MANCHESTER, England – They fought for 128 minutes, stoppage time included, and fight isn't just some word here. The American and Canadian women's soccer teams clawed and pulled and kicked and battled, ferocious and physical, back and forth, just perfect for a now-heated rivalry with a shot at women's soccer gold on the line.

Canada led three times. The United States caught up three times. And now it was in the final 30 seconds of stoppage time of the final overtime period, tie game and a ball flying from the foot of American Heather O'Reilly toward the front of the Canadian net.

Up went Alex Morgan, the USA forward, toward a ball she simply decided she had to have, as if life depended on it.

Which she did, just enough ofit anyway, to redirect it over Canadian goalkeeper Erin McLeod and into the back of the net. In the history of American women's soccer, this was the latest goal ever scored. Just seconds remained after Morgan's header, but those hardly mattered. The U.S. had a 4-3 semifinal victory and a date Thursday against Japan in the gold-medal match.

"I can't recall ever feeling this way after scoring a goal," said Morgan, who after the final whistle blew wound up on the bottom of a pig pile where teammate Abby Wambach expressed her gratitude for the game-saving goal and Morgan wondered if, for the first time ever, she might just start crying on a soccer field.

(Later she would.)

"Moments like this are what make sports so cool," Wambach said.

Cool isn't how


the Canadians saw it. They'd played their hearts out, attacking the Americans physically, riding a hat trick from a brilliant Christine Sinclair, standing up and trying to show their international powerhouse neighbors to the South that they too could win on the world stage – all right here in Old Trafford, where the legendary Manchester United Club calls home, dubbed years ago the "Theater of Dreams."

Canada didn't see Morgan's goal as some glorious moment. They saw it as the result of crooked refereeing, courtesy of Norway's Christiana Pedersen, who they believed delivered call after call to the chosen team of the Olympics.

The Americans. The golden girls. The ones the establishment always favors.

"We feel like we didn't lose," Sinclair said. "We feel like it was taken from us. It'sa shame in a game like that, which is so important that the ref decided the result before the game started."

The Canadians will list off a million indignities in building their case for predetermined match fixing, but their chief complaint came in the 80th minute. They held a 3-2 lead. They were 10 minutes from a shocking upset – from achieving what they worked toward all these years, beating the United States.

McLeod, the goalkeeper, dove to the ground to get the ball. It took a couple seconds to get up and then she held the ball for a few more seconds. Out of nowhere came a whistle for delay of game. The goalkeeper can only hold a ball for six seconds.

McLeod was stunned. She didn't believe she was


up, put it in a corner and the United States had come back for a third time. They had life again. Eventually Morgan would win it, out-leaping an exhausted Canadian defense that had expended everything holding off a more talented opponent. It was a final moment Canada believed never should've occurred, although there were no guarantees the U.S. wouldn't have scored a different way in the final 10 minutes of regulation.

"We feel like we got robbed in this game," McLeod said. "We outplayed the Americans for the entire game."

The Americans saw it differently – completely differently – and this is where the war of words got as nasty as the scrums in front of the net. The U.S. players claimed the Canadians resorted to overly physical play becausesee the rivalry," Morgan said. "They wanted it and we wanted it."

Across two hours of chippy action and deflating moments and everyone screaming at the ref, Morgan kept trying to maintain her poise by going back to a pregame conversation with her coach, Pia Sundhage.

They stood on this historic pitch and looked around and Pia kept repeating the same thing.

So there was that final ball, that final cross, sailing through the air. This game was a fight. Heated. Angry. High stakes. The Americans were desperate for a 2011 World Cup rematch with Japan. Now here was a pesky Canadian team that wouldn't go away.

With penalty kicks looming, a golden dream hanging in the balance, there came that one last floating cross.

Alex Morgan wanted it the very most.

"I just


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Isabelle is a female dog in the Animal Crossing video games. She has light yellow fur all over her. She wears a navy blue mini skirt, and her tail is tipped with white fur. Isabelle sports a green-checkered, button up kind of vest, outlined in dark green. She has a white, collared undershirt, and her outfit is completed by a small, red bow tie. She has a white mouth area and a dark blue nose, and her fur comes down


in bangs right above her eyes. She hair style is a small little ponytail that is near the top of her head, along with a red ponytail band. Her ears and the top of her hair are darker yellow, as well as her cheeks. She carries around a black clipboard and pen in Animal Crossing, because that's the kind of thing secretaries carry around.phage genes, and evaluate the role of the encoded functions in Stx production and release both in vitro and in vivo. The two specific aims are: Aim 1: Determine the extent to which phage-mediated lysis, excision, circularization, and replication control Stx2 production and release. Aim 2: Determine which of the phage functions identified in aim 1 contribute to virulence in a well- characterized Shiga toxin-dependent animal model of disease.


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The Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011 caused the massive release of anthropogenic radioactive materials from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant to its surrounding environment. Its biological effects have been studied using the pale grass blue butterfly, Zizeeria maha (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), but the overwintering states of this butterfly remain elusive. Here, we conducted a series of field surveys in March 2018, March 2019, and April 2019 in Fukushima and its vicinity to clarify the overwintering states of this butterfly at the time of the Fukushima nuclear accident. We discovered overwintering individuals in situ associated with the host plant Oxalis corniculata under natural straw mulch as


Fireworks, smoke from flares and ticker tape filled the Buenos Aires night sky as Boca Juniors lifted their 32nd Argentine championship in June 2017. The title had been sealed five days earlier after Banfield – the last remaining side with a mathematical chance of pipping Boca to the title – lost at San Lorenzo. Boca’s coronation took place with an elaborate celebration on the pitch following the 2-1 home victory over Unión, but amidst the blue and yellow could be found the Colombian tricolour, held proudly aloft by Boca’s Colombian contingent.

All but four of Boca Juniors’ championship-winning squad in the 2016/17 season were Argentine. One of those was young Uruguayan midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur, who will be featuring for Juventus next season after an €8 million move this summer;the other three were Colombian.

Perhaps the most influential of the trio last season was flying left-back Frank Fabra, whose style is reminiscent of Patrice Evra. Fabra began his career with Envigado FC, a club based in the city of the same name which borders Medellín, and one often incorrectly labelled a suburb of its larger neighbour. The city is most famous for being home to notorious drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, who at one time was one of the world’s richest yet most bloodthirsty men.

Envigado’s football club, however, is considerably more modest with their stadium holding just 11,000. The club was only formed as recently as 1989, and counts two second tier titles on its honours board.

El Equipo Naranja consistently punch above their weight in Colombia’s football system, thanks


in no small part to a superb youth system which has produced James Rodríguez, Fredy Guarín, and Juan Quintero to name but a few. Fabra is another graduate from La Cantera de Héroes and the full-back made over 100 appearances for the first team in a four-year spell after debuting in 2010. After a spell on loan with Deportivo Cali, Fabra made the short move to Independiente Medellín in January 2016 before joining Boca just six months later.

Read | A World of Ultras: Boca Juniors

During Boca’s 2016/17 championship-winning season, Fabra started 18 games and came off the bench twice, averaging 81 minutes per match. Defensively, no player in the Boca squad completed more interceptions than Fabra, but he was also an effective weapon going forward, proving to bea key man in many of Boca’s attacks. He managed one goal and three assists, although only two players were caught offside more than Fabra, which perhaps gives an insight into his adventurous spirit on the ball.

The low point of Fabra’s season came in an ill-tempered goalless draw in La Plata against Estudiantes. The home manager – and former Arsenal player – Nelson Vivas was sent to the stands for protesting what he thought was a blatant penalty for his side, after which he comically ripped off his shirt Incredible Hulk-style to reveal a physique belying his age. Less amusing was the racial abuse Fabra suffered, causing him to leave the pitch in tears. Vociferous complaints by Boca captain Fernando Gago to referee Silvio Trucco sadly fell on


deaf ears.

As with most full-backs of an attacking persuasion, Fabra is prone to the odd mistake. He gifted Ecuadorian minnows Independiente del Valle a goal in Boca’s shock Copa Libertadores semi-final defeat in 2016, and despite only 11 caps for Colombia to date, Fabra has already been culpable for gifting goals to international opposition. However, he more than makes up for any defensive frailties with what he offers going forward, and is already off the mark for his national team.

Wilmar Barrios joined Los Xeneize from Deportivo Tolima – with whom he won the Colombian Cup in 2014 – in August last year for €2.7 million. Golazo Argentino, an English-language website about Argentine football, named Barrios as the signing of the season and it’s not hard to understand whyas he clearly looks like a player born to wear the Azul y Oro. Boca won every game that the tenacious midfielder started, and Guillermo Barros Schelotto’s decision to leave him on the bench in the Superclásico defeat at La Bombonera in May was baffling as the game was crying out for a player with his style.

Operating from a deep-lying position in Boca’s midfield, Barrios demonstrated a capability of blocking and tackling as well as proving economical with the ball, boasting a pass completion rate of 85 percent as well as providing three assists. Barrios has three caps for Los Cafeteros but he’ll surely become an influential player for his national side in the upcoming months ahead of next year’s World Cup in Russia. In February 2016, along


with Fabra, he was named in the World Soccer 500, where the magazine named their top 500 most important players on the planet.

