unleash a torrent of oil money on the slums of Venezuela through a network of social services he calls missions that provide everything from food to educational scholarships. The effort is based on handouts, not on job-creating investments. In fact, the economy is in shambles, having registered a 10 percent drop in GDP in 2003, according to the International Monetary Fund. Thousands of small-sized businesses have closed down. But as long as the oil prices permit Chávez to obtain $20 billion a year, he can fund his populism.

The last factor in his victory lies with the opposition itself. Acción Democrática and Copei, the two parties that embody the puntofijismo era, are dominant, together with other relics such as MAS, despite the presence of new, promising groups, such asPrimero Justicia. The opposition made huge mistakes, such as the attempted coup in 2002 and the oil strike in early 2003, that made Chávez the victim and blurred the fact that during his government alone, 5 million people have joined the ranks of the poor. The strike also gave Chávez the pretext to purge the state oil company of all vestiges of independent management. He then turned it into a source of funding for many radical groups in Latin America, from the piqueteros in Argentina to the MAS in Bolivia.

With the price of oil more than $40 a barrel, Chávez can count on the United Stateseager to avoid, in the middle of a presidential election, further price hikesto accommodate him. After all, he has never stopped shipping oil


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Apocalypse now? TV Guide Magazine confirms that Netflix has approached CBS about reviving cult fave Jericho — and the network, through its CBS TV Studios production arm, is considering it. The drama, which followed the residents of a small Kansas town in the wake of a nuclear attack, has been off the air since 2008.

Repeats of Jericho remain popular on Netflix's on-demand service, even four years after the show's cancellation. Insiders say Netflix execs would love to emulate the revival of Fox's Arrested Development, which is expected to return on Netflix with new episodes in 2013, seven years after the show ended its run. Like Arrested fans, Jericho's are a passionate bunch: CBS renewed the post-apocalyptic show for a second season in 2007 after viewers bombarded the network


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Story about environmental disaster from pollution

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This might, just possibly, be "The End of the Dream" by Philip Wylie. Technically it's a novel, but it's episodic enough, with environmental disasters being described as history by (as opposed to having happened to) the protagonist, that some of the incidents could be remembered as short stories.


'The Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is over.'

During a speech he delivered on the Senate floor on June 25, 1992, then-Sen. Joe Biden urged his Democratic colleagues to block until after the presidential election any potential Supreme Court nominations President George H.W. Bush might name.

At the time, there were no ongoing nominations, nor were there any vacancies on the Supreme Court bench.

Biden, who was serving as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, just wanted to be sure that the Senate was united in opposing any potential nominee, five months before Bill Clinton won the election and seven months before he was inaugurated.

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Sagas and crime fiction: A witness for the prosecution

Fired by my recent discovery that Josef Škvorecký also found affinities between Icelandic sagas and crime fiction, I dug out my copy of The Sagas of Icelanders, published in 2000 by, suitably enough, Viking.

Imagine the tingle of recognition when I read this, from the introduction:

"Saga heroes occupy a social space on the edges of society. The heroes of three of the sagas, The Saga of Grettir the Strong, Gisli Sursson's Saga and The Saga of Hord and the People of Holm, are in fact outlaws. Gunnar Hamundarson of Hlidarendi in Njal's Saga is also technically a criminal when he is killed. Most of the saga heroes are just barely on one side of the other of the


and punishment.

Lord Rama's detection sounds much like that Voltaire wrote about in "Zadig". Foreshadowings of crime fiction are everywhere.

The conflict between groups of brothers is about all I knew of the Mahabharata. Crime and families so often go together, even before American hard-boiled stories.

Interesting mention of Beowulf. When I read the scenes of fear and anticipation inside the hall of Grendel on the outside, I knew I was reading one of the world's first great horror stories. Every slasher movie owes its scenes of frightened teenagers to the great classic of Old English poetry.

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This blog is a proud winner of the 2009 Spinetingler Award for special services to the industry and its blogkeeper a proud former guest on Wisconsin Public Radio's Here on Earth. In civilian lifeCrystal Palace have opened talks with Roy Hodgson about a contract extension.

The 72-year-old is in the final year of his deal but Palace are keen to keep him beyond 2020.

Hodgson, in his 44th year in football management, has given no indication he has any plans to retire and Palace chairman Steve Parish hopes an agreement can be reached.

Former England manager Hodgson has done a fine job since replacing Frank de Boer in 2017 and Palace are sixth in the Premier League after an impressive start to the season.

Hodgson has brought a period of stability to Palace after they went through four managers in two-and-a-half years before his arrival.

Meanwhile, Palace have revealed ambitious £15million to £20m plans to redevelop their academy in a bid to become the first club


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The commercial renaissance that is changing the business landscape of Fort Dodge along Fifth Avenue South - the Corridor of Commerce - was a major reason Cellular Connect moved to this venue in November 2011, according to Jennifer Valdez, store manager.

Previously located at 3037 First Ave. S., Valdez said the Cellular Connect's new home at 3225 Fifth Ave. S. provides the enhanced visibility to potential customers that is crucial to its commercial success. She said the high traffic along this increasingly vital thoroughfare is making it easier for her six-person team to attract new business.

"We've doubled, possibly tripled our business from when we were in the strip mall," Valdez said.

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Stench was so bad police officers had to keep escaping for fresh air

Covered in lice, the brothers, aged between eight and 12, placed in care

Police car had to be deep-cleaned after taking the boys away

Heavily-pregnant mother given 51-week suspended prison sentence

They were conditions unfit for a wild animal, let alone a mother and her four young children.

Clothes, dirty belongings, rotting food and rubbish were piled everywhere and strewn across filthy rooms littered with human and dog excrement.

When police officers entered the terraced house in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, to investigate allegations of child neglect they were shocked by living conditions described as 'almost beyond belief'.

The stench inside was so bad that officers had to


keep escaping outside for fresh air.

The four brothers, aged between eight and 12, who lived in the filthy hell-hole were immediately taken into care.

When police officers entered the house they found clothes, dirty belongings, rotting food and rubbish piled everywhere. The rooms were also littered with human and dog excrement

The mother's four sons were immediately taken into care. They were infested with lice and required extensive medical and dental treatment

They were infested with lice and required extensive medical and dental treatment.

Their 35-year-old single mother later admitted four offences of neglect leading to unnecessary cruelty. She narrowly escaped jail after the judge at York Crown Court heard she was heavily pregnant with her fifth child.

The offences took place over a four-year period, beginning when the youngest boy was justfour.

The jobless mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has a shameful history of bad parenting.

For years she has lived off benefits. Her four boys are believed to have been born to four different fathers. She lists her interests as 'singing and getting drunk on nights out'.

The children were originally placed on the Child Protection Register in July 2004, but taken off eight months later when social services judged the mother was improving.

The housing association property was in good condition when the family moved in.

But by the time police visited the house in January last year it looked more like a cesspit.

Such was the attitude of the mother towards her children that family photos of the youngsters were found under piles of rubbish.

Anthony Dunne, prosecuting, said:'Rubbish was


the new baby will not be taken away from them.'

Mrs Mundy said:'In part, she blames her position on the fact that the various fathers of the children had left her on her own with no support.'

The woman was given a 51 week suspended prison sentence. She was given a two year supervision order and the judge ordered her to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.

Recorder Rodney Jameson, QC, said the conditions inside the house were 'unspeakable' and warranted jail, but she was now co-operating with the authorities and he said he didn't want to upset that work.

The four brothers living in the house, aged between eight and 12, who lived in the filthy hell-hole were immediately taken into care

He said he hoped the non-custodial sentence was justified,the Orlando and San Antonio parks to follow.

In its application submitted to the commission -- whose staff is recommending approval — SeaWorld is proposing to dismantle Shamu Stadium’s existing show set, now dominated by four LED screens and a giant depiction of a whale tail. In their place would be a new backdrop behind the show pool designed to mimic an outdoor coastal setting in the Pacific Northwest.

The new scenery will be a pastoral landscape, incorporating a rugged coastal inlet, artificial Douglas fir trees, cliffs, and waterfalls. The set will be framed by a rockwork facade fashioned from fiberglass, with no part of the backdrop higher than 30 feet.

Complementing the scenery will be a large video screen that will feature imagery of killer whales in the wild, along


tank expansion project.

Plans for the new orca encounter drew several letters of support, including some from its former critics like the Humane Society of the United States and state Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, who two years ago introduced a bill that would have outlawed captive orca breeding and prohibited SeaWorld from using orcas in its shows.

“I applaud SeaWorld’s commitment to end orca breeding and phase out their orca shows and believe that their actions demonstrate a forward-looking, humane and market-responsive approach,” Bloom wrote in a letter to the commission.

