1998–99 Moldovan "A" Division

The 1998–99 Moldovan "A" Division season is the 8th since its establishment. A total of 16 teams are contesting the league.

League table

Promotion/Relegation Playoff [Jun 13 and 19]
 Unisport w/o Migdal (Carahasani)
 Migdal withdrew.

References

External links
 Moldova. Second Level 1998/99 - RSSSF
 "A" Division - moldova.sports.md

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the success and relevance of prevocational and transitional programming, as components of reentry for the head-injured patient, to the treatment continuum of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team. Prevocational and transitional programming are particularly applicable to the young adult with head injury because they combine conditioning and instruction in a societal, thus a developmental, context. The societal context is described and distinguished from a purely medical or clinical model. The specific features, problems, and prerequisites of prevocational and transitional programming are discussed.


For 'SNL' Cast Member, The Waiting Was The Hardest Part

Bobby Moynihan (left) appears on Saturday Night Live as the character "Drunk Uncle."

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As part of a new series called "My Big Break," All Things Considered is collecting stories of triumph, big and small. These are the moments when everything seems to click and people leap forward into their careers.

For about a decade, Bobby Moynihan lived a double life. By day, Moynihan says, he tended bar at a Pizzeria Uno in New York. By night, he performed improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

But he says he always had one dream: to join the cast of Saturday Night Live.

After years of performing at the UCB Theatre, Moynihan caught the attentionof producers at SNL, who invited him to audition.

"I was absolutely terrified," he tells All Things Considered, "but elated, because that's all that I've ever wanted to do."

Moynihan is now a cast member, known for his characters such as "Drunk Uncle" and his impressions of people like celebrity restaurateur Guy Fieri.

But Moynihan says the call to audition for SNL prompted a mix of emotions.

"It's like the equivalent of, 'Hey, you're gonna go to space,' " he says. "It's like, 'Yeah that's a great idea, I would love to go to space, but it's really dangerous and terrifying up there.' "

But the road to his big break involved a lot of waiting.

First, there was the four-hour wait in the dressing room ahead of the audition.

Then, after the audition, there


was the nine-hour wait outside the office of Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of SNL.

But after that promising meeting, in which Moynihan thought he had a good shot at the job, came the hardest wait of all.

In November 2007, the Writers Guild of America went on strike for several months, which put SNL production on hold, and left Moynihan on the hook.

When the strike finally ended in early 2008, Moynihan got a call from SNL. But it wasn't with good news.

"They told me that [then-cast member] Maya Rudolph had had a baby during the break, so they had to hire a woman instead [as a replacement]," says Moynihan.

"I was devastated."

Eventually, after a few movie roles, Moynihan had an opportunity to audition for a second time.

"When itwas all over," he says, "I was more relieved, because it had been like a 14-month process."

During the long interim period, Moynihan says he had moved back to his hometown, into an apartment across the street from his mother's office. He was sleeping when he got the call he was waiting for from Lorne Michaels.

He would become a cast member on SNL.

Moynihan says he couldn't wait to tell his mom about his big break.

"I ran across the street [to his mother's office] in boxers and a T-shirt — didn't even think to put pants on — and ran across the street to my mom and told her that my life's dream had come true."

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       Here, on cross-examination by the State, Miller testified that the tattoo on the back of his

right arm that says “wood” means “pecker wood,” which, he claimed, means that he is white. He

admitted that prison was a rough place and he did what he had to do to get through it, but he denied

that the tattoo was an Aryan Brotherhood or white supremacy tattoo.

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assigned to the gang intelligence unit. Groppi testified that, through his work in the gang

intelligence unit, he was familiar with indications of gang membership, including tattoos. Miller

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was injured when she fell in a hole 12 inches deep and 2 feet wide in the parkway next to defendant's parking lot.  The hole was the result of trenching undertaken to install a gas line to defendant's business.  The evidence revealed that defendant assumed control of the parkway for the ingress and egress of its patrons, allowed patrons to park in such a way as to necessitate their use of the parkway, and knew of the hole's existence for some time before the accident.  In upholding the defendant's liability, the court recognized both the duty of an inviter to provide an invitee with reasonably safe means of ingress and egress and also the abutting landowner's duty of reasonable care to non-invitees where he has assumed the useof the sidewalk-parkway.

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The run for Run

After the liberation of the citizens of Danny's World in Run, Autumn and the small following she had gathered took sanctuary in the port city of Shepard's Point. The Imperial faction they had defeated on Danny's World still had control of Run, and they were not very enthused with their loss. They were constantly on the lookout for Rogue Runners who went off world.

The Rogue Runners had established themselves as an underworld trading company, and they spent the better part of the year, after liberating Danny's World, helping get goods to places that needed them as well as keeping Danny's World supplied. The Run Guardians of Tradition were very sore with the planet and refused to allow trade to pass, through Smithport, to the planet.only way to end it was to take Smithport and gain full control of Run.

To Autumn's pleasant surprise, a group known as the Paladin Consortium approached her during the election for Langley Dock. They explained that the Guardians of Tradition had expanded into many surrounding systems and were causing trouble everywhere they went. They offered her company assistance in taking Run back from the Guardians, as it helped their own cause as well. With the Paladin’s putting pressure on them in the surrounding systems, and the Rogue Runners weakening their influence within their home system, Autumn knew that the system would soon be free from the grasp of the Guardians. She still had a lot of work ahead of her and her Rogue Runners though. They began taking


made the civilians of Run restless and worried, but he didn't care. He increased patrols and wing sizes across the system and made the Rogue Runners job more and more difficult. Several of Rogue Runners’ pilots found themselves barely escaping interdictions and encounters with the new Guardians of Tradition forces that were attacking their escorts. Despite their best attempts, Guardians of Tradition had not managed to stop a single delivery that was escorted or run by a Rogue Runner.

The closest reported incident comes from a Rogue Security and Fleet Runner on a solo delivery to a settlement near Shepard point. He went out system to source the material, came back and was headed to the planet with the rations. It was Business as usual until he noticed aGuardians of Tradition Anaconda patrol coming around one of the planets. He quickly dropped into a nearby ring hoping to hide in the asteroids while it passed. He was confident he could take it on, but did not want to risk the goods being damaged. The people really needed this delivery of food. Despite powering down all non-vital systems, the patrol still spotted him and was headed right for him. When he realized there was no hiding, he powered up, put full power to weapons and shields, and got ready to blast his way out. Just as he was about to be within range to fire his first salvo, two more security ships dropped into formation beside the first. This had turned into quite the delivery mission. Outnumbered


and outmatched, he diverted all power from weapons to engines , deployed chaff, and started boosting straight towards the bristling formation. His shields melted under the firepower of three fully armed anacondas and his own annie was taking heavy hits to to the hull in no time, he angled the ship to protect his cargo racks as best as he could and slammed the fsd on as soon as he was away from the asteroids. It charged, and he warped just as a final salvo of rockets zoomed through the empty space he had been in moments ago. He landed on the dark side of a nearby moon and repaired as much as he could before finishing the delivery and returning to the safe refuge of Shepard's Pointfor full repairs. Encounters like this kept building and Autumn was beginning to realize a peaceful solution was not possible.

Finally, the conflict reports grew too numerous for Autumn to ignore. One of her Rogue Security pilots was hunting wanted pilots who were assaulting Rogue Extractors when suddenly two unnamed pythons leapt into the asteroid belt and opened fire on him. The only warning given was a brief declaration of war followed by an onslaught of bullets. The pilot was completely off guard as he was already engaged with several wanted pilots as it was. His ship melted under the combined fire of the new arrivals and the pirates previously engaged. He was able to safely eject and hide in the wreckage until another Rogue Security could pick him


up, but his ship was lost to the void. This encounter was the tipping point for Autumn. This was war. She issued a company memo informing all pilots with the ability to fight to fit up and get ready. She also put one of her executives, Amos, in charge of issuing bounties on known Guardians of Tradition VIPs. He dispatched some of Rogue Security best pilots to hunt down these high value targets.

One of the most noticeable and influential of these bounties was a Guardians of Tradition aligned pirate named Sprindil I. He was notorious for attacking freighters and passenger liners for Guardians of Tradition in order to hurt the Run economy. One of Rogue Security’s finest vulture pilots was dispatched to put an end to the pirateseconomy crippling assaults. He spent days tracking him from system to system gathering hints and clues along the way until finally, he tracked him to Mebekre. Once the vulture pilot was in system, he immediately picked up a distress signal from a passenger liner. Upon dropping on the beacon to assist, he was pleasantly surprised to find his quarry. He instantly began tearing into the pirates shields to get his attention. It was no easy fight, but the Rogue Security pilot was more than a match for the notorious pirate. With Sprindil I dead, pirates began thinking twice before assaulting RR protected ships. With the mercenary pirate problem dealt with, Autumn now focused all her forces on preparing for war. She meant to siege Smithport and drive Guardians


Double Barreled Double Standards

For years, John Lott has provided a vital scholarly basis to the pro-gun movement. But now his research and his integrity are drawing heavy fire.

