vegetables. Bine-blender ko, and I put it in his food. So he doesn't know na he's actually eating vegetables."

Nate's ultimate favorite food now is sinigang, which Regine finds healthy. "You have protein, all the vegetables, and the stock is very nutritious kasi andun na lahat yun." Aside from sinigang, Nate also loves crunchy food, which he gets every now and then when Regine serves him fried chicken. "But I know na habang lumalaki sya, his taste preferences will also improve, and I’ll be able to teach him to eat healthier," Regine says.

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For her cookbook, Regine decided to feature the dishes that she and her celebrity guests cooked in her lifestyle show Sarap Diva. The show has been on air for four years and sometimes sheGregorys Coffee — 40th Street

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With a wealth of New York locations, you've probably seen Gregorys' iconic logo—the trademark depiction of the founder’s coffee-cup spectacles and impressive hairdo—throughout most of Manhattan. While many Gregorys locations serve as a quick spot to grab coffee, this Midtown outpost beckons you to stay for awhile. A spacious array of tables give you the decision of choosing between cozy nooks of dim lighting, a brighter spotlit community table for working or the table-and-stool arrangements lining the walls – perfect for the massive crowds of businessfolk and nearby Grand Central Terminal visitors gathering for a quick meeting.

The convenient cafe provides a small-local-chain alternative to the big guys, with WiFi, grab-n-go healthy snacks, and a focus on


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UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Michael GRIFFITH, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 03-1510.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued June 16, 2004.
Decided: October 4, 2004.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Carol B. Amon, J.
Gary Schoer, Syosset, N.Y. for Defendant-Appellant.
Lee J. Freedman, Assistant United States Attorney (Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Susan Corkery, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), Brooklyn, N.Y. for Appellee.
Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judge and MORDUE, District Judge.*
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge.

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Defendant-appellant Michael Griffith appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Carol B. Amon, District Judge), convicting him, after a jury trial, of possession of a firearm as


a felon under 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). Griffith was principally sentenced to a term of 32 months' imprisonment to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release.

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On August 21, 2002, while on routine patrol in an unmarked car in Brooklyn, Officer Edward Deighan saw Griffith and Cleveland Hainey sitting on the front staircase of an apartment. When Officer Deighan noticed that one of the men was drinking a bottle of beer, he got out of the car and said: "Police, do you have a second?" The two men immediately stood up and ran down the steps, around the side of the staircase, and toward a basement door underneath the staircase. Officer Deighan saw the taller, heavier man (later identified as Griffith) push open the door,few new comedies. Highlights include Sean Hayes in Sean Saves the World, about a guy who must figure out how to parent his 14-year-old daughter, and a TV series version of the 2002 film About a Boy, starring David Walton as a bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility until he meets a geeky young boy.

But NBC will have a tough time regaining its former legendary Thursday night comedy dominance. CBS made serious inroads into the evening with Big Bang and Two and a Half Men frequently ruling the 8 p.m. hour. Recently CBS experimented with putting repeats of other comedies into the 9 p.m. hour, raising the possibility of a full-scale two-hour comedy invasion into the evening next fall.


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Acts 27:1-5 Paul with other prisoners was sent on a ship of Adramyttium to Italy, and Julius (a centurion of the Roman army) courteously treated Paul. Acts 27:6 Paul and the prisoners got moved to another ship (of Alexandria) which…minimum, but maintains much of the detail that identifies this as one of the most iconic Star Wars ships.
Compared to the first ideation (set 75030) this set makes a few color and design changes, the greatest of which is the Chewbacca minifigure. Additionally, the radar dish is representative of the one in episodes VII and VII. If you prefer the round dish, it can be easily replaced. In fact, this set leaves several areas that an imaginative builder can modify to his/her own preferences.
I have had most of the mini and midi sized Falcon sets, and this one didn't disappoint. Another win for the LEGO Group. Thanks.


I’m currently reading a number of books, as is often the case. I’m sure there’s a word for it.

These include but are not limited to, UnMarketing, Trust Me I’m Lying, A Tale of Two Cities, Fire in the Hole and The Half-Made World.

The following is a passage from The Half-Made World, a steampunk fantasy by Felix Gilman. In the passage below, Creedmoor, an agent of the Gun (one of the warring factions in the book), is in a small western-type town, on stage of a travelling snake-salesman show. He has just spotted an enemy across the street and a demon that possesses him though his gun takes over and grants him superpowers. He has been smiling at a pretty girl who was in the company of an “oaf”of a boy, and is on the stage to impress her when he spots an enemy, just as the oaf attempts to give him a stern talking to. Prose ensues.

“But the stupid blond boy lunged out of the crowd and grabbed Creedmoor’s arm with a drunken crushing grip and would not let go. Creedmoor looked into the oaf’s dull eyes and saw there was no reasoning with him; so he flashed one last smile at the oaf’s pretty young lady, wide-blue-eyed in the shade of her green parasol, and he twisted the oaf’s arm – and there was a burning in Creedmoor’s blood and there was cordite and sulfur in his nostrils as now Marmion’s dark strength flooded his veins – he twisted so that the big boy


spun like a ballerina and went down on his back with a wet snapping sound and a limp arm flopping at his side.

Creedmoor shrugged and jumped down from the stage. The girl met his eye again and recoiled; his eyes were shot with blood and darkness and he was not smiling now, not at all.”

That book again, ladies and gentlemen, is The Half-Made World.conspired to import and distribute cocaine.  Donna, Lisa and McClure were arrested after a customs inspector discovered cocaine in McClure's suitcase.  Barnes was arrested later.  The group was returning from Cali, Colombia.

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McClure became a government witness.  He confessed that they had gone to Colombia to buy cocaine and to import it into the United States for distribution.  He indicated that Appellant devised the plan whereby the young ladies would carry the drug into the country.  According to McClure, a disagreement arose in Colombia and, as a result, McClure was left with the job of physically importing the cocaine.  Appellant denied any part in the scheme.

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Appellant raises the following six points on appeal: 1) The district court committed plain error by failing


could consider the impeachment of Donna Ballard.  Although Donna had made a confession which fully implicated herself and Barnes, she testified on direct examination that neither she nor Barnes was involved in the crimes alleged.  On cross-examination, the government questioned her extensively about facts which she had related in her confession.  Donna denied making the confession, and she specifically denied the facts establishing that she, Lisa, McClure and Barnes had planned to import drugs into the United States.  Part of the government's summation focused on Donna's confession.  The government argued that Donna had in fact made a voluntary confession and that the similarity between Donna's confession, McClure's confession, Lisa's statement, and the testimony of two Drug Enforcement Agency (D.E.A.) agents corroborated the truthEVIDENCE

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The appellant also assigns as error the admission into evidence of the cocaine taken from McClure at the airport.  He asserts that, due to conflicting testimony as to the weight of the cocaine seized, the government failed to establish a chain of custody sufficient to admit the physical evidence, Exhibit 3.  We cannot agree.

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The Customs inspector who discovered the cocaine in the lining of McClure's suitcase testified that it was contained in a number of small plastic bags.  The powder in each separate bag was field tested and each of them tested positive for cocaine.  He identified his initials on the inside plastic bag in Exhibit 3.  He turned the plastic bags over to Agent Putsche.

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Agent Putsche found the gross weight of the


powder, 11 plastic bags, plus an additional bag, to be 123 grams.  He then placed all of that into an evidence envelope and sealed it.  He identified the envelope in Exhibit 3 as the same one in which he had placed the substance he received from the Customs inspector, and which he had delivered to the laboratory.

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The chemist identified the same envelope in Exhibit 3 from his identification markings found in at least three places.  He noted that he left the top sealed, and that he cut the envelope from the bottom, marked the inside package, and re-sealed the bottom when he completed his analysis.  When he received the package, the powder was contained in the various plastic bags.

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He found the weight of thecrime is a primary method of proving his guilt.  The passive participant's otherwise innocuous and lawful acts shed no light on his state of mind.

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In order to assess the incremental probity of the disputed evidence, we must look to the posture of the case at the time the evidence of the previous offense was admitted.  United States v. Beechum, 582 F.2d 898 at 916 (5th Cir. 1978).  When the government renewed its questions regarding Barnes' previous involvement with drugs by asking Barnes whether he had ever before dealt in drugs with McClure, its need for the evidence was clear.  At this juncture, McClure, the government's main witness, had testified that Barnes had organized the trip to Colombia for the purpose of smuggling cocaine.


Based on graft, dynasty, Modi tells rally

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the Congress “a product of a sick mindset and outlook” at an election rally in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday.

He said it was no longer the Congress of Mahatma Gandhi but a party based on the “principles of corruption and dynastic rule.” Mr. Modi did not spare even the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and claimed he wanted to finish off the Jan Sangh when he was in power, right from the Panchayats to Parliament. But now the same party, progressing from a lamp to a lotus, was “writing the obituary of this grand old party.”

He also criticised Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, for “consulting” the Chinese ambassador on the Doklam issue instead of the country’s own Foreign Ministryfor his alleged involvement in a series of corruption scandals.

No drone strike carried out in Kurram Agency: ISPR

Taliban sources said 18 members of the Pakistan-based Haqqani militants, allied to the Taliban, were killed in Monday's strike and six in one of Tuesday's attacks.

The latest attacks near Pak-Afghan border are a result of joint operations by the U.S. and Afghanistan armed forces, Pakistani military's media wing said on Tuesday, which resulted in huge loss to terrorists in the remote region.

"Four unmanned drones fired six missiles in Monday's attack, and four more were dropped in two strikes on Tuesday", Baseer Khan Wazir, the top administrative official in the Kurram Agency, part of Pakistan's restive Federally Administered Tribal Areasm, told Reuters. "Drones are still flying in the sky", he added.

