yet, but Ive played against both Peja and Hedo in Europe when I was on the Lithuanian national team. I would say that Ive matched up against Hedo more, because we used to play in the Junior Nationals against Turkey."

Kings.com: Did playing in Europe for a season help you?

Darius: "It was a good experience. It was my first year as a professional, and it was very different from college. I learned how the pros work, which really will make a difference I feel."

Kings.com: Do you think you have an advantage because you are a little more mature (25) than most other rookies?

Darius: "I think Im pretty much the same as other four-year guys who came out of college, in that we have more experience as the 21-year-olds. Iowners of the Sacramento Kings and two awesome guys. They are billionaires and own just about anything you could want. Here are some things they own: hotel/casino, a beer company, a NBA team, and some other stuff. They are also trying to make a record company and they are making a reality show possibly for Showtime. They recently appeared on one of my favorite shows Jimmy Kimmle Live and it was sweet.

The Sacramento Kings trace their roots all the way back to the birth of the NBA. In 1949 the franchise was one of 17 charter members of the new league that was created by the merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League. Originally located in Rochester and known as the Royals, the


club has also been known as the Cincinnati Royals, the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, and the Kansas City Kings. The franchise moved to Sacramento in 1985.

It has been a long road for the Kings. The team won a championship in 1951, but since then the franchise has mostly known frustration. Since the 1955-56 season the club has been a sporadic visitor to the playoffs. From 1968 to 1978 the Kings made only one postseason appearance. In 1995-96, the Kings reached the playoffs after a nine-year absence.

But the franchise has had its share of bright lights, too. The club's all-time roster boasts NBA greats Jack Twyman, Oscar Robertson, Jerry Lucas, Happy Hairston, and Nate "Tiny" Archibald. And Bob Cousy, Cotton Fitzsimmons, and Bill Russell have all put in time ashead coach.

The franchise's glory years are now a distant memory. In the late 1940s and early 1950s the Rochester Royals ranked as one of the powerhouses of professional basketball. The franchise joined the National Basketball League in 1945 and promptly claimed the NBL crown. The Royals' roster included future coaching legend Red Holzman, pro quarterback Otto Graham, major league catcher Del Rice, and Chuck Connors, who would go on to greater fame as The Rifleman. The next season Rochester broke the NBL's color barrier by signing Dolly King.

Fun Facts - ARCO Arena by the Numbers

$40,000,000The cost to build ARCO Arena in 1988. The arena was built without taxpayer dollars

1,200The number of full- and part-time employees at ARCO Arena during the basketball season.

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pick overall) of the 1997 NBA Draft. Draft rights traded to the Denver Nuggets and then also traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Signed as a free agent by the Sacramento Kings on 8/1/00 where he has been a spark-plug on both ends of the court off the bench.

Doug Christie #13

Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics in the first round (17th pick overall) of the 1992 NBA Draft but never suited up for the Sonics and was traded to the L.A. Lakers on 2/22/93. After playing with the Lakers, New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors acquired in a trade by Sacramento before the 2000-01 season and has become a highly-regarded defensive guard.

Mike Bibby #10

A 6-1 point guard, Mike is the son of former NBA player and college coach Henry Bibby.Led Arizona to a national championship as a freshman and entered the draft following his sophomore year and was selected by the Vancouver Grizzlies second overall in the 1998 NBA Draft. Traded to the Sacramento Kings before the 2001-02 season, and was one of the main factors the Kings made it to the brink of the NBA Finals when it lost to the eventual champs Los Angeles Lakers in overtime of Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals. He hit big shot after big shot in that series and now considered one of the premier point guards in the league.

Keon Clark #7

Selected by the Orlando Magic in the first round (13th pick overall) of the 1998 NBA Draft, but his draft rights were traded to the Denver Nuggets


on January 21, 1999. Traded by the Nuggets to the Toronto Raptors where he made his presence felt with his lanky body and long arms to become one of the league's best shot blockers. Signed as a free agent by the Sacramento Kings before the 2002-03 season.

Vlade Divac #21

A skilled shooter, passer, rebounder and shotblocker, Vlade Divac has become one of the most versatile centers in the NBA, playing seven solid seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers before moving to Charlotte and Sacramento and continuing his fine all-around play.

Jim Jackson #22

One of the most prolific scorers and gifted all-around players to enter the league in the 1990s, Jim Jackson joined with Jason Kidd and Jamal Mashburn to form the three Js, what was to be the talented youngnucleus of the Dallas Mavericks. But by the middle of the 1996-97 season all three had been traded away, Jackson going to New Jersey. He would be traded twice more within the next year, first to Philadelphia and then on to Golden State before signing with Portland as a free agent. After one season with the Trail Blazers, he and Isaiah Rider were traded to Atlanta for Steve Smith and Ed Gray prior to the 1999-2000 season, a year in which he led the Hawks in scoring.

Hidayet "Hedo" Turkoglu #5

First Turkish-born player in NBA history . Enetred into the league as 6-8 slashing wing player but has since grown a couple of inches which will add more versatility to his game.

Scot Pollard #31

Selected by the Detroit Pistons in


the first round (19th pick overall) of the 1997 NBA Draft. Signed as a free agent by the Sacramento Kings in February of 1999 and has brought the ablitiy to bang and rebound with the best power forwards and centers off the bench for the Kings.

Gerald Wallace #3

Selected after freshman season by the Sacramento Kings in the first round (25th overall) of he 2001 NBA Draft , Wallace bings a lot of athletic and jumping ability to the Kings.

Lawrence Funderburke #51

Drafted by the Sacramento Kings in 1994 after a solid career at Ohio State, Lawrence Funderburke spent three seasons honing his skills in Europe before joining the Kings.

Damon Jones #9

Played in 67 games with the Detroit Pistons averaging 16.2 minutes per game. Averaged 5. 1ppg and 2.1 apgBefore he went and made the greatest fantasy epics of all time, Peter Jackson made his name with over-the-top gonzo fare like Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles, and Dead Alive a.k.a. Braindead. After he switched gears to the grounded psychological drama Heavenly Creatures, Hollywood began to take notice of the New Zealand filmmaker. Famed director/producer Robert Zemeckis swooped up Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh in the hopes that they would write a script for a film that would act as a spin-off to the highly successful Tales from the Crypt television show. After reading the script, Zemeckis handed off directing duties to Jackson.

That film would end up being 1996’s The Frighteners.

The story revolves around Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox in his to-date last lead on-screen performance in


Entergy To Shutter Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant

Law360, New York (August 27, 2013, 3:23 PM EDT) -- Citing high costs and low natural gas prices, Entergy Corp. said Tuesday that it would close its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in 2014, ending a long-running battle between the company and state officials and nuclear power safety groups who sought to shutter the plant.

Entergy said Vermont Yankee, the state's only nuclear plant, would likely cease power production after its current fuel cycle and be shut down in the fourth quarter of 2014. The 605-megawatt plant, which has been in operation since 1972, will remain under...at the Port of New York and delivered the cars to trunk line railroads at Belle Chasse, the Port of New Orleans. Seatrain also delivered liquid cargoes in bulk and transported commodities generally. A comparatively small part of the commodities shipped originating at Seatrain's own terminals. Most of the commodities transported were carried in railroad cars put on board the vessels by the peculiar Seatrain devices.[3]
In May 1940, Seatrain inaugurated substantially similar service between the port of New York and Texas City, Texas.
On May 28, 1941 Seatrain filed two applications with the Interstate Commerce *158 Commission for certificates of convenience and necessity as a common carrier of commodities generally between New York and New Orleans and New York and Texas City, respectively. The "grandfather date" applicable to water


and important commitments for the future.[5]
On December 18, 1943, however, Division 4 ordered reconsideration of Seatrain's applications and of the applications for certificates of the Foss Launch & Tug Co. See 260 I.C.C. 103. The division thereafter amended the certificate first issued to the Foss Company on August 26, 1942. The certificate originally issued by the Commission to the Foss Company authorized it to transport commodities generally. The amended certificate issued to the Foss Company eliminated the company's authority to "transport freight cars, loaded or empty, in the performance of a freight-car-ferry service." The course pursued by Division 4, and hence by the Commission, in respect to the Foss company had repercussions on the Seatrain certificate. See also the decision of the Commission in Newtex S. S. Corporationoriginal certificate as an instance of inadvertent error, it appears to have resulted from the considered judgment of Division 4 and, therefore, of the Commission. While the petitioner's references to the Foss and the Newtex cases are helpful perhaps in forming a basis to conjecture the Commission's trend of policy, it is unnecessary and indeed improper to attempt to ascertain the mental processes of the Commissioners at the time of the issuance of the original order and certificate. The Supreme Court in the recent case of International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers v. Eagle-Picher Mining & Smelting Co., 325 U.S. 335, 65 S.Ct. 1166, addressed itself to the problem of the correction by an administrative body of its own error. In the cited case the National


to the Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee and the Chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives a report relative to omnibus transportation legislation, S. 2009, as passed by both houses of Congress, dated January 29, 1940; House Committee print, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1940.

