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Photo: Don HarderThis post originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project.

In a stunning reversal of popular wisdom, overzealous state legislators and interest groups are jeopardizing over $4 billion in economic activity and thousands of jobs promised in Missouri’s three-year-old renewable energy law. Missourians should consider the benefits of maximizing the state’s clean electricity production and override their mistaken legislators, reaffirming their commitment to local renewable energy.

In 2008, Missouri voters approved a state renewable energy standard with a two-thirds majority, requiring utilities to get 15 percent of their power from renewable sources within the state or nearby. But in January, the Republican-controlled legislature fired the first salvo against Proposition C, strippingthese things being cute in their childish form, but disturbing that children are familiar with industrial production more than natural forces.

On the teaching side, I recently watched a Japanese children's cooking show, which was as bizarre and foreign as you might imagine for an American viewer: Hello Kitty, dancing, songs, anime interludes, bright colors, the chef playing the roles of pop star or magical girl, that sort of thing. But amongst this entertainment was some very solid information. As the hostess prepared her food, the camera flashed back to previous scenes of her picking the vegetables out of the ground and planting the rice by hand, while her voiceover reminded viewers what she had needed to do at each turn of the way. The obvious message that having


go back to the old five-and-dime arrangement, where nothing was in plastic and the merchandise was overseen by human clerks.

We live near Eugene, land of the Slug Queen, but have successfully used deep straw mulch for over 30 years. Our current layout has the orchard wrapped round the garden, and fenced off from it. The chickens, ducks and geese interrupt the slugs and snails en route to the garden in spring, then clean up dropped fruit in the fall. They are also allowed into the garden for about two weeks each year to dig for slug eggs that got past them. And, of course, when their barn is mucked out, that goes to the garden as well. The water that's changed out from the duck ponds irrigates andchickens for the first time this year, and although they are fenced out of our garden, they free range around it. The slugs disappeared after the chickens arrived. In addition our compost volume and quality has increased markedly.

The hardest nutrient (of the big three) to hang onto, even in an organic garden, is potash.

Potash, the element potassium (or Kalium hence the symbol K), is more electropositive than sodium, and its ions are an essential part of the electrolyte mix for any living thing. It only exists as an ion in aqueous solution in the biological world. Almost all of its compounds are water-soluble.

It has a stronger tendency than phosphorus to be lost as water leaves the system. In our industrial living arrangement, virtually all of it is excreted


was a somewhat elderly plant cell physiologist, but a "big picture kind of guy) was:

"Trace and describe the processes involved in the path of a calcium atom from its precursors at the Big Bang to a ripe tomato". I had a real good time with that one. It sort of integrates a lot of concepts!

An a well-deserved one! I sometimes think of a mature ecosystem as a series of water-wheels or turbines, with the outflow of each one being the inflow to the next, down and down and down the energy well.

Sunlight pouring in is the "water".

Sometimes, when I sit by an abandoned beaver pond on a sunny Summer day, or on the ledge where I look out over my woodlot, I can practically hear all the wheelsout the door, and gardening and basic ecology would take up part of the space. So would some other things -- but that's a rant for a different time.

Darius, actually, hunter-gatherers in the Middle East were harvesting grass seeds many millennia before agriculture became the main food producing method in the region. The same was true in what's now Mexico, where corn was developed. The evolution of cooking -- our remarkable trick of predigesting foods outside the body -- has played a massive role in our evolutionary success, since it's expanded the range of foods that can support human populations well beyond that of most other species.

Sgage, that's great. That's exactly the sort of natural history that more people need to learn! Thanks also for the book reference.

Ruben,


of bulk grains and dried legumes, and the differences between the farming that produces those and the gardening that, in societies without fossil fuels, produces much of the rest.

Mel, check with your local herbalist. If smooth bedstraw has the same medicinal properties as other members of the same family, you may be able to find a market for it. I knew of farmers in Oregon who had bad problems with Klamath weed until they found out it's also called St. John's wort, and made arrangement for herbalists to come collect it by the pickup load for free.

Mel: Bedstraw is a member of the madder family ... I understand you can make red dye out of the roots (I found some out back and plan to try it thismay nourish their gravesand go free, their acres traversed all summerby crop rows and cattle and foraging bees.--Wendell Berry

Something about hens in the garden sparked a memory. Riding the school bus in the early 60s through acres and acres of mint. (Washington State is a leading producer.) Now, sadly, covered over with burb after burb.

There were flocks of geese in the mint. They'd eat EVERYTHING except the mint. Weeds, bugs, everything. So at the end of the season you'd have mint, well fertilized ground and plump geese for the holidays.

I've been working on small/family-scale food producing systems in the Sonoran desert near Tucson, Arizona since 2007 in cooperation with many other community members who share an awareness of the importance of regional food security and energy efficiency among


Mazda and Audi – A Match Made in Heaven?

There have been rumors abound lately about a possible revival of the RX-7 and other rumors about the possible end of the rotary engine altogether, but the latest word on the street is about a possible collaboration between Mazda and Audi that just may be the savior for the rotary engine.

With the RX-8 soon to be discontinued and mixed signals from Mazda on a possible RX-9 modeled after the RX-7, the fate of the rotary engine is in the minds of many Mazda enthusiasts. The Wankel has been a signature in the Mazda lineup since 1964 when it was first showcased in the Cosmo R100 coupe.

Now there’s talk of Audi teaming up with Mazda for the next chapter of theItems

An illuminated and illustrated manuscript of the Chirurgia magna, or great surgery, by Guy de Chauliac. Attempting in the Chirurgia to collect the best medical ideas of his time, he compiled sources from Arabic and Greek writers, including Rhazes, Avicenna, Hippocrates, Aristotle and others. Guy wrote the first text of the Chirurgia in Latin at Montpellier, in approximately 1363. This text was published in many editions and remained the authoritative text on surgery through the seventeenth century. It consists of 181 pages of English black letter in double columns and lines lightly ruled in red. It is ornately illuminated in gold and silver with finely decorated floral borders and large floriated initials, heightened with gold leaf. The manuscript includes 24 drawings of surgical instruments. The calf binding dates


to Henry VIII’s reign or to the Elizabethan era. The original brass and leather clasps are engraved with stars and lion heads. There has been dispute about the manuscript’s date, with authorities dating it between the late 14th and second half of the 15th century. The manuscript was sold with the Streeter collection to the New York Academy of Medicine in 1928...READ MORE

This manuscript contains 500 Greek and Roman recipes from the fourth and fifth century, both culinary and medical, reflecting the polyglot culture of the Mediterranean basin. Sometimes referred to as the oldest extant cookbook in the West, the manuscript is divided into ten books. It is likely that the Apicius began as a Greek collection, mainly written in Latin, and adapted for a Roman palate. TheThousands of Yemeni Forces Target Qaeda Stronghold

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Yemeni soldiers resting in May 2014 after taking control of Azzan, a Qaeda stronghold in Shabwa Province, which was the site of a large military offensive by Yemen last week.CreditAgence France-Presse — Getty Images

AL MUKALLA, Yemen — Thousands of Yemeni troops are conducting a clearing operation aimed at driving Qaeda militants from one of their major strongholds in southern Yemen, according to Arab and American security officials.

The offensive in Shabwa Province started last week and includes about 2,000 Yemeni forces backed by dozens of advisers from the United Arab Emirates, and a handful of United States Special Operations commandos providing intelligence and planning assistance, American officials said.

It is the largest military operation against Qaeda fighters in Yemen since Yemeni troops in armored


vehicles and backed by airstrikes seized this major port city in April 2016, after the militants had used it as a base from which to storm through the southern part of the country.

The continuing operation is the latest phase of an increased campaign against the Yemeni militants since President Trump took office. It also reflects Mr. Trump’s general embrace of President Barack Obama’s strategy to aid local allies fighting insurgents in hot spots like Yemen, Somalia and Nigeria, rather than dispatch large numbers of American troops.

