Twin Cities cabbie killings

Since 1990, 11 cabdrivers have been killed in their cabs in the Twin Cities:

March 14, 2012: William Harper, 56, a driver for Yellow Cab, was found shot in his vehicle in north Minneapolis and died at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale.

August 2009: Suburban Taxi driver Michael A. Palm Jr., 41, was sleeping in his parked cab when a man fatally stabbed him with a screwdriver. Abdirahman A. Abdikarim confessed and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

February 2007: Green & White driver Jim Moody, 46, was shot during a robbery and found in the driver's seat of his taxi in Brooklyn Center, where he had gone to pick up a fare. It was his fifth day on the job. Brandon Cox received a lifesentence.

August 2003: Red & White driver Mohamed Salah, 28, was shot twice in the back of the head as he drove three men in Minneapolis. Salvador A. Pacheco was sentenced to 27 years in prison.

July 2003: Blue & White driver Ahmed Ahmed, 38, picked up his last fare in downtown Minneapolis and was found slumped over the wheel of his cab in north Minneapolis. Sylvester L. Scott was sentenced to 25 1/2 years in prison.

April 2000: Blue & White driver Daniel B. Kabtyimer, 23, was shot repeatedly in his taxi in Minneapolis by a man who was fleeing a homicide he had committed. Andrew J. Krosch was sentenced to two life terms for the killings.

March 1998: Blue & White driver Said Igal, 48, was shot in the head


in his cab in north Minneapolis. A suspect was arrested but never charged.

April 1997: Yellow Cab driver Abdi J. Mohomed, 25, was shot and killed in St. Paul when he refused a ride to his neighbor, Jasper T. Lyons, 18. Lyons, who was high on crack at the time, pleaded guilty to second-degree intentional murder and was sentenced to 33 years in prison.

January 1996: Diamond Cab driver James Wildenauer, 46, was shot twice in the back of the head and found in his burning cab in St. Paul. George E. Bennett, 22, pleaded guilty to intentional second-degree murder and was sentenced to 29 years in prison. The cab started on fire when Wildenauer's foot became stuck on the gas pedal.

January 1995: City Wide driver Michael Lym, 37, wasshot and killed even after giving up his money and his cab in St. Paul. Jose H. Amaya pleaded guilty to intentional second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

January 1990: Premier Cab driver Bill Nieuwsma, 42, was robbed and shot in the temple and the back of the head after responding to a call in south Minneapolis. Calvin L. Everett received a life sentence.


Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Royal Society of Medicine, former president of the Huntingdon's Disease Association, the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry, the Arterial Health Foundation, of the Metropolitan branch of the British Dental Association and practising dentist for forty years

Chair of the London 2012 Olympic Park Legacy Company, former Chief Executive of Good Practice Limited, Managing Director (Social Infrastructure and Development) of Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, Chairman of Irvine Bay Urban Regeneration Company and president of the Epilepsy Action

Former deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party; the only active politician to have served in all levels of government in Northern Ireland, from local council, the Parliament of Northern Ireland, Westminster, Europe, all previous failed Assemblies and Conventionsand the current incarnation of the Assembly

Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, former chair of the Food Standards Agency, member of the committee on climate change and chair of adaptation sub-committee, chair of the Royal Society Science Policy Advisory Group

Centennial Professor in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hull, Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Westminster

Under section 137(3) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, holders of certain judicial offices who are peers are disqualified from sitting and voting in the House of Lords while in office.[12] The following peers are currently subject to this provision.

Under section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, peers


A Toronto man who was disqualified by NDP officials from running for the leadership of the federal party has dropped a legal challenge of that decision after being told he may reapply to become a candidate and that his new bid will be handled in a more transparent fashion.

Brian Graff, who joined the party eight months ago, filed a request for judicial review with the Ontario Superior Court in March after his candidacy for leadership was rejected. His lawyer, Nader Hasan, said the case was an attempt to shine a light on some basic unfairness around the way Canada's political leaders are selected.

Mr. Graff abandoned his case on Tuesday after resubmitting an application to become a candidate in the race that will be decided in October. But hisagreed to take another look at Mr. Graff's application but they remain convinced that the processes that were followed to assess his original request to become a candidate were both fair and appropriate.

Mr. Graff, who dabbles in real estate but has been unemployed since 2011, took out an NDP membership last August. He informed the party in October of his intention to run for the leadership, saying the prospective candidates at that time were not talking about the issues he considers to be most important, including unemployment.

He was advised on Dec. 20 by Robert Fox, the party's national director, that his candidacy was not accepted – the first time in the party's history that someone has been told they were not qualified to run for leader.

Mr. Graff said


of ideas and candidates," Mr. Graff said in a statement after filing a new application on Monday. "We need to get on with the job of giving NDP supporters a fresh approach for 2019, and a jolt of energy into what has been a lacklustre race where the candidates agree on nearly everything."

There are currently five official candidates in the leadership race. Charlie Angus, Niki Ashton, Guy Caron and Peter Julian are all are sitting MPs. Ibrahim Bruno El-Khoury, from Montreal, is also registered, according to Elections Canada. And Pat Stogran, a retired infantry colonel who was also the federal veterans ombudsman, is set to announce his candidacy on Thursday.

Mr. Graff's lawyers point out that there is nothing in the NDP's constitution that would disqualify someone from runningfor the leadership based on views that diverged from written party policy. Rather, the rules state that any "member of the party in good standing, eligible to run for a seat in the House of Commons, who demonstrates a genuine interest in seeking the leadership and serving as the leader of the NDP can be a candidate."

Mr. Hasan said the case highlights the fact that, while Canadians are given a chance to vote for the person who will represent their riding in the House of Commons, it is party members who decide for the rest of Canada who will be party leader and, ultimately, who has the chance to be prime minister. Therefore, he said, parties have a responsibility to act fairly and transparently.


As if the case weren't surreal enough, Harmon, 38, is an attorney (who goes by yet another name, Rhashea Lynn Harmon) who may or may not be a Philadelphia mayoral candidate In February, she spoke to GOP ward leaders in Port Richmond as a Republican mayoral candidate. A month later, she told the Inquirer that she was unhappy with her party and instead would make her mayoral bid in the Nov. 3 general election as an independent. Yesterday, she ignored a Daily News reporter's questions, including whether she still is pursuing the mayor's seat.Meet the obscure microbe that influences climate, ocean ecosystems, and perhaps even evolution

Penny Chisholm has had a 35-year love affair—with a microbe. For her, it's been the perfect partner—elusive during courting, a source of intellectual fulfillment, and still full of mystery decades after their introduction during an ocean cruise.

To look at, the object of her passion is just a green mote, floating in vast numbers in the world's oceans. But Chisholm has found hidden complexity within Prochlorococcus, a cyanobacterium that is the smallest, most abundant photosynthesizing cell in the ocean—responsible for 5% of global photosynthesis, by some estimates. Its many different versions, or ecotypes, thrive from the sunlit sea surface to a depth of 200 meters, where light is minimal. Collectively the "species" boasts an estimated 80,000 genes—four


times what humans have, and plenty to deal with whatever the world's oceans throw at it. "It's a beautiful little life machine and like a superorganism," Chisholm says. "It's got a story to tell us."

And tell it Chisholm has, to anyone and in any way possible. Her work on the microbe has led to a meeting with a U.S. president, a debate with the Dalai Lama, and co-authorship of science-themed children's books. She even once tried to get the hip-hop star GZA to incorporate the bacterium's mouthful of a name into a rap song for an album he was considering on oceans. "She's really driven to sell Prochlorococcus," says Allison Coe, Chisholm's longtime lab manager. "She wants everyone else to be as passionate and to consider it asamazing as she thinks it is."

The microbe's long climb to recognition mirrors Chisholm's own. Early in her career, as the lone woman, and lone biologist, in the civil engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, she had to overcome both scientific and cultural hurdles, adopting the latest techniques to reveal Prochlorococcus's secrets while working with other female faculty to get MIT to address gender discrimination. Her quiet persistence inspired others. Chisholm, who in recent years has been awarded the National Medal of Science and named as one of MIT's 13 Institute Professors, sent "an important message for future academicians," says Heidi Sosik, a biological oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts. "You don't have to be a blustery, high-profile white guy


to make it."

The stature of her microbial partner continues to grow as well. Its influence over climate is now appreciated, for example. And Chisholm and two colleagues will soon lay out evidence for a scenario in which Prochlorococcus is a central actor in evolution. They propose that it is not only responsible for much of the oxygen we breathe today, but also fueled the explosion of early life in the oceans and the ancient rise in oxygen in Earth's atmosphere. As MIT oceanographer Mick Follows put it, Chisholm "has beautifully shown us how this microbe works and how the ocean world is organized."

A microbe's vital stats

Chisholm says that as a woman of her times, she went to college in the 1960s mainly "to find a husband." Nevertheless, asan undergrad, she explored the chemistry of lakes, and—after a professor pushed her—decided to pursue a Ph.D. At the State University of New York in Albany, she studied the 24-hour variation in nutrient cycling in Euglena, a single-cell photosynthesizer like Prochlorococcus, but found in freshwater. She next went to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, for a very practical reason—there was more funding for marine microbial ecology than for freshwater.

