Shigihara. 'This is the first time anyone has used an electric current to clean teeth, ' he said.

The brush comes in small or medium sizes and four colours. A brush with nylon bristles costs £2.10, while the version with bristles made of horsehair costs £4.50.

It went on sale last month in Japan, and is made by Kagoshima Supersonic Technical Laboratory Co in the city of Kagoshima in the south of the country.

'We only started selling the PM Toothbrush in February but we have had many people express interest, ' said Megumi Ueno, who is in charge of international sales.

She said there were no plans yet to market the brush in Britain, but if it proves a major success then the company would look at the possibility.

Despite the claimsa researcher to collect them after use. There is a gold layer on their surfaces, which help them attach to bacteria and deliver nanoparticles. In addition, gold also has some microbicidal activity.

Silver Nanoparticle-Enhanced Microbots vs. E. coli

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Catalonian Institute of Research tested the efficacy of a combination of Juno microbots and silver nanoparticles in clearing E. coli bacteria from contaminated water. The silver nanoparticles were placed on the microbots’ surfaces. The microbots enhanced the ability of the nanoparticles to access and invade the bacteria, and were shown to kill 80 percent of the bacteria in 15 minutes. The nanoparticles and microbots were able to effectively bind to the


In 2286, a alien probe of unknown origin wreaked ecological havoc while trying to contact an extinct species of Humpback whale by transmitting massive amounts of energy into Earth's oceans and unintentionally caused them to begin evaporating. The threat was ended when the former crew of the USS Enterprise, having used a stolen Klingon Bird-of-Prey to travel back in time to before the species' extinction, returned to the present with two Humpbacks, and after the two whales gave a response to the probe, it departed the Solar System with little, if any, real harm done to the planet. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

In 2375, the Borg decided to create another strategy, since all direct assaults on Earth had failed thus far. They planned to detonate a biogeniccharge in Earth's atmosphere, infecting all lifeforms with nanoprobe viruses, triggering a gradual assimilation. According to the Borg Queen, half the population would be drones before the effects were discovered. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")

It is uncertain whether this plan came to fruition, but it was likely never applied. According to the non-canon novelization of "Endgame", the nanoprobe virus was brought to Earth and rapidly infected the population.

In Art

Once Humans began leaving Earth in the 20th century, they photographed and drew pictures of the planet for various reasons. These pictures were then displayed in homes, offices, and recreation facilities. The earliest depictions of Earth were from the space agencies which sent Humans into space. These included official mission photos and insignias. Many of these images were preserved into the 22nd


century and beyond. (TOS: "The Cage", ENT: "First Flight"}

Earth destroyed

Earth, moments before exploding

The Earth was completely destroyed in two alternate timelines. In one of the timelines, Jonathan Archer's brain was infected by interspatial parasites and Earth was destroyed by the Xindi superweapon in 2154. This timeline was erased in 2165 when the parasites were destroyed by a subspace implosion aboard Enterprise - because the organisms existed outside normal spacetime, their elimination prevented Archer from ever being infected in the first place. (ENT: "Twilight")

Mirror universe

In the mirror universe, Earth's counterpart was the capital of the Terran Empire. History followed a similar yet skewed course on this Earth, by comparison to the history of Earth in the United Federation of Planets, with a more violent, war-ridden past. According to JonathanArcher, the Empire existed "for centuries" prior to 2155. As a result of the official First Contact with the Vulcans in 2063, Earth gained interstellar technology, allowing the Empire to expand. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly")

In Decipher's Mirror Universe, Earth is subjected to a Klingon planetary bombardment during the fall of the Terran Empire. The western half of North America is reduced to wasteland, Ireland and New Zealand are smashed into tiny islets, and the new continent of East Africa is created when a faultline is cracked open. In the aftermath, Earth's cities are rebuilt by the Alliance as giant labor camps and factory complexes. Kolara (the former site of Paris) houses Alliance officials.

From 2113, Earth had been governed by the uniglobal United Earth government. The government of


Earth was divided into six major regional powers that were governed by their respective capitals. These capitals were San Francisco (North America), Paris (Europe), Kyoto (Asia), Lima (South America), Cape Town (Africa), and Christchurch (Oceania). In 2161, Earth was a founding member of the United Federation of Planets. The dominant species were Humans and Cetaceans. In the census of 2370, there were counted 4.2 billion Humans and 8.1 million Cetaceans living on Earth. Points of interest included the UFP Council Chambers, Starfleet Headquarters, Starfleet Academy, Cochrane Memorial, Yosemite Valley, and Angel Falls.

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According to Gene Roddenberry's novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, there is a dam across the Straits of Gibraltar. This allowed the level of the Mediterranean Sea to be lowered, creating new farm and park landNEW DELHI—Canadian Press reporters travelled to South Africa and India to investigate the growing epidemic of drug resistance, which experts describe as the single greatest threat to human health on the planet. This is the final story of a six-part series exploring how the unfettered use of antibiotics pushes humanity closer to a post-antibiotic era in which common infections may be impossible to treat. The R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship helped fund the project.

Pranav Johri completed five rounds of antibiotics to treat a persistent prostate problem in his early 30s, but his case flummoxed doctors because the medicine seemed to make him worse.

“My entire life had become so limited,” says the 35-year-old workaholic from India’s capital city, recalling how he couldn’t summon strength for much more than


stop the drug regimen — a major problem with current TB medicine — would markedly reduce resistance.

First North American phage therapy centre to open

At least one Western medical researcher joins patients in reconsidering phage therapy — but it took a first-hand brush with death to open her eyes.

Steffanie Strathdee, an infectious disease epidemiologist, remembers visiting her husband Tom Patterson in a U.S. hospital, where he slipped in and out of consciousness while fighting a deadly multi-drug resistant infection.

Tom, now 71 years old, fell ill on the last night of their trip to Egypt in November 2015. By the time he was moved to a hospital in the couple’s hometown of San Diego, doctors told them he would likely die.

Steffanie begged him for a sign that he wanted toMoments later Lucumi set up Jarlan Barrera but he curled his effort wide.

Just when wave after wave of attack was coming from Colombia, the U.S. broke away and took the lead against the run of play.

A looping ball forward was nodded down my Emerson Hyndman to Paul Arriola and his blocked shot fell perfectly into Rubin’s path. The FC Utrecht striker instinctively hammered home his third goal of the tournament to put the U.S. 1-0 up and withing 30 minutes of reaching the quarterfinals.

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After going ahead the U.S. grew in confidence and were dangerous on the break as Colombia threw caution to the wind. Allen broke free but squandered a good chance, while Colombia managed to scramble the ball clear after a corner


last night. The crab risotto that was on the specials menu was to die for. Will definitely be back. Our waitress was Ellie and she had a lovely character, very attentive. Perfect customer service. I'd recommend the anchor for a reasonably priced tasty meal.

The location is beautiful on the spur side of the river crouch. We had reserved a table and the service was immaculate and the food was excellent. The restaurant was really busy as the weather was glorious but we weren’t kept waiting at all and the food can up really quickly It was excellent value for money and although an bit of a drive from where we live we shall make it a regular occasion.

A Beautiful restaurant overlooking the river, food was amazing, staff wereto recent report, a 62-year old man named Jim was found to have extremely high cholesterol level. This puts him in the high risk group of hypertension and stroke. However, he did not give in to this problem and decided to try out the flaxseed method. What happened after that will throw you off your chair!

He took a quarter measure of newly ground flaxseed every day. He did his an hour before his dinner and found that in 2 weeks, his cholesterol had dropped almost 30% from the level he was first reported. After 6 months of doing this, his cholesterol level was at a stable rate. Meanwhile, he lost about 15kgs and experienced much better skin health in general. He said that he felt like he was


of the World Zionist Organization, declared the independence of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. The U.S. was the first country to recognize Israel minutes later. The state of Israel has benefitted from U.S. largesse both in terms of money and protection from international condemnation at the United Nations.

The state of Israel has also benefitted from the U.S. government’s refusal to investigate or hold it accountable for its misdeeds. If Americans only knew how tight the U.S. government and the government of Israel really are, we might question those in power. As it currently stands, there’s very little questioning and a great deal of genuflecting when Israeli leaders call Washington.

For who? Certainly, the fallacious facade of the U.S. as a neutral mediator for peace in theTunnel, built in 1897 probably to designs of Alexander R Binnie, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Historical interest:
* as the northern portal to the first vehicular tunnel built under the Thames.

Architectural interest:
* for its striking use of pink polished granite and its commemorative inscription.

History

The original plan for a first practical vehicular road tunnel under the River Thames was undertaken by the Metropolitan Board of Works which obtained an Act in 1887. Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s plan was for three parallel tunnels, with separate tunnels for vehicles and pedestrians, and the work was to have been completed within seven years. However, the Metropolitan Board of Works was wound up on 21 March 1889, prior to the establishment of the London County Council on 1 April 1889,


just as contracts for the work were about to be let. A new scheme was proposed following an inspection of the compressed air working used to hold back the outside water pressure at the Hudson River tunnel in New York and the St Clair tunnel in Canada. The new scheme, reduced to a single tunnel, was devised by the London County Council Chief Engineer, Alexander R Binnie (1839-1917) and submitted on 20 November 1890. The tender of S Pearson and Son (who were building the Hudson River tunnel), of £871,000, was accepted towards the end of 1891 and work began in 1892. The tunnel is 1,890m long with an outside diameter of the cast-iron lining of 8m. The Blackwall Tunnel was opened by the Prince of Wales on22 May 1897.

