security, there are signs on colored paper: "If you are here for a MW case, please register at the civil window." When the elevators open, there's another Mary Washington sign. Wearing name badges, Mary Washington billing staff members walk through the halls. They've set up a kind of field office in a witness room at the back of the courtroom, where they are ready and waiting to set up payment plans for defendants.

On June 14, only a handful of the 300 people summoned to court show up. Most of the lawsuits were filed by the hospital, along with some others from medical companies affiliated with Mary Washington Healthcare.

The hundreds that did not come have default judgments made against them, meaning their wages can be garnished.

Those who did sitis unflinching when she talks about Mary Washington and what happened to her after she went to the hospital in 2017.

At the time she didn't have insurance. She was working part time at Walmart for $11 an hour. She doesn't want to give the details about why she ended up at the hospital. "I was not myself," she says. "So I walked myself into Mary Washington to get help — to get myself on track." She says she was admitted for two weeks.

Smith says no one told her about the financial assistance program or talked to her about her bill. According to the hospital's policy, someone making less than $25,000 without health insurance should qualify for "free care." But the hospital sued her for $12,287.68. She had a


Q:

National Language

 This is an entry into the Fortnightly topic Challenge: 35
Bob has had a few weird experiences with different people. Can you tell what is happening here?
The final answer will tell you, why English shouldn't be the National Language.

Bob in a Mechanic's shop says, "Take it Apart man". The man tells him he knows about a flat.
Bob says to a (very very very very)Old man about an Eelpout and he started talking about a Burbot.
Bob tells the man to do it fast. The man says that he can't make it everlasting.
Bob tells his friend he has given up smoking. His friend asks him why he has given up a suit.
Bob complains about Fred to Yuki describing Fred as a brat. Yuki tells Bob he didn't knowthat Fred was his relative.
Bob tells his girlfriend to give him a kiss. She looks at him weirdly why he needs her to go to the toilet.
Bob, the CEO of a famous company tells his foreign counterpart he will reach by air. When he arrived, no one was there. Instead every receiving person was at the sea port.
Bob just let out a fart. Bob apologizes, saying, "Sorry, that was my fart". His friends remark at him incredulously, "What speed?"
Bob tells his boss, "I have brought you a gift!". His boss remarks sternly, "You want to kill me? You are fired!"

A:

Aggregating everyone else's answers below

1. Apartment (English) = Apartman (CROATIAN)  (@hagfy)
2. The burbot fish is known by some older folks as an eelpout, so OLD ENGLISH(@hagfy)
3.


WATCH: Newt Gingrich tells Sean Hannity that Donald Trump shouldn't listen to moderate Republicans Gingrich says being reasonable in negotiations will undermine Trump's plans to make America great again

Sean Hannity and Newt Gingrich were ecstatic Wednesday night, gloating about the success of Donald Trump, saying that, "the eight years of Donald Trump are going to be among the most extraordinary, creative, inventive, exciting periods in all of American political history."

Gingrich is already predicting that Mr. Grab Them by the pussy is going to have two terms in the Oval Office.

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But for Gringrich also warned against Republicans' cries for moderation, saying that anyone who wants to push back against a Trump administration would be pushed aside.

"The little whiny, sniveling, negative cowards that were never Trump-ers are beneath our payingattention to them," said Gingrich of the many Republicans who did not support Trump. He also said that they could "drift off into the ash bin of history."

During the segment, Fox News showed a split-screen of Gingrich's face and the anti-Trump protests that were taking place in Chicago and Dallas. Anti-Trump protests also took place in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, Washington D.C., St. Paul, and Seattle Wednesday night.

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Hannity and Gingrich had a good, old-fashion rub-it-in-their-face session, decrying the "old-order Republican party" that Hannity said was "dead." Gingrich responded that moderate Republicans in the House and Senate would "offer honeyed word of subversion" and would try to compromise with Democrats. Gingrich said this kind of compromise would just interfere with


I want to draw your kind attention regarding the matter of sexual abuse committed upon the minor victim boys by the perpetrator BSF personal. The incident took place within the jurisdiction of Swarupnagar Police Station, District-North 24 Parganas, West Bengal.

On the date of incident the perpetrator BSF personal took sexual pleasure by forcing the minor victim boys to act at his whims. Our attached fact finding report gives details of the incident. The incident continued for an hour. The heinous incident sexual torture and abuse committed upon the victim boys was primarily complained to the BSF Official but the family of the victim boys did not get any relief. One written complaint was lodged before the Superintendent of Police, North 24 Parganas informing the whole incident of sexualoffence committed upon the minor victim boys by the perpetrator BSF personal. But till date no action has been taken by the said authority.

Name of the perpetrator: – Mr. Ramkumar being BSF jawan at Gunrajpur BSF BOP under Police Station- Swarupnagar, District- North 24 Parganas

Date and time of the incident: – On 17.03.2013 at about 1 pm

Place of occurrence: – Inside Gunrajpur BSF Border Out-Post (BOP).

Case details: –

It is revealed during fact finding that on 17.03.2013 at about 1 pm Mr. Ramkumar being the BSF jawan of Gunrajpur BOP, BSF called the victims inside the Gunrajpur Border Out-Post while they were playing with each other on the street adjoining to the said out-post. After that the perpetrator BSF personal put off his wearing pant while they came inside


the said out-post. The perpetrator BSF personal forced the victims to hold his genital and asked them to rub it by hands. The perpetrator BSF jawan started to enjoy sexual pleasure by abusing the victim boys. The victim Master Sagar Sarkar could be able to escape the place with fear. But other two minor victims could not be able to escape from that place. The perpetrator BSF personal forcibly penetrated his genital into the mouths of those minor victims and brutally seduced them for an hour. After that the perpetrator BSF personal illegally detained those minor victims after completely seducing them. The minor victims were seriously felt sick due to such inhuman sexual abuse the perpetrator BSF personal of that said BSF out-post. After that Master Hridoy Dasand Sanjib Das returned to their homes and informed the whole incident to their family members. Ms. Laxmi Das, the mother of Master Hridoy Das went to that said BSF out-post to inform the whole incident to other BSF jawans of that said BSF camp taking with Mr. Sahidul Gaji, the member of local Gunrajpur Gram Panchayat. Mr. Sahidul Gaji talked with others jawans of that said BSF camp and told Ms. Laxmi Das to solve that matter in exchange of money. But she did not agree to do that. After that one BSF jawan called the Commanding Officer of the said out-post and informed him the whole incident. The Commanding Officer came to the camp and the whole matter was video recorded by them. After that he


How DNA results brought redemption to a wrongly conficted man and justice to a young victim

By Derrell Bouknight,By Derrell Bouknight,May 13, 2014

All articles are written by YJDP Student Sports Writers and edited by mentors from The Washington Post prior to publishing.

On a sunny afternoon on July 25, 1984, nine-year-old Dawn Hamilton knew something was wrong. She was “it” in a game of “hide and seek” amongst her friends, who slept over at her house the previous night. She called their names, but heard no response. By herself in the woods, she went back to her house to inform her Aunt Sissy about what happened. “Go back and tell them to come out right now,” her aunt insisted. She watched as Dawn disappeared back into the woods. It wasto him. With the use of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) based DNA tests, the FSA concluded the evidence on the slide was not sufficient enough to link back to him. Soon thereafter, the court and FBI granted confirmation upon the results, and Kirk Noble Bloodsworth became the first person in United States history to ever be exonerated from death row with the use of DNA evidence. On June 28, 1993, he walked away as a free man. Yet, despite his release, he still remembered the burdens of what he endured for the past decade. He tried to return to a “normal life,” but was haunted by what he learned about America’s court system. “If it could happen to me, it could happen to anybody.”

Kimberly Shay Ruffner, a man


I would get up at 6:30 in the morning and read by the light of the hallway. I loved going to the library with my dad and siblings. I loved to read. Most of the students in my inner-city school do not have a personal library of books at home. Their parents do not take them to the public library. Before the Accelerated Reader Program was implemented at my school, the students would read “Chapter Books” even though they were reading at a first grade level. At the same time, there were many students who could read a fourth grade book, but would read first grade books during “Sustained Silent Reading” time.

The Accelerated Reader Program at my school helps a student find just the right book level. IfI have had principals who have already seen the value of the Accelerated Reader Program and have allowed me to keep the books shelved according to book levels.

Many of my third grade students begin the school year reading at a first grade level. However, by the end of the year, they are reading at a second, third, and fourth grade level. Our kindergarten and first grade students do not know how to read in the beginning of the school year. We have upper grade students read “The Story of the Day” to the kindergarten and first grade students and then read the Accelerated Reader tests to them. Once these students are able to read 250 words by themselves, they are able to leave the “Story of the Day”


quickly that if she cheated and tested without reading the entire book or tried to test on a book she read over the summer and had forgotten, she failed the test and lowered her average and didn’t receive points. She learned how hard it was to get those points back up and began reading harder books and working at understanding them. She started to receive better grades on the quizzes and more and more points. She met her goal and was thrilled. Before the next “period” she was retested in March. She was at a 4.8 reading level in only 3 months. That was all AR. It may not work for some children, but my daughter is rewards-inspired. The AR format of testing, earning points and incremental assessments“Cindy Sherman is totally, completely punk rock.” Lori Barbero has some credibility in making that assessment. Not only was she drummer of the late, great Minneapolis-based alt-rock band Babes in Toyland (1987–2001), but she and the band had deeper ties to Sherman. The artist’s photographs are on the covers of two Babes albums, her imagery was featured on stage banners created to accompany the band on the road (revealed below for the first time in nearly two decades), and the artist herself had a cameo—as doppelganger of lead singer Kat Bjelland—in a music video made during the band’s heyday.