In 1976, MIT came calling. At the time, its civil engineering department was looking to become more "environmental" by hiring a microbiologist, a trend already evident in many similar departments elsewhere. She accepted but was so convinced she wouldn't get tenure it took many years for her to consider buying a house. It was easy to


see why she might not fit in. An old department photo shows a petite, young blonde among a sea of mostly middle-aged white men. Furthermore, the other biologists on campus had a biomedical or molecular bent, quite unlike the fuzzy ecological world she was diving into.

But MIT, through its affiliation with WHOI on Cape Cod, offered Chisholm a chance to go to sea, looking for answers to a question that had begun to captivate her: how microbes influence the ocean. "She had this idea there were new things to discover and [scientists] just needed to find ways of observing the ocean at higher and higher resolution," says Alexandra Worden of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California, who studies the evolution of ocean microbes.

In thebut like all but one of the 17 other senior female faculty at the time, she signed on. "We were really upset that things were not changing for women," Chisholm recalls.

They took their concerns to an MIT dean in 1995 and got backing for an investigative committee to collect data on the number of teaching and administrative positions held by women, salaries, sizes of labs, and more. "[Penny] was one of the ones who brought a more positive, ‘Let's figure this out’ approach," says biogeochemist Diane McKnight of the University of Colorado in Boulder, an alumna of Chisholm's lab.

After working behind the scenes for almost 2 years, the committee made a series of recommendations that the MIT administration quickly embraced. When a summary of the investigation made it


into the media in 1999, "it was a shot heard around the world," Chisholm recalls. "It became a big movement." MIT's leaders responded constructively, she adds. "Looking back at the way things were when I first got here and how things are now, there's a tremendous shift," she says.

After helping raise the profile of female scientists, Chisholm drew new attention to her favorite microbe. As she and her students and postdocs grew samples under varied conditions in the lab, they identified five main Prochlorococcus ecotypes, each adapted to a different combination of light and temperature. In her lab's growth chambers, they are easy to tell apart: Some are bright green, whereas others have a yellowish hue. Each makes a different light-absorbing pigment so that at its particular depth,the sun should it wind up at the surface somehow.

As new molecular technologies arose—microarrays that document gene activity and proteomics methods that look at the proteins present, for example—Chisholm and her students and postdocs were quick to learn and apply them. She credits them for all her successes. "When I say ‘we’ I mean ‘they,’" she remarked at a lecture on her life's work. When undergraduate Jed Fuhrman worked in her lab and contributed to a paper published in Nature, "she had no trouble just handing off the first authorship even though she was a new professor" and wrote most of the paper, he recalls. (Fuhrman is now a biological oceanographer at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.)

Together, her lab found that each of the main


ton of information for these little guys," she says, and it must be the secret of Prochlorococcus's success. Its enormous genomic repertoire enables it to cope with conditions across a vast swath of the oceans, dominating warm seas from 40° North to 40° South (see map, below).

The sea's invisible pasture Drawing on ocean and marine microbe data collected by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, this model depicts the most dominant types of phytoplankton in the world's oceans, with Prochlorococcus ruling much of the globe and bigger diatoms dominating nearer the poles.

These waters contain an estimated 3 billion billion billion Prochlorococcus cells, collectively weighing as much as 220 million Volkswagen Beetles. That abundance makes the microbe a heavyweight in ocean food webs and climate. It is a key sourceburdened her early in her career. When she was named an Institute Professor, for example, she wondered, "How could this be?" she recalls. "I don't feel like that kind of person."

A sense of being an imposter, she admits, continues to dog her. She still works long hours—"I could never juggle [so] many things," Coe says. "But the older she gets the more worried she gets." In 2013, Chisholm's anxiety about the lab and the future of her Prochlorococcus cultures if she retires was so palpable she began to develop minor health problems. Starting tai chi lessons gave her a new perspective. "I needed to do something to get me out of my head," she recalls. She has also found an outlet, with artist and author Molly Bang, writing


children's science books, featuring the sun as the narrator. One tells the story of the "invisible pasture of the sea."

She continues to be driven to unravel the story of Prochlorococcus. In 2014, for example, electron micrographs taken in her lab revealed tiny vesicles budding off Prochlorococcus cells; later, her postdoc Steven Biller showed that each cell releases two to five lipid-membrane bubbles filled with DNA and RNA per generation—possible food sources for other plankton, decoys for viruses, gene-transfer vehicles, or even messengers that communicate with other microbes. Biller has since found that other marine bacteria make these vesicles as well. "This was a whole new feature of the ocean ecosystem," Chisholm says.

In another hint that Prochlorococcus builds extensive partnerships with other marine microbes, Chisholm's lab found that itfor hunters, for ease of carrying, and effortlessly enables its user to elevate himself and the seat up a tree. Primarily, it consists of a folding frame, having a platform and a folding hammock seat. It also includes a safety belt, a tree belt, gun and bow supports, and a block and tackle for its elevation and descent.
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Heysham Atoms 36-22 Rylands Sharks

Heysham Atoms made it three Premier League wins on the trot at the Trimpell ground after a quick turnaround had pitched the two sides against each other for the second time in three weeks.

Atoms came under some earlier pressure but from a scrum 20 metres from the Atoms line dangerous running centre Jack Edmondson broke clear and outpaced the cover to give the Atoms a score against the run of play.

With defences well on top Atoms’ second rower Andrew Collins provided the cutting edge with his arcing runs getting him on the outside shoulder of the Ryland’s defenders and providing some much needed quicker ball, along with the lively Callum Hall.

A 40 yard Collins break only came to an end when he lost hisfooting with only the full back to beat. From the resulting scrum the Atoms employed a planned move whereby Walker and Helme combined down the narrow side to put winger Jack Lawton away who finished off the move by the corner flag.

As the break approached on this cagey first period it was Jack Edmondson who deservedly scored his second, breaking tackles and stumbling his way over the line for a 14-0 half time lead.

From the restart the Atoms had to dig deep again and defend their line for a substantial amount of time. For the second time in the contest the Atoms’ scrambling defence was outstanding as Rylands threw everything at them.

Collins was again the man to relieve the pressure, making a break down the left channel then


cutting infield and finding Walker with a pass who in turn tipped on to Stuart Lacey who shot over the line.

Lacey added his second shortly after when he picked up a loose pass and skirted down the right touch line and then side stepping the full back who was covering across and giving the Atoms a healthy 24-0 lead.

The Atoms again fell into the trap of thinking their work was done for the afternoon but Rylands made them pay. The next three scores were all from the Warrington outfit as they started to open up and cause the Atoms some real problems.

At 24-16 it called for the captain to return to the action and restore a bit of calm to proceedings. Liam Hall with his first touch inhis second spell smashed his way over from close range.

Michael Forrest again had a game full of balanced, destructive running. He broke from an Atoms scrum 20 metres from his own line and his acceleration allowed him the the comfort of easing up as he went over the line.

The plucky Rylands side were still full of attacking intent right until the final whistle and were rewarded for their efforts with a try wide out on their left on the last play of the game.


Hiroshima, Japan, Aug 2013

Hiroshima (広島市) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, which is the largest island of Japan. It is recongnized as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II. Hiroshima is situated on the Ōta River delta, on Hiroshima Bay, facing the Seto Inland Sea on its south side. The river's six channels divide Hiroshima into several islets.

Hiroshima (広島市) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, which is the largest island of Japan. Itis recongnized as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II. Hiroshima is situated on the Ōta River delta, on Hiroshima Bay, facing the Seto Inland Sea on its south side. The river's six channels divide Hiroshima into several islets.


On top of all of those Dragon Quest ports, Square Enix is making a brand new Dragon Quest Monsters game. A teaser site is up for Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light.

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Sharon Lee Wilcox

NORWALK - Sharon Lee Wilcox, 54, of Norwalk, died early Sunday morning in her home.

She was born July 16, 1953 in Norwalk and was a lifelong area resident. She was a cook at the Salvation Army in Norwalk and enjoyed reading, painting, cooking and spending time with her family.

She is survived by a son, Andrew Dorian Wilcox of Norwalk; mother, Sarah Didion of Norwalk; brothers, Leo and Clarence Didion, both of Norwalk and Jack Didion of Toledo; and sisters and brother-in-law, Laura Marie Wilcox of Norwalk, Delores Sue Wilcox of Norwalk, Janet Rose Filsinger of Norwalk and Carol Jean and Rick Brant of Bellevue.

She was preceded in death by her father, Ernest A. Wilcox.

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TSB Canada reports on fatal incident involving WWII era tug

JULY 25, 2014 — On May 10, 2013, at approximately 0625 local time, the barge Arctic Lift I, carrying a cargo of steel rebar, capsized while under tow by the tug Western Tugger in moderate weather about 33 nautical miles southwest of Burgeo, Newfoundland and Labrador. The subsequent strain on the tow wire caused an auxiliary brake drum on the tow winch to shatter, and parts of it struck a crew member, who sustained fatal injuries.

