somewhere out of context. The Iowa Artists series continues this week as Living in Iowa meets an artist with imagination galore.
During World War I a network of home knitters and the American Red Cross made socks for British, Canadian and American soldiers. Today a new network of circular sock knitters is once again knitting socks for soldiers, this time for the military men and women serving in Iraq. Tune in to Living in Iowa to find out how two Iowans, Bonnie Smola and Donna Story, are woven into this yarn where one stitch just seems to lead to another.
You wouldn't expect to see motorcycles in the middle of an art museum, unless you're Side Roads host Paul Berge. This week, Berge travels to the Sioux City Art Centerto view some of the classiest custom and antique motorcycles on display anywhere.
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For more than three decades the Dance and Drill Championships have showcased the state's highest ranked high school teams. Today the competition is the largest in the nation. From a modest beginning in 1974 when nine teams competed, the event has grown to 250 teams and 5,000 competitors. This week, Living in Iowa and the Iowa State Dance and Drill Team Association explore the evolution of the competition, including changes in costumes, pom poms, and dance technique. Though much has changed, dance and drill continues to help participants gain self-confidence, learn to work as a team, and be proud of their accomplishments.
Also on Living in Iowa this week, the Iowa Artists series continues with a


look at the work of Lee Emma Running. Nature and its fleeting character inspire Running fullest moment of spring, and uses paint, wallpaper paste, and handmade paper to express it on the walls of art galleries. She also enjoys putting Yak hair and mohair on domestic items like scissors and brooms. She says she started her 'domestic animals' series after seeing wild animals in the middle of town and says our taming of the prairies has forced wild animals and plants to grow in a more compressed, man-made environment. Since completing her MFA degree at the University of Iowa, Lee has moved to Grinnell, where she is on the faculty at Grinnell College.
On this week he really digs fossils when he visits Fossil and Prairie Park, one ofonly three known public fossil collecting sites in the nation, located just outside Rockford, Iowa.
In this week itar Shop on Des Moines' East Side provided the backdrop when Living in Iowa was treated to a private recording session with The Soul Searchers. Playing music that's rooted in traditional blues with healthy doses of rockabilly and even he hardest working blues band in Des Moi [27 minutes]

This week, Living in Iowa reports on one town's efforts to stop the meth epidemic. Realizing that children often are meth's forgotten victims, Ottumwa, Iowa, leaders formed the Southeast Iowa Task Force for Drug Exposed Children. Task Force members include a broad range of individuals representing the health, human services, substance abuse treatment, and law enforcement communities. Together they hope to stop the


meth epidemic in Iowa.
Even though the jungle people of Panama protected their privacy with poison darts and the penalty was death for strangers caught on the nearby islands after sundown, a pioneering female photojournalist from Emmetsburg dared to live with them and became their friend. In the early 1960s, Marjorie Mills Vandervelde studied primitive cultures around the globe with a passion that made a difference in her life as well as theirs. She wrote books for adults and for children, intended to teach respect for native people, hoping to build bridges between primitive cultures and the so called educated world. This week, Living in Iowa explores Vandervelde's photographs, magazine articles and books, and what they say about the unfamiliar lifestyle of the people of Panama.
Elle Westercamp of DesMoines was born to swim. Her affinity for the water was apparent from her first visit to a pool at the age of three. By the age of nine, she was swimming in statewide and national competitions and winning. Elle's time in the pool has earned her more than just gold medals; it has also proven therapeutic. Diagnosed at the age of five with asthma, training for swimming competitions has strengthened her lungs and improved her health. This week on Living in Iowa, meet Elle, a young athlete who has earned more gold medals than any other competitor in any age group at the State Games of America, and who hopes her hard work will someday earn her the opportunity to swim in the Olympics
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Lewis Major, naturalist


with Polk County Conservation, takes viewers on a safari to search out some of Iowa pecies. He gets pricked by cactus and pinched by crawfish in the diverse but scarce prairie and marsh habitats in Iowa. This week, it erflies, turtles and water bugs on Living in Iowa.
Also this week, the Iowa Artists series continues with Michael Perrone. This Iowa City artist has noticed something about America planted in rows, much like the lights along a highway. Perrone uses a palette of bright colors to emphasize the interaction between man-made landscape elements. Some of the wilder colors he uses are to emphasize the attempt of nature to break free from all that orderliness that it's been given. Using unusual paint scraping techniques, Michael puts things together in afresh new way, according to Patricia Hickson, exhibit curator of the Des Moines Art Center Downtown.
Scampi is an Italian word for shrimp so if you are preparing shrimp scampi you are being a bit redundant. This week, chef Jon Benedict accepts the risk of repeating himself as he shares a recipe for shrimp scampi that is both fast and easy but will definitely wow that special someone you're trying to impress.
Most Iowans can tell you that First Lady Mamie Eisenhower was born in Boone, Iowa, and can tell you that the only president born in Iowa, President Herbert Hoover, was born in West Branch. But ask who Iowa's other First Lady was and where she was born, and you're likely to get a blank stare. This week Paul


Berge takes a Side Road to Waterloo where he digs up the roots of Lou Henry who eventually became Lou Hoover, making her Iowa's first First Lady married to Iowa's first and only president.
This week e Bellyswirls, a high-energy Quad Cities rock and roll band. Brothers Bob and Leo Kelly provide the saucy licks, Greg Hipskind lays down the beat, but its lead singer, Liz Treiber, [27 minutes]

On March 8, 2006, Jones County residents were treated to one of the biggest moves the state of Iowa has ever seen when an iron bridge weighing more than 50,000 pounds was flown by helicopter from the small town of Hale to Wapsipinicon State Park near Anamosa. This week, Living in Iowa shares what it takes to pull off a moveof such mammoth proportions and how a community came together to save this historic resource.
Nathan Carder's art might shock some people. But, that's not his intention. He's making large sculptures that help him deal with chronic medical issues not normally spoken of in public. In basic colors, Nathan's sculptures include a bright red colostomy bag, a yellow enema bag 'life raft,' and an oxygen mask attached to a flying machine. The youngest artist in the 2005 Iowa Artists series, Carder is currently working on his M.F.A., having received a graduate fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
Also this week, Living in Iowa travels to Page county to uncover the origins of 4-H. Many residents there claim that 100 years ago a woman named Jessie Field Shambaugh, from


Clarinda, planted the idea for 4-H. As a 19-year-old rural schoolteacher, Shambaugh held informal agriculture and home related lessons after school which became the Boys' Corn Club and the Girls' Home Club. Living in Iowa interviewed Shambaugh Watkins, 107-year-old Martin Johnson who was on the first corn judging team that went to compete in Ames in 1909, and Esther Williams, the first 4-H queen to be crowned at the State Girls 4-H Convention in Ames in 1928.
On this week e German American Heritage Center in Davenport and learns about an Alpine stringed instrument called a zither. He also listens in during a rehearsal of the Zither Ensemble, which was formed in 1885 and at its peak had sixty players.
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For more than 40 years, Dr. Thelma Volger hasbeen exploring music's unique possibilities. Currently, she's focusing her decades of teaching and research experience on a project using music to help create language for children who, by age two-and-a-half or three, do not speak in words. Founder and director of the Ankeny Academy of Music, Volger developed the Language Delay Replication Project to help children and encourage further scientific research into music's effect on the brain. This week, Living in Iowa speaks with Volger about her project and the progress she Central College football coach, Ron Schipper, last spring, Living in Iowa takes a look back at a football Saturday in 1988. It was opening day of coach Schipper Schipper becoming the second-winningest coach in Division III history.
Also this week on Living in Iowa, meet Davenport artist


Pete Schulte as the Iowa Artist series continues. Just as music can affect us without words, Schulte's works are effective without being a depiction of a thing. His shapes and colors are messages, and they're formed in his mind as he listens to music, what he calls his fuel.
On this week Side Roads, host Paul Berge attempts to educate as well as entertain viewers while visiting Sabula bula is named for the Latin word, sabulum which means sandy soil.
And be sure to tune in this week for another recipe from Chef Jon Benedict an apple cobbler that is impressive, yet easy to prepare.
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Hulk Hogan, Pinocchio, and even characters from McDonalds' commercials have all shown up on art gallery walls in recent years, thanks to Iowa artist AndrewMcCormick. When his daughter was born a few years ago, McCormick wondered how he would change, internally, as he assumed the role of father. This week, Living in Iowa speaks with McCormick about how he uses his art to explore how modern culture has shaped his sense of who he is as a man. Originally from Atlantic, Iowa, McCormick now lives in Ames. This feature is part of Living in Iowa wa Artists series, which was inspired by the 2005 exhibit at the Des Moines Art Center Downtown.
Also this week, as Cael Sanderson prepares for his first season as the head wrestling coach at Iowa State University, Living in Iowa revisits his college career. In 2001, Living in Iowa introduced viewers to Sanderson, a sensational wrestler, who is


