play in a privately developed, 25,000-seat state-of-the-art stadium in the city’s urban core. The stadium will be designed by Populous, the global firm that has created MLS stadiums in Orlando, Houston, Kansas City and Colorado, along with Audi Field (opening this year in Washington, D.C.), and Allianz Field (opening in Minnesota in 2019). Populous has also worked on many of the top soccer venues around the world, including the new stadium for Tottenham Hotspur, opening this year, and the expansion of Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium in 2015.

“Miami celebrates the culmination of years of hard work that have resulted today in the birth of a club in North America’s top-flight soccer league for our vibrant and diverse community,” said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez. “Miami has always beenSoutheastern United States and has a proven and passionate fan base for soccer. During the last few years, multiple crowds of more than 60,000 per game have attended soccer matches in the region. Nielsen ranks Miami-Fort Lauderdale as the 16th-largest television market in the U.S., and it is one of the strongest for soccer. The area consistently ranks among the top markets for FIFA World Cup viewership.

The area is home to the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, NBA’s Miami Heat, MLB’s Miami Marlins and the NHL’s Florida Panthers as well as many top collegiate sports programs. It is also host to several major annual sporting events, including college football’s Orange Bowl, NASCAR Championship Weekend and the Miami Open tennis championship.

Additional news and information on the club – including its debut


season in MLS, team name, logo and staff – will be announced in the future. For more information on Miami’s new MLS club, visit FutbolMiamiMLS.com . Fans can connect with the club on social media via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube at @FutbolMiamiMLS and using the #FutbolMiamiMLS hashtag.

With Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) beginning play this season and today’s official addition of Miami, MLS has added 15 clubs since the beginning of the 2005 season, leading to a rapid and remarkable transformation of professional soccer in North America. MLS will grow to a total of 28 teams in the next few years.yet.

These sort of rough years aren’t very new to Allen, though. Any Peoria Rivermen fan can comment on Allen being the wary backup goalie that the Rivermen had no faith in during his reign there. In the last season before the Rivermen were sold, 2012-13, Allen went 13-19-2 with 2.89 goals-against average. It was arguably the worst season of his AHL career.

The Rebound

Allen rebounded from this poor year with the best of his AHL career. He played in a league-high 52 games that year. As a result, he also won the most games. His record was 33-16-7. Out of all goalies who played at least 30 games, Allen had the lowest goals-against average (2.03) and the highest save percentage (.928). He was the best goalie in the league,


without question. It was so obvious that he was actually awarded the Aldege ‘Baz’ Bastien Award, given to the AHL’s top goalie at the end of the year. Other notable recipients include Murray, Ryan Miller, and Manny Legace, the goalie that Allen replaced in the Blues AHL system.

That rebound is very indicative of Allen’s struggles now. He slowly decreased in production, until he stalemated in 2012-13. Realizing his poor play, Allen flipped the switch in 2013-14 and became the best goalie in the league.

Looking Forward

The same scenario is happening now. Allen took full responsibility for his play in the team’s season opener. He told the media after the game, “I’ve got to make one of those saves to try and keep us in the game and at leastgive us a chance.”

The 28-year-old is in his prime and very aware of his mistakes. His work during the training camp is especially useful in seeing his mindset towards this season. At the start of camp, he was sidelined with back spasms, to say the least. It was reported that he could barely walk because they were so bad. Still, he was a daily participant in the team’s camp before it ended and was more-than-ready for opening night.

Allen is determined and has stilled looked good in his time on the ice so far. His attitude and skillset have given Allen everything he needs to have his best NHL season yet, especially considering the weapons that the Blues lineup now has. Blues fans have been all over Allen after


his woes in the home opener, but there isn’t anything to worry about. This is his time to shine in St. Louis. If he can play at his top potential, Allen could very well be the Blues secret weapon to a Stanley Cup run.

ST PAUL, MN – APRIL 12: Jake Allen #34 of the St. Louis Blues makes a stick-side save against a shot by Mikael Granlund #64 of the Minnesota Wild during the overtime period in Game One of the Western Conference First Round during the 2017 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Xcel Energy Center on April 12, 2017, in St Paul, Minnesota. The Blues defeated the Wild 2-1 in overtime. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)far away from the fate of Greece that has been the poster child of how austerity can destroy a country's political stability, social fabric and economic prospects. Latin Americans have a long experience with their creditors making borrowing expensive and bankrupting them just as their prospects begin to look promising. The debt cycle in Latin America has been a way of life from the late 19th century until the 1980s. They also know that debt crises are a way for foreign and domestic capitalists to lower asset values, including labor costs, and to transfer wealth from the region to the US and Europe.

Latin Americans who have studied the history of debt crises also know that in the aftermath of global economic contractions, there is retrenchment that takes place,


monetarism for Latin America argue that Argentina has done a very poor job in managing its economy by refusing the Fund's advice in 2001 and going on its own. Given that extreme poverty in 2001 stood at 11.6% and below poverty line at 35.6%, while in 6.5% in 2012 - caveat: estimates dependent on the source and they do vary.

The world economic outlook for the year is better at the start of 2014than it was six months ago, but only because markets have been rising owed to massive capital concentration. The ILO warned that world unemployment will continue to rise, despite the so-called economic recovery in the US. Economic outlook for Latin America does not look as promising today as it did a year ago, despite the regionalof purity and spirituality, but rather an institution serving political purposes that are arch-conservative, an institution mired in sexual scandals without end, an institution with all kinds of banking-money scandals linking it to corrupt politicians and even to the mafia. For Pope Francis to take over and reach beyond the traditional elites that the Vatican has been interested represents a common sense move imbedded in the instinct for survival and competition with other institutionalized religions.

Pope Francis has deliberately decided to sideline the conservative leaders of the Catholic church, including US bishops historically reactionary and opposed to social justice, largely because the decadence and corruption of the institutions rests with the conservative elements of the Church hiding behind the veil of respectability. That Pope Francis recognizes the decadence of


society rests in the hierarchy of the institution, in the hierarchy of the political and financial world and media is a testament to his pragmatism, not Socialism as critics have insisted. Although he insists that he has no political ideology, he is clearly against the concentration of wealth and rise in poverty, for he too knows that a tiny percentage of the world's population owns the lion's share of wealth, while one-third of the planet's people linger in abject poverty.

It is absurd that the Catholic Church has the power to transform the politics of any nation, though it is equally absurd for politicians to go against a strong religious institution. With 1.2 billion faithful behind it, of which 78 million are Americans, the Papacy is a powerful institutionPope Francis is not following in the same corrupt and elitist tradition of previous popes. Why all the right-wing propaganda about the head of the Catholic Church, a historically right wing institution? The answer is fear that this institution is adding its voice to the critics of a societal structure that is systemically decadent, protecting the privileges of the very few at the expense of the many.

Tuesday, 14 January 2014

The phenomenon of globalization and the tendency toward nihilism on the part of many people around the world is a subject that has received some attention in recent writings, largely in academic circles. Because ordinary citizens feel that their voices do not matter, because they see that only the political and socioeconomic elites have a say in what happens


the human being into a commodity, affording it value accordingly.

There is no
contradiction between nihilism and activism as history has shown in 19th
century Russia,
and 20th century Italy,
France,
and Spain
to mention a few countries where nihilists have been immersed in class
consciousness. Second, there are varieties of nihilism from Anarchist to
Apocalyptic and Existential. After Greek sophists were the first to establish
the ideological foundations of nihilism, 19th century Russian and
European intellectuals and activists constructed varieties of nihilist
ideologies to express discontent with the status quo and at the same time offer
a vision for the future. There are indeed varieties of nihilism from Bakunin
and Nietzsche to modern-day “Apocalyptic Nihilism” that may be a definition to
which many in the western world understand when they use or encounter the term.
There is of course Nietzsche’s rejection of theABSOLUTE and thus the implied
absence of values other than ‘power’, and Sartre’s definition that human
freedom is in essence negative from which creativity stems.

In every historical epoch society’s social order in
general and hegemonic elites specifically are determined by the political
economy. From the late Middle Ages until the last Absolutist monarch in Russia,
European kings used ‘Divine Right Principle’ to rule on behalf of spiritual and
temporal lords, to the detriment of serfs, workers, and the middle class.
Resting on the Enlightenment (Locke and Rousseau) the French Revolution
introduced ideology as the basis of representative (of the bourgeois elites)
government; a development that would have a far-reaching influence in most of
the world throughout the 19th and 20th centuries until
the Bolshevik Revolution that used ideology to exclude former elites and
justify regime theoretically representing the working class.