Read | The story of Buenos Aires’ Superclásico

Sebastián Pérez signed last August from Medellín side Atlético Nacional, where he won five national championships, two domestic cups, two super cups, the Copa Sudamericana and the icing on the cake, the 2016 Copa Libertadores. The highly decorated midfielder debuted for his national team in May 2016 and now has six international caps. The 24-year-old only managed 12 appearances for Boca this season, however, with eight of those coming from the bench.

Despite limited appearances, Pérez proved himself to be an adept passer of the ball, completing 89.5 percent of passes, the highest in the Boca squad. In April heruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will miss six months. His stop-start career at La Bombonera will have to wait a little longer before taking off.

The departure of Bentancur to Juventus freed up a space in Boca’s foreigner quota, one that was filled by a Colombian, making the trio a quartet. In July 2017 Edwin Cardona signed from Mexican side Monterrey on a one-year loan deal, making an immediate impact with two goals in his first three pre-season friendlies, including a superb long-range effort that has almost become his trademark. The gifted 24-year-old has almost 300 career appearances to his name after spells with Atlético Nacional, Junior and Santa Fe, and most recently in Liga MX with Monterrey.

So highly thought of is Cardona at


La Bombonera that he has been gifted the almost-mythical number 10 shirt. “I hope he plays better than me,” was a recent quote from perhaps one of the most famous former stars of said shirt, Juan Román Riquelme.

Fabra, Barrios, Pérez and Cardona are far from the first Colombians to ply their trade in Argentina, nor at Boca for that matter. In the 1950s this trend was reversed when several Argentines joined the Colombian league during its golden period. Professionalism in Colombia, as well as a dispute between the league organisers and the national FA, led to several Argentine players making the move across the continent, including River Plate’s Adolfo Pedernera and the incomparable Alfredo Di Stéfano.

Read | The storied career of Juan Pablo Ángel

Towards the end of thecentury, as there was more prestige and money in the Argentine game, Colombians began flocking the other way, many using Argentina as a stepping stone before crossing the Atlantic to Europe. James Rodríguez, from the same famed Envigado cantera as Frank Fabra, spent two years with Banfield, followed by stints at Monaco and Porto, before becoming a Real Madrid galáctico in 2014.

Radamel Falcao moved to Buenos Aires at the age of 15 to sign for River Plate before becoming one of the world’s most feared strikers following spells with Porto and Atlético Madrid. Juan Pablo Ángel formed part of River’s feared cuatro fantásticos alongside Javier Saviola, Pablo Aimar and Ariel Ortega before becoming a cult hero at Aston Villa. There have been countless other examples and there are


now Colombians playing professionally in over 60 countries worldwide.

Perhaps Boca’s most glorious spell at the turn of the millennium coincided with the arrival of three Colombians. Mauricio ‘Chicho’ Serna, Jorge Bermúdez and goalkeeper Óscar Córdoba represented the club between 1997 and 2002 when Los Xeneizes won three league titles, two Copa Libertadores trophies and the Intercontinental Cup, being the last team to beat Real Madrid in an international final. The three provided the defensive backbone of the all-conquering side, endearing themselves to a generation of Boca supporters.

Serna recently gave his seal of approval to one of the current crop of Colombians, visiting Barrios in the changing rooms after a victory over Newell’s Old Boys in La Bombonera in May. After providing the assist for what would prove toin just about every case, they can claim 1982’s Poltergeist as their de facto father.

Credit that prescience to Steven Spielberg, who not only produced Poltergeist and came up with (and co-wrote) its story, but also was rumored to have co-directed it as well, to the point that he had to pen a public letter of apology to official director Hooper in order to steer clear of possible Director’s Guild of America trouble. However, whether he was the man in charge on set or merely a hands-on adviser during production, Spielberg’s fingerprints are all over the finished product. From its expert widescreen panoramas of normalcy and insanity, to its warm-hearted, warts-and-all portrait of the nuclear family in the form of the Freelings—a clan of five who live in Cuesta


room as it tries to wake its human compatriots. The pooch only succeeds when it reaches Carol Anne, who rises from bed, heads downstairs and, in thrall to the TV (and the voices she seems to be hearing from it), puts her hand on the screen as the rest of her relatives, now awake and watching this strange performance, stare in unsettled confusion.

Marked by visuals that speak to American family unity under siege by the TV, Poltergeist’s opening sets the stage for its ensuing credit sequence, in which happy-go-lucky snapshots of middle-class life (kids on bikes and messing around with radio-controlled cars) include those of Steven and his friends gathering around the television to watch an afternoon football game. That communal gathering is interrupted by a neighbor’s kid,CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 21-year-old man was shot in the face while he was driving in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood.Police said he heading west on West Irving Park Road near North Major Avenue around 2 a.m. Tuesday when a silver car drove by. Someone inside fired at the victim's vehicle. The victim was about a block away from his home.He suffered graze wounds to his cheek and right shoulder. The back window of his car was shot out.The man managed to drive himself home before calling for help. He was taken to Lutheran General Hospital, where he is listed in good condition.Area North investigators are looking into whether the shooting was a random attack or if the victim was the target.


Whelan wanted by police

Last Updated: July 10 2014, 23:28 BST

Police in Rio de Janeiro have declared Ray Whelan, the English director of FIFA's ticket and hospitality partners MATCH, to be "a fugitive" after they attempted to re-arrest him as part of an investigation into ticket touting.

Officers arrived at the Copacabana Palace hotel with an arrest warrant, but Whelan was not there and police said they had CCTV footage of him leaving through a service door.

MATCH has stuck by Whelan and insisted he has played no part in any wrongdoing.

Rio police investigator Fabio Barucke told reporters outside the hotel: "He's now considered a fugitive. We have security camera images of him exiting the hotel through a service door."

The Copacabana Palace is also the hotel where all the senior FIFATechnical Error

Sergei shook his head, trying to rattle out the incessant thud of the Techno soundtrack that was, for no good reason, blasting out to shake the foundations of the warehouse. It didn’t work.

The building was full to capacity now, the stands erected around the walls heaving with stern faced government apparatchiks, some vaguely nodding along to the music, others taking long draws from red-embered cigarettes or swigging from glasses of vodka. He recognised a few of the faces present, Generals, politicians, even a strangely orange toned man who could, perhaps, have passed for that guy off of the TV, the bombastic American with the bad catch phrases. Although all he could see of him was a small strip of gaudy flesh and petulant looking eyes, framed by


layers of luxuriant winter furs and an oversized ushanka. No matter, Sergei didn’t keep up with celebrity culture anyway so his interest was limited and his commander had told him not to look too closely into the crowd. He was here to work after all, not gawp.

A few metres from him his opponent for the day was limbering up on the opposite side of the ring, showily flexing his muscles for the audience. A pointless display given the exoskeleton he was wearing, a series of cables, metal plates and pistons that encased half of his body. It was technology that would do the work, not the man inside it, they were just there to make a token gesture towards thought and give a name for the records tolist as winner or loser. He’d noticed that the American fighters always enjoyed their showmanship though. This one no less than the others, his back piece even had the stars and stripes emblazoned on it, an American Eagle engraved on his steel shoulder pad, a weak spot perhaps given the circuitry that might lay beneath.

For his part Sergei is more practical, his commander doesn’t appreciate showmanship, he appreciated winners so a small Russian flag decal on his shoulder was the only concession to style he wore. The rest of his suit was just a bulky mix of wiring and armour plating. More than the American had on his, a point to remember when the fight started.

There were a few more minutes of posturing to endure, as the Yankee,


of the crowd came to a trickling end, the anthems started playing. The Star-Spangled Banner first, a concession to the visitors and silently endured by the largely Russian audience, although out of the corner of his eye Sergei could still see the orange skinned man nodding his head in a poor attempt to match the tune. Next his own anthem played, voices around the warehouse dutifully belting out or miming their way through in a necessary show of patriotic fervour. He kept his own mouth shut for the duration, he didn’t know the words after all and as long as he looked suitably intense nobody would challenge him for focusing on the fight ahead, not even President Putin, who was bound to be somewhere in the crowd.

Formalities overdevelop quality indicators for total joint arthroplasty rehabilitation.

AJ is a Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine with a cross appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta. She is also a Fellow in the Institute of Health Economics.

MW is a postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Public Health, University of Alberta and Arthritis Research Canada, Richmond, BC. She also holds the position of Physical Therapy Teaching Supervisor in the Mary Pack Arthritis Program, Vancouver, BC.

The authors would like to thank Dr. Linda Li who co-supervised Dr. Westby's postdoctoral fellowship and Alexandria Klemm who assisted with the initial screening of articles for this rapid review. Funding for this work was provided through an Alberta Innovates Health Solutions Knowledge-to-Action Grant.


(Newser) – The vineyards and houses of one of South Africa's poshest suburbs are under siege—by groups of marauding Cape Baboons, who feast on sauvignon blanc grapes fermenting in the sun and terrorize locals. One troop of baboons recently broke into a family home in the Cape Town suburb and traumatized a child by surrounding him and pelting him with fruit. Others have killed a Great Dane and trashed roofs, fences, orchards and gardens, the Telegraph reports.

