at the venerable facility, the Arizona Pioneers’ Home remains unique in its eligibility requirements in the United States. (Two other state-run Homes -- one in Alaska and the other in Wyoming exist for pioneer residents, but their admission requirements are different.)

To conclude 100 years of “quiet” caring for the state’s pioneers and miners, residents, staff and special invited guests helped celebrate the 100th birthday party of the Arizona Pioneers’ Home and Hospital for Disabled Miners.

The Home was sanctioned by the Arizona Centennial 2012 Foundation, and formally


Newsagents and convenience store chain Mills Group has completed a £200,000 revamp of its Darlington store.

In keeping with Mills' traditional role as a community provider, the store on Cleveland Terrace, which currently has a turnover of more than £1m a year, now includes a traditional in-store bakery and supplies locally sourced organic produce.

The Mills Group has also invested in two upper floor apartments at the site.

The refurbishment has brought the Darlington store in line with Mills' corporate image and includes new signage and store layout. The design has ensured the maximum use of space and has given the store a fresh and original look.

Mills Group currently owns 55 stores in the North-east, Cumbria, Lincolnshire and the East Midlands.

Darlington store manager, Les Wood, said: "The local community has definitelyconcentrations of mobile phones, modify the exposure pattern compared to usual situations. Personal RF-EMF exposure from mobile phones (uplink) and mobile phone base stations (downlink) installed at the 2017 Albacete Fair (Spain) was recorded. Between 7 and 17 September, more than 2,500,000 people visited this Fair. Measurements were taken by two Satimo EME SPY 140 personal exposimeters, placed one each side of a research team member's waist. These exposimeters were programmed to take measurements every 4 s at different time of day; morning, afternoon and night; and in several places, around the Fair Enclosure (zones Ejidos and Paseo) and inside the enclosure (Interior). These measurements were repeated on a weekday, at the weekend and the day after the Fair ended after temporary base stations had been removed. They


the diaspora

Conservative estimates put the number of Serbs living abroad at over 2 million (of which about 670,000 are living in EU countries) – a large contingent, if compared to a population of about 7 million living in Serbia. The voting registration process for the diaspora was announced on 3 March and voters had eight days (until 11 March) to sign up. Polling stations will be opened only in places where at least 100 voters have registered. Postal voting is not allowed, and voters are compelled to cast their ballots in the same place in both rounds, thus making it impossible for those travelling to Serbia for Easter to express their preference in a hypothetical run-off.

The candidates: is the opposition staging a revival?

The Prime Minister and leader ofthe Serbian Progressive Party, Aleksandar Vučić, decided to stand for the presidency after internal polling showed that the outgoing President and co-party member, Tomislav Nikolić, would risk losing the contest. Vučić is the clear frontrunner, with some polls even giving him the victory in the first round.

This time, however, new challengers from several strands of the opposition have thrown their hats in the ring: former Ombudsman Saša Janković, former Foreign Minister and UN General Assembly President Vuk Jeremić, comedian Luka Maksimović (running as the spoof candidate Ljubiša ‘Beli’ Preletacevic), and Enough is Enough leader Saša Radulović. Other challengers include Vojislav Šešelj, leader of the nationalist Radical Party, and Boško Obradović, who heads the far right movement ‘Dveri’. The campaign has thus been an exceptionally lively one, with large


polling stations, as they have only been opened in cities with at least 100 registered voters. Most respondents have indicated the postal vote as a desirable alternative.

Ugljesa Grušić, a law lecturer at University College London (UK), shared his experience with us:

I will be in Serbia during the first round and in London during the second round of the election. I emailed the embassy to ask whether I could register to vote in London in the run-off. The embassy replied that they received a “notification” from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stating that it is not possible to change the voting location after the first round. I replied to this email quoting Article 23 of the Law on a Single Electoral Roll, the Constitution and the European human rightstheir help in designing the survey, ensuring appropriate dissemination and in conducting this analysis go to: Milica Popović, Bogdan Marković, Slobodan Tomić, Natasha Kocsis and Stuart Brown.

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About the author Tena Prelec – LSE / University of Sussex

Tena Prelec is an Editor of EUROPP and a doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex.


Injury scare for England skipper Steven Gerrard

Rio de Janeiro: England captain Steven Gerrard managed only light training on Monday ahead of the World Cup as he struggled with what was termed as a minor groin strain.