A second


government official in Kurram confirmed the drone strikes and the new death toll.

"But the U.S. should show restraint on drone strikes anywhere in Afghanistan, or Pakistan", he said.

"RSM timely shared details about the said operation within Afghan territory", the Pakistani army said, adding a better security coordination will take both countries toward enduring peace and stability defeating the common enemy.

"There has been neither air violation along the Pak-Afg border in that area nor any drone strike in Kurram Agency as being misreported by few".

The Haqqanis are one of the strongest factions in the Afghan Taliban insurgency and have earned a fearsome reputation for their vicious attacks on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops and Afghan installations over the years.

Islamabad has repeatedly denied the accusations of turning a blind eyeto militancy, lambasting the United States for ignoring the thousands who have been killed on its soil and the billions spent fighting extremists.

USA drones, on Friday (10/13/2017), were seen hovering near where American Caitlan Coleman, her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, and their three children, all born in captivity, were released after being kidnapped by the Haqqani network while backpacking in Afghanistan in 2012.


M’Bemba sets out each morning with a social mobilizer or communicator for Alassoya, a Forecariah sub-prefecture. Dr M’Bemba is now well accepted in this area.

A father initiates discussion with Ebola team

Each day, Ebola monitoring teams and community members bring him information about sick family members, friends or contacts. This morning, shortly after he arrives, a member of the Ebola monitoring team comes to tell him that there is a young girl down the road who has been sick for a few days. He heads straight there to visit the child, Mariam, and investigate these reports.

Mariam’s father is a respected elder in the community and when it comes to Ebola, he is more than ready to cooperate with the investigation teams. He explains that he took his daughter to14, 1992, defendant was employed by Methodist Hospital Southern California, where she allegedly tripped and fell. Defendant claimed she injured her neck, back, and toe as a result of the fall. She also claimed she suffered from general body aches. Defendant was initially off work and received temporary disability workers' compensation benefits from August 15, 1992, to August 2, 1995. Thereafter, defendant received permanent disability benefits until May 28, 1997. On May 28, 1997, defendant settled her claim with Methodist Hospital. The settlement provided for free medical treatment for all body parts injured on the job. On July 15, 1997, defendant filed a petition to reopen her initial claim, alleging new and further disability as a result of her original injuries. Thereafter, Keenan and Associates, the insurance company


administering the disability payments to defendant, filed opposition to her petition to reopen her claim. Company employees also began an investigation to determine whether defendant had sustained a new and further disability. The investigation included surveillance and videotaping of defendant's activities.
On February 25, 1998, defendant was seen using a cane as she walked into her doctor's office. Defendant was videotaped leaving the doctor's office later in the day. Defendant was carrying her cane and purse, but did not use the cane to walk to her husband's car. Thereafter, defendant was observed walking into a computer store in a normal gait without the use of *359 her cane. A few hours later, the videotape showed defendant entering a post office without her cane. She exited the post office carryingmail in her left hand. On March 11, 1998, defendant was videotaped entering and exiting the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board office. Defendant walked slowly with the assistance of a cane. A videotape of defendant's arrival at her home later that day showed her carrying the cane, but not using it as a crutch.
On March 26, 1998, defendant was videotaped as she walked a large oversized trash can on wheels to the curb from inside the house. Defendant then pulled a small trash can with one hand and walked another one to the curb. She then dragged another trash can to the curb. Defendant bent down to pick things up from her lawn. Defendant was not using a cane at any time during this videotaping. At approximately 11:05 a.m.


on April 25, 1998, defendant was taped as she exited the gate of her home. She was not using a cane to walk. She walked to the middle of the driveway. Defendant walked back to the garage door, where she bent over to unlock it. Defendant opened the garage door manually. She walked back to the side yard in a normal gait. Thereafter, she walked up the two stairs into her residence without assistance. Defendant stopped, bent from the waist down, and pulled a weed. Later the same day, defendant drove to a residence in El Monte. Defendant walked around the front yard of the residence with another woman, looking at plants and trees. Defendant did not use a cane for assistance. Defendant then lifted a chain sawand placed it in the rear of her car. She closed the hatchback of the car. Defendant got into the driver's seat, reached for the shoulder strap with her right hand, secured the seat belt, and drove away with the other woman in the passenger seat.
Defendant and the woman drove to an outdoor market, arriving at 2:23 p.m. Defendant got out of the car. Defendant walked without her cane to the store with her purse on her left arm. Defendant filled two plastic bags with fruit. Defendant handed one to the other woman. Defendant left the store with her purse on her left arm and carrying a bag of fruit. The two women drove across the street to a grocery store. The two women exited the store with


and stuffing it into a trash container. She also broke small branches with both hands, bent from the waist down to pull weeds or flowers from the ground, dug into the ground with a small trowel, used her foot to press down the dirt, and squatted to pick up trash from the ivy. Defendant was also observed to pull branches down from the tree as they were cut. Defendant threw the branches with an overhand motion and pulled the cord of the chain saw. The videotape ended at 2:09 p.m.
Defendant was deposed under oath on April 28, 1998, in connection with her request to reopen her workers' compensation claim. The deposition was transcribed by a certified shorthand reporter. Sonja Gipson was the attorney for Methodist Hospital conducting thein her hip, neck, and right shoulder had also become worse. Defendant said she did very little housework and no gardening. A transcript of the foregoing deposition was received in evidence as exhibit 5. It is not executed by defendant.
On September 4, 1998, defendant was videotaped manually raising her garage door. Defendant drove her car out of the garage. She got out of her car and closed the garage door. Defendant was not using a cane. Defendant then walked fast to avoid some sprinklers. She walked up the two stairs to her residence. Later, the tape pictured defendant turning on sprinklers and carrying two empty trash cans simultaneously to the side of the house. She also bent down to pick up some debris. Defendant also unwound the garden


Korg has announced the death of company Chairman Tsutomu Katoh. Katoh died this morning, March 15, 2011, after a long fight with cancer.

Korg President Seiki Kato released the following statement:

Since he founded Korg Inc. in 1963, Mr. Katoh has led our company with great talent, vision and leadership. He was loved and respected by all the employees and Korg family members, and he made a huge contribution to the lives of countless musicians around the world.

Korg USA President Joseph Castronovo released this statement:

Chairman Katoh was a true visionary and a personal friend, and he will be missed by everyone at Korg and indeed, the entire music industry. Over the past twenty years, I have witnessed firsthand the ways in which Korg has flourished under his and his family’sseems as vital as ever, with a broad range of products and many of it’s older products now considered classics.

Tsutomu Katoh Official Obituary

Tsutomu Katoh was born in Showa-ward, Nagoya City in Japan on August 28, 1926. After advanced graduation from Nagoya Shogyo commercial high school in 1943, He enrolled in the navy, where he was among the crew of the submarine “Koryu” (meaning dragon) during WWII.

After the war, he held a position at a trading company, and eventually went on to become the proprietor of a nightclub in the early 1960s. Tadashi Osanai, a noted Japanese accordionist, performed regularly at Katoh’s club. Katoh told Osanai, who was also an engineering graduate from Japan’s prestigious Tokyo Imperial University, that it would be nice to have a rhythm machine to


keep the beat.

Katoh and Osanai teamed up to create and market the world’s first disk rotary rhythm machine. While working on the project, Mr. Katoh founded Keio Electronic Laboratories. Their first product, the Disc Rotary Electric Auto Rhythm machine, or Doncamatic DA-20, was released in 1963.

The Doncamatic was such a groundbreaking product that it became the origin of “doncama,” a word widely used in Japanese music and broadcasting studios to mean the guide clicks.

Most recently, Mr. Katoh left his personal mark on music history by lending his voice at the request of the popular UK electronic group Gorillaz, who are fans of the Doncamatic. A spoken-word sample of Katoh saying “Doncamatic” can be heard in the band’s song of the same title.

In 1970, the company developed a variationof an electronic organ, called “Synthesizer Prototype I,” which became the first synthesizer ever made in Japan. The company then sold its first commercial keyboard and named it “KORGUE” by combining the initials of Katoh (K) and Osanai (O) with the French word ‘orgue,’ meaning organ.

In 1973 the company name was formally changed to KORG, with the release of the miniKORG, an affordable synthesizer.

In 1975, Korg released the world’s first handheld electronic guitar tuner, the WT-10, which offered every musician an affordable on-the-go tuner for the first time. Katoh had always been proud of the large volume of positive feedback he received from musicians all over the world, both amateur and professional.

In 1988, the company released the M1, which established the music workstation category, and continued to release


radomes designed especially for this site. Radomes are not normally used on the broadband Model 6014, but were employed here to increase protection from falling ice. While the radomes of all previous Shively Mt. Mansfield antennas have been brown, a new gray pigment was formulated and tested to help meet increasingly stringent aesthetic requirements.

WVPS began full time broadcasting of its analog signal from the new antenna on October 27, 2006. With the installation of new STL dishes in the spring of 2007 WVPS is now broadcasting HD1, VPR Classical on HD2, and BBC World Service on HD3. WVPR, with a Shively Model 6014 atop Mt. Ascutney, was the first station to broadcast digital radio in Vermont and the WVPS signal promises to significantly increase the service not onlyacross the Green Mountain State, but also well into New York, New Hampshire, and Quebec. WEZF is scheduled to begin operation from the new antenna sometime in 2009, just in time to retire the old Shively panel before its 30th birthday.

For more information: VPR Web site report with audio from a news report synopsizing the project, photos and periodic updates from their director of engineering Rich Parker.

Photos are courtesy of Vermont Public Radio and Rich Parker. HD Radio™ is a trademark of iBiquity Corporation.

