Iraqi families, who fled their homes in Hamam al-Alil, gather on the outskirts of their town Getty In pictures: Mosul offensive Displaced people walk past a checkpoint near Qayara, south of Mosul, Iraq AP In pictures: Mosul offensive Iraqi families who were displaced by the ongoing operation by Iraqi forces against jihadists of the Islamic State group to retake the city of Mosul, are seen gathering in an area near Qayyarah In pictures: Mosul offensive A boy who just fled Abu Jarbuah village is seen with his family at a Kurdish Peshmerga position between two front lines near Bashiqa, east of Mosul, Iraq Reuters In pictures: Mosul offensive An Iraqi child eats a pomegranate upon the arrival of Iraqi forces in the village of Umm Mahahir, south ofMosul Getty In pictures: Mosul offensive People who just fled Abu Jarbuah village sit as they eat at a Kurdish Peshmerga position between two front lines near Bashiqa, east of Mosul, Iraq Reuters In pictures: Mosul offensive A couple who just fled Abu Jarbuah village are escorted by Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers Reuters In pictures: Mosul offensive Women carry a boy over a wall as civilians flee their houses in the village of Tob Zawa, Iraq AP In pictures: Mosul offensive An Iraqi soldier and a civilian ride a motorbike as smoke rises behind them, on the road between Qayyarah and Mosul Getty In pictures: Mosul offensive A member of Iraqi forces, wearing a skull mask, waits at a checkpoint for people fleeing the main hub city of Mosul


Getty In pictures: Mosul offensive An Iraqi soldier sits at a checkpoint in an area near Qayyarah Getty In pictures: Mosul offensive Iraqi men prepare food portions for Iraqi forces deployed in areas south of Mosul Getty In pictures: Mosul offensive Iraqi forces celebrate upon the arrival of vehicles bringing food to them Getty In pictures: Mosul offensive Iraqi childen smoke cigarettes upon the arrival of Iraqi forces in the village of Umm Mahahir, south of Mosul Getty In pictures: Mosul offensive A member of Iraqi forces distributes drinks to children in the village of Umm Mahahir, south of Mosul Getty

Surprisingly, there is a limited supply of electricity, though not in all areas according to Jasim. He says that “we have electricity for about two hours every threedays, though in some areas they haven’t had electricity since last month. People move during the day into other neighbourhoods to charge their phones.” The mobile network is available only at night time because it is then that there is electricity in the eastern government-held part Mosul where there are mobile phone towers mounted on trucks.

The Isis-held enclave in Mosul, centred on the impenetrable warren of street and alleys so narrow that two people cannot walk abreast, is being heavily bombarded and is very dangerous. But people are still dying even in districts in east Mosul where fighting is supposed to have ended. An example of this happened on Monday in the east of the city in Nabi Yunus covered market, which is full of tiny booths and


shouted the soldier angrily and some in the crowd looked worried, recalling that this is a favourite Isis tactic, and quickly walked away. The policemen said that many of the injured had been badly burned by the blazing perfume shop and were unlikely to survive.

Still from a video shows multiple market stalls on fire during the blaze at Nabi Yunus market in east Mosul, Iraq, on Sunday, 26 March (AP)

The mortar attack on Nabi Yunus market is only one incident out of dozens that are killing people every day in Mosul. There are at least 300,000 people packed into houses in the Old City of Mosul, which is still held by Isis and where it is impossible to distinguish fighters from civilians since they occupy the same houseswhich are often ancient and of flimsy construction. “Some of these houses are so old that they would fall if you raised your voice,” says Yohanna Towaya, a Christian leader who owns a house in the city.

Controversy continues to rage over the death of as many as 240 civilians, many hiding in cellars, killed during an air strike by the US-led air coalition on the Jadida district on 17 March which reduced three buildings to heaps of rubble. The coalition says it did carry out air strikes called in by Iraqi ground forces on this area at that time, but the Iraqi Defence Ministry claims that only 61 civilians were killed and these died because Isis had booby trapped the walls of the buildings in which they had


taken shelter. Since Saturday it has banned journalists from entering those parts of west Mosul that it holds, making it difficult to verify how many bodies have been taken from the rubble. The online news letter Shaafaq News, which first broke the story of the Jadida air strike, says that it has been told by a security source that the true figure for casualties in west Mosul since the start of the offensive is 3,864 dead and 22,759 injured.

The best place from which to see what is happening in west Mosul is from the hill-top site once occupied by the Nabi Yunus shrine in east Mosul that was blown up by Isis as heretical in 2014. From there one can see the city on the western side ofTigris spread out like a map and, at first glance, the signs of war are not obvious aside from four plumes of smoke rising in the distance. Then there was the crash of Iraqi artillery firing nearby and, a few seconds later, another cloud of smoke rose in the distance. At one point, two helicopters passed over Isis-held territory and there was the sound of heavy machine gun or cannon fire.

There are not many soldiers or police in east Mosul, most of the elite units that captured it having moved on to take part in the fighting on the far side of the Tigris. Traffic is heavy, many shops are open and occasionally one can see workers with heavy construction equipment filling craters or replacing sewage pipes that


have been severed by bombs or shells. Even small bridges were destroyed by air strikes and there are frequent craters at cross roads.

Ahmed, an architect who made a living in Mosul during the two-and-a-half year occupation by Isis by illegally selling cigarettes - for which he was repeatedly lashed - says that the main problem is the lack of electricity and fresh water aside from that pumped from wells. There are plenty of fruit and vegetables for sale on street stalls, but they are imported from Turkey and are expensive. Salaries for government employees, much the biggest source of employment all over Iraq, are only starting to be paid. Ahmed said that the behaviour of the Iraqi army at checkpoints “is 90 per cent better than it wasRepublican Party

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The upcoming pedestrian bridges in Delhi will sport a swanky look complete with capsule glass lifts seen in big hotels and shopping malls. HT reports.

The upcoming pedestrian bridges in Delhi will sport a swanky look complete with capsule glass lifts seen in big hotels and shopping malls.

The first such pedestrian bridge is coming up near Netaji Subhash Place in Pitampura. Delhi public works department minister Rajkumar Chauhan laid its foundation stone on Wednesday.

"The pedestrian bridge is a state-of-the art design bridge with a unique concept. It is going to be an L-shape bridge, providing pedestrian crossing facility on two connecting roads at the T-junction of Road no. 41 and the road leading to Pitampura TV tower. There will be three ultra-modern capsule glass lifts with the capacity of10 passengers each," said Chauhan.

He added that this new model will be replicated in other areas as well.

"Not only will it look good, it will also give a sense of security to women and others who use the bridge," he said.

Chauhan added that Delhi government would spend R1,800 crore in the next couple of months to re-lay roads taken over from the erstwhile MCD.

"The government has already launched the project to improve over 800 km of road length," he said.

Not satisfied with MCD's maintenance of the roads, the government had, in December last year, taken over 674 streets with a total length of 802 km from it.


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But in a closed hearing Thursday, lawyers for the defense and the prosecution argued over whether Arias, who was in attendance, should be allowed to testify that she walked in on Alexander while he was masturbating to photographs of young boys.

Judge Sherry Stephens unsealed the transcript of the hearing after she determined that the evidence was admissible.

But the jury will be listening carefully: Prosecutor Juan Martinez has already established that Arias lied prolifically in some of her videotaped interviews with detectives. What will they think of this event that no one else witnessed?

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When it comes to education, there is ALWAYS a double standard for administrators versusIntroduction From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations An Introduction to Big History Barry rodrigue, Leonid grinin and andrey Korotayev ach scientific study emerges in its own particular time and marks a new step in the development of human thought.1 Big History materialized to satisfy the human need for a unified vision of our existence. It came together in the waning decades of the twentieth century, in part, as a reaction to the specialization of scholarship and education that had taken hold around the world. While this specialization had great results, it created barriers that stood in contrast to a growing unity among our global communities. These barriers were increasingly awkward to bridge, and, thus, Big History emerged as a successful new framework. The Roots of Big History Much


of humanity's recent focus has been on developing tools and concepts within particular disciplines or between a few related ones. As a result of the success of this system, an explosion of knowledge took place in the natural and social sciences, which was then conveyed into world society through education, science, humanities and the arts. Let's consider an example of this interconnected 'chain of knowledge'. In the 1920s, astronomers Georges Lemaître, Edwin Hubble and their colleagues made the discovery that the universe is not static, as had been assumed for millennia, but was in a general state of expansion, as if begun E n n 2 Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev in a primordial explosion. By the 1940s, interacting teams of physicists and astronomers speculated onthe existence of left-over radiation from this event-the cosmic microwave background. This radiation was detected in 1964 and provides the most convincing evidence for the explosive beginning of the universe, which became known as the 'Big Bang'. First enunciated by physicist Georges Lemaître in 1927 and then named in 1949 by astronomer Fred Hoyle, the 'Big Bang' became popular. It received endorsement from a variety of philosophical traditions: From Pope Pius XII and followers of the Abrahamic religions to those of Buddhist and Hindu faiths, as well as post-modernists, Marxists, neo-Kantians, and others. In popular culture, the Big Bang has appeared in children's literature, novels, TV shows, musical compositions, cinema, and T-shirt logos. Such wide dispersal of one concept of astrophysics testifies to the power of global communication.


