the Basis of Our Belief in a Divine Governance of the World," he argued that God has no existence apart from the morality of the world, which caused him to be accused of atheism. He responded to those accusations in The Vocation of Man, and gave a series of Addresses to the German Nation in 1808 before returning to the University of Jena. For 10 points, name this German idealist philosopher, a follower of Kant who developed a transcendental philosophical system called Wissenschaftslehre in Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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The narrator of this work is forced to memorize the 330 sermons of the preacher Mr. H, and admires his classmate G? for defending Grotius' adaptation of a legend about Muhammad's dove.Its first section ends with Lord Desert satisfying the conditions of Jewish moneylenders while the narrator desperately searches the streets of London for the child prostitute Ann. Later appended with the short essay "The Daughter of Lebanon," this work recounts a recurring dream of being chased by a hideous crocodile through Chinese houses in a section titled "the pains of" the title substance. Published in 1822, it describes the author's experiences with the title substance, which he takes as an anodyne for his terrible stomach pains. FTP, name this book by Thomas De Quincey about his addiction to the title drug.

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Confessions of an English Opium Eater

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Even opponents of this ruler praised his passing of the National Forest initiative. One action directed against him revolved


around the Extraordinary Parliament, which elevated his rival to a de jure political office; this was known as the National Protection War. To support this ruler, the most profitable governmental department formed the Communications Clique. He was forced to agree to some of the 21 Demands and drew upon the advice of Frank Goodnow. He was offered the rank of First Marquis after resolving the Wuchang Uprising, during which this assassin of Song Jiaoren commanded the Beiyang Army. He took the hilarious reign title Constitutional Abundance and attempted to declare himself Emperor, but died in disgrace in 1916. FTP, identify this greatest military ruler of China's Warlord Period, who ruled as a dictator between the end of Manchu power and the rise of the Republic.

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Yuan Shikai (or Rong'an)

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William Hogarth described the importance of including these in the sets of performances of Antony and Cleopatra in his tract The Analysis of Beauty. One of these appears by a shallow pool at the far right of Masaccio's Saint Peter Baptizing the Neophytes, while two groups of them flank the left side of Delacroix's Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople. Gold was applied very liberally to those separating the prophets and sybils when Michaelangelo decorated the Sistine Ceiling. St. Jerome unfurls a scroll as he stands in front of a group of them in Parmigianino's Madonna of the Long Neck, while two of them fittingly appear in the background of David's Oath of the Horatii. FTP, identify these architectural features which have acanthus leaves on


their capitols in their Corinthian varieties, and might also come in Doric and Ionic examples.

On the right end of this painting, a saw and a split log with a stick and an ax resting on it lie on the floor, beneath the bench where a bearded man in brown constructs a mousetrap, symbolizing the role of the cross as a trap against Satan. An open door and the brick walls of a castle with a guard perched in front form the backdrop of the left end, where a man in black and a woman in a red garment and white veil kneel in awe. Between these depictions of Joseph as a carpenter and this painting's donors, a vase, a candle, and an open book rest on the tablein the center panel of this work, which shows an angel approaching an oblivious Virgin Mary, who wears a flowing red dress and stares intently at the book in her hands. FTP, identify this three part altarpiece showing an annunciation scene, a work by Robert Campin, the Master of Flemalle.

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Merode Altarpiece

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A decisive advantage in this battle was due to an earlier trade deal with England, which provided equipment that the attackers used to scatter all except the za'ar, zealot bowmen whose legs were bound to prevent them from fleeing. It came in the wake of a victory at Alcacer Quibir, and the victorious commander here demanded a personal guard of 80 Christians from Ahmad al-Mansur of the Saadi dynasty. Soon after this clash, he


occupied Djenne and Taghaza, home to famous salt mines. The death of Daoud left the incompetent Ishaq II in charge of the defenders, who were overwhelmed by the gunpowder of the eunuch commander Judar Pasha. Enabling the swift occupation of Gao, FTP, name this 1591 battle in modern-day Mali by which Moroccan troops brought about the fall of the Songhai Empire.

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Battle of Tondibi

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Starting with an article in The New Republic,"Call to Arms", this thinker advocated for America's entry into World War II, an argument he expanded in the books Men Must Act and Faith for Living. His forays into criticisms were inspired in part by his friendship with Van Wyk Brooks; he also authored a biography of Herman Melville and argued for the meritsof aesthetic experience in Values for Survival. In The Human Prospect he traced the development of the clock to time keeping in monasteries, while in a better known work he used the metaphors of containers and magnets to explain the the development of "megamachine" in Technics and Civilization. Cofounder of the Regional Planning Association of America, his main work sought to examine the development of urban culture. FTP, identify this social scientist, best known for The City in History and The Culture of Cities.

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Lewis Mumford

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Based on a future real-estate analyst, at one point, this character nearly reveals a secret by announcing that has mother has granted him permission to take the TV from the basement, and he calls another character Danny Ocean. He lives


on 898 Momona Street, and is accused of resembling Aladdin. In reference to women, he describes that he's not concerned about the "going," rather being concerned about the "coming," and he is also accused of thinking he's "Seal." He reveals he's never met anybody from Mohammed in a scene where he reveals he's an organ donor. Interested in the character Nicola and befriended by officers Slater and Michaels, for ten points, name this character who purports to be a one-named 25-year-old Hawaiian organ donor in order to buy booze in the film Superbad.

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"McLovin" or Fogell

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This man formulated a mechanism that checks whether a new state is safe or not when granting requests in the Banker's Algorithm. That algorithm was subsequently used in an earlyoperating system he developed, known as the "T-H-E multiprogramming system". He also formulated a method that uses a stack to convert standard syntax into Reverse Polish Notation, the Shunting Yard Algorithm. With C. A. R. Hoare this man lends his name to a 1972 text book called Structured Programming that advocated his position against the GOTO statement. His extensive correspondences are collectively known as the "EWD" series, and one of his eponymous creations falls apart when graphs have negative edge weights and has a heuristic modification known as A Star. FTP, identify this computer scientist best known for lending his name to a greedy algorithm that finds the single source shortest path from a node in a graph.

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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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One religion says that this


figure was taken to the Orissa region for instruction in the Jagannath Temple, and appeared to a couple named Claudius and Juliet, Roman pagans, on the Tiber River. In another religion, this figure is known as "kdaba," and was originally Mandaean, but perverted the prophecies of his mentor and became an evil figure, like Moses and Abraham. A claimed disciple of this man, a son of Patek, died at Gundeshapur at the hands of Bahram I. Among the figures who have claimed to be him were Marshall Applewhite, the leader of Heaven's Gate, and David Koresh. For 10 points, name this figure recognized in Islam as `Isa, believed in by the so-called "Jews for" him, and by a messload of Christians.

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Jesus [or `Isa or Yehoshua]

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One member of this dynasty died as Abbot of St. Germain-des-Pres after signing the Truce of Andrusovo. Another member of this dynasty was defeated at the Battle of Stangebro by his regent, and after his wife died, he married her sister Constantia, provoking a civil war in one nation he ruled. Another member of this dynasty signed the Armistice of Stuhmsdorf with one of its branches. This house succeeded to the throne of one nation after the death of Stephen Bathory, after which it signed the Truce of Altmark. Including members such as John II Casimir and Wladyslaw IV, one member of it invaded Moscow and held it for two years, from 1610-1612, Sigismund III. That leader was frustrated in his attempts to unite two kingdoms, by his


uncle, Charles IX, whose descendants in this line include Charles XII and Gustavus Adolphus. FTP, name this dynasty famous for ruling Sweden from 1523-1654.

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Vasa or Waza

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In Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, the novel Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow is by a fictional author from this country, which is the location of the monastery that is the final resting place of the narrator of August Strindberg's Inferno. Sylvia, the wife of Vonnegut's Mr. Rosewater, ends up in a nunnery here, while fictional characters from this country include a horse painter in The Enormous Room and the lover of the title character of Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, Louis Gerard Moore. One work from this country is set partially in a dream world createdtransfer occurs through this process. FTP, identify this process, the flow of heat through the movement of matter from a hot region to a cold region, which is opposite from conduction.

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convection

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The most famous work of Slovenian author Vladimir Bartol deals with the downfall of this group. Muhammad of Esfizar, a Herati historian, claims they still existed in the sixteenth century, and Abaka sent an army against them. One leader of them had his head removed from his body in a shepherd's hut by his Mazandarani companion, a deed to which Rokn ud Din did not respond. Their defeat involved the taking of Girdkuh, Maimundiz, and Lembeser, and an account of this group's founder was compiled when the minister Athamulk Juveni found the Sergerushti Sidina.


The man who defeated them eventually murdered the family of the Khurshah, after successfully taking a fortress established by Hasan Sabbah, Alamut. FTP, name this group destroyed by Hulagu Khan, a sect of radical Ismailis known for their habit of killing important leaders.