the third of four wrestling brothers from a Mormon family in Utah, and a humble, yet intensely motivated individual. As he wrapped up his career as a wrestler for Iowa State University, he became the first collegian wrestler ever to have won both four NCAA championships while posting an undefeated record.
The Blue Band is featured this week in Living in Iowa nds, the group performs original and cover blues, soul, rockabilly, and R & B grooves.
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Something good is happening in Iowa schools that has probably not been given enough notice in the press. It's a 'green' revolution that has nothing to do with school books, class size, or grade point averages. It is hidden in school basements but it also shows up in the principal's office asa positive contribution to the school's budget. What is 'it'? Geothermal heating and cooling systems that are replacing old boiler-room furnaces at a surprising rate. Living in Iowa looks into this trend and visits a school in Columbus Junction that replaced its outmoded and somewhat cranky boiler-room system with a geothermal system in the summer of 2005.
Also this week on Living in Iowa, a love story about the Swamp White Oak Savanna near Muscatine. This special area, with its unique blend of trees, grasses and wildlife is not quite a prairie, not quite woodland and not quite a wetland, but a mix of them all. It is the only area of this kind known to exist anywhere in the world. Morgan Halgren talks with three people who love


this place, now owned by the Nature Conservancy of Iowa.
With dwindling prairie and wetland habitat, venomous snakes are only found in a few places in our state. But, Polk County Conservation naturalist Lewis Major found all four species in one place in downtown Des Moines at the Science Center of Iowa. In this feature, animal specialist Mark Rowe helps Major get up close and personal with the rattlers and a few other interesting reptiles.
On this week East Side provided the backdrop when Living in Iowa was treated to a private recording session with The Soul Searchers. Playing music that's rooted in traditional blues with healthy doses of rockabilly and even 60's surf music, the group has been called the hardest working blues band in Des Moines.
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This weekon Living in Iowa, meet Will Ghormley, a saddle maker who makes saddles that look like they're a hundred years old. And, he's proud of it. His recreations of 1850s and 1860s western gear have been declared tops in the nation. He makes saddles with old-fashioned hand tools, and uses both his encyclopedic knowledge of old west life and his personal experience as a cowboy. Viewers can see some of Ghormley's recent work in the latest PBS hands-on history series Texas Ranch House, which premieres Monday, May 1 at 7 p.m.
When you think of Iowa, images of cowboys and cattle drives probably don't come to mind. However in Buena Vista County the Andersons have been driving cattle for over 100 years. Saddle up and join us as Living


in Iowa digs around the roots of what has become a family tradition.
For the first time in 50 years, Iowa State University has hired a native Iowan to be its new head basketball coach. Greg McDermott, who grew up on a farm near Cascade, and who attended the University of Northern Iowa before coaching there for the last seven years, will take the reins next season. Among the major college coaches in the state, McDermott has had the best recent success, coaching his teams to three straight NCAA basketball tournaments. For this week , sat down with McDermott to discuss how his Iowa upbringing translates to success on the court.
On this week lls the air as bullets fly from antique firearms. Western style shoots are sponsored by Thethey're combined with his love of electronics and recycled materials. This week, Living in Iowa meets this artist at his parents so this week, host Morgan Halgren sits down with Susan Werner, a Manchester, Iowa native who now lives in Chicago. Werner studied classical music, but soon turned to songwriting. She is now touring the country, and has a new CD, ook style, and which The Boston Globe called elegance. chitectural prairie finds a surprising modern reprise of this building style Des Moines.
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Jean-Marie Salem has an amazing collection of bones. She uses them in her artwork as inspiration to make delicate and subtly colored bones from blown glass. 'Pile of bones on the floor' was one of her submissions to the 2005 Iowa Artists exhibition at the


Des Moines Art Center's Downtown gallery. But, there's more to Salem She feels like a hybrid of many aspects of American culture rican-American parentage, but as a baby, was adopted by a Caucasian family in Dubuque. She grew up Catholic, but found out her birth mother was from New Orleans and probably practiced Voodoo religion, which is, itself, formed by the confluence of numerous cultures. Salem explores Voodoo symbolism in her art, talking about it like an anthropologist, and commenting on its many similarities with the practices of Catholicism. This week, Living in Iowa learns about this artist's broad-ranging interests and visits her studios in her West Des Moines home.
A volunteer effort is underway in Iowa to detect problems with water quality and report them directly to thestate agencies that can do something about them. The program is called s Geological Survey organize lessons in water testing for anyone who is interested. One of the group pshot Day, a day when trained volunteers don knee boots and climb into nearby streams, lakes, and creeks to find out what eature from 2003, Living in Iowa followed Dubuque ition on October 18, 2003 onal Water Monitoring Day, and the 30th anniversary of the passage of the national Clean Water Act.
Some notable inventions by Iowans include the trampoline, the Eskimo pie, the screen door and something called the computer. On this week overs that the inventive spirit is alive and well at the University of Iowa, where hundreds of young inventors [27 minutes]

Hog confinement facilities and who should


control where they're built are among the hottest issues in Iowa. They pit environmentalists against agriculturalists, local governments against state government, and neighbors against each other. This week Living in Iowa explores the confines of Iowa and what's behind the issues.
Brian Roberts grew up on a farm near Griswold, Iowa, and his art is a reflection of what he learned on the farm. His insights are about life and death, and the cycles of nature. He symbolizes his thoughts using materials like galvanized steel from his family's farm. This week, Living in Iowa looks into this artist's workshop he's planting.
In 1840 scores of outlaws and vigilantes in Bellevue, Iowa, shot it out in one of the bloodiest gunfights this side of the O. K. Corral. It storian, SusanK. Lucke. Side Roads host, Paul Berge learned that it safe to walk the streets now in Bellevue and points out a few more pleasant historic places to visit.
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Side Roads Special:
This week on Living in Iowa
(Johnston, Iowa) e you looking for a summer of vacation of discoveries? Join Paul Berge as he revisits some of the interesting places and nuggets of history that he has found while wandering the Side Roads of Iowa.
This Side Roads compilation includes:
A pit stop at an historic intersection in Colo.
An about face at the Bily Clock museum in Spillville.
A ship shape look at a Naval Museum between Omaha and Carter Lake.
A steeple chase in Shelby County.
A spin on the Carousel in Story City.
An underground tour of the State Historical Society.
An unusual ascension


conservation programs. For the first time ever, the Special Olympics will hold a national event. And this first-time event is going to be held in Ames, Iowa, July 2-7, 2006. Thousands of athletes, coaches, and family members will arrive for the event, but they won't be able to compete unless 8, 000 Iowans volunteer to help out. Tune in as Living in Iowa listens to organizers and volunteers talk about the importance of this event, and the rewards of volunteering. Go on tour with up-and-coming rock band 20/20 Hindsight. The goal of the group is to play all of Iowa's 99 counties on the road to international stardom. Living in Iowa discovers what these four musicians are giving back as they rock the Iowa music scene. Also thisweek, Paul Berge takes viewers on a Side Road near Greenfield Iowa where Ray 'Bubba' Sorensen paints a different tribute each year to American servicemen and veterans. Sorensen’ s palette is a boulder located on Highway 25 north of Greenfield. In 2005 the theme was 'Generation of Valor' and depicted a Pearl Harbor veteran embracing a Marine returning from the war in Iraq. [27 minutes]

Thursday, January 11, will mark the last broadcast of the Living in Iowa series. During its 16 seasons, Living in Iowa covered the state from the Loess Hills to the Mississippi River and beyond, celebrating its famous and not-so-famous, its history, social and environmental diversity, and beauty, all the while introducing Iowa to Iowans. Iowa ou to all of the viewers and their great


ideas that kept us busy driving across Iowa, uncovering the best stories our people have to tell.
On this week h Sam Juhl. Elected to office at age 18, Juhl is the youngest mayor in America. In high school, he wrestled as a heavyweight, but as mayor he tackles the really heavy issues.
Art that makes you exercise? Jamie Burmeister has made that combination happen in several art galleries in Iowa and Nebraska. The Harlan, Iowa, native has a background in physical health so his exercise bikes somehow make sense when they're combined with his love of electronics and recycled materials. This week, Living in Iowa meets this artist at his parents o this week, host Morgan Halgren sits down with Susan Werner, a Manchester, Iowa native who now livesto peer into the prehistory of Southeast Asia because the region’s hot, humid climate tends to degrade DNA. But David Reich, a population geneticist at Harvard University, and Ron Pinhasi, a physical anthropologist at University of Vienna, gave it a go anyway.

Pinhasi worked with archaeologists who had excavated 146 skeletons from ancient people who lived in Southeast Asia. The team then used state-of-the-art genetic sampling and sequencing techniques to recover DNA from these remains. Only 18 individuals gave up their genetic story, but that was enough to open a new window onto the past. They lived in Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia between 4100 and 1700 years ago, a period ranging from the beginning of agriculture in Southeast Asia all the way through the region’s Iron Age.

The oldest


skeletons come from the site of Man Bac in northern Vietnam, where archaeologists have unearthed artifacts including decorated pottery and intricate jade ornaments that are very similar to those found at earlier rice farming sites in China. Archaeologists have long believed that indigenous hunter-gatherers and newly arrived rice and millet farmers lived together at Man Bac. And indeed, the genomes of the site’s residents confirmed that idea. They showed a mixture of two ancestries: one indigenous to the region and the other more related to people from southern China. That confirms that farmers had moved to Man Bac, spread their technology and culture, and mixed with the local population of hunter-gatherers, the team reports today in Science .

Those early farmers may have left another legacy: a language thatdeveloped into today’s Austroasiatic family of languages, which are scattered across Southeast Asia. The genomes of people who speak those languages today—among them Khmer in Cambodia, Nicobarese on India’s Nicobar Islands, and Mlabri on the border of Thailand and Laos—show the same mix of ancestries found at Man Bac. That suggests the early farmers spread their genes and culture all across the region, Reich says.