It occurred when Palaeolithic artists painted images on rock walls and it is recognizable in the Axial Age, when Pre-Socratic philosophers in Greece, Mauryan sages in India and Zhou scholars in China advanced holistic cosmologies. This effort to understand our place in the universe led to its most visible expression in technological development. Much practical inventiveness originated in eastern Eurasia, travelled along the silk routes, was refashioned in Europe and then re-exported to overseas colonies. Innovations included the compass, porcelain, gunpowder, paper, printing and vaccination. It was a two-way street, as when the domestication of potatoes, cocoa and corn spread outwards from the Americas to Oceania, Eurasia and other parts of the world. This cycle of diffusion and adaptation resulted in a synthesis of knowledge that transcended nationalor ethnic boundaries, becoming the first phase of globalization. As this dynamic exchange of technical knowledge grew, cognitive achievements of classical-era scholars also began to be reconsidered, including the works of Aristotle in Greece, Zhang Heng in China, and Aryabhata in India. Such works were found in the encyclopaedias of China, the libraries of the Islamic empires, the scriptoriums of Europe, and in South Asia's manuscripts. The 'renaissance' that resulted from the reformulation of these ideas from antiquity led to the emergence of modern science. Although a popular image is that these advances took place in Europe, it was actually a global process. The quickening pace of scientific discoveries began a thousand years ago, proceeding from the work of countless thinkers and practitioners like Abu Ibn al-Haytham and


Moses Maimonides in Egypt, Shen Kuo in China, Bhaskaracharya in India, Nicolas Oresme in France, Galileo Galilei in Italy, Johannes Kepler in Germany, Isaac Newton in England, and Seki Takakazu in Japan. Breakthroughs took place in many fields, from optics to mathematics and astronomy, but the most important result was the development of the scientific method. Expanding global communications generated by trade led to the far-reaching dispersal of these ideas. The result was a majestic new vision of the universe. For the first time in history, a worldview was produced-not by the speculations of philosophers but on the basis of corroborated facts and formulated laws of nature. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the growth of insights from biology, geology, chemistry and other observational studies. This synthesis ledto larger realizations, such as how our solar system had emerged from a gas nebula.2 This period also saw the diffusion more accessible forms of encyclopaedias, reflecting Enlightenment goals to amalgamate all knowledge into useful forms for all people. These efforts encouraged others, as when 4 Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt produced his five-volume series, Kosmos (1845–62), which is considered a founding event of Big History, because of its integration of cosmology, geology, biology, and humanity. In speaking of the origins of Big History, it is difficult not to also discuss the emergence of evolutionary thought. Initial efforts appeared in the biological oeuvre of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and in the geological studies of Charles Lyell, as well as in subsequent works by


Alfred Wallace, Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. Still later in the century, evolution merged with ideas of social progress to exercise a major influence on civilization.3 Nor did philosophical studies lie stagnant. The Hindu scholar, artist and 1913 Nobel Prize winner, Rabindranath Tagore, encouraged global networking of science and philosophy, while Catholic scientists, like palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, not only advanced science but sought to incorporate it into holistic worldviews. So, it is apparent that centuries of a basic human desire to understand the nature of existence combined with decades of intensified scientific and scholarly studies to produce the favourable circumstances for the flowering of Big History. Nonetheless, efforts to assemble a comprehensive panorama of the universe and our existence began to decline with the advent offirst half of the twentieth century, the vast assemblage of new data led to the need for even larger intellectual frameworks. In an organic and natural way, globalization and collective knowledge combined and led us to the doorstep of Big History. From Cross-Disciplines to Big History A variety of projects designed to bridge national narratives developed as a result of the need for greater international and technological infrastructures in the second half of the twentieth century. People on all sides of the Cold War began to see us as living in 'one world' and sought to make that happen. In 1949, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural plate i.4: rabindranath tagore and albert einstein in Caputh, germany, 14 July 1930. Source: UNeScO. 6 Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin


and Andrey Korotayev Organization (UNESCO) established a commission to assemble a global scientific and cultural history. The lofty goal of the resulting History of the Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind was to document all human achievement.4 In the 1950s, the Space Race galvanized fresh interdisciplinary efforts, while socio-historical scholarship in the post-colonial world underwent similar revitalization. Soviet scholars developed an integrated pedagogy that came to be called universal history.5 One of the first books to express this new view of existence was by Soviet astrophysicist Iosif Shklovsky in Вселенная. Жизнь. Разум (Universe, Life, Intelligence) in 1962. Four years later, an English-language adaptation was produced with American astrophysicist Carl Sagan, Intelligent Life in the Universe. This international cooperation was not accidental, as similar forms of macro-study had alsodeveloped in the United States. From the 1920s through the 1950s, astronomer Harlow Shapley promoted cosmography at the Harvard College Observatory, a study that examined the interlinked nature of stars, Earth, life and humanity. In the 1960s, Carl Sagan offered his rendition of it. And, in 1974, astrophysicists George Field and Eric Chaisson gave a course and produced texts on cosmic evolution. Chaisson especially championed and continued this effort with pedagogy, literature and teaching materials up through the present. Other scientists had likewise moved in this direction around the country, as with G. Siegfried Kutter at Evergreen State College, Tom Bania at Boston University, and Michael Rampino at New York University.6 A variety of books and other media expressions that were early formulations of Big History also began


to appear at this time, such as astrophysicist Erich Jantsch's text on The Self-Organizing Universe in 1980. Some of these works became very popular: Over 500 million people in 60 countries watched Carl Sagan's television series, Cosmos (1980), while the book, A Brief History of Time (1988), by English astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, sold over 9 million copies.7 Similarly, in the 1970s, macrosociology, global history and macroeconomics began to coalesce with international studies in order to try to understand the many faces of global development. Economic historian Andre Gunder Frank shifted global studies outside of Cold War frameworks to describe a one-world system, while macrosociologist Immanuel Wallerstein identified the world economy as being composed of interlocking subsystems. This socio-historical work began to merge with larger paradigms, as when economistGraeme Snooks moved his Theory of Global Dynamic Systems beyond the modern era to encompass all of Earth's history, including its physical interactions.8 The independent development of such large-scale concepts flowered elsewhere around the world too. In the 1980s, Chinese scholars, including Introduction: From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations 7 rocket scientist Qian Xuesen, began to research complexity and published a paper on the 放的复杂巨系统 (Open Complex Giant System), which had parallels with macro-historical views in the West, as a meta-synthesis of scientific knowledge.9 Similar developments emerged in India and led ecologist Vandana Shiva to establish the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in 1982. And a movement began in Japan in 1986 in response to proposals to deploy 'star wars' technology into the outer space of


Earth. Founded by the international educator, Osamu Nakanishi, it evolved into the Institute for Global and Cosmic Peace and adopted Big History paradigms.10 Another manifestation of this interdisciplinarity came in calls for reform to university education. In 1985, American historian John Mears advocated for a general-education curriculum based on what was essentially Big History.11 Four years later, he crafted a grand narrative and began teaching a course that incorporated human history into larger universal explanations. At that time, in 1989, Australian historian David Christian and Russian historical psychologist Akop Nazaretyan initiated similar curricular innovation.12 As David Christian explained, his work started with the question: 'When does history begin?' Receiving different answers from biologists, astronomers, anthropologists and others, he realized that students were getting confused fragments about our origins.many levels, in many departments, and through general education curriculums. Its popularity is dramatic: universities hold undergraduate classes accommodating hundreds of students and online courses draw students from around the planet. Students have begun to emerge from graduate schools with their masters and doctorate degrees to enter into teaching Big History. A solid core of texts have been translated into many languages and their multiple editions all serve the teaching of Big History.14 Not all of this development has been in higher education. Some Big Historians teach in elementary and secondary schools, while others work 8 Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev in the public and private sectors. For example, 'cosmic education' began to enter Montessori schools in India in the 1940s.15 Some Big Historians organize workshops


and lecture series, while others produce films, websites and computer applications. Students develop social networks that link participants around the world. The creative arts have long held such views, as in the bioregional, geopoetic and eco-art movements, and there is a noticeable blossoming of children's literature. Philosophers participate in Big History, while traditional societies have connected with the scientific community, as in the 1994 founding of the Alaska Native Science Commission.16 The promotion of Big History has been assisted by a generation of senior scholars, notably historian William McNeill and geologist Walter Alvarez. The field has received endorsements from public figures, whose advocacy has popularized the field. Software mogul Bill Gates financed several initiatives, including the Big History Project (BHP), an online, highschool curriculum launched in 2014. Forone of their activities, Big Historian David Baker wrote a ten-episode series for YouTube's 'Crashcourse', which has two million subscribers.17 The first international conference on Big History took place at the International University of Nature, Society and Humanity in Dubna, Russia in November 2005-on the topic of Big History and Synergetics. That year, an entire edition of the Russian-based, English-language journal, Social Evolution and History, was devoted to Big History and was followed by others. Akop Nazaretyan, light-heartedly summed up the popularity of this study when he restated Marx and Engel's dictum: 'The ghost of Big History is roaming the Earth!'18 As a result of the macro-history sessions at the Russian Academy of Sciences' 2009 conference on Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations, Barry Rodrigue began


assembling a directory of Big History and expanded his correspondence network in order to determine who was working in the field. He found people involved in Big History all around the globe, and the more he searched, the more he found. It became apparent that many scholars had independently developed a Big History perspective because 'it just made sense'. In other words, a global conjuncture had taken place, as macro-historical ideas solidified over the course of a half-century. As a result of discovering this critical mass of scholars, the International Big History Association (IBHA) was founded in Coldigioco (Italy) in 2010, and adopted a working definition of their field: 'Big History seeks to understand the integrated history of the cosmos, Earth, life and humanity, using the best availableof mutualisation, since it results in heightened awareness of the fragile, mutual dependence between human and non-human worlds, between organic and inorganic regimes, as well as between microscopic and macroscopic levels-on Earth and beyond.24 So it makes sense to represent the history of the universe as a single process. Without this, we are fated to live within a fragmented, endlessly shifting intellectual universe, deprived of the philosophical and ethical anchors of a more unified vision of how things came to be. That is why the ideas of universal history never died, whereas the idea of Big History (under various names) emerged almost simultaneously and independently in different countries. Anthology You hold in your hands the first volume (of a three volume anthology) titled, Our Place in the Universe:


An Introduction to Big History. The second volume is about Big History education and understanding around the world, while the third volume presents ways in which Big History functions, especially in relationship to the cosmos, life, society and our future. Big History has engaged several important themes, including the development of collective knowledge and the rise of the Anthropocene epoch. Each of these themes are respectively discussed in the introductions for Volume II and Volume III of our anthology. This anthology has been assembled with the cooperation of people from all walks of life. It features authors from every region of our planet. It is an interdisciplinary effort. Indeed, the very emergence of an anthology indicates that a given scientific discipline has achieved a considerable degree of developmentand recognition. While various authors present views of related themes, they offer different emphases. We see agreement, complementarity and opposition . . . this is a work of process. As editors, we came to appreciate how different traditions of essays exist around the world, not just as to style and language but in presentation as well. The four sections in this volume highlight overviews and trends of Big History today. Many of the articles in each section connect to articles in other sections and volumes, a process that illustrates the dynamic nature of the field. • Big History as a History of the Universe analyses the development of views about the universe that led to the emergence of the megaprocess of Big History, as well as its possibilities,


Earth and Man: A Short History of the Universe, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978; Hubert Reeves, Patience in the Blue: Cosmic Evolution, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1981; Eric Chaisson, Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life, Boston: Little Brown, 1981; Antonio Vélez, El Hombre: Herencia y Conducta, Medellín: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 1986; Isaac Asimov, Beginnings: The Story of Origins-of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the Universe, New York: Walker, 1987; Wikipedia 2010: 'Carl Sagan'; 'A Brief History of Time'. Introduction: From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations 13 8. Andre Gunder Frank, World Accumulation, 1492–1789, London: Macmillan Press, 1978; Immanuel Wallerstein, The Politics of the World Economy: The States, the Movements and the Civilizations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984; Institute of Global Dynamic Systems (IGDS), <http://sites.google. com/site/institutegds/>;and literature, see Barry Rodrigue, 'A Big History Directory'; idem, 'A Big History Bibliography', Big History Center, 2015, <http://www.bighistorycenter. org>, accessed 1 January 2015. Some citations of notable works in Big History follow. Fred Spier, The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996; 'The Small History of the Big History Course at the University of Amsterdam', Big History and the Future of Humanity, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010; repr. 2014; Akop Nazaretyan, Intelligence in the Universe: Sources, Formation, and Prospects, Moscow: Core Publishers, 1991; idem, Civilizational Crises in a Big History Context, Moscow: Per Se, 2001; David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to 'Big History', Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004; idem, Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and


the Rise of Humanity (DVD), Chantilly: The Teaching Company, 2008; Cynthia Brown, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present, New York: The New Press, 2007; David Christian, Cynthia Stokes Brown and Craig Benjamin, Big History: Between Nothing and Everything, New York: McGraw Hill Education, 2014; Walter Alvarez and Roland Saekow, Chronozoom, Berkeley: Earth and Planetary Science, 14 Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev University of California, 2010, <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/ chronozoom/>; Eric Chaisson, Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001; idem, Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006; idem, Cosmic Evolution: From Big Bang to Humankind, Cambridge: Harvard University, 2008, <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/ docs/splash.html>; Eric Chaisson and Dana Berry, The Arrow of Time: A Linear Renderingof Forward Time, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007, <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/docs/fr_1/ fr_1_intro_movies.html>; Osamu Nakanishi et al., 2014; Liu Xincheng, Yue Sun and Yue Xiukun, eds., Big History and Global History, Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2013; Guangbi Dong and Kunyu Tian, The Origin of the Heaven and Earth-Natural Evolution and the Birth of Life, Harbin: Northeast Forestry University Press, 1996; Shili Ma, Outline of World History, vols. 1–2, Shanghai: People's Press, 1999; Liuzhu Huang, 'On Sima Qian's Ideas of "Big History"', Journal of Humane Studies, vol. 3, 1997, pp. 72–5; 'A Note on the "Crisis of History Study"', Random Thoughts on Traditional Chinese History and Culture, Xi'an: Sanqin Press, 2005, pp. 185–94. 15. Jos and Anne-Marie Werkhoven, private communication (e-mail), to Barry Rodrigue, 26 May 2015; Maria Montessori, To Educate


the Human Potential, Amesterdam: Netherlands Montessori Association, 1998, p. 15. 16. Examples of alternative and creative expressions of Big History are in Barry Rodrigue, 'A Big History Directory' and 'A Big History Bibliography', as well as the following references. Australian/Indian novelist Greg Roberts independently assembled his form of Big History, which he calls 'Resolution Theory'. Gregory Roberts Shantaram, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003; pp. 705–9; idem, Geneva, Switzerland, personal communication (e-mail) to Barry Rodrigue, Bath, Maine, 4 April 2012. I would like to thank Michael Dix for noting this connection between Mr. Roberts' work and Big History. Italian geologist Alessandro Montanari and composer/sound technician Gabriele Rossetti documented the Earth's history in their geo-musical production, Dances with the Earth. Gabriele Rossetti and Alessandro Montanari, Dances with the Earth:Earth', History and Theory, vol. 44, no. 2, 2005, p. 264. 19. Barry Rodrigue proposed the formation of an association of Big History in August 2010, during a workshop at the Coldigioco Geological Observatory in the Apennine Mountains of Italy. Discussion of such a society had gone on for years, but the documentation of practitioners around the world made it apparent that there was a critical mass sufficient to make such a group viable. Walter Alvarez and Alessandro Montanari had convened this workshop to expose Big Historians to a more detailed study of earth sciences. The Big Historians who met at Coldigioco founded the IBHA on 20 August 2010 and became its first board of directors: David Christian of Macquarie University in Sydney (Australia), Walter Alvarez of the


University of California at Berkeley (USA), Craig Benjamin of Grand Valley State University in Michigan (USA), Cynthia Stokes Brown of Dominican University in California (USA), Fred Spier of the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), Lowell Gustafson of Villanova University in Pennsylvania (USA), and Barry Rodrigue of the University of Southern Maine (USA). Other instrumental participants were Alessando Montanari and Paula Metallo (directors of the Coldigioco Geological Observatory), Milly Alvarez, Penelope Markle, Pamela Benjamin, Gina Giandomenico, Daron Green and Michael Dix. Rodrigue chaired the first meeting. 20. The Eurasian Center for Megahistory and System Forecasting is coordinated by Akop Nazaretyan, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev. 21. Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944, p. 1. 22. Leonid Grinin et al.,2018. While Hayes has handwrung about the topic on Twitter in the past, he hasn’t covered it on his show since summer 2016. O’Donnell has tweeted about Yemen once in 20,000 tweets since joining the social media platform in June 2010; Maddow has mentioned it in four out of 7,000 tweets, two of those mentions in 2010.

Even as frequent MSNBC guests Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy, as well as celebrities like Mark Ruffalo and Susan Sarandon, lobby directly for the bill, MSNBC has not dedicated a single segment to the war, or to the recent high-profile efforts to end it.

MSNBC ceding anti-war sentiment is notable in its own right, and as part of a broader trend of liberal institutions abandoning anti-war voices in favor of short-term liberal jingoism


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Republican Rep. Tim Scott, who was picked by S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley to replace retiring Sen. Jim DeMint, will become the first African-American senator from South Carolina since the Reconstruction era.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

Freshman Republican Rep. Tim Scott is poised to become the only black senator and the first from the South since Reconstruction.

DeMint announced earlier this month that he plans to retire in January to lead the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington. Scott will serve until special elections are held in 2014, when voters will decide whether he should serve his remaining term in office.

Scott has been dubbed a Republican rising star. When he was first elected in November 2010, he became the first black Republican in


Congress since 2003, and the first black Republican from the South since 1901, according to an ABC News report.

“In fact, while Scott's appointment is largely being billed as a historic development for the South in general and the GOP in specific, it also is quite noteworthy for the nation as a whole. Scott will soon become the only African-American serving in the U.S. Senate, and just the seventh ever black senator from any region of the country,” according to Slate.

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A 2014 victory would be even more significant, Slatereports, since it would make him the first black senator representing the state who was elected directly by voters.

In a story in the Detroit Free Press, David Woodard, a political scientist at Clemson University, called Scott the ideal candidate for promotingcapitalism and conservative values. “He represents a generation that is interested in entrepreneurship, conservative principles, and volunteerism,” Woodward told the publication.

Earlier, Scott made history when he joined Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., as the first two black Republicans from the South since Reconstruction, the National Journal reports. West lost his reelection bid in November. Scott's move to the Senate means there will be no black Republicans in the lower chamber.


Up to one hundred and fifty people are feared to have been killed in a shipwreck off the northwestern Libyan coast, according to the United Nations Refugee agency. Another 150 passengers were reportedly rescued

The ship embarked from the city of Khoms, about 75 miles (120 km) east of Tripoli, and some 300 were thought to be aboard, according to Reuters. It is still unclear whether one or two vessels were involved in the wreck.

🚨Happening now:Tragic news of a deadly shipwreck off the coasts of Al Khoms. Initial reports indicate that over 100 persons may have lost their lives while other 140 have been rescued & disembarked, receiving medical & humanitarian assistance by UNHCR partner IMC. — UNHCR Libya (@UNHCRLibya) July 25, 2019

Survivors were taken to safety by localManchester United: Summer signings & departures

With Manchester United regaining their Premier League crown from Manchester City on Monday night, fans can now look forward to the summer and all of the rumours and joys the transfer window can bring.