Although Bloom favored the changes made by SeaWorld, he still pursued legislation signed into law in September that will outlaw orca breeding and captivity programs. The new legislation also prohibits California parks from featuring killer whales in performances forA man lost almost 100 pounds in a year so he could wear a Christmas sweater — here's how he did it

After having to buy clothes from specialty stores, Paul Garland made it a goal to lose weight in 2017.

The 64-year-old lost almost 100 pounds in a year, and credits his success to hypnotherapy.

Garland is thrilled that his transformation allows him to wear festive holiday sweaters.

"I never thought I would be able to buy one in a normal size and it feels great," he said.

In 2016, Paul Garland was searching for the perfect Christmas sweater (or jumper, as they're called in his town of Hampshire, England). Unfortunately, the 64-year-old was unable to find one that could fit his 54-inch chest.

So Garland decided to do what most people do


as the year comes to a close: make a New Year's resolution to lose weight. Of course, most people forget their resolutions by February and fail to achieve their goals. That wasn't the case for Garland, who managed to lose seven stones — approximately 98 pounds — throughout the year. The secret to his success: hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis is not a new weight loss method. The practice can be dated back to the '80s, when one of the the first studies on hypnosis and weight loss was published. The researchers of the study found that overweight women who used a hypnosis program lost 17 pounds, compared to 0.5 pounds for women who were just told to watch what they ate.

More research and studies have since confirmed that initial theory, includingPeace Hyde, Abraham Attah, others named among 100 Most Influential Young Africans

The list which was compiled in consultation with a jury made up of young Africans based across the globe has representation from 27 African countries with a gender equity of 62 men and 38 women with the youngest being 14, considering the age limit of 40.

Selecting 10 of the most influential across 10 distinct categories, the number 100 represents the force of young people who are creating change and making sure it translates into making the lives of other people better.

On social media 87% of these young Africans are on Facebook with a combined following of 18,317,458 while 86% have 16,203,116 followers on twitter as at July 15, 2016 when the data was compiled on July 15,


The Marvel Cinematic Universe is as old as a fourth-grader and has made more than $14 billion worldwide.

It is a behemoth, the work of countless people behind and in front of the camera, based on the countless pages of comic books funded by sticky nickels and leftover allowances.

When people talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they’re not only referring to the 18 movies Marvel has produced over the past 10 years, but also the shared place where all these fictional characters exist. If a Wasp flaps its wings in one movie, its effect is felt in Marvel’s other films. With the MCU, Marvel has created a 10-year continuous filmic narrative for dozens of characters — a cinematic rarity.

Avengers: Infinity War is an inflection point in that narrative, bothhad been arrested in 2001 and admitted to battling an addiction to drugs and alcohol. In the mid-2000s, he began making his comeback in mainstream movies. While you could make an argument that his portrayal of Harry Lockhart in 2005’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang might be the best performance of his career, there’s no doubt that his portrayal of Tony Stark, first seen in 2008’s Iron Man, has been his most successful.

As a character, Iron Man did not have the same name recognition as the X-Men or Spider-Man and was nowhere close to DC Comics’ trinity of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman. But the perfect fit of Downey as Tony Stark was immediately apparent: While Spider-Man and the X-Men have been rebooted with new actors, the former multiple


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MOST ESSENTIAL – Luke Bell – Self-Titled

There is no justice in the music business. Consider a sports league where there worst teams always win, and do so because of seedy deals and backroom politics. That is music in


from a drifting Wyoming cowboy to a professional musician will be a challenge, but it’s one worth fighting, because country music needs more artists like Luke Bell who find the business and the yearning for the spotlight second nature, and less of the folks who crave the spotlight as their sole purpose. (read full review)

MOST ESSENTIAL – Brandy Clark – Big Day in a Small Town

After careful consideration of Big Day in a Small Town, it feels fair to say that this effort by Brandy Clark and producer Jay Joyce is worthy of being considered right up there with a very select few others as one of the best mainstream country music albums released in the last two or three years, and arguably trumps Clark’s previous effort thatwas also well-received, 12 Stories.

Here is the key to Big Day in a Small Town: Instead of solely looking down its nose at small town American life like Kacey Musgraves has made a career out of doing, Brandy Clark takes a perspective from behind the nose of an ordinary small town individual—still self-aware, but focused more on the everyday struggles themselves as opposed to who or what is to blame for them.

Big Day in a Small Town is not a concept record, but numerous songs run cohesively into each other, and a wise track order makes for an enhanced listening experience cover to cover. (read full review)

MOST ESSENTIAL – Justin Wells – Dawn in the Distance

Dawn in the Distance is Justin Wells getting it just about right. With


this name, because it needs it, and before it’s only remembered in reflection. (read full review)

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Ned LeDoux – Forever a Cowboy

The Forever a Cowboy EP is rough and rugged as the world that inspired it, hewn out of high timber and antler, and strapped together with rawhide. This is a Western album in every sense, and will find thirsty ears in an era when such sounds and sentiments are hard to come by.

We grow so attached to our favorite country and Western artists that when they pass on, even if it’s before we lived, we look for the closestthrowback country. (read full review)

Brent Cobb – Shine On Rainy Day

Listening to this debut record from Brent Cobb doesn’t feel like a new release, but one from an overlooked influencer of the Outlaw era whose under the radar effort went on to become a cult classic, like a record from Willis Alan Ramsey, or fellow Georgian Larry Jon Wilson that never found the commercial success it deserved in its own era, but went on to inspire high-profile peers by presenting a sound that will never tarnish over time and songs that remain relevant even today.

Produced by his cousin Dave Cobb, Shine On Rainy Day is more country than it is anything else, but the soul and folk rock influences are palpable on the tracks that roll out so


inspiration emerged, while also by expressing something truly original.

Mamma Coal has made an answer to Red Headed Stranger from a strong female point of view, and in a way that both rises to the challenge, honors the original effort, and perhaps most importantly, highlights her gifts to music as a singer and songwriter. (read full review)

BJ Barham – Rockingham

Rockingham is a travelogue though certain Southern towns in various states of disrepair and dejection in the aftermath of the implosion of the agrarian and industrial American economy. No punches are pulled, and names are named in regards to the particular towns Barham chooses to highlight, or more accurately, bemoan. Broken people and broken homes are sung about with cutting, merciless honesty, with the worst details not just uncensored, butUp is only eight songs long and includes two covers, but like most every Jackson Taylor release, including the ones of old material done anew, it is worth the effort to acquire. Unlike some of the other true Outlaw artists who can be guilty of being too stuck behind the times or that cut corners on the recording side, Jackson Taylor and the Sinners have an unique attack to their music, bred from a distinctive “chuck chuck” raking of the electric guitar strings that drives the songs and gives the music an energy that is almost unmatched in country.

These guys exude a good time. The second song on the album laments “Sad Bastard Music” and reminds folks the best way to mend a broken heart is to get


the time from aging artists with recognizable names that might be looking to fulfill a promise they made to themselves or to keep from getting bored. But one of the things about Kirchen and De Lone is they never stopped being hungry. Transatlantica is fun, energetic, diverse, and despite a handful of recognizable covers, quite original in its scope. The recording is even a little bit rough in spots as far as the tightness of the music, probably due to the fact that the album was recorded partly in Austin, and partly in London. But it has that authentic Austin country rock energy and uniqueness to it that made the Texas Capital the bell weather for originality back in the 70’s.

Transatlantica is fun and interesting to listen to,hear on some mainstream country record, except it tells the story from the opposite perspective—the more realistic perspective. It’s where libations aren’t just flowing to party hearty, but to help douse heartbreak. It’s the story of the millions of people who search for love every night in the neon-filled bars all across the country and world, and how despite some happy times, the loneliness and endless search for love can weigh heavy on the heart. Neon also delves deeply into the issues of lovers in the present, and lovers in the past.

Like many of the top names in Texas country, the Randy Rogers Band has built a legacy upon a pragmatic approach to country music, building in some rock and even pop influences to soften the sound and


allow crowds to swell. This has earned the band a mixed reputation with some ironclad country fans, and a poor one with others. But Randy Rogers promised this would be a more country effort this time, and he mostly holds to that promise in the finished product. (read full review)

Pat Reedy and the Longtime Goners – Highway Bound

Drifting from one place to another, living out the tunes he sings, writing songs and recording them when he can, and playing thrown together tours with friends that traverse the country based on an itinerary has more to do with the places he wants to see or the cool spots he wants to hit along the way, or a carpenter job he has waiting for him when he arrives instead ofstory, employing a voice that is perfect for the forlornness he sings about, and displaying surprising alacrity with his acoustic guitar. This intimate element is where John Moreland and his music thrives—live and alone, sitting on the stage in front of a microphone, bearing his soul with sheer honesty and brutality. And it’s this element that has won him so many loyal fans. (read full review)

Dwight Yoakam – Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars

Just the idea of Dwight Yoakam making a bluegrass album is like some sort of gift from the country music Gods. Before a lick of music was heard, the news of Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars was its own viral event. But this album was never going to live up to whatever expectations fans assigned to it. Swimmin’


Sade are preparing for their first Australian shows in more than 25 years this December, as they commence sold out tours of South America and Europe prior to arriving here.