"Lunch parties in the garden are now just impossible," one homeowner lamented. Stick-banging, plastic snakes, and even vuvuzela blasts have failed to ward off the creatures, and many families are decamping for other suburbs to escape the baboons. In a concession to angry homeowners, authorities have implemented a "three strikes" policy tothe Bf 109, the Friedrich, and returned to northern France to counter the RAF's attempts to 'lean into Europe'. Early April saw Fw. Josef Wurmheller (5./JG 53) claim a Spitfire and a Blenheim in his first combat sorties since coming down in the Channel during November 1940. On 26 April Lt. Wolfgang Tonne (3./JG 53) became an ace, downing a Spitfire south of Boulogne-sur-Mer (the RAF reported this as a 242 Sq. Hurricane). The combats over the Channel up to June 1941 were very much an interlude for JG 53 prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union which nonetheless resulted in the loss of six pilots killed in action. With the launch of Barbarossa I./JG 53 began its run of colossal victory scores - through June, July


and August 1941, over 200 for the Stab and I./JG 53, " a figure which is patently inflated ". The Kommodore von Maltzahn picked up his Oakleaves in July taking his score from 16 to 49 in a six week period although he was nonetheless forced to make three crash landings during the same period. Oblt Hans-Joachim Heinecke went from 0 to 16 and was appointed Staffelkapitän of I./JG 53. It was a similar story for II./JG 53 (minus its 6. Staffel) Despite the early loss of Kommandeur Bretnuetz, over fourteen weeks and for the loss of six pilots the Gruppe returned some 194 victories " a largely exaggerated figure for just two Staffeln ". The exploits of III./JG 53 over this fourteen week period to the endof September are also detailed. Operating over Heeresgruppe Mitte, this latter organisation seems to have largely abdicated its authority to 'adjudicate' in the claims confirmation process. By the end of the first summer in the East, III./JG 53 had submitted claims for some 373 victories! While its defenders claim Wilcke's Gruppe - established by Mölders - was a nursery for Draufgänger, as evidenced by the three Ritterkreuze awarded in this short space of time, " it is nonetheless a fact that many of these pilots' victory claims were no more than flights of fancy and that they were encouraged to file these claims by a benevolent hierarchy and propaganda media looking for new heroes ". These 373 claims were made for the loss 31 Friedrich either seriously damaged


or destroyed and just three pilots killed, including Ritterkreuz holder Lt. Erich Schmidt, ( RK awarded 23 July for 31 victories) who was downed by Soviet anti-aircraft fire near Dubno.

Profile courtesy of artist Thierry Dekker for this blog. Click on the image for a larger view. Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-2 (WNr. 6702) assigned to Ofw. Hermann Neuhoff, 7./JG 53, Lepel, early July 1941. Neuhoff was shot down over Malta on 10 April 1942 by a "Hurricane" and taken captive. He was awarded the RK on the same day for his 40 victories. Neuhoff was most probably shot down by a JG 53 Bf 109.

There followed a period of rest in Holland and conversion onto the F-4 variant, that nonetheless saw the loss of the Kommandeur I./JG 53 Franzvon Werra. He was replaced by Zerstörer ace Hptm Herbert Kaminski who was awarded the RK on 6 August 1941. Late 1941 and early 1942 saw JG 53 active in a new theatre of operations - deployed to Sicily. The Mediterranean meant the time of 'easy' victories was over - the hazards of the Med - long over-sea flights, RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes and the British exploitation of Ultra all saw to that. Some 45 victory claims were filed for combats over Malta during the first two months in the Med - for some 25 actual RAF losses. During the spring of 1942 operations over Malta continued relentlessly. A Jabo Staffel was established under Oblt. Werner Langemann. JG 53 filed over 100 victory claims for this period for


claims in a 19-week period for only 15 pilots lost at an average of 7 victories/day. " One of these losses was Kommandeur Kaminski, shot down and wounded on 24 July 1942. (On his return from convalescence during late 1943 Kaminski was appointed CO of Zerstörer Gruppe II./ZG 76) Oblt. Tonne opened this second campaign in the East with 19 victories and finished it with 101 ! A youthful Uffz. Wilhelm Crinius had yet to open his score on his arrival in the unit in February 1942 - on 22 September he had 'achieved' his 100th! By now 'Stalin's Falcons' had learnt the lessons of 1941. Moreover, new, more modern types had made their appearance in addition to Allied equipment supplied under Lend-Lease. " The pilots exaggerated claimsthe realization that the in-laws are arriving in exactly one week.

One summer we took our young children into the mountains of Alberta for an afternoon on the beautiful glacial waters of Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park. In our small homemade runabout we sailed down the length of the lake unaware of the rising wind behind us until the waves made us realize we needed to turn around and head back to the shore. The turning almost swamped us, and as we motored into the wind, waves repeatedly crashed over the bow and windscreen, soaking us. It was thanks to the kindhearted pilot of a passing larger cruiser that we made it back to land safely. He pulled alongside of us, then slowly moved in front, creating a


his course. He gave us some practical
suggestions about how to do that. But most of all he instilled in us a love
of Greek with his attitude. You could tell, even as he was teaching
elementary grammar, that he loved the language. He inspired me to put my all
into learning it. I don't know how many "drop outs" there were from his
class, but I'm sure that there were probably a few who were inspired to
continue beyond Greek 101 because of his attitude. I personally know of at
least one who was.
I continued my Greek studies, on my own, after I went into the ministry full
time. I have achieved, through continued diligence, the ability to read the
Greek New Testament fairly well (with few or no trips to a lexicon). I think
teachers needBusiness briefs

Union members drop
WASHINGTON — Union membership plummeted last year to the lowest level since the 1930s as cash-strapped state and local governments shed workers and unions had difficulty organizing new members in the private sector despite signs of an improving economy.

Government figures released Wednesday showed union membership declined from 11.8 percent to 11.3 percent of the workforce, another blow to a labor movement already stretched thin by battles in Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and other states to curb bargaining rights and weaken union clout.

Overall membership fell by about 400,000 workers to 14.4 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. More than half the loss, about 234,000, came from government workers, including teachers, firefighters and public administrators.

3 nabbed for virus
NEW YORK — A computer virus that spread to


eurozone and the United States could derail momentum.

The report Wednesday, an update of the fund's World Economic Outlook, largely tracked the initial estimate from October, revising global growth down slightly by one-tenth of a percentage point, to 3.5 percent. The world economy grew 3.2 percent in 2012, according to IMF estimates.

Try 'Fish McBites'
NEW YORK — McDonald's used the Dollar Menu to help lift its profit in the latest quarter. Now the world's biggest hamburger chain is turning to a pipeline of new menu items to boost slumping sales, starting with “Fish McBites.”

The Oak Brook, Ill.-based company is betting that it will be able to beat back intensifying competition and economic pressures with the lineup, which executives said includes new burgers, chicken entrees and breakfast offerings that are performinganother battery mishap that led to the emergency landing of a 787 in Japan, LaHood and Huerta ordered United, the lone U.S. carrier with 787s, to ground the planes. Authorities in Europe and elsewhere — including Chile, Poland, Ethiopia, Qatar and India — swiftly followed suit. Two Japanese airlines voluntarily grounded their planes before the FAA's order.


by Ian Pugh For Kevin James and his
co-writer, the talking cat from "Sabrina the Teenage Witch", it's not
enough that Paul Blart (James) is a fat moron prone to knocking things
over with the sheer force of his girth--he must also be completely
oblivious, fully convinced that he possesses more power and
responsibilities as a mall cop than any reasonable person would
believe. So what to do when Paul's newest trainee (Keir O'Donnell)
turns out to be a Hans Gruber wannabe who takes over the mall with his
hip young gang in a bid to clean it out? A feature-length parody of Die
Hard has
long stopped being an enticing prospect, given that Die Hard
itself has been deconstructed to death by the fact of its enormous
influence on the action genre (to the degree that the "Die Hard
inan X" template actually became the dominant model for action movies
in the 1990s), with the proverbial final nail driven in by a third
sequel, Live
Free or Die Hard, that concluded there was no point
in still pretending our everyman hero was anything but invincible. As Paul
Blart: Mall Cop sees it, the only way to endue the John
McClane archetype with any tension is to make him fat and stupid. The
first time we see Paul, he's shovelling food into his mouth, his
sweater stained with perspiration from beneath his man-boobs, shortly
before his hypoglycaemia kicks in and sidelines him from joining the
police academy. But he's got a big heart or something, and that's what
counts, right?

Wrong. In bending over backwards to
transform this schmuck into an unlikely hero--emphasis on the
"unlikely"--Paul Blart: Mall Cop mistakes pity for
empathy.


opportunity to complain about his life as a
hotel handyman in the form of thinly-veiled fairytales. When the kids
add happy endings that come true, "Word Processor of the Gods"-like, he
attempts to steer the magic in his favour by crafting tales that see
him conquering his professional rival (Guy Pearce) and the boss's daughter (Teresa Palmer). Whether it's right for Skeeter to treat his
sister's children as golden geese, promising money and sex at his
demand, is never addressed--indeed, the only thing for which he's
actively indicted is preaching to the young'ns that happy endings
aren't possible whenever things aren't going his way.

