of volunteers who were coordinating a project. That absolutely went into the decision to dissolve the agreement."

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In response to cases of swine influenza A(H1N1), reported in Mexico and the United States of America, the Director-General convened a meeting of the Emergency Committee to assess the situation and advise her on appropriate responses.

The establishment of the Committee, which is composed of international experts in a variety of disciplines, is in compliance with the International Health Regulations (2005).

The first meeting of the Emergency Committee was held on Saturday 25 April 2009.

After reviewing available data on the current situation, Committee members identified a number of gaps in knowledge about the clinical features, epidemiology, and virology of reported cases and the appropriate responses.

The Committee advised that answers to several specific questions were needed to facilitate its work.

The Committee nevertheless agreed that the current situation constitutes a public


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by Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY

The drop in U.S. births to their lowest level since 1920 is sounding alarms about the nation's ability to support its fast-growing elderly population.

As public concern mounts, a growing number of books, reports and columns are laying out challenges the United States will face because of this demographic upheaval: Fewer babies are being born while the wave of 78 million older Baby Boomers have only begun to retire (the oldest turn 67 this year).

What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster, a book by Jonathan Last, went on sale thismonth. A University of Southern California study out last month reported an unprecedented decline in California's child population that "will pose significant challenges for the state's future prosperity."

The recent decline, fueled largely by a deep recession and slower immigration, has pushed the U.S. fertility rate below the 2.1 "replacement level'' - the number of children women are expected to have in their lifetime if current rates continue and the number needed to keep the population stable.

The slowdown is worrisome to many because of the growing gap between working-age populations that fund social programs and the elderly who rely on them.

The imbalance between children and retirees is growing. The economic burden on a child born in 2015 will be nearly twice that of a child born in 1985, according


to the USC study.

"These are two trends going in the opposite direction," says demographer Dowell Myers, director of the Population Dynamics Research Group at the University of Southern California. "We will be increasingly dependent economically and socially on a smaller number of children."

In California, where about half of babies are born to immigrant mothers, the immigration slowdown is having a big effect, and it's not clear whether proposed changes to immigration laws will change the pattern. White House and congressional proposals would give illegal immigrants a way to become citizens but that would affect those already here.

"It's totally up in question to what extent immigration will return," says Last, senior writer for The Weekly Standard and author of the latest book on the subject. "All the energy goesand first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.

It was a “heady experience,” Justice Kagan said.

“[Justice Marshall] was not just a Supreme Court justice,” she said. “He was one of the few people to have served as a Supreme Court justice who would have been in the history books without being a Supreme Court justice. You sit there and you realize that you’re working for one of the icons of American law—a hugely influential figure in American history.”

After her clerkship, Justice Kagan worked for a few years as an associate at D.C. law firm Williams & Connolly, then taught at the University of Chicago Law School. She served as an adviser to President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1999, first as associate White House counsel and then


as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy and deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Subsequently, she became a visiting professor and, eventually, the first female dean at Harvard Law School.

In 2009, President Obama selected her as the first female solicitor general—the lawyer who argues for the federal government before the country’s highest courts. At the time, Justice Kagan had never before argued a case in an appellate court.

Her first argument was on the government’s behalf in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a landmark campaign finance case before the Supreme Court.

“I have a pretty reasonable opinion of myself—I’m not suffering in the self-esteem department,” she said, remembering the moments before she took the podium. “But my heart was pounding.”

In the end, Justice Kagan had barely finishedPolitical Philosophy and Major Theme Machiavelli Essay

Machiavelli had a true and staying love for Florence. He wanted to do Florence great and besides happen himself a occupation. as he lost his when the Medici household came into power. He dedicated his book on political scientific discipline. The Prince. to Lorenzo Medici in the hopes that Lorenzo would be impressed and offer him a occupation. However. Lorenzo ignored the book and Machiavelli. The Prince is a didactic scrutiny of political power. how to accomplish it. keep it. and spread out it. Machiavelli does non take into consideration what is morally right. or amoral. merely what is utile and useless.

The book is more like a proficient manual. and proficient manuals merely province the facts. The book defines what turns a


celebration. I sat and watched with amazement of all the families coming together to help fight this thing called ABORTION. I took a moment out and went over and sat on the grass by myself to say the rosary one last time by myself. I watched as the leader was rounding up kids to come over, stand on the side walk and blow bubbles towards the building. ((earlier a week or so ago a security guard at the FPA had said that bubbles were trespassing on private property - something so innocent as a bubble.)) The bubbles that night at the celebration floated freely innocently in the sunset towards the FPA Building. What's the saying "Out of the mouth of babes". What one breathe could make a celebrationme goosebumps. With each word it seemed as though the energy of the crowd could have moved mountains. With the final AMEN it was over.

As we all went our separate ways we all walked away with the power of prayer. Many of us helped clean up. Amazing what a crowd can do with everyone helping. The celebration was over but not the fight.

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One night a man had a dream. He dreamed He was walking along the beach with the LORD. Across the sky flashed scenes from His life. For each scene He noticed two sets of footprints in the sand. One belonging to Him and the other to the LORD.

When the last scene of His life flashed before Him, he looked back


her childhood here and this shop had lots of her books etc ,we could just see through the door. In the window was certainly different display.

This was The Golly Bill of rights , I do think it is a shame that these things of certainly my childhood are seen as such a racist thing now. The same window was in support of womens rights.

So our little tour of Corfe I think finished there , just to give you a flavour of the place. This on the day our son Graeme was sitting a panel to become a store manager for Sainsburys. He was really nervous as it was not the first time he had done it , He got to the interview a few years ago and despiteU.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has formally petitioned President Barack Obama to reduce her sentence to the six years she's already served.

The 28-year-old transgender woman was sentenced in 2013 to 35 years for releasing a trove of government and military documents to WikiLeaks. Through those leaks, the Center for Constitutional Rights has argued, she "helped bring to light the criminality of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan."

In the Nov. 10 petition, which was obtained by the New York Times, she states that she takes "full and complete responsibility" for the disclosures she made "out of concern for my country, the innocent civilians whose lives were lost as a result of war, and in support of two values that our country holds dear—transparency and public accountability."

Her experiences in solitary


confinement, both before formal charges were brought and a following a suicide attempt, "have broken me and made me feel less than human," she states.

She also describes being the target of homophobic insults during her youth and time in the Army. "I wish I had received a a fair shot at a better life," she writes.

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While the military is now allowing some treatment for her gender dysphoria, Manning is still forced to keep her hair at a male standard, which she calls "a never-ending nightmare."

"I am living through a cycle of anxiety, anger, hopelessness, loss, and depression," she writes.

She is not requesting a pardon, she adds, as she "understands that the various collateralconsequences of the court-martial conviction will stay on my record forever. The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members."

The petition application includes letters of support from Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg; former military commissions chief prosecutor Morris Davis, who resigned after being placed under command of a torture advocate; and Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional lawyer, journalist, and co-founder of The Intercept.

Ellsberg writes that Manning released the documents "for the purpose of informing the American people of serious human rights abuses, including the killing of innocent people by United States troops in Iraq." Greenwald, for his


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Wikileaks on Somalia – Public Reluctance, Private Insistence

January 6, 2012

Wikileaks cables concerning Somalia’s civil war give an insight into the political players involved in this conflict.

By Chiara Francavilla

Wikileaks cables on Somalia document important and previously undisclosed sentiments expressed by members of the international community on a range of issues. Unearthing uninhibited discussions about the 2006 Ethiopian intervention, the reputation of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the sanctions on Eritrea, and the World Food Programme’s activity in the country, these once confidential communications reveal the more private beliefs and interesting dynamics behind the statements and positions taken publicly.

The 2006 Ethiopian intervention in Somalia

In December 2006, the Ethiopian army entered Somalia to fight alongside the TFG against the Union of the Islamic Courts (UIC). At this point, the UICAfghanistan”, according to the wikileaks cables. A Swedish representative argued that the pressure for sanctions would be more effective than the sanctions themselves.

However, in December 2009, the UN imposed sanctions on Eritrea, with all the permanent members of the Security Council voting in favour, apart from China who abstained. The sanctions were justified by “findings that Eritrea had provided support to armed groups, undermining peace and reconciliation in Somalia and that it had not withdrawn its forces following clashes with Djibouti in June 2008”. It was decided that an arms embargo, travel restrictions and a freeze on the assets of political and military leaders should be put in place.