If economist John R. Lott didn't exist, pro-gun advocates would have had to invent him. Probably the most visible scholarly figure in the U.S. gun debate, Lott's densely statistical work has given an immense boost to the arguments of the National Rifle Association. Lott's 1998 book More Guns, Less Crime -- which extolled the virtues of firearms for self-defense and has sold some 100,000 copies in two editions, quite an accomplishment for an academic book -- has served as a Bible for proponents of "right to carry" laws (also known as "shall issue" laws), which make it easier for citizens tocarry concealed weapons. Were Lott to be discredited, an entire branch of pro-gun advocacy could lose its chief social scientific basis.

That may be happening. Earlier this year, Lott found himself facing serious criticism of his professional ethics. Pressed by critics, he failed to produce evidence of the existence of a survey -- which supposedly found that "98 percent of the time that people use guns defensively, they merely have to brandish a weapon to break off an attack" -- that he claimed to have conducted in the second edition of "More Guns, Less Crime". Lott then made matters even worse by posing as a former student, "Mary Rosh," and using the alias to attack his critics and defend his work online. When an Internet blogger exposed the ruse,


the scientific community was outraged. Lott had created a "false identity for a scholar," charged Science editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy. "In most circles, this goes down as fraud."

Lott's recent baggage makes him an impeachable witness in the push to pass state-level right to carry laws, and raises questions about his broader body of work. Kennedy and others have even likened Lott to Michael Bellesiles, the Emory University historian who could not produce the data at the heart of his award-winning 2000 book "Arming America", which had seemed to undermine the notion that there was widespread gun ownership and usage in colonial America. But while Bellesiles resigned after a university panel challenged his credibility, thus far Lott has escaped a similar fate. An academic rolling stone, Lott has held researchpositions at the University of Chicago and Yale law schools, but currently works at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington think tank much smiled upon by the Bush administration. AEI will not say whether it will investigate its in-house guns expert; by e-mail, AEI president Christopher DeMuth declined to comment on the possibility.

Lott's defenders rightly point out that the missing survey -- which was completely lost in a computer crash, Lott says -- isn't central to the argument of "More Guns, Less Crime". But as Harvard economist David Hemenway wrote in a recent critique of Lott's latest book, "The Bias Against Guns", one must have "faith in Lott's integrity" before accepting his statistical results. That is because in the dauntingly complex subfield of econometrics, statistical manipulation is


a constant concern. In a recent attempt to rescue his beleaguered "More Guns, Less Crime" hypothesis from criticism, Lott has been caught massaging his data to favor his argument. In subsequent exchanges with Mother Jones, he changed his story several times about a key data table that was misleadingly labeled -- and then surreptitiously amended -- on his website. Nevertheless, most pro-gun scholars and political conservatives have yet to call Lott to account.

Lott's colleagues credit him with having a brilliant empirical mind and for publishing an impressive array of scholarly papers, as well as for being a pioneer in making his data available on the Internet. Yet Lott is also known for a fiery personality. Yale economist Ian Ayres, who helped Lott get a research job at theYale Law School but has since criticized his former colleague's work, says: "A lot of people would say, thank God Lott is still in the academy, but thank God he's not at my school."

Lott made his name as a guns expert in the standard academic way: By publishing in a peer-reviewed journal. In an influential 1997 article in the Journal of Legal Studies, Lott and co-author David Mustard examined crime data from all 3,054 U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992 to test the impact of right to carry laws. During those years ten states passed such legislation, and Lott and Mustard's regression analyses -- complex statistical techniques used to uncover apparent causal links by controlling for other variables -- found right to carry laws had stunningly deterred violent


Against Guns".

But this is not the first time Lott has been accused of overstating his results. In early 1997, Lott testified before Nebraska lawmakers with advance galleys of his Journal of Legal Studies article in hand, claiming to have proven a causal link between right to carry laws and lower crime. Yet soon afterwards in the same journal, economist Dan Black and criminologist Daniel Nagin found that slight alterations to Lott's data and model dramatically skewed the outcome. For instance, removing Florida from the analysis caused the beneficial impact of right to carry laws on murder and rape to vanish entirely.

Lott had an answer to Black and Nagin -- as he has for each subsequent critic. They tend to be mind-bogglingly complicated, involving things like ordinary least squareswebsite still labels the table as last being corrected "April 18, 2003."

Perhaps because correcting Lott's coding errors sinks his latest attempt to revive his "More Guns, Less Crime" hypothesis, Lott since has taken to criticizing the Stanford Law Review for not being "a refereed academic journal," as he put it in an e-mail. That's true: The nation's most prestigious law reviews are run and edited by students, which hardly keeps leading academics from publishing in them. Yet Lott's critique is once again misleading: His own newspaper op-eds aren't peer reviewed, and Lott admits that Regnery Press, his latest book publisher, does not use peer review. Furthermore, now that Lott has left academia and has an ethics cloud over his head, he may have difficulty being published in peer-reviewed


doubts whether he ever did the study," says Lindgren, "and the only evidence that he's brought forward for having done the study is ambiguous" -- an NRA activist who claims to remember having been called and asked about defensive gun uses.

But many gun rights conservatives have taken a pass on the Lott issue. A glowing review of "The Bias Against Guns" in National Review -- which made much hash of the Bellesiles affair -- failed to mention Lott's recent difficulties in corroborating the existence of his survey. "It's so interesting that Michael Bellesiles gets hung from the highest tree, while Lott, if anything, he's been more prominent in the last couple of months," says Donohue.

The right has good reason to stick by Lott: "The entire ideology of themodern gun movement has basically been built around this guy," says Saul Cornell, an Ohio State University historian who has written widely on guns. Over the years the pro-gun intellectual agenda has had two prongs: Defending a revisionist legal understanding of the Second Amendment in constitutional law, and refuting social scientists and public-health researchers who argue that the widespread availability of guns in America plays a key role in the nation's staggering number of homicides and suicides. Without Lott's work, the latter argument becomes much harder to make.

More conservative soul searching may result from a forthcoming National Academy of Sciences report from an expert panel dedicated to "Improving Research Information and Data on Firearms." Scheduled for release in late fall, the panel's report will address Lott's work. Duke


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Built on real life experiences, Power of Creativity is a celebration that explores innovative ideas, creative techniques, culture change and problem solving. Todd offers practical advice in a unique way, sharing his diverse experiences including the creation of Earth Hour, being a CEO of a leading company and climbing Mount Everest unguided.

This event will include a presentationIn her recently published and much acclaimed book “The Wrong Enemy” (2014), Carlotta Gall clearly writes about the role of Deobandi terrorists as committed partners and footsoldiers of Al Qaeda and Taliban. This clarity about takfiri Deobandi dimension of terrorism is lacking in the mainstream discourse in Pakistani media.

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The one-eyed Mullah Omar was a hardheaded fighter who would never flinch from a challenge. He had grown up in a poor household, orphaned at a young age, and raised by his uncle who was a village mullah. A fighter since his teens, he had a reputation for toughness on the battlefield matched by an uncompromising adherence to Islam, in particular to a fundamentalist version of his religion taught by clerics of the Deobandi sect


in madrassas in Pakistan and increasingly in Afghanistan.

The black and white striped flag of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F),the Deobandi religious party of Maulana Fazlur Rehman, flew above the mosques and houses in every village. There were huge brick-and-cement madrassa compounds, incongruous among the small farming homesteads, funded by Arab donors from the Persian Gulf. Someone had painted “Long Live Faz lur Rehman” in large white script across the hillside outside one village.

Rehman, a Pashtun from Dera Ismail Khan on the edge of the tribal areas, was one of the most prominent religious political leaders in Pakistan, as his father, Maulana Mufti Mahmoud, had been before him. His party, JUI-F, held seats in parliament, and had been a close coalition partner to Benazir Bhutto in the 1990s. It had alsobeen a strong supporter of the Taliban. It was from Fazlur Rehman’s madrassas that so many students joined to support the Taliban in their grab for power in 1994.

The Haqqania madrassa is a notorious establishment; it follows the fundamentalist Deobandi sect and is often described as the alma mater of the Afghan jihad since it has trained generations of students over three decades for war in Afghanistan. It is run by Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, head of his own religious party and close supporter of Zia-ul-Haq. The madrassa houses three thousand religious students from Pashtun areas, Afghans and Pakistanis, in large, white-washed residence blocks built around a series of courtyards. Ninety-five percent of the Taliban fighting in Afghanistan had passed through its classrooms, a spokesman for the madrassa, Syed Mohammad


Yousuf Shah, proudly told me.

(In the aftermath of TTP-LeJ’s attack on GHQ in 2009)The army brought in one of its favorite mediators, Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi (Deobandi), a famous preacher and former jihadi who has since become a television personality with his own chat show. He is a colorful character of enormous girth and appetite, with a long beard and flowing white clothes. He arranged to meet me for an interview in a gym in Lahore, plopping himself down on a pink leather sofa in the café and dropping three smart phones on the glass coffee table.

Ashrafi cultivates a benign image, making public statements against sectarian attacks and trying to intervene in cases where people have been accused wrongly of blasphemy. Yet he has worked tirelessly to secure therelease of militants from jail and remains a fervent supporter of jihad and the jihadi groups. He told me he had helped secure the release of seven hundred Pakistanis held in Afghanistan after the collapse of the Taliban in 2001, including some important militant commanders, who had successfully hidden their real identities from their captors. In 2007, he had been called in to help negotiate with the clerics at the Red Mosque.