Whether


ideology has been used by bourgeois hegemonic
elites to justify conformity to a political economy and institutional
conformity essentially designed to perpetuate the social order or whether by
Marxian elites to justify forging of a new social order, ideology has been
dynamic. Lenin had to modify Marxism to conform to Russia’s pre-industrial social
conditions, and then he had to modify his own ideology against the reality of
serious problems the country was facing during and after the Civil War.
Similarly, F. D. Roosevelt had to redefine the ideology on which American
political economy and all institutions were based against the reality of the
Great Depression. Oblivious to the needs of the population, Stalin and the
elites backing him used ideology as a vehicle to justify ruling like Ivan the
Terrible.

In China, Confucianism served the emperors well for centuries ina
society that was fairly self-contained, until self-containment in the age of
imperialism entailed the decline of China and the imperial system.
Again we see that stagnation resulted from the failure of rulers to reject
Confucian ideology and embrace reality of change. Ideology under Mao moved
society forward, given he inherited chaos that the war lords and imperialists
had left behind. After trying the Great Leap forward and Cultural Revolution,
Mao embraced détente and opened China
to integration with the West. China
as one-party state directs a capitalist economy and is no longer committed to
the ideology of the 1940s, or 1950s, or 1960s. In the post-Cold War era of the
1990s and throughout the first decade of this century business elites were
greatly elevated in stature. However, a series of market and economic crises
since WWII have shaken popular confidence


in the propaganda business elites
have been using to perpetuate the existing system and their privileged
positions.

Why does the early 21st century feel like the new "Age of Anxiety", in a sense a repeat of the interwar era right after the First World War and amid the Great Depression when people were losing faith in bourgeois institutions and the rationalism of the Enlightenment on which society was built? Why does the following quotation from the Erich Maria Remarque, All
Quiet on the Western Front, (1929) have such a strong message to deliver to the youth of our time?

"I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but
despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of
sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another,and intellect beyond conventions. Slaves to Gods and Demons
takes the reader through a roller coaster enthralling journey of
personal trials and triumphs of a family emerging vanquished and
destitute after World War II.

Narrated by a young boy, Morfeos, modeled after the Greco-Roman pagan
deity of sleep and dreams, the book reveals the soul of a people trying
to ascertain and assert their identity while rebuilding their lives and
recapturing the glory of a lost civilization.

Seeking liberation from restraints of time, social conventions, and
binding traditions, the deity of dreams provides the conformist and the
free-spirited characters in the novel with venues for redemption that
are mere paths toward illusions. Exploring the complexities of human
relationships shaped by priest and politician alike, the novel rests on
the central theme that life is invariably a series of illusions, some
of which


MANHATTAN, Kan. – On Monday afternoon the USTFCCCA announced the 10 semifinalists for The Bowerman, and K-State senior Erik Kynard is on the list. After being on the official Watch List throughout the season, Kynard was named to the final list of 10 before The Bowerman Selection Committee narrows the field down to three finalists on July 10.

Kynard finished second in his final meet for K-State at the NCAA Championships earlier this month falling to Indiana’s Derek Drouin in another exciting high jump battle.

His senior season was filled with highlights as he became the first men’s high jumper to win three straight outdoor Big 12 Championship titles in his event. He broke the Big 12 Indoor Championship meet record with a leap of 2.31 meters (7-07.00). Kynard raisedthe bar on his own school record outdoors as he leapt 2.36 meters (7-08.75) to finish second at the prestigious Prefontaine Classic. He finished behind Olympic bronze medalist Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and bested Drouin on misses as the two rivals both cleared 2.36 meters to rank second in collegiate history. This outdoor season, Kynard averaged 2.31 meters to show an incredible amount of consistently high performances.

During his final home meet as a Wildcat, Kynard cleared 2.26 meters (7-05.00) to set a new R.V. Christian Track Complex facility record, ensuring he ended his career at K-State holding school records and facility records both indoors and out.

Kynard, who recently signed with Nike, will attempt to win his first USA Track & Field Championship this weekend in Des Moines,


has been awarded to the top collegiate track and field student-athlete since 2009 and is considered the Heisman Trophy of track and field. In addition to his history of success at Oregon, Bowerman was instrumental in helping establish the system of autonomous federations to control individual sports in the United States today and also is credited with helping fuel the jogging craze in America during the 1970’s. Bowerman was a cofounder of Nike and is most recognized within the company for his creation of the waffle sole by pouring rubber on a waffle iron.their development, and then release them back in the same place as they were collected.

Closed season and other species protection

In addition to protection, all wild birds and mammals, including bats, are protected under the Hunting Act (SFS 1987:259) and Hunting Ordinance (SFS 1987:905).

Exceptions from the closed season apply to such hunting that is permitted under the hunting legislation.

Fish as well as live crustaceans and molluscs, such as clams, mussels and snails, are covered by fisheries legislation and can be protected using these laws.

It is prohibited to fish for catfish and river pearl mussels throughout the country in accordance with the Ordinance on Fishing, Aquaculture and Fishing Industry (SFS 1994:1716). The ban also covers thick-shelled freshwater mussels and ramshorn snails, which are protected throughout the country in accordance with


The first featurette comes courtesy of IGN and shows never before seen footage featuring Yukio, a character that seems destined to be the breakout star of the film (similar to Faora in "Man of Steel").

"Physically, her abilities are amazing," says Jackman in the clip. "She's going to really excite people when they see her."

The Harada featurette was posted by Total Film and shows off the non-Silver Samurai portion of Kenuichio Harada's life. That portion apparently contains a lot of bow and arrow action with a good dose of parkour mixed in.

Since both Harada and his alter-ego - the Silver Samurai - got character posters, it would make sense to expect a separate featurette dedicated to the massive armor at a later date.

"The Wolverine" opens on July 26th, aPresident Donald Trump on Sunday acknowledged that he discussed former Vice President Joe Biden during a July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but denied accusations that he is using the power of his office to hurt a major political rival.

"No quid pro quo, there was nothing," Trump told reporters on the White House South Lawn. "It was a perfect conversation."

The phone call has ignited a political maelstrom in Washington this week as the latest revelation about a months-long effort to get Ukraine to investigate Biden, who is running for president against Trump, and his son. According to the Wall Street Journal and other outlets, Trump pressed the new Ukrainian leader to investigate Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine and whether they affected the former vice president's


problems. The new president is saying that he's going to be able to rid the country of corruption, and I said that would be a great thing, we had a great conversation."

Speaking to reporters later on Sunday in Texas, Trump said he might provide a copy of the transcript to a "respected source," adding "everyone will say" the conversation between him and Ukraine's president was perfectly fine.

"I know when I give pressure," Trump said.

Trump weighed in again Sunday night with a pair of tweets, disputing the Journal report and describing his call with the Ukrainian leader as "nice."

The phone call reportedly led to a whistleblower complaint from within the intelligence community, the existence of which was first revealed earlier this month. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday thatthe complaint centered around a "promise" that Trump made to a foreign leader. Over the next few days, the Post and other media outlets reported that the complaint involved Ukraine.

The president's focus on Biden and Ukraine comes amid his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani's months-long effort to get Ukraine to further investigate the former vice president, an effort which was aided by the State Department, as NBC News reported last month. The push centers on Biden's 2016 call — widely backed by the international community — for Ukraine to crack down on corruption, including removing a Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was seen as ineffective and was later removed by the country's parliament. One of the cases that Shokin was investigating involved Burisma Holdings, a natural gas company whose


board at the time included Biden's son.

Earlier this year, Bloomberg News, citing documents and an interview with a former Ukrainian official, reported the Burisma investigation had been dormant for more than a year by the time Biden called for the crackdown on corruption. The then-Ukrainian prosecutor general told the news agency that he found no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden and his son. PolitiFact, meanwhile, reported that it found no evidence to "support the idea that Joe Biden advocated with his son's interests in mind."

Giuliani, as he's noted, learned of the Biden episode through his efforts to have Ukraine examine whether the Democratic National Committee worked in connection with Ukrainian officials to harm Trump's 2016 campaign by releasing damaging information on the president's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort,who is now serving a lengthy prison sentence as part of Mueller's investigation.

House Democrats have already announced an investigation into Giuliani's Ukrainian efforts. In a CNN interview from Thursday, Giuliani denied asking Ukrainian officials to probe Biden but, moments later, said: "Of course I did."

