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Here are the top 5 recreational marijuana shops in Washington State for total sales in the month of October:

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Manic Conrad is editor of High Above Seattle. His past exploits include purposely wandering around aimlessly, before accidentally confronting his biggest fear and dream, standing face to face with a large bear.Who's left

SFI staff & NFL Scout

04/24/2005

A look at the best prospects still available entering Day 2 of the 2005 NFL Draft. The 49ers don't select until the top of the fifth round after trading their fourth-round (No. 102 overall) and first sixth-round (No. 175) picks to Philadelphia on Saturday evening for the Eagles' late third-round selection (No. 94), which San Francisco used to select Oregon offensive lineman Adam Snyder.


season this year, and the signing of “the next big thing” in Germany; Marko Marin from Moenchengladbach for €9m, should help them along the way. Marin will have big boots to fill, though, with Diego’s departure for Juventus (for €24m) leaving the Northeners with a creative gap in their side. Werder also lost Claudio Pizarro, who returned to Chelsea after his loan ended, Carlos Alberto, who has been loaned to Vasco Da Gama and veteran midfielder Frank Baumann, who retired recently. The returns of Tim Borowski and Boubacar Sanogo from Bayern and Hoffenheim, respectively, will also help but it looks like a big ask for Werder to replicate their league win of 2007/08. Champions Vfl Wolfsburg will look to consolidate on their success last season, and have thelook of a team ready for another shot at the title. With no major departures, and the signings of players like Obafemi Martins and Karim Ziani, die Woelfe look like contenders again. Everyone’s favourite upstarts, TSG Hoffenheim, strengthened their young squad with the capture of Josep Simunic from Hertha Berlin for €7m and the highly rated Maicosuel from Botafogo for €5.4m. VfB Stuttgart will look to cope with the loss of Mario Gomez, and much of their success will hinge on how well new €10m signing Pavel Pogrebnyak adapts to the Bundesliga. Consistency will be the name of the game this season, as the second half of last season saw them mount a credible title challenge (after an abysmal first half to the season.) Aliaksandr Hleb has also


Prevalence of war-related sexual violence and other human rights abuses among internally displaced persons in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone's decade-long conflict has cost tens of thousands of lives and all parties to the conflict have committed abuses. To assess the prevalence and impact of war-related sexual violence and other human rights abuses among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sierra Leone. A cross-sectional, randomized survey, using structured interviews and questionnaires, of internally displaced Sierra Leone women who were living in 3 IDP camps and 1 town, which were conducted over a 4-week period in 2001. A total of 991 women provided information on 9166 household members. The mean (SE) age of the respondents was 34 (0.48) years (range, 14-80 years). The majority of the women sampled were poorly educated (meanBlackmoney: Switzerland reveals names of two Indian account holders

New Delhi: Two Indian women figure among scores of foreign nationals with Swiss bank accounts, whose names have been made public by Switzerland in its official gazette for being probed in their respective countries.

Making public these names, the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (FTA) has asked the two Indians to file an appeal within 30 days before the Federal Administrative Court if they do not want their details to be shared with the Indian authorities under their 'mutual assistance' treaty on tax matters.

However, no further details -- other than their dates of birth -- were made public for the two "Indian nationals" – Sneh Lata Sawhney and Sangita Sawhney.

The Indian government has been pushing the Swiss authorities for a long time


Arnold Kopelson, the Oscar-winning producer of such films as “Platoon” and “The Fugitive,” died Monday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 83.

Kopelson’s death was confirmed Monday his wife and business partner of 42 years, Anne Kopelson.

Anne Kopelson said her husband was a consummate producer who dedicated himself wholeheartedly to every film he produced over his long career.

“He loved what he did,” Kopelson told Variety. “He loved dealing with people in making movies and he had a very, very big heart.”

Kopelson had a prolific career in the film business from the 1970s through the early 2000s. From 2007 until September, Kopelson served as a board member of CBS Corp. He became close friends with CBS controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone and was a strong supporter of former CBSchairman-CEO Leslie Moonves.

“Arnold was a man of exceptional talent whose legacy will long survive him. He also, of course, was a highly dedicated CBS board member for more than 10 years,” CBS said in a statement. “Our hearts go out to Anne and his family.”

Kopelson became wrapped up in the legal battle, now settled, between CBS and Shari Redstone earlier this year when a recent video of Sumner Redstone taken by Kopelson was introduced into the court to support CBS’ claim that Sumner Redstone was no longer capable of making his own decisions.

After attending New York University and earning a law degree, Kopelson started his career as lawyer focusing on entertainment clients before moving into film and television sales. With his future wife, Anne, he founded Inter-Ocean Film


Sales in 1972 and became one of the first to specialize in funding independent films based on foreign pre-sales. He was a founding member of the American Film Marketing Assn., which launched the American Film Market. He was well regarded as having the rare combination of business acumen and a strong sense of creative material.

He moved into producing with films with indies such as 1981’s “Porky’s,” one of the most profitable films ever.

Kopelson shepherded notable films of the 1980s and 1990s including Oliver Stone’s best picture winner “Platoon,” “Falling Down,” “The Fugitive” and “Se7en.”

“Platoon” grossed nearly $140 million in the U.S. and also won best director for Stone and two additional Oscars.

A typically low-budget Kopelson affair, Oliver Stone’s passionate semiautobiographical morality tale about an Army platoon splintering betweentwo warring commanding officers (Willem Defoe and Tom Berenger) in the midst of the Vietnam War went on to gross nearly $140 million at the box office and sweep the Oscars, including a Best Picture win for Kopelson.

After he won the Oscar for “Platoon,” Kopelson used his clout to secure financing for 1989’s “Triumph of the Spirit,” a Holocaust drama about a boxer, played by Willem Defoe, sent with his family to the Auschwitz concentration camp but still forced to compete for the Nazis. “Spirit” became the first movie shot entirely on the grounds of the Auschwitz camp in Poland.

“He worked hard to make people understand that movies can meaningful,” Anne Kopelson said. “They can have a purpose and they can be entertaining. His body of work expressed


that on many levels.”

Kopelson was proud of the long road he took to bringing “Fugitive” to the screen in 1993 after many stops and starts, and screenwriters and stars attached to the project that went on to land an Oscar nomination for best picture.

He served for many years on the Executive Committee of the Producer’s Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was a member of the Board of Mentors of the Peter Stark Motion Picture Producer’s Program at the University of Southern California.

Survivors include his wife and business partner of 42 years, Anne Kopelson and three children, Peter, Evan and Stephanie.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, October 10 at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park, 5950 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90068 atBuses leaving Pristina each night are packed.| Photo by Una Hajdari

The number of Kosovo Albanians trying to illegally enter the European Union is on the rise, with the Hungarian Police reporting that 880 people from Kosovo were arrested on Sunday and a total of around 4,400 in the period from Friday to Sunday.

The numbers represent the biggest exodus of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo since the conflict in the late 1990s, with Hungarian embassy in Pristina saying that the total number of Kosovo Albanian in the EU country could be higher than 60,000.

The illegal migrants, most whom say they are leaving because of the lack of opportunities in Kosovo, can easily enter Serbia because of an agreement between the countries on travel with ID cards.

They then try to cross


the border with Hungary at night, usually with the assistance of smugglers, travelling illegally because they still need visas for the EU.

“I left five months ago. I crossed the border illegally and then went to Budapest. From Budapest I took the train to Austria,” a 24-year-old migrant who spoke to Balkan Insight on condition of anonymity.

He said he then stayed at a camp for asylum seekers in Austria but was subsequently deported. “I was in Traiskirchen for a little over a month, which is when they sent me back to Kosovo by plane,” he said.

After staying in Kosovo for a couple of months, he decided to try his luck again a week ago. He and two other friends successfully crossed the border with Hungary, reaching the town ofReorganization of North Atlantic marine copepod biodiversity and climate.
We provide evidence of large-scale changes in the biogeography of calanoid copepod crustaceans in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean and European shelf seas. We demonstrate that strong biogeographical shifts in all copepod assemblages have occurred with a northward extension of more than 10 degrees latitude of warm-water species associated with a decrease in the number of colder-water species. These biogeographical shifts are in agreement with recent changes in the spatial distribution and phenology detected for many taxonomic groups in terrestrial European ecosystems and are related to both the increasing trend in Northern Hemisphere temperature and the North Atlantic Oscillation.


which has to be applied to the jaws to recreate the bite. To enable the surgeon to respect these simulated relative positions, a plate comprising, on each of its surfaces, tooth-prints of the two castings is made with the dental castings. Such a plate, called an interscupidation plate, is used to maintain the castings or the jaws in relative positions where the teeth are in occlusion.
Since the surgical intervention generally includes osteotomies of both jaws, two interscupidation plates are generally made from the dental castings, in addition to a so-called initial interscupidation plate linking the two jaws in their occlusion position before the intervention.
A so-called intermediary plate determines the foreseeable displacement of the maxilla with respect to the mandible when said mandible is in its original (preoperative) position.the plate position between the model and the patient. The frame is then brought back on the patient in the position defined by the three maxillary screws and is attached to the patient's skull by two additional screws. The position of the transfer system being now fixed by these two screws, the osteotomy of the maxillary, which is correctly repositioned by means of the interscupidation plate which is rigidly coupled to the transfer system, is performed. Then, the osteotomy of the mandible is performed, and said mandible is correctly positioned by means of the interscupidation plate.
Such a technique has several drawbacks. On the one hand, it requires an additional surgical intervention to place the screws in the patient's mouth. On the other hand, it requires making a resin


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Our offices are open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (and 9 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. during the months of July and August).Since the brick-drying sheds were rather limited, many of the ghetto inhabitants were compelled to live under the open sky. The ghetto was guarded by a special unit of gendarmes from Budapest and operated under the command of Krasznai, one of the most cruel ghetto commanders in Hungary.