By the 1930s the tunnel was becoming inadequate due to the volume of traffic and the London County Council obtained an Act in 1938 for a new tunnel sited to the east of the original one. However, the war intervened and construction works did not begin until 1958. The eastern tunnel opened in 1967 and is used for south-bound traffic with north-bound traffic using the original tunnel.

In 1999 the tunnel was supplemented by flood gates housed in a building over the carriageway at the entrance to the tunnel obscuring, but not altering, the portal.

Details

Northern portal and parapet to the Blackwall Tunnel. Built 1897 probably to designs of Alexander R Binnie, Engineer.

MATERIALS: pinkish brown polished granite blocks.

DESCRIPTION: the portal consists of the round-arched tunnel opening with a


parapet at the top separated by a roll moulding. The parapet, which fronts onto Poplar High Street, has a sloped and rounded coping and square end-piers, each with four semi-circular faces with inscribed decoration. The arch has moulded decoration. On north face of the parapet an incised inscription reads ‘THIS TUNNEL CONSTRUCTED BY THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL WAS OPENED BY/ HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES K.C. ON BEHALF OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA ON 22nd MAY 1897 IN THE 60th YEAR OF HER REIGN/ SIR ALEX R. BINNIE ENGINEER'.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the portal is adjoined to the south by the tunnel* itself, including steps* to a raised walkway* on the west side of the carriageway. It is also adjoined to the north by high retaining walls*, encased in concreteNHL notes: Leafs-Wings set to meet in 2014 Winter Classic

Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard (L) talks with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on the field at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan February 9, 2012, following an announcement that the Red Wings will host the Toronto Maple Leafs at Michigan Stadium on the University of Michigan campus in the 2013 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic. (REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)

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The Toronto Maple Leafs will finally get their chance to play the Detroit Red Wings outdoors.

The Winter Classic meeting between the Leafs and Wings, originally scheduled for last New Year's Day, was shelved due to the NHL lockout.

But, as expected, the league will announce Sunday at Joe Louis Arena that the 2014 Winter Classic will see the two Original Six rivals


meet at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Jan. 1, according to MLive.com.

The NHL will also unveil the throwback jerseys the Leafs and Wings will wear in the Winter Classic at the press conference.

A crowd of 110,000 is expected for the Winter Classic.

The Leafs and Wings will be division rivals for the outdoor game after NHL realignment for 2013-14 shuffled Detroit back to the Eastern Conference.

CROSBY NOT CONCUSSED

Looks like Sidney Crosby got off a little lucky when he was clipped in the face by a stray puck last weekend.

Although the Pittsburgh Penguins star has a broken jaw -- he also needed some dental work done -- and will be out for a few weeks, he was not concussed on the play, his agent, Pat Brisson, insisted inof the WHL this season.

BOUCHER 'SHOCKED'

Former Tampa Bay Lightning coach Guy Boucher admitted he was shocked by his firing on March 24.

"But that's the business and you have to deal with it," Boucher told the Tampa Tribune. "It's something you have to deal with and it puts a lot of things in perspective. This is difficult. It's a tough one, but adversity makes you grow."

Boucher coached the Lightning for two and half seasons before being fired by general manager Steve Yzerman after going 13-17-1 this year. Yzerman hired Jon Cooper as Boucher's replacement.

"Steve and I had had a brief conversation that day and he said he wanted to make a change," Boucher said. "We didn't have any problems. We stuck together as a team and as a staff


we have to figure out now where he is health-wise in terms of his career."

Mitchell, who hasn't played at all this season, is in the first year of a two-year, $7 million contract.

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San Jose Sharks defenceman Marc-Edouard Vlasic was fined $8,378 for slashing Minnesota Wild forward Dany Heatly Wednesday. Vlasic wasn't suspended for the play, which resulted in a major penalty, even though Heatly is expected to miss games as a result of being slashed ... The St. Louis Blues signed forward Chris Porter to a two-year, $1.35 million contract extension. Porter, 28, has one goal and one assist in 15 games this season ... Hockey Hall of Fame chairman and CEO Bill Hay will retire July 31. Hay was appointed chairman and CEO of the Hall inrich visual and sound experience.- Interactive - We use the touch technology and animation to engage the reader in the story in an enchanting and educational way.- Age approach - The classic Bible story is retold here with an original and creative approach that appeals to young kids as well as adults.- Original - The app is designed like a vintage popup book and includes unique features such as interacting with a band of angels and playing instruments like trumpet and harp.


approached the trailer where defendant was hiding, he fled. He was arrested after he "fled out the back door." A bag defendant had packed for the trip to Buffalo, New York contained a "12 gauge shotgun".

III. DISCUSSION
Defendant argues the trial court improperly imposed a restitution fine that included reimbursement to Susan F. for the relocation costs she incurred in purchasing a new mobilehome.

A. Procedural Background
At the time defendant entered his guilty pleas on January 29, 2001, the trial court, continued sentencing and ordered the probation department to prepare a report, including the amount of restitution due Susan F. On March 9, 2001, the trial court requested documentation detailing the economic damages suffered by Susan F. and continued the sentencing hearing. At the April 19, 2001, sentencing hearing, counselthat she is unable to live a normal life and that she is in fear of her son's safety. It is my opinion that the victim and her son would benefit from long term psychological therapy." The sexual assault occurred on May 24, 2000. Defendant was not arrested until July 17, 2000. Susan F. completed the purchase of her residence after defendant's arrest.

B. Restitution
In 1982, California voters amended the state Constitution by way of initiative which established a new constitutional right for crime victims to obtain restitution for losses suffered as a result of a criminal act and directed the Legislature to enact laws empowering the trial courts to issue such orders. Article I, section 28, of the California Constitution provides, "(b) Restitution. It is the unequivocal intention


racing experience and we are looking forward to providing a team atmosphere where he can continue to grow, develop and be successful.”

Before joining the American-based open-wheel circuit in 2010, Sato made 90 career race starts in Formula One, finishing on the podium at the United States Grand Prix in 2004. Now with 118 IndyCar Series starts, the Japanese driver holds five IndyCar podiums, five pole positions and one race win.

“I am extremely excited that we were able to work out a deal with Michael and Andretti Autosport,” said Sato. “With Honda an integral part of Andretti Autosport, it seemed like a great fit. The team has proven year after year that they are ultracompetitive on all types of circuits. Particularly the speed that team has shown in recentUEFA has called for Friday's FIFA presidential election to be postponed, the governing body of European football has announced.

Swiss authorities arrested several top FIFA officials on Wednesday and plan to extradite them to the United States, where they will face federal corruption charges.

Officials arrested included vice presidents Jeffrey Webb and Eugenio Figueredo, former executive committee member Jack Warner and Costa Rica federation president Eduardo Li. Fourteen people -- nine football officials and five sports-marketing executives -- are named in the indictment and face charges of wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering.


SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT

The man who jumped the security perimeter (BACKSTORY HERE and HERE) and tried to attack Donald Trump on stage yesterday was interviewed by CNN via Martin Savage.

The interview provides yet another example of how far the corporate MSM is willing to go in their effort to protect violent leftists within the U.S.

First, the Martin Savage interview with Tommy DiMassimo (video)

♦ You’ll note how Martin Savage never shows the actual video, 22-year-old Tommy DiMassimo himself promoted, which shows Dimassimo dragging an American flag on the ground and standing upon it.

♦ You’ll note Martin Savage never questions Tommy DiMassimo about why he was promoting himself dragging an American flag and standing upon it.

♦ You’ll note Savage never presents the video to show how easily such ideologicalOverall guest ratings

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Exterior view of two wood construction houses in Georgetown, Colorado. The buildings are simple boxcar-shaped structures with gable roofs. The house on the left has a rock foundation of wide planks, three chimney pipes, three doors, and three windows. On the left a man stands, and two children in white dresses and a woman hold hands and stand to the right of him. A man in a vest holding a tool leans in the center doorway. Two sawhorses are in front of the house. The house on the right is similar in shape, but appears to have only one door, and it is surrounded by a picket fence with two gates. Two figures stand behind the fence, and a group of three children are in front of a“What I do want is the right to a peaceful end to my life.”

McDonald was praised by his son at the National Television Awards. While on stage accepting the Special Recognition Award, Tennant said: "I would like to dedicate this to my dad. He's an inspiration and a role model. Thanks, Sandy."