On December 5 2011, the UN re-enforced the sanction against Eritrea, accusing the country of supporting armed opposition groups, including


in the unfair labor practices prohibited by the Board's order. The case comes before this court upon a petition of the Board seeking to enforce the order referred to.
The respondent is a Delaware corporation, having its principal office and place of business in Wilmington, Delaware. This court has jurisdiction of the cause by virtue of the provisions of Section 10(e) of the Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 160(e). The respondent operates ferry services on two routes between Delaware and New Jersey. One route, as we have indicated heretofore, is between New Castle, Delaware, and Pennsville, New Jersey. The other route is between the Marine Terminal at Wilmington, Delaware, and Pennsgrove, New Jersey. In the year 1939 nearly 3,000,000 persons and more than 1,250,000 vehicles were transported *133 upon thein the Philadelphia area. The Ferry Company takes the position that it was not required to comply with the Board's Rules and Regulations (See Article II, Section 21) in respect to subpoenas which require that the applicant for a subpoena shall specify the name of the witness, and the nature of the facts to be proved. The respondent concedes that it did not comply with this rule, but contended before the Board and contends now that it was entitled to the subpoena as a matter "of right". In support of its position the Ferry Company cites the decisions of Inland Steel Company v. National Labor Relations Board, 7 Cir., 109 F. 2d 9, and North Whittier Heights Citrus Association v. National Labor Relations Board, 9 Cir., 109 F.2d


bargaining unit of which it approves only the employees on the New Castle-Pennsville line and excluded the employees on the Wilmington-Pennsgrove route, that it also excluded ticket collectors and standmen from the unit, but included bridgemen and watchmen therein. Bridgemen are employees who lower the bridge or draw, from the pier to the deck of the boat in order to accommodate the loading and unloading of passengers and freight. Standmen are employees who have charge of the soft-drink and sandwich stands on board the respondent's boats. Watchmen watch the ferry offices, collectors' booths and the wharf properties and look out for accidents. The respondent would exclude bridgemen and watchmen from the bargaining unit unless ticket collectors and standmen are included. The Board found as a fact that theBen Mutzabaugh

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Emirates airline is reducing its schedule to the United States, saying demand has dropped in the wake of a new electronics ban for carry-ons and broader attempts by the Trump administration to restrict travelers from several Muslim-majority nations.

Emirates will not cut any of its 12 U.S. destinations, but it will pare the number of flights it flies to five of those.

"This is a commercial decision in response to weakened travel demand to U.S.," Emirates said in a statement provided to USA TODAY's Today in the Sky blog. "The recent actions taken by the U.S. government relating to the issuance of entry visas, heightened security vetting, and restrictions on electronic devices in aircraft cabins, have had a direct impact on consumer interest and demand for air travel


soon as viable," the company said, adding it "is committed to our US operations and will continue to serve our 12 American gateways."

Emirates destinations in the U.S. are Boston, Chicago O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Fort Lauderdale, Houston Bush Intercontinental, Los Angeles, New York JFK, Newark Liberty, Orlando, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington Dulles.

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TODAY IN THE SKY: Emirates touches down in Orlando, shows off its Airbus A380 superjumboname, and 10 others.

“It really hurts the feelings of people of Muslim faith,” said Yasir Bhai, the treasurer for One Nation US, who helped create a separate petition late last year that now has over 700 signatures, they said.

Other revered names the group would like removed from the sidewalk include Ibrahim, Ahmad, Hassan and Ali.

Those names appear for the former President of Sudan Ibrahim Abboud, the former President of Guinea Ahmed Sékou Touré, the former king of Morocco King Hassan II and the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaguat Ali Khan.

A Downtown Alliance spokeswoman estimated it would cost taxpayers roughly $10,000 to remove each name totaling $110,000 for all 11.

The groups aren’t the first to make such a request.

In 2002, boxing legend Muhammad Ali insisted his brass star


Chinese extradition bill spurs mass protests in Hong Kong Hong Kong's chief executive Carrie Lam says she will be moving forward with her proposed amendments to a Chinese extradition law. The bill triggered mass protests throughout the city and ended in clashes with police. Isaac Stone Fish, a CBSN contributor and senior fellow at the Asia Society, joins CBSN to discuss.The report had hidden dots embedded in it. Soon after the report was published, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had detained an alleged leaker. Reality Leigh Winner, the 25-year-old NSA contractor, was accused “with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet.”

The DOJ published an affirmation document in which an FBI agent briefed on how Winner had been traced. The agent said that the scanned copy of the report, provided by The Intercept to the government to ensure its legitimacy, seemed to be folded and creased, hinting that they had been printed and then hand-carried from a secured space.

Soon there was a buzz among researchers who claimed that the tracking dots embedded in the


document led the NSA to Winner. However, the affidavit claims otherwise: an internal government check revealed that only six people had printed out the classified documents. Winner was one of the six people, and she had also communicated with the news outlet via e-mail from her work computer. There was probably no need for an analysis of the dots as suggested by several misleading news reports. However, it has again brought into limelight the long-standing privacy concerns.

The researchers after examining the dots in the top-secret document concluded that it came from a printer, model number 54, with a serial number of 29535218, and that it was produced at 6:20 a.m., on May 9, 2017, according to the printer’s internal clock. In a situation where a leaker had coveredalso told that if asked, they could tell the buyers, the printers had security features.

He said that initially when color printers were introduced, the governments were concerned the printers would be used for all kinds of forgery, especially forging money. It was then that Japan introduced printer steganography, the yellow dot technology as a security measure.

Since 1962, Fuji, has been in a joint-venture partnership with Xerox, was the first to implement the codes in printers. Fuji-Xerox has been entrusted to manufacture most of Xerox’s printing and copying devices for several decades. In the mid-1980s, the company started programming color printers to insert the dots in the middle of several counterfeiting issues in Japan.

“They put it on early, and we went along with it,” Crean said, “because the machines


was led by a project manager and project colleagues who supported the therapists and managers in the clinics. Pilot clinics were mainly identified by senior managers and to some extent unit managers. ICBT therapists were identified by unit managers at each clinic. The therapists were all certified health care practitioners with previous training and experience in CBT.

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All therapists and managers directly involved in the implementation were invited to participate in the study. All consented to participate and provided written informed consent. Seven therapists, three unit managers and two senior managers were included. Of the therapists, six were psychologists and one was a social worker. Of the managers, three were psychologists, one was a nurse and one a psychiatrist. All managers were male, and among therapists all butfor the whole staff at each clinic, to facilitate their involvement in recruiting patients. Therapists were provided with one full day of training on the programme, the technical platform and ICBT skills. Managers were trained in the technical administration. The implementation activities took place during a period of 2--6 months at each clinic, after which the therapists started their first treatments. Therapists were supervised and supported in clinical and technical issues by an experienced ICBT therapist, initially every second week, and later once per month.

The implementation process was led by a project group consisting of three psychologists, all with prior experience from ICBT. One of them, the first author, had the role of project manager.

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Semi-structured interviews were conducted to gather information about the experiences during implementation of


psychiatric health care, and employed the NASSS framework to identify determinants for its implementation related to different domains of the new technology. Most barriers concerned the adopters of the new technology, while most facilitators pertained to the technology's value proposition and the wider system. In the early implementation process, meeting a demand for treatment options with the ICBT-i programme was experienced as a key facilitator, while the low interest of ICBT-i among therapists was a key barrier. In the continued implementation process, key facilitators were the experienced benefits of ICBT-i as a treatment option for insomnia, training and support, engagement and support from managers and the wider system, and long-term organisation for maintenance of the technology. Key barriers included difficulty in recruiting patients, perceived low ability in therapistsMOAPA, Nev. — Roads often follow rivers, taking advantage of the level ground created by water. But here in the desert of south central Nevada, the road and the river grew together. Only the river does not carry water. At the edge of Interstate 15, a crackling river of electrons provides power not just to Nevada’s homes, mines and casinos, but to parts of California as well.

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the D.C. Circuit gave RIAA until June 13 to file its brief and until June 20 to file its amici. Verizon's reply is due July 3, final briefs July 11. The case is set for oral argument Sept. 16 at 9:30 a.m.
Business and consumer groups signing the joint filing include the Alliance for Public Technology, American Assn. of Law Libraries, American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union Capital Area, American Legislative Exchange Council, American Library Assn., Assn. of Research Libraries, Caprica Internet Services, Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Computer & Communications Industry Assn., Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, DigitalConsumer.org, Digital Future Coalition, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, European Internet Industry Assn., Frontier &from the wheels to the track, thereby necessitating extensive and continuous track maintenance.
High speed trains presently under development, especially those in the magnetic levitation (MAGLEV) category, are propelled by electric linear motors while magnetic levitation provides guidance and smooth suspension. These high-speed trains require very large investments in guideway construction and associated electric power systems. The electric power systems (consisting of power lines alongside the track and feeder lines from centralized power plants, a.c. frequency converters and speed control stations at intervals along the track, and the active part of the linear electric motor installed in the track) are a major portion of the total guideway cost. In contrast, the cost of the vehicles, even when incorporating sophisticated technologies such as MAGLEV, is a relatively small portion of


Low back pain and musculoskeletal symptoms among Kansas farmers.
Farming continues to rank as one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of low back pain and other musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among the farmers and to examine the factors associated with occupational back pain. Farmers in a predominately corn and soybean growing region of Kansas served as the study sample. Questionnaires were mailed out to 499 active farmers of a Farmers' Cooperative in Southeast Kansas. The self-administered questionnaire was used to determine the prevalence of self-reported symptoms of back pain and other MSDs and to determine the strength of associations between back pain and work factors. The participation rate was 57.2%. The low back was the anatomicalbecause it also converts all carbon monoxide – which is poisonous – generated in the process to carbon dioxide at the same time.”

