in different seasons. The addition of porch furniture has been wonderful as I love reading outside and the weather has been very cooperative.

At the risk of jinxing it; I'm quietly impressed with how well the older kids are embracing their summer work. For both kids the first of four books are read and the book reports are done. I have a couple of workbooks for Caitie but thanks to her east facing room she has been getting up early most mornings and that combined with camp has her napping again.

Was sad to learn of the death of Michael Bond this week; I remember reading Paddington Bear as a child and have in the past couple of years enjoyed introducing his books to my kids. What a wonderful legacy.2013-11-14Global Rankings, Stats and Player Scores have been updated (now include week #74). Leaderboards for #75 are online.

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from the surface and coal interests in 1903. Prior to the severance, Charles Lee

Andrews held fee simple title to the two tracts as trustee for the benefit of his mother, Mary

Catherine Lee Andrews. By deed dated April 4, 1903, Charles Lee Andrews, as trustee,

conveyed the surface and coal interests to Jonathan D. Springer. Charles Lee Andrews

excepted and reserved the oil and gas interests from that conveyance.5 As trustee for his

mother, Charles Lee Andrews retained title to the oil and gas interests until her death on

March 2, 1920. Pursuant to Ms. Andrews’ will and its five codicils, the oil and gas interests

were divided among her surviving children and grandchildren as follows: an undivided one-

fifth interest (twenty percent) was devised to each of her four children: Charles Lee Andrews,

Louisa LeeAndrews (Bacon Eldridge), Carolyn Snowden Andrews (Fahenstock), and

George Snowden Andrews. The remaining undivided one-fifth interest was split evenly

among her decedent daughter’s three children: Rosalie Tunstall Smith (Forster Cooper),

Anita Tunstall Smith, and Marion Tunstall Smith.

              In the years that followed, the oil and gas interests were further divided among

the heirs of Ms. Andrews’s children and grandchildren. Petitioner Richard Snowden

Andrews, Jr., inherited his interest from his father Richard Snowden Andrews who received

       5
        Charles Lee Andrews, as trustee for Mary Catherine Lee Andrews, leased the oil and
gas to Southern Oil Company through an agreement executed on July 14, 1902. The property
has remained in production


since that time.

                                              3

his interest from his father, Charles Lee Andrews, and uncle, George Snowden Andrews.

The interest held by the Marion A. Young Trust and its successors was also inherited from

Richard Snowden Andrews. The interests claimed by L&D Investments were purchased

from siblings, Deborah Lee Tschappat and Michael Tschappat.6 The purchases were

perfected by separate quit claims deeds that were recorded in Harrison County on March 15,

2013. Collectively, L&D claims a 16.44 percent undivided interest in the oil and gas.

             Petitioner Robert Hitzelberger claims ownership of the twenty percent

undivided interest in the oil and gas that was originally bequeathed to Carolyn Snowden

Andrews Fahnestock. The record indicates that Carolyn Fahnestock died on October 18,

1937, in Rhode Island, where her will was probated. Her will and codicils were recorded in

the Harrison County Clerk’s office on July 28, 1986. Pursuant to the will and codicils of

Carolyn Fahnestock, the executors of her estate, who were her children, conveyed her twenty

percent oil and gas interest to Harry Parsons Cross by deed dated December 1, 1949.7 Harry

       6
        Deborah and Michael Tschappat inherited their oil and gas interests from their mother
Catherine Lee Tschappat,


a resident of New Jersey, who died intestate on October 14, 2011.
Catherine Tschappatt was the daughter of Rosalie Forster Cooper (aka Rosalie Tunstall
Smith), who bequeathed her interest to her three children: Catherine, John Forster Cooper,
and Anthony Forster Cooper. When she died on April 29, 1965, Rosalie Forster Cooper
owned the 1/15 interest she inherited from her grandmother, and an additional 2/75 interest
that she inherited from her sister, Anita Tunstall Smith.
       7
       The original deed has never been recorded in Harrison County; the only proof of the
conveyance is an uncertified copy of the original deed that was recorded in the Miscellaneous
Books in the Harrison’s County Clerk’s office on August 13, 2014.

                                            4

Parsons Cross died testate in 1955 in Rhode Island. Pursuant to the terms of his will, which

was recorded in the Harrison County Clerk’s Office in 1986, his interest was devised to a

testamentary trust known as the Cross Trust. On January 18, 1999, an instrument titled

“Assignment and Conveyance” dated December 18, 1998, was recorded in the Harrison

County Clerk’s Office. This instrument conveyed all the interests in the oil and gas in the

subject property that was owned by the Cross Trust to Mr. Hitzelberger.


    Although Charles Lee Andrews died in 1946, and the interests in the oil and

gas were conveyed or inherited by several different individuals over the years, a real property

tax assessment for one hundred percent of the oil and gas interests remained solely in the

name of Charles Lee Andrews until 1999.8 In other words, all fractional interests in the oil

and gas were on the Harrison County landbooks as a single entry in the name of “Andrews,

Charles Lee,” which the parties refer to as the “master assessment.” However, additional

assessments were added on the landbooks of Harrison County beginning in 1988 with a new

entry in the name of the “Harry P. Cross Estate,” which described 1000 acres oil and gas on

Sycamore and referenced a Consolidated lease or well.of the Tschappat

siblings in 2013, it notified the entities that were extracting the oil and gas from the property

of the purchases and its right to receive any royalty payments. L&D Investments was then

informed by the gas producers that the interests it claimed to have purchased had been sold

for delinquent taxes to MRI in 2001. On December 10, 2013, L&D Investments filed this

action for declaratory relief and to quiet title to its undivided oil and gas interest in the

subject properties. The action named MRI, Antero Resources Corporation, Consol Energy,

CNX Gas Company, and Robert Hitzelberger as defendants.

              In its complaint, L&D Investments asserted that CNX, Consol, and Antero

were extracting oil and gas from the property and had


greenhouse gas levels by 6% by 2016. Tactics include the implementation of the Lucid building OS dashboard, which provides more accurate readings of the city’s electricity, water, and fuel use, which allows for better programs to be implemented at a city-wide level.

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Orlando provided updates on the community action plan in released in 2013, which set stringent environmental goals for the city to hit by 2040. Some of the highlights include:

Facilitated more than 232 municipal and private buildings to meet green building standards, including 15 that achieved LEED certification.

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is rising 13 stories. The building is set back 25 feet from the street to allow in more natural light, and features an 8,000-sf artificial turf recreation area that doubles as outdoor classroom and gathering space for its students. Its Building Team includes WSP (SE), WMA Consulting Engineers (MEP/FP), Mackie Consultants (CE), Wolff Landscape Architecture, and Power Construction (GC). bKL Architecture.therapy. However, after another attack of ON in August 2010, vision in the right eye dropped permanently to 0.85 on the Snellen chart despite IVMP therapy.

In January 2011, the patient developed a first attack of myelitis with accompanying brainstem encephalitis. Symptoms included right hemiparesis, dysarthria, and dysphagia. MRI showed no supratentorial brain lesions but a T2 lesion in the medulla oblongata and a cervical longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) lesion extending from C2 to C4 with gadolinium (Gd) enhancement. LP again demonstrated a normal CSF white cell count, normal CSF protein level, and negative OCB. Treatment with IVMP was followed by complete remission. In June 2011, after another attack of myelitis with paraparesis, treatment of which with IVMP had resulted in incomplete remission of the symptoms, treatment with


glatiramer acetate (GLAT) for suspected MS was initiated.

After a relapse-free period of 1 year, two further relapses (ON in May 2012 and myelitis with paraparesis in July 2012) followed. While treatment with IVMP led only to partial recovery, plasma exchange (PEX) treatment (five exchanges) was followed by complete clinical remission after both relapses. After the second relapse, GLAT was stopped (July 2012) and natalizumab started. However, treatment with natalizumab was discontinued after two infusions due to recurrent headaches.

In September, October, and December 2012 three further relapses of myelitis with paraparesis occurred. PEX (five exchanges; no IVMP) resulted in partial recovery in all cases. In January 2013, the patient received a first infusion of mitoxantrone (12 mg/m^2^, nadir 3000/μl), and after a further myelitis relapse with paraparesis in February 2013, atime. MOG-IgG were retrospectively positive at a titer of 1:640.

Rituximab (500 mg) was infused for the first time in May 2013, followed 2 weeks later by a second infusion of 500 mg rituximab. Fifteen days after the second infusion the patient's paraparesis worsened (EDSS 8) and dysarthria re-occurred. Cerebral and spinal MRI showed active lesions with Gd enhancement at the C4/C5 level, in the pons, and in the medulla oblongata. After PEX (five exchanges; no IVMP), the patient was able to walk again and her dysarthria completely remitted. Two new myelitis relapses in July and August 2013 with paraparesis (EDSS 7.5) and dysarthria were again treated with PEX (five exchanges; no IVMP), which was followed by partial recovery. MRI showed a new inactive lesion in the pons in July 2013 and


in August 2013 Gd enhancement extended from C2 to C5. After a second PEX cycle, urosepsis occurred and was treated successfully with antibiotics. The next relapse occurred in November 2013 with a left ON (visual acuity of 0.05), which remitted incompletely after one cycle of PEX (five exchanges) (EDSS 7.5).