In later sites from Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand, the researchers found a signal of another wave of migration from southern China about 2000 years ago. They were farmers as well, and this time they probably brought bronze metalworking technology, kicking off the Bronze Age in the region. With this migration, the populations of Southeast Asia began to resemble the people living in the


region today.

This three-pronged mixture of indigenous hunter-gatherers, early farmers, and a later wave of migrants parallels the prehistory of Europe, also illuminated by ancient DNA in recent years. There, migrating farmers brought agriculture from the Near East to Europe, where they mixed with local hunter-gatherers about 7000 years ago. Then later waves of Bronze Age migrants—in Europe’s case, herders from the Central Asian steppe—moved in and established the population structure scientists see today. (Researchers, including Reich, have also documented a similar pattern in South Asia.)

“The two are twin phenomena happening at about the same time at different ends of Eurasia,” says Charles Higham, an archaeologist who studies Southeast Asia at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and wasn’t involved in the work. “Human beings are inquisitive,Best-case scenario: Vikings coach Mike Zimmer has been tight-lipped about his plans for Barr, but there are rumors about a Von Miller-like role for the rookie. Barr is penciled into the starting lineup as a SAM linebacker, which would place him opposite the tight end in an "under" defense. This would allow Barr to use his hands to jam and disrupt big-bodied pass catchers at the line while also tasking him to set the edge on run plays. He could become a designated edge rusher in the Vikings' nickel package, giving the unit a dynamic defender to spice up a pass rush that will be without Jared Allen for the first time in seven years. Given Barr's athleticism and production as a pass rusher at UCLA, the hybrid


were justified in asking the approval of the Chancery Court of the ordinance here involved which they had adopted subject to the court's approval.
See also Picayune vs. Quick and Grice, 238 Miss. 429 (1960).
"The point is raised by Jackson that a certain area of Ridgeland west of Highway 51 and east of the present corporate limits which was annexed in 1975 has not yet been provided adequate municipal services. It is true that this relatively small area is still sorely in need of sewage disposal and adequate streets, but it also appears that Ridgeland has not been unaware of the plight of this area and the City's long range plans for improvements are near fruition. Ridgeland has brought its sewer main up to the area and is onlyJackson's credit the proximity of the Reservoir has probably contributed to the area's growth.
"The fears of Jackson in being ultimately restricted from future annexation through encirclement by small municipalities is understandable. This would result in it being stymied from further development of its tax base. However, Ridgeland itself stands to have its growth thwarted by both natural and political barriers. To the south it is limited by Jackson. To the north it is limited by the Natchez Trace and the Town of Madison; and to the west by Interstate 55. Growth to its east will be ultimately restricted by the Reservoir. Jackson's plight in this regard is not as serious as it may suspect. Even if Ridgeland was denied this annexation and Jackson was later to acquire tract


III and Section 29 which adjoins it, Jackson's growth to the north in this particular area would still be blocked by the Town of Madison. On the other hand, Jackson's growth to the north in the areas west of Ridgeland is unimpaired.
"Ridgeland appears to be in good financial condition and able to furnish the area hereinafter permitted to be annexed with municipal services. Although the City has a considerable bonded indebtedness, it also has substantial cash on hand. Included within that indebtedness are sums now allocated for substantial street improvements within the City. With the added revenue from annexation, the City should have no difficulty in providing proper services to the annexed area."
We are of the opinion, after a careful study of the voluminous record (13 bound volumesof the new JMC members, a new JMC Chair was elected. Agnes Boots was chosen to represent the JMC the year 2015/2016. In the following paragraph, Agnes will give us an overview of her vision and plans for the time of her chairmanship.

"During the 2 years that I have been involved in the JMC, I have experienced and witnessed how much we can do with and for the junior members of the ERS. Just by looking at the large increase in the numbers of juniors involved in chairing sessions during the International Congress in Amsterdam (due to the new JMC initiative of providing all assemblies with a juniors' competence list), we can already conclude that we are successful in promoting the interests of the junior members. Moreover, the very


the junior members, and incorporating their ideas and needs into our work in order to ensure a maximal interaction with the ERS. By enhancing the commitment of all juniors as well as each member of the committee, I believe it will be possible to stay a strong and optimally functional committee that represents all junior members of the ERS to the fullest."

The JMC wishes Agnes all the best for her time as the JMC chair.

In the following paragraphs Emma Flood, one of our newly elected JMC members will introduce herself and her planned activities and vision JMC vision in the coming years.

"I have been elected to represent Assembly 9 on the JMC. Assembly 9 is the Allied Respiratory Professionals group encompassing respiratory function technologists/scientists, physiotherapists and nurses. It isWASHINGTON — When President Trump called President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines on Saturday, White House officials saw it as part of a routine diplomatic outreach to Southeast Asian leaders. Mr. Trump, characteristically, had his own ideas.

During their “very friendly conversation,” the administration said in a late-night statement, Mr. Trump invited Mr. Duterte, an authoritarian leader accused of ordering extrajudicial killings of drug suspects in the Philippines, to visit him at the White House.

Now, the administration is bracing for an avalanche of criticism from human rights groups. Two senior officials said they expected the State Department and the National Security Council, both of which were caught off guard by the invitation, to raise objections internally.

The White House disclosed the news on a day when Mr. Trump fired up


his supporters at a campaign-style rally in Harrisburg, Pa. The timing of the announcement — after a speech that was a grievance-filled jeremiad — encapsulated this president after 100 days in office: still ready to say and do things that leave people, even on his staff, slack-jawed.Cubist paintings, drawings and sculptures in institutions like the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the Pompidou Center in Paris. Together they tell the story of a movement that revolutionized Modern art and fill a glaring gap in the Met’s collection, which has been notably weak in early-20th-century art.

“In one fell swoop this puts the Met at the forefront of early-20th-century art,” Thomas P. Campbell, the Met’s director, said. “It is an unreproducible collection, something museum directors only dream about.”


the number of deaths in a certain period of time divided by the total of a given population. The crude death rate is the ratio of the number of deaths in a geographic area in one year divided by the average population in the area during the year. The age-specific death rate is the ratio of the number of deaths occurring in a specified age group to the average population of that group. The cause-specific death rate is the ratio of the number of deaths due to a specified cause to the average total population. Called also mortality rate.

Historic example of death rates (per 100,000) for leading causes of death for men aged 25–44 years. From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 42:483,population to the sum of the number of live births and fetal deaths after 28 or more weeks of gestation (stillbirths) in that same time period and population.

postneonatal mortality rate the ratio of the number of deaths in a given year of children between the 28th day of life and the first birthday relative to the difference between the number of the live births and neonatal deaths in that year; the denominator is sometimes simplified, less correctly, to the number of live births. The ratio is sometimes approximated as the difference between the infant mortality rate and the neonatal mortality rate.

prevalence rate the number of people in a population who have a disease at a given time; the numerator is the number of existing cases of disease at


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Changes to Labour's internal rules have been passed after an angry row at the party conference in Liverpool.

Supporters of leader Jeremy Corbyn fear the package of reforms will tip the balance on the National Executive Committee away from him.

Loud protests were heard from the conference floor, with Mr Corbyn's supporters calling for a line-by-line debate on each measure.

They include giving Scottish and Welsh parties a voting member of the NEC.

This element was opposed by the Unite union, but it said it would abstain on the package as a whole.

Divisions over Mr Corbyn, who retained the leadership with an increased majority among party members and supporters on Saturday but who has the support of only about 20% of the party's MPs, have sparked behind-the-scenes battles over Labour'swas chairing the debate on the rule changes, was urged by some speakers - including union boss Manuel Cortes and Corbyn ally Christine Shawcroft - to agree to a card vote, where delegates' votes would be recorded and counted, rather than a show of hands, and for the individual measures to be considered one-by-one rather than as package.

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The founder of the Momentum group has claimed a key vote at Labour conference was "rigged"

But when he put the matter to the floor he said it was "overwhelmingly carried" by a show of hands.

It was later agreed in a vote, but Jon Lansman, who founded the pro-Corbyn Momentum group, claimed the process had been "rigged".


found that Trump's presidency would eliminate up to 3.5 million jobs.

There is a growing consensus amongst economists that a Trump presidency's supposedly nativist policies would damage U.S. growth prospects.

A recent survey from the National Association for Business Economics of more than 400 economists found that 55% of those polled said Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton would be the best for the economy.

In that same survey, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson came in second, the top choice for 15% of those polls. Trump was the preference for 14% of economists in the survey.

In March, the conservative British newspaper the Economist listed a Trump presidency among its 10 biggest risks to the global economy.pinterest

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Wallops Island, Va. – NASA launched a Black Brant IX sounding rocket from Wallops Island shortly after 5am this morning.

The launch tested a new sub-payload deployment method for suborbital rocket missions using small motors like those in model rockets to eject the sub-payloads from the main payload, according to a release from NASA Wallops. NASA officials say at least one of the four test payloads successfully deployed and left a bright trail of vapor in the sky.

During the demonstration two sub-payloads with mixtures of mainly barium and small amounts of the natural earth metals lithium and strontium were to be deployed. Two additional sub-payloads with only lithium were also to deploy from the sounding rocket.

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The former special counsel in the hot seat Tuesday at a pair of contentious House hearings over his probe into Russian election meddling has a history of keeping cool under fire.

Robert Mueller, who delivered mostly terse answers and showed little emotion during the first two hours of the House Judiciary Committee hearing, was a decorated war hero in Vietnam, winning both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for bravery as a Marine platoon leader.