Both the tugboat and barge were registered to Midnight Marine Limited, St. John’s, NL. The tug was built in Oyster Bay, NY, in 1943 and the barge in Houma, LA, in 1972. The owner purchased and salvaged the barge after a previous occurrence hadrelease, it was not functional due to this secondary brake. The master directed a deckhand to the winch room to loosen a secondary brake which had been added to the winch to assist the main brake. Moments later, the forward end of the barge rose out of the water and the barge capsized. The resulting strain on the secondary brake drum caused it to shatter, and parts of it hit and fatally injured the deckhand.

The investigation found a number of safety issues at play during the tow: an emergency tow release that was not capable of being operated immediately; hatches that were not reliably watertight; a minimal freeboard; and, cargo that was unsecured. The investigation also found that although a safety management system was under development, it had


was attached to his index finger. He started fussing with it in the morning, setting off alarms at the nurses station. They came in and tried to set things straight, but hed be back at it again shortly. They finally gave up and just let him alone. He stopped responding to questions, but he kept at that sensor, eyes closed, until he had the thing in pieces arrayed on his chest, parts sorted in careful order. Dad, his daughter asked, why did you do that? I wanted to see how it fit together, were his last words. Had he lived another day, I am still convinced, he might have put the thing back together.

 After completing the Lords Prayer I leaned over, took Margarets hand, and spoke gently,awakened me about midnight with a phone call; they had taken him to the hospital. I drove over and chatted briefly with him, said a prayer with the family, and after the doctor said Harold seemed stabilized for the night, went home. His wife called again, about three in the morning to say they didnt think hed live through the night.

When I arrived, Harold was propped upright to ease his breathing. He wasnt speaking, eyes closed. Then Harold opened his eyes, looked for his wife, and winked at her broadly. Winked? Yes, then he closed his eyes, one breath, never another, and drifted into death. Where the hell did that come from? I unintentionally wondered aloud. I dont know, his widow said, but he was thinking of me,


wasnt he. Then she wept and even laughed, a little.

 Lucille died of breast cancer. Her last coherent words were the sursum corda of Holy Communion, repeated steadily for a few moments until she lost final consciousness.

 George was the consummate small appliance hobbyist. He could fix anything and did, just for the fun of doing it. Thirty years before he bought his wife an anniversary present, a twenty-five cent junk toaster from a flea market. He fixed it, and his wife had used it ever since. Revenge, I think I heard her say. He had three, four good years in remission from leukemia, and then a stomach cancer took him within a year.

I really came to love the guy and, I have to say, he gave everyindication the feeling was returned. It was terribly painful watching this good man die. As cancer combined with radiation treatments destroyed his digestive tract, McDonalds was running an advertizing blitz for McRibs. The commercials drove him nuts. His digestive track was crap but his appetite was intact. George promised hed take me out for an order. We both knew otherwise; all he could take were ice chips. A few days before his death he took some ice chips, divided them in two paper cups, and gave me one. Well have to pretend these are ribs.

I was there the night he died, moistening his mouth with a swab. And I was angry, mostly because his family didnt know to keep his mouth moist. They could see, couldnt they, how


part of a large general health survey, the version of the WPAI that was used was not OA specific. Therefore, the observed relationships between OA pain and productivity should be considered associative rather than causal, since direct causality cannot be inferred regarding the OA pain as a source of lost productivity, especially given that workers with OA pain were characterized by a significantly greater comorbidity burden than workers without OA pain. Similarly, the higher resource utilization and costs cannot be ascribed specifically to the OA nor the pain, since there are no claims linking resource use with the disease and symptoms of interest. Nevertheless, lost productivity in the OA pain cohort was twice as high as the comparator cohort, with both total costs and indirect costs also almostGRAND RAPIDS, MI – Before the VanAndel Arena, the B.O.B and Rosa Parks Circle, there was Connie Elsasser and her Common & Gentry Carriage Co to take love-struck couples, newlyweds, corporate outings and excited kids on a downtown carriage ride.

“When I first started, you could literally shoot a cannon through the city at night,” says Elsasser, who recalls waiting outside the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel with “Tootsie Van Kelly,” who belted out show tunes at her namesake bar inside the hotel.

Elsasser, now one of four carriage vendors operating downtown, bid farewell to part of that past last week when her faithful Percheron, Princess, died at age 28 on her farm near Kent City.

“She died of old age,” Elsasser said fondly of the horse she bought 13 years ago


after another candidate for her carriage business flunked out of training.

Princess had been out to pasture for the past few years, replaced by younger Percherons who carried on her tradition of adding romance and adventure to a night downtown.

Those younger horses, Tess, Pete and especially 5-year-old Covergirl, learned how to behave around people and traffic and downtown noises, says Elsasser. “She would babysit her and teach her how to be docile.”

For Princess, pulling one of Elsasser’s ornate carriages or sleighs was a second career.

Before Elsasser purchased her from an Amish horse trainer in Indiana, Princess had spent years pulling a carriage through downtown Chicago for Noble Horse Carriage Rides.

Though Noble had sold Princess because of a leg injury, the horse trainer had applied an “Amish remedy” that resolved'God spared my child': Mom of Branson duck boat survivor speaks out

Mandi Keller spent Thursday night frantically calling police stations and sheriff's offices in southwest Missouri.

Keller was home in Texas, but her 15-year-old daughter, Gillian, was among the 31 people aboard a Ride the Ducks amphibious tour vessel that capsized Thursday night on Table Rock Lake.

Officials say 17 people died.

Gillian survived without serious injuries.

"I feel fortunate," Keller said. "God spared my child and she is coming home alive and not in a body bag."

Keller said Gillian was visiting Branson with her father and his family. Now, everyone is ready to go home.

Keller said her daughter and ex-husband reported the vessel began to sink in the stormy conditions Thursday night, and the occupants were briefly trapped under the duck's


and respondents Pepsi Cola Bottling Company and Brewery Workers Local No. 79 ask denial of enforcement, of an order of the Board issued December 7, 1970, and reported at 187 N.L.R.B. No. 3. The Board ordered respondents to cease and desist from giving effect to an agreement made April 28, 1969, which designated the Brewery Workers Local as bargaining agent for the company's employees.  The Board's finding, which affirmed its trial examiner, was that on the date of the above bargaining agreement both the company and the Brewery Workers knew that a substantial majority of the company's employees no longer wished to be represented by the Brewery Workers.  There was clear evidence that about 25 of the company's 35 employees had, shortly before the date of128 N.L.R.B. 493 (1960).  On March 26, 1969, Teamsters filed a petition with the Board's regional office seeking to represent respondent company's employees.  This was later withdrawn, however, because of the still existing contract between the company and the Brewery Workers.  On April 28, 1969, two days before the expiration of this contract, the company management and representatives of the Brewery Workers, in a single bargaining session, negotiated and signed a new contract continuing the Brewery Workers as bargaining representative of the company's employees.  If at that time both the company and the Brewery Workers knew that the latter union did not represent a majority of the company's eligible employees, their entering into such a contract as they did sign would violate the Act.


was called.  Only five employees showed up.  The Local's president-not an employee of respondent company-attended but was in "an advanced state of inebriation."  This condition frustrated any meaningful meeting and those of the company's employees who did attend, thereafter pursued efforts to get the company's employees to join and choose, as their bargaining agent, a Local of the Truck Drivers and Helpers Union-the Teamsters.  Such effort was successful and some 25 of the respondent company's 35 employees signed membership cards, petitions, or other documents evidencing their desire to have the Teamsters represent them.  This material was exhibited to the company president, who expressed his desire to continue, nevertheless, to deal with the Brewery Workers.  No negotiations with the Brewery Workers looking towarda new contract to replace the one which was to expire on April 30, 1969, had begun at the time it was made known to the company that its employees were dissatisfied with the Brewery Workers.  However, at one bargaining session, held on April 28, the company and representatives of the Brewery Workers made a contract extending the Brewery Workers bargaining rights for a period of three years.  Only three of the company's employees were present at this meeting.1  It is fair to conclude that the negotiations leading to this contract were carried on between the company's president, the president of the Brewery Workers Local-not an employee of respondent company-and one Mel Greenthal, a representative of Brewery Workers International.  The Constitution of the International


Union of the Brewery Workers provided:

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"Ratification of contract shall be by a majority of the votes cast by the members affected by the contract.  Said vote shall be by secret ballot at a regular meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose."

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No such ratification procedure was had.  The International Constitution also provided, however:

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"[I]n unusual circumstances, the General Executive Board may vary or dispense with this procedure."

