[Light microscopic studies on the development of Theileria annulata (Dschunkowsky and Luhs, 1904) in Hyalomma anatolicum excavatum (Koch, 1844). II. The development in haemolymph and salivary glands (author's transl)].
Fully differentiated kinetes, average length 17.6 micrometer, appeared in the haemolymph of engorged nymphs usually 17 to 20 days after repletion. Kinetes were observed at first in the salivary glands on day 18 after repletion. The kinetes then transformed into fission bodies of about 10 micrometer in diameter, mainly in type III alveoli and less frequently in type II alveoli. The fission bodies grew up to a size of about 20 micrometer after several divisions of their nucleus. At this time the ticks moulted and no further development occurred until activation. Shortly before infestation the salivary glands began to proliferate,Development was much retarded by aging. In ticks starved for six months 'sporozoites' did not develop before day five to seven of infestation. 'Sporozoites' did not develop before day five to seven of infestation. 'Sporozoites' may not develop at all in six to nine month old female ticks during the infestation period. The significance of the described developmental stages of T. annulata was discussed and a sexual generation postualted. The hypothetic development of T. annulata in its tick vector was illustrated.


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After earning a degree in Hotel, Restaurant, Travel & Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Brown launched his career with Marriott International in Boston. He went on to be the GM at Morton’s The Steakhouse and then the Area Director of Operations for Kimpton Hotels and Resorts in San Diego.

Klint Finley is a writer, journalist, and game designer based in Portland, Oregon. He’s spent the past six years as a


Microbiological assessment of cleanliness of surfaces and equipment in a children's operating theatre on the example of a selected hospital.
The operating theatre is one of the most important places in a hospital. Due to the presence of numerous reservoirs of microorganisms and the invasiveness of surgical procedures it is necessary to ensure high hygiene standards in these locations. The aim of the study was to carry out a qualitative assessment of the microbiological cleanliness of the surfaces and equipment in an operating theatre. The results of microbiological tests of the surfaces and equipment of the Children's Operating Theatre in Clinical Provincial Hospital No. 2 in Rzeszów, southeast Poland, during 2007-2012 were reviewed retrospectively. For the analysis, a total of 1,819 swabs were collected, of which 1.05% were positive.site at Mar Vista Street near Whittier Boulevard and a housing project on the southeast corner of Penn Street and Comstock Avenue.

“The city will be discussing several mixed-use projects in Uptown Whittier that were put on hold due to the lack of financing during the Great Recession,” he said.

Plans also include construction of a new LA Fitness Center on the site of the former Chrysler Dodge Jeep dealership on Whittier Boulevard, a new Oakmont senior living facility on the site of the former Harris Buick GMC dealership, construction of two Starbucks drive-thru coffee outlets, one at Whittier and Colima Road and one at Norwalk and Beverly boulevards, plus the repair and remodeling of Polly’s Pies on Whittier Boulevard, which was heavily damaged by fire.

In Pico Rivera, completion of


the long-awaited plans for the $84 million railroad underpass at Durfee Road tops the city’s list of 2014 projects, according to City Manager Ron Bates. The plans are expected to be 50 percent complete in the first quarter of the year, and finished by the end of the year.

The project will provide safety and congestion relief at the Union Pacific Rail Road crossing.

Bates has informed the City Council of his plans to retire, and a search process has started to find a replacement. City Councilman David Armenta, in his campaign statements before his November re-election, called finding a replacement who can fill the shoes of Bates one of the biggest jobs the council will face this year. Bates, 67, who has been working without compensation to help thecity reduce expenses since Nov. 1, 2012, has overseen $100 million in capital improvement projects, such as the Passons Boulevard railroad underpass, a new library and the renovation of four city parks. He was appointed city manager in January 2011.

After years of cost-cutting and budget deficits, Bates said he expects the City Council this year will adopt a balanced budget that doesn’t dip into reserves.

“I would say for the next couple of years for most cities, it looks pretty good,” Bates said Tuesday in a telephone interview from outside Eugene, Ore.

He said the city also plans to begin the first phase of opening a park-campground that has been planned for the site of a former campground near the Pico Rivera Sports Arena.

“It will open some space that we


the Justice Court of Hinds County, Judge Patton authorized his release. According to Jennings, however, Judge Patton impermissibly conditioned that release on Jennings's agreement to surrender the $35,000 judgment. On the basis of this allegation, in January 1997, Jennings filed a complaint against Judge Patton with the Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance. Jennings also hired an attorney, J. Keith Shelton, to help him bring a civil rights suit against the judge that raised the same claim.
In March 1997, Shelton contacted Judge Patton to offer the possibility of settling Jennings's as-yet-unfiled suit. After several weeks of negotiation, the parties agreed to the following terms: Jennings would release Judge Patton from any civil claims and inform the judicial commission that his claims had been satisfied, in exchange for Judge Patton's$25,000 payment and reinstatement of the $35,000 award.[1] Unbeknownst to Jennings or *299 Shelton, however, Judge Patton had contacted the district attorney's office to report Shelton's offer, which he considered to be a bribery attempt by the two men. As a result, the district attorney's office had opened an investigation and hired an investigator from the county sheriff's department, Larry Iles, to assist with its efforts. Iles recorded or overheard several negotiation discussions between Judge Patton, Shelton, and Jennings, including an April 1997 discussion where the three men signed a purported settlement agreement reflecting the above terms. Based on a sworn affidavit signed by Iles, an arrest warrant was issued. Two days later, Jennings and Shelton were arrested.
In August 1997, a Mississippi grand jury returned indictments against both


Jennings and Shelton for bribery of a judge. Iles testified before the grand jury that Jennings and Shelton had offered to dismiss their complaint against Judge Patton in exchange for his $25,000 payment and reinstatement of the prior $35,000 judgment.[2] Jennings and Shelton were never tried, however, and in 2005 the district attorney's office moved to remand the cases to the file for lack of prosecutive merit. The Circuit Court of Hinds County granted the motion and remanded the criminal cases with prejudice, effectively dismissing the charges.
Jennings thereafter filed the present action against Judge Patton and the former Hinds County District Attorney, Ed Peters. He claimed that the defendants had violated, and conspired to violate, his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to be free from prosecutionFor the first time in four grands prix, Sebastian Vettel moved ahead of Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in the drivers' standings with sixth place in Belgium.

That Raikkonen had that spell in front was perhaps unexpected by those who were disappointed when it was announced during the British Grand Prix weekend - in which Raikkonen moved ahead - that he was staying put for 2017.

Many felt Ferrari had made the wrong call by keeping a 36-year-old driver who had supposedly lost his speed and was believed to no longer be good enough.

But there should have been no surprise with the decision. Ferrari's policy is clear.

It wants a lead driver that it will back in a title push and a number two that is capable of scoring consistently for the


sake of the constructors' championship.

The second driver should push the lead one but not get too close and create the sort of rivalry that Mercedes has and that is brewing at Red Bull.

On the evidence of Raikkonen's recent form he is ticking both boxes.

The Finn admitted at the start of the season that he was happier with the handling of Ferrari's 2016 car, particularly with regards to the front end, compared to last year's machine.

The day before his new deal was announced, Raikkonen said he felt like he's driving as well as ever, and Ferrari is content that he has responded to its demand to step it up this year.

He started 2016 with three podiums in five races and is now on a run of seven points finishesanything, absolutely anything, to defend ourselves, without any inhibitions due to law or morality. WHEN THE killing and destruction in Gaza were at their height, something happened in faraway America that was not connected with the war, but was very much connected with it. The Israeli film “Waltz with Bashir” was awarded a prestigious prize. The media reported it with much joy and pride, but somehow carefully managed not to mention the subject of the film. That by itself was an interesting phenomenon: saluting the success of a film while ignoring its contents. The subject of this outstanding film is one of the darkest chapters in our history: the Sabra and Shatila massacre. In the course of Lebanon War I, a Christian Lebanese militia carried out, under the


auspices of the Israeli army, a heinous massacre of hundreds of helpless Palestinian refugees who were trapped in their camp, men, women, children and old people. The film describes this atrocity with meticulous accuracy, including our part in it. All this was not even mentioned in the news about the award. At the festive ceremony, the director of the film did not avail himself of the opportunity to protest against the events in Gaza. It is hard to say how many women and children were killed while this ceremony was going on – but it is clear that the massacre in Gaza is much worse than that 1982 event, which moved 400 thousand Israelis to leave their homes and hold a spontaneous mass protest in Tel-Aviv. This time,only 10 thousand stood up to be counted. The official Israeli Board of Inquiry that investigated the Sabra massacre found that the Israeli government bore “indirect responsibility” for the atrocity. Several senior officials and officers were suspended. One of them was the division commander, Amos Yaron. Not one of the other accused, from the Minister of Defense, Ariel Sharon, to the Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, spoke a word of regret, but Yaron did express remorse in a speech to his officers, and admitted: “Our sensitivities have been blunted”. BLUNTED SENSITIVITIES are very evident in the Gaza War. Lebanon War I lasted for 18 years and more than 500 of our soldiers died. The planners of Lebanon War II decided to avoid such a long war and such