Born in New York, the 74-year-old Mueller attended the elite St. Paul’s school in New Hampshire, where he captained the soccer, lacrosse and hockey teams.

He then attended Princeton University, and enlisted in the Marines upon graduation in honor of a friend who had been killed in combat.

After he was discharged, he earned a master’sdegree from NYU and his law degree from the University of Virginia and went to work for the Justice Department, serving as a federal prosecutor in California, Massachusetts and DC.

The 6-foot-tall Mueller was appointed FBI director by President George W. Bush on Sept. 4, 2001, and was barely on the job when the 9/11 attacks occurred. He spent the next years revamping the bureau to deal with terrorism and other 21st-century threats.

He was kept on by President Barack Obama before stepping down in 2013 to work in private practice.

On May 17, 2017, he was appointed special counsel to probe Russian election meddling and possible collusion with the Trump campaign, a job he kept until May of this year.

Mueller has been married for more than 50 years to Ann


Fiorentina look at Rafinha

By Football Italia staff

Fiorentina are interested in Barcelona midfielder Rafinha, claim ESPN, and he’d be available for €15m and could follow in his father’s footsteps.

The Viola are renovating their squad under new patron Rocco Commisso and that should give them more spending power.

According to ESPN, they are showing interest in Brazilian midfielder Rafinha, who already has some Serie A experience after six months at Inter.

The 26-year-old is only under contract until June 2020 and his career has been badly affected by a series of injuries.

He is also linked with Valencia, but they have not yet reached the €15m asking price set by Barcelona.

It would be an intriguing move for Rafinha, because his father Mazinho played for Fiorentina in 1991-92.

Watch Serie A live in the UKJustin Roberts Exits CBS2/FOX28

For the last ten years, Justin Roberts has been delivering the morning and midday weather at CBS2 & FOX 28. That came to end Monday, April 17th, as Justin's contract with KGAN TV was not renewed.

It's sad news to all of us here in Eastern Iowa. Justin was with the company for a total of fifteen years, ten of those in front of the camera. People loved his weather reports and on-air personality because he is genuine and trustworthy. Over the last decade, he's made a lot of friendships and has been a very welcome visitor in Eastern Iowa homes.

I asked him what he will miss most about working at CBS2. He told me, "I'm really going to miss my co-workers. They were all so


Andrew MacDougall was a former director of communications to Stephen Harper

You know things are bad in the United States when they put the Canadian prime minister on the cover of Rolling Stone with the headline: "Why can't he be our President?"

With profound apologies (naturally) to our southern neighbours, Justin Trudeau isn't the saviour of the western world. For what it's worth, the smart money's on Angela Merkel. Not that you'll find a serious analysis of the problem in the obsequious profile of our Prime Minister.

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Then again, what else is new?

The Rolling Stone profile is but the latest round of a seemingly endless game of which foreign publication can puff the Prime Minister most comprehensively. To wit, a recent front page profile in a Rhode Islandnewspaper ahead of Mr. Trudeau's (politically important and astute) address to the U.S. Governors Association opened with a command to Google Mr. Trudeau's "butt."

Related: Conservatives say Trudeau's Rolling Stone cover jeopardizes NAFTA talks

What is it about Mr. Trudeau that turns foreign reporters into crack addicts? "His dark hair is a colour found in nature," Stephen Rodrick, the Rolling Stone reporter, squeals in his piece.

I'll cop to some jealousy. I could have bribed reporters with millions and they wouldn't have written about Stephen Harper in this manner. Then again, Mr. Harper would never have wanted to be written about in such purple prose. His aims – to say nothing of his methods – were miles away from Mr. Trudeau's softer touch. The former prime minister would have written Rolling


Prime Minister's star power. The mere fact that Mr. Trudeau is (once again) being fawned over could tip Conservatives into paroxysms of rage.

Conservatives should resist the impulse and remember that Mr. Trudeau's number-one political weapon is his likeability. Moreover, Canadians like that their prime minister is liked. If Conservatives are smart they'll brush Rolling Stone off as meaningless puffery.

Because that's all it is. No American seriously thinks Canada is going to save the day. If the Americans still had Barack Obama, Rolling Stone wouldn't give two hoots about Justin Trudeau, or his feminism and fancy socks.

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No, the Rolling Stone subset of America – along with the other populations represented by the international press currently going gaga for Mr. Trudeau – are crying for help becausebecause female deputies could see his nude body during a random "strip search" of all inmates in his tank.
The case was fully tried.[1] The evidence establishes that the plaintiff's claims are baseless. Accordingly, for the following reasons, the case is dismissed with prejudice.[2]

1. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
The plaintiff, Richard Wagner, was convicted of a felony, the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. On March 7, 1980, he was sentenced to serve 2-4 years in the Texas Department of Corrections. However, while his criminal case was on appeal, Wagner remained in the Dallas County Jail  and was there at all times relevant to this suit.[3]
*1097 The defendants include Dallas County, two past sheriffs of Dallas County (Carl Thomas, Don Byrd), and several other employees of the Sheriff's Department who were


("Entertainment for Adult Bikers") by certified mail, return receipt requested. On the cover of this issue (Pl.Exh. 9), there was a picture of part of the body of an attractive female, wearing only cut-offs which were scanty and open at the top. On pages 54-59, there was a four-page "spread" of mostly nude pictures of this same female, showing her naked breasts, her buttocks, her genitals (one picture only), and her tatoo (five pictures). On pages 72-73, there was a regular monthly feature, the "Ol' Lady Contest," which contained amateur photos of ten different females; some of these females were clothed, but there were four with naked breasts, one with genitals exposed, and another with naked breasts and an even more impressive and prominently displayed tatoo than thatordered a "strip search" of the inmates in Tank 12-S-15. Three of the deputies who participated in this search were females (Sawyer, Tucker and Stubbs). However, Tucker was not even present during the strip search; and, before the first inmate was ordered to disrobe, Deputies Sawyer and Stubbs left and were in the "safety vestibule" by the exterior door to the tank. (See Def.Exhs. 16-31.) Neither of these female deputies looked at the male inmates while they were being strip-searched; indeed, two banks of bars set at a right angle to each other obscured their view into the area where the strip search was taking *1099 place.[15] Again, during this search, many items of contraband were found and seized,[16] although no contraband was found on Wagner.
Wagner was not


make up the UK housing market

Source: ONS/DCLG

Other councils claiming to have a five-year land supply have still found their decisions overturned on appeal.

South Cambridgeshire District Council refused plans for 150 new homes at Waterbeach. But the planning inspector later approved them, saying the council could not "demonstrate" a five-year land supply.

Robert Turner, the council's planning portfolio holder, said: "We were very disappointed to see a major decision like that overturned.

"Applications are coming to us and even if we don't like them, and refuse them, the government has obviously got a bigger picture and can grant them on appeal."

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An appeal decision in Clenchwarton, Norfolk, is being taken to judicial review

In Clenchwarton, near King's Lynn, an application for 40 homes was turned down by the Borough Council ofKing's Lynn and West Norfolk because the site was outside the village development boundary and prone to flooding.

But it was allowed on appeal, again, because the inspector said the council could not demonstrate a five-year land supply.

The council, which says it has a seven-year land supply, is taking the appeal decision to judicial review.

'Undersupply exacerbates shortage'

Figures from the Home Builders Federation (HBF) indicate the government estimates about 27,000 homes a year are needed in the east region.

"We estimate that local authorities are planning for around 3,000 fewer homes than this per year," said spokesman Steve Turner.

"However, the number of new homes actually being started is much lower, and we estimate that well under 20,000 new homes were started last year.

"Each year there is an undersupply and this only


exacerbates the shortage of homes in the region further."

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Housing development was a key issue in the Clacton by-election

In Essex, Tendring District Council consulted voters before drawing up a draft housing plan recommending 6,000 new homes.

But a government planning inspector said this was not enough - so 12,000 new homes has now been proposed, with a new consultation soon to get under way.

Council leader Mick Page said: "The government is saying housing numbers are down to us as a local authority but really they're not.

"It's government policies which are given to the inspectors who come down here and dictate what they want."

The importance for councils to have a local plan has been stressed by housing minister Brandon Lewis as not enough homes are being built.

He said the Localismto travel easily for Chuseok.

Chuseok, Korea's autumn harvest celebration, is one of the biggest traditional holidays for all Koreans, with people usually heading to their hometowns to meet family and pay tribute to their ancestors.

The Rodong Sinmun added that soldiers, government workers and residents finished fixing the roof of the Koryo Museum in just one day.

North Korea observers here said that the media focus on repairs shows Pyongyang's desire to both demonstrate to its people its ability to carry out disaster control and solidify the support of the population behind the government.

The media reporting this year is in contrast to the coverage of the background and history of Chuseok last year. In 2018, North Korea media focused on the importance of upholding national tradition.


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Rome and Macedonia sign the Peace of Phoinike, ending the First Macedonian War;

The Romans recapture Locri in Bruttium;

The legate Quintus Pleminius terrorises the Locrians, but loses his nose and ears in a fight with his fellow Romans;

Although Pleminius’ guilt is obvious, he is acquitted by Scipio, who again shows poor political judgment;

The Romans send a committee to Pessinus in Phrygia to collect the sacred stone representing the Great Mother (Magna Mater).