The same document is cited in note 5 to the decision in Ziffrin, Inc., v. United States, 318 U.S. 73, 77, 63 S.Ct. 465, 87 L.Ed. 621.
[11]  If the certificate be deemed a franchise, since it grants rights to engage in business of a public nature, the grant which it contains is protected by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Unless the right be reserved, the grant may not subsequently be impaired. FrostELLEN MANSFIELD

DeafPrison painting A Deaf Prisoner with chopped hands of the tile is about the lack of communication daily because the deaf prisoner is only alone in prison and isolated from having access to videophone calls and available interpreters, Deaf people are being brutalized and discriminated by Police, and ADA Routinely Violated by Prisons in the case of Deaf Prisoners.The eyes motif symbolizes the marked days being counted on the prison wall. It means no communication simulated from inmates, police guards, lawyers, and families. The blues, white, and yellow hands represents a sign language outside of the prison cell. It is called “Educate thousands of corrections professionals about Deaf Culture & communication, thus reducing the incidence of human and civil rights violations against deaf prisoners & their family


"I see him try to go get it and I push it [his arm] and just push him," shoving him in the body and then shoving the gun down his pants.

The robber walked out of the store, and Sheng followed him to the door and then called the police:

Sheng, who told reporters she wasn't scared, is 5'4" and about 120 pounds. The attempted robber is about 5'11" and 160 pounds. Police say the suspect "fits the description" of a man wanted for other armed robberies at nail salons, according to the Post.

Her 10-year-old daughter said, "She should have done it but at the same time, it was dangerous."Related Stories

Paleolithic diet Mesolithic hunter-gatherers living on a meat-dominated, grain-free diet had much healthier mouths that we have today, with almost no cavities and gum disease-associated bacteria, a genetic study of ancient dental plaque has revealed.

The researchers extracted DNA from dental plaque from 34 prehistoric northern European human skeletons, and traced the changes in the nature of oral bacteria from the last hunter-gatherers to Neolithic and medieval farmers and modern individuals.

"Dental plaque represents the only easily accessible source of preserved human bacteria," says lead author Dr Christina Adler, now associate lecturer in dentistry at the University of Sydney.

The researchers found the composition of bacteria changed with the introduction of farming and again 150 years ago during the Industrial Revolution.

In contrast to the hunter-gatherer and early agriculturist diet, a


The conference is finding itself in a swirling pool of controversy after recent mistakes and accusations of bias in reporting...

All it took was a simple mistake that should have been immediately retracted and corrected with humility. A link to a scam website from a Coindesk article about OmiseGo set off Vitalik Buterin and sparked a growing boycott of the upcoming conference.

Joined by Cardano, Digibyte, and OmiseGo, Ethereum developers will not be attending the Consensus 2018 conference after recent criticisms emerged regarding Coindesk and its parent company, the "Digital Currency Group". As Jared Tate of DigiByte pointed out, Coindesk is a subsidiary of the Digital Currency Group and therefore pumps currencies that benefit its own interests via its publications. A portfolio of the Digital Currency group can be examineda twist of fate, what one strategist viewed as her vulnerabilities -- her gender, her race and the interrogation skills she developed as a prosecutor -- may now be what sets her apart in the 2020 crowd.

The California senator's memoir publishing Tuesday, "The Truths We Hold," lays the groundwork by chronicling Harris' journey as the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica who grew up with a "stroller-eye" view of the civil rights movement and was educated in the black intellectual circles of Oakland and Berkeley in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The book is a rallying cry against what Harris views as the un-American policies of the Trump administration, alongside her set of policy alternatives. She casts herself as a champion for everyday Americans against the powerful, and


she is unsparing in her disdain for the policies of President Donald Trump. She notes that after her own victory speech in 2016, she watched the returns with her husband in a state of shock, eating "an entire family-size bag of classic Doritos. Didn't share a single chip."

"I did know this: one campaign was over but another was about to begin," Harris writes. "This time, a battle for the soul of our nation."

"In the years since," she continues, "we've seen an administration align itself with white supremacists at home and cozy up to dictators abroad; rip babies from their mothers' arms in grotesque violation of their human rights; give corporations and the wealthy huge tax cuts while ignoring the middle class; derail our fight against climate change; sabotagehealth care and imperil a woman's right to control her own body; all while lashing out at seemingly everything and everyone, including the very idea of a free and independent press. We're better than this."

The memoir is also her most personal account to date of her exploration of her own heritage, her path to becoming a "progressive prosecutor" and her brushes with sexism as a woman in the male-dominated spheres of law and politics.

She will launch a media blitz Tuesday with appearances on ABC's "Good Morning America" and "The View," followed by a late night interview later this week with CBS' Stephen Colbert and a series of talks about her book in Washington D.C., New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Her announcement about a presidential run is


expected toward the end of this month.

For many years in California, Harris recoiled from questions about her personal life, which helped establish her image as a disciplined and cautious politician. Her first book, "Smart on Crime," reflected that private veneer with its narrow focus on policy, drawing from her experience prosecuting crimes that ranged from child sexual assault to homicide in Alameda County and San Francisco.

In the new book, Harris delves far more deeply into her upbringing by a single mother who was determined to see that she and her sister Maya "would grow into confident, proud black women." A mother, Harris writes, who taught them to be tough and rarely offered praise for "behavior or achievements that were expected."

Harris stitches together touchstones from her childhood -- likeher mother's pride in finally saving enough money to buy a home when Harris was in high school -- with stories about her work as California's attorney general pursuing predatory lenders and holding out for a larger settlement from the big banks after the foreclosure crisis.

Noting her self-doubt during that period as California held out for what ultimately became a $20 billion settlement, Harris recalled a tart message from then-Gov. Jerry Brown -- "I hope you know what you're doing" -- as well as a tense meeting with top officials at the big banks who "seemed to be under the misimpression that I could be bullied into submission," she writes.

In one dramatic moment, she describes how she engaged in a shouting match with Jamie Dimon, the chairman and


reached two weeks later).

In a series of stories, Harris explains how the people she met as a prosecutor, and later as attorney general, steered her agenda in the Senate toward criminal justice revisions, legal protections for immigrants, boosting wages for the middle class and advocating for universal health care and for lowering the cost of prescription drugs.

She notes a career high point in performing gay weddings in California after the Supreme Court struck down Proposition 8, the 2008 California ballot measure that prohibited marriages for same-sex couples. (Like Brown, who served as attorney general before her, Harris refused to defend Proposition 8 in the courts).

Walking out of the Supreme Court after watching oral arguments in the case, Harris notes that day underscored her rationale for becoming a lawyer:"It was in the courtroom, I believed, that you could translate that passion into action and precedent and law."

The most interesting passages of the book often tie back to Harris' family heritage and the values instilled in her by her mother, who separated from Harris' father when she was young.

Harris describes her focus on immigration as a senator -- including her efforts to drill Trump officials like former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on protections for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and children crossing the border -- as being shaped by watching her mother's experience of being a "target" as an immigrant in America.

"I saw it, and it made me mad," Harris writes. "I have too many memories of my brilliant mother," a breast


cancer researcher who migrated from India to go to graduate school, "being treated as though she were dumb because of her accent. Memories of her being followed around a department store with suspicion, because surely a brown-skinned woman like her couldn't afford the dress or the blouse she had chosen."

At times, Harris reveals a more vulnerable side that she rarely shows in public. She notes, for example, her shock and horror when she failed the California Bar on her first try, and how she almost didn't notice that her now-husband was proposing marriage because she was so caught up in what she calls the "balancing act of the working woman."

She describes her nervousness changing into jeans and Chuck Taylors before she was introduced to her stepson and stepdaughter.She explains the "Momala" descriptor on her Twitter handle as the name she and the kids settled on because of their dislike of the word "stepmom."

There are also relatable moments when she describes her anguish at missing sports matches and family milestones as she tried to balance her home life with her job in Washington.

For now, she writes that her centering ritual is the tradition of a Sunday gathering of friends and family.

"As long as I'm making Sunday family dinner," she writes, "I know I'm in control of my life."


Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576) known in English as Titian (pron.: /ˈtɪʃən/) was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth.
Recognized by his contemporaries as "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" (recalling the famous final line of Dante's Paradiso), Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on futureby 1960s freeway construction. The roadway that would become Samatar Crossing served as the Interstate 94 5th Street exit ramp until the Minnesota Department of Transportation constructed a new bridge and ramp at 7th Street in conjunction with U.S. Bank Stadium.

A view of the area now, which was divided by an exit ramp from Interstate 94.

Traffic concerns

Following an informational meeting about the project in February, the local neighborhood association, the West Bank Community Coalition, urged residents to sign a petition demanding that the space be limited to bicycles and pedestrians.

Council Member Abdi Warsame, who represents the area, said some in the community misinterpreted how much car traffic the connection would add to the neighborhood. He favors developing two options — with and without cars — and presenting it


Another summer blockbuster cycle, another painstaking reminder that Michael Bay has been helming the Transformers movieverse for a decade. This week Transformers: The Last Knight opens, and despite having the cathartic word "last" in its title, the franchise's profits will doubtlessly ensure a future filled with further unintelligible Freudian nightmares. After all, Transformers: Age of Extinction did not lead to the death of the film's genocidal antiheroes or the meatheaded meatbags that tag along with them (I was weak and caught it on an international flight). Sorry, spoiler alert.