Naturally, from the very first frame
Skeeter's ultimate happy ending is never in doubt--but unlike Paul
Blart: Mall Cop, you're supposed to feel perfectly
comfortable handing him the keys to the kingdom and letting the restthe film
together; "Action Sports Junkies" (6 mins., HD) profiles the
action-sports aficionados who comprise the film's sinister gang;
"Stunts" (10 mins., HD) delves into the specifics of the slapstick
action with comments from stunt coordinator Chris O'Hara (good to know
that James did so many of his own stunts); and "The Mall" (5 mins., HD)
discusses the thrills and difficulties of shooting in a working
shopping centre.

From there, the bonus material simply gives
up any pretense of interest/usefulness. Shot and scored like a
skateboarding video, "On Set with Mike 'Rooftop' Escamilla" (6 mins.,
HD) showcases candid stunt footage and "Fun on Set" (6 mins., HD) is
best described as a behind-the-scenes blooper reel. "Mike V. vs. Mall
Cop" (3 mins., HD) stages a confrontation between James (playing
Blart--or, at least, a mall cop) and extreme
skater/cinematic thug Mike Vallely, and "Mall


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As a young girl in Peru, Adela painted nails for fun and Adela dreamed of opening her own nail and hair salon. After receiving technical assistance from LEDC, Adela applied for LEDC financing in 2015. With the funds and coaching she received she opened the Fresh Hair Salon on Main Street in Reisterstown, MD. “What has made me the happiest of all this is that I have been able to achieve my goals. ItDespite an officially-announced departure date in August, ousted University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan has already been stripped of her authority, but one of her two top deputies revealed Sunday that he may not stand for further indignities.

Dressed in running shoes, and a not-quite-matching tan golf shirt and shorts, Vice-President and Provost John D. Simon, who earlier in the week had put his name on what was seen as a shut-up-and-get-back to work letter, took a break from weekend recreation to electrify a capacity crowd of outraged faculty Sunday evening, as the fallout from the presidential ouster continues.

New revelations about the way Sullivan was booted– just two years into a planned five-year term– include allegations that the Rector of the Board of Visitors intentionally tried to circumvent open-meeting


rules and that big donors played a role in the dismissal.

"I am now wondering whether my own beliefs about the values of higher education are consistent with our Board," Simon said at the June 17 meeting of the Faculty Senate. "The Board actions over the next few days will inform me as to whether the University of Virginia remains the type of institution I am willing to dedicate my efforts to help lead."

Simon's tousle-haired Father's Day appearance on the grounds of the Darden School seemed to leave little question in the minds of the capacity crowd that filled the 472-seat Abbott Hall Auditorium. They twice gave him a standing ovation.

"He's putting them on notice," economics professor Leora Friedberg said afterwards. "He was saying he's gonna resign if theydon't act within the principles of the University."

Speaking of principles, the meeting came less than an hour after the UVA Honor Committee released a statement that, while respectful of the Board, assailed the group for a "troubling" lack of candor and declared that the University cannot "fully move forward until the foundation of trust that sustains our community is renewed."

Simon, who took no questions and departed after his remarks, told the crowd that he felt inspired by an email he received earlier in the day from Jason Ally. No stranger to attack, Ally is the former student-editor of the Cavalier Daily who recently endured judiciary charges for publishing an editorial revealing that the student newspaper discovered that it had a plagiarist on its staff.

"Don't hesitate to do what


you think is right," Ally urged Simon. "And don't hesitate to be a leader, especially now when there's quite a leadership vacuum at the University."

Leadership vacuum indeed. University spokesperson Carol Wood confirmed after the meeting, in response to a reporter's questions, that the president has already been relieved of all organizational authority.

"There is nobody reporting to the president right now," Wood said. "Right now, we're in a transition period."

Even though UVA has indicated that President Sullivan would remain in office until August 15, a transition memo that Wood shared indicates that Wood herself no longer reports to the president– but instead to the Rector and Vice-Rector, Helen Dragas and Mark Kington. They're two of the three people who axed the president in an emergency Board of Visitors ExecutiveCommittee meeting held on the afternoon of Sunday, June 10.

Wood says Sullivan's two top deputies, Provost Simon and Chief Operating Officer Michael Strine, the latter who was conspicuously absent from the open event, also now report to Dragas and Kington. Even the president's chief of staff, Nancy Rivers, no longer reports to Sullivan but directly to the Rector and Vice-Rector.

"It's clear to me that the Rector has assumed complete control of the University administration without consideration for process, for propriety," says UVA Media Studies Department Chair Siva Vaidhyanathan. "Assuming complete control of the administration is completely consistent with her personality and the temperament she has demonstrated over the past two weeks."

"She's still the president," says Wood of Sullivan and stressing that the Rector's control will end as soon


comes in now will be more of a joke than a leader you have ruined the Thomas Jefferson dream and because of filthy lying greedy men and woman you are charlotrtesville will have to bare the pain as well congrats on ruing the school and loosing the faith of locals what a bunch of looser's you are ,hope you choke on all the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

A Hoo June 17th, 2012 | 9:04pm

Leadership vacuum indeed...all the way to Richmond. And it looks like Strine has shown where his allegiance rests. Please toss him out with the rest of the trash that has so sullied the University. Thank you, Provost Simon, for stepping up and setting a positive example.

Ice pick June 17th, 2012 | 9:05pm

This is an outrageous situation that the Universityof Virginia can be abducted by 3 people. When these governing laws were established no one could forsee this corporatized political climate taking over an institution of higher learning. The governing laws and the appointment of the board of visitors is what needs dynamic change.

Bill O June 17th, 2012 | 9:12pm

Hawes, this is where a small, scrappy paper like The Hook can really shine. Get in there and throw some elbows and find out WTF is really going on. Thanks! (we'll bring coffee too)

Alice June 17th, 2012 | 9:14pm

Well said, A Hoo!

Susan June 17th, 2012 | 9:19pm

Thanks to The Hook for the only candid local reporting on this.

Observer June 17th, 2012 | 9:24pm

Simon is no man. Do your job until you quit. Don't threaten, hollow threats to resign.


simply underscore the doubt he expressed vis-a-vis his statement.

James Harrigan June 17th, 2012 | 9:43pm

I'm a UVa professor, and I was at the meeting today. The Hook's account is basically accurate, but to me the most important thing was the extraordinary atmosphere of calm and unified purpose. Simply put, the faculty are not going to stand for this putsch by Helen Dragas and her cabal. If Dragas thinks that we are working for her now, she is as deluded as she is arrogant. John Simon has taken a few days to get his footing in this crisis, but he rose to the occasion today which is why we gave him such strong support. Strine is another matter - he should have been there today in solidarity with thefaculty, students, alumni, and Provost.

Snarf June 17th, 2012 | 9:46pm

Published online 8:00pm Wednesday Dec 31st, 1969?

concerned citizen June 17th, 2012 | 9:58pm

Thank you, John Simon, for your consummate integrity and strength.

You, sir, are a man of honor.

Citizen Party June 17th, 2012 | 10:10pm

James what is the plan if the BOV merely ignores calls to reinstate Sullivan tomorrow? what will the faculty do then?
What should we do then?

Uva alum June 17th, 2012 | 10:17pm

Sullivan has said nothing since the announcement and for her silence should be held partially responsible for the scandal that has emerged. She is still the university president. The bov made a decision and it was theirs to make. We should wait for more information to come forthbefore rushing to judgement and have more confidence in


Dragas authority to take total control of the University? Sullivan serving out her presidency with dignity would have done far less damage to the University.

Let's all hope the 13 silent members of the BOV show up tomorrow with their voices, do their job, and limit the damage the Rector is doing.

James Harrigan June 17th, 2012 | 10:20pm

@Citizen Party, we'll see. I have really been heartened by the way our faculty leadership (chairs, faculty senate, etc) has stepped up, and my inclination is to follow their lead. I think in the end this fiasco may end up strengthening the university.

Denny King June 17th, 2012 | 10:28pm

Once again I salute the HOOK for their excellent reporting of this tragic and disappointing action.
The decision made by what appears to be asomething like "EVEN Provost Simon, who was so critical of us on Sunday, thinks we're righting the ship now!"

Gasbag Self Ordained Expert June 17th, 2012 | 10:31pm

David Toscano, thank you!

John Simon, thank you!

Dragass needs to be run out of town!

Cares June 17th, 2012 | 10:33pm

... and still no ultrasound from the Honorable Governor, just get the procedure over quickly.

Observer June 17th, 2012 | 10:37pm

Don't make idle threats about walking out. If you say it you must do it.

Cares June 17th, 2012 | 10:53pm

It has been a long time since Alexander Haig said, "I am in charge here." At least he had some credentials.

Will B. Goode June 17th, 2012 | 11:06pm

how brave mr. harrigan and mr. simon are.

if mr. harrigan and mr. simon are so injured;
please stop the talk;


Bring umbrellas to the Lawn, together with your pitchforks and flaming torches.