As a result of torture, malnutrition, and a totally inadequate water supply in the ghetto, the Jews of Sălaj County arrived at Auschwitz in such poor condition, so that an unusually large percentage were selected for gassing immediately upon arrival. The deportations from Cehei were carried out in three transports between May 31 and June 8.

Although built structures no longer exist on the site of the former brickyard, the Jewish Architectural Heritage Foundation has set up signposts commemorating the events that


Gerald McCoy RUMORS & NEWS

Detroit Free Press
"Gerald McCoy signed the richest contract for a defensive tackle in NFL history in October, but he said that the man who's about to top his deal is the best player at his position right now.
During an appearance on ESPN's "Mike & Mike" radio show this morning, McCoy was asked who is the best..."
January 22

ESPN.com
"All-Pro defensive tackle Gerald McCoy said Thursday that the Buccaneers' defense has been "soft."
"Yeah. I mean, if you look out there on tape and you see a bunch of guys sitting on blocks, are you not earning the title of being soft?'' McCoy said.
"I mean, guys get so sensitive around the..."
October 23

Bucs Nation
"The Houston Texans have signed J.J. Watt to a six-year, $100 million extension, according to Johnhe needs to see more, I guess..."
November 22

Fox Sports Florida
"Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy left practice Saturday with a tweaked calf coach Greg Schiano said. The severity is unknown.
McCoy named to his first Pro Bowl after last season limped off during a two-minute drill late in the workout at One Buc Place. After leaving the field..."
August 10

The Oklahoman
"Gerald McCoy flashed his trademark smile, shook plenty of hands and took pictures with everyone who wanted one.
The former Southeast High School and Oklahoma star and current defensive tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is always happy to be home.
McCoy was happy to be back home, both for..."
June 21

Fox Sports Florida
"ampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy was scheduled to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before a game


Saturday between the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees, but he never received the chance.
McCoy was involved in a minor accident on his way to Tropicana Field and missed the..."
May 26

Tampa Tribune
"Since Hardy Nickerson re-lit it 20 years ago, the mantle of leadership within the Buccaneers locker room — that proverbial torch everyone talks about — has been left behind more often than it has been passed on.
It was left for Warren Sapp, who held it after Nickerson left in 2000. It was left..."
May 12of placement practices in the
schools by a panel created by the National Academy of Sciences is of
great importance. The panel reported that there is little empirical
justification for categorical labeling that differentiates mildly
mentally retarded children from other children with academic
difficulties; and, perhaps more importantly, it said that similar
instructional processes appear to be effective with educable mentally
retarded, learning-disabled, and compensatory-educational populations,
including Chapter 1.

It is noteworthy that so-called "learning disabled'' children, a
special-education category, now constitute more than half of the
special-education population in the nation's public schools. The
researcher Joe Jenkins at the University of Washington reports a
virtually total "overlap'' in characteristics of Chapter 1 and
learning-disabled student populations. Richard Allington at the State
University of New York at Albany reports that students in categorical
programs actually receive less instruction in special support programs
designed to provide


Tallahassee, Florida, city commissioners last Friday voted to approve a $2.6 million settlement in the wrongful death suit of a young woman killed in a drug sting when she agreed to be a confidential informant for police after being busted on marijuana and ecstasy charges. The payout comes even as a similar killing is shaking the Detroit area.

Rachel Hoffman (facebook.com)

Rachel Hoffman, 23, a recent Florida State University graduate, inhabited student drug circles, but after she was busted and agreed to become a snitch in 2008, Tallahassee police sent her out into an entirely different world. They set up a "buy-bust" sting, giving Hoffman $13,000 in marked bills to buy ecstasy, cocaine, and a gun. Instead of completing the transaction, the two men targeted shot and killed her, stolethe money, her credit cards, and her car, and left her body in a ditch. The killers were later caught and are now serving life sentences.But Hoffman's parents sued after her death, claiming police were negligent in setting her up as an informant and putting her in harm's way. Jury selection in the case began two weeks ago, and the trial was set to begin Monday. After meeting with city attorneys, commissioners voted 3-2 to approve the settlement. The city itself will pay an initial $200,000 installment shortly, but under Florida law, the rest will only be paid after the Florida legislature passes a "claims bill," which could take years.The city's settlement isn't the only fallout from Hoffman's killing. After her death, her parents lobbied for, and the


legislature passed, "Rachel's Law," which mandated reforms to protect informants. Under that law, police who work with informants are also required to get special training, must allow them to talk with an attorney before agreeing to anything, and cannot promise them reduced sentences if they cooperate.If Michigan had such a law, perhaps Shelley Hilliard would be alive today . The 19-year-old transgender woman was found murdered and mutilated on Detroit's east side in October after last being seen going to meet a man she had set up in a drug sting after being busted herself for marijuana.In a Thursday preliminary hearing for Qasim Raqib, the man charged with her killing, testimony revealed that police told her she could avoid arrest by helping to set up a drug deal.She used her cell phone to call Raqib as police listened in on a speaker phone and told him she knew someone who wanted to buy $335 worth of marijuana and cocaine. He was arrested when he arrived at a local motel 20 minutes later.Further testimony suggested Raqib called Hilliard two days later and urged her to meet him. A taxi driver who took Hilliard on all her calls testified she said she was worried that Raqib would seek payback over the drug bust. The taxi driver testified that after dropping her off, she called him and sounded fearful, and he then heard a sound like the phone dropping to the ground before it went dead. Her body was found hours later.


Later today, NASA astronaut Steve Swanson will liftoff towards the International Space Station, not from the Space Coast of Florida or some other American spaceport, but from Kazakhstan on a Russian spacecraft. And unfortunately, the plan put forward by the Obama Administration to address this situation has been stymied by some in Congress.

Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle – a decision made in 2004 – the United States has been dependent on the Russians to get our astronauts to the International Space Station. Recognizing that this was unacceptable, President Obama has requested in NASA’s budget more than $800 million each of the past 5 years to incentivize the American aerospace industry to build the spacecraft needed to launch our astronauts from American soil. Had this plan beenthree times the weekly benefit amount.
Calvert appealed to the Department of Labor's Appeal Tribunal where the assigned Hearing Officer found that transportation problems were the "precipitating event" in Calvert's decision to quit. The Hearing Officer concluded that, although Calvert's transportation problems may have provided a compelling reason to quit, Calvert had not "exhaust[ed] all reasonable alternatives prior to quitting," as is required in order to show good cause. The Hearing Officer affirmed the claim center's determination.
The Commissioner of the Department of Labor affirmed the Hearing Officer's decisions, as did the superior court. For the reasons explained below, we affirm.

II. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
Carol Calvert was a seasonal employee of Snug Harbor Seafoods in Kenai. She worked there for the first time during the summer of 2007. She was rehired


on March 10, 2008, and quit on April 6, 2008. She filed for unemployment benefits on April 6.
The Department of Labor's (Department) unemployment insurance claim center sent Calvert a "Voluntary Leaving Statement" to complete and return in order to provide additional information about her separation from employment. Calvert returned the Voluntary Leaving Statement on May 9. In her explanation of why she quit, she cited conflicts that had begun during the 2007 season with a supervisor, Mike, and his girlfriend, *995 Hope (also a Snug Harbor employee). Calvert alleged that the conflict began when the plant manager asked Calvert to run the "gear department" and planned to move Hope out of her position in that department. Calvert also described her disappointment at the March 2008 departure of BrandiO'Reagan, who was the plant manager during the 2007 season and who had encouraged Calvert to return for the 2008 season. Calvert reported that Mike cut her hours immediately after O'Reagan left, allegedly in retaliation for Calvert's conflicts with Hope. Calvert was also concerned that Richard King, the plant manager who replaced O'Reagan, was aligned with Mike and Hope, and shared their hostility toward her.
Calvert also described transportation difficulties. She biked ten miles each way to get to Snug Harbor, so she required ample notice of the start times for her shifts. Work shifts were announced via a "hotline." In 2007, shifts were posted so there was typically a three-hour lead time. According to Calvert, in 2008 the hotline was updated less frequently, later in the day, and


sometimes as little as half an hour in advance. Calvert argued, "[i]t became a cruel guessing game whether [she] should start for work on [her] bike." She found the local public transit agency to be "relentlessly uncooperative" in arranging transportation, her bike broke, and she anticipated increased difficulties associated with springtime road construction on her route to work.
In addition, Calvert expressed concern on her Voluntary Leaving Statement about the new plant manager's attitude toward workplace safety. During the 2007 season, a co-worker standing next to Calvert was "badly shocked" after water hit an electric box. When Calvert was asked later that season to coil an extension cord lying in several inches of water, she expressed her safety concerns in King's presence. According to Calvert, King "looked at [her],not realized that biking to work "would be much more difficult" during March than it had been when she worked at Snug Harbor the previous summer. She noted that her bike broke down and weather conditions were bad in March and April, forcing her to rely on the Central Area Rural Transit System (CARTS). CARTS requires its passengers to book trips hours in advance, which was difficult for Calvert given her unpredictable work schedule and King's habit of posting the hours for the following day after 6:00 p.m., when CARTS had stopped answering its phones for the evening. According to Calvert, her only other transportation option was to take a taxi, which she stated would not be cost-effective given the amount of money she was making at her