England skipper Steven Gerrard. Pic/Getty Images

Gerrard, 34, did only a few runs down the touchline as the main squad was put through a punishing schedule at the Urca military base in Rio de Janeiro.

The Liverpool midfielder went inside before the end of the session. England staff said it was a minor ailment and they had no doubt Gerrard would be ready for England's first Group D match against Italy on Saturday.

Gerrard missed half of England's 0-0 draw with Honduras on Saturday as a precaution.Woody Allen

It's hard to gauge Woody Allen's impact on American comedy and culture, because it's vast and still ongoing. Even setting aside his comedy albums, his writings for The New Yorker and other publications, his jazz band, and his appearances as an actor in other people's work, there's still his filmography as a writer, director, and often star, stretching to more than 40 features. Beginning with Take The Money And Run in 1969—or the overdubbed 1966 lark What's Up, Tiger Lily?, if that counts—Allen has been the standard-bearer for New York Jewish wit, and a persistently insightful chronicler of human relationships. He's received an astonishing 21 Oscar nominations, and won three, for writing and directing Annie Hall (which also won Best Picture) and writing Hannah And Her Sisters.


Other highlights from his long career include Bananas, Sleeper, Manhattan, The Purple Rose Of Cairo, Crimes And Misdemeanors, Husbands And Wives, Sweet And Lowdown, and Match Point—all produced at a movie-a-year pace that continues four decades into his career.

After decades of being closely identified with New York, Allen has recently made a series of features in Europe. The latest, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, is one of his strongest efforts in many years. Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall star as American friends with very different ideas about romance. While vacationing in Barcelona, they're mesmerized by painter Javier Bardem, who whisks them off on a romantic sojourn, but remains haunted by his tempestuous former lover, Penélope Cruz. Allen recently spoke to The A.V. Club about the elusiveness of romantic chemistry, salvaginga stable, functioning marriage that's not the worst in the world, but will never reach any great heights at all. So on the whole, I do feel that it's a very pessimistic picture, and sad.

AVC: So this romantic arrangement between Bardem, Johansson, and Cruz is the least conventional in the film, and also by far the most successful. Could a relationship like that ever last, or is it just a temporary chemical balance that's going to eventually dissolve?

WA: I don't think those relationships do last. The thing that's exciting about them is the volatility. It's like what Penélope says to Javier in the movie, "You like my mood swings, my inconsistencies." What's attractive to him is that she's unpredictable and capable of enormous artistic vision and enormous sexuality,


in the traffic a few blocks away, but 10 or 15 minutes later found it parked in the vicinity of 20th Street, between Yale and X Streets; that defendant was then standing behind the car, the lights of which were out, changing his upper garments; that as soon as the officers appeared he jumped into his car and again left at high speed; and that though the officers pursued him and used their siren frequently, defendant failed to stop until one of them fired a shot over his head. It further shows that after defendant was apprehended and taken to the police station the two officers returned to the vicinity of 20th, Yale and X Streets, which they described as "a rather deserted spot" without other cars orThe Pittsburgh Pirates are the story of the 2012 baseball season. Out of nowhere, they are 10 games over .500 and have the fourth-best record in baseball.

With the Heat-Thunder NBA Finals long over, sports fans may be looking for a new bandwagon to jump on. But no bandwagon fan wants to sound like a bandwagon fan. This A-to-Z Pittsburgh Pirates guide will help you learn about the team and sound like you have followed the Pirates since way back in the olden times of the early '90s.

A -- Andrew McCutchen

It all starts with McCutchen. At 25, he is one of the best young players in baseball and, for the past month, the best player in all of baseball. "Yeah, but the Pirates will just lose him when he


becomes a free agent." You might be right. Except thanks to an offseason contract extension worth $51.5 million, the Pirates control his rights through the 2018 season.

B -- Burnett

After being banished from New York, A.J. Burnett is in the midst of his best season since he was a Toronto Blue Jay. The Pirates got him in exchange for two mediocre prospects, plus the Yankees still have to pay 58 percent of his contract through next season. If you are considering jumping aboard the Pirates bandwagon, that means you like underdogs. That also means you probably despise the Yankees. It might still be unlikely that the Pirates play deep into October, but we all can agree that Burnett beating the Yankees in the World Series -- while still earningthe National League through the first six weeks of the season; the Pirates end the season with one of baseball's easiest.

After 19 years of losing, it's easy to think that failure is always around the corner. Because it is. The Pirates play the Cubs and Astros 23 times in the second half.