Though this movie is sure to inflict the cerebral damage of multiple high-profile professional boxing careers, the Transformers still rule at their core. Enjoy these loving gags about robots that disguise themselves as other things before suffering Bay's latest assuredBeacon is an energetic and bright young man, the product of Federation developments into air and space capable reploids, and the first of a line of many robots with similar capabilities. Designed with the ability to convert energy internally from outside sources into power, he served as a test model for Federation technology until shortly after the founding of Repliforce, which he was deployed to for a time until the merge into the Hunters. Unfailingly loyal to the law but not restricted to simply obeying it, Beacon has a heart for his work and for the people he serves, and a passion for justice, which, while occasionally getting him in over his head, keeps him on a straight path. Thankfully, when he gets in over his head, his


Harish Rawat’s khichadi party draws huge response

True to style, the former Chief Minister Harish Rawat organised a ‘Khichadi Mushroom party’ in Dehradun on Saturday. The party was attended by a large number of people associated with the Congress aside from the people from all walks of the life.

Addressing the gathering, the former CM said that the event was an apolitical one organised to greet the people ahead of Makar Sankranti. Rawat referred to his campaign to promote local produce and cuisine of mountainous area of the State in 2014 when he was helming the State Government. “I am now happy to learn that millets and other food grains produced in the hills of Uttarakhand have been put into the category of highly nutritious food by World Health OrganisationEarlier today Representatives Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise appeared to discuss the unilateral democrat impeachment agenda and the schemes being played by Pelosi, Schiff and her political teams. First up, Jim Jordan:

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Providence-based Citizens Financial Group Inc. will lay off 125 workers in Bridgeport, a notice filed with the state Department of Labor shows. The layoffs, which will take place between Aug. 1 and Oct. 24, will affect employees at 1000 Lafayette Blvd and are part of cost-cutting measures, said Lauren DiGeronimo, a bank spokeswoman. DiGeronimo would not identify the business affected. But Citizens parent Royal Bank of Scotland had maintained a credit card operation in Bridgeport ever since buying the business from People's United Bank — then People's Bank — in 2004. "As part of an effort to manage costs and improve efficiency, we are eliminating some positions...

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Providence-based Citizens Financial Group Inc. will lay off 125 workers in Bridgeport, a notice filed with the state DepartmentDuring the First World War dozens of Russian soldiers, poisoned by a gas attack, roused themselves from near death to fight off the Germans and turn an attack by a superior force into a panic-stricken rout.

When the German launched a deadly poison gas attack on Russia's Russian Osowiec fortress on August 6th, 1915, it seemed certain that the Russian garrison would not survive.

The Russian troops, whose gas masks were as good as useless, seemed doomed to die. However, the German infantry’s advance - or rather pleasant stroll - towards the well-defended fortress turned into a real nightmare.

Instead of finding piles of corpses, the Germans ran into enemy soldiers who were very much alive, but strongly resembled the dead. The Russians, clothed in bloody rags, coughing up blood and


on their last legs, launched an attack on the shocked Germans. This attack has gone down in history as the “attack of the dead”.

Unbreakable spirit

The Osowiec fortress, located near the Polish town of Bialystok, was a 'bone in the throat' of the Germans as it forced them to keep troops tied up at the salient in northeast Poland.

First targeted in September 1914, the fortress withstood all enemy attacks through extensive use of planes and artillery. Following their unsuccessful attempt to seize the Russian stronghold, the Germans turned to more extreme measures.

Sergey Khmelkov Public domain Public domain

On August 6th, 1915 they released chlorine gas over the fortress. Sergey Khmelkov, one of the fortress defenders who survived the gas attack, recalled: “Any living person stood outside on the bridgehead ofexhausted and poisoned, they advanced with the sole purpose of crushing the Germans,” the eyewitness explains.

The Germans, nin a state of shock, astonished by the sight of “dead” Russian soldiers and the fury of their attack, fled in a state of panic, leaving behind their machine guns and getting fatally caught up in their own barbed wire defences.

Taking advantage of the surprise, the 8th and 14th companies recaptured the main bulwark, eliminated the gap and brought the revived garrison artillery back together. The leader of the “attack of the dead” and savior of the fortress, 2nd Lt. Kotlinsky, was severely wounded and died the same evening.

The surrender of Osowiec

Despite the bravery of the Russian soldiers, the fortress was doomed. Again in April and May 1915 Austrian and German


forces broke through the Russian front in East Prussia and Galicia.

Osowiec in September, 1915. German photo Public domain Public domain

The fortress concealed the strategic retreat of Russian forces up until August, at which point defending the fortress became pointless. On the 22nd August the Russian garrison left the fortress in an orderly and calm fashion, demolishing the main bulwarks and fortified points.

The counter-attack led by Kotlinsky prevented the fortress from falling into the hands of the Germans and saved thousands of its garrison from disaster. History would tell a different story had the German offensive of August 6th succeeded.

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Laurence (Lorette) Nobécourt

Biography

Lorette Nobécourt (photo by permission of S. Nobécourt)

Lorette Nobécourt was born in 1968 in Paris. She was educated in an Ursuline convent and, before turning to writing, studied theatre, business and journalism. In 1994 Nobécourt’s first novel La Démangeaison was published by Sortilèges. The central character is a young woman who has suffered with psoriasis since early infancy. Her narration of the transformations and eruptions that the disease causes resonates with society’s rejection of others whose lives and bodies seem strange and without clear boundaries. The narrator says of herself ‘Folle, lépreuse, suicidaire, ainsi fut mon rôle, oui, mais je restais donc étrangère’. The disease, while being an individual affliction, also comes to symbolize the making visible of hidden hatreds and hypocrisies in groupsand ends in the revelation of splendour – going through disgust and the abject – that of the nudity of the body finally exposed. Nobécourt thus attempts to reinscribe the body to counter the disappearance of the human being as a subject, in a world where, as Irène describes it in La Conversation, ‘la négation de l’individu s’achève par la négation de son corps’. This goes as far as the creation of a mythical space in Substance (2001).

En nous la vie des morts, published in 2006, is a text that clearly marks a change in style, though still dealing with issues of life and death. Similarly to its central character, Nortatem, who leaves New York to go and live alone in the Vermont after his best friend commits


years, ‘Lorette’, both in her personal and public life, and under which she published all of her works up until now. She explains how the name ‘Lorette’ acted as a means of survival, as a protective shell for ‘Laurence’, but how it also hindered her self. Asserting her original name, Lorette is a reflection on her past, a declaration of a second, liberating birth. It reads like a new milestone in Nobécourt spiritual quest towards life itself.

—: ‘Figuring Out the Family: Family as Everyday Practice in Contemporary French Women’s Writing’ in Affaires de famille: The Family in Contemporary French Culture and Theory ed. by Marie-Claire Barnet and Edward Welch (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2007, pp.39-58)the tax is levied on drugs that the taxpayer neither owns or possesses at the time of taxation. But here, the Court exalts form over substance. Surely the Court is not suggesting that the State must permit the Kurths to keep the contraband in order to tax its possession. Cf. Constantine, supra, at 293 ("It would be strange if one carrying on a business the subject of an excise should be able to excuse himself from payment by the plea that in carrying on the business he was violating the law"). And although Montana's "Dangerous Drug Tax" is described as a tax on storage and possession, it is clear from the structure and purpose of the Act that it was passed for the legitimate purpose of raising revenue


in addition to the criminal penalties for possession of marijuana, these taxes did not violate that principle of due process sometimes called the multiple-punishments component of the Double Jeopardy Clause. The Constitution requires nothing more. For these reasons, I respectfully dissent.
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[*]   Dan Morales, Attorney General of Texas, and William E. Storie, Assistant Attorney General, filed a brief for the State of Texas et al. as amici curiae urging reversal, joined by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Grant Woods of Arizona, Daniel E. Lungren  of California, Gale Norton of Colorado, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Robert A. Butterworth of Florida, Michael J. Bowers of Georgia, Robert A. Marks of Hawaii, Larry EchoHawk of Idaho, Roland W. Burris of Illinois, Pamela Fanning Carter ofA flood-stricken chemical plant in Texas has exploded, sending flames and plumes of black smoke into the sky after its power systems were overwhelmed by Hurricane Harvey.

Smoke and a double explosion were reported in the early hours of Thursday at the Arkema SA chemical plant in Crosby, some 25 miles from Houston.

The company had evacuated remaining workers at the damaged plant on Tuesday, and Harris County ordered the evacuation of residents within a 1.5-mile (2.4-km) radius of the plant, which makes organic peroxides used in the production of plastic resins, polystyrene, paints and other products.

Flames shot up to 12m high, according to local officials.

Police officers who were taken to hospital following the double blast at about 2am local time have been released, after being treated for eye irritation.

"We


want local residents to be aware that the product is stored in multiple locations on the site, and a threat of additional explosion remains," Arkema said in a statement.

"Please do not return to the area within the evacuation zone until local emergency response authorities announce it is safe to do so," the French company added.