In January 2014, massive deterioration of the brainstem symptoms occurred, with dysarthria, dysphagia, left oculomotor and facial nerve palsy, and new T2-hyperintense lesions in the pons, pedunculus cerebellaris, cerebral crus, and medulla oblongata. No supratentorial lesions were seen on brain MRI. Spinal MRI demonstrated a diffuse, asymptomatic T2-hyperintense lesion from C2 to C4 as well as patchy Gd enhancement in the pons, medulla oblongata, and the entire cervical spinal cord. The patient was treated with two courses of fivea total of 4 weeks with a permanent maintenance dose of 10 mg daily. This regimen prompted normalization of visual impairment. AQP4-IgG, tested in a CBA, was again negative. Long-term treatment with AZA and oral corticosteroids was started.

In October 2012 (6 weeks after onset of the last attack), just 4 days after termination of steroid therapy and 1 day following reduction of AZA from 150 mg to 100 mg daily because of elevated liver enzymes, the patient developed a third episode of painful ON with right-sided visual impairment. She received another course of 1000 mg IVMP daily for 5 days followed by oral tapering, which resulted in complete recovery. AZA was stopped in November 2012 and replaced by MTX in February 2013. The patient discontinued MTX in November 2014 because she wanted a second pregnancy. At that


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Brigitte Wildemann, Markus Reindl and Friedemann Paul are equally contributing senior authors.

BW and SJ are grateful to the Dietmar Hopp Foundation and to Merck Serono for funding research on NMO and related disorders at the Molecular Neuroimmunology Group, Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, and to Mrs. Anna Eschlbeck and the Nikon Imaging Center at the University of Heidelberg for excellent technical assistance. FrP would like to acknowledge research support by the German Research Council (DFG Exc 257) and by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Competence Network Multiple Sclerosis). MRe would like to thank the Eugene Devic European Network (EDEN) project (ERA--Net ERARE 2; Austrian Science Fund FWF project I916) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Researchwas harmless on the ground that the three dismissed family members would be collaterally estopped by the verdict returned against Mr. Lander at his trial. The three dismissed family members did not have a full and fair opportunity to litigate their claims. Mr. Lander could not adequately represent the interests of the other family members because the rights at stake are personal in nature, he was not accountable to his family members for the results of the litigation, and the district court did not explicitly or tacitly approve of Mr. Lander as a representative of the dismissed family members at his trial. Because Mr. Lander did not represent the interests of the other family members, the collateral estoppel doctrine does not preclude their claims. Additionally, I respectfully dissent


202A. Mr. Lander looked in the direction of the voice and saw a young girl and two white, female Waffle House employees standing at the counter. He was certain that the statement came from one of the two employees. All of the other customers and staff members in the restaurant were white. Mr. Lander went to the booth where the Eddys had seated themselves and told them what he had heard. The family decided to leave and made no response when a waitress came over and asked, "May I help you?" J.A. 192A. Those departing met Mrs. Lander at the door, and Mr. Lander told her about the discriminatory statement. Mrs. Lander decided to call a customer complaints hot-line listed on a poster in the restaurant's window. SheRoad Safety Audits

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Preparation of six national road safety audit guidelines (for Australia/New Zealand, Dubai, the Philippines, Albania, Armenia, and Eritrea) plus technical advice and inputs to four others (Canada, South Africa, Islamic Republic of Iran and India).

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Specialist road safety engineer assisting the Jiangxi Provincial Communication Scientific ResearchInstitute in road side hazard management along the Third Jiangxi Expressway (including bridges and tunnels). Presenter of a 2 day road safety engineering workshop for the Hubei Road Safety Institute in Wuhan (WB funded)

Canada (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 & 2004)

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Thailand (2000)

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Prepared the Road Safety Audit Guidefor the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), prepared the instructors manual and the student’s manual for a national road safety audit course, and led the first two such courses in Manila and Cebu City.

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Lead presenter at three major road safety audit courses, and advisor on the introduction of road safety audit in Spain.

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Road safety engineer undertaking the audit of the Tohpati-‐Kusamba By-‐Pass (Eastern Bali) for DGH (WB funded). Lead presenter of two, five-‐ day road safety engineeringThe Trump administration on Friday released draft studies required before a 200-mile industrial road can be carved through northern Alaska wilderness to a mineral-rich region.

Conservation groups quickly derided the project as a costly “private driveway” for mining interests that deficit-choked Alaska can’t afford.

The Bureau of Land Management said it’s analyzing an application from a state agency, the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, for a 50-year right of way for the road across federal lands.

The two-lane road would branch off the Dalton Highway north of Fairbanks, travel west over permafrost to the Purcell Mountains and end not far from Ambler and other villages.

AIDEA says the road would encourage mineral extraction in the Ambler Mining District, characterized as one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper-zinc mineral belts, according to


World by Captain John Scott, an important leader in Long Island's early history. After Gotherson sent representatives who were quickly turned away, local residents started to jokingly refer to the land as "the Old Mans".

During the American Revolution, the area and Old Mans Harbor were under British control. However, because of its remote location the British did not have troops stationed here. Many citizens moved their families to Connecticut during British occupation. During the course of the war, American agents visited local patriots and received information, clothing, supplies and money to support the cause. In 1780, American Major Benjamin Tallmadge and a detachment of Continental Army dragoons landed at Cedar Beach and traveled south to successfully attack the British at Manor St. George. The route he and hishusband present, and 14.5% were non-families. 11.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.26 and the average family size was 3.54.

In the CDP, the population was spread out with 30.0% under the age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 24.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.0 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $85,605, and the median income for a family was $89,636. Males had


dispensing line from the hollow tap column (30) and removing a first container, attached to said dispensing line, from the cooling chamber (26),

- introducing a second container (27), connected or connectable to a second flexible dispensing line (28), into the cooling chamber (26),

- pushing the shut-off valve (32) and the outlet end (41) of the second dispensing line via the opening through the guide tube (35) provided in the hollow tap column (30) until the shut-off valve (32) and the outlet end (41) of the second dispensing line (28) reach the dispensing head (29), and

- engaging the shut-off valve (32) and the outlet end (41) of the dispensing line (28) with the dispensing head (29)."

Claims 1 and 4 of auxiliary request 1 read the same, respectively, as claimsreleasing the shut-off valve (32) and the outlet end of a first flexible dispensing line from the dispensing head (29), removing said dispensing line from the hollow tap column (30) and removing a first container, attached to said dispensing line, from the cooling chamber (26),

- introducing a second container (27), connected or connectable to a second flexible dispensing line (28), into the cooling chamber (26),

- pushing the shut-off valve (32) and the outlet end (41) of the second dispensing line via the opening through the guide tube (35) provided in the hollow tap column (30) until the shut-off valve (32) and the outlet end (41) of the second dispensing line (28) reach the dispensing head (29), and

- engaging the shut-off valve (32) and the outlet end (41) of


to the dispensing head, the curve of the upper end of the column (30) and the curves of the upper and lower ends of the guide tube (35) corresponding to a smooth bend of substantially 90 degrees from vertical to horizontal,

- wherein the opening of the guide tube (35) and the guide tube (35) provided in the tap column (30) form an unobstructed channel for guiding the dispensing line from the opening to the dispensing head (29), and the dispensing line (28) consists of a flexible plastic material of a sufficient rigidity for allowing pushing the shut-off valve (32) and the outlet (41) from the opening through the guide tube (35) provided in the hollow tap column (30) to the dispensing head (29)."

Claim 4 of auxiliary request 34 of the second auxiliary request comprises the following additional feature:

d) |the column (30) has a curved upper end "corresponding to a smooth bend of substantially 90 degrees from vertical to horizontal"|

3.2 The Board shares appellant II's view that the features of the lower end of the guide tube, it being outwardly tapered towards its open end and having a smooth bend of 90° towards the beverage container, are disclosed in figure 2 of the divisional application as originally filed in close combination with the curved upper end of the guide tube. These features of the lower end are functionally linked with the smooth curvature of the guide tube at its upper end, particularly in view of facilitating the insertion and replacement of the dispensing line from the


The Carolina Hurricanes placed forward Alexander Semin on unconditional waivers Tuesday with the intent of buying out his contract.

Semin was notified of the club’s decision Tuesday, per the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and he will need to clear waivers at noon Wednesday prior to being bought out.

