cooly. "She looked around ignoring him. "It really is lovely up here."
"And my goodness do you look lovely Michelle!" he laughed again mischieveously. "Have you thought of wearing that costume on the ice?"
"Skating is work." Michelle shot back. "I'm here for pleasure."
She was hooking him good and he was playing right along.
He laughed again even louder. "May I join you?" he said.
Michelle paused a moment. "Alone?" she said. "Certainly."
As Tan snapped his finger, the girls bodyguards and the aura around himsuddenly disappeared.
All that was left was a big show off in a off-white tuxedo.
She had her level playing field.

Re: Part 6 of the Missing Bronze Horseman

Part 7 of the Missing Bronze Horseman

O.K. Here's a cliffhanger. I'll leave it to you guys to get her out of this andof course. We're lookingh to make some new additions."
"Like the Bronze Horseman?" she cut in.
Robert Tan suddenly lost his smile. "What do you know about it?" he said gravely.
"I know my friend has been accused of stealing it." she snapped back. "And I'm certain he's innocent!"
Tan began squirming and became more visibly upset.
"I'll bet you know a certain Russian from the former nobility don't you?" she went on.
"A Russian?" he said again statrled. "Maybe. But this is not the place to talk. I know a small cafe..."
"So do I. " Michelle cut in. "It's downstairs in the lobby. I'll see you there in 15 minutes. Alone.
Leaving Mr. Tan alone, Michelle made a determined strut out of the pool area and toward the staircase.
Pulling the door open she noticed


the stairs were much darker than they had previously been. She paused a moment and that's when it happened. She felt a large damp cloth cover her face. She tried to scream but a sweet noxious liquid began to overtake her as she fell losing conscioussness.

Overwhelming heat. That's all she could feel. Michelle felt her arms raised over her head and soon realized that her wrists were tied above her. Trying to speak she also realized that she had been tightly gagged with what felt like a strip of a terry cloth towel around her head. Beads of sweat trickled down her face and body as she writhed and squirmed in her bindings. She suddenly realized where she was. In a sauna. Along with her wrists, her ankleswere also tightly tied to the wooden slats. She spied a thermometer in the corner approacing 122 degrees ...and getting hotter.
She was still groggy from the chloroform and being gagged did not make breathing easier. She tried to keep herself awake while the sweat dripped down her soaking her bikini. She began to feel herself drifting off......


Murano, 1999
Notomysis Wittmann, 1986
Nouvelia Bacescu & Vasilescu, 1973
Paraleptomysis Liu & Wang, 1983
Prionomysis W. Tattersall, 1922
Proleptomysis Wittmann, 1985
Promysis Dana, 1850
Pseudomysis G. O. Sars, 1879
Pseudoxomysis Nouvel, 1973
Pyroleptomysis Wittmann, 1985
Rostromysis Panampunnayil, 1987
Tenagomysis Thomson, 1900
Mancomysinae Bacescu & Iliffe, 1986
Palaumysis Bacescu & Iliffe, 1986
Mysidellinae Czerniavsky, 1882
Mysidella G. O. Sars, 1872
Mysidetes Holt & Tattersall, 1906
Mysinae Haworth, 1825
Acanthomysis Czerniavsky, 1882
Alienacanthomysis Holmquist, 1981
Anisomysis Hansen, 1910
Antarctomysis Coutière, 1906
Antromysis Creaser, 1936
Arthromysis Colosi, 1924
Bermudamysis Bacescu & Iliffe, 1986
Boreoacanthomysis Fukuoka & Murano, 2004
Carnegieomysis W. Tattersall, 1943
Caspiomysis G. O. Sars, 1907
Columbiaemysis Holmquist, 1982
Diamysis Czerniavsky, 1882
Disacanthomysis Holmquist, 1981
Exacanthomysis Holmquist, 1981
Gangemysis Derzhavin, 1924
Gironomysis Ortiz, García-Debrás & Pérez, 1997
Halemysis Bacescu & Udrescu, 1984
Hemiacanthomysis Fukuoka & Murano, 2002
Hemimysis G. O. Sars, 1869
Hippacanthomysis Murano & Chess, 1987
Holmesimysis Holmquist, 1979
Hyperacanthomysis Fukuoka & Murano, 2000
Hyperstilomysis Fukuoka, Bravo & Murano, 2005
Idiomysis W. Tattersall, 1922
Indomysis W. Tattersall, 1914
Inusitatomysis Ii, 1940
Javanisomysislittle different.”

And different it surely is, as you will see, clocking in at close to 17 minutes in length. At times campy, at times innovative and at most times simply painful, people are still watching, with close to 400,000 views on YouTube so far.

The best moment is at the end with the line: “‘Cats’ was better.”

It was, but you be the judge:


With the death of his father in 1971, Mr. Bronfman’s personal life began to unravel. That same year he separated from his wife, with whom he had five children. After their divorce, he married Lady Carolyn Townshend, in 1973, but that marriage also ended in divorce, a year later. He quickly became involved with another Englishwoman, Rita Webb (who changed her name to Georgiana). They married and divorced each other twice, and had two daughters. He then married Jan Aronson, an artist and a former triathlete.

He is survived by Ms. Aronson; his sons, Samuel, Edgar Jr., Matthew and Adam, and his daughter Holly Bronfman Lev, all from his first marriage; his daughters with Ms. Webb, Sara Igtet and Clare Bronfman; his brother, Charles; his sister Phyllis Lambert; 24grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

In 1975, Samuel Bronfman II was kidnapped in New York and held for ransom. Mr. Bronfman himself delivered the $2.4 million ransom to one of his son’s two kidnappers, who were both arrested shortly afterward by the F.B.I. But the kidnappers’ lawyer claimed in court that the abduction had been a hoax and that Sam Bronfman had been a part of it. In the end, the jury convicted the defendants of the lesser charge of extortion. With liquor consumption in decline in 1981, Mr. Bronfman tried to buy Conoco, a major oil and gas company. Seagram lost out to DuPont in the bidding but, because of its investment in Conoco, ended up with a 20 percent share of DuPont — and soon raised this to


Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that until Israel apologized for its May attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship in which nine Turkish citizens were killed it would remain isolated in the Middle East.

Open gallery view Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Credit: Reuters

Israel must apologize to Turkey and pay compensation for the state terrorism in the Mediterranean," Erdogan said while addressing members of his Islamic-oriented party at a weekend retreat, adding that "If it does not, it will be doomed to remain isolated in the Middle East.

The Turkish premier also criticized the United States for continuing to support Israel after the "uncivilized" attack during a recent state visit to Pakistan.

Nine Turkish martyrs on the ship received 21 bullets from Israeli soldiers in their bodies, weprovided post mortem reports and even the pictures to the EU and U.S. but Washington is not ready to condemn the state terrorism of Israel against Turkey which means that the U.S. is supporting an international terrorist who killed our citizens in international waters," Erdogan told the Pakistan Tribune.

According to the report the Turkish prime minister also stressed the importance of close ties between Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Turkey, saying that the countries have a common security and financial future.

Earlier this month the U.S. and Israeli expressed concern regarding Turkey's growing military ties with Iran and China, especially following a joint Turkish-Chinese air-force exercise.

Until two years ago Israel was Turkey's main partner for air combat training.

In the wake of Operation Cast Lead and the subsequent deterioration of bilateral


relations Turkey last year revoked Israel's participation in the maneuvers. The United States decided not to take part in the exercise this year because of that decision. A number of other NATO members followed suit.

Turkey replaced the Israel Air Force with its Chinese counterpart. China sent Sukhoi SU-27 fighter aircraft and pilots to train with Turkey's F-16 fighters. In the past these exercises were held in relatively openness, but last week they were held covertly, with only a brief report appearing in the Turkish media after the exercise.

The Obama administration also protested Turkey's military cooperation with Iran after it was reported that the Chinese fighter planes were sent to Turkey via Pakistan and Iran.

The developing ties among Turkey, Iran and China are also reflected in weapons deals, withpeople who were in the kitchen?
"NICKLIN: Cooks on the crew, I don't know their names  on relief kitchen, the Steward there.
"BERKSHIRE: Well, did the Steward see you drinking anything?
"NICKLIN: No.
"BERKSHIRE: Well, how would he be able to tell?
"NICKLIN: I don't know.
"BERKSHIRE: Who saw you drinking the pruno?
"NICKLIN: I didn't drink any."
The committee spokesman responded by reciting evidence before the committee, namely the reporting officer's testimony that petitioner had the smell of pruno on his breath and the nurse's testimony that petitioner's breath smelled the same as the breaths of the inmates who had admitted drinking the alcohol, and concluded that "The Committee sees no merit in contacting anybody else as to whether or not you may or may not have consumed any pruno."
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this movie he doesn’t speak and is one-eyed. He is a killing machine, coming from nowhere, or from hell, as some say. What are his objectives ? He begins the movie as a slave trained for fighting pits, killing one opponent after the other, relentless. Who is he ? A poor man or a God from the Nordic pantheon ? Has he come on earth only to go back to hell bringing back with him fierce warriors ? Or is hell the world he is now living in ?

The film is sequenced in several chapters, but actually there is two parts, both very different. The first part is the fighting pit killing machine story , the second part begins with the encounter with a group of evangelising warriorsI’ve met and chatted with two Nobel Prize winners over the years, and during two summers, drank a lot of coffee with a member of the Nobel Committee. I also had the luck to get to know a holder of the Medal of Honor. None of those people manifested the depth and strength of personality that my old director had shown me.

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So I located the man, and we communicated occasionally through the years. We still do, but I respect him too much to force myself on him as much as I’d like.

About five years ago, he and his wife visited Helmville for a few days. As they were leaving, he took me aside, saying that he had something to tell me. He was crying a little, and I


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In a Jan. 22, 2013 letter sent to both the city of East Cleveland, Ohio, and the company that operates East Cleveland's photo-enforcement program, Postal Service attorney Jennifer S. Breslin said the Post Office should ignore two school-zone speeding citations and five red-light infractions that postal trucks received in December.