job.
The Hearing Officer also questioned Calvert about her work-related stress. Calvert stated that Mike cut her hours after O'Reagan's departure and told her that the decision had been sanctioned by Dale. Calvert noted that she had not asked Mike why her hours were being cut but later asked King, the plant manager, who told her he would "see that the work got done." She also recounted a subsequent conversation with Dale, who told her he had not authorized Mike to cut her hours. Calvert told the Hearing Officer that she did not directly ask Dale to address the situation with Mike, explaining that she "didn't feel that it was necessary" because she assumed someone in Dale's position would "look into it and . . . find out exactlysingled out for reduced hours was incorrect, and that the company was trying to "keep hours at a minimum" based on its "limited product" in April. He also stated that he had not known why Calvert quit her job until he saw the exhibits she presented at the hearing.
Dale testified that he did not recall the conversation Calvert reported having had with him about whether Mike had been authorized to cut her hours, but that he "wouldn't dispute it" and it "sound[ed] plausible." Dale added that, after Calvert quit, he asked King "on at least four occasions" if he had contacted her "to discuss her concerns regarding employment"; King reportedly told Dale that he had left messages for Calvert but had not heard back from her. In subsequent


that Calvert had not established that she had "good cause for quitting suitable work." The Hearing Officer ruled that Calvert was not entitled to waiting-week benefits under AS 23.20.379.
Calvert appealed the Hearing Officer's decision to the Commissioner of the Department of Labor. In her appeal, she argued that the Hearing Officer had confused the facts; that her phone bills contradicted King's claim that he had attempted to call her after she quit; that the Hearing Officer's reliance on Calvert's testimony about her decision to quit on April 6 was "sleight of hand"; and that there had been no reason to believe talking to her employer about her transportation problems would lead to an adjustment of hours or other resolution. On October 3, 2008, the Commissioner affirmed the Hearingdecisions online and reviewing the BPM at Department offices. And as the Department notes, the BPM is also available online. The "Voluntary Leaving Statement" that Calvert filled out and submitted after she filed for unemployment benefits gives notice to claimants that they must show "reasons for quitting . . . so compelling" as to leave "no reasonable alternative." The Hearing Officer also explained the eligibility requirements to Calvert at the start of the *1008 Appeal Tribunal hearing. As a result, Calvert had notice of the Department's basic eligibility requirements and directions for accessing additional information, both prior to her Appeal Tribunal Hearing and throughout the appeals process.
To the extent Calvert contends that the Department had a duty to inform her, while she was working, of how she might


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Hemidoras micropoeus

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Doradidae

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South America:
Essequibo, Demerara and Corantijn River basins and possibly
other coastal drainages east to mouth of Amazon River. Type
locality: British Guiana at Lama stop-off and Wismar
on the Demerara RiverManitoba CBC Investigates

Federal pilots union surprised Air Transat given weeks to fix 'major' safety system problems in 2015

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A report, recently released under Access to Information, says maintenance checks on Boeing 737s were missed

A recently released Transport Canada report from 2015 shows inspectors found 22 safety problems at Air Transat. Of those, 14 were classified as 'major,' which means a 'system-wide failure' was evident.

When Transport Canada audited Air Transat's safety system in 2015 and found 22 problems, including missed maintenance checks on Boeing 737s and workers without proper training, the airline was given up to a month to come up with some of the necessary fixes.

Those deadlines, outlined in a three-year-old report recently released under Access to Information, surprised Mark Laurence,


to one month to come up with a plan to fix it.

'Enforcement action'

CBC News put Laurence's concerns about the deadlines to Transport Canada. In a statement, the department said compliance is monitored and "if the operator does not work to address identified safety concerns, Transport Canada does not hesitate to take enforcement action."

Enforcement action can include verbal counselling, monetary penalties, and, in some cases, suspending a company's air operator certificate.

Mark Laurence worked for Transport Canada for nearly two decades before he became the national chairperson of the Canadian Federal Pilots Association. The union's members include the 450 pilots who conduct inspections and safety analyses for Transport Canada, the Transportation Safety Board and Nav Canada. (Brian Morris/CBC News)

Included with the report was a letter from Transport Canada that sayson Air Transat's Boeing 737s were being missed. Inspectors had discovered four different maintenance schedules for the planes. The airline was given nine days to come up with a plan to solve the problem.

Air Transat also confirmed to inspectors that 41 out of 42 contracted employees performing maintenance work in Montreal and Toronto did not meet its own training program requirements.

No one should be afraid of getting on an airplane ever and going anywhere in the world - Elaine Parker, vice-president of Beyond Risk Management, a Calgary-based aviation safety consultancy

A flight attendant manager told Transport Canada she relied on social media — in addition to a Transport Canada training guide, an aviation conference and brainstorming sessions with a colleague — to figure out appropriate training.

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The deadline to fix


the different training shortcomings was two weeks.

Inspectors also discovered a service difficulty report was never submitted after corroded hinge pins were identified on a plane's rudder. These reports, which are required of all airlines, are to be submitted to Transport Canada, which keeps track of conditions that can adversely affect the airworthiness of planes. This finding was considered "moderate," which means a simple modification could correct the issue. Air Transat was given a month to submit its solution.

Airlines in charge of safety systems

In 2005, the federal government started shifting responsibility for safety oversight to the airline industry.

Canada's major airlines are now responsible for developing and following their own safety management systems (SMS). These are extensive playbooks of best practices covering everything from maintenance to operational safety and emergencyTwo Lehigh researchers studied full-term births in a four-county New Jersey area immediately downwind of the Portland Generating Station in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania. Photo courtesy of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Women who live with pollution generated by coal-fired power plants may be far more likely to give birth to a child with below normal weight than women who are not subjected to similar pollution, according to a study by Lehigh researchers.

Muzhe Yang, associate professor of economics, and co-author Shin-Yi Chou, professor of economics, studied 52,000 full-term births in a four-county New Jersey area immediately downwind of Portland Generating Station in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, from 2004 to 2010.

They found that the likelihood of having a low birth weight (2,500 grams or less) baby jumped


Hip Hop Museum Could Be Coming To Harlem

The Hip Hop Hall of Fame is a non-profit founded by James Thompson. James is also an Army veteran. He started the organization on a mission to primarily chronicle Hip Hop’s influence & significance on economic and social factors. Furthermore, Thompson even created and executive-produced a Hip Hop Hall of Fame Awards show on BET.

Also according to Newsweek, The Hip Hop Hall of Fame announced on Tuesday, June 6th, that they won a bid for a building in Harlem near the Apollo Theater. It is a twenty story building as recorded in Time Out New York. Additionally, the development will be completed in two phases. The Hip Hop Museum is set to feature an art gallery, event space, multimedia studio, and1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an automatic drawer slide homing apparatus, and more particularly to an automatic drawer slide homing apparatus capable of increasing the length of embedding a middle rail onto a bottom rail by suspending a slide base, such that when a drawer is pulled out, the drawer can be supported to prevent a deformation of the rails.
2. Description of the Related Art
A general traditional hanging basket or drawer slide structure usually installs corresponding rollers on both sides of a cabinet, a rail disposed separately on both sides of the hanging basket or drawer, a roller installed separately on both sides of the rail, and a concavely curved guiding track disposed at a rear end of the rail, wherein the position of


the guiding tracks is lower than that of the rails. Although the rollers can be rolled to move the hanging basket or drawer along the guiding track of a rail, and a slope is formed naturally between the guiding track and the rail, and the weight of the hanging basket or drawer can position the drawer at a fixed position, yet the hanging basket or drawer has its own weight and carries heavy objects, and a certain pressure exerted on the guiding track will deform the guiding track, and the slope between the rail and the guiding track will be changed from a smooth condition to a rough condition. As a result, the drawer will get stuck easily or become unsmooth in the process of pushing the drawerThis subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. During the spring terms of 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years, the Directors of the Resource, joined by Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry faculty member Prof. McComb, presented the full-semester graduate course, BI-793, MS, Proteomics and Functional Genomics. As has become the traditions,the guest lecture on Oligonucleotide MS and Proteomics was presented by Dr. Bing Wang


(Genzyme Corp.). Five students registered for credit, and more than fifteen faculty and post-doctoral scientists, from collaborating groups, Harvard Medical School, Boston College, BU Goldman School of Dental Medicine and others, joined the lectures as auditors. Much of the course material is posted on the Resource Web site and is being used by students and research scientists across the US and around the world. Regulations pertaining to the use of published material require that access to the site is now password-controlled. Investigators from several states, as well as foreign institutions, have been provided with access.President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy traveling in car, May 1961.

Courtesy of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library

President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy in Dallas, Texas; 1963.

Narrated by George Clooney, "JFK: One PM Central Standard Time," premiering Wednesday, November 13, 2013 on PBS, recounts the riveting story of the reporting from Dallas and the CBS Newsroom in New York from the moment President Kennedy was shot until Cronkite’s emotional pronouncement of his death at 1 p.m. CST.

In 1962, Cronkite accepted the offer to anchor the CBS Evening News, but with one condition: to be the Managing Editor as well. Though the term Managing Editor was not used in television, Cronkite knew he’d be able to determine which stories would be aired and how they would be handled. Having


the final decision rest with him would be key on that fatal day one year later in Dallas as he employed all of his journalistic skills to report the story of a lifetime.

In September 1963, Cronkite launched the extended CBS Evening News with an interview with Kennedy. He was 46, the same age as the President. Both men were Second World War veterans; Cronkite had been a war correspondent in Europe and Kennedy had commanded a Torpedo patrol-boat in the Pacific; and both men knew how to effectively use the new medium of television. Eight weeks later, on November 22, Cronkite and Kennedy would be forever linked in history.