Rick June 18th, 2012 | 5:40am

"So what if one donor withholds millions to influence UVa? If thousands of loyal 'Hoos do likewise to advance their desires in an organized fashion, this ludicrous abuse of power will come to a swift end."

and the WaPo reports on the 'other' side of large donors. Hunter Smith (of Carl Smith Center) and Jane Batten (Batten School) promise no more donations from their families unless Dragas is removed.

Remove Dragas Now June 18th, 2012 | 5:51am

Jane Batten and her family are a class act. However, the institute that bears their name and is installed at the Darden School is a joke.

The Batten Institute -- ostensibly a think tank for developing best practices --Beneficiaries of her family’s donations include Scott Stadium, the Cavalier Marching Band and the schools of architecture, law, medicine and business."

It appears the Helen Dragas and Mark Kington and the other nimrods on the UVa Board of Visitors are getting to hoisted on their own petard.

Double Hoo June 18th, 2012 | 7:36am

David Toscano for Governor! Go David!

kim June 18th, 2012 | 7:40am

"President Dragas, Egypt calling."

Observer June 18th, 2012 | 7:46am

@Will June 17th, 2012 | 10:31pm

Not quite Will. Business (for profit and not for profit) depends on ethics. UVA has all sorts of in house professors. Ask them about this matter. IMHO only an absolute NIMROD would resort to hollow threats especially concerning such an important issue. He has set himself and the entire Faculty Senate up to be


great replacement since he has big ideas.

JR June 18th, 2012 | 10:05am

@NancyDrew Ha, no surprise that Dragas turned to Hill+Knowlton for her PR needs:

"Four years ago, when Dilenschneider took over at Hill & Knowlton, he had one goal: to make the company the largest and best public relations firm in the world. Not that he had to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Hill & Knowlton was known affectionately in the industry as ''the gray lady of P.R.,'' a quiet, highly professional company whose client list was limited to the cream of corporate America: Kellogg's, Procter & Gamble, Du Pont. Then Dilenschneider moved in.

Quiet competence was replaced with brash aggressiveness, and today, after gobbling up several competitors, Hill & Knowlton is one of the twoThe idea was to create an open slot quickly at the UVa Prersident's office. But why? Getting Romney elected to the the White House is the number one task of the hedge fund crowd. Who is the one person when paired with Obama as VP candidate could easily result in him being reelected? That is why it is necessary to give him/her a slot for a few years as a bribe for not running with Obama in the November elections. The sooner he/she is at UVa the sooner he/she is out of the VP sweepstakes. The governor is up to his eyeballs in this.

Email Sullivan. Beg her to stay on. We need a leader who can stand up to these oligarchs.

Vagrad June 18th, 2012 | 11:03am

Dissapointing that the


the negative publcity and feeding the perception of a scandal. Acting childish under the guise of being honorable. Wheres the honor in that?

Bill s. June 18th, 2012 | 11:49am

I am wondering why she submitted her resignation in the first place.

JR June 18th, 2012 | 11:59am

Wow definitely feels like the PR folks are out in force. "Bill s.," "Interested party," and maybe "Vagrad" too--you guys happen to work for Hill+Knowlton?

Drake June 18th, 2012 | 12:00pm

Looking on the bright side, maybe this is the beginning of a discourse on how we can make the university better.

emmajane June 18th, 2012 | 12:06pm

BOV= Board of Visigoths, plundering the Classics department, et al. But one thought--when was the last time there was this much interdisciplinary accord? As wrenching and wrong as this messSUBJECTIVITY AND THE ENCOUNTER WITH BEING Jason M. Costanzo Forthcoming in the Review of Metaphysics I In the 17th century, René Descartes revolutionized metaphysics with six short meditations on the nature of subjectivity, reality and God. Certainly the groundwork for the insights contained within this work must have been implicitly laid down much earlier within ancient and medieval thought. Nonetheless, the meditations are understood as a metaphysical endeavor in "first philosophy", and the particular manner in which Descartes achieved this end served as the precise point of differentiation between the account of being there given and the history of metaphysical thought that preceded it. Within this work, subjectivity and consciousness are for the first time established as a primary concern for metaphysics. This arose on the basis of


the Cartesian discovery of the ego, the I think at bottom to the encounter with being, which is further interpreted from the perspective of a phenomenal world that has been cast into doubt in regards to its being. Although the primary aim of these meditations was to provide a more firm foundation for metaphysics, history tells us another story. So Kant would later question the possibilities of metaphysics on the basis of what was, in principle, a Cartesian foundation. Kant likewise concluded that subjectivity, rather than serving as the door into being, instead serves as an impenetrable obstacle to knowledge of things themselves. Far from obtaining a more firm foundation, metaphysics was instead deemed impossible. To this day, we still philosophize beneath the great shadow of Kant's judgment.metaphysical ground of such objects. Suddenly there is an awakening, which is to say, the awakening into reflection. A prisoner is forced to stand up, to turn around (as a doubling back) and to gaze upon the light of the fire. Even as the eyes of the prisoner are pained by that light, he is nonetheless forced (for after all, the allegory is about the nature of education) to make the ascent to the surface and into knowledge, where, following an arduous process of acclimation to the brilliance of the light of the sun, there is finally a vision of the sun itself. Far from a static possession of facts, the vision of the sun, here a symbol for the Good, is interpreted once again as a complete


toward the Good as the aim and end of all human desire and action. Metaphysics is also called wisdom (sophia) and through contemplation (theoria), wisdom is reckoned within the Nichomachean Ethics as the supreme source of human well-being.5 Although Aristotle considers the heights of wisdom in many ways unattainable, as the sole possession of the gods, he nonetheless urges on pursuit of this science. Finally, contemplation entails reflection, and in Aristotle's characterization of the prime mover within the twelfth book of the Metaphysics according to the notion of thought thinking itself (noesis noeseos), we discover reflection expressed in its highest and most complete form.6 That Aristotle should later characterize metaphysics as the science of being as being follows almost naturally from the very aims of wisdom. For howelse are we to attain to the universal and objective perspective with respect to the truth of being if there is not a like subjective context according to which such a perspective is expressed? Reflection and the desire to know emerge as the foundation of metaphysical inquiry. On the other hand, from the perspective of the immersion of consciousness within the life of the body, the higher metaphysical and quite transcendent standpoint could never be achieved. What is in consequence required is a retrieval of the classical Aristotelian conception of metaphysics. First and foremost such retrieval involves reaffirmation of the possibilities of metaphysics as a science in the broader sense of an objective and systematic body of knowledge about being. Since Descartes, the history of thinking about being,


of being takes on an entirely new status. So the term "transcendence" finds its origin in the Latin transcendentalis, related to transcendens, the latter formed from the combination of trans- "across" and -scandere "to climb". Transcendence involves an ascent that crosses over into something other in the sense of reaching past, surpassing and surmounting. Although the philosophical usage of this term finds its origin among the scholastics, the actual expression seems to have been popularized by Kant.7 Prior to Kant, the Latin transcendens was used in reference to and as a characterization for being (ens), insofar as being was thought to soar above all differences. A similar view was early on expressed by Aristotle within the Metaphysics in recognition of the fact that any and every difference addedto being must itself be some thing, for which reason he concluded that being cannot be a genus.8 He further noted that being (to on) and the one (to hen) are coextensive, inasmuch as the subject remains undifferentiated in the transition from x is to x is one.9 The scholastics later added to this the doctrine of transcendentals, viz., that not only are being and 7 See Jan Aertsen, Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental thought: From Philip the Chancellor (CA. 1225) To Francisco Suárez (Leiden: Brill 2012), 13-15. Apparently John Duns Scotus was the first to speak of metaphysics as "transcendental science", e.g., see Simo Knuuttila, "The Metaphysics of the Categories in John Duns Scotus," in Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic, ed. Leila Haaparanta & Heikki


J. Koskinen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 62-77. 8 Aristotle, Metaphysics, 998b23, 1059b33. 4 one convertible (ens et unum convertuntur) but also truth (verum), goodness (bonum), and something (aliquid).10 These were likewise all referred to beneath the general heading "transcendentalis". Later on, through the influence of Kant, the term "transcendental" assumed an entirely different meaning. So in the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant rejected these scholastic doctrines and further reduced the Aristotelian categories to a priori concepts of pure understanding which he characterized as the: "logical requirements and criteria of all knowledge of things in general".11 Even as Kant rejected these scholastic notions, he nonetheless retained the term "transcendental" on account of the recognizable affinity between the old usage of this term and his own application on theOn other accounts, beauty is likewise included as a transcendental. See, e.g., Jacques Maritain, Art and Scholasticism (Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1974) and more recently Alice Ramos, Dynamic Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness and Beauty from a Thomistic Perspective (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012). 11 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Norman Kemp Smith (Boston/New York: Macmillan & Co., 1965), B114. 12 Ibid. B316. 13 Ibid. B317. 5 that here emerges is determined to be a fundamental offspring of the act of reflection. Kant further proceeds to distinguish logical reflection, at bottom comparative in nature, from transcendental reflection, said to involve consideration of "the objects themselves" which further, "contains the ground of possibility of the objective comparison of representations with each other".14 As such,


valued, but instead the life of the ego in the body. So we tend to the health of the body for the sake of the ego that lives through the body. Still more, far from being just the body, within great illness, disease or bodily misfortune, the ego learns to despise the body. Suddenly the body becomes a weight that mercilessly suffocates the ego. We in turn recognize that we are bound to our body and through our body compelled to attend to the life of the body, regardless of will or desire. As such, the health, sustenance and continuance of the life of the body is held as something altogether precious insofar as another life, both tied to while yet 8 entirely its own, thrives within anddeath of the body coupled with the continued life of my ego, but never the death of the ego coupled with the continued life of the body. From this we might conclude that although the body is first on the order of experience, the ego is first on the order of consciousness. Recognition of the separate life of the ego implies an act on an entirely different order. Such recognition implies not only awareness of self in the sense of self-awareness, but recognition of the whole order of the self. The ego must, in a way, extricate itself from the life of the body in such a way that, even as it is tied to the body, it views the body and embodied experience as if from above.