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Assassins or Hashishuun or Hashishiin or al-Hashashuun

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From 1933-1934 and 1944-1946, this region was briefly independent under the leadership of Hoja Niyaz Hadji and Alikhan Tore. The forgeries of Islam Akhun about this region were exposed by the explorer Aurel Stein, and Paul Pelliot explored this region, finding the manuscript trove at the Cave of the Thousand Buddhas. The source of the Ili River, cities in this region include Yarkand and Aksu, and the mountain known as Pik Pobedy in one language isthe highest in this area. The A-erh-chin Mountains are located in here, along with the Dsungarian and Tarim Basins, the Turfan Depression, and the Taklamakan desert. Dominated by trading cities such as Khotan, Kashgar, and Turfan and by the Uyghur people, FTP, name this region bordered by Gansu and Tibet, the largest political unit in China with its capital at Urumqi.

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Uygur Autonomous Republic of Xinjiang or Sinkiang or East Turkestan

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This compound's direct form is prefixed with the term "azo," and very high levels of it can induce Dubin-Johnson or Crigler-Najjar syndromes. It is acted upon by its namesake oxyreductase and, like phytochrome, consists of a tetrapyrrole, though it does not form a porphyrin ring like heme. It is made soluble in water when conjugated


with glucuronic acid, which can then be metabolized to stercobilinogen by bacteria in the colon. It is formed in the body when erythrocytes undergo heme catabolism, and its light sensitivity results in a water-soluble isomer that mitigates jaundice in newborns. FTP, identify this compound that gives a yellow-brown color to bile.

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bilirubin

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In this author's first novel, Stonecipheco baby food fortune heiress Lenore Beadsman has an affair with Rick Vigorous while searching for her missing great-grandmother. He wrote about a lesbian whose amazing win streak on Jeopardy is broken by her insane brother in his short story "Little Expressionless Animals." That story appears in a collection named for his short story about the sociopathic lawyer Sick Puppy, Girl With Curious Hair. This author collaborated with MarkCostello on Signifying Rappers, and collected his nonfiction in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. His most recent novel focuses on a film created by James Incandenza so addictively entertaining that it causes people who watch it to stop functioning. FTP, name this contemporary American author of Infinite Jest.

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David Foster Wallace

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Oort and Yienger modeled these entities using the zonal mean meridional streamfunction, elucidating a long-term intensification based on the increasing frequency of an oceanic phenomenon which strengthens their vertical components. The Hoerling and Eischied Model of climate change links that intensification to watershed erosion in the Great Basin Region. A persistent Bermuda High may diminish the upper tropospheric trough that makes up their northern boundary in early autumn as they overcome the


weaker flow of their immediate neighbors. As their currents are deflected toward lower latitudes, they are associated with the northeasterly and southeasterly trades, and their return flow ends at the Intertropical Convergence Zone. FTP, identify this circulation pattern that dominates tropical air flow between 30 degrees North and 30 degrees South, named for a English lawyer who dallied in meteorology.

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Hadley Cells

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TB. This man's presidency saw the first US commercial treaty with the Hanseatic League. In addition to a more famous minister, this man negotiated a treaty with General Vives, and he accused Senator Trimble of Ohio of having a brain occupied by a maggot when he voted against that treaty. Under the pseudonym Publicola, he criticized Thomas Paine and in his Congressional career, heattacked rules suggested by Henry Pinckney and Atherton, after being elected on an Anti-Masonic ticket. His presidency ended with a disastrous dispute with the British West Indies, and with his Secretary of State, he built the Dismal Swamp Canal and other routes of transportation. Present at the negotiations of the Treaty of Ghent and the signer of a treaty with Onis, FTP, name this president whose term saw the passing of the Tariff of Abominations and began with a "Corrupt Bargain."

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John Quincy Adams

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TB. This work's third movement intermezzo features a section in six-eight time framed by clarinet solos in two-four. The first movement's introduction features three simultaneous motives above a throbbing rhythm in the percussion, and each movement is set a major third up


of the world." In one section of this work, a prisoner forges a chain to hold the world captive, but ends up being bound by it instead. Another section describes a place "on the seashore of endless worlds" where "children meet," while yet another section addresses "world-filling," "eye-kissing," "heart-sweetening" light. Beginning with a poem about a "little flute" which "breathed through it melodies eternally new," this collection includes poems previously published in Nobeiddo, and also contains a poem about a place "where the mind is without fear." Featuring an laudatory introduction by William Butler Yeats, FTP, name this 1913 poetry collection whose name translates as "Song Offerings," a work by Rabindranath Tagore.

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Gitanjali

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TB. This man's work inspired Albert Eschenmoser to use an allylic alcohol tomake a gamma-delta unsaturated amide. He described namesake syntheses of isatins and cinnamates, and the Chen-Mapp reaction is sometimes named after him and Stuadinger. LDA can be reacted with allylic acetate in a rearrangement named for this man and Ireland. Also known for his rearrangement of allyl phenyl ether, the reaction named for himself and Schmidt will react aryl ketones with benzaldehyde derivatives. He's best known for a reaction which produces a beta-keto ester or a beta-diketone from two esters or an ester and a carbonyl compound; that reaction has an intramolecular variety named for Dieckmann. FTP, give this German namesake of a famed condensation.

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Rainer Ludwig Claisen

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Answer the following about the oasis of Tamanrasset, a crucial point of


rest in the 90s computer game Africa Trail, FTPE.,

[10] Tamanrasset was an ostensible capital of the Tuareg peoples and is the largest city in the southern part of this nation. Other cities in this country of northern Africa include Constantine and Oran.

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Algeria

[10] Tamanrasset is located in these mountains of southern Algeria, east and south of the Atlas Mountains, whose highest point is Mount Tahat.

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Ahaggar Mountains or Jibal Ahaggar

[10] These mountains of the eastern Sahara include the 11,204 foot Mount Koussi and are known for fine examples of petroglyphs. They are located primarily in Chad, Libya, and Niger, in the region of the Aouzou Strip.

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Tibesti Massif

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Here's an uninspired lead-in people can complain about later - name these effects from physics, FTPE.,

[10] In this effect namedcollaboration between screenwriter Tarantino and this Mexican-American director, who also collaborated with Tarantino by creating Planet Terror for Grindhouse. He also directed Sin City.

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Robert Rodriguez

[10] After vampires slaughter a character played by this actress in From Dusk Till Dawn, she asks George Clooney's Seth if she can join him in his life in a creepy Mexican gangster settlement. She also appeared in The Evening Star and The Way of the Gun, and played the daughter Danielle in CapeFear.

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Juliette Lewis

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His novels include Alone and The Natives of Hemso. For 10 points each:,

[10] Name this author who also created the characters Arvid Falk and Arkenholz.

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August Strindberg

[10] In this Strindberg play, Indra's daughter descends to Earth as Agnes, only to feel the pain of being human.

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A Dream


mechanism for this reaction is probably a 2+2-cycloaddition which forms an intermediate metalla-cyclobutane. Chauvin, Grubbs, and Schrock shared the Nobel in 2005 for their work on this rather generally named reaction, in which carbon-carbon double bonds are cut and rearranged.

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olefin metathesis or transalkylidenation

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It was preceded by Osulf's murder of Copsi and an alliance between Cospatrick and Morcar. FTPE:,

[10] Identify this campaign led by Alain Le Roux, in which fields were salted, settlements burnt, and hundreds of thousands of people slaughtered in order to pacify a certain geographical region, much to the horror of Ethelwin, Bishop of Durham.

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The Harrying of the North

[10] Evidence of the Harrying of the North is replete in this census executed for William the Conqueror in 1086, an extensive survey ofEngland for purposes of taxation and the like.

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Domesday Book (or Book of Winchester)

[10] This uncrowned king, who was passed over as too young to succeed Edward the Confessor, was the final member of the house of Cerdic, and sparked the Harrying of the North by invading Northern England with Sweyn II. A common appellation for him refers to his incessant and fruitless rebellions against people related to William.

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Edgar Aetheling or Edgar the Outlaw or Edgar II

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It details the deconstruction of Humberto Penaloza, the narrator. For 10 points each:,

[10] Name this novel that also includes Doctor Azula and Iris the Orphan, who is pregnant. Forever.

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The Obscene Bird of Night

[10] This Chilean author of Poems of a Novelist, The Blue Woman, and Coronation wrote The Obscene


was led by Henri Arnaud under pressure from persecutions by Victor Amadeus II.

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la glorieuse rentree

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It began with the months Amazonius, Invictus, and Felix, and ended with the months Romanus and Exsuperatorius. FTPE:,

[10] Name this calendar, named after the Roman emperor who succeeded his father Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD.

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calendar of Commodus (Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus)

[10] While January was named after Turkmenbashy and April after his mother, August on the Turkmenistan calendar was named after this second sultan of the Great Seljuks. He ruled from 1063 to 1072, during which time he's most famous for crushing Romanus IV at the Battle of Manzikert.