Through re-enactments of the CBS newsroom in New York and anecdotal accounts from those in Dallas, the chaos of thatEarly in the second millennium before Christ various nomadic pastoral tribes migrated from Aramaea in Northern Mesopotamia to settle permanently among the more highly cultured city-states of Canaan.

It is worth examining the patriarchal legends which that migration gave rise to. First, they describe life as a journey. This has long been a useful way for us individuals to understand the nature of our personal life. But the metaphor is just as true of the human species as a whole. Only in the past 150 years have we been able to appreciate that fact: it is only since then that we have become aware of the long evolution of life on this planet.

An important part of that story is not only the biological evolution of the human species but


millennium BCE – the period which gave rise to the so-called “world religions”. The term “Axial Period” was used to describe how human culture seemed to make a giant shift on its axis. For the first time humans were no longer content simply to preserve the status quo, but chose to take the initiative in changing things for the better. They began to develop the notion that human society was also on a journey. This is one of the symbolic and permanent meanings of the Abraham saga.

A pivotal change

Our widespread concern with history – the human story – came to birth in this period. Previously time had been experienced as a matter of going round in circles – days, months, years, generations – in which one kept returningmillennia. This was the change from the migratory life of food-gatherer, hunter and pastoralist to the settled life of the agriculturist, a change that involved settling down in permanent residence. The agriculturists needed to possess and protect the land on which they depended for food.

This cultural transition is reflected also in the ancient myth of Cain and Abel, where there is hostility between Cain the agriculturist and Abel the pastoralist. In the end it was the agriculturist who won, but at a cost. This myth was shaped by memories from the patriarchal period of the clash between the incoming Hebrew tribes and the indigenous Canaanites.

The transition to an agricultural way of life made land possession a necessity. Yet this cultural transition is quite recent relative to the total


period of human habitation of this planet. Before that, the earth was one vast common, owned by nobody. There were no humanly created boundaries and people were free to wander wherever they chose.

Since the time of the agricultural revolution, that has no longer been wholly the case. This is why, when the population of a society suddenly expanded, it felt obliged to go out and take possession of more land, if necessary by conquest. This is why, even in more recent times, the European nations went out and colonised the world. As European population expanded during and after the Industrial Revolution, nations found it desirable to export their surplus population. In the 20th century the expansionist designs of Japan, Italy and Germany led to major wars.

Today land possessionhas become a more urgent issue than ever, and will become the source of increasing tension and dispute during this century. It is sadly ironic that the Israelis and the Palestinians are today both vying with each other to possess the very same piece of land over which the Canaanites and the Hebrews fought 3000 years ago. And Israelis still claim it is theirs by divine right, since it is the land promised by God to Abraham long ago.

The urban revolution

There is still a third aspect of the agricultural revolution which remains relevant. It not only brought about a population increase, but it led to the building of walled cities for self-protection. Life in the city led in turn to a diversification of skills other than agriculture. Urban


life had some great advantages, but there was a price to pay. It was the loss of the complete freedom experienced by the pastoralist – a freedom jealously preserved by the Middle East Bedouin to this day.

The biblical myth of Cain itself connects this loss of freedom with the advent of urban life, though in a rather quaint way. Cain the agriculturalist had to bear the mark of a murderer because he had killed the life of the pastoralist, as symbolised in Abel; so he went off and built a city.

When humankind lived the life of the hunter and food-gatherer, and even the life of the pastoralist, people were the passive recipients of the fruits of the earth. When humankind developed the life of the agriculturalist, people becameactive developers of the earth. By their skills they increased the fruits of the earth. Then, as humankind developed an urban existence, people began to live not only from the fruits of the earth, but also from the products of their own cultural activities. To a degree they began to be separated from the forces of nature. All these changes followed after land possession became important.

This possession of the land of divine promise has remained an article of faith in Judaism ever since. It has sustained Jews through many centuries of being forcefully exiled from the land and of being shamelessly persecuted by the Gentiles, even to the point of genocide in the Nazi Holocaust. The symbolic words “next year Jerusalem”, spoken at the celebration of every annual


by some cataclysmic event, and went out proclaiming its imminent arrival. Although that expectation is clearly evident in the New Testament, many scholars today question whether that was ever taught by Jesus. In any case, that original expectation was never fulfilled; it was the failure of that kingdom suddenly to arrive that led, during the second, third and fourth centuries, to the mental formation of quite a different world to come.

A spiritual alternative

Eventually Christians lost all hope of ever seeing a better world in the here and now. They transferred their hopes to a more spiritual world beyond this physical world of space and time. This transition took place over some four centuries, and occurred unconsciously more than consciously. Some of it went back to ideas already takingwere taking root in the Jewish thought of the time emanated from the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism. They were particularly dominant among the Pharisees – one linguistic theory is that the term “Pharisees” started as a nickname for those Jews who adopted Persian or Farsi ideas.

One of many elements in Jewish thought which reflects this Persian influence is the word paradise. It was the Persian name for a garden park with trees and flowers, something for which Iran (or Persia) is famous to this day. When the Jews translated their Bible into Greek some 200 years before the Christian era, they borrowed this word “paradise” to translate the “garden” in which Adam and Eve were placed.

By the time of the Jewish philosopher Philo (a contemporary of Jesus), many


the earth. In the 16th century there began, step by step, the deconstruction of this spiritual world that had been constructed by ancient Christian imagination. The Reformers abolished purgatory in one fell swoop. By the 19th century theologians were raising moral objections to the concept of hell as a place of eternal punishment. During the 20th century the reality of heaven began to lose conviction, so much so that in 1999 even Pope John Paul II declared that “heaven is not a place but a state of mind”.

For much more than 1000 years, Christian hopes of a better world were fastened firmly on an unseen world above. It was to this that the spires of the great mediaeval cathedrals pointed.

But eventually this world also proved to be elusive.From Galileo onwards our whole understanding of this world of space and time began to change and to expand even beyond the limits of our imagination. It completely engulfed the heavenly spaces.

It is fascinating that during the very time when the superstructure of the heavenly world was being dismantled, Christians began to sing hymns about building the kingdom of God here on earth. William Blake, strange visionary and theological conservative though he was, expressed it in his famous Jerusalem in the early 19th century. Note the words:

I will not cease from mental fight . . .Till we have built JerusalemIn England’s green and pleasant land.

Those words would have seemed heretical in the High Middle Ages. These modern Christians were learning again to speak of the kingdom of God


why a Christian Socialist movement arose about 1840, led by such people as Charles Kingsley and the theologian F.D. Maurice. The seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), even though he was a deeply committed evangelical Christian who expected the imminent return of Christ, nevertheless became one of the most effective social and industrial reformers in 19th-century England.

In 1891 Pope Leo XIII issued an encyclical, Rerum Novarum, which was considered to be extremely progressive. It enunciated the Roman Catholic position on social justice, especially in relation to the problems created by the Industrial Revolution. While critical of socialism, it showed deep concern for the condition of the working classes.

The western world entered the 20th century with considerable expectations that this world could be turned into an earthly paradise. Christians thoughtchurch for continuing to defend the spiritual superstructure that they felt the church was a stumbling block that prevented the coming of the new world order here on earth. They dismissed the churches as offering only “pie in the sky when you die”.

Then came World War I, a bloody struggle fought by the very nations which had been Christian for the longest time. It was a great blow to Christian expectations. Liberal Protestantism has never wholly recovered from this. Yet the western world generally, still motivated by its Christian past, tried to interpret the disaster of World War I as “the war to end all wars”. It proceeded in 1919 to found the League of Nations for the express purpose of preventing all war in the future. In


the late 1920s and early 1930s there was a widespread wave of pacifism among Christians and secularists alike.

All these efforts largely came to nothing. The new warless world did not eventuate. The League failed because of the refusal of member nations to put international interests before national interests. It was powerless in the face of German, Italian and Japanese expansionism.

In the meantime social reform began to develop at the national level in the western world. Most drastic was the Russian Revolution, by which Lenin tried to implement Marx’s vision of the classless society. Elsewhere there was considerable social change, though less dramatic, resulting in pensions for the aged, free medical care for all, and the dole for the unemployed. These moves came to fruition in various social securitysystems, commonly known now as the welfare state. Michael Savage, in introducing New Zealand’s social security policies, referred to them as “applied Christianity”.

For many people it seemed that the earthly paradise was at last coming within reach. It did not mean that the kingdom of God had fully arrived. Certainly there was much about the new secular world that seemed consistent with the Christian teaching about the kingdom of God.

Yet too many things seemed to be going badly wrong – the Great Depression, World War II, the Nazi Holocaust, the Cold War and the threat of an all-out nuclear war. Humans, both Christian and secular, had been working hard to try to build paradise on earth, but despite some success, the setbacks were massive.

Rising tempo of cultural change

We


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Under article 8-J of the Convention on Biological Diversity, governments must engage indigenous and local communities in the designation and management of protected areas. A better understanding of the relationship between community heritage sites and sites identified to protect conventional conservation features could inform conservation-planning exercises on indigenous lands. We examined the potential overlap between Gwich'in First Nations' (Northwest Territories, Canada) heritage sites and areas independently identified for the protection of conventional conservation targets. We designed nine hypothetical protected-area networks with different targets for woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) habitat, high-quality wetland areas, representative vegetation types, water bodies, environmentally significant area, territorial parks, and network aggregation. We compared the spatial overlap of heritageLoizos of Techcrunch.com reported today that Schaepe is out at the firm he co-founded 19 years ago, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Excerpt: Sources say that soon after the admissions scandal broke, Schaepe hired a lawyer, then told Lightspeed, which made the decision to part ways with him. But seemingly, a sports blogger named Brooks Melchior played his own role in the news and why it burst into public view today. As Melchior noted …

On March 14, 2019, 48 hours after the United States Justice Department announced it had caught red-handed dozens of mega-wealthy parents conspiring to fraudulently obtain admission into elite universities for their under-qualified sons and daughters as part of the largest college admissions scandal in United States history, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana shocked his


Twitter followers with the following Tweet …

What is being characterized by Federal law enforcement as the largest college admissions scandal in U.S. history began with the U.S. Justice Department charging 50 individuals with Federal crimes on March 12, 2019. The 200-page criminal complaint that accompanied those charges identified 58-year-old Californian Rick Singer as the ringleader of a vast conspiracy to admit academically and athletically unqualified children of wealthy parents to elite universities by taking advantage of the lower academic entrance requirements afforded collegiate athletes. …

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Top Gear Live NEC Track

Group Lotus Motorsport, who are responsible for the original Top Gear test track, will develop an indoor track for Top Gear Live at NEC Birmingham between 11th and 13th November and ExCel London between 24th and 27th November 2011.

