She was born on 29th February 1896 - a leap year baby. One of five children, two
boys and three girls. They lived in south-east Germany on the Czechoslovakian border
in a little hamlet called Mittelwalde. The oldest was Emma, then Franz, Marie, my
mother Agnes and Paul, the youngest.

I was about ten years of age when I first visited my mother's birthplace. The main
square had a large fountain surrounded by four of five small houses, two small shops
and a police station with one officer whose main duty was to apprehend any illegal
immigrants. The streets were covered with cobble stones. The village was surrounded
by a forest, thick with pine trees and hills.

I had arrived by train from the nearest city: Breslau where I was born. The journey
took one and a halfhours. One of my mother's school-friends met me at the station
with a horse and cart.

Coming from the city, I was truly happy to be for the first time in my life in such
beautiful surroundings. The smell of pine trees is indescribable. I loved it. My
grandfather was a train driver. He used to take the trains across the border into
Czechoslovakia and back. I never met my grandparents. By the time my mother was
18 years old, both her parents had died so she moved to Breslau where she became
a seamstress. Onkle Franz stayed in the country, but my mum's sisters Tante Emma
and Tante Marie and Onkle Paul also came to Breslau.

After the first World War, she found the man of her dreams, married and settled down
to raise a family. Her


first child, a son Erwin, was born in 1920. The second was
a girl but died as a baby. She had two more boys, Heinz in 1922 and Günter in 1924,
then her husband left her for another woman.

With three young children and no income, she was forced to accept state handouts.
Every week she would queue up for her state benefit; her little boys by her side.
A man 15 years her senior and also in the ranks of the poor and unemployed, took
an interest in her. He was tall and handsome, and above all, he had a warm heart.
My mum married him and had one more son, Georg born in 1926, then three daughters
of which I was the first, born in 1928. My sister Ingeborg was born in 1931, followed
bythe only treasure she
had - her children. Neither would she again accept the help of the state. Instead,
she took in sewing. She would sit by her machine day and night, leaning over it
to catch 40 winks when her eyes would not stay open any longer.

My mum was a good looking woman of slim build with dark, natural, wavy hair. We
were expected to make our own beds, and at night, our clothing had to be folded neatly
ready for the morning. She had a wooden spoon which kept us in order. It was very
rarely used, but remembered a long time after!

Many suitors came with offers of marriage, but the memory of losing my father never
left her. Also, she said she could never side with anybody against her own children
if things


edge of the city,
and as each child became of school age, he or she could return home to live. When
my turn came at six years of age, my younger sister was still only four and too young
to go to school yet, but was allowed to come home as well because she would have
been the only one of us left. It was a half-hour tram ride from the children's home
to our new home in the outskirts of the city. As well as new homes being built,
there were new hospitals, schools roads, as well as the autobahn. We arrived at
our new home, looking at it with big eyes. There were our brothers, and my mum was
very happy to have all her children together again. This is my first memory ofbeing
a family at home together. I loved being part of a large family. We spent some
wonderful days together . The two girls stayed at home with mum. They were brought
up proper little ladies , but I was allowed to go with the boys and turned into a
tomboy. We explored the area. My brothers were obsessed with sport: skiing, skating,
climbing, tobogonning, but most of all, swimming. Half an hour's ride by tram and
we were by the River Oder. I would be deposited on the bank with cake and buns and
given a stern warning not to move, while they practically flew into the water. They
would swim out to passing coal barges and climb until spotted, then they would jump
off and come swimming back. I was warned never to cry for


any reason or my outings
with them would stop there and then. I never cried.

My eldest brother Erwin, left school just as I was starting my school years. He
went into training as a waiter in the best hotel. Onkel Paul was the head waiter.
That's how my brother got a helping hand. Erwin was earning money so he was made
head of the family. We never dared to question his authority. At Christmas, he
would dress up as St Nicholas. In the living room, he would prepare a hugh tree
which he would buy in the market. Our Christmas is on 24th December. For the midday
meal, we would have fish (carp), but our main meal in the evening was goose. We
would all help with the cooking and the washing up, then dress inour best clothing
and wait till we'd hear "Silent Night, Holy Night" playing in the other room where
the tree was. Our hearts nearly stood still when the door opened. The room was
in darkness except for the candles on the tree. The baubles and lametta gleamed,
and the music brought an air of solemnity. Beneath the tree, were paper plates filled
with gingerbread, nuts, shining red apples and sweets. The boys received gloves,
a scarf, trouser belt, handkerchiefs, and the eldest received his first wallet. I
had my first doll which, in later years, was handed down to my sisters - that was
the rule. I was blissfully happy. My second eldest brother Heinz was leaving school
now. He became a chimney sweep. He loved being at home best and was the biggest
help to my mum.


He was a very shy boy, but he could clean and cook as good as my
mum. He would make sure of morning sticks, light the fire, and carry buckets of
coal.

Günter, the third eldest, was ready to leave school. I remembered the art teacher
asking my mother about the possibility of my brother to enter art school, but I don't
know who decided anything. The outcome was a three year apprenticeship with a firm
of painter and decorators.

Mum felt great pity for him during the winter months when the weather was well below
freezing and Günter was pushing a two-wheeler cart laden with ladders and paint-pots.

Our winters were really something, with thick, crunchy snow under our feet, and we
would never touch the metal without gloves because our fingers would stick to it
like glue.drying room before coming down to make breakfast and getting
us off to school. Mum would be up to her elbows in soap-suds, rubbing away on her
washing board. Next day was the turn of the woollens, socks and trousers. She had
a long wooden bench and often used to use that to scrub the trousers on it. The
third day was for cleaning up. Everything had to be left clean and shining.

We would go every Sunday to the cemetery, to my grandparents' grave in the winter
and in the summer we would go to the sports stadium. Everybody would bring a picnic
and the children would be in their swimsuits and go in the swimming pool. One special
day mum took us three girls to visit my father's grave. It was a very special


particular. Neither would she allow
me to do the ironing. We couldn't afford a new one if I should drop it, but in my
early teens, she introduced me to the cake baking. I loved it. Every Saturday I
was busy making sponges, cheesecake, yeastcake or even poppy-seed cake which was
very popular in our region. Almonds, cherries, nuts, vanilla and lemons were all
goodies used for making cakes. The aroma was fantastic.

Erwin, the eldest had passed his examination as a hotel waiter just as conscription
into the army came into force. He joined the Infantry. Heinz was called up for
service in the Artillery. He cried, but go he must. When Günter was seventeen and
passed his three years' training, he also joined up. Mum begged him not to go but
he had set his hearton being in the Navy. He loved the sea. If he had waited for
his call-up papers, then he would most likely have had to join the Infantry, and
foot-slogging was not for him. He became a very proud sailor on a ship called The
Köln.

Georg, the fourth eldest, became a furrier by trade and could sew beautifully. For
his examination, he made a fur coat for a film star. His diploma said "Class A".
For us girls, he made hand muffs. Mine was made of grey rabbit. It opened like
a handbag with a zip pocket inside, and a mirror sewn into the flap. I was very
proud.

Mum was working from dawn till well into the night. Inside her was a growing fear
for her boys.


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Timaru's property market appears to have slowed down slightly in the leadup to summer, with an agent saying first-home buyers are holding off.

The Real Estate Institute of New Zealand's (REINZ) latest survey revealed Timaru's median sale price for last month was $260,000, about 9 per cent higher than last year. However, the sales volume has dropped to 58 for last month, compared with 76 for November 2012.

Professionals Real Estate agent Carl Slade said the sales appeared to be tracking at a "reasonable rate", but he had seen a drop in inquiries from first-time buyers.

New rules by the Reserve Bank put restrictions on home buyers who cannot provide a minimum deposit of 20 per cent of a property's value.

"There are still plentysame period last year.

"We're very much seeing a two-step market nationwide. The market is bursting in Auckland and Christchurch - due to population growth in the former, and the earthquake rebuild in the latter - everywhere else it's lulling along," she said.

"This poses both opportunities and risks to the regions. There might be a period where housing in the provinces suddenly becomes a lot more appealing, but we could also see the population flight to Auckland continue."


official with the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's water supply division, said that was "extremely unlikely" since groundwater would flow toward the ocean, and the plant is right on the coast.

There are two nearby filtration plants for drinking water, and both have been shut down because they are just inside the exclusion zone. One takes water from the Kido River, to the south, and another takes it from groundwater below Odaka, to the north. Both are several miles (kilometers) from the coast, and therefore on higher ground.

"When people return to the area we will test the water to make sure it is safe," said Masato Ishikawa, an official with the Fukushima prefecture's food and sanitation division.

Radiation concerns have rattled the Japanese public, already struggling to return tonormal life after the earthquake-borne tsunami pulverized hundreds of miles (kilometers) of the northeastern coast. Three weeks after the disaster in one of the most connected countries in the world, 260,000 households still do no have running water and 170,000 do not have electricity.

In the latest report of food becoming tainted, the government said Friday that a cow slaughtered for beef had slightly elevated levels of cesium, another radioactive particle. Officials stressed that the meat was never put on the market.

Radioactive cesium can build up in the body and high levels are thought to be a risk for various cancers. It is still found in wild boar in Germany 25 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, making the pigs off-limits for eating in many cases.

Contamination has also affected


bulwark against Islamist militancy, Jordan has made peace with Israel and absorbed waves of Palestinian, Iraqi and Syrian refugees. It also navigated its way through the 2011 Arab Spring, though it still faces some of the issues that ignited regional turmoil that year, notably youth unemployment.

Since the summer protests, there has been no sign of unrest in the streets. King Abdullah and his Hashemite dynasty enjoy solid support and act as a unifying force among native Jordanian tribes and Jordanian Palestinians.