"In providing mail service across the country, the Postal Service attempts to work within local and state laws and regulations, when feasible," wrote Breslin. "However, as you are probably aware, the Postal Service enjoys federal immunity from state and local regulation." She continued: "The state and/or local ordinances imposing penalties and fines cannot be enforced as against the Postal Service, and there is no statutory basis2012, the city added three more red-light cameras to try to make enough money to pay back ATS, even though by that time a San Bernardino county court had ruled that photo tickets were inadmissible hearsay. In August 2012 the city filed for bankruptcy, allowing it to finally end its contract with ATS.

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A court in Szczecinek, Poland on Dec. 11, 2012, imposed a 1000 zloty ($315) fine against a man who made an unusual protest against speed cameras. In October, Mariusz Sztuba hopped on his bicycle wearing nothing but sneakers on his feet and undergarments on his head. He raced past a speed camera in Bialy Bor at 33 mph. This being a 25 mph zone, the camera snapped a photograph.

Local police finally found Sztuba


and charged him with violating the speed limit. Sztuba claimed he was protesting the automatic ticketing machine because it made his village known as a speed trap. The local judge still found him guilty.

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When Tacoma, Wash., motorist Kevin Schmadeka received a ticket accusing him of running a red light, courtesy of the Australian company Redflex that installed the system, he wanted to face his accuser and challenge the ticket. Just one problem: He was told he'd have to pay $670 in travel expenses to bring in a Redflex employee from out of state. "When I was at the clerk's office inquiring about chain-of-custody information, the employee at the counter mentioned that if I wanted to subpoena a camera company representative that there was a fee,"and "benefits," with claims for tort damages measured by the amount equivalent to "wages lost for failure to reemploy." For the reasons expressed, we find the latter are not included within the former.

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John W. Hanson was employed by Garden Grove Unified School District (District) as "business manager/operations" from November 1971 until June 1973, at which time he was laid off because the position was being eliminated due to budget reductions. In June 1974, when District advertised to fill the position of "business manager," Hanson promptly wrote District stating he believed the position now open was "similar" to the one he previously held and asked District to advise him about the possibility of his being reemployed as business manager under *945 the provisions of Education Code section 13737.[2]


District promptly advised Hanson the newly classified position encompassed duties beyond the nonfiscal operational functions to which the position Hanson previously held was limited, being instead one responsible for all areas of office business services. This letter, dated June 14, 1974, directly advised Hanson he was not entitled to priority in reemployment but invited him to compete in the open examination for the new position. Hanson took no action to perfect his supposed rights under Education Code section 13737 nor did he compete for the examination. On August 12, 1974, the newly created position was filled by another.
More than two years later, Hanson applied to District's personnel commission for reinstatement and his request was denied September 17, 1976. More than 100 days later, on January 7, 1977, heTV show description:
This dramatic series follows the brilliant and debonair owner of the Truth nightclub in New York — James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick). He also happens to be one of the largest drug distributors in the city. He and his best friend Tommy created his drug empire from nothing. While the club is a front to wash money, Ghost decides he wants to finally leave the drug world and go legitimate but that’s easier said than done.

Driven by her career and a desire to live the life she believes she should want, Angela Valdes (Lela Loren) grew up with Ghost in a rough neighborhood. Using her intellect and ambition, she managed to escape that world but she never truly left her childhood behind. On the cusp


of achieving everything she’s worked for, Angela has a chance encounter with “Jamie” — her past love.

Tasha St. Patrick (Naturi Naughton) is Ghost’s crafty, loving, and gorgeous wife. She’s been at his side for years, throughout his rise in the drug game. She’s his partner in raising three children and building an empire while providing the home life and stability he wants. In return, she enjoys lavish lifestyle and the illusion of normal domesticity. As Ghost pursues the club, Tasha begins to realize that her fantasy life may be in jeopardy and isn’t ready to let it go.

Ghost’s best friend since childhood, Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) is extreme, wounded, and loyal to a fault. They began the drug business together and he loves the money, power, control, andEdgar Allen Poe's writings and career.

When Poe was young he attended the University of Virginia school and was a very intelligent person. In 1827, Poe joined the United States Army where he wrote his first poems. Poe wrote various poems while he was in the army, although these poems did not receive any attention or popularity. After serving for the army, Poe moved in with his aunt in Baltimore, Maryland. This is where Poe began to pursue his career of writing.

While living with his aunt, Poe wrote most of the things that he is now famous for. These include “The Raven”, “The tell-tale heart”, and “The fall of the house of usher”. Poe wrote many different kinds of things such as poetry, short stories, lots of essays and


book reviews, a textbook, and even a book of scientific theory.

-Interesting Fact: Poe had written enough poetry to publish a book by the time he was thirteen.

Poe gained a reputation of writing very scary horror stories and was very well known for this. He continued writing things until 1849 when he died mysteriously.Sutil makes Q3 again, Chandhok to start last

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Force India's Adrian Sutil breezed into the third qualifying session (Q3) and will start Sunday's Australian Grand Prix 10th on the grid which will have India's lone F1 driver Karun Chandhok in the last row.

Both the Force India cars should have been in Q3 but Sutil's team mate Vitantonio Liuzzi was caught up in traffic and the Italian, who scored the outfit's first points in Bahrain, would be 13th on the starting grid.

"Both should have been in Q3. Liuzzi had traffic problems and Sutil too could have qualified seventh or eighth but for a slight mistake in the first sector of his final timed lap," Force India chairman Vijay Mallya said.

Hispania driver Chandhok, meanwhile, completed 10 laps


PITTSBURGH -- Ben Roethlisberger got the privacy he wanted for his wedding Saturday, with police providing tight security around the church in affluent Ohio Township where he and Ashley Harlan were married and tinted windows on expensive cars leaving much of the guest list a mystery.

Still, the hope of a glimpse at the Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback, his new bride and the dozens of team luminaries who turned out for the ceremony was enough for Dolly Metz to sit in a car -- complete with Steelers covers on the headrests -- in a nearby parking lot with the windows down in 90 degree heat.

Guests arrived at Ben Roethlisberger's wedding Saturday under a cloud of secrecy, in limos and buses with heavily-tinted windows. AP Photo/Keith Srakocic

"This is the best partof my day," said Metz, who lives in McKees Rocks. "I know he was supposed to send a limo for me too, but it broke down."

Metz and friends Eugene and Carol Lovely were among a small group of Steeler fans who tried to show their support for Roethlisberger.

The organization was well-represented too despite the NFL's ongoing labor dispute.

Owner Dan Rooney waved to security officials on his way inside and guests included linebacker James Harrison and former Pittsburgh running back Jerome Bettis.

Harrison entered in a rare Mercedes sedan, according to police, his presence perhaps proof there was no fallout from his criticism of the quarterback in a "Men's Journal" article released last week.

The Pro Bowler placed some of the blame on the team's Super Bowl loss to the Green


Bay Packers on Roethlisberger in the story, then later apologized saying his comments were taken out of context.

Whenever Roethlisberger and his teammates return to the field, he'll be a married man, an idea that seemed to resonate with the fans who have watched his legal troubles the last few years with growing exasperation.

The Super Bowl winning quarterback has twice found himself accused of sexual misconduct. Though neither incident resulted in charges, he was suspended for four games by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell last year.

He returned to lead Pittsburgh back to the Super Bowl, and surprised some by revealing his engagement to the 26-year-old Harlan, a physician's assistant from New Castle, Pa., this spring.

Roethlisberger has acknowledged the need to restore his public image, and fan Linda Moule admitted sheProperties, a real-estate company privately owned by the Asper family that owned Canwest, until early 2014. The building was acquired under new ownership in May 2014 and is owned by Portage & Main Development Ltd., a private corporation whose shareholders include 201 Portage Equities Inc. and Harvard Developments Inc.

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and the volatility index, or Vix, stayed at remarkably low levels (see chart). None of the political headlines—the tensions between America and North Korea, the investigation into President Donald Trump’s election victory, the inconclusive German elections—seemed to bother investors for very long.

Politics could still sandbag the markets in 2018, particularly if another war broke out in Asia or the Middle East. But the more immediate concern for investors will be monetary policy. The Federal Reserve has been steadily pushing up interest rates, and the European Central Bank is reducing its monthly bond purchases. The combination of low rates and quantitative easing (QE) has been helpful for markets ever since the financial crisis. Like anxious parents, central banks are taking the training wheels off their children’s bicycles and hopingAlec Baldwin, Lena Dunham, Others React to Woody Allen Accusations

You’re probably aware by now that the New York Times posted an open letter from Woody Allen’s adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow on Saturday alleging that the comedian and director had sexually molested her when he was in a relationship with her mother, Mia Farrow. Allen was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s Golden Globes (and is nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category at the Oscars), and a tweet from Dylan’s brother Ronan after the ceremony revived interest in the case. Allen’s camp responded two days ago, calling the article “untrue and disgraceful” and alleged that Dylan had been “coached by her mother Mia Farrow” to make the allegation.

Now, other celebrity reactions are trickling in. Alec


Generation Knife: Will Overuse End Up Ruining Young Athletes?

VICE Sports examines "Generation Knife" – an era of children that exist with the unmatched skills and rebuilt joints of seasoned pros – and what will happen when their surgically-repaired bodies age.

Overuse injuries have increased over the years, with the main cause being specialization. While young athletes used to play a variety of sports throughout the year, they often now focus on just one sport with high-intensity training (most commonly baseball, basketball and football).

Dr. James Kinderknecht, sports medicine surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery, offers insight into this issue and points to the early 90s as the dawning of the new age of the reconstructed athlete. He also addresses the increased risk of arthritis for Generation Knife.

"The problem with arthritisWashington National Opera's new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor was one of my top picks for the opera season, and the opening night performance proved me right. Sometimes provocativedirector David Alden, whose 2007 staging of Jenůfa was one of the best on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage in the last decade, has again modernized a 19th-century story to create a disturbing, Strindbergian drama (created for English National Opera) -- unsettling enough to earn a round of boos from the normally half-asleep Kennedy Center crowd. My full report, including thoughts on both casts, will run at Washingtonian.com on Monday, but for now, suffice it to say that anyone who enjoys good singing and good theater will want to experience this production.