Yemen poses a singular challenge for the West and has captured Mr. Trump’s attention from his first days in office. A member of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 was killed in a ground raid in Yemen in January in the first suchoperation Mr. Trump authorized. Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch is widely considered the militant group’s most dangerous worldwide affiliate, with a particular focus on blowing up commercial airliners.

Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, has been convulsed by civil strife for more than two years. In the west, Houthi rebels ousted the government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the United States’ main counterterrorism partner in the country, and have been fighting a Saudi-led coalition of mostly Sunni Arab countries that back Mr. Hadi.

In the country’s central and southern regions, the United States, with help from the United Arab Emirates and allied Yemeni tribesmen, has been waging a shadow war against more than 3,000 members of the Qaeda affiliate and their tribal fighters.

Since Feb. 28, the


United States has conducted about 80 airstrikes against Qaeda militants in Yemen, Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters in Washington on Friday. In 2016, the United States conducted 38 strikes in Yemen, according to the Long War Journal by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

In addition to sharing intelligence with its Yemeni and Emirati partners, the United States is providing midair refueling and overhead reconnaissance for forces involved in the operation, Captain Davis said.

Moreover, the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, a collection of United States Navy ships packed with Marines, is in the region and could assist the operation, as other American amphibious groups have in the past, Pentagon officials said this weekend.

The current operation began overnight Wednesday with Yemeni fighters traveling from Hadramawt Province, where theyhad been receiving training from Emirati advisers, toward oil and gas facilities in northeast Shabwa Province, according to Katherine Zimmerman, a Yemen analyst with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

The Yemeni forces, called the Shabwani Elite, are in the process of securing major cities in the province — such as Azzan, Ataq and Jardan — from Qaeda militants and are also conducting clearing operations in the surrounding areas, officials said.

Images on social media showed the armed Yemeni units rolling through villages in pickup trucks and armored vehicles flying the South Yemen flag.

“We will see a show of force to secure the key infrastructure in the province — the energy infrastructure, major population centers and checkpoints along the road — but the challenge will be clearing out the rural


before the arrival of the new forces,” Abdul Sallam, a resident who preferred to be identified by his first names, said on Saturday.

The militants apparently got the message and began fleeing the town and other neighboring villages, and by Friday night Yemeni forces had reclaimed the town, officials said.

Mohammed Salem Al Qumishi, a commander of a group of forces backed by the United Arab Emirates, said the troops had seized control of 13 checkpoints and three districts in Shabwa. The militants tried to obstruct his forces by planting land mines and makeshift bombs as they raced out of town. “They fled to the mountains after failing to stop our forces,” he said.

A local government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized toIt is well known to provide an aircraft slat assembly comprising a plurality of slats located adjacent to one another. The slats are typically moveable (by an actuator mechanism) between an extended position in which the slats are simultaneously deployed, and a retracted position in which the slats are simultaneously stowed on the fixed wing leading edge.
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Student Wins Medicine & Religion Essay Contest

PhD student Rachelle Barina won the 3rd Annual Conference on Medicine and Religion essay contest for her paper, "The Dying Body and the Body of Christ: Cultivating a Vocation for the Sick in Catholic Discussion of Assisted Suicide."INTRODUCTION
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Controversy surrounds Second Impact Syndrome (SIS), a condition so rare that even the frequency of its occurrence is in question. From 1980 to 1993 the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research in Chapel Hill, NC, identified 35 probable cases among American football players.[@b2-0100006] However, this incidence is called into question by the lack of similar reports from Australian football, despite the high participation rate and a concussive injury rate approximately eight times that of American football. Furthermore, there are no similar reports from the European literature. However, a July 2007 *eMedicine* report summarizing an article in the *American Journal of Sports Medicine* noted:

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Faber, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), was honored for her contributions to scientific progress in understanding the history and structure of the universe. She was among 12 eminent researchers presented with the 2011 National Medal of Science Friday ceremony, along with 11 inventors honored with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

Professors Faber and Koo have a world class research group (the DEEP team) that exploits Hubble Space Telescope, Keck telescopes and other top infrastructures to study the formation and evolution of galaxies. GUAIX researchers maintain a close collaboration with DEEP since 1989, with frequent visits and common projects. Prof. Gorgas, Gallego, Cardiel, Cenarro, Barro and Toloba have been postdoctoral researchers at UCSC, and several GUAIX members belong to theMissing 71-year-old hiker near Mount Hood found safe

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UPDATE: A 71-year-old hiker missing since Sunday was found late Monday night safe and is "medically fine," said the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.

The sheriff's office said Gary Marshall Tuor walked out with search and rescue crews.

Rescue crews used directions from an Oregon Army National Guard helicopter, which spotted Tuor's campfire, to reach the missing hiker.

Deputy Bryon O’Neil of the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office said, "He’s been medically checked. He’s fine. He’s going to be walking out on his own accompanied by our crews. Obviously, he’s in good shape because he was able to start a fire and able to stay warm."

O'Neil also says Tuor made a critical decision, once he realized he was lost.

"He did the right thing," said


O'Neil. "And once he realized he was irreversibly lost, he stopped and stayed there and waited for us to find him."

Tuor was in good spirits after walking out of the woods with rescuers around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday morning.

And when asked about getting a good night sleep, Tuor had something else on his mind.

"The hot tub," Tuor laughed. "I was thinking about that on the way down."

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ZIGZAG, Ore. – A search and rescue team with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office is searching an area outside here for a hiker missing since Sunday.

The missing hiker is 71-year-old Gary Marshall Tuor from Sandy, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office. He had gone hiking with 38-year-old Abel Caba, also of Sandy. They were both supposed to be back by 4911 Monday morning and then drove to the trailhead, found her husband's car and Caba.

The sheriff’s office has set up a command post on Highway 26 near Pioneer Bridle Trail and Tollgate Campground.

The sheriff's office called Portland Mountain Rescue at about 2:45 p.m., which sent nine members to help sweep trails.

It is believed Tuor's dog, a black lab named Buddy is with him. The sheriff's office says he's in good health and is familiar with the area.

Searchers plan to search all night and into Tuesday regardless of weather and darkness.


Turns out to be a busy day as Sharks acquire Scott Hannan from Nashville, Raffi Torres from Phoenix

More eventful day than expected and now that online stories have been filed, time for a quick post before heading to Sharks Ice for session with GM Doug Wilson.

First Sharks acquired Scott Hannan from Nashville for a conditional 2013 seventh-round draft pick that becomes a sixth-rounder if he sees action in a playoff game.

Then just before the noon deadline, San Jose picked up a guy who was public enemy No. 1 around here back in 2006, Raffi Torres, from Phoenix for a 2013 third-round pick.

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In picking up Torres, Sharks general manager Doug Wilson picked up a player with a history of suspensions, including one for 25 games lastfinal yet so maybe this is what they need. The guy has played in two SCF game 7′s, though he lost them both.

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It pains me to say this, but Raffi Torres is a winner. Wherever he goes, success for his teams tend to follow. His 8th seeded Oiler team was 1 win away from the Cup. Hell, he was on the Blue Jackets for their one and only trip to the playoffs (where he had 2 assists in the sweep).

Even out of the lineup last playoffs he turned the Blackhawks/Coyotes series around with this (dirty) hit on Hossa. Coyotes made it to the conference finals soon after.

There’s a reason guys want him on their team and a reason GMs want him.

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The biggest games of the year for handball start this week as Canada’s men’s and women’s national teams start the Road to Tokyo when they face the United States on September 2nd and 5th with the winner earning a ticket to the 2019 Pan American Games in Peru. That tournament acts as the qualification event for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

The first leg of the home and away series will take place at Auburn University in Alabama on Sunday September 2nd at 4pm and 6pm. The final matchday will be on Wednesday September 5th at the Claude-Robillard Sports Center in Montreal. The women start the action at 7pm with the men starting at 9pm (all times in EST).