He added that, due to ethanol being created from plants or crops, the carbon dioxide generated during the process is neutral, enabling it to be absorbed back into the environment.

The research, which took 10 years for the university and partner laboratories to complete, will be published in volume one of a new sustainable chemical reactions journal, ChemSusChem.


JAMMU: A Special Police Officer (SPO) was killed and another injured on Monday in a terrorist attack in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police official said.The incident took place at remote Tandar village of Dachan this afternoon, the official said.He said some terrorists opened fire on the two SPOs on duty, killing one of them and leaving the other critically injured.The terrorists fled the scene with two service rifles of the jawans , the official said, adding reinforcements have been rushed to the area to track down the assailants.While practicing as a chiropractor, he co-developed innovative diagnostic technologies for which he received patents. These technologies are used by many thousands of chiropractors throughout the world. He is one of the most recognized names in the arenas of chiropractic and wellness and is a highly sought after speaker for major conventions. He has been featured in the documentaries, "Doctored" and "Bought" where his passionate ideas captured the attention of the masses worldwide. He has appeared on television programs and has shared speaking platforms with Deepak Chopra, Anthony Robbins, Stephen Covey, Andrew Weil and many more. He also was selected to give testimony to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and in 2007 was inducted into the Wellness Hall of Fame.

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the use of philosophy as a practical tool for success and achievement and is emerging in the business world as the 'Philosopher-Entrepreneur'. Recently he has had 2 articles published by Forbes.com where he was interviewed by Forbes staff about his concepts in philosophy and success.Update: The date of the prisoner exchange has been postponed indefinitely, a lawyer for several of the Russians detained in Ukraine has told Russian media. The final lists of prisoners to be exchanged haven't yet been approved and could still change, he added. "Most likely, there are some forces in the office of [Ukrainian President] Volodymyr Zelenskiy who want to disrupt the exchange," the lawyer, Valentin Rybin, told the state-run TASS news agency on Aug. 28. Russia and Ukraine have agreed to exchange as many as 66 prisoners held in both countries as soon as next week, including 24 Ukrainian sailors captured off the coast of Crimea last year, media outlets have reported. Russia holds dozens of Ukrainian captives following five years of conflict in eastern Ukraine, but


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A man has been charged with drunken-driving after he crashed his vehicle near Atlantic City High School, and then left the scene with his passenger.
Officers were called to Route 40 westbound for an overturned vehicle, and found the car had left the roadway, and struck a utility pole, breaking it in half, Sgt. Kevin Fair said.
There was no one inside the vehicle, which was overturned. A search of the area found no one, Fair said.
A short time later, police received a call from AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center’s City Campus saying two people had been dropped off with injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident.
Adrian Sanchez-Jimenez, 23, of Pleasantville, was charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, after an investigation by Officer


Thursday, November 11, 2010

A little more about turpentine

Turpentine was until recently the standard solvent for oil painters That has changed in the last decade or so and most painters I know you mineral spirits, a petroleum product, as their solvent.Artists use a solvent to thin their paint and in the manufacture of mediums. It is still the preferred solvent for any medium containing damar varnish.

Turpentine is made from the exudate of various pine trees and derives its name from the terebinth tree which grows around the Mediterranean from which turpentine was originally distilled. Terebinth a relative of the pistachio is mentioned in the Old Testament, and Virgil's Aeneid. Various different pines give different qualities and varieties of turpentine. Venice turpentine, for instance is from the Western larch tree.

Therewere formerly many commercial uses for turpentine. It was made into a bewildering assortment of patent medicines such as the one pictured in the advertisement from the 19th century above. It was sold as a cure for pneumonia, diphtheria, toothache, headache, rabies and even cancer in both people and animals. It was to be applied to the skin and taken internally as well. Many cleaning products still contain turpentine today because of its solvent qualities and clean smelling pine odor. There are still patent medicines based on turpentine too. Vick's Vapo-Rub is one. Most of the industrial uses for turpentine have now been superseded with petroleum products.

Until about five years ago it was possible to buy a good quality turpentine at the paint store. Sadly, that is no


The Dome has been a doomed property ever since Harris County gave into Bud Adams's demands to destroy the heart and soul for the building so that he could put in new seats. Its fate was further sealed when Drayton McLane was allowed to let the place rot so he could use its condition to get Minute Maid Park built. The end came when it was decided to build the ugly monstrosity known as NRG Stadium to house the Houston Texans.

Think about this for a bit. Never has a legitimate plan been presented to renovate the facility. County officials have "considered" plans that would turn the place into a movie studio and into an amusement park. There were plans for it to be a hotel, a casino, anit's far better for it to die, to be destroyed and turned into green space than it is for it to continue as it is now, a rotting hulk suited for nothing. It will always be a better sports stadium than Minute Maid Park and NRG Stadium. But it's time to face the truth -- with the building of Minute Maid Park and NRG Stadium and BBVA Compass Stadium and Toyota Center, there's absolutely no use for the Dome.

Everything that's been proposed for the use of the Dome is already being done by another facility. Convention facility: Well, that's why the George R. Brown Convention Center was built. Soccer games: That's the reason for BBVA Compass. Football games: Well, there's NRG Stadium and BBVA Compass and Rice Stadium


be a staggering figure—a one followed by 100 zeros; that is

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000.

This figure is truly unimaginable, for it is billions of times greater than the number of atoms that are in the entire universe! Such a calculation makes nonsense of the claim that humans have been on earth for tens of thousands of years.

Simple, conservative arithmetic reveals clear mathematical logic for a young age of the earth. From two people, created around 6,000 years ago, and then the eight people, preserved on the Ark about 4,500 years ago, the world’s population could have grown to the extent we now see it—over 6.5 billion.

With such a population clearly possible (and probable) in just a few thousand years, we could actually ask the question, “If humans were around millions of yearsthe Match

Special mention

Game 2

"Bans: Hercules, Athena, Isis, Hun Batz

BM: Sobek, Agni, Ra, Fenrir, Cupid

ExpS: Thor, Bacchus, Anhur, Odin, Zeus "

Man of the Match

Game 3

"Bans: Athena, Agni, Odin, Sobek

BM: Ra, Thor, Neith, He Bo, Hades

ExpS: Hercules, Anhur, Bacchus, Freya, Poseidon"

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The recent patch has clearly affected picks and bans this week, with Hercules banned in almost every game this week and being instrumental when he was picked. Interestingly, Ra has also seen a renaissance, with his solo lane strength being recognized throughout the later rounds.There were three teams absent this time, with byes awarded to COGnitive EU (formerly Denial eSports EU ), SK Gaming and Bipolar Method.Unfortunately matches from the second round onwards were dogged once again with DDoS issues, with SK Gaming and COGnitive EU being


eliminated very early despite the addition of the pause functionality. Despite these issues, there have been some excellent games of Smite this week, with some glorious highs and crushing lows.The Damn Nation had a very strong field of gods this round and used them to great (if eccentric) effect, with a bruiser-specced jungling Athena teamed with a sololane Loki. DaNa also pulled off some excellent teamwork and rotations, picking off the potentially dangerous Poseidon early to give their mid Isis a strong start. Killing sprees from the Loki and Athena lead to a Goldfury at 16 minutes, spiralling into a Fire Giant and right phoenix take down at 18 minutes. Zeroskill surrendered while dead at 19 minutes while DaNa were in their minotaur room.goes to NaTa on DaNa'sjungling Athena for quirky plays and highest farm with a 7/0/10.The other matches in the preliminary rounds were not broadcast, but the advancing teams were Exposed Secrets, Random 5, TOUCH ME and FeedMeMore.SK Gaming had a thrilling start to their match, with Suntouch quite literally touching the sun as he utilized his Kraken minion to score a first blood on Epindrary's Ra, despite the God of the Sun taking refuge under the tower. TOUCH ME fought back, scoring three kills at the three minute mark. Unfortunately Ghortak was disconnected at 9 minutes, causing the game to be paused. Despite five minutes of grace being given by the tournament admins, SK Gaming were forced to forfeit as Xaliea was also disconnected during the pause.goes to Suntouch for his valiant