Cofounded by Barbero and Bjelland in 1987, Babes in Toyland quickly racked up critical and popular success: They were asked by legendary British DJ John Peel to record with him;


All six crew members on a scuba diving boat were asleep when it caught fire off the coast of California last week, killing 34 people, federal investigators announced Thursday.

The Conception was required to have a crewmember keep watch at night.

In a two-page preliminary report, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said five crew members were sleeping in their quarters behind the wheelhouse on the second deck and another below deck when the fire broke out in the early hours of Sept. 2.

The victims--33 passengers and one crew member--died of smoke inhalation, trapped below the raging blaze.

CALIFORNIA DIVE BOAT FIRE INVESTIGATORS EXECUTE SEARCH WARRANTS, SEIZE RECORDS

The report comes as investigators seek to determine the cause of the fire amid an ongoing criminal probe conducted by the FBI, Coast Guardand the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Hours after the document was made public, a salvage crew raised the wreckage of the Conception to the surface of the water near Santa Cruz Island. The boat will be taken ashore for inspection by investigators.

The Coast Guard has issued additional safety recommendations in the wake of the tragedy, such as limiting the unsupervised charging of lithium-ion batteries and the use of power strips and extension cords.

The recommendations also suggest owners and operators of vessels review emergency duties with the crew, identify emergency escapes, check all firefighting and lifesaving equipment onboard, and look at the condition of passenger accommodation spaces for “unsafe practices or other hazardous arrangements.”

Coast Guard records show the Conception passed its two most recent inspections with no safety violations. Previous


hectares of agricultural land.

This compares with 36,500 farms in 1991 that rented in a total of 553,000 hectares.

Farm fragmentation has also increased noticeably. The average number of parcels per farm was 1.9 in 1991, rising to 3.4 in 2005 and 3.5 in 2007.

Part-time farming is also a structural issue affecting growth and development. The incidence of part-time farming really took off in the 1990s and in 2006 about 42 per cent of landholders had off-farm jobs.

It has since tended downwards and last year it stood at 30 per cent, reflecting the more challenging jobs market in the rural economy.

It is estimated that the proportion of the total land area in the hands of part-time farmers had grown from about one-fifth to nearly one-third from 1994 to 2006. Whilebeacon of light in recessionary times and a stimulus to economic recovery.

However, it is salutary to note that the 65 per cent increase in farm income in the past two years was largely the result of a massive increase of more than 26 per cent in agricultural prices.

Indeed, one of the factors inhibiting a growth trajectory in the next two to three years is the sluggish performance of agricultural output – with little prospect of expansion in any meaningful way until after 2014. In summary, in many respects adjustment in farming has slowed down over recent decades.

A larger proportion of the utilised agricultural area is now in the hands of part-time farmers. Land fragmentation has also increased, the age structure has deteriorated and there seems to be a


As part of an ongoing series of interviews for the radio show " Le Mur a Des Oreilles; conversations for Palestine ", Frank Barat talks to John Pilger, one of the most influencial journalist of the last few decades, about the war in Syria, the colonisation of Palestine, the relationship between the corporate media and government propaganda and the actions of a few very brave men, Snowden, Assange and Manning.

FB : Quick question before we start, have you finished working on a new film?

JP : Yes, I've almost just finished a new film, which will be premiered at the National Film Theatre here on October 3 and shown on the ITV network on the December 17. It’s called “Utopia” and is about Indigenous Australia and a struggle thatthe region, and in the world beyond.

FB: Thanks John, thanks again.

John Pilger is an award winning Australian journalist and broadcaster/documentary maker primarily based in Britain.

Frank Barat is a human rights activist based in London, UK and is coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.


the "first employee" problem. The gap between those two situations
remains _vast_ and more reading on going from being time stressed and doing
everything to having that first employee would be awesome.

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shreyas056
reading this felt like reading an Aesop's Fables :). Very useful

~~~
heretohelp
Sivers is one of the few writers on the subject of business/startups that is
reliably good.

A few reasons this is the case:

1\. He's not some professional blogger pontificating on things he doesn't know
about. He started a real business and his posts are from his experiences
starting and scaling up a successful business. He's not the usual mountebank
type you get here.

2\. His real business involved selling actual products that made people happy,
he wasn't agglomerating eyeballs for wholesale to the advertising industry.
The value proposition is very explicit.

3\. He thinks like an engineer andapplies the rational processes normally
demanded of programmers/engineers/etc. to the business. It's not Six-Sigma
certification lessons, it's him analyzing and responding to discrete business,
engineering, and product problems.

You could just bundle up a dump of every post he's made about programming,
products, and businesses and sell it as a book and be distributing something
far more useful than 99% of what exists on the business advice book market or
what gets posted to HN day to day. Toss in a bonus pack of Patrick's advice on
business, SEO, A-B testing, statistics, marketing, etc and you've got a great
batch of material to start with.

The stuff is timeless (relative to the internet) in a way that Norvig's post
on his sudoku solver for demonstrating dynamic programming and constraint
solving was.

~~~
kenmck
Agreed. Actually there is a Sivers book, it's called "Anything


Besides the deductible, patients still have to pay 40--60% of covered inpatient expenses. The benefit package also caps the benefit payment at 10,000--20,000 RMB. NCMS risk-pooling is at the county level, not the village level.

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In 2005, the Askeskin program provided basic health coverage and medicines to the poor. This health insurance program was later expanded to include the near-poor in 2007 and renamed as Jamkesmas. The Jamkesmas program in 2012 had over 76 million beneficiaries -- a third of the national population -- and was the largest health insurance scheme in Indonesia \[[@CR7]\]. Two other social health insurance schemes also existed in Indonesia: Askes was targeted to civil servants and had 17 million beneficiaries while Jamsostek enrolled 5 million employees in the private sector \[[@CR7]\]. Combined,the three social health insurance programs covered 40% of the Indonesian population in 2012. However, the analysis in this study only looked at the Jamkesmas program from 2012--2013 and its medicines related benefits. We note that the Indonesian government enacted the Badan Penylenggara Jaminan Sosial (BPJS) law (Law No. 24/2011) in 2011 which was intended to unify all social health insurance programs under one not-for-profit administrator in 2014. The Indonesian government rolled out the Jaminan Kesehatan National (JKN) program on January 1, 2014, with the ambition to achieve national UHC by January 2019 \[[@CR8]\].

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In 2003, the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) was established as the regulator and the implementer of all health insurance schemes in the country (National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)). The NHIS is primarily


favorable binding of porphyrin. Seven of the eight hydrogen bonds observed between methyl alpha-d-mannopyranoside and ConA are mimicked by the sulfonatophenyl group of porphyrin after incorporating two water molecules. Thus, the similarity in chemical interactions was manifested in terms of functional mimicry despite the obvious structural dissimilarity between the sugar and the porphyrin.by many of the world's most expensive fashion brands.

Image caption Ryuji Yoshioka likes to wine and dine potential customers

From the coats of Italy's Moncler, to the sleek jackets of Prada and Celine, much of the fabric is made in Daiichi Orimono's factory in Fukui prefecture, on the northern coast of Japan's main island, Honshu.

But how did a small 70-year-old Japanese company that started out making sails reinvent itself as a key supplier to many of the world's most coveted luxury fashion brands? And how did it become a business with annual sales of 23bn yen ($210m; £148m) despite still only employing 60 people?

It is a success story based on acute attention to detail, Japanese "omotenashi" or hospitality, and a rather driven and determined boss.

Daiichi Orimono's chief executive Ryuji


Yoshioka took over the reigns of the company from his father 35 years ago, when it was just a humble sports fabric manufacturer.

Image caption Workers at Daiichi Orimono check the fabrics intently

In the early 1990s he built the then new factory in Fukui, a region of Japan famous for its synthetic fabric manufacturing, and invested heavily in first class loom machinery.

Mr Yoshioka's timing could not have been worse.

"As soon as we built the factory the [economic] bubble burst, and we lost clients [in Japan]," he says. "I had to be courageous because I had a great responsibility to feed my employees."

Mr Yoshioka knew the company would fail if it relied upon the fickle Japanese market, so there was only one thing to do - he needed to attractoverseas buyers.

Image caption Daiichi Orimono's factory is off the beaten path in Japan

"Back then there was no one who could speak foreign languages in the company, and no employees who were good at international sales, and so as the head of the company I had to go by myself," he says.

"It was very stressful, but the responsibility and the sense of duty drove me forward."

He started by targeting South Korea and Italy because those countries didn't have a negative impression of synthetic materials.

At the time no other Japanese textile manufacturers were looking to sell overseas, and the industries that did export their merchandise used trading companies.

Mr Yoshioka decided that he'd cut out the middle man and try to sell direct to clients. He said this was vital so


Who could blame Mr. Whiskers for trying to high-dive from a penthouse window or Fluffy for crawling into a washing machine? After being dressed up for Halloween, married off in elaborate weddings, toted everywhere in baby backpacks, or just plain coddled within an inch of their sanity by obsessively doting owners, these pets are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or worse. They’d call the suicide hotline–but they don’t have fingers.