The facility holds large amounts of sulphur dioxide, a toxic chemical, and methylpropene, a flammable gas. It had been battered by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey, with levels reaching 6ft within its perimeter.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said no toxins were released and that there was no danger to the community. But at a news conference in Washington, DC, Brock Long, of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said he considered plumes from the explosion "incrediblyReuters The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Lisa Rehr holds her four-year old son Maximus, after they lost their home to Hurricane Harvey, as they await to be evacuated with their belongings from Rockport, Texas Reuters The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey People line up for food as others rest at the George R. Brown Convention Center AP Photo/LM Otero The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Volunteers with The American Red Cross register evacuees at the George R. Brown Convention Center Reuters/Nick Oxford The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Soldiers with the Texas Army National Guard help the residents of Cyprus Creek Reuters The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Residents wade through floodwater Reuters/Nick Oxford The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Residents walk along the flooded roadway of Texas 249 as they evacuate their


adjacent neighborhoods EPA The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey A man floats past a truck submerged on a freeway flooded by Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday AP The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey People are rescued by airboat as they evacuate from flood waters from Hurricane Harvey in Dickinson, Texas Reuters The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey James Archiable carries his bike through the flooded intersection at Taylor and Usenet near downtown Houston, Texas EPA The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey A massive sinkhole opened up on a motorway in Rosenburg, a city 25 miles southwest of Houston, Texas Rosenberg Police The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey People are rescued from flood waters from Hurricane Harvey in an armored police mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle in Dickinson, Texas Reuters The aftermath of Hurricane HarveyPeople are rescued from flood waters from Hurricane Harvey on a boat in Dickinson, Texas Reuters The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Evacuees are airlifted in a US Coast Guard helicopter after flooding due to Hurricane Harvey inundated neighborhoods in Houston, Texas Reuters The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Evacuees leave a US Coast Guard helicopter after being rescued from flooding due to Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas Reuters The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Residents look on at a submerged motorway during a break in the rain in Houston, Texas EPA The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey People photograph the submerged motorway interchange EPA The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Debris lies on the ground after a building was destroyed by Hurricane Harvey in Aransas Pass, Texas AP The aftermath of Hurricane


Harvey Dominic Dominguez searches for his boat in a boat storage facility that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Harvey near Rockport, Texas EPA

The Houston branch of the National Weather Service said a light breeze was blowing in the opposite direction at about 4.30am local time.

The plant falls along a stretch near Houston that features one of the largest concentrations of refineries, pipelines and chemical plants in the country.

More than three dozen people have been killed since Harvey made landfall as a hurricane on Friday. Tens of thousands have been displaced.

Moody's Analytics estimated the economic cost for south-east Texas at up to $75 billion, ranking Harvey among the costliest storms in US history.

On Thursday people living near the border between Texas and Louisiana faced the threat of major flooding,as floodwaters began receding in the Houston area following five days of torrential rain.

The storm had made landfall a second time on Wednesday, moving towards Louisiana. It was predicted to move northward after that.

Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, struggled with rising water as the area was pounded with what remained of the weakening storm, while Houston's fire department said it would begin a block-by-block search on Thursday of thousands of flooded homes.

Assistant fire chief Richard Mann said the searches were to ensure "no people were left behind."


IMF Mission Statement at the Conclusion of the 2004 Article IV Consultation and Post-Program Monitoring Discussions with the Philippines

The following statement was issued today in Manila by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff mission:

"The 2004 Article IV and post-program monitoring mission took place from November 3-17, 2004. The discussions focused on the macroeconomic and structural policy issues facing the Philippines. The mission's findings will be reported to the IMF Executive Board in February 2005, but the preliminary assessment is as follows:

"Since taking office in July, the new administration has formulated a package of reforms to address fiscal, power, and banking sector issues. The authorities are to be commended for their initial focus on legislative tax measures and efforts to bring these quickly for congressional approval. Early implementation ofhigh quality measures is required to reassure investors, and the increase in generation tariffs provisionally awarded to the National Power Corporation (NPC) in September is the first major step in this regard. However, the legislative process for the administration's proposed tax measures is still at an early stage, and some of these measures are proving to be contentious. This has led to signs of impatience in financial markets, with sovereign spreads edging up and ratings agencies warning of possible downgrades.

"GDP growth has been robust in 2004, but is expected to moderate in 2005. Inflation, which has risen sharply this year, looks set to breach the target in 2004-2005. The National Government budget is on track in 2004, thanks to the authorities' tax administration efforts and tight expenditure control.


date, only one tax measure with a clear revenue impact—higher alcohol and tobacco taxes with an estimated yield of P7 billion—has been passed by the House. Given how lightly these products are taxed in the Philippines, the revenue impact of this version of the measure seems fairly small. The mission looks forward to a further strengthening of this measures as well as the passage of more substantive revenue-raising measures in the coming months.

"The pickup in inflation is due, to a considerable degree, to supply-shocks to particular commodities, and the BSP has refrained from tightening monetary policy until signs of more generalized inflation emerge. However, in the mission's view, there is some evidence suggesting that price pressures may be spreading and the BSP is appropriately keeping developments under review.

"InTwo women spark a revolution among sex workers in Mumbai in Tikli and Laxmi Bomb, a wonderful indie film currently doing the festival rounds. The story imparts a tremendous amount of information about the dangers faced by sex workers in an organic and thoughtful way, via endearing lead characters.

The title refers to two types of firecrackers popular in India: one with a short fuse (“Tikli”) and another that burns slower but makes a louder bang (“Laxmi Bomb”). The nicknames are perfect for the main duo. Laxmi (Vibhawari Deshpande) is a long-time sex worker, tasked by her pimp Mhatre (Upendra Limaye) with showing the ropes to the new girl in town, Putul (Chitrangada Chakraborty). Putul earns the nickname “Tikli” after she stabs an aggressive customer.

Laxmi can’t understand why Tikli


other sex workers set out on their own to change their fates.

As employees in an illegal profession, the women in Tikli and Laxmi Bomb are vulnerable to myriad forms of abuse. The film exposes its audience to many of them in a way that feels narratively consistent, without resorting to the lectures that ruin the flow of many socially conscious mainstream Hindi films. Each new setback the women face on their path to autonomy feels inevitable in retrospect, given the corruption and brutality built into the system.

It is to writer-director Aditya Kripalani’s credit that much of the violence against the female characters occurs off-camera. In the film, rape is used by men as a warning against insubordination and is thus carried out in front of other women. Theirhorrified reactions show us all we need to see.

Kripalani shares the credit for his enlightened directorial choices with his crew. Tikli and Laxmi Bomb‘s cinematographer, editor, and line producer are all women, as are the heads of costuming, makeup, and other key departments. Co-producer Sweta Chhabria says this deliberately chosen crew “helped the director and the film to lose its male gaze.”

Then there’s the talented cast. The two leads play off one another beautifully, Chakraborty’s impudent Tikli tempered by Deshpande’s pragmatic Laxmi. Divya Unny and Kritika Pande are great as two of the founding members of the gang, and veteran supporting actors like Suchitra Pillai and Saharsh Kumar Shukla help fill out the world.

The film was shot using natural lighting and handheld cameras, giving the film a raw


quality appropriate for this view of life on the margins of society. Even with a big Bollywood budget, there’s little one would want to change about Tikli and Laxmi Bomb, so effective is its world-building and so well-organized is its story. Hopefully a successful turn on the festival circuit results in a way for the masses to see Tikli and Laxmi Bomb, because it deserves a wide audience.

I normally review only Hindi movies, but I made an exception for Harishchandrachi Factory. The Marathi movie was India’s official entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 2010 Academy Awards. Ultimately, it wasn’t one of the five nominees, but it is worth watching.

The film is about the creation of the first full-length Indian motion picture in 1913: RajaHarishchandra, a depiction of the life of an ancient king renowned for always keeping his promises and telling the truth, no matter the consequences for him and his family.

(I didn’t think the moral of the story of Harishchandra was explained clearly via the movie’s subtitles. I had to look up the story later to appreciate some of the references.)

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke was the man responsible for Raja Harishchandra, in addition to dozens of other movies over the span of 19 years. He’s credited for founding the Indian film industry, back when cinema was dominated by the British.

Harishchandrachi Factory begins in 1911, when Phalke (Nandu Madhav) sees his first motion pictures: a documentary on bullfighting and a depiction of the life of Jesus Christ. He’s instantly seized with the


Will meet with Guatemalan President Otto Perez and Foreign Minister Carlos Morales to discuss prospects for expanding bilateral trade and cooperation in emergency response

Sergei Lavrov

GUATEMALA CITY, March 26. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, who will pay a visit to Guatemala on Thursday, will meet with Guatemalan President Otto Perez and Foreign Minister Carlos Morales to discuss prospects for expanding bilateral trade and cooperation in emergency response.

Apart from that, the Russian foreign minister will take part in a meeting of foreign ministers of the Central American Integration System (SICA), an association of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama and El Salvador. The meeting is to yield a document on cooperation.

Cooperation with Guatemala

The last visit to Guatemala took place in 2010. The Russian foreign ministryreminds that in April the two countries will mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. "It is a rather promising partner in Latin America for us," the ministry said.

Along with coordinating positions on the international agenda and expanding cooperation in rebuffing drug trafficking, the sides will discuss promising projects in the educational, cultural and legal spheres and in emergency management.

Special focus will be made on expansion of trade, which, according to the Russian foreign ministry, "is lagging behind the exiting potential." Last year, bilateral trade amounted to 73.5 million U.S. dollars. Both Moscow and Guatemala City hope to bring this figure higher up in the near future.

Russians will remember Guatemala thanks to the 119th session of the International Olumpic Committee, which granted Russia the right


to host the Olympic Winter Games in the Balck Sea Resort City of Sochi in 2014.

Dialogue with the Central American Integration System

The ministerial meeting in Guatemala will help Russia and the countries of the Central American Integration System to coordinate "common vision and areas of multilateral cooperation," Alexander Shchetinin, the Russian foreign ministry’s Latin America department director, told TASS.

"We maintain very close and rather intensive bilateral relations with the majority of Central American countries. However we would like to look as possibilities for cooperation in the multi-nation format," he said.