Publius Cornelius Scipio had returned to Rome where he had met the Senate in the temple of Bellona. Even though his achievements had been extraordinary, he did not press for a triumph, knowing that, after all, he was just a private citizen who had been granted proconsular imperium by popular vote. Scipio then entered the city and depositeda huge amount of minted and unminted silver in the Roman treasury, which was kept at the temple of Saturnus on the Forum Romanum. He then easily won the consulship.

The Senate House – Curia – on the Forum Romanum.

Publius Licinius Crassus was elected consul as well. As the latter was also the pontifex maximus, he had to stay in Italy to oversee the religious affairs of the state. Crassus was therefore given Bruttium as his province, while Scipio was given Sicily. Scipio then introduced a delegation of grateful Saguntines to the senators, who were eager to thank the Romans for their support during the war. Rather amazingly, they seem to have embarked on a sort of grand tour of Italy afterwards, even though the war there had still


not come to an end.

The Great Debate

Scipio had been granted Sicily as his province, but he wanted Africa as well so that he would be allowed to cross the sea and attack the Carthaginian homeland. Scipio brought the matter before the Senate and massively overplayed his hand. It should be remembered that, while Scipio was perhaps the most talented Roman general ever and a gifted diplomat as well, he was still very young (just 30 or 31 years old) and had very limited experience in politics. According to Livius, Scipio had foolishly threatened to bring the matter before the popular assembly if the Senate refused to grant him Africa as well. Experienced senators like Quintus Fabius Maximus and Quintus Fulvius Flaccus knew very well how to neutralise threatstribunes to support him if he did so. Scipio felt that this would constitute an abuse of the right of intercessio, but the tribunes disagreed. In the end, they decided to let the consul choose: if he chose to abide by the decision of the Senate, that decision would be binding and they would veto any meeting of the popular assembly. But if Scipio refused to let the Senate decide, then they would aid any senator who refused to vote. After consulting his colleague, Scipio left the case to the Senate As a compromise, he was granted 30 warships – surely not enough for a full-scale invasion – with permission to sail to Africa if it was in the public interest.

Scipio had suffered a political defeat and had


learned a valuable lesson. He had also been denied permission to raise new troops, but he was allowed to recruit volunteers and plenty of men wanted to fight for him. The Italian allies also eagerly provided men and materials to strengthen the Roman fleet. Thirty more new ships were built in just 45 days. Order had been restored in Etruria, and many Etruscan cities donated grain and building materials. The Umbrians, Sabines, Marsi, Paeligni and Marrucini all provided soldiers and sailors for the fleet. When the consul left for Sicily, he could take several thousand enthusiastic men with him.

Mago in Italy, Laelius in Africa

In spring, Mago Barcas left Minorca with 30 warships and many transport ships. He took 12.000 infantry and 2.000 cavalry with him and made asurprise landing near Genua in Liguria, which he captured and sacked. He then set about recruiting more Celts and Ligurians for his army, as it was still much too small to engage the Romans. The military situation now was not much different from that in 217 BCE, when the Romans had to guess on which side of the Apennines Hannibal would strike. As they did not know what route his brother Mago would take, they kept armies both in Etruria and in Cisalpine Gaul.

At about the same time, Laelius was sent to Africa with the old ships. The new ships turned out to be useless, as they had been built of unseasoned wood. Laelius raided the coast of Africa and took much booty. He also had a meeting


25 warships, 6.000 infantry, 800 cavalry and 7 elephants.

Numidian cavalry (source: Europa Barbarorum).

Masinissa urged Laelius to encourage Scipio to invade Africa as soon as possible and he promised to send extra troops to him upon his landing. However, Masinissa’s own position was anything but secure at this moment. He had returned to Africa from Spain the previous year, ready to convince his tribe, the Massylii, to join the Roman side. Unfortunately he had found his people in the middle of a succession crisis. His father, King Gala, had died, and his death had led to a civil war which need not be discussed in detail here. Masinissa managed to defeat his chief rival and won his crown, but was then utterly defeated by King Syphax of the Masaesyli,who had been stirred up by the Carthaginians. Masinissa became a refugee in his own kingdom, and at one point may have had no more than two horsemen riding with him. The king managed to raise a new army, but was defeated again by Syphax. Livius claims he fled to the region known as Emporia on the Gulf of Gabès (or Lesser Syrtis). If he did meet Laelius at Hippo Diarrhytos, he must have galloped north again for some 130 kilometres. The king probably had just a few hundred horsemen with him on that occasion.

The Romans in Spain

The proconsuls Lucius Cornelius Lentulus and Lucius Manlius Acidinus had taken over command in Spain after Scipio had left. Once again, it was the chieftain Indibilis who gave the Romans trouble.


He greatly admired Scipio, but felt nothing but disdain for his successors. Claiming that now was the time for the Spanish tribes to unite and liberate Spain from Roman occupation, Indibilis managed to stir up his own Ilergetes as well as the neighbouring Ausetani and several smaller tribes in Northern Spain. Soon he had raised a considerable force. The Roman proconsuls judged it wise to join forces and together they marched towards the enemy. After a sharp fight, the Spaniards were defeated and their army destroyed.

Indibilis and his bodyguards fought bravely in the front ranks, but they were showered with missiles and most of them died. Indibilis himself was wounded by a javelin. Although Livius does not explicitly mention his fate, Appianus makes it clear that the chieftainwas killed. The Romans were prepared to make peace with the tribes again, but they had to extradite Mandonius, Indibilis’ equally troublesome brother, and some of the other rebel leaders. After this was done, the Spanish tribes also had to provide the Romans with hostages. As a punishment, the tribute they used to pay was doubled for that year and they were also required to supply the Roman army with grain and clothing.

Macedonia

King Philippos V (photo: PHGCOM/British Museum).

The Romans gave up the war with Macedonia this year. Their Aetolian allies, exhausted by the war and their mounting casualties, had been forced to make a separate peace with King Philippos V the previous year. The Romans were angry that the Aetolians had acted without their permission, but there was


not much they could do. At an unspecified moment, Publius Sulpicius Galba had been recalled to Italy. He successor was the former censor Publius Sempronius Tuditanus, who was given the rank of proconsul in spite of the fact that he had not held the consulship yet. Tuditanus commanded a sizeable army of some 10.000 infantry and 1.000 horsemen, with a fleet of 35 warships.

It was a much larger force than Galba had ever commanded, but since the Romans had no more allies in Greece, all Tuditanus could was protect the Roman allies in Illyria and Epirus. The proconsul landed at Epidamnos and after unsuccessfully besieging Dimale moved to Apollonia further to the south. Philippos devastated the fields in the surrounding area and even offered a formal battle, buthis opponent declined, preferring to stay behind Apollonia’s walls. Meanwhile, the Epirotes had had enough of the war and asked the king and proconsul to come to Phoinike. There a peace treaty was signed, basically restoring the status quo ante bellum. A two-month armistice was agreed as the treaty was sent to Rome to be ratified by the popular assembly. The people voted unanimously in favour of the Peace of Phoinike and the First Macedonian War was over.

Italy

The most important achievement in Italy this year was the recapture of Locri in Bruttium. The Romans had captured some local craftsmen and sent them to Rhegium, where they were recognised by Locrians living in exile. The prisoners offered to betray the citadel to the Romans and were subsequently released. Since


the consul Crassus’ camp seems to have been struck by disease this year, the Locrians travelled to Scipio, who was in Syracuse. When he heard of the opportunity to recapture Locri, Scipio ordered his legate Quintus Pleminius and two tribunes to take 3.000 soldiers and advance on the city. The men were admitted into the citadel, but the operation did not proceed smoothly in every respect and the Carthaginians managed to hold on to the second citadel. Hannibal also marched to the aid of his men. Locri was a port city, and reinforcements sent from Carthage had landed there in 215 BCE. Its loss would be a blow for Hannibal, who needed ports to keep alive his hope of further reinforcements from Africa.

In the end, the Locrians, whohad become embittered by the harsh Carthaginian rule in their city, sided with the Romans and Hannibal was forced to retreat. It was a decision the Locrians soon began to regret. Scipio, who had arrived at Locri at some point during the siege, left Pleminius in charge of the city, and the legate and his men turned out to be far worse than the Carthaginians had ever been. Pleminius’ soldiers, no more than a band of brigands, soon began pillaging the city and they even stole the treasures in the famous temple of Persephone.[2] Women, girls and young boys were raped. At one point, Pleminius’ men clashed with those of the two tribunes, who had confiscated a silver cup from one of the looters. Pleminius was furious and


tortured, mutilated and murdered. Their bodies were left outside to rot. The Locrians who had dared report his crimes to Scipio also paid for it with their lives.

In a bout of religious fervour, the decemviri sacris faciundis had consulted the Sibylline Books and had found an oracle that predicted that when a foreign enemy brought war to Italy, he could be defeated if the Mother of the Ida (Mater Idaea) was brought from Pessinus to Rome. The Mater Idaea was the goddess Cybele or Magna Mater (Great Mother), a mother goddess whose cult originated in Phrygia. The Phrygian city of Pessinus was the centre of the cult, and it was a city way outside the Romans’ zone of influence. Fortunately they still had close ties with King Attalosof Pergamum.