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But not for the first time, the monarchy has come in for criticism of late.

KING ABDULLAH STEPS INTO DEBATE

In October, a group of retired senior military officers, tribal figures and activists from traditionally loyalist constituencies aired their grievances in a petition directed at Kingwho has been jailed twice for opposition activities.

Braizat, 55, is an unusually strident critic of King Abdullah, crossing red lines that allow criticism of the government but not the monarch.

His town is one of the provincial tribal areas upon which the Hashemites built their support among native Jordanians. Many of its people have benefited from state jobs, including Braizat until he resigned in 2001. Jordan’s police chief is from the area.

Braizat’s last spell in prison was in January, when he was held for one month. His arrest sparked protests in Dhiban.

Braizat, a lawyer who also farms olives on family land in Dhiban, was a signatory of the petition, describing it as a “clear and frank” message to the king and his foreign backers.

“The Jordanians are telling the king


Martin Scorsese’s film Hugo was inspired by a real event. In 1928 Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute received the remains of an 18th-century brass automaton that had been damaged in a fire. It had been donated by the descendants of wealthy manufacturer John Penn Brock; they knew it had been acquired in France and supposed it to be the work of the German inventor Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, famed for his metronome.

The institute’s machinist set about restoring the machine and discovered that its mechanism used an ingenious system of cams to store almost 300 kilobits of information. When he had finished his work, he placed a pen in its hand and watched it draw four strikingly elaborate illustrations and write three poems (click to enlarge):

The final poem contained a surprise —a return on November 15 with their second mini album “Early Flowering.”

It was previously announced that HOTSHOT’s new mini album will feature five tracks in total.

This comeback will include five members (Junhyuk, Timoteo, Noh Tae Hyun, Yoonsan, and Go Hojung), while member Ha Sung Woon will be promoting with Wanna One when the project group makes their final comeback on November 19. HOTSHOT also recently celebrated their fourth anniversary on October 31!


Alcohol and Drug Detox in Tampa Bay

Drug and alcohol addiction is one of the most pressing issues people across
the United States face every day. According to the most recent statistics
provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, an estimated
21.5 million people in America 12 years old or older deal with some form
of substance abuse. Approximately one out of every eight people struggling
with a drug use disorder struggled with alcohol use disorder as well –
however, only about 11 percent of Americans struggling with a substance
use disorder seek treatment, leaving countless millions to fend for themselves
on their own.

This lack of care, whether it is caused by lack of access, cultural stigma,
financial worry, or anything else, is a serious issue. According to a
report issued by the Office on Nationalbonds using the funds from its National Welfare Fund.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Russia's proposal to restructure the debt of Ukraine will help the IMF avoid creation of a precedent when the order of providing financial aid by the institution must be changed. After Kiev had reached agreements on debt restructuring with all but for Russia, Siluanov reiterated that Moscow was ready to sue Ukraine at international arbitrary courts and at the IMF as well in case Kiev failed to repay its debt in December.

Last time Ukraine made bond interest payments in June 2015.

In November, speaking on the G20 summit in Turkey, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had offered Ukraine to repay its $3 billion debt by $1 billion annual instalments in 2016-2018. Putin stressed that Russian


Covington & Burling; Eric Seiler, Friedman Kaplan & Seiler LLP, New York, New York, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.
Before: : WINTER, Chief Judge, JACOBS, Circuit Judge, and SWEET, District Judge.*
WINTER, Chief Judge:

1
This appeal arises out of an antitrust action brought by PrimeTime 24 Joint Venture ("PrimeTime") against the major television networks, their affiliates' trade associations, independent television stations, and the National Association of Broadcasters. The complaint alleged that appellees violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, through concerted, baseless, signal-strength challenges brought under the Satellite Home Viewer Act, 17 U.S.C. § 119 (1995), and through a concerted refusal to license copyrighted television programming to PrimeTime. Judge McKenna granted appellees' motion to dismiss under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) on the ground that their conduct wasprotected under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine. We reverse.

BACKGROUND

2
The complaint alleged the following. PrimeTime retransmits network broadcast signals either directly to satellite dish owners or to direct-to-home satellite distributors who include the network broadcasts in packages of hundreds of channels sold to consumers. When the complaint was filed, PrimeTime was the leading American provider of network television broadcasts to satellite dish owners. It had over two million subscribers and was the "only satellite carrier of network programming . . . neither owned nor controlled by network or cable television interests."

3
Appellees are the major television networks, ABC, Inc. ("ABC"), CBS, Inc. ("CBS"), the National Broadcasting Company ("NBC"), and the Fox Broadcasting Company ("Fox"); their affiliates' trade associations; the National Association of Broadcasters ("NAB"); and businesses owning and/or operating stations affiliated with


refusal to deal in that appellees agreed among themselves not to license content to PrimeTime, notwithstanding the fact that it would be in their interests, acting individually, to do so. Specifically, the complaint alleged that the NAB, bargaining on behalf of appellees, offered a per-viewer license at a price that it believed to be prohibitive. When PrimeTime immediately agreed to negotiate that price, the offer was withdrawn. Subsequently, according to the complaint, appellees engaged in a concerted effort not to deal with PrimeTime, and the NAB copied a letter to its members telling them not to deal with PrimeTime. The complaint further alleged that the networks discouraged their affiliates from dealing with PrimeTime and that none of the networks have dealt with PrimeTime.

12
Finally, the complaint alleged that PrimeTimeDownload

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During the Renaissance, a period of ‘rebirth’ for humanities and science, new knowledge and speculation began to emerge about the function of the human body, replacing ancient religious and philosophical dogma. The brain must have been a fascinating mystery to a Renaissance artist, but some speculation existed at that time on the function of its parts. Here we show how revived interest in anatomy and life sciences may have influenced the figurative work of Italian and Flemish masters, such as Rafael, Michelangelo and David. We present a historical perspective on the artists and the period in which they lived, their fascination for human anatomy and its symbolic use in their art.

Prior to the 16th century, knowledge of the brain was limited and influenced in a dogmatic way by


the teachings of Galen1 who, as we now know, conducted his anatomical studies not on humans but on animals.2 Nemesus, Bishop of Emesa, in around the year 400 was one of the first to attribute mental faculties to the brain, specifically to the ventricles. He identified two anterior (lateral) ventricles, to which he assigned perception, a middle ventricle responsible for cognition and a posterior ventricle for memory.2,3 After a long period of stasis in the Middle Ages, Renaissance scholars realized the importance of making direct observations on dissected cadavers. Between 1504 and 1507, Leonardo da Vinci conducted experiments to reveal the anatomy of the ventricular system in the brain. He injected hot wax through a tube thrust into the ventricular cavities of an ox and then scraped theEpidemiological study of tumors of the central nervous system in Ohio.
Historically, the first epidemiological lead of an excess risk of death due to malignancies of the brain and central nervous system among the former employees of the rubber industry was in 1949, in a study correlating causes of death with prior employment designated on the death certificates for the state of Ohio in 1947. The geographical distribution of deaths (1955) due to histologically confirmed tumors of the CNS identified one county, Summit, of the 88 counties of Ohio, as having significantly more deaths than expected for ages 25-64. Summit County represents the principal rubber manufacture center in the U.S. A series of analyses were carried out which identified a higher death risk among rubber workers compared to nonrubber


worker residents of Summit County according to histologically confirmed diagnoses of tumors of the CNS in 1963. Longitudinal employee cohort studies of four different companies engaged in the manufacture of rubber products, in the same state, Ohio, indicated a higher death rate due to tumors of the central nervous system. Epidemiological leads were cited in a broad industry survey comparison in which higher death rates due to neoplasms of the central nervous system were observed among workers in electrical machinery and paper and allied products as well as the rubber industry. Potential chemical linkage of the excess of CNS neoplasm deaths among rubber workers and workers in the rayon industry was explored.21-year-old Andrew Hrabe was hurt Wednesday night after going airborne and rolling his car multiple times.Police say that Hrabe was driving north on North Ohio Street at a high rate of speed, weaving in and out of traffic. He ran a red light at the intersection of Ohio and North Street, and was heading up the overpass. He lost control after passing another vehicle at a high rate of speed.Hrabe veered off the road, hit a utility pole wire and a stop sign, went airborne, and rolled multiple times down an embankment. The force of the crash snapped the pole in half. Hrabe was transported by EMS to Salina Regional Health Center, and then flown to a Wichita hospital to be treated for head injuries. www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory& ;amp;story_id=21235&format=html


Florence and The Machine have just announced their first Europe tour date for 2019 in Rotterdam. They are going to promote their upcoming new album "High As Hope". Read this article for all news on 2019 tour dates and on how to book your tickets online.

Florence and the Machine will play a show in Rotterdam in March 2019. This most likely will be the first of a series of European shows, which are part of their latest 2019 World Tour. A few day ago they have announced their return to Australia and New Zealand, where they will be supported on their January 2019 tour by Billie Eilish and NZ singer-songwriter Marlon Williams at some select shows.

The title for their new album "High As Hope" comes from a poemFlorence Welch wrote about a beautiful day wandering around in New York City with a close friend of her. She called it, “New York Poem (for Polly)”. The peom's last line became the title of the fourth Florence and the Machine album:

"Heady with pagan worship

of water towers

fire escapes, ever reaching

high as hope."

This is Florence and the Machine’s first album since 2013. "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" back then produced the band’s third consecutive #1 on the UK charts.