heavy Israeli casualties. They invented the “mad boss” principle: demolishing whole neighborhoods, devastating areas, destroying infrastructures. In 33 days of war, some 1000 Lebanese, almost all of them civilians, were killed – a record already broken in this war by the 17th day. Yet in that war our army suffered casualties on the ground, and public opinion, which in the beginning supported the war with the same enthusiasm as this time, changed rapidly. The smoke from Lebanon War II is hanging over the Gaza war. Everybody in Israel swore to learn its lessons. And the main lesson was: not to risk the life of even one single soldier. A war without casualties (on our side). The method: to use the overwhelming firepower of our army to pulverize everythingstanding in its way and to kill everybody moving in the area. To kill not only the fighters on the other side, but every human being who might possibly turn out to harbor hostile intentions, even if they are obviously an ambulance attendant, a driver in a food convoy or a doctor saving lives. To destroy every building from which our troops could conceivably be shot at – even a school full of refugees, the sick and the wounded. To bomb and shell whole neighborhoods, buildings, mosques, schools, UN food convoys, even ruins under which the injured are buried. The media devoted several hours to the fall of a Qassam missile on a home in Ashkelon, in which three residents suffered from shock, and did not waste many


pilots, not the media people, not the politicians, not the generals. A moral insanity, whose primary exponent is Ehud Barak. Though even he may be upstaged by Tzipi Livni, who smiled while talking about the ghastly events. Even Heinrich Heine could not have imagined that. THE LAST DAYS were dominated by the “Obama effect”. We are on board an airplane, and suddenly a huge black mountain appears out of the clouds. In the cockpit, panic breaks out: How to avoid a collision? The planners of the war chose the timing with care: during the holidays, when everybody was on vacation, and while President Bush was still around. But they somehow forgot to take into consideration a fateful date: next Tuesday Barack Obama will enter the White House. Thispaint a different one. The Israeli leaders will boast of two “achievements”: the end of the rockets and the sealing of the Gaza-Egypt border (the co-called “Philadelphi route”. Dubious achievements: the launching of the Qassams could have been prevented without a murderous war, if our government had been ready to negotiate with Hamas after they won the Palestinian elections. The tunnels under the Egyptian border would not have been dug in the first place, if our government had not imposed the deadly blockade on the Strip. But the main achievement of the war planners lies in the very barbarity of their plan: the atrocities will have, in their view, a deterrent effect that will hold for a long time. Hamas, on the other side, will assert that their


survival in the face of the mighty Israeli war machine, a tiny David against a giant Goliath, is by itself a huge victory. According to the classic military definition, the winner in a battle is the army that remains on the battlefield when it’s over. Hamas remains. The Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip still stands, in spite of all the efforts to eliminate it. That is a significant achievement. Hamas will also point out that the Israeli army was not eager to enter the Palestinian towns, in which their fighters were entrenched. And indeed: the army told the government that the conquest of Gaza city could cost the lives of about 200 soldiers, and no politician was ready for that on the eve of elections. The veryalso see their own regimes in their nakedness: cringing, ignominious, corrupt and treacherous. The Arab defeat in the 1948 war brought in its wake the fall of almost all the existing Arab regimes and the ascent of a new generation of nationalist leaders, exemplified by Gamal Abd-al-Nasser. The 2009 war may bring about the fall of the current crop of Arab regimes and the ascent of a new generation of leaders – Islamic fundamentalists who hate Israel and all the West.. In coming years it will become apparent that this war was sheer madness. The boss has indeed gone mad – in the original sense of the word.


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† Information reflects 2010 salary figures. Unable to confirm if these are the same or have increased for 2011.

* South Carolina's HC, Steve Spurrier, acts as the offensive coordinator. Shawn Elliott is run game coordinator and offensive line coach.

**Ellis Johnson is South Carolina's assistant head coach in charge of defense. The defensive coordinator is a separate position.

*** As a private institution Vanderbilt is not obligated to release salary figures for its employees.

UPDATED 4/18 - Includes Steve Spurrier's new salary.

UPDATED 6/13 - Includes Gene Chizik's and Ted Roof's new salaries.

Sources:

"NSLI Coaches Salary Database." USA Today Dec. 26, 2010.

Associated Press "Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen gets contract extension, pay raise." The Birmingham News Dec. 30, 2010.

Associated Press "Arkansas secures Petrino through 2017 season." CBS Sports.com Dec. 11, 2010.

Berkowitz,action for all who believe all Americans should have fair and equal access to the ballot. Now is the time to contact your member of Congress and tell him or her to repair the VRA before any more damage is done.

Public Utility Rates

Residential customers of Mobile Gas and Alagasco pay nearly twice as much for gas as residential customers in nearby states. The League of Women Voters of Alabama wants to know why.

The Alabama Public Service Commission (PSC) is currently in the process of reviewing rates for customers of Mobile Gas Company, Alabama Gas Company, and Alabama Power Company.

In January 2013, the PSC, which regulates these utilities, announced that it would hold public hearings "to investigate all regulated aspects of Mobile Gas ... and other utilities that fall


under the agency's jurisdiction." These hearings began in February and are ongoing.

Concerned about the transparency of the process behind public utility rate-setting, the League of Women Voters of Alabama and Mobile are attending these meetings.

To learn more about this issue and to read the comments of the League on these proceedings, go here.

Alabama State Legislature

The League of Women Voters of Alabama follows issues being addressed in the state legislature that are relevant to the League's positions and its mission. For updates on events and bills relevant to these issues, check out the current legislative reportto be an archaeologist but was unable to find work as one. Aspiring to the moral-compass model of television detective Behzat Ç, Ferit enlists in the police force, only to learn that to be an officer of the law one must set aside personal principles.

Ferit’s story is told again deeper into the infield, where a set of red bleachers faces a projection of Reverse Corner, 2013. The film riffs on a popular, highly orchestrated 1990s-era game show, rewarding phone-in contestants for goals scored by proxy, while the audience is distracted by cheap jokes and cheerleaders. One round’s contestant—again, introduced only as Ferit—refuses to play along with the spectacle, instead using the coveted airtime to tell his story. When the host tries to redirect the conversation, Ferit responds by


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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Let's be a safe haven for those fleeing persecution

Last week, members of Congress passed a temporary funding measure before heading home to their districts for the next 7 weeks leading up to the November election. The stopgap measure, which funds the government from the start of Fiscal Year 2015 on October 1 through December 11, includesno new funding for immigration and refugee agencies within the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Health and Human Services (HHS) or Justice (DOJ) that care for vulnerable refugees, children and families seeking safety in the United States. Funding conversations in Congress are expected to resume after the elections.

The temporary funding measure does, however, allow DHS and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS to spend funds “as necessary” toRenaissance Dam has been completed and efforts would be made to raise the performance to 26 percent by the end of this budget year.

Gibe-III hydro power project is now 71 percent complete, he said, adding some 94 percent of the target set to construct 7, 546-km rural road has so far been completed.

Regarding the 37-km Addis Ababa Light Railway project, out of the 40 per cent projected target for this budget year, some 20 percent has so far been completed, the premier said, the 800-km Addis Ababa-Meiso-Dewel-Dire Dawa-Djibouti railway line which link the country’s various corridors with port is going as planned, he indicated.
In his report concerning education, he said efforts would be made to repeat the 94 per cent girl’s primary education enrolment rate success in technical


At least $6.786 billion in investment has been tallied along the existing METRO Green Line and Blue Line and the proposed Southwest and Blue Line Extension Light Rail Transit (LRT) projects, the Metropolitan Council announced today.

These investments include new construction such as the Optum headquarters in Eden Prairie, as well as redevelopment or rehabilitation of existing buildings, such as Custom House Apartments in downtown St. Paul and Riverside Plaza in Minneapolis. The total development likely exceeds the $6.796 billion as many developments along the routes have not publicly disclosed their project value. *

“Businesses continue making strategic investments along existing and planned light rail lines, demonstrating their conviction that light rail is a valuable asset to local communities along these routes,” Metropolitan Council Chair Adam Duininck said.