Now, Ashrafi worked with senior military officers in night-long negotiations with Dr. Usman, the leader of the militants. They called in the heads of almost every banned militant group to intercede with the militants to release their hostages.7 Thinking the militants were connected to the vicious sectarian group Sipa-e-Sahaba, the army sent a military plane to fetch


With the No. 22 overall pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft, the Brooklyn Nets selected former Texas Longhorns standout Jarrett Allen after the local standout fell past his anticipated draft position.

A former McDonald's All-American and Team USA product, the Austin native required just one season under Shaka Smart at Texas after blossomed into a quality NBA prospect throughout the Big 12 slate. After beginning the season averaging just 10.6 points per contest, Allen's productivity jumped to 16.2 points per game throughout conference play, largely due to his two-way skills being on full display.

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Offense At this point in his progression, Allen is a 6’11,18 multiple-block games, which is an impressive effort considering he almost always played out of position as a power forward next to Shaquille Cleare or James Banks. While he may see time as a power forward every now and then in the NBA, Allen is a center and he’s being scouted as such. As Allen progresses and develops into a full-time role at center, he should, at the very least, become an above average rim protector. In pick-and-roll situations, Allen has shown that he can successfully hedge screens and when sticking with the ball handler, Allen’s footwork and athleticism prevent him from being on the wrong side of an immediate mismatch.

With his name being called in the first round on Thursday's NBA Draft, Allen becomes the 16th Longhorn


Hublot - Crimson Devil II | New replica watchesPress release Hublot The new version of your Big Bang within the colors with the English football champions was introduced in Dangle Zhou (China) in the course of the Pink Devils' Asian Tour. Hublot wished to mark the situation with one thing somewhat exclusive, and set the gamers a stunning problem: to shoot the ball from the river lender right into a target put 16m away on the boat! Hublot The diameter with the focus on fake audemars piguetpicked up some gloves as well." She set the bag down on the bed and opened it. "She said these were your favorite." Ruby pulled a pair of grey riding gloves from the bag, holding them up for Weiss to see. It was then that Ruby noticed her change of position, cross-legged, angled away, blankets pulled over her head.

"Thank you Ruby." Weiss said. "Was Winter kind to you?"

"Yeah, she just followed me around frowning." Ruby replied. "You know, like she was thinking bad things instead of saying them."

Weiss laughed softly at that. "Yes, that sounds like Winter." Her voice was shaky. "Seethe in silence, then vent on some unsuspecting Grimm. I believe she and Yang would get along if they set aside their differences and went on a


up...did you-"

"Try to get some sun?" Weiss interrupted. "Yes. It seems my transformation is not yet complete." She laughed, this time bitterly, her face contorting with emotion. "Transformation, it's like I'm a caterpillar, metamorphosing into a beautiful butterfly, with fangs, and an allergy to light, and a compulsion to f-feast upon human blood." Weiss choked, huddling into her blankets and sobbing.

Ruby threw herself forward, wrapping Weiss in the tightest hug she could muster. Weiss did not shake her off, instead nuzzling closer, burying her face in the fabric of her shirt. "You are beautiful Weiss."

"I'm a monster." Weiss whimpered.

"Yeah, so, monsters can be beautiful." Ruby defended. "Nora and Ren turn into big man wolves and even then they look beautiful."

Weiss choked a laugh. "I'll be sure to remembershellshocked. She laughed, shaking her head, reaching up with her sleeve to wipe her tears away. Her sleeve came away stained red. "Shoot."

Glynda arrived soon after Ruby had left, the latter having informed her of Weiss' injuries. She fussed over Weiss' singed facial features, making her feel like a little girl again, when Winter would worry over her every scrape and bruise. There was nothing for Glynda to do beyond admonish Weiss for her foolishness, as the wounds would soon heal themselves. The sun might weaken and burn vampires, but unless they were in a seriously weakened state, it rarely did permanent damage.

Weiss spent the next hour unpacking. Pyrrha had brought some of her clothes while she was still unconscious, but she did not know which Weiss preferred.


Ruby's list included her favorite nightgown, thickened socks, tights - which Weiss was shocked Pyrrha had neglected - and her cloak, lovingly sewn by Velvet Scarlatina. Her journal's wards were unbroken, which either meant no one had tampered with it, or knew exactly what she used, and how to perfectly replicate them. She chose to believe that Winter had not pried.

Alongside a blank notebook, inkwell and her favorite fountain pen, was Myrtenaster. Her beloved rapier was wrapped in a black cloth. She could feel warmth radiating from it, and for the first time in her life, it felt dangerous, as if it would shock her should she touch it. According to Glynda's book, it could do much worse than that. Steel could scarcely inflict more than a papercutupon her person, but silver alone would render her flesh as mortal as any human's. She would scar like any other. The blessed nature of this blade would sicken her to boot.

Still, Weiss preferred to keep it by the side of her bed. Harmful as it may be, the ability to defend herself brought a peace she found had been lacking since her awakening. The riding gloves Ruby brought would protect her in any case. Happy with the neat state of her belongings, Weiss spent the rest of her wait reading more of Glynda's book. Blood in her tears was apparently normal, as vampire bodies needed far less water than humans. Inconvenient, but Weiss rarely if ever cried anyway, she had been taught better than that.

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were variations of the common vampire, rare natives of remote regions of Vacuo and Mistral respectively, and the most powerful vampires were the Nosferatu. Weiss already knew this, having familiarized herself with vampiric kind during her training, but then only so she could kill them more effectively. The chances of meeting a Nosferatu, let alone killing one, were extraordinarily slim. Regardless, they tended towards peaceful, or at least as peaceful as vampires could be.

Weiss was halfway through a paragraph on vampiric bloodlines when two loud knocks rung upon the door, and before she could answer, it opened, revealing a beaming Yang. "Heya' Weissy!" She chirped, barging in.

Ruby quickly followed, closing the door. "Yang, keep it down. Her hearing is still adjusting."

"It's quite alright Ruby." Weiss waved her off.laughed. Weiss groaned, but moved forward enough for Yang to slip behind her, an arm wrapped around her midsection, and she suddenly found herself surrounded by the warmest embrace she had experienced in her life, and it was only getting warmer. "Just tell me when it's warm enough."

Weiss felt herself shudder, the increasing warmth was an ecstasy she had sorely missed. She found herself melting into the embrace, sliding her arms beneath Yang's until she got the hint and took hold of Weiss' hands in her own. "Perfect." Weiss borderlined moaned, eyes sliding shut.

"Why thank you Weissy, I am pretty awesome." Yang chuckled behind her.

"You're truly a goddess Yang." Weiss complimented. "Thank you Ruby, I never would have thought of this."

"You're welcome!" Ruby cheered. "Is there anything else


I can get you?"

Weiss thought for a moment. She felt tired, like she had just had a glass of warm milk before bed. Perhaps it was time for an early rest. "Come lay with us, until I fall asleep." She finally requested, much to Ruby's delight.

"Of course!" Ruby chirped, scrambling onto the bed until her head rested on Weiss' stomach.

Weiss shifted her hand to run through Ruby's hair, impossibly soft for how messy it looked. It only made her smile again. "Thank you both for your kindness...and friendship." She murmured as her eyes slid shut.

"Anytime Weisscream." Yang teased.

Weiss chuckled, just before she fell asleep.

Winter stood at attention on the edge of the clearing. It was not too far from town, nor too close. She wanted to avoid alarmingthe townspeople with the sudden arrival of an Atlesian Bullhead. Though the outside world was familiar with Atlas magitech, few had actually witnessed it in action, outside of select pieces of civilian technology, refrigerators, radios, televisions and the like, even washing machines in recent years. Still the airship about to land was far beyond what most non-Atlesians would ever lay their eyes upon. It was the size of an ocean-going warship, painted a gleaming white, and yet from it distance it seemed to hover with hardly a sound, as if light as a feather. Of course close up it was quite a lot louder.

Patch was particularly unlikely to have seen such a craft. The insular nature of Atlas meant external influence was minimal. The farther one traveled from


Still, progress was progress, and Winter had time to burn.

A dull roar became evident, growing louder, and so Winter began walking into the clearing. The gleaming aircraft came into view, growing larger and larger by the second. It's gleaming white form was majestic even in its bulk. Winter braced herself against the downdraft as it came in to land, landing gear extended. Its sheer size took up more than half of the clearing, its wings nearly clipping the trees surrounding it. With an earth shaking thud, it finally made landfall, and the wind and sound began to fade as its engines powered down.

Approaching the landing ramp, Winter checked her appearance, brushing the hair from her face and ensuring her uniform was relatively straightened. The sky was threatening rain,but fortunately it had not yet come. All in all, she was presentable, but not perfect. She could never hope to be perfect, it was foolish, yet she tried. The ramp reached its full extension with a clunk, and with a whir it began to descend, reaching the ground not ten meters from her person. With a yell, two rows of five soldiers jogged down the ramp, clad in the black leather and white plating of the Atlesian Armed Forces, and the red stake of the Templar order emblazoned on their shoulders.

The soldiers froze at the bottom of the ramp, standing at attention. Winter imitated them, and her gaze was drawn up to the ship, where a tall figure had begun the journey downward. "Former Specialist Schnee." The


man greeted as he reached the bottom.