the god of wealth is there represented as blinded by Zeus so that he will abstain from awarding riches only to the just and those deserving but instead, indiscriminately, as fortune would have it. When Plutus is later given sight and the once impoverished but now rich Athenians rejoice in their wealth, Penia, the goddess of want and poverty, enters upon the scene to scold them and to re-mind them of their true place in existence. She censures them in attempting to drive her out and asserts that their well-being in fact depends upon her, further 22 See the first part of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (New York: Harper & Row, 1962). 23 Plato, Symposium, 204d-209e. 14 asserting that she is the sole cause of all theirof the meaning of want. Poverty inflicts suffering upon the individual and the need for that which is, exerted through poverty, in turn determines that the being of my encounter is a fundamental reality. There is an encounter with hunger, exposure to the cold of winter, famine, the demolition of hopes, the injustice of an early death. In poverty, I encounter being as a whole through the privation and the need to possess being. Being in turn stands forth as that which is, in relation to me, according to the perspective of being-mine, which is to say, in the potency for appropriation and possession. Two further points follow from this. In the first place, the mode of being-mine is expressed through the mode of being-given even as the


at least two terms where the terms themselves must be differentiable, dependent and non-reducible. So in the relation of Motherhood, the term "mother" is clearly differentiable from "daughter" (or "son") and the two terms are likewise dependent in the sense that neither has independent meaning or sense apart from the other. So too, neither term is reducible to the other, i.e., being a mother cannot be reduced to being a daughter and vice-versa. On the other hand, if the body is the principle of ownership, then such relational structures inevitably fall apart. So ownership is itself a relation between an "owner" and the "owned". As the principle of ownership, the body becomes the owner. But the body is likewise an object owned, viz., "My body is my own".Irreverent?

Obscene?

Glorious?

While some parts of the world are instituting bikini bans and campaigning for travelers to cover up , elsewhere, travelers are encouraging others to take it off on social media for everyone to see.

What began as a spontaneous idea and Instagram post has sparked a stream of travelers to send in fun, topless photos -- taken from the back -- to be featured on the social media channels of the Topless Tour, which began as an Instagram project.

Judging from the enthusiastic response and growing number of participants, there's something about posing topless that heightens the feeling of liberation and adventure while traveling.

How it started

The Topless Tour was started two years ago by friends Olivia Edginton, 20, Lydia Buckler, 21, and Ingvild Marstein Olsen, 20, students at Trinity Laban


Conservatoire of Music & Dance in London.

After taking an impromptu topless dip in a cold lake in Olsen's hometown in Norway, the three friends wanted to capture the moment of freedom.

"It simply just happened, no planning involved," Edginton wrote in an e-mail.

They continued to travel and post similar photos throughout Europe and New York, all featuring themselves in topless poses against dramatic backgrounds.

Then they called for others to send in their topless photos from around the world.

From Idaho to Cape Town to Thailand, the mildly salacious images poured in.

More to come

The Topless Tour currently has nearly 20,000 followers on Instagram.

That number is increasing quickly as the trio and a growing community continue to document their travels with bare backs.

Although the topless photos come predominantly from women, many menor vandals stripped the monument of religious texts and a plaque commemorating the meeting.
The Monument still exists but condition of the structure is not good , people reside nearby call this Baba Nanak Shrine , it is close to Al Muthunna near to Baghdad.

World Wars

During both world wars Sikh soldiers in the British Army were posted in Iraq. During World War I the shrine to Guru Nanak  was rediscovered by a Sikh captain, Dr Kirpal Singh, after being forgotten for centuries. In the early 1930s Sikh soldiers repaired the shrine and during World War II continued its upkeep.

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In the average movie theater, two types of "surround" systems are used-the 70 mm 6-track magnetic system, and the more common 35 mm optical arrangement. The former uses a magnetic strip attached to the film to supply six discrete channels, and the latter uses two optical audio tracks. This two-channel system is the basis for home surround sound decoders.
Every stereo videodisc, tape and MTS broadcast that was surround encoded still contains the same rear channel information as the two-channel magnetic master from which the theatrical 35 mm optical soundtrack was produced. In other words, your stereo videotape or disc of Star Trek I, II, II, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman and Star Wars can be decoded to produce surround sound at home. In addition, LPs, CDs andThe cast and crew of upcoming drama “Rich Man, Poor Woman” recently held a ceremony to wish for good luck.

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The cast and crew prayed for the drama to do well, and each person showed their affection for their upcoming project. Suho participated in the ceremony as the representative of the cast, and all of the actors stood together as they prayed for everyone to say safe while filming the drama. Min


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which I was able to build many successful businesses. I never forgot that terrible experience and can still feel that painful gnawing in my gut. Over the years, I have applied the principles above to every business in which I was ever involved. I never again started a business that didn't work.

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Chapter Three

Valuable Advice from Stupid People

One thing that I was fortunate to learn when I was very young was to be careful from whom I take advice. God blessed me by teaching me early in life that there were actually very few people from whom I should take advice. You should never, ever, ever take advice from stupid or inexperienced people. In fact, be very careful to even take advice from smart and experienced people.we would be regulated by the Department of Insurance. The Department of Insurance had a statute on the books that stated that all insurance companies within the state of Alabama must post one million dollars in cash to be held in escrow by the Department. After learning this, Sharon and I thought that we were doomed. Needless to say, we didn't have a million dollars. All we had was an idea and a lot of energy. We were stopped dead in our tracks!

Sometimes a person is better off not knowing what lies ahead. If we had known what we were up against, we probably would have given up. Everyone was telling us that there was no way that we, a couple of naive laymen, could start a real


shoes. From the beginning, I felt a little intimidated. Like the others, I got my contestant number pinned it to my shirt and headed for the starting line. There were a couple of hundred runners squeezing together and waiting for the race to begin. I lined up near the back of the group.

From the starting gun, I began to measure myself against the competition. I really did not know how fast that I should run, but it seemed to me that the others were really starting out too slowly. I picked up the pace and, after the first mile, I was running pretty close to the front of the pack. I continued to run faster and faster until I noticed that there were only five runners in frontany time for any reason. We had a motto that we often joked about. It was simply: ..

"If it costs money, then we don't do it!"...

You can't grow a business like that! Sure you can. OccuDent made money from the day that it was started and grew to be the largest dental benefit provider in Alabama -- with no debt. You have to have a fancy office if you have a company that requires visibility. False, again! Our insurance agency, OccuDent Dental Plans, and Bama Jammer Promotions were all three run (for a total of sixteen years) out of the basement of our home. It was much more practical to do this with small children and, better yet, there was no expensive rent payment each month. Why, everyone


knows that you have to have an impressive office to prove to your customers that you are successful. Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! For many years, we ran our administrative office out of our home and our sales office out of the trunk of our car. We went to our customers. Almost no one ever came to our home, but when they did, most were envious that we could attain the level of success that we had reached with no overhead. Here is a key point to remember:

The thing that should be the most important to business owners is not the amount of money that you make, but rather, the amount of money that you keep.

You don't get to keep a lot of money if you are spending it allof bankruptcy call that show every day. They hate their job and the people with whom they work. Their finances are in a mess. They have great potential and marketable skills but just cannot get themselves out of the rut in which they find themselves. Occasionally, someone who has no debt and great credit will call the show. They would like to start their own business but have no capital. They are seeking the advice of this financial guru. His advice without exception is to first and foremost. .. "Cut up those credit cards!" That is great advice for fools and mental midgets, but for everyone else, this borders on radio malpractice! There is no question that credit cards have gotten many people into serious trouble. There are


mail. On some days I get four or five offers. .. Low interest, no interest, high limits, just take our card and use it.... And, guess what? There is no interest for thirty days if you pay your bill in full. What? That is free money!