On Wednesday, Trump is set to meet face to face with Zelensky, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In the weeks before the whistleblower complaint became public, the Trump administration froze $250 million in military aid to Ukraine for unclear reasons. Then, just before Democrats revealed the existence of the whistleblower complaint, the administration released the hold on Ukrainian military aid.

On Saturday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said he didn't think Trump pressured Zelensky, a former comedian, during


and had Golden

Falcon's interests transferred to him.   The effect of this

transfer was that Retos knowingly and fraudulently received, and

caused to be received, through the United States mail, four

revenue checks which rightly belonged to Golden Falcon.

          Count 11 charged Retos with the interstate

transportation of stolen property, in violation of 18 U.S.C.

§§ 2314 and 2.   Retos unlawfully transported a stolen limited

partnership certificate from Midland, Texas to Washington,

Pennsylvania.

          Trial commenced on November 30, 1992.   Retos

immediately objected to a number of statements made by the

prosecutor in his opening statement, and moved for a mistrial.

The district court denied Retos' motion.    On December 18, 1992, a

jury foundof Evidence 404(b).0   Retos claims that he ultimately

transferred the money from his personal account to the law firm's

client trust account, the firm divided the partnership's income

among the partners, and the individual partners paid taxes on the

"embezzled" $36,000.   In addition, Retos emphasizes that he was

prepared at trial to stipulate that in 1986, he had received the

$36,000 in his personal income.

           The government argues that Celestine's testimony was

relevant to establish Retos' 1986 income level.   The government

claims that Retos did not, and could not, establish conclusively

that the $84,283.62 in funds transferred from Retos' personal

account to the firm's account during 1986, included the $36,000

which Retos had embezzled from Celestine.   The government refused

Retos' offer to


   That, however, is the case before us now.

            Although the structuring charge offered by the district

court judge at the time of trial in December 1992 was consistent

with the law of this circuit, while Retos' appeal was pending,

the applicable law was clarified by the United States Supreme

Court.    That is, on December 16, 1992, when the district court

judge charged the jury in the instant case, its instruction

essentially was correct -- the district court judge was not

required to instruct the jury that Retos had to know that

structuring was illegal.    Not until January 11, 1994, when

Ratzlaf was decided and the "knowledge" element of § 5322(a)

clarified, did the error committed by the districtExercise effect of modified contralateral stabilization bar during one-legged isokinetic exercise.
We compared the electrical activities recorded from the muscles of the unexercised leg with changing the position of the contralateral stabilization bar to determine whether the degree of muscle contraction was influenced by the position of the bar during one-legged isokinetic exercise using an isokinetic dynamometer. The root mean square (RMS) values recorded from the medial hamstring sites of the unexercised legs showed a significantly higher value when the bar was located behind and on both in front of and behind the unexercised leg during one-legged extension exercise. Results from the isokinetic knee flexion exercise test indicated that a significantly greater RMS value was recorded from the vastus lateralis sites when the bar was located in front of


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The video, first shown during the “Take the Treasure” live stream event, shows off the game from its very start.

Persona 5 is slated to be released for the PS3 and PS4 in Japan on September 15, 2016, and in China on the same date for the PS4. It will have a February 14, 2017 North American release date, and the game has been announced for a European release.


brief bout of patriarchal, socially regressive sexism.

At publishing time, sources had further confirmed that the woman also betrays her feminist ideals and embraces traditional gender roles every garbage day, when her yard needs to be mowed, and whenever in the vicinity of a crime or possible physical altercation.

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In addition to Bandai America developing and manufacturing exciting new toys for the American market, Bandai Europe will also continue to produce and distribute the Power Rangers toy line across the continent. The toy lines will complement the re-imagined Power Rangers television series with new episodes set to air on Nickelodeon starting in 2011. Further, as part of the agreement, D3Publisher of America, Inc., developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software, will produce video games for the Power Rangers brand.

“Bandai America is committed to developing innovative toys that will reignite the Power Rangers brand as it embarks upon its third decade of pop culture dominance,” said Masayuki Matsuo, chairman and chief executive officer, Bandai America Incorporated. “The renewal ofvictory of good over evil. In the past year, Bandai America launched a refreshed Mighty Morphin Power Rangers toy line to match the revamped Mighty Morphin television series.

About Bandai America Incorporated

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Egypt Arc is JoJo in peak condition, as memorable and engaging an adventure as you could hope for. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is back.― When we last left our heroes, they'd just arrived on the shores of Egypt, escaping the literal jaws of defeat in order to finally save Jotaro's mother. The journey there had been a lengthy and sometimes inconsistent one, with their various adventures indeed being plen...

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In this July 2009 photo, “Three Cups of Tea” co-author Greg Mortenson shows the locations of future village schools to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the opening of Pushghar Village Girls School 60 miles north of Kabul in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan.

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The Greg Mortenson story continues to play out as a slow motion tragedy.

A prominent voice in the "60 Minutes" piece, journalist Jon Krakauer, has written his own scathing critique of Mr. Mortenson's conduct in an online article called "Three Cups of Deceit" (payment required). Mr. Krakauer claims Mortenson, who has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, is "not what he appears to be" and that Mortenson "has not only fabricated substantial parts of his bestselling books Three


Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools but has also misused millions of dollars donated by unsuspecting admirers...."

But in a response in Outside magazine, Mortenson's climbing partner Scott Darsney says both the "60 Minutes" and Krakauer reports are distorted – at least in part. “If Jon Krakauer and some of Greg's detractors had taken the time to have three or more cups of tea with Greg and others – instead of one cup of tea with a select few who would discredit him – they would have found some minor problems and transgressions," Mr. Darsney says. "But to the extent to call it all 'lies' and 'fraud'? No way.”

One important charge against Mortenson is that he did not visit the village of Korphe at the time he sayshe did. According to Mortenson's book, the visit provided a seminal moment, putting him on the path to building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Darsney says Mortenson's account rings true: “[O]n our way out, Greg got lost ... somewhere between the Biafo glacier region and Askole. About half a day later, Greg finally showed up in Askole saying he'd made a major wrong turn. He'd ended up in a village on the wrong side of the Braldu River. It's certainly plausible that this was Korphe.”

In an insightful opinion piece in the Monitor, Courtney E. Martin and John Cary ask whether a new culture of "do gooder celebrities" has emerged. "In this culture of 24/7 news, swollen with schadenfreude, Mortenson appears on the brink of becoming another tragic figure


Seven African governments and the world's largest banks and construction firms meet in London today to plan the most powerful dam ever conceived - an $80bn (£40bn) hydro power project on the Congo river which, its supporters say, could double the amount of electricity available on the continent.

G8 and some African governments hope that the Grand Inga dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo will generate twice as much electricity as the world's current largest dam, the Three Gorges in China, and jump start industrial development on the continent, bringing electricity to hundreds of million of people.

But while governments and banks expect the dam to export electricity as far away as South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt, and even Europe and Israel, environment groups and local people warned thatit could bypass the most needy and end up as Africa's most ruinous white elephant, consigning one of the poorest countries to mountainous debts.

The dam is being planned to exploit one of the largest major water falls by volume anywhere in the world - nine miles of rapids which lie 90 miles from the mouth of the Congo where the world's second largest river drops nearly 100 metres in just eight miles. Two hydroelectric plants, known as Inga 1 and Inga 2, were constructed near there in the 1970s and a third is planned, but Grand Inga is intended to dwarf them all. One feasibility study suggests the 40,000MW dam will be 150m high, and will harness 26,000 cubic metres of water a second, with more than 50


turbines each producing nearly as much power as a British nuclear reactor.

Grand Inga was proposed in the 1980s but never got beyond feasibility studies because of political turmoil in central Africa. But now it stands a chance, according to Gerald Doucet, secretary general of the World Energy Council thinktank, which is convening the London meeting.

"It is the greatest sustainable development project, offering Africa a unique chance for interdependence and prosperity," said Doucet. "It's much more feasible now than ever. There is a peace settlement in Congo, and economic and technical studies have all shown it is possible."

Grand Inga's prospects of being completed by 2022 are said to have risen significantly in the last year as countries, banks and private companies have found they can earn high returns fromsustainable industrial base.

"The project would be a magnet for corruption in one of the world's least stable regions. Its enormous budget and large contracts could devolve Inga into a corruption-riddled white elephant. Inga will centralise a vast store of the region's electric and financial power, a development model that can foster tensions and civil wars," said Terri Hathaway, Africa campaigner with International Rivers, a watchdog group monitoring the project.