As an example of efficient cooperation, the Russian diplomat cited a regional drug police training centre in Nicaragua. Set up in 2012, the centre offers professional enhancement courses for drug policemen from all Central American states. "It is verythat neither of the Latin American states supported the sanction policy against Russia. All these countries clearly declared that such policy was inacceptable for them

"Moreover, in conditions of our decisions on counter-sanctions, they have openly stated their interest to bigger economic presence on our market," the Russian foreign ministry said.

A source in the Russian foreign ministry told TASS that the "factor of sanitary norms" was still in place and it might somewhat complicate talks on expanding Latin American exports to Russia. "Our standards are tougher than those of the United States and Europe, and these standards must be observed," the source said. "Obviously, certain work is needed but we are confident these problems are absolutely solvable."

Russia has been inviting representatives of the Latin American market to food exhibitions,


and they accept such invitations.

Meeting for foreign ministers of Honduras, Argentina and El Salvador

The Russian foreign minister will have separate meetings with foreign ministers of a number of states on the sidelines of the multinational session. Thus, Lavrov will meet with his Honduran counterpart Arturo Corrales.

Honduran opened its embassy in Moscow in 2013. "We are working on strengthening the legal framework to be able to successfully expand cooperation in various sphere," the Russian foreign ministry said.

The Russian foreign minister’s visit to Guatemala has coincided with a visit to that country by his Argentinian counterpart Hector Timerman. The two ministers will have a brief meeting. They are expected to discuss a possible visit to Moscow by Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, which might be organized in mid-April. Apartfrom that, the ministers will look at prospects for the implementation of mutually beneficial projects in the energy sector, including possible construction of a hydropower plant by Russian companies.

While in Guatemala, Lavrov also plans to meet with Salvadorian Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez. A source in the Russian foreign ministry told TASS the two ministers would sign an intergovernmental agreement on visa-free travel regime between the two countries.

Icon for anOrthodox monastery in Guatemala

Alexander Shchetinin, the Russian foreign ministry’s Latin America department director, told TASS that the programme of the Russian delegation provided for another "brief but emotionally-coloured meeting." There is an Orthodox parish in Guatemala, The Monastery of the Holy and Life-Giving Trinity, Lavra of Mambre. Its head, Abbess Ines /Ayau Garcia/, is taking vigorous efforts to popularize the


(LAKE CO.) - A Chicago woman died Saturday morning when she fell off a motorcycle she was a passenger on while traveling on I-80/94.

Preliminary investigation by Master Trooper Russell Hayes revealed at approximately 9:42 a.m., this Saturday, May 07, 2016, morning a 1994 Harley Davidson motorcycle, driven by Rickey Salazar of Evergreen Park, Illinois was west bound on I-80/94 at the 8.2 mile marker (this is west of Grant Street) in the right lane when his passenger, Isela Vargas, 48 of Chicago, Illinois, for unknown reasons fell off the motorcycle.

Vargas sustained a serious head injury and was transported to North Lake Methodist Hospital in Gary where she was later pronounced dead. Vargas was not wearing a helmet. There was no damage to the motorcycle and Salazar was notof the S-400”.

The tough step came after months of warnings from Washington that Turkey’s adoption of Russian missile technology alongside US fighter jets would pose a threat to the F-35 technology and endanger Western defences.

Unusual NATO member move

The purchase of a Russian system is highly unusual for a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Western alliance forged to counter the Soviet Union.

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The US suspension announcement came two days before foreign ministers from NATO’s 29 members were due in Washington to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the alliance.

Last week, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met in Turkey with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, and insisted that the S-400 purchase would go ahead.

But on Monday, Shanahan expressed optimism that the US and Turkey would find a way out


The
major arc coming up in The Flash is called Flash War. It was set up with The
Flash Annual #1 and Joshua Williamson says the arc will change the landscape of
every Flash seen in the storyline. Barry is dealing with the fact that Iris
learned he had been lying about his life as the Flash and the fact that Kid
Flash was hurt. Barry ended up in Iron Heights but as Flash War starts he has
gotten a lot better. Even with that he is going to have issues with at least one
of the Wally Westís in his life. A lot of the things Williamson has introduced
while working on the title will come to a head once the Perfect Storm arc ends
in April. He always knew where the series was going andenjoyed running into
fans at conventions who wanted to know why some things made sense in previous
arcs and some things didnít. Williamson wanted to work with Wally West but he
was central to the Titans book so he didnít have much of a chance to use him. As
he was writing the Running Scared arc he found a way to use Wally and that was
when the idea for Flash War came together. Most of the issues of Flash War will
be drawn by Howard Porter but some will be drawn by Christian Duce. Williamson
says that Flash War introduces a lot of new concepts but bring back some older
Flash mythology as well. Once the arc is over then it will influence the issues
that follow and the rest of the DCU.


But amusing? Never!"~ Edna Ferber

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in an argument."~ Robert Frost

"I'm a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ."~Ann Coulter

"Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother."~much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."~ John Stuart Mill

"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. In the fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there. In her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because


back and join the discussion, I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts!

Oh, and because I'm a good friend: There's an AWESOME new "Tron" trailer at the beginning. :) I seriously squeed!

But here's the thing, the main question: Was the top at the end slowing down? I can't decide. It was wobbling like it was slowing down. But was that because - in the real world where the movie was filmed - tops slow down? Or was it because we were supposed to think the top was slowing down, but he just cut away as a tease? Or did he cut away because we are supposed to think the top wasn't slowing down and was spinning indefinitely, and he had to cut away because - in the real world wheremove on, and then fail to get back with a buddy that wants the same thing he does?

good question about using his wife's totem.

I thought that the acting was SUPERB! you didn't think about how Leo was playing the role, or how Ellen was plaing the role, you just dove into the story, they facilitated Nolan's idea instead of distracting from it.

our whole theater went "AHHHHHHH!" at the ending when the screen went to black. how funny:O)

I saw this on Friday and it was FANTASTIC! I thought that the top was slowing down and was going to topple over. I think that his wife really is dead and that she was just in his dreams to help wake him back up.

I saw this on Friday and it was


such as nature trails, gravel paths, and crossings having excessive mud or water, generally prove to be insurmountable obstacles for the average wheelchair. In these more primitive conditions, wheels tend to find surface imperfections, such as rocks, to be barriers that are not readily rolled over. In situations where mud, sand, or snow are present, wheels will often sink into the mud, sand, or snow, causing the wheelchair to become mired and easily stuck.
The use of belts, placed over a series of wheels, in the form of a track assembly, will usually be able to traverse over the primitive areas that would generally restrict movement of a typical wheelchair. The multi-use capability of a belted track assembly is readily apparent in construction equipment as well as military vehicles.The largest organization in the South Korean cryptocurrency industry will conduct self-assessments of its members to ensure that they play self-regulation rules.

The Korean Blockchain Industry Association, an organization that includes 33 cryptocurrency exchanges, revealed that it would conduct 21 trade valuations to ensure that they follow a series of measures self-regulation mandated by the entity in December, reports Yonhap.

First announced in December, the movement to foster a self-regulatory environment has seen a number of measures including ethical codes for exchanges to improve the transparency of what is has become one of the most important cryptocurrency markets. The industry body also imposed strict rules to prevent insider trading and market manipulation.

The largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Korea, including Bithumb, Coinone, Upbit and Korbit, will all be subject to assessment, according


433 F.Supp. 144 (1977)
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO, Arizona Public Service Company, Idaho Power Company, Montana Power Company, Pacific Power & Light Company, Southern California Edison Company, Plaintiffs,
v.
Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the Interior, Curt Berlund, Director of Land Management, Dale Andrus, Director of the Colorado State Office of the Bureau of Land Management, Robert O. Boffington, Director of the Arizona State Office of the Bureau of Land Management, Edward Hartey, Director of the California State Office of the Bureau of Land Management, William L. Mathews, Director of the Idaho State Office of the Bureau of Land Management, Edwin Zaidlicz, Director of the Montana State Office of the Bureau of Land Management, E. I. Rowland, Director of the Nevada State Office of the Bureau of Land Management, Murl"those who are the primary beneficiaries of such services". The phrase "primary beneficiary" has not been interpreted in relation to Section 201 of the PLAA, 43 U.S.C. § 1371. It was, however, a term of common usage during the period when the Aandahl letter was transmitted to the House of Representatives. That usage will be considered in our analysis of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act of 1952 (IOAA), 31 U.S.C. § 483a. The understanding of the term "primary beneficiary" as it relates to the IOAA will be persuasive as to its meaning as used in the later Public Land Administration Act.

IV.
The Independent Offices Appropriation Act of 1952, 31 U.S.C. § 483a, provides in part:
It is the sense of the Congress that any work, service, publication, report, document, benefit,


be made to each identifiable recipient for a measurable unit or amount of government service from which he derives special benefit.
In interpreting when a governmental service specially benefits an identifiable recipient, rather than primarily benefiting the general public, an example can be instructive. In a 1950 Senate report a difference was noted between the Department of Agriculture's meat inspection program and its meat grading program. A meat inspection is, of course, required before any packager can market its product. Nonetheless, the service was rendered "for the good of all the people" and "no charge could in propriety be made". The meat grading service, however, is rendered only upon request and "is designed primarily to establish grades of excellence of food products rather than their edibility from a publicpart of a long-term research project on the breeding biology of nestbox breeding populations of hole-nesting birds in two study sites within and near Łódź, central Poland. The study sites represent structurally different habitats of an urban parkland and a deciduous forest, 10 km apart. The urban park site (51°45'N; 19°24′E) is an 80 ha area that is composed of the zoological and botanical gardens, located in the SW part of the city of Łódź. The forest study site (51°50'N; 19°29′E) is a 130 ha area in the interior part of a mature mixed-deciduous forest (Łagiewniki Forest; 1250 ha in total), bordering on the NE suburbia of Łódź. The tree cover of the park area is highly fragmented and arranged to be useful for the purpose of animal and plant exposition, with


Barcelona won two games in last three rounds but is still sitting on very weak 10:15 and can only make the playoffs in theory.