These are all the Florence and the Machine European 2019 tour dates:

07 March 2019 - Antwerps Sportpaleis

11 March 2019 - Hovet Stockholm

12 March 2019 - Oslo Spektrum Arena

15 March 2019 - Lodz Atlas Arena

25 March 2019 - Ahoy Rotterdam, Rotterdam

17 March 2019 - Unipol Arena di Bologna

18 March 2019 -


Image copyright FBI Image caption Monica Witt (pictured) allegedly underwent an "ideological" shift before defecting to Iran.

US prosecutors have accused a former US Air Force officer of spying for Iran in an elaborate operation that targeted her fellow intelligence officers.

Monica Witt, who allegedly defected to Iran in 2013, had previously worked as a US counterintelligence officer.

Four Iranian citizens have also been charged with attempting to install spy software on computers belonging to Ms Witt's colleagues.

According to the FBI, Ms Witt was last seen in southwest Asia in July 2013.

Prosecutors say Ms Witt had been granted the highest level of US security clearance and worked in the US Air Force from 1997 to 2008.

The US Department of Treasury has also sanctioned two Iranian companies - New Horizon Organization andNet Peygard Samavat Company - for their role in the plot.

"It is a sad day for America when one of its citizens betrays our country, said Assistant Attorney General John Demers, the head of the justice department's national security division.

What are the charges?

Ms Witt is accused of sharing US government secrets, including the name of agents and specifics of operations, with Iran as early as January 2012.

In a charging document, investigators say the 39-year-old was deployed by the US to locations in the Middle East to conduct classified counterintelligence operations.

Prosecutors allege that shortly after defecting to Iran, she handed over information on her colleagues in order to cause "serious damage" to the United States.

According to officials, she sent a message to her Iranian contact in 2012 saying: "I


loved the work, and I am endeavouring to put the training I received to good use instead of evil. Thanks for giving me the opportunity."

Investigators allege Ms Witt was recruited after attending two conferences hosted by New Horizon Organization, which was working on behalf of the Iranian National Guard's Quds Force to collect intelligence on attendees.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Iranians braved the snow in Tehran to mark their country's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Several conferences sponsored by the New Horizon Organization have taken place in Iran and Iraq in recent years, according to US officials.

The conferences often included an "anti-Western" sentiment and "propagate anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories including Holocaust denial".

At least one of those New Horizon conferences was organised by Iranian-American journalist Marzieh Hashemi, whowas detained by US officials in January as a material witness in a federal criminal case, according to the Tehran Times.

The Department of Treasury accuses Net Peygard Samavat Company of being "involved in a malicious cyber campaign to gain access to and implant malware on the computer systems of current and former counterintelligence agents".

Image copyright FBI Image caption Monica Witt was last heard from while travelling in southwest Asia.

Who is Monica Witt?

Monica Elfriede Witt, a former Texas resident, left the US military in 2008 after more than a decade of service.

A previously issued FBI missing persons poster said she was working as an English teacher in either Afghanistan or Tajikistan, and had lived overseas for more than a year before vanishing.

While in Iran, she also allegedly converted to


Islam during a television segment after identifying herself as a US veteran, and delivered several broadcasts in which she criticised the US.

In the weeks after defecting, she also conducted several Facebook searches of her former colleagues, and is alleged to have exposed one agent's true identity, "thereby risking the life of this individual".

A warrant has been issued for Ms Witt, who remains at large.

Skip Twitter post by @FBI 4 Iranian #cyber actors are wanted by the FBI for their alleged role in criminal activities to include computer intrusion & aggravated ID theft, conducted at the behest of the IRGC. Anyone w/ info is asked to contact the nearest FBI office or U.S. Embassy. https://t.co/prVYRqGvkU pic.twitter.com/HrS7Vd91G9 — FBI (@FBI) February 13, 2019 Report

What's the state of US-Iran relations?

Last November,US President Donald Trump re-imposed all sanctions on Iran that had been suspended due to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement.

Mr Trump has withdrawn the US from the agreement, leading to a foreign policy rift between the US and the European nations who are party to the deal.

Diplomats are expected to discuss Iran during a US-led two day summit on "peace and security" that began on Wednesday in Warsaw.

On the conference's opening day, Mr Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani gave a speech in which he called for regime change in Iran.

The US and Iran do not maintain diplomatic relations, and communications between the two nations are exchanged through Swiss diplomats.


program, which will begin June 10 and continue through July 19. Conaway said between 400 and 500 applications are typically received, and as many youth will be hired as budgeted money and private donations allow.

Richard Grimmett of the Fallen Riders Association motorcycle club told officials that his group is eager to help the city better its image by supporting it in positive endeavors. Hollingsworth said she is aware of the organization’s strong reputation and welcomes its involvement.

The mayor announced that a ministers’ prayer luncheon will be held at noon Tuesday, May 21, at the convention center. Seventy-one ministers have registered to attend.

In an audience vote, a majority decided they would prefer a multipurpose center be constructed prior to a aquatic center. A majority also favored keeping the townthe United States District Court
              for the Western District of Michigan at Grand Rapids.
                 No. 06-00249—Gordon J. Quist, District Judge.
                                 Submitted: April 23, 2009
                         Decided and Filed: September 28, 2009
Before: BATCHELDER, Chief Judge; SUHRHEINRICH and SUTTON, Circuit Judges.


of the same features as the early tetrapods, according to a report in Nature.

The cave fish eats microbes and organic matter that grows on the cave walls it inhabits. In 1985, it was discovered deep inside a system of caves in northern Thailand and cannot be found anywhere else, according to a report by the IUCN Red List. Since it is protected, the researchers can study it by visiting the cave, take videos and examine preserved specimens in Thai museums only.

Brooke Flammang, an ichthyologist at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, said in a press release that the cave fish possesses morphological features that have previously only been connected to tetrapods. It has a pelvis and vertebral column that allows it to support its body weight against gravitythe presidential election.

It’s a short walk from the Rhode Island state capitol, boasting the fourth biggest self-supported marble dome in the world, to the modest railway station in Providence. This is America’s smallest state, only 48 miles long from north to south and 37 miles wide from east to west. It votes overwhelmingly Democratic and its former governor, Lincoln Chafee, made a quixotic bid for the 2016 nomination.

I boarded the Acela Express at 9.50am to a surprise announcement: all 304 seats across six carriages had been sold. So much for the slow death of the American railroad. As people struggled to wrestle luggage into nooks and crannies above the blue leather seats, I walked the aisle observing men in shirts and khakis, women in trouser suits – the


and nobody talked about mugging.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lifestyles of the rich and famous: Newport County in Rhode Island. Photograph: Alamy

Like South Africa, America has preoccupations with inequality and race and a healthy thirst to talk about them. During the six-hour journey south, I interviewed 18 passengers, many of whom said this was the wackiest and worst election in their lifetimes, with a dearth of viable candidates leaving them short of choices. None complained about their fortunes during the past eight years under Barack Obama. Among this highly unrepresentative sample, Clinton enjoyed a narrow lead over Sanders on the Democratic side; one passenger said he would vote for Trump, while Ted Cruz polled zero.

Most of the passengers heaped praise on Acela – “There is absolutely no better way tonot only sounds unnatural, but may be perceived by callers as being distorted. For example, such is the case where an individual word is broken between two successive audio portions of a single audio prompt. In that case, the audio interface plays one audio portion of the complete prompt with the audio portion ending in the middle of a word, pauses, and then plays the subsequent audio portion of the audio prompt which begins with the second half of the broken word. When played in this manner, the resulting audio prompt sounds distorted.


ensure the pathogen cannot get out.

Macaques exposed

Yet at least four monkey-like rhesus macaques — that were never used in the experiments and were kept in large outdoor cages in another part of the 500-acre facility — have been exposed to the bacteria, initial tests have found. Two had to be euthanised.

The primates are believed to have been infected at the veterinary hospital. The area was decontaminated before the investigations began.

A federal investigator, who became ill 24 hours after visiting the facility in January as part of the ongoing release investigation, has also tested positive for exposure to the bacteria.

But officials at the lab claim the investigator could have picked the infection during frequent travel to undisclosed destinations.

How the pathogen got out of such a highly secure lab hasstudy involved 40 patients who required routine, nonsurgical endodontic therapy between January 2012 and December 2014. The study sample comprised 40 open root canals in incisors, canines and premolars with periapical lesions. At the final examination (second appointment), pain, depth of the pocket, swelling, findings on gingival palpation, and sinus tracts were recorded. The outcome was recorded as either 'no' (absence) if the radiopaque medium was not present in the periapical tissues, or 'yes' (presence) if radiopaque medium was present in the periapical tissues. Three calibrated and blinded radiologists independently determined the presence or absence of radiopaque medium in the periapical tissues. Where there were differences between their assessments, the three examiners reached a consensus.