In terms of realism, United need a centre-midfielder, or two, as well as a winger, albeit having signed Wilfried Zaha from Crystal Palace in the January transfer window.

Who will come in?

Kevin Strootman

Kevin Strootman is probably the most likely of the two be wearing a Manchester United kit at Old Trafford next season. He has developed into PSV’s most important player along with Dries Mertens, leading them to second in the Eredivise.

In Strootman, United should see an accomplished Dutch national team player, who still has a few years until he reaches


the peak of his game. His marauding runs from defence to attack, with an eye for a pass, as well as a shot, make him the complete box to box midfielder, which United have been shouting out for over the last few years. With Strootman costing no more than around £17m.

It would be a low risk transfer with the money available and the deal would seem even more likely in the fact that PSV signed Sweden’s impressive under-21 central midfield captain, Oskar Hiljemark, a perceived replacement for Strootman himself in January. It seems all but likely that Strootman will depart Eindhoven in the summer for pastures new, and he may yet be heading towards Manchester. Michael Carrick in currely United's constantly fit defensive-minded central midfielder.

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The signing ofwhich would make him more desirable to clubs around Europe.

Ashley Young

Ashley Young may also leave Old Trafford in the summer. His £18m signing from Aston Villa two years ago has been nothing but a disaster. His predictability make him an easy opponent for oppositions to mark and other than two games against the north London clubs last year he failed to stand out throughout the season and failed to find a level of consistency that enabled him to be the feared winger he was while at Aston Villa.

His departure seems more likely with the signing of Wilfried Zaha who would seemingly replace Young’s squad status as an under-21 as well as being a qualified homegrown player.

Anderson

Ever since his move from Porto as an 18-year-old, Anderson has also failed


to find a level of consistency, like Young, to guarantee a place in the first team in trying to displace Michael Carrick or Tom Cleverley.

Also, in the last year or so, his weight and fitness problems have been documented, none more so than in the League Cup game against Chelsea in October, where he managed to rack up three assists in an hour but then got substituted after the hour as his fitness levels were not adequate enough to last the whole game. T

he game also highlighted his ability, which is undeniable, but the moments in which the talent comes up is too far and in between to declare himself to level he, and we, know he can.

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Attractions and short trips in Singapore

The city-state of Singapore is the smallest country in Southeast Asia. The Republic of Singapore is separated from Malaysia, Malay Peninsula respectively, by the Straits of Johor and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait.

It consists of over 50 islands, including the main island, widely known as Singapore Island. Tourism forms a large part of the economy in the diverse and young island country.for the man's vehicle, described as a grey SUV with a flat tire. When police located the vehicle at a Gordmans parking lot, a man driving the vehicle fled the scene. The pursuit continued for a few minutes and ended near the front doors of a Cinemark Theater near 715 West Main Street.

An American Fork police officer and a Utah County Sheriff's deputy both fired at least one shot a piece at the man. Cannon said officials don't know if the rounds hit the man, as it is possible the individual sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

"We don't know if those rounds hit the suspect or not. It's possible also that he may have sustained a self-inflicted wound, but we don't know that. All we know


is that he did sustain a head wound," Cannon said.

Cannon confirmed the officers involved in the incident ordered the man to drop a gun.

"The officers told him to drop the gun. He didn't," Cannon said.

Cannon said it wasn't immediately clear whether the man intended to run into the theater or other businesses, most of which were closed, but the two officers were concerned about the possibility.

Police and bystanders attempted life-saving efforts as an ambulance and medical helicopter responded, Cannon said. Medical personnel arrived at the scene and pronounced the man dead.

No bystanders were injured in the incident, Cannon said.

Police are investigating what precipitated the incident. Police have not identified the man or the woman. American Fork Police confirmed the woman and man had a romantic relationship and saidAsian countries turning back wealthy world’s waste

Several Southeast Asian countries, sick of being the wealthy world’s rubbish dump, have in recent weeks turned back container-loads of waste from foreign shores, the AFP reported yesterday.

It comes after China last year stopped accepting the world’s used plastic, having previously been the biggest market for recyclables.

Indonesia on Tuesday announced it had sent back illegally imported garbage from France and Hong Kong.

On January 1, 2018, China closed its doors to almost all foreign plastic waste, as well as many other recyclables, in a push to protect its environment and air quality.

In late May, Malaysia said 450 tonnes of contaminated plastic waste would be shipped back to where it came from – Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States.

Although


Malaysia does allow the import of homogenous and clean waste plastics for the recycling industry.

Meanwhile, in late June, the Philippines returned to Canada tonnes of rubbish held in 69 containers that had been in the Asian country for six years.

It put an end to a row dating back to 2013 and 2014 when a Canadian company shipped containers mislabelled as recyclable plastics to the Philippines.

In July, Cambodia said it would send back to the United States and Canada 1,600 tonnes of illegal plastic waste found in shipping containers.

Also in July, Sri Lankan Customs ordered the return to Britain of 111 containers abandoned in Colombo Port for nearly two years and found to be holding hazardous mortuary and clinical waste, possibly including human organs.

The containers, discovered after they emanatedIraq crisis: EU condemns 'atrocities' by IS militants Published duration 15 August 2014

media caption Paul Wood reports from Mount Sinjar, from where many refugees have escaped, but some 'stragglers' remain

EU foreign ministers have condemned "atrocities and abuses" against religious minorities in Iraq, with Germany warning it cannot stand by and watch people being "slaughtered".

The emergency meeting in Brussels left it to individual states whether they would arm Iraq's Kurds against Islamic State (IS) militants in the north.

France and the US have already moved to supply the Kurds with arms.

IS violence has driven an estimated 1.2 million Iraqis from their homes.

After the talks, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was flying to Iraq to meet Kurdish leaders and the government in Baghdad to discuss what support is most


needed.

"We cannot just watch as people are slaughtered there," he said after the foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels. "If the current threat level persists, I can't rule out that we will have to deliver weapons."

Iraq has appointed a new prime minister to tackle the crisis. Haider al-Abadi, deputy speaker of the parliament, took over from his fellow Shia Muslim politician Nouri Maliki on Thursday, ending a dangerous political deadlock in Baghdad.

One of Iraq's most powerful Sunni tribal leaders, Ali Hatem Suleiman, has reportedly said he is ready to work with the new prime minister if he protects the rights of Sunnis.

image copyright AFP image caption Sunni Muslim tribesmen backing Iraqi security forces near Ramadi on Friday

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shia cleric, has already thrown hisweight behind the new prime minister in Baghdad.

In another development, there are reports of fierce fighting with IS militants in the predominantly Sunni region of Anbar, west of Baghdad.

AFP news agency quoted a Sunni tribal leader, Sheikh Abduljabbar Abu Risha, as saying an "uprising" was under way against IS, while Anbar police chief Maj-Gen Ahmed Saddak said security forces were backing the fight to drive out IS.

'Atrocities and abuses'

After meeting in Brussels, the EU foreign ministers said in a statement : "The EU remains seriously concerned about the deterioration of the security situation in Iraq, and condemns in the strongest terms the attacks perpetrated by [IS] and other associated armed groups.

"The EU also condemns the atrocities and abuses of basic human rights, in particular when committed against targeted


religious minorities and most vulnerable groups."

image copyright Reuters image caption Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have been pushed back by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq

The ministers called for investigations into possible crimes against humanity.

They welcomed the "decision by individual Member States to respond positively to the call by the Kurdish regional authorities to provide urgently military material.

"Such responses will be done according to the capabilities and national laws of the Member States, and with the consent of the Iraqi national authorities."

The emergency EU meeting was called by France, whose foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, had criticised the EU for inaction on Iraq.

Military aid pledges

The US and France have already started arming Kurdish fighters

The UK says it would "favourably consider" any request for arms from the Kurds

The Czech Republic says itis working on the "preparation of military supplies" to the Kurds

The Netherlands said on Thursday that it would also consider helping arm both Kurdish and Iraqi government troops

Several EU countries, as well as the US, have made drops of aid in northern Iraq in the past week.

The US has also engaged in limited air strikes against IS targets.

media caption The BBC's Caroline Wyatt spent the day at a hospital in Dohuk where the doctors have been treating Yazidi refugees

The governor of Dohuk province in northern Iraq, Farhad Atrushi, has said the US and UK are politically and ethically responsible for helping Iraq.

Warning of the threat of "genocide", he told the BBC: "We have hundreds of thousands [of refugees]. We're going to face an international humanitarian catastrophe because many


in churches. They are in public schools. They are in streets. They are in parks. Now you can find 40 people living in one house. Many people have come to me and said we are seven families in one house.

The cleric spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live on condition on anonymity

Maliki resigns

Mr Maliki's resignation on Thursday evening was welcomed by the UN and US.

The resignation brought an end to eight years of often divisive rule, when Mr Maliki's government was accused of favouring the Shia Muslim majority.

media caption "Mr Maliki was not the man to pull Iraq back together again" says the BBC's Jim Muir

Mr Abadi is one of Iraq's most senior politicians, having held several high-profile posts since returning from exile in 2003.

He is regarded by someas a moderate within Mr Maliki's Dawa party, and has shown more of a willingness to compromise than his predecessor.

In a Facebook post , Mr Abadi urged Iraqis to unite in the face of "strong and dangerous challenges". He said he would be prepared to give up his life in defence of the nation.

The change in government comes as the Iraqi army proved unable to stop Islamist fighters from seizing vast areas in northern Iraq.