Winter snapped into a salute, her fist covering her heart. "General Ironwood, sir." Winter chanted as he approached.

"At ease Schnee, you are no longer under my command." Ironwood noted. Winter allowed her pose to relax, arms folding behind her back. It helped hide her shaking, though Ironwood immediately turned back to face his troops. "Secure the perimeter, start constructing a camp." He instructed before turning to speak over his shoulder. "Come with me, there is someone you need to meet." The soldiers who had descended the ramp fanned out. A part of Winter wished to join them, following simple orders seemed so menial, degrading even, but with all the free time in the world to do what she wished, there were somedays she wanted to just give up that freedom for a hard day's operation. Even the odd hunt did not match up to some of her adventures in the Order. After all, one of them was how she met Glynda, and by extension, Blake.

Following Ironwood into the airship, Winter witnessed more familiar actions, technicians and engineers hauling cargo, soldiers sorting equipment or readying weapons. She swore the scent of boot polish hung in the air, or perhaps it was nostalgia clouding her senses. Vile, chemical nostalgia. "Reminiscing?" Ironwood piped up.

Winter noticed she had slowed, and hurried to catch up with her former mentor. "I apologize General. This environment does inspire certain...fond memories."

"Fond?" Ironwood challenged. "I recall a certain young recruit destroying a combat droid out of pent up


voice softening, and for the first time since she had left the Order, Winter found herself transported back in time, to when she was an angry, scared youth, trying desperately to free herself from her father's smothering influence, his lofty expectations and disregard for her individuality, to when Ironwood accepted her into his sect, in spite of blustering and threats from the High Templar, in spite of the objections of her fellow, male recruits, and personally trained her to become one of the greatest warriors in the Templar Order.

"I almost lost her James." Winter whispered, hands clenching her wrists as she took a shuddering breath. "I almost lost my sister, to the very thing that took mother from us, the very thing I swore to destroy in allforms and...I fear I may have regardless." She felt Ironwood's hand on her back, and she very nearly crumpled, turning to stare up into his eyes. "She turned her James. Glynda turned my sister rather than let her die."

"By the gods…" Ironwood murmured in shock. "This is rash, even for Glynda."

"I thought that perhaps she had simply been maimed during a hunt gone wrong, that she may be scarred or down a limb. I was terrified, but I knew she could pull through. We could defeat simple injury, but this? Glynda condemned her soul to the abyss either way, and her excuse was that she wanted to grant her a choice? What kind of choice is that? To live a half life as a p-parasite, or d-die by


her own hand and not even be granted the honor of ascending to the heavens." She failed to swallow a sob, turning away to wipe her eyes, and approached the bed, sitting down to pull in deep breaths, attempting to regain her composure. She felt the mattress dip down beside her.

"Winter, don't bottle this up, let it out." Ironwood advised, wrapping his arms around her shoulder.

Winter hiccoughed. "When I spoke with her, she seemed so...so strong James. She was angry, yes, but unbroken. She looked me in the eye and said she would continue her work, and should she lose herself, she trusted me to...to…" Winter could say no more, huddling into Ironwood's side to softly sob. She had shed more than her fair share of tears already.no longer a part of the Order. I no longer have duties. I no longer swear by the code." Her grip softened, she leaned in to rest her forehead against Ironwood's. "I can be yours, and you can be mine...just give us but one chance." She whispered, eyes gazing lovingly into her former mentor's. Until he closed them, and turned away.

"No Winter, we can't." Ironwood murmured, regretfully.

And once again Winter felt the familiar pain in her heart, and the cold burn of shame descended upon her. Slowly, she returned to her position beside the general, and wiped her eyes, downcast. "I apologize."

"I know." Ironwood said.

"I-" Winter started.

"I know, Winter." Ironwood once again lay his hand upon her shoulder, and she turned to see a reassuring smile. "Grief clouds


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Amidohydrolases (or amidases) are a type of hydrolase that acts upon amide bonds.

They are categorized under EC number EC 3.5.1 and 3.5.2.

Examples include:
 Beta-lactamase
 Histone deacetylase
 Urease

The amidohydrolase superfamily is a large protein family of  more than 20,000 members with diverse chemistry and physiologic roles.  Due to its complexity and size, the amidohyrolase superfamily is being used by the Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI) for developing a large-scale strategy for functional assignment of unknown proteins.

See also
 Aminohydrolases

External links

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Category:EC 3.5.2Danish Bhat fifteen minutes from the finish. The Blue Colts had to face extra time with a man disadvantage after defender Asheer Akhtar was sent off in the 93rdminute.

While the BFC reserves dominated the opening exchanges of the game, it was the local side Real Kashmir who broke the deadlock as Krizo converted from the spot in the 20th minute after defender Rakesh Oram was adjudged to have fouled Riwtik Das inside the box.

Five minutes later, the Blues had a penalty of their own when winger Naorem Roshan Singh was brought down by veteran defender Dharmaraj Ravanan. Midfielder Myron Mendes stepped up to convert from the spot and leveled scores in the 25th minute.

The Blue Colts had another chance seven minutes from the break when striker Edmund Lalrindika


made himself space in the box. Having controled Parag’s cross in from the left with his chest, his attempted volley on the turn was saved by the rival custodian.

The second half saw both sides battle evenly before Bengaluru struck again in the 65th minute with a set-piece goal. Playmaker Altamash Sayed sent in a perfect delivery from a freekick to find Parag in the box who headed home at the near post to put the Blue Colts in the lead.

However, just ten minutes later, Real Kashmir struck their equalizer at the other end through striker Danish Bhat, who controlled a freekick on the run before finishing in the left-bottom corner past Shainkhan CP in the BFC goal to set up a grand stand finish.

With both sides failing toproduce the winner in regulation time, the game had another 30 minutes added to it. The hosts managed to dominate proceedings throughout the extra minutes, making their one-man advantage count after Blues’ defender Asheer Akhtar was sent off for a second bookable offense in second half injury time.

While the game looked set to head to penalties shootout, Scottish defender Mason Robertson scored right at the death to seal the game in the home side’s favour. A long throw-in which was cleared out by the BFC defence fell for Robertson who controlled the ball and unleashed a powerful shot to score the winner in the 120th minute.

The Blue Colts now travel east to Sikkim for the Governor’s Gold Cup.


only to use him for one or two weeks.

Mudiay’s injury is only a short-term hurdle for the team, but Guangdong, a perennial Chinese power, has dropped into fourth place and has been anxious to get his production back on the floor. Guangdong has won three out of four games without Mudiay.

Mudiay has to protect his draft value, and his representatives will be exceedingly careful to make sure he doesn’t risk further injury or poor performance in China. If released, Mudiay could simply return to the United States and train in preparation to begin predraft workouts with NBA teams prior to the June draft.

In 10 games, Mudiay was averaging 17.7 points per game. He had originally committed to the Mustangs — over Kentucky — as the No. 2 overallprospect in the Class of 2014, according to Rivals. However, in the July, after growing concerns regarding his eligibility, he announced he would seek a professional career in lieu of spending one season under the tutelage of Hall of Famer Larry Brown.

Emmanuel Mudiay continued his acclimation into the Chinese Basketball Association with his latest effort as the 6-foot-5 guard registered 22 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds in Guangdong’s 127-116 win over Qingdao.

The triple-double is the first of Mudiay’s professional career and the highlights show that he’s athletically superior at his position in that league while also displaying a lot of skill and advanced playmaking ability. The moving cross-court pass to a corner shooter and floater in the lane aren’t easy moves to pull off in full speed


many opining that the decision could impact the thought process of other elite high school players in the coming years. Mudiay received a contract reported to pay him in upwards of $1.2 million for the season, not to mention his endorsement deal with Under Armour, and those aspects are undoubtedly enticing for those who are entertaining thoughts of playing professionally instead of in college.

That’s what makes Mudiay’s trek to China something to track, and Saturday he and the Guangdong Southern Tigers played their first regular season game against the defending champion Beijing Ducks.

Among the players Mudiay faced was Stephon Marbury, whose career has taken off since he made the move to China a couple years ago. Marbury and the Ducks proved to be too much for Guangdong, outscoringone of the elite prospects in the Class of 2014, but the big, athletic point guard signed a contract with the Guangdong Southern Dragons in China instead of enrolling at SMU this season. The reason that the Mudiay family gave for his decision was that the player was “tired of seeing my mom struggle“, although there have been multiple reports that the decision was at least partly influenced by the fact that Mudiay was staring down the barrel of eligibility issues with the NCAA.

The 6-foot-5 Mudiay is going to be an interesting case-study moving forward, as he is just the third elite high schooler to turn pro overseas for his one season in NBA purgatory. The previous two were Jennings, who became a lottery pick and has had


the United States, the majority of cataractous lenses are removed by a surgical technique called phacoemulsification. During this procedure, an opening is made in the anterior capsule and a thin phacoemulsification cutting tip is inserted into the diseased lens and vibrated ultrasonically. The vibrating cutting tip liquefies or emulsifies the lens so that the lens may be aspirated out of the eye. The diseased lens, once removed, is replaced by an artificial lens.
In the natural lens, bifocality of distance and near vision is provided by a mechanism known as accommodation. The natural lens, early in life, is soft and contained within the capsular bag. The bag is suspended from the ciliary muscle by zonules. Relaxation of the ciliary muscle applies an axial force that tightens the zonules, andA debt-ridden student blew $1.3 million on sports cars, speedboats, strippers and cocaine after a bank error gave him an unlimited overdraft.