![Radiographs showing the evidence of radiopaque contrast medium in the periapical tissues (cadaver). Note:


reverse because no record of the interview was made." (citations omitted)).
At the conclusion of the hearing, the Court permitted Mr. Elyashiv to retain his *397 own expert. See Tr. at 280.[3] After Mr. Elyashiv informed the Court on July 23, 2004 that he would rest his case without submitting an expert report, see supra note 2, the Court received a letter from counsel for Ms. Elyashiv that informed the Court that Dr. Brandt had received an unsolicited letter, dated July 22, 2004, from Dr. Michael Stone (Dr. Stone), an expert who had been retained by Mr. Elyashiv, and requested its admission into evidence. See Letter from Adam Z. Heilman (July 30, 2004), at 1. Dr. Stone's letter, which was submitted to the Court in a subsequent letter fromknowledge of abuse of their mother is "tantamount to being abused themselves. There is a wide-developed well-researched literature that a witness to domestic violence as a child is just as deleterious as if they were themselves the victims." Id. at 218.
The effect of Mr. Elyashiv's abuse took its toll on the older children, Ma'ayan and David. Ma'ayan experienced nightmares, and beginning at the age of eight years, started to pull her hair out (later diagnosed as trichotillomania). See id. at 37-38. Ma'ayan also endured suicidal ideations while in Israel, and feels severe guilt for not reporting her father's actions. See Expert Report # 1 at 6, 11. Not only has Ma'ayan had suicidal ideations, but she also carved out a plan for how she would commit suicide. See


with all the physiological reactions that occur during the trauma.
Id. at 204-05.
5. Abuse of Others
Ms. Elyashiv and the children are not the only ones who have been the object of Mr. Elyashiv's abuse. Mr. Elyashiv was found guilty by an Israeli court of assaulting a stranger during a road-rage incident. See id. at 52. Even the family dog was not immune from Mr. Elyashiv's rage; in September 2001, after the dog misbehaved, Mr. Elyashiv beat the dog in front of the children, which caused the dog to vomit and significantly upset the children. See id. at 37.
6. Arrival in United States
In June 2002, Ms. Elyashiv and her three children traveled to the United *401 States to visit Ms. Elyashiv's sister in Brooklyn. See id. at 68. By September2002, Ms. Elyashiv had decided not to return to Israel and has since lived with her sister. In November 2002, while in the United States, Ms. Elyashiv again tried to obtain an Israeli divorce. See id. at 63. However, the Israeli court deferred acting on the divorce papers until this Court ruled on Mr. Elyashiv's petition.[6]See id. In December 2002, Ms. Elyashiv obtained an order of protection in Brooklyn Family Court for three years. See Resp't's Ex. 3.
Since her arrival in the United States, Mr. Elyashiv has repeatedly threatened Ms. Elyashiv, as well as her family: When Ms. Elyashiv first moved to the United States, Mr. Elyashiv demanded that she return, telling her that he would "break ... the hands and legs" of her "mother and brother[,]" who


them." Expert Report # 3 at 1.
ii. Inbar
Even though Inbar has yet to be physically abused by her father, and is not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, returning her to Israel would also expose her to a grave risk of physical and psychological harm. In respect to physical harm, she is not insulated from the likelihood of future abuse, given Mr. Elyashiv's inability to control his temper, his pattern of domestic abuse and his threats to use the "small sword" to hurt her. As for psychological harm, since her siblings would remain in the United States and, presumably her mother as well, Dr. Brandt poignantly explained, as previously noted, that "[a] separation from her mother and siblings is a completely terrifying notion to [Inbar][,]" Expert Report # 1better with Queen and Victoria streets closed to traffic for the first time. But unlike most cities which close streets in the early afternoon, Auckland Transport decided to leave it to the last minute to do so and only close the streets at 11pm. That was too little and too late leaving cars mingling with the tens of thousands of pedestrians.

By 11.45pm on Monday, MacLean said Auckland Transport had closed off Victoria St by putting traffic cones across the width of it. “Cars could no longer enter, but neither could any of them leave,” MacLean said. “They sat for at least the next half hour stranded in the street as pedestrians swirled around them.”

On top of the issues during the celebrations, AT have also struggled with making it


easy to get to and from the city not in a car.

A Stuff article highlighted some of the problems people faced getting home:

Albany woman Colleen Fairweather said she was one of hundreds milling around Britomart after midnight, waiting for only a handful of buses. Fairweather had travelled into the CBD by bus to watch the fireworks and thought her trip home would be easy. Her route planner app showed there were plenty of buses to the North Shore scheduled, but few arrived, she said. Instead, there were queues snaking along Quay St and around the corner up Queen St – including older people and children, she said. An Uber home would have cost her $160 due to surge pricing, so she waited. Fairweather said only three northbound busesreplacing Ginsburg Cruz: Trump should nominate a Supreme Court justice next week MORE because he has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the 4th Amendment,” Paul said in a statement from his political action committee. “The Bill of Rights protects all citizens from general warrants.”

The Kentucky senator has been planning the lawsuit for months, which he will file in the Washington, D.C., district court as a private citizen.

Many of his previous statements on the issue have not included Obama as a defendant in the lawsuit.

In addition to Obama and the NSA, the lawsuit will name Director of National Intelligence James Clapper James Robert ClapperOn China, Biden is no Nixon — and no Trump The Hill's 12:30 Report - Speculation over Biden's running mate announcement


Trump slams former intelligence officials to explain 'reluctance to embrace' agencies MORE, Director of the National Security Agency Gen. Keith Alexander and FBI Director James Comey James Brien ComeyBook: FBI sex crimes investigator helped trigger October 2016 public probe of Clinton emails Trump jabs at FBI director over testimony on Russia, antifa Graham: Comey to testify about FBI's Russia probe, Mueller declined invitation MORE.

As previously announced, Ken Cuccinelli will act as lead counsel. Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general, lost the state’s gubernatorial election last year to Terry Mcauliffe.

The president of FreedomWorks, Matt Kibbe, will also join the suit.

“FreedomWorks is participating in this suit on behalf of our community of 6 million citizens nationwide, along with any American who has a phone,” Kibbe said. “If you use aThe Russian security service claimed that the app had been used by terrorists to plan attacks, citing a suicide bombing that occurred in April as an example. Telegram, a favorite of the Vatican, has also been used by ISIS to spread a kid-centric learning app. And though Telegram has made an effort to block ISIS channels, new ones are created frequently.

Russia isn't the only country trying to get its hands on some of Telegram's controls either. According to Durov, US agencies tried to bribe the app's team last year and gain some influence with the creator. And Iran recently demanded that messaging apps like Telegram stop storing Iranian users' data outside of the country.

Durov is resisting Russia's demands, saying they are constitutional violations. And he notes that even


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Defendants Kubota Tractor Corporation and Kubota Industrial Equipment Corporation

(“Defendants”). We affirm.

                                        I. Background

A. Facts

       In 2007, Plaintiff bought a Kubota tractor model M5050HD and a loader Model LA1153.

At the time of the accident, Plaintiff was moving boulders on his property from the side of a barn

to a nearby concrete slab. Plaintiff scooped three boulders from the side of the barn into the
bucket and pulled back on the loader’s control lever to raise the bucket. Plaintiff claimed that he

released the controller lever, which


should have caused it to return to the neutral position and for

the boom on the loader to stop moving. He then turned his head and body clockwise to look

behind him as he drove the tractor backwards toward the slab. However, the controller lever did

not release, the boom continued to rise, and the rocks fell out, landing on Plaintiff. He suffered

severe injuries.

       About two weeks after the accident, Plaintiff took his tractor and loader to Summit Power

Center, an authorized Kubota dealer. Plaintiff claims that he specifically requested the failed

part be returned to him and that his request was documented on the repair invoice Summit Power

gave him.

       Summit Power contacted Defendants to inspect the tractor/loader combination to seedistant future where the planet Earth is dying from a lack of energy resources and a disheartening political climate sees all human beings produced by computers to live out certain social roles, the colour of the eyes determining the baby's rank, from pilot to politician, etc. Godo is one such child brought up to be a cadet and nursed by the beautiful robot-maid Olga. After noticing his exceptional abilities, Rock, a dictatorial candidate for prime minister, selects Godo to fulfil his agenda and travel into deep space and capture the mystical Phoenix, its blood will manifestly heal the Earth (and selfishly make Rock prime minister). This eventually proves hard for Godo for many reasons, partly because he has a love of all living creatures and he detests his


A rebel and an outlaw lead an unsuspecting group of adventurers on a secret mission across the vastness of space, in Matthew Costello’s Star Road. Ivan Delgato, a former leader of a rebel group called the Runners, is released from jail on the condition that he carry out a secret mission for the World Council. His assignment is simple: stay under cover, but do absolutely anything necessary to reach the planet Omega IX and offer the renegade Runners clemency if they surrender—which may be complicated since Ivan’s brutally violent brother has taken lead of the Runners in Ivan’s absence. In search of the Runners, Ivan catches a ride out to the wildest reaches of the galaxy via a mysterious transportation system, the Star Road. His fellow passengers onto Edward Albee and David Mamet. He has also been seen on the CBS miniseries Sally Hemings. A former company member of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Bradbury received his training in their three-year advanced program. He lives in New York City with his family.

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county, which is home to Brownsville. Last week, the CDC said all pregnant women who live in or traveled to Brownsville on or after Oct 29 should be monitored for Zika infection.

The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) said recent cold weather had inhibited mosquito activity, but warmer temperatures are forecasted for next week.

Also, Rhode Island reported its first baby born with Zika virus, the Providence Journal reported yesterday. The baby was born in November and so far shows no signs of congenital malformations. The Rhode Island Department of Health said the baby's mother contracted the virus while traveling earlier this year.

In other Zika news, the Florida Department of Health, Florida Health, confirmed one local case of Zika in Miami-Dade County yesterday. An investigation is under wayThe body of a man who went missing at a Sydney swimming hole has been found.

Emergency services were called to Bents Basin about 11.30am this morning after a group of men, believed to be aged in their 20s, were struggling in the water, police said.

Bystanders rescued three men, but a 25-year-old Nepalese national did not resurface after disappearing underwater.

His body was found in the water about 1.30pm after a search by police divers, Fire and Rescue NSW, ambulance and the State Emergency Service.

Police divers have located the body of a man, believed to be a 25-year-old Nepalese National at #BentsBasin after he went missing while swimming https://t.co/EQOr31rYx3 — NSW Police Force (@nswpolice) 27 January 2019

One 32-year-old male witness who spoke to The Daily Telegraph said he was swimming


at the basin when he heard screams coming from the other side.