Semin, 31, signed a five-year, $35 million extension with the Hurricanes in March 2013, and he has three years remaining on his contract.

A native of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Semin skated in 166 games for the Hurricanes over three seasons, recording 41 goals and 64 assists (105 points) and a plus-5 rating. Semin completed his 10th NHL season in 2014-15, totaling six goals and 13 assists and a minus-10 rating in 57 games.Today in WHAT?????!!!!, a French photographer named Pascal Rostain claims that the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, is embroiled in a love affair with internationally famous pop star Beyoncé. Oh, and we're going to read about it in the Washington Post tomorrow.

The photographer's comments were published in highly reputable French newspaper Le Figaro. Rostain, who is friends with Carla Bruni and has won photo awards, told French journalist Jean-Marc Morandini:

"You know, at this time, the United States, there is something big that is happening… Besides, it'll go out tomorrow in the Washington Post, we can not say that it is the gutter press [reporting on an] alleged affair between President Barack Obama and Beyoncé. I can assure you that the world will talk about


it."

The report has already been picked up by Gala, which is like the People magazine of France, and Gala is also reporting that President Obama and his wife Michelle Obama are heading for a divorce.

The timing of this accusation is curious: French President François Hollande is traveling to the United States this week to meet with President Obama, and the two just penned an op-ed piece about how France and the USA must maintain a close relationship for The Washington Post. But President Hollande's own personal life has been in the news lately, and as CNN explains:

Hollande leaves France amid sinking popularity ratings and swirling reports that he cheated on his partner of seven years with a younger movie actress. The former French first lady Valerie Trierweiler —whom Obama said in November he was looking forward to hosting — will not come to the White House now that Hollande has announced their split. France's President says his private life is private, but he's not denying the affair. Now he will come to America solo for one of Washington's most tradition-bound events, where protocol dictates nearly everything and a slip-up could wind up offending a top ally.

Since Hollande's own affair is creating some tension in the White House, maybe this is the French media's way of creating an international distraction.

Obviously Rostain's comments are shocking, but Le Figaro makes the point of calling him a "filou" — a rogue, trickster or rascal — with a penchant for provocation. Still, the copy reads, "even when it's in provocation,


seeing, the gaps are narrowing."

"Clinton is still in the lead, but her lead is narrowing," Sanders said, arguing his campaign is still on the "path to victory."

And new national poll from Reuters showing Sanders leading Hillary Clinton by 6 points among Democrats — his largest lead of the primary so far -- backs him up.

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According to the poll of 998 voters from across the country over five days released on Tuesday, Sanders has the support of 41.7 percent of Democrats compared to Clinton’s 35.5 percent. A Reuters/ISPOS poll conducted earlier this month, immediately following the Iowa caucus, found Sanders had jumped from 30 percent support at the beginning of the year to 43 percent support, all but vanquishing Clinton's commanding lead. Reuters also features a daily tracking featurewhich illustrates that Sanders has led Clinton nationally for a majority of days in February.

And it isn't just Reuters that shows Sanders with a national edge over Clinton. A Quinnipiac national poll released last week showed Sanders two points ahead of Clinton, as did a Fox News poll released on Friday. In fact, according to RealClearPolitics polling averages, Sanders is gaining ground on Clinton at roughly the same pace Barack Obama did in 2008 as the then Illinois senator was leading Clinton nationally by only 3 points between February 22 and February 24, 2008.

Although the next Democratic showdown does not look promising for the Sanders campaign, the Vermont senator looks to blunt any sense of momentum Clinton may have after a win in both Nevada and South Carolina


by picking off crucial Super Tuesday states. Sanders has been steadily gaining ground in Georgia and Texas, which award approximately 20 percent of total delegates between the two of them.

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In the critical swing state of Colorado, where Sanders once trailed Hillary Clinton by as much as 28 points prior to the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary, Sanders is now ahead of Clinton by 6 points, according to one poll. In Massachusetts, Sanders is leading Clinton by 7 points, according to a Public Policy Poll poll conducted between February 14 and February 16. And the same PPP poll that had Sanders ahead in Massachusetts also shows Sanders with an insurmountable 76-point lead in his home state of Vermont.

Still, Sanders has some serious work to do in states withParanormal, Inc).

In her leisure time, Hyde can be found in an alternate persona as a Baroness of Southron Gaard, a branch of the international Society for Creative Anachronism.

In the 2013 New Year Honours, Hyde was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science.

Publications
 Godzone Skies, Astronomy for New Zealanders, (1992)
 Night skies above New Zealand (2003)
 Oddzone: Paranormal Phenomena, Alien Abductions, Animal Mysteries, Psychics and Mediums and Other Weird Kiwi Stuff, (2006)

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 New Zealand Science Monthly

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Hyderabad: In a move that has caught opponents by surprise, Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan has decided to contest from the Gajuwaka assembly seat of Visakhapatnam in the upcoming Andhra Assembly elections.

Earlier, the actor-turned-politician had announced that he would fight from Anantapuram.

Sources say that Pawan has been under pressure from his party cadre and leaders to contest from Gajuwaka, which was once a stronghold of the Praja Rajyam Party. Another factor that could have swung the decision in favour of Gajuwaka is that the actor-turned-politician is quite popular with the youth in the area.

The Jana Sena chief declared the party candidates just a day after the EC’s announcement of election dates.

Pawan has named three candidates to the Legislative Assembly so far, Pithani Balakrishna from Mummidivaram constituency in EastGodavari district, former Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker Nadendla Manohar from Tenali and Thota Chandrasekhar from Guntur.

The party manifesto is in its final stages. The manifesto announcement will be made by party chief on March 14.

In the 2014 elections, 2014 Pawan had campaigned for the TDP-BJP alliance. He later withdrew his support from the BJP and the TDP. The Jana Sena party has already been allotted its poll symbol, a glass tumbler, by the Election Commission.


‘Millennium’ actor feared dead

Swedish thesp Per Oscarsson may have died in fire

LONDON — Swedish actor Per Oscarsson is believed dead after fire swept through the small house near Stockholm he shared with his wife.

Oscarsson, 83, played Lisbeth Salander’s legal guardian Holger Palmgren in “The Girl Who Played with Fire,” the second part in the hit film trilogy based on Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson’s three novels in the “Millennium” series.

He is thought to have died along with 67-year-old Kia Ostling after fire swept through their home in Skara, South-West Sweden on Thursday.

Swedish police say the blaze was so fierce only a chimney was left standing and it was not until Sunday that rescue crews sifting through the ashes found a set of human remains. It is not knownwhether the remains are those of Oscarsson or his wife, but neighbors in the remote region have told investigators that neither the actor nor his wife have been seen since last week.

The cause of the blaze in unknown.

Oscarsson’s careers spanned seven decades. His first uncredited role was in a feature film in 1944. He won best actor at Cannes in 1966 for his roles as starving writer Pontus in the movie “Hunger.” He starred in more than 100 Swedish films and TV series.

News that the actor may have died prompted tributes across Swedish media outlets, with him described as a “legend of Swedish film” and a “captivating actor with a big heart.”


newborn children in Latin America;and a highly centralized HIV treatment program for pregnant women, providing access to large numbers of HIV-infected women presenting for care early in their pregnancies. Our R21 application is a segue to an eventual R01 application for a large multi-arm randomized controlled trial of interventions for treatment of PD among women undergoing effective ARV treatment. This present bi-national, multidisciplinary project will enable collection of requisite pilot data on prevalence of PD, identification of risk factors and leverage points for subsequent intervention programs, development of effective strategies for integration of studies of PD into NISDI, and adaptation and validation of screening instruments among the local population. Using the NISDI infrastructure at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Caxias in southern Brazil we will conduct interconnectedA Chinese wealth survey has found that Asia has more billionaires than any
other continent, apparently surpassing North America for the first time.

The Hurun Report, compiled by British accountant and former Forbes Rich List researcher Rupert Hoogewerf, found that Asia had 608 dollar billionaires, compared with North America's 440 and 324 in Europe.

It is believed to be the first time Asia has been named as home of the largest proportion of super-rich on any global list.

Nonetheless the US, which has 409 billionaires, retains its crown as the most populous country for the so-called 'nine-zero' club, while Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim was named the "planet's richest man" with a personal wealth of $66bn (£43bn), according to the report. Mr Slim also topped last year's Forbes global list.

China ranked second


with 317 super-rich individuals, which the report noted were "all self-made" and, with an average age of 58, were on the younger end of the spectrum. The Sino super-rich make their billions predominantly from real estate, manufacturing and investments, said the report. Seven of the top 20 real estate tycoons on the list live in China, a stat it attributed to the urbanisation boom in recent years.

The UK, where the index found 56 billionaires, came fifth, only just ahead of India, which is home to 53 billionaires.