About the Author:

DUNCAN BIRMINGHAM has worked as a teacher, a newspaper reporter, and a Big Foot expert for The Weekly World News. He writes for film and TV in Los Angeles. For the record, he loves a good cat wedding.

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Book Description:Three Rivers Press (CA), United States, 2009. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 163 x 127 mm. Language: English Brand New Book. PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETS. SOME PEOPLE LOVE THEIR PETS A LITTLE TOO MUCH. Who could blame Mr. Whiskers for trying to high-dive from a penthouse window or Fluffy for crawling into a washing machine? After being dressed up for Halloween, married off in elaborate weddings, toted everywhere in baby backpacks, or just plain coddled within an inch of their sanity by obsessively doting owners, these pets are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Or worse. They d call the suicide hotline-but theyIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed on Thursday that Iran was concealing a "secret atomic warehouse" in Tehran and tore into European countries for turning a blind eye to Iranian nuclear activity.

The Associated Press reported that Netanyahu made the accusation during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly. He held up maps and photos of what he claimed was a rug-cleaning operation being used as a front to house "massive amounts of equipment and material from Iran's secret weapons program."

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Netanyahu said Israel provided the information about the alleged warehouse with the International Atomic Energy Agency and some other intelligence agencies, the AP reported.

Iranian officials did not immediately respond to Netanyahu's claims, according to media reports.

The prime minister went on to accuse European countries of "appeasing" Iran by


continuing to do business with the country and remaining committed to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that lifted sanctions on Tehran in exchange for curbing its nuclear program.

Netanyahu, who has been among the most vocal international critics of the nuclear pact, previously raised evidence that he claimed showed Iran had continued to develop its nuclear arsenal despite the agreement.

While Netanyahu portrayed that April announcement as a "significant development" and further reason for the U.S. to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in 2011 that it had credible evidence showing Iran was doing nuclear weapons work under a structured program through 2003 and that work may have continued past that.

Days after Netanyahu's announcement, the U.S. withdrew from the agreement. The Trump administration reimposedbe able to accompany the foreign national fiancé(e) to the United States.

If the foreign national fiancé(e) has a previously issued and currently valid visitor’s visa to the United States, can he/she come visit the U.S. citizen as a visitor in the U.S. while the fiancé(e) petition is pending?

Maybe. Unfortunately, possession of a valid visa will not entitle the foreign national spouse to enter the United States. Additionally, a foreign national who is attempting to enter the United States on a visitor’s visa, while a fiancé(e) petition is pending, presumably has an intent to immigrate to the United States and may be denied entry. When the foreign national fiancé(e) attempts to enter the United States, they will be questioned by the U.S. Customs & Border Protection regarding the purpose


fiancé(e) relationship is legitimate and not for the purpose of obtaining immigration benefits. The second purpose is to ensure that the foreign national spouse does not have any past criminal or immigration problems that would prevent them from being eligible for a green card through the adjustment of status process after they enter the United States.

During the Interview

During the interview, the officer will review the paperwork that has been submitted for the K-1 visa. They will confirm any eligibility issues and question the foreign national fiancé(e) to determine the legitimacy of the relationship and their ability and intention to marry the U.S. citizen after entering the United States.

Possible Outcomes of the Interview

The interview usually concludes with one of four possibilities:

Approval

Ideally, the officer will end the interview by lettingCollege Portrait

New Minor in Agricultural Business

Executive Memorandum
98-053

May 14, 1998

From: Manuel A. Esteban, President

Subject: New Minor in Agricultural Business

MINOR IN AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS

Upon the recommendation of the Academic Senate and with the concurrence of the Provost, I approve the addition of a new Minor in Agricultural Business within the College of Agriculture, effective fall 1999. The total number of units required for the Minor will be 27.


my film fridge awaiting the day when I might be able to spare the 10-15k needed to finalise the print. In the meantime all those rushes were telecined onto video, a trailer was made, a picture cut (video edit) of the film was finalised as well as a documentary type accompaniment, called 'Chronomancy'. These edits were finished and remain on hard disk but Indifference Productions, the business that was producing the film and providing the finance, closed down in 2006 and went into hibernation as the recession began to kick in and work dried up. It is hoped that the film might be retrieved and a DVD of the video material put together and perhaps, more than a decade after the operation began, it would be fitting toCop’s Son Assaults Man While On Ride-Along With Dad, Tries To Break His Phone For Filming

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Evansville, IN – While on a ride-along with his police officer father, 21-year-old Brock Underwood assaulted a man and attempted to break his cell phone for filming a police encounter.

His father, Officer Bryan Underwood was stopped at a gas station and making an aggressive arrest when a witness quickly took out his cell phone and began filming the situation. The bystander tried to get as close to the police vehicle as he could to check if the suspect was alive and okay, as the officer had allegedly shot him just before the arrest.

As the bystander was moving to get a better angle of the suspect in the back of the car,


Officer Underwood quickly pushed him away and began to threaten him with arrest.

The man filming made the terrible decision of smoking a cigarette near a gas pump, which Underwood then began using as a reason to harass him. The man threw the cigarette down after being told by Underwood that he shouldn’t be smoking near the pumps; which quickly escalated the situation.

The man backed toward his car, and the officer followed him, demanding to see his ID and making various threats.

Realizing that he had nothing to charge the man with, Officer Underwood began to walk away. At this point, his son walked up to the window of the car and began arguing with the man who was filming, regarding whether or not the suspect had been shot. DuringLinks

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

James Bond Digital Comics to be Released in 2015

Dynamite Entertainment has just signed a new deal with Ian Fleming Publications. Starting in 2015 Dynamite will publish comic books, digital comics and graphic novels starring 007. Readers will be able to re-live the exploits that have thrilled and captivated fans for over half a century in fresh visual adaptations of the classic Bond stories.

Dynamite plans to create a series of brand new adventures unveiling the defining – and largely undocumented – early years of Bond's career. These new stories will draw inspiration from the Fleming canon to explore Bond's 'origins': his raw early years before he gambled with his life in the first novel, Casino Royale. Some other familiar faces from the expansive 007 mythos will


also make appearances in this series – criminal masterminds, hired henchmen, glamorous Bond Girls and secret service allies – alongside all-new characters.

The first James Bond comic books will be published in 2015, soliciting periodical issues in Diamond Comic Distributors' Previews catalog, the premiere source of merchandise for the comic book specialty market. Digital and print editions will be available simultaneously through such platforms as Comixology, Dynamite Digital, iVerse, and Dark Horse Digital. Original graphic novels and collections will be released through the comic book specialty market, digital platforms, and numerous book market channels including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and more.Derek Daly was source of Bob Lamey's story, racial slur according to WISH-TV

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Show Caption Hide Caption Bob Lamey admits to using 'inappropriate word' in light of slur allegations Bob Lamey acknowledged his use of “an inappropriate word” in light of accusations that his use of a racial slur cost him his job.

UPDATE: Derek Daly admits to using racial slur -- but says it wasn't in interview with Bob Lamey

INDIANAPOLIS — WISH-TV will no longer employ Derek Daly as a racing analyst after saying it had determined that he was the source of the racial slur that led to the retirement of long-time Indianapolis Colts broadcaster Bob Lamey.

In a published article, WISH-TV said Daly had confirmed he was the source. Daly, while admitting he had used


a radio interview at Colts training camp that included a racial slur. The comment was overheard by a radio station employee.

"He had asked me if the mics were off and I said, 'Yeah, I turned everything off. You're fine'," the Emmis Communications employee recalled, according to WTHR.com. "Bob Lamey's describing this person saying he was asked in an interview, 'Do you think anyone's holding back their speed at IMS during quals? Do you think anyone's holding back?' And that person had replied 'There aren't any 'blank' in this race."

The employee says Lamey didn't say "blank" in retelling that story. The employee said Lamey apologized profusely after the incident.

Lamey's lawyer later acknowledged that Lamey had used an 'inappropriate word.'

Wednesday, the Colts acknowledged Lamey's retirement was due to this incident.

"Firstand foremost, the Colts deplore and do not tolerate the use of any racial slur – in any context," the statement read. "... Bob publicly acknowledged that last week he repeated an inappropriate word when telling a story. He immediately apologized to the people who heard him use the word, and then promptly retired."

The original statement released by the Colts on Wednesday said Lamey "promptly resigned" but the team later said the correct word was "retired."

Lamey had served as the radio voice of the Colts for 31 of their 34 seasons in Indianapoils.

Colts players, many of whom Lamey has interviewed for years, learned of the incident throughout the day Wednesday.

"I've known Bob my entire career and I've had a lot of great interactions with him, but when you


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FC Barcelona marked the start of the Paralympic Games – variant Olympics for people with disabilities – with a very special football game against Spain’s National Paralympic football team.

At the competition that took place in Spain, participated Lionel Messi, Ivan Rakitic, Sergi Roberto and Jordi Masip.

The four goalkeepers played blindfolded against the blind team, that represents Spain at the Paralympic Games.

The teams used a special ball, that makes a noise when the players hit it. Messi was the only player who scored for the Catalans.

The promo video was released on Thursday morning, in order to encourage Spain’s Paralympic football team.

Messi and his teammates had the time of their lives with the disabled team initiating the most entertaining kickabout and penalty shootout contest.