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The respondent company's president testified that Greenthal, the International representative, said he "was empowered to ratify the contract for the Internation Union."  Greenthal did not testify, however, and there is no evidence that the General Executive Board did in fact dispense with membership ratification.  It could be fairly inferred that the only "unusual circumstances" present consisted ofthat the Teamsters had lost interest in respondent company's employees.  The trial examiner discussed this and other contentions in this manner:

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"However, Respondent Employer claims that even assuming that it was placed on notice by March 20 of the majority status of the Teamsters (by the March 19 letter of Business Agent Test), the effect of such notice was effectively dissipated on or about April 3 when it received the notification from the Board's Regional Director that the petition filed by the Teamsters for an election had been withdrawn.  However, the Teamsters never notified Respondent Employer that Teamsters was receding from the position taken in the March 19 letter to the Respondent Employer, and counsel for Respondent Employer candidly acknowledged at the hearing that he was aware


which was sent by the Teamsters to the Company was ever sent to the Respondent Union.  However, there is testimony of employee Gene Harrison that approximately a week prior to the execution of the collective-bargaining agreement at issue here, he telephoned president of Respondent Union, Rocky Layne, and told him that approximately 90 percent of the employees would like to see execution of the contract delayed until the first week of May since 'there was a possibility we could put the Teamsters in.'  However, Layne rejected this suggestion and advised Harrison that there would be a contract negotiated.  Moreover, the actual fact respecting the membership of Respondent Union among the unit employees has its basis in the records of Respondent Union and therefore particularly withinWorkers and for its certification as the bargaining agent for the company's employees.  This was done in May, 1969, but the Regional Director dismissed that petition on the ground that the then existence of the contract here under attack barred decertification. No appeal was taken from such action of the Regional Director and respondents assert that his order was a final adjudication of the validity of the April 28, 1969, contract.  This matter before us now had its beginning in a later unfair labor practice charge filed by the Teamsters against the respondents.  The Board in its brief in this Court met this contention as follows:

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"As a final procedural argument, the parties urge that the Teamsters' failure to seek administrative appeal from the Regional Director's


Shining City, Tarnished Dreams

Now there can be no doubt about it: Edward P. Jones belongs in the first rank of American letters. With the publication of All Aunt Hagar's Children, his third book and second collection of short stories, Jones has established himself as one of the most important writers of his own generation -- he is 55 years old -- and of the present day. Not merely that, but he is one of the few contemporary American writers of literary fiction who is more interested in the world around him than he is in himself, with the happy result that he has much to tell us about ourselves and how we live now.

Fourteen years ago, Jones published a collection of short stories called Lost in the City.I almost certainly wouldn't have reviewed the book had not the stories been set in Washington, since Jones was almost completely unknown and -- to be perfectly frank -- story collections are not the easiest books to review. It interested me, though, that the stories took place in parts of the District -- Northeast, Southeast, Anacostia -- that rarely figure in fiction about Washington and that virtually all of their characters were African American, as is Jones himself.

Lost in the City turned out to be one of those exceptionally rare books -- in my 40-year reviewing career, there have been perhaps a dozen -- that come from nowhere to leave one astonished and delighted. It also left me, as well as many readers with whom I've corresponded or


spoken, eager for Jones's next book, but that was a long time coming. His first novel, The Known World , did not appear until 2003, but it was immediately recognized as an extraordinary piece of work, a historical novel set in the antebellum South about a black man who owned slaves. It won a number of literary awards, most significantly the Pulitzer Prize, and it doubtless is what led the MacArthur Foundation to give him one of its prestigious and remunerative fellowships.

It seems to have liberated him as well, for after its publication he began writing short stories in a great rush of productivity. Some were published in the New Yorker, to which fiction no longer is as central as it once was but which still reaches alarge and disproportionately influential readership. As these and other stories appeared, it became clear that Jones was gradually expanding the scope of his fiction and playing with means of constructing it. As now collected in All Aunt Hagar's Children , these 14 stories are again "about" Washington in one way or another, but they are set over a broader period of time than those in Lost in the City, and they are at moments less realistic, more fanciful, weaving past, present and future into a tapestry -- "Tapestry" being, I suspect by no means coincidentally, the title of the last of these stories.

Jones takes his book's title and inspiration from the Book of Genesis and the blues of W.C. Handy. The story of Abraham, in Genesis, revolves around


the inability of his wife, Sarah, to bear children. He turns to the slave Hagar, who becomes pregnant and bears him a son, Ishmael. God then permits Sarah to bear a son, Isaac, but Sarah is angered when she sees the boys together and demands that Abraham "cast out this slave woman with her son." This he does, but he is distressed, so God tells him: "As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring." The nation that ensued, many people believe, is Africa itself, hence blacks are "all Aunt Hagar's children."

The story of Hagar has long been told in black churches and is the stuff of music as well. In the early 1920s, W.C. Handywrote "Aunt Hagar's Blues," which includes the lines: "Just hear Aunt Hagar's chilun harmonizin' to that old mournful tune!/ It's like choir from on high broke loose!/ If the devil brought it, the good Lord sent it right down to me,/ Let the congregation join while I sing those lovin' Aunt Hagar's Blues!" The song has been recorded many times, perhaps most notably by Louis Armstrong on his album devoted to Handy's music. It's easy to imagine that Jones listened to that performance more than once as he wrote these superb stories.

Aunt Hagar is present here both as the symbolic mother of all African Americans and as the embodiment of black womanhood. In the title story, a young black man is murdered, and a friend of his mother


that of the family in "Resurrecting Methuselah": "Her father took a second job in the evenings, and the family, which included a younger brother, stayed near the bottom of the middle class, a few paychecks from the lower class in which the parents had been raised and which they had thought they would not have to see again." They are mostly moving upward, but slowly and uncertainly, always mindful of how short a distance separates them from where they don't want to be.

Most of them are still intimately connected to the rural, small-town South from which they or their forebears came to Washington, but they live very different lives. In "Tapestry," the young woman and her new husband ride in a crowded train car: "They shared food, theyshared stories about home, about Southern places that would be the foundation of their lives in the North. None of them could know that the cohesion born and nurtured in the South would be but memory in less than two generations." In the South, they imagine Washington as Shangri-La, a place "where, South Carolina old folks said, people threw away their dishes after every meal because it was cheaper to buy new ones." The sleeping-car porter in "Tapestry" says:

"They treat colored people like kings and queens in Washington, cause thas where the president lives. Would they treat colored people anything but good in a city where the president hangs his hat and pets his dog and snores beside Mrs. President every night? Now would they? . . .


No. Course not. They wouldn't do such a thing to us."

But of course they do. Some of the trouble comes from without, some from within: "Two weeks ago a woman on New Jersey Avenue returning home from work had been robbed and hit twice in the head with a gun, the worst crime many had heard about in some time. Roxanne was realizing that Washington was getting less and less safe for people like her. The good and the decent. Men with little in their pockets had done the city in." A preacher looks out on his congregation: "It might have been all the grandparents he saw before him, all the people who had struggled into old age only to find themselves parents once again. . . .All of them the kind of people the preacher had built his rock on. The world was turned upside down when the mature ones were forced to do what the younger ones should be doing."

One is far more aware of this altered and diminished Washington in these stories than in the stories of 14 years ago in Lost in the City . From the vantage point of a farm in North Carolina or Mississippi a couple of generations ago, Washington may have looked like Gold Mountain, but now it looks quite different: still offering hope and happiness, but riskier, tougher, crueler.

Yet this, as Jones sees it, is an obstacle, not a dead end. These people are in it for the long run. They persevere. One of them says:


that when The Cat in the Hat was first published, it was deemed scandalously inappropriate for children. Like our story, it has a motif of a house getting wrecked while the mother is away, but there the house-wrecker is the hero, here, the villain. The children take the story very seriously. I was touched watching the mother, who began the story by leaving the house after warning her children. She then waited away from us in silence as events unfolded on the other side of the classroom, as the Wolf tried and tried and finally succeeded in entering the house and then eating the Kid Goats. Only one child wanted the part of the Wolf, but he played it with enthusiasm, and I sensed that was the rightwith his Facebook page. The tea party affiliated lawmaker made news in 2012 when he fumbled one of the two loaded .45 caliber pistols he had on him, onto the State House floor during a criminal justice committee meeting. He brushed off the incident saying:

All I could think of was, it was bound to happen one of these days, I come here too often for that not to have happened.

In similar fashion, he was dismissive of the suggestion that his post joking about domestic violence was offensive. When asked if he thought the image might be inappropriate he responded:

Nah. I ran it by the [domestic violence] lobbyist she laughed. Now if we went around wearing the T-shirt that wouldn’t go over well.

Well, Kyle Tasker may think the joke


Monday, January 13, 2014

25-Man Roster Dissection: Glen Perkins

As the Twins get closer to heading to Fort Myers, there will be plenty of decisions to make in relation to the 25-man roster. Some positions are likely set in stone while others are still questionable. In this series called "25-Man Roster Dissection," I have selected the men I believe will spend the most time on the 25-man roster next season and I try to predict each player's 2014 performance.

Besides Joe Mauer, who was the first profile, Glen Perkins was the only other 2014 Twins All-Star. This year will mark his ninth year with time at the big league level and his second as the full-time closer. Minnesota's bullpen might be the strongest part of the roster and it starts andends with their 9th inning man.

2013 Recap: 2.30 ERA, 0.93 WHIP, 77 SO, 15 BB, 36 saves (62.2 IP)
Minnesota thrust Perkins into the full-time closer role for 2013 following a year where he split time with Matt Capps. Perkins' strong performance at the end of 2012 proved he was ready for a more important role. In 2013, Perkins would set many personal highs in his first All-Star season. His 2.30 ERA was a career low along with having a WHIP under 1.00 for the first time. He set a career high by striking out 11.1 batters per nine innings. In the first half of the season, batters hit .172/.221/.262 with 47 SO over 34.2 innings. His numbers could have looked even better if the Twins had been on


the winning side of games on a more frequent basis.