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catheter, inserting the end of the catheter through the skin into a bodily lumen, advancing the catheter in the bodily lumen to a desired treatment location, expanding the stent at the treatment location, and removing the catheter from the lumen. In the case of a balloon expandable stent, the stent is mounted about a balloon disposed on the catheter. Mounting the stent typically involves compressing or crimping the stent onto the balloon. The stent is then expanded by inflating the balloon. The balloon may then be deflated and the catheter withdrawn. In the case of a self-expanding stent, the stent may be secured to the catheter via a retractable sheath or a sock. When the stent is in a desired bodily location, the sheath may be withdrawn whichPortland Winterhawks forward Oliver Bjorkstrand has been named the WHL’s Western Conference Player of the Year, nominating him for the Western Hockey League’s Four Broncos Memorial Award as Player of the Year.

Bjorkstrand led all WHL players in goals (63) and points (118) during the regular season. He was a unanimous selection to the WHL’s Western Conference First All-Star Team, won three consecutive WHL Player of the Month Awards in January, February and March, and was voted by his teammates as the Winterhawks’ Most Valuable Player.

The Eastern Conference nominee is Tim McGauley of the Brandon Wheat Kings. The winner will be announced at the WHL Awards Ceremony in Calgary, Alberta on May 6.

“It’s a prestigious honor for Oliver to be nominated for the Four Broncos Memorial Award,” said Portland


Winterhawks General Manager & Head Coach Jamie Kompon. “Oliver represents everything you look for in a player, and his historic season makes him a great candidate for the WHL Player of the Year Award.”

Bjorkstrand’s incredible season included reaching 50 goals in 50 games, becoming the first WHL player to accomplish the feat since Medicine Hat’s Emerson Etem in 2011-12. It also secured his second straight 50-goal season, making him the first Hawk with successive 50-goal seasons since Dennis Holland did so in the 1987-88 and 1988-89 campaigns.

His 63 goals made him the first Winterhawk to score 60 since Lonny Bohonos in 1993-94. Bjorkstrand also etched his name in the team record book with a 12-game goal streak from January 30 – March 6 to break a record setby Tony Currie in the team’s inaugural season in 1976-77. Bjorkstrand scored eight shorthanded goals to break Holland’s single season record that had stood since 1988-89, and became the franchise leader among import players in career games played (193), goals (144), assists (146) and points (290).

Bjorkstrand was drafted by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the third round of the 2013 NHL Draft, and saw preseason action with the Blue Jackets at the start of the season. He also represented his native Denmark at the World Junior Championship this year and led them to winning their first game in the tournament in the country’s history.

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Shaw will reprise her role as Paige McCullers, Emily Fields' ex, after two seasons off the Freeform drama.

Pretty Little Liars is bringing back a big relationship in season seven.

Lindsey Shaw will return as Paige McCullers for the first time since the series' fifth season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Shaw will appear in a couple of episodes in the first half of the season, beginning with episode eight.

Paige left Rosewood to be with her family in California — and escape the wrath of "A." Paige and Emily Fields' (Shay Mitchell) relationship ended in season five, but she was mentioned in passing during the show's time jump in season six.

Details about McCullers' arc haven't been revealed, but considering Emily was single when season six ended, there is a chance forIn addition, we thank Sharon Kunder (employee of Shire Human Genetic Therapies a member of the Takeda group of companies), who was safety scientist.

A portion of these data were presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society, Chicago, Illinois, 17-20 March 2019.

***Financial Support:*** The clinical trial was funded by Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts, a member of the Takeda group of companies. Under the direction of the authors and funded by Shire International GbmH (Zug, Switzerland), a member of the Takeda group of companies, editorial support and writing assistance were provided by Heather Heerssen, PhD, of Complete Healthcare Communications, LLC, a CHC Group company, North Wales, Pennsylvania.

***Clinical Trial Information:*** ClinicalTrials.gov no. NCT01297309 (registered 16 February 2011).

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16 Scenes You Won't Believe Are Chalk Drawings

Julian Beever is an English artist who specializes in creating trompe-l'œil chalk drawings. He uses a projection technique called anamorphosis to create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle. It's often possible to position a person within the image as if they were interacting with the scene. Trompe l'oeil means 'trick of the eye' in French. The effect is so convincing, people will swerve to avoid potholes he's drawn in the pavement! But just how does he do it? In his own words: "The secret is to set up a camera on a tripod and keep it in one spot and check every mark you make. It's really just playing with perspective to make it appear differentthe motions. For the most part, a similar factual background gives rise to identical questions of law in each matter. In each, the defendant county assessed and levied a real property tax based upon what the Assessor of the county determined to be a possessory interest in National Forest lands, situated within the county. Whatever interest the plaintiff may have in these lands of the United States is created and transferred by timber contracts *1063 entered into by the plaintiff, as a "timber operator", (or its assignor) and the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The relevant terms of the various contracts are apparently identical although the contract involved in C-71 1723 (hereinafter "Diamond") is not part of the record. The contract gives the plaintiff


the right to buy and to cut certain timber designated by the Forest Service, within a defined geographical area. The designations are made, in large part, prior to the signing of the contract, but it is clear that some designations may be made subsequently.
By the contract, "timber operator" is given the right to enter upon the National Forest lands for the purpose of cutting and removing the timber. In some instances, he is required to construct roads, culverts and other improvements, designed to facilitate access to the trees. In such instances, a schedule of reimbursement is agreed upon. The contract expressly provides that
"all right, title, and interest in and to any included Timber in this contract shall remain in Forest Service until it has been cut, scaled, andof interests of the United States, both matters of Federal law, or whether taxation is barred by any provision of California tax law.

THE IMPACT OF 16 U.S.C. § 500
Title 16 of the United States Code, § 500, entitled, "Payment and Evaluation of Receipts to State for Schools and Roads" provides that twenty-five percent of all moneys received from each National Forest is to be paid to the state in which the forest is located to be expended by the state legislature "for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which such national forest is situated. . .". Plaintiffs urge strenuously that that provision, particularly in light of its legislative history, must be understood as an expression of Congressional intent that


parties against whom the tax was there asserted held contracts with the United States for the purchase and severance of timber on National Forest reserves, which contracts provided that "title to all timber included in this agreement shall remain in the United States until it has been paid for, and scaled, measured or counted". The similarity of that provision to the one in the contracts to which plaintiffs are parties is, to say the least, striking. The statement of facts in the Supreme Court's opinion seems to make it clear that the Forest Service was entering into the same sort of contracts then as it is now, so far as the issues in this litigation are concerned.
The decision held, first, that the tax imposed on the severing partyimposed no unconstitutional burden on the Federal Government, 327 U.S. at 485, 66 S.Ct. 663, and second, that by the terms of *1070 what is now § 480, Congress declined to accept exclusive jurisdiction over the area of the National Forest, and that the state, therefore, has "territorial jurisdiction to lay the tax upon activities carried on within the forest reserve purchased by the United States". 327 U.S. at 487, 66 S.Ct. at 670. The conclusion that the state has "legislative jurisdiction" to levy the tax extended both to land which was in the public domain at the time Arkansas was granted statehood, as well as to land thereafter acquired by the United States.
That decision construed both the Federal legislation and the legislation of Arkansas which consented to


Assessor of the defendant county, the official charged with the duty of assessment. The provisions added by Stats.1968, c. 771, now constituting subdivision (f), as amended, simply direct the State Board of Equalization to refrain from issuing Rules and Regulations relating to the taxation of possessory interests until a specified date. It is apparent from the sections of the 1968 enactment which were not codified that the Legislature was concerned with the piecemeal enactment of possessory interest rules by the State Board. It was not the intent of the Legislature to impose a restriction upon the county assessors regarding their duty to assess all taxable property within the county, pursuant to the mandate of California Rev. & Tax. Code § 201 and Article IX, § 1 of thepaid to each county in which lands acquired for state forest purposes are situated, out of funds hereafter made available for such purpose, an amount equivalent to taxes levied by the county on similar land similarly situated in the county in the same manner as provided in the Revenue and Taxation Code for secured property tax payments as long as the state continues to own the land. Determination of what constitutes similar land similarly situated shall be made by a committee consisting of the county assessor of the county in which the land is located, a representative of the State Board of Equalization and a representative of the State Forester.

The money received by any county pursuant to this section may be expended by it for any proper state


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People light candles during a Christmas mass in the golden-domed Alexander Nevsky cathedral in central Sofia on December 25, 2012. Bulgaria, unlike some other fellow Orthodox countries, celebrates Christmas on December 25.

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People light candles during a Christmas mass in the golden-domed Alexander Nevsky cathedral in central Sofia on December 25, 2012. Bulgaria, unlike some other fellow Orthodox countries, celebrates Christmas on December 25.powerful than the World Trade Organisation. Before the shipping container was introduced, a typical transatlantic cargo ship might contain 200,000 separate items, comprising many hundreds of different shipments, from food to letters to heavy machinery. Hauling and loading this cornucopia from the dockside, then packing it into the tightest corners of the hull, required skill, strength and bravery from the longshoremen, who would work on a single ship for days at a time. The container shipping system changed all that.

Loading and unloading a container ship is a gigantic ballet of steel cranes, choreographed by the computers that keep the vessel balanced and track each container through a global logistical system. But the fundamental technology that underpins it all could hardly be simpler. The shipping container is a 1950s


in New York and London and he began selling electricity as a commodity within a year. The first electric motors were used to drive manufacturing machinery a year after that. Yet the history of electricity in manufacturing poses a puzzle. Poised to take off in the late 1800s, electricity flopped as a source of mechanical power with almost no impact at all on 19th-century manufacturing. By 1900, electric motors were providing less than 5 per cent of mechanical drive power in American factories. Despite the best efforts of Edison, Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, manufacturing was still in the age of steam.