The remarkable game wasorganized by UNICEF. This week the humanitarian organization marks 10 years since their partnership with the FC Barcelona Foundation.

The 2016 Summer Paralympic Games is in its 15th edition and represents the largest and most important sports competition for disabled athletes. The first edition held in Latin America started on September 7 and ends on September 18.

The 2016 Paralympic Games hosts 4,386 athletes from 176 countries. The champions will battle for 528 gold medals in 23 sports competitions, taking place in 20 venues.

This year’s edition, hosted by Brazil faced major budget issues. The Russian team was not allowed to attend, due to their latest doping scandal.


The European Commission is bringing forward plans to make major multinationals such as Google, Amazon and Facebook disclose exactly where and how much tax they pay across the continent.

The draft legislation being tabled on Tuesday was proposed before the latest Panama Papers scandal, but comes amid a growing clamour to force the biggest companies to pay their fair share.

The plan was expected to include rules requiring businesses earning more than £600 million a year to open up their tax affairs to public scrutiny, revealing their profits and accounts in every country in which they operate within the EU.

Since the Panama Papers, a new clause has reportedly been added to require the companies to say how much money they make in so-called “tax havens”. A final, more general statementOrganisation of veterinary public health in the Western Mediterranean region.
This paper describes the administrative organisation of veterinary public health (VPH) activities in seven countries of the Western Mediterranean region. These structures vary greatly, as a function of the national administrations overall and, in particular, as a result of assigning VPH to either the Ministry of Agriculture or Public Health. Whereas the VPH unit is generally involved in specific veterinary food hygiene activities, the control of zoonotic diseases is most often assigned to the Veterinary Services. In most countries of the region, VPH is still approached as too narrow a discipline, and the importance of VPH activities is often not recognised by decision-makers at the highest governmental levels.


the water was lost to space.

However, there was still a chance that water might be found in special places on the Moon. Due to the Moon's orientation to the Sun, scientists theorized that deep craters at the lunar poles would be in permanent shadow and thus extremely cold and able to trap volatile material like water as ice perhaps delivered there by comet impacts or chemical reactions with hydrogen carried by the solar wind.

Last year on October 9, NASA's LCROSS (Lunar Crater Remote Observation and Sensing Satellite) intentionally crashed its companion Centaur upper stage into the Cabeus crater near the lunar south pole. The idea was to kick up debris from the bottom of the crater so its composition could be analyzed. The Centaur hit at over 5,600Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) helped by making images of the actual regions of light and shade, which were used to verify the simulation's accuracy. Finally, LOLA measured the depths of polar craters to find areas where the impact could still be seen from Earth.

Since hydrogen is a component of water, maps of lunar hydrogen deposits are useful for finding areas that might hold water. Preliminary hydrogen maps were provided by the spacecraft's Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) instrument. Regions that had relatively high amounts of hydrogen were identified as the most promising for the impact.

"Over a year ago, we formally suggested Cabeus to the LCROSS principal investigator," said LEND principal investigator, Igor Mitrofanov of the Institute for Space Research, Moscow. "According to our current data, the regolith within


formaldehyde, ammonia, methanol, mercury and sodium," Paige added.

UCLA graduate student and Diviner team member, Paul Hayne, was monitoring the data in real-time as it was sent back from Diviner.

"During the fly-by 90 seconds after impact, all seven of Diviner's infrared channels measured an enhanced thermal signal from the crater. The more sensitive of its two solar channels also measured the thermal signal, along with reflected sunlight from the impact plume. Two hours later, the three longest wavelength channels picked up the signal, and after four hours only one channel detected anything above the background temperature."

Scientists were able to learn two things from these measurements: first, they were able to constrain the mass of material that was ejected outwards into space from the impact crater; second, they were ablesaid Kurt Retherford, LAMP team member, also of SwRI.

"The observations by the suite of LRO and LCROSS instruments demonstrate the moon has a complex environment that experiences intriguing chemical processes," said Richard Vondrak, LRO project scientist at NASA Goddard. "This knowledge can open doors to new areas of research and exploration."

The research was funded by NASA's Exploration Systems Missions Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. LRO was built and is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. LCROSS is managed by NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. LAMP was developed by the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas; LOLA was built by NASA Goddard; LROC was provided by Arizona State University, Tempe; LEND was provided by Institute for Space Research, Moscow; The Diviner


have been from Pinatubo was, it turns out, from a pyrocumulonimbus storm in Canada.

One reason for the misinterpretation, Yue said, is that scientists believed nothing less energetic than a volcanic eruption could penetrate Earth's "tropopause" in so short a period of time. The tropopause is the barrier between the lower atmosphere and stratosphere.

"At the time, the thinking was that it was unlikely," said Yue.

SAGE II Data

Yue reevaluated data he'd analyzed years earlier from NASA Langley's SAGE II instrument on the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite. SAGE II was launched in 1984 and turned off in 2005.

"Our paper also shows that pyroCbs happen more often than people realize," Yue added. In 2002, for example, various sensing instruments detected 17 distinct pyrocumulonimbus events in North America alone.

Humans have been responsible forgiraffe, or "camel leopard". The October Camelopardalids are a collection of faint stars that have no mythology associated with them -- in fact, they didn't begin to appear on star charts until the 17th century.

Even experienced amateur astronomers are hard-pressed to find the constellation in the night sky. But in early October, it comes to prominence in the minds of meteor scientists as they wrestle with the mystery of this shower of meteors, which appears to radiate from the giraffe's innards.

The October Camelopardalids are not terribly spectacular, with only a handful of bright meteors seen on the night of Oct. 5. It may have been first noticed back in 1902, but definite confirmation had to wait until Oct. 2005, when meteor cameras videotaped 12 meteors belonging to the


E ring, appears to leave a brighter, blue signature. The pattern of bluish material on Enceladus, for example, indicates that the moon is covered by the fallback of its own "breath."

Enceladean spray also appears to splatter the parts of Tethys, Dione and Rhea that run into the spray head-on in their orbits around Saturn. But scientists are still puzzling over why the Enceladean frost on the leading hemisphere of these moons bears a coral-colored, rather than bluish, tint.

On Tethys, Dione and Rhea, darker, rust-colored, reddish hues paint the entire trailing hemisphere, or the side that faces backward in the orbit around Saturn. The reddish hues are thought to be caused by tiny particle strikes from circulating plasma, a gas-like state of matter so hot that atoms split intosubtle color variations and make apparent some of the processes at play in the Saturn system," said Amanda Hendrix, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "The Cassini images highlight the importance and potential effects of so-called 'space weathering' that occurs throughout the solar system – on any surface that isn't protected by a thick atmosphere or magnetic field."

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in


Boulder, Colo.

After nine years of scanning the sky, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has concluded its observations of the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe. The spacecraft has not only given scientists their best look at this remnant glow, but also established the scientific model that describes the history and structure of the universe.

"WMAP has opened a window into the earliest universe that we could scarcely imagine a generation ago," said Gary Hinshaw, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who manages the mission. "The team is still busy analyzing the complete nine-year set of data, which the scientific community eagerly awaits."

WMAP was designed to provide a more detailed look at subtle temperature differences in the cosmic microwavebackground that were first detected in 1992 by NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). The WMAP team has answered many longstanding questions about the universe's age and composition. WMAP acquired its final science data on Aug. 20. On Sept. 8, the satellite fired its thrusters, left its working orbit, and entered into a permanent parking orbit around the sun.

"We launched this mission in 2001, accomplished far more than our initial science objectives, and now the time has come for a responsible conclusion to the satellite's operations," said Charles Bennett, WMAP's principal investigator at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

WMAP detects a signal that is the remnant afterglow of the hot young universe, a pattern frozen in place when the cosmos was only 380,000 years old. As the universe expanded over


the next 13 billion years, this light lost energy and stretched into increasingly longer wavelengths. Today, it is detectable as microwaves.

WMAP is in the Guinness Book of World Records for "most accurate measure of the age of the universe." The mission established that the cosmos is 13.75 billion years old, with a degree of error of one percent.

WMAP also showed that normal atoms make up only 4.6 percent of today's cosmos, and it verified that most of the universe consists of two entities scientists don't yet understand.

Dark matter, which makes up 23 percent of the universe, is a material that has yet to be detected in the laboratory. Dark energy is a gravitationally repulsive entity which may be a feature of the vacuum itself. WMAP confirmed its existencemissions such as the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, scheduled for launch in 2014, will be able to probe the movements of the solar wind at even smaller scales.

Cluster recently surpassed a decade of passing in and out of our planet's magnetic field, returning invaluable data to scientists worldwide. Besides studying the solar wind, Cluster’s other observations include studying the composition of the earth’s aurora and its magnetosphere.