Here is a story for that radio talk show host telling those desperate people to cut up those cards. When we first started Bama Jammer Promotions we struggled for a year trying to get our first federal government contract. Finally, there it was! We had in our hands a couple of contracts for over a million dollars. This was too good to be true! Our hard work had finally paid off! These were contracts with the federal government to provide screen printed t-shirtsschool board loved him; the Booster Club loved him; and his players loved him. He was always in demand as a public speaker at civic clubs and coaching clinics. Guess what? He also always produced the best teams, winning seasons, and led the conference in athletic scholarships for his players.

What was the difference in these two coaches? Coach number two had learned the secret of success. Contrary to Ben Franklin or whoever gets credit for the old saying... practice does not make perfect. Only "good" practice makes perfect! If a person does the same thing over and ever and over, but does it the wrong way, it is still wrong. That person is wasting his time, spinning his wheels and reinforcing the negative. A person has to determine


entrepreneur. Here are the lyrics.

Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out

Once I lived the life of a millionaire

Spending my money, I didn't care.

I carried my friends out for a mighty good time,

Buying bootleg whiskey, champagne and wine.

Then I began to fall so low.

I didn't have a friend, and had no place to go.

So, if I ever get my hand on a dollar again

I'm gonna hold on to it till the eagle grins. 'Cause,

Nobody knows you when you down and out.

When, in my pocket not even one penny.

As far as my friends I don't have any.

When I get back up on my feet again, Then

Everybody will want to be my long lost friend.

It's mighty strange, without a doubt, That,

Nobody knows you when you down and out.

I mean whenisolated you will have to be. Just like the cave man, the parasites will find you.

Let us go back and look at Webster's definition of a parasite. A parasite is defined as something "that derives sustenance from another." In the business world, these can be anything from professional advisors and bankers to your old algebra teacher. There are those who look for successful people and will latch on tighter than Dick's hatband. The only way that these people can survive is to ride the coat tails of the successful. Your brother-in-law will want to go to work for you. Your old high school sweetheart's husband will assure you that he can make your company's bottom line skyrocket. Then there is your old high school basketball coach who just


agree with his views pertaining to tithing, he certainly had a point.

Are some taxes necessary? Sure they are. Are they necessary at the levels outlined in this chapter? Should they be used to seize money from some citizens and give it to others? I don't think so! Here is what the Libertarian Party Says:

How do we avoid high taxation rates? Americans already obtain a host of services from private providers. There is every reason to think that other services, from postal delivery to education to road building and maintenance, could be provided more efficiently and at lower cost by the private sector.

We should support all moves to reduce and repeal taxes because taxes are obtained immorally, by force. The income tax is particularly evil, since it penalizes productivitycontrolled by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals who are of good character and citizens of the United States

3.Must demonstrate potential for success

2. Hubzone Certification – A business that is located in a historically underutilized business zone (as designated by the federal government) receives preferences on government contracts. These preferences are allowed through the Hubzone Empowerment Contracting Program.

3. Small Disadvantaged Business – A business that is certified by the SBA as a Small Disadvantaged Business receives (1) price evaluation adjustments (10% advantages on bids) and (2) evaluation factors on competitively negotiated acquisitions.

4. Female-owned – Businesses that are more than 51% owned by one or more women receive preference on many government and private sector contracts. The certifying agencies are:

• US Small Business Administration

• Women's Business Enterprise


but, suddenly, the market had changed. The demand was for a different kind of artist and a different kind of music. It demanded a different kind of songwriter. The customer, which drove the market, had changed. The delivery system was different. Songs had to be marketable through videos, television and by visual means. Live performances were now real productions, not just some cowboy with a guitar, boots and a four piece band. The public wanted more. Frequently I have thought about that conversation and about Max. I certainly hope that he learned to adapt.

A few years ago, one of the oldest businessmen in our hometown visited our office. The conversation eventually got around to our financial accounting procedures. We were explaining our accounting software when we were abruptlyhis popularity into business magazines and other publications. That story in itself illustrates the true spirit of the entrepreneur.

In the story above, the bottom line is this: Our ingenuity made Bama Jammer well- known throughout four states and, other than losing a little sleep, it did not cost us a dime! Suddenly, customers started coming to us. Suddenly, people wanted to do business with us instead of our competitors. Why? Because they felt that they knew us. They were comfortable with us. Suddenly, everyone knew what we did, where we were located, what we sold and who we were. We had created name recognition and separated ourselves from others who had the same products, at the same prices and did exactly what we did!

One of the next moves


yet, he accomplished the most.

All of the above stories are true. Of those mentioned, only Mike McDonald had a college education. What did all the people in the stories above have in common? They all had determination, an overwhelming desire to achieve and great work ethic. They each overcame the odds to attain the things that each accomplished. As stated earlier in this book, work ethic is more important than a stack of college degrees. In the stories above, each learned to carry a big stick, to fill their quiver, and they each had a passion for what they did.

Here is a short story about determination:

A young guard was placed on guard duty for the first time. He was instructed that no vehicle was allowed to enter thedesire, belief, or choice). (Synonym: Thrifty)

Resource: Frugal For Life (NCN Top 20 Blog!)

Here is the definition for Cheap:

One who likes to save money; Cheap is one of the most "difficult" terms to define. Does it mean the same thing as "frugal?" Or, does it mean "stingy" (one who hates to or refuses to spend money, even for friends and family). If you call someone cheap, are you paying them a compliment or putting them down? Synonym: Tightwad

One of my high school buddies retired at a very early age after spending his working years in New York City in the grocery business. He owned several grocery supermarkets in the city and made it his life's work to study and to completely understand the retail grocery markets. For years, he


is always much easier to slow a person down than to try to build a fire under him. Many people fail to realize that education does not end when you have a "sheep skin" in your hand instead it is an ongoing process which a person never really quite attains. The object of an education is to prepare a person mentally to understand that he has to educate himself throughout his life. Things change. Educational requirements change as technology changes, the marketplace changes, products evolve, and manufacturing techniques improve. The workplace is constantly in a turmoil of new laws, new taxes and new mandates. All these changes require on-going education, training and new skill levels. Looking back on my own life, I have had to completely retrain myselfbest education money can buy won't necessarily include a class on initiative. So, dear graduates, hone this skill, because you will be competing against people whose formal education can't match yours -- but their go-getter attitude will propel them to the top.

As my friend, the late Jim Rohn said: "A Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune."

One of the best compliments I can give when writing a reference letter is that the person takes initiative. Translation: the willingness to at least try, to take a risk, to give it their absolute best shot. When I recommend someone in those terms, a light goes on for the prospective employer.

Initiative is not a promise of perfect results. Sometimes it results in failure. Sometimes, a


the richest men in Hawaii. One died leaving tens of millions of dollars to his family, charities and his church. The other left bills to be paid."

This is a great book and I strongly suggest it to anyone who would like to be an entrepreneur. Guess which dad was the poor dad? It was the highly educated dad. He put so much emphasis on being educated that he missed out completely on the finer details of life. The dad with the eighth grade education was self taught, disciplined, hard working and street smart....Oh! One other thing, the dad with the eighth grade education became a multi-millionaire.

"Education comes from within. It is a man's own doing, or rather it happens to him ---sometimes because of the teaching that heside. We should be careful to be sure that those in positions of public trust can truly be trusted by the public!

The North American Free Trade Agreement was a piece of legislation that cost so many American jobs that it should have been called "The Job Termination Act of 1993." There were thousands of private American businesses that closed within months of the passing of NAFDA. If you are not familiar with NAFDA, here is a short history:

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), established the gradual removal of tariffs and other trade barriers on most goods produced and sold in North America. NAFTA became effective in Canada, Mexico, and the United States on January 1, 1994. NAFTA formed the world's second largest free-trade zone, bringing together 365


any person in the history of the State! They should have been "tar and feathering" the rascal. The sad thing about it was that most of his constituents did not even know how he voted or the impact of the legislation!

As a businessperson and entrepreneur, you must be conscious of the things that are going on around you. You must have eyes in the back of your head. You must have an ear to the ground like the cave man listening for rumblings and foot steps coming in your direction. You must know when to stand your ground and fight and when to run. Many times, by the time that you see the culprit it is often too late.

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Chapter 24

The American Dream is Sometimes a Nightmare

T.was the epitome of the word "amazing" because everyone who ever came in contact with him was his friend for life. He never met a stranger and could discuss anything with anyone, and, in most cases, led the conversation because he knew more on the subject than the person who brought it up. He was an amazing husband. He was a wonderful father. He was the grandfather everyone wanted to be like and wished theirs were like. He was the best kind of brother, uncle, cousin, anyone could want in their life. But most of all, he was an amazing friend to anyone who was lucky enough to hang out with him for 5 minutes or fifty years, and we say lucky because we were all truly lucky


over.

-God

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Chapter 28

More Bad Advice from an Expert

Hi! ... My name is Ray Steelman and I am a talk radio-holic! I guess that it is time for me to admit the fact that I am addicted to talk radio. I have tried to avoid it.... I have tried not to turn my radio to those talk stations.... I have tried to listen to those rock and rap stations. I even considered dying my hair orange and getting a tongue ring and tattoo, but, in spite of my best efforts, I can not do it! I find myself back sliding and sneaking a listen to see who is complaining about what and which politician has put his foot in his mouth this time.