“We were swimming and suddenly we heard all this screaming,” he said.

“We swam over and they said someone’s drowned. Rangers then got on the PA and said ‘everyone out.’”

According to the witness, there were hundreds of people in the water at the time, as the Sydney-siders attempted to cool off as temperatures in the area reached nearly 38C.

The man is yet to be formally identified and a report will be prepared for the coroner.

Meanwhile, the search is on for a second man who disappeared while swimming in a river in NSW’s Shoalhaven region this afternoon.

At about 3.40pm, a 27-year-old man was swimming with friends in the Kangaroo River near a camp ground at Bendeela, when he wasseen to disappear underwater and not resurface, police said.

Rescue workers were told the man was on an inflatable mattress before he disappeared.

Assistance has also been sought from police divers who are currently travelling to the scene.

Also, a report was prepared for the coroner following the death of a man in the Murray River, on the Victorian border, yesterday afternoon.

About 12.30pm on Saturday, a 37-year-old man entered the Murray River at Yarrawonga, Victoria, when he began to struggle to stay afloat.

Members of the public called for help and tried to assist the man, who eventually went under the water.

Officers from both NSW Police and Victoria Police attended, and about 1.10pm the man’s body was recovered.

NSW Police were investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.


California Governor Jerry Brown has signed SB 48, the FAIR Education Act, which requires schools to add LGBT History to their curriculum.

From Senator Mark Leno's office, some background on the bill:

Research indicates that students who learn about LGBT people find their school environments more accepting of LGBT youth. Students are also more likely to report that their LGBT peers are treated fairly at school – and that other types of peer-to-peer disrespect also declines – when LGBT people and issues are included in instructional materials.

In addition to including the role and contributions of LGBT Americans in educational materials, Senate Bill 48 ensures that the contributions of disabled people are included. The bill also adds sexual orientation to the state's existing anti-discrimination protections that prohibit bias in school activities,instruction and instructional materials. The bill is co-sponsored by Equality California and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network.

Said Leno (pictured), the bill's sponsor:

"Today we are making history in California by ensuring that our textbooks and instructional materials no longer exclude the contributions of LGBT Americans. Denying LGBT people their rightful place in history gives our young people an inaccurate and incomplete view of the world around them. I am pleased Governor Brown signed the FAIR Education Act and I thank him for recognizing that the LGBT community, its accomplishments and its ongoing efforts for first-class citizenship are important components of California's history."

Said Equality California Executive Director Roland Palencia: "Today marks a monumental victory for the LGBT equality movement as the struggle of the diverse LGBT community in California will no


Exercise patterns in a population of older adults.
Little is known about the extent to which older adults engage in exercise, despite recent enthusiasm for exercise among people of all ages. This report describes the exercise patterns in a well-defined population of older adults living in southern California. From 1984 through 1987, we asked 1,140 members of a previously defined adult community 50-93 years of age to report the frequency and duration of participation in 14 leisure-time activities in the two weeks preceding a physical examination. Exercises were categorized as light, moderate, or heavy according to a previously validated scale. Interviewers ascertained information on chronic disease history, cigarette smoking, physical and emotional functioning, and self-rated health. More than 90% of the group reported some physical activity in the two-week[BuzzFeed]

Airplane wreckage found on a beach in Curaçao may be part of the plane that disappeared off the coast of Venezuela nearly two months ago while carrying Missoni's C.E.O., his wife, their two friends, and two members of the flight crew. [Reuters]

Macy's president Leonard Marcus took the stand in the lawsuit between Macy's and Martha Stewart over the latter's decision to sell her homewares line at J.C. Penney. Marcus said he had been "skeptical" about entering into a deal with Stewart in 2006, due to her then-recent release from prison and the fact that she retained the ultimate ownership of her brand, but the deal was struck, giving Macy's exclusive rights to sell Martha Stewart-branded homewares (with a contract that gave Macy's an automatic right of renewal). The


the Tazaghart High Plateaus, where hundreds of transhumant and nomads graze their herdsduring winter. We reach the first villages and stay at Ait Ayoub for the night (For those who are not tired yet, we can ride to the village of Amjgag by the gorges)

Ride distance: 46km

Uneven positive: 300m Uneven negative: 450m

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DAY 6 AIT YOUB – DADES

We ride south across the amazing Qati Gorges. Out of the canyons, we discover beautiful and intensely cultivated valleys, welcome to the kingdom of the roses. Thisregion is famous by its odorant rose. In the first weekend of May, a big “Rose Festival” is taking place in the next town of Qalaat Mgouna. Overnight in a gite at Ait Yulin the Dades Valley.

Ride distance: 38km

Uneven positive:race allowed him one more opportunity to address the convention, and to appeal to the party to reject the ‘’Deux Nations’’ policy. By letting his name stand, however, he was pledging his support for the winner under the rules of the convention.

Wallace McCutcheon, a 61-year-old Senator joined the campaign to be the voice of the party's right-wing. He had served as Minister without Portfolio in Diefenbaker's government, and then as Minister of Trade and Commerce. He campaigned aggressively against "big government" and "creeping socialism".  McCutcheon was seen as the candidate of Bay Street (Toronto's financial district).  He used dozens of attractive young women in his demonstration at the convention (dubbed "blonde goddesses" by the Toronto Star). He advocated a guaranteed annual income of $10,000 per adult


step aside if the party agreed to drop its ‘’Deux Nations’’ policy. He also told Roblin that he would lead a walkout from the convention if it were adopted. In the end, this policy was confirmed by the party’s Policy Committee, and Diefenbaker stayed at the convention.  Several of the candidates went to Diefenbaker’s hotel suite to try to secure his support, but in the end he joined the race at the last minute.

Diefenbaker spoke to the convention as out-going leader, and only decided to make a speech as a candidate -- a few minutes before he scheduled to on stage -- at the urging of Erik Nielsen (Michael Starr’s campaign manager) and Joel Aldred.  He spoke for only 8 of the 19 minutes he wasReplicating the Replicators: Is Psychology in Crisis or Not?

This article was originally published on The Psych Report before it became part of the Behavioral Scientist in 2017.

Science recently published a critique of the findings of the Reproducibility Project: Psychology. The Reproducibility Project, conducted by the Open Science Collaboration (OSC), gained significant attention last fall for its sobering assessment of the state of psychological science, reporting that less than half of the 100 studies it attempted to replicate did so.

The recent critique, authored by Dan Gilbert, Gary King, Stephen Pettigrew, and Tim Wilson suggests the authors of the original report neglected to take into account a number of key factors in their study design and analysis, including key sources of random error, underpowered replication attempts, and biases in replication


methodology. These failures, Gilbert and his co-authors argue, led the OSC to incorrectly portray the rate of replication within psychology as a “crisis.” Members of the OSC replied to the critique, standing by their original conclusion, and offering a critique of their own on Gilbert and his co-authors’ methods and analyses.

Evan Nesterak is the editor-in-chief at the Behavioral Scientist. In 2013, he co-founded the non-profit psychology news website The Psych Report and in 2016 he helped launch the Philadelphia Behavioral Science Initiative. Evan earned his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 2009, where he studied psychology and statistics.Author's Note: This story takes place during the episode 'Just a Little Help'. Some back ground for the episode: Ben and Michael are a gay couple who take in a 16 year old boy named Hunter. They meet Hunter outside their apartment building because he has picked that spot to hustle, and they keep trying to get him to quit. Once Hunter is living with them and starts to turn his life around, his mother shows up and wants custody of him. Ben and Michael find out that Hunter's mother forced him to start selling himself for money when he was 12, and then put him in foster care at some point after that. He then ran away and lived off the streets hustling for about a year.


right way or not. Running didn't exactly show Hunter how to be a responsible adult, but at the same time, not running could mean Hunter would have to move back in with his abusive mother. He muttered again, "Six months ago I didn't even know the kid, and now I can't imagine what Ben and I would do without him."

He went into a convenience store, which was at the truck stop across the street from the motel, and got the attention of the woman at the counter. "Excuse me, have you seen a teenage boy come through here in the last half an hour? He has light brown hair, he's kind of foul mouthed and probably had a bad attitude."

She gave him a 'don't be stupid look' andsaid, "You just described every teenager that comes in here."

Annoyed Michael said, "It's really important. Have there been any teenagers in here for the past half an hour?"

"At least twenty."

Michael sighed and said, "Thanks anyway."

He walked out and decided to look around the parking lot. He looked into the distance and couldn't believe his eyes. He saw a form that looked a lot like Hunter's getting out of a semi truck that was parked in the lot. As the form got closer he was sure it was Hunter. Hunter saw Michael and waved as he got closer. Michael stood where he was, and when Hunter got close enough he said, "Hunter! Where the fuck have you been? I've been looking all over for you!"

Pleased with himself and smirking,


Hunter said, "C'mon. Dinner's on me." as he waved some cash in Michael's face.

Michael wanted it not to be true, but suspected it was. He asked, "Where did you get that? How many truckers did you have to fuck to get it?"

Still pretty pleased with himself Hunter said, "Just one! And it was only a blowjob."

Michael said sarcastically, "That's a relief." And then burst into a yell, "How could you?"

Hunter wasn't quite sure what Michael was so upset about. Michael knew he was a hustler, because they had met when Hunter was trying to pick up johns outside of Michael and Ben's apartment building. He knew that neither Ben nor Michael approved of what he had done for a living for a few years, but he didn't seeand unsure look. Then Michael raised his voice, pointed to the hotel and said with authority, "Move it!"