In the A cast, American soprano Sarah


better, and he had a sweet but still robust tone, with a little dustiness at the top here and there. In Aragorn-style long-haired wig and kilt, he cut a dashing figure as Edgardo, and he sang an outstanding tomb scene in Act III.

Baritone Michael Chioldi sounded much more promising as Enrico, Lucia's brother, than he has in previous appearances with Washington National Opera, in last year's Madama Butterfly and 2010's Hamlet. The top had a pleasing, forceful snarl, although there were still some rather odd vowel formations. He was outshone by another company debut, Italian bass Mirco Palazzi as Raimondo, the slimy family chaplain. Tenor Corey Evan Rotz, thanked again by the company for saving their bacon by stepping in as Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos two yearsago, had a hilarious turn as Arturo, whom Enrico chooses to marry his sister, costumed here as sort of Oscar Wilde-style dandy, a vain fop one is quite glad to see murdered. The supporting roles were filled ably by apprentice singers.

Musically, the evening was so strong because of the capable hands of the company's music director, Philippe Auguin, in the pit, showing yet again that when he is at the podium, it will be worth hearing. The orchestra sounded in excellent form, in sync with one another and their leader, and playing with confidence, from the Scotland-evoking horns, to the extended harp solo in Act I, and certainly the otherworldly sound of the glass armonica, played by special guest artist William Zeitler, a heart-breaking evocation of Lucia's hallucinations,


sadly removed from the score by Donizetti in a later version. Auguin managed to rein in the chorus's tendency to rush, a repeated problem last night, and with clear gestures kept the orchestra on the same page even as he navigated the many twists and turns of tempo adjustment necessary in this score, to give the soloists the rhythmic space they need.

The libretto by Salvatore Cammarano is adapted from the arch-Romantic Walter Scott novel, The Bride of Lammermoor, and David Alden's staging updates the period to the stifling repression of the Victorian era. The sets (Charles Edwards), costumes (Brigitte Reiffenstuel), and lighting (Adam Silverman) are starved of all color, creating a twilight world that evokes both the run-down estate of Ravenswood and the dingy ward of a mentalasylum. Lucia's overly dramatic nature and tendency toward elaborate fantasy is played out on a small stage, a Victorian home theater nowhere near as elaborate as the one built by John Langdon Down in his home/hospital in Middlesex. Alden meant to evoke the treatment innovated by Down, having his patients perform music and drama on stage -- the chorus serves as a silently applauding audience in the mad scene -- but it works just as well as a way to understand Lucia as a self-centered and delusional Romantic, the sort of person who might commit suicide because a favorite character in a novel had done so.

Something is not right in the Ashton family, although Cammarano and Donizetti do not make it explicit beyond Enrico's desperate need to form


the walls.

The B cast of Lucia debuts tomorrow night, with Lyubov Petrova in the title role, last heard in the role at Central City Opera in 2009.

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Thanks great review - I was also at opening night and loved the cast, production, costumes, and lighting. I was a little surprised to hear David Alden booed by some, but everyone has their own opinion - I loved the world he created on stage, even if it wasn't quite traditional. I am higher on Miss Coburn, I thought she held up a fine cast, and I agree the Albanian tenor was the pleasant surprise of the evening.This production is well worth seeing - best I've seen on the KC stage since last year's Hamlet.

I enjoyed the singers very much.The orchestrahead with a closely trimmed black beard and moustache. On his elaborate helm was the Merman Crest of Pan Tang…. Jagreen Lern. – Michael Moorcock, Stormbringer, Book II Chapter 4 (1963-1964 as novellas, 1965 as book) Prince Gaynor sat in the middle of this, near the leaping fire, all encased from head to foot in his flashing armour. It was sometimes silver, sometimes gold, sometimes bluish steel. A dark yellow plume nodded on the helm and on the breastplate was engraved the Arms of Chaos — eight arrows radiating from a central hub, representing, according to Chaos, all the rich possibilities inherent in its philosophy. Prince Gaynor did not carouse. He did not eat and he did not drink. He merely stared at his warriors, his metal-gloved hands


There was so much money. Fairfax had butlers and dining rooms and fleets of cars. Big houses in the best suburbs of Canberra housed journalists sent south to cover national affairs. London and New York had big offices at big addresses with yet more houses and cars.

A man in livery stood in the foyer of the Fairfax headquarters in Ultimo, Sydney and tugged his forelock – it’s the only time I’ve seen it happen in my life – when members of “the family” took the lift to the executive floor where the walls were hung with superb modern Australian paintings.

So much money and so much bullshit about the long tradition of glorious Fairfax journalism. The Sydney Morning Herald was a cautious Tory paper blind for so long tothe squalor of commercial and political life in its city. The thing was: for all its faults the SMH was so much better than its competitors, the Packer rags: the Telegraph in the morning and the Mirror at night.

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And the Herald had what no competitor could match: the classified ads. The paper was a market place. If you were buying a house or needed a job, you bought the Herald. No one was truly dead for a century in Sydney unless the Herald’s death notices – for a small fee – confirmed you were.

Protecting that market set the tone of the paper. An appetite for tabloid scandal was indulged (profitably) in the afternoon Sun, but


Gough Whitlam.

But a big shift was already underway in the empire’s grey tower in Ultimo. Old Warwick was fading out. Surrounding his heir James was a new generation of executives with big ambitions for Fairfax journalism.

The Herald was revamped. The brakes were taken off. Talented editors exiled for petty crimes against the family were brought back. Little old ladies faded as the core customers of the papers. They were being published from this point for anyone – even Labor voters – who had some money, education and curiosity about the world.

With new masters at the sluice gates, the rivers of cash from classified advertising were diverted into journalism – an odd idea, but it worked. And as the papers were transformed, the rivers of gold grew fatter still.Shares in John Fairfax and Sons were the bluest of blue chip.

Businessmen on the board wouldn’t listen to those who could see catastrophe looming

Early in this revolution, Fairfax began a radical (by Australian standards) weekly with high-end muck racking ambitions called The National Times. Its godfather and (briefly) editor Evan Whitton died the other day at the age of 90 spared the humiliations of this week and honoured for the crusading spirit he brought to his paper. A little rubbed off on all the Fairfax mastheads.

For 15 years the Natty Times pursued corruption, tax evaders, brutal police, John Kerr, stupid wars, ridiculous politicians, high court judges looking after their mates, chief magistrates on the take, premiers collecting brown paper bags of cash and all the “isms” hitherto forbidden


to us. Anne Summers wrote about feminism with clarion ferocity. I put in a quiet word for gay rights.

The honorific “Ms” appeared.

For a decade the world lay before Fairfax. These were the years in which John Fairfax and Sons could rightly claim to be a great proprietor in the tradition of US and UK newspapers. In a moment of patrician hubris, Fairfax used a little spare change to pick up the Spectator magazine.

The ownership of Fairfax was never in play. The rules of big, old families are rigid: you cannot sell what gives you power. The Fairfaxes were richer than ever in those prosperous times, but they couldn’t unlock their immense capital – until young Warwick made his harebrained takeover bid in 1987.

They sold. Warwick took control. Theplace was loaded with debt. What might have saved the show far down the track – the Channel 7 network – had already been flogged off for ready cash. The whole thing tanked in 1990.

What began that year – and ended this week – were a number of dramatic plays for control of the Fairfax carcass. Until well into the new century, there was a lot of meat on those bones. The newspapers were strong, respected and ceaselessly profitable.

John Alexander, a great editor of the Sydney Morning Herald who went on to run Kerry Packer’s gambling empire, told me once that while he was in the chair in the 1990s, the Saturday edition of the paper alone made a profit of a million dollars a week. So, he


came the internet.

Fairfax responded badly. Businessmen on the board wouldn’t listen to those who could see catastrophe looming. What happened was not inevitable. The slow collapse of Fairfax began when it lost control of two of the three rivers of gold. Cars and jobs went to its competitors. Fairfax kept property.

For an organisation that prided itself on plain speech, Fairfax developed a flair for euphemism. Downsizing was a favourite. The papers shifted to Pyrmont. The great newsroom of the Sydney Morning Herald – university, trade school, gossip hub, blood house, stage, sheltered workshop and marriage market – was slashed. A hundred went; then another hundred; and another ...

Each step of the way, the editor of the day would assemble the staff and say with a straight face thatFairfax was as committed as ever to quality. But great newspapers live off their fat. Talent is needed in depth. Being fearless in Australia comes with a price tag. Defamation lawyers aren’t cheap.

Farewells became routine. Those who stayed carried on as much as possible as before. Our commitment to journalism was personal. And in the air was still this notion that Fairfax was indestructible.

To a remarkable degree, quality was maintained. The Fairfax papers lost their edge as they lost their staff, but they spoke sense. As News Limited honed its skills as a political killing machine, the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald stayed above the fray. Surveys prove again these are the newspapers Australians most trust.

But as the cash dried up, quality became a contested term. Fairfax


online proved hugely successful – alas not hugely profitable – and a schism developed inside the company between those who saw tabloid on line as the way ahead and those who continued to defend Fairfax’s broadsheet ethos.

This contest has been fought all over the world. The New York Times and the Guardian are two media companies that have decided the internet – though it savaged revenues – hasn’t changed what journalism is about. What’s for sale here is information. The product is still good reporting.

Fairfax hedged its bets. The work of its leading journalists remains extraordinarily good. But the company lost faith in its mission. The one river of gold still flowing – indeed gushing in the property boom of the past few years – was fed notto the journalists, editors, photographers, artists and designers that keep great newspapers alive but to the shareholders.

Fairfax compounded its own misery.

Lately media empires have played on the sense of doom hanging over them to drive expansion in ways politicians would once never have permitted. Nearly every step of Rupert Murdoch’s march through the British media has been allowed on the argument – his argument – that without him the Times, or the Sunday Times or the Sun would fail.