Poseidon and his gentlemanly conduct in stream chat afterwards.The remainder of the second round matches were not streamed, but the advancing teams were COG EU, Exposed Secrets, and Bipolar Method.The first semifinal was one full of area of effect spells, with Bipolar Method's Odin/Hades/Zeus picks setting up a very interesting match, full of death inside a wall of spears. A particularly memorable kill occurred early on, with Zeus and Odin trapping and zapping TOUCH ME's Isis to gain an early kill.Just as fascinating was the dunk duel between Youngbae's Apollo and ProxyQQ's Thor, who caused the caster Drybear to coin the phrase "dunkception". Swift responses to teamfights from both individuals showed great map awareness and earned both a good number of ganks, including one that involved ProxyQQ dunkingSpooh for his healing on Ra, Hyrrok for his perfect support ratio on Odin and to Bipolar Method for using a pause to aid in getting TOUCH ME's Epindrary back in game.COGnitive's team setup was immediately a fan favourite, with the Twitch chat loving the unusual Anubis pick. It seemed like Sprayarn was on a winning streak as he dominated ziimP's Vamana on lane, but unfortunately connection issues began to damage COG's chances of advancing, with a pause at 10 minutes as Sprayarn was DC'd. He returned 2 minutes later, only to have additional issues and leave Qvofred's Fenrir to secure an easy kill on ziimP's Vamana. At 12 minutes the game was looking very close, with both teams on roughly equal gold and kills.Further issues began to


plague COG at this point, with Qvofred and Trixtank disconnecting within a short time of each other at 13 minutes, triggering a pause which apparently caused some problems server side, kicking the remaining players from the game. Deamonmachine, the admin of the tournament, eventually ordered a rematch as there wasn't a clear victor and the match could not be resumed.The rematch required substitutions from COG, as Trixtank and Qvofred could not reconnect. Mugiwawa stepped up as the Sobek, and Enviun took up the mantle of Fenrir as the game was resumed. The difference was apparent as the early engagements went in the favour of Exposed Secrets, with early deaths from Apollo and Sobek putting COG at a disadvantage. Sprayarn disconnected once more at three minutes, causing a pauseand a few minute wait as he reconnected.ShadowNightm4re did a fantastic job roaming with Poseidon's increased movement speed and highly effective rotations to push the advantage further in Exposed Secret's favour. Apollo and his animal friends fell once again at 10 minutes, allowing Exposed Secrets to take COG's tier one mid tower, followed in quick succession by the demise of the Goldfury and the right tier one tower in the favour of ES. Sprayarn began a surrender vote at 13 minutes, which was successful shortly afterwards.: Sprayarn for his innovative Anubis play, and ShadowNightm4re for excellent Poseidon mobility and map presence.The finals were a rollercoaster of adrenaline and unbelievable plays, with the first round perhaps being one of the best spectator games of smite I have had the


privilege of witnessing. Exposed Secrets took an early advantage, with an overextended Sobek falling to Bobykopf's Thor just as the timer hit one second. Youngbae's Apollo replied to the early strength of ExpS by taking a double kill in his left lane – he had the moves, and it was beautiful!The midgame was dominated by trades, with most of the kills in ExpS's favour. By 20 minutes, ExpS had a 6,000 gold advantage and were slightly ahead on kills, with the BM's towers soon falling to the relentless onslaught of ExpS. However, BM did not give up and by 25 minutes they had eliminated the right and left towers of ExpS, sacrificing Hyrrok's Loki in exchange. ExpS fought back by destroying BM in teamfights at Goldfury and FireGiant a minute later, before taking the final tier 1 tower and two tier 2 towers. BM Youngbae's Apollo orchestrates a recovery in the form of a double kill, which leads swiftly to a third death for ExpS.Things were looking grim for BM as ExpS score a series of deaths against them, culminating in a deicide, three Fire Giant buffs and two Phoenixes falling to ExpS. However, as the Fire Giant respawned a fourth time, BM were in a stronger position, and secure the Fire Giant buff, followed by a thrilling quadrakill on ExpS! But BM's Minotaur is under attack as their newborn phoenixes fall to fire creeps. Sobek returns to defend, as the rest of BM secure the deicide, take down ExpS's mid phoenix and astonishingly take


down the minotaur for the win! The moral of this battle is clear – never surrender!goes to Lawbster for his masterful farm, map awareness/rotation and sheer damage on Agni!: MVPBadger for coming back from 10 deaths and becoming unkillable while still drawing all the aggression.Round two of the finals started with very interesting picks from Exposed Secret, with the quirky combination of Odin and Zeus appearing for the second time in this tournament. Other than the rather eccentric picks from both teams, game two began in much the same way as game one, with both teams securing kills and establishing their map presence. By 20 minutes into the game, both teams had lost a tower apiece and were vying for position at the Goldfury, who survived as thetwo teams brawled in midlane. BM won the fight and took the Goldfury's prize, rotating to take down a second enemy tower. The third ExpS tower fell in exchange for the life of BM's Cupid and Fenrir, who take down ExpS's Bacchus with them.Advancing into midgame, the advantage slowly moved to ExpS, who began using the trap and zap combination of Odin and Zeus's ultimates to great effect, eliminating key player Agni and securing Goldfury in the process. Pushing their advantage, ExpS secured Fire Giant and a second trap and zap kill on newly-respawned Agni. ExpS seem to be spiralling out of control as they pick up more tower kills and god kills, with BM's touchstone Agni being swiftly picked off by the enemy team.The game then fell


back into the usual pattern of Fire Giant attacks followed by Phoenix attacks, with ExpS pushing their advantage. This time, BM were forced to allow ExpS to take the Fire Giant as their Minotaur was attacked by two waves of Fire Minions. ExpS then rotated to destroy BM's newborn phoenix on midlane, with the trap and zap combination once again securing the area advantage and forcing BM to retreat via combat blink. The death of the Minotaur was sealed as Fire Minions once again took down the left phoenix and ExpS pushed their advantage, with the superior area of effect damage simply destroying BM's Minotaur.goes to Funball this time for daring to take two stacking items and managing to keep all his stacks throughout the game.Picks and banswere very interesting this round, with BM banning Odin and Sobek while ExpS respect banned on Agni, fearing Lawbster's teamfight changing damage. Most notable was BM's failure to ban newly-buffed Hercules, which was followed by ExpS immediately first-picking the powerful bruiser.Early game was dominated by ShadowNightm4re's ravenous Poseidon, who picked up BM's He Bo and Hades within the first two minutes. Hercules's powerful initiates and natural tankiness seemed impassable for Spooh's Ra, who also suffered from an early death. Superior team play and powerful rotations from ExpS, including a superb gank which took down BM's Thor, He Bo and Ra in one fell swoop set the tone for the final game in this tournament.Goldfury fell uncontested at 16 minutes to extend ExpS's lead, followed in quick succession by


BM's tier one towers falling and the Fire Giant being steamrollered by ExpS at 25 minutes. ExpS destroyed their enemy's tier two middle tower as well as exchanging two of their team for a deicide on BM. The two deaths were enough to prevent ExpS from pushing the minotaur, and their careful play resulted in another Goldfury and Fire Giant falling to the dominant ExpS by 31 minutes. Shortly afterwards the mid and left BM phoenixes fell, and despite valiant play from BM, their minotaur fell shortly afterwards, securing the win for ExpS.: ShadowNightm4re, for his early game domination with the legendary Kraken!*******An interesting week, with a lot of different gods being picked up, like Sprayarn's Anubis and Youngbae's Cupid. It was a shame that once again connectionIn Controversial Episode, Curious George Gets A Little Too Curious And Ends Up Watching Alex Jones Videos For 5 Days Straight

U.S.—In a controversial new episode of Curious George, the eponymous monkey gets a little too curious and ends up watching Alex Jones videos for five days straight.

In the new show, aired on PBS this past weekend, the Man with the Yellow Hat walks in to find Curious George eating bananas and binge-watching Alex Jones videos on YouTube, from conspiracy theories about where Adolf Hitler really is today to a video about a Monster Energy plot to summon the apocalypse.

"No George! Bad George!" he says as he finds the monkey watching a video about how Obama is turning bears gay with chemtrails from his private spacecraft. "You crazy monkey!


Alessia Cara, Halsey to Perform at Much Music Video Awards

DJ Marshmello and Anne-Marie are also among the first performers named for the Canadian awards show in August.

Alessia Cara, the best new artist winner at the Grammy Awards, and Halsey are among the first performers named for the Much Music Video Awards, which will take place on Aug. 26.

Cara co-hosted the 2017 MMVAs alongside Joe Jonas. DJ Marshmello and British singer Anne-Marie will also take to the stage in Toronto at the 2018 edition to sing their collaboration "Friends."

The Canadian video awards show will air on the Much, CTV and CTV channels, providing a platform for the U.S.-based iHeartRadio after it signed an exclusive pact with local broadcaster Bell Media to launch its brand in Canada.

Additional performers will beinjury-riddled Colts offense and now he's with a loaded Denver attack that is deep and versatile. On that day, a great win in November, the Eagles slowed up the offense just a bit and played keep away from Manning, and the defense varied its look, came with some pressure packages, and had cornerback Asante Samuel jump a couple of routes and make a pair of interceptions.

Who comes with the pass rush on Sunday, then? Who plays the role of ball-hawking cornerback in this instance?

At the very least, the Eagles have a taste of facing the kind of tempo and precision they will see from Manning, having practiced for two days in the summer against New England's Tom Brady. The veteran put on a clinic against the secondary with


NSW, Australia) before introducing an optical port and the power morcellator. Before insertion this bag is modified in several ways to facilitate bag opening and specimen retrieval. The dual drawstring is removed and replaced with a 150-cm length of PDS I (polydioxanone) suture material as the new drawstring, with its exit at the mouth of the bag in the 6 o'clock position. Five stay sutures are placed around the bag mouth, corresponding to the 12, 1, 5, 7, and 11 o'clock positions. This assists with opening the mouth of the bag intraabdominally and enables orientation to be maintained. The bag is then inserted in a McCartney tube (Gates Healthcare, Cheshire, UK). Corresponding slits are made in the tip of the tube to enable the end of the stayA California kayaker in scenic Monterey Bay got the scare of a lifetime when a great white shark knocked him into the water, then repeatedly attacked his boat.