Kelly Doran, principaland founder of Doran Companies, says proximity to the Southwest Green Line extension is a major selling point in attracting tenants.

“Clearly, the decision to construct the Southwest Light Rail line is a significant boost to the marketing of The Moline, our multi-family apartment project opening in Hopkins this fall—but even more, to future development in the Southwest metro,” Doran said.

Connecting workers to jobs

There are already 64,300 jobs within one-half mile of the 15 planned Southwest LRT stations and another 16,600 jobs are expected to be added by 2035. Once completed, Southwest LRT will connect workers to job centers such as:

Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital

Downtown Hopkins

Opus Business Park

Optum corporate headquarters

Golden Triangle Business Park

Eden Prairie Center shopping mall.

Southwest Light Rail has the support of the business community, including the Minnesota Chamber


has occurred along the mile of track with five stations shared by the Blue Line in downtown Minneapolis. Development highlights include mixed-income housing around the Minneapolis-St. Paul border between the Prospect Park and Raymond Avenue stations and general economic revitalization along the eastern end of University Avenue.

Southwest: More than half a billion dollars’ worth of development

The Southwest LRT Project, which will begin construction in 2017 and open in 2021, has experienced more than $515 million in development, up from $430 million reported in spring 2016. Since then, the project has secured all its local funding commitments and the Federal Transit Administration has approved the project to complete engineering. the final phase before the FTA in mid-2017 will award the Full Funding Grant Agreement ($928.8 million), which is thefederal government’s contractual commitment to pay half the capital costs. Development highlights include a mix of projects around the planned West Lake Street Station in Minneapolis, over 1 million square feet of office space around the City West Station in Eden Prairie and a new proposed 332-unit residential housing near Opus Station.

Blue Line Extension: Nearly half a billion dollars’ worth of development

Development along the Blue Line Extension, which will begin construction in 2018 and open in 2021, has grown from $358 million reported in spring 2016 to $489 million. Commercial, industrial and hotel development is occurring north of Interstates 94/694 to Highway 610 at the line’s northernmost point.

The Blue Line Extension Project will connect downtown Minneapolis to the northwest suburbs. It requires a $149 million local funding commitment


Four local students headed overseas in student exchange

When Ines Schumacher left her native Switzerland in August, she hoped to experience American culture and improve her English.

Since arriving, she’s been to football games, watched yellow school buses in action and taken a trip to Branson. And her spoken English is expanding every day.

“I want to experience real life here,” Schumacher said. “I hope not to be treated as an exchange student, but as someone from here.” That is the same experience four local high school seniors are anticipating when they leave in August 2011 for a year abroad.

The Rotary International Youth Exchange District 6080 selected the following students to live in these countries next school year: Matt Roudebush, northern Italy; Cody Distler, Ecuador; Katie Sauer, Brazil; and Emily McElwine,First Report of Pectobacterium carotovorum Causing Soft Rot of Opium Poppy in Spain.
Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) is an economically important pharmaceutical crop in Spain. Approximately 8,000 ha are cultivated annually in southern and central Spain. To improve yields, opium poppy cultivation is expanding to more humid or irrigated areas of Spain. In the springs of 2005 and 2007, we observed poppy plants with wilt and stem rot symptoms in irrigated, commercial opium poppy (cv. Nigrum) at Carmona and Écija, which are in Seville Province in southern Spain. Closer observations of affected plants revealed darkening and water soaking of the leaves and stem at the soil level, wilting of the lower leaves or the entire plant, and dark brown discoloration of stem vascular tissues and pith of the


The Call of God focuses on political theories and candidates, and relevant issues in Christianity.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Changes in Halloween

So far in part 1 and part 2 of the Halloween series, we have seen how the holiday has changed from Celtic tradition to Catholic celebration. However, what is the correlation between the Hallow Tide season and today's Halloween? That connection comes from centuries of variations throughout many regions of Europe.

Under the control of the Catholic church, many cultural elements from one region of Europe transferred to other regions. In addition, few pagan practices were completely replaced by the Church and many were simply integrated with "Christian" practices. Such was the case with Halloween. European adherents continued to practice superstitions from their own traditions while venerating the souls ofthe saints and those who had gone before them.

Many legends became popular in this time period. One was of a man named Jack. Jack was an angry drunkard but a tricky drunkard. One day he tricked the Devil into going up a tree to eat an apple, then quickly carved a cross in the tree trunk so he couldn't get down. He made the Devil promise never to come after him, which the Devil agreed to. However, when Jack died both heaven and hell refused him. Thus, like the spirits of Samhain, he wanders the earth carrying a coal from hell in a carved open turnip, and he is known as Jack of the Lantern (Jack-o'-Lantern).

On All Souls Day, many Europeans also developed the tradition of going to


half mix of your favorite BBQ sauce and cherry preserves. Mix it up good in a blender to chop the cherry pieces up real good. (These are even better if you use his XXX Cherry Rub mixed with your favorite rib rub.)

Rib finishing on the Egg. If you notice a blue tint to the picture, it's because the picture was taken underneath a blue tent. The reason for the blue tent. And the blue tint.This rib was the runt leftover from a batch I bought a few weeks ago. We cut it in half, vacuum sealed and and froze it to BBQ at a later time. Turns out, he was the best of the batch.These turned out perfectly cooked. They pulled cleanly away from the bone with eachin town. She had felt very grateful to Miss Purnell when she had first heard of the rejections, and inclined to like the girl. It was only after her first relief that perversely she had started to resent the woman who had refused both her brothers, when they had nobly been prepared to sacrifice their own happiness in order to protect her name.

Madeline was still part of the same group, though standing beside Sir Derek Peignton and in semiprivate conversation with him, when Maisie Baines joined them.

"Good evening, Lady Madeline, Lady Pamela," she said. She fluttered her fan at the three gentlemen. "You really would not think she would have the nerve, would you?"

Mr. Sheldon looked across the room, over Madeline's shoulder, and raised his quizzing glass to


is just that I am your younger son and you see me as a boy still. And you have insisted on protecting me from any experience that will make me more of a man."

"The army," she said wearily.

"I was made to be a soldier, Mama," he said. "Can you not see that? I can find nothing else in my life to make it a joy to live. I need action and responsibility. I would find the latter at least if I were to acquire a wife. Miss Purnell is my responsibility, and I shall tell Edmund so."

"She is not a commodity to be wrangled over," his mother said with gentle firmness, folding her needlepoint and putting it to one side. "She is a person, dear, and undoubtedly aadd their greetings to his.

THE RAIN STOPPED DURING the early evening, the clouds dispersed, and a weak sun appeared over the western hills. The grass was wet, but Lord Amberley suggested a stroll in the formal gardens with his betrothed after dinner.

"The walks there are gravel," he explained, "and will not soak the hem of your gown."

Lady Amberley, who had looked cheered at the suggestion of fresh air and a little exercise, was obliged to remain indoors when Lady Beckworth pleaded fatigue from the journey. Sir Cedric Harvey remained with them. Lord Eden too hung back when he realized that his presence would make an odd number. He won a drowning look from his sister, who had already committed herself to the walk and who would be expected


what it was worth and return its like. She would not be forced into anger this afternoon or be subjected to insults.

She would be a great deal happier. And so, he thought as he let himself into the billiard room and found the older man already there and waiting for him, would he.

**_L_** ORD AMBERLEY WAS LYING ON THE STRAW mattress in the stone hut, his hands clasped behind his head. The door was propped open. The afternoon sun slanted through it, its rays almost touching him.

His mind had calmed. It had been one of those freak accidents that are so upsetting because they seem so utterly meaningless. He himself was in no way to blame. The equipment had been quite sound. Spiller had assured him that itouting," he said seriously. "I really would not wish to think of you outdoors alone at such an hour."

"I might just come knocking at your door one night," she said with equal seriousness. "Though what the servants would have to say belowstairs if we were seen would create a sensation to last for the next ten years."

Lord Amberley walked with Mrs. Courtney, shortening his stride for her convenience and listening amiably to a detailed account of every plant that was flourishing in her vegetable garden and every one that was not, and assuring her at regular intervals that, no, she was not boring him in the least. And surprisingly, he thought, glancing around him in some contentment, she was not.

Susan walked with Lieutenant Jennings, blushing and lowering her


Libertyville High School orchestra headed to Cuba

Cubans make their way through an avenue in Havana. Associated Press, 2008

Seizing an opportunity that's impossible for most Americans, members of Libertyville High School's orchestra will perform in Cuba during spring break.

It's the orchestra's first trip to the island nation, which is off-limits to Americans under most circumstances because of an economic embargo in place since the Kennedy administration.