Shively Labs has been designing and manufacturing professional broadcast antennas since 1963 for installations around the globe.


reports that the government obtained a secret court order under FISA in 2014 allegedly to focus on his work consulting for the government of Ukraine.

A second warrant obtained by the government was allegedly part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia's election interference.

Manafort has quickly become a key figure in Mueller's investigation. FBI agents raided Manafort’s home in July as part of the probe, and Mueller reportedly told him that he should expect to be indicted as part of the investigation.

Mueller is also working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) as part of his investigation into Manafort. Pulling in a state attorney general prevents Trump from pardoning Manafort.Health and human resource mobilization: an assessment of staffing pattern in NLEP at operational level.
In this paper the staffing pattern, training and infrastructural facilities of the National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) at operational level as well as the attendant problems in mobilising human resources are discussed. The study shows that the major portion of the work of the NLEP is being shared by the PMWs (72%), followed by NMS (14%) and Medical Officers (5%). The population served by the PMW in all the high and moderate endemic regions is more than the prescribed limit except in Nagaland and Sikkim. In the same areas, the Medical Officer serves a population more than the norm in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Bihar. Regarding case load, in no state


(Re)Writing Culture @ Poets House

On Saturday, Nov. 13, Poets House featured a panel discussion with Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Craig Santos Perez, and Barbara Jane Reyes. The over-arching theme was “(Re) Writing Culture,” though each poet spoke more about the process of writing their books. All three poets had second books released in 2010.

Lee said that her second book is really an exploration of “national space,” both physical and psychological. She mentioned that she is Korean-American, and that culturally she “belongs” to the traditions of Korea, but her physical space and education has always been “American.”

When her parents immigrated to the United States, she said, they bought into the assimilation narrative, so she wasn’t raised with “stories” of her parents or relatives’ lives in Korea. Lee said that thisU.S. involvement in the Philippines via wars and tourist industries. including the sex industries, which became the focus of her chapbook, Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008).

Reyes said that when she worked on these books, she encountered a lot of Filipino mythology, and her second full-length collection, Diwata (BOA, Editions, Ltd 2010), gives its voice over to these mythologies. She mentioned that through her research, she found many occasions where these myths overlapped and borrowed narratives from each other.

Craig Santos Perez said that he originally came from an ethnography background. Most of his research began as “academic,” as he is enrolled in the Ph.D program at Berkeley. Perez spoke at length about the shifts in ethnography and how language is “complicit with imperialism.” He said that all


of his research affected his first book, from unincorporated territory [hacha](Tinfish Press, 2008). The book explores the constant invasions by Japanese and American soldiers and how with each invasion more and more of Guam’s official language is destroyed and replaced first with Japanese, then American.

Perez said heattempts to capture what has remained as well as what was lost. Throughout this process, Perez really wanted to capture “the personal” lived narratives, specifically of his grandmother. He wasn’t able to do this with his first book, so for his second book, from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn, 2010), he collages narratives and fragments of his grandmother’s life and her stories. Perez said this enables him to capture the “psychology of empire nations” through the “story-telling” of those that have lived it.

Perezare the City of Perth Amboy, its zoning board of adjustment and Thomas Sinatra, its building inspector. The case arose as follows: on January 16, 1981 plaintiffs entered into a contract with an agency of the United States Department of Defense, pursuant to the Armed Services Procurement Act (10 U.S.C.A. § 2301 et seq.) to provide services and facilities in Perth Amboy for the receipt, storage and shipping of government owned jet fuel. Subsequently, plaintiffs sought a building permit for tank construction from the municipality, which permit was denied by the building inspector on January 30, 1981 on the basis that under the local zoning ordinance the proposed facility was not a permitted use. On February 1, 1981 plaintiffs filed a complaint in lieu of prerogative writs seeking


The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure? Inspired by the death of four family members from "legal drugs" Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth sets out to discover why the Drug War has become such a big failure. Three and a half years in the making the film follows gang members, former DEA agents, CIA officers, narcotics officers, judges, politicians, prisoners and celebrities. Most notably the film befriends Freeway Ricky Ross; the man many accuse for starting the Crack epidemic, who after being arrested discovered that his cocaine source had been working for the CIA. AMERICAN DRUG WAR shows how money, power and greed have corrupted not just dope fiends butCamp Bibliography, by Charlotte Laughlin and Daniel J. H. Levack (1983)
 Son of the Tree, by Jack Vance (1983)
 Amber Dreams: A Roger Zelazny Bibliography, by Daniel J. H. Levack (1983)
 The Houses of Iszm, by Jack Vance (1983)
 The Coelura, by Anne McCaffrey (1983)
 The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII, Big Planet, by Jack Vance (1983)
 Dilvish, the Damned, by Roger Zelazny (1983)
 The Man in the Cage, by Jack Vance (1983)
 The Faceless Man, by Jack Vance (1983)
 The Brave Free Men, by Jack Vance (1983)
 The Asutra, by Jack Vance (1983)
 Leeson Park and Belsize Square: Poems 1970 - 1975, by Peter Straub (1983)
 Suldrun's Garden: Lyonesse I, by Jack Vance (1983)
 Space Opera, by Jack Vance (1984)
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186 U.S. 202 (1902)
CHIN YING
v.
THE UNITED STATES.
No. 526.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued March 13, 14, 1902.
Decided June 2, 1902.
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER.
This case is similar to that just decided, and the judgment of the court below is
Affirmed.
MR. JUSTICE GRAY did not hear the argument and took no part in these decisions.
MR. JUSTICE BREWER and MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM dissented.
Early modern experimentation on live animals.
Starting from the works by Aselli (De lactibus sive lacteis venis, 1627) on the milky veins and Harvey (1628, translated in 1993) on the motion of the heart and the circulation of the blood, the practice of vivisection witnessed a resurgence in the early modern period. I discuss some of the most notable cases in the century spanning from Aselli's work to the investigations of fluid pressure in plants and animals by Stephen Hales (Vegetable Staticks, 1727). Key figures in my study include Johannes Walaeus, Jean Pecquet, Marcello Malpighi, Reinier de Graaf, Richard Lower, Anton Nuck, and Anton de Heide. Although vivisection dates from antiquity, early modern experimenters expanded the range of practices and epistemic motivations associated with it, displaying considerable technical skills


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Containers with end door closures are dumped by opening a door at one end of the waste container, and raising the other end of the container so that the contents slide through the open door by gravity. Dumping containers often have a horizontal hinge at the top of a pivoting door panel, which structure is useful in that the hinge mounting structurally supports the container by fixing the distance between the sidewalls adjacent to the door. However, such a door interferes with access for loading and unloading through the end. In the Lindley container, the hinge axis is vertical. The door is hinged to one of the container sidewalls and is latched to the other. This arrangement places substantial stress on the hinge-side container sidewall. The weight ofdoor drops at the latch side, the portions of the door and container defining the seal grind over one another in the plane of the end opening. Such grinding wear on the seal is difficult to avoid. Even if the vertically hinged door does not droop at all, the motion of the door panel is rotational about its hinge axis. Rotation around the hinge axis translates into at least a slight relative displacement in the plane of the opening, namely displacement of the door panel relative to a seal strip on the ends of the container side walls (or vice versa) as the seal is compressed. The relative motion is perpendicular to the opening only at the precise point at which the door panel is at the nominal


upended to open the container. Preferably, the guides are displaceable either pulled down onto container seals or lifted from the seals for movement without interference with or from the seals.
In another embodiments of the invention, a container is provided that comprises a plurality of walls bounding a volume wherein one of the walls defines a door panel that is movable so as to define an opening into the volume. At least two hinges are mounted between the door or movable sidewall and a support plate, and enable displacement of the hinge axis along a line perpendicular to the closure plane of the opening. The support plate is located on a sidewall adjacent to the moveable sidewall or door, and is moveable between a first position and a secondclass songwriting with stories from the road.
Promoting his new album ‘The Path Into Blue’ Sean Taylor is one of the most exciting and hard working names on the international roots and blues circuit.

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Leonard Cohen and Jack Kerouac; With voice that is a cross between John Martyn and Van Morrison and a guitar style that sounds like an acoustic Stevie Ray Vaughan jamming with JJ Cale … His live shows fuse world class songwriting with stories from the road.
Promoting his new album ‘The Path Into Blue’ Sean Taylor is one of the most exciting and hard working names on the international roots and blues circuit.

Sean Taylor plays over 150 gigs around the world every year touring solo and with his band. His new album was recorded in Austin, TX with legendary producer Mark Hallman (Carole King, Ani Di Franco) ... Sean has supported John Fogerty, Neville Brothers, Robert Cray, Richard Thompson, Tony Joe White, Eric Bibb, Tom Paxton, Band of Horses,seen him with an instructor during his initial training, I would never have known he was taking flying lessons. After I graduated, I lost track.

At our 20-year reunion, he was there, all grown up. I reminded him of his early flight training and asked if he had earned his private. Sort of. Turned out he was an active-duty colonel in the U.S. Air Force, commanding some number of F-16 Fighting Falcons. He had flown combat over Iraq in 1991.

F-16 over Iraq. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway)

By that point in my life, I’d come to accept that there’s always someone with a bigger house, better-paying job, redder car, bigger swimming pool or cooler airplane. But that this geeky kid had turned into an F-16 jock


was over the top, even for me. That we had gotten our initial flight training at the same airport didn’t help a bit. I expressed my admiration and continued to mingle with my former classmates, forced to contemplate the evils of gravity and time.

Another memorable flight student was the local high school’s assistant principal. He started flight training a year or so after I graduated.