Footage from the incident showed Brian Correiar swimming away from the scene as the 14-foot-long shark went after his kayak.

“Bite marks show that it had the whole girth of the boat in its mouth,” Correiar wrote in a blog post describing the encounter. “My boat is covered with bite marks from end to end with multiple punctures.”

The incident took place in March but recently went viral after footage was posted on YouTube.

Correiar wrote that he was about 100 yards from shore when the shark attacked:

“Suddenly, I heard a loud Bang as my kayak and I flew into the air. I landed


Is former Vice President Joe Biden's "electability" argument weakening?

From the beginning of his 2020 campaign, Biden has banked his nomination chances not on arguing that he's the best candidate, either in terms of policy or enthusiasm, but that he is the only one "safe" enough to run against Donald Trump in the general election. Coasting on his association with the wildly popular Barack Obama, Biden's strategy has been to appeal to skittish Democratic voters who might not themselves have much personal zeal for the former veep, but who believe he won't scare off those fragile working-class white voters in the Midwest who have become such a focus of media attention since Trump's election.

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"Maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say, 'OK, I personally like so andstart the war and that "he needed the vote to be able to get inspectors into Iraq."

Biden went on to say that after Bush began a bombing campaign against Iraq, "I came out against the war at that moment."

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That's not true. Months after the invasion started, Biden told a crowd at the Brookings Institution, "I voted with my colleagues to give the president of the United States of America the authority to use force, and I would vote that way again today." He didn't publicly come out against the war until 2005, well after the emergence of an anti-American insurgency that made it clear the conflict could continue indefinitely.

The worst part is that Biden made these remarks to NPR as part of a clean-up effort for another flatly


field advantage" in the New Hampshire primary a week later. That's a nonsensical statement, considering that Biden is from Delaware and his campaign headquarters are in Pennsylvania, hundreds of miles away. If anyone has a home-field edge in New Hampshire it would be Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who are both senators from neighboring states.

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This approach is likely a response to polling that suggests Biden's healthy lead in national polls is significantly narrower in Iowa. Biden's struggles in the Hawkeye State, where voters tend to start focusing on the candidates earlier because of its national importance, reflect an uncomfortable possibility for his campaign: The more voters actually pay attention to the race, the more interested they are in voting for someone else.

More evidence for that theory is pollingsudden arrival. The Sentinel Knight appears before them and offers to answer their questions back at base.

They head back to the Hartford mansion, which the Retro Rangers gush is a step up from their previous lairs. Bridge explains that he is from the future, and that he was once the Green Ranger, then the Blue, until SPD Commander Birdie retired to Miami, moving Doggie Cruger up to his position, which in turn moved Sky up to his job (and in the Soul of the Dragon comic, he’s gained a new identity as the Deka Ranger), leaving Bridge to take up his mantle of the Red Ranger. And, of course, he rambles through it. Surprisingly, Dax gets it.

The Sentinel Knight appears and explains that he restored Adam, Kira and


his face. The other Retro Rangers follow suit individually (Bridge gets a new sequence which is pretty much him just standing there as his suit forms), then the Overdrive team does their morph together, where their morphers project their suits in front of them, then form them on their bodies as they move through an assembly line. Once everyone’s morphed, they all pose and the background explodes. Of course.

Thrax is confused at how the Overdrive Rangers have their powers back, but Mack fires back with the classic phrase “Once a Ranger, Always a Ranger.” Thrax then orders his minions to attack, and a big blowout ensues. Adam battles Thrax one-on-one (something neither one of them acknowledges), Mack and Bridge take on Flurious to the tune of the SPDpost.

In a statement released on Saturday night (Nov 16), a police spokesman said that Aware may have misunderstood the purpose of the posters.

"The posters are designed to warn would-be offenders who are unable to exercise self discipline or control themselves," the spokesman said, adding that the visuals were designed to influence their behaviour, by telling them what punishment they will face.

The posters were produced in collaboration with the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) and Singapore Polytechnic's Media, Arts and Design School. Warnings for other crimes such as theft and dishonest misappropriation of property are also similarly depicted in other posters in the series.

Chairman of the NCPC Gerald Singham said that the council was mindful of the hurt that victims of crime, especially sexual crime, suffer from.

“It was never


(2012) in the treatment of scars, striae, age-related rhytids, photodamage, acne, and trauma. In fact, minimally invasive aesthetic body shaping is the fastest growing sector of the rapidly expanding aesthetic market. From 1997 to 2012, there was a 500 percent increase in the total number of minimally-invasive procedures including skin resurfacing and laser procedures. This growth is driven by an aging population and increased social acceptance of aesthetic procedures, as well as significant emotional and psychological sequelae as result in physical alterations.
Overall, skin rejuvenation methods aim to remove damaged tissue and stimulate new growth of healthy collagen, skin cells, and elastin fibers. Currently the most popular therapies include percutaneous collagen induction (PCI) and laser therapies. PCI has a low side effect profile, but has very limited clinical data.EXCLUSIVE: Iran has carried out a new medium range ballistic missile test in breach of two United Nations Security Council resolutions, a senior U.S. official told Fox News on Monday.

Western intelligence says the test was held Nov. 21 near Chabahar, a port city in southeast Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province near the border with Pakistan. The launch took place from a known missile test site along the Gulf of Oman.

The missile, known as a Ghadr-110, has a range of 1,800 – 2000 km, or 1200 miles, and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The missile fired in November is an improved version of the Shahab 3, and is similar to the precision guided missile tested by Iran on Oct. 10, which elicited strong condemnation from members of


"no further comment

at this time."

Iran appears to be in a race against the clock to improve the accuracy of its ballistic missile arsenal in the wake of the nuclear agreement signed in July.

One day after Tehran and six world powers signed that nuclear accord, the UN passed resolution 2231, which compels Iran to refrain from any work on ballistic missiles for 8 years. UN Security Council Resolution 1929 was passed in 2010 and bans Iran from conducting ballistic missile tests.

The Security Council is still debating how to respond to Iran's last test in October.Weston Hodkiewicz

USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin

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Sean Richardson's two interceptions during the first 1 1/2 weeks of training camp were a nice surprise for the Green Bay Packers secondary, but it likely is going to be either Micah Hyde or Ha Ha Clinton-Dix starting Sept. 4 in Seattle.

Hyde has been around the ball often in camp, but it wasn't until Wednesday that he finally landed an interception.

One play after what would have been a sack of Scott Tolzien, Hyde snagged a one-handed pick off Chase Rettig. The Packers placed a heavy emphasis on takeaways this offseason after tying for 26th in the NFL with 11 interceptions.

Richardson and veteran Jarrett Bush each have two picks in camp, but it's important for the preferable starters to begin making some noise.

"I think we've


over Casey Hayward in the right corner of the end zone, but also had two drops during other team periods. He had a drop in the middle of the field in a red-zone period from Tolzien off a slant route, which is where he might be used in four-wide sets with veteran Jarrett Boykin typically only playing on the perimeter.

Adams has a lot of potential and was incredibly productive at Fresno State, but those are the plays that separate the special receivers. Adams wasn't alone, though.

Even starter Randall Cobb had a drop Wednesday off a slant route from Aaron Rodgers. Cobb and Jordy Nelson's production allows them the luxury, but each dropped pass is crucial for the rest of the receivers group either trying to carve out playingtime or a roster spot.

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-- McCarthy waved off the last three periods, which he said were all optional fundamental drills. It was undeniably the hottest day of camp with temperatures in the low-80s and high humidity. It was a good tune-up for Nashville on Saturday when temperatures are expected to be in the high-90s.

-- After ripping a pass away from Boykin on Tuesday, Bush made it back-to-back practices with a takeaway with a red-zone interception of Tolzien. The pass was intended for receiver Alex Gillett, but a hit from undrafted linebacker Jake Doughty popped it up.

-- With Don Barclay out for the season with a torn ACL, Derek Sherrod began taking snaps at right tackle with the second-team offensive line after working mainly at left tackle.


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The songwriting duo of Burt Bacharach and Hal David created the music for the Broadway production Promises, Promises, which was an adaptation of the Billy Wilder film The Apartment. Dionne Warwick would make this tune an international hit, and Herb covered it on his You Smile–The Song Begins album from 1973. The vocal version of tune appears at the end of the production.Maryland, for Appellant. Sujit Raman, OFFICE OF THE
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to people that love classic monster movies, Bela Lugosi films, or enjoy zombie movies. I would say this movie is for people in their late teens to adults. Because younger teenagers might become bored with not as much action as you expect with the title. But good things come to those who wait, the action is just later on in the film.