"I'm incredibly excited and intrigued by the idea of a country we aren't allowed to enter," violinist Alex Kratcoski, a 16-year-old sophomore, said in an email.

Twenty-eight teens, 14 parent chaperones and orchestra director Jeremy Marino will make the trip. They're set to arrive this afternoon and will be in Cuba until Sunday, March 31.

American travel to Cuba has been restricted since 1960, after theopportunities for musical exchanges with young people from Cuba."

Planning began in December 2011. Once the school board approved the trip and an itinerary was set, a travel agent sought approval from the U.S. Treasury Department for the students to go as an educational exchange group, Marino said. Visas from the Cuban government eventually followed.

The orchestra and their escorts will jet from Chicago to Tampa, Fla., for a layover. From there, they'll fly to Havana on a carrier that is allowed to travel to Cuba, Marino said.

The group will visit cities including Havana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus and Santa Clara.

Performances with Cuban students are on the schedule. Like the violinists who inspired the trip, the students plan to donate musical instruments, sheet music and equipment.

The orchestra will perform a


in the works, too.

The students also will visit the mausoleum for Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a chief figure of the Cuban revolution who was killed during a 1967 uprising in Bolivia.

Some parents were against the trip when Marino first proposed it because of the nation's political stance, violinist Megan Harder said.

Harder said her own folks didn't take much convincing.

"They're pretty open-minded," the 17-year-old junior said.

Marino isn't concerned about possible criticism stemming from the visits to those sites.

"They are historical sites, not ideological sites," he said.

"I have tried my best over the past two months to educate the kids about the various facets of Cuba and its history," Marino continued. "Most importantly, I have tried to explain that whatever conflicts exist between our governments, the people are verysimilar to us in that they are mainly just trying to get by in life."

Libertyville High's orchestra program is no stranger to international travel. It toured Peru in 2011, Greece in 2009, Brazil in 2007, Italy in 2005, central Europe in 2003 and China in 2001.

The students know the Cuban trip is special.

"This probably won't ever happen again," Sweeney said.


A jailed Virginia lawmaker who resigned amid a sex scandal with his 17-year-old secretary has won his seat back in a special election.

Joseph Morrissey, 57, was serving as a Democrat when he was accused of having sex with the teen employee. He resigned and is serving six months in jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Still, Morrissey ran as an independent in Tuesday’s special election to regain his seat.

A nude photo of Morrissey’s secretary was found on his phone. Both Morrissey and the young woman, Myrna Pride, deny that they had sex. Pride is now pregnant and will not reveal the identity of her child’s father, according to the Associated Press.

Lawmakers are researching how to permanently expel Morrissey from his seat.

Read more from the AssociatedCHARGERS: Finally healthy, English looks forward to season

SAN DIEGO ---- Chargers linebacker Larry English was supposed to be the heir apparent to Shawne Merriman.

But injuries have made it difficult for English to make much of an impact since being selected in the first round of the 2009 draft.

The problem with English is not his sack dance. It's that he hasn't had a chance to use it. Foot injuries have hindered his routine, with one unsuccessful procedure after another. After appearing in 16 games as a rookie, he played in just eight in 2010 and five last season.

English has lived in a blissful routine this preseason. It has been practice, practice, game, practice. There's no break for exhaustion or injury, a true blessing considering the injuries he has had.

"I


go away. English needs to get to the quarterback on a regular basis. The weight is clearly off his shoulders, leaving him poised for the first legitimate season of his career.

After three seasons, English is finally ready to show what he can do.

"I'm definitely having fun, and I'm excited for what this season has in store," English said. "I want to produce. I can produce big numbers. I'm excited that I'm healthy enough to be given a chance."

The last regular-season game English played in came against the Miami Dolphins in September 2011, when he had two sacks. That was almost a year ago, but English doesn't want to use it as a benchmark. He believes he's way better now.

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separate vehicles to a burglary call that came in a little after noon, according to sheriff's homicide Capt. Steven Katz. The deputy heard gunfire come from the rear of the home, and ran around back to find Owen shot.

The shooter fled and the deputy ran after him to the front of the home, where the deputy fired at the suspect. The gunman jumped into Owen's patrol vehicle, put it into reverse and rammed the deputy's vehicle, Katz said. The deputy fired again.

The suspected shooter then got away on foot and went into another home, where two teens were home alone. They were able to contact law enforcement and say that the man was inside their house, Katz said.

The sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau responded, sending a special weapons teaminto the home. Authorities believed the teens' lives were in danger, a bureau Capt. Jack Ewell said.

The suspected shooter exited the back of the home while the team got the teens out of the house. The suspect was then taken into custody by Lancaster Station deputies.

Aerial video from Sky5 showed a man lying down in the home's backyard next to the pool, then coming around the side of the house, apparently on deputies' commands, and being handcuffed next to the home's garage.

Owen, meanwhile, was taken to Antelope Valley Hospital. It's not yet known if he returned fire, Katz said.

Owen's wife, a sheriff's arson/explosives detective, was able to get the hospital before he died, Tyler said. His adult children, as well as his mother, were also able to get


to the hospital.

"This has been a very dark day for the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department,” Katz said. "It doesn’t get worse than this, folks."

Owen had been a sergeant with the Lancaster Station for five years, Tyler said. He has been with the department for 29 years.

"Steve was very important to the Antelope Valley community. He'd worked here a long time as a deputy before he was promoted five years ago," Tyler said. "He's extremely popular with everyone up here because he goes above and beyond."

Owen was given a Valor Award by then-Sheriff John Scott in 2014, according to a department news release.

He is survived by his wife Tania, adult sons Brandon and Chad, stepdaughter Shannon and mother Millie, according to a statement from Sheriff Jim McDonnell.

"The tragedy ofa deputy sheriff such as Sergeant Steve Owen making the ultimate sacrifice has a massive impact on the whole law enforcement family. We all mourn together and our hearts go out especially to Steve's immediate family," McDonnell said.

On Wednesday, the sergeant was shot in the face, Lancaster's mayor told the Los Angeles Times, which reported the sergeant and a deputy were responding to a burglary call.

The suspect, who was hospitalized for a gunshot wound to the upper torso, is on "active parole" and is believed to be from the general Antelope Valley area, Katz said.

A weapon was recovered, the homicide captain said.

Authorities are not searching for anyone else in connection with the shooting, he said.

Students at Antelope Valley College took to Twitter to report hearing gunshots in the


RAMPUR: Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, senior Samajwadi Party leader and former minister Azam Khan has said that Lord Ram's soon-to-be-constructed statue should be taller than the 'Statue of Unity' which is dedicated to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

Azam Khan made these remarks in the backdrop of an announcement made by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath regarding construction of a 151-metre tall Lord Ram statue in Ayodhya.

The senior Samajwadi Party leader welcomed the idea with a pinch of salt.

''Lord Ram`s statue, which is likely to be built near the Sarayu river in the temple town, should be constructed taller than the recently-inaugurated 182-meter Sardar Vallabhai Patel`s statue,'' Khan said.

"Why did this thought not occur at the time of buildingthe statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel? Why would anybody oppose (the building of Lord Ram`s statue)? I would want an even taller statue of Lord Ram in Rampur," Khan added.

According to UP government sources, a formal announcement in this regard is likely to be made during the Deepawali festivities next week when CM Adityanath will be in Ayodhya.

Reportedly, saints in Ayodhya have been pressing for construction of a statue of Lord Ram similar to that of Statue of Unity.

Located near the banks of Narmada river in Gujarat, the 182-metre tall Statue of Unity occupies over 20,000 square metres and is surrounded by a 12-square km artificial lake.

The Statue was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the 143rd birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - the first Home


that she was raped and the court can sentence her to death for adultery, that is what happened to Suraya Menuchari who was stoned to death in Iran on false charges of adultery.

Under Shari'a laws in the Arab world, almost 90% of women underwent FGM. The practice of FGM is banned in most Western countries but some Muslim immigrants are ignoring the law and practicing FGM even in the UK and US.

Under Sharia law girls can marry at the age of 6, just like the Prophet Muhammad from the Koran did when he married Aisha. In Muslim countries like Yemen and Iran, girls are considered "adult" and being sold into forced marriages with grown men by their families. There are even some cases of child marriages in Australiaand Britain when immigrants brought this tradition into the West. According to the Sharia laws An honor killing is the homicide of a member of a family, due to the perpetrators' belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family. Shari'a honor killing is very common in the Muslim world, but it also happens in the West, in countries such as Britain, the United States and even the Netherlands. According to the British media there are 12 honour killings in the UK each year.