Sabine Schmitz and Tiff Needell will join five-time Le Mans winner, Derek Bell, and a list of other celebrity guests, drivers and presenters on the track at the two events.

The Stig will complete power laps on the all new track, as will Clarkson, Hammond and May. Celebrities will be pitting their skills against each other in Top Gear Live's Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.

The tracks, designed for all driving disciplines, will see head to head challenges, power


Thomas leads No. 18 Oklahoma past No. 22 Baylor 73-63

CLIFF BRUNT

Jan. 04, 2015

He felt much better about his Big 12 debut. The senior scored 24 points to help No. 18 Oklahoma beat No. 22 Baylor 73-63 on Saturday.

Thomas, a 6-foot-8 power forward who transferred from the University of Houston before the season, made 11 of 17 shots and grabbed eight rebounds. He averaged 10.8 points in non-conference play, which he considered subpar after being named second-team Conference USA last season and first team the year before.

"I didn't really feel like I played to my potential, so I just talked to myself and I talked to coaches and everything, and they told me that when conference starts out, it's a new season," he said. "I have a new beginning,game, made 4 of 8 ... Kenny Chery had five assists at halftime but one in the second half. ... Rico Gathers, who entered the game leading the Big 12 in rebounding, had 12, including six offensive.

Oklahoma: Sooners now lead the series with Baylor 42-11. ... Ryan Spangler, who entered the game as the Big 12 leader in field goal percentage, missed all three of his shots before fouling out, but he played solid defense and grabbed seven rebounds. ... Oklahoma committed just two turnovers in the first half. ... Oklahoma's bench scored just two points.

CRITICAL MOMENT

The Sooners fell behind 23-18 early, and appeared to lack energy before Hield hit back-to-back 3-pointers, pushing the ball after defensive rebounds and shooting before Baylor could set its defense, to give


rapid elevation change due to the Zagros Mountain range would likely protect most of Iran from the meltdown allowing them to attack as one of the nations of Magog another day. Interestingly, Ezekiel was familiar with Elam, according to Ezekiel 32:24–25, but he did not include Elam in the lineup of invaders in Ezekiel 38, perhaps because it is destroyed by then.

Nuclear Showdown in Iran: Revealing the Ancient Prophecy of Elam (Book) by Bill Salus

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similar deferred compensation agreements with
other members of the senior management team.
   In 1994, Greater Omaha terminated Acklie’s employment,
and in 2006, Acklie turned 60 years old. In 2011, Acklie
demanded payment from Greater Omaha under the terms of
the agreement. He contended that his right to deferred com-
pensation vested upon his attaining age 60 and that payment
became due on the first day of the first month following his
attaining age 61. The agreement’s vesting provision, paragraph
6, provides:
      The Employee’s Deferred Compensation Account shall
      be one hundred percent (100%) vested upon and after
      the earlier of his completing ten (10) consecutive years
      of service commencing the date first above written or
274 F.Supp.2d 736 (2002)
In re MICROSOFT CORP. ANTITRUST LITIGATION
This document relates to:
State of West Virginia, ex rel. Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Attorney General,
v.
Microsoft Corporation
No. MDL 1332. No. CIV. JFM-02-2091.
United States District Court, D. Maryland.
December 31, 2002.

MEMORANDUM
MOTZ, District Judge.
Plaintiff, State of West Virginia ex rel Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Attorney General ("the State" or "West Virginia"), moves to remand this action to the Circuit Court of Boone County, West Virginia. The motion will be granted. The motion for attorneys' fees and costs will, however, be denied.

I.
On May 18, 1998, West Virginia filed an action against Microsoft in the District of Columbia alleging violations of federal antitrust law, the West Virginia Antitrust Act, and the West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act. The district court subsequently held a bench trial


complaints were artfully plead federal claims. The defendants also moved to have the claims dismissed. Id.
Subsequently, the district judge denied Moitie and Brown's motion to remand, holding that the complaints, though artfully couched in terms of state law, were "in many respects identical" with the previous complaints and were properly removed because they raised "essentially federal law" claims. Id. The district court also held that under the doctrine of res judicata, Moitie II and Brown II were dismissed. On appeal, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's ruling on removal; however, it also created a "novel exception to the doctrine of res judicata" and reversed the district's court's dismissal of Moitie II and Brown II. Id, at 397-98, 101 S.Ct. 2424.
The Supreme Court granted certiorari to consider theExecutive Summary

? The likely outcome of the 16 May elections is a victory by the BC Liberal
Party (currently holding polls at 70%), a pro-business, right-of-center party
led by Gordon Campbell.
? Major changes in British Columbia energy policy are likely under a Liberal
government.
? A low snow pack, a return to regulation by the BC Utilities Commission and
public concern about outstanding debts owed by US power consumers could force
BC Hydro to stop out-of-province power sales once existing contracts expire
? BC Hydro,s additional generation at Williston is likely undeliverable

Liberal Party Platform

? Income tax cut that would make BC,s income tax the lowest in Canada
? Independent audit of the province,s books amid allegations of NDP
mismanagement and incompetence
? Review of all Crown corporations (including BC Hydro)


National News

High School Hate Crime Suspect Is Victim's Mom

by Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

(NEWSER) – A bizarre twist in the hate crime that caused a Massachusetts high school to end its football season early: Police now suspect the person who spray-painted racist graffiti on the home of 13-year-old Isaac Phillips was the boy's own mother, the Boston Globe reports. Andrea Brazier, who is white, was described as a "strong suspect" in the case after cops confiscated cans of spray paint during a search of the home she shares with husband Anthony Phillips, who is black. Investigators say most of the leads they have followed in the case have led back to the house—and Phillips has given conflicting explanations of where the aerosol cans police spotted in a fire pitWakefield resident promoted to partner at Dalton & Finegold

Monday

Jan 29, 2018 at 11:51 AMJan 29, 2018 at 11:51 AM

Dalton & Finegold LLP, a law firm that specializes in real estate with offices in Andover, Boston and Nashua, New Hampshire, announced that Wakefield resident Brendan Boyle was promoted to partner. Boyle will concentrate on real estate and business law with a focus on the financing, acquisition, disposition and leasing of commercial real estate.

Boyle joined Dalton & Finegold in December 2012. He represents institutional and private lenders in the structuring and documentation of commercial real estate loans and the negotiation of documents evidencing such loans. He also represents individual and institutional developers and investors in connection with the acquisition, disposition and leasing of commercial real estate. Boyle also represents individuals


excellence is all about. He has also been someone who helps out whoever he is asked and has been instrumental in the firms’ leadership.”

Boyle holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College, and received his law degree, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School.

Boyle lives in Wakefield with his wife Clare and daughter Lucy. He is originally from Norwell.by residents, including fears of heavily increased traffic congestion.

A report to go before Sefton’s planning committee lists ways in which Bellway has adjusted its original plans after a round of community consultation.

To counter accusations the development will cause traffic chaos, there will now only be one main access point for cars, on the first bend on the approach from Scarisbrick New Road.

There has also been an increase in the overall number of off-street parking spaces to 171.

The report to councillors cites traffic surveys in support of the view the area’s roads network will be able to cope with the increased burden, but it states that Virginia Street (between Scarisbrick New Road and Ash Street), Hodson Street and Mill Street will all need to see traffic calming measures.

Mark Richardson,


from
a prior employer, a system administrator who was often asked to fix problems
usually caused by bad managerial decisions of which he always flagged
initially as being problematic but nobody listened to him, even after it
turned out he was right from the start, he was one of those guys who knew
their shit. He was a really nice, quiet and reserved guy but I noticed over
the space of 3 or so months his attitude towards work and the manager at the
time started changing.

Not many people knew of his Twitter account, but I did. He would post crude
remarks about the manager not listening to him and how he should be the
manager, often using the initials of the manager when he insulted him to be
careful and not be accused of slander I guess.I would often hear him in the
office talking to himself, swearing under his breath and mashing his keyboard.
You could tell it was getting to him. He was on-call 24/7 but apparently
wasn't adequately paid the amount he should have been for someone who was
expected to fix something at the drop of a hat.

One day he came in and sat at his desk refusing to do any work. He just sat
there and then the manager confronted him and asked why he wasn't addressing
his list of high priority tickets that he had and then the guy lost it. He
didn't get violent, but he started yelling at the guy and the manager was a
well-built guy (sorted of sounded and looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger) who I
wouldn't even dare cross. After yelling he just


walked out and never came
back.