The concerts continue to draw rave reviews internationally, confirming that Australian fans are in for the show of the year.

However it has become necessary to make several alterations to the Australian tour itinerary.

The scale of the touring production and staging requirements has now increased to the extent that it will not be possible to present the show in the winery venues originally announced.

Therefore the Leconfield Wines, McLaren Vale performance will move indoors to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. There is no change to the show date, which remains Saturday, December 3. Tickets for the Adelaide Entertainment Centre show will goon general sale at midday on Tuesday October 18.

The Hunter Valley show at Hope Estate will change venues, with ticket holders being offered the opportunity of moving to the Sydney Entertainment Centre on the same date, Saturday December 10. This will be Sade's second and final Sydney show. Tickets for this show will go on general sale at 9am on Monday October 24.

The Rochford Wines, Yarra Valley show is also affected, requiring the relocation of ticket holders to the previously announced Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne show on Friday December 2.

The Perth show has now sold out. With the continuing strong demand for tickets, the show will move to a larger site at the Perth Esplanade, giving an opportunity for all of Sade's Perth fans to attend the concert,


Evo announces that Super Smash Bros. Melee has officially joined its 2014 lineup! This marks the second consecutive year for the game at the tournament. In 2013, Mango beat out Wobbles and 700 other competitors in the largest Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament in history.

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McGowan is a decent sized defender who has to remain healthy to have a chance to make the final roster. The


4 Wounded In Shooting At Toronto Raptors Victory Celebration

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Four people were wounded in Toronto when gunfire broke out at a rally to honor the newly minted NBA champion Raptors.

The shootings, which occurred midafternoon, sparked a stampede from Nathan Philips Square, near City Hall, where tens of thousands of fans had gathered to celebrate the hometown professional basketball team.

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Earlier, well over a million people attended a celebratory parade.

None of the injuries, including those sustained during the stampede, were life-threatening, according to police, who quickly apprehended three suspects in connection with the shootings.

"We do have people arrested with firearms, and that's the start of the investigation," Toronto Police Chief MarkSaunders told reporters. He appealed to witnesses to help police with the investigation.

Police spokeswoman Allison Sparkes declined to say whether authorities thought the shooting was targeted or terrorism-related, according to The Associated Press.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Toronto Mayor John Tory, NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard and other players were onstage at the time of the shooting.

As the shots rang out, sportscaster Matt Devlin, the host of the rally, interrupted a speech by one of the team owners to alert the crowd to an emergency, according to AP.

"I want to make sure everyone stays calm," Devlin said. "This is serious. Everyone stay calm ... There is an emergency being dealt with."

Andrew Singh, 29, said he witnessed the shooting.

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Opportunities for homeownership are plentiful, with new subdivisions such as Creekwood, Chisholm Ridge, Liberty Crossing, Innsbrook Place, Cheyenne Ridge, Trailwood, and Alexandra Meadows. There is a wealth of homes available in the $100s to $300s, as well as some higher-end custom homes in the $400s to $1 million-plus range. According to the 2000 census, the median household income was $55,549 and the median home value was $85,000.

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We are submitting this application to continue and expand the work done in the last funding cycle. During this time, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine/Argentina Fogarty Program focused on network development to optimize the training of Argentine scientists and the impact of their work. During the last cycle, we added 9 new collaborators, shifted principal training sites to Argentina, expanded our use of distance learning technology, supported the training of 57 Argentine researchers, (9 for advanced degrees), and the establishment of 4 HIV testing programs in various hospitals in Buenos Aires and other provinces, 27 trainees had posters or presentations accepted at major international and national conferences and 19 articles were published in peer reviewed journals, 5 trainees received grants from the Global AIDS Fund, and overprogram will continue to be MSSM, SUNY - Albany, the AIDS Institute of the NYS DOH, the National Development and Research Institutes, with particular emphasis on the Hospital Garrahan, Fundacion Huesped, Hospital Fernandez, Helios Salud, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Hospital Paroissien, and our new Argentine partners: Hospital de Ninos, MPH Program at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Hospital Alvarez, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Institute de Efectividad Cientifica y Sanitaria, Malbran Institute, NEXO Asociacion Civil, Centra Nacional de Referenda para el SIDA and Intercambios.


Passengers wait for their delayed and cancelled flights at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 as the flights to and from Heathrow Airport have been affected by snow in London Seasonal weather, London

A snowstorm grounded thousands of flights in some of Europe's busiest airports on Monday, stranding thousands of passengers.

Schiphol Amsterdam Airport said a third of flights have been canceled on Monday while Brussels Airport warned of numerous cancellations.

On Sunday, a total of 2,542 flights were canceled to and from France, the U.K., Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and an additional 1,034 flights to and from airports in those countries were canceled on Monday, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking platform.

The cancellations began after a snowstorm hit London. Delays and cancellations spilled into Monday. British Airways said it had reduced itsMonday schedule. The airline's hub is London's Heathrow Airport, Europe's busiest. The carrier blamed the backup on low temperatures, requiring it to de-ice "every individual aircraft before it departs."

The delays continued because airline crews were not in place in the wake of the delays, according to a travel notice on Heathrow's website.

British Airways and Heathrow asked passengers to check the status of their flights and not to come to the airport if their flights are canceled, in an effort to avoid overcrowding.

The airline did not immediately return a request for comment on how many flights were canceled or diverted to other airports.

It was unclear how much the fallout of the storm will cost British Airways and other airlines. On Twitter, BA told some passengers it would provide hotel


the bedrooms so that they could not hang above his son and perhaps fall upon him.

# 1.35

SARDIS

Adrastos arrives as a suppliant to the court of Croesus.

Just when his son was becoming occupied with his marriage, there arrived in Sardis a man caught up in bad luck, with blood guilt on his hands. He was a Phrygian of royal birth and came to Croesus' household in accordance with the local custom; he needed to obtain ritual purification because of his crime. And so Croesus performed this service for him. 2] The Lydian method of purification is similar to that of the Hellenes.[a After Croesus had performed the customary rites, he asked who he was and where he was from in these words: 3] "Now, you, who are you? Andon each side;a they were to complete the work in one day. [2] After the Persians had carried out this task, he ordered them to return there on the next day, bathed and refreshed. In the interval, Cyrus gathered together all of his father's flocks of goats and sheep and his herds of cattle. He sacrificed them and prepared to receive the army of Persians as his guests, setting out wine and food in addition for the most pleasant feast possible. [3] The next day when the Persians arrived, he provided a feast for them as they reclined in a meadow. After the meal, Cyrus asked them whether they preferred what they had the day before or what they had today. [4] They said that there was a


Phocaean sea voyages.

His initial attack was against the Ionian city of Phocaea.a Now the Phocaeans were the first of the Hellenes to make long sea voyages; they are the ones who opened up the Adriatic,b Tyrrhenia,c Iberia,d and Tartes-sose to the Hellenes. [2] They did not sail in round-sided ships,a but in penteconters. When they went to Tartessos, they made friends with the king of the Tartessians, whose name was Arganthonios. He ruled as tyrantb of Tartessos for 80 years, and lived for all of 120 years. [3] The Phocaeans became such good friends with this man that he urged them to leave Ionia behind and settle wherever they wished in his country; then, when he could not persuade them to do that, and learning that the growingc. 3000.

As to all matters concerning the human world, they were in agreement. They said that the Egyptians were the first of all peoples to discover the year, by dividing up the seasons into twelve parts to total one year, and that they discovered how to do this from the stars. The Egyptians seem to me to be much wiser than the Hellenes in the way they regulate the timing of the seasons. While the Hellenes attempt to preserve the timing of the seasons by inserting an intercalary month every other year, the Egyptians divide the year into twelve months of thirty days each and add just five days each year beyond that number, and thus their seasons do return at the same periods in the cycle from


honors that the inhabitants of Delos give to these maidens.

MAP 4.33.

# 4.35

DELOS

The Delian myth of Arge and Opis, the early Hyperborean maidens.