Human rights organizations in the Western world are turning a blind eye to the brutal violation of human rights in the Muslim world under Sharia law. Sharia law should be banned in the Western world. Share this post if you think Sharia


law in Saudi Arabia and Iran Muslims are executed if they are accused of blasphemy. In Pakistan, the situation is even worse, radical Muslims use the blasphemy law to persecute the Christian minority. Is this the law the liberals in the West want to adopt? If you think Sharia blasphemy law has no place in the West, share this post!

Sharia law is the law of Islam. The Sharia (also spelled Shariah or Shari'a) law is cast from the actions and words of Muhammad, which are called "Sunnah," and the Quran, which he dictated. Sharia law itself cannot be altered but the interpretation of Sharia law, called "figh," by imams is given some latitude.

Shariah lawAs a legal system, Sharia law is exceptionally broad. While other legal codes regulate publicor regionally in:

* In the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other European countries that resist Sharia law, it has proven adept at infiltrating elements of the society that are left vulnerable (see Sharia law in America and Islamization of America).

** Percent of Muslims who favor making Sharia the official law in their country (source: Pew Forum Research). In many countries where an official secular legal system exists alongside Sharia, majority of their Muslim citizens favor making Sharia the official law. For example, while Egypt's military blocked the Muslim Brotherhood's efforts in this direction in 2013, 74% of Egypt's Muslims still favor it. Even in Jordan, Indonesia and Malaysia - Muslim countries with progressive images - the relatively secular ruling elite sit atop Muslim masses, 71%, 72% and


86% respectively of whom want their countries to be ruled by Sharia. And in Iraq, where the United States has been propping up democracy since 2003, 91% of its Muslims want to live under Sharia.

The number of countries penetrated by Sharia law continues to grow, as does the depth of its penetration in the countries already affected. This penetration is not by happenstance; it is managed to occur in five phases: see Spread of Islam and how to Stop Islam.

Continued: Sharia law in America and Saudi Arabia, and "Religion of Peace?"Friedrich August von Ammon (1799-1861).
As this year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich August von Ammon (1799-1861), it presents an opportunity to recall and celebrate Ammon's life and his many contributions that helped shape both ophthalmology and plastic surgery into independent specialties. Some 250 years after Georg Bartisch, Ammon reestablished Dresden as a major center of ophthalmology, through the creation of a teaching institute, the publication of influential periodicals, and his personal publication of important monographs and journal articles. Ammon's Zeitschrift für die Ophthalmologie (founded 1830) was only the third journal in history that had been entirely devoted to ophthalmology. His prize-winning treatise, De Iritide (1835), correctly categorized iritis and gave a detailed description of sympathetic ophthalmia. His beautiful color-plate atlas, Klinische Darstellungen (1838-1841), contains


landmark descriptions of congenital eye anomalies and has been described by Norman as 'the best summary of the knowledge of diseases of the eye prior to the introduction of the ophthalmoscope.' Ammon made most of his literary contributions in ophthalmology but he also contributed to another emerging field, plastic surgery. His monograph, Die plastische Chirurgie (1842), critically and comprehensively surveyed the entire history and current practice of plastic surgery, one of the very first textbooks to achieve this goal. In his last monograph (1858) Ammon returned to the subject of embryology of the human eye and drew upon his 30 years of study. Before his death, two of his last papers reported ophthalmoscopic observations, demonstrating his exploration of the frontiers of ophthalmology that characterized his entire career.Congratulations America – We did it!

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A Masterpiece of Land Art: Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson

Today, Artsper analyses with you one of the most emblematic works of Land Art, a movement that appeared at the end of the ‘60s in the United States and draws its inspiration from natural elements.

The concept of Land Art intends to be the ultimate extension of the artistic practice outside conventional spaces (galleries, museums, institutions). The interventions are often punctual, but they sometimes last in time, up to permanently modifying the site where they are built. They are a (distant) echo of the teachings of the Black Mountain College from the 1950s, that wanted a world freed of the constraints of social space.

Smithson’s first works were already in relationship with nature, as is his 1970


project, Spiral Jetty, a 457-meter long counterclockwise coil made of basalt rocks jutting from the shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Depending on periods of draught, the sculpture is sometimes submerged and sometimes above water level, and it can be seen as an allegory of the Creation, a universal symbol linked to the worship of the Sun and to infinity. It offers the experience of a constant shift of its center, as the work is in perpetual motion.

Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake of Utah, 1970

Depending on the water level of the Great Salt Lake, an unusable site, Spiral Jetty offers the viewer multiple faces, reminding of its creator, who died tragically three years after the inauguration of his work. Spiral Jetty was financed at the timeby the Virginia Dawn Gallery from New York. The spiral emerges, according to every year’s conditions, as a reminder of the power shared by Man and Nature.

In the 70s, before his death, Robert Smithson wrote and produced a 32-minute film about the creation of the spiral, a work of art in itself, in which the artist explains his approach.


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A 21-year-old male was admitted to our hospital complaining of chest pain. He had undergone operations on multiple exostoses of his lower extremities when he was thirteen and fifteen years old. Family history revealed multiple exostoses in his mother and one of his cousins. Chest roentgenograms showed right pneumothorax and a mass arising from the seventh rib in the right lower lung filed. Chest CT revealed that the mass was located in thorax but outside the lung. These findings suggested that the pneumothorax was secondary to the injury of the right lung caused by an exostosis arising from the rib. Upon operation, we found a laceration of the lower lobe and a hard mass the size of a peaon customers to turn the state's 911 infrastructure system digital in coming years.He'll spend "tens of millions" to aid Lake and Butte counties with lost property tax revenue.Newsom is keeping former Gov. Jerry Brown's emergency operations leaders. He appointed Thom Porter the state's new fire chief.The new governor avoided confronting the thorny issue of how much responsibility utilities should hold when their equipment starts wildfires. Utilities want lawmakers to change the state's liability standards, some of the strictest in the nation.


Pilot granted political asylum by Jordan after landing his MiG fighter jet at a military air base in the kingdom.

A Syrian pilot has been granted political asylum after landing his MiG fighter jet in neighbouring Jordan, in the first such defection during a revolt that activists say has left more than 15,000 people dead.

“The council of ministers has decided to grant the pilot, Colonel Hassan Merei al-Hamade, political asylum,” Jordanian Information Minister Samih Maaytah told the AFP news agency after a government official said the Russian MiG-21 had made an emergency landing at a base in Mafraq near the border.

Syria’s state television said the warplane was flying near the border on Wednesday when contact was lost at 07:34 GMT, with Jordan saying it had crossed the frontier minutesPosted on: January 26, 2015

On January 11, Lonnie Dupre became the first person to solo Denali (20,320') during this cold, dark month. [Photo] Richard Moore

On Sunday, January 11, the polar adventurer Lonnie Dupre, of Grand Marais, Minnesota, stood atop Denali (20,320'), having become the first person to make a January solo ascent of the mountain. His one-man expedition, which began December 18 when he was dropped off at Kahiltna Basecamp with thirty-four days of supplies, marked the fourth year he'd attempted to solo the mountain in winter. In 2011 Dupre reached 17,200 feet only to be trapped for a week by a ferocious storm; in 2012 he reached 15,400 feet; and in 2013 he reached 17,200 feet again only to have to turn around a final time. Dupre


had summited the peak in 2010 with three partners over thirteen days, and he had spent sixty days total on the flanks of Denali during his previous winter attempts; his 2015 climb brought his total number of winter days on Denali to ninety.

Self portrait, at 16,900 feet, taken during a previous attempt to solo the mountain in 2013. [Photo] Lonnie Dupre

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Dupre's choice of ascent in 2015 was the West Buttress, the trade route up the mountain. Only one other party has topped out Denali in January, the Russians Artur Testov and Vladimir Ananich, on January 16, 1998, also via the West Buttress. (The third member of their team, Alexander Nikiforov, waited for them in a snow cave at 14,200 feet.) A mere sixteen people—members of nine expeditions—have summitedDevices have already been proposed for enabling motor vehicles to run on a flat tire, which devices are constituted by an elastomer ring mounted on the rim of a wheel inside the pneumatic tire fitted to the wheel, the elastomer ring having an annular base clamped onto the rim and holding the beads of the tire pressed against the margins of the rim, and a radially-projecting annular portion extending towards the tread of the tire and serving, in the event of a severe loss of pressure in the tire, as an abutment for pressing against the zone of the tread of the tire which is in contact with the ground, and preventing the walls and the tread of the tire being crushed or damaged by the margins of


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A spate of acid attacks has left some Muslim residents of east London afraid to leave their homes.