Productivity finally surged in US manufacturing only in the 1920s. The reason for the 30-year delay? The new electric motors only worked well when everything else changedtoo. Steam-powered factories had delivered power through awe-inspiring driveshafts, secondary shafts, belts, belt towers, and thousands of drip-oilers. The early efforts to introduce electricity merely replaced the single huge engine with a similarly large electric motor. Results were disappointing.

As the economic historian Paul David has argued, electricity triumphed only when factories themselves were reconfigured. The driveshafts were replaced by wires, the huge steam engine by dozens of small motors. Factories spread out, there was natural light. Stripped of the driveshafts, the ceilings could be used to support pulleys and cranes. Workers had responsibility for their own machines; they needed better training and better pay. The electric motor was a wonderful invention, once we changed all the everyday details that surrounded it.

David suggested in 1990 that what was true


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Chicken boxes featuring warnings about the dangers of carrying a knife have been sent to takeaways in England and Wales as part of a government campaign.

More than 321,000 boxes will replace standard packaging at outlets including Chicken Cottage, Dixy Chicken and Morley's, the Home Office said.

Real life stories of young people who chose positive activities over carrying a weapon are printed inside the boxes.

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said the plan was "crude" and "offensive".

However, Home Secretary Priti Patel defended the campaign, accusing Ms Abbott of "playing politics with knife crime".

Printed inside the special boxes, part of the Home Office's #knifefree campaign, are first-hand accounts of young people who have opted to pursue pastimes such as boxing or music instead of carrying a knife.

Both independentand branch-owned chicken shops will carry the new boxes, and many will also house digital screens highlighting the campaign.

Policing Minister Kit Malthouse says they "will bring home to thousands of young people the tragic consequences of carrying a knife and challenge the idea that it makes you safer".

'Offensive'

But the government has been accused of racial stereotyping. David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, wrote on Twitter: "Is this some kind of joke?! Why have you chosen chicken shops? What's next, #KnifeFree watermelons?"

Dal Babu, a former chief superintendent with the Metropolitan Police, said: "This initiative seeks to target chicken shops because the assumption is that's where young black people go.

"There's a racial element to it - it stereotypes people, it's patronising and I can understand why people see it as


racist."

Ms Abbott tweeted: "Instead of investing in a public health approach to violent crime, the Home Office have opted for yet another crude, offensive and probably expensive campaign.

"They would do better to invest in our communities not demonise them."

Courtney Barrett, who runs his own knife amnesty in east London told BBC News the scheme was a "step in the right direction" but stressed that it should not just involve chicken shops.

"The public need to be made aware not all knife crime is carried out by young people, black people and gangs," the founder of Binning Knives Saves Lives said.

Recent figures showed most perpetrators of knife crime were over the age of 18.

Image copyright Home Office Image caption The special boxes feature real life stories of young people

Meanwhile, PatsyMcKie, who founded Mothers Against Violence in Manchester after her son was shot dead, said sharing stories in this way was not enough to discourage young people from carrying knives.

"Just putting it on a box isn't going to stop it," she said. "Someone who is carrying a knife to feel safe isn't going to put it down."

Ms McKie added: "You often have to go through an experience to change your views."

Peter Grigg, director of external affairs at the Children's Society, is urging more government investment "in education for young people about knife crime" as well as in "early intervention and prevention".

On Twitter Jeffrey Boakye described it as a "mess" and said there was a "national crisis in the perception of black kids in urban areas".

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@jeffreykboakye It's embarrassing that this idea was ever put forward on the first place and deeply terrifying that the home office is proud enough of this bs to tweet it in celebration. There is a national crisis in the perception of black kids in urban areas. https://t.co/cNDmwqMzwM — Jeffrey Boakye (@jeffreykboakye) August 14, 2019 Report

And Sharmaine Lovegrove described it as "irresponsible" and "wildly out of touch".

According to the Home Office, the #knifefree campaign aims to change the attitudes and behaviours of young people aged between 10 and 21.

It follows a series of government pledges to tackle serious violence, including the recruitment of 20,000 new police officers and enhanced stop and search powers for all 43 police forces in England and Wales.

Similar chicken boxes were distributed in 15 branchescorals, clams, snails, and one species of Paramecium permanently host algae in their cells. Many of the insect endosymbionts have been shown to have ancient associations with their hosts, involving strictly vertical inheritance. In addition, these insect symbionts have similar patterns of genome evolution to those found in true organelles: genome reduction, rapid rates of gene evolution, and bias in nucleotide base composition favoring adenine and thymine, at the expense of guanine and cytosine.

Further evidence of endosymbiosis is provided by the prokaryotic ribosomes found within chloroplasts and mitochondria as well as the double-membrane enclosing them. It used to be widely assumed that the inner membrane is the original membrane of the once independent prokaryote, while the outer one is the food vacuole (phagosomal membrane) it was enclosed in


bacteriocytes, see below), and are not obligate.

Among primary endosymbionts of insects, the best-studied are the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) and its endosymbiont Buchnera sp. APS,[7] the tsetse flyGlossina morsitans morsitans and its endosymbiont Wigglesworthia glossinidia brevipalpis and the endosymbiotic protists in lower termites. As with endosymbiosis in other insects, the symbiosis is obligate in that neither the bacteria nor the insect is viable without the other. Scientists have been unable to cultivate the bacteria in lab conditions outside of the insect. With special nutritionally-enhanced diets, the insects can survive, but are unhealthy, and at best survive only a few generations.

In some insect groups, these endosymbionts live in specialized insect cells called bacteriocytes (also called mycetocytes), and are maternally-transmitted, i.e. the mother transmits her endosymbionts to her offspring. InScientists resolve a 3.5 billion-year-old mystery of life

Most astrobiologists believe that life in some form is likely to exist away from Earth. But new research demonstrates that life as we know it on Earth might never have come to exist at all if not for a key element delivered to the planet by meteorites billions of years ago.

Scientists at the University of Washington and the University of South Florida found that during the Hadean and Archean eons – the first two of the four principal eons of the Earth’s earliest history – the heavy bombardment by meteorites provided reactive phosphorus essential for creating the earliest life on Earth.

When released in water, that reactive phosphorus could be incorporated into prebiotic molecules, and the researchers documented its presence in early


Archean limestone, showing it was abundant some 3.5 billion years ago.

“The importance of this finding is that it provides the missing ingredient in the origin-of-life recipe: a form of phosphorus that can be readily incorporated into essential biological molecules like nucleic acids and cell-membrane lipids,” said Roger Buick, a UW professor of Earth and space sciences.

Buick is a co-author of a paper explaining the findings, published the week of June 3 in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead author is Matthew Pasek, an assistant professor of geology at the University of South Florida.

The scientists concluded that the meteorites delivered phosphorus in minerals that are not now seen on the surface of the Earth, and these minerals corroded in waterthat gave rise to life, the researchers concluded. The meteoritic phosphite would have been abundant enough to dominate the chemistry of the oceans, with its chemical signature then becoming trapped and preserved in marine carbonate.

“This finding opens the way for a lot more prebiotic chemical experimentation and may even allow us to produce a catalytic replicating RNA molecule in a test-tube, mimicking what might have naturally happened during the origin of life,” Buick said.

Other co-authors are Jelte Harnmeijer of the UW and the Edinburgh Center for Carbon Innovation in Scotland, and Maheen Gull and Zachary Atlas of the University of South Florida. The work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Agouron Institute and NASA.

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For more information, contact Buick at 206-543-1913 or buick@ess.washington.edu.

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As a result, he now has higher name recognition than former state Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer, the presumed Democratic front-runner. Since March, several polls have had him in a statistical tie with Whitmer—with the most recent giving Thanedar a 3-point lead. Thanedar has pledged $6 million of his own money to his campaign, which made a big splash with a debut TV commercial during this year’s Super Bowl. Until last week, with less than two months until the Aug. 7 primary, he was the only Democratic candidate to run TV ads.

Thanedar successfully packaged himself as a big-spending, soak-the-rich, free-everything-for-all Sanders devotee. But more significantly, he uses the word “progressive”progressive priorities—universal child care and pre-K, criminal justice reform, marijuana legalization, and so on—but as a private citizen, he has a more mixed record.

In March 2008, he donated $2,300 to Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign; he says he did so to attend an event and ask McCain a question about immigration policy. That same year, on the third page of his self-published memoir, The Blue Suitcase, Thanedar venerated Howard Roark, the hero of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, as an exemplar of American individualism. More recently, C-SPAN footage unearthed by The Intercept shows Thanedar attending a 2016 campaign rally for then-GOP presidential hopeful Senator Marco Rubio, nodding and applauding the Florida senator’s conservative message and attacks on Hillary Clinton—and ultimately introducing himself to Rubio and asking for a photo.