E -- Eighty-one

Sadly, the magical land of 81 wins has been the goal for many Pirates fans over the past three decades. The "best" team of the sub-.500 eternity was 15 years ago. That 1997 team had 79 wins. Only eight Pirates teams since 1992 have had even 70-win seasons. Holy crap, this is depressing. Let's get back to the positive stuff.

F -- The Fort

That's the nickname for miniature Pirates backup catcher Michael McKenry. He has six


But Rinku Singh is still in the system and has a 2.70 ERA at Class-A West Virginia.

The Indianapolis Indians, Pittsburgh's Triple-A team, have the best winning percentage in the International League and start a lineup that not long ago would have been good enough to play for the Pirates. So there is plenty of depth in the system, much of it in Indian form.

J -- Jameson Taillon

Taillon, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2010 draft, and Gerrit Cole, the No. 1 overall pick last year, are Pittsburgh's two best prospects. Since general manager Neal Huntington took over the team in September 2007, he shifted the team's drafting approach to picking good baseball players. Smart move.

K -- Karstens

Pirates starter Jeff Karstens makes you appreciate the beauty of afrom again. The Braves appeared again last year too. Remember the 19-inning Pirates-Braves game last July that ended with the awful Jerry Meals' call? The Pirates never saw first place again after that.

Guess who Pittsburgh is playing to end the regular season? Yes. Oct. 1-3, three games against the Braves. Oh, crap.

T -- Trade deadline

For the second consecutive year, the Pirates will be buyers at the deadline. And not like in 2007, when former GM Dave Littlefield acquired Matt Morris. That was a desperate move to clinch his status as worst baseball general manager of all time before he got fired.

U -- Ugly

OK. That’s enough. Let's stop being mean to Jeff Karstens.

V -- Voting

People who were born since the Pirates last had a winning season can drive a


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Shoulda put a ring on it: Orange County to repeal benefits for domestic partners

The Orange County Board of County Commissioners decided at its meeting today to repeal a county ordinance granting benefits to domestic partners of the same sex. In 2012, the county passed an ordinance issuing health benefits to same-sex domestic partners, "to ensure parity for same-sex couples who did not have the option to marry," according to a memo from J. Ricardo Day, director of the county's Human Resources Division, to Mayor Teresa Jacobs and the Board of County Commissioners. "The program was not available to opposite-sex couples because they have always had the right to marry in the state of Florida."

But now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared marriage between same-sex couples legal, theIn the report, which was published on Wednesday (November 8), Haim told others, including former actor, Dominick Brascia, about the incident that occurred during the filming of the 1986 project. Sheen would have been 19 at the time.

"Haim told me he had sex with Sheen when they filmed Lucas," Brascia told the Enquirer. "He told me they smoked pot and had sex. He said they had anal sex. Haim said after it happened Sheen became very cold and rejected him. When Corey wanted to fool around again, Charlie was not interested."

Later in the report, the National Enquirer revealed that Haim's closest friend, Corey Feldman, alluded to the alleged incident in his book, Coreyography: A Memoir. "At some point during the filming [of 'Lucas,' Haim] explained an adult male


Obama wins praise abroad for climate change goals

OSLO | By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle

U.S. President Barack Obama (Front, L-R), his wife Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, and her husband Vice President Joe Biden take their seats at the start of the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Service at the National Cathedral in Washington, January 22, 2013.

Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama won praise abroad on Tuesday for his pledge to lead the fight against climate change, which has faltered as nations argue over who should foot the bill to lower carbon emissions.

Two decades of summits and resolutions have not stopped mankind pumping growing quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, despite a wealth of evidence that it is causing more frequent and devastating droughts, storms and floods.

Obama devoted aOctober, a typhoon left more than 1,000 people dead or missing in the Philippines in December and this month a searing heatwave caused hundreds of wildfires in Australia.

The United States has declared a natural disaster in its central and southern Wheat Belt because of a severe and persistent drought.

The global economic slowdown has made the governments of richer nations more reluctant to invest in technology to mitigate climate change, led by a shift from fossil fuels towards clean energies such as wind or solar power.

Developing countries whose carbon emissions are rising fastest say they cannot afford the entire cost of shifting to greener technology and that developed nations should help more.

In the latest failure of environmental diplomacy, U.N. climate negotiations in Qatar in December ended without a single


new pledge to cut pollution from a major emitter.