The Romans set up a committee of which the former consul Marcus Valerius Laevinus, the former praetor Marcus Caecilius Metellus (disgraced after Cannae, but rehabilitated) and several others were members. The committee travelled east and first stopped at Delphi, where its members consulted the famous Oracle. They were told that if the Great Mother had been taken to Rome, she had to be welcomed by their very best man (vir optimus Romae). The men then continued their voyage to Pergamum, where they received a warm welcome from King Attalos. The king accompanied them to Pessinus and through his good services made sure that they were allowed to take the sacred stone – possibly a meteorite – with them that the Phrygians claimed was the mother goddess.


Blackhawks add four young Cowboys to their roster

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

From Left – Ross Bella, Jordan Kenworthy and Ty Carucci

Ty Carucci, Taha Tutavake, Ross Bella and Jordan Kenworthy might be new names to the Townsville & Districts Mendi Blackhawks roster for 2017 but the four players are well known around the North Queensland region having played in the 2016 National Youth Competition (NYC) competition for the North Queensland Cowboys.

The young men will be welcomed by some familiar faces at their first Mendi Blackhawks training session as they have all played alongside current squad members Kyle Laybutt, Andrew Niemoeller, Kieran Quabba and David Munro during their time with the Cowboys.

Coach Kristian Woolf explains that the attraction to signing players out of the Cowboys NYC system is obvious, “We haveMendi Blackhawks in order to continue their rugby league careers.

Jordan Kenworthy proved equally impressive in both attack and defense during a 2016 season cut short by injury. “Jordan is a highly rated and hardworking footballer.” Woolf Said.

“He is in the same mould as a Niemoeller, in that he is strong, determined, and has the type of work ethic that we value here at the Blackhawks. He will certainly make a valuable contribution to the team.”

In his 13 matches Kenworthy crossed for 6 tries and averaged an impressive 29 tackles per match. The NSW born Lock has a Mal Meninga title to his name with the Townsville Stingers (who are now known as the Townsville Mendi Blackhawks) and has been with the Cowboys since 2014.

Consistent five-eighth Ty Carucci was


born in Cairns but attended Kirwan High and has represented the Townsville Stingers. The taller than average half came up with 6 tries, 11 try assists and 36 tackle breaks during his 25 games in the 2016 season. Coach Aaron Payne called him influential during the young Cowboys run into the preliminary final.

Coach Woolf has a positional change in mind for Carucci’s development, “As Ty has played a lot of footy in the halves it’s clear that he is a smart footballer. He is a big, athletic player and his best attribute is his running game.”

“We hope to utilise that in playing him as an outside back. Being an ex-half we hope he will bring that footy sense to being an outside back.”

Taha Tutavake – image courtesy ofNorth Queensland Cowboys

Coach Woolf is “excited” by what Taha Tutavake has to offer, “He is a big body and we have focused on adding some size to our squad for season 2017.”

“Every time I have seen him play Taha has impressed me with his athleticism, his aggression and his willingness to stand over his opposition.”

Tutavake is a hard running second rower who also played Lock and Front Row throughout the 2016 NYC season. Tutavake played his junior football with the Edmonton Storm and was signed with the Cowboys on scholarship at the age of 15. The evasive Cook Islander racked up an impressive 42 tackle breaks and 7 tries in his 22 games for the NYC Cowboys in 2016.

Mackay born Ross Bella is the son of former State


of Origin player Martin. Predominantly a front rower Bella also has the ability to play wider on the edges where required. He has experience at Intrust Super Cup level having debuted for the Mackay Cutters in 2014 at the age of 18. Bella played all of the games during the 2016 NYC season racking up 41 tackle breaks and averaging 22 tackles per match.

“Ross has had a great year in the NYC. He is a skillful and smart front rower with the ability to play edge back row and even hooker when required. He comes with a solid reputation of being diligent and committed to his footy.”

“He will be a versatile and welcome addition to our 2017 playing group.” Woolf said.A high school student on a mission to end lunch shaming – singling out students with cafeteria debt – is now working to raise money to assist New Jersey students.

Christian Cordon-Cano, the Florida-based founder of www.SchoolLunchFairy.org, has reached out to the Collingswood School District and offered to assist students. He had read Wednesday's story on PhillyVoice about reported lunch shaming at the district's high school.

The story included an interview with an Oaklyn father who said he believes his children were stigmatized by the practice of lunch shaming in the district, though a schools official disagreed.

“Lunch Fairy raises funds to help kids pay for school lunch at public schools,” explained Cordon-Cano, who founded the group in April.

“If a kid doesn´t have money to pay for lunch that day, they


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New Release: Freya's Mates (Pack Seduction, #2)

Freya's on her own, lost in a new city. Being of royal blood, every male shifter would kill to have her as a mate. Staying in hiding is her number one priority.

When hunger leads her to the rear of a night club in search of food, she comes across a human who arouses a new desire within her.

Once inside the club, she's caught skipping out on her bill and forced to deal with the club owner and bartender, both sexier-than-sin shifters. Will she be able to submit to the three men? Can there be a future with a human mate?

Be Warned: menage a quatre romance, menage sex, anal sex

Excerpt

"You look cold," said Gideon. All three men moved in on her


once the door closed. "How about we warm you up, pretty little wolf?"

Heat already bloomed in her core, lighting up her extremities. Her lion and cougar looked absolutely savage, sexual hunger burning in their eyes. She wasn't immune to their desire. It pulled her in, making all her insecurities, worries, and doubts fizzle away. All that remained was need.

They hadn't asked Darius to leave even though he wasn't yet her mate. And Darius hadn't shown signs of revulsion to the idea of sharing her…yet. Vincent stripped off his shirt, offering his perfectly chiseled body for her pleasure. She loved every inch of him, from his lean muscled frame, to his armband tats, to his unkempt dirty-blonde hair. When he approached, she eagerly wrapped her arms around his neckand sought his mouth. Her bare flesh pressed against his sizzled, making her pussy pulse, strong and demanding.

"She smells ripe, Vincent," said Gideon.

"That she does." He nipped his way down her neck and across her shoulder. Pleasure bordering on pain, and the promise of the intense, feral sex she craved.

"Do we let the human play?"

"The human is standing right here." Darius plucked off his own shirt. He was gloriously bronzed and wickedly tempting for a non-shifter. The faint scent of cigarillos and alcohol clung to him, increasing her arousal. She'd do anything to ensure he joined in with them tonight, even if she had to drop down to her knees and suck his cock in front of her mates.

"He gets to play," said Carna. She reached for Darius'


hand and placed it on her breast. Gideon's golden eyes traced the movement. She half expected him to snap the human's wrist in two for daring to touch her, but his guarded stance softened and he began unbuckling his pants instead.

Once shirtless with his zipper down, Gideon ordered her to her knees. She knew his alpha lion would demand to dominate with a new male in the room, and she reveled in every minute of it. The floor was cool on her knees, but only an afterthought. She pulled the flaps of his pants wider and freed his cock from his boxers. Up close, he was massive—long, thick, and virile. She imagined that heavy cock being rammed into her achy pussy, but her needs would have to waita little while longer.

She opened her mouth as wide as she could and sucked on the bulbous tip. Her womb continually spasmed, coiling tight with her increasing desperation to be fucked. She could hear Darius in the background, insisting the human wasn't the only other man in the room. Gideon's cock was hot and pulsed each time she suckled it. She lost herself in the act, grabbing the base in a loose fist, pumping and sucking, licking and teasing. Before long, he pushed her shoulders back, releasing her suction. "No more. You'll have me coming in no time with a mouth like that."

He hoisted her to her feet as if she weighed mere pounds. His mouth on hers was demanding and probed deep. As they backed up, she


hit a wall of hard male flesh, an aroused dick prodding her back to match the one to her front. Her desires grew sinfully high and she couldn't help it when her fangs lengthened. She didn't want to startle Darius too much. He'd already been taking all the revelations so well.

"Bite me, Freya," Gideon growled. She didn't hesitate, but lashed forward in a vicious, yet erotic attack. Her teeth sinking into his thick muscles was heavenly, transporting her to a new realm. She didn't care what they did to her at this point, she needed so much more.

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November 2014.

Ranked #1691 Bulgarian Danail Tarpov

September 2013 Mr Tarpov set up and registered an online betting account with Bet365, for use by the son of his then coach Novolai Ivanchev. He subsequently allowed and assisted his personal bank account to be used for operating the account. A total of 1,221 tennis bets were placed, although these did not include bets on matches involving Mr Tarpov. No evidence of betting linked to match-fixing or other corruption offenses was uncovered by the TIU.

So neither of them was involved in match-fixing, because match-fixing doesn’t exist at all!

On my Twitter account I keep posting a few examples of very suspicious matches and here it is a brief summary:

Vadim Alekseenko has been blacklisted long time ago by the biggest bookmaker for ITF bettingform, the archetypal images afford us the best clues to the understanding of the processes going on in the collective psyche”. “The fairy tale itself is its own best explanation; that is, its meaning is contained in the totality of its motifs connected by the thread of the story. [...] Every fairy tale is a relatively closed system compounding one essential psychological meaning which is expressed in a series of symbolical pictures and events and is discoverable in these”.
“I have come to the conclusion that all fairy tales endeavour to describe one and the same psychic fact, but a fact so complex and far-reaching and so difficult for us to realize in all its different aspects that hundreds of tales and thousands of repetitions with a musician’s


of ethanol. We estimated the volume of the supraoptic nucleus and the numerical density of its neurons and calculated the total number of supraoptic neurons. The volume of both supraoptic neurons and neuropil were also estimated. In immunostained material the ratio of vasopressin to oxytocin neurons and the cross-sectional areas of the two neuronal types were evaluated. There was marked neuronal loss in alcohol-treated rats, but the volume of the supraoptic nucleus was increased. The increase in the volume of the supraoptic nucleus correlated with and was due to increases in the volume was particularly marked for vasopressin neurons. No significant differences were found between controls and pair-fed controls in any of the parameters investigated. In water control rats, the volume of the supraoptic nucleus and of thecollision with the cyclist. Nevertheless, he said, the law is clear that "you cannot operate a motor vehicle under those circumstances."