The winner will be decided by total aggreggate goals overA 75-year-old pilot who landed his single-engine plane on a Long Island highway last week made another emergency landing on the same stretch of road Friday, police say.

No one was hurt when the yellow plane landed on Sunrise Highway near East Moriches around 1 p.m. The plane was moved to the side of the road.

The pilot, Frank Fierro, said a burnt fuse caused the engine of his home-made plane to stall today and last week.

The FAA inspected the plane after the previous highway landing and returned it to Fierro.

He was the only one on board, authorities said.

Fierro vowed to fly again, despite the wishes of his wife, who wants him to stop.


While Sayed is worried about Donald's safety, he remains stubbornly unrepentant. (AFP)

Donald Trump flops over his pink and white baby walker and rolls it around his family's modest home in Kabul, blissfully unaware of the turmoil his "infidel" name is causing in the deeply conservative Muslim country.The rosy-cheeked toddler's parents named him after the billionaire US President in the hope of replicating his success. But now he is at the centre of a social media firestorm in Afghanistan after a photo of his ID papers was posted on Facebook.A self-confessed fan of the American tycoon turned leader of the free world, Sayed Assadullah Pooya said he and his wife have been inundated with "vulgar and insulting" comments attacking their choice of name for their third child.Some Facebook usershave gone as far as threatening to kill Sayed for giving his son an "infidel name", while others have accused him of endangering the boy's life.There are even suggestions Sayed is using the moniker to wangle asylum in the United States -- a charge the 28-year-old teacher vehemently denies."I didn't know at the beginning that Afghan people would be so sensitive about a name," Sayed told AFP, as Donald played with a music app on his father's Samsung smartphone in their carpeted room.Sayed says someone posted the picture online, sparking the controversy that forced him to close his Facebook account.Even Sayed's neighbours in the heavily Shiite area of Kabul where they live have threatened the family and told them to leave."When I go out of the house I


feel intimidated," he said.Donald was born in the central province of Daikundi, a few months before the 2016 US presidential election, on the farm where Sayed's parents and grandparents grew almonds, wheat and corn.Sayed was inspired to call his son Donald Trump after reading the Persian language versions of the businessman's books, including "How to get rich", which he borrowed from the local library."I did a lot of research about him and that motivated me to choose his name for my son," he explained.He hopes his son will "be as successful", adding that photos of the older Trump already make his younger namesake "happy".But bemusement turned to anger when Sayed's parents realised the couple were serious about the name. As relations broke down the young family moved toKabul, and they are now estranged from their relatives.Their life could not be more different from the one enjoyed by their son's namesake, who divides his time between the White House and his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.The family of five is squeezed into a spartan room overlooking a small courtyard and outdoor bathroom, which they rent for 2,000 Afghanis ($30) a month.Beyond their metal front gate is a warren of dirt lanes barely wide enough for a car, mud-brick houses and putrid open drains.A few blocks from their house several drug addicts loll on a grassy strip in the middle of a busy road injecting themselves or sleeping off a hit.During the interview, Sayed's wife Jamila washed the family's dirty clothes in a small machine outside while keeping


an eye on the couple's daughter Fatima, nine, and eldest son Karim, eight.Despite the controversy Donald's parents have not broken the law by giving their son an un-Islamic name, according to Rohullah Ahmadzai, a senior advisor at the Population Registration Office in Kabul.He said they have the legal right "to name their children whatever they want" -- even after American presidents.While Sayed is worried about his family's safety, particularly Donald's, he remains stubbornly unrepentant."It's likely... that he will be harassed or beaten by his classmates," he said matter of factly.

"I won't reconsider (his name). To hell with the other people."test of his young political career. A former First Lady who is also the sister-in-law of the current President has broken rank to publicly declared that Chilima should be chosen to be the governing party’s nominee in next year’s election instead of letting her brother-in-law seek a second term. Her decision to do so is neither small nor inconsequential. She has already been attacked, vilified, and threatened for her decision, but she has stuck to it. The timing of her decision-making in this has been impeccable and her resolve to stand by it and defend it in the public domain has been unflinching. To be sure, in making such a clear decision, she has exposed the indecision of President Mutharika about whether he will retain Chilima as his


This proposal describes a 5-year, comprehensive training program designed to provide Dr. Kreindler with the education and mentorship necessary to launch a successful career in academic medicine. Dr. Kreindler completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology, and is a full-time Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology. His long-term goal is to become an independently-funded clinician scientist with an expertise in the cell biology and physiology of the lung. Accordingly, he will complete formal didactic work in cell biology and physiology, biostatistics, and research design;will have a broad-based experience in the laboratory with exposure to electrophysiology, protein biochemistry, molecular biology, and fluorescence microscopy. Dr. Raymond Frizzell, an internationally recognized expert in cell biology and physiology will serve as Dr. Kreindler's primary sponsor and mentor. ExposureALL know that when you want revenge, you hit someone with the CALCULUS book, not the Algebra 2 book!!"

Love having that class in the mornings. XD

On the other hand.... *sics my Biomedical Teacher on you*. NOW you die of boredom.

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worms and insects that live in the mud along the bottom of the lake. Limnetic fish eat small organisms called plankton that float around in the open water. Both fish in the picture are males. These males are colorful when they are ready to mate. Benthic males are black and limnetic males have red throats and blue bodies. Male sticklebacks make nests and court females to deposit eggs in their nests. Then males care for the eggs and the fry (baby fish) that hatch. Benthic and limnetic males typically nest in different habitats. Benthics nest in the plants and limnetics nest in the open.ISIS Beheads 81-Year-Old Scholar Who Tried To Protect Antiquities

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ISIS militants beheaded a renowned Syrian archaeologist in the ancient town of Palmyra, and then hung his body from one of the town's Roman columns.

NPR's Alice Fordham reported on the brutal murder of 81-year-old Khaled al-Asaad:

"The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state media report the elderly Khaled al-Asaad was killed by ISIS militants in front of dozens of people. He had served as the director general for antiquities in the city, which is famous for its vast ruins. ISIS has held Palmyra since May. The militants have destroyed some tombs and sculpture there, declaring them heretical. State media quotes the national antiquities chief claiming ISIS had tried to get information from Asaad,


who had refused, and says the militants exhibited the body by hanging it from a column."

The antiquities minister, Mamoun Abdulkarim, was a friend of Asaad's and — according to Alice's reporting for All Things Considered — he begged Asaad to leave Syria "because [he] was very important."

Asaad, however, did not leave and was captured by ISIS. The miilitants held him for a month, Alice reports, demanding to know the location of valuable antiquities.

"Most artifacts had been moved out of Palmyra as ISIS approached. The group stands accused of rampant looting and smuggling and Abdulkarim thinks they were angry Asaad didn't answer their questions. They beheaded him, in front of dozens of people, then displayed his corpse with a sign accusing him of being a supporter of the Syrianregime. The group has also destroyed part of the site and some statues there, saying they are heretical. "Syria had hundreds of ancient sites and museums before the civil war began, but much heritage has been damaged by various parties. History professor Amr al-Azm says a regime airstrike hit a museum and historic site close to Aleppo, and a mortar hit the citadel of Damascus last week, killing an archaeologist named Qassem al Abdullah."

Speaking to the Guardian, Azm described Asaad as "irreplaceable," saying, "he was a fixture, you can't write about Palmyra's history or anything to do with Palmyrian work without mentioning Khaled Asaad. It's like you can't talk about Egyptology without talking about Howard Carter."


the Oklahoma City Thunder beat them 108-104 on their home floor.

The Clippers brushed each loss off with well-versed excuses. Injuries had depleted their roster or caused disruption in their rhythm and chemistry.

Besides, it's silly to worry too much about losses in February or March when the balance of the season remained to rectify things.

The explanations seemed valid and sincere, and if you've been in Los Angeles long enough, you know too well nothing of significance is ever won in the regular season.

So we cut them some slack.

Even though skepticism remained.

Not trying to be that guy, just keeping it real.