That same argument has been gnawing away out here at the historic arrangement Paul Keating imposed: no media mogul could control newspapers and television stations in the same market. That was far from ideal. It still left nearly all Australians in the peculiar position of buying their newspapers from Fairfax


TCA Chess in
Education workshop, March 8, 2008, 1-5 p.m. (Houston), co-organized by UTD's Dr. Alexey Root
and Luis Salinas. The
University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB), Texas Tech University (TTU), and The
University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) are the higher education leaders for chess
in education in Texas. With this workshop, Texas builds its reputation as the
leading state for chess in education. UTB, TTU, and UTD are joint workshop
sponsors, along with the Texas Chess Association (TCA).

1:00-1:30
Dr. Steve Lipschultz, Think
Like A King School Chess Software,
presents a Demonstration of An Interactive System to Establish Chess At Any
School.

The
Think Like A King School Chess Software System is used in 1500 schools
nationwide, and has become the Official Scholastic Software of the US Chess
Federation. See an in-depth demonstration of how it can be used to quickly build
chessprograms throughout an entire school district.

1:30-2:30
Keynote Speaker Russell Harwood, Chess Program Director UTB/TSC, presents,
The Chess Boom in Brownsville,
Texas, and Tips for Duplicating it Where You Live.

Scholastic chess is booming in Brownsville, Texas, and the surrounding
communities. Of the 50 schools in the Brownsville Independent School District,
at least 35 have active chess programs. Six different Brownsville ISD schools
have won national chess championships, led by Dr. Americo Paredes Elementary’s
seven national titles. Two elementary school students have tied for individual
national championships, and many others have finished in the top five. The chess
success of our local schools got the attention of Dr. Juliet Garcia, President
of The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, who formed a
chess program at UTB/TSC so that area students would have the opportunity to
earn scholarships and compete in chess


at the university level. The Brownsville
Independent School District has gotten onboard, and now allocates about $400,000
per year to their chess program. Chess has become a source of pride to BISD,
UTB/TSC, and our community, and is now part of our identity. How did all of this
come about? How can these results be duplicated elsewhere? Are there other
successful models in our area? How does the future look? These questions and
more will be addressed during this informative presentation.

Grandmaster Polgar is the only person – male or female- to win
chess’ Triple Crown, comprised of Rapid, Blitz and Classical World
Championships. She is the top-ranked woman player in the United States and was
the first woman to earn the Grandmaster title. Susan currently is the director
of SPICE at Texas Tech University and the head coachof the Knight Raiders’
chess team. She is arguably the most active promoter of scholastic chess in the
United States, visiting countless schools and communities across the country.
After a short presentation a Q&A session will follow.

Looking
to combine educational goals with chess? Dr. Root presents an activity from her
most recent book that teaches the geometry of the board along with the
particular way in which knights move, all wrapped up in a fun story. Come hear,
and participate in, “Coco Can’t Wait.”

3:30-4:00
Jerry Nash, Scholastic and FIDE Director for USCF, presents Strategies to
Introduce Chess as an Educational Tool: Coordinating the Five Communities.

Scholastic chess has seen a dramatic
increase within the last twenty years. In 1988, the United States Chess
Federation’s youth and scholastic members totaled approximately 7000. By 2002,
the two age groups combined for over 53,000


members. The state of chess in
education may be characterized by its status as two types of programs:
after-school and curriculum instruction. By far the majority of scholastic chess
programs fall within the after-school category. The coordination of four
communities – educational, civic, business, and political communities – along
with the chess community is critical for the development of opportunities to
demonstrate the value of chess for instruction.

Participants will learn how to get organized, where to find some great resources
at little or no cost, how to get parents involved and how to get your school
involved in chess and your club involved in the life of your school. “Fun”
sometimes involves hard work so we will also explore a few ideas about how to
increase the work and fun at the same time. We will also considera few fun ways
and places to play and teach chess. Mr. Johnston has been a scholastic chess
coach at Westminster Christian Academy in St. Louis for more than 17 years and
is currently a member of the advisory council of the Gateway Chess League, the
largest scholastic chess organization in Missouri.

TCA
continues to be one of the country’s strongest state chess organizations, with
unprecedented growth and opportunities. In order to accommodate this growth,
strategic planning is critical. An eagle eye’s view will be given, which
includes the current status, goals, and focus that the organization will have
for the next few years.

About UT Brownsville

The University of Texas at Brownsville has been a member of The University of
Texas System since 1991. In cooperation with Texas Southmost College, The
University serves more than 12,000 students at its campus located


in
Brownsville, Texas. In Partnership with Texas Southmost College, The University
offers a wide range of courses from Associate and Baccalaureate degrees to
graduate classes and continuing education. For additional information about UT
Brownsville, please visit the University’s website at http://www.utb.edu/.

About
Texas Tech University
With nearly 29,000 students yet a cozy-feeling campus, Texas Tech students get
the benefits of a major research institution without getting lost in the crowd.
Texas Tech offers more than 150 degree programs through ten colleges. Texas Tech
has a top-ranked School of Law, a Graduate School, and a Health Sciences Center
that leads the country in areas such as aging and border health. They’re all
located on the same campus. In 2007, TTU established the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess
Excellence (SPICE) with its mission being

•
To promote chess as vehicle for enriching education
• To serveas the global center for chess research, education and development
• To support and promote competitive chess at the college level
• To recruit outstanding undergraduate and graduate students
For additional information about TTU, please visit the University's website at
http://www.ttu.edu

About
UT DallasThe University of
Texas at Dallas, located at the convergence of Richardson, Plano and Dallas in
the heart of the complex of major multinational technology corporations known as
the Telecom Corridor, enrolls more than 14,500 students. The school’s
freshman class traditionally stands at the forefront of Texas state universities
in terms of average SAT scores. The University offers a broad assortment of
bachelor’s,
master’s
and doctoral degree programs. For additional information about UT Dallas, please
visit the University's website at
http://www.www.utdallas.edu.

About TCA

The Texas Chess Association (TCA) promotes chess throughout the state of Texas.
It is the official United States Chess Federation (USCF)


Grizzlies' Gasol selected as league's top defender

The Sports Xchange

The SportsXchangeApril 24, 2013

Memphis center Marc Gasol was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year on Wednesday, becoming the first Grizzlies player to win the award Gasol, 28, beat out Miami's LeBron James and Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka for the honor. In voting by sportswriters and broadcasters, Gasol received 212 of a possible 1,089 points and 30 first-place votes. LeBron had 149 points and 18 first-place votes and was followed by Ibaka (122 points, 14 first-place votes). The 7-foot-1 Gasol averaged 1.7 blocked shots and 1.0 steals during the regular season for a Grizzlies defense that allowed a league-low 88.7 points per game. He also averaged 14.1 points and 7.8 rebounds in 80 games this season.CREO receives grant to study Indiana’s school choice program

Published: October 09, 2015

Author: Bill Schmitt

Indiana’s school choice program is one of the largest in the United States. Until now, little has been known about how this initiative to increase parents’ educational options for their children is affecting either the schools or the students.

The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) has been awarded a $1 million grant to examine a range of those effects. This ground-breaking, three-year initiative uses data allowing comparisons among traditional public, charter and private schools.

Support from the Chicago-based Spencer Foundation, which invests in research to improve education around the world, will allow CREO director Mark Berends, a sociologist of education, to ask questions central to the merits of such a school


blood sample as the layers of the blood components are being formed, and becomes suspended in the centrifuged blood sample at a level governed by the density of the float with respect to the density of the blood sample component layers in the centrifuged blood sample. As the float migrates through the layers of the buffy coat region toward its final location in the blood sample, the float forces its way through the cell layers. When this occurs, some of the cells may be squeezed between the outer diameter of the float and the inner diameter of the sample tube, become damaged, and adhere to the inner diameter of the sample tube, thus resulting in uneven or wavy cell layers in the buffy coat region.
The float in conventionalthat overall, they appear a bit "static", and the animation is nothing to speak of.

SOUND: 9/10

Much like the graphics, EarthBound's music is very offbeat and unique to this game. Do not expect symphony orchestras like in the Final Fantasy-style RPGs! Much of EB's music is lighthearted and bouncy, but other times it takes on a techno beat, and there are times when it can sound sad or creepy. Mostly everything is quite fitting to the scene at hand.

When you walk through the snowy forest, you'll hear music with sleigh bells. The pyramid music sounds "Egyptian". Dalaam's theme has an Asian flavor to it. When you walk into the haunted town of Threed, the music is really creepy, like something you'd hear in a haunted house. And "Bluegrass Mall


Trolling" has to be one of the best videogame songs, ever! I also liked the songs that were performed by the Runaway Five, and the Sky Runner theme. The boss battle music is really good, too. Sometimes, you can hear weird sound effects in the music, like UFO noises, or monsters growling. I think the absolute coolest song in the game is the music heard during one of the final boss fights. It starts out sounding like something you'd hear on the NES, and then it proceeds to thrash into heavy metal! The only music that could've used some work is the normal battle themes. Some of them are good (such as the New-Age Retro Hippie's theme), but most of them are flat and some are really annoying.a meteor crashes outside Ness's house. Ness, being the main character of the story, goes to investigate, along with his annoying neighbor, Pokey. At the meteor crash site, Ness meets a heroic bee from 10 years in the future named Buzz Buzz. Buzz Buzz tells Ness the story of how Giygas destroyed everything in the future, and that it is up to Ness and three other kids, Paula, Jeff, and Poo, to stop him. Ness is given a Sound Stone, and he must use this to store energy from the eight power spots of the world, known as "Your Sanctuary" locations.

Along his journey, Ness will need to find the three other kids who will help him defeat Giygas. As if all that didn't sound complex enough as it


the 57 km (35.42 mile) journey between Israel’s two largest cities took nearly two hours.

A replacement has cost $2 billion to build and still isn’t finished after 17 years. The 125-year-old Ottoman line was completed in around two years.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut the ribbon in late September, rushing to meet a promise to inaugurate the fast train by the Jewish holidays. But for now it runs only as far as Ben Gurion Airport, 23 km from Tel Aviv.

Commuters elsewhere in the country have meanwhile complained they have to cram into crowded trains and stand in bathrooms after the government borrowed carriages for the intercity trains from other lines.

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Most commuters still choose to drive or take the bus, causing major jams in and outThe two officers were on a gang-suppression patrol in southeast San Diego on Thursday night when one put out a call for help.