A major instrument due to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is getting its first taste of space in the test facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the United Kingdom. The Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) has been designed to contribute to areas of investigation as diverse as the first light in the early Universe and the formation of planets around other


pivoting axles into the bearing holes in a snap-fit manner.
On the other hand, in the key switch disclosed in JP-A-2002-334627, a pair of link members are mutually joined at their central region in a relatively rotatable manner, and include a first link member that is provided at a first end region thereof with a sliding axle slidably engaged with the base section and at a second end region thereof, opposite to the first end region, with a pivoting axle pivotably joined to the key top, and a second link member that is provided at a first end region thereof with a pivoting axle pivotably joined to the base section and at a second end region thereof, opposite to the first end region, with a sliding axle slidably engagedwith the key top. Correspondingly, the base section is provided with a slide support section having a guide groove for receiving the sliding axle of the first link member and a pivot support section having a bearing groove for receiving the pivoting axle of the second link member, while the key top is provided with a pivot support section having a bearing groove for receiving the pivoting axle of the first link member.
Further, the key switch of CP-A-2002-334627 includes an actuator attached to the inner surface of the key top. The actuator includes a pivot support section having a bearing groove for receiving the pivoting axle of the first link member in an auxiliary manner, and a slide support section having a guide groove for receiving the sliding


detach the pivot support section closer to the force point from the pivoting axle of the link member) becomes relatively large. As a result, the pivoting axle may be disengaged from the bearing hole while expanding the notch, and the key top thus may be detached from the link members. Further, a relatively large amount of application force may damage the pivot support section.
In contrast to this, in the key switch of JP-A-2002-334627, due to the provision of the actuator attached to the inner surface of the key top, when force is applied to the key top in a direction detaching the key top from the first and second link members, it is possible to stop damage that may occur in the pivot and slide support sections. However,of the link members of the gear-link type.
As a result, in the key switch in JP-A-2002-334627, the pivot support section formed in the key top is provided with the bearing groove for directly receiving, in a temporarily retaining manner, the pivoting axle of the first link member, and the pivot support section of the actuator is also provided with the bearing groove for assisting the temporarily retaining function of the direct pivot support section of the key top. In this configuration, if a large disengaging force occurs, which is assumed in the link members of the gear-link type, the key top may be detached from the link member.
The third pending technical situation relevant to the conventional key switches is described below. Due to a diversified environment for using


spirits along a traditional bourbon shipping route, down the Ohio River to the port of New Orleans and then into the Atlantic and up to New York City. The day he arrived in Manhattan to taste it, he brought the first sample, along with a control batch from Louisville, to Popular Mechanics. The whiskey that took the trip, which Zoeller calls Jefferson’s Journey, was mature beyond its age, richer, with new flavors of tobacco, vanilla, caramel, and honey. It was some of the best bourbon any of us had ever drunk.

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To see if something had changed, on a molecular level, in the Journey to make it taste better, we partnered with Good Housekeeping Institute chemical engineer Birnur Aral and scientists at Jordi Labs in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

This content isFocus on the Baldrige Board of Overseers: Reatha Clark King

Like other federal programs, the Baldrige Program is overseen by an advisory committee whose members are appointed by a cabinet member of the Presidential administration; in our case, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. By charter, the Baldrige Board of Overseers is tasked with reviewing the work of the program and recommending improvements.

In an ongoing blog series, we are interviewing members of the Board of Overseers on their experiences, on the Baldrige Program and its products and services, and on the Baldrige approach to organizational improvement.

Reatha Clark King

Following is an interview of Baldrige Overseer Reatha Clark King, PhD, who is an emeritus board member and emeritus chairman of the National Association of Corporate Directors. She has served on several boards


and in various executive leadership positions.

What experiences led you to the role of Baldrige overseer?

My excitement about serving as a member of the Board of Overseers can be traced to my 53 years in challenging leadership positions in both the industrial and service sectors of our economy. I learned firsthand about the mission, principles, and concepts of the Baldrige Program and how they affect the performance of organizations. I believe the Baldrige Program is a great resource that fosters excellence and success in our national economy.

My professional careers began in 1963 as a research scientist in physical chemistry at the renowned National Bureau of Standards (later became the National Institute of Standards and Technology). From my undergraduate college (Clark College in Atlanta, GA), I immediately began graduate studiesat the University of Chicago, where I obtained a PhD in physical chemistry. During my studies, the pursuit of quality and excellence became habits of mind and practice. Clark College’s motto was “Second to None,” and the University of Chicago was then and continues to be a university with world-renowned scholarship, quality, and excellence.

After my service as a research scientist, I was presented with amazing opportunities to experience how the principles of quality and excellence contribute to our economy and to society. These were my careers as university professor; public university president; vice president at General Mills and president and CEO of the General Mills Foundation; and corporate board member of manufacturing and retail companies, including Exxon Mobil, Wells Fargo, Minnesota Life Insurance, Allina Health Systems, H. B.


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A long forgotten picnic

“Look mom, she looks just like me!” Cassy exclaimed with her finger pointing at a girl in the middle of a black and white photograph in a photo album with yellowed pages.

It was a photograph of a group of people sitting on and around a picnic blanket. The well nourished men were holding wine glasses, and the women dressed in Chanel suits from the early 1900s. And in the middle of them was a young girl, who besides her clothing and big blond curls looked just like Cassy. It looked like a pure moment of bliss.

“Mom, who is, or well, I mean, who was that?” questioningly Cassy tore her bright blue eyes of her carbon copy looking back at her, to face her mother.

The inkhours of hearing old family tales, Cassy sunk into her bed. Apparently the girl in the picture and herself had many things in common, not just their name and appearance.

With the break of dawn Cassy woke, even though she was the first person to sleep in on a Saturday, there were some things that had kept her mind racing all night. Quiet as a cat she snuck out of the house, with a clear goal in her mind, find that picnicking spot form the photograph. Her grandmother had mentioned a picnicking spot at the edge of the estate, apparently in the past there had been a nice clearing, but as no one went there anymore the forest had grown thick and hostile.

The deeper she went into the woods,


the uneasier she felt. The call of the cuckoo made her jump, but as it was the first of this spring, so she remembered to touched her silver necklace, and tripped over some roots.

Scrambling back onto her feet she noticed a small archway between the trees in front of her. It was not a fancy arch, it was just two old trees that had grown in the shape of an arch. Intrigued she went on to examine the archway, at the moment that she found herself between the those trees the air was filled with static electricity, as if lightning was in the air.

She went on. Hot and humid air greeted her on the other side. The sound of cicadas was filling her ears. Over her shoulder Cassycould no longer see the spot where she had left spring behind and stepped into summer, the archway seemed to have disappeared.

What was that? Cassy heard an unfamiliar laughter and the sound of clattering dishes. Nearby it seemed, people were eating and talking. A picnic? Here? Impossible?

Brushing the moss from her messy uncombed hair and readjusting her now dirty shirt, she took her courage with all her might and went towards the unknown sounds. She stepped into a clearing and was greeted by a familiar sight, just that this time it was all in colour. There was a red and white picnic blanket spread out on the ground, there was a big wicker basket next to it, and a joyful company, wearing clothes from a different time, having


Three Indian astronauts will take part in 7-day venture

The Union Cabinet on Friday approved the ambitious Gaganyaan programme, which will send three Indian astronauts to space for up to seven days by 2022 at a cost of ₹10,000 crore.

The project was first announced by Prime Minster Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech this year. As part of the programme, two unmanned flights and one manned flight will be undertaken.

The first human space flight demonstration is targeted to be completed within 40 months of the sanction date. Prior to this, two unmanned flights in full complement will be carried out to gain confidence, the government said.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed the launch vehicle GSLV MK-III, which has the necessary payload capability to launch a three-memberthe impacted areas for centuries without achieving cleanup objectives because of the relatively low solubilities of the contaminants in ground water. In-situ soil flushing, flooding, solvent extraction, biodegradation, or chemical destruction are precluded by the difficulty in treating DNAPL within the bedrock fractures. The existence of DNAPLs, including chlorinated solvents, is one of the most widespread problem at hazardous waste sites throughout the world. DNAPL contamination has impacted drinking water supplies, spread beyond site boundaries, and is the most complex issue facing environmental cleanup efforts. At sites with fractured bedrock, the cleanup is even more difficult.
Contamination of soils and ground water with chlorinated hydrocarbons is a widespread problem caused by early disposal practices, spills, and leaks of chlorinated solvents, PCBs, pesticides, and petroleum products. Examples of DNAPLs include


BALTIMORE — The call from the White House usually would come in late afternoon. President Clinton had a few hours open in the evening. Could he come over?

Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and civil rights historian, would pick up a notepad of questions and two microcassette recorders and drive his truck down Interstate 95 to Washington. Parking on the South Lawn, he would head to the White House family quarters for interviews so secret Clinton stored the tapes of them in his sock drawer.

What followed sometimes seemed like one of the bull sessions the two had two decades earlier when they shared an apartment in Austin, running George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign in Texas.

In these interviews and a new book that has followed, Branch says he triedto capture Clinton's unvarnished perspective on the events swirling around his presidency, from the consequential to the occasionally comic.

Reluctant to discuss the affair with Monica Lewinsky that led to his impeachment, Clinton once lamented that it occurred when he felt sorry for himself and that he "just cracked" under the pressure of personal and political setback.

He also relayed how Boris Yeltsin's late-night drinking during a visit to Washington in 1995 nearly created an international incident. The Russian president was staying at Blair House, the government guest quarters. Late at night, Clinton told Branch, Secret Service agents found Yeltsin clad only in his underwear, standing alone on Pennsylvania Avenue and trying to hail a cab. He wanted a pizza, he told them, his words slurring.

The next night, Yeltsin eluded


security forces again when he climbed down back stairs to the Blair House basement. A building guard took Yeltsin for a drunken intruder until Russian and U.S. agents arrived on the scene and rescued him.

Then there was Clinton's take on a heated, two-hour discussion he had with then-Vice President Gore just after Gore had lost the 2000 presidential election to Republican George W. Bush.