505 S.W.2d 556 (1974)
Joe POPE, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 47198.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
February 20, 1974.
Cox & Hurt, Plainview, for appellant.
Tom Hamilton, Dist Atty., Plainview, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and Buddy Stevens, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION
DOUGLAS, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of murder without malice. The jury assessed punishment at five years.
Appellant's sole ground of error alleges that the evidence is insufficient. He contends that an exculpatory statement which was contained in a written confession introduced by the State was not disproved. We overrule this contention and affirm.
During the evening of August 21, 1971, Robert Kernell, Ernest Ortegon (the deceased), Carl Coleman and the appellant had been drinking at Holey's Grill in Plainview and then sometime after11:00 p.m. went to Kernell's house to drink some more and to shoot dice. An argument developed between Ortegon and the appellant following a discussion in regard to races. The men then left, went by appellant's house to pick up a fifth of whiskey and returned to the cafe.
Ozelle Craft, who was also at the cafe when the four men returned, testified that he had had a discussion with the appellant about a pistol and had seen the appellant put it under his shirt under his belt. He also stated that there had not been an argument between the deceased and the appellant at the cafe. Craft stated that when the four men left Kernell was driving and the deceased was in the right front seat.
Texas Ranger Troy


Porterfield, who was sheriff of Hale County on the date of the offense, testified that at approximately 6:00 a.m. on August 22, 1971, a man advised him that a shooting had occurred on Date Street in Plainview. Porterfield arrived at the scene some three minutes later. Upon his arrival, he noticed Robert Kernell and the appellant standing beside a car and Ernest Ortegon lying by the curb. He testified that he immediately picked up Ortegon's right arm and felt for a pulse *557 beat, but there was none. While waiting for other officers to arrive, Porterfield talked to Kernell and the appellant. The appellant told him that Ortegon had pulled a gun on him, they scuffled over it and it went off. Kernell related the same story. Afterhearing their story that Ortegon had had the gun, he examined the body of the deceased again. This time there was a gun in Ortegon's right hand, a gun which was not there when he had checked Ortegon's pulse.
Jerry Huddleston, a news director, testified that when he arrived at the scene there was no gun in the hand of the deceased. A short time later when Huddleston took a picture, there was a gun in the hand of the deceased.
Detective Jerry Austin of the Plainview police department testified that he had been summoned to the scene by his office and that a short time afterwards he talked to Kernell and the appellant at the sheriff's office. Because of inconsistencies in the stories of Kernell, the appellant and other


witnesses in the case, Detective Austin again interviewed the appellant. Still no charges had been filed against the appellant. After the appellant had been warned of his rights, he gave a written statement to officers wherein he stated:
"I pulled the gun out and asked him not to be slapping me. I was going to hit him on the head with the gun. We started scuffling with the gun. The gun went off and he slumped in the seat. Robert [Kernell] pulled over to the curb and stopped. I opened the door on the right side and Ernest fell out. I thought he was dead and I got scared. I put the gun in Ernesthand. Robert notified the officers."
On cross-examination, appellant's counsel questioned Detective Austin about the voluntariness ofwas an accident.
On re-direct, Detective Austin testified that the appellant was given a polygraph test after he made the following oral statement to the officer:
"... an argument had developed there at 6th and Date and that Ernest Ortegon had reached over the back seat and slapped him ... Joe (the appellant) said he had got the gun out at that time.... That they went down the road a little bit further from 6th and Date and that ... Joe said he had the gun out in his hand at that time and that Ernest had turned around again. He thought he (Ortegon) was going to hit him and he told him not to hit him, or not to do anything. And he turned around and acted like he


thereupon wrote to the other landowners so as to encourage them to join the NSDAP:
"If we do not wish to embrace Bolshevism we have no other choice but to enter into this party which, despite many socialist ideas, is the counter-pole of Marxism and Bolshevism."

He became a member of the party himself and the bulk of the population of Liebenberg later followed his example. His son-in-law, Baron von Engelhardt, had already some years earlier founded a Liebenberg branch of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK), organising field games and battle exercises.

The Eulenburg's neighbour on the next estate was Hermann Göring, who had built a country residence, Carinhall in the Schorfheide forest nearby. He would at times join the deer hunting on the Liebenberg estate. It was duringrecent graduate of the University of Memphis. His family said his grandparents recently passed away a few weeks earlier in Nashville. Tinker’s parents were still in Nashville when they found out their son was killed in Memphis.

Wooten, who allegedly murdered Casey, had been arrested for three prior shootings. He even shot his brother over a pair of Nike shoe s.

Colin Flaherty has said “don’t make the black kids angry,” but the problem is the corporate media, academia, pop culture, rappers, black clergy, and Democrat Party are doing everything possible to accelerate anti-white hatred among the black population.

In the book Hate Crime Hoax: How the Left is Selling a Fake Race War, we learn an unsettling truth seemingly invalidating the title of the book — 82 to 85 percent


of interracial crime involving white and black people is black on white violent crime:

There is an astonishing level of consensus, at least among scholars, on the fact that almost all of the interracial crime that does occur in the United States is POC-on-white. In the representative year of 2008, 429,000 Black-on-white violent crimes and only 91,000 white-on-Black violent crimes were recorded by the FBI, and the proportional breakdown of interracial offenses by race was nearly identical during 2012 and 2015. Anti-racist activist Tim Wise, who provided the figures just given, thus estimates that 82.5 percent of interracial crime involving Blacks and whites is Black-on-white crime.

The FBI data would seem to indicate a race war is actually taking place, albeit an undeclared one, when 82.5 percent to 85 percentthen condemned him when he declined. Gillespie appeared on "Fox and Friends" and called the ad "an attack on all Virginians."

Discussion about the ad has lit up Twitter and other social media platforms.

The Latino advocacy group stood by the ad as a response to a series of ads from Gillespie that began airing in September and seemed to link illegal immigrants with the violent Latino street gang MS-13. Those ads also have drawn widespread condemnation for being racially insensitive and for seeking to whip up fear about immigrants.

[GIllespie rolls out ad that tries to link Northam to MS-13 gang violence]

The Latino Victory Fund pulled its ad after only two days because of the incident in New York City in which a man driving a rented truck ran down


by the tremendous pressures found about 2300 meters (7500 feet) below the surface where vents are located. That seawater eventually finds its way into the magma of the Earth where it is superheated and then returned to the ocean at temperatures as high as 400o C (750o F). The black "smoke" you see is actually a cocktail of metals and minerals drawn from deep within the earth which precipitates out and rains down upon the seabed below when it hits the extremely cold water at the bottom of the ocean. The gold deposited on the chimney by the process is clearly visible in the picture above. The Marshall Hydrothermal Recovery System is the first mention in the patent literature of any utilization of hydrothermal vents for energy, orFOREEDGE, DJ IN MYLAR WRAPPER Black cloth boards, black and white illustrated dust jacket. 251 pp. Text in English and Spanish. Surveys the video oevre of Iranian artists Shirin Neshat, from her piece "Rapture" to her video "Zarin". The author reflects on the cultural context of her challenging and controversial artistic practise. Catalogue of an exposition at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de ... Read More


Harry Alan Towers (19 October 1920, Wandsworth – 31 July 2009) was a British-born radio and independent film producer and screenwriter. He wrote many screenplays for his films, usually under the pseudonymPeter Welbeck. He produced over a hundred feature films and continued to write and produce well into his eighties. Towers was married to the actress Maria Rohm who appeared in many of his movies and survives him.

Based on his radio success, in the mid-1950s he produced television shows for ITV[3] such as Armchair Theatre, The Golden Fleece, The Boy About the Place, Teddy Gang, The Lady Asks for Help, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Suicide Club, The Little Black Book, The New Adventures of Martin Kane, A Christmas Carol, 24 Hours a Day, Down to the Sea, GunRule, and many others.

In 1961 Towers, with girlfriend Mariella Novotny, was charged with operating a vice ring at a New York hotel, but he jumped bail and returned to Europe.[4] Novotny, in her statement to the FBI, claimed Towers was a Soviet agent responsible for providing compromising information on individuals for the benefit of the USSR.[5]Lobster Magazine ran an article in 1983[5][6] citing sources who alleged Towers was linked with (among others) Stephen Ward, Peter Lawford, the Soviet Union, and a vice ring at the United Nations. Hearst Corporation newspapers had already mentioned Towers' name in a 1963 article featuring coded references to a liaison between a pre-White House John F. Kennedy and Novotny, a known prostitute.[7] The charges against Towers were dropped in 1980 after he paid


Designers of the Future Award - 3D Printed Crystals with Swarovski
SWAROVSKI AND DESIGN MIAMI ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF
THE 2019 DESIGNERS OF THE FUTURE AWARD

For the fifth consecutive year Swarovski and Design Miami are pleased to
announce winners of the Swarovski Designers of the Future Award: Shanghai-born installation
artist Juju Wang, Dutch design duo Studio Klarenbeek and Dros, and London-based lighting
designer Raffe Burrell. The commissioned works, which apply pioneering and sustainable
crystal technologies, were unveiled to an influential audience at Design Miami/ Basel, June 2019.

For Home Décor, Studio Klarenbeek & Dros presented a series of 3D printed crystal objects inspired
by the reduction of the Arctic icecaps observed between 1980 till present due to global warming, to
capture the world’s precious ecology for future generations. Eschewing traditional crystal cutting, the
designers are working closely with Swarovski’sthe region, as utensils from the depot of Musee Departemental Arles Antique.

The objects should be conceived to serve the needs of various users and consumers of the museum and region.
The laboratory displays the production chain so the visitor can experience the whole cycle of production from the raw material to the final product.

Studio Klarenbeek & Dros on Algae
' Algae produce the majority of oxygen we breath in, by binding carbon dioxides and converting it into biomass, as they absorb carbon (C) and produce O2 as a waste product: clean air..
In a relatively brief period, humans released a vast amount of CO2 into the atmosphere, from organic matter that lay buried in the ground for millions of years.
With effects such as global heating, acidification of the oceans as a


functions not only as a lampshade, but at the same time as a cooler for the high-efficient power LED.