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Alp Arslan (or Muhammad bin Da'ud Chaghri)

[10] This month had days named after exciting things like crabs, barleygrass, buckhorn, puffball, licorice, and horsechestnuts. The twelfth month of the French Revolutionary Calendar, it preceded the Sansculottides and on the 18th of this month, in 1799, General Augeau purged 130 members of the Directory.

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Fructidor

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The Louvre houses his marble statue of Baron Montesquieu, while the Met houses his Nymph and Satyr Carousing. FTPE:,

[10] Born Claude Michel, this leading French rococo sculptor was known for his frequent use of terracotta and his depiction of pastoral themes from classical myth, like his Satyr Crowning a Bacchante.

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Clodion

[10] Clodion's sculptures also frequently depict these chubby, Cupid-like, nude cherubs. A famous bronze by Verrocchio shows one of them holding a dolphin.

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putto or putti

[10] Swarms of putti surround the fiery base and, along with Fama and Aeolus, cling to the sphere at the top of


this Clodion sculpture, which commemorates Jacques Charles' first ascent in the titular object.

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The Invention of the Balloon

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A plaque at Puopolo Park commemorates this event, which saw 21 people die and 150 casualties, as a result of an event at the Purity Distilling Company. FTPE:,

[10] Name this 1919 event, in which a 40-foot wave of a namesake substance rampaged through a Northeastern city at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour.

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Great Molasses Flood of Boston or Disaster or Tragedy (accept clear-knowledge equivalents)

[10] U.S. Industrial Alcohol, later found liable for the flood, blamed Italian anarchists for the incident, who had been largely led by this man, who was known for his claims "We will dynamite you!" The editor of Cronica Sovversiva, he was exiled inthis man who invoked the War Measures Act after the October Crisis. He served as prime minister of Canada throughout the 1970s and early 80s.

[10] Name this poem written in 1866 whose speaker states he would "bear, and clench myself, and die" if only "some vengeful god" would tell him "thou suffering thing, / Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy."

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"Hap"

[10] "Hap" was written by this British author, whose other poems include "In Time of the `Breaking of Nations'", "The Man He Killed," and "The Convergence of the Twain."

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Thomas Hardy

[10] In this novel by Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth-Jane marries Donald Farfrae after being auctioned off as a child to Mr. Newsome by Michael Henchard, the titular official.

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

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first is Eucalyptus cladocalyx or sugar gum native to the Flinders Ranges and Kangaroo Island was widely planted for shade and shelter from the late 1800’s and typically the predominant shade trees in most state schools. They can be seen in large numbers in the Adelaide park lands and locally an impressive stand on the northern side of the Old Sturt Highway at Berri Estates.

The second and probably the even more significant species is Eucalyptus camaldulensis or river red gum. Sometimes called widow maker. It occurs in every mainland state of Australia usually along water courses. Most of us in the Riverland can spend lengthy periods near, around and sometimes under these magnificent trees, all too often unaware of the small but non the less significant risk weletting my feral eyes nod offMy pants stained by the scarlet trickle leading from the bodyMy heart stops beating, and the razor thin tightrope snapsHelplessly I plunge headfirst into the wrong side of eternityMy cup runneth over with bad karma, the pressure buildingI will never escape the piercing glare of their lavender eyes

"Kathleen Dehmlow (Schunk) was born on March 19, 1938 to Joseph and Gertrude Schunk of Wabasso. She married Dennis Dehmlow at St. Anne's in Wabasso in 1957 and had two children Gina and Jay. In 1962 she became pregnant by her husband's brother Lyle Dehmlow and moved to California. She abandoned her children, Gina and Jay who were then raised by her parents in Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schunk. She passed away on May 31,


Gertrude Schunk of Wabasso. She married Dennis Dehmlow at St. Anne's in Wabasso in 1957 and had two children Gina and Jay. In 1962 she became pregnant by her husband's brother Lyle Dehmlow and moved to California. She abandoned her children, Gina and Jay who were then raised by her parents in Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schunk. She passed away on May 31, 2018 in Springfield and will now face judgement. She will not be missed by Gina and Jay, and they understand that this world is a better place without her."

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3DS Friend Code: 1564-5101-4615Yuri gets advice from little fairies, and is thereby not held responsible for any stupid actionpixiv | etsy |On August 25, the Modi government in Delhi released census data on population by religion. The same day, in Lupungpi village in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, Rega Gagrai and her family spent their first day under a social boycott imposed on them because they had converted to Christianity.

The previous Monday, hundreds of Ho tribal villagers from five villages had gathered in Lupungpi. The community leaders, the manki-munda, sat at the centre of the village on red plastic chairs surrounded by fields of paddy. They asked Rega Gagrai and 14 other families that had converted to Christianity about five years ago to return to their original animistic religion called Sarna, or face a social boycott.In Singhbhum's forest villages, Ho tribal villagers collect wood and grass from shared forest patches


and pastures, and grow paddy on small plots of land. The families were told they would be blocked from accessing all resources in the village if they did not give up Christianity. “They told us we could no longer take grass from the pastures, or even walk on the common lands,” recounted Gagrai. “'Stop using the water from the pond,' they said.”All villagers were ordered to stop talking to the Christian families.Religious conversions have long been an issue of contention in the state, but the conflicts have been mostly limited mostly to the Chotanagpur region in Jharkhand's west, which first came in contact with Christian missionaries. The German Protestant mission arrived here in 1845, followed by the Catholics.In contrast, the mineral-rich Kolhan region in the South, which bordersOdisha, has been largely free of religious tensions. West Singhbhum district, which is part of the Kolhan region, has often been in the news on account of the Maoist insurgency. But as the recent social boycotts showed, the conflict over conversions has arrived here as well.Under the British, “Tribal religion”, or animism, was counted as a distinct religion in the census till 1941. The practice was discontinued in Independent India. This has been a source of anger among Jharkhand’s adivasis. They believe the removal of this category undermines tribal identity.The week when the social boycott was enforced in Lupungpi village, about 130 kilometres away, in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi, the release of the census data on religion triggered a renewed demand for the recognition of Sarna, the worship of


Yet, Hindus have been able to claim some common ground with Sarna because of the prevalence of nature worship in both the religions.On the ground, it is Christian missionaries who are under attack for their real and perceived proselytising activities. The most visible manifestation of this was in 2013, when thousands of Sarna tribals marched to a new church on the outskirts of Ranchi. They threatened to remove the statue of Mary depicted in a white sari with red border with an infant in a sling. The indigenisation of Mary, they argued, was part of the Church’s attempts to convert local tribals.A common perception is that despite their small numbers, Christian tribals have had better access to higher education and jobs. With economic disparities, the chasm between Sarnaand Christian tribals has widened.

Thousands of Sarna tribals marched to Singpur church when a statue of "tribal Mary" was unveiled in 2013.

Rega Gagrai said she had converted to Christianty five years ago, soon after a local pastor helped in her son’s medical treatment. Her son Jonga had epilepsy since he was seven. “He would fall down anywhere,” said Gagrai, recalling her struggle in getting treatment for her son. The closest primary health centre at Kumhardunga is 14 kilometres away. A private clinic opened recently but Gagrai's family cannot afford its treatment.When the family heard that a pastor living in Dipasahi could help, they approached him. He took them to a doctor in Chaibasa, said Rega's son Jonga, in his late teens.Illness and lack of access to health services


was a common leitmotif in the stories of the Christian converts. Siri Devi, holding a few days' old infant in her arms, said her family converted to Christianity after her husband, a driver in Jodhapahad, remained ill for two years. The local pastor took him to a doctor. But Devi sees the recovery as the result of their new faith more than modern medicine. “After we started believing, my husband got better,” she said.In Rega Gagrai's instance, the issue of conversions has divided the family. When hundreds of villagers came to Lupungpi for the community meeting in August, it was Rega's nephew Roshan, a first year BA student at Tata College in Chaibasa, who led the charge against his own family. “Roshan taunted his cousin Jonga in frontof the entire village," said Subani Gagrai, whose family was among the converts facing the social boycott. "‘Pray, and let's see if your epilepsy is cured. What is the need for medicines,’ he said, attacking his family."

Subani Gagrai and her children face a social boycott in Lupungpi.

Curiously, the villagers were aware that several families had converted to Christianity but they enforced a boycott only several years later after the conversion. A leading role was played by the cadres of the Adivasi Ho Samaj Yuva Mahasabha, the youth wing of a political and cultural organisation of the Ho tribals. Active since 2007, the organisation boasts of cadres in three districts in the Kolhan region. In the census, 62% of West Singhbhum's 15 lakh population said they followed “Other Religions”,


the highest among all regions in Jharkhand. The Mahasabha took credit for this saying it was a result of their work to raise tribal consciousness on Sarna religion.