Hunter wasn't able to keep eye contact, and slowly turned and walked back to the hotel with Michael following closely behind him. As he walked he tried to put a name on what he was feeling. He'd only felt this way two other times. The first was when he overheard Ben and Michael talking about how they weren't getting through to him, and that maybe he'd be better off with someone else. The second was after both Michael and Ben had yelled at him for getting that evidence for Brian. He wasn't exactly ashamed of what he'd done. He'd felt ashamed plenty in his sixteen years, but that didn't really describe


realized Hunter was crying. He stopped and tried to figure out what to say as Hunter's crying got more obvious. After a good thirty seconds of listening to Hunter cry, Michael couldn't take it anymore. He took his arm off Hunter's waist, and pulled at his arm to get him up. Hunter slowly stood, and Michael pulled him down to sit next to him on the bed. Pulling Hunter into a strong hug, Michael was quiet and let him cry for a while.

Not sure why he was bawling over a few swats, or why he couldn't stop, Hunter hugged Michael back as hard as he could. Once the crying was getting quieter, Michael started rubbing Hunter's back and said, "It's gonna be okay. You're going to be okay.he really did believe Michael. Once Hunter was under control again he let go of Michael. Michael patted his back and said, "Go take a shower while I get us some food."

Hunter nodded and went to get his pajamas out of his bag before heading in to the little bathroom. As soon as he heard the water go on, Michael picked the money up off the floor that Hunter had thrown at him. He went to the store across the street and got them both some pre-made sandwiches with chips. On his way back he saw a pay phone and couldn't help himself from stopping and calling Ben.

Ben answered, "Hello?"

"Hi."

"Michael? I wasn't expecting to hear from you again so soon."

"We're coming home."

The line was quite for a few


happened. Hunter darted his eyes up to Michael's for a second and then looked back down at the carpet wondering what to do now. Michael shut the door behind him and handed Hunter a sandwich and a bag of chips before sitting down on his own bed and opening his food. He said, "Eat up."

Hunter unwrapped his sandwich and started to eat. After a few seconds he said quietly, "Thanks for getting me ham."

Michael knew it was Hunter's favorite, and that Ben didn't like them to eat it much because it wasn't all that healthy. "Sure."

They ate quietly for a few minutes, the silence slightly unnatural for the two of them, but neither one really knowing what to say. After Hunter had finished his sandwich, and was openinga committed relationship which means we don't keep secrets from each other."

Hunter looked kind of pissed still, but didn't say anything. Michael handed him the cell phone. Hunter looked down at it and back at Michael. Michael said, "Go on."

Turning it on, Hunter dialed the number that he had started to think of as his home number and waited. Ben picked up before the first ring was over. "Hunter?"

Hearing the worry in Ben's voice, Hunter blushed a little, "Hi Ben."

"How are you doing Pal?"

Hunter felt himself getting choked up again at Ben's warm and caring voice. He gave him an unconvincing, "Okay."

Ben could hear that Hunter was obviously still upset, and wished he could be there to help both him and Michael. He said quietly, "You wanna tell


me what happened?"

Hunter's vision became blurry. He took a deep breath to try and stop the crying before it started. "Not really."

"I'd like to hear it from your point of view."

Standing, Hunter turned his back on Michael and walked a few steps away so that he wouldn't have to see his face while talking. As he was talking the tears spilled over and he was sure Ben would be able to hear a few shaky intakes of breath over the line in between sentences. "Mikey said we were out of money. And I knew it was my fault and I wanted to help."

"Hey Pal, it's not your fault. Mikey was the one who decided to run, not you."

"I guess."

After a few seconds of silence Ben said, "What happenednext?"

"So I " For some reason it sounded dirty now. He'd never had a problem saying it before, but now it was hard. He muttered out quickly, "I gave some guy a blowjob."

Ben kept his voice calm but firm, "Even though you know that Michael and I both want you to stop hustling?"

Hunter wiped the tears off his face, sniffed loudly and said, "Yeah."

"I think that was a bad choice."

"Yeah, Michael did too."

Sighing at the sorrow he heard in Hunter's voice, Ben said, "He told me that he spanked you."

Hunter's voice broke again as he said, "Yeah he did."

Ben didn't want to seem callous to Hunter's crying, but he also didn't want Hunter to think he disagreed with what Michael had done. He wanted to present a united


Put Michael on the phone please."

Hunter shoved the phone in Michael's hand, and dove into his bed pulling the covers up over his head. Michael put the phone to his ear and said, "Jesus Ben, what did you say?"

Ben sighed again. "I told him that the next time he went out hustling I'd be spanking him."

Michael was surprised. He didn't figure Ben to be the type. But then if he really thought about it, he didn't consider himself to be the type to spank his kid either. He looked over at the lump that was Hunter and could hear the muffled crying. Michael got up and sat next to Hunter on the bed, and rubbed Hunter's back in what he hoped were soothing circles and said, "But that'svacation. While there, he secured a Hawaiian flag that had fluttered outside his Napili Sunset hotel.

The Aloha State? Check.

Upon returning from Hawaii, Zantos took off in a red 2005 Honda Element – and downgraded his sleeping arrangements to, mostly, his car or tent.

He followed a circuitous itinerary, as evidenced by the curlicues on a large U.S. map decorating his parents’ home – where he currently resides while figuring out his next job.

His path cut through the Southwest in February and the southern coast in March.

In April, Zantos turned west to Kentucky and Tennessee and in May followed the Eastern rim.

In June, he headed southwest to Colorado, in July shot northeast to the Great Lakes and then in August motored west toward Washington.

From there, he and his car thumbed


a ferry to Alaska, after which he made his way south through the Pacific Northwest, veered east to Utah and finally west again to Southern California.

Driving only a couple of hours each day, Zantos stuck to back roads. His decade-old car broke down just once, when his alternator went out in Georgia. And, he got all of one ticket – a $25 parking fine in Key West, he said.

Zantos tackled most of the trip solo. A friend joined him in Glacier National Park and he occasionally dropped in on far-flung relatives. His mother accompanied him through Georgia and South Carolina, and he attended the Indianapolis 500 with his father.

He also hung out with new friends he made along the way. Camping in South Carolina, Zantos met Rhode IslandJetro, which has operated in Hunts Point since 1985, moved to a new 200,000-square-foot building in 2012 that more than doubled its size. Bodega owners troll for bargains in enormous aisles — some as long as two football fields — packed to the ceiling with Goya black beans and Little Debbie honey buns as well as specialty items like halal chicken, cured pork tails and frozen whole goats.

Felix Rodriguez, 62, the owner of La Gondola Deli in the Bronx, said he initially got so turned around in the warehouse that he left by an exit on a different side than he had entered on, and was convinced his car had been stolen. (Store workers had to help him find it). He spent several days learning where to find


Just as certain drivers have ‘Formula 1’ stamped on their foreheads long before they eventually reach motorsport’s premier category, so Alfa Romeo team principal Frédéric Vasseur was always destined to make it to the top level, albeit as a team boss rather driver.

Having tried karting as a kid, he graduated from the renowned French automotive, aerospace and transport university ESTACA, then formed his own Formula Renault team before moving ever upwards via F3 to GP2 and finally F1, initially with Renault.

The next move for the 51-year-old from a southern suburb of Paris was to Hinwil, situated outside Zurich, as team principal and managing director of Sauber Motorsport AG, known from 2019 as the Alfa Romeo F1 Team.

Along the way ‘Fred’ employed some illustrious drivers. His team ASM –renamed ART after throwing his lot in with Nicholas Todt – commands a roll of champions which includes Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Nico Hulkenberg, Valtteri Bottas, Charles Leclerc, Stoffel Vandoorne and Esteban Ocon. A total of 12 ASM/ART alumni have made it to F1 to date, including four grand prix winners.

Although Vasseur’s tenure with Renault F1 was short-lived, lasting little longer than the team’s 2016 return season, his departure marked him as a man who acts on the strength of his convictions. As racing director he had a vision for a team following after a bruising period under the cash-strapped ownership of Genii Capital. But the top management had another vision, and the net result was Vaseur’s resignation after one season, as he put principle ahead of clinging


An aspiring ballerina from a wealthy family learns some lessons about both dancing and life from a roughneck with soul in this teen drama. Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in a rough section of Baltimore,… MoreAn aspiring ballerina from a wealthy family learns some lessons about both dancing and life from a roughneck with soul in this teen drama. Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in a rough section of Baltimore, and has been in and out of trouble with the law most of his life. Finding himself before the judge yet again, Tyler is sentenced to 200 hours of community service, and he ends up mopping floors at the Maryland School ofthe Arts. Tyler catches the eye of Nora (Jenna Dewan), a gifted ballet student who is trying to incorporate hip-hop moves into her classical routines. None of Nora's fellow students seem to be on the same page as her, but Tyler is a talented street dancer with strength, moves, and enthusiasm. Despite the misgivings of the school's administrators, Nora persuades Tyler to team up with her for a major class project. Tyler gains a new self-respect as he gives in to the discipline of the dance academy, but he wonders if this new opportunity means turning his back on who he really is. Matters become all the more complicated when Tyler and Nora realize they're falling in love. Step Up was the first directorial credit for choreographer Anne


Fletcher, who designed dance routines for the films Bring It On, She's All That, and Boogie Nights. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