Hong Kong real estate tycoon Li Ka-Shing kept his title of Asia's richest man with $32 billion, ranking him the seventh wealthiest person in the world, while 98-year-old Taiwanese glass magnate Lin Yu-Chia shared a podium with current patriarch of the US'sthe Federal Circuit.

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Real Housewives Of Atlanta Star Kandi Burruss Sues Kim Zolciak For Millions Over Use Of Hit Song ‘Tardy For The Party’

Kandi Burruss Sues Kim Zolciak Over Dance Song

More than three years after the song “Tardy for the Party” became an unlikely hit for former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” cast member Kim Zolciak, producer and current RHOA cast member Kandi Burruss is suing Zolciak for not compensating her properly for her work.

In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the United States District Court of the Northern District of Georgia, Burruss and co-writer Rodney Richards are seeking “damages for copyright infringement due to Defendants’ unauthorized and unlawful licensing, distribution and sale of Plaintiffs’ creative works, namely a sound recording embodying a performance of a musical composition entitled ‘Tardy for the Party.‘ ”

This issue was a major plot point on the show season three, which aired in 2010 and 2011. On the show, Burruss complained that Zolciak hadn’t paid her what she was due for her work producing and co-writing the song. The conflict was addressed yet again last year during the season four reunion show though it appeared Burruss was ready to put it behind her.

In past news stories, Burruss said she had been paid only a one-time $4,000 fee. According to a Hollywood Reporter story in 2011, Burruss “didn’t have an agreement in place concerning royalties but also because she handed over rights to Bravo.”

She added at the time: “I know Kim was new to the music industry so I don’t feel like she was purposely trying


probably 12 months," he said. "Intel is probably two to three years behind Samsung."

Samsung's advance will extend the progress charted by Moore's Law, ensuring our phones, watches, cars and homes can get a bit smarter. The steady improvements once predicted by Moore's Law have faltered, and progress has been tarnished by high prices for the fastest chips, but at least for the next few years, you can expect better graphics, smarter AI, and other computing improvements.

"Gate all around will mark a new era of our foundry business," said Ryan Lee, the foundry business vice president of marketing at the event in Santa Clara, California -- the heart of Silicon Valley that also happens to be Intel's home.

What's a gate-all-around transistor?

For decades, the fundamental processor building block has beenUkraine and France want to strengthen political relations

Ukraine and France want to intensify relations at the government level, reported RBC-Ukraine with reference to the information department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

A meeting had been held on October 12th between the head of the Verkhovna Rada Foreign Affairs Committee of Ukraine, Hanna Hopko and the Deputy Chairperson of the Committee for the European Integration Parliament of Ukraine, Maria Ionova with French Senator Olivier Cadic. The meeting was also attended by French Ambassador to Ukraine Isabelle Dumont.

"The parties exchanged views during the meeting on a wide range of relevant issues of bilateral relations in all areas. The activity of bilateral political dialogue at the inter-parliamentary level of the two countries was emphasized, and the importance of intensifying relations at


the government level was noted," the report said.

Ukrainian parliamentarians informed the French about the internal political situation and the state of reforms in Ukraine. Separate attention was given to the discussion on countering Russian aggression in the Donbas and in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait, on the importance to fully restore the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, and on the situation in the Crimea.

Earlier, the former President of France Francois Hollande talked about the progress of reforms in Ukraine. Some of these reforms were most evident in the development of the armed forces. Fifteen helicopter bases and a service center for French Airbus Helicopters will soon begin to operate in Ukraine. Kyiv plans to purchase fifty-five of the said helicopters.unit layers in a clay mineral is higher than the cation concentration in the surrounding water, water is osmotically drawn between the unit layers and the c-spacing is increased. Osmotic swelling results in larger overall volume increases than surface hydration. However, only certain clays, like sodium montmorillonite, swell in this manner.
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the POVers with inside connections connect the dots?

I see your point but I’m not sure it’s entirely accurate. Wannstedt had been a head coach in the NFL. Graham was a head coach before. However I was sure he did not unpack when he hit town. McConnell-Serio had been a head coach before in the WNBA and at Duquesne. She has roots in the area. Vidovich (men’s soccer) had been a head coach before. Berenato had been a head coach before and was fairly successful except for her last couple of seasons (which were disasters).

IMO opinion Wannstedt would still be at Pitt if not for the efforts of Nordenberg and Pederson. I still remember leaving the 2010 WVU game thinking that it would be tough for him to holdthing was a backroom deal between the Governor and the BOT.

Nerdy and the ruineys conspired to move us to Heinz. you are right ruiney had a perfectly fine football stadium he need Pitt to sell it to the legislature. Nerdy being the ahole he was thought pitt was a hoops school . It never was.

Actually they became really good when they hired Paul Evans, who coached several of Chipman’s blue chippers like Charles Smith, since Evans had a reputation coaching bigman David Robinson at Navy.
Pitt won the BIgEast Conference Regular Season Championship in 1987-88 season and reached as high as Number 2 in the polls that year and was in the Top 10 all year.

Pitt’s best team although was in 1974, where it won 22 straight games and


gas," he said.

Employment Minister Jason Kenney said Friday that whether or not Russia is helping to spread lies about shale gas development, the continent needs more energy options, particularly from Canada.

He said Canada needs to build pipelines that travel east to help reduce Europe's dependence on Russian oil and gas.

"All of this links together," Kenney said.

Green groups denied any involvement with the Russian government in anti-fracking campaigns, and Russia's state-owned news service RT was quick to post a story denying Russian involvement.

"Greenpeace had 30 of its people locked up in (Russian) prisons last year, threatened with 15 years in jail," says a spokesman for Greenpeace, quoted in RT. "The idea we're puppets of Putin is so preposterous that you have to wonder what they're smoking over at NATOHQ."

Fracking has lead to the highest natural gas boon in the United States in nearly three decades. However, the practice has been banned in numerous jurisdictions, including Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic, following successful anti-fracking campaigns by environmental groups.


Daily Archives: April 10, 2016

The touching meeting between the father of Nicholas Green, the child killed along the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway in 1994, and the woman who received the liver of the child. “At night, when I lift my eyes to the sky and see the brightest star, I know he is there. He is my guardian angel.”

(Visto magazine – February 19, 2016)

“The day Nicholas died, October 1st 1994, Maria Pia was only 19 years old and she was dying. Only a transplant could save her. Looking at her now, a vigorous mother of two lovely children and wife to a loving husband, tears come to my eyes thinking that, if my wife Maggie and I had made a different decision that day, nothing of this would bepossible. If we hadn’t helped her and the others, I know we would never have forgiven ourselves”. Twentyone years have passed since Maria Pia Pedalà, in her final hepatic coma in a hospital bed, was saved at the very last moment by a liver transplant: the donor of the organ and of a new life was an American child, Nicholas Green, only seven years old, who was vacationing with his family in Italy and was declared brain dead after having been shot on September 29 1994 by two robbers along Salerno-Reggio Calabria Highway .

Since then, Maria Pia Pedalà has kept in touch from time to time with Nicholas’ parents whose deed of love gave a new life to her and to other three teenagers and an adult, and


also sight to two more people thanks to the donation of the kidneys, liver, heart, corneas and pancreas cells. Since then, Nicholas’ father comes to Italy every year – where more than 100 places including streets, schools, parks, squares have been named for the little Green child. The most recent visit took place on February 3rd, on occasion of a conference on organ donation organized in Palermo at the Mediterranean Institute for Transplants and Special Treatments (ISMETT). And right here in Palermo, Green met Maria Pia Pedalà again. Over these years she married and had two children, Alessia, 15 years old, and Nicholas, 17, who got his name to honor her mother’s donor.

“Every meeting with the Greens is a unique emotion for me: I feel a shiver runningeven as she and her husband, John, grappled with the enormity of their loss, they found the strength to donate her corneas, restoring the sight of two people, for whom there was no other cure. The child, born on one day of indiscriminate killing, September 11, 2001 – ‘9/11’ – and dying on another, gave the nation a reason to believe that, even in the most heart-wrenching circumstances, selflessness can overcome senselessness.

Shot at random: Christina-Taylor Green with her mother, Roxanna.

(Courtesy: the Green family)

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Six-year old Noah Michael Davis of Shawnee, Kansas. wanted to be a policeman so he could make sure “everyone was safe.” He didn’t make it. Instead, he drowned in the family swimming pool and was declared brain dead. Although he couldn’t help everyone, his


family did donate his kidneys, giving two very sick people their lives back. On what would have been his seventh birthday, he was sworn in as an honorary police officer.

Noah Davis, Honorary Police Officer

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Cora Hill of Orlando, Florida, 22 years old, dying from cystic fibrosis and, having received a new pair lungs that in time failed, in chronic pain and too weak for another transplant, came to a decision: calmly, but definitively, she told her family she wanted to be taken off life support and donate her kidneys.