The Grizzlies will never be mistaken for the Heat, Spurs or Thunder, but they arrived in Los Angeles a half-game ahead of them in the Western Conference standings and arein Vijayawada said on condition of anonymity.

Anna canteens, named after former chief minister and Telugu Desam Party founder N T Rama Rao who was fondly called as “Anna” (elder brother), were first started on pilot basis in Amaravati in June 2016.

Initially, the menu was idli or upma or pongal for Rs 5 a plate during the breakfast; Sambar rice for Rs 7.50 per plate, lemon rice and curd rice for Rs 6.50 per plate. And the dinner menu comprised two chapatis with vegetable curry for Rs 7.50 a plate.

However, the menu was changed later to rice, curry and sambar for lunch and dinner at Rs 5 each.

The TDP government provided permanent infrastructure, including building and mineral water plant, to supply clean and safe water at the canteens that


Hitler’s Gospel

The greatest obstacle for Christian anti-Semites has always been Christ’s Jewishness. Or so it would have seemed. As Susannah Heschel shows in her unsettling new book, Protestant theologians in Nazi Germany worked hard in a well-organized effort to deny that Christ was Jewish. Heschel’s archival journey takes her back to 1939 and the founding of a theological research institute with the frank name, Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life (Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben). Located in Eisenach—the city where Luther once translated the Bible—the institute published treatises arguing not only that Christ descended from non-Semitic stock, but that his entire mission had been directed against the Jewish people. Christ, in effect, wasan ur-anti-Semite. Like many terrible ideas espoused in Nazi Germany, this was not entirely new; the nineteenth-century philosopher Ernest Renan (author of the influential and demythologizing Life of Jesus), for instance, had argued that Jesus stood against the Jewish people. Yet in the Third Reich this old view, now merged with other ideas and agendas, gained a political, scientific, and theological potency that indeed was new.

Who were these Christians who flourished under Nazism? What can explain their obsession? Heschel identifies a toxic mix of religion and politics, along with important churchmen who drank deeply of it. Her lead figure is the director of the institute at Eisenach, Walter Grundmann (1906–76), an early Nazi Party member and a theologian who had studied with Germany’s leading figures. Grundmann advanced rapidly


that supposedly original understandings of Christ as warrior had predominated “in a lost original Gospel whose message had been distorted.” Thus the Sermon on the Mount appeared, but with no blessing for the merciful. In the hands of Grundmann and his colleagues, Christian teaching was warped to fit Nazi obsessions: the need to meet hatred with hatred; the virtues of manliness; and above all, the dark powers of the Jews to subvert the German people. Where Paul was a solution for anti-Nazis, as a Jew he was a problem for Christian racists, who argued that he “distorted” an originally Hellenic Christianity. In 1942 Grundmann proclaimed that “a German faith cannot be based upon Paul, because it would be deformed by his Jewish system of coordinates.” Two years latergreat majority of his works appeared not in West Germany, the supposed haven for former Nazis, but in the German Democratic Republic, a nation created by antifascist Communists and Social Democrats.

How did this happen? Who would want to read or even publish an old Nazi anti-Semite? Heschel sheds light on the cursory nature of the attention paid to Nazi sympathies and commitments after the war’s end. Like many others, Grundmann was quickly “de-Nazified,” thanks in his case to recommendations by anti-Nazi Protestants more concerned with institutional coherence than with anti-Semitism. In fact, the charge was never raised against Grundmann, even as he rose to high positions in the East German Protestant Church. Like the church’s own anti-Semitism, this aspect of his past became invisible.

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the Nazis, and in time he was accorded the highest privilege given to Germans living behind the Wall: the right to travel to the West. Presumably he had friends to visit there, since other institute members who had settled in the West after de-Nazification did equally well, advancing to professorships and control of important churches. Several even received high state honors. Like Grundmann, they now claimed that they had actually opposed the Nazi regime, thus hiding behind, and helping to enlarge, a self-serving fiction—that this “spiritual bulwark of faith,” as Heschel puts it, “had kept Christians from submitting to Nazism.”

The Aryan Jesus lays bare a widespread collusion of Christians in postwar East and West Germany to carry on as if nothing had happened, beating back nagging questions withThe New York-based hedge fund announced that it had sold a chunk of its stake in Canadian Pacific Railway, whose stock has soared since Pershing Square won two board seats last year. The hedge fund's investment has nearly tripled in value since it began buying shares in 2011, amounting to a US$2 billion profit.

Pershing Square announced in June that it would sell 7 million shares over the course of a year. But after unloading a million of the them over the last four months, it succumbed to pressure from analysts and other investors, who feared the projected sales would weigh on its share price.

Pershing Square remains CP's largest shareholder with a 9.8% stake, and both Ackman and Pershing Square partner Paul Hilal will remain on the company's board.

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why Fort Craig should be part of your next vacation.

Fort Craig: United States Army Fort

Fort Craig’s short but impactful history began in 1848, when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War. As part of negotiations to end the war, a series of forts were constructed along the newly-defined border between Mexico and the United States to address an ongoing issue with Native American attacks on settlers. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo required the United States to take responsibility for securing the area, and in 1853 Fort Craig was established and named after Captain Louis S. Craig, who lost his life during the Mexican-American War.

While the end of the Mexican-American War brought peace between the warring countries, it escalated tensions between the settlers and the Native Americantribes that had called the Southwest home for many centuries. Wars between Native American tribes, including the Apaches and Navajos, escalated long before Fort Craig was established, but they reached a violent peak just a year after the fort was built. In 1854, as the United States continued to expand westward into ancestral Indian territory, the Indian Wars of the Southwest launched a volatile period that lasted for three decades.

Fort Craig’s location along a treacherous stretch of land known as La Jornada del Muerto, or the Journey of the Dead, gave it immense purpose as a protective destination. La Jornada del Muerto was a 90-mile stretch of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, where water was scarce and attacks were common. Government officials, the military, and mail carriers


found safety at the fort, which had an elaborate defense system and served to provide some semblance of law in a region punctuated by unexpected attacks from Native American tribes.

Fort Craig and the Civil War

Less than a decade after Fort Craig was established, the Civil War broke out in the United States. Although history books place far more focus on the events that occurred east of the Mississippi River, the western part of the country was not spared. The Civil War was fought between the Union (the North) and the Confederacy (the South), and the Confederacy wanted to control the commercial route of the Santa Fe Trail as part of a western campaign. They believed they could take the military supply depot Fort Union on the Santa FeTrail, as well as Santa Fe and Albuquerque, if they could capture supplies housed at Fort Craig, which would enable them to later control California. The site became a key stronghold in what would become the Civil War’s westernmost battle.

By 1861, Fort Craig was New Mexico’s largest fort with more than 2,000 soldiers as part of its forces. In early 1862, the soldiers, as well as members of the New Mexico militia under Colonel Edward R. S. Canby, awaited the arrival of Confederate troops. Confederate brigadier general Henry Hopkins Sibley began a westward march from El Paso, Texas to Fort Craig in early January 1862. The troops arrived in February, and the short but bloody Battle of Valverde ensued from February 20-21. Ultimately, the battle was declared to


be a Confederate victory after a single day of fighting, when Union forces retreated behind Fort Craig’s walls and asked for a truce to remove the hundreds of bodies from the battleground.

Although the Confederacy claimed victory, the battle took a terrible toll on their efforts. The Union retained control of Fort Craig, and they decimated the Confederacy’s supplies during the battle and caused many injuries and casualties. Sibley realized he would not be able to capture Fort Craig and decided it would be best to attempt to take Albuquerque and Santa Fe to the north, where he could also get new supplies. However, without the horses and wagons that were destroyed, during the battle the troops were unable to go far. Recognizing that failing to capture Fort Craigeffectively cut off their hopes for supplies, and knowing Union troops were close by, the Confederate soldiers ended their campaign to take the West and retreated back to Texas.