Fears have been heightened after 21-year-old aspiring model Resham Khan and her cousin Jameel Muhktar, 37, suffered horrific injuries when an attacker squirted acid through their car window in Newham, east London, on 21 June.

Police initially said they had no evidence the attack was racially or religiously motivated.

They reclassified it as a hate crime, however, after Mr Muhktar insisted Islamophobia was involved, and after posts expressing sympathy for the far-right were allegedly found on the Facebook page of John Tomlin, 24, who is being sought for questioning in relation to the incident.

Resham Khan in hospital following an acid attack on 21 June (Gofundme)

As news of the attack spread, social media usersbegan to report other acid attacks, with some speculating that Muslims or people of Asian appearance were being targeted.

The incidents included a man of Asian origin having a noxious substance squirted at him while driving in Commercial Road, Tower Hamlets, on Thursday, with the attackers stealing his car as soon as he got out to seek help.

There were also social media reports of two attacks in East Ham on Friday – one involving a woman being partially burned on her doorstep by someone pretending to be a delivery man, and the other of a woman being targeted by moped-driving acid attackers in the Plashet Grove area.

Fears about what was happening led to east London residents calling an emergency meeting on Sunday evening that was attended by Tower Hamlets


and Mr Muhktar.

Many of the other incidents seem to bear the hallmarks of particularly vicious robberies, rather than hate crimes.

In one incident, in Limehouse, east London, the victim was white, and the social media user who tweeted a video of him being hosed down with water by paramedics confirmed it had been a “mugging”.

It was not immediately clear whether all the incidents detailed on social media have been reported to police, but Scotland Yard told The Independent that the attack on the man who had his car stolen on Commercial Road was being treated as a robbery.

A spokesman added that it was not being linked to the attack on Ms Khan and Mr Muhktar, which took place in the neighbouring borough of Newham.

In another attack cited on socialthe woman driver near Plashet Grove in East Ham.

This was described as an attack by “four men on mopeds”. The intended victim escaped unharmed because her car doors were locked and her windows were up.

The incidents in Newham and Tower Hamlets also come after the two boroughs were said to be among the areas of London where acid attacks are most common.

In March, a Freedom of Information request to the Metropolitan Police suggested Newham was the London borough with the most recorded acid attacks, with 398 incidents between 2011 and 2016.

Tower Hamlets had the third highest number of acid attacks, with 84 incidents recorded between 2011 and 2016.

The figures also showed a sharp rise in acid attacks across London as a whole, with 431 incidents in the capital


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Cables of the fiber optic network, such as stub cables and drop cables, may extend over relatively long distances, and typically are supported at various locations along these distancesCase Keenum may or may not be back with the Minnesota Vikings this season with free agency just around the corner, but he already has the eye of new offensive coordinator John DeFilippo.

DeFilippo joined host Paul Allen on KFAN in Minneapolis on Friday morning and was asked about his thoughts on the Vikings signal-caller coming off of a career season where he is now set to earn a huge pay raise.

"Case did some really nice things last year. He extended plays, he didn't turn the ball over. I know the guys rally around him," he said. "He has some of that 'it' factor that players want to play hard for."

Keenum was far from flawless in 2017 and in the NFC Championship blowout at the hands of the Philadelphia


VIDEO: Robert Pattinson talks about his southern, American accent in The Rover and MORE

Robert Pattinson has been in Sydney, Australia promoting Breaking Dawn Part 2 and he mentioned The Rover when he sat down with the Kyle and Jackie O show. Here are the highlights:

Rob said most people have Australian accents in the film but his character (Rey) has a southern, American accent. (Now the accent on the leaked audition footage makes sense…)

“About an economic collapse and everyone is moving back to Australia to mine. The beginning of new towns and I’m part of a criminal gang on the outskirts.”

He’ll be in Australia for awhile, shoots in the Outback and he’s excited about possibly living in a tent. He might have been joking about the tent… LOL

Click HEREof local and state health departments across the nation. According to national surveys conducted by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), the epidemiology capacity among state health departments declined by 12% from 2004 to 2009, especially in program areas such as bioterrorism and emergency response \[[@B4]\]. State health departments in the United States needed an additional 1,490 epidemiologists in 2009. Other research studies have found that, from 2001 to 2007, state health departments had increasing levels of responsibility, such as providing additional preventative services and oversight of hospitals and other institutions. These studies also found that all emerging practice areas, such as bioterrorism preparedness, injury control and prevention, tobacco control and prevention, and environmental epidemiology had expanded \[[@B5]\]. Despite the decline in epidemiology capacity, public health


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The Association of Bay Area Health Officials (ABAHO) is a group of health officers and health directors from thirteen city and county health departments in the San Francisco Bay Area that meets on a regular basis to discuss important public health issues \[[@B17]\]. In November 2006, ABAHO convened a Pandemic Influenza Planning Work Group to increase collaboration for regional pandemic influenza planning. This group consisted of representatives from twelve cities and counties in the San Francisco Bay Area: Alameda, City of Berkeley, Contra Costa, Marin,questions included in the key informant interview guides and the descriptive coding of the first four transcripts reviewed (two epidemiologist and two health officer transcripts). Descriptive coding for the development of the preliminary codebook was conducted by two research team members (AC, JF). The coding between the two research team members was compared for consistency followed by group discussions with the full research team (AC, JF, WT, and WTAE). Coding of additional transcripts was conducted by one individual (AC), and new codes were developed throughout the coding process, as they emerged from the data. After all of the transcripts were reviewed, a complete codebook of descriptive codes and family codes was completed and finalized. Codes were grouped independently into families and sub-families. Independent groups were compared and all


rapid test, which is a terrible test for H1N1. \[There was a\] real resistance to using nasopharyngeal swabs \[among providers\]."

Despite the challenges faced by many public health laboratories during the pandemic, regional support, in the form of shared public health laboratories, testing provided by neighboring health jurisdictions, and support from CDPH's VRDL helped to alleviate some of the pressure faced by LHDs in the Bay Area.

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Laboratory testing was not the only area in which LHDs collaborated on a regional level during the pandemic. The members of ABAHO convened regular conference calls to discuss each LHD's efforts to control novel H1N1. Topics of discussion included school closures, the use of antivirals and personal protective equipment, vaccine priority groups, and vaccineThe Korea Herald reports that a young man of European heritage from Brazil has had plastic surgery so that he might look Korean. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He goes by the obliquely Asian internet-name of Xiahn.

Cosmetic procedures, such as silicone implants, lip surgery or other augmentations, are nothing unusual in Brazil. But the 25-year-old man went a step further to transform himself into Asian-looking man by making alterations to his eyes. Xiahn, who asked not to be named to protect his family from Internet scrutiny, underwent 10 surgical procedures on his eyes, along with other less-invasive procedures, which cost him around $3,100. He also began wearing contact lenses to change his eye color. Originally blue-eyed with blonde hair, he became interested in having plastic surgery after spending some time as an exchange


BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Former CFL star Lawrence Phillips has been charged with murder in the death of his cellmate at a Central California prison.

Phillips is suspected of killing 37-year-old Damion Soward at Kern Valley State Prison in April. Officials determined Soward was strangled. Soward is the cousin of former USC and Toronto Argonauts receiver R. Jay Soward.

The Kern County district attorney’s office says Phillips, 40, faces a first-degree murder charge.

Phillips was once one of U.S. college football’s top players at Nebraska. He played for the St. Louis Rams, Miami Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers during a three-year NFL career.

Phillips ran for 1,022 yards and 13 TDs with Montreal in 2002, helping the Alouettes win the Grey Cup that year. He was released during training camp in ’03 forat multiple positions, the NBA slots him at the position with the higher vote total.

1. How badly will injuries screw up this year’s ballots?

Pretty badly. Four of last year’s 15 All-NBA recipients—Kawhi Leonard, Isaiah Thomas, John Wall and Rudy Gobert—have missed 25+ games this season. Of those four, only Gobert has any shot at returning to the list in 2018.

But those serious cases are only the beginning. Stephen Curry, a strong First Team candidate, has missed 17 games and counting due to various ankle injuries. Chris Paul, a possible First Team candidate if fully healthy, has missed 18 games total, including 14 of Houston’s first 15 with a knee injury. Jimmy Butler, a First or Second Team candidate, could easily wind up missing 20+ games following a recent


led to a tilted playing field. Only on the 2016 All-NBA ballot, for example, could DeAndre Jordan be held up as one of the league’s top five players while the likes of Kevin Durant and Chris Paul, Jordan’s more deserving Clippers teammate at the time, be bumped to the Second Team.