There were two basic categories of students who knew the man well. One knew him through their involvement in after-school, extra-curricular activities: The yearbook, maybe the chess club. The other category knew him by way of his responsibility to ensure all students were in their scheduled classes.

It may surprise you to learn that, by my senior year in high school, I had evolved arather casual attitude toward regular class attendance. One could say it clashed with the assistant principal’s, whose life mission appeared to be ensuring that regular attendance.

He was so serious about it that he often sat in his car in the parking lot to catch students without an appropriate reason to be off-campus. That would be me. One parking lot encounter was especially memorable, for both of us.

So we were acquainted when we ran into each other in the FBO office one day as I was returning from a flight. He was doing his primary training and I already had earned my private. He was suitably impressed I was ahead of him in flight training and never brought up the thing in the parking lot.

Some weeks later, I was


back out at the airport and asked how his training was going. The reaction ranged from giggles to grimaces, along with shaking heads. The bottom line was he wasn’t training there any more and wouldn’t be in the foreseeable future. It took a private conversation with the flight instructor he and I shared to get the real story.

Seems his training had been proceeding well enough. He had soloed without much trouble, and was steadily accumulating flight time while preparing for the checkride. He’d also completed his dual cross-country. There were no real issues with his skills, but he was a little headstrong. Anti-authority we would call it today. Ironic for an assistant principal.

He had gotten far enough along in his training to set off on his long solocross-country flight. By this time, he had graduated from the Cessna 150 I had started in and was flying a Cherokee 140. By all appearances, he would soon earn his private, but the long cross-country exposed his Achilles heel.

Piper Cherokee 140 (Photo by Adrian Pingstone)

According to the instructor, his flight planning was fine. So was the weather, and there was nothing wrong with the Cherokee. So how he got lost and off-course was a mystery. It also was a mystery how he ended up over the adjacent state’s capital more than an hour off his course, or how he tuned the tower frequency and heard a controller yelling at him.

Instead of landing, of course, he pointed the Cherokee in a different direction, intending to return to home plate.


Apparently, he got lost on the way back, too.

Whether by luck, skill, divine intervention or some combination, he managed to get the Cherokee and himself back to home plate. He was right over the airport. He had been aloft for five hours, without landing. Or refueling.

Presumably, he’d been switching tanks, though, so when the little Lycoming quit right over the airport, no double-secret fuel selector position or new combination of carb heat and throttle setting was going to restore power. At the end of his long cross-country, he had run out of fuel.

He still had to land, of course. Which he did, dead-stick, without damage to the airplane or injury to himself or anyone else. Did I mention that there was no real issue with his skills?

To theIt Wasn’t A Player Who Delivered This Insane Hit On A Kansas City Cheerleader

Hannah Simmons | Reporter

During the Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles game Sunday night, a cheerleader took the worst hit of the weekend.

It was halftime and the Chiefs cheerleaders were out on the field performing. A cameraman comes across the field to get a shot of them dancing and the cheerleader in the front got trampled, and yes the entire thing was caught on video.

In the video the cameraman pops up and keeps going because he does not realize art first what happened. Fans at the game however noted that he went back to help her and the cheerleader got up and kept dancing.

Luckily the cheerleader wasn’t hurt because that was one brutal hit, but she


West Ham United are delighted to announce the signing of defender Erin Simon.

The 24-year-old joins the Club on a free transfer, having left American side Sky Blue FC at the end of last season.

“I’m delighted to sign for West Ham United,” Simon told West Ham TV: “I’m very excited to be a part of this family. Right off the bat, West Ham has just felt like a real family atmosphere, and I’m excited to be a part of something new."

Head Coach Matt Beard is thrilled to have added Simon to his Hammers squad and is ready to put his newest player into the action.

Beard said: “I am delighted to welcome Erin to West Ham United. She is an exceptional defender who has brought a lively and enthusiastic personalityto our team.

Right off the bat, West Ham has just felt like a real family atmosphere, and I’m excited to be a part of something new. Erin Simon

“Erin has proven herself a top professional playing in The NWSL who is determined to work hard, and I am confident we will see the best of her in the English game.”

A versatile player in the back-line, Simon began her college football career with Syracuse Orange in New York, where she played for her college side between 2012 and 2015.

After finishing college and impressing in a try-out and pre-season games, Simon signed a contract with Sky Blue in April 2016.

Making the jump from America to England is a major step in Simon’s career and she spoke about what attracted her to


the Brexit vote may affect their status in the UK showed that uncertainty over the outcome is causing a lot of anxiety for people who have lived in the UK for many years.

In the wake of the vote to leave, Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan told the BBC that no one had suggested a change to the status of EU nationals living in Britain.

However, there is a tangible sense of uncertainty for many of those in question.

"Most of the people getting in touch have actually been living and working here for many years," says Anisa Ghoshi. "There was one gentleman who has been here for more than 40 years - since 1973." The man is originally Dutch, but told Anisa of the dilemma he was in, identifying completely withthe British character and not that of his heritage - despite being a foreigner on paper. "I'm not a wishy-washy European!" he said. He has a flawless English accent, Anisa recalled - particularly the very British indignation in that last remark.

Recent, subtle amendments to British immigration rules have caught many off guard. Until last November, European nationals living in the UK for five years were automatically granted the status of permanent residency, and after 12 months of continuing this status, were then eligible to apply for citizenship. The Home Office then introduced new rules that meant European Economic Area (EEA) nationals after five years now have to apply formally for permanent residence, proving eligibility in a range of criteria, in order to produce a document that proves their


in EU citizens applying for UK citizenship

The latest Home Office figures show applications for citizenship in 2015 rose by a fifth after the Conservatives won in the general election - standing on a manifesto which promised to hold a referendum before 2017- although the Home Office doesn't break figures down by nationalities from the EU and outside.

When asked, the most common concern for EEA nationals enquiring about their status post-Brexit, was the possibility of deportation, or additional bureaucratic hoops to jump through, that if one is not careful and meticulous, could lead to deportation.

The vast majority of Europeans enquiring about assistance with permanent residence or naturalizing as British citizens were people who have settled in the UK for many years, even decades, immigration firms told Deutsche Welle. InJamal Khashoggi, the missing activist and writer last seen entering the Saudi Consulate in Turkey on Oct. 2, was killed in a fight, Saudi state media reported on Friday.

“Discussions between citizen Jamal Khashoggi and those who met him while he was in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul led to a brawl and a physical altercation, which led to his death,” Saudi Arabia's attorney general said in a statement, according to The Wall Street Journal. The announcement of Kashoggi's death followed the preliminary findings of a probe into what happened to the activist.

State media also quoted prosecutors as saying 18 Saudi nationals are being held on suspicion of being involved in the Washington Post columnist's death. Saudi state media also said a royal court adviser close to Saudi Crown


Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was fired along with three leaders in the kingdom's intelligence services and other officials.

The statements did not identify the 18 Saudis being held by authorities.

Saudi state TV and the state-run Saudi Press Agency carried the statement early Saturday morning.

The announcement comes after President Trump on Thursday said it "certainly" looked like Khashoggi was dead. The president didn't elaborate on his conclusion but he said the consequences for Saudi Arabia "will have to be very severe" if it's ultimately found responsible for Khashoggi's death.

Later Friday night Trump said that Saudi Arabia's announcement of arrests was a "good first step," but that what happened there is "unacceptable."

The president, who called Kashoggi's death a "horrible event" that has not gone "unnoticed," said he'd work with Congressa proposal on the "urgent need" to restructure the kingdom's intelligence services following Khashoggi's death, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said.

Khashoggi, who had written critically of MBS, disappeared two weeks ago during a visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Turkish officials said they feared he was killed and dismembered inside the consulate.

During a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier this week, Saudi leaders -- including King Salman and the crown prince -- "strongly denied any knowledge of what took place in their consulate in Istanbul," Pompeo said. That denial was backed by President Trump prior to Friday's revelation.

Investigators on Friday had questioned staff from the Saudi Consulate about the disappearance of Khashoggi and explored whether his remains could have been dumped outside Istanbul after his


A Brighter Future for Lincoln

February 2, 2018

Like many twins, Lincoln Dunning and his twin sister were born prematurely. They were in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for two months, needing time to develop and grow. Lincoln came home on Christmas Eve 2014, a few weeks after his twin, but with no major health issues and no restrictions.

Escalating Health Challenges

Four months later, all of that changed. Lincoln started getting sick. His first hospital admission was fairly routine – he was hospitalized with bronchitis, but only required oxygen and was discharged quickly. The next time was more severe. He was admitted with pneumonia and had to be flown to a children’s hospital in St. Louis where he was in the intensive care unit (ICU) for a week. At this point,he was referred to a local Otolaryngologist to check into why he was getting sick so often. The specialists recommended a bronchoscopy (where a camera is inserted in the throat to view and monitor the airway) if and when he became seriously sick again. After his next illness, when he was well enough, he went through with the bronchoscopy. During the bronchoscopy, they intentionally ruptured subglottic cysts in Lincoln's throat. But, after the procedure, his condition worsened and he struggled to breathe. He ended up back in the local emergency room and was eventually transported back to St. Louis, where he was intubated. Lincoln’s doctors discovered that he was fighting an adenovirus, in addition to the severe swelling from the rupturing of his cysts, and these problems were


went as planned during the nine-hour surgery and Lincoln began his recovery. He was discharged from the hospital after the typical three-week recovery period. One of his first adjustments was learning how to eat again with a bigger airway. But he adjusted quickly and has never looked back.

Lincoln has been loving life since his surgery. Now an active three-year-old, he spent the summer swimming, going for walks, playing outside, and keeping up with his twin. The entire family could go on outings that weren’t possible before – like eating dinner at a restaurant and going to the park together. Now that he has recovered, his mother has noticed dramatic changes in her son. She said, “Lincoln was always so happy before, but since his procedure, he seems soHarrison Ford has revealed that Star Wars: Episode VII is surrounded by mystery.