Should the Catalonians lose this match, playoffs would surely be out of their reach, which is why we can expect them to give it their best. Blaugrana did win the last clash between the two with 81:77 thanks to their Croatian center Ante Tomic who scored 100% of his two point shots for 16 points total. Still, a lot has changed since that duel as Darussafaka has improved significantly under the hoops as Tomic’s Croatian colleague, Anto Zizic, grew into a true team leader for the Turks. On the other hand, two players who started in the fifth round duel, Juan Carlos Navarro and JustinDoellman have been out of commission for Blaugrana for a while, which is likely one of the main reasons that the Catalonian side has been performing so poorly.

Darussafaka just won in a very tense duel against their home town rivals Besiktas in the Turkish League with 71:68, while Barcelona has lost yet another El Classico by a single point. The Turkish side was impressive in the Volkswagen Arena so far this season and we believe they have what it takes to take down the Catalonians at this time. The bookies are offering 1.55 on home win and while we would love to see slightly higher odds, this is still likely to be a profitable bet in the long run.

Baskonia vs CSKA Moscow Euroleague tips and analysis

The Russian side


with the strength of CSKA’s attack in round nine, when the Russians demolished Baskonia with 112:84 in Moscow. Playmaker Milos Teodosic was brilliant in that one, scoring an astounding 34 points and giving 10 assists which is one of his best performances this season. James Augustine also managed a double double in that one.

Overall speaking, we can expect a very attractive and high scoring game. CSKA features the league’s strongest offense with 87.6 points per match, while Baskonia may be the strongest side of the league by sheer athleticism, with names such as Barganini, Budinger, Diop, Tillie, Hange, Larkin and others.

Still, CSKA is a much more experienced and potent squad and they are playing with no pressure at all. We expect them to dominate up front with Teodosicand Welsh saint Isfael. In 1230 it was granted to Wizo the Fleming. It was extensively rebuilt in 1870-73 and renovated in 1991-92. It was further restored in 1999 by Hereford architect Lingen Barker. It became a Grade II listed building on 16 July 2004. There is a house on the edge of Uzmaston along the lane from Boulton named "The Cottage". There are the ruins of a cottage between the main lane and the Cleddau, just to the southwest of the village.

Land
Samuel Lewis, writing in his A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, stated that Uzmaston "comprises a moderate extent of enclosed and cultivated land: the soil is generally fertile, and the inhabitants are chiefly employed in agriculture. The western part of it, containing the straggling extemity of a


suburb of Haverfordwest, called Cartlett, is included within the new electoral limits of that borough.

Geologically, the area is known for the yellow-grey Uzmaston Beds, dated to the Silurian period, which are unfossiliferous in the lower parts.

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Category:Villages in Pembrokeshireand overwork, malnutrition, and probably way too much caffeine and possibly alcohol. It first became a problem in Japan in the 70s and 80s, but it also happens in South Korea (where it's called "gwarosa") and increasingly, in China (where it's called "guolaosi").

The roots of karoshi are a toxic mix of deep rooted cultural behaviors and corporate insecurity, and it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Japanese corporate culture already values people staying way too late, self-sacrifice and other displays of dedication. During the post-war reconstruction and economic boom, the idea of giving yourself almost entirely for the sake of a company, which in exchange would give you lifetime employment, took deep root in Japanese society. It became part of an employee's duty to


29. January 1972

Aylesbury, Borough Assembly Hall

David Bowie and the band rehearsed for two weeks prior to this warmup show in Aylesbury. A week before the show the biggest selling English music weekly Melody Maker publishes a two-page interview with Bowie titled Oh You Pretty Thing by Michael Watts in which Bowie states that he is gay. This sparks massive media and public interest in Bowie, even though he is marrwho with Angie at the time. The interview proves to be very important for his career.

Borough Assembly Hall, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Opening act were Grand Canyon. A warm up performance for David's first major tour since 1969. Bowie performs with newly cut red hair and wearing a bomber jacket and trousers (with a bulging codpiece) rolled up to reveal redcar, a fast and anonymous silver-grey Audi TT Roadster, Villanelle takes the lift to the sixth floor, and ascends the short flight of stairs to her rooftop apartment. The front door, although faced with the same panelling as the others in the building, is of reinforced steel, and the electronic locking system is custom-made.

Inside, the apartment is comfortable and spacious, even a little shabby. Konstantin handed Villanelle the keys and title deeds a year ago. She has no idea who lived there before her, but the place was fully furnished when she moved in, and from the decades-old fixtures and fittings, she guesses it was someone elderly. Uninterested in decoration, she has left the apartment as she found it, with its faded sea-green and French-blue rooms, and its


one wall. Time passed, hour after endless hour, but she was given only water, and without toilet facilities was forced to use the floor. Before long the cell stank, and her stomach was twisting with hunger. If she tried to sleep, the cell would reverberate with white noise, or with electronic voices repeating meaningless phrases at ear-splitting volume.

At the end of the second day—or it might have been the third—she was hooded, and led to another part of the building where she was questioned, in fluent Russian and for hours on end, by unseen interrogators. Between these sessions, in which she was offered food in exchange for information, she was forced to adopt agonising and humiliating stress positions. Starved, sleep-deprived and severely disoriented, she drifted into a trance-likewhich we will never surrender, is American hegemony in all its forms. Atlanticism, liberalism, the deceitful'—he actually says snake-like—'ideology of human rights, and the dictatorship of the financial elite.'"

"Pretty standard stuff, surely?"

"Agreed. But there's a huge tranche of the Russian and former Sov-bloc population who see him as a kind of messiah. And messiahs don't have a long shelf life. They're too dangerous."

"Well, let's hope he says his piece at the Conway Hall and pushes off fast."

"Let's hope." She rubs her eyes. "I suppose I ought to go. Don't much feel like it, but..." She exits the Izvestiya page. "Simon, can I ask you something?"

"Of course."

"Do you think I should do something about, you know, the way I dress? That female intuition comment makes me worried I'm sending


are an elite cyber-warfare unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, engaged in targeted attacks on foreign corporations, military intelligence systems and infrastructure. The anonymous-looking building on Datong Road has been fitted out with banks of powerful computer servers and high-speed fibre-optic lines, all of them cooled by precision air-conditioning systems. FatPanda, the team's leader, is Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Lei, and it was he who chose the crew's title. A moon-white dragon, according to Chinese symbolism, embodies a ferocious supernatural power. It is an omen of death. A warning.

Ignoring the crowds of home-going workers and the clammy heat, FatPanda walks unhurriedly through the evening haze of the Pudong district, gazing around him with admiration at the city's trophy skyscrapers. At the soaring glass column of the Shanghai Tower,almost 100 years.

Springtime in London: April snow showers in Kensington Gardens come amid Met Office claims that high levels of ice melt in the Arctic in recent years could be responsible for Britain's bitter winters

HOW DOES THE JET STREAM AFFECT OUR WEATHER?

J et streams are belts of fast flowing air found in the atmosphere which are formed near air masses with significantly different temperatures.

They are responsible for moving weather around the latitudes.

The Polar jet stream affects the UK, and tends to be further south in the winter and further north in the summer.

Recently, the jet stream has been further south - which is why the UK has experienced wet summers.

This winter, the jet stream split in two - part of the belt was at the bottom of the


Arctic has the effect of reducing the jet stream – the fast-moving river of warm air which controls our weather patterns – and that this could cause Britain to be subjected to longer periods of unmoving weather, such as the cold weather that has recently affected the country.

This winter, the jet stream split in two - part of the belt was at the bottom of the Mediterranean, and the other part was sitting at the north of the UK. This caused the prolonged period of very cold weather

If the Arctic experiences rapid ice melt then a large amount of very cold water is released into the ocean.

This cold water can disrupt the normal path of the jet stream which usually keeps Britain much warmer than its latitude suggestsafter a few weeks with a label of “bloggers who committed blasphemy,” local media reported.

The bloggers were critical of the country’s powerful military, the existing political system and human rights violations committed by different factions, according to reports, which said the bloggers, fearing for their lives, sought refuge abroad.

FILE - Members of a Pakistani civil society demonstrate April 22, 2017, in Karachi, Pakistan, against the killing of Mashal Khan, a student at the Abdul Wali Khan University in the northwestern city of Mardan. Police say the lynching of Khan, falsely accu FILE - Members of a Pakistani civil society demonstrate April 22, 2017, in Karachi, Pakistan, against the killing of Mashal Khan, a student at the Abdul Wali Khan University in the northwestern city of Mardan. Police say


action when it saw content it deemed blasphemous on the internet, even if it meant blocking social media websites in the country.

FILE - Nawaz Sharif addresses a crowd during his v Nawaz Sharif addresses a crowd during his visit to a mausoleum of Pakistani poet Mohammad Iqbal on Pakistan Independence Day in Lahore, Aug. 14, 2017. Nawaz Sharif addresses a crowd during his visit to a mausoleum of Pakistani poet Mohammad Iqbal on Pakistan Independence Day in Lahore, Aug. 14, 2017.