Instead, governments agreed to try again for a binding United Nations pact to limit climate change that would enter into force from 2020, replacing the Kyoto protocol adopted in 1997 that the United States never ratified.

Environmental campaigners were dismayed at the decision to wait years before taking concerted action.

SIDE-STEP CONGRESS

Obama's renewed promises could help.

"It really changes the nature, style and substance of the U.S. engagement with the international climate negotiations," said Bill Hare, a scientist who heads Berlin-based Climate Analytics.

He said that Washington, even in Obama's first term, had low ambitions for confronting climate change and that had dimmed efforts by other major emitters. China, the United States, India and Russia are the top greenhouse gas emitters.

Unlike all of Washington'sthe US should adopt it. What we are witnessing today is significantly different from 1958 when nuclear deterrence was at the top of the agenda with the erstwhile Soviet Union.

Asia is going through profound transformations. China is in the process of expanding its blue water navy and seeks domination of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This resonates a familiar chord with the US, which had a similar two ocean strategy in the past that sought US domination over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

US Vice President Mike Pence’s first visit to Asia took place against the background of mounting tensions. Its objectives included to reaffirm the US commitment to the region. Pence also wanted to clarify and ensure that the US is compensated as the arbiter of regional security


the Indian defence minister replied that they would take this up on a case-by-case basis.

As China witnesses geopolitical developments, there is a high probability of a sudden appearance of another Chinese submarine in the future. In October 2006, when USS Kitty Hawk was sailing through the East China Sea between southern Japan and Taiwan, a Chinese submarine surfaced without prior warning. The Americans were amazed when the Song-class Attack Submarine surfaced at a torpedo distance. The same sentiments applied when the last Chinese submarine’s appearance in Sri Lanka created tensions between Colombo and New Delhi. According to some experts, Indians exaggerated the event for political purposes to remove the pro-Chinese Rajapaksa government of that time.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sri Lanka for the UN international Vesak celebrations,a day recognised by the UN after the tremendous effort of late Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lanka’s truly visionary former foreign minister. Modi's second visit is a clear indication of the friendship between the leaders of India and Sri Lanka.

After this celebration, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe headed to China for the country’s largest One Belt, One Road (OBOR) conference. Sri Lanka’s strategic role in the Maritime Silk road is an important area, which will be addressed. This happens at a time when the Sri Lankan government is in discussions with India to lease out the tank farm in the east coast harbour of Trincomalee.

136 countries, and 28 heads of states are in Beijing for this large-scale high powered summit. Of the South Asian countries, India will not


special focus on Jammu and Kashmir and Naxalite Violence. Our research promotes greater understanding of India's foreign policy especially India-China relations, India's relations with SAARC countries and South East Asia.

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Movement to Re-invigorate Arts and Learning is Launched in Montreal

CNAL/RCAA has partnered with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (CCUNESCO) and the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning at Queen’s University to re-invigorate the Seoul Agenda which is a global action plan endorsed by UNESCO. The first step in this initiative is a Position Paper that was launched in a special panel at the Annual General Meeting of CCUNESCO in Montreal on May 27, 2017.

Panelists included Danika Littlechild, Vice-president, Canadian Commission for UNESCO, who explained the Commission’s commitment to the Position paper and to the renewal process that it heralds. Dr. Benjamin Bolden, UNESCO Chair on Arts & Learning, shared some of his thinking about the potential of arts education to address social and cultural challenges with a particularfocus on the global challenge of climate change. Dr. Jérôme Pruneau, Director General of Diversité artistique Montréal, spoke about art's response to the increasingly necessary inclusion processes in view of waves of multiple migrations linked in particular to climate change, giving as an example a professional artistic mentoring program. Claude Schryer, Senior Strategic Advisor, Canada Council for the Arts, discussed the themes of the Position paper from the perspective of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Council’s commitments in their current strategic plan.

Janica Echavez, a member of CCUNESCO’s Youth Advisory Group, invited attendees to explore and share their reflections on the themes of this panel through collaborative art making.