Forecasting 2014: 2.70 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 75 SO, 20 BB, 31 saves (65.0 IP)
It would be tough for Perkins to match his numbers from 2013. His ERA was ridiculously low and batters averaged 6.2 hits per nine against him. In the second half of the season, batters seemed to catch up to Perkins a little as opponents batting average increased by 55 points and their OPS jumped over 175 points. All of those things could signal a couple steps back for Perkins in 2014. He will still be the anchor of the Twins bullpen, one of the team's biggest strengths. Perkins will still be one of the best relief arms in the American League and he could be oneThis Sabyasachi Kurta Collection Answers All Your Style Needs

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didn't think Wall would ''have a wandering eye'' about free agency when his contract was up in 2019. Wall said loyalty played a role, though it doesn't hurt that it has come with three playoff appearances in the past four years.

The Wizards missed the playoffs the previous five seasons and are now among the top teams in the East along with the Cavaliers, Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors. Amid all the roster fluctuation with Kyrie Irving wanting out of Cleveland, Boston signing Gordon Hayward and Paul George being traded from Indiana to Oklahoma City, Washington continues to value continuity.

''We want to have consistent, sustainable success,'' Brooks said. ''We don't want to ride the roller-coaster of an NBA team going up and down up and down each and everyArchaeologists have discovered the skeleton of a 10-year-old child at an ancient Roman site in Italy with a rock carefully placed in its mouth. This suggests those who buried the child—who probably died of malaria during a deadly fifth century outbreak—feared it might rise from the dead and spread the disease to those who survived. Locals are calling it the "Vampire of Lugnano."

"This is a very unusual mortuary treatment that you see in various forms in different cultures, especially in the Roman world," says Jordan Wilson, a graduate student in bio-archaeology at the University of Arizona who studied the remains. He added that this could "indicate a fear that this person might come back from the dead and try to spread disease to the living."

Pretty much every culture


on Earth has some version of a vampire (or proto-vampire) myth. Chinese folklore has the Jiang shi, [corrected] which are reanimated corpses that rise from the grave to prey on the living; one type has sharp fangs, the better to bite into the neck of said prey. Russian, Albanian, Indian, and Greek folklore have similar undead monsters. Russian villagers in the Middle Ages often drove stakes into the bodies of suspected vampires upon burial to keep them from rising again.

A team of archaeologists from the University of Arizona and Stanford University made the discovery over the summer while excavating a site known as La Necropoli dei Bambini ("Cemetery of the Babies"), since it was believed to be exclusively for the burial of infants and toddlers who died fromknow that the Romans would go to the extent of employing witchcraft to keep the evil—whatever is contaminating the body—from coming out," says University of Arizona archaeologist David Soren, who headed the excavation. Nevertheless, this latest discovery is not a common practice, and none of the other skulls unearthed from the site thus far has had a stone in its mouth.

"I've never seen anything like it," says Soren. "It's extremely eerie and weird." However, there have been similar burials in other locations in Italy, such as the elderly 16th-century woman, unearthed in 2009, who was buried with a brick in her mouth. She was dubbed the "Vampire of Venice."

The team will return to the site next summer to wrap up its excavation, perhaps uncovering more "vampire burials." At


Collision clean up

December 21, 2012

Kim Fundingsland/MDNA Minot fireman helps with clean up following a collision between the car pictured here and a truck owned by Circle Sanitation of Minot. The accident occurred about 8:45 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of East Burdick Expressway and 27th Street, just east of the State Fairgrounds.The car was eastbound on Burdick. The sanitation truck was westbound and making a left-hand turn when the accident occurred. A woman driving the car and her 4-year-old daughter were transported to Trinity Hospital with minor injuries. The driver of the sanitation truck was not injured. No citations were issued.Technologies

Blue H Technologies is a Dutch company that launched their first test platform at Tricase off Italy's southern coast late last year. The company has also announced plans to install another test turbine off Massachusetts.

The Blue H test platform in Italy is a tension-leg platform - a conventional offshore oil and gas platform design that floats below the surface, held in place by chains running to steel or concrete anchors on the seabed. The platform is located 10 km offshore and hosts an 80-kilowatt wind turbine which is mounted with sensors to record the wave and wind forces experienced by the equipment.

Blue H is now constructing a commercial wind farm for the Tricase site, which will have an installed capacity of 92 MW.

Blue H's design is unusual in


and Norway where traditional offshore wind is not possible.

StatOilHydro says that deepwater wind power will be expensive in the initial stages but that the economics could eventually rival those of conventional wind power.

If deep offshore wind power in the North Sea proves to be successful it would become a major component on the planned European Supergrid, which backers hope will link up the region's power networks and allow a much higher proportion of renewable energy in future (possibly entirely fossil-free, as it will need to become eventually), including solar power from Spain and North Africa, wind from the North Sea and Ireland, biogas from central Europe and tidal power from the UK.

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SWAY, based in Bergen, Norway, plans to field a prototype of its floating wind turbine in 2010.Dencity

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China. The largest city in the world is Shanghai, with over 23 million people as of 2010. China is home to six of the twenty most populous cities in the world, more than any other country.

India and Pakistan. Delhi and Karachi are the second and third most populous cities in the world. The two


countries are almost uniformly dense until they hit geographic boundaries such as the Himalayas to the north, or political boundaries such as Afghanistan to the west.

New York City. The East Coast is the most densely populated region of the United States, but New York City is the only American city to rank in the top twenty of the world’s most populous cities.Social democracy transformed politics in Canada and most other advanced economies in the 20th century, especially in the aftermath of the Great Depression and the Second World War.

Governments guided by this political philosophy delivered virtually full employment, rising wages and access to social programs and public services based upon citizenship rather than the market-based ability to pay. The result was much greater equality of both condition and opportunity, enhanced security for all, and broadly shared economic progress in a still market based economy.

Here in Canada, social programs that are at the core of our collective identity — medicare, the Canada Pension Plan, high quality public education at all levels — can trace their origins to the ideas of social democracy. These inspired the New Democratic Party but also


full employment and decent, well-paid jobs and to counter concentrated corporate power. A more fair and efficient economy is built upon public regulation of the market, a diversity of forms of ownership, including public ownership, and worker representation on boards and other means of participating in economic decision-making through trade unions.

In the 1980s, the social democratic project came under attack by right-wing politicians. They challenged the priority of full employment, cut social programs and public services, attacked trade unions, and created greater insecurity and reliance on the market. The result has been a surge in inequality throughout the democratic world, an increase in precarious work and insecurity for working families, increasing racial inequalities, and diminishing economic prospects for younger generations.

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in late in the month so that I could take care of Hennessy's bill on the 31st . . . ?
The debt owed by Debtor to Plaintiff has never been paid. Debtor testified that at the time he received the second check from GEICO it was his intention to make payment to Plaintiff. However he was notified by a lawyer representing Physicians and Surgeon's Hospital of the hospitals' intention to sue if Debtor did not comply with his contractual obligation to pay the hospital $500.00 a month. This obligation precluded Debtor's immediate payment of his indebtedness to Plaintiff.
The Court cannot conclude that the insurance money was obtained by false pretenses. As the only named insured under the second policy, Debtor was the only person entitled to the insurancethe Pacific,” Sheehan told me. (Fallon served as commander-in-chief of U.S. forces in the Pacific from 2005 to 2007.) “He was charged with coming up with an over-all coherent strategy for Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and, by law, the combatant commander is responsible for all military operations within his A.O.”—area of operations. “That was not happening,” Sheehan said. “When Fallon tried to make sense of all the overt and covert activity conducted by the military in his area of responsibility, a small group in the White House leadership shut him out.”

The law cited by Sheehan is the 1986 Defense Reorganization Act, known as Goldwater-Nichols, which defined the chain of command: from the President to the Secretary of Defense, through the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and


needed Fox, and so they began to talk to him. Fox would have won his fight with Special Ops but for Cheney.”

The Pentagon consultant said, “Fallon went down because, in his own way, he was trying to prevent a war with Iran, and you have to admire him for that.”

In recent months, according to the Iranian media, there has been a surge in violence in Iran; it is impossible at this early stage, however, to credit JSOC or C.I.A. activities, or to assess their impact on the Iranian leadership. The Iranian press reports are being carefully monitored by retired Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner, who has taught strategy at the National War College and now conducts war games centered on Iran for the federal government, think tanks, andit will not be a part of any spending agreement," the Kentucky Republican said.

After the meeting, the White House also released a statement, saying the president and negotiators "reached an agreement to negotiate legislation that accomplishes critically needed reforms in four high-priority areas: border security, chain migration, the visa lottery, and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy."

Trump stressed that both Democrats and Republicans want to find a way to extend DACA protections, but he stressed that any such bill would need to end preferential immigration status for the family members of immigrants, and cancel the green card lottery program.

Trump did not put as much emphasis Tuesday on building a wall along the southern border as he has at previous events, although he did mention erecting a barrier


along "a portion" of it. This, along with his insistence that he would sign on to whatever deal congressional negotiators reach, is potentially a sign of progress in the tense negotiations.