The Ender's Game star, who is rumoured to reprise his role as Han Solo in JJ Abrams' upcoming instalment, joked that he had been warned about saying anything about the film.

He remained tight-lipped about the stories, simply saying: "It's all shrouded in mystery."

Harrison - who stars as Colonel Hyrum Graff in Gavin Hood's big-screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel - said he enjoyed playing the commander of a military school, because he could boss his younger co-stars including Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld around.

"It was fun for me but these kids worked awful hard. The young people worked awfully hard to demonstrate the capacity of this zero gravity effect, and they had me barking


at them when they weren't on camera," he said.

The 71-year-old said the role was one he couldn't turn down.

"For me, it was the opportunity to be part of something ambitious, creative and unique and to work with talented people all through from the writers and producers to the young and the older actors. It was just a great opportunity to me," he said.

"The character that I play and his relationship to Asa Butterfield is something I recognise as having real emotional opportunity, but also the experience of seeing that was something I thought might generate some questions in people's minds, which I thought was a good idea," he added.

Ender's Game, which also stars Sir Ben Kingsley and Viola Davis, opens in cinemas on October 25.Activation of Broca's area during the production of spoken and signed language: a combined cytoarchitectonic mapping and PET analysis.
Broca's area in the inferior frontal gyrus consists of two cytoarchitectonically defined regions-Brodmann areas (BA) 44 and 45. Combining probabilistic maps of these two areas with functional neuroimaging data obtained using PET, it is shown that BA45, not BA44, is activated by both speech and signing during the production of language narratives in bilingual subjects fluent from early childhood in both American Sign Language (ASL) and English when the generation of complex movements and sounds is taken into account. It is BA44, not BA45, that is activated by the generation of complex articulatory movements of oral/laryngeal or limb musculature. The same patterns of activation are found for oral language production


Mystery at beach: Is this your Japanese toy train?

Aug. 1, 2012

Updated Aug. 21, 2013 1:17 p.m.

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This chunk of toy train is a Shinkansen Komachi model of the Japanese bullet train. It's popular in Japan. When Ryan and Yuji Kaneko found the train on a beach they believed it was debris from the Japan that came over after the March 2011 earthquake. Oceanographers believe it's unlikely for debris from Japan to reach Orange County because of the offshore nature of the currents and winds in Southern California. Experts say ocean currents are more likelty to direct debris from Japan to shore from Oregon to Alaska. SAMANTHA MASUNAGA, FOR THE REGISTER

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Beverly Findlay-Kaneko, left, with Yuji Kaneko and their son, Ryan Kaneko, near the spot at DogBeach in Huntington Beach where they found part of a toy train. SAMANTHA MASUNAGA, FOR THE REGISTER

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Beverly Findlay-Kaneko, left, with son Ryan Kaneko and husband Yuji Kaneko, believes its a quirk of fate that their family found a piece of a toy train that was made in Japan. The family lived in Japan until last year, when an earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster rocked the country. The family has relocated to Orange County. SAMANTHA MASUNAGA, FOR THE REGISTER

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Yuji Kaneko, right, spends months at a time in Japan, attending to the family business and helping to care for his parents. But his family's home now is Orange County. When he's not home, the family connects daily via Skype. SAMANTHA MASUNAGA, FOR THE REGISTER

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On his current trip


to Japan Yuji Kaneko, right, plans to try to find the owner of the toy held here by son Ryan Kaneko. It's unclear if the toy train actually came directly from Japan, but a representative from the manufacturer has expressed interest in helping reunite train and owner. SAMANTHA MASUNAGA, FOR THE REGISTER

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Beverly Findlay-Kaneko holds a close-up photo of the toy bullet train that they think washed ashore in Southern California after traveling from Japan as part of the March 2011 Tsunami debris. STUART PALLEY, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

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Beverly Findlay-Kaneko and her son Ryan, 11, stand across the channel from where Ryan and his father found part of a toy bullet train. The Kaneko family believes its a quirk of fate that their family founda piece of a toy train that was made in Japan. The family lived in Japan until last year, when an earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster rocked the country. The family has relocated to Orange County. STUART PALLEY, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

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Ryan Kaneko, 11, stands across the channel from where he and his father found part of a toy bullet train at Dog Beach in Huntington Beach. STUART PALLEY, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

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Ryan Kaneko wrote this letter about the toy bullet train he and his father found at Dog Beach in Huntington Beach. COURTESY OF KANEKO FAMILY

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Beverly Findlay-Kaneko, son Ryan Kaneko and husband Yuji Kaneko believe its a quirk of fate that their family found a piece of a toy train that was made in


Japan. The family lived in Japan until last year, when an earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster rocked the country. The family has relocated to Orange County. COURTESY OF KANEKO FAMILY

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The Kaneko family believes its a quirk of fate that their family found a piece of a toy train that was made in Japan. The family lived in Japan until last year, when an earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster rocked the country. The family has relocated to Orange County. COURTESY OF KANEKO FAMILY

This chunk of toy train is a Shinkansen Komachi model of the Japanese bullet train. It's popular in Japan. When Ryan and Yuji Kaneko found the train on a beach they believed it was debris from the Japan that came over after the March 2011 earthquake. Oceanographers believe it's unlikely fordebris from Japan to reach Orange County because of the offshore nature of the currents and winds in Southern California. Experts say ocean currents are more likelty to direct debris from Japan to shore from Oregon to Alaska.SAMANTHA MASUNAGA, FOR THE REGISTER

HUNTINGTON BEACH– The father and son walked along the jetty – a favorite place to find crabs – until something caught the father's eye, something wedged between the rocks:

A toy train.

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About four inches in length, the train was filled with sand and pebbles. It was probably part of a larger set of toy railroad cars, a Shinkansen Komachi model of the Japanese bullet train.

The boy used to play with the same kind of toy train. What's more, the train and the boy had something in common. Both


left their native Japan and ended up in Huntington Beach.

The boy came over with his family last year, after tsunami and earthquake had changed his native country.

And the train?

It started in Japan, but nobody can say for sure when or how it got to the rocks at Dog Beach in Huntington Beach.

"I was so shocked, I couldn't think anything. It was just weird," said the father, Yuji Kaneko, of finding a familiar toy – one sold only in Japan – on a beach thousands of miles from home.

"Then I realized it came through the ocean from Tohoku."

The Tohoku region is located in northeast Japan, and was the epicenter of the 8.9 earthquake and tsunami the struck in March of last year. If the train floated over from Tohoku,it would be the latest piece of Japanese debris to hit the West Coast. In recent months, everything from refrigerators and a truck to a chunk of a dock have washed up on beaches in Oregon and Washington.

So far, nothing has landed as far south as Orange County.

Still, the possibility of the toy train being part of that flotilla sparked the imagination of Yuji's son, Ryan, 11.

"I was wondering where (the toy's owner) was, if he was safe somewhere else, or still stuck in northwest Japan," Ryan said.

In a letter to the Register, Ryan said he hoped to find the toy's owner one day and return it.

Ryan's mother is no less inspired by the tiny chunk of train.

"If somebody else had found it ... they wouldn't have known


what it was," said Beverly Findlay-Kaneko.

"Why is it that we found it? It's kind of strange."

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The Kanekos were changed by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

Pre-quake, they lived in Yokohama, about 200 miles from the quake's epicenter.

On the day of the quake, Ryan was at school, practicing spelling. He felt the tremor, which built in intensity, and soon followed the directions of an announcement that came through the school's PA system:

"Get under your desk. This is a real earthquake!"

Ryan and his classmates rode out waves of increasingly violent shakes.

Meanwhile, Beverly raced to the train station to get Ryan, but changed her strategy when a huge aftershock made her wonder if the train would get all the way to Ryan's school. She and Yuji decided to drive,avoiding all freeways along the way. It took them an hour to get to the school, where they found Ryan unhurt. It took six hours to drive home.

Five days later, the family left Japan for Huntington Beach.

Initially, they came to visit a sick relative; Beverly's mother, who lived in Orange County, was hospitalized. But the aftereffects of the quake came with them to the U.S. For weeks afterward, both Beverly and Ryan felt motion sickness.

Soon, their visit started to look more like a relocation.

"At first we told Ryan to finish fourth grade here, and then to finish the first half of fifth grade, and then all of fifth grade," Beverly said.

They read news reports of radioactive leaks from Fukushima's nuclear reactors – and the Japanese government's less-than-accurate updates


about the dangers posed by those leaks. As a result, the family has become active in the fight against the use of nuclear power.

And, now, unlike the toy train, Ryan won't be going back to Japan any time soon.

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On Monday, Yuji flew back to Japan. It's his new normal, as he goes to Japan for long stretches to help run his family's business and to help care for his aging parents. He can Skype with Beverly and Ryan, but he can return to the United States only once every few months.

"It's a really hard situation, taking care of both sides, but I have no choice," Yuji said.

On this latest trip, Yuji took the toy train. He's planning meet with officials from the train's manufacturer and see if theycan use the serial number on the train to get it back to its original owner.

But it's unclear if Japan is the place for that.

Jan Hafner, a scientific computer programmer at the University of Hawaii who has worked on models of the ocean voyages of tsunami debris, said that the winds and currents of the Pacific flow toward land from Alaska south to Oregon. In Southern California, the currents flow offshore.

That difference is why Japanese tsunami debris found, to date, hasn't landed as far south as Huntington Beach.

Hafner says it is "highly unlikely" that the train could have floated from Japan to Southern California.