Wannabe playboy Luke Moore lived the high life for two years before he was caught by cops and jailed on fraud charges.

The Australian treated himself to luxury holidays, an Aston Martin, a Maserati and a boat while living the ultimate bachelor lifestyle.

But he was slapped with a four-year jail term last year after the banking glitch came to light.

Moore, 29, went free last week after winning an appeal of his conviction on the grounds that his actions were not deceptive.

He is now broke and living with his mother in Goulburn, New South Wales, ironically while studying to become a criminal lawyer.

But he told the Daily Telegraph he


sitting and standing.

Rich Watts, VP of information technology, gave and overview of the IT department. Watts also detailed the levels of redundancy, between the company's Ogden, Utah, and Rexburg, Idaho, and locations, for alarm communications.

Madison Barlow, company director of training and quality assurance, outlined the training process for new employees, including a written exam to in-call center training. This process is followed by quality assurance audits. The company also has coaches, she pointed out, which work with the operators and hear feedback and ideas.

Spencer Dean, operations manager working in AvantGuard’s Idaho facility, met with the tour to talk about culture and finding the right people. Dean pointed to a company saying to illustrate AvantGuard’s culture, that AvantGuard cares F.I.R.S.T., meaning the company cares, it is Fun, it isthe employees as well as the company as a whole.

The first day ended with a networking reception at The Chateaux Deer Valley, where the conference is being held.

Wednesday, Sept. 27

Justin Bailey, AvantGuard president and COO, presented Wednesday’s first session on “The Future of PERS Monitoring.”

Bailey first started by taking a look back at the predictions he made about the PERS industry and where it was headed in 2013.

He warned of the demise of the landline. In the last two years, he said, there are more homes with only cellphones than those with landlines.

Next he took a look at VoIP and how that’s progressed. AvantGuard has seen massive growth in non-traditional communication, according to Bailey.

MPERS has also grown greatly since 2013. In 2013, AvantGuard’s medical monitoring was 3 percent


mPERS, it grew to be 36 percent in 2015 and now—the majority—55.3 percent in 2017.

Another prediction Bailey had in 2013 was toward the advancement and use of location services, and noted significant growth in that area. While there is cell ID and GPS, "What we're seeing now in the industry is the use of Wi-Fi location," he said.

Additionally, at this year’s PERS Summit he highlighted IPS—or indoor positioning system—technologies, and predicted more of those in the future.

Not all of his predictions came true; Bailey also discussed some that missed. In 2013, he predicted a large PERS and Telehealth convergence. While that hasn’t happened, Bailey expects that it will come in the future.

Similarly, the obsolescence of equipment refurbishment was another 2013 prediction from Bailey that wasn't seen in thelast four years, but he still predicts it's coming up down the road.

Bailey then showed a short video to illustrate AvantGuard’s work with PERS, a true story of when an AvantGuard used the proper procedures after receiving a PERS alert. The operator, after speaking with the user and dispatching paramedics, contacted a family member who informed him of certain doctors the PERS user should be taken to. By then contacting the paramedics, the user was able to get the help she needed.

AvantGuard refers to its operators as “heroes” and following the video, Bailey asked all of AvantGuards heroes in the room to stand up and be recognized.

Times are changing, according to Bailey, with increasing Internet and social media usage as well as the number of smart phones and


expect to add in 2017? The average number of subscribers was 4579, with revenue ranging from $20,000 to $90,000.

What is the cost to create an account? Figures given by respondents dropped more than 100 dollars on average between 2015 and 2017.

Aron Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place and subject of the movie 127 Hours, delivered the 2017 PERS Summit’s last session and second keynote.

Ralston was hiking in southern Utah when he came to a canyon where boulders were lodged. He described the experience of watching a boulder come lose above him, ricochet between the canyon walls on the right and left side of him, and trap his right arm from his fingertips to his wrist. "And that's where I reach for the pendant Ialways wear around my neck," he joked.

Ralston introduced himself as the guy that cut his arm off, but said he’d tell the story of being the guy who cut his arm off while smiling.

Metaphorically, everyone faces boulders in their lives, according to Ralston. "Whatever your boulders are, we get to make choices,” he said. Later in the session, he pointed out that he had made some big choices that impacted him: going alone and not telling anyone where he was headed.

Ralston was trapped under the boulder for more than five days, attempting various means of freeing himself—using ropes to move the boulder, chipping away at the area around his arm—before using a pocket knife to amputate his arm. “I felt every bit of it, and yet I was


within Honeywell’s Environmental & Energy Solutions (E&ES). Lattanzi joined Honeywell through the acquisition of Elster, where he was president of the global thermal solutions business.

As the new president of fire, Koutrouki will be responsible for all operations, business strategy and growth for the global fire business. He previously served as the vice president and general manager for Honeywell Security and Fire EMEA, and prior to that held the position of vice president and general manager for the Honeywell Scanning and Mobility APAC organization. Koutrouki joined Honeywell as part of the EMS Technologies acquisition, and held a variety of leadership roles across the company.

Honeywell Security and Fire is part of the Home and Building Technologies strategic business group.

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groups—often through untraceable donations—they have pulled American politics toward their own arch-conservative, pro-business, anti-tax, and anti-regulatory agenda, particularly in the environmental area. Although David Koch is also stepping down from his role as chairman of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the foundation wing of the Kochs’ main political-advocacy group, their influence isn’t likely to wane anytime soon.

David Koch, who is seventy-eight and the wealthiest resident of Manhattan, is more socially prominent than his older brother. He is often chronicled on the social pages, having donated by his own estimate $1.2 billion to philanthropic causes, including many of New York City’s cultural, medical, and educational institutions, several of which bear his name. In contrast, Charles Koch, an eighty-two-year-old libertarian ideologue who continues to live in the brothers’ home townBut Charles and David Koch reportedly own virtually all of its stock, splitting the shares equally among themselves and plowing most of the profits back into the company. Forbes magazine estimates that each brother is worth approximately sixty billion dollars, tying them as America’s ninth-richest men. Steve Lombardo, Koch Industries’ chief of corporate communications, did not respond to questions about who would exercise control of David’s shares, should he prove unable to function. David has three children, the oldest of whom is college-aged. Charles has two children, including a son, Chase Koch, who has assumed a growing role in running the company.

The Kochs’ future prospects are of public interest because of the oversized influence they have exerted in American politics. Beginning in the late nineteen-seventies, the brothers became


the primary underwriters of hard-line libertarianism in the country. From the start, though, Charles was the instigator behind their political activism while remaining largely behind the scenes. This dynamic was evident as far back as 1980, when Charles convinced his younger brother David to run for Vice-President on the Libertarian Party ticket. The brothers regarded Ronald Reagan, who was running for President that year, as too liberal. The Libertarian platform called for abolishing all federal income taxes and virtually every federal agency, including the I.R.S., the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the F.E.C., the E.P.A., the F.D.A., and the S.E.C. The party also opposed Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, public education, and minimum-wage and child-labor laws. Charles and David, former members of the John Birch Society, which their father, Fred, helpedfound, regarded centralized government as a scourge akin to Communism. At the time, however, such views were considered kooky even by most conservatives. The conservative stalwart William F. Buckley, Jr., called the Kochs’ views “Anarcho-Totalitarianism.” The voters’ verdict was equally harsh. David spent two million dollars of his own money on his candidacy in 1980, but he was trounced. The Libertarian Party earned only one per cent of the vote.

Afterward, Charles told a reporter that he had grown disillusioned with conventional electoral politics but had not given up his quest to advance libertarianism. “Politics,” he told a reporter, “tends to be a nasty, corrupting business.” His interest, he said, is “in advancing libertarian ideas.” Instead of just funding candidates, Charles set out to subsidize an ideology. He aimed


post. Though the book includes many different types of buildings, for the sake of brevity I will focus on one type of building for this blog.

Winnipeg is fortunate to have a number of historic theatres. The theatrical world is an environment full of energy and superstition. It is the perfect setting for ghosts and so every theatre seems to have at least one ghost story. Winnipeg is no exception, as the following two examples will illustrate.

The Walker Theatre

On February 18th, 1907, the Walker Theatre held its grand opening with Puccini's new opera, Madama Butterfly. Founded by Corliss Powers Walker and his wife Harriet, the expatriate entrepreneurs dreamed of bringing the very best shows to Winnipeg. The couple brought in the most popular shows touring Europe or the easternUnited States. It was where many Winnipeggers were first exposed to the symphony, opera, musicals, and ballet.

The Walker Theatre which later became the Odeon Cinema in 1944. Photo courtesy of Mark Komus.

The Walker attracted the biggest names in show business of the day, including Harry Houdini, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, and Jimmy Durante. The Walker also held many important community events. Harriet Walker was an early suffragette and helped Nelly McClung hold her Women's Parliament at the Walker.