The surprise commercial success of Save the Last Dance ushered in a wave of films focussed around street dance and hip-hop. Where classic-era Hollywood dance… MoreThe surprise commercial success of Save the Last Dance ushered in a wave of films focussed around street dance and hip-hop. Where classic-era Hollywood dance films were dominated by ballroom, ballet and tap dancing, the 2000s gave us film after film in which impressive street or hip-hop choreography came face-to-face with decades-old romantic and dramatic conventions, with varying degrees of success.
At the more mainstream end of this wave we have Step Up, the first in a series of five films (to date) whichbelong in the same camp, since its dancing is used to explore ideas and character traits rather than just serve as a distraction. Instead of dazzling you with MTV-style cuts and empty, shallow bombast, the film is an altogether gentler beast, whose moments of posturing are tame and infrequent.
Despite not having the visual splendour of Luhrmann, Darren Aronofsky or Powell and Pressburger, Step Up is still a decent-looking film. Michael Seresin has spent much of his career working with Alan Parker, lensing all of his films between Bugsy Malone and Come See The Paradise. You won't find here any of the evocative colour shifts and shadows that he achieved in Angel Heart, but the colour palette is inviting and his use of wide angles is judicious.
Much like Charles


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Step Up uses its two conflicting styles of music to reflect the flaws of the individual characters. Tyler's laid-back, devil-may-care attitude gives him the freedom to take his dance moves wherever they choose to go, but he lacks the ability to focus which could make him potentially dance for a living. Nora, by contrast, is a prisoner of rigidity, being so tightly bound by the rules and traditions of classical music and dance that she can neither innovate nor stimulate.
The relationship between our two main characters is a breaking down of barriers, with both sides learning to respect traits of the other. Tyler not only understands responsibility, but he actively seeks it, eventually commiting to putting on a killer show and making a living. Nora learns to loosenup and have fun, which makes her dancing more natural and appealing. Tatum and Jenna Dewan have good chemistry together, which eventually led to them getting married in 2009.
There is also a nice comment in the film about how snobbery and tradition can actually put off the most talented people in a given field. Tyler's natural talent is plain for all to see (except himself), and yet it's hard to imagine him being given a level playing field with the more privileged members of the school. The film does, however, become a little more cartoony in this respect, with Nora's dance partner Brett being very thinly-written.
Step Up also deserves credit for maintaining control over its tone. Many films which are melodramatic in nature feel the need to inject


movie. Good story.
Tyler Gage (channing tatum) is from the wrong side of the tracks, caught up in a world of drugs,violence… MoreSaw it again!!! Great dance moves movie. Good story.
Tyler Gage (channing tatum) is from the wrong side of the tracks, caught up in a world of drugs,violence and crime.
After leaving a party Tyler and his two friends end up outside the Maryland school of the arts they break in and find themselves in the theater where they destroy the set. the boys are busted by a rent a cop and he grabs Mac, Tyler tackles the cop telling mac and skinny to run and is taken to court the next day he is made to serve community service at the scene of the crime.
Nora Clark a seniordancer at the school is work hard for her final show piece on which she is basing all her dreams of being accepted into a dance company. When her partner break his leg in a accident, Tyler steps in temporarily.
While learning with Nora, Tyler starts changing his perspective of life and becomes a little more serious about his future. He requests the School's director to let him join as a student. But she tells when he proves that he is dedicated, she will consider his request then.
Tyler suggests new line to the show piece and both Nora and himself choreograph a fusion of Ballet and Hip Hop. When Nora's old partner Andrew returns, Tyler storms out angrily accusing Nora of using him as a replacement. Andrew unable to


Defiagbon was an accomplished Nigerian and Canadian amateur boxer, winning 180 matches with only 20 defeats.

He won the Commonwealth Games in 1990.

Defiagbon was a Nigerian and All-African champion. He competed for Nigeria in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, losing in the first round of the light middleweight division to future world champion Raul Marquez.

He fled his native Nigeria in 1992 for what he calls "political" reasons. He went to Canada and obtained Canadian citizenship ...he won the Canadian heavyweight title in 1996.

He finished first at the Olympic Trials in 1996 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and first again at Thunder Bay, Canada, the same year.

In Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, Defiagbon, the heavyweight who left Nigeria for Halifax, had his hand raised in victory, assuring him ofat least a bronze medal, a medal won by disqualification.

An apparent low blow thrown by Christophe Mendy of France in the third round sent Defiagbon reeling to the canvas in severe pain. And after a doctor examined Defiagbon in the ring and took the Canadian's word that he couldn't continue, Mendy was disqualified. The fight was stopped. Several minutes later, referee Abduk Samad disqualified Mendy and the Canadian advanced in the heavyweight division. In semi-final, he won on Nate Jones (USA) 16-10. He took the silver medal losing a decision 2-20 to Felix Savon of Cuba in the final.


study will include analyses that examine the causes and consequences of school apathy as it relates to drug and alcohol use. The reasons youth give for leaving school will also be studied in order to determine whether these reasons are related to subsequent drug use. The interview study is designed to follow 800 youth at risk of dropping out of school from the ninth grade through the eleventh grade. Youth who remain in school as well as those who drop out will be followed throughout the study. The sample will include both male and female and African-American and White youth. The primary independent variables are school apathy, gender, and race. The main dependent measures are illicit drug and alcohol use measured in ways similar to national studies. Acurrent operations and capabilities and create a blueprint for service line development, and an implementation phase where we help you put the blueprint into action with the executive, operational, and clinical resources needed to execute.

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) The week started with a little trash talk from the underdog . The rest of it was dominated by speculation about a certain 40-year-old quarterback’s injured throwing hand .

Plenty of intrigue for when the Jaguars and Patriots meet in Sunday’s AFC championship game?

New England (14-3), the defending Super Bowl champion, is favored heading into its seventh straight conference title game. But the polished veneer it normally displays at this time of year is showing flecks of imperfection after Tom Brady injured his right hand during practice.

The injury kept Brady limited in workouts to begin the week and caused him to sit out practice entirely on Thursday.

Brady has never missed a playoff start during his 18-year career that includes four Super Bowl MPV honors. He saidEditorial: Fix loopholes Blagojevich exploited

On Dec. 1, Chicago marked the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in its history: the fire at Our Lady of the Angels School that killed 92 children and three nuns.

On Dec. 1, Chicago marked the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in its history: the fire at Our Lady of the Angels School that killed 92 children and three nuns.

The passage of time has done little to abate the horror of that afternoon. Yet the Our Lady of the Angels School fire today is remembered as much for the swift and sweeping building safety reforms that followed it as for the sorrow that lingers five decades hence.

It's our hope that the impeachment proceedings against Gov. Rod Blagojevich will, decades


there have not been any officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Utah jails or prisons — though a Utah defense attorney said her client tested positive a day after he was released from a Salt Lake County jail facility, and another man began showing symptoms days after he was released from the Uintah County jail. It has been spreading at jail facilities in other parts of the country.

Utah officials have been making efforts to reduce the incarcerated population — but if the Utah Supreme Court grants the petition, it would take those efforts further.

The Utah State Prison has asked that more than 80 inmates be released early, focusing on those who already had parole dates in the next 90 days. Salt Lake County officials released a few hundredof the Office of Environmental Justice, which focuses on protecting vulnerable populations, resigned in March 2017 — early in the Trump administration — because he felt he couldn’t do the job properly under Pruitt.

The UCS conducted an illuminating survey of federal scientists on the state of science earlier this year. It found that most feel their work has been hindered by political interference, workforce reductions and censorship. It was sent to 63,000 federal workers across 16 agencies and offices.

Jacob Carter, the UCS research scientist who led the survey, said the grievances among the EPA’s workforce stood out from other agencies. Over 60 percent of respondents at the EPA reported that the effectiveness of their office or division has decreased over the past year — by far the highest


It may have been trapped in a wire cage, but when Perth photographer Leon Rakai zoomed in on an angry feral cat, he made a point of getting the job done as quickly as possible.

Mr Rakai had been on the ground in Western Australia's south-west hoping to capture images of the endangered red-tailed phascogale when he happened upon the trapped tabby.

"It was probably the nastiest feral cat I've come across," Mr Rakai said.

"He was ready to kill anything and everything that was in front of him, including me.

"He had a tooth missing, a half chewed tail and I was pretty happy there was a wire cage between us."

The resulting photograph won Mr Rakai the title of Australian Geographic's 2015 ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year Award, an awardbeing released was always something he was hoping to capture. ( Supplied: Leon Rakai )

Using photography for good

Mr Rakai said one of the perks of his conservation work was the unique photo opportunities he had, such as the one which won him the recent award.

He said one of his most memorable shots was of a phascogale leaping from the hands of a volunteer during its release.

"I spent two or three years trying to get a shot of a phascogale mid-air; about 1,000 shots later, I finally got one," Mr Rakai said.

He said much of his inspiration came from the photographers featured in the National Geographic magazines he read in his youth.

He said he hoped his photography would, in turn, inspire others to learn about their local flora and


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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of thisbook, which is about the influence of the policy agenda recommended by the Acheson Inquiry on the New Labour policy on reducing health inequalities. It discusses the significance of the Inquiry and its recommendations on how to reduce inequalities in health care in Great Britain. It describes the strategies adopted by the government that set out specifically to reduce health inequalities and examines the policies and programmes introduced during the New Labour's first ten years in office.

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the military's involvement in Pakistani politics, says the book is a sellout of the nation's pride for the sake of the author's personal gain. The book is seen as an embarrassment to the country rather than offering any new facts. Many media reports in Pakistan and abroad have panned the book for its inaccuracies and the attempt to portray himself as a saviour at the cost of showing Pakistan in poor light.
The daughter of controversial Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan has criticised claims made by President Pervez Musharraf in his autobiography. Khan was put under house arrest after admitting passing nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. In the book, Musharraf said that Khan sent a letter to his daughter, Dina, asking her to "go public onscores in math -- that’s an economic death sentence.”