Still, Yuji has the train in Japan, and Ryan is hoping his father can connect some dots.

"I really want to return this toy to its


let this great mind pass you by; join the conversation on what life is all about.

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A.C. Graylingis an outstanding British philosopher and public intellectual, as well as a prolific author (over 30 books) and frequent writer, columnist, broadcaster and commentator on all of the main national media in the United Kingdom. He contributes to the ongoing reflection on how we should live and about possibilities for good lives in good societies. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college inLondon. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He has been a judge on the Booker Prize twice, in 2015 serving as the Chair of the judging panel. He is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

GOODREADSThe Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind (2016), The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism (2013), Friendship (2013), The Good Book: A Humanist Bible (2011), Liberty in the Age of Terror, A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values (2009), Against All Gods: Six


Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness (2007), Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide For The 21st Century (2008), The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life (2001).

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While we send our thoughts and well-wishes to those affected by the Southern California wildfires, Google has something of an (incidental) ironic observation. The search engine tracks popular search terms and presents a relative scale (using phrases from "mild" to "volcanic") of their popularity for a given day.

On Monday 22 October 2007, "california wildfires" was ranked on the "hotness" scale as On Fire.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Did you know that the average nightclub consumes 150 times the power of a typical 4-person household? This and other energy conservation observations serva as basis for a dance floor that will turn the kinetic energy of those dancing into electricity to fuel the lights, sound, and other power-guzzling needs of a nightclub. It'll take a spin in Rotterdam, Netherlands soon and you


Jerusalem Report, 9/5.

The mortar shells came early in the morning. At about 5. At regular intervals. Solemn and sinister. They were a reminder of how close it all was. We were in the Damascus Old City. There was still fighting in Jobar, about two kilometers away. The rebels had also counter-attacked from the east, from the suburbs in eastern Ghouta, in the previous week. A shell had landed in the precinct of the Umayyad Mosque. This was not in accordance with the line being promoted by the regime, according to which the rebellion was on the verge of defeat. But there it was.

The old city was tense, behind a veneer of strained normality. There were checkpoints every hundred meters or so. These were maintained not by the army,but by the National Defense Force (NDF), an Iranian-sponsored paramilitary force created to fill the gap presented by the Assad regime’s lack of loyal manpower. Young men mostly, with a sprinkling of older types and a very few girls. Supervised by Mukhabarat officers with pistols in their belts. They were suspicious of foreigners. There had already been a number of suicide attacks by members of the jihadi organizations in regime-controlled areas.

A military checkpoint, Damascus, Old City.

For the most part, though, the atmosphere of strained normality held. Undoubtedly, fear of the regime played its part in the exaggerated professions of loyalty and love for Bashar that one would hear. But there was also justified fear of the Islamist rebels, and what their advance would mean. And, of course, there


was mainly fatigue, and the desire of people to live in their own private circle, and willingness to cope with any governing authority which appeared able to provide for that. The Syrian pound had plummeted in value since the start of the war – from 48 pounds to the US dollar in March 2011 to 625 to the dollar now. There were long queues each morning to buy subsidized bread at the state bakeries. The traffic was on the roads, the shops were open, pictures of the dictator and his family were everywhere. But all was far flimsier and more brittle than it initially appeared.

I should explain first of all how I came to be in Damascus. I have been writing about Syria now for over a decade.I have visited the country numerous times since the outbreak of its civil war in mid-2011. My visits, though, were always to the areas controlled by the Sunni Arab rebels or the Kurdish separatist forces. This was a notable gap in my coverage. I wanted to remedy it.

The Assad regime makes it hard for journalists to acquire visas. The authorities are keen consumers of media, and keep track of the names of reporters who have spent time among their enemies. The number of journalists who have managed to report from both the government and rebel sides is very small. I had tried on a number of occasions to acquire a visa, but made little progress.

Finally, a colleague suggested the idea of joining a delegation of foreign supporters of


the regime. With the war going its way since late 2015, the Syrian government has begun to cautiously open up to visitors. But like other authoritarian regimes, it prefers to welcome these in groups, and under careful supervision.

I made contact with the organizers of one of these delegations. The process was surprisingly straightforward.

We met in Beirut and then crossed the border. The tour was organized in cooperation with the Syrian Ministry of Information, so a representative of the ministry would be with us at all times. The participants were a varied bunch. Some pro-Assad true believers, some younger travelers. Mainly from the west, but a couple also from Jordan.

The Assad supporters represented that strange axis in contemporary western politics where far left meets radical right. A British manof 2006, which was supposed to defeat the resistance. Then when this failed, they decided to try the ‘Arab Spring’ instead. ‘

This message – that the war in Syria is the result of an Israel-inspired conspiracy intended to foment internal unrest and split the country into enfeebled cantons – is the central talking point of regime spokesmen. I would hear it again and again in Syria. Ironically, I had heard a precise mirror image of this theory from Syrian rebel commanders on the Turkish-Syrian border a few months earlier. In their telling, the conspiracy involved a nefarious alliance between the Iranians, the Assad regime and Israel.

In the case of the rebels, such claims come in Islamic garb, giving them a more contemporary feel. With the regime supporters, the


Arab nationalist regime and the fragmented, enfeebled reality of a regime dependent on other forces both above and below it, and controlling only a part of the territory over which it claims sovereignty.

Syria today remains effectively divided into six enclaves. The government controls Damascus, the three major cities to its north – Homs, Hama and Aleppo, and the western coastal area. There are two rebel held enclaves – Idleb province in the north west, and parts of Dera’a and Quneitra in the south west. The Kurds control a large area in the north east and an isolated canton further west (Afrin). The Islamic State organization, meanwhile, holds a diminishing area in the east and south. There is an additional Turkish-supported rebel enclave between the towns of Azaz andJarabulus on the Syria-Turkey border.

The regime has been advancing since the intervention of Russian air power on its behalf in September, 2015. But the advance is slow, and it remains doubtful if Assad will ever have sufficient strength to reunite the entire country under his rule.

By itself, the regime is very weak. The Russian contribution is decisive in the air. Iran and its proxies are the key element on the ground. The Assad regime from the outset has rested on a narrow base of available support. The Iranians have trained the auxiliary forces that make up the numbers, like the NDF that guards the Damascus old city. Teheran’s proxies – Lebanese Hizballah, the Iraqi Shia militias, the Afghan Fatemiyun and others – play a vital role on the


on formerly rebel-controlled eastern Aleppo is chilling, awe-inspiring in its proportions. Whole neighborhoods reduced to rubble and rendered uninhabitable. Moscow employed the means of total war on the city. What remains is mostly silence. Just a few families have returned and are living among the ruins.

A house destroyed by aerial bombing, Aleppo.

I have been in Sheikh Najjar once before. That was in the summer of 2012, when the rebellion had just broken into the city. I remembered it as we walked among the desolation.

It had been before the rebellion had taken on its definitively Sunni Islamist character – though the signs had already been prominently there. I remembered the constant noise, the government planes overhead, the commanders of the long defunct Tawhid and Afhad al-Rasoul brigades in thein a sickly sweet rhetoric.

Western Aleppo, nevertheless, appears superficially untouched by the war. The rebels, entirely lacking in air power and with only primitive, improvised artillery, were never able to make a serious impression on it. But the regime’s hold is narrower than it appears. Even now, the rebels are not far from the city. They are located just north west of Aleppo in Kafr Hamrah and Huraytan. The strained normality of the street scene in the west of the city is punctuated every so often by deep, ominous booms of artillery fire from somewhere not very far off. The war is not over. Nor has it gone away.

Bustan al-Qasr Neighborhood, Aleppo

Homs

A single highway snakes its way south of Aleppo through regime-controlled territory, with the rebels to the


west and Islamic State to the east. At its narrowest point, near the town of al-Sa’an, the government controlled area is just a few kilometres wide. You must take this road to get from Aleppo to Homs.

The devastation in Homs is, as in Aleppo, breathtaking. Whole neighborhoods turned into wasteland, rendered uninhabitable. Homs was one of the nerve-centers, the heartlands of the revolt against Assad. Destroying the rebellion there meant destroying much of the city itself. This the Russians have undertaken and largely achieved.

Our guide in Homs was an ebullient Alawi Syrian lady called Hayat Awad. Hayat was brimming with vim and confidence and contempt for the ‘terrorists’, as she called the rebels. But she wore a pendant around her neck, showing the face of one of herof the city under their control, al-Waer. These agreements are part of the regime strategy to reduce the area of the country under the control of the rebellion. They involve laying siege to the area in question and then offering the rebels and their supporters the option of leaving for Idleb, which is under the control of rebel organizations. In the case of al-Waer, the rebels and their supporters were being permitted to leave in exchange for the lifting of the rebels’ own siege on two isolated Shia villages in Idleb province – Fu’a and Kafriya. The deal was delayed after a rebel group attacked a convoy of civilians coming from these villages in Rashidin, at the entrance to Aleppo, but has since been implemented.

Some observers of the


come, he suggested, when ‘foreign powers stop supporting the Syrian organizations.’ No plan for how to achieve this. Haidar, incidentally, is not a Ba’athist. He is the leader of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. This party, founded in 1932, is a fascist style group, even down to its swastika-style emblem, which he was wearing in his lapel during our meeting. The party’s literature refers to Syrian rebels as ‘internal Jews.’

A poster commemorating the death of SSNP member Naim Salim Hadad, killed fighting the Syrian rebels, Homs.

It is tempting but probably superfluous to dwell on these grotesque aspects of the Syrian government. The regime in its self-presentation openly resembles the European totalitarian governments of mid-20th century Europe. This holds an ugly fascination for some Europeans and other westerners. ButCenter at the University of Wisconsin. "It may be some Democratic candidate we haven't thought of will run. But at the moment, it's dim."