The Walker's support for their community went beyond women's rights. They built the theatre with a second balcony to allow as many people as possible to see the shows. This balcony soon became known as "The Gods", as you were sitting so high up you must be sitting with the gods


nothing and refuse to enter certain rooms in the theatre.

The haunting of Walker Theatre is often explained as the work of Laurence Irving and Mabel Hackney, a famous acting couple from England. They had just completed their North American tour at the Walker and soon set sail aboard the Empress of Ireland for the voyage home. They would never make it. On May 29th, 1914, the Empress of Ireland went down, resulting in over a thousand lives lost, including Laurence and Mabel. It remains the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history. After the accident, a plaque was put in the lobby of the Walker Theatre in their memory.

Though Laurence and Mabel are the best known ghosts at the Walker Theatre, they are not the only ones. To operatea theatre the size and scale of the Walker, a large staff was required and one of the most important roles was the ticket seller in the box office. Dealing with fussy customers made it a position that was often tough to fill until the Walkers found Joe.

The Walker Theatre Interior 1907. Photo courtesy of Archives of Manitoba-Winnipeg Theatres.

Joe loved the theatre and the people in it, and soon became a popular fellow with both staff and patrons. In 1914, Joe's employment would be interrupted with the start of the war. He answered his country's call and went overseas to fight. While fighting in the trenches, he was caught in a German gas attack. Joe managed to survive the gas and returned home to Winnipeg, but was now


in poor health and would soon pass away. Now it seems Joe has decided to remain in the space where he once had so many happy memories.

The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre

Another haunted theatre is home to the oldest English-language regional theatres in Canada. The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre has produced hundreds of shows ranging from Shakespeare to musicals to theatrical world premieres. Located in the John Hirsch Theatre, the building does not fit the classical description of a haunted theatre. When picturing a haunted theatre, one is likely to think of old and ornate buildings. This description does not fit MTC as it was built in 1970, in the brutalist style of architecture. Though not as old as most heritage buildings, the theatre was declared a National HistoricSite of Canada in 2009.

The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, 2015. Photo courtesy Heritage Winnipeg.

Even though the building does not fit the classical description of a haunted theatre, staff have reported many strange occurrences. Office staff have said items go missing and then reappear in the exact same spot only moments later. Others have reported hearing giggling and running footsteps when no one else is present. While working late one night, a set designer claimed to see a young boy run through his workshop.

The reason for these strange occurrences may be explained by MTC's first home, the Dominion Theatre built in 1904. After many strange events, including unexplained childish laughter and seats flipping up and down by themselves, staff started to investigate the history of the Dominion. This investigation


lead the staff to discover the story of George.

The entrance to the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. Photo courtesy of Heritage Winnipeg.

The Dominion Theatre had a caretaker who lived on site with his son, George. George loved the theatre and dreamed of becoming an actor. He was also known for playing little pranks on visitors. Though only a young boy, George was in poor health and required the use of a wheelchair. Tragically, there was a fire at the theatre and George, unable to escape the building, perished.

After spending ten years at the Dominion, the theatre was slated for demolition and MTC was forced to move. Once in their new home, unexplained pranks started to happen again. One such prank happened to an out of town actor who refusedto believe there was a ghost at MTC. While he was rehearsing a scene, a book being used as a prop flew across the stage and hit him in the head. After this event, he apparently changed his point of view. It seems George had decided to move with the theatre company.

The idea of a ghost moving locations is questionable, but the story about George has a larger problem. The Dominion Theatre never had a fire and would not have been accessible to someone in a wheelchair. The story has a dated Victorian feel to it, describing a poor little crippled boy who is to be pitied. So if George never existed, just who is haunting MTC?

Though it may not be known who is behind the strange occurrences


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1. The Ministry of External Affairs of India (MEA) is India's Foreign Ministry, and is also responsible for representation in the United Nations. Foreign Minister - Ms Sushma Swaraj Minister of State (MoS) are - Shri V K Singh, Shri M J Akbar2. Indian Foreign Service (IFS) - In 1947, the Foreign and Political department of British India became the new MEA and Commonwealth Relations, and in 1948 the first batch from the combined Civil service examination system of the UPSC joined IFS.
3. The Foreign Secretary is the senior most civil servant who is the head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, supported by other officers.
4. India's present Foreign Secretary — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, MEA spokesperson - Vikas Swarup.
5.The office of the Ministry is located in the South Block building which also contains the Prime Minister's office and defence office.6. Raisina Hill in Delhi is the last extension of Aravalli mountain ranges, and the location of both the Government of India as well as the Rashtrapati Bhavan. (The Aravalli ranges are 150 crore years old - India's oldest!)
7. The Raisina Dialogue is an annual conference held in New Delhi, created to project a strong, global image of India in foreign relations (like the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore).

8. Raisina Dialogue - inaugural session held from March 1-3 in 2016. It will build India's image with each year.

9. China calls Pakistan an "all-weather-friend". India had that kind of relations with Soviet Union (and Russia) earlier, but in recent


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It has hitherto been proposed to deburr the spherically curved faces manually by filing. Another known arrangement is where a sinker that is standard in the trade is rotated by hand in a tumbler movement, and also the deepest places of the bore hole burr are operated on by the cutting edges of the sinker.
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the SS Benjamin Carpenter was named for him. It was a standard 10,000 ton Liberty Ship with hull number 2786. It was laid down on 25 March 1944 and launched on 14 April 1944. The ship was scrapped in 1960.

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SAN FRANCISCO – Incase and Arkitip have launched the fifth installment of the Curated by Arkitip project with famed Paris graffiti artist André. Celebrating the city that elevated the artist’s graffiti to cult status in the creative world, the signature Incase 15” Sleeve and Slider Case feature André’s distinctive “Mr. A” stick figure character once seen everywhere from city walls to high fashion magazines and collaborations.

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they even take additional efforts to ripe them: they put them in a clay-jar and bury it in the ground and let them naturally matured for a half year.

Burn Neriko and check its proper temperature for diffusing the desired smell. (Each material has its own character)

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Smell and Art is a course given by Maki Ueda at ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Academy of Art and Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, The Netherlands

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Maki Ueda started her olfactory art course Smell and Art in 2009 at the ArtScience Interfaculty. In the course students learn a conceptual and abstract approach to the medium of smell. The use of smell goes beyond the representational use and focuses on its qualities and experience without a need for anarrative or context. The students are challenged to develop olfactory games using this approach. Furthermore, they learn chemical skills by extracting and composing smells to support their creations. The game format challenges our imagination: while we always have limited fragrance materials, we never stop thinking of new games. The Japanese traditional olfactory game Kodo is a good example of this.

Maki Ueda is an olfactory artist who explores olfaction with an abstract and conceptual approach. She was the World Technology Awards finalist in 2009 (category: art), and the Art and Olfaction Awards finalist in 2016 (Sadakichi Award). She is a guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Academy of Art and Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, The Netherlands. Maki Ueda is currently based in Okinawa, Japan. www.ueda.nl


Searching for the Isle

Lilyfern was born on one of the neighboring islands of Moltara, the enormous volcano that Neopians had just discovered very recently. She did not know a mother or a father, and no one took care of her. She was extremely adept at taking care of herself, having lived all her life alone. It was a short life so far, for she was only five months old, and it was dangerous. On a daily basis she was forced to escape from a temporary den and seek refuge elsewhere, hiding from the many hunters of the tropical jungle that spent hours a day looking for a flash of her lustrous fur.

Her kind was known for their soft, turquoise pelts, often the target of greedy poachers. Their collarsof fur were fluffy and high-prized among tribes in heavily forested jungles. Lilyfern was certain to not have such a horrible fate, but running around in circles on an ocean-locked land mass was no help at all. It seemed that because she was a Lutra, she was bent on being captured.

But Lilyfern had heard talk of an isle in the southeast that was home to marine mammals such as herself. She dreamed of one day reaching this place, and so she prepared for her journey with a “paw-made” raft.

~*~

Jasmine poked a leaf in a thin, babbling brook with a stick, obviously bored. She longed to dive in, but feared that it would overflow its banks and cause turmoil outside the main walls of Altador. It was her birth


island from the beaches.

Content with her plan, Jasmine set off through the woodlands of Altador’s exterior to the coast.

~*~

Lilyfern had been searching well over an hour for supplies. Although she had collected just about all she needed, the Lutra wanted to be prepared for anything that might faze her, including a possible bargaining with sea folk to travel faster. The sun had dipped well below the tall canopies of trees that she would soon depart from. She knew and feared that poachers would be out soon, but something held her back, tugging at her fur like a fly stuck in a web.

She tried to resist the feeling, so Lilyfern picked up a burlap haversack crafted of twine, and made off through the forest. Approaching the abrupt stop ofpalm trees, she mustered all her strength to drag the heavy sack. This might not float, the Lutra realized. But it’s worth a shot.

The raft submerged a bit into the water when Lilyfern placed the supplies on the edge of it. She slid it into the center, next to the mast, and she smiled successfully when the weight was balanced. Looks like there’s nothing much left to do except leave. A pang of sadness hit the young Lutra. Even though she had lived in fear on the island, she was born there, and felt a slight kinship. And she was leaving, likely to never return again, but she would journey to a better place.