Janica Enchvez - Third year Engineering student and Schulich Leader Scholar at the University of Calgary. Ambassador and


which are located around the circumference of the distal anal canal forming an anatomic landmark known as the dentate line 1, shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. Approximately 20-39 such glands are found in man. Infection in an anal gland may result in an abscess, which then tracks through or around the sphincter muscles into the perianal region, where it drains either spontaneously or surgically. The resulting tract is known as a fistula. The inner opening of the fistula, usually located at the dentate line, is known as the primary opening 2. The outer (external) opening, located in the perianal skin, is known as the secondary opening 3.
FIGS. 1 and 2 show examples of the various paths that an anorectal fistula may take. These paths vary in complexity.WASHINGTON — A White House official made two secret visits to North Korea last year in an unsuccessful effort to improve relations after new ruler Kim Jong Un assumed power, according to former U.S. officials familiar with the trips.

The brief visits in April and August were aimed at encouraging the new leadership to moderate its foreign policy after the death of Kim’s father, longtime autocrat Kim Jong Il, in December 2011.

The ruling elite apparently spurned the outreach effort, however. This month, after a surge of fierce anti-U.S. rhetoric, the government in Pyongyang defied international warnings and conducted its third and most powerful underground nuclear test.

The former U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the back-channel trips have not been formally disclosed, said the first visit was


an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Pyongyang not to launch a long-range rocket.

North Korea carried out the launch April 12. The missile flew only a few minutes before it exploded and crashed into the sea. A subsequent test of another long-range rocket in December was successful.

The April trip was led by Joseph DeTrani, a North Korea expert who then headed the National Counter Proliferation Center in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which coordinates U.S. intelligence agencies, the former U.S. officials said. It was unclear who led the August trip.

They said Sydney Seiler, who is in charge of Korea policy at the National Security Council, went on both trips. Seiler, a veteran CIA analyst, speaks fluent Korean. He could not be reached for comment.

The White House, StateIt seems Liam Hemsworth has moved on from his relationship with singer Miley Cyrus.

Just yesterday, Hemsworth, 29 was spotted holding hands with actress Maddison Brown.

Here are five things to know about the 22-year-old.

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1. She's an Aussie

Like Hemsworth himself, Brown is Australian. She calls Sydney home, while Hemsworth and his brothers hail from Melbourne.

The two cities aren't particularly close, so they have their time in Los Angeles to thank for bringing them together.

2. She's an actress

Brown doesn't have many credits to her name yet, but her biggest is working on CBS' reboot of "Dynasty." She plays Kirby Anders, a steward's daughter.

She's appeared in 22 episodes of the show's second season and is set for at least three episodes in


the coming weeks of the third season.

3. She's a model

Brown has posed for several different companies, including Calvin Klein and Vogue.

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4. She's got some famous friends

Aside from Hemsworth, Brown has been associated with some big names in Hollywood.

She starred in the television movie "Strangerland" with Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving and Joseph Fiennes, and played a young version of Elizabeth Debicki's character in "The Kettering Incident."

Brown has also been spotted with several other big names in Tinseltown, like "Avengers" star Elizabeth Olsen.

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5. She started acting at a young age

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Trump wants to use some of the savings realized on debt refinancings for infrastructure spending. He cited our schools, tunnels, bridges and airports as being unsafe and disgraceful. Furthermore, he said he’d be the single best person in the history of the


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CAPE CORAL, FL -- High school students from all over the state of Florida came together to compete in the VEX Robotics World Championship Qualifier at Mariner High School in Cape Coral, Saturday.

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The Mackenzie poltergeist is quite an odd story and deserves your attention...

IT MUST have seemed like a good idea at the time. The homeless man was without a bed and the night was chilly. When he found the door to the mausoleum open it could have looked inviting but quite why he decided to open a coffin and snuggle down beside the skeleton is less easy to explain.

He may have been fine had the entire coffin not crumbled on top of him, showering him with the dust of a 400-year-old corpse. He let out a rather loud scream, which was heard by a passing dog-walker, who let out an even louder scream when he saw what looked like a zombie coming straight


for him.

There followed a Scooby-doo moment when they, and the dog, ran around the graveyard screaming before running off in opposite directions.

What neither the homeless man nor the dog-walker realised was that the mausoleum belonged to one of the most monstrous residents of the graveyard of Greyfriars Kirk: the 17th century Judge and Lord Advocate Sir George Mackenzie, otherwise known as "Bluidy Mackenzie", who executed a large number of Covenanters.

The Covenanters were a powerful political force in Scotland in the 17th century. On 28, 1638, a large gathering signed the "National Covenant" in Greyfriars Kirkyard, pledging to keep Scotland a Presbyterian country. This document formed the basis of a treaty whereby the Scottish government would support the parliamentarians in the English Civil War.