But the same Delians say that even before the time of Hyperoche and Laodike, other Hyperborean maidens, Arge and Opis, had traveled down through the same peoples and arrived at Delos. 2] They had come to pay Eileithuia what they had vowed in return for an easy delivery in childbirth.[a Arge and Opis, they say, arrived together with the gods themselves and were granted various honors by the Delians. 3] The women collect donations for them and sing their names in the hymn that Olen of Lycia[a composed for them. And the Delians have taught the islanders and Ionians to sing the hymn naming Opis and Argein any part of Scythia because of the intense cold. And so when these animals let out their clamorous braying, they would throw the Scythian horses into confusion and disorder;[a [3] and often when the Scythians would be in the middle of an assault against the Persians, their horses would become agitated and turn about, pricking up their ears in astonishment when they heard the sound of the donkeys, since they had never heard such sounds nor seen such sights before. This had at least some effect on the outcome of the campaign.

# 4.130 513

SCYTHIA

The Scythians try to lure the Persians into staying longer.

However, when the Scythians observed that the Persians had become flustered and disconcerted, they developed a plan to induce them to remain longer in Scythia


he had returned to Athens he reported the disaster, and when the wives of the men who had served with him against Aegina heard of it, they became outraged that of all the men, he alone had come back safely. They took hold of him on all sides and, as they all asked him where their own husbands were, they stabbed him with the pins of their cloaks; [3] and so that is how he, too, died.a To the Athenians, what the women had done seemed an even more terrible disaster than the loss of the army. They could find no other penalty to impose upon the women except to make them change their style of dress to the Ionian fashion. Prior to this, the Athenian women had"Sire, I am ready and willing to do both or either, or anything else you order me to do, but allow me to tell you what I think would serve you better. [4] I say that a king and general ought to confront a king and general, since if you bring a general down, it will be a great achievement for you, and second, should he bring you down—perish the thought— then to die in this way would be only half a misfortune, for you would die thus at the hands of a worthy man. But we who serve under you ought to challenge other underlings and the horse. Do not fear that horse's skills, for I will take it upon myself to ensure that it will never


driven away from his own city by force, and one of the Milesians even wounded him in the thigh. After that repulse, he went back to Chios, but because he could not persuade the Chians to give him ships, he crossed over from Chios to Mytilenea on Lesbos, where he succeeded in convincing the people of Lesbos to do so. [3] After he manned eight triremes, he took them to Byzantium,a where they lay in wait and seized the ships that were sailing out of the Pontus,b except for those whose crews asserted that they were willing to follow the commands of Histiaios.

# 6.6

494

MILETUS

The Persians concentrate their army and fleet against Miletus.

While Histiaios and the Mytilenians were doing this, a large navy and army were expected to beride with their various national units except for the Arabians, who were assigned to bring up the rear, since none of the horses could endure the presence of the camels; so they were posted last in order to avoid frightening the horses.a

# 7.88

480

XERXES CAVALRY

Cavalry commanders are named. How Pharnuches lost his command.

The commanders of the cavalry were Harmamithres and Tithaios, both sons of Datis.a The third cavalry commander who had been appointed to serve with them jointly was Pharnuches, but he had become ill and was left behind in Sardis.b A dreadful accident had happened to him just as the army was setting out from Sardis: as he was riding out, a dog ran beneath his horse's feet, and the horse, who had not seen it coming, panicked


[3] In saying this, Xerxes was referring to the sons of Aleuas.[a They were the Thessalians who had been the first of the Hellenes to surrender themselves to the King, and he assumed that they were thereby declaring friendship with him on behalf of their entire nation. After saying this and viewing the site, Xerxes sailed back to Therme.

MAP 7.128

FIGURE 7.129. THE CANYON OF THE PENEIOS RIVER, THESSALY, ALSO KNOWN AS THE VALE OF TEMPI.

# 7.131

480

PIERIA

The army clears a road to Perraibia.

He lingered at Pieriaa while one-third of the army cleared the Macedonian mountain so that the entire army could pass through there to reach the Per-raibians.b And now the heralds who had been sent off to Hellas to ask for earth and water arrived,c some empty-handed, othersposted, and they were followed by 400 Chalcidians,c and next to them, 500 Ambraciots.d Next came 800 Leucadianse and Anactorians,f then 200 Paleesg from Cephallania. [6] Posted after them were 500 Aeginetans,a and next to them stood 3,000 Megarians,b followed by 600 Plataeans.c Finally, leading the ranks were the Athenians, 8,000 of them holding the left wing, and their commander was Aristeides son of Lysimachos.

MAP 9.27

# 9.29

479

PLATAEA

Herodotus lists the total number of hoplites and lightly armed men in the Greek army.

All these (except for the seven helots posted with each Spartan) were hoplites, and added together their number was 38,700.a That is the number of hoplites that had gathered to oppose the barbarians. The numbers of lightly armed troops were as follows: posted with the Spartans were 35,000,


into the ground as an outer palisade around it. They were ready to stand a siege or win a victory, and had considered both possibilities in their preparations.

When the Hellenes found out that the barbarians had gone to the mainland, they were angry that the enemy had managed to escape, and were at a loss as to whether they should return home or sail on toward the Hellespont.a Finally they decided to do neither, but to sail instead to the mainland; [2] and so they prepared boarding gangways and everything else they would need to fight a battle at sea, and then set sail for Mycale. When they drew near to the enemy's camp, no one appeared to sail out against them, and they saw both that thefifty boys competed at the festival of Dionysos. The tribes played a critical role in developing a community consciousness that transcended particular regions in Attica.

A.6a For more information on these important Athenian families, see Appendix L, Aristocratic Families in Herodotus.

§8. Kleisthenes also passed the famous ostracism law. Once a year, the Athenians voted on whether or not to conduct an ostracism. If the vote was in the affirmative, they reassembled about two months later for the voting. Each citizen scratched a man's name on a broken piece of pottery _(ostmkon)._ These ballots were counted and, provided that at least 6,000 people voted, the man with the most votes was exiled from Attica for ten years, after which he was free to return and would be restored to the


"measures," pp. 942-943, and "weights,"

information on additional units, see Colin Kraay, pp. 1620-1621.

§11. For calculating large sums of money, Greeks used units of accounting called minas and talents that, strictly speaking, designated weights. For our purposes, these units are most easily understood as numbers of drachmas. A mina was a unit of 100 drachmas, which on the Attic standard would amount to about 15 ounces (approxi- mately 430 grams). A talent was a unit of 6,000 drachmas or 60 minas, which on the Attic standard would amount to about 57 pounds (a bit less than 26 kilograms). As with all standards in antiquity, local variations in the weights of these accounting units could be significant. Herodotus specifically mentions the Babylonian and Euboeana talents (3.89), reporting that the formerLate afternoon view of the main road eastwards from the provincial capital Adıyaman as it reaches the Euphrates. In 1990 the waters of the river are backing up behind the Atatürk Dam, the bridge at the crossing being submerged. In the distance the ancient mound (höyük ) at Tille survives - for now. ... A large part of this area has now been flooded.Today the main road goes north from Kahta, then east via Narince to a new road bridge, the Nissibi Köprüsü, which crosses the river at Keferge.


Montréal (Québec) – Montreal driver Kuno Wittmer will return to competition next year as a BMW Team RLL driver in the GT Le Mans class of IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the North American Endurance series. Kuno will be at the wheel of the new BMW M6 GTLM that the German manufacturer will launch into competition at the start of 2016. After becoming GTLM champion in 2014, this year Kuno Wittmer competed in Endurance’s GTD class, notably winning the 24 Hours of Daytona in a Viper.

For Kuno Wittmer, this return to Endurance’s GT Le Mans category next year is important but becoming a BMW of North America official driver is the biggest step in the 33 year old French-Canadian’s driving career. « This is incredible for me ! Since2010 and my start in Endurance, I was trying to progress my career as a professional driver. But when a program like that of BMW North America comes along, it crosses to a whole new level » mentioned Kuno.

BMW M6 GTLM

In a BMW M6 GTLM entered by BMW Team RLL, Kuno Wittmer’s first race will be the 24 Hours of Daytona at the end of January. He will follow that up with the 12 Hours of Sebring in March and conclude his season at the Petit Le Mans, a 10 hour race on the Road Atlanta circuit in October. « I will take part in these three big races, which count towards the Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup and I will participate in the development of the


age of 16, he became Rookie of the Year in the Canadian F1600 championship. From 2000 to 2008, the Montrealer competed in Formula Atlantic as well as various other series in sport and touring cars.