Democrats have consistently said that appropriating billions of dollars to build a wall would be a nonstarter for talks, and they have threatened to withhold funding for the government, effectively forcing a shutdown, if Republicans continue to insist on funding for a wall as a condition of protecting approximately 800,000 so-called Dreamers: young people who were brought to the United States illegally as children.

Former President Barack Obama used an executive order to permit many Dreamers who completed high school to apply for work permits. Trump rescinded that order last fall, and gave Congress six months to come upOn Tuesday evening, Trump unexpectedly fired FBI Director James Comey, who had been leading an investigation into whether officials with the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.

The president’s dismissal letter cited recommendations from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a former top adviser to Trump’s campaign, and recently confirmed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. In a three-page memo, Rosenstein argued that Comey was unfit for the job because of his handling of the investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of private email server while serving as secretary of state.

Rosenstein later reportedly threatened to resign over being painted as the mind behind Comey’s firing.

Comey, who was just four years into the typical 10-year term for his position, became the second FBI director in


history to be formally terminated. He learned of the news on TV and initially thought it was a joke, according to several reports.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle balked at Trump’s decision. Democratic lawmakers renewed demands for a special prosecutor to investigate Trump’s alleged ties to the Russian government, and while many Republicans backed the president’s firing of Comey, several said they found the decision and timing to be troubling.Center for Student Involvement News

Co-curricular Involvement's Positive Impact on Academic Success

Posted May. 2, 2011

The Center for Student Involvement occasionally provides additional information to the university community on issues of broad interest in student affairs through the Student Involvement Brief. This feature will appear in e-Inside twice a month during the regular academic year.

During the last few busy weeks of the semester, many students are still engaged in activities around campus. Despite the notion that extracurricular activities distract students from academics, current research now indicates that this "co-curricular" involvement has a positive influence on the student's academic performance. According to a recent study on the correlation of student involvement to academic success by Ya-Rong Huang and Sheue-Mei Chang in the Journal for College Student Development, "moderate co-curricular involvement is


Bournemouth on 13 March. However he did not feature at all in the title winning 1979–80 campaign, and was also absent throughout the 1980–81 season, before signing with Fourth Division Port Vale in February 1981.

Armstrong made 17 appearances for the "Valiants" at the end of the 1980–81 campaign, and claimed goals against Hereford United and Peterborough United. He featured 42 times in the 1981–82 season, scoring goals against Hartlepool United and Lincoln City. He scored seven goals in 45 games in the 1982–83 promotion campaign, including a brace in a 4–1 win over Mansfield Town at Vale Park. However he and numerous other players fell out with manager John McGrath over player wages, and as a result Armstrong, Barry Siddall, Russell Bromage, and Geoff Hunter all remained on"The Ale".
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From Japan comes word of a university medical museum with a new exhibit detailing vivisections conducted at the school on eight American airmen captured in the final days of World War II.

The so-called experiments performed on the living prisoners at the Kyushu University medical school included the removal of a whole lung, a stomach, and a liver, as well as pieces of brain.

The first of the unlucky eight was Staff Sergeant Teddy Ponczka of Pennsylvania, who had been stabbed with a bamboo spear during his capture. He must have assumed he would be receiving treatment for his wound when he was brought into an operating theater.TORONTO, ON (Canada) - It happened once before, and it could happen again.

That's the warning from ocean scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Santa Cruz in a study published recently in Science that shows how an increase in CO2 in Earth's atmosphere more than 50 million years ago, dramatically changed the chemistry of the planet's oceans.

The researchers suggest if contemporary global carbon emissions continue to rise, the future of many fish species in our oceans could be at risk.

"Our study shows that global warming is not only about extreme weather events, or hotter summers, but it has the potential to alter the ocean structure with unknown consequences for fisheries," said Professor Uli Wortmann in the Department of Earth Sciences in the Faculty of


Arts & Science at U of T, and co-author of the study.

And this isn't the first time this has happened.

"We show that the last time large amounts of CO2 were injected into the atmosphere, not only did the planet get hot -- which is known as the so called Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, about 55 million year ago -- but it also changed the chemistry of the ocean quite markedly," said Wortmann. He was joined in the research by U of T PhD student Weiqi Yao, lead author of the study, and Adina Paytan of the Institute of Marine Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

It is widely accepted that an increase in CO2 leads to warming, which then results in less oxygen in our oceans. Less oxygenallows sulfate-eating bacteria to thrive, which produces hydrogen sulfide -- a broad-spectrum toxin which is lethal in small concentrations.

"This will affect fish species that live or dive deep in the ocean," said Wortmann. "Most notably it would impact high level predators like tuna and whales, which in turn would have a ripple effect on fish species living in the commercially more relevant shallow waters -- up to 200 metres below sea level - and those living in the middle depth approximately 1,000 metres below the surface of the ocean.

"The middle and deep ocean are the largest and least explored part of our planet, home to giant squid and weird deep sea fish but also some commercially important fish like the Patagonian Toothfish, otherwise known as Chilean Sea Bass."

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Arif Khan and his wife Nazia had planned their visit to the Ajanta Caves – their first Valentine’s Day outing after their wedding in November – meticulously. They started early from their hometown, Aurangabad, 107 km from the caves, because the “history buffs” wanted to spend as much time as possible at the Unesco World Heritage site. A day before their outing, Nazia bought an old fashioned guidebook to understand the complex narratives behind Ajanta’s fabulous 2,000-year-old murals and sculptures, which depict the lives and times of Buddha and Bodhisattvas (the principal figure in the Jataka tales, which narrate the previous lives of Buddha).

“We were excited because many things about Ajanta are still a mystery: who built and funded the construction of therecently held an exhibition of his work – Glorious Ajanta – at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in New Delhi.

By the time Pawar finished art school, his heart was set on Ajanta. He was keen to save the paintings and also build a global audience for them. Since no one can touch Ajanta paintings except ASI’s specialised team, he decided on photographic documentation and digital restoration of the murals and statues.

Pawar has a special permit from ASI, which allows him to photograph the paintings from close quarters (without flash). With his digital cameras (Canon and Hasselblad) and custom-built technology, the Nashik-based artist has been photographing the paintings and statues segment by segment, followed by digital colour correction and digital restoration of the missing elements


Major Robert Gill was appointed by the East India Company to produce facsimile copies of all paintings in 1844. In 1866, the copies were sent to London for an exhibition. But a major fire destroyed 20 years of work. In 1872, Sir John Griffiths, principal of JJ School of Arts, Mumbai, was entrusted with the work. But his paintings too were gutted in a fire at an exhibition in London. A rich legacy The paintings and sculptures were crafted by unknown Buddhist monks and artists between the second century BC and sixth century AD. The site has 29 caves (including the unfinished ones) of which four are finished chaitya halls (prayer halls) and one unfinished whereas rest are viharas (monastries) as well as chaitya-vihara combine. The paintings arealso a snapshot of the history of those times: court and street scenes, domestic life and flora and fauna and the global trade links. The murals could be grouped into three distinct categories: images of Buddha, Boddhisatvas, narratives of life of Buddha, Jatakas, and Avadanas, ceiling decoration and decorative motifs. "These paintings and sculptures provided the greatest inspiration in the art revival of the 20th century, as they had influenced many centuries earlier, the art tradition not only of contemporary India but also of central Asia," wrote ASI’s first woman director Debala Mitra in ‘Ajanta’.

However, conservation principles do not allow any restoration of missing portions of the paintings, something which Pawar can do digitally in his photographs. At best, ASI adds plaster, filling in the missing portions and


Inc.’s three-note Yahoo yodel. There is no international consensus on whether a sound is protectable as a trade-mark, but for international companies such as Yahoo, or companies that maintain certain distinctive sound association such as the three-note bell of the TTC subways, sound marks would offer a greater protection of corporate identity.

Canada is finding itself increasingly isolated among the international community due to the outdated nature of our national trade-marks regime, including non-compliance with the Madrid Protocol or Singapore Treaty. As a result, Canada has been unable to keep the pace with trading partners. Introducing this amendment may enable new business practices, the adoption of international standards, and allow for easier response to global trading opportunities. This decision also paves the way for other non-traditional trade-marks.

CIPO has nowand assignments, Pursue Energy Corporation (Pursue), 3300 Corporation (3300), and Grace Petroleum Corporation (Grace) (collectively Pursue) became the lessees under the lease.  Fifty percent of the lease is owned by Pursue, twenty-five percent by 3300, and twenty-five percent by Grace.

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In 1978, Pursue, as operator, was granted a permit by the Mississippi Oil and Gas Board to drill a gas well designated as the D'Lo Royalties Unit No. 1 (Unit 1), which included the property covered by the Wadlington lease.  A well was completed in August 1978, and the first production began in October 1978.  Grace and 3300 are working-interest owners in Unit 1, and Pursue acts as operator.