After the Civil War

By the time the Civil War ended, the Indian Wars were also reaching their conclusion. In 1870, following the defeat of Apache chief Victorio, the Indian Resettlement Program was initiated and contributed to lessening attacks in New Mexico. By the late 1870s, Fort Craig had just a few soldiers to defend it; by the time the railroad was constructed in the 1880s there was little need for Fort Craig at all. The site was abandoned in 1885.

In 1894, Fort Craig was sold at auction to Valverde Land and Irrigation Company, the only bidder for the land. It


continued to stand, unused, for decades, and as the decades passed the walls began to crumble. Archaeologists have determined Fort Craig was constructed from sun-dried adobe bricks instead of stone, although stone was used in key locations including the fort’s jail. Records indicate military personnel stationed at the fort reported numerous complaints about structural defects, including leaking roofs, muddy floors, and crumbling walls. The fort was built by largely unskilled workers who used low-quality materials to both construct and maintain the fort. That’s why it is no surprise that much of Fort Craig has disintegrated, with a limited number of walls and foundations dotting the otherwise sparse landscape.

Today, Fort Craig is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is currently managed by the Bureau of Landsignificance before spending our remaining time walking throughout the property.

Under bright blue skies and amidst patches of green grass and yellow sand, Fort Craig peeks up from the horizon like a part of history that has been slumbering for too long. Ample signage helped us to interpret what we were looking at; a collection of stone structures represented what was left of the guard house, and a semi-circle of stone walls were once store houses for the rations the Confederacy sought to control. Maps featuring the ground plans supplemented our imagination and helped to put the layout in perspective. Glancing around the area, it was easy to imagine 2,000 Union troops waiting for the advancing Confederate soldiers on a chilly February evening. In the silence, you could almost


The New Congress Has A Record Number Of Women — But Very Few Republican Women

Ashley Nickloes is a busy woman. She’s working toward her master’s degree. She has four living children (she specified that a fifth died after a preterm birth). And when I caught her, she was in St. Louis, doing simulator training for her role as a pilot in the Air National Guard.

“You know, you can only be busy a hundred percent of the time,” she laughed. “You get enough sleep when you’re dead.”

On top of all that, she also ran for Congress in Tennessee last year, but lost in the primary.

She knows any number of factors played into her defeat — for example, she was deployed for part of the campaign — but Nickloes alsocuts would eliminate millions in Medicaid funding that supports Graduate Medical Education at five academic medical centers across the state.

ROCHESTER, NY (WXXI) - The commission that oversees the Great Lakes still has vacant positions, and Senator Chuck Schumer is calling for congress to vote on current nominees. The International Joint Commission has been around for more of a century, and this is the second longest time its been unable to function due to empty seats.

ITHACA, NY (WSKG) - The New York State Senate voted unanimously to pass the bill, called the Finger Lakes Community Preservation Act. It is the latest step in efforts to block the construction of the trash incinerator in the town of Romulus.

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Carl Reiner has announced an initiative to digitally preserve his extensive personal collection of production-used scripts from “The Dick Van Dyke Show” - one of the most iconic, innovative and beloved comedy series in television history. Preserving those works will be the task of Jamestown's National Comedy Center, where the 7,500 pages of scripts for all 158 episodes will eventually call home.

SYRACUSE, NY (WRVO) - Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul has criss-crossed the state over the last several weeks sounding the alarm that the state's two percent tax cap, which limits local government and school district spending, is more important now than ever and should be made permanent by the state legislature. "This year because of the uncertainty out of Washington, and knowing that our taxpayers are taking it"polymorphism", "multi-drug resistance gene 1", "C3435T", "epilepsy", "intractable epilepsy", "antiepileptic drugs", and "drug-resistant" to search the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, Science Direct database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database, the China Biomedical Literature (CBM) database, the MedCH international medical abstract database, and Wanfang up to October 2014. These searches were supplemented by retrospective and manual searches of the literature by going to a library to read paper copies of scientific journals. The first report on the relationship between the ABCB1 C3435T polymorphism and drug resistance in epilepsy appeared in 2003, and the end date for the retrieval process was October 31, 2014.

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ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia declared a state of emergency on Sunday in its central Kosinj valley after the Lika river flooded, cutting off road access to about 500 people and leaving some villages without electricity.

Mihael Kurtes, an official in the Perusic municipality, said the water level was rising by 5 centimetres per hour. State television reported that around 20 houses had been flooded, with others at risk.

Floods in central Croatia have been caused by melting of heavy snow which fell in late February and early March followed by heavy rain in recent days.

Mostly threatened by high water levels in the rivers are the central city of Karlovac and the towns of Jasenovac and Hrvatska Kostajnica where


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In neigbouring Montenegro, the Old Town of the coastal city of Budva was seen at risk of flooding after high winds and heavy rain over the weekend, while several villages in Ulcinj, near the Albanian border, were cut off by the rising Bojana river.(approx)

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Park, in her speech, continued to deny accusations by prosecutors that she colluded in the criminal activities of her longtime friend Choi Soon-sil, who, despite having no official role in government, allegedly had a say in policy decisions and exploited her presidential ties to bully companies into giving large sums of money to businesses and foundations that Choi controlled.

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South Korea’s first president, Syngman Rhee, quit and fled to Hawaii amid a popular uprising in 1960. The succeeding government was overthrown by a coup by Park’s late father, the military dictator Park Chung-hee, whose rule also abruptly ended after he was assassinated by his spy chief in 1979. Choi Kyu-hah then became acting president, but was forced out of office eight months later after a military coup led by Chun Doo-hwan, who would eventually become president.

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Prosecutors have so far indictedSaudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding on the purchase of S-400 air defense systems from Russia's state arms exporter, it revealed on Thursday.

King Salman, the first sitting Saudi monarch to visit Russia, led a delegation to Moscow that agreed joint investment deals worth several billion dollars, providing much-needed investment for a Russian economy battered by low oil prices and Western sanctions.

The countries also signed a memorandum of understanding to help the kingdom in its efforts to develop its own military industries, a statement from state-owned Saudi Arabian Military Industries said.

SAMI said the MoU with Russian state-owned arms exporter Rosoboronexport came in the context of contracts signed to procure the S-400, the Kornet-EM system, the TOS-1A, the AGS-30 and the Kalashnikov AK-103.

It did not specify the number of


each system or the value of the procurement deal.

It said the procurement was "based on the assurance of the Russian party to transfer the technology and localize the manufacturing and sustainment of these armament systems in the Kingdom," but provided no timeframe.

On the political front, there was no sign of any substantial breakthrough on the issues that divide Moscow and Riyadh, including the fact that they back rival sides in Syria's civil war.

However, there was no sign of any public discord either. Briefing the media on the talks between Putin and King Salman, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov focused on the common ground between the two countries.

Lavrov said the two leaders had agreed on the importance of fighting terror, of finding peaceful solutions to conflicts in the Middlean interpreter.

"Relations between Russia and Saudi Arabia have reached an historical moment," said Jubeir. "We are certain that the further strengthening of Russian-Saudi relations will have a positive impact on strengthening stability and security in the region and the world."

Riyadh supports rebels fighting President Bashar Assad's forces while Russian troops and Iranian militias have sided with Assad. This leaves Moscow aligned with Saudi Arabia's arch-rival Iran, whose influence Riyadh fears is growing in the region.

However, Russia's military intervention in the Syria conflict has brought about an acknowledgement in Arab capitals that it now has real clout in the Middle East.

Moscow and Riyadh worked together to secure a deal between OPEC and other oil producers to cut output until the end of March 2018, in an effort to push


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Billboards were erected on the road from the airport to central Moscow welcoming King Salman in Arabic and Russian.