Still, Lilyfern felt that she had to say good-bye, to all the trees in the


jungle if it were possible. But it was just a waste of time, and she was eager to leave. With a faint glance at her old home, the Lutra shoved her webbed feet against the rocky coastline. The raft dipped a little at the opposite end, but it soon bobbed back up. Lilyfern let out a sigh of relief, paddling the creation with her hind legs.

An odd noise in the far jungle made the Lutra avert her attention. A tribal-painted Mynci with an odd bone nose ring looked on in surprise at the sailing Petpet. Lilyfern badly wanted to jump for joy and tease the poacher right then and there, but a fear of capsizing the raft told her otherwise. A scowl was on the Mynci’s face; theLutra thought she could almost hear his growls of anger from such a distance. Glad to have steered the raft that far, Lilyfern went back to her duty, to find a new home.

~*~

Jasmine had traveled quite a while through the darkened plains surrounding Altador. She held a brightly lit lantern on a long branch, waving it around to get a better grasp of the area around her. The Lutari had never ventured this far west before, and wanted to cover as much land as she could before dawn; the afternoon heat would just make it harder to travel.

She got tired quickly, and sometimes woke to find herself having dozed off. The Lutari snapped awake suddenly when she thought she heard waves. Sure enough, she walked a bit farther


the day before. As she ate, Lilyfern noticed the calm waters and the slight breeze. This is nice, but I won’t be going anywhere soon at this speed. The Lutra took to her position on the west side of the raft and propelled it forward with her webbed paws.

She grew bored after awhile, wondering if there was anything else to do at the moment except eat and sleep. Lilyfern had considered taking a nap, but an odd shimmer floated in front of her. It was right in the path, so she sped up and soon had it lying on the side of the raft.

The Lutra unfolded the odd scroll, reading what it said: Find my twin. A small bright blue gem was attached. She picked it up andinspection, the sign also had a list of the clinic’s available services tacked underneath it.

A staff member met me with a smile at the gate after I rang the door. She asked what I was here for, I said birth control. Without any further questions, she led me to the lounge area outside of the clinic. I passed by the living room-turned-office area on the way to the clinic at the back of the house. They had a huge whiteboard with a calendar, which was filled with scheduled birth control drives, educational seminars, and many meetings, all written in red ink. Likhaan seemed to work non-stop.

Another patient was being assisted in the clinic when I arrived, so I had to wait for my turn. Meanwhile, women of all


ages seemed to come through the doors. They were all greeted with the same smile from the attendants, no matter who they were. Likhaan felt like a place free of judgement where women, especially those affected by our society’s conservative ideals, could truly focus on being given a fair choice about our health and well-being.

I was called in by the nurse on duty after a 20-minute wait. His name was Andre Dela Cruz, and he had been working with Likhaan since 2015. Before that, he worked at a private hospital. Aside from being a professional nurse, he is also an advocate of family planning and sexual and reproductive health. Even after being on-duty for over six hours and entertaining a constant stream of patients, he was very muchFrancis Bacon painting goes for massive $142.4MILLION making it the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction

Francis Bacon's three-paneled painting 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud' became the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction on Tuesday

The 1969 triptych, never before offered at auction, carried a pre-sale estimate of about $85 million ahead of the Christie's sale

It easily eclipsed the $119.9 million price of Edvard Munch's 'The Scream,' achieved in May of last year at Sotheby's

Francis Bacon's three-paneled painting 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud' became the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction on Tuesday when it soared to $142.4 million at Christie's.

The 1969 triptych, never before offered at auction and which carried a pre-sale estimate of about $85 million, easily eclipsed the


million Bacon record set in 2008, months before financial markets crashed and sent the art market into a brief decline.

Since then, new, deep-pocketed collectors from around the globe have driven prices to record levels.

At a recent preview, Christie's head of postwar and contemporary art, Brett Gorvy, noted that collectors from Asia, Russia and the Mideast flush with cash were determined to assemble world-class collections featuring trophy works.

New record: The jaw-dropping price easily broke the $86.3 million Bacon, pictured, record set in 2008, months before financial markets crashed and sent the art market into a brief decline

Famed artist: Bacon is one of America's most famed painters. Two of his other works of art are shown left and right

In May, Christie's achieved the highest total in the history of auctionswhen it sold $495 million worth of art at its postwar and contemporary sale.

The auction house said Bacon's three-paneled work, which depicts the Dublin-born painter's friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud on a chair, with a view from each side and one face on, was 'a true masterpiece that marks Bacon and Freud's relationship' and their 'creative and emotional kinship.'

'The juxtaposition of radiant sunshine yellow contrasting with the brutal physicality and immediacy of the brushstrokes in this celebrated life-size triptych is what makes Bacon's art so remarkable,' said Francis Outred, the head of European postwar and contemporary art for Christie's.

'This suddenly becomes a very important conversation between two masters,' Outred said in an interview.

He noted that 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud' is one of only two existing full-length


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Pitons Management Area

The 2,909-ha site near the town of Soufriere includes the Pitons, two volcanic spires rising side by side from the sea (770 m and 743 m high respectively), linked by the Piton Mitan ridge. The volcanic complex includes a geothermal field with sulphurous fumeroles and hot springs. Coral reefs cover almost 60% of the site’s marine area. A survey has revealed 168 species of finfish, 60 species of cnidaria, including corals, eight molluscs, 14 sponges, 11 echinoderms, 15 arthropods and eight annelid worms. The dominant terrestrial vegetation is tropical moist forest grading to subtropical wet forest, with small areas of dry forest and wet elfin woodland on the summits. At least 148 plant species have been recorded onGros Piton, 97 on Petit Piton and the intervening ridge, among them eight rare tree species. The Gros Piton is home to some 27 bird species (five of them endemic), three indigenous rodents, one opossum, three bats, eight reptiles and three amphibians.

Outstanding Universal Value

Brief synthesis

Belonging to the Lesser Antilles, the volcanic island of Saint Lucia is located in the Eastern Caribbean Sea and surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. The Pitons Management Area (PMA) in the Southwest of Saint Lucia is a multiple use conservation and management area of 1,134 hectares of land and 875 hectares of sea, respectively, totaling 2,909 hectares. The eponymous Pitons, two towering volcanic spires, are the major iconic landmark of the island. These spectacular twin pinnacles, Gros Piton and Petit Piton, rise side by


Marine Management Area within the PMA is a strip of roughly 11 km long and about one kilometre wide along the shore. It comprises a steeply sloping continental shelf with healthy fringing and patch reefs covering more than 60 % of the marine area, boulders and sandy plains. The diverse marine and coastal habitats harbour important marine life. Hawksbill turtles are seen inshore, and whale sharks and pilot whales offshore.

Criterion (vii): The PMA derives its primary visual impact and aesthetic qualities from the Pitons, two adjacent forest-clad volcanic spires rising abruptly from the sea to heights greater than 700 m.a.s.l. The Pitons predominate over the Saint Lucian landscape, being visible from virtually every part of the island and providing a distinctive landmark for seafarers. The combination of theSoufriere Marine Management Area (SMMA) is a multiple use marine area in its own right.

Given the predominance of the volcanic phenomena and the scenic beauty, the boundaries adequately cover the key values. The challenge will be to monitor, prepare for and manage natural and man-made threats, including in particular construction of hotels and other buildings which may compromise the visual integrity of the property.

Protection and management requirements

The PMA is a multiple use area based on a Cabinet Decree and was gazetted under the Physical Planning and Development Act of 2001. The Soufriere Marine Management Area (SMMA), established in 1994 under the Fisheries Act, represents the marine component of the PMA. In 2003, the PMA was also declared an Environmental Protection Area and in 2011 a Special Enforcement Area,


visual integrity of the PMA and steep slopes susceptible to erosion. Both the terrestrial and the marine areas of the PMA are important tourist destinations, which adds to the encroachment pressure but may also lead to other impacts.

The rugged terrain provides a degree of natural protection against encroachment and other terrestrial land use, such as agriculture, grazing, extraction of timber and fuel wood, as well as tourism. Still, management is needed both within the propriety and its adjacent communities to maintain the visual attractiveness of the PMA and to minimize the impacts on flora and fauna. There is a need for systematic monitoring and law enforcement, including on private lands. On the latter, lands management arrangements with the owners in line with the values and management objectives ofRestructuring of the NHS is essential, but the task needs to be taken out of the political arena and placed with a royal commission of experts

Every year millions of pounds are poured into the NHS. Every year there is a winter health crisis and every year the health service is kicked around as a political football by every political party.

Before the NHS was established, healthcare for the majority in the UK was at best patchy and at worst unaffordable and nonexistent, with women, children and the elderly suffering the most. Its founder, Aneurin Bevan, envisaged that in time the establishment of the NHS would improve the nation’s health and that the demand for its services would decrease; the opposite has happened. Currently about 40% of all health problems


A dog died in a Spokane Valley house fire late Friday night, but the two people inside were able to escape without injury.

The Spokane Valley Fire Department was called to 11910 E. 20th Avenue at 11:15 p.m. Friday. The first crew to arrive found heavy fire on the home’s south side, according to a fire department news release. The residents had already evacuated.