In Lupungpi, villagers said the immediate trigger for the enforcement of the boycott was the death of a young man in one of the converted families in Kuida village nearby. “Roya's son died and his brother Sachin, a Christian, wanted to bury him in the burial ground with Christian rites," said Jogu Gagrai, a Sarna tribal. "The villagers did not allow them to bury the body for three days. Finally, Sachin had to bury the body in his own aangan" or courtyard. Gagrai added that the village had long had complaints against the new converts' methods of praying. “They pray loudly,who owned the land on which the church was being built. “A pentecostal group was building the church on Sugni's land with her consent. The foundation had already been laid when Pat Pingua and his men arrived in the village and threatened us,” said Marcel Hembrom, a local resident who helped her register the FIR. “They tore Sungi's clothes and beat the pastor Vijay Saivayan mercilessly with sticks." No arrests have been made yet in the case, he added.Pat Pingua boasted that the attack in Manjhgaon was not the only instance when his cadre turned violent against the missionaries, narrating similar incidents from previous years from Tantanagar nearby. “They build churches, schools on our land, and yet the Christian tribals get the benefit of reservation,” he said. He


said he will not allow Christian tribals to celebrate tribal festivals, parab, inside the church. “All over India, the missionaries convert 10,000 persons to Christianity every hour. We have to do what we can to save our religion.”Pat Pingua was surrounded by other young leaders of the Mahasabha, most in their late 20s, fresh graduates from college. The group sat in the sparsely furnished Ho Samaj library in Chaibasa built two months ago with a Rs 25 lakh donation from former chief minister Madhu Koda, who is also a Ho tribal. Madhu Koda was in the BJP till 2005, and has since floated his own political party.The Mahasabha leaders insist they act autonomously. But unlike the Christian missionaries, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of the BJP,has not been the target of any hostilities by Pat Pingua and his group for religious and cultural activities aimed at assimilating tribals into Hinduism in the region. In fact, the Mahasabha maintains fraternal links with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. For instance, Inderjeet Samand, the block president of Adivasi Ho Samaj Mahasabha, is also the district president of RSS' farmers organisation, the Bhartiya Kisan Sangh.It is a symbiotic relationship. RSS leaders say they consider it best that tribals themselves resist the conversion efforts of Christian missionaries. For Sarna tribal leaders, the connections with RSS are useful in getting access to the leaders of the BJP. The party is in power both at the Centre and in the state.Samand claimed the Mahasabha's youth wing led by Pat Pingua is


simply enforcing the policy outlined by the Mahasabha. He blamed the spike in conversions to Christianity on Jairam Ramesh's initiation of a developmental plan in Saranda. Three years ago, the thick forest in Saranda witnessed pitched battles between the CPI (Maoist) rebels and the paramilitary, followed by a central programme for development assistance led by then union minister Jairam Ramesh. “The Congress minister brought NGOs from the South as self help groups," said Samand. "They started preaching and converting in the most interior villages, of which we are seeing the results now.”In Ranchi, Vijay Ghosh who heads the RSS' Dharam Jagran wing, which is focussed on stopping religious conversions, described himself as the “prerna-strot” (inspiration) for what has been happening in West Singhbhum over the last few weeks.and in Europe. Her screenplays have won awards and honors at
international festivals and contests, such as the Berlin Film Festival 2013 and
the Evolution International Film Festival 2012. Her award-winning screenplay
Safeword is currently under option in the US. For the London run of her solo
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nominations in 2011, including for most promising new playwright and best female
performance. RUINS is her directorial debut. The documentary was funded by Union
Solidarity International and Unite the Union.

The erosion of the universal welfare state and the post-war social contract
has continued at a brisk pace since the forming of the Coalition government, but
post-austerity these erosions are overlaid with a new moral imperative around
‘thrift’ and its virtues, embrace the challenge of ‘doing more with less’,
finding ways


popular
resistance to the austerity project.

Professor Nicola Mai will also screen his film Normal, which addresses
the complexity of migrants' trajectories within the global sex industry.

The social protection of vulnerable migrant groups has become a strategic border
between the West and the Rest of the world. Asylum and fundamental rights are
allocated on the basis of well-rehearsed politics of compassion, whose
credibility is assessed on the basis of the performance of stereotypical
victimhood scripts. Anti-trafficking moral panics and social interventions play
a strategic role within the deployment of these neoliberal governmentalities. By
criminalising the involvement of young female and male migrants in the sex
industry in terms of trafficking and exploitation, they enforce new biographical
borders and hierarchies of mobility. By engaging in the global sex industry
young migrant men and women challenge these borders and hierarchies because they
areMissouri and Jacky Rosen in Nevada. (Donations are split between Ms. Gillibrand’s campaign and the candidates, while her campaign harvests valuable new donor contacts.)

She is running other ad programs to expand her database of supporters: In late September, a series of Facebook ads, which also ran nationally, featured a one-question survey: “Do you approve of President Trump?” Pathmatics said she spent $183,000 on one such ad.

A study by academics of Facebook ad data compiled by Pathmatics showed that Ms. Gillibrand spent $1.5 million on Facebook ads through August, but only 9 percent of it in New York. In contrast, 82 percent of spending on Facebook ads by Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat who is also up for re-election, was within her state.

Senator Bernie Sanders, who is also


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The program may also cause the processor to perform the steps of setting the low and high times by setting the high time equal to the floor period and setting the low time equal to the ceiling period.wedding singer Arg, 25, were enjoying some time out after a long day filming the series six finale.

The cast had started filming Lucy's 21st – which isn't until this Friday – on Saturday, but it appeared they had to continue shooting the party the following day as Gemma was wearing the same black dress two days in a row.

Will he be getting some of your candy Arg looks tired after a long weekend of filming

Passion: The couple appeared lost in their own world as they shared a kiss

Gemma and Arg's car park clinch comes after a rocky few weeks for the couple.

The bubbly blonde admitted she was a 'wreck' when she saw Arg pictured with two brunettes in a car last week, but now believes Arg's insistence it


Iowa parents who say they would have aborted their unborn son if they had known he had cerebral palsy may sue their doctors, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

Radio Iowa reports Pamela Plowman and her ex-husband Jeremy Plowman filed wrongful birth lawsuits after they said their doctors did not inform them of the abnormalities that showed up on an ultrasound of their unborn son.

Pamela Plowman said their son was born in Fort Madison with cerebral palsy and other medical issues; and if she had known about them before his birth, she would have aborted him, according to the report.

She and Jeremy Plowman, who divorced after their son’s birth, filed separate lawsuits against the doctors, seeking money for the costs of raising their son, mental anguish and loss ofincome, according to the report.

In a decision filed Friday, the Iowa Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision and ruled that the Plowmans are allowed to sue for their son’s so-called “wrongful birth.” The court argued that their cases fit “within general tort principles for medical negligence.”

Pamela Plowman said her doctors had told her that “everything was fine” with her unborn son, and she was never informed that “the radiologist had found any abnormalities or that the ultrasound was in any way abnormal,” according to the court ruling.

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Several months after the boy was born, the Plowmans said they began noticing that he was not developing normally. He later was diagnosed with several disabilities, including cerebral palsy; and he probably never will walk


President Donald Trump ventured into North Korean territory with his vow to respond to threats from the isolated dictatorship with "fire and fury" unparalleled in history. Trump's remarks seemingly implying a nuclear strike came Tuesday as a report revealed U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's tweet Wednesday that America's nuclear arsenal is "now stronger and more powerful than ever before" is debatable. His claim of the credit is entirely unjustified. While the U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his top national security aides delivered contrasting messages of alarm and reassurance over North Korea's expanding nuclear capabilities, with the commander-in-chief touting America's atomic supremacy a day after threatening "fire and fury" for thePages

Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Urban Farmer David Young Tackles Food Desert in Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans

Within sight of the repaired Industrial Canal walls in the Lower Ninth Ward, solar panels power the pump on an in-ground pond. Lined with rocks and rimmed in wildflowers, it's home to mosquito fish, one koi and water lilies in bloom. Nearby are a beehive and a stacked strawberry planter. Neatly painted handmade signs identify it all: Okra, cabbage, lettuce, all kinds of greens, beets, kale, tomatoes.This is where David Young, the founder of the nonprofit Capstone, planted his first Ninth Ward garden. With the help of other volunteers and several hives of honeybees, plus a little cash and lots of ingenuity, Young cleans up blighted vacant lots and grows food on


them to give away to people who need it. Read more in this article in The Times-Picayune

Meet David Young, the urban farmer in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. He moved to the Crescent City from Indiana in 2010 and stayed because of a “calling from God." Since then he has started gardens on 30 abandoned lots leftover from Hurricane Katrina. The nearest grocery store is a 3.5 miles away. He provides his produce for free or at low cost to people in most need in the community. And all the fruit grown in his urban orchard is free for the community to pick. He rescues bees that would be killed by exterminators and gives them a new home. He has over 60 hives throughout the Lower9th Ward. He built the largest aquaponics system in New Orleans and gave out over 2,500 pounds of food last year. His home is an urban homestead with goats, rescued chickens, and of course more bees. His programs are funded partly by honey sales and his work is completely volunteer.