Hathaway said that the 94% of people in Congo DRC and the two in three Africans who have no electricity now were unlikely to benefit because the dam depends on exporting its electricity to existing centres of industry, especially in South Africa where there have been power shortages.

"As it stands, the project's electricity won't reach even a fraction of the


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Sexting congressman Anthony Weiner said he'd call it quits from the House of Representatives back on Thursday, explaining that the "distraction [he] created" -- with his penis, mostly -- makes his work "impossible." Today came the official letter, addressed to New York Secretary of State Cesar Perales and Governor Andrew Cuomo, and CC'd to John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, and Nancy Pelosi, the Minority Leader. It's short and sweet, taking effect at midnight, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. "It has been an honor to serve the people of Queens and Brooklyn," Weiner writes. See the whole thing after the jump, fancy Congress print and all.


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By the end of the 1960s - and the Watts Uprising - African-Americans had abandoned the search for a racial Promise Land and had come to terms with the near impossible task of overcoming the physical, philosophical and economical barriers created by centuries of racism. For many African-Americans the West had become the last refuge of a journey towards freedom.
Faced with literally picking up the pieces of a broken neighborhood, African-Americans in South Los Angeles, Compton and beyond began to lose hope. This sentiment was reflected in the urban decay, poverty and continued violence occurring in their neighborhoods. Although issues of urban renewal were of great interest to the President Lyndon Johnson, the election of Richard Nixon in 1968 dismantled virtually every effort to fight the "War onPoverty." Young African-Americans felt defeated and began to informally construct their own economic and social rules, replacing the missing institutional security that was once promised by the city governments.
In 1988, the Compton based hip-hop band N.W.A, also known as Niggaz With Attitude released their first studio album Straight Outta Compton which revolutionized American pop-culture by creating what they called "reality rap:" a hyper-real account of the American inner-city, police brutality and violence.

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"In 1971 Compton was a unique place - there where over one thousand black businesses in the city. Now it is all gone."

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One of the smartest methods to prevent speeding accidents was just constructed in a coastal town in Uruguay. The architects at Rafael Viñoly Architects came up with an ingenious circular bridge to connect either end of the Laguna Garzón Bridge. The lanes split and form opposing semicircles to an otherwise mile-long straightway. By adding an unnecessary curves, drivers are forced to drive slower and more carefully.

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far kept economic contraction at bay.

Although adamant Poland must join the euro to avoid being pushed to Europe's economic periphery, Tusk's centrist government has put off practical steps towards joining the euro until after elections in 2015.

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Plans to tear down part of the Berlin Wall for a luxury apartment building sparked angry demonstrations on Friday to save the city's East Side Gallery. The Local hit the streets to see what people were saying.

Around 300 protesters gathered in eastern Berlin close to the Spree River to form a human chain near one of the last remaining segments of the once hated Cold War barrier.

Many Berliners are incensed that part of the East Side Gallery, a 1.3-kilometre stretch of the Wall now covered in murals by artists from around the world, is to be moved for a block of luxury flats near the river. The open air gallery is the second most popular visitor attractiontwo suspected arms dealers. The city remains under high alert, with special protection for the Jewish community.
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An estimated 375 people turned out for the Germany-based PEGIDA movement's first demonstration in Britain on Saturday, but were outnumbered by a 2,000-strong crowd of counter-protesters, police said.
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared the killing of three government troops by pro Moscow rebels a "serious breach of the ceasefire", during a telephone call Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, her office said.
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Germany's highest civil court ruled in favour of a man who swapped the carpet in his new apartment for parquet flooring, incurring the wrath of the retired couple who lived below him over his loud footsteps.
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Teachers all over the country are expected to stike starting Monday, German education trade union GEW said,


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Andre Shepherd at the European Court of Justice in June 2014. Photo: DPA

American soldier Andre Shepherd, who applied for asylum in Germany as a conscientious objector against the war in Iraq after going AWOL from his unit, saw a judgement by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) go against him on Thursday.
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Steven Gerrard demonstrated the quality and leadership Liverpool will miss when he leaves Anfield as he inspired them to an FA Cup third-round victory at AFC Wimbledon.

Gerrard, playing his first game since announcing he would depart in the summer to play in the United States, illustrated the hole he will leave behind.

Liverpool's captain, who will celebrate his 35th birthday on FA Cup final day on 30 May, headed them in front, then came to their aid, as he has done so often, when they slumped into trouble.

Gerrard wants to go 'all the way' in FA Cup

Adebayo Akinfenwa's equaliser revived memories of the original Wimbledon's


FA Cup final win against Liverpool at Wembley in 1988 - until Gerrard stepped in to restore order with a superb trademark free-kick just after the hour.

It helped to steady Liverpool, whose defence had looked horribly vulnerable under pressure from Neal Ardley's side, who are 12th in League Two.

Irrespective of the outcome, this FA Cup night was a credit to the rebirth of AFC Wimbledon, who started life in the Combined Counties League in 2002 and went through five promotions before returning to the Football League in 2011.

But AFC Wimbledon - like so many teams before them since Gerrard made his Liverpool debut in 1998 - discovered that this is the player who can be relied upon to help the Reds through moments of adversity.

This was another exampleas he took his Liverpool tally to 182 goals in 696 appearances for the club.

Gerrard took the applause of the visiting fans, waiting to acclaim him following news of his impending departure, before the game and was able to calm their early nerves with a goal after Sean Rigg had almost given AFC Wimbledon a shock lead with a shot across the face of goal.

Analysis Alan Shearer BBC Sport "How many times have we said Steven Gerrard has dragged Liverpool by the scruff of the neck? Without a doubt, he was man of the match. He gives Liverpool more the further forward you push him. He knows where to go and what positions to take up."

Gerrard timed his arrival in the area perfectly in the 12th minute to


meet Javier Manquillo's cross and direct a low header beyond keeper James Shea into the bottom corner.

Liverpool then enjoyed a period of relative control but, as has happened so often this season, they were undone by the vulnerability of their defence and the uncertainty of goalkeeper Simon Mignolet.

The Belgian did well to turn over from 10 yards as Rigg threatened again, but the weakness in Liverpool's rearguard was exposed when a long kick from Shea found its way through to the feet of Matt Tubbs, who pulled a poor finish across the face of goal.

AFC Wimbledon's confidence and threat was growing and it resulted in an equaliser nine minutes before the break.

Mignolet missed George Francomb's corner, Mamadou Sakho bundled the ball onto his own bar and Akinfenwa wasthe first to react to poke in from six yards.

AFC Wimbledon deservedly levelled after Simon Mignolet's latest goalkeeping error

Gerrard came to Liverpool's rescue in the opening moments of the second half when he cleared off the line from Adam Barrett as AFC Wimbledon picked up where they had left off.

And when Liverpool needed inspiration at the other end, Gerrard provided it with a free-kick curled beyond the reach of the despairing Shea.

Gerrard was denied a hat-trick by a stoppage-time goalline clearance from Callum Kennedy as Liverpool secured a home tie against Bolton Wanderers in the fourth round.

AFC Wimbledon manager Neal Ardley: "In the first 25 minutes we looked nervous. They took me too literally about our shape but when we grew in the game and in confidence we


caused them problems.

"In the first half, we had all of the best chances, but they have some good players on the counter-attack and in the last 20 minutes we ran out of legs and they had a lot of chances.

"I've told the players they have done the club proud but also they should kick themselves because we are in the business of winning and not being good losers."

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: "It was a very tough game. Congratulations to AFC Wimbledon - they made it very difficult.

"We started well, controlling the game, but then we lost our shap and we presented them chances by giving the ball away.

"We adapted at half-time but we still had to defend all the way through to the end.

"The physicalityMayor of Charlottesville calls pro-Confederate rallies 'horrific' Mike Signer said he expects police to look into whether a hate crime took place.

 -- A group of white nationalists carried torches Saturday night in Charlottesville, Virginia, while protesting the planned removal of Confederate statues in the city — which has provoked anger and frustration from politicians and activists.

The torch wielders — reported to be several dozen by local paper The Daily Progress — were reacting to a Nov. 28 City Council vote to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at Charlottesville's Lee Park, the public space where the protest took place Saturday.

A court injunction has halted the removal of the statue for six months, but that didn't stop the protesters, led by avowed white nationalist Richard


Spencer, from reportedly yelling chants like "We will not be replaced," "Russia is our friend" and "Blood and soil" at the site of the statue.

Mike Signer, the mayor of Charlottesville, expressed his disgust with Saturday's protest in an interview with ABC News.