After having won multiple victories in the Touring and GT classes of the SCCA World Challenge series, in 2010 he added the North American Endurance championship with the SRT Motorsports team. At the wheel of a Dodge Viper SRT, he took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2013 and won the 2014 GT Le Mans championship in the IMSA United SportsCar series. He is the only Quebec driver to have won this title. In 2015, he won the 24 Hours of Daytona’s GTD class in a Viper, before completing the seasonMOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama and Troy University athletic departments announced on Monday that the Alabama Department of Transportation's "Drive Safe Alabama" campaign will be the presenting sponsor for the annual "Battle For The Belt."The Student Government Associations for the two schools worked together to create the "Belt" in 2015 to be awarded to the winner of the annual Sun Belt Conference football game between the Jaguars and Trojans. Since its inception, the road team has claimed the prize each time after Troy earned a 38-17 victory in Mobile last October."The Battle for the Belt sponsorship provides ALDOT a unique opportunity to reach a large part of Alabama's population with the 'Drive Safe Alabama' campaign," said Allison Green, Alabama Department of Transportation Communication Specialist and


In 2018, the City of Huntsville entered into an agreement with Sound Diplomacy, an internationally recognized consulting group, to conduct an extensive music audit to assess the strengths and opportunities of Huntsville’s music economy. In August 2019, the results of the audit, which include specific recommendations for the City to enhance this aspect of its economy, were presented to the Huntsville City Council.

The inaugural nine-member Music Board of the City of Huntsville was appointed by Mayor Tommy Battle at the January 23, 2020, City Council meeting. Learn more about the Music Board of the City of Huntsville and its members.

Read the executive summary

Read the full report

Watch the public presentation – August 23, 2019

View the presentation to Huntsville City Council – August 22, 2019

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Why did the CityUrban and Long Range Planning, at Music@HuntsvilleAL.gov. Board Members will have experience in music, be it teaching, performing, producing, promoting, managing, etc. In the early phases, the City is committing matching staff time to assist with the establishment and function of the Board. The City is also making an active investment in venues and encouraging investments in new private venues that will support the mission (Music Hall, Amphitheatre, etc.).

The Music Audit recommends creating the position of Music Officer to oversee this strategic development. What will that role be charged with? Longer-term, the Music Officer position would be sourced through the City and potentially with industry partners, and their role would be as a resource for people working in the Huntsville music scene. They might help link artists with


venues or management, introduce new artists to connections within the community or coordinate the planning of major music events. The Music Officer(s) would also assist in the marketing and recruitment of additional music-related jobs to further enhance the overall music industry within Huntsville.

The audit has an extensive list of recommendations. How will the City determine which items it tackles first? Creating the Music Board gives the City of Huntsville a good sounding board as implementation proceeds. Programming public spaces is a way to increase the exposure of Huntsville’s music scene. In developing the list of priorities, it comes down to what is realistic in the short-term, but also what sets the City up for success in the long-term.

Is it still the intention of the City of Huntsville tothe fact to be filed before the mayor, who shall certify the same to the city council of said city. The said city council may, by ordinance, receive them as part of said city; from thenceforth the territory so received shall be a part of said city; and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of other citizens, and bound by the acts and ordinances made in conformity thereto and passed in pursuance of this title."[2]
In 1963 Art. 970a was enacted but Art. 974 was neither expressly repealed nor amended. Portions of Art. 970a follow:
"Section 1. This Act is known and may be cited as the `Municipal Annexation Act'.
"Section 2. For the purposes of this Article, the following words shall have the meanings


ascribed to them:
"A. `City' or `Cities' means any incorporated city, town or village in the State of Texas.
"* * *
"Sec. 3. A. In order to promote and protect the general health, safety, and welfare of persons residing within and adjacent to the cities of this State, the Legislature of the State of Texas declares it to be the policy of the State of Texas that the unincorporated area, not a part of any other city, which is contiguous to the corporate limits of any city, to the extent described herein, shall comprise and be known as the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the various population classes of cities in the State and shall be as follows:
"(1) The extraterritorial jurisdiction of any city having a population of less than five thousandArt. XI, Sec. 5, Texas Constitution, a city must have a population of more than five thousand inhabitants in order to be eligible to become a "home rule" city.
Although we interpret Art. 970a as being applicable to both "general law" and "home rule" cities, we do not interpret Art. 970a as granting to "general law" cities the power of annexation without the consent required by Art. 974. Nowhere in Art. 970a is there a grant of any such new power. Both "home rule" and "general law" cities must derive their power of annexation from authorities other than Art. 970a; in other words, Art. 970a did not change "home rule" and "general law" cities' powers of annexation as such powers existed prior to the enactment of Art. 970a in


his long history of trying to commingle own social justice principles with the American education system.

While Ayers received a stipend for his appearance at MSUM, the taxpayer-funded school refused to disclose how much it was.

Ayers, the son of a former CEO of Commonwealth Edison, was a co-founder of the Weather Underground, a communist revolutionary group.

He was involved in Chicago’s “Days of Rage” riot in 1969 and fled prosecution after an accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970 killed three Weather Underground members who were preparing a bomb that prematurely detonated.

In a 2001 book, he admitted that he participated in bombings of the New York City Police Department headquarters, the U.S. Capitol Building and the Pentagon in the early 1970s. (RELATED: Inside TheDC’s dinner with former Weather Underground terrorists)

Afterhis days as a federal fugitive ended (because charges were dropped due to illegal FBI snooping), Ayers earned a Ph.D. He eventually became a faculty member in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ayers also achieved notoriety as a “family friend” to a youngish politician named Barack Obama. Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn still live in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, where Obama formerly resided.

In 2010, the year he retired, Ayers was famously and unanimously denied emeritus status after a passionate speech by the University of Illinois system’s board chair Christopher G. Kennedy, who is the son of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy.

Christopher Kennedy urged the board to vote against Ayers because Ayers had dedicated his 1974 book “Prairie Fire” to a list of


have sexual relations with her.
The thrust of appellant's defense was that he has been so feebleminded all of his life that he was unable to distinguish between right and wrong, was legally insane and not responsible for the alleged attack.
This brings us to the question of whether the State met its burden of proof to show that the defendant had the ability, at the time he committed the act, to realize *757 and appreciate the nature and quality thereof  had the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
The witness introduced by the defendant for the purpose of raising the question of appellant's sanity showed as follows: His mother, Lillie Bell Warren, testified that appellant was twenty-one years of age at the time of the alleged incident, was oneof six children, that when he was about a year old he began to have spasms or fits and would lie stiff in bed, roll his eyes back and foam at the mouth. These spasms or fits occurred about every month, and, as a consequence, appellant was unable to complete the first grade. That he was taken to several doctors and a major tranquilizer was prescribed for these spasms. That she and her husband had to take care of appellant throughout the years because he had the mind of a child and did not know the difference between right and wrong. However, she testified that appellant was able to dress himself, do part-time work, drive a tractor and go to church, but that he was usually under her's


or her husband's supervision. That on one occasion he walked in the middle of the road and would not get out of the way of cars, and he did not have an understanding of how to buy clothes; therefore, his father had to buy them for him. She testified also that in her opinion he was insane. Appellant's father, Johnny Warren, substantially confirmed the statements of Mrs. Warren but added that appellant worked occasionally as a tractor driver and for approximately seven months he worked in Florida pouring concrete for a brickmason.
Randolph Stafford, pastor of the church which the Warrens attended, stated that he had majored in behavioral science at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, and had taken graduate courses in education of the mentally retarded at theUniversity of Southern Mississippi and that on several occasions he had contact with appellant before he was arrested and had seen him fifteen or twenty times since then. Stafford stated that the appellant exhibited similar characteristics of children he had seen at the school for the mentally retarded in Ellisville, Mississippi, and further that he did not think appellant understood the nature of the situation he was involved in.
The next witness for the defendant was Dr. James E. Stary, chief psychologist at Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield, who testified that he supervised the administering of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) I.Q. test on defendant between December 20, 1971 and January 27, 1972, at the request of Dr. A.G. Anderson, psychiatrist in charge of the forensic unit at


court. After detailing the method of examination, he testified that he was unable to find any evidence of psychotic thinking or behavior in appellant and that in his opinion that he was sane at that time. He further testified that appellant was given a diagnosis of mild, mental retardation. In answer to further questions, he testified, without objection, that in his opinion the appellant knew, at the time of the examination, the difference between right and wrong and that he was fully capable of assisting his attorney in his defense. Dr. Anderson testified further that in addition to examining appellant at the hospital that he had examined him the day prior to the trial and that "... he (appellant) was in clear contact, he was aware of hissurroundings, he was well aware of the charge that was being held against him at this time, and he was well aware that he was just about or just getting ready to go on trial, and it was my opinion at that time that I could see no evidence of any psychotic thinking. He did, however, as I say, still show the evidence, of course, that he was functioning in the mildly retarded range."
The jury also had before it the detailed testimony of the victim who testified that appellant had come to her back door twice the day before the incident asking for a drink of water, which she gave him. She also testified that after she had struggled with appellant and had cut her hand on the


type work he was doing, he was more than satisfactory, I thought.
He was later asked:
Q. Will you tell us what the field was like? ...
A. Well, the field was a rectangular field that ran north and south, and the south end of this particular field was joining the Parker residence. It was approximately about a three foot ditch, I guess, between them, in depth, and the field was approximately, I would say, about three thousand feet long, running north and south, and approximately about fifteen hundred feet wide.
Q. All right, and what was the nature of the instructions, if any, that you had given Mr. Warren on this occasion?
A. Well, when I started him to disking down there, I told him to disk it on an angle, andJanuary 2019. Use the table below to work out your age group for 2019. Goalkick players need to be a minimum of 4 years old at 1 January 2019.