Kali Su Schram, 20, was sentenced May 2, 2017 in Muskegon County's 14th Circuit Court. She'll serve six months in jail with authorized work release, and two years' probation, for operating under the influence causing death. She was also ordered to pay $6,456 restitution and $708 court costs/fees.

Schram's vehicle collided with a cyclist at 7:32 a.m. on Nov. 26, 2015 on Seaway Drive at the intersection with Sherman Boulevard. Her vehicle was determined to have the right of way, according to the Muskegon County Prosecutor's office.

The cyclist, 64-year-old Ralph Martin, died months later, March 10, 2016, from injuries caused in the crash.

"If you read the police report, she


that killed his pregnant girlfriend and their unborn, third-trimester baby.

Like Schram, Wilson appeared grief-stricken at his sentencing. He wore his girlfriend's ashes in a vial around his neck at his sentencing. Wilson's lawyer, like Schram's, argued that marijuana hadn't played a role in the crash. His THC amount was low, and the couple had been driving on an unfamiliar road.

Another similarity is that in both cases the families of the victims didn't push for sentences to state prison with a minimum of a year or more - which both defendants could have faced under the sentencing guidelines that judges refer to in court.

In Schram's case, "the sentencing guidelines were calculated at a minimum range starting at 29 months," Maat said. "However, the court also considered the input ofOnline Sports Council

Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports first reported Davis’ one-year deal worth $6 million from the A’s. Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle confirmed the deal, adding Davis can receive another $450,000 in performance bonuses.

Davis, 36, had a solid season in 2016 for the Cleveland Indians, hitting .249 with 12 home runs, 48 RBI, 74 runs scored and an AL-high 43 stolen bases. While he is probably best served platooning in the outfield—he often sat against left-handed pitching with the Indians—he can still offer solid production.

While Davis’ offensive numbers were nothing special, he provided one of 2016’s most dramatic moments with a game-tying two-run homer off Chicago Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the World Series.

Davis is also still a


anti-aircraft defense base have been built here at that time.

Tons of fuel and lubricants, work equipment and food provision for 200 residents of a small village have been delivered to this place. But then people left it, and all the garbage and idle equipment remained on its junkyards.

Sometimes empty barrels were taken out of the island by empty ships on their way home. But that was unprofitable because barrels should have been pressed on the shore before being loaded on the ship. The problem is that there are no presses on the island.

All scrap metal is concentrated on the South coast – the very place where all the organizations were situated.

Nowadays most of the barrels became worthless but there are still some tonnes of gasoline, oil and dieselSiege of Sevastopol (1854–55)

The Siege of Sevastopol (at the time called in English the Siege of Sebastopol) lasted from October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War. The allies (French, Ottoman, and British) landed at Eupatoria on 14 September 1854, intending to make a triumphal march to Sevastopol, the capital of the Crimea, with 50,000 men. The 56-kilometre (35 mi) traverse took a year of fighting against the Russians. Major battles along the way were Alma (September 1854), Balaklava (October 1854), Inkerman (November 1854), Tchernaya (August 1855), Redan (September 1855), and, finally, Sevastopol (September 1855). During the siege, the allied navy undertook six bombardments of the capital, on 17 October 1854; and on 9 April, 6 June, 17 June, 17 August, and 5 September 1855.

Sevastopol is one


of the classic sieges of all time.[9] The city of Sevastopol was the home of the Tsar'sBlack Sea Fleet, which threatened the Mediterranean. The Russian field army withdrew before the allies could encircle it. The siege was the culminating struggle for the strategic Russian port in 1854–55 and was the final episode in the Crimean War.

Moving from their base at Balaklava at the start of October, French and British engineers began to direct the building of siege lines along the Chersonese uplands to the south of Sevastopol.[13] The troops prepared redoubts, gun batteries, and trenches.[14]

With the Russian army and its commander Prince Menshikov gone, the defence of Sevastopol was led by Vice Admirals Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov and Pavel Nakhimov, assisted by Menshikov's chief engineer, Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Totleben.[15]The Russian artillery first destroyed a French magazine, silencing their guns. British fire then set off the magazine in the Malakoff redoubt, killing Admiral Kornilov, silencing most of the Russian guns there, and leaving a gap in the city's defences. However, the British and French withheld their planned infantry attack, and a possible opportunity for an early end to the siege was missed.

At the same time, to support the Allied land forces, the Allied fleet pounded the Russian defences and shore batteries. Six screw-driven ships of the line and 21 wooden sail were involved in the sea bombardment (11 British, 14 French, and two Ottoman Turkish). After a bombardment that lasted over six hours, the Allied fleet inflicted little damage on the Russian defences and coastal artillery batteries


saw that the siege of Sevastopol would not be lifted by a battle in the field, so instead they moved troops into the city to aid the defenders. Toward the end of November, a winter storm ruined the Allies' camps and supply lines. Men and horses sickened and starved in the poor conditions.

While Totleben extended the fortifications around the Redan bastion and the Malakoff redoubt, British chief engineer John Fox Burgoyne sought to take the Malakoff, which he saw as the key to Sevastopol. Siege works were begun to bring the Allied troops nearer to the Malakoff; in response, Totleben dug rifle pits from which Russian troops could snipe at the besiegers. In a foretaste of the trench warfare that became the hallmark of the First World War,the trenches became the focus of Allied assaults.

Siege of Sevastopol

The Allies were able to restore many supply routes when winter ended. The new Grand Crimean Central Railway, built by the contractors Thomas Brassey and Samuel Morton Peto, which had been completed at the end of March 1855[23] was now in use bringing supplies from Balaclava to the siege lines. The railroad delivered more than five hundred guns and plentiful ammunition.[23] The Allies resumed their bombardment on 8 April 1855 (Easter Sunday). On 28 June (10 July), Admiral Nakhimov died from a head wound inflicted by an Allied sniper.[24]

On 24 August (5 September) the Allies started their sixth and the most severe bombardment of the fortress. Three hundred and seven cannon fired 150,000 rounds, with the Russians suffering 2,000


to 3,000 casualties daily. On 27 August (8 September), thirteen Allied divisions and one Allied brigade (total strength 60,000) began the last assault. The British assault on the Great Redan failed, but the French, under General Mac-Mahon, managed to seize the Malakoff redoubt and the Little Redan, making the Russian defensive position untenable. By the morning of 28 August (9 September), the Russian forces had abandoned the southern side of Sevastopol.[8][25]

Although defended heroically and at the cost of heavy Allied casualties, the fall of Sevastopol would lead to the Russian defeat in the Crimean War.[1] Most of the Russian casualties were buried in Brotherhood cemetery in over 400 collective graves. The three main commanders (Nakhimov, Kornilov, and Istomin) were interred in the purpose-built Admirals' Burial Vault.

The cascabel (thelarge ball at the rear of old muzzle-loaded guns) of several cannon captured during the siege was said to have been used to make the British Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the British Armed Forces. However, Hancocks, the manufacturer, confirms that the metal is Chinese, not Russian, bronze. The cannons used are in the Firepower Museum in Woolwich and are clearly Chinese. There would be no reason why Chinese cannon would be in Sevastopol in the 1850s and it is likely that the VC guns were, in fact, British trophies from the China war in the 1840s held in the Woolwich repository. Though it had been suggested that the VCs should be made from Sevastopol cannons, it seems that in practice, they were not. Testing


of medals which proved not to be of Russian bronze has given rise to stories that some Victoria Crosses were made of low grade material at certain times but this is not so - all Victoria Crosses have been made from the same metal from the start.

Is kept at Fisher's Fort and recently underwent restoration by English Heritage. The cannon was made in 1826, and was given to Berwick in 1858. The cannon displays a Russian double-headed eagle on its barrel. The gun was the only one to survive the great scrappage of the Second World War in Berwick.

One cannon was sent to the city of Galt, Ontario, Canada (now renamed Cambridge), where it is still on display in Queen's Square with an inscription describing its origin, yearof capture (1859) and installation (1862). It is known locally as 'the Russian Gun'. In December 1864 the Russian Gun arrived at the Galt railway station, where reports of the day claim it attracted 'considerable attention'. The gun was initially mounted on a wooden carriage and put on display in Queen’s Square. In 1866, a group decided to cap off the town’s Victoria Day celebrations with 'a royal salute of 21 guns fired from the Russian Gun'. The gun was taken from Queen’s Square to the top of the hill overlooking Dickson Park. In A part of our Past: Essays on Cambridge’s history the story goes: 'Mr. (William) Boge was assisted by Mr. James Armstrong, who attended to the ramming of the muzzle loading the gun, and by


Mr. David Galletly who was working the vent of the gun. Three rounds had been safely fired when the powder for the fourth round was placed in the muzzle. Next came the wadding, which consisted of sod, with Mr. Boge and Mr. Armstrong ramming it home. Suddenly and unexpectedly a fearful roar rent the holiday air as the powder exploded prematurely.”
The account goes on to say Boge and Armstrong were blown seven yards from the mouth of the gun. Both were disfigured. Three other people were injured in the blast including Galletly, whose hand was burned, and two boys who were bystanders. They were both struck in the face and cut by flying debris. The two men who died were both members of the Galt Fire Brigade. Thecannon was left at the top of the hill in Dickson Park for several weeks before being returned to Queen’s Square, never to be fired again. In May 1910 the Daughters of the Empire had the Russian Gun remounted on the concrete base where it sits today.
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The cannon arrived at Congleton Station on 14 June 1859 and was escorted into the town in an ‘immense procession’ led by five men who had fought in the Crimea war. At first the cannon was placed on a specially built platform situated either at the bottom of Moody Street on an open space now outside the Royal bank of Scotland or on the other side of the street in front of ‘Mr Deakin’s shop’. By 1871 it seems to have become


an anachronism and the opening of the park seemed to be a suitable opportunity to move it to a mock fort emplacement at the top of the Park wood. During the Second World War the demand for metal led to a debate by the Town Council for the cannon to be donated to help the war effort.