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Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 5-182923 discloses a technique of subjecting an amorphous semiconductor thin film to a heat treatment and irradiating the treated thin film with a laser beam while keeping the thin film from exposure to the air.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 7-99321 discloses a technique of moving a substrate having a laser-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon thin film to a plasma-enhanced hydrogenation step and a formation step of a gate insulating film while keeping the substrate from exposure to the air.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 9-7911 discloses a technique of moving a substrate having alaser-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon thin film to a formation step of a gate insulating film while keeping the substrate from exposure to the air.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 9-17729 discloses a technique of moving a substrate having a laser-induced crystallized polycrystalline silicon thin film to a formation step of a gate insulating film while keeping the substrate from exposure to the air. By this configuration, the surface of the polycrystalline silicon is kept from adhesion of impurities.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 9-148246 discloses a technique of sequentially performing the formation of an amorphous silicon thin film, laser-induced crystallization, hydrogenation, and the formation of a gate insulating film, without exposing the work to the air.
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Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 10-149984 discloses a technique of sequentially performing the formation of an amorphous silicon thin film, laser-induced crystallization, hydrogenation, and the formation of a gate insulating film, without exposing the work to the air.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 11-17185 discloses a technique of sequentially performing the formation of an amorphous silicon thin film, laser-induced crystallization, the formation of a gate insulating film, and the formation of a gate electrode, without exposing the work to the air.
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Thoroughly mix the ground turkey, egg, peanut butter, green curry paste, ginger, bread crumbs, green onions, salt and pepper together by hand in a large mixing bowl. Divide mixture evenly into 6 balls. Press each ball into two thin patties. Take one of the patties and place 2 basil leaves and 1 ounce of goat cheese in the center. Place the other patty on top of the first and seal the edges together tightly. Repeat with remaining meat until


Nageswar Rao, a 1986-batch officer, had joined the CBI in 2015.

Highlights CBI was headed by Anil Sinha when Nageswar Rao joined in 2015

Special Unit tabled report on Mr Rao on corruption charges against him

Assessment ignored by Mr Sinha as well as the government

In "cleaning up" the country's top probe agency, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) shunted out two top officials facing charges of corruption and appointed Nageswar Rao -- a relatively junior 1986-batch bureaucrat -- as the interim chief of the CBI. However, NDTV has now found that the new director has a chequered past himself.

The CBI was headed by Anil Sinha when Mr Rao joined in 2015. Amitabh Singh Dhillon, the head of the agency's counter-intelligence unit or Special Unit, had then tabled an adverse report onMr Rao -- saying that he should not be inducted on the grounds of corruption charges levelled against him and his alleged proximity to political parties. However, the assessment was ignored by Mr Sinha as well as the government.

The corruption charges were related to the purchase of State Bank of India land by VGN Developers, a Chennai-based firm. According to the complaint, Mr Rao -- who was the then Chennai Zone head -- had not hauled up the accused despite the land being sold at a loss to the exchequer. This was one of the reasons for DMK leader MK Stalin criticising his elevation to the post of CBI Director.

This, however, is not the only complaint filed against Mr Rao.

While Mr Rao was serving as a joint director


in the CBI earlier this year, a file titled "Premature repatriation of Shri Nageswar Rao, IPS'' (File no 202/01/2015) was sent to the Cabinet Committee on Security. It suggested that the official be sent back to Odisha in the light of several complaints, one of which he allegedly closed down in connivance with a senior Delhi official. According to the complaint, Mr Rao had allegedly tried to stall the probe against over 70 Income Tax (I-T) officers listed in arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari's diaries. Police had arrested Mr Bhandari along with I-T Joint Commissioner Sallong Yaden in January 2015, and incriminating evidence against several officials was allegedly recovered from his possession. Incidentally, the ruling BJP has accused Mr Bhandari of being close to Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress«è†ì

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whether lust lasts for only thirty days.

The monsoon, where the fish have all disappeared,

fish which once sang in the still milk-ocean

beneath the bridge, on full-moon nights.

Ask a lost diaspora, what is born

out of the loneliness of language. Ask her, who flung

a living ember of fire upon the ice-cliffs of my life,

about the quintessential loneliness of grief.

Ask her. And her.

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what it is to wait with a single wing

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Bio : Arash

Name : Arash

Gender : Male

Race : Human

Age : in his mid 30s.

Class : Rogue

Job : Alliance Assassin

Appearance :

About 175cm tall, dressed in black leather clothes, his face is covered beneath his iron skull mask which is shadowed by the black hood attached to the cloak he always wears. always carries a few Knives and his two priced Daggers, which are made from Adamantite, wherever he goes. He also carries a Night Elf huntress' bow of unknown origin, thou he is not as crafty with a bow as a Night Elf ranger but his instincts along with his cunning-ness makes him a deadly Archer.

Description :

A Calm fellow, One of the keys to his success lies to his silence and patience, He is very good at blending ina crowd and not gathering attention. But he nonetheless has enough skills and abilities to infiltrate and take out targets in highly guarded fortresses. Uppon striking, those who are taken by surprise have no time to correct their mistake, and before their cold bodies hit the floor their killer has already merged with the shadows again.

History :

Born in a wealthy merchant family in Hearthglen. His childhood was plagued by the death of his entire family during a horrid bandit attack while they were on a trip to Andorhal, from there his father's high elf friend Kohiel raised the boy in the outskirts of Tranquillien. the early death of his parents struck him deep and if that wasn't enough he also had to try his best to get used


to the elven way of living. due to his lack of wits and arcane knowledge many elves treated him like a weak individual, unable to achieve what even the weakest elf was able to. He did his best to fit into a society that was strange and harsh, and finally once he reached adulthood he left Tranquillien and went back to his homeland.

Shortly after his arrival he began Serving as a skilled scout in Lordaeron Army, thou not as cunning as a real elven Ranger. But his days in Lordaeron was short , Once the Scourge plague broke out, He joined the Alliance expedition into Kalimdor and survived to finally serve as an Alliance ranger during the battle of mount Hyjal. After the war a fragile peace betweenHorde and Alliance was struck. Arash personally didn't trust the Orcs at all, counting them as mere savages. His distrust turned to hate after the Horde's attack on Theramore, and the death of Admiral Proudmoore by the hands of Orcs.

Now a Veteran of the Third War, he was sent to Ashenvale after the death of Admiral Proudmoore to carry out assassinations and act as an Alliance agent in that area. after a series of successful assassinations he met Shayne, Whom he was tasked to assist in killing several key Horde members of Warsong Clan. Shayne taught him many things including the ways of Night Elven fighting, after years their partnership turned into friendship and the two did not see each other as student and mentor but two close


friends. The young Scout's skills in survival and bow now was equal to a skilled Ranger, there were times where Shayne herself told him that he was surpassing what a normal Ranger could achive.

Not surprisingly the Horde didn't stand so idly towards these intrusions. Vil'Zu, A cunning Troll Shadow Hunter from Darkspear was sent to Ashenvale to deal with the problem. Vil'Zu's planing seemed flawless, in a nightly ambush at Astrannar Vil'Zu and his band of Headhunters set Arash's house on fire. Arash narrowly espaced death, but the fires did burn him pretty bad. Shayne, enraged by Vil'Zu's action, went on by herself to find and kill the Shadow Hunter. her decapitated body was found days later, near the outskirts of Raynewood Retreat. Enraged by Vil'Zu's action Arashhim have that moment.

Even though the music was loud, I could still hear them laughing and

talking and then suddenly no words, only moans and groans. I heard spanking

sounds. I heard strong manly YESs coming from our bedroom. I heard our bed

squeaking under their weights and passionate fucking. It didn't take as

long as usually. About 40ish minutes later I heard my boyfriend kissing his

ex goodbye. He went to the toilet and took a piss. He sighed. It was a

happy exhausted sigh after a good fuck. He came to the guest room. He was

naked except for his white socks. He looked sweaty and messy. There was cum

on his hairy torso. His ex must have had a very good time because he spewed

a lot of seed on my boyfriend's chest and


Strength of Central Govt Pensioners as on 01.01.2014

Strength of Pensioners as on 01.01.2014 : Pensioners can be broadly categorised into Civil and Defence. Within civil pensioners there exist three broad categories: Central Civil, Railways and Post.