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race by wrapping himself in the cloak of a movement he had little connection to before his campaign launch? Are Michigan Democrats, as Thanedar’s critics fear, about to be rocked by their own Bizarro-World Trump? Or is Shri Thanedar the man he says he is—one who has lived a rag-to-riches life and now wants to advance the most ambitious expansion of the American social safety net since the Great Society?

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As any talented politician does, Thanedar tells his personal story whenever he gets the chance. He was born into abject poverty in Chikodi, India, in 1955, one of eight children in a Brahmin family where, because of their caste status, members weren’t supposed to engage in manual labor. His father worked as a court clerk, a job that paida meager salary and forced the family to move frequently, hopping to whatever village he was stationed in.

“What I remember most are the everyday things, like going to the river for drinking water,” Thanedar wrote in The Blue Suitcase, an Indian best-seller when it was first published in the Marathi language in 2004 (Thanedar says he issued an English-language version in 2008 at the suggestion of former President Bill Clinton).

After his father was forced to retire, it fell to Shri to support his family financially, which he did by working as a janitor while enrolled at college. After earning his degree, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1979 to pursue a doctorate in chemistry at University of Akron in Ohio, graduating in 1982 and moving to Ann Arbor


to conduct postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan. Two years later, Thanedar moved to St. Louis for a job with a specialty chemical company, received a green card, and got married to a woman from Mumbai named Shamal, with whom he would have two sons. In 1988, he became an American citizen, and in 1990, he bought Chemir, a small chemical testing and analysis laboratory in the St. Louis area.

Chemir’s revenues, just $150,000 in 1991, grew quickly as the company took on major clients, ranging from automotive suppliers to manufacturers of baby food. And while his professional life prospered, his family suffered a tragedy in October 1996, when Shamal, who struggled with depression, took her own life.

In the wake of his wife’s death, Thanedar withdrew from workto take care of his two young sons. “Loneliness swept over me again, a huge tide of loneliness,” he wrote in his memoir. He eventually found companionship in a woman named Shashi, whose husband died around the same time as Shamal. Shri and Shashi married in August 1999.

Through it all, Chemir flourished. By 2006, its revenues hit $16 million and the Thanedars were showing off their ostentatious $6.5 million mansion—with a 150-seat home theater—for an indulgent, gawky local TV news feature.

But those business fortunes vanished in the Great Recession, partly because of the economic downturn and partly because Thanedar overreached in borrowing $24 million to buy seven other labs. He declared bankruptcy, and the banks he owed money sold off his companies to cover his debt.

In 2010, he


he specifically asked the public relations firm that handled the 2016 sale of Avomeen to arrange meetings with Democratic political consultants, and was surprised when one of them, Adrian Hemond, brought GOP colleagues to the meeting.

Hemond’s firm, Grassroots Midwest, bills itself prominently on its website as “Michigan’s first and only bipartisan grassroots advocacy firm.” In addition to Hemond, a Democrat, its staff includes co-founder and chairman Dan McMaster and research director Brian Began, among others. McMaster, the former director of the Michigan House Republican Campaign Committee, and Began, who led state Republican redistricting efforts following the 2010 census, are both prominent conservatives.

“I was only expecting to meet with Adrian, but he had these two other guys who specialize on Republican campaigns, and they all sat there and triedCode Geass 5 - Season 1 Episode

The Princess and the Witch

To Lelouch's surprise, C.C., the girl who gave him his power, is alive and now living in his residence. Suzaku, having been acquitted of all charges, accidentally meets Third Princess Euphemia li Britannia and ends up intervening in an internal pureblood struggle. Meanwhile, Second Princess Cornelia li Britannia endeavors to take charge of Area 11 as Viceroy and bring Zero, now the Empire's number one enemy and most wanted man, to justice...

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In the opening scene, a group of 5th Generation Knightmare Frames, called Gloucesters
are seen attacking a rebel group in area 18. Everyone calls the purple haired woman Princess Cornelia, a ruthless warrior in the battlefield. She plans to


"Orange" deal about.
He says it was just a rumor to make the enemy lose trust in itself. When CC asks him what he
plans to do next, he says he will make the world a better place.

Suzaku is walking around the block when a pink haired girl jumps out from the window. He catches
her before she hits the ground. She introduces herself to him as Euphie. When Suzaku introduces
himself, she says she already know who he is because he is famous. Later, they play with a stray
black cat and the cat seems to like Euphie very much. She holds it in her arms and brings it to
Suzaku, who bites him for the first time.

Euphie bandages the cat's leg and asks Suzaku if he likes cats or not. The catruns off and
Suzaku once again asks her who is she? Euphie says that she came from the mainland and this is her
last day here and she wants to see Area 11. She suggests that they hang out, and they see various places and have a lot of fun together. They didn't know that Lloyd and Cecile were following them.

As Lelouch was reading about the Suzaku incident from the last episode, Kallen walks up to him
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taking a shower). Lelouch, seeing CC under the tree, grabs Kallen and turns her towards him.
Shirley sees this from the window and starts to get jealous.

Lelouch then drags CC to the roof of the school building,


eye contact, even if it is reflected from glass. The effective range is 270
meters and the victim loses memories of what happened after the Geass is cast.

In an empty stadium, Jeremiah is attacked by the Purists, led by KewellSoresi. Cecile and
Lloyd tells Suzaku to stay away from this place because the Purists are fighting amongst themselves.
Suzaku says this is a good time to obtain data for the Lancelot, and bids farewell to Euphie.

Just as the Purists were about to finish off Jeremiah, the Lancelot jumps in there and interrupts
the fight. Kewell throws a Chaos grenade just as Euphie runs into the battlefield. Suzaku uses its
shield to protect Euphie as the bullets shot out from the grenade. It is now that she reveals her
true identity; she is Third PrincessJapanese graduate nursing students' perceptions of the teaching performance of an intercultural teacher.
This paper reports the results of a survey conducted to explore the perceptions of Japanese graduate nursing students about the teaching performance of an American teacher. The impact of cultural differences on classroom behavior and communication between Japanese graduate nursing students and the American teacher are also explored. Students were enrolled in a nursing education course in the first semester of the graduate program. Data for the analysis were the student opinion surveys, which included Likert scale items and space for narrative responses. Results of the survey are reported as well as the results of a follow-up meeting that was held with the students. The students emphasized the importance of the quality of the interpretation.


Congo’s pint-size neighbor, which has sponsored two previous Congolese rebellions — was arming the dissidents in Bukavu, MONUC did nothing.

On May 26 the lakeside city of 600,000 was caught up in all-out urban warfare. Few soldiers died in the battle, but, as always in Congo, the belligerents seized the opportunity to loot and rape. As we walked into neighborhoods at night on patrol, dozens of voices from all around screamed for help as soldiers broke down doors and smashed windows. Soldiers dragged a Tutsi civilian, a member of the same ethnic group as the dissidents, out of the hospital’s intensive care ward and beat him to death with bricks.

MONUC’s reaction was fitful and ill-planned. After three days of fighting, we managed to canton the dissident troops in town,1998 or 1999, admittedly had "no [job] qualifications," and had recently been convicted of first degree forgery. The mother testified that she lives rent-free with her mother and depends on her boyfriend for food.
The evidence further shows that the mother has used drugs since the age of 13. Although she denied threatening K.A.P. or his siblings, she admitted that on the day of the alleged threats, she was under the influence of drugs. Moreover, despite receiving a drug dependency assessment recommending that she attend weekly Narcotics Anonymous meetings, she had only attended three or four meetings that year. The mother conceded that she used illegal drugs "once or twice" after K.A.P. was removed from her home, but claimed that she had not taken drugs "in a while" and


was "clean" on the day of the hearing. In its termination order, however, the juvenile court noted that "[i]t was obvious from her demeanor that the mother was under the influence" during the hearing. The juvenile court directed the mother to take a drug test immediately following the hearing. According to the termination order, the resulting drug screen was positive for amphetamine/methamphetamine.
The natural father and his wife, Tina, testified at the hearing in support of termination. Both reported that K.A.P. has responded well in their custody and, although initially "behind" in his studies, had progressed at school. They further testified that K.A.P. does not like to talk about his mother and shakes, "shies away," or lays his head down when she is mentioned. Tina also stated that shejuvenile court continued a scheduled hearing on several motionssuch as the father's motion to hold the mother in contempt for failure to pay child supportso that the mother could hire counsel. The order granting the continuance specifically stated that the motions, as well as the father's petition for termination of the mother's rights, would be heard on June 7, 2005.
On June 7, the mother appeared with counsel for the termination hearing. At that point, the mother's counsel moved for a continuance, asserting that he had been retained the previous afternoon and had not had an opportunity to prepare. The juvenile court denied the motion, finding that the mother had not been diligent in obtaining counsel.
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She started her career as a Quantity Surveyor with the Public Works Department in 1982 after graduating from the University of Reading, United Kingdom with Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Quantity Surveying, and later moved on to hold several other positions with a higher learning institution and several private sectors before pursuing her Diploma in Public Administration at National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN). Upon graduation, she joined the Ministry of Finance Malaysia (“MOF”) and served in the Contract Management Division as Assistant Secretary from 1989 to 1993 before pursuingher Master in Business Administration (International Banking) at University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

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Trump Discounts CIA As Fellow Republicans Call For Investigation Into Russian Hacking

The president-elect discounts the CIA's conclusion that Russian hackers deliberately tried to sway the U.S. election in his favor. But some of Trump's fellow Republicans want a full investigation.