A few days later, Pakistan’s then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared online blasphemous content on social media a “nefarious conspiracy.” He directed his government to take strict actions against those involved in such activities. He also ordered officials to discuss the matter with international social media companies.

With the formationof the legislative proposals supported by the Republicans, neither one would be citizens because one or more of their parents were not permanent legal residents of the U.S. at the time of their birth. Let's get Olympic Gold Medalist Henry Cejudo and NASA Astronaut Jose "Astro Jose" Hernandez on the witness stand to defend all that they have robbed from the United States by usurping U.S. citizenship. At long last, the GOP has come up with the legislative strategy to guarantee that no man or woman can rise from humble origins, with a father who is legally present on a student visa, to sit in the Oval Office as President of the United States.

I really want to hear the Republican argument. Let's hear why the 14th amendment, which


guarantees citizenship and equal protection under the law regardless of the race or nationality of your parents, is a law whose time has come and gone. Please explain to the American people how the 14th amendment that resolved the issue of African-American citizenship after emancipation and was the critical underpinning of the civil rights movement in the United States, ought to be cast off now because the parchment paper it is written on has grown yellow and curled. Just the expressions on the faces of my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus during such a hearing would make the whole exercise worth it to me.

The federal government won a preliminary injunction against Arizona's SB1070 immigration law on the grounds that the federal government's authority over immigration matters preemptsMotion Capture Lab researches rehab techniques

Dr. Jonathan Rylander is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering and the faculty member in charge of the Motion Capture Lab. Josh Aguirre | Multimedia Journalist

By Samantha Amaro | Reporter

Baylor’s School of Engineering and Computer Science does more than work on machines and buildings. Some work to rebuild parts of the human body. A branch of the mechanical engineering program is the Biomedical Experimentation, Design and Simulation, where they are taking leaps the field of orthopedics and rehabilitation issues and research.

The research lab is located at the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative and is loaded with six to seven active, ongoing projects. Proof of this research is shown upon opening the door, where a row of running shoes that belong to a graduate


was administered to all participants. When the 50-year-baseline study of the Glostrup 1914 cohort was initiated in 1964, the original version of the WAIS had just been translated into Danish. It consists of six verbal subtests (information, comprehension, similarities, arithmetic, digit span, vocabulary) and five performance subtests (digit-symbol, picture completion, block design, picture arrangement, and object assembly). Testing procedures and scoring criteria have previously been described in detail \[[@B28], [@B29]\]. To permit comparison between successive WAIS followups, all IQs are based on the Danish 50-year norms \[[@B30]\]. Only one tester was available for the 70-year followup, and consequently the complete WAIS was only administered to 141 participants, of whom 136 had completed the MMPI and were included in the present study sample. At the 80-year followup 329 ofonly)

With the Breakers ceasing operations, the 2018 NWSL season will now feature a nine-team, single-table alignment with a 24-game schedule. Each club will play three games against every opponent in the league. The NWSL roster size requirements will remain unchanged, with a minimum of 18 players and a maximum of 20 players per club. Contracted players (included allocated players) and 2018 College Draft picks selected via the Dispersal Draft will not count against the club’s official 18-20 player roster for the 2018 season.

Be a part of history and catch Utah Royals FC as it kicks off NWSL regular-season action the weekend of March 24, and witness the historic home opener on April 14 at Rio Tinto Stadium. Buy your season tickets for the 2018 Utah Royals FC season


Singer/Songwriter Meklit Hadero to Perform at Ringling This Weekend

By Megan McDonald | January 21, 2014

Hadero will perform a selection of songs from her new album, "We Are Alive," to be released in March.

You may recognize Meklit Hadero’s name from her stint at the Ringling International Arts Festival three years ago; the singer made waves here for her jazz-tinged songs heavily influenced by her Ethiopian heritage. Now she’s back for two days of performances as part of The Ringling’s nowHERE New Stages series, where she’ll perform songs from her new album, We Are Alive, which will be released in March.

We spoke to Hadero by phone from her home base in San Francisco to find out more.

You studied political science at Yale. How did you transition to your career pathAnn Arbor native Aaron Bleyaert attended the Creative Art Emmy Award ceremony with his father on September 15, and won an award for his work on the Team Coco Sync App. Photo courtesy of Aaron Bleyaert

—an Ann Arbor native who's a graduate of Pioneer High School and Michigan State University— won a Creative Arts Emmy on September 15 for his work on an app for the late night talk show "Conan" on TBS.

To mark the occasion, AnnArbor.com sent Bleyaert a few questions by email to discuss his app, his Emmy win, and his career path.

Q. The Emmy is for an app you helped develop, which users interact with while an ep of "Conan" is airing—is that right? Why do you think the app distinguished itself and earned the


Emmy?

A. Yes! The Team Coco Sync App won an Emmy in the confusing and lengthily named category of "Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media - Enhancement To A Television Program or Series." Our app uses the same type of technology as Shazam or other music tagging services to "listen" to the Conan episode you're watching, and serves up delicious extra nuggets of Coco-related comedy, like exclusive videos, behind the scenes photos, polls, quizzes, facts, and much more about what's happening on your TV the moment it happens.

For instance, during the commercial break, you might see behind the scenes photos of Jennifer Aniston waiting behind the curtain before she comes out—which is what she was doing at that moment while the show was taping! The effect is truly someand looked at me, confused. I stammered out "Uh Team Coco thing Podcast " and then his face lit up and he was like "Aaron! How are ya, man?" And I was blown away! I introduced him to my Dad, who was stunned (both my parents are obsessive "Breaking Bad" fans), and we all talked about "Breaking Bad" and being nominated and the awards (he was also presenting a number of awards that night) and everything. Vince is the nicest, coolest person on the planet, and it was really special to run into him on a night like that. We also saw a bunch of other people like Neil Patrick Harris, Anthony Bourdain, and more. It was super cool for my pop.

Getting the award was surreal. Super weird.


ridges, and hotspots, some of which are interpreted as mantle plumes. Despite being found in such widespread locales, the bulk of the Earth's crust and mantle is not molten. Rather, most of the Earth takes the form of a rheid, a form of solid that can move or deform under pressure. Magma, as liquid, preferentially forms in high temperature, low pressure environments within several kilometers of the Earth's surface.

Magma compositions may evolve after formation by fractional crystallization, contamination, and magma mixing. By definition, all igneous rock is formed from magma.

While the study of magma has historically relied on observing magma in the form of lava outflows, magma was discovered in situ for the first time in 2008.(Winterclash/Bitter Cold Showdown)

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brian depalma needs a hit * really * badly .
since scoring big with the untouchables in 1987 , depalma has seen casualties of war , raising cain and particularly the disastrous bonfire of the vanities go down in flames .
consequently , it would be easy enough to consider carlito's way a shrewd commercial choice for depalma , reteaming with al pacino ( scarface ) and returning to the gangland ground which has yielded his two greatest box office successes .
it doesn't hurt any that he has latched on to a solid story and brought out dynamite performances from pacino and sean penn .
carlito's way , while hampered by depalma's characteristic excesses and stylistic cannibalism , is a truly tense and engrossing drama .
carlitobrigante ( pacino ) is a life-long criminal who finds himself unexpectedly given a second chance .
in 1975 , carlito is released from prison after serving only five years of a thirty year sentence when his conviction is overturned on a technicality .
he declares himself reformed , tired of life on the streets and determined to fulfill his simple dream of buying into a rental car business in the bahamas .
among those who find this conversion hard to believe are david kleinfeld ( penn ) , carlito's crooked attorney and childhood friend , and bodyguard pachanga ( luis guzman ) .
carlito rediscovers old flame gail ( penelope ann miller ) , and seems ready to retire in peace .
old ways die hard ,


though , and old associates pull carlito step by step back into a life he can't seem to shake .
carlito's way will probably make the strongest impression with the two outstanding set pieces which bracket the film .
in the first , carlito accompanies his young cousin on a drug buy which will have anyone with a pulse on the edge of their seat ; the film closes with an equally thrilling chase through the new york subway and grand central station .
both highlight depalma's gift for choreographed mayhem , and these are not the only occasions when the stage blood flows freely .
yet for all the viscera , i found the character study even more compelling .
carlito brigante has a lot of michaeladding scorsese to his repertoire with a point of view tracking shot and a copacabana scene with more than passing resemblances to goodfellas .
he even recycles some of his own previous plagiarisms , like a 360 degree swing around a kiss ( vertigo via body double ) and the climactic shootout which will strike many as far too reminiscent of the train station sequence from the untouchables .
from a story standpoint , there's an obligatory love story with a cliche'd long-suffering girlfriend character .
penelope ann miller is a good but limited actor who doesn't do anything new with the role , and eventually she becomes just a distraction , never integrated fully enough into the story .
still , it's easier to be forgiving of


long pounding climb. After almost overshooting the Schueren climb(thanks brakes), it was down Stunt Rd back to Pedalers Fork.

About halfway down the descent, John got a flat on his front tire. We couldn’t find anything wrong, so we put on a new tire and were off… for about 500 feet. Nuts another flat.

We took the tire off completely and found the culprit, a microscopic tear on the inner wall of his tire. Luckily, a fellow named Brian from West LA stopped to give us another tube and escorted us the rest of the way.