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Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West - Designed and printed by Kids

Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West - Designed and printed by Kids

Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West - Designed and printed by Kids

Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West - Designed and printed by Kids

Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West - Designed and printed by Kids

Kids Climbing Rack - Amsterdam West
A Climbing rack and handles designed and printed by kids from the neighbourhood. For The Beach, County of Amsterdam.

Lucid Dream - Crystal Glass Lights
Handblown crystal-glass with high brightness LEDs. The lucid dream shows the ability of glass to transmit light by internal reflection, spreading light energy of LED's on anexact location.

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Windlight World Expo Shanghai - Klarenbeek Dros

Windlight World Expo Shanghai - Klarenbeek Dros

Windlight World Expo Shanghai - Klarenbeek Dros

Windlight for John Kormeling's World Expo pavilion Shanghai
For John Körmeling pavilion we developed an autonomous functioning wind powered LED streetlight, with a warm but high light output brought by 20Watt of LED's!

Windlight was presented at the world Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Placed on the Dutch pavilion "Happy Street" by Dutch Architect John Körmeling.

Windlight started as an experimental proposal for city lighting in the Dutch city of Zaandam. It brings a positive, happy atmosphere to areas that are demolished, abandoned or under development, where it serves as a temporary mobile tool for its transition period.

Windlight is also a pure functional design. Near highways, on bridges and in open areas it


lights up at night, to alert car drivers of sudden extreme winds.

Floating Light Project
A lamp floating on its own heat. From 2003 till present we've made numerous Floating lights, for private and commercial clients.
The Floating light has been in the collection and produced for several years by Moooi.com.

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Pixelpoort - Cycling tunnel - Designed by the community
Windmills, multiculturalism, wooden houses, nature, harbours and polders. Over 700 local residents of Zaanstad participated in the tunnel design via our website.

Via www.pixelpoort.nl people submitted images drawn pixel by pixel on the website, illustrating what they were most proud about in their region. These pixels were translated into tiles, and is now realised in the 'bicycle gate' between Amsterdam and Zaandam.

For the Lapse in time exhibition at Experimenta in Lisbon Experimentadesign
we created anew piece Plié. As a mix between performance and product, we installed the presented works during the opening, starting with an empty space, which slowly converted into the exhibition space, working together with choreographer Nuno Almeida and his students from the dance academy of Lisbon.

By turning round the order of the net and curtain a 3-dimensional effect is being introduced as a window darkening system.
3D Curtains for a private apartment in Belgium, which has been designed by Ooze Architects. For an apartment at the seaside of Knokke, Belgium, we were asked to design the curtains for the living room and bedrooms. The living room has a view on the sea, and for this we created 3 layers of 'voile' curtains, working as a 3D panorama, with on every


us with a reality and time where nature disasters are breaking records that is either poetic as well as overwhelming and hits you right in the face.

The Eye jewelleries and movie was first presented at the Wonder Room of Selfridges, London, UK together with three unique Eye Jewellery collector pieces. It's viewed over 250.000 times on youtube, and got published and broadcasted worldwide. It was published in the Times (2x), Indian Times, ABC, Der Spiegel and was nominated as Top Rated Fashion Trend by ITN and Asia Television, which has over 18 million viewers.
Eye Jewellery, Music: NIN - Ghost, 1:08 min

For the Salone del Mobile 2010 we were invited by Droog to participate in 'Everything must go', reviving and transforming items lost to bankruptcies. For Droog Design weThe idea was to infect the other design pieces in the exhibition. Based on analog robotics, he walks while seeking with his eyes for bright light sources, while simultaneously saving energy to burn dots on his path. At night he (and his solarcells) were covered with a blanket, to prevent the risk of burning the whole place down.

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Animatronic cat. Runs on analog robotics and sensors 'sense' presence

Mycelium, The Plastic of the future. Documentary about the global initiatives on Mycelium, by VICE, Motherboard.

( Design / Art + new tech / materials ) = imagining the future
Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros are tutors at the master Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Tutor at the master of Architecture and Urbanism in Tilburg and founder of the ArTechLab at the


use of space.

Eric Klarenbeek (Amsterdam 1978) graduated in 2003 at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Since then he has designed for clients such as Droog Design, Marcel Wanders's Moooi, Lidewij Edelkoort, Makkink Bey, Eneco and the Ministry of the Netherlands. He is founder of the ArTechLab at the AKI ArtEZ art academy (www.artechlab.nl). His projects have been exhibited and published extensively. His windlight is presented at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai and The Floating Light Project was awarded for innovative design at The Design Academy Eindhoven.

'My work is characterized by interaction and innovation. My products can be in motion, react on our emotions or respond on developments in our society. I search for new meaning and principles in objects, for unexplored connections between materials, production methods, makers andEnvironment DLG. A formal defense line of around 85 kilometres, stretching from Amsterdam to Rotterdam, forming a protective ring around the western and economical part of the Netherlands.
At the moment they're working on varying projects, such as the design of a formal Roman Castellum Fectio, established around 4 AD till around 300 AD, commissioned by the Province Utrecht https://publiekgemaakt.nl/castellum-fectio-historie-in-ontwikkeling/.


Florida Congressional candidate Tim Canova. | AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee DWS, Canova square off in debate as primary approaches

Political newcomer Tim Canova and veteran U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz differed on how best to achieve progressive goals and exchanged barbs over fundraising and Social Security during a long-awaited televised debate on Sunday morning.

The debate, which aired on Miami's CBS4, came about two weeks ahead of the Aug. 30 Democratic primary in the 23rd congressional district. In a strategy that seems to be paying off, Wasserman Schultz, a former Democratic National Committee chairwoman, is leaning on her long record while recruiting Washington heavy hitters — from presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to House minority leader Nancy Pelosi — to help her retain her seat.

Meanwhile, Canova, a former Capitol Hill staffer andby eight points. A separate poll released by a super PAC supporting Wasserman Schultz had her up 33 points.

And the Sanders campaign’s top political and media consultants, Washington-based Tad Devine, Mark Longabaugh, and Julian Mulvey, abruptly parted ways with the Canova campaign two weeks after signing on.

Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden was in Miami earlier this month to lend his support to Wasserman Schultz, as was former Arizona congresswoman and shooting survivor Gabrielle Giffords. U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who led a sit-in in the House chamber over gun-control issues earlier this summer, also is expected to campaign with Wasserman Schultz ahead of the primary.


proven performance escalator. The PPE impacts his fourth year salary, based on his snap count his first three seasons.

The team announced all but two of their draft pick signings last month. Redmond and Joshua Garnett had not signed at that point. Garnett still has not signed, and is likely figuring out offsets on his guaranteed salaries. Redmond had not signed because the third round is viewed as the one round where agents can try and squeeze out some bonus money. There is a rookie wage scale, but the third round offers a little bit of wiggle room. The top six picks of the third round had not signed as of recently, but Redmond is now off the board.

Here’s the press release the team issued with the news:

The SanFrancisco 49ers today announced they have signed CB Will Redmond to a four-year deal.

Redmond (6-0, 186) was selected by the 49ers in the third round (68th overall) of this year’s draft out of Mississippi State University. During his three-year career with the Bulldogs, he played in 27 games (seven starts) and registered 99 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, five interceptions and eight passes defensed. As a senior, started all seven games in which he appeared and notched 25 tackles, two interceptions and one pass defensed. In 2014, Redmond played in 12 games and led the Bulldogs with three interceptions while also tallying 51 tackles, 3.0 tackles for loss and five passes defensed. As a sophomore, he played in 8 games and registered 23 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss


with the frequency of accidents and of downward forecast revisions, led the analytical community to under appreciate non-OPEC’s recent performance and to essentially write off its potential.

NON-OPEC GROWTH, FROM WHERE?

Regionally, Russia and the Caspian region will lead non-OPEC growth, with the bulk of the increase expected to come from the Caspian. Outside these areas, supply growth is driven primarily by increases in offshore West Africa, offshore Latin America, Gulf of Mexico and non-conventional in North America. The Middle East, OECD Asia and other parts of Asia will show modest gains, while Western Europe is expected to decline driven by a fall in output from the North Sea.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING EXPENSIVE “SPARE” CAPACITY?

But as a result of these uncertainties affecting security of demand, OPEC Member Countries willThe return to Paul Ricard in 2018 was one of the last major deals signed by Bernie Ecclestone, but Liberty says the race is proof that it wants the likes of Britain and Germany to stay on the schedule.

Although the latter is missing from the 2017 calendar, Hockenheim has a contract to host a race next year.

"There are always tracks that go in and out," said Liberty President and CEO Greg Maffei. "It is most negative when you have some of our traditional Western European tracks which are at the heart of the fan base, like in Germany, go out.

"But there's already progress to bring them back, and if you recall we added the Ricard track in France, another place where we've been gone for some years.

"The origin


Adams is a contested floater from outside the restricted area.

The following possession from the second half of the same game is almost identical in terms of how the Warriors establish a wall and the shot Adams receives. Notice once again how Durant and Green completely ignore their assignments.