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On 11th anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(From June 11th until June 14 th of 1992)
Interview with Dr. Kazem Moosavi-Zadeh, Director of Environment
in Green Party of Iran
Interviewer,Mr. Arash Shams: Dr. Moosavi-Zadeh,
please make explanations in regard to the ecological significance
of Iran

Dr. Moosavi-Zadeh: I deeply express my gratitude for the opportunity
you have granted me to discuss and ponder about the Ecological
Predicament of Iran under the Islamic Republic regime,
and search for a discreet solution. Especially whence this
conversation’s timing concurs with the 11th anniversary
of the International Environmental and World Countries’ Development
Conference that was held in Brazil’s Rio in June 1992.
A conference held correlated with the most important subject
in regard to the fate of humankind in the world in addition
to the destiny of all other living being which inas Forest Parks, Mountain
and Forest conversation pieces, precious heritage of lagoonsand national parks and conserved areas for wild life and
endangered species and also lakes, ocean, rivers, etc. plus
tourism industry on the national region and on the world scale
have significant potentials in themes of growth and principled
and scientific development. At this juncture we are not talking
about the numbers, geographical positions, general and particular
conditions of various mines in Iran, since those matters are
out of the boundary of this discussion. But in general, in
terms of Mineral varieties Iran is amongst the exceptional countries
that have a very wide variety worldwide.

According to the official statistics released
by National Oil Company of Iran on the year 1989, excluding
the new or undiscovered field, the whole quantity of Iranian
Oil reserves were about 93 billion barrels. Based on


expressed the following for French
New Agency on the date February 6th 2002: ”Currently
Iran has 26.6 billion cubic meters of natural gas. In having
natural gas stock, after Russia, Iran is the second country
in the world that possesses 17% of the world’s reserve.” According
to his statement half of Iran’s gas is on the soil part and
still the chance of many more reserve minerals and riches exist
in countries widely spread earth. Based on the official statistics
released in the year 1993, the number of 1228 non-metallic active
mines exists on the countrywide scale. Amongst them, the grand
reserve of stones that construct and decorative buildings, marble
stones, pebbles and sands, gypsum, cement, nutritional salt,
etc. are notable in various areas of the country.

Iran possesses a very high rank worldwide for
possessing massive metal mines such as iron,percent of the village
such as the ones on the border region of desert(s) and other
areas. A Forest Affair’s specialist had said such in the Salaam
newspaper, dated as of January 14th 1997 that: “During
the recent years forest trees have been razed out and given
to the individual figures, institutions and governmental organizations.
Other means of Forest destruction include; quickly built structures
governmental or state related within the forest areas, in addition
to the fires that occur due to Military Maneuvers that are performed
within the Jungle’s arenas. In
this regard a senior expert has granted shocking statistics
to the Hamshahri paper as of September 22nd 2000
that reads: within last 20 years the total of forests in Iran
has decreased substantially: In 56 existed 18 million hectares
of Iranian Forests that has declined to 12 million hectares
in 78. Well,


director of the Division of Transplantation in the Department of Health and Human Services. A frequent op-ed contributor on health care issues, he is writing a book detailing his doctors' plan for health reform. His email is jburdic1@jhmi.edu.Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Tuesday that he is suspending his presidential campaign, making him the third current or former governor to drop out of a race in which outsiders have been all the rage.

Mr. Jindal failed to gain much momentum in the GOP nomination race in part because he missed the cut for all four prime-time debates because of his poor performance in national polls.

The 44-year-old released a statement Tuesday that said it was an “honor” to run for president, and said his parents — who immigrated to America from India 45 years ago — never would have dreamed that their son would get elected governor and then run for the nation’s top office.

“They raised me to believe Americans can do anything, and they were right, we


crowded GOP field.

The jury is out on where his nascent Iowa support might go, though Christian conservatives have flocked toward Mr. Carson. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida also could appeal to possible Jindal voters, as could Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who this week received the endorsement from Rep. Steve King of Iowa.

Voters also have soft spots for the last two winners of the Iowa caucuses — former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who praised Mr. Jindal after learning he was leaving the race.

“He brought a tremendous energy and passion for returning America to its rightful place in the world,” Mr. Santorum said in a statement. “This is not the last the country has heard from Bobby Jindal, and I wish himand his family the best in their next pursuits.”

Mr. Jindal did not himself endorse any of the remaining candidates.

His departure marks a disappointing turn for a man once billed as the new face of the party.

At age 24, Mr. Jindal was appointed to be Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. He also served as a top adviser to the secretary of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush.

In 2003, he lost his first bid for governor, but won a seat in the U.S. House a year later. In 2007, he became the nation’s first Indian-American governor — at age 36, making his a rising star in the GOP.

Mr. Jindal, though, never seemed to recover from his response to President Obama’s first State of


the Union address in 2009, where critics said he came off as overly scripted and stiff. He also was an early supporter of K-12 education standards, known as Common Core, but switched his position after announcing his candidacy.

Mr. Jindal was ineligible to run for a third term as Louisiana governor due to term limits.

He said Tuesday that he hopes to continue to influence the national discussion through his think tank, America Next, which has released policy papers aimed at advancing conservative ideas both at home and abroad.

“I realize that our country is off on the wrong track right now. Everyone knows that, but don’t forget, this is still the greatest country in the history of the world — and every single one of us should start every daycorporate organizations, including Comcast, Cricket, EchoStar, Jones Cyber Solutions, Blueprint Technologies, Trip Network Inc., and Cendant Corp.; educational institutions, including Duke University and the University of Colorado; and governmental agencies, including the U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration and the U.S. Department of Defense, Military Health Service. He is also an accomplished professional writer with a book (The Art of Software Modeling, Benjamin A. Auerbach Publications, 2007), numerous software-related articles, and a series of IBM corporate technology newsletters to his credit.

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as a tutor at Monash University. He was called to the Bar in 1975, specialising in equity, commercial and corporate law. Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1986, Mr Finkelstein thereafter concentrated on appellate work, often acting for state and federal governments and their instrumentalities. He was acting Solicitor-General for the state of Victoria during 1992. Mr Finkelstein was appointed a judge of the Federal Court in 1997 and held additional appointments as Deputy President of the Australian Competition Tribunal and the Copyright Tribunal of Australia. In December 2008 he was appointed President of the Australian Competition Tribunal. He retired as a judge of the Federal Court and President of the Competition Tribunal on 30 June 2011 and has returned to private practice at the Victorian Bar. Mr Finkelstein ismarried to Leonie Thompson and has two sons, Michael and Joel.]

The Gillard government and the Greens joined forces to establish the current media inquiry, each for their own reasons. The Greens have received consistent biased reportage, especially around election times, from News Limited outlets. This brazen partisan campaign is evidence of the Murdoch modus operandi; they are not willing to stand back and report on events, they wish to shape them. [There’s probably a good masters or PhD there somewhere, doing a textual analysis of Fairfax vs News Ltd.]
The Greens in their naivety probably think they might actually get some mechanism for recourse coming out of the inquiry.
The government is happy to give in to the Greens on this one – it means the government is seen to


The second round of the historic go match between top-ranked Lee Se-dol of Korea and Google-developed artificial intelligence AlphaGo is ongoing at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Thursday.

Can the world champion fight back and redeem his fame tarnished by his unexpected crushing defeat to his robot brain challenger in the first round on Wednesday?

In October 2015, AlphaGo became the first computer program ever to beat a professional Go player by winning 5-0 against the reigning 3-times European Champion Fan Hui (2-dan pro). That work was featured in a front cover article in the science journal Nature in January 2016.Man with good memory can't recall details

Frank Kim's denials that he paid nine girls aged 12 to 16 for sex were met with profound skepticism by a prosecutor yesterday.

The 25-year-old scion of a wealthy South Korean family repeatedly said he couldn't recall key elements of allegations in the Crown's 31-count indictment against him.

Then, after strenuously denying he had sex with a girl who was 13, he assured B.C. Supreme Court Justice Janice Dillon and the jury of the reliability of his evidence because he had "a pretty good memory."

That brought smiles to the faces of a few of the jurors, who have endured nine weeks of jury duty.

Kim said the complainants with whom he admitting to having sex did so without the inducement of cash or drugs.

"You never


had to pay any of them?" Crown counsel Sandra Cunningham asked incredulously.

"That would be a fair way to say that," replied Kim.

"They just wanted to have sex with you?" Cunningham asked the pudgy defendant.

"Yes," he replied angrily.

Kim was shown pictures of the complainants taken around the times of the alleged offences in 1997.

In each case, he said the girl looked to be 18 or 19. When he asked for proof of age, they produced "B.C. ID photo cards," said Kim.

In another exchange, Kim said his father, who was visiting Canada, told him to out of his Richmond townhouse after Kim videotaped a naked girl, whom he said he believed was 18 or 19.