I have mentioned talk radio innot be personally liable for any mistakes or wrongdoings on the part of the previous owners. If someone buys a sole proprietorship, the new owner can be held personally liable for any mistakes or illegalities on the part of the prior owner. This is true even if the new owner had nothing to do with the situation! Generally, this is not the case with a corporation. Not only that, but a corporation, being a separate and distinct entity, is typically viewed as being a much more business-like structure than other forms of business. This is not necessarily true, but the general public normally sees it that way.

Easier Transfer of Ownership – Ownership of a corporation is easily transferred, without much disruption of operations or the need for complex


exactly that. Before the game ever started, I knew if I would start the game by pressing. I knew the type of press that I would use. I knew the type of offense and defense that I would run. I knew what to do if we were behind by two points in the fourth quarter and we had ten seconds to go in the game. I did not have to quickly devise a plan under that kind of pressure. I already had a plan, all of my players knew the plan and had practiced it many, many times. We simply called a time out, caught our breath, calmed down and communicated the play that we would run. We called one of the plays "Desperation." All that I hadthe Army. He had actually quoted the table cloths to the Army at a price that was below his (and our) cost. I quizzed him about that small matter and he responded that he was a very patriotic person, loved his country and wanted to give the Army a good deal. I thought for a moment and responded that we were not that patriotic and wished him a lot of luck with the contract. Under his agreement, he was on course to lose many thousands of dollars. These type of individuals are not good business people and make it extremely hard on legitimate businesses. Unfortunately, there are many like this character out there. He had two options. He could default on the contract or lose a lot of


Do it the night before, and, as the night progresses, you will find that you will add to your list as things come to mind. Use a scratch pad and not a computer to build your list. Put the piece of paper in your pocket and carry it with you all day. You will see that you will add to the list as the day progresses. At the end of the day, review your list to be sure that you have done everything. There is some satisfaction to reviewing your day and seeing what you have accomplished.

Don't be a slob. I am sure that somewhere out there, a total slob has become a great business person and has been very successful. I, however, have never witnessed that happening.person can begin this journey in small steps and use the assets that are readily available. In fact, a small business should remain debt-free as long as possible so that the incubating business has time to sustain itself. According to Proverbs 22:7, God warns that "the rich rules over the poor and that the borrower is slave to the lender." A new business has to be very careful not to get trapped by the cycle of debt. When planning a new business, examine your assets, your debt and the amount of money that you have in reserve that can be dedicated to the new business. Always carefully plan your business finances and never intend for them to happen hap-hazardly.

So, you have tons of debt, credit card bills, a


recall when only real men could qualify as garbage men. That was not a job for the faint-hearted, lazy or those with weak stomachs. The truck had no air conditioning, radios or automation. Garbage work was hard, smelly, tough and nasty. There was no limit on the weights of the trash cans. There also was no limit on the number of cans a household could have, nor were there restrictions on what could be put inside those trash cans. In fact, a lot of times, the trash was simply placed on the side of the road and had to be picked up by hand and placed into the giant compactor at the back of the truck. Each truck had a driver and at least two individuals who rodeon the winner's doorstep and make them an instant millionaire.

Some folks seem to wait for that free ride hoping that Ed McMahan will show up on their door step and their worries will be over. "Things will work out," they think. "My ship will come in. Maybe I will win the lottery. Maybe somebody will die and leave me a big inheritance. Someday, I will be at the right place at the right time. One of Alabama's most famous natives (at least in the movies) is Forest Gump. Forest's mother always told him, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get." Since a person does not know what he is going to get when left to chance, I had rather


education, and skills you will need to achieve that goal.

• Establish your business goals. Once you've decided what business matches up best with you, then you can begin developing a business plan to reach your goals. Evaluate your goals to see if they are realistic and attainable.

• If the goal above is not attainable, have a back up plan.

• Find a school, internship, or training program that best meets your goal and financial needs.

• Always be sure to check out your competition. Who are they? Where are they located? Can you compete and survive in the marketplace? Colin Powell's advice pertaining to competition is to "Get inside your competitor's decision cycle." Know what they are doing, how they are doing it and what their results are likely toIs the industry in the competitive or retentive stage?

• Is the industry likely to be adversely affected by technological changes?

• What are the industry's distribution channels?

• Who would your competitors be in the industry?

• Are there any unusual trends or growth patterns in the industry?

• Will your company be marketable within the industry when it comes time to sell?

• What are the key success factors within the industry?

Competitive Analysis

Sometimes it is difficult to take an honest look at your own creation or idea. This is your baby! I love it, so everyone else will love it. Well, that is not necessarily true. Maybe you love football and know more about it that anyone else in the world. You are convinced that you could write the best book ever


other way. This odor is reeking from the pores of their skin. Everyone knows that unless you have brought your gas mask along, you never to engage these people in a conversation. As your face turns blue from the lack of oxygen, he asks if you are feeling well. I once knew an insurance agent that ate a raw onion almost every day for lunch. After lunch, a person could not get within ten feet of him. How does a person sell insurance like that? You must use a little common sense and show courtesy to your fellow workers and customers. There are some sacrifices that a person must make if they want to be successful.

• The "Starers." - Eye contact is a great thing, and I votehappy low, lie down!

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Here is a 10 point summary of the events that led to the problems

with the 2008/ 2009 downturn.

1. 1977 - Congress created the Community Reinvestment Act that President Carter signed into law. The first step toward out housing (mortgage) problem.

2. The economic problems first emerged under the stewardship of Ronald Reagan. Reagan cut the marginal tax rate on the wealthiest of Americans nearly in half from 70% to 38%.

Result: Reagan promised that his tax cuts on the wealthy would spur a mountain of investment and rocket the economy to new levels of production (due to the "trickle down" theory) and prosperity. Instead, his "supply side economics" did the exact opposite. It produced the deepest recession since the Great


cash. If your business traditionally stocks 250 units of each of its slowest-moving products, consider cutting that number to 100 each. Monitor the results, keeping an eye out for those products that can tolerate even leaner inventories or that should be eliminated from your stock. This way if sales nosedive, less of your cash is locked into unproductive assets.

2. Taking that point further, monitor your cash flow very diligently, and forecast it

monthly to ensure that expenses and planned expenditures are in line with accounts

receivable.

Make sure your financial statements provide information that is timely, relevant and

accurate. Cash flow statements are superior in this regard to income statements and balance sheets. Be able to project where you will stand three months in advance. Negotiate with suppliers, contractors and landlords fordo the same. Frequent face-to-face meetings with your client base provides you an excellent opportunity –probably your only one -- to pacify disgruntled customers and win back lost ones.

Try to lock up long-term contracts with your most important customers at anything approaching acceptable terms. Offer prepayment incentives, for example, and discounts on long-term buys.

5. Get aggressive with collections. According to the partner of a consulting firm, "when business is good, companies tend to become lazy about collecting on receivables. This can prove dangerous in a recession." Assume that the average collection period for your industry is 45days, but your company is at 51 days. After bringing that collection period down to the industry average, keep working to get it down to 40 days. Being tough with customers may


owners. For the transition to be successful, a time comes when the older generation must find new things to do and stop hanging around like a bad habit.

At Bama Jammer we worked diligently at keeping our business debt free. By being debt free, the transition was much easier and much smoother. There was no heavy debt burden that the incoming generation had to inherit and hurdle in order to keep the business profitable. At Bama Jammer there was no debt at all. Also, there was no debt obligation debt owed to the outgoing generation in order from the newcomers to take over the business. Debt has destroyed many personal lives and it will do the same to a business. I once heard a new businessman exclaim that heIs in our book club

Typewriter / Adding Machine Child's kindergarten teacher/day care

Computer Parents of my children's friends

Air Conditioner Is a deacon in our church

Surfboard Owns a fabric or drapery business

Kitchen Appliances Local Store Managers

Riding Lawnmower Gave me a speeding / parking ticket

Luggage Does our income tax

WHO

Works with the Rescue Squad

Owns beach / Mountain cottage where we vacationed

Sells us gasoline and services our car(s)

Sold my wife her wig

Owns a nursery

Delivers parcel post packages (UPS)

Works with an exterminating / pest control company

Stores my wife's winter coat

Sells aluminum awnings

Works for travel agency

WE KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS

Nurse Dietician Bench Machinist

Golf Pro Mechanic Waitress / Waiter

Student Anesthetist Furniture Dealer

Fashion Model Surgeon Notary Public

Security Guard Librarian Farmer

Sheriff Mortician Actor / Actress

Fire Chief Missionary Land Clearer

Secretary Real Estate Agent Horse trader

Welder Railroad Ticket Agent Statistician

Crane


Ellis remained calm. The game would start late. Ample time for the acid to wear off. Then it struck him: doubleheader. The Pirates had a doubleheader. And he was pitching the first game. He had four hours to get to San Diego, warm up and pitch. If something didn't happen in the interim, Dock Philip Ellis, age 25, was about to enter a 50,000-seat stadium and throw a very small ball, very hard, for a very long time, without the benefit of being able to, you know, feel the thing.the use of child-resistant containers for kerosene use has reduced the incidence of acute childhood poisoning significantly.\[[@ref6]\]

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