As on 01.01.2014, as per data reported to the Commission, the total number of pensioners were 51.96 lakh. The category wise break up is shown in the pie chart belowPensioners and Family Pensioners
The break-up of the total 51.96 lakh pensioners as on 01.01.2014 between pensioners and family pensioners, category wise, is as under:

The table above brings out the following:
i. Of the total 51.96 lakh pensioners as on 01.01.2014, 11.83 lakh viz., 23 percent were family pensioners.[Death by AIDS or maternal death: classification of mortality as a social practice].
This paper analyzes the decision on whether to include deaths of HIV+ pregnant women in the classification of maternal mortality. The study focuses on deaths of childbearing-age women in S o Paulo in 1998, investigated by the State's Central Committee on Maternal Mortality (CCMM). Working from a social constructionist perspective, the research was based on documental analysis and interviews with the president of the CCMM and members of one regional committee. The analysis focused on the selection, investigation, and classification of maternal death, with special attention to the negotiation among various actors involved in the classificatory procedures. The data suggest that in the deaths of HIV+ women, other factors are present including the precedence of HIV


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She was tightly husked by her underwear, but as she was willing, she was easily husked by the amorous youth.prayer that allows God to transform us into the saints he calls us to be.

This Catholic website is faithful to the teachings and beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church subject to the teaching authority (the Magisterium, the bishops) of the Catholic faith. It is our intent to depict Catholicism and Catholic teachings accurately.


was in Washington, D.C., in January to participate with other students in the March for Life, came into contact with Nathan Phillips, who was in the area for the Indigenous Peoples March, according to multiple reports.

During the confrontation between Phillips and the students, Sandmann, who was wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, was captured on video standing in front of Phillips while smiling. Other students, many of whom were also wearing MAGA hats, were also captured on video laughing and yelling while standing around Phillips.

The footage prompted backlash from many on social media who felt the teens were taunting Phillips.

However, more extensive footage of the incident later emerged, showing that a group of Black Hebrew Israelites appeared to instigate the confrontation.

The Hill has reached out to NBCpower the rover's experiments, electronics, robotic arm, and wheels. Meanwhile, the excess heat is channeled to keep the spacecraft warm during the freezing Martian night.

A plug of PU-238 fuel US Department of Energy

Over 27 nuclear power systems have been used by US space missions, though the MMRTG is a more recent innovation, with the first installed in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Though production of the isotope has been restarted, the United States currently has enough plutonium to build two more MMRTGs after the Mars 2020, however these have not been assigned.

NASA says that the fueling is being carried out by the DOE and will be completed before the July 2020 launch date when it will lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rover will


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Category:Harvard University alumniCounty (Philip M. Grella, J.), rendered March 9, 2016, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree, vehicular manslaughter in the second degree, aggravated criminally negligent homicide, criminally negligent homicide, assault in the third degree, reckless driving, driving while intoxicated (two counts), reckless endangerment in the second degree, and leaving the scene of an incident without reporting, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the facts, by vacating the convictions of manslaughter in the second degree, vehicular manslaughter in the second degree, aggravated criminally negligent homicide, and criminally negligent homicide, vacating the sentences imposed thereon, and dismissing those counts of the indictment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
The charges against the defendant arise from an incident that occurred in the pre-dawn


hours of October 18, 2013. The trial evidence showed that the defendant was driving eastbound on the Long Island Expressway (hereinafter the expressway) in Nassau County, when his vehicle sideswiped another vehicle. Shortly thereafter, the defendant stopped short in front of another vehicle, or abruptly changed lanes and "cut off" that vehicle, resulting in a second collision. The defendant's vehicle spun and came to rest in the high-occupancy vehicle (hereinafter HOV) lane of this four-lane stretch of the expressway, facing a barrier wall. The HOV lane was on the far left of the expressway, and the other three lanes of traffic were to the right of the HOV lane. Several other drivers stopped along the right shoulder of the expressway, and some of those individuals walked across theroadway to assist the defendant. One driver stopped his vehicle in the far-left lane of the expressway, roughly adjacent to the defendant's vehicle, and that driver left his headlights on. Several minutes after the second collision, a police officer responded and parked his vehicle on the far-right side of the roadway, with the emergency lights activated.
The responding police officer walked across the roadway and, while standing next to the defendant's car, spoke to the defendant. At this point, according to trial witnesses, traffic was continuing to proceed slowly through the accident scene, using the center lane of the three regular lanes of traffic, which was the only open lane, and driving past or over some collision debris. A driver in a black sport-utility vehicle (hereinafter SUV) approached the


scene.
The trial evidence, including the evidence derived from a "black box" event recorder in the SUV, showed that the driver of the SUV approached the scene at 40 miles per hour, then slowed to only 37 miles per hour as he approached the defendant's vehicle. The driver of the SUV testified that, as he neared this area, his attention was focused on the right side of the roadway, where there were several stopped vehicles and a police patrol vehicle with flashing lights. The SUV struck the defendant's vehicle and then struck the police officer. The driver of the SUV testified that he did not brake until one second prior to the impact. The police officer died as a result of the accident. The trial evidence showed that thedeath of a motorcyclist who was the operator of the third vehicle in the chain-reaction accident. Conversely, in the instant matter, a full seven to ten minutes passed between the time the defendant's vehicle came to rest on the roadway and the time when the police officer was struck by the SUV. During this period of time, several other vehicles stopped in the area and illuminated the scene with their lights, debris was strewn across the roadway at or just west of the accident site, and traffic was building up as other drivers either stopped, exited the expressway, or cautiously negotiated the accident scene by traveling slowly through the center lane, which was the only lane open to traffic prior to the fatal collision. Unlike the situation in


People v Uribe, this was not one continuous chain-reaction accident that unfolded within a matter of seconds. Rather, a substantial amount of time passed between the accidents involving the defendant's vehicle and the subsequent accident in which the officer was struck by the SUV.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the People (see People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620), there was legally sufficient proof of causation as to the count of assault in the third degree (see People v Coleman, 148 AD3d 717, 717; People v Keegan, 133 AD3d 1313). The People also adduced legally sufficient proof of causation as to the counts of reckless endangerment in the second degree (see People v Jakobson, 119 AD3d 815, 818; People v Carrington,general vicinity of the Long Island Expressway (hereinafter the expressway), resulting in the defendant's vehicle coming to a stop in the third-from-right travel lane. The defendant never attempted to position his vehicle off to the right, as did the drivers of the two vehicles involved in the other accidents with the defendant. The incident that resulted in the death of the police officer occurred at the precise location where the defendant's vehicle stopped in the roadway, and within approximately seven to ten minutes of that stop. Therefore, the police officer's death was geographically and temporally proximate to the defendant's conduct leading to the defendant's motor vehicle being stopped in the middle of the high-occupancy vehicle lane (see People v Uribe, 109 AD3d 844).
People v Uribe (id.) is instructive,


as it involved an intoxicated and drugged defendant who crashed his SUV into a tree, causing the SUV to spin around and face oncoming traffic with its headlights off. Seconds later a taxi cab struck the SUV, and a few seconds after that, a motorcycle struck the taxi cab, killing the motorcyclist. Although the defendant argued in Uribe that the taxi cab and motorcycle were unforeseeable superseding causes of the motorcyclist's death, this Court affirmed the defendant's conviction of vehicular manslaughter in the second degree, finding it was not against the weight of the evidence as to issues of foreseeability and causality. In contrast, People v Ballenger (106 AD3d 1375), relied on by the defendant, is readily distinguishable and not controlling here. In Ballenger, the automobile accidents weretoo attenuated to support the defendant's conviction of two counts of criminally negligent homicide. The defendant in Ballenger crashed his vehicle in a manner that obstructed the roadway and backed up traffic for a considerable [*3]distance. The deaths at the end of the accident chain occurred 30 minutes after the defendant's accident, and half a mile from where the defendant had crashed his vehicle. Here, unlike in Ballenger, there was no attenuation as to location, and minimal attenuation as to time.
The jury's verdict is not against the weight of the evidence for an additional salient reason. A trial witness was in the immediate vicinity of the accident involving the defendant's vehicle, the SUV, and the police officer. His testimony provided the greatest level of eyewitness detail about the


with its hood. Clearly, the defendant's motor vehicle was an integral instrumentality physically and directly involved in the police officer's death. It was present at the time and place of the police officer's death, because the defendant, while intoxicated, and in the pre-dawn darkness, engaged in conduct resulting in his motor vehicle being in a position of danger, in the middle of an expressway travel lane after two earlier accidents in the vicinity. The defendant's vehicle, being a direct instrumentality in the events leading to the police officer's death, brings the defendant within the chain of causality, and his conduct at the scene rendered it foreseeable that such results could arise (see People v Uribe, 109 AD3d at 844).
As in most every trial, there were conflicting inferences toHarriet Harman has been urged to apologise for repeating an offensive joke about the Holocaust on BBC TV.