However, 50 years later Charles IIwas on the throne, the Covenanters had been outlawed and they were heavily defeated by the king's forces at the battle of Bothwell Brig. In all, 18,000 Covenanters died for their beliefs, 1,200 were imprisoned in the Covenanters Prison in Greyfriars Kirkyard by Mackenzie.

Some were executed and their heads displayed around the prison walls. The rest were corralled in the yard and left without food or water. Hundreds died, and for some the last face they would have seen was the mocking, jubilant and hateful face of "bluidy" Mackenzie.

Posted ImageThe Black Mausoleum, the last resting place of Sir George MackenzieIronically George Mackenzie was himself buried in Greyfriars. Then in 1999 along came our homeless man…

Poltergeist theory would claim that the disturbance of Mackenzie’s coffin was the trigger that


awoke the ghost and now it haunts the Black Mausoleum, Mackenzie's last resting place. Soon stories of blackouts, attacks and spooky goings-on abounded. It all became too much for Edinburgh City Council. They locked the door, threw away the key and declare the area out of bounds (for the living anyway).

Jan-Andrew Henderson lived in a flat over-looking the graveyard. He was amused by the stories of haunting and puzzled by the council’s decision. Not slow to spot a business opportunity, Mr Henderson, who runs ghost tours of the old city, asked the council for permission to bring tours to the mausoleum. And that is when things really began to escalate as Jan explains: "I am a very scientific person, and I don’t know if I believe in ghostsTenley Molzahn's exit from The Bachelor: On The Wings Of Love will surely go down as one of the most emotional in the show's history. The 25-year-old college admissions officer has admitted that she was "kind of confused" when Jake Pavelka turned her down in last night's finale, after not understanding why he thought something didn't feel right between them. Despite her tearful departure, she still managed to thank Jake for giving her the opportunity to love him. We caught up with Tenley to find out how she was feeling.

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It's been over a year since My Little Pony was able to generate more than 2,000 images in a single month! The fifth season has done wonders to revive the spark of creativity throughout the brony fandom. As we are on the cusp of the 100th episode of MLP:FIM, it's worth pointing out that this is the longest running series based on a toy. Even the original Transformers and G.I. Joe series never reached 100 episodes. Considering the hype surrounding the 100th


long, purple hair and matching purple eyes. She wears tight red attire, which hugs every contour of her voluptuous frame. It's important that Lawlee always be depicted as a grown woman when in her changeling form. She's not some barely-legal nymphet. Lawlee is a sultry siren who likes to take on the guise of pure and innocent girls during sexual roleplay.

Shawta has short, green hair with a small green soul patch and matching green eyes. He prefers to go around shirtless, in order to show off his well-toned muscles and wears orange cargo shorts. Shawta is not some naive and inexperienced virgin. His sexual expertise is matched only by his ability to pleasure his partner. He takes the skills he's acquired and uses them during their roleplays, wherecourt denied his petition for administrative review and affirmed the judgment of the Board. The issues presented for review are: (1) whether the Board's findings were against the manifest weight of the evidence; (2) whether the Board's decision to terminate Krocka was arbitrary or unreasonable; and (3) whether Krocka was denied a fair hearing and denied due process before the Board.

BACKGROUND
Vincent Krocka became a member of the Chicago police department in January 1980. He is also licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois. In 1990, Krocka was diagnosed with severe depression and began taking Prozac to alleviate his condition. In 1992, the Department discovered that Krocka was taking Prozac and after placing him on medical leave and evaluating that he was fit for continued duty, he


was placed in the department's "Personnel Concerns Program."
In 1995, Krocka filed a federal law suit against the City of Chicago (the City) (Krocka v. City of Chicago, 203 F.3d 507 (7th Cir.2000)), the Chicago police department (the Department), and several individual decision-makers under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) (42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. (1994)), section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994)), and state tort law. Krocka alleged that placing him in the Department's "Personnel Concerns Program" solely because he was taking Prozac was a violation of the ADA and that the blood test ordered by one of the Department's doctors to determine the level of Prozac in his blood was a violation of his fourth amendment rights that subjectedthe defendants to liability under section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994)). Krocka also filed a number of state law claims, including a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress. The district court granted partial summary judgment in favor of each party on the ADA claim, granted summary judgment in favor of Krocka on the section 1983 claim, and dismissed Krocka's state law claim. A jury returned a verdict against Krocka and the district court entered judgment in favor of the defendants on the ADA claim. The federal appellate court affirmed. Krocka, 203 F.3d at 518.
During discovery in the federal case, the City of Chicago sought Krocka's medical records, including reports from Krocka's psychiatrist. On November 14, 1995, an agreed protective order was