"I think it's horrific," he said of the protests. "We're a city that proudly values our diversity."

Signer noted that the demonstration coincided with the park's Festival of Cultures event, which was created to celebrate the "cultural and linguistic diversity" of the community. It isn't clear whether the timing was deliberate, he said.

"It's always a balance about how much oxygen you want to give these 'alt-right' bigots," he said, referring to questions about how to respond to the actions of Spencer and his followers. "It's important to saysaying that officers answered a call about suspicious activity in Lee Park and that the first officer on the scene found "100 to 150 people in the park, many of whom were carrying tiki-style torches."

As the officer approached the group, he saw several members of the group arguing with a man, the police statement said. People in the group were chanting, and the man was yelling at them "to leave my town," police said.

The officer ordered everyone to clear the park and called for additional units. As other officers arrived, everyone began to leave the park without incident, and there were no assaults, injuries or damage to the park reported, the police statement said.

"Extra patrol was conducted for the remainder of the evening, with no additional incidents being


reported or observed," the statement said.

Signer on Sunday sparred with some of Spencer's supporters on Twitter, whom he called "anonymous trolls." He endured anti-Semitic remarks on the social media platform.

"I'm pretty thick-skinned," the mayor said, "but this is the first time I've encountered something like this."

John Edwin Mason, a history teacher at the University of Virginia who lives within walking distance of the park, told ABC News that he views the protest as an attempt by newer "American fascists" like Spencer to sync up with more traditional racist groups like the KKK on the issue of preserving Confederate history.

"Richard Spencer doesn't give a damn about Robert E. Lee," Mason said. "He sees an opportunity here."

Removing Confederate monuments is part of a trend that gained momentum after a massshooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, when avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine African-Americans at a Bible-study session.

In the aftermath of the massacre, calls came from both Republicans and Democrats in South Carolina to take down a Confederate battle flag that flew on statehouse grounds in Charleston.

Mason served as a vice chairman on a blue ribbon commission that has pushed to remove the statues. He is African-American but doesn't view the protests as a targeting black people in Charlottesville.

He said that the black community in Charlottesville is "relatively small" and that he feels the protesters were responding to the agenda of "white liberals and leftists" who pushed to emphasize diversity in the community.

Signer proclaimed the city a "capital of resistance" in


January, after the inauguration of Donald Trump, and vowed at an event held in downtown Charlottesville to provide assistance to immigrants who need visa help.

Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim American soldier who died in combat in Iraq and who gave a widely discussed speech at the Democratic National Convention in July, was among the residents who spoke at the mayor's event.

"Having fire at night conjures images of the KKK, but it also stirs up images of Nazis," Mason said — referring to images of Nazi storm troopers marching with torches before and during World War II.

He added that he attends a primarily African-American American church in the city and that he spoke to neighbors who were neither surprised nor scared by the demonstration in Lee Parkcarbon L-Series was introduced in 2012. Litespeed has four L-Series bikes: L1R, L1 (SRAM Red), Li2, and L3 (Ultegra). The L-Series is an all-around road racing bike, with an asymmetrical frame, and UCI-approved.

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For the DIS episode with a similar title, please see " The Vulcan Hello ".

The Vulcan salute was a hand gesture used by Vulcans. It involved holding the palm of one hand outwards while placing the fingers in a "V" shaped by separating the middle and ring fingers, while keeping the others together, with the thumb extended.

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The salute was part of both Vulcan greetings and farewells. The formal phrase associated with the salute in both cases was "Live long and prosper." (Star Trek: First Contact; TOS: "Amok Time")

When parties took their leave of each other, one party could use the phrase "Peace and long life" and would receive "Live long and prosper" as a reply. (TOS: "Is There in Truthwith the phrase "Live long and prosper." T'Pol, however, bowed in response. (ENT: "Fallen Hero")

In the final draft script of "Fallen Hero", both Vulcans were described as demonstrating the Vulcan hand salute and saying the farewell that, in the final version of the episode, only V'Lar states.

Several Humans greeted Vulcans with the hand gesture, including Captain Jonathan Archer in 2154 (ENT: "Kir'Shara") and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 2368. (TNG: "Unification I") T'Pol taught Trip Tucker the salute when she took him to Vulcan to meet her mother, T'Les. (ENT: "Home") Zefram Cochrane tried and failed to perform it in 2063, during First Contact; he settled on a handshake instead. (Star Trek: First Contact) Michael Burnham learned the salute from her brother, Spock, as a child. (DIS: "Perpetual Infinity")


When Leonard McCoy attempted to perform the salute, he said it hurt worse than having to wear his dress uniform. (TOS: "Journey to Babel") The saying was quite well-known among those in Starfleet – in 2375, trapped in the Delta Flyer under layers of rock, two minutes before the air would run out, Tuvok told Tom Paris, "In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace," to which Paris responded that, if this was another Vulcan axiom, he would stick to "Live long and prosper." Fortunately, Paris had barely finished the sentence when he was interrupted by the sound of USS Voyager's phaser drills breaking through the rock, and those on board the Delta Flyer were safely beamed back to the ship. (VOY: "Once Upon a Time")

In ultimately omitted dialoguefrom the final draft script of "Kir'Shara", a puzzled Archer revealed he had "never been able to get [his] fingers" to display a Vulcan salute prior to the one he performs in that installment.

As a practical joke, Tom Paris and Harry Kim once reprogrammed Tuvok's security console so that it said, "Live long and prosper" whenever he accessed the internal sensors. They also reprogrammed his replicator the same way. (VOY: "Revulsion")

Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler occasionally used the gesture as a sarcastic jest with each other, or with other people. (LD: "Moist Vessel", LD: "Terminal Provocations")

In 2258, in the alternate reality brought about by Nero's incursion, Ambassador Spock, after speaking with a younger version of himself, made the hand gesture but said, "Good luck," as he felt


it would be "oddly self-serving" to say the usual phrase to his younger counterpart. (Star Trek)

In 2263 of the alternate reality, the Vulcan salute was exchanged between the Spock who was indigenous to that universe and a pair of Vulcan messengers who had brought him news that Ambassador Spock was dead. Spock used the salute to bid farewell to the Vulcan pair on Starbase Yorktown, both Spock and his Vulcan visitors saying "Live long and prosper" to each other before the messengers walked away. (Star Trek Beyond)

In the mirror universe, the first Vulcan to step on Terran soil used the traditional greeting before being shot by Zefram Cochrane, after he failed to duplicate the gesture. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly") Thereafter, in the mirror universe, it was notConservative. In TV Land's The 100 Greatest TV Quotes & Catchphrases, William Shatner described the salute as a benediction, comparing it to the Sign of the Cross. The gesture actually forms the Hebrew letter "Shin" and represents the honorific title "Shaddai", which means "Almighty (God)." The hand gesture is traditionally used by the Kohanim (Hebrew "priests"), Jews of priestly descent, during a blessing ceremony performed during the prayer service of certain Jewish holy days. The Jewish blessing is done with both hands, with arms extended upward at roughly a forty-five-degree angle, rather than one hand held upright as in the Vulcan salute. Nimoy learned the gesture, which takes practice to do, from visiting his grandfather's synagogue as a child. In the video William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy: The


production personnel. They solved it by using a simple camera trick where her hands were below camera frame while she used one of her hands to get the other hand in the proper position. The salute was established from then on. According to an interview with Leonard Nimoy, the line "live long and prosper" was written by Theodore Sturgeon (the author of "Amok Time"). [2]

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William Shatner was unable to do the Vulcan salute. When Kirk (as played by Shatner) performs the salute in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, it appears that fishing line holds two of his fingers together. In the video William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy: The Twenty-Five Year Mission, Shatner joked that the reason he couldn't do it was because, in Leonard Nimoy's words,it took "years of diligent practice and self-denial." During a June 2009 appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Shatner demonstrated his inability to perform the salute, to which O'Brien responded with a perfect salute of his own.

As an in-joke, one of the gestures of the M-9 sign language is similar to the Vulcan salute. (Star Trek Encyclopedia)

The first Vulcan to fail to perform the salute on screen was Sarek in TNG: "Unification I", being terminally ill.

In the writers' second draft script of ENT: "Breaking the Ice", Sub-Commander T'Pol and Captain Vanik exchanged Vulcan salutes, unaccompanied by any of the traditional Vulcan greetings. However, they don't exchange the salute (and their initial meeting is not shown) in the final version of that episode.