Ely keeps its cannon on Palace Green, west of the Cathedral. The inscription reads: 'Russian cannon captured during the Crimean War and presented to the people of Ely in 1860 by Queen Victoria to mark the creation of the Ely Rifle Volunteers'. The serial number is 8726

Kept on the Heugh Headland. The inscription says: 'The cannon was captured from the Russian Army at the Battle of Sebastopol during the Crimean War (1854-56).In 1857, the then Secretary of State, Lord Panmure, offered the cannon to Hartlepool Borough Council who gratefully accepted it. It was transported from London on the steam ship 'Margaret', at a total cost of £2.19s.3d and after a year's delay, arrived at Hartlepool in September 1858.'

The inscription on the Lisburn cannon says: 'A Russian cannon taken at Sebastopol during the Crimean War (1853 to March 1856). Presented to Lisburn by Admiral Henry Meynell (c.1785–1863) RN in 1858. Lisburn, Co. Antrim, Ireland.'

New South Wales received two cannons in recognition of the funds donated to the Patriotic Fund to assist the war effort. The two cannons are now in Centennial Park in Sydney. Originally, the flanked Governor Bourke’s statue in The Domain in Sydney (near the old Bent Street


entrance). They were relocated in 1920 to Centennial Park and mounted on a rise.

Are displayed in Victoria Park, London (Ontario). There is an inscription which says the following: 'These cannon were used at the siege of Sebastopol and were brought to this country after the capture of that city by the Britishin 1855. Sir John Carling was instrumental in procuring these three pieces for this city. This gun is a British piece. The other two are Russian. This tablet was erected by the London and Middlesex Historical Society. 1907. Restored 1987'

There is a cannon on display in Cannon Square in Retford Nottinghamshire. A plaque on the side of the cannon reads: Captured 1855 at Sevastopol. This is an original cannon and was hidden during World War II whenit was threatened with being melted down for scrap. It sits in front of the main church, just off the Market Square. The monument is listed (Grade II) to include the Sevastopol Cannon, Lamp arch, supporting plinth and iron posts with chains surrounding it.

Toronto received a fine pair of Sevastopol cannons. They installed them in 1860 in a new park, which was officially named Queen’s Park in honour of Victoria. William Denby, in his wonderful book Lost Toronto, tells us that the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) was on hand to lay a cornerstone to Queen Victoria. Sculptor Marshall Wood created a statue of Queen Victoria. It was finally unveiled in 1871, with the Sevastopol cannons on either side. But in 1874, when Wood submitted his


invoice for $7,500, city officials were taken aback; they apparently hadn’t realized the City would be asked to foot the bill – and such a high one at that! So they removed the statue and moved the cannons, which had formerly stood on the spot where there’s now a John A. Macdonald statue, to their current positions on either side of the main entranceway to the Legislative Buildings. A new, less costly statue, was commissioned and installed in 1902.

British lithograph published March 1855, after a water-colour by William Simpson, shows winter military housing under construction with supplies borne on soldiers' backs. A dead horse, partially buried in snow, lies by the roadside.

A view of the "Valley of the Shadow of Death" near Sevastopol, taken by Roger Fenton inIn 2016, the Yankees rebuilt. In 2017, the Yankees emerged from their flash retool as a contender before anyone expected. That's been the storyline of the Yankees' recent years. They reached their nadir, they committed to rebuilding, and they came out on the other side not just unscathed, but in position to terrorize the league once again.

Tons of ink has been spilled regarding the Yankees' first sell-off in ages, and with good reason. The Yankees trading away the likes of Andrew Miller, Aroldis Chapman, and Carlos Beltran midseason, during a season in which they were still above .500, felt jarring. Still, those moves were the right moves, as they took apart a team that was merely hanging on the fringes of contention and help set up the organization


for a brighter future.

It has become abundantly clear that the Yankees have one of the league’s brightest outlooks going forward. Selling in 2016 brought along hauls of talent, and prospects like Gleyber Torres, Justus Sheffield, and others still highlight one of the best farm systems in baseball. Yet the most terrifying part of the Yankees' rebuild might be that, in spite of their status as contenders, they haven't even begun to reap the benefits.

The Yankees are a clear threat to win it all this year. Projections are not fail-safe, and it's very early, but FanGraphs currently ranks the Yankees fourth in MLB in projected WAR, and second in the AL. They could yet make more additions to their team, and are already among the league's elite in termsin 2013 and has figured to be part of the Yankees' plans for ages. Luis Severino signed in 2011. Gary Sanchez has been populating prospect lists for nearly a decade. The Yankees acquired the core of the team that finished second in baseball in run differential last year long before they ever decided to actually sell assets.

Moreover, the big trades they've executed since re-opening their window of contention could've also happened without a rebuild. Longtime farmhands like Jorge Mateo and Dustin Fowler headlined the deal for Sonny Gray at last year's trade deadline. The best prospect in the deal that brought Stanton, Jorge Guzman, was acquired in a rebuilding move (the one that sent Brian McCAnn to Houston). However, Guzman's value easily could have been replicated by any


number of the Yankees power pitching prospects (Domingo Acevedo, Domingo German, the list goes on).

The Yankees haven't even begun to spend the way they are capable of, as they've mostly showed restraint on the free agent market in recent years as the team retooled. Now, there's nothing particularly admirable about the Steinbrenners saving money in the name of rebuilding, but as the Yankees’ payroll becomes less and less cluttered with free agent albatrosses, they become more and more likely to secure another superstar in next season's epic free agent class.

Now, it's certainly not perfect to say that the Yankees' major league roster would definitely be in the shape it is currently in regardless of if they rebuilt. The numerous trades they underwent in 2016 certainly cleared the pathlocations to investigate allegations of abuse or neglect and ensure the
safety of children, and to assist families with needs that they may have. Claimant had
been in this position for approximately two-and-a-half years. On February 13, 2014,
Claimant was supervising a two-month old child who had been referred to the agency
around November 2013. The child had been taken into the custody of Employer in
early December of 2013, before custody was awarded to the father of child. Claimant
visited the home on February 13, 2014, held the baby, and determined the baby was
doing well. (WCJ’s Finding of Fact No. 7.)
             On February 14, 2014, Claimant was called into work despite not being
scheduled. Upon reporting to work, she was informed that


the incident, Claimant was identified by name in newspaper articles and
television reports about the incident. Id.

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             Approximately two weeks after the incident, Claimant spoke with a
therapist, Mary Martin (Martin), upon referral from her family doctor. Claimant
testified that she had experienced nightmares and trouble sleeping as a result of the
incident, as well as fits of crying and continued feelings of guilt. She also testified to
experiencing continuous visions of the baby the dayapproximately 12 years. On November 29,
2006, as the claimant was driving his patrol car on Interstate 81 in the early morning
hours around 5:45 a.m., a woman dressed completely in black ran in front of his car.
The claimant was unable to avoid the woman. The claimant’s patrol car struck the
woman, causing her to flip over the vehicle and land on the highway. The claimant

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immediately stopped his car and rushed to provide aid to the woman, including mouth-
to-mouth resuscitation as she bled from her mouth. At the same


time, the claimant had
to divert oncoming traffic so that neither he nor the woman would be struck by another
vehicle. The woman ultimately was pronounced dead at the scene and it was later
discovered that she suffered from mental illness and had been seen by other drivers
walking up and down the area adjacent to the highway immediately prior to the
incident.
             The claimant remained off work until January 2, 2007, at which time he
returned to desk duty.     However, the claimant immediately began experiencing
anxiousness and stress that led him to believe he could no longer work as a state
trooper. Following two notices of workers’ compensation denials, the claimant filed a
claim petition alleging PTSD. The claim petitionclaim arising out of a
single incident in Kochanowicz. There, a thirty-year employee of the state liquor store
system was working as general manager of one of the retail liquor stores on April 28,
2008, when a masked gunman entered the store just before closing, demanding money
and holding a pistol to claimant’s head the entire time, until the robber tied the claimant
and his co-worker to a chair, fleeing the scene. Although the claimant had been part of
training in the event of a robbery, he had never been robbed before. The claimant
alleged PTSD and anxiety in his claim petition. The WCJ granted benefits, finding,
inter alia, that “workplace violence, which includes robberies and theft . . . is an
abnormal working condition.” Kochanowicz, 108 A.3d at 926 (emphasis in original).
The Board affirmed but was