"You told her you would pay her $100 for sex. She told you she was 13.healthcare in
committed
transparent and quantifiable ways
so we ask that all of you please join us
as we work to improve access to quality
physical and behavioral health care
through ending historical and
contemporary racial inequities
faced by African Americans across our
across our nation this really is our
opportunity
and now is the time
and so with that it is my distinct
pleasure
to introduce to you on
Dr. Georges Benjamin to talk to us about
health equity
and COVID-19 and so Dr.
Georges Benjamin is currently the
Executive Director
of the American Public Health
Association and has led the association
since 2002. he came to APHA
from his position as Secretary of the
Maryland Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene
Dr. Benjamin became Secretary of Health
in Maryland
in April 1999 following four years as
its Deputy Secretary
for Public Health Services as secretary
Dr. Benjamin oversaw the expansion and
improvement
of the state's Medicaid program he is
board


certified in internal medicine
and a fellow emeritus of the American
College of Emergency Physicians
and an honorary fellow of the Royal
Society of Public Health
Dr. Benjamin is the author of more than
100
scientific articles and book chapters
in 2008 2014
and 2016 he was named one of the top
25 minority executives in healthcare
by Modern Healthcare Magazine in
addition to being voted
among the 100 most influential people in
health care
from 2007 through 2017
so it's so again it's my distinct
pleasure
to welcome Dr. Benjamin to our conference
um as I kick off and so Dr. Benjamin I'm
going to turn over the microphone to you
so thank you for joining us this morning
hi well thank you very very much for
having me today and
there we go want to share my screen look
I'm really excited about being here
so let's let's talk a little bitinto the ground a couple of times before I was able to get back to the safety of the quad bike,” Mr Patullo says.

Eventually, the bull backed away but by then Mr Patullo had head and chest injuries and his quad bike was wrecked. He had lost his cellphone in the attack, and it would probably have been of little use because of marginal reception.

Beside him was his helmet, and on his belt was his PLB.

Mr Patullo’s helmet had saved him from more serious head injuries and within minutes of activating the PLB its signal was received at the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ), in Lower Hutt.

Search and Rescue Officer Chris Wilson said she received the signal at RCCNZ just after 8am, and as is standard practice,


On stage, a lesson in civil rights

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(Monica Maschak – mmaschak@shawmedia.com)

Fran Reichert, playing Rosa Parks, and Raiford Faircloth, playing her grandfather, sing on stage Tuesday during a performance of "Walk On: The Story of Rosa Parks" at the Raue Center. The play tells the story of Parks from her childhood to her decision to stay seated on a bus, resulting in the Montgomery bus boycott. Parks would have turned 100 this year.

CRYSTAL LAKE – Instead of the annual Black History Month lesson in a classroom, some area elementary school students got to see civil rights played out on the theater stage Tuesday.

“Walk On: The Story of Rosa Parks,” presented by Mad River Theater Works, was performed in two shows Tuesday at the Raue Center for the Arts in CrystalLake.

The hourlong performance, open to students and the public, chronicled the life of Rosa Parks from her days as a child in Alabama to the moment she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man, kicking off the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Chris Westhoff, managing director of Mad River Theater Works, said the show aimed to paint a true picture of Parks and dispel myths about her life.

“I was taught in school that she was tired and she didn’t feel like getting up,” he said. “That’s just not true. The truth is that she was an activist, and her decision to sit where she was sitting on the bus was a decided act of protest.”

The performance opened with the first day of the bus boycott


comes as virtually the entire Democratic field flocks to New Hampshire this weekend to speak at the New Hampshire Democratic Party convention in Manchester, with some candidates, including former congressman Beto O’Rourke and Senator Kamala Harris, making stops in Massachusetts.

Ten Democrats, including Warren, Biden, and Sanders, are expected to take the stage for the next presidential primary debate on Thursday. It will be the first time Warren and Biden appear on the same stage after debate rules winnowed the field enough to allow all remaining candidates to appear on one night.

Massachusetts voters will go to the polls in the Democratic presidential primary contest in March. The poll released Saturday used live callers to survey 500 likely voters in the September 2020 Democratic primary, and was conducted Sept. 3Amarinder’s luncheon meeting: Big Congress names on platter

Many prominent Congress leaders of the state are likely to join the luncheon meeting being hosted by Captain Amarinder Singh in Patiala on Sunday. In a setback to state Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa, the entire Congress leadership from Doaba is set to attend the meeting being organised by Amarinder as a show of strength.

Many prominent Congress leaders of the state are likely to join the luncheon meeting being hosted by Captain Amarinder Singh in Patiala on Sunday.

In a setback to state Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa, the entire Congress leadership from Doaba is set to attend the meeting being organised by Amarinder as a show of strength. All District Congress Committee (DCC) presidents of the party except that of Shaheed


MLA Guriqbal Kaur Babli, who is a Captain loyalist, and party’s Doaba in-charge and Banga MLA Tarlochan Sondh are likely to attend the meet.

SBS Nagar DCC chief Dharampal Bangar was the only prominent leader, who declined to attend the lunch. “If Bajwa asks me to go, I will go,” he said.

Meanwhile, Congress Legislature Party leader Sunil Jakhar confirmed that he would attend the lunch meeting. From Bathinda, Sardulgarh MLA Ajit Inder Singh Mofar said he would not attend the lunch as there was a tragedy in the family. Bhucho MLA Ajaib Singh Bhatti and Jaitu MLA Joginder Singh Punjgrain confirmed that they would be attending the lunch. Karan Kaur Brar, the Muktsar MLA, is also expected to attend the lunch. Parminder Singh Pinky, the Ferozepur MLA, is notlikely to attend. Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, MLA from Guru Har Sahai, is expected.

From Amritsar, all three MLA from the city -- OP Soni, Raj Kumar and Sukh Sarkaria -- are expected to attend the lunch. District rural Congress chief Gurdeep Aujla, former MLA Jugal Kishore Sharma and former district youth chief Dinesh Bassi are expected to attend the event. From Gurdaspur, MLAs Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa and Aruna Choudhary are expected to attend the lunch. Harminder Singh Gill and Gurchet Bhullar are not likely to attend the lunch.

Not many Congress leaders from Ludhiana are expected to attend the lunch. So far, only former president of district Congress Pawan Dewan and district president (rural) Malkit Singh Dakha have confirmed their visit. MLA Bharat Bhushan


UPDATE (4:10pm): Police confirmed the victim is a 26-year-old female from Hillsborough. She "remains in critical, but stable condition" according to the NBPD, which is investigating the crime.

"The initial investigation suggests the victim and the attacker were familiar with each other prior to the shooting," said the official press release.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Drew Weiss at (732) 745-5217.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Police responded to a "shots fired" call at approximately 3:35am this morning near the Hope Manor apartment complex at the intersection of Remsen Avenue and George Street.

According to police radio transmissions, authorities located a victim who had been shot multiple times in the vicinity of Hope Manor, one of the city's four public housing developments.

"I just had a caller said a female was shot sixtimes. She walked possibly from Remsen to Redmond," a dispatcher relayed to police on the scene.

Shortly thereafter, the victim was located on nearby Hope Manor Drive, a small road running through the housing development.

Police later determined that the scene of the shooting was just a few feet away where Remsen Avenue meets Welton Street, in front of the Sanford Bates House.

The Bates House is owned by the NJ Association on Correction (NJAC) and serves as transitional housing for parolees. From 1972 to 2005, it was a halfway house, one of the first in the state.

According to the NJAC website, the Bates House is funded by the New Jersey State Parole Board (NJSPB) as part of a program called Parolee Aftercare and Transitional Housing (PATH).

"PATH fulfills a new need


Generally, tire uniformity machines are used to test characteristics of tires after production. The testing may include measurement of the dimensional characteristics of the tire and the forces on the tire at varying loads. To accomplish load testing, the tire is brought into the tire uniformity machine, mounted on a chuck, inflated and rotated by a tire assembly coupled to the spindle of the chuck while a loadwheel is brought into contact with the periphery of the tire.
In existing tire uniformity machines, the tire is tested without being mounted on a rim. In this way, the chucking assembly of the tire uniformity machine is suitably sized to fill the generally cylindrical bore extending axially between the bead rings of the tire. Since the tire is inflated during testing,an airtight seal must be created between the tire and the chuck assembly. Typically, the chuck assembly is divided into upper and lower portions which converge at the tire to clamp the tire therebetween. Once the tire is clamped, it is inflated by air delivered through the chuck assembly and, then, rotated on the chuck assembly. To that end, one of the halves of the chuck is mounted on a driven spindle with the other being mounted on suitable bearings such that it may rotate with the driven half. Typically, the undriven half is moveable in the axial direction to raise or lower the tire to a testing position. After the tire is placed in the testing position, the spindle is rotated causing the tire to rotate at


Challenges of Being Latino in Corporate America

In light of the alarming statistic that even though Latinos make up nearly 20 percent of the U.S. population, they only represent 4 percent of executives in Corporate America, the authors of a new book shed light on why it’s critical to have more Latino and Latina leaders and how those leaders can excel.