In the script of the


“This selection of contemporary ink art represents the highest caliber work by important Chinese artists working in the medium today,” said Julia F. Andrews, an expert in Chinese painting and modern Chinese art, who has written extensively on the subject and curated many important exhibitions in the United States, France and China. “The paintings in the exhibition present an extremely refreshing, even surprising, view of the many ways Chinese artists are finding to build upon and surpass their tradition. The power of these images testifies both to the contemporary quality of contemporary ink painting and to the continued vitality of an art form that has flourished in China for a millennium.”

Morlan Gallery Director Andrea Fisher credits Transylvania art history professor Wei Lin for orchestrating an exhibition of thiscaliber. “Dr. Lin is a scholar who specializes in Asian art history and has worked closely with Dr. Shen to bring the work of these 15 artists to Lexington,” she said. “’Memories of the Past’ attempts to present the complex development of Chinese contemporary art and redefine the meaning of contemporary in ink brush painting. By breaking our own visual misconceptions and boundaries about Chinese art we gain a clearer understanding of China—her art, culture and her place on the international stage.”

Exhibition curator Shen is director of the Chinese Studies Program and professor of art history, theory and criticism at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on Chinese art and Sino-Japanese cultural exchange of the twentieth century. Among the exhibitions he has curated are “A


Century in Crisis: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Twentieth Century China” held at the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, Spain, and “Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennial” in Chengdu, China.

Among Shen’s numerous publications on modern and contemporary Chinese art are “A Century in Crisis: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Twentieth Century China” (1998), “The Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War to the Cultural Revolution” (2000) and “Arts of Modern China” (forthcoming). He is a recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Social Science Research Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Stanford University and Leiden University.

Of ink brush painting Shen says, “In recent years, as China has experienced a dramatic economic boom, thecountry’s contemporary art has become the object of widespread international interest. A significant segment of the Chinese art scene has, however, largely escaped notice. Although it is deeply rooted in traditional Chinese art in terms of form, theme and materials, and although its practice enjoys unflagging popularity, it has not received the attention it deserves as an aspect of the study of contemporary art.”

Monday, Nov. 8, 2:30-4 p.m. in Cowgill Center, room 102
An ink brush painting demonstration will be given by noted Chinese artist Zheng Chongbin. The Shanghai born artist works in San Francisco and Shanghai, and graduated from the China Academy of Fine Art in 1984, then completed a Master of Fine Arts in 1989 at the San Francisco Art Institute as a First International Fellow. Trained


in traditional Chinese painting, Zheng has increasingly broken away from traditional Asian art to contemporary art. Following his first solo contemporary ink painting show at the Shanghai Art Museum 1988, Zheng moved to the United States where he continues his artistic practice.

Although his primary medium is contemporary ink, his works range in media, including installation, ceramic and video. He has exhibited his work internationally, including the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, the Asian Pacific Museum, Chengdu Biennial (China), Taipei Ink painting Biennial (Taiwan), Busan International Modern Ink Painting Exhibition (S. Korea), Valentine Willie Fine Arts (Singapore), Hochschuel Fur Bildende Kunst (Germany) and the Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall (China). Most recently, he has been commissioned by Moshe Safdie Associate and the Sands Corporation to create one of largesttemperatures have increased in recent
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(ICE).
ICE launched a $500,000 advertising campaign
to, in ICE's own words, "reposition global
warming as theory (not fact)."
Critics of industry groups have charged that
the claims about a global warming controversy
are part of a deliberate effort to reduce
the impact any international treaty, such
as the Kyoto Protocol, might have on their
business interests.In June 2005, John Vidal,
environment editor of The Guardian, asserted
the existence of US State Department papers
showing that the Bush administration thanked
Exxon executives for the company's "active
involvement" in helping to determine climate
change policy, including the US stance on
Kyoto.
Input from the industry


the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.In
2006 the scientific journal Science published
survey finding that the U.S. ranks second
from last in acceptance of the theory of evolution
among thirty-four developed countries surveyed.
The article said: "The
acceptance of evolution is lower in the United
States than in Japan or Europe, largely because
of
widespread fundamentalism and the politicization
of science in the United States."
=== Tobacco and cancer ===
By the mid-1950s there was a scientific consensus
that smoking promotes lung cancer, but the
tobacco industry fought the findings, both
in the public eye and within the scientific
community.
Tobacco companies funded think tanks and lobbying
groups, started health reassurance campaigns,
ran advertisements in medical journals, and
researched alternate explanations for lung
cancer, such as pollution, asbestos and even
pet birds.
Denying the case against tobacco was "closed,"
they called for more research as a tactic
to delay regulation.
John Horgan, notesa rhetoric tactic that
has been used by tobacco companies.
It is summarized in a line that appeared in
a confidential memo from a tobacco company,
in 1969, when they sought to cast doubt on
evidence that supports smoking causes cancer.
It read, "Doubt is our product since it is
the best means of competing with the 'body
of fact' that exists in the mind of the general
public.
It is also the means of establishing a controversy."
=== Eugenics ===
Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler was well known
for eugenics programs which attempted to maintain
a "pure" German race through a series of programs
that ran under the banner of Racial Hygiene.
The Nazis manipulated scientific research
in Germany, by forcing some scholars to emigrate,
and by allocating funding for research based
on ideological rather than scientific merit.In
the early 20th century, Eugenics enjoyed substantial
international support, from


leading politicians
and scientists.
The First International Congress of Eugenics
in 1912 was supported by many prominent persons,
including: its president Leonard Darwin, the
son of Charles Darwin; honorary vice-president
Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the
Admiralty and future Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom; Auguste Forel, famous Swiss
pathologist; Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor
of the telephone; among other prominent people.The
level of support for Eugenics research by
the Nazis prompted an American Eugenics advocate
to seek an expansion of the American program,
with the complaint that "the Germans are beating
us at our own game".There was a strong connection
between American and Nazi Eugenics research.
Nazis based their Eugenics program on the
United States' programs of forced sterilization,
especially on the eugenics laws that had been
enacted in California.
== Government politicization ==
=== Soviet Union ===
In the Soviet Union, scientific research was
under strict political control.
A numberof research areas were declared "bourgeois
pseudoscience" and forbidden.
This has led to significant setbacks for the
Soviet science, notably in biology due to
ban on genetics (see "Lysenkoism") and in
computer science, which drastically influenced
the Soviet economy and technology.
=== United States ===
The General Social Survey (GSS) of 1974 recorded
that conservatives had the highest rates of
trust in science between the three major political
demographics; conservatives, liberals, and
moderates.
This study was repeated annually between 1972
through 1994, and biannually from 1994 until
2010.
In 2010 when the same study was repeated,
conservatives trust rates had decreased from
49% to 38%, moderates from 45% to 40%, and
liberals staying relatively stable, rising
slightly from 48% to 50%.The study by Gordon
Gauchat, which investigates time trends in
the public trust of science in the United
States, suggests that the increase of distrust
of conservatives can be attributed to the
two


cultural shifts.
The first was during the post-Reagan era when
the New Right emerged, and the second during
the G.W. Bush era when the NR intensified
and conservatives commenced the “war on
science”.
Barack Obama and other politicians, since
Bush’s Presidency, have expressed their
concerns with the politicization of science
in both the public and government sphere.
In 2011, during his State of the Union speech,
Obama discussed his dissatisfaction of the
relationships between organized science, private
economic interests, and the government.
The data collected in this study reveals the
Public Trust in Science, the Public Confidence
in Science, and the Predicted Probabilities
between Liberals and Conservatives.
The survey examines variables including gender,
ethnicity, level of education, income, religion,
age, political party preference, political
demographics, and changes over time.
Conclusively, the empirical findings of this
study have shown that that although the distrust
of conservatives has increased over time,
the overall public trustin science has not
changed since the 1970s.
==== George W. Bush administration ====
In 2004, The Denver Post reported that the
George W. Bush administration "has installed
more than 100 top officials who were once
lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the
industries they oversee."
At least 20 of these former industry advocates
helped their agencies write, shape or push
for policy shifts that benefit their former
industries.
"They knew which changes to make because they
had pushed for them as industry advocates."
Also in 2004, the scientific advocacy group
Union of Concerned Scientists issued a report,
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation
into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science
which charged the following: A growing number
of scientists, policy makers, and technical
specialists both inside and outside the government
allege that the current Bush administration
has suppressed or distorted the scientific
analyses of federal agencies to bring these
results in line