In this photo, courtesy of the Hill family, she is holding the baby of a friend. Two days later, her ventilator was switched off and the lives of two very sick people were transformed. Her mother,Dee (who is in the photo) says it was Cora’s last smile.

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The Policlinico Gemelli hospital, connected to the Catholic University of Rome, says “The Nicholas Effect” video (available at www.nicholasgreen.org under DVDs) is the most frequently-watched item on its website, even in competition with universal killers like cancer or headline grabbers like Zika.

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Reg Green was the chief business writer for the London Daily Telegraph and a freelance commentator for the BBC. Although he specialized in economics, he wrote in his spare time for almost every section of the newspaper, including being the newspaper's jazz critic, writing travel articles, obituaries, book reviews and soccer. After emigrating to the United States he founded and edited Mutual Fund News Service, an investment newsletter. He is the


father of Nicholas Green, a seven-year old California boy who was shot in an attempted car jacking while on a family vacation in Italy in 1994. The killing became a worldwide news event when Reg and his wife, Maggie, donated their son's organs to seven very sick Italians, four of them teenagers. They went on to found the Nicholas Green Foundation (https://www.nicholasgreen.org) to promote organ donation to save some of the tens of thousands of deaths around the world caused every year by the failure of one organ that could have been replaced by a donated one.2nd Euph required at Hepworth

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Frank Gaffney

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Frank Gaffney, director of the hardline neoconservative Center for Security Policy (CSP), is a leading anti-Islamic pundit in the United States who advocates controversial weapons programs, a right-wing Israeli line on Mideast security, and an expansive "war on terror" targeting "Islamofascists" (a popular Gaffney term). Gaffney has been a militarist gadfly since the 1970s, getting his start working on the staff of Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA) before joining the Ronald Reagan Pentagon working under Richard Perle.

On Iran and Syria

After the 2013 election of moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Gaffney led CSP's charge against any diplomatic rapprochement between Tehran and Washington. "By simply meeting with Mr. Rouhani, let aloneHouse colleagues wrote a letter to the inspectors general of several federal agencies calling for an investigation into the alleged Islamist "penetration" of the U.S. government. The letter singled out Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who happened to be Muslim, charging that the young aide had family members "connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations." In making the claim, the authors cited "The Muslim Brotherhood in America," a 10-part "online course" published by Gaffney in which the CSP director unloads a litany of conspiracy theories about the Islamist group.[4]

These claims were roundly denounced on the left as well as the right. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) took to the Senate floor to decry what he called "an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable


woman, a dedicated American, and a loyal public servant."[5] House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) warned that "accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous."[6] The Democratic and Republican leaders of the House Intelligence Committee also denounced the accusations as baseless.[7]

Gaffney has also focused his invective and conspiracy-mongering on fellow conservatives. During a speech at a Nashville mega-church in late 2011, Gaffney reportedly "told the crowd that they were naive if they thought the Muslim Brotherhood threat could be expunged merely by voting Obama out of office." Commented journalist Jonathan Kay, "In fact, Gaffney believes the Brotherhood has penetrated the full range of Washington's political spectrum—including the Conservative Political Action Conference, the American Conservative Union, and even the Republican Party itself. To illustrate his point, Gaffney put upa long, rapid-fire sequence of slides showing photos of George W. Bush and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist posing with American Muslims, whom Gaffney invariably identified as 'Muslim Brotherhood operatives.'"[8]

Although other conspiratorial-minded members of the neoconservative firmament like David Horowitz and Andrew McCarthy embraced Gaffney's claims, they nonetheless resulted in his exile from the conservative mainstream. In May 2012, Slate blogger Dave Weigel reported that Gaffney had been banned both from the American Conservative Union's Conservative Political Action Conference and from Grover Norquist's weekly policy lunches.[9]

During the lead up to the November 2012 election, Gaffney was one of several right-wing pundits promoting the idea that President Obama lied about what happened during the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the death of four embassy


claims regarding the Barack Obama administration's logo for the Missile Defense Agency, which features a crescent-type shape, which Gaffney worried was a sign that the president might "submit" to Islam.[13] In a February 2010 article, Gaffney claimed, "Team Obama's anti-anti-missile initiatives are not simply acts of unilateral disarmament of the sort to be expected from an Alinsky acolyte. They seem to fit an increasingly obvious and worrying pattern of official U.S. submission to Islam and the theo-political-legal program the latter's authorities call Shariah."[14]

In 2014, in response to the military successes of the "Islamic State" in Iraq and Syria, Gaffney led calls for a "war on Shariah." Writing for the conservative Breitbart in August 2014, Gaffney called on Congress to pass a authorization for the use of military force,arguing: "It is past time to recognize that we are at war not with one group of 'terrorists' or another. Rather, adherents to a doctrine or ideology they call shariah are at war with us. By identifying the political-military-legal ideology of shariah as the defining ideology of those with whom we are at war—much as we did in the past against Nazism, Fascism, Japanese imperialism, and communism—we have a chance of prevailing. And that chance will be greatly enhanced if we bring to bear now, as in the past, not only military but all other instruments of national power."[15]

In 2010, Gaffney's CSP published a report titled "Shariah: The Threat to America," which contends that U.S. Muslims are waging a "stealth jihad" aimed at imposing Islamic law on the


United States and proposes prosecuting those who practice Sharia.[16] Citing the report, which was penned by David Yerushalmi, Gaffney wildly claimed that it"is now public knowledge that nearly every major Muslim organization in the United States is actually controlled by the MB [Muslim Brotherhood] or a derivative organization. Consequently, most of the Muslim-American groups of any prominence in America are now known to be, as a matter of fact, hostile to the United States and its Constitution."Commenting on this view, Nathan Brown, director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University, said that "Gaffney is a self-parody. I have better things to do with my time than investigating the veracity of his raving."[17]

Nevertheless, despite—or perhaps because of—his bizarre views, Gaffney has "considerable influence on mainstreampolitical discourse," according to CAP. He isfrequently cited in the press as an "expert" on U.S. foreign policy, appearing on the BBC and other radio and TV broadcasts. He is also a prolific writer, having published in most major media outlets and opinion journals, including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New Republic, Washington Post, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, National Review, Newsday, and Commentary magazine.[18]

Trajectory

Gaffney has supported a long line of rightist and neoconservative advocacy groups and research institutes. He was a founding member of the Project for the New American Century, a neocon-led letterhead group formed in 1997 by William Kristol and Robert Kagan to champion a "Reaganite" foreign policy based on military strength and an interventionist overseas agenda. Gaffney is


also a contributing expert for the Israel-based Ariel Center, which maintains a number of close links to rightist pro-Israel groups in the United States, and is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), the hawkish anti-communist Cold War-era group that was revived after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to champion the war on terror. He is an adviser for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, created after 9/11 with the purported mission of "promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that drive terrorism," and was an adviser to the now defunct Americans for Victory over Terrorism, created in 2002 by a William Bennett-led group of hardliners and neoconservatives.

Gaffney's views on U.S. foreign policy were shaped during the formative years of the neoconservative political factionin the early 1970s, when some disaffected liberals rallied around Sen. "Scoop" Jackson, a hardline Democrat known for his combative support of Israel and sharp anti-communism. When Jackson failed to garner support for his presidential election campaign in the mid-1970s, many of his disaffected liberal followers (who were derisively tagged as "neoconservatives" by left-leaning political figures) joined the Republican Party.

After the presidential victory of Ronald Reagan, Gaffney joined the Pentagon, where he served as an aide to then-Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle. Because of his pugnacity, especially toward State Department officials, Gaffney earned the moniker "Perle's Bulldog." After Perle resigned in 1987, Gaffney was nudged out of the Pentagon by Perle's replacement Frank Carlucci. Gaffney subsequently created the Center for Security Policy, which counts among its advisers


the CSP advisory council and board have been at least a dozen former CPD members. In a CSP annual report, Gaffney says CSP is "an organization for our time ... [whose] lean, agile organizational structure enables the Center to bring to today's debate what we call 'precision-guided ideas.'"