The Labour MP read out the joke as an example of one she had complained about some years ago.

The Jewish Leadership Council said it was a "staggering error of judgement" to repeat it "irrespective of the point she was trying to make".

Ms Harman later tweeted that it was "no laughing matter" and such jokes "perpetuate discrimination & hatred".

The former Labour deputy leader appeared on BBC One's This Week programme and repeated the joke in a segment about humour which offends people.

'Offensive and hurtful'

Referring to a story she recounts in her memoir A Woman's Work, she said: "I've long been accused of being humourless, and a humourless feminist, and I'll give you


two examples that I protested about, because they were offensive and hurtful."

She annoyed host Andrew Neil by saying: "People like Andrew say that things like this are perfectly all right."

She was cut short by Mr Neil after telling the first joke - which she said was "not funny" - and the presenter reprimanded her for suggesting he would think it was OK.

He later told the Labour MP to "be quiet".

The chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council Simon Johnson said: "I cannot recall being so disappointed in a politician. Harriet Harman must surely know better than to repeat a vile Holocaust joke, irrespective of the point she was trying to make. She must apologise and do so quickly. It is a staggering error of judgment."

'Appalled'

Mr Neil later tweetedthat he was "appalled and even a little bit upset by what she said".

He said: "What was wrong was 1) Even to tell that so called joke on live TV. 2) Claim I would like the joke. Appalling on both counts."

Ms Harman has not apologised but on Twitter she said that anti-Semitic jokes were "no laughing matter".

She tweeted a page from her book, in which she recounts two offensive jokes that appeared in a Guy's Hospital rag magazine years ago, which she went on to refer to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

In her book, she wrote that she had been condemned "for overreacting and being humourless".

But, she added, "the Jewish community and local black and Asian organisations were deeply appreciative when the hospital apologised".

Ms Harman was offered support


Appellant was told by Juanita's sister that Juanita and her parents and brother had left that morning to drive to Pecos. Based upon statements he claimed Juanita's mother had made on prior occasions, appellant decided that the group intended to sell the baby in Pecos, and set out after them. He caught up with them on Highway 90 between Dryden and Sanderson, and ran them off the road. According to his testimony, at this time appellant heard voices he "couldn't overcome" which commanded him to "kill, kill." He forced Juanita into his car, where he stabbed her numerous times in the chest and abdomen, and then cut her throat. Texas Rangers apprehended him the next day a mile from the scene, and he readily confessed. The grand jurybe provided with an expert with whom to consult "about the validity of observations being made by other witnesses." Id., at 482. Accordingly, the court directed that its statutory scheme be implemented with the understanding that the appointed psychiatrist "be available for consultation with counsel during preparation for trial." Id.
The defendant in State v. Gambrell, 318 N.C. 249, 347 S.E.2d 390 (1986), was found to be in need of psychiatric care, and was committed to a state hospital for determination of his capacity to stand trial. The examining psychiatrist's initial impression was that the defendant was "probably schizophrenic," and he was medicated with psychotropic drugs. Ultimately the psychiatrist found him both competent and sane. Nevertheless, in view of the initial skepticism about Gambrell's mental condition, along with some


the trial court appointed a psychiatrist to report to the court after an examination to determine competency and sanity of the defendant. The examiner reported that Sloan "suffered from a borderline schizoid personality," but that he was both competent and sane. Sloan requested a defense psychiatrist to help him understand the examining psychiatrist's report and to prepare to cross-examine him at trial, which was denied. The Court of Appeals reversed the conviction, holding that without the aid the defendant had requested, he was deprived of due process. Along the way the Court of Appeals observed, "The essential benefit of having an expert in the first place is denied the defendant when the services of the doctor must be shared with the prosecution." Id., at 929. See also Unitedowned by the British firm, Nature Publishing Group, pointing out the journal's failure to disclose Nemeroff's interests in the products he praised. They asked the editor to publish their letter, so that readers could decide for themselves whether or not the author's financial relationships might have tainted his opinion. After waiting five months for their letter to appear, the doctors went to The New York Times with their story--a move that sparked a furor in academic circles, and offered the public yet another glimpse into conflict of interest, one of the most contentious and bitter debates in medicine.In his defense, Nemeroff told the Times he would have been happy to list his (many) relationships with private industry--if only the journal had asked. "If there is a fault here,"


begin, oddly enough, with an amendment to U.S. patent law called the Bayh-Dole Act. Passed in 1980, Bayh-Dole for the first time permitted universities to commercialize products and inventions without losing their federal research funding, the seed money for innovative research. The brainchild of George Keyworth II, President Reagan's science advisor, who was watching the United States get beaten in world markets by the Japanese, Bayh-Dole was intended to stimulate advanced technological invention and speed its transfer from university labs into private industry, where it could be put to work spurring U.S. productivity.It seemed like a win-win proposition. Indeed, Bayh-Dole has helped launch the biotech industry and has propelled several life-saving products to market. The basic research behind Gleevec, for instance, an incredibly effective new anti-cancer drug, wasincomes with $1,000-a-day consulting contracts with pharmaceutical companies, patent royalties, licensing fees, and big-payoff stock options. Nemeroff stood to reap as much as $1 million in stock from a company that manufactured one of the products in his Nature Neuroscience paper. At many of the top research universities and medical schools around the country, a substantial percentage of the faculty enjoys the perks of industry relationships. At MIT, 31 percent of the science and engineering faculty has outside income; at Stanford Medical School, it's 20 percent.What's in it for the pharmaceutical companies? Simple economics. It's Marketing 101. By penetrating the wall that once existed around academic researchers, drug companies have gained access to the "thought leaders" in medicine, the big names whose good opinion of an idea or


studies they fund in 1993, when a colleague at University of California San Francisco tried to publish a paper in JAMA in 1993 on the metabolic activity of four different forms of thyroid hormone. Betty J. Dong, a pharmacologist, had been contracted in 1987 by Flint Laboratories to run a clinical trial comparing Synthroid, Flint's synthetic version of thyroid hormone, to that of three competing formulations. At the time, Synthroid was the market leader and the most expensive drug in its class. Dong and Flint signed a lengthy agreement detailing the design of the study, and both sides fully expected the results would show that Synthroid was superior.But all four drugs turned out to be essentially equivalent. In 1990, as Dong prepared a paper for JAMA, the companythat was at first so eager to solicit her help, launched a vigorous campaign to discredit the study. Flint then rushed its own paper into press at a less prestigious journal, concluding--surprise!--that Synthroid was superior. After numerous attempts to address the company's criticisms, Dong finally submitted her paper to JAMA, only to withdraw it three months later when the firm threatened to sue for breach of contract. It took the FDA and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to get the company to back down. Dong's paper did not see print in JAMA until 1997.In this case, it might seem as if the only real harm to the public during the seven years that elapsed from the time Dong completed her study to its publication was higher