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minister also slammed the protests as undemocratic, and dismissed them as being organized by extremists.

In their list of demands issued to Erdogan, activists are calling for the firing of the chiefs responsible for the violent police crackdown, the release of protesters detained by police, and for a ban on the use of teargas. If these demands are fulfilled, protesters said they would end the riots.

The period of time after Erdogan returns Thursday from his three-day tour of North Africa is vital for Turkey, as public pressure may force the prime minister to reverse several of his own policies.

So far, Erdogan has only singled out scapegoats in the unrest, RT’s Irina Galushko reported from Istanbul.

He assailed the social networks used by demonstrators to organize protests and post updates; manydemonstrators turned to Twitter and Facebook as a mobilization tool, as local media were largely silent during the initial stages of the protests.

However, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, who is formally in charge while Erdogan is abroad, apologized on Tuesday for the police brutality against demonstrators. Turkish police have been roundly criticized for their widespread use of teargas and water cannons to disperse crowds of protesters.

Prime minister of a protesting nation

Erdogan has been described as a man who rarely bows to opposition, and cannot handle criticism.

“He completely dislikes opposition to his ideas. He takes it as a personal offense. He's used to having agreement from the country after having gained 50 percent of the votes. This time he didn't assume the protest would be so big”, columnist and


lost touched with reality, and is inflexible and unwilling to compromise.

Erdogan has alleged that hundreds of foreign agents are working to create unrest in the country. He maintains that these agents instigated the protests and are continuing to lurk among the crowds, encouraging dissent and turmoil.

Authorities have arrested some 15 foreign nationals across the country in connection with the protests, Today's Zamaan newspaper quoted an unnamed governmental source as saying. Many were reportedly Iranian nationals, a country on Erdogan's blacklist.

Despite the widespread protests, Erdogan remains a popular politician. He is known for his assertive leadership style, and his AK Party holds around two-thirds of the seats in parliament. But a key question remains: How will he handle the protests that are continuing to rock Turkey?

Erdogan is famous forextend President Obama’s “open border” polices and attempts to delay deportation through executive action.

“She will only meet with the donors and the special interests and the open border advocates,” Trump said. “Her plan calls for total amnesty in the first 100 days. … Sanctuary Cities, ignoring visa overstays, closing detention centers and a virtual end to immigration enforcement in the United States.”

His comments follow a wild past few days in which the Clinton and Trump camps exchanged attacks -- with Trump again using innuendo to go after Clinton and attract free publicity.

On Wednesday, Trump declined to say definitively that President Obama was born in the United States -- roughly eight years after stoking controversy about his citizenship, then dropping the issue in 2011 when the president made public


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The article “Diagnosis of Clumsiness in Children” (page 1435) by S. Sutton Hamilton, M.D., marks the first in a new series of “Problem-Oriented Diagnosis” articles contributed by the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio. Guest editor of the series is Susan Louisa Montauk, M.D., professor of clinical family medicine.

In planning the series, Dr. Montauk attempted to identify topics that are important to family physicians but have not been extensively covered in the family practice literature. The experience was fashioned around her department's budding writers; some faculty members who had not yet done a lot of writing learned how to work their way through the process. Shea mandatory four-week family medicine clerkship.

Fifty-two residents are in training in the department; of those, 42 are participating in a three-year family medicine residency (14 residents for each year) and 10 are in a five-year medicine/psychiatry combined residency (two residents for each year). Half of the family medicine residents are involved in international health and periodically work overseas, learning about tropical medicine and medicine in third-world countries. They also participate in research on medical care in other cultures. This year a new track has been started that emphasizes care for underserved populations. Additionally, this year there are five geriatric fellows.

Dr. Montauk speaks of her departmental colleagues with enthusiasm and pride. The training guide now used by many family medicine clerkships was written by faculty in her department, then


edited by her before its publication by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. In 2001, the department's director, Jeffrey Susman, M.D., recently co-edited the Student Guide to Primary Care, a text for medical students in their first two years. One faculty member, Therese Zink, M.D., is working on a project in domestic violence under a Robert Wood Johnson grant. Another, Gregg Warshaw, M.D., is a nationally recognized and highly published geriatrician. The department also produced the medical college's current assistant dean for continuing medical education, John Kues, Ph.D., and associate dean for medical student education, Andrew Filak, M.D.

Our thanks go to Dr. Montauk and her dedicated group of educators for contributions to the “Problem-Oriented Diagnosis” series.It was the eureka moment for which detectives investigating the Claremont serial killings had waited over a decade.

In January 2009, a crucial link was made between the apparent murders of three young women after they vanished from the streets of the Claremont entertainment precinct in 1996 and 1997 and the brutal rape of a teenage girl in 1995 as she walked home from Claremont at night.

The disappearances of receptionist Sarah Spiers, 18, childcare assistant Jane Rimmer, 23, and 27-year-old lawyer Ciara Glennon had shocked Perth, even more so when the bodies of Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon were found in bushland weeks after they were last seen.

But despite unprecedented publicity and police appeals for help, there had been no arrest.

While little appeared to be happening publicly, behind the


scenes the Macro Task Force — set up specifically to investigate the case — was working diligently to find the killer.

In June 2008 then-deputy police commissioner Chris Dawson ordered a review of potential lines of inquiry, asking his team to pursue testing of the forensic evidence overseas, where more advanced techniques were being used.

Police forensic expert Sergeant George Paton, together with Laurie Webb, a senior scientist at PathWest, the state's pathology laboratory, were tasked with taking key samples that had been retrieved from Ms Glennon's body to the UK for testing.

Ciara Glennon's body was found in bushland in Perth's northern suburbs. ( ABC News )

More viable samples could be extracted from Ms Glennon's body than from Ms Rimmer's, as it had been discovered 19 days after her disappearance.for a number of years by then and had been employed to solve cold case murders and other serious crimes within Britain and elsewhere.

This included the murder of young British backpacker Peter Falconio in Barrow Creek, in the Northern Territory, in July 2001.

DNA evidence helped convict Bradley Murdoch of Peter Falconio's murder. ( AAP )

His killer, Bradley Murdoch, was arrested because his DNA was found on three crucial exhibits — the t-shirt Mr Falconio's girlfriend Joanne Lees was wearing on the night he attacked the pair, the gearstick from the couple's Kombi van and the makeshift handcuffs he used to bind her hands together.

Initially only the t-shirt had yielded traces of Murdoch's DNA, but a closer examination of samples from the gearstick and handcuffs by Jonathan Whitaker of


the UK's Forensic Science Service, using the LCN technique, found microscopic DNA samples that matched Murdoch.

Joanne Lees with her boyfriend Peter Falconio, who was murdered by Bradley Murdoch in 2001. ( AAP )

But the LCN technique has not been without controversy.

In 2007, the year before the Claremont samples were sent to the UK, use of LCN was temporarily suspended by British authorities following the Omagh bombings trial, in which Sean Hoey was acquitted of the murders of 29 people in Northern Ireland in 1998.

The judge in that trial had concluded that LCN testing — on which much of the Omagh evidence centred — was unreliable, but the suspension was lifted after an investigation found it to be a sound technique for detecting DNA.

Karrakatta rape link discovered

Four samples fromMs Glennon's fingernails were taken to the UK, along with eyelash and hair samples.

In the UK lab, a decision was made to combine two of the samples, known as AJM 40 and AJM 42, which comprised scrapings from Ms Glennon's left thumbnail and middle fingernail.

Once this combined sample was tested, a breakthrough finally came.

DNA from an unknown male was discovered on the sample by Dr Whitaker, the same DNA expert involved in the Falconio case.

Bradley Edwards does not contest that his DNA was found on samples from Ciara Glennon's fingernail scrapings. ( Supplied: Supreme Court of WA )

Details of this tiny DNA sample were entered into both the UK and Australian databases, but no match was found.