The meeting started politely enough, Clinton recalled. Then Clinton, who felt underutilized during the 2000 campaign, told Gore he could have tilted the election to the Democratic side if he had been dispatched to stump in Arkansas or New Hampshire, both states in which Clinton was popular. Either state would have provided the electoral votes Gore needed to win.

Gore replied that Clinton's scandalous shadow wasa "drag" that had plagued Gore at every step of the campaign. The two "exploded" at each other in mutual recrimination.

Clinton may be having some second thoughts about the 79 oral history interviews he gave to Branch during his presidency, their contents not yet released. The transcripts are in binders that fill a long shelf in the office he converted from a garage behind his home in Chappaqua, N.Y.

The former president has been on the phone with Branch for hours since he got page proofs of Branch's new book, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (Simon & Schuster), running "hot and cold" about the account based on Branch's recollections of their conversations.

"I think it's fair to say he's nervous," Branch, 62, said last week at his


Victorian house here. Clinton didn't respond to several requests for comment.

The portrait that emerges from the 707-page tome is a president who reveled in policy and delighted in politics but "always thought he was trapped in the personal issues," Branch says. The description of Clinton's goals and thinking is more candid and more complex than in Clinton's 2004 memoir, My Life.

Still, Branch's book is more of a one-man show than a three-dimensional perspective: The world of the moment as seen through the president's eyes.

Branch waited until his civil-rights trilogy was done and Clinton's memoirs were published before turning to this book. Clinton didn't know Branch was making his own set of contemporaneous tapes, Branch says, "but I don't think he'd be surprised" that a historian would do so.

Ashe drove back to Baltimore after each interview, Branch would put a fresh tape in his recorder and recap what the president had just said. If he didn't finish during the hour-long drive, he would sit in his tree-lined driveway in the pre-dawn quiet, stifling yawns and talking into the recorder until he was done.

Declining to detail Clinton's concerns, he says: "The only thing I can say is that I didn't change anything that he asked me to change."

'I just cracked'

The president would be voluble on almost any topic, from the willingness of India and Pakistani leaders to threaten the death of millions in their standoff over nuclear arms, to his assessment of the Republican contenders vying to succeed him in 2000.

Texas governor George W. Bush "was unqualified


to be president … but he had shrewd campaign instincts," Clinton told Branch. Arizona Sen. John McCain "might make a good president, but he had no idea how to run."

Clinton was less forthcoming when the topic turned to Lewinsky, whose affair with Clinton shook his marriage and his presidency. Branch says he felt "squeamish" about asking too much. Branch called the allegations of personal misconduct by public figures "familiar quicksand" from his years of studying the public and private life of Martin Luther King Jr.

When the topic did come up, Clinton usually offered the boilerplate responses he was giving in public. Once a special counsel was investigating first the Whitewater land deal and then the Lewinsky controversy, the two men skirted issues under investigation while the recorder wasrunning to avoid having the tapes subject to subpoena and exposure.

But one night in August 1999, six months after he had survived the Senate impeachment trial, words "spilled out" from an emotional Clinton. He told Branch the Lewinsky affair began because "I cracked; I just cracked."

Branch said in the interview he believed that Clinton "had once maybe strayed more often than that and made a big resolution not to do it in the White House because there was too much at stake." Saying he was "speaking out of school," Branch went on: "From his point of view, he succeeded 99%, but then felt sorry for himself and lapsed."

The Democrats' loss of Congress in the November 1994 elections — on top of the death of Clinton's mother the previous


January and the Whitewater investigation — made Clinton feel beleaguered, unappreciated and open to a liaison with Lewinsky, Clinton told Branch. The affair began during the government budget shutdown in November 1995 and resumed briefly a few months after Clinton's re-election in 1996 — a victory that he felt should have been vindication but didn't still his critics.

"He said he could have done worse," Branch writes. "He could have blown something up."

Behind the headlines

Sitting with Branch on the second floor of the White House, Clinton would rail against the news media and his Republican opposition for what he saw as pursuing the personal and the inconsequential rather than the substantive and important. At times he would admit that his own actions played a part in all that, especiallyin the Lewinsky affair, stoking the controversies that risked overshadowing everything else.

Branch, who kept a daily account of Clinton's schedule from news accounts, would set up two small recorders and pose questions he had written on a notepad, probing for details and insights beyond what was on the public record.

They often would meet in the Treaty Room but sometimes sat in the small family kitchen or on the Truman Balcony. In July 2000, during the Middle East peace negotiations, Branch was summoned for a session at the presidential retreat at Camp David.

Once done, Branch would rewind the tapes, label them and give them to Clinton. After several years, he learned the president was tucking them behind his socks in a chest of drawers, where they remained until he


moved out of the White House.

Branch has never heard the tapes. Besides the president's scheduler, almost no one on the West Wing staff knew the interviews were taking place.

"I walked in on the two of them talking one night late in the residence and they both acted a little funny," remembers then-White House press secretary Joe Lockhart. "A year later in the Chappaqua house, after he'd left the White House, I saw a box of tapes sitting out and asked the president what they were, and he told me they were the Taylor conversations."

There was a roller coaster quality to some of the evenings, Branch recalls. Clinton, often exhausted, was a study in multi-tasking. One interview in 1995 was interrupted by then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher calling aboutair strikes in Bosnia; Clinton had been filling in a crossword puzzle and then began to deal a game of solitaire while continuing both conversations.

On the night of the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995, the topics between Clinton and Branch included not only that catastrophe but also then-Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's appeal to win delivery of more F-16 fighter jets and the legislative strategy of the new GOP House speaker, Newt Gingrich.

Then Chelsea, the Clintons' daughter, hovered at the door. She was writing a paper for her sophomore English class to describe the best and worst qualities of Dr. Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's famous novel, but she couldn't make her points fit on a single page, as assigned.

"He's reading it, and then he asked me to


dismantled. A fear of investigations and subpoenas means presidents worry about being able to keep a diary private.

"The records preserved in presidential libraries are getting more voluminous but less personal," Branch says. "There's a mountain of paper, but it's really hard to tell what happened."

After the 1972 campaign, Clinton and Branch didn't speak to one another for 20 years. Clinton was building a political career in Arkansas; Branch was researching and writing a history of the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968.

Clinton had read Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63— even the footnotes, many of them crediting records from presidential libraries. As president-elect, he asked Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham to put Branch and his wife, Christy Macy, on the guest list for aglittering dinner party Graham hosted. There, Clinton pulled Branch aside for a brief conversation.

His question: How could he be sure his presidency had records that would give historians a similar window into what was going on behind the scenes?

Dictating a diary

Branch says the two conferred several times about it during the administration's opening months. Clinton proposed Branch fill the role Arthur Schlesinger Jr. played in the Kennedy administration, a sort of court historian on the White House staff. Branch declined. Clinton tried dictating a diary but found it unwieldy; he said he needed to be interacting with someone.

In September 1993, Branch agreed to do oral history interviews with Clinton until the president could train someone on his staff for that role. No one else was ever trained, and


their sessions continued until Clinton left office in 2001.

The president was determined to keep them secret to avoid what he saw as inevitable demands for disclosure.

"I was constantly wrestling with, 'What is my job?' " Branch says. "Basically, my first goal was to say, 'This is about history. … I want to get as much raw material on the record as possible.' But it was never that simple."

Branch was there as a historian but he also was a friend, and Clinton at times would seek his advice. From 1998 to 1999, Branch's wife worked at the White House as a speechwriter for Hillary Clinton. As Bill Clinton finished his memoirs, he surprised Branch with a $50,000 "bonus" for his help in laying the groundwork for them.

Publication of Branch'sbook has underscored the conflicting agendas of friend and historian.

Clinton on several occasions had encouraged Branch to write a book about their sessions, albeit at some undesignated point in the future. The author used the advance he received from the publishing house Simon & Schuster to have his own tapes transcribed; he had stored them in a safe deposit box at a bank.

Those tapes will be available to researchers next year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The former president had planned to use the interviews he had given when he wrote his book, but there is little sign he did. As he neared the deadline to submit his manuscript in 2004, he invited Branch to Chappaqua to read the first 700 pages. Branch was stunned


to find that with only a month or two to go until his deadline, Clinton was just beginning to write about his time in the White House.

In one of their few arguments, Branch urged him to delay publication or split the memoir into two volumes — one now, a second later. Clinton refused. In the end, My Life "skims the surface" of his presidency like a hovercraft, Branch says.

For historians wanting to plunge into the Clinton presidency, the unprecedented interviews will be invaluable, says Russell Riley, head of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. He calls their existence "a major historical event," though Clinton hasn't said when and under what conditions they might be available to scholars.

"There is aserved by TransPennine Express


On Jan. 7, the Islamic Center of Lake Travis in Austin, which had been under construction, caught on fire. A week later, on Jan. 14, the Islamic Center of Eastside in Bellevue, Washington, burned.

Two weeks after that, on Jan. 28, several hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, a fire destroyed the Islamic Center of Victoria in Texas.

Then, this past Friday, Feb. 24, a small blaze broke out at the front entrance of the Daarus Salaam Mosque near Tampa.

Authorities have ruled that three of the four fires were caused by arson. An official at the Travis County Fire Marshal told BuzzFeed News that the investigation into the cause of the fire at the Islamic Center of Lake Travis remains open.

“We’venever seen four mosques burned within seven weeks of each other,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups around the country. “It’s part of a whole series of dramatic attacks on Muslims.”