The encouraging sign for Adams’ development is he made both of those attempts. After attempting 19 floaters in 2015-16, Adams attempted 37 floaters in 2016-17 and made 19 of them. Even though he might never be someone who can pop to the perimeter in the pick-and-roll, the ability to make floaters helps keep the defense honest. He showed signs of improvement as a passer as well last season by kicking the ball out to the perimeter for jump shots and drives.Some studies of largely white populations suggest that users of the injectable progestogen contraceptive (IPC), depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), have lower bone mineral density than nonusers. This has biologic credibility because DMPA use results in decreased levels of estrogen. In one study, the difference in bone mineral density between users and nonusers was concentrated in women aged 18-21 years, among whom peak bone mineral density would not yet have been achieved, but in another study there was no relation of the bone loss to age. An irreversible effect of IPCs on bone would have serious implications for rates of osteoporotic fractures later in Life, particularly for women who used IPCs at young ages. Black (African) and colored (mixed racial descent) women in South Africa have very high rates of


Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the Narendra Modi government's Pakistan policy is "in shambles" and accused it of "failing miserably to honour its solemn promise to the people of the country."

"The (Modi) government's policy towards Pakistan is in shambles. Terrorists from Pakistan continue to operate freely not only in Jammu and Kashmir but also in Punjab and other neighbouring states," Singh, who represented Assam in Rajya Sabha for 10 years, told a Congress poll rally here.

"The recent attack on Pathankot airbase is the most recent evidence of our vulnerability.

"On the economic front, agriculture in the last two years has been stagnant bringing large scale distress to Indian farmers", he said.

Continuing to hit out at Modi, Singh said his foreign trips have been projected as great achievements"though everybody knows that these have yielded nothing yet."

Raking up Modi's promise before the Lok Sabha polls to bring back black money kept by Indians in foreign banks, Singh said ironically the government "failed miserably to honour its solemn promise to the people of India."

"This is what the dream-merchant is selling all the time" and his (Modi's) list of promises is "endless", he said.

"All he (Modi) achieved in these two years is that he has forced crores of people to open bank accounts. But people are asking what will they do with bank accounts when they have nothing to keep in the bank.

"There is a saying in English that action speaks louder than words. However, it seems Modiji forgot this basic tenet of public life,".

There is now a


deliberate attempt to befool the people by bringing "non-issues as issues of great importance," he asserted.

Referring to the country's economic scenario under the BJP government at the Centre, Singh said industrial production has been stagnant and as a result there is no sign of growth of employment, while exports have continued to decline month after month in the last 15 months.

Urging people of Assam to give a "strong mandate" to Congress, he said this would take the development of the state to a new high.

"Whenever the reins of the state was given to a non-Congress party, the state suffered enormously," he added. MORE

Singh said the incidents in Hyderabad Central

University and Jawaharlal Nehru University are indicative of the central government's "attempt to curb freedom of expression and to polarizeIndian polity along communal lines."

"The imposition of President's Rule in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand exposes the Modi government's desire to hurt democracy and promote centralization of power in violation of constitutional norms," the former prime minister said.

Alleging that BJP has been trying to divide the society of Assam, he said, "I firmly believe that such a conspiracy would never be allowed to succeed by its people who nurture a long tradition of syncretism, unity, harmony and tolerance. This land of Assam has always stood united in times of crisis."

Recounting the language movement in Assam in the 1960s and 1970s, the turbulent days of the 1980s and the period of insurgency, he said many in Congress had to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the party's ideals.

Singh claimed


that the state machinery had become completely dysfunctional before Tarun Gogoi government came to power in 2001 and said that he was confident that people would not want to return to those conditions.

The former prime minister said the Modi Government has very little interest in the development of Assam and other North Eastern states and has abolished the special category status given to the state by his erstwhile UPA government.

"The UPA government had worked hand in hand with Assam government to accelerate the pace of development in the state ... The progress made by Assam in the last 15 years under the leadership of Tarun Gogoi is visible all round."

Insurgency has almost been wiped out by a two-pronged Congress government strategy which invested heavily in massive infrastructure developmentand gave political stability in the state.

It also brought various insurgent groups to the table for negotiations and the peace process was initiated and an environment was created for the peaceful settlement of political issues besides bringing in the much needed stability and development, he said.

"But we have a large unfinished agenda to make Assam one of the front-ranking states of India," Singh said appealing for votes for Congress "to convert this dream into reality."

Singh said Congress is firmly committed to peace and development, promotion of communal harmony and had special concern about the well-being of the poor and backward sections.

UPA government, the former prime minister said, had always believed in work "rather than empty talks". It had brought in many schemes and legislations like Mahatma Gandhi National


After PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's call for laying down its arms, PKK's parent organization, the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) has made a statement in which they say they consider the call as a historic step towards peace. The administration also asked the government to fulfill its responsibilities."We consider Öcalan's call for a new congre to lay down the arms as a historic step. Regarding 40-year conflict, the government should take this call into consideration and meet the requirements regarding the ten articles that Öcalan emphasized."Saying that they expect the government to take concrete steps and to have a political response to the call, the KCK administration stated, "As long as the government fulfills its responsibilities in the process, we openly declare that we will fulfill our obligations, asthe seriousness of the statements and increase the support for a solution to the Kurdish issue.- Forming the basis and content of the historic statement, the negotation titles aim to solve the problems of other outsiders like Alevis, as well."KCK, an organization founded by Kongra-Gel (Kurdistan People's Congress), has been functioning as an umbrella organization covering the Kurds of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria since they were formed in 2005.There are five main subdivisions of the KCK: the ideological front, the social front, the political front, the military front and the women's division. In addition to the PKK, some political parties are included in the organization such as the PJAK (The Free Life Party of Kurdistan) in Iran and the PYD (Democratic Union Party, in Kurdish) in Syria,


off a three-game home stand that also includes match-ups against Robert Morris (Nov. 9) and Stetson (Nov. 11) in the opening rounds of the Hall of Fame Classic.The Bears then travel to Sprint Center in Kansas City for the first time, Nov. 19-20, when they take on Nebraska in the semifinals of the Hall of Fame Classic and then either USC or Texas Tech the following night.MSU then plays three straight on the road for the only time in 2018-19 with a competitive stretch at Murray State (Nov. 24), Air Force (Nov. 28) and Oregon State (Dec. 1). The Air Force game is part of the MVC-Mountain West Challenge.December continues with a return visit from Western Kentucky (Dec. 5), a second trip to North Dakota State (Dec. 15)in as many years, and the Bears' first game against Arkansas State (Dec. 18) since 2011. The non-league schedule concludes with home contests against UAPB (Dec. 22) and William Woods (Dec. 30).Including the Missouri Valley Conference schedule, which will be released by the league in the coming weeks, the Bears will have 16 games at home for Ford's inaugural season at the helm."In Kansas City, we play Nebraska with the possibility of facing Texas Tech or USC on national TV," Ford summarized. "Those are marquee names, and that doesn't include hosting NIT semifinalist Western Kentucky or going to Murray State, which was an NCAA Tournament team last season.The Bears return three lettermen () and four other squad members (, Jarred Ridder, Darrian Scott) from an 18-15 campaign.The team's


email DuaneMiller@MissouriState.edu. The season-ticket application and additional ticket information can be accessed at MissouriStateBears.com.EU in 2017-18: Evangel was 8-23 overall and 6-13 in the Heart of America Conference.Noteworthy: MSU beat the Crusaders, 80-48, last year in a regular-season game at JQH Arena (Nov. 24)ORU in 2017-18: The Golden Eagles were 11-21 overall and 5-9 in the Summit League, losing a double overtime game to Denver in the first round of the conference tournament in Sioux Falls, S.D.Series History: The series is tied, 8-8, with MSU winning 4 of 5 games at JQH ArenaLast Meeting: ORU 73, MSU 66 on Dec. 10, 2017 in TulsaRMU in 2017-18: The Colonials were 16-17 overall and 9-9 in the Northeast Conference, losing to Wagner in the NEC semifinals.Series History: First meetingSU in2017-18: The Hatters were 12-20 overall and 4-10 in the Atlantic Sun, falling to Lipscomb in the opening round of the ASC Tournament in Nashville.Series History: Series tied, 1-1. First meeting at JQH ArenaLast Meeting: Stetson 80, MSU 76 at Hammons Student Center on Dec. 28, 2000NU in 2017-18: The Cornhuskers were 22-11 overall and 13-5 in the Big Ten. Nebraska lost to Mississippi State in the first round of the NITSeries History: Nebraska leads 1-0Last Meeting: Nebraska 98, MSU 46 on Jan. 15, 1983 in Lincoln, Neb.USC in 2017-18: The Trojans were 24-12 overall and 12-6 in the PAC-12. USC lost to Arizona in the PAC-12 Tournament finals and advanced to the NIT second round before falling, 79-75, to Western Kentucky.Series History: USC leads 1-0Last Meeting: USC


83, MSU 75 on Orleans Arena in Las Vegas on Dec. 22, 2016TTU in 2017-18: The Red Raiders were 27-10 overall and 11-7 in the Big 12. TTU lost to West Virginia in the semifinals of the Big 12 Tournament but still earned an NCAA berth, defeating S.F. Austin, Florida and Purdue before losing to eventual national champion Villanova in the Elite Eight.Series History: Texas Tech leads 4-0Last Meeting: TTU 80, MSU 68 in Lubbock, Texas on Nov. 22, 2014.MUR in 2017-18: The Racers were 26-6 overall and 16-2 in the Ohio Valley last season. MSU defeated Belmont in the OVC Tournament championship before falling to West Virginia in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.Series History: Series tied, 2-2. First meeting in Murray.Last Meeting: Murray State 66,Nickelodeon Greenlights TMNT Season Four

As the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles celebrate their 30th anniversary this year, Nickelodeon has announced that it has greenlit a 20-episode fourth season of its current TMNT CG-animated series.

The news may not come as a surprise to many: since its premiere in September 2012, which boasted an amazing 12 million viewers, the series has proved to be a massive success for the network, and this year’s first quarter saw it ranked among the top 5 animated series across all US television.