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Did hackers working for the Russian government put a thumb on the scale of this year's presidential race? That's a question some Senate Republicans and Democrats now want to investigate. And according to a U.S. official, the CIA has concluded that Russia did deliberately try to swing the election in favor of Donald Trump. The president-elect disputes that claim and says it all comes from hard feelings. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: To Donald Trump, allegations of Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential campaign are justsour grapes, one more way for disgruntled Democrats to explain away his upset victory in last month's election.

(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "FOX NEWS SUNDAY")

DONALD TRUMP: I think is ridiculous. I think it's just another excuse. I don't believe it.

HORSLEY: Trump said on "Fox News Sunday" nobody knows if Russia played a role in political cyber-attacks. In a tweet this morning, he added, why wasn't this brought up before the election? In fact, the U.S. intelligence community announced their suspicion in early October that senior officials in the Russian government had authorized a cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee and other organizations.

At the time, intelligence officials said only that Russia was trying to interfere with the U.S. election process. Now with the help of new information, the CIA has


Russian President Vladimir Putin, but Trump told "Fox News Sunday" the CEO's vast business dealings in Russia are a plus.

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TRUMP: He's much more than a business executive. I mean he's a world-class player.

HORSLEY: Trump continues to downplay warnings about Russia from his fellow Republicans and intelligence experts. His team issued a statement over the weekend dismissing intelligence officials as, quote, "the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction." White House Spokesman Earnest argues Trump should listen to what the intelligence experts are saying.

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whereas Bachelard had come to the history of science from physics, chemistry, and mathematics. If Bachelard had made a major contribution to historicizing the philosophy of science of his time, Canguilhem proceeded conversely from the history of science, and was concerned to give it an epistemological foundation with a focus on the history of scientific concepts. "This history," he wrote in an essay on the history of science in Bachelard's epistemological work, "can no longer be a collection of biographies, nor a tabulation of doctrines after the manner of a natural history. It must be a history of conceptual filiations. But this filiation possesses a discontinuity, just like Mendelian inheritance. The history of science must be as equally demanding, and as equally critical, as science itself." Canguilhem representedAlberta Parks says a bear that killed a hunter in Kananaskis Country last week will not be destroyed.

Rick Cross was mauled when he accidentally got between a mother bear with a fresh kill and her cub.

Officials suggested on Monday it was a defensive attack.

Richard Starke, the minister for Alberta's parks, tweeted that leaving the mother bear and her cub in their habitat is a good decision.

A bear closure remains in effect for the Picklejar Creek, Mist Creek and Mist Ridge areas.

Kim Titchener with WildSmart, a conservation group that tries to reduce negative interactions between humans and wildlife, says bears are trying to consume as much food as possible in preparation for winter.

She says there are some steps to take in the event of a bear attack.

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Google has marked Teacher’s Day in India with a Doodle or logo showcasing an animated red octopus, conducting a class.

Teacher’s Day is being celebrated on Thursday across India in the memory of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a philosopher, and India’s second president who was born on September 5, 1888.

As an academic, philosopher and statesman, Radhakrishnan is recognised by many as one of the most influential Indian thinkers of the 20th century.

President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended their congratulations to teachers around the country.

“On Teacher’s Day, I pay homage to Dr Radhakrishnan and extend greetings to all our teachers,” President Kovind wrote on Twitter.

Prime Minister Modi shared a video paying homage to Radhakrishnan.

On Teachers’ Day, I pay homage to Dr S. Radhakrishnan & extend greetings to allour teachers. They infuse the young minds with strong values & inspire them to be curious, to seek knowledge & to dream. Doing this, they contribute immensely towards nation building #PresidentKovind — President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) September 5, 2019

Who was Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan?

Radhakrishnan was born on September 5, in Tirutania, southeast India, into a Brahmin family, the highest Hindu caste, in an area where Hinduism was a strong social force.

By the age of eight, he was sent to a German missionary school, where he started to focus on his native religion.

“I became familiar not only with the teaching of the New Testament but with the criticism leveled by Christian missionaries of Hindu beliefs and practices,” Radhakrishnan wrote in a short autobiography.

In 1904, he entered Madras Christian College, and before


beginning his MA degree in 1906, his interest seems to have been placed in law.

Radhakrishnan later recalled: “The challenge of Christian critics impelled me to make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it… I prepared a thesis on the Ethics of the Vedanta (the earliest sacred literature of India), which was intended to be a reply to the charge that the Vedanta system had no room for ethics.”

The success of his thesis led to his first academic appointment at Madras Presidency College in present-day Tamil Nadu state.

At Presidency College, Radhakrishnan lectured on a variety of topics in psychology as well as in philosophy.

Isolated

From 1921, Radhakrishnan held the chair of philosophy at Calcutta University. It was the first time hewas out of his native place, and he was geographically, culturally and linguistically isolated.

However, this isolation allowed him to work during his early years in Calcutta, now renamed as Kolkata, on his two volumes of “Indian Philosophy”.

This was the first systematic approach to the subject, and one that opened the doors for Indian philosophy to be included as a formal study in universities throughout the world.

Radhakrishnan was knighted in 1931 and years later he became the first Indian to hold a chair at Oxford University.

During these years he expressed his vision of an autonomous country. Radhakrishnan envisioned a country that was guided by those who were educated.

‘The worst sinner has a future’

The years following India’s independence from Britain mark Radhakrishnan’s increasing involvement in Indian political affairs.

Towards the end


of the 1940s, he headed India’s delegation to the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation and became the chairman of the organisation in 1949.

Radhakrishnan also served as a member of the Indian Constituent Assembly helping to draft the first constitution.

Later in 1949, then-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appointed him the ambassador to Moscow, a post he held until 1952.

His tenure was known for his conversations with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. On one occasion, by his own account, he asked the Soviet leader: “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?,” according to a report by the New York Times.

He became the country’s vice president in 1952.

Later, his religious beliefs changed, and he gradually came to believe that all religions shareda basic unity.

In 1961, speaking at Harvard Divinity School of Harvard University, Radhakrishnan said: “It is one of the major tragedies of the world that the great religions, instead of uniting mankind in mutual understanding and goodwill, divide mankind by their dogmatic claims and prejudices.”

Eastern and Western religions, he declared, can share with each other as “two sides of the same mold”.

He became India’s second president in 1972. After his retirement, he moved to his birthplace. Radhakrishnan died in 1975.

Radhakrishnan was awarded the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour in the country, in 1954. He was also nominated five times for the Nobel Prize for literature, and 11 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.


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Jillian E. Nelson is a staff attorney with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces in Washington, D.C., and a volunteer court-appointed special advocate for children in D.C. Superior Court.

Disasters are increasing in number and intensity. Some reports indicate that Asia was home to 85 percent of people affected by disasters in the last decade. This means that Asian children are especially vulnerable to natural disasters. In November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, considered one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, struck 36 provinces in the Philippines. Over five million children were affected, and for many children, the repercussions were devastating. Children can become separated from their families or orphaned as a result of sudden-onset disasters. They also experience increasing vulnerability to exploitation when socialKirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer of New York and Democratic Sens. Robert Menendez and Cory Booker of New Jersey.

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On 60 Minutes, FEMA official Brad Kieserman said the FEMA received "signals" of fraud as early as mid-2013. Meanwhile, the senators noted in their letter that they asked FEMA administrator Craig Fugate in July 2014 to do something about the allegations of fraud. However, FEMA only raised the matter with investigators four months later, in December 2014.

"This lack of urgency is inexcusable and casts further doubt into FEMA's interest in addressing the many questions concerning the mismanagement of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)," the senators wrote.

On top of that, the senators expressed dismay over the lack of oversight of subcontractors who helped process


ONE of Treasury Holdings' largest ever foreign projects, at Eco City, in Shanghai, remains on the drawing board six years after the company signed an agreement to develop the site.

In November 2004, Treasury signed a joint venture agreement with a branch of the Shanghai government to plan and develop Eco City at Chongming Island, but final sign-off on the project is still awaited.

Eco City was to include about 4.2 million sqm of mixed accommodation on a site of 1,000 hectares. The project effectively forms an entire new city suburb for Shanghai.

"Embracing the latest technologies, the development will also be a world leader in sustainable, environmentally responsible construction,'' Treasury said at the time.

Treasury and other contractors were ultimately to be involved in building a site with 18,000 houses, threetown centres, offices, two 18-hole golf courses and an equestrian centre. The site was meant to open in time for this year's World Expo in Shanghai, which began in May.

Eco City is designed to be one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world, with low carbon emissions and sustainability to the fore. But as of now most of the land where the site is due to sprout up is actually being tended by local farmers.

In 2004, the then Taoiseach said it was a "most exciting development, which highlights the mutual benefit of co-operation between Irish and Chinese companies''.

Treasury declined to comment yesterday, simply saying the project was awaiting government approval.