Moments later, officers arrived to find one colleague fatally shot and the other critically wounded.

A trail of blood led police to a suspect who had been shot in the chest. Police detained another man Friday during a search for a second possible suspect.

In San Diego, it was the third fatal shooting of a police officer since 2010, but the first during the 28-month tenure of police Chief Shelley Zimmerman.

“Tragically, one of our officers was murdered last night,” Zimmerman told reporters late Friday morning.

San Diego police Officers Jonathan DeGuzman, left, and Irwin Wade. (San Diego Police Department)

The chief said she personally visited the wife of slain officer


said. Officers followed a trail of blood to him. He was critically injured by a gunshot wound to his upper chest.

Police, including officers from many other agencies, swarmed the area searching for another suspect with the aid of police dogs, helicopters and heavily armed SWAT team members. They focused for hours on the ravine just south of Acacia Grove Way.

Shortly before sunrise Friday, no other suspects had been found and many officers from the other police agencies were released from their posts by 4 a.m. and some streets reopened after that.

Last night we lost one of San Diego’s finest. We grieve for our fallen officer and stand with his family during this very difficult time. Kevin Faulconer, San Diego mayor

Then later Friday morning, officers surrounded a house ononly his purple silk bathrobe, he watched as two men and two women entered his bedroom. The first man to enter was tall and handsome, with curly blonde hair. He was dressed in a fur coat and he had an arrogant half grin on his chiseled face as he eyed Rennock with steely blue eyes. The man behind him was large and had a black goatee. He was dressed in a black suit and his hard face showed no emotion. Both of the women were tall and beautiful and were wearing fancy white dresses. One was a blonde, the other a brunette. “Herman Rennock,” the man in the fur coat said. “It’s nice to meet you.”

“Kay,” Rennock said nervously. “I told you not to let anyone in. Who


A leather-clad IAO bandit turned a corner and noticed them hiding. One of the shadowy figures drew a laser pistol and blasted a hole through the bandit’s head. The black-clad man standing in front of the IAO symbol pulled a spray can out and spray-painted in black the words “The Resistance Lives,” covering up the previously painted letters. He also spray-painted two X’s over the skull’s eyes. The three men returned to the shadows as the town was overrun with bandits.

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Della adjusted his sand shield as he followed Ace through the door. He hated the blue enforcer uniform he was wearing. First of all, it barely fit. It was way too tight. Second, whoever designed it had the fashion sense of a five year old. Still, it waswho’d formerly gone by the name Michelle Hemingway crouched on a cliff about ten feet above the road below. A steeper, far higher cliff dropped off from the other side of the ten foot wide ledge created for the road. The rocks and sand of the desert were hundreds of feet below. Shadows were spreading as the sun set, and Razor was one of those shadows. Shelly had decided to leave her former self behind completely. She was now Razor, hell-bent on killing Warrick Baines and everyone else responsible for the murder of Bobby Brooklyn, the father of the unborn child she was carrying. This was the only way she could make sure that her baby would be safe once it was born. She knew that Baines would


come for her, and the child also. She had to take him out first.

She’d stopped in Easterville to find the town mostly burned. Doctor Dayton’s butchered body was hanging in front of the hotel they’d been staying in, along with many other bodies. There was no sign of Grace or James, or even Sherry, though. Razor hoped they’d all made it out of town safely. She’d killed several IAO bandits just outside of town, and one of them said Warrick Baines was heading north just before she killed him, so she was heading north now, also. She’d stolen a sensor system from one of the bandits’ sand bikes and it had showed her that three objects were approaching from a few miles away, so now she was waiting,perched above the road. If they were associated with the IAO, she’d kill them, but only after she extracted any information they had on Baines’ whereabouts. Her swords were strapped over her back and she was holding her laser rifle, waiting to fire when the bikes were in range.

The first sand bike was visible as it turned a corner around a cliff wall down the road. It was definitely an IAO bandit, with the IAO skull and crossbones symbol painted on the side of the bike, and the driver was wearing the usual leather and metal armor. Razor prepared to fire when some rocks on the ledge she was crouched on broke away and fell down into the road below. Razor slipped and dropped her laser rifle into


the road, but she was able to regain her balance and stop herself from falling. “Damn it,” she muttered as she looked down at the rifle. It would do her little good down there. She’d left her laser pistols charging back at the sand bike, not thinking they’d be necessary since she had the rifle and the swords. She’d have to think of an alternate approach. As the first sand bike neared, she readied herself like a bullet in the chamber of a gun. She was an intimidating sight, most of her muscular body covered with tattoos of predators, with an eyepatch over her right eye, scars covering her face, and a jet black Mohawk crowning her otherwise shaved head. Nobody would see her coming, though. The onlyone who would see her was the one she’d leave alive just long enough to question. The first sand bike was close enough that she leapt out towards the road ten feet beneath her.

She landed painfully on the back of the sand bike and in one motion, pulled the driver off with her and kicked him with both legs, sending him flying off the cliff, screaming as he fell hundreds of feet to the rocks. The sand bike crashed into the side of the cliff as Razor rolled several times, stopping just at the edge of the cliff. The second sand bike had already gone past and was hundreds of feet away now. Razor reached for the button to turn her EMD belt on and the third sand


bike veered out of control as it passed her and crashed near the spot where the first one had crashed, sending its driver sprawling into the rocky ground. The sand bikes had combustion jet engines, but the ignition, steering, and breaking systems were all electronic.

Razor turned off her EMD belt, rushed over to the laser rifle she’d dropped, and picked it up again. She turned the rifle back on and waited a few seconds for it to charge, cursing as the remaining bandit drove his sand bike further away. She aimed carefully as the last sand bike rode along the cliff edge. It was hard to see in the spreading darkness, and the bike was probably 3,000 feet away or so now and escaping fast. Razor fired and(under her married name Mrs J Mollison) to women engineers across the world, Hampe is reported to have outlined some of the changes for women in engineering in Germany following the election of the National Socialist party, though mostly there were training opportunities for women and some employment options.  In the Women Engineer in 1986, there is a listing for Professor Dr Asta Hampe as a full member.

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       11/14/2001
MANDATE ISSUED:

      EN BANC.

      COBB, JUSTICE, FOR THE COURT:

¶1. This is an appeal from the judgment of the Alcorn County Chancery Court granting a quantum meruit
attorney fee award to the appellant, John B. Gillis of the Luckett Law Firm (LLF). LLF, with Gillis in charge
of the case, initially represented Marietta Gillies (Marietta), in her capacity as administratrix of the estate of
her deceased son, Alexander Taylor Gillies, Jr. The representation was for a professional malpractice claim
against the decedent's previous attorneys. On April 6, 1999, the lower court removed Marietta as
administratrix and voided LLF's contingency fee contract with the estate regarding the legal malpractice
claim. However, the lower court ultimately awarded Gillis $21,120, ona quantum meruit basis, in
compensation for his services in initiating and securing a $450,000 settlement for the estate, on the
malpractice claim.

¶2. LLF, through Gillis, represented the Gillies estate from December 31, 1997, until April 1999. The
chancellor approved the estate's retention of Gillis, on a contingency fee basis, to pursue the legal
malpractice claim, and Gillis filed suit against the Langston, Langston, Michael and Bowen law firm (LLMB)
because of their failure to timely file and pursue civil rights and personal injury claims.(1)

¶3. Ruby Gillies (Ruby), the wife of the decedent, sought to remove Marietta as adminstratrix on the basis
that Marietta's appointment was the result of fraud, claiming that she and her son, Scott Gillies, were the
sole heirs of the decedent. Ruby also sought to set aside the contingency fee contract


entered into by and
between Marietta, as administratrix, and Gillis, on behalf of LLF. Marietta filed a petition for determination
of heirship, admitting that Ruby was the decedent's wife at the time of the death, but claiming that Ruby had
waived her rights to recover any proceeds of the estate. Prior to the evidentiary hearing on Ruby's
complaint, Marietta filed an amended petition in which she acknowledged that the decedent and Scott's
mother had been married approximately 14 months at the time of Scott's birth. The chancellor found that
Ruby and Scott were the sole and only heirs at law of the decedent, removed Marietta as administratrix,
appointed Scott as successor administrator and voided LLF's contingency fee contract. Neither LLF nor
Marietta appealed this judgment.

¶4. Gillis, representing Marietta individually, was essentially the lead counsel in negotiatingBrown, a pretrial
detainee, while they were incarcerated at the City of Corinth jail. Gillies died on February 14, 1993, due to
myocardial infarction. Before his death, Gillies hired LLMB to prosecute his claims against the persons and
entities responsible for the beating and the resultant injuries. LLMB failed to file a lawsuit within the one-
year statute of limitations period for assault and battery claims. LLMB also failed to file a lawsuit or settle
timely Gillies's claims against the City of Corinth.

¶7. On September 9, 1993, Marietta was appointed administratrix of Gillies's estate. In October of 1997,
Marietta learned from her attorney, John B. Gillis, that LLMB had failed to prosecute the assault claim and,
in her capacity as administratrix, she hired Gillis and LLF to prosecute the professional liability claim against
LLMB on a


providing a
substantial portion of the strategy, planning and negotiating.

¶10. After the settlement process began, questions arose concerning whether Ruby and Scott were heirs.
After consulting with Marietta, Gillis informed Pedersen that Scott was, at best, the decedent's illegitimate
child. Pedersen informed Gillis that he was concerned about Marietta's authority to settle the estate's claims.
Mediation was attempted on January 18, 1999, and was unsuccessful.

¶11. Ruby then filed her complaint to remove Marietta as administratrix and void LLF's contingency
contract. Three days later, Marietta filed her initial petition to determine heirship, claiming that Ruby had
waived her interest in the estate and that Scott might be the illegitimate son of the decedent. The hearing on
Ruby's petition was held on March 11, 1999. Scott appeared at this hearing, represented by counsel. After
the evidentiary hearing, the40% contingency fee of $60,000 on Marietta's recovery.