Jared Leopold, communications director for the Democratic Governors Association, says the idea that Democrats will fail to challenge Walker seriously has been "overhyped."

"Walker's certainly vulnerable, and it's a state where we will find a strong candidate to run," Leopold says.

So far, though, Democrats are still looking. In the course of a single week last month, businessman Mark Bakken, former Green Bay Packers player Mark Tauscher and former state Sen. Tim Cullen all announced they would sit this election out.

By contrast, more than half a dozen credible Republicans are lining up to run against Democratic U.S. Sen Tammy Baldwin.

"One of the many downsides of having a


governors' races for the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "You have a number of candidates who are in or are probably going to get in, but it's not a proven group, and none of them have good statewide name recognition."

Walker hasn't officially announced for re-election, but already some of the strongest potential Democrats, including Congressman Ron Kind, Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser and state Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling, have taken themselves out of the running. The only Democrat in the race at this point is 25-year-old Bob Harlow, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year in California.

"Under normal circumstances, somebody as disliked as Walker by liberals, who has a 45 percent approval rating, would be attracting strong candidates," says Nolette. "But he isn't."

Wisconsin has traditionally beena competitive state. Wisconsin had voted Democratic for president in every election since 1984, until last fall. Republican Donald Trump carried the state by the narrowest of margins, less than 1 percentage point.

As recently as 2010, Democrats held both the governorship and both legislative chambers. But they have been shut out of power in recent years, with their legislative strength and much of their statewide vote pretty well confined to Milwaukee and Madison.

State supreme court races have been hotly contested, expensive affairs in the Walker years. Yet when conservative Justice Annette Ziegler came up for re-election on April 4, Democrats failed to field a challenger against her.

Given Trump's unpopularity nationwide, Democrats are optimistic about their chances to gain gubernatorial seats. But Walker has been able to prevail in


tough environments before, including the 2012 recall election.

Walker, in fact, has won by similar margins in each of his three races for governor, in 2010, 2012 and 2014. In each, he took either 52 or 53 percent of the vote. Wisconsin is a badly polarized, narrowly divided state, but it appears to be tipped in the governor's favor.

"People have looked back at Walker's three elections and seen he's been successful in three different circumstances, and it's hard to see how it would be different now," says Burden.

Democrats know they'll be badly outspent. Walker has a national fundraising base he can draw on, built up when the Koch brothers and other conservatives sought to protect him after his move to strip public employee unions of collective bargaining rights triggeredthe recall effort. Walker's network has been enhanced by his presidential run and his position as head of the Republican Governors Association.

What's more, campaign finance restrictions have been weakened in the state. Walker survived allegations that his 2010 campaign had illegally coordinated with outside groups. And Walker and legislative Republicans killed the state's elections and ethics board in 2015, replacing it with weaker overseers.

"There's a huge challenge in raising the campaign dollars even to be remotely competitive with the millions and millions of out-of-state dollars that will flood Wisconsin to keep Gov. Walker in power," Cullen told reporters when he dropped out of the race last month.

It's certainly possible that Walker will yet be beaten. He was expected to be a formidable candidate for president, but his campaign


the target program is the locus of control during its own execution.

A high-level explanation for interpretation is:

Unlike a compiler, an interpreter stays around the the execution of the application. In fact, the interpreter is the locus of control during that execution. In effect, the interpreter implements a virtual machine whose "machine language" is the high-level programming language. The interpreter reads statements in that language more or less one at a time, executing them as it goes along.

However, some language implementations also mix compilation and interpretation, so the lines get a little more blurry. In such an instance, the source program is translated into an intermediate program that is run by a virtual machine. The source code is compiled, and the output of compilation is interpreted.
Compilation happens when awell: the Promised Land is only a horizon; its promise ceases the moment one enters.
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Norman Finkelstein is a professor of English at Xavier University. He is the author of four books of criticism and five poetry collections including Passing Over (Marsh Hawk, 2007)—a volume of poems containing work from the late 1980s through the mid 1990s. On Mt. Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issues 5, 10, 13 and 16. [bio updated 2009]


Niagara Falls is one of the world’s most iconic natural wonders, and soon, tourists may get a once-in-a-lifetime view the landscape without the water.

Related Content The Mystery of Minnesota's Disappearing River

The New York State Parks Department has proposed a plan to repair a pair of 115-year-old bridges that allow visitors to cross the roaring river to a small island above the falls. But after more than a century of letting pedestrians and park vehicles cross the roaring river, the stone arch bridges are decrepit and dangerous, Nancy Fischer reports for the Buffalo News. Now, parks officials say that the best way to replace them is to shut off the American side of the famous falls.

The bridges were built between 1900 and 1901, and in the years since theraging waters have taken their toll. The bridges were closed in 2004 after one of their bases collapsed and temporary truss bridges were installed, Fischer Reports. But officials say the metal bridges are "aesthetically unappealing" and restrict views of the rapids.

The state is proposing three alternative plans to replace the historic bridges, two of which require shutting down the American side of the falls for months while crews put the new bridges in place, WKBW News reports. If the American Falls are shut down to build the new bridges, the construction process could take five to seven months, Ben Axelson reports for Syracuse.com.

The falls were shut down once before, as part of a study in 1969. At the time, the Army Corps of Engineers diverted the water from


the American Falls to Canada’s nearby Horseshoe Falls in order to analyze erosion of the fall’s rocks.

At the time, construction crews discovered curious artifacts in the dry falls, including two human skeletons and millions of coins that had been flung into the falls over the years. While the rare occasion became a tourist attraction in and of itself, not everyone was pleased with the sight, Todd Leopold reports for CNN.

"I remember being a little disappointed because the scene was just a desolate landscape of rock, debris, tree limbs and construction equipment," Robert Borgatti, who lived in Niagara Falls, New York at the time, tells Fischer.

Even so, many are excited to see the bare rock beneath the sheets of falling water. And officials believe that at least initially, dewatering                                Department, New York, NY

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in a final burst of energy he used his left hand to complete a dazzling series of about 150 small paintings before he died.  He died in Santa Monica and was buried in Olema, in Marin County, California.

Personal life
Sam Francis was married five times, and was the father of four children. He was married from 1947 through 1952 to Vera Miller, a high school girlfriend, then to California painter Muriel Goodwin (1955–58) then to Japanese painter Teruko Yokoi with whom he had a daughter, Kayo. In 1966 he married Mako Idemitsu, with whom he had two sons: Osamu and Shingo.

He married his last wife, painter Margaret Smith, in a Shinto ceremony in Japan in 1985. Their son Augustus, born in 1986, is also an artist.

International reputation

Because heGEIGERS MAKE THE MOVE TO DOWNTOWN NEW BRUNSWICK’S “HOTTEST” NEW DESTINATION AT THE VUE Tuesday, April 24, 2012NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., April 24, 2012 – Commuter convenience topped the list when Michael and Maureen Geiger decided to move to a rental home in downtown New Brunswick from an apartment in Hoboken, N.J. a year ago. Both work in the healthcare industry, with Mr. Geiger driving to Cooper University Hospital in Camden and Mrs. Geiger serving as a medical device sales representative in the Bronx. The couple was seeking a convenient location that would provide equal travel time.Read More

First Residents Move Into The Vue In Downtown New BrunswickThursday, March 22, 2012The first residents have begun moving into The Vue, the new luxury building in the heart of downtown New Brunswick


featuring a unique mix of rental residences and Penthouse condominiums and direct walkway access to the New Brunswick Train Station.
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SALES OPEN WITH A BANG AT THE GROVE AT NEW WINDSOR Wednesday, January 25, 2012The exclusive collection of townhomes has made its much anticipated Grand Opening in this historic Hudson Valley town with an amazing 25 homes sold during its preview period alone, according to Baker Residential, which is developing The Grove at New Windsor on the site of the former Stewart military base.Read More

HIGHPOINTE AT WOODBURY JUNCTION HOLDS GRAND OPENING Thursday, September 15, 2011HighPointe at Woodbury Junction, HornRock Properties’ collection of stylish single family homes in the HighPointe section of the well-established Woodbury Junction community, will make its official Grand Opening starting Friday September 16th in CentralValley, N.Y,Read More

VIZCAYA MOVES SALES CENTER TO MAISONETTE MODEL HOMEFriday, August 05, 2011WEST ORANGE, N.J. – In preparation for the launch of two new furnished models on the north side of the property this fall, Vizcaya, the luxury residential community in West Orange, NJ, has moved its sales center. The sales center is now located in the furnished model of the community’s Maisonette home, which gives home buyers a chance to see a unique floor plan that combines the best aspects of penthouse and brownstone living.Read More

AFFORDABILITY A KEY TO SUCCESS AT MOUNTAIN RIDGE AT PANTHER VALLEYFriday, January 07, 2011Affordability and value continue to drive sales at Mountain Ridge at Panther Valley where spacious three-bedroom townhomes are available from the mid-$200,000s, according to Baker Residential, which is developing


the community in this exclusive Allamuchy township neighborhoodRead More

JUMP! ZONE SIGNS 17,631 SQUARE FOOT LEASE AT HILLSBOROUGH BUSINESS CENTER Thursday, August 26, 2010Jump! Zone will establish its latest party and play center at Hillsborough Business Center, the 27-building complex of managed office style/flex warehouse and distribution facilities surrounded by Homestead Road, Stryker Lane and Raider Blvd in Somerset County’s Hillsborough.
Jump! Zone of Central New Jersey has signed a 17, 631 square foot lease and will combine eight suites at 6 Jill Court in the Hillsborough Business Center where the second indoor inflatable party and play center will open in New Jersey, according to Larken Associates, its developer/owner/manager.Read More