Department of Health and Human Services
also conducted a survey addressing the same
topic which generated similar findings.
According to USA Today, a survey of Food and
Drug Administration scientists by Public Employees
for Environmental Responsibility and the Union
of Concerned Scientists found that many scientists
have been pressured to approve or reject new
drugs despite their scientific findings concerns.
In July 2006, the Union of Concerned Scientists
released survey results that they said "demonstrate
pervasive political influence of science"
at the Food and Drug Administration.
===== United States Department of the Interior
=====
On May 1, 2007, deputy assistant secretary
at the United States Department of the Interior
Julie MacDonald resigned after the Interior
Department Inspector General, Honorable Earl
E. Devaney, reported that MacDonald broke
federal rules by giving non-public, internal
government documents to oil industry and property
rights groups, and manipulated scientific
findings to favor Bush policy goals andof a new subcommittee, the Science
Subcommittee on Oversight, which handles investigative
and oversight activities on matters covering
the committee's entire jurisdiction.
The subcommittee has authority to look into
a whole range of important issues, particularly
those concerning manipulation of scientific
data at Federal agencies.
In an interview, subcommittee chairman Rep.
Brad Miller pledged to investigate scientific
integrity concerns under the Bush Administration.
Miller noted that there were multiple reports
in the media of the Bush Administration's
manipulation of science to advance his political
agenda, corrupt advisory panels, and minimize
scientific research with federal funds.
Miller, as part of the House Committee of
Science and Technology, collected evidence
of interference with scientific integrity
by Bush's political appointees.
==== Donald Trump administration ====
The issue of politicized science surfaced
again during the 2016 United States presidential
campaign by then Republican candidate Donald
Trump.
Trump stated his intention to strip NASA's
Earth Science division of its


funding, a move
that The Guardian writes "would mean the elimination
of NASA's world-renowned research into temperature,
ice, clouds and other climate phenomena".
==== Dedications and holidays ====
On January 22, 2013, New Jersey Representative
Rush D. Holt, Jr., a Quaker Christian and
nuclear physicist, introduced a resolution
to the United States Congress designating
February 12, 2013 (Charles Darwin's 204th
birthday) as "Darwin Day" in order to recognize
"the importance of sciences in the betterment
of humanity".
== Scholarly studies of the politics of science
==
The politicization of science is a subset
of a broader topic, the politics of science,
which has been studied by scholars in a variety
of fields, including most notably Science
and Technology Studies; history of science;
political science; and the sociology of science,
knowledge, and technology.
Increasingly in recent decades, these fields
have examined the process through which science
and technology are shaped.
Some of the scholarlywork in this area is
reviewed in The Handbook of Science & Technology
Studies (1995, 2008), a collection of literature
reviews published by the Society for Social
Studies of Science.
There is an annual award for books relevant
to the politics of science given by the Society
for Social Studies of Science called the Rachel
Carson Prize.
== See also


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Jilly's (photo) grown into a very dynamic air personality. She's a refreshing change from the norm. So many (male) PD's want their female jocks to giggle a lot, act sexy andWhen Kathy Duva heard Hall of Fame boxer Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker was killed Sunday night after being hit by a car in Virginia Beach, Va., her first thought was, “I hate July.”

Whitaker’s tragic death comes on the 10th anniversary of one of the most heart-breaking months in boxing history. Former champions Arturo Gatti, Vernon Forrest and Alexis Arguello were among eight boxers who died in July 2009, some from ring injuries, some by suicide, and some through criminal or unsolved circumstances that still haunt their family and friends today.

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The daring rescue of kidnapped mother Bethany Arceneaux on Nov. 8 has one volunteer hoping that another local missing woman will be found soon.

Tammy Charles, volunteer organizer and the most vocal person in the search efforts for 16-year-old Keiosha Felix, acknowledged differences between Felix and Areceneaux's disappearances; Arceneaux was found in two days, and Felix has been missing nearly two years.

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A U.S. Postal Service carrier said he felt bad and stupid after being arrested for delivering mail to a law firm in Whitefish Bay while buck naked.

David A. Goodman, 52, said he was only trying to cheer up a 21-year-old female employee of the law firm who had "seemed to be stressed out" when he made his first delivery to the office Dec. 4, according to a report from the Whitefish Bay Police Department.

Goodman, of the 7500 block of N. Seneca Road in Fox Point, was cited for lewd and lascivious behavior, a citation that carries a $681 forfeiture, police said.

According to the police report, officers were called to the law office in the 300 block of E. Silver Spring Drive shortly after 1:30 p.m. on


"a report of a naked postal carrier in the building's hallway."

"No naked subjects or postal carriers were observed by officers," when they checked the parking lot of the building, the report states.

The employee told officers that when "Mailman Dave" arrived at the office about 1 p.m. to make the regular delivery, she mentioned that she still had to pick up the law firm's mail from its post office box.

She said Goodman left but returned about 10 minutes later and knocked on the door.

After the woman opened the door, Goodman entered the office, where, "she was shocked to see that he was naked."

"The woman turned away from Goodman, held out her hand and said, "Give me the mail and get out of here."

Goodman immediately began to apologize before leavingthe office, only to return about 20 minutes later to apologize through a closed door.

The woman said she did not believe Goodman intended to harm her and that her boss told her to call police.

Goodman was arrested a short time later at the North Shore Post Office and taken to the police station. There, the police report states, he admitted making the naked mail delivery and said he was only trying to cheer up the woman and make her laugh.

"He stated that he took off his clothes, laid them next to the doorway and knocked on the door," the report says.

"After (the woman) let him in, he could immediately see that he had upset her and immediately felt bad and stupid. He apologized, left the office and got


dressed," the report states.

Goodman told officers the woman had seemed stressed out and had a lot going on with school and work. He said he told her he intended to pick up the firm's mail from the post office box and deliver it naked.

He also said he took her response to his statement as a dare.

The woman, however, said she never heard such a statement and did not dare him.Till Death Do Us Part... (Private. Natsu. Mature)

Claire listened to what they were saying but she did not bother to pipe up and speak as she was too busy staring at her hands that she placed on her lap for resting. She sighed softly when everyone left, she watched them go in different directions but still kept quiet. Slowly she arose from her seat and pushed it in after she stepped aside, her eyes flickered around for a second before she started to head towards the front door. Though she suddenly turned and rushed upstairs into hers and Nicolaus’s room where she rummaged through her things before she found a large sketching book and a few pencils but she only took one pencil as she rushed back downstairs


with the sketch book and pencil held closely to her body. She finally made it outside, leaving the front door open just a crack as she walked over to where the flowers were then she collapsed to her knees beside the flowers and slowly began to sketch them out in her book. “I need more tattoos” she whispered to herself as she focused on her sketches.

Mei fed Luka and herself, then ran off to get the handcuff keys before running back and unlocking Luka's cuffs. "Sorry about that." Nicolaus said. "No problem, Master. She's still quite enjoyable." Luka said. "Nemo, playroom's not for sleeping here." Nicolaus said, and Nemo looked at him in disbelief. "Oh, I didn't think of where she'd sleep. She could stay in my room,even if she doesn't let me sleep." Mei suggested, and Nicolaus nodded. Mei convinced Nemo to shower, then they both headed to the staff house. "Speaking of which, please allow me to give Thor a bath. I'll check his medical records in the morning." Luka requested as Ava grabbed the dishes to wash them by hand. "Go ahead. Who better to trust than the doctor?" Nicolaus asked. Luka thanked him and left. Nicolaus headed to the playroom, to see if anything needed cleaning. "Ava, clean my bedroom floor and the playroom first." He called, and Ava obeyed.

Claire was glad that they could understand her request but she was a bit annoyed when Nemo began to wrap herself around her husband but she kept herself quiet as she got


called her over. "Can you teach pole dancing? Claire wants to learn." He asked as Nemo wrapped herself around his leg. Mei wanted to warn him that he was too indulgent lately, but Nemo's action stopped her. "I can, and dinner's ready. I'll carry her there. She misses Miss Layla." She said, picking Nemo up and moaning as she walked, since Nemo was playing with her breasts. She set Nemo on the floor, and Nemo slowly went to sit at a dining room chair. Once the others sat down, Ava served the burritos. "Maybe I should have tea or something in the morning now. I'd be concerned if I saw another fruit smoothie, I don't even remember what it tasted like." Nicolaus said. "I won't surprise you liketo push her luck.