¶15. On July 28, 1999, the estate filed a petition seeking approval to compromise the estate's claims against
LLMB for $450,000 and to establish LLF's quantum meruit fee. Additionally, the estate sought to deny or
limit LLF's quantum meruit fee for the following reasons:

      First, LLF refused to provide its former client, the Estate, with records establishing the time incurred
      by LLF prosecuting the Estate's claim prior to Marietta's removal and the voiding of the LLF
      contract. Secondly, the Estate believed that LLF would seek to recover fees from the Estate for the
      work actually performed for Marietta, individually. Finally, the Estate contended


chancellor's first paragraph in his opinion and judgment, which reads as
follows:

     This matter is before the Court on a motion by John B. Gillis, attorney for Marietta Gillies,
     to approve certain fees for his part in settling a legal malpractice action. The attorneys for
     the other parties in the action, Ruby Gillies and Alexander Scott Gillies, contest the fee
     requested by John B. Gillis.

LLF argues that the chancellor made the following mistakes. (1) the matter was actually before
the court on a motion by the administrator, Scott, to deny LLF a fee; (2) Gillis was not before the
court as Marietta's attorney but rather appeared pro se and as counsel for LLF; (3) thereIn Tyson, the attorney was pursuing two
separate suits under the same "case" for his client. Upon procuring a final judgment on the first
suit from which no appeal was made, we held that his fee had vested even though the second suit
was still pending and could have had an impact on the recovery, and therefore, attorney's fees, in
the first suit. Id. at 825.

¶51. Similarly, in the case at bar, the firm had an agreement with the administrator of the estate,
the decedent's widow, and separately with Marietta, to negotiate the professional malpractice
claim. The firm fully performed the obligations under the contract by obtaining the lump
settlement of $600,000 ($450,000.00 for the estate and $150,000.00 for Marietta). All parties
acknowledged that the firm did the majority of the work in negotiating and obtaining


Christian Democratic Peasants' Party of Moldova

The Christian Democratic Peasants' Party of Moldova (, PȚCD) was a political party in Moldova.

History
Prior to the 1998 elections the party joined the Democratic Convention of Moldova alliance (CDM). The CDM finished second, winning 26 of the 101 seats. Together with the other non-Communist parties, it established the Alliance for Democracy and Reforms, which was able to form a government.

The party ran alone in the 2001 elections. However, it received just 0.3% of the vote and failed to win a seat.

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Category:Defunct political parties in Moldovaand high‐order frontal and parietal regions while watching the film strongly suggests an ability to integrate auditory and visual information presented in the film across these sensory modalities. This in turn permitted an ongoing understanding of the film\'s linguistic content, as well as recognition of familiar objects, voices, and faces of the characters.

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states of one\'s own life, reflect upon and interpret the events of one\'s past, and conceive of oneself as an entity persisting over time, has significant implications for patient welfare. First, if an individual exists only "in the moment," as soon as a particular experience ceases, it ceases to impact their welfare. Conversely, insofar as one can conceive of oneself as having a past and a future, the effects of a particular experience may extend beyond the end of the experience itself, including shaping future experiences and coloring the interpretation of past experiences. Second, the anticipation of future experiences (or reflection on past experiences) may themselves generate certain emotions, such as hopefulness at the prospect of positive future experiences, or anxiety at the prospect of negative future experiences.Read Story Transcript

Prominent artist and dissident Ai Weiwei said two Canadians detained in Beijing may be feeling the same fear and confusion he felt himself when he spent months in a Chinese prison cell.

"It's total isolation, [and] makes you feel you are totally vulnerable, because you cannot see your lawyer or your family, and nobody knows what's going on," he told The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.

Ai spent 81 days in detention in 2011 on accusations of tax evasion, and was released under a gag order. His supporters say his arrest was motivated by his outspoken criticism of the state, and that his later confession was procured under duress.

"The idea is to isolate you and break your nerves down, [to] make you feel nobody cares … and you are


sacrificed for what you have done," he said.

"I think that's the most, worst feeling you can get, is nobody care about your condition anymore. You're being forgotten."

Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in China on Dec. 10. Neither have been granted access to lawyers or been formally charged, receiving only monthly visits from Canadian officials.

In March, China accused the men of stealing state secrets, but it has been alleged that their detention is retaliation for Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, for extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges.

Michael Spavor, left, and former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, right, were taken into custody in China in December last year. (The Associated Press/International Crisis Group/The Canadian Press)

In January, Ai said that the Chinese government's actions were "unsurprising," andaccused the West of enabling human rights abuse within the country.

"The West has pretended to not notice or, more insidiously, has been a willing partner. It is the hidden force behind China's rise," he wrote in a statement, released in conjunction with his exhibit at Toronto's Gardiner Museum, which opened Feb. 28 and runs until June 9.

"The West's apparent conflict with the situation in China is because of its refusal to acknowledge its complicity in creating this monstrous regime," he wrote.

Watch Ai Weiwei describe the toll that detention can take

Dissident artist spent 81 days in Chinese detention in 2011 2:09

As China continues to grow and become more powerful, Ai said questions should be asked about what kind of society it has become, and what values it holds.

"You cannot


even talk about democracy in China," he said, describing it as an "authoritarian society," with "no freedom of speech and basic human rights being violated."

He called on the Canadian government to demand that China respects the rule of law and provide "basic human treatment" for Kovrig and Spavor.

"If you don't respect that, you don't respect the whole establishment of the lawful society," he said.

Ai Weiwei's installation Sunflower Seeds, in which 100 million hand-painted porcelain seeds filled the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London. A version of the work recently showed in Toronto. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images; Peter Mcdiarmid/Getty Images)

New documentary looks at migrants in detention

Ai has lived in self-imposed exile for several years in Berlin, where his work has included Human Flow, a film which documented thefor anybody to raise a question," he said.

Given the right circumstances however, Ai believes that all societies could fall subject to suspicion and state control. He pointed to the example of McCarthyism in the U.S. in the 1940s and 1950s, where people accused each other of holding communist beliefs.

He said the West behaves as if its freedom and democracy are set in stone, a viewpoint he called an "illusion."

"That takes every generation, every day, to demand to protect those values," he said.

"Otherwise it simply will be taken away from us."

The Rest airs at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto on April 27 and May 5.

Click 'listen' near the top of this page to hear the full conversation.

Written by Padraig Moran. Produced by Julie Crysler.


this moment,
      Officer Schaffer notified Officer Boyd to come join him by the
      vehicle. The officers asked Appellant to exit the vehicle, at
      which time Officer Schaffer entered the vehicle to retrieve the
      baggie from the cup-holder. As Officer Schaffer pulled the
      baggie out, the cup holder came out of the console, revealing a
      silver .44 caliber Ruger handgun with a black handle.
      Officer Schaffer recovered the handgun immediately, rendered it
      safe, and determined that it was loaded with six live rounds.
      Appellantlarge amount of hay, had baled it, and had it stored in a barn loft at Sterlington, Louisiana.
"Ted Hudson was the minor son of Mr. Woodrow Hudson, Sr. and Mrs. Fabrice Hudson. He lived with his parents on a farm not far from the Miller place. His father was employed at Sterlington and Ted was a full time student at the Farmerville High School. Ted was a nephew of Mrs. Herbert L. Miller.
"On December 29, 1961, Mr. Miller asked his nephew to accompany him, in a one-ton truck, equipped with high sides and end *601 gate for hauling cattle, to Sterlington, Louisiana for the purpose of getting a load of baled hay. No stipulated price or contract of hiring was entered into between Mr. Miller and Ted Hudson,


nor was any understanding had as to the length of time or the conditions, if any, necessary to be followed by Ted Hudson.
"The parties reached the barn where Mr. Miller's hay was stored. The ground around the barn was wet and slippery. The truck was backed up near the opening in the loft where the hay was stored. Ted Hudson got into the barn, handed the bales of hay to Mr. Miller, who stacked them to a height of about nine feet in the bed of the truck and extending about three feet above the side rails of the truck. Likewise, the tail gate was let down and changed into a position about level with the truck bed and it was sufficient in size so that some twelveor fifteen bales of hay were stacked on it.
"Having completed the loading, the hay stacked on the truck was about the same height as the loft, and Mr. Miller directed Ted Hudson to step out of the barn onto the top of the load of hay and proposed that he would then move the truck forward, (in the mud) for a distance of four or five feet to clear the barn and to afford Ted Hudson the opportunity to climb down off of the hay onto the ground.
"As Mr. Miller attempted to move the truck forward, the motion of the truck caused the untied bales of hay to begin to rock, and as a result, Ted Hudson fell off the top of the load of hay, probably striking


a side of the truck, and landing in a rather awkward position on the ground.
"He complained very little at the time, but suffered pain in the lower part of the back. The pain got worse and the next day he was carried to the Norris-Booth Clinic for treatment. He received the usual treatment for back strain, no improvement was had, and the doctor began to suspect a protruding or herniated disc, and traction was tried.
"No relief, however, having been accomplished, the patient began to suffer severe emotional upset. He was referred to Dr. Ernest Hartmann, an orthopedist at Monroe, Louisiana. Dr. Hartmann was of the opinion that Ted had a protruding lumbar disc.
"An operation was contemplated and he was sent to the St. Francis Hospital in Monroe, Louisiana,or want of care on the part of Herbert L. Miller. He directed the loading of his truck with bales of hay to a height of nine feet. He even loaded a large number of untied bales of hay on the end gate of the truck where there were no sides for bracing and where, at least, the hay was stacked on an unstable foundation. He instructed Ted Hudson to get down out of the barn by a dangerous process of stepping out onto the high, unsteady load of hay. Then he directed Ted Hudson to ride on top of the hay for four or five feet as Mr. Miller pulled away from the barn to allow Hudson to get down. At this point, either because of the


the submods and the main mod. If you look up say Theon Stark in the family history of the main mod, that is the same dates you will find him playable in the relevant submod.

So, here is a preview of some of things coming up.

The Andal Invasion

A time when Westeros was still dominated by the kingdoms of the First Men and the Andals still ruled in Essos. Beginning with the Scouring of Lorath in 6478 and continuing on to cover the events of the subsequent Andal invasion of Westeros. Several new bookmarks are added which include many famous canon characters. During this time provinces on the Eastern coast of Westeros will be plagued by seaborne Andal invaders.