The new book “Auténtico, The Definitive Guide to Latino Career Success” is co-authored by Latino executives Andrés Tomás Tapia, a senior partner and Inclusion Strategies Solutions leader at Korn Ferry, and Robert Rodríguez, PhD.

In this book, the authors explore the Latino version of the corporate success narrative by interviewing 20 successful Latino and Latina Baby Boomer, GenX, and Millennial executives and emerging leaders.

Some of the Latino executives who offerimportant advice include Darren Rebelez, President of IHOP; Paul Raines, CEO of GameStop; Monica Lozano, board director for Target Corporation and Bank of America; and Jorge Figueredo, executive vice president of Human Resources at McKesson.

The book delivers the following insights:

Candid descriptions of what the Latino leader experience has been in a corporate America still mired in conscious and unconscious biases
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Corpus Christi singer Selena would have turned 42 today

Tejano star was killed by Yolanda Saldívar in 1995

Susan Robinson of Birmingham, England, on Monday tours the Selena Museum, 5410 Leopard St. in 2010.

CORPUS CHRISTI - If she had not been shot to death by Yolanda Saldívar in 1995, Selena Quintanilla would be turning 42 Tuesday.

Selena began her career singing around South Texas with her band Selena y Los Dinos in the late 1980s. Her fame grew in the 1990s, selling hundreds of thousands of albums and earning awards from English and Spanish entities alike.

Considered by many as the queen of Tejano, Selena was about to break into the American pop music mainstream. But it all came to an end March 31, 1995, when she was killed at the age"Talking About My Love" (Chris Leslie, Nigel Stonier) - 2:40
 "Now Be Thankful" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) - 3:45
 "The Crowd Revisited" (Anna Ryder) - 2:35

Personnel
 Simon Nicol – guitar, vocals
 Gerry Conway – percussion, drums
 Dave Pegg – bass guitar, vocals
 Chris Leslie – mandolin, violin, vocals, tenor banjo, electronic mandolin
 Ric Sanders – violin, electric piano, baritone violin

Additional personnel
 Ian Anderson – flute
 Cropredy Crowd – clapping
 Chris Knibbs – trombone
 Julie Matthews – vocals
 Chas McDevitt – trumpet
 Anna Ryder – piano, accordion, french horn, vocals, penny whistle
 Mark Tucker – electric guitar, e-bow
 Chris While – vocals

Production personnel
 Mark Tucker – producer, engineer, mixing
 John Dent – mastering
 Colin Edwards – photography
 Dave Pegg – producer
 Mick Toole – CD art adaptation, cover


Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Doing some digging.

It's raining outside, so I thought I would spend some time this morning researching the history of my house. The details are fuzzy. The only things I can find are the deeds which indicate when the property was sold or transferred. The actual construction of the house is still dated as 1946 by the county tax office. Here's what I know so far.

JM Brown established a law office in Albemarle in 1878. He had a son, R. Lane Brown. At the time of JM Brown's death, the property was known as the Brown Estate. In 1928, Lane Brown (Wife Lila A.) partitioned the Estate creating a community called Oakdale. Now Seventh Street, it was originally known as Emmitt Street. I can't find areference to anyone by that name. Here's the layout of the community taken from the Stanly County GIS website. Lots 41 and 42 became my property and are shaded in yellow.

On September 28, 1934, the Brown Estate was divided and sold off due to a judgment against Lane Brown and DS Lippard, Admr. Lippard owned the Pontiac dealership that sits at the intersection of Main St, Pee Dee Avenue, and Fifth Street. There's a restaurant in that building now. It's called Pontiac. I haven't found any information yet on what caused the judgment, but assuming the dates, I'd say it was related to losses during the Great Depression.

The following is a timeline of ownership beginning in 1928.

1928 - Oakdale was created from the property formerly known as the


Aceh District. The implementation of calcium supplementation in health centres in large Aceh is not always the same in terms of the time and amount of calcium supplements. Prevention of the incidence of pre-eclampsia can be done by giving calcium supplements by doctors, and midwives, especially in rural areas. The results of observations and data from the Aceh Besar Health Service showed the highest cases of pregnant women who experienced pre-eclampsia in the Kutabaro community health centre. In 2018 at the Pukesmas Kutabaro District of Aceh, there were 29 cases of pregnant women who had pre-eclampsia, 2 of whom were cases of eclampsia. The case of pregnant women who experience pre-eclampsia is increasing in the following year.

Pre-eclampsia events contribute to maternal deaths. Data from the Aceh Provincial HealthShocking: The Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has said she was racially abused by a fellow passenger while travelling on a train.

Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has revealed she was racially abused by a fellow train passenger who told her: 'I ain't sitting near a Muslim'.

The baker, raised by Bangladeshi parents in Luton, said a man told her he would not sit beside her because of her faith.

Hussain, 31, has previously said she has to live with racist abuse as 'part of my life'.

Last night, the mother-of-three tweeted: 'A man refused to sit next to me on the train today "I ain't sitting near a Muslim" he said. His ignorance is his own ruin.'

Mrs Hussain, who won the 2015 series, said in August that she was


'astounded' to be credited with having a positive impact on race relations in the UK because she still suffers anti-Islamic abuse.

Fellow Bake Off star Rav Bansal admitted the same happened to him - while hundreds of fans gave their support and begged to sit next to her.

Mr Khan star and broadcaster Adil Ray, who has also been a victim of racist abuse, jokingly asked her: 'Were you eating a doner kebab again Nadiya?' The star baker responded: 'Mmmmm not this time'.

Since winning the Bake Off she amassed millions of fans and carved out a highly lucrative career, but the mother of three has revealed she has suffered so much racist abuse during her life that she has come to expect it.

The 31-year-old star, one of six children bornpast. Her life has been transformed by the success of the show. She now has her own newspaper column, has written a cookbook and is preparing to release her first novel.

About 15million viewers watched her triumph in an highly emotional final last year which even had veteran judge Mary Berry wiping away the tears. But Nadiya admits there were times, particularly during the early stages, when she regretted taking part.

The Great British Bake Off last year catapulted her to fame - and meant her life as a housewife would never be quite the same again.

But Nadiya Hussain admits she misses her old way of life and has hit out at the 'stigma' attached to stay-at-home mums.

The 31-year-old confessed she longed for the days when she could spend more


my old life sometimes.' Before appearing on the programme last year,

Support: Fellow Bake Off star Rav Bansal admitted the same happened to him - while hundreds of fans gave their support and begged to sit next to her

Family: Her husband Abdal with children Musa, nine, and Dawud, eight, and five-year-old daughter Maryam

Nadiya was a full-time mother and lived with her husband Abdal, who she wed in an arranged marriage when she was 19. She had only met him once.

Since her victory she has published her own cookbook, baked a cake for the Queen's 90th birthday and is set to star in her own TV show in which she travels to Bangladesh to embrace her culinary roots.

She said disappearing for weeks during the filming of the BBC show -As Cody Tomuri fought to stay alive, the words of his surgeon rang in his ears: "You're a fighter. If anyone can beat this, it's you. Those kids of yours, they're beautiful - they need you."

Tomuri twice fought at the world Muay Thai kickboxing championships during a 13-year, 30-bout amateur career. But the toughest challenge for the Masterton father of two was a haemorrhaging blood vessel near his brain which, doctors said, should have killed him.

Tomuri, 35, a former pool lifeguard, calls his brush with death "the hardest fight of my life".

One night last November, he came home from training at his Queen St Muay Thai gym and was hit by a violent headache. Inside his head, a weak spot in an artery wall had given way, blown


up like a balloon and burst - flooding the inside of his skull with blood and squeezing his brain.

A surgeon later told him it was one of the worst aneurysm bleeds he had seen.

He was flown by helicopter to Wellington Hospital for an emergency craniotomy - a procedure like opening a "small trapdoor" in the skull, according to neurosurgeon Andrew Parker, who performed it.

The burst blood vessel was located and sealed with a tiny "bulldog clip", but the danger was far from over. After the surgery, Tomuri's parents were told to say their goodbyes - but he refused to go, spurred on by Parker's words.

He came to a week later. Parker told him he'd survived a "grade 4 bleed". "I asked him what that meant and he said,‘Death'."

Tomuri became a minor hospital celebrity, with staff wanting to meet "the man who beat the bleed".

"[Parker] goes to me, if I was you, mate, I'd go and buy a Lotto ticket because you don't know what you've just beaten."

Parker said one in 10,000 people could expect a haemorrhaging cerebral aneurysm and, of those, half would die "stone dead on the spot". Of the others, half were left badly disabled.

There was no evidence of a link between kickboxing and Tomuri's illness, which was more likely to have resulted from a genetic predisposition. In fact, his "miracle" recovery was probably down to his extreme fitness. "He was one of the fittest patients we're ever likely to see . . . the stronger you are, the better you do."