The mosque fires come amid increased fear about hate crimes against minority religious groups. In recent weeks, scores of bomb threats were called into Jewish community centers and schools around the country and graveyards in Jewish cemeteries in three states were vandalized. On Sunday, somebody threw a rock through a window of the Masjid Abu Bakr mosque in Denver. In Redmond, Washington, vandals destroyed the Muslim Association of Puget Sound mosque’s entrance sign on two occasions within two months of the election. Two days after the inauguration, a


months earlier, Wilson, who has a history of mental illness, had been convicted of misdemeanor assault after an incident at the mosque.

Hours after President Donald Trump signed the controversial executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, someone intentionally set fire to the Islamic Center of Victoria in Texas in the middle of the night, according to investigators, who have yet to identify a suspect. The blaze caused more than $500,000 in damage, and completely destroyed the 16-year-old mosque, shaking the Muslim American community in south Texas. The mosque's president, Dr. Shahid Hashmi, told the Texas Tribune his community would forgive whoever set the fire, but added, "there’s no way we can forget. There’s no way our children can forget.”

The fire at the Daarus Salaam Mosque in Thonotosassa,Florida, on Friday was at least the third time in seven months that a mosque in the Tampa area had been set on fire, following incidents at the Islamic Education Center in July and the Masjid Omar mosque in August.


Vesconte Point

Vesconte Point () is a steep rock point on the south side of Bermel Peninsula, Bowman Coast, marking the extremity of a spur running southeast from the easternmost of the Bowditch Crests. The point was first roughly mapped by W.L.G. Joerg from air photos taken by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and was later surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in December 1958. In association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, it was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Petrus Vesconte of Genoa, the earliest known chartmaker whose charts survive (the first dated 1311).

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claimed she was unable to work due to her injury and applied for DIB and SSI.
Both applications were denied by the Commissioner initially and on
reconsideration. Johnson sought review of the Commissioner’s decision before
an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”). Initially, the ALJ rendered a partially
favorable decision, which was subsequently vacated and remanded by the
Appeals Council.
      On remand, a different ALJ held a rehearing and determined that Johnson
was not disabled at any time since the occurrence of her injury. The ALJ found
that Johnson retained the residual functional capacity to perform the full range
of work existing at the sedentary level. The Appeals Council denied review of
the ALJ’s decision, making that decision the final decision of the Commissioner
and subject to judicial review.


could do sedentary work. In January 2002,
Dr. Hill found Johnson to be able to work eight hours per day with a fifteen
pound lifting limit and with the additional limitations of four hours walking in
an eight hour period, four hours standing, and six hours sitting. In October
2002, Dr. Blacklock determined that Johnson could occasionally lift 20 pounds,
and with normal breaks, stand or walk for about six hours and sit for about six
hours in an eight hour workday. On May 15, 2006, Dr. Stringfellow noted that
Johnson could lift ten pounds, stand and walk at least two hours per day, and
sit about six hours per day.

                         c___c SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED NEVER POST AGAIN.

And then Isabella had to bring home nothing but Dr. Pepper, and he knows that gives me indigestion. >:[

On an Earth familiar yet distant, a small, Coalition-sponsored biological research team operates in the vast, desolate, eerie, chilly region of the Antarctic. Cutaway from civilization, communications with the Coalition sporadic and infrequent, the research team diligently survives in these harsh conditions. Living in a small assortment of militarized shacks, they huddled by their dying embers, studying development patterns in the wildlife of this Earth, comparing it to that of other Earths.

One day, communications flatline completely, the team abruptly cut off from their relay. Sending a small squad up a hill to investigate their relays, hours pass as the band of scientists refuse


to return upon that hill. Growing worried, the rest of the team, yourself include, march up the hill, concerned that the blizzard winds had simply pinned the repair squad down. You can feel the winds pound against the layers of clothing, numbing your face, flares of white dancing before your eyes.

It is not long before you and the rest of the crew arrive at the top of the hill. Before you, a sight of unspeakable horror awaited. Crimson and bodily tissue was all merged together in one amorphous mass of flesh and bone, eyes, hearts, livers, guts, limbs- all merged together, forming some nightmarish blob of something that was once human. It is not long before the rest of the group panics at the sight of your formerguy in the draft, and he may end up going to Boston, Toronto or New York, but Meadows slipping to the Padres would be a coup for the team that has struggled a bit in recent drafts. Interestingly their last outfielder they drafted was Donovan Tate, also from a Georgia HS, and he has struggled mightily as a pro. Meadows is a much better hitter than Tate was as a prepster. He runs well as well, and could be a CF in the majors.

14. Pittsburgh Pirates: Hunter Renfroe, OF, Mississippi State

The Pirates are rumored to go with a college bat with the second of their two first rounders, probably to save money, and here Renfroe is the one who falls. He’s no slouch, with an OBP approaching .500,


and boasting some of the best power in the NCAA this year. He has improved his approach a lot over this last Spring and also should be a plus defender in right field.

15. Arizona Diamondbacks: Alex Gonzalez, RHP, Oral Roberts

Pitching at a small school (though one that has been pretty good at baseball lately) I don’t know much about Gonzalez. Scouting reports on him indicate he has a repeatable delivery and a fastball that sits in the low 90s, with a plus slider.

16. Philadelphia Phillies: Tim Anderson, SS, East Central Miss. CC

Anderson is one of the better middle infield athletes in a draft short on them, and the Phillies love athletes. Anderson went undrafted last year, but has really good speed and probably ends up in CF. Heand training. On April 8, 1949, Tilley and Rogers, a Negro member of the postal clerks' *540 union, met with the executive board of the plaintiff and were shown a bundle of cards said to be applications for admission. They were also told that all unemployed members had to be put to work before new members were admitted and that in any event Tilley's application would have to be submitted to a vote of the entire union. Tilley had no further contact with the plaintiff; it took no action on his application and failed to notify him of its inaction.
Tilley was a graduate of Hartford Public High School and had been top man in a class at a navy school to which he had been sent to study


electricity. While in the naval service he worked on electric motor repairs and maintenance. Upon discharge he had been admitted to the Hartford Trade School and completed courses in electric wiring and motor repair. He was qualified to be accepted by the union. An investigator for the commission on civil rights interviewed Devine in July, 1950. The latter emphasized the desirability of limiting members to insure steady employment. Later, the investigator was shown a list of admissions for the four years preceding, but it was explained that the authority for accepting members rested in the total membership. Devine remarked that dates were not significant because nearly all new members were sons or other relatives of members and that those who thought they could obtain more work by joiningthe union were deluding themselves. He stated that there were no Negroes in the union, that the carpenters' union found Negroes irritating and not good mechanics, and that it was his desire to maintain strict standards.
On two other occasions, in 1946 and 1948, Negroes were denied membership because of their race. One of them, Silas Hill, just prior to the execution of a *541 union shop contract by his employer was transferred from outside electrical work to inside janitorial work for no apparent reason apart from a desire not to embarrass the union because of his being a Negro. This man contacted Dr. James Gladstone, who called Devine and was told the man would have received a work permit except for his race. At a conference later held


on the case nobody suggested that the man was unsatisfactory in his work. He was never admitted to the union. One of the reasons assigned for his transfer by his employer was that work was slack, although at that time the employer was advertising for electricians.
After April 1, 1949, Robert T. Preston was admitted on an application dated February 28, 1948. Carmen F. Calbi, Jr., although not employed, was admitted July 28, 1950, upon an application dated May 24, 1950. The plaintiff operates as a clearing house for employment. Union electricians earn higher wages than nonunion electricians.
The plaintiff's brief states the principal issues to be: (1) Was the complaint filed with the commission on civil rights by the complainant, Mansfield T. Tilley, barred by the six-month period ofreasonably expected that the plaintiff would have acted upon the application. In view of the representations made by the plaintiff to Tilley concerning the number of applications pending ahead of his and the shortage of work, it is estopped, as concluded by the hearing tribunal, from claiming that its discriminatory act occurred prior to April 1, 1950. It is to be observed that the constitution contains no provision that an *546 application shall cease to be pending at the end of ninety days. In practice, apprentices customarily waited a year before being admitted into the union, without filing a new application. We conclude that the prosecution of the union for its discriminatory act was not barred by the statute.
Exception was taken to the admission before the hearing tribunal


Las Vegas, NV. Oct. 19, 2012- The Penn State women's golf team is heading to the 11th Annual Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown for the last tournament of the fall season. The tournament is being held at the Stallion Mountain Golf Club, which is a par-72 course that plays 6,230 yards. The tournament begins on Sunday, Oct. 21 and continues through Tuesday, Oct.23. The tee times will begin at 10:30 a.m. on the first two days of the tournament with a 10:45 a.m. shotgun start on the last day.

Juniors Ellen Ceresko (Jefferson Township, Pa.) and Christina Vosters (Bethany Beach, Del.) look to lead the Nittany Lions to their third straight tournament win. Senior Emily Ransone (Hilliard, Ohio) looks to carry her great golf played in the Mercedes Benz Tournament
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 Graham White and John Maze. Harold Ickes of the New Deal: His Private Life and Public Career (1985). Harvard University Press,

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made.'

In the video, Netzhammer also posed with the ISIS cake and showed off his bakery receipts.