Bela Lugosi followed up his star-making role in Dracula with this ambitious low-budget horror film from the Halperin brothers, who effectively transplanted the misty gothic mood of the Universal horror films to their poverty-row studio. White Zombie drips with atmosphere from the opening, as eerie chanting accompanies the credits and Madeleine (Madge Bellamy) arrives at midnight to witness a mysterious burial before coming face to face withteam are veteran international campaigners Jux Keaton Solita of UST, Lans Rawlin Donato of University of the Philippines and Joey del Rosario of De La Salle Santiago Zobel School as well as Lowenstein Julian Lazaro and John Leo Paul Salibio.

In the 2015 Japan Invitational Swimming Championship held in November, Mojdeh and Zamora led the team’s 19-gold, 10-silver, 10-bronze medal haul.

The nine-year-old Mojdeh copped five golds and one silver while the 15-year-old Zamora took home two golds, one silver and one bronze. They also bagged the Most Outstanding Swimmer awards in their respective age bands.

For his part, Dula claimed one gold and four silvers in the 2015 Singapore Invitational Swimming Championship in September and pocketed the Most Outstanding Swimmer trophy in the boys’ 8 year category.

“We are giving these


kids proper exposures. High-level ang competitions sa Japan dahil malalakas ang mga kasali. Teams from China, United States, Great Britain, Netherlands, Germany and other European countries are expected to be there so we need to be ready,” added Papa.

Prior to the competition, the eight tankers will undergo rigid training at the Diliman Preparatory School swimming pool in Quezon City to ensure that they are in tip-top condition before plunging into action.

PSL is a national sports swimming association for Universities and Colleges accredited by the Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (Fessap), internationally affiliated member of Federation of International Sports University (FISU).Marco Antonio Delgado, a prominent Texas attorney and former trustee at Carnegie Mellon University, appeared in an El Paso court on Thursday to face charges that he conspired with a Mexican drug cartel to launder more than $600 million.

The Department of Homeland Security did not name the cartel he’s accused of working with, but said that he conspired to launder the money from 2007-2008.

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His biography on Carnegie Mellon University said that Delgado was on leave and working for incoming Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, although Nieto’s aides denied any association. The school still offers a scholarship in his name.

He was arrested in El Paso on Friday, and entered a plea of not guilty the following Thursday afternoon. If convicted, he could face more than 20 years behind bars.

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Former Aberdeen, Rangers and Leeds United stalwart Davie Robertson is a long way from home. In fact, he is a long way from anywhere. He is the new manager of Real Kashmir FC, and he has left behind his wife and the millionaire lifestyle he earned from football, to live in a shared house in a city that regularly suffers violent protests and terrorist attacks.

Why? What is it about football that drives him so far to be the manager of Real Kashmir FC? For Davie it’s because few things in life can match the highs and lows of football. Real Kashmir are up-and-comers, newly promoted to a league where most of the other teams have much deeper pockets, more fans and a longer history. To beat them Daviehas driven him to the ends of the earth, and in amongst the struggle for success on the field he has to learn to live in very unfamiliar world, far from his wife Kym. Davie's used to the comforts his success in football brought him. With Kym and his two children he enjoyed living in the States - where he moved after his playing career came to an early end - but his son, Mason, is now a regular in the Real Kashmir team, living in Srinagar near his father. Together they have a chance to explore a part of the world that is both stunningly beautiful and so riven with violence that the UK's Foreign Office advises against all but essential travel to the team's home base


to be right. He has lifted his team before and gotten them promoted but can they succeed in the new league? Is Davie's masterplan for success is going to work? Has what it takes to be a manager.Allah Deh, Kharajgil

Allah Deh (, also Romanized as Allāh Deh) is a village in Kharajgil Rural District, Asalem District, Talesh County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.

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Survey of fish consumption patterns of King County (Washington) recreational anglers.
Three fish consumption surveys were conducted in King County, WA during 1997-2003. These surveys were conducted to support environmental analyses of proposed capital improvement projects planned by the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks. Personal interviews were conducted at marine, estuarine, and freshwater locations throughout King County. Over 1300 anglers participated in the survey and provided consumption information. A majority of the respondents from the surveys (30-71%) were Caucasian, while the remaining respondents comprised various ethnic groups. The mean consumption rates for consumers of marine fish, shellfish, and freshwater fish were 53, 25, and 10 g/day, respectively. Results indicate that the consumption patterns of marine anglers from King County have remained consistent since the mid-1980s. Theconsumption distribution for marine anglers suggests that some respondents may consume fish as a large portion of their diet. The consumption habits of freshwater anglers are comparable to those of other recreational anglers throughout the United States. The survey results provide distributions of marine and freshwater fish consumption suitable for risk assessments conducted for anglers residing in King County, WA.


In search of a good cheesesteak, I recently visited Duckworth's Cheesesteakery Bar and Grill, a small joint hidden in the Park Towne Village Shopping Center (near the corner of Park and Woodlawn roads). Founder Rob Duckworth has created a hearty menu filled with cheesesteaks, wings, salads, burgers and pizzas. It's quiet, family friendly and the outdoor patio (shared by some neighboring restaurants) is pleasant. There are 20 beers are tap and daily drink specials.

THE SCENE: Duckworth's won't win any interior design awards, but it's simple and it feels relaxing. To the right of the door is a small bar area, large enough for a few small groups. The rest of the restaurant is very long and narrow and dimly lit.

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THE MENU: It's bigger thanI imagined. While the restaurant may be known for its cheesesteaks (and it has more than 10 varieties), it also offers great wings and a large variety of pizzas. House favorites include the buffalo chicken Philly (chicken breast, grilled onions, buffalo wing sauce, Swiss and ranch dressing) and the Philly cheesesteak supreme (with green onions, green peppers, mushrooms and cheese).

THE CROWD: The crowd was unusually young when I visited. Young children were running up and down the restaurant, and some older teenagers were sitting a few booths away. A few older couples were enjoying dinner on the patio, which offers live music on the weekends.

WHAT THEY'RE KNOWN FOR: Cheesesteaks, of course, but also good pizza and a large beer selection. There are a few Xbox 360 video game


Polli Talu’s Cookbook wins Award in Paris

On March 6, 2012, the eve of the Paris Cookbook Fair, Marika Blossfeldt was presented with 3rd place at the prestigious GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS in the health and nutrition category for her book Essential Nourishment, Recipes from My Estonian Farm.

The certificate reads: Best Nutrition Book in the World, Third

We are celebrating in the month of April by offering you a special discount code when purchasing the book from Marika’s website: www.MarikaB.com/book – use coupon code ENJOY to receive $ 5 off.Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke referred to the oil drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as proof of divine love, as well as humor.

"Fracking is proof that God's got a good sense of humor and he loves us," Zinke told members of the National Petroleum Council, a federal advisory panel to the Interior and Energy departments.

But the statement had no context and it was unclear what Zinke was trying to say exactly.

He made the statement after saying that one-third of the 70,000 employees he oversees at the agency are "not loyal" to him or the president, and he is planning a major overhaul that is expected to speed up energy permit approvals on public lands.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who sat next to Zinke during the petroleum council


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But he will not let his admiration have free course. He deems it a duty, ..."if so, it was as much a look at the laws governing online publishing, user-generated content, and sex work in America. And those in the hot seat—Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer, Chief Operations Officer Andrew Padilla, General Counsel Elizabeth McDougall, and former owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin—refused to answer any of the subcommittee's questions with more than a nod to the 5th Amendment. Launched around 10 a.m., the portion of the hearing featuring Backpage leadership was concluded, with nothing conceded, in under an hour.

As the Backpage witnesses filed out, a swarm of reporters followed, trailing a silent Ferrer and his handlers until the third-floor door of Dirksen Building elevator closed in front of them. Lacey hung back, but mostly to say that he had said all he would


been more vocal than Ferrer about the politics involved in their persecution.

After Kamala Harris (D)—then California's Attorney General, now a freshman U.S. Senator and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations member—began prosecuting them for pimping and conspiracy, the men issued a joint letter accusing Harris of using their arrest, just weeks before the November 2016 election, as a way to generate positive publicity for her Senate campaign. "Make no mistake; Kamala Harris has won all that she was looking to win when she had us arrested," the letter stated. "She issued her sanctimonious public statement, controlled her media cycle and got her 'perp walk' on the evening news. … And if the polls are any indication, Harris will be warmly ensconced in the United States Senate by the time hermonths at a time. What she went through on a daily basis," said Pride, "would be unimaginable to most of us in this room."

This was about as much detail as Pride gave about the circumstances of her daughter's experience, leaving open seemingly important questions such as how this plight befell her, who else was involved, who posted the ads to Backpage, how Kubiiki found out about the ads, how the girl wound up back home, or if there was evidence Backpage knew about or edited the ads before being contacted by Pride. Backpage did remove her daughter's ads when she contacted them, Pride said, though it "did not remove them immediately after I called."

Pride also mentioned briefly that a woman had been jailed in conjunction with her daughter's


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The other two witnesses, parents of "Natalie," never personally saw their daughter's ads on Backpage and never tried to contact the company. When they feared their daughter had become involved in prostitution, they looked for ads on Craigslist, Nacole testified Tuesday.