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The remaining portion of the ride was slightly wet, but nothing out of the ordinary until we got within sight of Pedalers Fork. We were stopped in front ofAlan K. Henderson's Weblog

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Monday, July 30, 2012

Life Imitates Art - Not

Everybody knows of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter. Thinking her husband lost at sea, Hester Prynne has a liaison that produces a child. Since Boston didn't have a Planned Parenthood branch in those days, she was unable to hide the evidence of her liaison. Unwilling to name her accomplice, the authorities stipulate an unusual condition to her probation: she must always wear a scarlet "A" on her gown to signify her adultery.
Most modern Americans haven't read the book, so they don't know much about the plot. One critical theme escapes even Wikipedia's summary of the novel : the thaw in Hester's


relations with the community.

Although she is an outcast, Hester remains able to support herself due to her uncommon talent in needlework. Her taste for the beautiful infuses her embroidery, rendering her work fit to be worn by the governor despite its shameful source. Although the ornate detail of her artistry defies Puritan codes of fashion, it is in demand for burial shrouds, christening gowns, and officials’ robes. In fact, through her work, Hester touches all the major events of life except for marriage-it is deemed inappropriate for chaste brides to wear the product of Hester Prynne’s hands.
...and Thirteen:

Hester has become more active in society. She brings food to the doors of the poor, she nurses the sick, and she is a source of aid in times of trouble.She is still frequently made an object of scorn, but more people are beginning to interpret the “A” on her chest as meaning “Able” rather than “Adulterer.”Hawthorne's fictional Puritans are more tolerant than his non-readers realize. As in real life throughout history, friendly (or at least less hostile) relations often begin with commerce. Hester's needlework is rejected for the one institution that her crime blasphemed: marriage. But the community eagerly purchases her handiwork to honor their dead, their infants at christening, and their magistrates - people they regard highly, and people to whom Hester's crime was irrelevant.

In time the people accept Hester's various acts of charity. The one that really stands out is nursing the sick. Think about what is involved here: people allow Hester in their homes


Vinyl LP | 1999 / UK – Reissue | New

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This rare album was recorded as part of the legendary prescription label album series in the late 1990's. Coil were invited to record at sun dial's studios beneath the London Bridge Hop Exchange. This studio was originally know as Samurai studios that was originally built and owned by Iron Maiden. The premises in Victorian times was an old debtors prison which had three levels underground, and still had the original chains, manacles and wrought iron doors from the old prison. This caught the attention of John Balance and was very keen to record there.

At Gary Ramon's invitation, Coil spent a number of days recording at the studio during Halloween 1998 and they developed a number of tracks someof which resulted in this LP. The other material has remained unreleased - however we hope to bring them out one day.

Ramon produced and mixed the "Astral Disaster" recordings, as well as playing guitar and sitar on these sessions. The original album was issued on Prescription in an edition of 99 signed and numbered copies, which are long time sold out. Originals fetch £700+. This is the first time the album is being reissued officially since 1999.

A version of this album was later remixed by the band and released on their own label, however these Prescription mixes are unique to this first release of "Astral Disaster".

Taken from the original masters this album comes with original sleeve artwork, insert and facsimile signatures of John Balance and Peter Christopherson that


The behemoth Department of Homeland Security violated federal rules when they neglected to report nearly two dozen conferences sponsored by the agency in 2014 and 2015 at an overall cost of more than...

The FBI’s once imposing fortress-like headquarters in downtown Washington is in shambles today, with netting hanging from the façade to prevent broken concrete from hitting passing tourists. Inside,...

Under pressure from the White House, the Navy agreed to add a second Littoral Combat Ship to its 2018 budget despite grave concerns about the capabilities of the vessel. The stated reason was to save...

On Memorial Day, we pay respects to the fallen from past wars – including the more than one million American soldiers killed in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam. YetBEIJING, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's refitted aircraft carrier sailed for its second sea trial on Tuesday for relevant scientific research and experiments, Chinese Ministry of National Defense said in a press release.

According to the press release, prior to sailing, the aircraft carrier had completed all the refitting and testing work as scheduled after its first sea trial in August.

The carrier was originally built by the former Soviet Union which named it Varyag, yet failed to complete the ship's construction before collapsing in 1991. The still-unnamed aircraft carrier was an empty shell. Ukraine disarmed it and removed its engines before selling it to China.

The vessel, an Admiral Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier which measures 304.5 meters long and 37 meters wide, with a displacement of 58,500 metric tons, has


been totally refitted for its new role as a research and training platform in China.

The vessel departed for its first trial from a port in Dalian, a city in northeast China's Liaoning Province on Aug. 10.

The building of an aircraft carrier is a long and complex project. In the building process, there will be a series of scientific research experiments and training exercises, and such activities are routine and normal.

Currently, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Spain, Italy, India, Brazil and Thailand, operate a total of 21 active-service aircraft carriers.

Only days after planespotters photographed Pakistan Air Force's Y8 ZDK-03 AEW bird (serial number 11-001) at the Chengdu Airport, the China Air Force's equivalent is also spotted in Shanyang (733). It seems there is credence to therumor that the China Air Force is interested in procuring some ZKD-03s for its own use.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

The recent China Navy's West Pac drill in international waters draws little notice outside of Asia but the reaction from Japan is once again over-the-top........ Just love that Einstein look alike actor/naval expert they used on TV.

PLA naval fleet to go for exercise in western Pacific

(Source: Xinhua) 2011-11-24

BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- The People's Liberation Army (PLA) naval fleet will go for routine training in the western Pacific in late November, according to a written statement issued by China's Ministry of National Defense.

The annual regular training is in accordance with relevant international laws and practice, and not directed toward any particular country or goal, the statement said.

China's lawful rights, including


resulting in the murder of 13 Chinese sailors.

A headquarters for the initiative will be founded in China and there will be a coordination office in each of the other three countries. They will be linked by a round-the-clock communication mechanism, the statement said.

China will assist Laos and Myanmar police in terms of training and equipment, the statement said.

Police departments of the four countries will also set up a coordination team to work out more security measures along the Mekong River, it added.
Editor: Zhang Xiang

THE Chinese military will conduct a joint rescue exercise with the Australian Defence Force in earthquake-prone Sichuan.

The move comes only a week after Beijing reacted angrily to the announcement the US would rotate marines through Darwin.

The exercise comes as China began extensive naval manoeuvres inthe South China Sea.

There is growing concern in the region at China's military build-up and modernisation, including the development of its first stealth fighters and aircraft carriers.

Western and Asian nations have issued calls for more transparency on the multi-trillion-dollar program.

The Weekend Australian has learned Australian officials in Beijing briefed both the Foreign Ministry and the People's Liberation Army a day ahead of US President Barack Obama's announcement that the Australian government had agreed to have 2500 US marines stationed in Darwin.

Reaction was understood to be muted but one diplomat said: "China can take some time to digest things."

But despite the announcement by Mr Obama on his trip to Australia last week, there has been increased contact and co-operation between the Australian and Chinese armed forces in recent years,


including a live-ammunition exercise off the Chinese coast last year, which caused inter-departmental ructions in Canberra.

Fifteen Australian army personnel, including a four-person medical team, will travel to China for the exercise next week, code named Co-operation Spirit 11 (CS11).

It will be held at a Chinese army rescue base about an hour outside the city of Chengdu, in the region where the devastating Wenchuan earthquake occurred in 2008, claiming 90,000 lives.

The project is a bilateral Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief planning exercise between the Australian Defence Force and the People's Liberation Army.

The exercise is based on an earthquake disaster response scenario in a fictitious third country, the Defence Department said.

"This exercise is an element of the defence international engagement with China and aims to enhance mutual understanding of respectiveissues; drafting plans and reform proposals for the PLA's development; submitting suggestions on the allocation of the PLA's strategic resources and examining and evaluating the implementation of the plans for the PLA's development.

Luo Yuan, deputy secretary-general of the China Society of Military Science, told China Daily the move is in response to increasingly sophisticated military operation in the future that might involve multiple combat forces and headquarters.

"The new department will become an authoritative and comprehensive planning center," Luo said.

Guo Boxiong, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Chief of the General Staff Chen Bingde attended the ceremony that marked the establishment of the department.

The conference came one day after President Hu Jintao met representatives to the Seventh Party congress of the PLA Academy of Military Science.

Hu urged the


military academy to closely follow military development trends throughout the world, examine the development of the Chinese army, and pay more attention to the study of strategic issues.

Monday, November 21, 2011

If this is not an one-off, it could mean that there are two shipyards capable of constructing the Yuan class in parallel, one in Wuhan and the other in Shanghai. Assuming money is no object, of course.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Mekong mayhem
New water sheriff
An unprecedented Chinese response to a river’s lawlessness

Nov 19th 2011 | CHIANG SAEN | from the print edition

MIST-DRAPED mountains and the serene ambience of the Thai city of Chiang Saen beguile visitors to the Mekong river in an area dubbed the Golden Triangle. This is where the borders of three countries, Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, converge.

ButPolitics

An audit of the HadCRUT4 dataset, the primary global temperature database used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has found multiple errors.

HadCRUT4 is also the dataset at the center of “ClimateGate” from 2009, managed by the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University.

The paper, An Audit of the Creation and Content of the HadCRUT4 Temperature Dataset by John McLean (PhD), was first published as a PhD thesis and now as a book. Get the book for $8 here. Read the original thesis here (free download).

The audit found more than 70 areas of concern about data quality and accuracy.

Australian researcher John McLean says that HadCRUT4 is far too sloppy to be taken seriously even by climate scientists, let alone a body as influential as the IPCC