DEVELOPERS LAUNCH BROKER INCENTIVE PROGRAM AT HENLEY ON HUDSON Tuesday, July 27, 2010Developers Lennar Urban and Roseland Property Company have launcheda multi-faceted broker-incentive program designed to reward and stimulate the brokerage community for contributing to the sales success at Henley on Hudson, the European-inspired community rising along the Hudson Riverfront in Weehawken, N.J. facing midtown Manhattan.Read More

MORRISTOWN’S 40 PARK VOTED COMMUNITY OF THE YEARTuesday, July 13, 201040 Park, the upscale residential property overlooking the Morristown Green in Morristown, NJ, received an impressive six awards -- including Community of the Year -- at the recent “2010 Awards of Excellence” sponsored by the Community Builders and Remodelers Association of New Jersey (CBRANJ). Read More

WINTER SALES ACTIVITY PROMPTS SPRING EXPANSION OF VIZCAYA IN WEST ORANGE, NJThursday, February 18, 2010A sophisticated country club-like living experience in a convenient Essex County location led to a strong winter of sales activity at Vizcaya, the


Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI-NNJ) has awarded The Beacon its 2009 “Project of the Year” honor in recognition of the ongoing transformation of the former Jersey City Medical Center into a successful mixed-use development that is currently the largest residential restoration project in the country and the largest in the history of New Jersey. The award was presented to developer Metrovest Equities during the annual Leadership in Land Use Awards held at the Heldrich Center in New Brunswick, N.J. on December 10th. Read More

LENNAR IGNORES THE CALENDAR WITH SEPTEMBER SUMMER SAVINGS ACROSS THE STATEThursday, September 03, 2009The calendar may be inching towards fall but Lennar isn’t ready to say goodbye to summer as the national homebuilder has launched a “Back to Summer Savings” event at itsthree months ago in the celebrated “Gold Coast” New Jersey city of Hoboken.Read More

PROSPECTIVE BUYERS SIGNING UP FOR MARCH 28TH WEALTH BUILDING SEMINAR AT HENLEY ON HUDSONFriday, March 20, 2009Public interest is building for a unique Homebuyer Wealth Building Seminar featuring Weehawken, NJ Mayor Richard Turner and Wells Fargo industry veteran Sean Thomson. The informative event will be held on Saturday, March 28th from 10:00 am to 12:00 p.m. at Henley on Hudson, the distinctive collection of European-inspired homes located within Port Imperial along the Hudson River waterfront in Weehawken. Sponsored by Lennar Urban, the seminar will provide an insightful analysis of today’s historic real estate marketplace, including an in-depth look at where mortgage rates are heading and what programs are available to buyers. Real estate experts will


also address the unlikelihood of a future potential dip in the market through a demonstration on the lack of inventory in the northern New Jersey submarket.
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AREA BROKERS WINED & DINED DURING COCKTAIL RECEPTIONThursday, February 12, 2009Real estate brokers from throughout the region packed the new off-site sales and model center at Crystal Point to get an up-close look at what distinguishes the new 42-story luxury condominium building facing Manhattan on Jersey City’s Hudson River waterfront. The elegant and well-attended party hosted more than 100 brokers enjoying cocktails and culinary delights before taking tours of the impressive sales center which is located at 80 1st Street, just steps from Crystal Point, and is highlighted by a fully-furnished, two-bedroom model residence merchandised by renowned New York City-based interior designerto cut a ceremonial ribbon at the entrance of the 124-room hotel at 1157 Chapel Street. A reception featuring the Yale Whiffenpoofs, America's first and oldest collegiate a cappella group, will be held immediately after at The Study at Yale’s restaurant, Heirloom. Read More

THE MARKETING DIRECTORS, INC. EARNS 23 TOP AWARDSFROM THE NAHB FOR ITS MARKETING AND SALES EXCELLENCEFriday, December 12, 2008The Marketing Directors, Inc. has swept the 2009 Nationals SM as the Manhattan-based company has earned an impressive 23 awards from the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) recognizing the firm’s outstanding achievements in the industry. In addition to the awards, CEO Adrienne Albert will be inducted into the NAHB Hall of Fame as a Legend of Residential Marketing -- the first woman to receive the prestigious honor.


Big Smoke

The Big Smoke may refer to:

Cities (as a nickname)

Australia
 Brisbane
 Melbourne, labeled as such in the late 19th century during the industrial boom following the Victorian gold rush
 Sydney

Canada
 Edmonton
 Sudbury, labeled for Vale smelter's large smoke stack.
 Toronto
 Vancouver

Republic of Ireland
 Dublin

Brazil

 São Paulo

New Zealand
 Auckland
 Wellington

South Africa
 Johannesburg

UK
 Belfast
 Cardiff
 Edinburgh
 Glasgow
 London, labelled as such since the late 19th century, and applied in particular to the Great Smog of 1952
 Manchester, during the Industrial Revolution

United States
 San Francisco
 New York

Food
Big Smoke Burger, an international restaurant chain based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Other
 Jack Johnson (boxer), referred to as "Big Smoke"
"The Big Smoke", a book by Adrian Matejka, about Johnson
 Big Smoke, fictional video game character of GrandFamily background; freshman course instructors at the University of Chicago; war-time training program; living next door to Manhattan Project people; Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard University; work on jamming tools (radar counter-measures) and antennas; work and graduate study at the Institute for the Study of Metals the University of Chicago (with Clarence Zener); work with Andy Lawson; E. R.

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several other people. After a couple of months, we decided that we wanted to only see each other. I told the guys I'd been going out with and he told the women he'd been seeing - except for one. He kept her on an emotional string (though she clearly knew about me) for months. When we'd been together 6 months, I went out of town and he slept with her. From there, he moved on to an emotional affair with a mutual friend. When I told him I was uncomfortable with the closeness of their friendship, we both stopped talking to her, except he didn't. He actually started a physical affair with her inside about two weeks. It continued through his proposal, and several months after our engagement.the lessor, controlled the key to it.  Layne made continuous lease payments for the unit from the beginning of the lease in 1984 to the execution of the search warrant in March 1992.  Layne eventually stipulated that more than three of these magazines had travelled in interstate commerce.  Moreover, Layne did not dispute at trial that the magazines photos depicted persons under the age of 18 engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

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At trial, Layne's wife testified that Layne had the only key to the storage unit and that he had possession of the contents until a divorce decree gave her possession of the material in the storage unit.  The custodian for the storage locker stated that Layne was the only person who could access the


storage unit.  Thus, Layne had possession of the magazines, and the only remaining issue is whether Layne knowingly possessed the magazines.

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Officer Bill Wedgeworth testified that Layne had told him that he had some European pornography at the storage facility.  He also stated that European pornography was a euphemism for child pornography.  Also admitted at trial, but not charged in the indictment, were the two magazines seized in Layne's home.  One magazine included depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and the other a depiction of a woman dressed as a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.  These two magazines were admitted for the express purpose of proving that Layne knowingly possessed child pornography in the storage facility.  This evidence provided aThe MBTA is eyeing 24-hour service through a proposal for late night buses that would run until 4:15 am and not collect any fares.

The free route would go north and south of the city, and include the Boston neighborhoods of Mattapan, East Boston, the downtown area and the neighboring cities of Chelsea and Revere, according to a request for proposals from outside contractors.

The buses would run every 30 minutes, starting at 1 am, according to WGBH News, which first reported the request for proposals.

The 7-night a week service would start in July 2018 and run until June 2019, with opportunities for extension of contract.

The proposal seeks to "create 24-hour service for customers who need transportation to and from late night employment," according to the scope of service posted


NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government failed on Monday to defuse a row with the opposition over opening up the supermarket sector to foreign chains, a decision that has thrown parliament into chaos and endangered fresh economic reforms.

Opposition lawmakers have paralysed parliament in the world's largest democracy, demanding the government roll back its flagship reform, announced in September, to allow foreign supermarkets like Wal-Mart (WMT.N) to set up shop in India.

Critics say that allowing foreign players into the $450 billion retail sector will destroy the livelihoods of millions of small store owners. The government says the move will increase revenue and help eliminate chronic food wastage by setting up proper cold chain and transport infrastructure.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath called an all-party meeting on Monday to try toSeptember after its biggest ally, the Trinamool Congress party (TMC), withdrew its support to oppose the reform. The government is not confident that it has the numbers to win the vote and is pushing instead for a debate.

UPROAR IN PARLIAMENT

The dispute over the reform has caused uproar in parliament. Protesting lawmakers clamouring for a government climbdown on the policy have prevented any work from being done in the first three days of the month-long winter session.

So far it has been a replay of the August session, when lawmakers demanding Singh's resignation over alleged irregularities in sweetheart coal deals refused to allow parliament to do any business.

The deadlock threatens to derail the government's efforts to drive forward its stuttering economic reform agenda and shake off the perception of policy


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Customers leave Clinton waitress a sweet tip

Shirley Carr worked a whole shift before realizing she'd take home a lot more money than expected.

Stoney Sharp, WBIR 8:26 p.m. EDT October 8, 2013

That couple may never know two things. They paid the bill for a retirement home resident enjoying a meal with her daughter. They also made their waitress' day, who happens to be a single mother of three boys.

Golden Girls in Clinton(Photo: WBIR)

Story Highlights

Golden Girls Restaurant is located in Clinton, Tennessee

Shirley Carr has worked at the eatery for two years

The waitress received the biggest tip ever given at Golden Girls on Saturday

(WBIR-Clinton) A waitress at a Clinton restaurant emailed a feel-good story to 10News. It was too good not to share.

Shirley Carr has worked at Golden Girls