But on January 16, 2009, the eureka moment came.

Having returned from London,


Laurie Webb entered the unknown man's DNA onto the WA database — and there was a match.

The sample matched DNA extracted from intimate swabs taken from a 17-year-old girl raped in February 1995 at Karrakatta Cemetery, leading police to believe the same perpetrator was responsible for murdering Ms Glennon.

It would be close to another eight years before police were able to identify their suspect — Telstra technician Bradley Robert Edwards — through a convoluted trail of evidence from a series of crimes he committed as early as 1988.

These included the Karrakatta Cemetery rape, to which Edwards admitted just weeks before his murder trial was due to start

Edwards has admitted raping a 17-year-old girl at Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995 after abducting her as she walked home from Claremont atView User's Journal

As his blade cleared the masked mans body, Sabin leaped back and did a quick sweep of his surrounding area. Confirming there was no longer anyone else around him he eased up. The attack had come out of nowhere. Two men wearing masks had jumped from the roadside with knives in hand.

It had caught him off guard allowing one of the men to drive a knife into his arm. Fortunately the blade was refined silver. Something that wouldn't leave any lingering damage to his magical integrity.

Sabin suddenly sighed as he realized he couldn't ask the two dead men questions on who sent them. He tossed his sword into the air and magiked it away to wherever all his other weapons lay.

The sun still shone brightly but


including all minorities, are working now than ever before.

The unemployment rate is lower now than in the Clinton years in spite of record numbers of undocumented workers.

The new Brit Prime Minister is pro-Bush and pro-American, in spite of claims that the world hates us.

The new French Prime Minister is pro-Bush and pro-American, in spite of claims that the world doesn’t respect us.

The new German Prime Minister is pro-Bush and pro-American, in spite of claims that the US is the most dangerous force in the world.

Libya turned over its WMDs. Iraq is no longer filling mass graves. This is important if you really do care about other people. Afghanistan is no longer a haven for UBL. There have been no other attacks on the US since 9/11 (which wasRegional college football game days

Updated 12:45 am, Friday, September 13, 2013

Regional college football game days

Lincoln at Sacred Heart

WHEN: Saturday, 6

WHERE: Campus Field, Fairfield

RECORDS: Lincoln 1-0, Sacred Heart 2-0

SKINNY: This is the first meeting of the programs. ... Sacred Heart opened the season with victories over two Patriot League opponents, 37-21 over Marist and 26-24 over Lafayette last weekend when rookie kicker Alec Finney won it with a 42-yard field goal. Junior running back Keshaudas Spence ran for a career-high 168 yards on 18 carries against Lafayette as SHU gained 322 yards as a team. ... The Lincoln Lions defeated Cheyney 33-28 in their opener. Quarterback Douglas Cook led the way, completing 14-of-21 passes for 208 yards and three touchdowns. Wideout Akeem Jordan caught all three touchdowns and had


Playing Tricks on Dad

Jeff Anderson - Vienna, VA

My first bike was a green bike. Brand unknown. It had a removable top tube so it could be turned into a girl's bike. My dad taught me to ride it at my Elementary School play yard. I played a trick on him.. I got out of sight and pretended to have crashed into the building. He ran over to me calling my name .... but at 6 years old .... I couldn't help but laugh. He was remarkably calm given what I did.
I've ridden my bike(s) since then.....In Los Angeles, LeBron James has almost single-handedly exploded interest in Lakers games and doubled costs for their tickets.

In Cleveland, his departure may have wiped out a quarter of the Cavaliers fan base.

While Cavs owner Dan Gilbert was grateful and commemorative for his second LeBron sendoff of the last eight years, a Qualtrics study has revealed that 23 percent of fans who watched half or more of the Cavaliers' games in 2017-18 will no longer tune in now that King James has fled for the West Coast.

The anticipated drop-off isn't entirely dissimilar to James' impact on ticket prices, as secondary marketplaces like StubHub and TickPick have reported price increases and decreases of up to 80 percent when LeBron either arrives or departs. And it's unsurprising considering what happened


Flood affected people move to a safer location on a boat in Assam. (Source : PTI) Flood affected people move to a safer location on a boat in Assam. (Source : PTI)

With the recovery of four more bodies today, the death toll mounted to 36 in Assam floods that affected about 10 lakh people in 13 districts and rendered majority of them homeless.

Two more deaths were reported from Krishnai and Kukurkata areas of the worst-hit Goalpara district, while one body each was recovered from Tinsukia district and Guwahati which falls in Kamrup Metro district, officials said.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said 35 to 36 people have been reported dead so far and that the toll could be higher.

Though the rains have stopped and water was slowly ebbing, huge tracksof human habitation and crop fields were under water that reached even up to roofs of thatched- and tinned- roof houses, the officials said.

The authorities have opened 162 relief camps and shelter homes where 1.5 lakh people have taken shelter.

The National Highway in Goalpara was still under water and there was no movement of traffic there, while washing away of a wooden bridge on Aagia-Darek Road has forced the people to come to safety using a rope from one bank to the other.

The floods have caused four small children in Boko area of Kamrup Rural district to become orphans as their parents were washed away by a swollen river, the sources said.

With the cessation of rains since last evening in Guwahati, the flood waters were gradually receding from


Anil Nagar, Nabin Nagar and Zoo Road areas, the sources said.

According to the flood report by Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), around 3 lakh people were hit in Kamrup Rural district.

Essential food items and tarpaulin sheets were being provided to the relief camp inmates, the ASDMA release said.

However, people who took shelter on higher roads complained that the authorities have not provided them with food, drinking water or tarpaulin sheets.

Goalpara district was the worst-hit in the floods due to heavy rains in Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh since early this week, while torrential downpour and water running down from the adjacent Meghalaya hills caused heavy waterlogging in Guwahati, the sources said.

Several embankments have been breached and many roads damaged across the state, the ASDMA added.

The worst hitGoalpara district recorded the maximum death (16), followed by Kamrup Rural (12), Kamrup Metro (six), Dhubri and Tinsukia (both one).

The other affected districts are Dhemaji, Barpeta, Udalguri, Kokrajhar, Nalbari, Morigaon, Nagaon, Darrang and Lakhimpur.

The state government had yesterday announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs 3.5 lakh to the next of kin of those who died in the flood.

Meanwhile, Northeast Frontier Railway had cancelled eight trains yesterday and diverted seven others today due to the floods in Lower Assam and damaged track restoration work.

The railway will also operate three special trains for transporting flood-affected people and helping in restoration work, an NF Railway spokesperson said in a statement.

Rail tracks were breached at 16 places in the New Bongaigaon-Goalpara-Kamakhya section of Rangiya Division due to massive flood during the last


Sleep of primary enuretic children and controls.
To look for differences between the sleep of enuretic children and controls. In addition to standard polysomnographic features, body movement data and nocturnal micturitions were recorded. The children's homes. Twenty-one children with primary nocturnal enuresis and 6 controls of similar age. None. Sleep of the enuretic children did not diverge to a large extent from that of the controls. The only significant differences were that the enuretic children spent a slightly longer time in bed and had an increased number of sleep cycles. Although there was a trend for an increased number of short movements in enuretics, this was not statistically significant. Fifteen children experienced enuresis during the recording night. Micturition occurred during the first half of the night for most ofWest

Philadelphia supermarkets operated by Philadelphia Super Food Store, Inc. (Super Food).

Raspino, who lived with Joyce as his longtime companion, was Super Food’s Chief

Executive Officer and owned 50% of the company. Raspino’s business partner, Donald

Wargo, owned the other 50% of the business and served as Super Food’s President.

       In March 1999 Super Food filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy

Code. After a hearing in August 1999, however, the case was converted to a Chapter 7

liquidation. Approximately a week before the August 1999 bankruptcy court hearing,

Joyce instructed one of his managers, George Kerrigan, to rent two storage lockers in


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Wargo’s name and begin moving equipment that was part of Super Food’s bankruptcy

estate from the West Philadelphia stores into the storage lockers. Joyce told Kerrigan that

the equipment had to be moved for use at other locations in the event that the West

Philadelphia stores were sold. Joyce was occasionally present at the storage facility while

Kerrigan and other store employees were unloading and storing the equipment.

       Neither Joyce nor Raspino informed the bankruptcy court or trustee that the

equipment had been removed. Even worse, when asked at the August hearing if

equipment had been removed from the West Philadelphia stores, Joyce replied, “other

than perhaps someoperate Progress Plaza, a new

supermarket near Temple University. In 1998, Jefferson Bank entered a $322,000 lease-

back contract with Raspino and Wargo to purchase equipment for Progress Plaza. Joyce

hired contractor Frank Barillari to assist with the Progress Plaza project, and requested

that Barillari generate a list of equipment needed for the store. Joyce told Barillari that

the list was required by Jefferson Bank in connection with the lease-back contract.