Of course my manager reported the incident to some higher-ups and then it was
revealed a couple of days later he was in a mental hospital as he had a
complete breakdown (he apparently drove himself there). I didn't know him that
well, but I went and visited him after finding out where he was. He told me
that it all built up; he was being blamed when things went wrong and weren't
done on time and not being praised when things went right and were delivered
within unrealistic time-frames. His girlfriend had also left him the day prior
to the meltdown, he said she was unhappy because he was never home and when he
was, he was always fixing something remotely or had to come in to fix
something.

I have a feelingfrom the outside it merely made him look like a bad
employee. Maybe he wanted to keep his personal life private, maybe he thought
he had it under control, or maybe they decided they had to set an example
regardless of his reasons - but the point stands: Ultimately, it is up to you,
not your employer, to manage your stress.

~~~
NegativeK
I've a friend who was told that he needed to take a vacation. Not in the
"You're out of line" sense at all, but in the "We expect our employees to use
their vacation time, and you've been working hard lately." He's also been told
to cut back on the his hours, as his bosses didn't want him to sacrifice his
personal life.

Usually when you hear stories like this, it's because the employee is screwing
up. In


tryed
to finish all my tickets until a friend in managment told me about a
conversation he had with our boss. It boils down to: "Does he gt his work
done?" "Yes, sometimes he has to stay in late but he gets the job done" "Then
we are not giving him enough work. If there are days where he gets the job
done and leave on time, there must be times when he finishes his tickets
before office hours are over."

At my new job things are a lot better. When I started I screwed up a couple of
times because I tryed to make things work by putting in over time and fighting
until the last minute when things went south, where all I had to do was tell
the mangment why I need more time /manager, but they
would be interested in having more say in technical decisions.

------
nicholassmith
I worked with a guy who was an incredibly talented developer, and it was his
first 'proper' development job. He was smart and good at what he did, and made
a good impression, however as time progressed and the reality of ever shifting
goal posts and getting half the time you really need to do something took it's
toll.

Eventually he went to the doctor, who diagnosed a stress related condition and
he was prescribed meds which helped for a while. But, it's that melting pot
and eventually he snapped, smashed a keyboard and then threw a monitor onto
the floor. I took the time to try and help and he realised whilst he loved dev
work, he just couldn't deal with the stress of working


head of Chile's association, Arturo Salah, said later that it was too early to decide Pizzi's future.
"We need to decide this with a cool head. We are all responsible for the elimination. The rest will be part of a calm analysis," Salah said.
Midfielder Gary Medel said Pizzi told the players that he was leaving in the changing room of the Allianz Parque stadium in Sao Paulo.
"It was very hard for all of us. The coach that arrives has to be willing to achieve greatness," Medel said.
Pizzi took over last year, replacing Jorge Sampaoli, who is now Argentina's coach.
Under Pizzi, Chile won the 2016 Copa America Centenario and earlier this year reached the final of the Confederations Cup, losing to World Cup holder Germany.
Brazil topped the South American qualifyingXbox Games with Gold for March 2019 feature Star Wars: Republic Commando

Today, Microsoft announced March's free Games with Gold for Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners. Starting on March 1, Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion and Star Wars: Republic Commando will be free with the subscription. Then, on March 16, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance can be downloaded at no cost. You need an active Xbox Live membership to play the Xbox One games, but the original Xbox and Xbox 360 titles are yours to keep after you redeem them once. It doesn't matter if you're still an Xbox Live Gold subscriber.

Adventrue Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion

Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion is based on the popular Cartoon Network series and


is surprisingly an open-world adventure rendered in a unique way. Just like South Park: The Stick of Truth, it looks like you're playing through an animated series.

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Star Wars: Republic Commando is one of the best first-person shooters which was an original Xbox console exclusive. The game still looks great even to this day, and if you're in shock as to how terrible EA's management of the franchise has been, then you're in luck! Star Wars: Republic Commando introduced many important new features which revolutionized the genre.

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is a lot of fun with friends or family. It's a third-person shooter but you can play as either plants or zombies. The visuals look like a Pixar filmEnlarge Image Video screenshot by Anthony Domanico/CNET

The cast and crew of "Star Trek Beyond" are channeling their inner Leonard Nimoys to encourage "Star Trek" fans to live long and donate.

In the final week of the -- which is raising money for nine charities picked by the cast and crew -- Zachary Quinto and the rest of his Starship Enterprise crewmates posted a video tribute to Leonard Nimoy, who died in February.

The clip, which you can watch below, features Quinto talking about how great a guy Nimoy was and the impact he had on the crew and "Star Trek" fans around the world. It also shows some of the cast and crew's favorite Nimoy moments from his work on previous "Star Trek" movies.

The clip goes on to promote a


On the way back from school one day, struck by the early summer sunlight of May, the peaceful, ordinary daily life forcibly came to a close. Occasionally Ryou would return home by himself taking a detour through a back street where almost no students pass through. Facing towards the station a commotion was suddenly heard. Looking towards the vacant lot 50 metres long on all sides, a girl wearing the same uniform as himself could be seen alone surrounded by three boys wearing another school’s uniform, some kind of courting in this place was being witnessed.

Ryou, who observed the troublesome situation momentarily, was deciding whether or not to leave quickly. If he heard afterwards that the girl was injured, he thought that it would leave a bad aftertaste.help despite being able to help the girl at any time? The reason not to help is because after helping, tomorrow the girl who was helped would talk to her friends, and he is concerned about becoming the topic of a rumor.

Ryou was unsure about becoming a hero now, as it was important to maintain his position. While the girl was swinging her bag around, Ryou was hoping she would run away, however things likely won’t turn out so well. In the end, though troublesome, he had to move to rescue the girl and end this useless panic. A sigh of regret was let out.

Ryou goes out from the cover and picked up a stone by his feet. Facing forward towards the girl, Ryou casually threw it towards


a man in front. The stone drew a beautiful parabola and splendidly hit the forehead of the man it was aimed at.

The man who was hit by the stone crouched down in pain holding his forehead.

“What, you!”

After the man was suddenly hit by the stone, the three men were dumbfounded and looked to their right towards Ryou and shouted. The men and girl on the left hand side were attracted towards Ryou.

Ryou saw the girl turned around, despite the distance could tell she was a splendid cute girl. While calmly thinking so, Ryou and the girl who became aware of him matched eyes. Ryou made a gesture with his right hand, moving towards the right. Ryou’s meaning was “Escape that way”.

The girl realizing the meaning behind Ryou’s gesturewhen he turned his head back and there was no-one there. Before he realized that he was tricked, Ryou cut down the distance while the man was looking back and struck him with a roundhouse kick to the same solar plexus as just now.

“Thank you for your simplicity”

Ryou mutters towards the man with a truly joyful smile as he collapses with an anguished expression. Looking towards the man who the stone was first thrown at who was absentminded and in a crouching posture.

Ryou confirmed he was the only one remaining and with composure walked towards him. He realizes that Ryou is coming and stand up in a panic. The memory of being hit by the stone was recalled and he speaks sharply while pointing towards his forehead.

“You, do


you know what you’ve done!?”

The voice was strange as a bit of fear began to invade and merge with his angry tone. Ryou ignores the man’s caustic words as they go in the one ear and out the other as he slowly draws near the man expressionlessly.

The man held more and more fear towards such a Ryou, he instinctively felt so while holding up his fists he faced Ryou. The moment he entered into range he was struck by the outer of Ryou’s foot into his solar plexus and just like the other two, he collapsed with an anguished expression.

Up to now, not even two minutes have passed since Ryou first threw the stone. One might say it is an indicator of Ryou’s brilliant and unobjectionable skill.

Ryou confirmsbreathes in relief, and continued what he was doing before Erika came. Restarting his cleanup work, he pulled the cellphone from the man’s pocket and held it, transmitting the man’s phone number and address data to his phone. A photograph was taken of the man’s student handbook which had his name and a photo of face on it.

Furthermore it was confirmed if there was a license in the wallet, finding one he also takes a picture with his cellphone, all money notes are pulled out and put inside his own pocket. He casually scattered about the cellphone, wallet and student notebook on top of the man.

Erika was dumbfounded seeing this series of experienced movements and drew closer to Ryou while panicking.

“Wa, wait, what are you doing Sakuragi-kun!?”

“Severing future


An evening with St. Joan

TCM has a Joan of Arc movie marathon going! I think St. Joan of Arc is a great example for young people, girls and boys alike.

Have you ever read Mark Twain’s superb novel about St. Joan? He thought it was his best work.

Tonight they had:

1948 – Joan of Arc with Ingrid Bergman – too bad it was so … pretty, and then there was that scandal. Jose Ferrer = loathsome.

It was idealized, but it was Catholic. Joan was taken seriously and was portrayed as godly and not… well.. nuts. It was a different era, to be sure. And people of the time cared so much for morality even in the actors and actresses that the film failed in its day at the box office.

1957– Saint Joan based on Shaw’s play – I had forgotten how pernicious it really is, but Richard Widmark? Really? Did you know he was born in Minnesota?

There was a hilarious anachronistic moment after the coronation when they included in soundtrack a fugue from the end of a Gloria of a Haydn Mass. This was as bad as the 19th c. style anthem sung after the battle in Branagh’s Henry V. Preminger works in a Te Deum, again! Clever script with little jokes for the well-read. But this is a pernicious film. Constant reduction of the supernatural to the natural. George Bernard Shaw. Dumbed-down Shaw for a screen-play. But dumbed-down and made contemporary and slick by Graham Greene! But Widmark was fun… and with John Gielgud to boot!


tapes of Ingrid Bergman’s ‘Joan of Arc’ and ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’. I also have the CD of Richard Einhorn’s ‘Voices of Light’.