CSP garnered attention in 2014 when it was revealed that it receives funding in part from major aerospace and defense contractors, including Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, Raytheon, and General Electric.[20]

Salon's Eli Clifton, who revealed these donors, wrote of the revelations: "The aerospace industry's decision to support Gaffney's highly controversial work is unusual due to his reputation as a member of the fringe, anti-Muslim far-right."[21]

Before becoming undersecretary of defense for policy, Douglas Feith was the CSP's chairman and legalcounsel as well as a financial contributor. Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney have also long been close associates of CSP, which has been described as the "Star Warriors Hall of Fame." Rumsfeld, in addition to being a CSP "Keeper of the Flame" award winner in 1998, has been a CSP financial backer, and Cheney was formerly a CSP board member.[22]

In 1990 Gaffney scoffed at those who believed that Mikhail Gorbachev intended to allow the peaceful disintegration of the Soviet Union. The CSP's mission was "to promote world peace through American strength," Gaffney asserted. Holding firm, he continued warning of the imperial designs of the then-collapsing Soviet Union. Gaffney discounted evidence that the country was rapidly disintegrating and dismissed the sincerity of Gorbachev's overtures of cooperation with the United


States. "Now is the time for a new Team B," urged Gaffney, "and a clear-eyed assessment of the abiding Soviet (and other) challenges that dictate a continued, robust defense posture."[23]

The Soviet Union imploded before Gaffney could mobilize right-wing congressional members to establish an independent threat assessments commission. However, the Center for Security Policy nonetheless became one of the most influential policy institutes in the right's counter-establishment during the 1990s. Working with the congressional members of its advisory board, Gaffney's center was instrumental in establishing two independent commissions—chaired by Donald Rumsfeld—that challenged the Clinton administration's reluctance to authorize a space weapons program and a multi-tiered missile defense system.

In an article in the Nation, journalist Jason Vest wrote: "Beyond compiling an A-list of influential conservative hawks, Gaffney has been prolificinstrumental in keeping the program alive during the Clinton years)."[24]

Terrorism, Islamofascism, and National Security

It was not until after 9/11, however, that Gaffney began zeroing in on what he saw as burgeoning international terrorist networks threatening the United States. As Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service wrote, "Precisely whom the war is being waged against depends on the week. But since the Center's founding in 1988, the enemy has included the Soviet Union and its real or suspected allies; China; the Oslo peace process; Arabs (especially Palestinians); the United Nations and the Law of the Sea, in particular; anyone opposed to ever-bigger defense budgets and expensive, if unworkable, missile-defense programs; and, most recently, 'Islamofascists' (from al-Qaida to Saudi Arabia and the UAE to Iran)."[25]

Gaffney says that post-9/11 the main


threat to peace and security is "Islamofascism," which is a terms he says "makes clear that the war is about much more than Iraq and Afghanistan" and includes those countries—namely, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, North Korea, China, Cuba, Venezuela, and South Africa—which provide direct or indirect support for the Islamofascists "in their death struggle with us."[26]

A typical example of his discourse on this topic was a March 2006 article for the Jewish World Review titled "Islamofascist 'Coup' in Turkey," in which Gaffney claimed that "Islamofascists" were poised to create a "Muslim caliphate," in this case by trying to overturn Ataturk's secular legacy in Turkey. Wrote Gaffney: "Ending Ataturk's experiment and restoring the Muslim caliphate it supplanted has long been a goal of Islamofascists, adherents to a dangerouspolitical movement whose global reach and terrorist methods have largely been enabled by decades of investment by the world's repressive Islamist regimes, led by Saudi Arabia. The rise of Islamofascism has prompted some in the West to hope that Turkey would continue to serve as a model for the Muslim world even after an avowed Islamist named Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2002 parlayed a minority of votes into a monopoly of power. This delusion contributed to the European Union allowing its negotiations for Turkish accession to the EU to be skillfully used by Erdogan to checkmate Turkey's military." He concluded: "It behooves the European Union to reinforce the political impact of such sentiment by making clear that Islamofascist behavior will be what precludes Turkey from being eligible for


survival of both Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, endanger the effort to consolidate the liberation of Iraq, and create a new safe-haven from which Islamofascist terrorists will be able to plot and launch attacks against the United States."

At a 2006 CPD presentation, Gaffney warned that Iran "is working toward a capability that could destroy America as we know it." According to Gaffney, Iran's missile program appears designed to detonate a nuclear weapon "in space high above the United States, unleashing an immensely powerful electro-magnetic pulse (EMP)" that would destroy the U.S. electrical grid. The result could reduce the United States "to a pre-industrial society in the blink of an eye."[30] When this claim was echoed years later by Newt Gingrich, physicists described it as "far-fetched."[31]

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Gaffney isAfter waiting in a single file line to get into the show, which by the way, turned me off to going to an Irvine show again, I got to my seat just as the lights went down.
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Art Pearce said he became involved with the athletic department after connecting with Graham and Vice President for University Athletics Ray Anderson. He heard about their vision for the stadium and the football facility and wanted to help.

His initial idea was for a pitchfork statue, but Graham put forward the idea of doing a Tillman statue first. Pearce loved the idea and decided to do both, agreeing with Graham that it was more important to honor Tillman first. The giant pitchfork is in storage at a Mesa foundry, where artist Jeff Carol Davenport works.

Davenport did a statue of Zeb Pearce that was installed in Mesa in 2014. She and others were guarded about the cost of the Tillman statue. She said that if


she were to do a project of this type again, it would be about $250,000. But given she and Art Pearce’s working relationship, she did the Tillman statue at a discount.

Graham has made it a priority to make sure Pearce and every other player who ever played football for ASU has his photo somewhere in the new football building. There are a few gaps, but the program is working to fill them.

Art Pearce said he plans to provide the program a photo of his great-grandfather that can be included among the images, facts and statistics on display in a hallway that doubles as a program museum.

Graham also has gone out of his way to make sure Kush, who died in June at age 88, is recognized as the“architect of our program.”

He said he makes sure his players “know their history.”

Understanding the past helps athletes “connect to something bigger than themselves, which is so important given how individualized” society has become.

Tillman became an American hero after walking away from a $3.6 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals to join the Army after the terror attacks of Sept. 11. He was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. He was 27.

At ASU, Tillman became Pac-10 defensive player of the year. He helped lead the Sun Devils to the 1997 Rose Bowl after an undefeated regular season.

He was known as a hard-nosed linebacker, who earned both an academic and athletic All-America honors.

In death, his name and number have become synonymous with Valley through the annual Pat’s Run, a charity event


that supports the Pat Tillman Foundation, which was founded in 2004 and provides college scholarships to military veterans and their spouses.

To date, the foundation has invested $14 million in academic support to hundreds of Tillman scholars.

Pat Tillman's mother Mary “Dannie” Tillman hugs her granddaughter as she looks up at a statue in her son's likeness during an unveiling ceremony at Sun Devil Stadium Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Tempe. Ariz.(Photo: David Kadlubowski/azcentral sports)

Tillman is depicted in a statue outside University of Phoenix Stadium, where Cardinals fans pose for pictures. That statue shows Tillman in celebration; helmet off, hair wild. The ASU version shows a subdued Tillman, walking to the field with his helmet on, long hair flowing from the back.

Graham said that each of his players will touchthe statue, which has a maroon patina and stands around 9-feet tall on its pedestal, on their way to the field.

The unveiling of the statue comes at a transformative moment for the nation.

Black Lives Matter protests rocked the election cycle. A white nationalist rally around a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Va., this month turned deadly. And the sky over downtown Phoenix was the latest to fill with teargas as police sought to disperse demonstrators outside of an assembly for President Donald Trump, who recently pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio after the lawman was convicted of violating a court order demanding he stop targeting Latinos in traffic sweeps.

Athletes, meanwhile, have been protesting racism during the national anthem and taking political position on social media and elsewhere.

Tillman, for


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Sept. 5, 2013 - ASU players prepare to take the field against Sacramento State at Sun Devil Stadium. The Tillman Tunnel was unveiled on Sept. 4 with a picture of the former Sun Devil leading the way onto the field for all future games. Rob Schumacher/azcentral sports

Sept. 5, 2013 - The Arizona State football team prepares to take the field behind a photograph of Pat Tillman against Sacramento State at Sun Devil Stadium. The Tillman Tunnel was unveiled on Sept. 4 featuring a photograph of the former Sun Devil leading the way onto the field. Rob Schumacher/azcentral sports

Sept. 4, 2013 - A redesigned Tillman Tunnel has been unveiled at Sun Devil Stadium. A picture of the former Sun Devil will lead the way onto the fieldfor all future games. Rob Schumacher/azcentral sports

July 23, 1998: Cardinals rookie safety and former star linebacker at ASU, Pat Tillman goes horizontal to make a spectacular one-handed grab of a pass during a drill at the afternoon session of the opening day of training camp. Paul F. Gero/The Arizona Republic

Sept. 2, 1998: Former ASU standout linebacker Pat Tillman makes good on the Arizona Cardinals team as he was named to the starting unit, as a safety, just days before the team's season opener in Dallas. Mike Rynearson/The Arizona Republic

June 2003: Former Arizona Cardinals safety Pat Tillman as an Army Ranger. Tillman turned down a multi-million dollar contract from the Cardinals to enlist in the Army Rangers in 2002. AP Photo/Photography Plus via Williamson Stealth Media Solutions

Nov. 13, 2004:


ASU fans in the student section hold up a large sign and chant Pat Tillman's name during an award ceremony honoring the former star Sun Devil during halftime of ASU's game against Washington State. Mike Rynearson/azcentral sports

April 10, 2008: Marie Tillman, wife of the late Pat Tillman, listens to two Tillman Scholars talk about their social welfare projects at Arizona State's LVA Building in Tempe. Cheryl Evans/azcentral sports

March 19, 2010 - A photograph Pat Tillman is displayed on a wooden cross at a roadside memorial that features over 5,000 wooden crosses which represent U.S. troops that have been killed in Iraq in Lafayette, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Feb 15, 2008 - Evolution Custom Cycles and SandBox Creative designed and built an $85,000 motorcycle in honor of Pat Tillman. Thebike was raffled off, with proceeds going to the Pat Tillman Foundation. Courtesy of SandBox Creative

Feb. 5, 2011 - Billy Mayfair, wearing a No. 42 Pat Tillman ASU football jersey, celebrates after his tee shot on the 16th hole during the second round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Scottsdale almost went in for a hole-in-one. Christian Petersen/Getty Images


In 1861, wealthy merchant and landowner Francois Lacroix brought suit before the Second Justice of the Peace against James L. Imlay for the recovery of $100 representing a year's rent for two lots of ground at Gentilly, near Bayou St. J
ohn, on which Imlay held a ten year lease. Lacroix had leased the land to Imlay in 1859 for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a race course on the property, in conjunction with additional adjacent land leased from Alphonse Miltenberger. We bel
ieve that this race course must have been the Union Race Course, later known as the Creole Race Course and, finally (and currently) the Fair Grounds. Originally laid out in 1852, the Union Course stood at the junction of Bayou and Gentilly roads. It cl
osed downafter five years, but in 1859 the course was leased by the members of the Metairie Trotting and Pacing Club and renamed the Creole Course. During the Civil War, the course was leased by several promoters--among them, perhaps, James Imlay, who a
pparently did not carry out the terms of his lease. Shown here is an extract from a copy of the lease agreement, filed as evidence in the appeal of the Justice of the Peace's decision (for the plaintiff, Lacroix) heard in Third Dis
trict Court.

[Orleans Parish. Third District Court. #16506]

The register of free people of color was created in response to the state law of 1830 designed to keep track of non-native Louisiana free people who entered the state after 1812 but before 1825 and other freed people


who may have been nativ
es of the city and or state. Long established free families of color were not required to register since their roots in Louisiana went back before 1812. View a very interesting extract from Volume One of the Register.

[Office of the Mayor. Register of Free Persons of Color
Allowed to Remain in the State, 1840-1857.]

This 1842 city directory lists several free people of color by name and includes their addresses, but there are several other free people listed here who are not designated by either fwc or fmc.

In 1841, the General Council of New Orleans passed an
ordinance establishing a Board of Health for the city. One of the
provisions of this ordinance also stipulated that the sextons of the
various cemeteries should record death certif icates presented toView a transcription extracted from the
original record book for the Catholic Cemeteries.

[Office of the Mayor. Records of Interments in the
Non-Municipal Cemeteries of New Orleans. v. 4, Catholic Cemeteries,
1841-1842]

According to her tomb, Marie Justine Cirnaire, the widow Couvent, was a
"native d'Afrique" and approximately 80 years old when she died in 1837.

Throughout their history in Louisiana, free people of color were subjected to restrictive laws designed to limit their numbers in Louisiana. In the early years of the 19th century, the Territorial government passed legislation requiring that all free bla
cks carry proof of their freedom upon their persons. Seen here is such a document, belonging to William Carret, a young mulatto man about 18, who in 1854 satisfied the Second District Recorders Court that "he was a free born of


the state of Louisiana." T
he pass entitled him "to pass and repass through the state unmolested, he demeaning well and properly." The tears in this document indicate that the paper was folded and refolded, perhaps carried for many years in a wallet or pocket.

[Official Vertical File]

The family tomb of the Rousseves, including Charles Rousseve, his ancestors, siblings, and descendants. Rousseve, a New Orleans educator and historian, came from a highly educated family which included a Catholic priest, a nun, teachers, a social worker,
and an architect.

The tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 of Arthur Esteves and family. Esteves (d. 1908), was a sail and awning maker, a trustee of the Couvent School and the president of the Comite des Citoyens (Citizens Committee), a group of Creole early civilintense perfectionist demands, no child comes awayundamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous game.

Witch & Wizard

The world is changing - the government has seized control of almost everything and kids are disappearing. For 15 year-old Wisty and her older brother, Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend, except that the new government is clearly trying to suppress Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

The Trial: A BookShot: A Women's Murder Club Story

An accused murderer called Kingfisher is about to go on trial for his life. Or is he? By unleashing


unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in the case, he has paralyzed the city. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club are caught in the eye of the storm.

Missing: A Private Novel

Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find. Except it's not just the man who's gone missing. Despite the most advanced technology at their disposal, they find every trace of him has vanished, too.

Private

Former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secretsof the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily - and his staff of investigators uses the world's most advanced forensic tools to make and break their cases.

Cross the Line: Alex Cross, Book 24

Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, DC. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city's police force scrambling for answers. Under pressure from the mayor, Alex Cross steps into the leadership vacuum to crack the case. But before Cross can make any headway, a brutal crime wave sweeps across the region. The deadly scenes share only one common thread: The victims are all criminals.

Bullseye

Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect


cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red hot once again.

The Games

Two years ago Jack Morgan - the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private - was in charge of security for the World Cup. During the championship match, the action nearly spilled from the field into the stands. Fortunately, Jack and his Private team averted disaster on soccer's biggest stage. Now he has returned to Rio to secure the Olympics. But before the torch is lit, the threats come fast and furious when Jack discovers that someone in Brazil will stop at nothing to sabotage the games.

NYPDA character with an incoherent personality who seemed to reinvent her motivations on a weekly basis, Andrea (Laurie Holden) really began to get on our nerves in season 3. While the rest of the show rebooted in a more action-heavy direction, Andrea became the last vestige of Dead's moralizing-soliloquy dark side, making speeches and self-justifying and generally bringing the action to a halt. It didn't help matters that, in the not-so-grand tradition of Marissa Cooper, she also had a tendency to fall for the way wrong guy. (Seriously, she hooked up with with the bad guy in two consecutive seasons.) In the Dead comic book, Andrea was one of the fan-favorite characters; by the time TV-Andrea bit the bullet in the show, fans were just grateful to see


On April 20, 1914, members of the Colorado National Guard, along with a strikbreaking militia employed by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, a corporation owned by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., opened fire on a tent camp of strikers at Ludlow, in the coal country of southern Colorado, north of Trinidad. At least 19 people died in the tent camp that day, mostly wives and children of the strikers.

Colorado Fuel and Iron was the largest coal company in the American West. The state of Colorado had passed a significant number of laws concerning the regulation of coal mines but CF&I ensured that none of them were enforced. Workers were not paid for such things as traveling into the mines, shoring up the mine ceilings, or fixing tools; meanwhileharass the strikers.

Striking family at Ludlow

Tensions mounted quickly. The Baldwin-Felts agents set up snipers to shoot into the camps. They shone spotlights into the camps at night and created an armored car mounted with a machine gun to drive around the tent town and scare strikers. The governor of Colorado, Elias Ammons, came down on the side of CF&I, calling in the National Guard to “restore order” on October 28, 1913 and for the rest of the winter, strikers faced major harassment from the state.

But by the spring, the state had run out of money to fund the National Guard presence so, leaving 2 Guard units in Ludlow as support, it pulled out but gave CF&I permission to fund its own security forces. As bad as the state


was, a private army was sure to lead to disaster. Indeed, that’s what happened on April 20.

On that morning, the Monday after Easter, the private army lured strike leader Louis Tikas, a Greek immigrant, out of camp for a spurious reason. They then began to open fire on the camp and a day-long battle raged. The well-armed miners (armed both to protect themselves against the strikebreakers and to protect their jobs from scabs) fought back bravely, but could not match the machine guns of the CF&I forces. That evening, a train conductor stopped his train between the strikers and the private army, allowing most of the residents to escape into the nearby hills. However, Tikas was soon captured by the militia. One of the National Guard commanders, KarlLinderfelt, promptly broke a rifle butt on Tikas’ head; Tikas and two other strikers were later found shot dead. The milita set the camp on fire to destroy it.

That fire killed 15 more people. Fearing the snipers, many camp residents dug cellars underneath the tents to hide. Four women and eleven children, including two infants named Elvira Valdez and Frank Petrucci, went into the cellars during the day. The fire sucked all the oxygen out and they all suffocated to death. It was the death of these 15 innocents that led to the term “Ludlow Massacre.”