Malloy recognizes the need to invest in cities. He was once the mayor of Stamford, where new companies in fields such as biotech are moving in alongside the hedge funds, and thousands of new housing units have gone up. In July, the governor announced improvements in rail service and stations that will offer better connections between Hartford and New Haven to the south and Springfield, Mass., to the north. Through a quasi-public development authority, the state has helped build 1,600 new housing units in Hartford. The shift of a University of Connecticut campus from West Hartford to a former newspaper building across the street from the city hall will bring 2,000 undergraduates downtown. “The seeds of revitalization are there,” says


Kerry Warns Turkey Against Going 'Too Far' While Restoring Order

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he supported bringing perpetrators of the attempted coup in Turkey to justice, but warns the government against going "too far" while restoring order in the country.

"We stand squarely on the side of the elected leadership in Turkey," he told a news conference after meeting EU counterparts in Brussels. "But we also firmly urge the government of Turkey to maintain calm and stability throughout the country."

"We also urge the government of Turkey to uphold the highest standards of respect for the nation's democraticinstitutions and the rule of law," he continued. "We will certainly support bringing the perpetrators of the coup to justice but we also caution against a reach that goes well beyond that."

State-run news agency Anadolu reported that 8,777 officers have been suspended and 6,000 members of the judiciary and military have been detained following the attempted coup Friday, sparking concern from world leaders who warn against actions that would damage constitutional order.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the rule of law "needs to be protected for the sake of the country." She made the comment at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels Monday.

Crackdown continues

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to rid Turkey of people involved in the coup attempt. "At every level of government,


be among the architects of the coup

Turkish military personnel who were aboard a Blackhawk military helicopter are transferred to a prosecutor's office in the city of Alexandroupolis, northern Greece, July 17, 2016.

Death penalty considered

Speaking Sunday to people who called for the death penalty outside his home in Istanbul, Erdogan said the use of capital punishment cannot be delayed, saying "We cannot ignore this demand."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the crowd following a funeral service for victims of the thwarted coup in Istanbul at Fatih Mosque in Istanbul, July 17, 2016.

His speech was punctuated by frequent calls of "we want the death penalty'' from the large crowd, to which Erdogan responded: "We hear your request. In a democracy, whatever the people want they will get.''

Erdogan said he woulddiscuss it with opposition parties but that "We will not delay this decision for long. Because those who attempt a coup in this country must pay.''

Turkey hasn't executed anyone since 1984, and capital punishment was legally abolished in 2004 as part of Turkey's bid to join the European Union.

Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz said the reintroduction of the death penalty would be "absolutely unacceptable" in an interview with state media ahead of his meeting with his European counterparts Monday.

Kerry denies US Involvement

Secretary Kerry has denounced suggestions that Washington was involved in Friday's failed coup in Turkey.

"We think it's irresponsible to have accusations of American involvement," Kerry told CNN on Sunday.

Turkish President Erdogan has accused Fethullah Gulen, a reclusive cleric now living in Pennsylvania, of orchestrating the violence and


demanded that Gulen be extradited.

Erdogan frequently refers to "masterminds" who he says are bent on breaking up Turkey, in what appears a veiled reference to the West in general, and more specifically, the United States. On Saturday, Labor Minister Suleyman Soylu accused Washington of being behind the coup attempt.

In a phone call on Saturday Kerry told Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu “public insinuations or claims about any role by the United States in the failed coup attempt are utterly false and harmful to our bilateral relations,” according to a report of the call released by the State Department.

Kerry also told CNN that Turkey has made no formal request for Gulen's extradition, and that he'd asked the country's foreign minister to make the official request, saying that "the UnitedConditions remained tense in Istanbul, Ankara and some other provincial cities, and there were reports of sporadic violence.

US military operations

Turkey on Sunday also reopened its airspace to military aircraft, allowing the U.S.-led coalition to resume air operations against Islamic State militants.

FILE - A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter jet lands at Incirlik airbase in the southern city of Adana, Turkey, Dec. 10, 2015.

Turkey had closed its airspace following the attempted coup.

Turkey, a NATO member, is a key partner in U.S.-led efforts to defeat the Islamic State group and has allowed American jets to use its Incirlik air base to fly missions against the extremists in nearby Syria and Iraq.

VOA's National Security Correspondent Jeff Seldin, White House Correspondent Mary Alice Salinas, VOA's Turkish service, Georgian service, and


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That Montano finished last in her heat didn't matter one bit to the crowd gathered at Hornet Stadium. Trailing the lead pack by more than 120 meters for most of the race, Montano received a rousing ovation as she finished her first lap and the cheering grew louder when she finally crossed the finish line.


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Glancing over his shoulder, he could see the burning beast on his rear chasing on both Ray and him. Its running was slower due to the lost front limb, but it would soon regain its speed once it grew back the lost limb. With the Cerberus chasing them from behind, the situation was looking bleak.

Running beside Dunnford, Ray didn’t have the leisure to wipe his nosebleed and he was short of breath. The fatigue and accumulated damage can’t be good for him, Dunnford thought. He had reassured him by saying that they could depend on Elaine to keep people safe, but that was unrealistic.

To Dunnford’s right, on top of the roof of a building, was Elaine. She must have gotten herself up there with herfrom afar. She had successfully evacuated the people from the buildings. ‘Brace yourself master Ray,’ Dunnford said. The beast was clearly not giving up on its chase. Ray and Dunnford started running and the beast destroyed the building in its path. Those building took painstaking months to be built, but destroyed in mere seconds by the Cerberus.

‘—we just want to read the books you stole.’

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‘To read the books I stole?’ Vath said with a questioning look. Upon seeing Freya’s nod, he looked up to the starry skies and laughed. ‘For the books!’

‘Told you it’s funny,’ Freya said.

‘Ha-ha-ha…’ Vath then glared at Freya with murderous eyes. His expression could only be describe as pure anger. He closed the distance between them with a step and he immediately threw a


In the inaugural season of the Overwatch League, the Blizzard-operated esports venture that launched last year with a four-stage season that ran from January through July, the London Spitfire recovered from a second-half swoon to defeat the Philadelphia Fusion in the finals in front of a loud crowd at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The Spitfire followed a perplexing path to the playoffs. After going a combined 15-5 against their opponents in the then-12-team (now 20-team) league in the first two regular-season stages, they slumped to a combined 9-11 in stages 3 and 4 and entered the playoffs with a worse overall record than four of their competitors in the six-team playoff field. In the playoffs, though, they went 6-1, dispatching both Los Angeles clubs before sealing the Fusion’s fate.

London’sAs a team-based online shooter in which squads of six players cooperate to achieve objectives like capturing control points and delivering payloads, Overwatch synthesizes first-person shooters and MOBAs. In a standard, deathmatch-based shooter in which the main way to be good at the game is to kill without being killed, a simple stat like KDA (kills/deaths/assists) ratio does a decent job of ranking players, but Overwatch complicates matters by incorporating objectives, separating players into three (originally four) roles (damage, tank, and support), and requiring them to pick from 31 player-controlled characters, or “heroes” (including new addition Sigma). Among major American sports, Overwatch is most often linked with basketball, but the parallels aren’t perfect. In basketball, a point guard and a center accumulate certain stats at different rates—a point


The first group stage for the Overwatch World Cup had an explosive start. The match between Team Finland vs. Team South Korea, for example, is already being considered one of the best matches of the year.

As expected, well known Overwatch League players enjoyed most of the spotlight. However, Overwatch Contenders players steadily made waves throughout the first group stage. Players like Txao from Team Russia and Davin from Team Finland had impressive showings, but the true standouts were two Widowmakers that made the weekend even spicier.

I'm talking about Moowe from Team Hong Kong, and Dep from Team Japan.

The Widowmaker Talent

Widowmaker is a unique hero because, despite the simplicity of her toolkit, at the highest levels she requires the natural talent of hand and eye coordination to truly maximizeher effectiveness. So, when some of the best Widowmakers this weekend players from Overwatch Contenders, it forced people to take notice. If Mowee and Dep are comparable (favorably, even) against the top OWL Widowmaker players, then their OWL aspirations become more than just hopes: they become serious possibilities.

Team Hong Kong’s Chi-Yeung “Moowe” Yip – Hong Kong Attitude

▲ Chi-Yeung “Moowe” Yip, Coach of Hong Kong Attitude

Moowe is the coach for the Hong Kong Attitude. Yes, you read that right, he is the coach. However, during the World Cup, he is on the frontlines playing as DPS. His performance on Widowmaker had people scratching their heads: how can an Overwatch Coach be so mechanically gifted?

You have to understand that the Korean group stages had some of the best Widowmakers in


From SamuraiD’s absences (due to health-related reasons) to their slump dating all the way back from Contenders, Team Japan started this tournament at a disadvantage. However, there were still spurts of glory from the Japanese team, most notably from their DPS players.

And out of the all their DPS players, Dep stood out the most.

Dep is a DPS player for CYCLOPS athlete gaming, which is one of the finalists for the Pacific contenders region. Dep is often cited as the “best Widowmaker” in his region and coming into the World Cup, he said that he wanted to show that he was one of the best Widowmakers in the world.

And he certainly proved himself.

In this match against, Team Russia, Dep helped Japan secure the second point by eliminating 4 outof the 6 players from Russia. Japan, then, would take a map from Russia and start the series with a lead. Despite losing the whole series, their win in Oasis came as a surprise because Team Russia is a formidable team that went toe-to-toe with the likes of Team Finland.

Dep carries his team against Team Russia

Dep carried again when they were playing against Team Chinese Taipei. In their attack in King’s Row, Dep was able to kill pretty much everything, which allowed Team Japan to finish the last point with ease. Note that after a couple of kills, he goes into super aggressive positioning and is still able to one-shot enemies.

He does it again against Team Chinese Taipei.

This is not to say that these players are OWL ready.