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The gas produced from Unit 1 is known in the industry as "sour gas."    Sour


Eli Lilly & Co expects marketing and administration costs in the fourth quarter to be only slightly up or flat versus the year-ago level, marking a slowdown from a third-quarter jump of 6.5 percent.
The line item "may be up a couple percent, but certainly below the growth rates we showed in the third quarter," Lilly chief financial officer Charles Golden said in an interview.
Lilly's gross profit margin declined again in the third quarter, partly due to increased marketing costs for launching new products, such as the anti-schizophrenia drug Zyprexa.
Zyprexa is one of a handful of new, higher-margin products that will begin to lift sales in the fourth quarter, but a margin trend turnaround is likely further off, Golden said.
"I think it's going to be sometime nextIn the 1850s, Atlanta’s Zero Mile Post was planted downtown, marking the terminus of the Western & Atlantic Railroad—essentially the true heart of the city.

Since then, the post had resided beneath the Central Avenue bridge in South Downtown’s Gulch, a desolate pit of parking lots and railroad tracks.

Until now, that is.

The Atlanta History Center recently moved the post to its Buckhead location, where it’s expected to play a role in an upcoming exhibit about how railroads shaped the city.

This was done with the permission of the Georgia Building Authority, which agreed to a five-year renewable license agreement with the Atlanta History Center, allowing the museum and research center to “preserve and interpret” the Zero Mile Post however it sees fit, according to Atlanta INtown.

The abrupt relocation of the


The historical figure that led to the fights in Charlottesville, VA General Robert E. Lee, was a Democrat. His statue was built by Democrats. Now Democrat office holders in Charlottesville want to tear down his statue because he was a racist.

Andrew Jackson, the father of the Democrat party and for whom many Democrat party fundraising functions are named, owned over 300 slaves at Hermitage, and ordered them to be whipped to maintain control of them. To compound his racial sins, he ordered the forcible removal of Native Americans from Georgia to Oklahoma. To this day, the Cherokee mourn the dead in the Trail of Tears.

John C. Calhoun, a Democrat, led the fight in the US Senate for more than 30 years in the mid 19th Century to protectthe institution of slavery. However, the racism, hatred and bigotry of the Democrat party did not end with the civil war.

Following the Civil War, Republicans ran the country for over 60 years, but in 1884, Democrat Grover Cleveland won the presidency with the promise to end reconstruction in the South. Reconstruction was an effort by Republicans to eliminate the vestiges of slavery in the South, and so angered Southern whites that, following those Republican efforts, Southerners registered as Democrats, and Democrats controlled Southern Legislatures and Southern Congressional and Senate seats for over 100 years. During that time, as soon as these Southern Democrats were able to obtain control of the Legislatures of the Southern States, the now infamous Jim Crow laws, which mandated government enforced discrimination and racism


throughout the South, were enacted. These laws were passed by Democrat controlled Legislatures and signed by Democrat Governors.

But the racism, hatred, and bigotry of the Democrat party did not end with the enactment of Jim Crow in the 19th century.

The lynchings and the racial division in the South was defended by the then Democrat controlled legislatures. The statues that Democrat politicians want to tear down today were all built by Democrat politicians in the 20th century.

Democrats fought Republicans in the 20th century on the issue of civil rights. Republicans called for anti-lynching laws. Franklin Roosevelt opposed them, saying he couldn’t afford to lose the support of the racists in the South. While Republicans fought for civil rights in the 1950s and 60s, their efforts were opposed by thelikes of William Fulbright, Democrat, Albert Gore, Sr., Democrat, KKK leader, Senator Robert Byrd, Democrat, and countless other Democrats in the Senate, who led filibuster after filibuster right up until 1964. The only reason the Civil Rights act of 1964 passed was because almost every Republican supported the bill. Finally, after 25 years of opposition from the party of racism, hatred, and bigotry, enough Democrats joined Republicans to finally get the legislation on the books. George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Bull Connors, and countless other infamous political defenders of the institutionalized racism, hatred and bigotry of Jim Crow, were ALL Democrats.

These are facts, verifiable by reference to history. It is not rhetoric, it is not an attempt to cast aspersions upon Democrats, it is just historical fact. The Democrat


party gained its popularity in the 19th century in its defense of the institution of slavery. It kept control of the Legislative bodies in the South in the 20th Century through racism, hatred and bigotry, and by its systematic approach to exclude African American citizens from voting. It resisted, at every turn, every effort at restoring equality of opportunity. In the 21st Century, it has attempted to maintain political control of the institutions of government by its rhetoric of hate spewed at Republicans.

If this was the history of the Republican Party, the press and the Democrats would waste thousands of pages of ink and millions of electronic emissions to point this out. The calls for destruction of the Republican Party would not be quieted. Democrats would call theA lifer expat mummy in Kuwait blogging on things to do in Kuwait for kids and adults, places to visit, fun and cultural events, general info, shopping bargains and interesting stuff. Email: LWDLIK@gmail.com

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Top Five Scams in the Middle East

Written by Adam Gonn

As three Iranians go on trial for trying to swindle a UAE bank out of $4 billion, The Media Line explores some of the most outlandish scams in the Middle East.

Magic Money
In July, 2009, two men where arrested in Abu Dhabi, for trying to sell a money multiplying powder to an undercover police agent.
The men, from the UAE's capital, made claims the magical blend would double any amount of money when sprinkled over banknotes in a closed bag.
The scam worked by dusting some of


he was willing to help.
The second attempt involved two men who also produced forged documents claiming the Central Bank owed them $28 billion. One of the suspects was visiting the country and admitted that he was asked to withdraw the money for a third party in return for 1% of the sum. The role of the second suspect was to show the man visiting the way to another emirate to the premises of the central bank.
The primary police investigation alleges that both attempts were masterminded by the same sixth person living in another country in the region.

The Dream Job
An Australian man, R.K. thought he had landed a dream job when through the help of a recruitment agency, he'd been offered a $300,000 a year job in the Middlerealized that he had been the victim of a so called Nigerian scam.
Ajman Petroleum states they have never heard of the HR head.

Red Mercury
In April 2009 Saudi Arabia was buzzing with rumors that the mythical substance “red mercury” could be found in old sewing machines from the brand Singer. The price of machines subsequently skyrocketed from $53 to $53,000. The rumors which started on the internet, claimed that foreign buyers ranging from Swiss and American experts to wealthy Kuwaitis were traveling around the Kingdom looking for old sewing machines. As a result of the rumors, people started to search markets and even rob tailors to get a hold of the machines.
Reports of the so called 'red mercury', first appeared in Western and Russian media during the 1980s without


Cincinnati Reds general manager Walt Jocketty, currently in the last year of his contract, is expected to ink a deal to stay on with the club after this season, FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal reports.

There have been some rumblings that Jocketty will look to relocate to Arizona and reunite with newly-minted Diamondbacks chief baseball officer Tony La Russa (Jocketty was GM of the St. Louis Cardinals while La Russa was manager, from 1996-2007), possibly taking up the GM position that many believe Kevin Towers will be removed from at season's end.

According to Rosenthal, however, there hasn't been any indication that Jocketty wants out of Cincinnati, or that owner Bob Castellini wants him out.

Jocketty took over as the Reds GM back in 2009, with the team coming off eight straightlosing seasons, and by 2010 he'd helped turn them into a playoff team, the first time they'd been there in 15 years. They went on to make it again in 2012 and 2013, though they've yet to win a playoff series during Jocketty's tenure.

This season, a slew of injuries, notably to first baseman and 2010 MVP Joey Votto, have dragged them to a 10-24 record after the All-Star break, all but sinking a promising campaign.


lessee, Jennifer Corlett, for Warner's injuries (document 10). Clarendon objects (document 16).[1]

Background
The facts of this case are not in dispute. On or about September 8, 1999, Corlett leased a truck owned by Ryder TRS, Inc. ("Ryder"). Just over a week later, on September 16, 1999, the truck collided with a vehicle in which Warner was traveling.[2] Brown was driving the truck at that time. Warner was injured as a result of the collision.
At the time of the collision, Frontier was the insurer of Ryder's automobiles under a commercial auto policy. Clarendon was the reinsurer of Frontier's obligations under the policy. In section II, Frontier's policy provides coverage for the liability of an "insured" arising out of an accident with one of Ryder's automobiles. The term "insured" was definedTHE OLIVE oil industry is in a bad way. World output is expected to fall by a third to 2.3m tonnes this year, its lowest level since 2000. The shortfall is largely due to arid weather in Spain, the world’s biggest producer, and

Xylella fastidiosa

, a bacterial disease which is ravaging olive trees in Italy. Production in those countries has fallen by around 50%. To add to these troubles, last week the bug reached Corsica, a French island off the west coast of Italy. The French government has burnt plants near the infected bush to isolate the outbreak, which was previously contained in Southern Italy. But the bacterium is a risk to more than just olive groves in the Mediterranean. Around 300 plant species are vulnerable and it has


announced that a further 10 volumes would be issued following popular demand. These will be volumes 81-90. Like the main collection, these will not be released in sequence order (for example, the first one to be published, as issue 81, was Book 85). The artwork on the spines continued to form a continuing image from the first 80 volumes; however a revised volume 80 was issued free of charge to subscribers, as the artwork between volume 80 and volume 81 did not match up.

Issue one was published in January 2015, with the final (90th) issue being published in June 2018.at in that space. Often there’ll be sounds from the streets that will actually creep into the recording. "

It just so happened Melati Malay and Michael Italia had been doing something similar to Isaac, and when the three met up in New York, things began to fit into place. "We exchanged the sounds that we’d been working on, and often we found that a lot of the stuff was on the same page - like it was all sitting in the same frequency range, so to speak," Isaac explained.