This year’s biggest First Team glut is at the forward spot, where LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Durant are all worthy First Team selections. While a healthy Leonard would have made this an even more crowded mix, Cousins’s injury helps ease the log jam. Davis has played nearly half of his minutes this season as the Pelicans' center, per NBAwowy.com, and voters plugged him in as the All-NBA First Team center last year.

In 2018, voters willawards. Two titles. Curry has won two MVPs. Draymond Green has won Defensive Player of the Year. Durant has won Finals MVP, as has Andre Iguodala. Kerr himself has won Coach of the Year. And Curry, Durant, Green and Thompson were All-Stars this year and last.

But this year’s Warriors are slightly off their record-setting pace of seasons past. Houston sits atop the West standings, and all four of Golden State’s All-Stars have missed some time this year with minor injuries. In 2016, before Durant arrived, Curry made the First Team, Green made the Second Team, and Thompson made the Third team. In 2017, Durant and Curry were Second Team selections, Green was a Third Team selection, and Thompson was snubbed.

Three could be the magic number again this year.


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UPDATE

As the death toll from the new coronavirus reached at least 31 in Washington state, Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday ordered that all public and private K-12 schools in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties be closed for six weeks. The schools must close by March 17, Inslee said, and remain shuttered through April 24. Several school districts already announced they will close due to the outbreak. Seattle Public Schools with 53,000 students, closed beginning Thursday.

Here are other closures announced outside of the governor's required closures:

North Thurston Public Schools: All North Thurston Public Schools will close until April 24.

Olympia School District: Pioneer Elementary School will be closed Friday, March 13. All OSD schools will be closed beginning Monday, March 16. They will remain closed until further notice.

Muckleshoot Tribal School:with partners and the city to determine how to best mitigate the impact closing schools will have on working families."

Lake Washington School District - The Lake Washington School District, the state's second-largest school district, is closing all schools from March 12-March 27.

"We know that many people rely on our school district for their ability to continue providing services to our community through their employers," the school district said. "We play an important role in the ability of many organizations to continue running for the health and safety of our community. This is not an easy decision, and our plans moving forward require additional planning and preparation."

Snohomish School District - All schools closed through April 24 beginning on Friday, March 13, the district said.

Monroe School District - Superintendent Dr.


and maintenance/operations staff."

Bainbridge Island School District - Closed Thursday, March 12 and Friday, March 13.

Everett Public Schools - Closed for at least 14 days starting Monday, March 16.

Bellevue School District - Closed beginning Friday, March 13. The closure is expected to extend through March 27, the district said.

Northshore School District - Closed for 14 days starting March 5. School sites closed, but online learning is in place.

Stanwood Camano School District - The Stanwood Camano School District said it would close all schools beginning Wednesday, March 11 through the rest of the week.

Sultan School District - The Sultan School District will be closed to students beginning Friday, March 13 and extending through Friday, April 10 due to COVID-19 concerns. No out of district transportation.

Colleges and Universities

University of Washington -Kodak's One Magazine Earns Gold Award from the League of American Communications Professionals

Friday, April 13, 2007

Press release from the issuing company

ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 12 -- Kodak’s new customer publication, One magazine, recently earned top honors from the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) in its 2006 Inspire Awards competition. Kodak won the Gold Award for excellence in development of One magazine and also ranked at 16 out of the 429 entries, honoring Kodak in the Top 50 Publications of 2006 category.
“One magazine is one of the many ways Kodak provides customers with tools, resources, and knowledge to help them expand their businesses and increase revenues,” said Jim Langley, President, Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group, and Senior Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. “We’re proud the professional communicators have recognized our


President Donald Trump met with Gov. Jerry Brown (D) and Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday to visit the Camp Fire that's still raging in Paradise, California.

Trump flew into Beale Air Force Base, about 36 miles south of the devastating fire, USA Today reported. Both Brown and Newsom joined Trump on Marine One to travel to the hardest hit areas. The first stop was in Chico, about 10 miles west of the fire, where firefighters set up their command post.

Paradise native Jamieson Greer, chief of staff to the U.S. Trade Representative, also joined the men on the trip. Greer's family still lives in the area and lost everything in the fire.

“Everyone has felt a sense of helplessness. All they could do is watch with a sense of horror,”nesting pair, a pill may be placed between an upper and lower cup and crushed between the two abraded surfaces on the interior and exterior of the cup bottoms. Although prior art single use medicine dispensing cups are typically thin walled and flexible, the present invention contemplates a more substantial construction for the cup so as to withstand the force required to crush the pill as the cups are pushed together against the pill and twisted. Additionally, if desired, the cup may have a wider lip to provide a finger grip for the hands as the cups are twisted together.
The abraded surfaces on the interior and exterior surface of each cup bottom are formed from a plurality of pyramidal shaped protrusions with the protrusions having a flatter angle


originally modelled."

Wilson Asset Management also holds just under 5 per cent of RHG .

Lenders – those still writing mortgages – are grappling with the slowest annual credit growth since records began in 1976.

RHG has cautioned of “substantially lower" profits as the loan book continued to reduce in size. “The nature of our mortgage book is an amortising asset," Mr Goddard told investors at the company’s annual general meeting in November.The company adopted the name RHG after selling the RAMS brand name to Westpac Banking Corp in 2007, as smaller lenders reeled from the global financial crisis. RAMS, which listed just prior to an unravelling of financial markets, took a massive hit.

Businessman John Kinghorn founded RHG as RAMS in 1991. He made about $600 million on the 2007 floatFormula 2 driver Mick Schumacher says that he looks up to compatriot Sebastian Vettel in the same way Vettel did to Michael Schumacher.

As a talisman of Germany on the international stage throughout his career, Michael Schumacher made a huge impression on the young Sebastian Vettel with the current Ferrari man making no attempt to hide his admiration and respect for the seven time World Champion.

With Vettel’s own career taking off with Red Bull Racing and enjoying a run of titles when Michael returned to the sport with Mercedes, the pair grew close as contemporaries and rivals; they also teamed up together to race successfully as Team Germany in the annual Race of Champions tournament.

With Michael the man Sebastian is hoping to emulate, Schumacher Junior says that he looks


Library of Congress Puts Papers of Benjamin Franklin Online

The papers of American scientist, statesman and diplomat Benjamin Franklin have been digitized and are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress. The Library announced the digitization today in remembrance of the anniversary of Franklin’s death on April 17, 1790.

The Franklin papers consist of approximately 8,000 items mostly dating from the 1770s and 1780s. These include the petition that the First Continental Congress sent to Franklin, then a colonial diplomat in London, to deliver to King George III; letterbooks Franklin kept as he negotiated the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War; drafts of the treaty; notes documenting his scientific observations, and correspondence with fellow scientists.

“Benjamin Franklin made history and won respect around thea colonial diplomat in London.

Letters exchanged with his wife, Deborah Read Franklin, and his son, loyalist William Franklin, before their estrangement.

Franklin’s drawing of bifocal glasses, which he is credited with inventing.

Franklin’s letter explaining the effects of lightning on a church steeple.

The Franklin papers have been at the Library of Congress for more than 100 years but had a turbulent history. Many of Franklin’s early papers were scattered and damaged, though he accumulated many more. When he died in 1790, Franklin left his papers to his grandson, William Temple Franklin, who published some of them as the “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin” in 1817-1818. Some of the papers Temple Franklin published were later found cut up in a London tailor shop. The papers were eventually


returned to the U.S., purchased by the U.S. government and kept at the U.S. State Department until the early 20th century, when they were transferred to the Library of Congress.

Additional Franklin papers are held by the American Philosophical Society and the University of Pennsylvania, both of which Franklin founded in Philadelphia.

The digitization of the Franklin papers is part of a larger effort to make historical materials available online. Other newly digitized collections include the papers of U.S. Presidents James Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and James K. Polk, and the papers of Alexander Hamilton, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Image: This print shows Benjamin Franklin seated at a desk, looking to his right at an electrical device. In his left hand are papers uponthe restaurant. Walking home from the restaurant after shift, from the theater after a show. Grab her, stab her, and book it. But this was dramatic, right? And really risky. And it depended on everything falling into place."

"Which it seems to have done."

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"The killer enjoys


when I told Gracie upstairs about the apartment. It's a happier building now. That other girl, she carried a cloud with her. And sooner or later, clouds break into a storm."

Eve walked fast, talked fast.

"Officer Carmichael," she snapped into her comm. "I want you and Shelby to hit every building, every apartment, every shop, restaurant, take-out joint, and dive on this block. Peabody, send them and the detectives the photos of all her looks. Show all of them to every resident, shopkeeper, sidewalk sleeper, and street thief."