Suspect: On June 17, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, from Shelby, North Carolina, allegedly shot dead nine people at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof had posted photos of himself holding the Confederate flag (pictured) online in the months leading up to the killings

During the massacre at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, from Shelby, North Carolina, allegedly shot dead nine people.

These included the senior pastor and state senator, Clementa Pinckney.

Roof had visited some of the South's most notorious slave plantations and Confederate landmarks in the months leading up the killings, and had taken photos of himself holding the ConfederateNew Delhi: V K Jain, the advisor to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, has resigned citing personal reasons and family commitments, days after he was questioned by police in connection with the alleged assault on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash, sources said on Tuesday.

"Jain has resigned from the post of advisor to the Delhi chief minister citing personal reasons and family commitment," one of the sources told PTI.

He has submitted his resignation letter in the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) and sent a copy to the lieutenant governor, the source added.

He was appointed to the post in September last year, days after he had retired as the CEO of the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB). The board is chaired by Kejriwal.

Jain had not been coming to the CMO since


the incident and had gone on a week-long medical leave, the sources said.

Prakash was allegedly assaulted by AAP MLAs during a meeting at the chief minister's residence in the evening of February 19.

The Delhi Police had last week told a court that during interrogation, Jain disclosed that AAP MLAs Prakash Jarwal and Amanatullah Khan surrounded the chief secretary and saw them assaulting him at Kejriwal's residence.

However, Jain had earlier said that he did not see anything as he had gone to the washroom at the time of the incident.

The alleged assault on Prakash took place in the presence of Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia.

In solidarity with Prakash, IAS and Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Services (DCS) officers have not been attending meetings with AAP ministers, andThe Volkswagen emissions-testing scandal is deepening, with authorities in France and Italy launching investigations into the embattled German carmaker.

Italy’s competition regulator is to investigate whether VW engaged in “improper commercial practices” by promoting its vehicles as meeting emissions standards which it failed to reach without a “defeat device”.

The inquiry involves Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda diesel vehicles sold between 2009 and 2015. VW has suspended the sale of affected vehicles in Italy, and has said it will recall more than 650,000 vehicles in the country.

In France, an official from the prosecutor’s office told Reuters that an inquiry had been opened. The French magazine L’Express said this had been launched at the instigation of Pierre Serne, vice-president of the region Île-de-France responsible for transport.

It also emerged on Friday that


other car manufacturers – BMW, Chrysler, General Motors, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz – are under scrutiny from the US regulator that exposed Volkswagen’s manipulation of emissions tests.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has broadened its investigation to include at least 28 diesel-powered car models made by those companies, according to the Financial Times.

VW has admitted to the US regulator that it fitted up to 11m vehicles worldwide with software that manipulates the tests. Its chief executive, Martin Winterkorn, has stepped down and is facing a criminal investigation in Germany, along with other, unnamed, employees of the carmaker.

The EPA will initially test one used vehicle of each model and then widen the enquiry if it finds anything suspicious, a senior agency official close to the investigation told the FT.

The investigationwill include most of the diesel vehicles on American roads, such as BMW’s X3, Chrysler’s Grand Cherokee, GM’s Chevrolet Colorado, the Range Rover TDV6 and the Mercedes-Benz E250 BlueTec. Diesel engines make up a tiny proportion of the overall car market in the US, but are far more common in Europe.

BMW has rejected allegations that it cheated emissions tests.

About 2.8m Volkswagen vehicles are affected in Germany, nearly 1.2m in the UK and 482,000 in the US. The software detected when a diesel car was being tested and switched on controls to cut emissions. On the road, cars were found to be emitting up to 40 times the permitted level of nitrogen oxide.

Former UK science minister Lord Drayson has admitted that the Labour government’s support for diesel cars was


still has one eye on
the old axis foes as well. Then Spanish and Portuguese. wait a minute - isn't
this list remarkably similar to a list of the most widely spoken languages in
the world?

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Cantonese, Italian, Korean stand out as smaller languages. Hindi isn't present
despite being the fourth largest language in the world. Bengali, Punjabi,
Javanese, Wu, Malay, Telugu, and Vietnamese are all more popular than Korean,
French and Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Persian and Turkish still more popular than
Italian, Cantonese.

I believe there is a win-win here. Of course Microsoft wants a feature that
applies as much as possible to its market (which appears from the list of
languages not to include Eastern languages outside of Chinese and specifically
excludes all of India). The US government wants as much foreign intelligence
as it can get, so itThe driver of a Japanese embassy car doored a cycling philosophy professor and left her with lasting and permanent injuries, a $1-million lawsuit alleges.

In a statement of claim filed against the driver, the embassy and the State of Japan itself, University of Ottawa academic Catherine Collobert said she was cycling on Gladstone Ave. almost exactly two years ago when a black Toyota Yaris changed her life forever.

It was 10:30 a.m.

"Suddenly and without warning, the Defendant swung open the driver's door of the Defendant's Vehicle, immediately in front of Catherine," the statement of claim says.

"With no time to evade, Catherine violently slammed into the Defendant's car door, flipped over top of it, and crashed into the pavement.

Unable to rise and in severe pain, cops and paramedics tended to her


where she lay before taking her to the Civic hospital.

The statement of claim identifies Kiyohiro Saito as the driver and says the car was registered to the Embassy of Japan.

Her lawsuit alleges the crash took place because of Saito's negligence, including his alleged failure "to scan for potential dangers prior to opening his car door."

Before the crash, Collobert described herself as "an active, athletic and happy 51-year-old woman."

As an "avid cyclist," she took pride in not owning a car herself and enjoyed hiking, tennis, gardening and travel.

A host of injuries, including a number of fractures and a separated shoulder, have pushed these cherished activities beyond her capabilities, the statement of claim says.

"Despite medical intervention, she continues to experience significant ongoing pain and residual disability which are permanent inis a potentially deadly hazard for cyclists.

As the name suggests, it describes a collision that occurs when a driver opens a car door just as a cyclist comes up alongside.

The province opted to up the penalty for dooring at the beginning of the summer in a unanimously-passed bill that also brought harsher sanctions to drug-impaired motorists and distracted drivers.

The bill fixes the penalty for dooring at $300 to $1,000 and three demerit points upon conviction.

In Hintonburg the city recently painted lines on part of Wellington St. outlining the “dooring zone” and instructing cyclists to use the middle of the lane.

In 2011 an Ottawa civil servant was killed while biking along Queen St. in the downtown.

The driver of a parked car opened her door while the cyclist passed by;


Provides a wide-ranging audience of persons interested in American history – including historians, other social scientists, teachers, and students – with graphics portraying the demographic history of the United States, as shown by the decennial census of population. On September 25, 2008, Justin and Holly entered an agreed order for new paternity
testing. On October 13, 2008, they filed with the court a Genetic Test Report “where Justin
was found to have 0% probability of paternity of Halley.”
       3
      The February 5, 2009, DNA test established a 99.997% probability that Joseph
Montgomery was the father of Halley.

                                              2
child support. Justin died on July 19, 2009. At the time of his death, divorce


Of Heirship Determination, stating that “[a]n issue has now

arisen as to whether Halley Ellas Smith, a minor, is also an heir-at-law of decedent Justin

Michael Smith. Specifically, Halley Ellas Smith was born on December 29, 2000, during the

marriage of the Decedent and Holly Kyzar Smith (Petitioner), and was treated as the daughter

of Justin Michael Smith.” Holly’s act of filing the petition for reconsideration after soliciting

and obtaining authority to settle outstanding claims raises a host of other issues, as raised by

the released parties, who intervened. However, as the trial court did not address these issues,

and as its ruling was otherwise dispositive, neither shall we. We examine only the judgments

before us. The Court order under attack and presented to the trial court for reconsideration

       The changing landscape of international education

The world is changing at a fast pace, and so too should our education. In the 2016/17 John Catt’s Guide to International Schools, Nord Anglia Education CEO, Andrew Fitzmaurice, talks about the need to evolve education to suit the 21st century.

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For the start of the 2016/17 academic year, I wrote a foreword for the latest John Catt's Guide to International Schools which I thought you may find of interest. The biannual publication focuses on international, school-age education around the world.

I have written about the changing landscape of schools and our approach to ensuring we provide our students with an education fit for the 21st century.

In the foreword, I invite educators to think about whether or not they are providing students with an education


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Who Were Those New (and Old) Faces at the F1 Test in Hungary?

The second day of Formula One in-season tests in Hungary is over. Because F1 rules dictate two of the four test days for the year must be given over to non-F1 drivers, and because most teams opted to run their current race drivers at the previous test in Bahrain, many new, lesser-known drivers were present in Hungary to get behind the wheel of an F1 car for the first time in their lives.

Though many are already champions in lower racing series, people who don’t keep up with these series are unlikely to have heard of them. So who were they? The table below will give you a brief glimpse of all the drivers, where theyis a name you’ve probably heard already: he has raced five seasons in Formula 1 and was widely hailed as one of the fastest drivers on the grid, though he never quite had the car to challenge for championships. When a violent rallying crash in 2011 mangled his arm, Kubica was unable to continue competing in F1 and moved on to more rallying—that is, until he was invited to test a 2012 F1 car two months ago.

Since then, Kubica has done more and more testing with Renault—a team likely to replace Jolyon Palmer in 2018 at the very latest—and the rumors that Kubica would return to the sport have been utterly overwhelming. Many people attended the Hungary test just to see Kubica back in a modern F1 car