The Rhoynish Wars

A time long after the Andals have conquered Westeros, thisof the First Men and the Andals still ruled in Essos. Beginning with the Scouring of Lorath in 6478 and continuing on to cover the events of the subsequent Andal invasion of Westeros. Several new bookmarks are added which include many famous canon characters. During this time provinces on the Eastern coast of Westeros will be plagued by seaborne Andal invaders.A time long after the Andals have conquered Westeros, this submod focuses on the series of wars between the Rhoynar and the Valyrians which resulted in Nymeria's eventual arrival in Dorne. This time period includes Garin the Great's defiant war against Valyria and of course Nymeria and Mors Martell's conquest of the petty kings of Dorne.The Valyrian Freehold operates quite differently to other merchant republic titles in the


a desolate road and the four men get out. They begin their hike into the woods. After a bit of walking, they come upon an old road trail and Bobby tells them about some of his memories. They come upon Jackrabbit Palace – an old tall tree trunk. They put soil in their pockets and then begin their hike 253 yards east.

With Hawk in the lead, the men come upon white smoke billowing from the ground. They approach it and find a naked woman on the ground. It’s the same woman that Cooper saw in Part 3 in the Purple Room. Andy goes to her and holds her hand. Next to her is a large circle of what appears to be white or golden liquid. The woman attemptsHe sees BOB and then the convenience store. Then Abe the Woodsman – “Gotta Light?” Andy watches as the girl runs in the school and then the red drapes and Laura’s face with two angels beside it. He then sees the woman that he found in the forest. Finally, he sees Cooper and Mr C inside the red room. Their faces are shaking and they pull apart. Then a phone. Then he sees himself with Lucy in a hallway. He is bringing her to something. Then the naked woman in the forest again. HE sees the electrical pole with the 6. And then fade to white. The object vanishes from his hands after teh smoke reenters it. Andy vanishes.

Harry Goaz in a still from Twin Peaks. Photo: Suzanne


communicate with Andy. Chad begins making fun of Andy. In a cell nearby, a man with a bloody face repeats his words. Andy walks over to Chad and berates him. Andy and Lucy leave. The woman in the cell makes strange sounds and the man with the bleeding mouth mimics her. Chad tells him to shut up and the man repeats it. The woman continues her chatter and the drunk mimics. Chad sits there listening to the entire thing and mocks them. Finally, he lays back on his bunk and covers his head. The blood from the drunk puddles on the floor – the problem is that it doesn’t look quite like blood.

Cut to the Great Northern where James and Freddie sit outside. Freddie has his right handcovered in a green glove and is attempting to break walnuts. With each one, he shatters completely. James helps him break the walnut. The men talk about the Roadhouse and a woman named Renee. James asks him about the glove and after a bit of back and forth, Freddie explains where he got it from.

He explains that one night he was pulled into a vortex in the air about 6 months ago. He met a man that called himself The Fireman and the man tells him to go to a specific place to buy a specific green glove. He tells him that the Fireman told him to put the glove on his right hand and he will have great power. Freddie finds himself back in his room. That


room. Downstairs, James hears a strange humming sound – possibly the same sound that Beverly and Ben are hearing. As he walks through the dark room, he appears cautious and concerned. He comes to a closed door.

Cut to Elk’s Point Bar where Sarah Palmer sits down and orders a Bloody Mary. A man wearing a “Truck You” shirt talks to her and attempts to “pick her up.” Sarah tells him to mind his business. He pushes the subject with her and refuses to go back to where he was sitting. The two converse and the man becomes aggressive. Sarah stands up and lifts her right hand up. She then removes her face like Laura did. Behind her face is darkness.

We see what looks like a closeup of Thego.

At the Roadhouse, two women talk in a booth. They talk about Billy who the woman in black hasn’t heard from in a couple of days. The girl tells the friend that she and her mom saw Billy leap over a 6-foot fence. Billy comes running into the house as blood pours out of his mouth and nose. He then runs out the backdoor. The friend asks the girl in black what her mom’s name is. It’s Tina, she says.

The Roadhouse MC announces the band for the night. The music plays and the people dance.


Mid-air horror: Indian man arrested for brazenly sexually abusing woman on US flight

The horrified passenger woke up and allegedly found her shirt and pants unbuttoned, and the man’s hand inside her pants.

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In yet another shocking incident that highlights the brazenness of men who sexually harass women in a public space, a 34-year-old Indian man was arrested in the US for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman passenger who was seated next to him on a flight.

When Celia* fell asleep onboard the Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit on January 3, she could not have imagined the horror she would wake up to.

The 22-year-old was in the window seat, while Prabhu Ramamoorthy, an Indian national living in the US on a temporary visa, was in the middleseat with his wife in the aisle seat. When Celia woke up, she allegedly found her shirt and pants unbuttoned, and Prabhu’s hands inside her pants.

Prabhu apparently stopped touching her when she awoke and opened her eyes around 5.30 am, which was 40 minutes before the plane was to land in Detroit. The distraught and shocked woman then approached the flight attendants in tears and informed them about the sexual assault.

Prabhu was arrested when the plane landed. After appearing before the federal court in Michigan, he was held without bail for aggravated sexual abuse.

According to court documents, two flight attendants confirmed that Celia had come to them in tears with her shirt and pants undone. The attendants kept Celia at the back of the plane and were offering


not negated. Jews lived with Palestinians in peaceful co-existence before there was a state of Israel,” she tweeted.

She then switched from insisting that Jesus was from Nazareth, which currently is in Israeli territory, to reminding her followers that he was born in Bethlehem, which currently is part of the Palestinian Authority.

She tweeted: “Why so upset by the truth. Jesus was born in Bethlehem aka بيت لحم in Arabic. Bethlehem is in Palestine. It’s currently militarily occupied by Israel and home to a predominately beautiful Palestinian Christian community. Yes, the birthplace of Jesus is under military occupation.”

Some critics pointed out that Palestine as a concept did not exist until over a century after Jesus died and that the land on which both Bethlehem and Nazareth were situated on wasThe story of Grace Banu is nothing short of inspirational. Banu happens to be Tamil Nadu's first transgender student to have bagged an engineering seat in the state's premier college. She had filed a petition in the Madras High Court to demand that Tamil Nadu State Public Commission allow transgender persons to appear for the entrance exam.

The petition was just one of Banu's fights for transgender rights. She had to face and fight discrimination several times in her life.

After she came out as a transgender in 2008, she was disowned by her family but was embraced by the transgender community. She even finished her education in Computer Sciences and secured a job in a software company Chennai in 2011. However, Banu had to quit working after she faced


discrimination at her workplace.

But that did not stop her. She began afresh and pursued an engineering course. She passed the entrance exam for the college but could not take admission being a transgender applicant.

She finally got admitted to a private college, Sri Krishna College in Arrokonam. She is now a third-year student of the college's Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) department.

Banu has overcome many a hurdles to come so far and become a beacon of hope for not just the third gender, but everyone who faces systemic discrimination.

Despite having come so far, she is now facing financial hurdles and is finding it difficult to continue her education. She has spent her savings and Rs 70,000 that she borrowed from friends, says a News Minute report. But she needshow empowered rural Afghan women became when they shared memories of their pregnancies; José Cabrejos, Vilma Suarez, Dennys Talenas, Lourdes Cabello, Natalie Garcia, Jonathan Bazán, Carmen Phuyo, Kary Teran, and Eva Hachapuma for their roles in pilot studies on Sharing Histories in Peru; Shukria Hassan, Luke Taylor, Tage Kanno, and Betsy Taylor for their early work and assessments on the methodology in Afghanistan and India; Daniel Taylor for support through Future Generations University to enable development of this paper; and Jeff Whitney for editing assistance. Special thanks are given to community leaders and government entities in Afghanistan, India, and Peru for their collaboration and to health service network and primary health care staff, Community Facilitators, female community health workers, and mothers who contributed in different ways to the


the race started and finished in downtown Fort Worth without looping through the city's historic Stockyards.

Now, the full marathon and ultra marathon hit all of the Fort Worth highlights. The races start and end in the cultural district, run through the Stockyards, go through downtown and circle TCU and Fort Worth's thriving southside.

"The southside has developed so much, and our races hadn't featured that part of Fort Worth before," Swartz said. "We wanted the race to show all of the city. Runners who aren't from here get to see pretty sections of Fort Worth. It's just a great showcase."

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Swartz and other Cowtown officials wanted to move the race for many years.

As soon as the switch to Will Rogers was approved in thesummer of 2010, the team began mapping out the new courses.

To help get local runners' input for the new courses, longtime runners Jim Newsom (the owner of Fort Worth Running Company) and his friend Gary Anderson attended planning meetings.

"It's so much better now. Ten times better," said Newsom, who is the chairman of the Cowtown ultra and had run the marathon 10 times. "The new set-up has everything to do with the Cowtown's growth and success."

Runners' main complaint about the old course was: "too many hills." Anderson, an engineer, used terrain mapping software to find a much flatter route while still seeing the best of Fort Worth.

"We ran up and down the course to show the options," Newsom said.

As a result, the Cowtown has climbed two spots to


Egypt blocked Facebook's Free Basics Internet service late last year after Facebook refused the Egyptian government's demands to build in the ability to spy on users. Reuters reported the story late Thursday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Facebook launched its Free Basics service in Egypt in October. Its rollout in India was fraught with conflict, too. We've written about the service here at Boing Boing before–it's been called a walled garden, a form of "digital colonialism," and anti-net neutrality.

The basic idea is to allow poor people who can access a smartphone to create a Facebook account and access internet services that Facebook approves of, all free of charge.

From Reuters:

The Egyptian government suspended the service on Dec. 30 and said at the time that the mobile carrier EtisalatETEL.AD had only been granted a temporary permit to offer the service for two months. Two sources with direct knowledge of discussions between Facebook and the Egyptian government said Free Basics was blocked because the company would not allow the government to circumvent the service's security to conduct surveillance. They declined to say exactly what type of access the government had demanded or what practices it wanted Facebook to change. A spokesman for Facebook declined to comment. Etisalat did not respond to a request for comment.