YOUNG MAGIC - NIGHT IN THE OCEAN

The product of their collaboration, 'Melt', takes you along with the three members on their travels around the world, in an ensemble of sounds effortlessly worked together. "There was just so much material, a


‘ASID at NeoCon’ Programming Announced for Students, New Designers

WASHINGTON – The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is providing more programming than ever for new interior designers and students during ASID at NeoCon. Networking opportunities, career advice from experienced designers and a forum on the role of young designers are just a few highlights of the lineup.

ASID at NeoCon is ASID’s national conference that takes place at NeoCon World’s Trade Fair in Chicago June 14 – 16. Emerging professional and student-centered programs include:

Design It Forward Forum: June 15, 1 – 3 p.m.This forum features a panel of “generation next,” a collection of young, multidisciplinary design generalists that are blending the lines of design. Emily Pilloton, founder and executive director of Project H Design, will facilitate the forum thatfuture. Industry representatives will be on hand to offer information about their companies and ASID members will lend their expertise during one-on-one sessions.

About ASID
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is a community of people—designers, industry representatives, educators and students—committed to interior design. Through education, knowledge sharing, advocacy, community building and outreach, the Society strives to advance the interior design profession and, in the process, to demonstrate and celebrate the power of design to positively change people’s lives. Its more than 36,000 members engage in a variety of professional programs and activities through a network of 48 Chapters throughout the United States and Canada. More information is available at www.asid.org.


and when applicable from the patients who accepted to participate in the study. The patients were visited in a separate appointment and a questionnaire was completed for them through medical interviews and investigating their medical records. Then a blood sample was obtained from patients to measure their Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH), free Thyroxin (T4), Triiodothyronine (T3), Anti-thyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO) antibodies, fasting blood glucose (FBS), and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C) levels. The following information was retrieved from the patients' medical records: Age at diagnosis of T1DM, occurrence of DKA as the first clinical manifestation of the disease, the duration of T1DM, the required Insulin dose, and family history of autoimmune diseases in the first degree relatives.

DKA was diagnosed based on the following criteria: hyperglycemia over 250 mg/dL, plasma pH lessBajaj Finance is one of the largest and most profitable financier, financing various consumer durables through the country. Bajaj Finance Limited offers and lends finance to a wide range of consumers from all walks of life.

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FC Barcelona now know their opponents in the semifinals of the Spanish Super Cup. The draw, which was held this Monday in the Las Rozas in Madrid, has decided that Atlético Madrid will be their opponents on Thursday, 9 January in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the country which will host the competition for the next three years.

Thus, their opponents in the final on January 12 should they make it through will be the winner of the tie between Valencia and Real Madrid, the other semifinal to be played on Wednesday, 8 January.

The Spanish Super Cup has changed format and this year there are four teams involved: Barça, as La Liga champions, Valencia, as Copa del Rey champions, as well as Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid, the second and thirdplaced teams in the league, respectively.

A Final Four format and the change of dates will mean no summer two-legged finals between the champions of the league and Copa del Rey - or the runner-up in the cup final in the case of one team claiming a domestic double.

In search of the 14th Super Cup

Barça, who have 13 Spanish Super Cups to their name, reached the final in 2018, when Ernesto Valverde's side won 2-1 against Sevilla in Tangier thanks to goals came from Gerard Piqué and Ousmane Dembélé.


Rt. 169, LLC, is a company

that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AWMS Holdings, LLC, and was formed to own and

operate two salt-injection wells in Weathersfield Township, Trumbull County, Ohio.

Respondents are James Zehringer, the Director of the Ohio Department of Natural

Resources (“Director”); the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (“ODNR”); Richard

Simmers, Chief of the Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management (“Chief”); and

the Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management (“Division”).

                                            2
      {¶3}   Relators secured a lease on property inlocated approximately seven miles from the

AWMS #2 Well.      After the second seismic event, the Division temporarily halted the

issuance of permits through November 2012. During the pause in permit issuances, the

Division drafted emergency rules to protect the public health and safety.

      {¶4}   Ultimately, on July 18, 2013, the Division issued a drilling permit to AWMS

and, on March 24, 2014, an operational permit was issued. Full commercial operations

of the wells commenced in May and June of 2014. During the time the wells were

operating, AWMS #1 Well represented 5% of total injections between the two wells,

while AWMS #2 Well represented 95% of total injections.

      {¶5}   On July 28, 2014, a seismic event,


   injection well, the Division now has evidence of a fault in the
             immediate area. The Division does not know the size or energy
             contained in the fault, but in other similar instances, the energy of
             the seismicity has increased substantially from one event to
             another. The urban setting of the AWMS #2 injection well
             increases the potential for damage resulting from continued
   Gareth Bale (L) scored four in Real Madrid's 10-2 win. AP

MADRID, SPAIN - NOVEMBER 29 Christmas lighting illuminates crowds visiting the Christmas market in Mayor square on November 29, 2015 in Madrid, Spain. LED lighting is switched on in the city center during the Spanish Christmas season which stretches from November 27 until the Christian Epiphany festival on January 5 known as ''Reyes Magos''. (Photo by Denis Doyle/Getty Images)

People wait for the start of a campaign rally of Ciudadanos party in Madrid. AP

Spain's Prime Minister and right wing Popular Party candidate Mariano Rajoy gives a speech during a campaign rally at Las Rozas bullring, near Madrid. AP

Afghan security personnel carry a wounded man at the site of an attack on the Spanish embassy compound in Kabul. AFP

A protester


holds up a placard as he demonstrates during a rally held the day before the start of the Paris Climate Change Summit in Madrid, Spain, November 29, 2015. The placard reads "The thermometer of the life, No more CO2" . REUTERS/Andrea Comas - RTX1WCYU

A protester holds up a placard as he demonstrates during a rally held the day before the start of the Paris Climate Change Summit in Madrid, Spain, November 29, 2015. The placard reads "The thermometer of the life, No more CO2" . REUTERS/Andrea Comas - RTX1WCYU

Luis Suarez and Neymar were unstoppable against Real Madrid. AFP

Barcelona's players acknowledge the crowd their win over Real Madrid. AFPContinue reading →

2013 has just about come to a close and spring training is 41 days away and the MLB free agent list still has numerous serviceable players looking for work. The plums of the free agent market have pretty much been … Continue reading →

The Twins have not had a decent leadoff hitter since Denard Span was traded after the 2012 season and he was a good leadoff man, not a great one. This past season the hitters that Ron Gardenhire sent up to … Continue reading →

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Twins rookie catcher Josmil Pinto went 3 for 4 on Monday, with all three hits being doubles, leaving him with 13 hits in 23 at-bats, a .565 batting average, in seven games in the major leagues.games out of first place after having played just 30 games. After the game the Twins announced that 3B … Continue reading →

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celebrates Edward Young’s ability to write his poetry in the style of the Graveyard School and at the same time include Christian themes, and Cecil V. Wicker called Young a forerunner in the Romantic movement and described his work as original. Eric Parisot claimed that fear is created as a spur to faith and that in Graveyard poetry, "...it is only when we restore religion — to examine the various ways graveyard poetry exploited fear and melancholy — that we can fully grasp its enduring contribution to the Gothic..."

Poem samples

The earliest poem attributed to the Graveyard School was Thomas Parnell's A Night-Piece on Death (1721), in which King Death himself gives an address from his kingdom of bones:

"When men my scythe and darts supply
How great a King ofInfo zu Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series)

Hildur Guðnadóttir has composed the music for the TV series Chernobyl, a co-production between HBO and Sky. Written by Craig Mazin, the five-part miniseries dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — the April 26, 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in then - Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic — and tells of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. The project is currently in production, with a cast including Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson and Jared Harris. Hildur has recently composed music for feature film Sicario: Day Of The Soldado, scheduled for release in June 2018, and collaborated with the late Jóhann Jóhannsson on the score for


and makes sack lunches to distribute to people with serious mental illness who are living in the park.

Betty Anne gives back because she can and she knows it makes a world of difference to those folks in the park. She's walked in their shoes, and it's important for her to extend the kindness and care that strangers extended to her when she was alone and on the streets.

You can make a difference too. Educate yourselves about what's needed to help people out of poverty, volunteer at a local organization that's helping people in need, forgo that latte each morning and donate that money to help a family put food on the table and a roof over their heads. And when the time comes, vote -- not just forA Runnin' Rebel resurrection

Eric Prisbell, USA TODAY Sports | USATODAY

LAS VEGAS -- When the "Jaws" theme music grew deafening and the clapping reached a crescendo, Anthony Bennett, a prized 19-year-old freshman playing in his first college exhibition, looked around at the frenzied scene inside Thomas & Mack Center and thought everyone had gone mad.

Bennett had no idea to whom the pregame ritual paid homage or why his second-year head coach had dusted off the two-decade-old tradition last season. He had no sense of the significance of the shark motif or why its return spoke volumes about where UNLV is now and how it took 20 years to reconcile a complicated legacy.

One man who understood sat in protected seat behind the basket, an 82-year-old Armenian in corduroys who is