The company is currently in talks with NAMA over its future. The related company Real Estate Opportunities


(REO) is also in talks with NAMA, and it has already had some of its loans extended, relieving some of the pressure on the company.

After waiting for many years, this week saw Treasury's Convention Centre Dublin opening, giving the company a fresh income stream.

The arrangement is a public- private partnership and Treasury had to fund its construction upfront. It will make a profit only if the centre hits certain targets.

The Eco City project is in many ways out of the company's hands. The Irish Independent understands the Shanghai authorities need central Chinese government approval for the project because of its size.

A series of approvals is required and it is not known when these will be granted.A church’s stained glass window was partially shattered with a brick during a worship service on Sunday at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans less than two days after hosting a town hall on anti-transgender violence.

The town hall was well publicized, reports The Times-Picayune. It was organized by transgender advocacy group Transitions Louisiana, after two transgender women were murdered in New Orleans two days apart: Chyna Gibson, 31, on Feb. 25 and Ciara McElveen, 25, on Feb. 27.

Related: Burglar breaks into church, leaves Bible verse condemning gays & thieves

Rev. Paul Beedle said no one was injured in the incident. A congregant discovered the broken window while walking in the church’s Memorial Hall while the service was underway, he told the paper. He said it was still


Campus Green (2935 Campus Green Drive) and Woodside (2913 Woodside Drive), which have entrances coming off Martin Luther King Drive. Each is about a five-minute walk to Nippert. Clifton Court Garage (321 Clifton Court) is about six minutes from the stadium, and Stratford Heights Garage (2630 Stratford Avenue) is about a seven-minute walk.

WCPO | file FC Cincinnati fans celebrate during FCC's match against Orlando City B in 2018.

3. When to arrive

Word to the wise: GET THERE EARLY. “All fans are also strongly advised to plan accordingly for a capacity crowd and arrive and park as early as possible,” according to a club news release.

UC parking garages will begin accepting game parking at noon. Nippert Stadium gates will open at 3:30 p.m.

Bonus for early birds: The first 25,000 fansspecial panoramic photograph of the stadium, which will be taken in the 30th minute.

Team FastTrax, a professional skydiving team, will deliver an American flag onto the field, and Cincinnati-born recording artist Lauren Eylise will perform the National Anthem. And watch for the McGing Irish Dancers to perform at halftime.

Joseph Fuqua II | WCPO contributor FC Cincinnati fans cheer on their team against Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC at Nippert Stadium on Sept. 1, 2018.

6. Where to buy merchandise

Fans can purchase FC Cincinnati merchandise and apparel at kiosk locations throughout Nippert Stadium. On the West Concourse, you’ll find a location behind Section 123; on the East Concourse there is one behind Section 104, and on the South Concourse, look behind Section 113. Kiosks are also located at the Club West Pavilion


the MLS Cup runner-up last year and won the title in 2015 with current FCC striker Fanendo Adi and right back Alvas Powell on those squads. The Timbers opened with a 3-3 draw against Colorado Rapids in a snowstorm and lost 4-1 to Los Angeles FC in Week 2.

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9. Players to watch

FCC carried over 11 players from last year’s United Soccer League regular-season championship team that many fans will remember, including Adi and Fatai Alashe, who were loanees from MLS, and Corben Bone and Jimmy McLaughlin, who were members of the original FCC team in 2016. Left back Blake Smith has since been released.

McLaughlin is out for the year with an ACL tear,but Bone has been in the available 18 the past two weeks, even getting a start in the opener at Seattle. Goalkeeper Spencer Richey got his first start Sunday in a 1-1 draw at Atlanta and came up big after giving up an early goal to the league’s leading scorer last year. Forrest Lasso and Emmanuel Ledesma were on the bench at Seattle in the opener, while Nazmi Albadawi and Justin Hoyte are yet to make the gameday 18. Emery Welshman is out on loan.

Cincinnati native and Lakota West High School graduate Nick Hagglund makes his home debut in front of his hometown crowd, coming off an MLS Team of the Week performance at Atlanta. Hagglund and captain Kendall Waston create a big road block at center back.

Other


to train local forces to take over when they leave.

Two British soldiers were killed in a similar attack on Saturday in the southern province of Helmand. The British defense ministry said they were shot by a man wearing the uniform of the Afghan Local Police at a checkpoint.

This month, US special forces suspended training for about 1,000 recruits to the controversial unit, which fights in remote areas of the countryside. It has also been accused of corruption and violence toward civilians.

Afghanistan says it has arrested or sacked hundreds of Afghan soldiers for suspected insurgency links in a bid to stem the so-called insider attacks.

NATO attributes about 75 percent of the attacks to grudges, misunderstandings and cultural differences. The Afghan defense ministry this month published a brochure for theAfghan army with advice on how not to misunderstand Westerners.

The military yesterday detailed unprecedented damage from a sophisticated, well-coordinated attack on one of the largest NATO bases in the country, Camp Bastion, where Britain’s third in line to the throne is deployed.

Two US Marines were killed and several others wounded in the assault late on Friday, which was carried out by at least 15 attackers dressed in US Army uniforms and armed with guns, rockets and suicide vests.

NATO yesterday confirmed the material losses as six US AV-8B Harrier fighter jets destroyed and two significantly damaged, three coalition refueling stations destroyed and six aircraft hangars damaged.

“The insurgents appeared to be well equipped, trained and rehearsed,” ISAF said in a statement.

The militia claimed the assault was to avenge a US-made


Funky monkeys:

Michael Platt never planned to study autism; he was just a boy who loved monkeys. “Every time I did a school project, it was about evolution,” he says. It was an obsession that wasn’t necessarily encouraged in the working-class Catholic neighborhood just outside of Cleveland where he grew up. Platt was the captain of his high school football team and in 1985 was recruited to play for Yale University. When he arrived, however, he quickly realized he didn’t want to be a jock. He took a course in primate evolution and soon got hooked, sorting through monkey bones in the drawers of the university’s Peabody Museum of Natural History.

After his third year at Yale, Platt spent three weeks in a summer field course on Totogochillo Island inMexico’s Lake Catemaco, which hosted an introduced colony of stumptail macaques. The experience gave him an appreciation of the richness of the social lives of monkeys. It was also where met his future wife, Elizabeth Brannon, whose work now focuses on the behavior of human infants. While in graduate school, Platt tried to study wild wedge-capped capuchin monkeys in the seasonally flooded forests of Venezuela. It rained so much there that the trails disappeared under three feet of water teeming with anacondas, and the forest was so leafy he could hardly see the treetops where the monkeys were. One day in July 1991, he shot a pregnant monkey with a tranquilizer dart, aiming to catch her on a sheet. But he lost track of her in the canopy,


and she crashed to the ground. She survived but the fetus did not.

Devastated, Platt fled from field work. He joined Paul Glimcher’s lab at New York University as a postdoctoral fellow, learning to record the activity of neurons in monkey brains in order to better understand how monkeys make decisions about what to look at. Platt was probing a murky region of the brain that sits between the visual and motor areas of the parietal lobe. He found that neurons in this region, called the lateral intraparietal area, fire more frequently when the monkey expects either a reward or a high probability of receiving the reward. His 1999 paper on this finding launched a new paradigm called neuroeconomics, which marries economic theory to the study of brain activity.

PlattREDLANDS: Ages, cities of residence given in fatal crash

The San Bernardino County coroner has provided partial identifications of the three people killed Thursday, Jan. 17, in a collision on Orange Street in Redlands.

The dead are believed to be a 19-year-old male resident of Redlands, a 58-year-old female resident of Redlands and a 33-year-old male resident of Highland. None was wearing a seat belt, the coroner said.

The names are being withheld pending positive identification and notification of the next of kin.

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the Patriot's authors did. The only "riveting" thing about Zinn's book is the extent to which he obviously loaths the United States. The fact that he makes no secrets of his hatred is no better excuse for it. Condemning Allen and Schweikart's rosier (but much more accurate) depiction of events for basically the same thing seems like a fairly pre-conceived and hypocritical criticism. If you already "know" American history, then you shouldn't have started reading either book in the first place! The Marxism in Zinn's novel that you somehow couldn't detect stems mainly from its attempts to boil every single instance of American history down to either a thinly vailed or completely outright attack against Capitalism. Strangely, the word capitalism appears several times in the book, but canIt is a day to remember. A twelve-year-old girl and her six-year-old brother are gathering roots, which grow every spring. They are at the head of a canyon that leads to a small harbor called Coral Cove. When she first sees the ship approaching, it is small, like a shell floating on the sea. As it sails closer, it looks like a gull with its wings folded. Finally it becomes a red ship with two red sails, and it is approaching their island.

The boy is small but quick, and when he gets excited he does foolish things. Because she wants him to help her gather roots, his sister does not point out the ship to him as she digs for roots with a sharp stick. But the boy’s


black eyes miss little, and he tells his sister he sees the sea as a flat, blue stone with a small cloud on it (for he has never seen a ship). She is determined to have him help her work and denies seeing anything out of the ordinary.