by Donald Zoufal, Krocka testified that in October of 1990, he was prescribed Prozac for his depression. Krocka stated that on occasion in 1981, and 1992 or 1993, he and another officer went to a forest preserve to consume alcohol while on duty. He admitted that he called a female attorney "a cunt" during court proceedings in December 1995. He stated that years ago, he observed Officer Therese Hoffman discharge her gun but failed to report the incident. He also testified that he told his doctor that he patronized prostitutes while on duty as a police officer. Krocka further testified that he falsified his department health appraisal on at least one occasion.
Donald R. Zoufal, in his capacity as general counsel to the superintendent, sent a memorandum dated Novemberaway from a department vehicle. It was also alleged that during that same incident, Krocka informed a police lieutenant that he was acting as the attorney for a police officer involved in a shooting and improperly advised that officer not to make any statements.
Case numbers 241413 and 241414 were opened on November 10, 1997. On November 11, 1997, Officer Bennet Klauba was assigned to investigate case number 241413. Case number 241413 involved charges against Krocka, including accusations of past misconduct "going back as far as 1981." The allegations did not involve Sergeant Therese Hoffman.
On November 11, 1997, Sergeant Joseph Fivelson was assigned to investigate case *582 number 241414, which involved Hoffman's alleged discharge of her firearm in 1982, 1983, or 1984 and whether Krocka and Hoffman failed to


other litigation or any other purpose.' The cross-examination was based, in large part, on `confidential material' provided to City Counsel about communications Respondent had with his psychologist about having consumed alcohol and having patronized prostitutes."
The motion in limine was denied.
Krocka's hearing before Board hearing officer Johnson commenced in May 1999. Krocka testified that on May 12, 1997, he and Officer Melissa Farina arrived at a scene regarding the discharge of a weapon by Officer Agustin Cervantes. While speaking to Cervantes, plaintiff heard Hoffman say to him, "[S]tep away from the car." Plaintiff raised his hand and said "sorry" and looked at Cervantes and said, "[R]emember what I said, best of luck." Krocka closed the door and returned to his *583 car. Krocka testified that prior to his federalcourt testimony in November 1997, he did not ever report that Sergeant Hoffman had failed to report that she had discharged her weapon back in 1983 or 1984. He stated he did not hate Sergeant Hoffman.
Officer Melissa Farina testified that on May 12, 1997, she heard "Sergeant Hoffman ask Officer Krocka to get away from the car or something to that effect." Krocka walked away from the car and sat in the squad car with Farina.
Lieutenant Ned Dolcimascolo testified that in his capacity as watch commander over plaintiff, he did not have any discipline problems with plaintiff.
Officer Renee Kalinowski testified that on the occasions that she observed plaintiff in the presence of supervisors, he communicated with them professionally.
Officer Michael Keefe testified that he thought plaintiff to be "a


fine officer." Keefe and plaintiff were partners for approximately nine months.
Sergeant Robert Bokowski worked for the internal affairs division and conducted general investigations. He conducted the investigation of Krocka's actions during the May 12, 1997, incident. At the Board hearing, he was asked whether he would take a supervisor's word over a subordinate and Bokowski responded, "Not all the time." However, he could not recall an instance in which he ever sustained a case against a supervisor and in favor of the subordinate.
Joseph Fakuade of the office of professional standards testified that he conducted a preliminary investigation of the alleged discharge of Officer Cervantes' weapon on May 12, 1997. At no time was he asked to investigate an incident involving Krocka.
Officer Agustin Cervantes testified that on May 12,1997, he was involved in an offduty police shooting on his way to work. He was shaken by the incident. He recalled that he was placed in Krocka's squad car, Krocka introduced himself and told him that he was an attorney, Krocka told him to contact the "FOP" before making any statement, and if he needed any assistance he would be glad to help him.
Lieutenant Robert Fine testified that he arrived at the scene of the shooting and explained to Cervantes that it was his responsibility to obtain a general statement of what transpired. Fine testified that on May 12, 1997, at the scene of the shooting, Officer Krocka told him that he was an attorney, that Cervantes was his client, and "`I am advising him not to