In Season Three, which will air this autumn, Robot Chicken‘s Seth Green will be replacing Jason Biggs as Leonardo, joining the rest of the turtle team which includes Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings) as Raphael, Rob Paulsen (Planet Sheen) as Donatello and


Free Exchange TV:New episodes have been posted including interviews with Mo. House Speaker Tim Jones and Paul Patterson of Restore St. Louis, as well as discussions of free markets for kidneys, the philosophical underpinnings of libertarianism, the 2008 financial crisis, and more.A lollipop man has hung up his fluorescent jacket for the last time after being threatened with suspension for giving children high fives.

Bob Slade, 65, has spent four years making sure youngsters cross the road safely outside the school gates.

But he has resigned after officials at Plymouth city council threatened him with four weeks' suspension for greeting children with a cheery hand slap.

He was told the hand gesture was inappropriate – because he should be holding his lollipop with one hand and using the other to signal traffic.

They also said lollipop men and women's "full attention must be on the road and they must watch the traffic closely at all times".

Slade, of Plymouth, Devon, said he had already stopped high-fiving kids following an earlier warning – but was


Manadon Vale primary school in 2009, helping children cross a busy junction.

Parents – who were told Slade had resigned for personal reasons – have criticised the situation as ridiculous.

Gary Hay, 46, a father of two and mental health worker, said: "He was a lovely man and the kids loved him. There was always a great atmosphere in the morning and he made every individual child feel special.

"There's no one on the road now which is worrying as it's quite a dangerous crossing. It's a shame he's been penalised as he did his job so well – his priority was to keep the kids safe, which he always did."

Penny Boom, 39, a sales assistant who has one child at the school, said: "Everyone seems to be pretty shocked byand

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Born into the KiLore tribe of the Lurecia Archipelago, Manny has always been a tough fighter. His father was well known as one of the most durable warriors in the tribe, and wanted to make sure his son was even better. Nearly every day Manny was taught new ways to battle or new stances to use, and even before he could, his father would at least have Manny watch him train. Manny enjoyed the training, even when it was a bit hard to handle. Mannys mother was mostly a gatherer in the tribe, but she could also fight enough to defend herself. She felt ause most weapons, but craft them as well, a very appreciated skill in the tribe.

Only two years later though, the tribe was attacked by strong rival tribe. Most of the warriors of the tribe quickly ran to fend off the first wave of attackers, while others went to protect those who could not fight and move them to safety. The rival tribe had of course planned out the attack though, and had more of their warriors attack from behind and flank them. Warriors of the KiLore had to quickly move form their positions to prevent form being boxed in. Once Manny had moved through most of the chaos with the people heading to safety, he saw his father fighting, but at the worst moment he could have seen


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the free pass a career-high 161 times. The Bonds treatment was never expected to stop him. It was a merely a means to divert the damage.

Now at 83.9 career WAR, Trout cracks the top-25, sandwiched between Chipper Jones and Joe DiMaggio.

Age 29

Age comp: Nelson Cruz, 2010

Nelson Cruz, 2010 WAR: 4.9

4.9 Translated numbers: .317/.406/.588, 23 HR, 170 wRC+

Everyone’s nightmare comes true: Trout falls victim to injury for the first time in his career. No one’s invincible. In early August, Trout is hit with a fastball on the hands, breaking a wrist. He misses the remainder of the season. Like Nelson Cruz in 2010, Trout’s still able to post nearly five wins in 108 games due to an extremely hot first half, but we’re given perhaps our first reminder thatTrout is human after all.

Still, Trout is able to leapfrog Jones, George Brett and Wade Boggs on the all-time WAR leaderboard, ending the season ranked 22nd all-time, with 88.8 WAR.

Age 30

Age comp: Lenny Dykstra, 1993

Lenny Dykstra, 1993 WAR: 6.8

6.8 Translated numbers: .292/.400/.484, 22 HR, 143 wRC+

Still recovering from the wrist injury, Trout gets off to a dreadful first half in the inaugural year of his 30s, leading many to question whether the inevitable decline from greatness was near. He still makes the All-Star Game on popularity alone, but the numbers aren’t there; he’s barely an above-league average hitter by the break. A strong second half saves his season and restores hope, but the wrist still zaps his power for much of the year and he finishes the season


first-pitch swing rate, ambushing pitchers early in the count to rack up a league-high 31 homers by the All-Star Break. By the time pitchers adjust to Trout’s free-swinging approach, much of the damage has already been done. He posts a career-low walk rate of just 8.4%, but slugs 50+ homers for the second and last time in his career.

Trout cracks 100 career WAR during this season, becoming just the 14th hitter in the modern era to do so. Frank Robinson and Jimmie Foxx rank beneath him in the 100-WAR club, with Rickey Henderson and Mike Schmidt next in line. With 445 homers by his age-31 season, people begin wondering whether Trout can end up as the game’s all-time home run leader.

Age 32

Age comp: Jackie Robinson, 1951

Jackie Robinson, 1951is going to go down as the Greatest of All Time, after all.

His 29 homers leave him with 499 at the end of the year. He surpasses Lou Gehrig’s career WAR, and enters the next season with 123.2 WAR under his belt. And then there were six.

Age 34

Age comp: Jim Edmonds, 2004

Jim Edmonds, 2004 WAR: 8.3

8.3 Translated numbers: .288/.395/.608, 39 HR, 168 wRC+

By now, Trout’s speed and defense have noticeably declined, and age 34 is his final season in center field. Still, the bat remains. He homers in his first at-bat of the year for number 500. Thirty-eight more bring his career total to 538 — 17th all-time and two more than Mantle.

Eight more wins means Trout usurps Stan Musial, Rogers Hornsby and Ted Williams. Mike Trout is


on his swing, and is able to muster 34 homers at the ripe age of 37, just like Raul Ibanez in 2009.

Trout has overtaken Mays. He has the third-highest career WAR in MLB history. He hits his 600th career homer shortly after the All-Star Break, and finishes the season with 618.

Age 38

Age comp: Joe Morgan, 1982

Joe Morgan, 1982 WAR: 5.2

5.2 Translated numbers: .281/.391/.456, 18 HR, 143 wRC+

The homers over the Green Monster turn into doubles off the Green Monster and Trout posts the final 4+ WAR season of his career.

That’s 156.4 career WAR. Fewer than 10 wins separate Trout and Bonds. Just 12 to the Babe.

Age 39

Age comp: Darrell Evans, 1986

Darrell Evans, 1986 WAR: 3.8

3.8 Translated numbers: .238/.346/.453, 33 HR, 121 wRC+

Entering the season with 636 career homers,A conflict over 2015 dates' requests for Churchill Downs and Kentucky Downs arose Sept. 30 when the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission's dates committee held the first of several meetings to consider the state's calendar.

Lisa Underwood said Oct. 24 she will step down as executive director of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to take a job with Wyatt, Tarrant, and Combs, a law firm for which she had worked previously.

The chairman of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission said Dec. 13 that any action stemming from the investigation into the Life At Ten case would be brought before the entire commission upon completion of a thorough review.

If the Kentucky General Assembly ends without passing legislation that would statutorily permit Instant Racing machines at Kentucky racetracks, the state racing commission would


then consider its options.

The company that conducts equine drug testing in Great Britain but which has not been involved in testing of horses in America has been awarded the contract to handle the testing of horses racing in Kentucky.

The harsh competitive environment in which Kentucky racing finds itself was on displayed in black and white Oct. 26 when a subcommittee of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission considered applications from Thoroughbred racetracks that signal a drastic reduction in live racing dates for 2010.

In response to the horse industry's cries for more effective ways of regulating racehorse medications, Kentucky Horse Racing Commission chairman Robert Beck reported the possibility of the state obtaining its own laboratory facility.A Russian newspaper has been accused of breaking the country's "gay propaganda" law because it published a news story about a teacher who was fired because of his sexual orientation.

The state's media watchdog, the Federal Mass Media Inspection Service (FMMIS), sent the editor-in-chief of the Molodoi Dalnevostochnik a notice claiming the item propagated homosexual relations.

It followed a report in the paper, based in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk, that included an interview with geography teacher Alexander Yermoshkin about the circumstances of his dismissal (see details in this Moscow Times article).

After a complaint, the regional branch of the FMMIS launched an investigation. One of its officials, Galina Yegoshina, pointed to a quote by Yermoshkin: "My very existence is effective proof that homosexuality is normal."

She said: "This statement goes


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"For many fans, Trigun was a very memorable series due to its lovable protagonist, Vash the Stampede, and its futuristic space western setting. Unlike another popular space western series, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun definitely had seemingly entrenched itself in the actual feel of an old-time spaghetti western rather than focus on the future. As Vash traveled in search of his long-forgotten past on the planet Gunsmoke, while being joined with cast regulars Meryl Stryfe, Milly Thompson and fan-favorite Nicholas D. Wolfwood, he was also being pursued by bounty hunters for the “60,000,000,000$$” price on his head as well as a more nefarious group. During his travels, Vash usually came off as a clumsy, foolish young man to many people but more often thancredit: Sirotti) Image 10 of 27 Damiano Cunego (Lampre) (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 11 of 27 Robert Gesink (Rabobank) lost contact on the final climb (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 12 of 27 Robert Gesink (Rabobank) lost contact on the final climb (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 13 of 27 Moreno Moser (Liquigas-Cannondale) (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 14 of 27 Frank Schleck finished second on the stage (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 15 of 27 Frank Schleck finished second on the stage (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 16 of 27 Frank Schleck attacked inside the final 6km (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 17 of 27 Frank Schleck attacked inside the final 6km (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 18 of 27 Rui Costa (Movistar) goes after Frank Schleck (Image credit: Sirotti) Image 19 of 27