The boy, Ramo, pretends to work and not watch the approaching cloud, but soon he asks his sister if she has ever seen a red whale. She lies and tells him yes, that a young boy has not seen everything an older girl has seen. Soon, though, he knows it is a giant canoe and he is so amazed at the sight that he throws the root he is holding into the air and is gone, crashing through the brush andshouting as he runs.

His sister is even more excited than her brother, but she continues gathering roots with a trembling hand. She knows that the ship’s arrival can mean many things and she would like to leave her task and run to the village, but she keeps digging because the roots are needed by her people. When her basket is full, she sees the ship has made its way into the harbor between the two great rocks which guard Coral Cove. Word of the ship had already reached her village, Ghalas-at, and her people are moving. The men are hurrying down the trail to the shore, weapons in hand, and the women are gathering at the edge of the mesa overlooking the cove.

The girl has made her way


camping on higher ground, with permission from the chief, since the beach is small and the tide often covers it. They camp here most of the summer.

The island is two leagues long and one league wide, and from a high vantage point the island looks like a dolphin lying on its side. It is named The Island of the Blue Dolphins, either because of its shape or because many dolphins live in the sea surrounding it. The wind is strong on the island, polishing rocks and twisting trees. The village is situated near the cove and a good fresh spring. North of the village is another spring, and that is where the Aleuts erected their low tents made of skins.

The girl’s father warns his people not to visitchief says nothing, just works faithfully on the new spear he is making.

It is a sunless day when the Aleuts leave the island. The sea is rough and the waves are roaring, spraying white water against the rocks. Before the day is over, there will be a storm. Shortly after dawn, the hunters pack up their tents and carry them to the beach. Captain Orlov has not yet paid for the otter skins, so when they hear that he is leaving, the villagers make their way to Coral Cove—first the men with their spears, followed by the women and children. While the women stay hidden in the bushes by the cliff, the men wind their way down the trail to the beach.

Ulape and Karana are in the same


spot the younger girl had been in when the hunters first arrived. It is low tide, and the beach is scattered with...

In the history of Ghalas-at, this night is the worst. At the beginning of the day, the tribe had forty-two men; now they have only fifteen, seven of whom are old. Every woman on the island has lost someone. The storm blows for two days; on the third day they bury their dead on the south side of the island. They burn the fallen Aleuts.

Ghalas-at is quiet for many days, the villagers leaving only to gather food and come back to eat in silence. Some in the tribe want to leave and go to an island called Santa Catalina, far off to the east, but others saya fire, and Karana hears the dogs howling nearby all night. In the morning, though, the pack trots back to its lair in a cave at the north end of the island.

This is a difficult time for Karana, and she remembers spending all her time thinking about how to survive on her own. She only leaves the village to replenish her food supplies. But she will never forget the day she vowed to leave the village forever. It is a foggy day. The mist creeps in and out of the huts, reminding her of all those who are dead or gone. The noise of the surf becomes the sound of their voices. For a long time she watches and listens; when the sun comes out the fog vanishes


and she makes a fire against the back wall of her home. When that hut is gone, she burns another until all of them are destroyed. Nothing but ashes mark the village Ghalas-at.

Summer is the best time on the Island of the Blue Dolphins, for the weather is good and the wind from the west is mild. Each day, Karana is hopeful she will see a ship on the horizon. Once she sees a small object and grows hopeful, but when water rises from it she knows it is just a whale. The first winter storm crushes her hopes of being rescued, at least for another season, and her heart is filled with loneliness. She had believed Matasaip before, but now her hopes are dead. She does noteat much and her sleep is filled with “terrible dreams.”

One storm is so fierce that she must sleep under the rock, feeding a fire for protection. She sleeps there five nights. The first night the dogs come and circle outside the...

Karana wakes up when the waves begin dragging at her feet. It is night but she is too tired to go to the rock, so she crawls higher on the beach to avoid the tide and sleeps again. In the morning she unloads her provisions and turns the canoe over so the tide cannot take it before she walks to her headland home. It feels as if she has been gone a long time, and everything she sees around her fills her with happiness. It is a surprising


feeling, since just days ago she had stood on this rock and felt as if she could not stand to live here one more day.

As she looks at the vast expanse of blue ocean, all of the fear she felt while on her voyage comes sweeping over her. Yesterday when she saw the island, she had been...

Two whales had washed up on the sands many years before, and Karana finds some of the rib bones to use in making her fence. She has to dig them out and carry them to the headland. They are long and curved, and after she places them in the holes she digs, they stand taller than she does. The girl puts the ribs close together with the curve facing out, making themimpossible to climb, and weaves them together with many strands of bull kelp which will shrink tight when it dries.

The fence takes her a long time to build; it would have taken her longer if the rock were not one end and part of one side of the fence. As an entrance and exit, she digs a hole under the fence just big enough for her to slide through and lines it...

The night before she plans to go the place of the sea elephants, Karana does not sleep much. She worries about what might happen since she broke the tribal law and made a weapon, and she worries about getting injured by the huge creature and then falling prey to the dogs in her weakened position. She worries


all night, but when the sun comes up she is on her way to the place where the sea elephants live.

By the time she arrives, the animals have gathered on the shore. The bulls, like giant gray boulders, are sitting on the pebbly shore while the cows and their babies, below them, play in the waves. Even the babies are as big as a man, though they do all the things babies do. The bulls are bad-tempered and jealous, so...

Karana’s leg hurts so much by the time she arrives at her home that she is barely able to crawl under the fence and move the heavy rock on the inside of the fence. For five days she cannot leave because her leg is swollen and she has noherbs with which to treat it. She has plenty of food to eat, but after two days the water is getting low, and two days later her water basket is empty. Today she must go to the ravine to get water.

She leaves at dawn, taking her spear and her bow and arrows. The journey takes her a long time, for she has to crawl on her hands and knees with her food tied to her back and dragging her weapons. The short way to the spring is over many rocks, so she has to travel the longer way through the...

As long as Karana can remember, there have been wild dogs on the Island of the Blue Dolphins; after the Aleuts killed most of the men, their dogs joined


Karana watches for it. She also watches for the red ship of the Aleuts. If the hunters come back, she will probably hide in the cave she has provisioned, for it is near water, surrounded by brush, and unapproachable except by way of the sea. The Aleuts did not use the spring near this cave, so they would only find her by accident. In case she has to flee, she begins working on the canoe she abandoned after her failed voyage.

It takes her two days to unbury the canoe, and she camps on the sands while she works. To make the canoe smaller, she cuts the sinews, heats the pitch to loosen it, and removes the planks. She shapes the planks to...

Winter rain and wind storms come earlyto the island, and Karana stays busy making herself another dress and fashioning another spear, one which will help her catch the giant devilfish. She has seen her father make the spear and knows what it looks like and how it is used, so she is eventually able to recreate one of the spears after many errors and much work. Four of the sea elephant teeth are left, and she breaks all but one in her attempts to make the spear. That one she works down to a barbed point; it is connected to the shaft in such a way that when the spear is thrown and strikes the devilfish, the head comes loose from the shaft. It floats while the sharp point remains attached by a string


to the thrower’s wrist. It is an...

It is a beautiful spring on the island, and flowers of all kinds are blooming everywhere. Many kinds of birds also visit the island, including black-and-white birds which peck holes in the poles of the girl’s roof and in the whale-bone fence. Karana even sees birds she has never seen before on the island. A pair of birds made a nest in one of the crippled trees near her house, a nest shaped like a pouch. The birds have yellow bodies and scarlet heads, and soon there are two eggs in the nest. Once they hatch, Karana leaves small pieces of abalone under the tree, and the parents feed the bits to their babies. The young birds are gray and ugly, butshe takes them from their nest and puts them in a cage made out reeds which she made...

Every day during the spring, Karana and Rontu paddled through the sea caves looking for the giant devilfish; they found several others, but never the giant one. When summer comes she quits searching for him and begins to gather abalones for winter. She also gathers a few shellfish near the rocks at Coral Cove. Today the tide is low and the reef rises far above the water. Her canoe is nearly full and the day is windless, so she ties the canoe and climbs onto the reef, Rontu following, to find a fish to spear for their dinner.

With a sinew line and a hook made of abalone shell, she catches two


the winter and dries them on the shelves of her house. With all the fish and the abalone and the flashing shells, it appears that an entire village lives on...

The first night the Aleuts are on the island, Karana leaves her new home but leaves Rontu behind, since he would be sure to smell out any dogs the Aleuts might have brought. The hunters’ campfires are bright against the dark of the mesa, the same place they camped last time—and less than half a league from her cave. She considers moving to another part of the island. She is not afraid the men will see her, as they hunt all day; it is the girl she is afraid will see her. She stands on the rock until thefires die. After considering all her options, she decides to stay in the ravine.

Karana goes back to the cave and stays there until the next full moon and she has little food left. She and Rontu climbed to the...

That night Karana sleeps on the headland near her five baskets of belongings. She did not go back into her cave, and she did not take the necklace from the rocks. At dawn she hides on a brushy ledge near the spring and where she can observe the mouth of her cave. The sun is shining on the black necklace and Karana wants to go see if they will make two loops around her neck, but she stays where she is. She watches all morning; when the sun is high,