I remember watching ‘Saint Joan’ in 1966, before my Confirmation. I began to learn about St. Joan in my sixth-grade history class, and after I did, I was ‘hooked’ on her! That still of the burning of Jean Seberg as Joan is ‘scarifying’!
I’ve also been to the three places in France connected with St. Joan: Domremy (her birthplace), Orleans (site of her great military victory) and Rouen (site of her trial and burning)-my first visit to France in 1985 was a St. Joan pilgrimage. It timed it to attend the annual ‘Fete de Jeanne d’Arc’ in Orleans.
When I visited the “House of Joan of–
-I have sometimes wondered what happened to that unnamed English soldier who made the little cross for Joan before her death. Did she intercede with Our Lord for him after she entered heaven? Did she meet him at the gate of heaven to thank him for that kind gesture?

Little Therese as a girl prayed along with her sister for salvation for an astonishingly brutal murderer of an entire family who was about to be guillotined and kept refusing priestly attention.
At the last moment, this ‘monster’ shoved away the priest, grabbed the crucifix and fiercely embraced and kissed the crucified Christ. Therese was satisfied that her prayers for his salvation were answered. I understand, these days, we must sometimes (at least figuratively) “push away the priest” and grab the


the crucifix up before her eyes that she might fix her gaze on it when the pain became too much for her to endure. Remember that her last word was ‘JESUS!’
When I’ve watched the video I have of ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’, I always say, ‘Look at the crucifix!’ at the final scene when the burning takes place.
Legisperitus-I’ve seen “Joan the Woman’, too. Geraldine Farrar plays St. Joan in that one. Was that directed by Cecil B. DeMille, by any chance? I viewed this at the home of a woman in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who has a website dedicated to St. Joan. She has a little museum of Joan of Arc items in a spare room of her house. I nearly cried out at the burning!arranged an evening discussion at the Václav Havel Library with the CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson, and leading representatives of the Czech media.

The Sekyra Foundation supports the idea to erect a new building for the Czech National Library, recently revived by the Czech Centre of the PEN International and The Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation. One potential location is the former Žižkov freight railway station, part of which will be the site of a new neighborhood built by the Sekyra Group.

The Foundation is contributing to the publication of a three-volume set of memoirs of Dr. Emil Ščuka, who played an important role in the emancipation of the Roma national minority in the Czech Republic (published by the Václav Havel Library, 2019).

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Jean-Claude Van Damme Planning a Real Kickboxing Match

It is being reported that Jean-Claude Van Damme is working on a new project, a documentary about his training for a K-1 kickboxing match in Last Vegas. This new movie will lead up to Van Damme actually getting into the ring for a real fight.

He will face off against Somluck Kamsing, a 35 year-old Thai fighter, who was the 1996 Olympic Gold medalist in boxing at 126 pounds and also fought in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympics. Kamsing even appeared in the Asian version of the "Fearless" film, in which he has a fight scene with Jet Li.

Van Damme is currently trying to organize the fight for next Summer, but some are worried that the Nevada State Athletic Commission willfinish between two Universal Soldiers.

Yup, The Expendables would have been a much better choice. On the other hand, the dude does hold a professional record of 18-2 from his professional martial arts competition days. Those 18 victories were all KO! And he knocked out those 18 fools while he was blind, after his brother had been paralyzed, his girlfriend kidnapped, the other brother had been set on fire and had two or three other twin brothers who didn't like him! ... and then he killed Bison and saved the world...

"That's a Maximum Risk he'll have to take. Van Damme may face Sudden Death, as Somluck Kamsing is something of a Hard Target. He's a real Street Fighter. Kamsing is known to use both his fists for Double Impact,


them their mouse completely against their will.

As for JC, yeah, I'm a fan of his. Still think (know) he should have jumped onto the Producing wagon a couple of decades ago.

JCVD took the wrong path. He came over here with nothing and took up action roles because that was his asset, his martial arts skills or whatever, and he sort of just stayed there. He displayed far less Arnold's initiative to excel and broaden his ability, never mind that JC wasn't ever picked up by a Cameron, which made a huge difference in Arnold's career.

JC only got real when he got really, really hungry, when he exhausted his options as an action actor. Mind you, he really ran those straight to DVD releases into the ground. he gotcornered, I think, and all he was left to portray was himself. It's sad he had to run on empty to get real. Now he thinks he can fly high on that empty gas tank, and maybe he can, for a while anyway, but eventually he's going to have to realize that the show isn't going to go on forever for him.

He should've taken the Expendables role, and I think that's going to come back to haunt him sooner rather than later.

"Mink... you, I and others have seen it before (even on this thread earlier)... those that can't keep up or have nothing to offer, and were sent out of their mother's basement, over-indulged with low self-esteem and self-worth, clearly have little to contribute. "

When I hear people,


to assert the defense of equitable estoppel. Mikhail Kramarevcky *741 and Olivia Jinneman were among the class of persons DSHS notified pursuant to the court's order.
Mikhail Kramarevcky is a refugee from the former Soviet Union. He arrived in the United States in April 1989 with his wife and minor son, Andre. The family speaks very little English and relied exclusively on DSHS for advice regarding their eligibility for public assistance. Between September 1989 and October 1990, the Kramarevckys received income and food assistance payments from DSHS under the Department's Family Independence Program (FIP).
In December 1989, Kramarevcky found a job and reported this to DSHS. He promptly gave the Department a copy of his first paycheck. DSHS failed, however, to follow its established procedures and did not send Kramarevckyreason to believe his eligibility had ceased, and could have been eligible for refugee job training reimbursement had he not received the overpayments. The ALJ also found both Kramarevcky and his wife are now partially disabled and have no income or resources with which to repay DSHS. The ALJ concluded each element of the defense of equitable estoppel had been met, and DSHS was estopped from recouping the overpaid amounts.
*742 Olivia Jinneman, the other respondent in this case, received categorically needy medical assistance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program between January 1988 and June 1989. This program is administered by DSHS. Jinneman provided accurate information to DSHS concerning her son Brandon's date of birth. Brandon turned 18 years old on April 29, 1988. He


the misleading statements of the state agent. Western Graphics, at 613. The Oregon Court of Appeals held that estoppel applied to prevent the Oregon Employment Division from enforcing the higher tax rate. Western Graphics, at 616.
Although the court in Western Graphics did allow estoppel against the government, substantive eligibility was not an issue. There was no question that the party asserting estoppel was substantively eligible to participate in the shared work plan or that allowing the party to participate in that plan was within the Oregon Employment Division's authority. Rather, the issue was the government's ability to collect the higher taxes which the claimant would not have been responsible for were it not for the agency's affirmative misrepresentations. Western Graphics holds nothing more than that affirmative misconduct withretire early based on his private employer's representation of benefits under the employee retirement plan. After the plaintiff retired, the employer notified him that its earlier representation of the benefits was incorrect. The plaintiff sought to estop his former employer from reducing benefits under equitable estoppel. The court held that the parties were mutually mistaken as to the amount of the benefits under the retirement plan. It ruled that, although Westinghouse could not recoup excess benefits already paid, it could reduce subsequent benefits to the correct amount.
Wilson is inapplicable to the instant case. First, in Wilson, estoppel was being asserted against a private party rather than the government. The burden on a party seeking to assert estoppel against the government is much higher because the orderly administration of


not lose sight of the distinction which exists between acts which are absolutely ultra vires by reason of the corporation having no authority to act on the subject-matter  it being wholly beyond the scope of its powers  and those acts which in a sense are termed ultra vires, where the body has jurisdiction of the subject-matter, but, in the execution of its authority, trespasses upon the rights of others.
Wendel, at 124. Since the construction of the road was clearly within the authority of the county, and the county could have constructed the road without complication had it been more careful, the county could not defend itself under the ultra vires exception. Wendel, at 124.
The distinction in Wendel was reiterated in Haslund. In Haslund, a developer broughtan action against the City of Seattle for damages arising out of the issuance of an invalid building permit. The permit violated the building code because it was issued conditionally. The city argued that the permit was ultra vires because it violated the code and, therefore, the city could not be held responsible. The court distinguished between ultra vires acts and irregular acts:
An ultra vires act is one performed without any authority to act on the subject. Here there is no plausible claim that the City did not have authority, through its building department, to issue building permits.
(Citation omitted.) Haslund, at 622 (citing Wendel). The court held that since the city could have issued a valid permit "the defense of ultra vires action is unavailable to [the city]".


could not apply. Washington Educ. Ass'n, at 610.
In Arbogast, the Westport Police Department terminated the plaintiff's employment as dispatcher. At the time the plaintiff was discharged she was within a 1-year probationary period for new employees. The plaintiff argued that the probationary period was invalid and that only the mayor could discharge her. The mayor promptly discharged her and the plaintiff brought suit. The mayor then offered the plaintiff permanent employment and placed the plaintiff on a 45-day suspension while the city evaluated the legality of the probationary period. Subsequent to the suspension period, the mayor determined that the probationary period was legal and again terminated the plaintiff. Arbogast, at 6. The plaintiff sought to estop the mayor, arguing that she had turned down other employment opportunities duringThe BBC has ordered a second series of No Such Thing As The News, the spin-off from the hit podcast from the QI researchers.

A second series of eight episodes will start on BBC Two on October 12, running at 11.15pm on Wednesdays, after Newsnight.

The show was the first comedy to be commissioned by the BBC’s news and current affairs department since David Frost's That Was The Week That Was in 1962.

A low-cost TV version of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast, the show consists of presenters Dan Schreiber, Anna Ptaszynski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin picking out interesting facts from the week’s news.