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Founded in 1979, Lee's nonprofit works with young people involved in or fleeing prostitution, regardless of how they came to be involved in it or how much agency they exhibited therein. Over the years, the group has helped thousands of American kids, says Lee, and currently hosts kids from all over the country in its 24-bed facility. For the past few years, Lee has been speaking out on behalf of Backpage, which she sees as an ally in the fight to help "prostituted children." She got involved after being approached by vice detectives "who asked me to go after the [anti] trafficking organizations to stop them from harassing Backpage because Backpage


back to her pimp," she added. A 2014 story from Nacole, however, places police as her daughter's savior on at least one or two occasions. When Natalie "disappeared, Nacole's husband drove the streets of Seattle looking for their little girl," the earlier article states. "Almost two weeks later, Seattle Police called the parents saying they'd found the runaway daughter."

"She looked completely different than she had 10 days before," Nacole said at that time, speaking then too of her haircut and different clothes. "On the way home she started telling us that she had been held captive in Everett," and at this point that "she had been made to work the streets." After that initial return, Natalie soon left again—"lured out of the house by somebody she had meton the streets," her mom said. "Within 36 hours she had been posted on the website Backpage.com by a 26-year-old man who said she was 18."

A 2015 profile of the family claims that "so complete" was this man's "hold on her mind, that soon she was posting the ads herself, arranging the out-calls, mostly to hotel rooms, and bringing in enough money that she supported him, two other prostitutes, two children, and herself in a three bedroom apartment." A few months later, Natalie was arrested in a sex-worker sting conducted by police through Backpage, which led to her being arrested and returned to her parents house again.

Since then, Nacole and sometimes Natalie and her father have been active in testifying before political and media sources, including a TED


talk. Pride, too, has been speaking out for years about her daugher's ordeal, and has previously lent their story to several different legislative causes, including Sen. Mark Kirk's (R-Ill.) 2014 attempt to crackdown on Backpage (the SAVE Act) and Illinois state lawmaker Randy Hultgren's "Demand Reduction Act." Tweets of Pride's going back to 2012 condemn the Communications Decency Act.

Pride's first media statements about her daughter, from 2008, describe a girl with "a lot of behavioral problems" and "anger-management" issues whom she enrolled in a 30-day program at Saint Vincent Home for Children in order "to scare her straight." By 2009, the girl had run away from home and was missing for nine months before her mother discovered her ads on Backpage.

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It's unclear how involved Pride's daughter has been in her activism. At the time Pride was working with Sen. Kirk to hold websites accountable for sexualizing teens, her daughter was posting provocative selfies to Twitter under a handle with "ho" in the name. She was arrested on battery charges in Georgia in 2015 and picked up there again, on an outstanding warrant related to those charges, in October 2016. But both Pride and the now-20-something young woman appear


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another day before cell phone transmissions helped to pinpoint the search area.

While the speed of the investigation in some ways was remarkable -- given what little authorities started out with -- it was dogged by early missteps and obstacles that handicapped investigators.

A Portland hotel where the family had stayed refused to provide credit card records that might have indicated which way the Kims had gone. An early search by air and land of the treacherous mountain route that James and Kati Kim drove out of Grants Pass yielded nothing.

The owner of a lodge on the road where the Kims' car was stuck had told authorities three days before Kati Kim and her daughters were found that he had seen tire tracks in the snow, but he hadn't beenable to follow them in his snowmobile once he hit bare ground. No one followed up.

Finally, cellular phone clues -- gathered by a company engineer who volunteered his time -- helped searchers with seven state and federal agencies and crews with three helicopters hired by the family converge on the right area.

Still, their efforts came up short. In the end, it was an amateur helicopter pilot who had nothing to do with the official search who saved Kati Kim and her young daughters. He went up because he had a hunch, and because a newspaper picture of the girls reminded him of his own grandkids.

And even his efforts, and those of more than 100 people who took part in the search for James Kim once they knew where


to look, weren't enough to save the San Francisco resident. Investigators now believe he probably died the day his wife and children were found. He had trekked more than 16 miles through the wilderness to try and save them -- 6 miles more than officials originally thought before realizing they'd made a mapping error.

Early efforts

James Kim, 35, an editor with San Francisco's Cnet, and his wife, Kati, 30, who had once worked for the technology Web site, set off for a Thanksgiving vacation in their 2005 Saab station wagon on Nov. 17 with their daughters, 4-year-old Penelope and 7-month-old Sabine.

The couple, who also owned a boutique in the Haight and an apothecary in Noe Valley near their home, stayed in Seattle, then spent the night of Nov. 24in Portland. The plan the next day was to go to Gold Beach, on the coast 29 miles north of the California border, and then stop in Mendocino before driving home Nov. 27.

As the world now knows, they became stranded in the snow west of Grants Pass before they ever got to the coast. But at the time, no one was expecting to hear from them, so no one knew they were missing.

On Nov. 28, the day after they were due back, the couple missed several appointments. By the afternoon of Nov. 29, with no word from the family, their house-sitter reported them missing to San Francisco police.

By then, the Kims had already been lost for four days.

Detective Mike Weinstein of the Portland police missing persons detail was


out sick Nov. 29 and wasn't able to start work on the call he had gotten from San Francisco police until Thursday, Nov. 30.

The agencies divided up responsibilities. San Francisco police Inspector Angela Martin would check cellular records and financial records, and Weinstein would try to retrace the family's steps in his state.

Meanwhile, Eva Kim, James Kim's sister, started her own investigation. She knew that a friend of the Kims' in Portland had told police where the family had been going, so she called every hotel in Gold Beach on Nov. 30.

Finally she found Terri Stone, the innkeeper of Tu Tu Tun Lodge. Stone told her the family had reservations for Nov. 25 and had called her that day asking that she leave the key out. That callcontinued to use whatever card they used at the hotel as they made their way through Oregon, and that could provide a trail for investigators.

But the hotel manager -- on orders from corporate headquarters -- would not cooperate, citing privacy concerns for their guests. Weinstein, who wouldn't identify the hotel, said it was a first in his experience.

"To their credit, I could tell the manager truly wanted to help me, but he was ordered not to provide the information," Weinstein said.

At 4 p.m., Weinstein issued a bulletin statewide telling law enforcement to watch for the family's silver station wagon, with special attention to Interstate 5, Highway 101 on the coast and the routes connecting them. The bulletin said they had been going to Gold Beach.

"We believed they must


have run into trouble somewhere along the way," Weinstein said. "We just didn't know where it was."

Bear Camp Road

The morning of Friday, Dec. 1, Lt. Dennis Dinsmore of the Curry County Sheriff's Department, whose area encompasses Gold Beach, came to work and learned that all of Oregon was to be on the lookout for the missing family.

"I saw the destination was Gold Beach -- that's our county seat -- but their last contact was Salem, 250 miles away," Curry said. "It's pretty difficult to know where to start."

Still, given all the roads the family could have taken -- there are five state routes and two U.S. highways leading over to the coast from central and southern Oregon, and countless back ways -- there was one Dinsmore knew well:Bear Camp Road.

The way to Bear Camp Road starts off I-5 just north of Grants Pass. At first it's a two-lane country road called the Merlin-Galice Road, but as it climbs into the Coast Range over peaks as high as 4,000 feet, it gets steep and narrow. In places, the dividing line disappears. During winter, the locals typically won't even try it without a four-wheel drive.

On some maps, however, Bear Camp looks benign. The paper map the Kims are believed to have been using shows it as a major route, and gives no indication of its wintertime dangers.

"We've had tragedies on there before," Dinsmore said. "We have had people die up there before."

He recalled the 1994 case of a man who got stuck in the snow near Bear


Camp Road and kept a diary for 52 days. The man starved to death before anyone found him.

Dinsmore also remembered there had been a storm in southern Oregon the night the Kims were on the road. He called Sara Rubrecht, the emergency services coordinator with neighboring Josephine County, which encompasses the area around I-5 and Grants Pass.

"It's a horrible route, even at best," Dinsmore said. "I talked to Sara and said, 'We need to clear Bear Camp.' "

Sheriff's deputies headed up the road from both Gold Beach and Grants Pass. Curry County sent two deputies at 10 a.m. Friday from the hamlet of Agness in a four-wheel-drive truck. "They were told to drive as far up Bear Camp Road as they could, safely," Dinsmore said.

The truck could makeit only 7 1/2 miles up the mountain, well short of the crest. "They kept going until they encountered snow and a solid sheet of ice," Dinsmore said.

From Grants Pass, Rubrecht told him her crews with the Josephine County Sheriff's Department had made it 18 miles before the road became impassable.

Later, it would become plain that the deputies from Josephine County had gone 6 miles past a fork in the road where James Kim, struggling along in the snow at night, had turned the Saab the wrong way and headed into a maze of old logging roads around the Rogue River. There was supposed to be a gate blocking the wrong route, but someone had come along in November and cut the lock.

That Friday morning, John James, the


owner of Black Bar Lodge on the Rogue River, got an e-mail from an employee who had read about the missing family. The subject heading read, "Whattaya bet they are up on Bear Camp?"