"Exclusive: Egypt blocked Facebook Internet service over surveillance – sources" (Reuters, Joe Menn and Yasmeen Abutaleb)

Image: A man poses with a magnifier in front of a Facebook logo on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in this December 16,


and the agrodolce notes appeal to those who like sweet dishes and to those who like savory, making this a universal crowd-pleaser.

2 large acorn squash

¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil

1½ teaspoons kosher salt, plus more as needed

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper

⅛ teaspoon ground cinnamon

Vegetable oil, for frying

15 fresh sage leaves

¼ cup (½ stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature

¼ cup apple cider vinegar

2 tablespoons sugar

¼ cup mascarpone cheese

¼ cup smoked almonds, coarsely chopped

Preheat the oven to 450°F.

Using a large knife, cut off a small amount of the top and bottom of the squash. Set the squash on a flat side and cut it in half. Using a large spoon, scoop out the seeds and discard. Cut each half into 5 wedges. Place the squash in a large bowl and add theNighthawks (1981)

Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer) a terrorist, who has been plaguing Europe, is now in the U.S. A British counter terrorism expert
arrives in New York to help and he chooses Detectives from the NYPD to train on how to deal with Wulfgar. Among the ones he chooses is Deke De Silva (Sylvester Stallone), a veteran cop,
who doesn't he think he is suited for the job. But tries to do the best he can. Eventually he comes face to face with Wulfgar and hesitates shooting him despite being told that he should shoot him if he has the chance, which not only allows him to escape but to injure his partner. Wulfgar now has his sights set on him as well as his other targets. DeSilva can now only wait


Seven Great Yarmouth UKIP councillors defect to Tories Published duration 30 October 2017

image copyright Google image caption Great Yarmouth Borough Council had been under no overall control before

A group of UKIP councillors have defected to the Conservative Party to give the Tories control of a council.

Seven of the 12 UKIP councillors on Great Yarmouth Borough Council have crossed the divide, giving the Tories 21 out of the 39 council seats.

One of the seven movers, Kay Grey, said that after the EU referendum "many voters feel this is UKIP's job done".

East of England UKIP MEP Stuart Agnew said the action was "depressing, disgusting".

He added: "Without UKIP the Tories are going to be able to get away with an unsatisfactory Brexit."

Previously the council had been under no overall control.

The councillorsHow to Remove Astro Turf Glue

Kimberly Johnson Updated February 21, 2017

Astro Turf and other artificial types of outdoor carpeting are attached to the ground with a strong adhesive that is resistant to water and can withstand both hot and cold temperatures. The glue is designed to adhere to both carpets as well as to the smooth floor, which is usually made of concrete. When the time comes to discard the outdoor carpeting or artificial grass, the glue can be challenging to remove.

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Fill a pot with plain tap water and place it on top of a stove burner. Turn the burner to high and wait for the water to reach a full rolling boil.

Remove the pot from the stove and turn off the burner. Go to the area


of the floor containing the astro turf glue. Pour 1 to 2 cups of boiling water directly on top of the glue spots.

Place the flat end of a putty knife under the edge of the glue and press forward on the putty knife to slide it under the glue. Repeat the process until the majority of the glue is removed from the floor.

Apply a glue solvent solution to any remaining spots of glue and allow the solvent to sit for five to 10 minutes.

Scrape the remaining traces of glue off of the floor with the putty knife.

Tip

It's a good idea to wear gloves to protect the hands from the scalding water.

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President Obama's job-approval rating has slipped below 50% in the Gallup Tracking Poll for the first time in his presidency, pulled down by concerns about the economy, federal spending and health care legislation.

In daily tracking from Tuesday through Thursday, Obama's approval rating was 49%, down from 50% reported the day before in the rolling three-day average. That's not a statistically significant change, but historically it has some political significance when a president can no longer claim the support of half the American people.

Other national surveys previously have shown Obama below 50%, but the daily tracking survey by Gallup has been particularly closely watched. Obama also had slipped to 49 % in a separate Gallup Poll taken Oct. 1-4.

The bad news for Obama really came during the summer amidgrowing concern about the economy and unemployment. His approval rating was 60% in the tracking poll at the beginning of July, then significantly dropped that month and the next. Since September, his standing has been holding steadily in the low 50s.

Jeff Jones of Gallup reports that every modern president except John Kennedy dropped below majority approval in the Gallup Poll at some point in their presidencies, and all recovered afterwards to go back above 50%.

Even so, Obama's fall has been relatively fast. Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton slipped below 50% sooner -- Ford in his third month in office, Clinton in his fourth. Obama's experience is close to that of Ronald Reagan, who like Obama dropped below the marker during his tenth month in office. (Reagan beat Obama


checked the voltages today. The battery is 12.12 volts with the car off, just about the same at idle and just shy of 14 at 2,000 RPM. I also checked the voltage at the alternator and it's the same as at the battery. The alternator has a SpecialTAuto sticker on it and the belt is tight.

I tested the RPM using an automotive multimeter at the coil wire. The RPM was consistent with what the binnacle tachometer displays.

Last night when I was checking the dwell, I used the automotive multimeter with the positive lead on the orange wire running to the diagnostic port and grounded to the engine. It held at 50 the whole time.Inventor hopes eTrike will succeed where uncle's Sinclair failed

Grant Sinclair, nephew of Sir Clive Sinclair, who developed an electric tricycle in the 1980s, inside his invention, the Iris E-Trike electric tricycle, Chepstow, Wales, March 28, 2017. Picture taken March 28. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden

By Jim Drury

CHEPSTOW, WALES (Reuters) - More than 30 years after his uncle spectacularly failed to get Britain moving in battery-powered tricycles, inventor Grant Sinclair is optimistic his updated version of the C5 will be a well ridden success.

Gone is the low seat, poor protection and white bath-like design that Clive Sinclair, who made his name as a famed innovator in the computer sector, was ridiculed for when he launched it in 1985 as the future of transport.

In its place is a three-wheeled Iris eTrike prototype, with


an elevated seat, the look of a modern day cycling crash helmet and made from expanded polypropylene foam, a hardy substance used in model aircraft builds for its ability to absorb impacts.

"There's nothing else like this on the market. In terms of other e-bikes this is much lighter weight, and much safer because it's like sitting inside a large crash helmet," Grant Sinclair told Reuters.

Sinclair, 44, showed off the zippy 55 kilogram (121 pounds) one-seater vehicle in a ride over Old Town Bridge from England to Wales, riding ahead of a post van and then through a path in a local park.

The Iris has normal bicycle pedals and eight-speed race bike gearing, combined with a 250-watt electric motor with rechargeable battery pack that kicks in automatically once pedalingof mitochondrial fission to cellular metabolism may have translational relevance to other cystic renal diseases. Dr. Lam will receive mentorship from her outstanding scientific advisory committee composed of distinguished scientists with expertise related to key areas of this proposal including mitochondria (Finkel), metabolism (Asara), signaling (Manning) and kidney redox homeostasis (Pal) and polycystic kidney disease (Zhou). The Department of Medicine is committed to Dr. Lam's success and will continue to provide resources for her as a member of the faculty. The candidate's mentor, Dr. Elizabeth Henske, is a NIH funded researcher in the field of TSC/LAM and metabolism with experience training and transitioning mentees to independence. A detailed career development and training plan is presented that includes research, coursework, readings, seminars and presentations at scientific meetings. The candidate


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**Professor Bhanu P. Jena** received his Ph.D. degree in Endocrinology, and the Research Excellence Award from Iowa State University in 1988. Following post-doctoral training at Iowa State and Yale Universities (1989-1994), Prof. Jena joined Yale University, as an Assistant Professor, and in 2000, moved to the Department of Physiology, at Wayne State University School of Medicine, as Professor, and Founder-Director of the Institute of NanoBioScience. In 2004, he was conferred the distinction of George E. Palade University Professor and Distinguished Professor. Prof. Jena is the only living University Professor, and the second in Wayne State University's 160-year history, conferred by the board of governors and former Wayne State University's President, Dr. Irvin D. Reid. At a very early age, Prof. Jena was fascinated by thecomplexity of the cell, similar to the complexity of a city, yet every aspect of its operation precisely organized and coordinated. His scientific enquiry on how cells secrete which began more than 40 years ago, led to the discovery of the "porosome" -a new cellular structure and the universal secretory portal in cells.

*Prof. Jena* has received numerous awards and honors for his discoveries, among them: Elected Foreign Member of the Georgian National Academy of Science; Fellow AAAS; the Swebelius Cancer Research Award, the Hallim Distinguished Award Lecture jointly with Prof. Ahmed H. Zewail; Sir. Aaron Klug Award; ASAS Basic Biological Science Award; Ranbaxy Basic Research in Medical Sciences Award; Elected Foreign Member of the Korea Academy of Science & Technology; Elected Foreign Member of the National Academy of


the entire community. This belief is in keeping with Jewish history and the actions of our forebears in every generation and in every country in which they settled or which they merely “visited.”

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The late Edgar Bronfman’s autobiography, Why Be Jewish?, was reviewed last week by Steve Linde in the Jerusalem Post. For many years, Bronfman was the head of the World Jewish Congress, a post that he used to doggedly and determinedly advocate on behalf of Jewish rights and advance the wellbeing of Jewish communities around the world. As Bronfman makes plain in the book, he came to an appreciation of his Jewish identity only later in life. He was not an observant Jew, but he was a deeply proud Jew who endeavoured to learn as much asthe freedom of Soviet Jews and to help recover Jewish assets stolen by the Nazis. It inspired me to relentlessly advocate with President George H.W. Bush in order to persuade him to help undo the 1972 UN resolution equating Zionism with racism.

“And it was peoplehood that fueled my quest to convince the Spanish and German governments to recognize or live up to their responsibilities to Israel.

All of these were very big battles, but as a Jew I felt duty-bound to wage them.”

The book was completed just weeks before Bronfman died on December 21, 2013 at the age of 84, and has been published posthumously by Hachette.

Although not a rabbi, scholar or educator, he says that in his roles as a Jewish activist and philanthropist, “I developed a deep