Shortly thereafter, Jefferson Bank began issuing checks directly to Barillari.

       None of the funds from Jefferson Bank were spent on equipment for Progress

Plaza. Instead, Joyce instructed Barillari to transfer the funds to companies owned or

controlled by Raspino. Although Barillari protested that no equipment had been

purchased or installed at Progress Plaza, he complied with Joyce’s request because Joyce

had


A typically expansive Jose Mourinho says the Premier League is not doing enough to support big clubs

JOSE Mourinho refuses to accept Chelsea are favourites to win the Premier League as the Blues bid to maintain pole position against struggling Fulham on Saturday.

Mourinho's team hold a one-point advantage over second-placed Arsenal and, with third placed Manchester City in League Cup final action against Sunderland on Sunday, the Blues have an opportunity to pull clear of one of their main title rivals.

Chelsea will make the short trip across west London expecting to take all three points, given Fulham's position at the bottom of the Premier League and Chelsea's seven-game unbeaten record at Craven Cottage.

But Mourinho is adamant City, currently three points behind Chelsea, remain the leading candidates to win theMitotic processes which restore genome balance in Aspergillus nidulans.
Previous work had shown that haploid strains of Aspergillus nidulans with a duplicate chromosome segment (one in normal position, one translocated to another chromosome) were unstable at mitosis; genome balance was restored by spontaneous deletion of either duplicate segment. Diploids with an extra, translocated segment showed high instability which was confined to the excess segments; loss of one of these, usually that in translocated position, gave balanced diploid nuclei and the loss was assumed to be by deletion. This led to the proposal that high-frequency deletion was provoked by, and confined to, the excess segment. In the present work it has been shown that elimination of the translocated segment in such diploids occurs more frequently by mitotic crossing over than


        FACTS
                  On July 19, 2013, respondent was admitted to the practice
               of law in the State of Nebraska pro hac vice by order of the
               county court for Douglas County, Nebraska. Her admission
               was for appearing in the case of “State v. Anthony Garcia”
               (Garcia case), docketedthe State moved for sanctions against her. On March
31, respondent and her out-of-state cocounsel jointly renewed
their motion for admission pro hac vice due to the withdrawal
of prior local Nebraska counsel. Following an April 4 hear-
ing, the trial court issued an order nunc pro tunc finding
that respondent violated the protective order regarding the
Blanchard homicide with her public dissemination of the DNA
results in the Blanchard homicide. The trial court further found
that respondent’s statements to news media violated Neb.
Ct. R. of Prof. Cond. § 3-503.6. The trial court disqualified
respondent from continued admission to practice and partici-
pate in the Garcia case pro hac vice.
   The amended formal charges allege that by her actions,
respondent violated her oath of office as an attorney licensed to
practice law pro hac vice in the State


a home victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, keeping Arizona atop the NFC standings. The Cardinals have the toughest remaining schedule among playoff contenders, but they can clinch a postseason berth with one more win. To hold on to the division, however, the Cardinals will have to win at least two of their final three games, including home against Seattle in Week 16.

Green Bay Packers (9-3)

Current playoff standing: Second seed, NFC North champs

Games left: vs. Falcons, at Bills, at Buccaneers, vs. Lions

Outlook: The Packers lead the NFC North by a half-game entering tonight's showdown against the Falcons. They have the best quarterback in the NFL and look like the league's best team. And if they win out, they should have home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. Ifthey stumble somewhere, the Packers still will win the division if they beat the Lions at Lambeau Field in Week 17 and win at least one other game.

Philadelphia Eagles (9-4)

Current playoff standing: Third seed, NFC East champs

Games left: vs. Cowboys, at Washington, at Giants

Outlook: The Eagles have control of the NFC East by virtue of their Thanksgiving blowout of Dallas, and if they win the rematch this week, they'll be tough to top in the division. Quarterback Mark Sanchez struggled Sunday for the second time in two weeks, and it's unclear who will start when Nick Foles returns from injury. Regardless, there's a good chance that the Lions will open the playoffs on the road against the East champ if they're a wild card.

Atlanta Falcons (5-7)

Current playoff standing:


Fourth seed, NFC South champs

Games left: at Packers, vs. Steelers, at Saints, vs. Panthers

Outlook: The NFC South looks worse and worse by the week. The Saints lost their fourth straight home game Sunday, to the Panthers. Carolina is a shell of the team it was last year. And Tampa Bay might be the worst team in the NFL. The Falcons lead the division by virtue of their head-to-head win over the Saints, but the rematch is Week 16, so this division is still up for grabs.

Wild-card contenders

Seattle Seahawks (9-4)

Current playoff standing: Fifth seed, first wild card

Games left: vs. 49ers, at Cardinals, vs. Rams

Outlook: The defending Super Bowl champs won their third straight game Sunday, on the road in Philadelphia, and they're playing as well as anyone right now.Here are the first photographs for the long-awaited return of Vic Reeves's Big Night Out after more than 25 years.

The show, now titled Vic & Bob's Big Night Out to reflect Bob Mortimer's equal role in the partnership, is coming to BBC Two on December 29.

The half-hour special features many of the old favourites, as well as a reunion Matt Lucas, aka George Dawes from their subsequent show Sooting Stars. In this scene, set in a bar, he's sporting a very lively toupee:

It also sees the return of Reeve's sour-lipped nemesis, Graham Lister, in Novelty Island:

As part of that segment, Lister reaches towards some fruit though 8ft of piping:

Still in Novelty Island, Vaun Earl Norman, playing 'Rod Stewart', finds himself on the receiving end of a mechanical butt-kicker

Big


Night Out was originally broadcast by Channel 4 in 1990, based on the stage shows the pair used to perform at Goldsmiths Tavern in South London.

When the show was commissioned, BBC comedy chief Shane Allen said: ‘ With a mix of old and new characters, recorded in an intimate setting they give a modern spin on that rich tradition of English eccentricity that stretches back to the music hall, through Spike Milligan and The Pythons in creating characters that delight or baffle depending on who you are.’

These include large-foreheaded caricatures that fans have come to know:

But we're not quite sure what's going on here:

Or here, though it appears to be from the same sketch...

The new images, atken by Sophie Mutevelian for the BBC, show a remarkably uncluttered desk- given that it was festooned with horse brasses and other bric-a-brac in the Channel 4 original.

And there are also some backstage images, with Reeves, Mortimer and Lucas relaxing between takes:

Vic & Bob's Big Night Out will feature sketches shot on location – whereas the original was all studio-based – as well as songs, skits and stunts performed in front of a live audience.

This picture was taken at a photoshoot before filming started, as advance publicity.

Published: 5 Dec 2017


The Proud Boys, which has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SLPC), continued its string of appearances at Republican events in Colorado today by joining thousands of Trump backers at a rally in Colorado Springs.

“We’re here to support Donald Trump, one of the best presidents we’ve had in a long time,” a Proud Boy who identified himself only as “Nate” told the Colorado Times Recorder as he waited in line to enter the Broadmoor World Arena to see Trump.

Flashing hand signals connected to white nationalism and wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, three Proud Boys recorded themselves walking through a Bernie Sanders rally last week in Denver, calling the Democrats “communists,” according to media reports.

Proud Boys at Trump Rally

Asked if he thoughtreally fair as well

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of the leading dealers of solar cells in the country are Total Bp Solar, Photon Energy Solar, Topsun Solar and Indosolar.

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Most of the raw material required for making solar panels in India is imported. The improvement in the number of manufacturers and the reduction in the cost of solar power production have been triggered in the country by the offering of grants and subsidies by the Indian government. In addition, there has been a surge in the awareness about the ecological positives of relying upon solar energy.

The usage of solar panels means contributing to the welfare of the environment as it reduces the depletion rate of other natural resources. The solar cell price in India may be more compared to that in the UKup this dihedral, and then carefully follow the rotten band up and left about 50 feet, before turning the roof in the first available place, into a right-facing dihedral. Scramble up this with some nice finger locks, and then again continue along the ridge another 20 feet to a rappel station and belay.

Pitch 2 goes up the large, left-facing dihedral above your head. Watch for loose blocks, the climber AND the belayer. Finish at a tree at the end of the face, which leaves you on the lower ramp.

I did Slimy Spoon last spring. I also did Vertical Smile, or so I think I did. In the end, I followed two lines more or less where the topo on P.203 of Rossiter's old Boulder Climbs South book showed