James said he had redirected "countless" motorists over the years who had strayed off of Bear Camp onto the logging road that leads to his lodge and loops around. "I just had this feeling that they may be out there somewhere," he said.

He left a message with Rubrecht, but she didn't call back. He and his brother went out in their snowmobiles, but it hadn't snowed for a few days and they soon hit bare ground. Before that, however, they could see fresh tire tracks that had been snowed over recently.

Later that day, he raninto Rubrecht and a deputy on Bear Camp Road. He says he told her that someone needed to check the logging roads thoroughly, but "to be honest, they weren't in a listening mode." Rubrecht did not return calls for comment.

With no searchers having driven about 30 miles of Bear Camp Road, Dinsmore called for a helicopter from the state Office of Emergency Management. A Blackhawk military helicopter was dispatched from Salem.

"That took a while," Dinsmore said. "Sara and I determined we were going to clear the road by air. There are stretches of road where there's heavy tree cover and it's hard to see from the air. Sara indicated they would have a Sno-Cat clear the entire length."

The helicopter went up late Friday afternoon, came back to Gold


this all come together. It enabled us to work more efficiently, much more quickly."

The family had also hired private helicopters, which first went up Saturday. Dinsmore said he had a discussion with Kim's father, Spencer Kim, who rode in one of the choppers during the search.

At 6 p.m., Weinstein got a message that Medford police had been contacted by Eric Fuqua, a cell phone company engineer who was "adamant" that he had to talk to someone about the case.

Fuqua worked for Edge Wireless of Bend, Ore., which is affiliated with Cingular, the carrier that the Kim family used. Weinstein said Fuqua had taken it upon himself to contact the family through a Web site that had been created and had obtained the missing couple's cell phone numbers.

"They toldus they had two very brief hits with one of the cell phones," Weinstein said. The calls were made from a 26-mile radius surrounding Glendale, a small town 21 miles north of Grants Pass, and came within four seconds of each other at 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 26.

The information was passed along to David Steele, a detective with the Oregon State Police in Salem who was working on the case.

"I took a look at it, and (the location suggested by the transmissions) was right on Bear Camp Road, right at the top," Steele said. "Either they were receiving a call or trying to use it."

Authorities now were almost sure the Kims were somewhere off the road between Grants Pass and Gold Beach. It was a week almost to


the hour since the Kims had become stranded, and about 12 hours after James Kim had left his family on foot to look for help.

Saturday morning, John Rachor was driving on the way to cut a Christmas tree 70 miles east of Medford when his wife read him a story about the Kims from the Medford Mail Tribune. There was a picture of the couple's daughters, Penelope and Sabine; they reminded Rachor of his grandchildren, a boy and girl about the same age. He also noticed Kati Kim's name; his daughter is named Katie.

"I thought about turning around right then (and starting to search), but they had this plan, so I stayed along," he said. Instead, he went up Sunday in his helicopter, a flame-emblazoned chopper he usesto commute to the eight Burger Kings he owns and a home he has in Agness.

The newspaper story said the Kims had eaten in Roseburg and were supposed to have gone to Gold Beach. Rachor figured that they might have headed over Bear Camp Road and made a wrong turn at that logging road. A lot of people did.

"I thought they had looked there," he said, "but when I got there, I found they hadn't checked it."

After 2 1/2 hours in the air, he saw tire tracks in the snow along one road but was running low on fuel so he turned back.

Searchers from Jackson County were looking that day in the same area. Sheriff's Lt. Pat Rowland said his crews asked about the back logging road, but


were told -- incorrectly -- that the owner of the Black Bar Lodge had "cleared" it himself.

On Monday, Rachor flew over the same road again and saw there was only the one set of tire tracks; it didn't look like whoever it was had driven out.

He also saw human footprints, and radioed the find to other searchers. He went back to Grants Pass to refuel, returned to the road, and 5 miles from where he'd seen the prints he saw Kati Kim, running around and waving an umbrella.

A disappointing end

The joy of finding Kati Kim and her two daughters alive quickly took a disturbing turn when she told rescue workers that her husband had taken off two days earlier to find help. Temperatures had dipped below freezing bothnights, so there wasn't much time.

James Kim's footprints showed he had backtracked along the road 5 miles until the trail turned into the brush leading toward Big Windy Creek.

Mountain rescue teams from Eugene and Lane County were called in. By the end of Monday, 100 people were searching on the ground and in the air, and that night an Air National Guard helicopter equipped with infrared heat sensors detected two "hot spots" in the canyon along the creek.

By Tuesday morning, 26 specialists in wilderness search and rescue operations were attempting to bushwhack their way through the forest to reach the hot spots. It was clear by now that Kim's situation was, at best, dire. Rescue workers following his trail were soaked from dripping trees, brush and snow before


they even reached the creek. Once they got to the creek, it was a treacherous slog over slippery rocks. Progress in some places was impossible without actually getting into the water.

On Wednesday morning a man was lowered 200 feet from a helicopter into the creek gully where he found three shirts, one wool sock, a blue girl's skirt and what might have been a makeshift pad where Kim might have slept. The items, and a pair of pants found the day before, might have been a trail Kim was leaving for searchers.

Kim had disappeared Nov. 25 without anyone knowing it, but by now millions were following the search on national television. A satellite was rerouted over the area to try to find him, and a cell phone towerwas constructed to help with communications.

Spencer Kim had already spent thousands of dollars a day for private search helicopters, and his family put together 18 plastic bags of survival gear to be dropped Wednesday over a 3-mile section of wilderness. The packages included a heartfelt letter from a frightened father. It was a letter his son would never get a chance to read.

It was 33 degrees and fog had just lifted at 12:03 p.m. Wednesday when a pilot with Carson Helicopters spotted what looked like a person lying on his back in the creek.

The pilot called it in and another helicopter lowered two Jackson County SWAT team members down to investigate. It was Kim.

Dr. James Olson, the deputy state medical examiner for southwest Oregon, said Kim had probably


collapsed in the creek and succumbed to hypothermia.

There was no way to pinpoint the time of death. But at most, Kim probably survived two days, Olson said. By the time his wife and children were found, chances are he was gone.

"He was soaked and there was no way to warm himself," Olson said. "He was not only starving, but he had gone through an exhausting ordeal. People in this situation can't last for more than a day or so."

Had searchers found the car over the weekend, they might have been able to save Kim, Rowland said.

But "it was a hard search," he said. "It was rough terrain. If anybody saw the terrain, it was a needle in a haystack."

FOURTEEN DAYS LOST

- Mileage

Route of car traveled on logging roadBLM 34-8-36: 21.3 miles

James Kim's hike out on road: 11.5 miles

James Kim's hike down Big Windy Creek ravine: 4.7 miles

Total miles walked by James Kim: 16.2 miles

Distance to Black Bar Lodge from car (straight line): 3 miles

Elevation

1 Opened gate entrance to BLM 34-8-36: 3,650 feet

2 Kims' stranded car: 2,438 feet

6 James Kim's body at Big Windy Creek: 661 feet

November 23

Thanksgiving

James Kim, 35, an editor with San Francisco's Cnet, and his wife, Kati, 30, and their daughters Penelope, 4, and 7-month-old Sabine, spending Thanksgiving in Seattle.

November 24

Journey home

The family has brunch with a friend and spends the night at a hotel in Portland. The plan is to drive to Gold Beach on the Oregon coast the next day and then stop in Mendocino before driving home Nov. 27.

November 25

Wrong


turn

After dinner in Roseburg, the family misses the turnoff on Interstate 5 for state Highway 42 and uses a road map to find Bear Camp Road out of Grants Pass. They take a wrong turn on a logging road during a snowstorm and spend the night in the car.

November 26

Lost and cold

The Kims huddle together, trapped in their car as snow continues to fall.

November 27

The cold, icy weather continues, forcing the family to run the car heater to keep warm.

November 28

Friends, family begin to wonder

The couple miss several appointments, and family and friends begin to worry.

November 29

The Kims' house-sitter reports them missing. Still stranded, the family collects wood and attempts to build a fire.

November 30

While the Kims burn their spare tire, the Portland and San Francisco police beginretracing the family's steps. James Kim's sister, Eva Kim, discovers that the family missed their Nov. 25 reservation at the Tu Tu Tun Lodge in Gold Beach.

December 1

Searching

The family burns all four tires from the car. Curry County and Josephine County police drive up Bear Camp Road, but a big section is blocked by snow. A helicopter flies nearby, but the fire has gone out.

December 2

Cell phone "pings"

James Kim leaves to go find help. His father hires three private helicopters and, that night, cell phone "pings" are discovered, narrowing the search grid.

December 3

Intensive search focusing on Bear Camp Road begins.

December 4

Wife, kids found

Acting on a hunch, businessman John Rachor uses his helicopter to search back roads and discovers Kati Kim and the children. They are rescued. James Kim's


footprints are tracked to the Big Windy Creek ravine.

December 5

Clothing found

James Kim's discarded clothes are found. Searchers theorize he was trying to indicate to rescuers which way he had gone.

December 6

James found

The body of James Kim is found lying in 2 feet of water, a half mile from where the creek meets the Rogue River.

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