The damage to the home is extensive and is estimated to be more than $100,000. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

A crew from Spokane County Fire District 8 also responded to help put out the fire.CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - One of the white supremacists who viciously beat a black man inside a parking garage during last year's "Unite the Right" rally here was found guilty Tuesday night of malicious wounding.

Jacob Scott Goodwin, 23, who wore a military tactical helmet and brandished a large shield during the Aug. 12 attack against DeAndre Harris, was convicted by a jury of nine women and three men.

The assault on Harris, 20, a former special education instructional assistant, was so ferocious that he suffered a spinal injury, a broken arm and head lacerations that required eight staples.

Online footage of the beating has been viewed online tens of thousands of times and attracted a group of online sleuths, led by Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King. They tracked down the


alleged perpetrators' identities, including that of Goodwin, who lives in Ward, Arkansas. Goodwin was arrested about two months after the rally.

Goodwin's attorney, Elmer Woodard, argued Harris, then working as a YMCA camp counselor, came to pick a fight and that his client was just trying to defend himself.

"[Goodwin] came to exercise free speech. Mr. Harris went to abuse free speech - not to exercise it, but abuse it," Woodward said in his opening statement.

He said it was Harris who went after Goodwin. Goodwin kicked Harris on the ground to defend himself and the other white supremacists in the garage. "He gets up, with evil in his eye, and charges Mr. Goodwin," Woodard said.

But Nina-Alice Antony, an assistant commonwealth's attorney, said it was Goodwin who wanted to square off.

"Hewas outfitted for battle," she told the jury in opening statements. "He's got large goggles, boots. He's got a full body shield."

Goodwin also wore two pins, one bearing the number 88, a code for "Heil Hitler," and a second with the logo for the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white-nationalist group.

The attack inside the Market Street parking garage, next to the Charlottesville Police Department, was one of several disturbing acts of violence during the rally, which was held to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E Lee from a city park. A self-professed neo-Nazi rammed his Dodge Charger into a crowd of people that day, killing 32-year-old counterprotester Heather D. Heyer, a paralegal.

Videos of the parking garage attack on Harris - and of its preceding


moments - have been scrutinized frame by frame by Harris' defenders and white nationalists, each side arguing over one sticking point: Was Harris a victim or an instigator?

Harris was acquitted in March of misdemeanor assault and battery against one of the white supremacists involved in the confrontation.

Nevertheless, much of Goodwin's trial centered on whether Harris sparked the fight himself by striking a prominent white nationalist in the head with a flashlight. Seconds before Harris ran into the garage shortly after 11 a.m. that day, he was standing at its entrance. He saw a fellow counterprotester being speared in the abdomen with a flagpole by Harold Crews, the North Carolina state chairman of the white-nationalist group League of the South. To protect his friend, Harris swung a flashlight atthe flagpole, trying to knock it away.

Seconds after the fight with Crews, Harris rushed inside the parking garage, where he was pummeled.

When Goodwin took the stand, he told the jury he'd seen Harris assault Crews and then saw Harris charging toward him. He testified that he was scared.

"I thought he was a hostile . . . to be honest, I was terrified," Goodwin said, who added that he thought he could have died and that "I'd probably perish or be sent to the hospital and be terribly hurt."

He said he engaged in self-defense and felt he had only one choice, which was to kick Harris four times while Harris was falling down on the garage floor and scrambling to get back up multiple times.

"I was trying to neutralize


there and go help? Or does he outfit himself for battle and run in to do battle?" she asked jurors. "At no point does Mr. Goodwin break away."

Antony argued that Goodwin's kicks to Harris's backside, rib cage and stomach could have killed, maimed or disabled Harris, elements necessary for the malicious-wounding charge.

But Woodard said Harris' major injuries involved his head and that the kicks didn't amount to malicious wounding or even assault and battery. Goodwin, he said repeatedly, feared for his life and was defending himself.

Harris, who was sitting in the courtroom pews listening to the arguments, looked distraught for much of the trial and at one point asked the prosecutor for a tissue while in the witness seat.

In court this week, the jury watched multiple videos ofthe attack from different vantage points showing Goodwin hitting Harris with a shield and kicking him while he was on the ground. Other men join in, hitting Harris with a board and a large pole. When Harris managed to get up, they yelled obscenities at him, telling him, "Get out!"

Three other men have been also been arrested in connection to the attack on charges ranging from felonious assault to malicious wounding: Alex Michael Ramos of Georgia, whose trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday; and Daniel Borden of Ohio and Tyler Watkins Davis of Florida, who face trials this summer.


opportunities many residents will have to ask questions after finding out in 2012 from a Star story that the plant — owned by GE-Hitachi until December of 2016 — was making pellets.

The story was the result of activist Zach Ruiter, a freelance journalist and Trent University graduate, who knocked on doors to alert residents that the plant existed. Ruiter said he felt there was a lack of public awareness and not enough public consultation by the CNSC.

At that time, signs on buildings at the Toronto plant simply said the company’s name — there was no indication that it was a nuclear facility.

The CNSC required GE-Hitachi to have an outreach program, but most community members didn’t know what the plant manufactured despite its presence in the neighbourhood since 1965.

Now,about the CNSC information meeting, where commission staff and experts, together with BWXT employees, anti-nuclear activists and politicians seemed to outnumber the 15 or so people from the community.

Kevin Lee, a senior regulatory policy officer at the CNSC, which employs 900 staff, said the commission couldn’t afford to notify the public by advertising in newspapers because it was too expensive. The organization relies on social media.

BWXT’s application is not only generating opposition in Toronto, but in Peterborough because of a provision in the new licence that would allow BWXT to move its Toronto pelleting operation anytime during its 10-year period to Peterborough.

Activists there say they are tired of dealing with the legacy waste from the GE-Hitachi plant, which used PCBs, asbestos as well as other chemicals at the


Long was flying over the area because he "had been informed" that the defendant "had been dealing in marijuana."
The small field of marijuana was located behind a barn approximately 125-150 feet from the defendant's back porch. The green marijuana was growing in between five to seven rows of corn which were 40-50 feet long. Law enforcement officers collected 521 marijuana plants, most of which were ten feet tall.
The Sheriff repeatedly described the area where the corn and marijuana were growing as a "garden". He testified that there "appeared to be a foot or two between the garden" and the mowed area of the yard. At the edge of the woods, approximately twenty to fifty feet behind the garden, were six marijuana plants that had been tied for drying.
TheSheriff testified that the garden had been cultivated and taken care of and had either been plowed with a tiller or hoed in the last couple of months, "but maybe not in the last few days." On cross examination, Sheriff Long stated that it had been a "good while" since the garden had been cultivated.
The defendant was not home when the marijuana was seized and was never seen in or near the garden. Sheriff Long had been told that the defendant owned the house and "assumed" that it was his "corn patch".
In arguing that the evidence was sufficient to support a reasonable inference that the defendant constructively possessed the marijuana, the Attorney General lists three factors:
"___Evidence that he (defendant) had been dealing in marijuana.
"___Evidence that 521 cultivated plants


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Mexico City is sending up the bat signal.

Exasperated by their country's Gothamlike levels of crime, corruption and malfeasance, Mexicans are watching the night sky in dim hopes that the the Dark Knight will swoop in and save the day. Batman is one of the most beloved superheroes in Mexico, a country that can identify with dark comic book tales.

And Mexicans are desperate for a hero. In homage to the Dark Knight and his 75th anniversary, a group of 30 prominent Mexican artists created a tribute that is currently on display at Mexico's Museum of Design.

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"Mexican culture is applied to Batman throughout the exhibition," museum visitor Luis Gallegos told Fusion. "I became a fan becauseSchatz, that human activity "significantly" contributes to climate change. In 2015, he voted against the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan.

Gun law

Isakson had an "A" rating by the National Rifle Association in 2013.

In 2017, Isakson stated that while he does support concealed carry nationwide, he does not support campus carry, stating that it is "not the appropriate thing to do."

In February 2018, in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Isakson stated that "We have to do everything we can within our powers to make sure it never happens again."

Healthcare
Isakson voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and has since voted over 60 times in favor of ending it.

Immigration
Isakson favors tougher border security to address the immigration issue. In 2019, he voted to support President Trump's


genre.

Black Swan Green is clearly autobiographical. It tells of one year in the adolescence of someone who is the same age as David Mitchell, with the same stammer as Mitchell, growing up in someplace very like the town where Mitchell spent his youth, and learning to become a writer much as Mitchell did. The coming-of-age tale is a familiar type of fiction, and though we recognise that it is fiction — that it departs in its details from the facts (here the viewpoint character is called Jason Taylor, not David Mitchell) — it nevertheless depends for much of its effect upon the impression of truth in the telling. Yet here, in this one moment, Mitchell explicitly links the truth telling of Black Swan Green with the non-truth tellingof Cloud Atlas, a novel that revels in its fictionality, that at every stage undermines the truth of what has gone before.

This has been a feature of his work ever since Ghostwritten: playing with genre to the point of destruction. But it is not what has caught the eye of most readers and critics, who have found themselves mesmerised by the fact that, although his novels range across time, the same characters keep appearing. Charts are drawn up to trace characters and places from book to book across time and space. The fictional Belgian town of Zedelghem (not to be confused with Zedelgem, which was the site of a World War II prisoner-of-war camp) gets a passing mention in Slade House, for instance, the third novel in which