One Chortle commentator noted that the first series was shot so cheaply at Up The Creek comedy club in Greenwich, South London, that


20 kV, the demand voltage may rise to a range of 20 kV to 30 kV when the fuel supply to the cylinder associated with the spark plug 8 is cut off. The reason why the spark plug demand voltage increases when the fuel injection is cut off may be explained as follows. When the cylinder continues to remain in the state where the fuel injection is interrupted, temperature within the cylinder decreases, as a result of which emission of thermions from the cathode electrode of the spark plug 8 decreases. At the same time, the cylinder pressure rises abnormally during the compression stroke due to increase in the air density or concentration.
In particular, in the case where the ignition timing is set in the vicinity of theThe stage veteran received acclaim as the wisecracking Sophia Petrillo on 'The Golden Girls.' Getty had been battling Lewy body dementia, her caretaker said.

Estelle Getty, whose acting career bloomed late in life with her Emmy-winning performance as Sophia Petrillo, the wisecracking mother of Bea Arthur's character on the popular NBC sitcom "The Golden Girls," died Tuesday. She was 84.

Getty, who also won notice for her performance on Broadway as Harvey Fierstein's mother in "Torch Song Trilogy," died at her home in Hollywood, said her friend and caretaker, Paul Chapdelaine. Getty had been battling Lewy body dementia for the last eight or nine years, he said.

"The only comfort at this moment is that although Estelle has moved on, Sophia will always be with us," Betty White, one of Getty's


"Golden Girls" costars, said in a statement.

Getty was a veteran stage actress in New York City when she came to Los Angeles for the West Coast run of "Torch Song" in 1985, and her managers urged her to try making it in Hollywood. She told them she'd give it two months.

Six weeks later, she got the part of Sophia, an elderly mother who was forced to live with her divorced, middle-aged daughter and her daughter's two friends in a house in Miami.

Though about the same age as Arthur, Getty put on a wig, makeup and dowdy clothes and for seven years engaged in hilarious verbal combat with her TV daughter, Dorothy Zbornak, who towered over the tiny but feisty Sophia.

"Our mother-daughter relationship was one of the greatest comicduos ever, and I will miss her," Arthur said in a statement.

Freed from normal social constraints by a mild stroke, Sophia got many of the show's funniest lines, made even more droll by Getty's deadpan delivery. The intergenerational free-for-all often left Dorothy in stunned silence, from which she recovered by cooing ominously the name of the retirement home from which her mother had been rescued: "Shady Pines."

Dorothy [to Sophia]: Four women live in this house, the toilet seat never has to move, and you always manage to make it bang.

Getty, a natural comedian famous for her one-liners even in private life, played Sophia for laughs, but she also brought depth to the character. It was her idea that Sophia would always carry a purse because, she said, older


women are forced to shed so many possessions in their later years that everything they own ends up in their purses.

"Nobody puts down their life very easily," she explained in a 1992 interview with Newsday.

In 1988, the year she won an Emmy for her performance as Sophia, Getty told The Times that she did not know what made her character so popular, but she thought it had something to do with her being so small.

"There's something about people identifying with little people, for various reasons," said the under-5-foot Getty, who sometimes referred to herself as "a miniature person." She said she also thought the difference in stature between her and Arthur set up a comic situation, since Sophia seemed always to be the one telling Dorothy to shutup.

Getty was born Estelle Scher on July 25, 1923, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, the daughter of Polish immigrants.

She fell in love with the stage as a small child when her father took her to see a movie and five acts of vaudeville.

"I was stunned," she wrote in "If I Knew Then What I Know Now So What?," her 1988 memoir written with Steve Delsohn. "I had found my world."

By age 5, she was studying singing, dancing and dramatics at a settlement house. She graduated from Seward Park High School and began getting acting experience in the Borscht Belt in the Catskills in upstate New York.

After her marriage in 1946, she worked as a secretary and continued acting, eventually moving into motherly


roles.

"I've played mothers to heroes and mothers to zeros," she wrote. "I've played Irish mothers, Jewish mothers, Italian mothers, Southern mothers, New England mothers, mothers in plays by Neil Simon and Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. I've played mother to everyone but Attila the Hun."

Getty also played Sylvester Stallone's mother in the 1992 film flop "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot," Cher's mother in the 1985 movie "Mask" and Barry Manilow's mother in the 1985 TV movie "Copacabana."

Being typecast, however, also gave Getty the most important roles of her career, including "Golden Girls" and "Torch Song Trilogy," in which for five years she played mother to Fierstein's drag queen in the Broadway production and on national tours. (Anne Bancroft played Fierstein's mother in the 1988 film version.)

Fierstein hadmet Getty in the late 1970s when playing in small theaters in New York and, Fierstein said, she "drove me crazy asking for a part." He told TV Guide in 1986 that when he got around to casting "Torch Song Trilogy," "It began to strike me as funny to imagine this teeny little thing bossing me around."

Reviewing "Torch Song Trilogy" when it opened in November 1983 at the Huntington Hartford Theatre in Hollywood, former Times theater critic Dan Sullivan called Getty's performance "tough, funny and wonderfully positive."

Getty had lived in the Los Angeles area since her "Golden Girls" days. Her husband of 57 years, businessman Arthur Gettleman, died in 2004. She is survived by her sons, Barry Gettleman and Carl Gettleman; her brother, David Scher; and her sister,


Athletics News

OFFICE OF ACADEMIC SUPPORT STUDENT-ATHLETE OF THE MONTH

Beginning with the 2006-07 school year, the Office of Academic Support has presented a monthly award to student-athletes who have performed well both in the classroom and in athletic competition. Below is a list of the winners.to endure. Prayer became a hollow exercise. She searched her life for unconfessed sin and confessed it all. Worship meant talking with congregants after the service which took all her effort. She cried as she spoke. She tried everything her friends recommended; get out more, pray more, study the Bible more, exercise, take the latest nutriceutical, eat organic and even, "snap out of it." Nothing helped. I prescribed an anti-depressant for her.

Depression is the word in the church that must not be spoken. Those taking anti-depressants may find themselves stigmatized by pastors, elders or church members. I've had patients forbidden by husbands and elders from taking medicine for serious depression. I've had many Christian women take anti-depressants secretly, fearing the backlash waiting them should the church or their


of His sacrifice, the joy of His service and the wonder of His love and His holy word can cause the Christian enter the darkness of despair.

The seriousness of spiritual depression and the need of repentance, forgiveness, turning from sin, restoration of relationships, seeking the face of God and recognition of the sovereignty of God cannot be overemphasized. Spiritual depression robs us of the certainty of God's care and providence. Pastor and elders must boldly proclaim the gospel seeking restoration of the straying or troubled saint. The family of God needs to be involved; encouraging, coming along side, supporting and helping the downcast. God can heal if He chooses—and He does.

The puritans recognized depression and called it melancholy of the soul. They admonished confession, repentance, forgiveness and pleadingthe body of Christ to come along side, provide Christian love, care and help, just like one would with a grieving widow. The depressed need understanding and prayer, not a scold.

Matt Anderson, MD is an obstetrician/gynecologist who has practiced for 28 years. He and his wife have four married children and 14 grandchildren. He is a member of the American Association of Prolife Obstetricians and Gynecologists (aaplog.org). He and his wife attend the Mounds View campus of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Anderson has written for WORLD Magazine (worldmag.com) and occasionally blogs at mdviews.wordpress.com.


EU Bickering Pauses for Nobel

Leaders Tout Past Achievements, but Struggle to Lay Out a Detailed Vision of the Future

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The European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday at a ceremony in front of some 950 people at Oslo's city hall.
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By

Gabriele Steinhauser and

Kjetil Malkenes Hovland

Updated Dec. 10, 2012 7:28 p.m. ET

OSLO—The often fractious leaders of Europe took a break from constant questions about how to resolve their debt troubles Monday to celebrate their relative peace.

For a few hours, most of the leaders of a continent once racked by war joined to accept this year's Nobel Peace Prize amid grand ceremony, more than three years into an economic crisis that has plunged much of the continent into recession and stoked tensions among many of Europe's memberstates.

The head of the Nobel Committee, Thorbjørn Jagland, hailed the European Union for bringing peace after centuries of war as he handed over the diploma and medal at a ceremony before some 950 people at Oslo's city hall.

Invoking the specter of a previous economic crisis—that of the 1930s—that led to protectionism, nationalism and war, he said, "We know from the interwar years that this is what can happen when ordinary people pay the bills for a financial crisis triggered by others. But the solution now as then is not for the countries to act on their own at the expense of others."

Timeline: History of the EU

Herman Van Rompuy, left, José Manuel Barroso, in the middle, and Martin Schulz hold the Nobel Peace Prize after they accepted it on


behalf of the EU during a ceremony at City Hall in Oslo on Monday. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

Accepting the prize, Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, which brings together the governments of the 27 member states, recounted hearing stories of war firsthand from his family as a child in Belgium.

"In 1940, my father, then 17, had to dig his own grave. He got away; otherwise, I would not be here today," he said.

In the front two rows of the audience were 20 of the bloc's 27 leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who over the weekend said he intends to resign.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose Conservative Party contains deep euro-skeptics, was among those who skipped the event. He instead sent DeputyPrime Minister Nick Clegg, who heads the more-euro-friendly Liberal Democrat Party.

Europe's leaders have been seeing a lot of each other as they muddle through the crisis. They are due to return to a summit in Brussels on Thursday for the next installment. But their views on where Europe needs to go remain far apart.

"Today's award gives Europeans a considerable task for the future," said French President François Hollande, who sat next to Ms. Merkel, with whom he has had somewhat chilly relations. "We don't want to be the heads of states and government who have renounced the European project."

Messrs. Van Rompuy and European Commission chief José Manuel Barroso spoke of the EU's past achievements, including reconciling Germany and France after the ravages of two world wars to the