The well-armed strikers did not meekly return to work after the Ludlow Massacre. Outraged, they began their own campaign of violence against the militia and scabs. The UMWA openly armed its strikers and


a 10-day guerilla war ensued with high casualties on both sides; somewhere between 69 and 199 people died. Miners destroyed mine building and tunnels, and even blew up the dam that provided drinking water for the Ludlow mines. Finally, Woodrow Wilson sent in the U.S. Army to end the hostilities; unlike previous examples of federal intervention in strikes, Wilson ordered neutrality and in fact the Army arrested several militia members. By December however, the UMWA had run out of funds and the strike ended in a total defeat.

Ludlow survivors

Still, the Ludlow Massacre was a public relations disaster for CF&I and for Rockefeller. Rockefeller was vilified in the press for the killing of women and children. He responded to this negative publicity by launching his own “investigation,” flooding theinspired the greatest labor song in American history.

“It was early springtime and the strike was on.” That’s one of my favorite first lines in music.

Any reading on the Ludlow Massacre has to start with Thomas Andrews’ brilliant Bancroft Prize-winning book Killing for Coal. You can also read the many reports produced about Ludlow thanks to the wonderful series of reprints of key labor documents in the 1970s by Arno Press and the New York Times. It’s also interesting to remember that George McGovern’s dissertation was on the Colorado coal war, particularly since he turned sour on labor during his career.

This series has also covered events including the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 and the beating of the women and children in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912.


the English-language LCK cast in 2016. It was an underhanded jab at his abysmal warding numbers that also awed at his mechanical prowess and intelligent jungle paths.

Now on SK Telecom T1, Peanut’s aggressive legacy with the ROX Tigers has become the foundation of his jungle style — earlier that day, Peanut dazzled Svenskeren with his Lee Sin, a champion on which Peanut has yet to lose a game in 2017 — but he’s also evolved into a more flexible jungler.

After a myriad of interviews, features, and a round in the Kiss and Cry with various media outlets, Peanut bounced into our smaller interview room, still full of energy after his most recent victory over Team WE, the last match of the day.

“I actually am feeling very well today,”Tuesday, October 15, 2013

CM James Announces 2014 Clinton Hill Slow Zone

Council Member Letitia James Announces 2014 Clinton Hill Slow ZoneCrown Heights and Prospect Heights To Receive Slow Zones By 2016

(Brooklyn, NY)— On Friday, October 11, 2013, the NYC Department of Transportation’s Neighborhood Slow Zones Initiative announced five new slow zones for the City of New York, including one for Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

The 2014 slow zones, which lower speed limits from 30 mph to 20 mph where needed (in addition to adding new signage, street markings, and speed bumps to city blocks) will help combat speeding in a Downtown Brooklyn area that is seeing increased commercial and residential development, as well as a sharp increase in bike riding.

Clinton Hill was selected for the program following strong community support. The


innovative social engineer — got his start in the early 20th century it was a word less charged but equally as potent. In fact, Bernays unabashedly named one of his books Propaganda.

“Edward Bernays was surely one of the most amazing and influential characters of the twentieth century,” explains John Stauber, co-author of Toxic Sludge is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies, and Public Relations. “He was a nephew of Sigmund Freud and helped to popularize Freudianism in the United States. Later, he used his relation to Freud to promote himself. And from his uncle’s psychoanalysis techniques, Bernays developed a scientific method of managing behavior, to which he gave the name ‘public relations.’”

The Vienna-born Bernays was heavily influenced, of course, by his uncle’s work but it was in thecommunists should be induced and encouraged, because by unleashing irrational fears, it would make Americans loyal to the state and to capitalism,” writes Tim Adams, in the LondonObserver.

The United Fruit Historical Society website offers an instructive chronology of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita). The entries include:

1901: The government of Guatemala hires United Fruit Company to manage the country’s national post service.

1904: Guatemalan dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera grants United Fruit a 99-nine year concession to construct and maintain the country’s main rail line from Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios.

1924: The Guatemalan government gives a concession to the United Fruit for 20 square miles of uncultivated land.

United Fruit’s domination of this Central American nation was challenged when, in a landslide victory, Jacobo Arbenz was freely and fairly elected president


military coup when the CIA put Operation Success into action. “A legally elected government was overthrown by an invasion force of mercenaries trained by the CIA at military bases in Honduras and Nicaragua and supported by four American fighter planes flown by American pilots,” explains Howard Zinn.

Once in power, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, a man who was trained at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, gave back the land to United Fruit, abolished the tax on interest and dividends to foreign investors, eliminated the secret ballot, and jailed thousands of political critics. The CIA coup ushered in decades of repression, resulting in more than 200,000 deaths.

Shift Happens
I could go on and on detailing the damage done by Edward Bernays and his ilk yet never keep up with the deluge.In the eraPolicy. "A policymaking process needs to respond quickly to new information in order to prevent extinction for hundreds of animals and plants. That's why it's absolutely critical that policymakers allow science to inform a speedy protection process."

Frank and his co-author, David Wilcove from Princeton University, analyzed 958 species on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List that are endangered by international trade. Of those, they discovered that 28 percent are not protected by CITES, the primary international framework for preventing species extinction due to international wildlife trade.

When studying how quickly species from the Red List became protected under CITES, they found that 62 percent needed to wait as long as 19 years for protection under CITES or are still waiting to be listed up


to 24 years after being first considered. These patterns are the same for even the most threatened species.

At the same time, the study points out that 36 percent of species studied were protected by CITES before making it on the Red List. This could be because the CITES authorities had information not available to the IUCN, or it could be due to staffing and other resource constraints at the IUCN.

"CITES and the Red List are two of the most important tools we have to save wildlife threatened by international trade. It's vital that these two institutions work together closely and quickly to stop the killing," said Wilcove, who is based at the Princeton Environmental Institute and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Frank and Wilcove recommendsemiconductor properties that nanotubes possess.

Forget the dog-eared holiday paperback: you'll be reading an ebook on the beach this summer, if Amazon's latest sales figures are anything to go by.

For the first time, Amazon's Kindle book sales have overtaken those of their paperbacks, making ebooks the company's most popular format in the US. In a statement published on their website, Amazon announced:

"Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle books than paperback books. Since the beginning of the year, for every 100 paperback books Amazon has sold, the Company has sold 115 Kindle books. Additionally, during this same time period the company has sold three times as many Kindle books as hardcover books."

Kindle sales first overtook hardbacks back in July of 2010. But this latest announcement marks a much more significant


instructions for building one at a cost of around $100. It's not the first time file-sharing has entered the real world though - last year artist Aram Bartholl installed USB sticks in walls and buildings around New York to create a series of digital dead drops.

John Gilmore, internet activist and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, famously said "The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." But what happens when all online routes are cut off?

At around 10.30 pm GMT last night, the Egyptian government shut down the entire country's connection to the internet, leaving its citizens unable to access websites hosted in the rest of the world. Attempts to access Egyptian sites from outside also fail - for example, http://egypt.gov.eg/ is currently unresponsive - whileEgyptian access to .eg domains is likely to be extremely unreliable.

(Image: News Pictures/MCP/Rex Features)

Protesters against the government had been coordinating their actions on social networking sites, leading the government to block the likes of Twitter and Facebook, but many got around these restrictions by using smartphones or proxy servers. Now, access through any means is almost impossible - Egypt is effectively offline.

"The Egyptian government's actions tonight have essentially wiped their country from the global map," said James Cowie of Renesys, a internet access monitoring company, in a blog post last night. "What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the internet?"

Google's famous "don't be evil" commitment, made in the firm's infancy, has elicited two kinds of response over the years. Fans of corporate responsibility


the width. The wind blew across the street, from right to left over the buildings, with some of the fresh air running down the left wall. Much of the air blew across the road and up the face of the opposite buildings, taking pollutants with it.

But when parallel parked cars were parked alongside the left side of the street, the three-metre-wide footpath caught much of the fresh air in an eddy. On the right footpath, the cars served as a wall, directing the air from the road to flow above it while less-polluted air circulated in its own eddy for the pedestrians to breathe.

Companies take a number of measures to protect their confidential data, but a survey of 1,000 British office workers by computer security firm Symantec revealsthe frame rate has jumped a factor of 30, from one frame every two seconds to an impressive 15 frames per second.

Michael Bove's group at the MIT Media Lab achieved the feat by hacking the camera sensor from a Kinect gesture-recognition system for Microsoft's Xbox 360 and crunching data with standard graphics chips.To give their demonstration extra flair, graduate student Edwina Portocarrero dressed up as Princess Leia from Star Wars and recreated the famous holographic projection of a plea for help from the movie.

The real holographic image couldn't match the resolution achieved by special effects in the movie, Bove says, but adds, "Princess Leia wasn't being transmitted in real time. She was stored" in R2-D2's memory.

Can you balance a pencil on the tip of your finger? Probably not,