She got behind the wheel. "Plug this Dobb's place in," she told Peabody, then contacted Santiago. "Peabody's sending you pictures. Hit every building on DeLano's block, and every building in the shopping area where the kid spotted the suspect. Somebody's seen thisaccount rests with English reactions to Jean Daillé’s On the Right Use of the Fathers (1632; first English edition in 1651). Initially acclaimed, Daillé became a figurehead for what antagonistic conformists constructed as Calvinism’s impoverished patristic culture. With Daillé Quantin is able to move from patristics visible only in interstices of other controversies to works whose central concern lay with the kind of security, in terms of the kind of knowledge, available from patristics. Quantin allies the conduct of this discussion to perceptions of competing Roman Catholic and Calvinist patristic cultures. There can be no doubt of English enthusiasm for avoiding either Roman or doctrinaire Calvinist Christianity in their church by the later seventeenth century. Still the story Quantin tells places the immediacy of theological/confessional rivalry before other


goals typifying reform, such as purification in the church. The story provokes one to think about what could provide a foundation for a church formed around acute desire to avoid other positions.

It is impossible not to notice, as Quantin does, that much of the divinity in his account of the later seventeenth century left a very modest contemporary footprint. What Quantin ends up with is an English church located in the university; it was an institution whose consequence was only manifest among collections of learned men. He gives a convincing construction to how a church whose defensive disinclination to identify itself with its common parishioners bred up an inertial continuity in the eighteenth century without which Tractarian critiques would have had no bite.

The book delivers a synthetic narrativeof patristic ideologies in line with current trends in the history of patristic scholarship, such as emphases on scholarly internationalism and a post-confessional approach. There can be no doubt that the target of this careful work is a certain variety of Anglican confessional scholarship. Much of the book’s punch lies in the short shrift given to hardy perennials of that history, like Richard Hooker and the early identification of the Church of England with the Greek Church. Quantin disallows the history written by later Anglicans who were keen to provide the Church of England with a history that would in fact reconnect it with other churches.

Confessional histories continue to be written as expressions of faith and intellectual conviction, as well as because confessions fade and fail without them.


Perforce they are most interested how past fellows may yield aid or solace for current anxieties. Church of England historiography, however, has long labored with the difficulty that its confessional history has been perpetually intermingled with English and latterly British national historical narrative, especially where intellectual histories intersect with histories of nationalism. Of course early modern English history is only one case where historiographies of conversion on the one hand and dynastic history on the other flail about in ur-stories of nationalism. German history’s checkered record on this point has similarly produced an ample revisionist historiography. This pattern has made history of the Reformation in England too often either embodied in or distracted by confabulatory urges to reify another familiar concept, via media, prematurely in the history ofthe English church. Notably, other areas of English cum British history have, at least since the advent of the critique of Whiggism (noted by Quantin, p. 13), been obligated to provide a narrative ostentatiously separate from the needs of engraving national identity in the English. To the extent that religion has escaped this constriction, it has consigned Anglican identity to the level romantic heritage-ism now often left in possession of this field.

Quantin has written a demanding book well, and will continue to publish on these subjects. The book’s appearance now opens the field for works less tied to the problematic impositions of confessional needs on the intellectual history of religion. Perforce these will critique the synthetic narrative Quantin has assembled; nevertheless, they will owe much to his work.


a purification effort both with and without precedent. In an obvious sense, the duration of papal control of the church made the recovery of a true faith and order an act not so much of memory as scholarship. However, to construct churches that would maintain the renewed Christianity as well as be institutionally and politically viable, antiquity was also a source of models. The clarity (or lack thereof) with which it was politically useful to report and reconstruct early Christianity was also a key part of the process of forming the church. After all, there is also a story about institutional memory at play. It is helpful to recall that nineteenth-century reformers in the church treated Restoration churchmanship as normative precisely because it stood in their crepuscular memory.in the early 1520s, in terms of individual churches it may be useful to understand such debates as typical of a later phase of the intellectual formation in most religious institutions.

Next, the disposition of patristics in texts was never exclusively a competing form of authority contingent on ascribed clarity of scripture. Scriptural clarity varied by topic. In some areas, such as eschatology, fathers could offer little other than commentary. In others, such as Trinitarian theology and relations between church and state, it was difficult even for those who wished to construct a strict New Testament church and limit fathers to exegesis alone. Variant views of purity and corruption, expertise, and ignorance in the late antique field also have a role in shaping what English churchmen sought for their


Bibi Meets Hollywood, Touts Tourism Project

Peter Greenberg joins one of the most pivotal figures in the world—Binyamin Netanyahu—for Israel: The Royal Tour.

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu participated Tuesday night in the premier screening of an international tourism project that is expected to bring hundreds of thousands of tourists to Israel.

The screening took place at Hollywood's Paramount Studios, and was attended by some 500 people.

The program is a mammoth production by journalist-producer Peter Greenberg, who hosts international tourism shows on PBS. Filmed over the last two years, it features Netanyahu at tourist spots from Rosh Hanikra in the north, through Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, to Eilat at Israel's southern tip.

Greenberg has produced similar projects with the heads of state of Mexico,Jordan, Peru, New Zealand and others. Israel's Tourism Ministry estimates that after being seen by millions of viewers, the show will bring at least 200,000 people to Israel as touristys, generating revenues of hundreds of millions of shekels for the state.


Field Day is a national on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada by Amateur Radio Operators, otherwise known as HAMs. More than 35,000 radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups or friends to operate from remote locations. The event is part emergency drill, picnic, campout and contest.

The public is welcome to come see what amateur radio is all about and to go on the air and potentially to HAMs around the world.example:

In 2012, the United States experienced one of the most sobering tragedies in its history. At Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, an armed assailant viciously murdered twenty 6-7 year old children. Additionally, the serial murderer killed six teachers including the principal of the school.

One television personality, Ann Curry, decided to take the pain of this tragedy and direct its course. She decided to use her influence to encourage the nation to respond to this devastation with acts of generosity. Curry started a campaign on Twitter (#20Acts) that asks people to engage in one act of generosity for each murdered child. As a result, tens of thousands of people on Twitter and Facebook seized the idea and eventually increased it to #26Acts to include the deceased teachers,


a full time residence.

ALL units being built, and sold to the public suffer the same formaldehyde problems. Around 1990 the manufactures had to scramble because the economy was in a recession, and they needed to find a way to combat a new line called Dutchmen that was the cheapest unit on the market. Low and behold, solid wood was being replaced with vinyl wrapped particleboard, in the flooring, and cabinets. The vinyl flooring was being cut under the carpeting, exposing the particleboard to the living areas. The foam padding was taken out of the units. Smaller and fewer windows were used, less roof vents being put into the units. Meanwhile, the pricing on the units did not lower, and the manufactures profits increased.

Within 5 years of the DutchmenDoD will still have more workers than it can afford “and quite possibly more than it needs” when the new fiscal year begins in October, according to the letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and top members of the congressional armed services committees.

“It is past time for the Pentagon to rightsize this workforce and make permanent reductions in a thoughtful and targeted manner,” the letter said.

“The tradeoff point has now become acute,” said Gordon Adams, who oversaw national security issues at the Office of Management and Budget during much of the Clinton administration and is now at the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan think tank. Adams spoke at a forum in Washington marking the letter’s release.

In a Defense authorization bill approved in December, lawmakers ordered the Pentagon to cut


about 36,000 civilian jobs over the next five years. The letter does not propose a number for additional reductions, but another signer, Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said in April that a reduction-in-force of some 100,000 positions is needed.

The call for civilian job cuts quickly came under fire from the American Federation of Government Employees, the union representing many DoD workers. In a news release, AFGE said the think tanks’ recommendations “fail to meet the laugh test” because they would generally leave the contractor workforce untouched.

The cost of service contracts doubled to at least $195 billion between 2000 and 2010, the union said, citing research by the Government Accountability Office. Military personnel and civilian employees “should serve as the core workforce, not theoxen to be gored,” AFGE President J. David Cox said in the release.

The letter’s other almost two-dozen signers include retired Army Lt. Gen. David Barno of the Center for a New American Security; Dov Zakheim, who served as DoD comptroller in the George W. Bush administration and is now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Lawrence Korb, a senior Defense official under President Reagan now at the liberal Center for American Progress; and Mackenzie Eaglen, a former congressional staffer who currently works at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

The letter also urges lawmakers and the Pentagon to reform military pay and benefits and embark on a new round of base realignments and closures.


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