"Initially, Oriana, her real name, was outgoing and talkative, almost hyper. She was a junior gymnastics champion. She asked our family for a quick way to advance and get perks in our company from knowing us. Layla liked her initiative, so friendship turned to sleepovers and eventually moving in. She became my partner, taught to be a slave with me. She was taught to change her priorities, but now she's narrow-minded. Here's an example." Nicolaus said, grabbing his graduation cap and gown from his closet. "Nemo. Graduation." He said, and Nemo stopped sucking on Luka's member for a moment and looked confused. Nicolaus put his clothes away and grabbed one of his old slave uniforms, then called her again. "You still have it." Nemo sounded


fascinated. "I've only been free about two years. Can't enter Mistress' home without it." He said, watching Nemo resume her task with renewed energy.

"She usually travels with Layla. There are chains all over Layla's limo and private plane for her, as she has one job. That, and her Masters are all that really matter to her. She doesn't remember names of those not leading her. If I tell her you're her Mistress, as you would be during pregnancy if she's here, then your name becomes important to her." Nicolaus explained as he played with Nemo's pussy. "Nemo will eat dinner at the table with us tonight. My new slave isn't used to Nemo's life." He said, pulling Nemo back, and she nodded. "Thank you, Master. Ava's already startedcooking it. One question, after Lady Ella dies, who among you three leads?" Luka asked. "Hmm, Julian would recuse himself, and Layla would easily defeat me. She did train me, and she's the oldest, plus her number of slaves would more than fill this room. I may be the closest to having kids, but Mom prefers Layla." Nicolaus said.

Claire wondered why this Nemo character did not trust Nicolaus but she watched Luka leave and return with the small girl. She wondered what she exactly went through but at the same time, she wanted to stay away as much as possible. Blinking when she was moved from her husband’s lap, she quickly let go of him and sat there on the bed watching and wondering what exactly he was


not to overlook bad behavior. Luka, enter." He ordered, and Luka obeyed. "I still want her to meet Nemo but now, you'll be the example. Undress, then give her my message and bring her in here. We can lie about Layla all we want to keep her calm. You know she doesn't trust me." Nicolaus laughed. "I know, Master." Luka said before he left, undressing as he walked away.

He returned soon after with Nemo, a small, currently naked woman who Nicolaus figured didn't have any extra clothes. "Oriana." Nicolaus whispered. Nemo fell to her knees on the floor. Nicolaus carefully moved Claire aside on the bed, then approached the woman. "Nemo's a good girl. I see Nemo's been patient during Mistress' trip, and Nemo's sad since Mistress left,so Nemo gets a treat. First, did Mistress tell you of a new slave?" Nicolaus asked, then after Nemo nodded, she pointed at Claire. "Ooh, she's pretty." Nemo said. "Master misses serving Mistress, and wants to show this one what Nemo does best." Nicolaus said, turning toward Claire and shaking his head, trying to say that he doesn't miss his former role. Luka sat on the floor, and Nicolaus cuffed Luka's hands behind him. Nemo knew the cue, and quickly crawled over to Luka. "Oriana's been trained to think on a basic level, and her life revolves around things like this. I haven't seen her since my time as a slave ended, but I wanted to show you this and say this is always in my mind as


if everything he was telling her was the absolute truth but she knew that there was no way that she could not believe him. It was nice and reassuring to hear his words, but she was not sure on the last part, she wanted to scream in frustration but she just stood there with a blank look on her face. She soon snapped out of it when she realized that she was not breathing, she leaned against the door and sighed not sure if she could fight him on this one but she wondered what would happen if she refused to have any sexual activities with him. “Are you…kidding me” she whispered and shook her head lightly to clear her mind from everything but it was harder saidto Claire, entering the room after her and closing the door behind him. He looked genuinely worried. "What is it? You seemed fine earlier, so was it something Luka said?" He asked, sitting on the bed.

Claire did not really like the sight of Ava and Mei so close to her husband but she brushed it off. She wanted to talk to him now then to bring it up later when she would be giving birth to her children or child. She watched as Mei left to bring this ‘Nemo’ to the room with all the sexual toys that would entertain the girl for quite a while. Her eyes flickered over to Ava, she enjoyed hers and Mei’s company in the house but she wanted some time alone with


her husband to discuss these important matters. “I would not be too worried about this..” she whispered as she glanced at her husband and cleared her throat gently “Alone though, I would like to speak with you alone.” She said softly not wanting an audience. “In the bedroom perhaps, please Nicolaus” she added quietly wanting to also get his mind off of everything but them. Claire then headed up to their bedroom, gracefully moving with every step that she took.

Luka was surprised to hear Claire's blunt words about childbirth and bowed his head as she left. Mei and Ava were kneeling before Nicolaus, who sat in a chair, and he turned as he heard his name. He had been thinking of Nemo and what to do with herwhile she was here. "I hear that phrase usually doesn't mean anything good. Should I be worried?" He asked. "Mei, put Nemo in the playroom and let her have fun in there, it'd make her less nervous." He ordered, and Mei left. A little while later, she returned with Nemo, a woman around Nicolaus' age who kept her head down as she was lead to the room with the sex toys.

Claire tilted her head slightly when she noticed how Luka rested on his knees now, but she listened closely as she did not want to miss anything about this. She frowned when she heard that Nicolaus parents wanted Luka and Layla to get together but she really could not see Layla settling down with anyone so she wondered


help but to over think things, and she could of sworn it was a curse. When she did find her husband, she watched him from a distance “We need to talk” she said softly as she hugged herself and her eyes studied him, hoping now was a good time to talk.

Luka readjusted to resting on his knees. "There aren't many relevant rules in place, except that it solidifies Master's inheritance amount, though it changes if his siblings settle down." He said as he shuddered. "His parents asked me to do so with Miss Layla. I'm glad I could refuse it. Anyway, it depends. Master's great-grandmother wrote that she wanted to be treated as inferior, and enjoyed it. Both parts of the relationship were taught to descendants. Miss Laylajust keep talking. She sighed softly and rubbed her forehead as she began to get a headache just from thinking too much “Though it has not been too bad yet. I’m sure there are worse things out there in life” she said softly as she slowly stretched her back, getting sore from not being very active through the past two or three days.

Ava watched Claire and the dog through the door while she and Mei waited for Nicolaus. A while later, Nicolaus sighed as he and Luka entered the house. "That wasn't easy. She was Layla's first female slave from around ten years ago. She's...changed. Luka's mother will come to town to pick up 'Nemo' later. I want Ava to take her in Layla's limo at my order.


to the back door where she opened it and stepped outside to play with the puppy for a bit so he could get use to the backyard as it was a large area. It was not long before she was racing around the yard with the dog right beside her, playfully barking at her and such.

Nicolaus was directing the others on where to place the items when he heard his name. He looked over at Claire, then at Thor. When everything was put away, Luka approached Nicolaus. "Master, if Miss Layla ditched, what do we do with the slave she left behind? It's in my office." "Alright, I'll handle it. She left in a fit, saying I wasn't treating her right, and Claire's lucky I'm leading her, probablytowards the puppy telling how cute he was and how he was a good boy. She was not surprised when the car stopped and the door opened, she quickly got out of the car with Thor still in her arms not wanting to put him down yet. Her eyes flickered from the puppy to the butler and she gave him a small bow “It’s a pleasure to meet you finally, Luka. I’m Claire… though I’m sure you already know that” she said softly as she straightened herself out and grabbed the last two or three bags that had clothes in them and headed into the house. When she made sure that the door was closed, she carefully set down Thor and encouraged him to go explore the house


which is what she watched the puppy go and do. Though she noticed that it was not long before Thor was trying to get into the bags that had the toys and treats in it which made her giggle a bit as she thought it was so adorable. Claire helped with putting the puppy’s items away as she did not want to seem useless but she was sure to keep her eyes on Thor just to see where he was. Though she titled her head when she noticed that Thor seemed to be dragged something around “Uh…Nicolaus?” she said softly but relaxed when she saw that it was just one of her flip flops that Thor had. It looked like Thor was trying to put it away somewhere[AIDS--the leading cause of death among young adult men in Copenhagen and Frederiksberg].
The objective was to describe the extent to which HIV infection has become a major cause of death among young adults in Denmark. The design used was retrospective review of underlying causes of death recorded in the National Danish Register of Causes of Death on the basis of submitted death certificates. Analysis of mortality statistics revealed, that from 1980 to 1993 AIDS became the 5th leading cause of death among men 25 to 49 years of age in Denmark after cancer, accidents, suicide and heart disease. AIDS among women had little impact on the vital statistics in the period. In the municipalities of the City of Copenhagen AIDS was the major cause of death among men