Tomuri has


As Theresa May scrambled frantically to present her Ireland ‘deal‘ as anything less than the utter capitulation it was, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gave a landmark, statesmanlike speech in Geneva on the great challenges facing us.

What few may know – because the ‘MSM’ have been largely silent on it – is that Corbyn was also in Geneva to receive the international MacBride Peace Prize in recognition of his decades of commitment and service to peace.

The award is presented jointly by the International Peace Bureau (IPB) and the World Democratic Forum. The reasons for the award are described on the event’s website:

Jeremy Corbyn is awarded – for his sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace. As an active member, vice-chair and now vice-president of the Campaign forNuclear Disarmament in the UK he has for many years worked to further the political message of nuclear disarmament. As the past chair of the Stop the War Campaign in the UK he has worked for peace and alternatives to war. He has ceaselessly stood by the principles, which he has held for so long, to ensure true security and well-being for all – for his constituents, for the citizens of the UK and for the people of the world.

Congratulations Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour leader has frequently been on the right side of history in his political stands, in spite of constant Establishment criticism, and has received a little of the recognition due.

Let’s hope it’s not long before similar recognition at the ballot box sweeps him and his


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Though Lady Chastity Chatterley's first publication in the realm of
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Thursday, May 11, 2017

President Donald Trump's sudden decision to fire FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, May 9, stunned the political world — the bureau was investigating possible ties between Trump's election campaign and Russia, meaning Trump is the first president to remove the person leading an investigation with ties to the White House since Richard Nixon.

Comey's termination arrived with little warning. A whirlwind exploded in the White House press offices, according to accounts from the press corps, the affair was greeted with bipartisan skepticism and wall-to-wall news coverage for which the president's team seemed unprepared.

In Washington, lawmakers are demanding evidence in the Russia investigation as the White House defends firing the FBI director. The Senate Intelligence Committee -- using


Friday marks the 150th birthday of what is now Towson University.Known originally as the Maryland State Normal School, the institution opened its doors on Jan. 15, 1866.Since then, the school has occupied four locations and undergone four name changes.It's now Maryland's second-largest public university with more than 22,000 students.

Friday marks the 150th birthday of what is now Towson University.

Known originally as the Maryland State Normal School, the institution opened its doors on Jan. 15, 1866.

Since then, the school has occupied four locations and undergone four name changes.

It's now Maryland's second-largest public university with more than 22,000 students.game of cricket.

How to reach Vikas Mall

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The following correspondence between myself and the Head of Procurement at Wandsworth Clinical Commissioning Group in South West London maybe of interest to SHA members, and the idea contained in the exchange could be a way of thwarting CCGs from putting out to tender services previously provided by the NHS.

I put the question below to the Wandsworth Clinical Commissioning Group(SW London) at their meeting on 10 July 2013,

‘The Government is committed to creating a level playing field for all qualified providers tendering for services from the NHS.

In the ‘Statutory Instruments 2013 No 500 National Health Service, England Public Procurement, England The National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition)(No 2) Regulations 2013, it states that,

-the relevant body must:

treat providers equally and in a non-discriminatory way, including by nottime difference _t 1 – t2_ can be several months or more. For close binaries this can exceed the period of the stars' orbital motion. If that were the case, the light emitted from the later position, _A,_ traveling faster, would reach earth _before_ that emitted from C. During part of its orbit the star would appear to be moving backward! Numerous peculiar effects of this nature would be expected. On some occasions two images of the same star would be observed. The fact that no such effects are detected conclusively rules out the emission theories, or so it was thought at the time.

_The FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction_

Finally, we examine the most interesting of the attempts to reconcile the Michelson-Morley result with conventional theory—the proposal, first put forward by George


the train and along the track. Each set of clocks is synchronized within its own frame.

Fig. 3.11. The events of fig. 3.10 are shown as they appear in the train frame. The two events occur at the same place; hence the time interval between them is proper and is shorter than the interval between the same events measured in the ground frame. The proper time interval is read directly off a single clock, X.

Figure 3.10 indicates the precise measurements that ground observers carry out to determine the rate at which a particular train clock, labeled X, is running. At event 1 (fig. 3.10a), X is adjacent to ground clock _A;_ suppose they both read 12:00 at that moment. Some time later, say, at 12:15 according to ground clocks,if _x, y, z,_ and _t_ denote the coordinates of an event measured in some frame _S_ , what are the coordinates _x', y', z',_ and _t'_ of the same event measured in another frame, _S'_ , that moves at velocity _V_ relative to _S_?

As we have already noted, the classical solution to the problem, the Galilean transformation (eq. [1.1]), is inconsistent with Einstein's postulates and must be rejected. Our task here is to derive its replacement, the Lorentz transformation.

The new transformation law must satisfy several requirements:

(i) The transformation should be _linear._ That is, _x'_ must be expressible in the form

_x ' = ax + by + cz + dt_

in which the coefficients a, _b, c,_ and _d_ depend only on _V._ Similar expressions hold for _y'_ ,


distances up to 3 billion light-years have been assigned. Such estimates are subject to considerable uncertainty, but no better way of estimating such great distances is available.

For cosmological purposes, the more distant an object, the more interesting it is; by observing a very faraway source we are probing the universe deeply not only in space but also in time: the light we receive from the source today was emitted a very long time ago. If the universe evolves, the very distant sources provide direct information about conditions during its early history.

_Cosmological Principle_

In ancient cosmologies the earth was the center of the universe. That notion was challenged by some Greek thinkers and was finally abandoned with the acceptance of the Copernican system, which relegates the earth to an inconspicuoushe comes home with me.

Holding him in his blanket. he doesn't like being woken up.

Teja holding Prick for the first time.

He is in a dog carrier while I clean his bin.

After his bath, which he did not like getting.

Ive cropped this picture for my steam avatar.

Another bath picture.

At home in his bin. When he gets upset he has been known to put his paw on top of the car and shove it into the side of his bin.

Running in his wheel. He does this all night long.

Going to hide from the camera.

Running in his wheel before his accident. As you can see in the above picture Prick at one point had wood shavings in his bin. One night as I was cleaning his cage out I went to


as much since the accident but when I do hold him he is more calm after a few minutes. Before his accident he would get huffy when I held him and try to get away. Now he tried to fall asleep in my arms.

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Prick anointing himself. Sorry for the quality. Prick running in his wheel and around his bin.

Pricks first fan art by a Manly Awesome Redditor

Edgar Allan Poe

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures further south.


How Russia Has Been Hedging Its Bets on Syria

Since Russia callously vetoed the first UN resolution on Syria in October last year, many struggled to discern Kremlin's long-standing support and reluctance to directly condemn the Assad regime for the use of violence against its own people. As the violence continues unabated and Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan, whose terms were softened by Russia, is yet to be fully implemented by the Syrian Regime since it went into effect on April 12, I predict that Russia will ultimately gain influence in Syria and more broadly in the region as a political solution is brokered.

After Leonid Brezhnev, then president of the Soviet Union, signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation with Hafez Al-Assad in 1980, Russia has forged an enduringalliance with Syria. This has supported military cooperation between the two nations, strengthening Syria's stance in the region and has also been instrumental in countering the U.S.-Israeli hegemony balance, established during the Cold War.

As the Syrian government douses its Soviet designed T-72 tanks in sky blue paint and dresses up its military in Police uniforms as the UN observers pass through the main flash-points of the uprising, Russia continues to hedge its bets in terms of its policy on Syria. The peace plan separately proposed by Russia is a show of its strength and influence in the region. Fully implementing the peace-plan, which includes enforcing a cease-fire and a commitment to addressing "the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the Syrian people," would be a death-sentence for the Assad


regime. As a result the Syrian regime's acceptance of Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan can be seen as an appeasement to its Russian Allies, and has only served to buy the Assad regime more time to contain the revolt and further divide the opposition.

Russia vetoed the UN Security Council resolution on Syria twice, first in October then again in February, despite the fact that the draft resolutions did not impose sanctions nor authorize military action. Russia claimed that it offered too many concessions towards anti-government protestors and would prejudge a dialogue between the various oppositional groups. It also alleged that following a similar resolution on Libya earlier last year, NATO had exceeded its mandate under the UN Security Council resolution, which ultimately allowed a military intervention to takeplace in Libya. Before the uprising in Libya, Russia maintained close ties with Qaddafi through billions of dollars worth of arms, oil and gas exploration contracts and a project to build a railway between Surt and Benghazi. Since the UN Security Council imposed sanctions on Libya, Russian arms exporter Rosboronexport has lost billions of dollars in sales and the fate of the contracts signed between Russia and Libya under Qaddafi remain uncertain since it was not part of the coalition that ended the Qaddafi regime. As result, Russia intends to maintain its influence in brokering a peace in order to prevent a similar fate for itself in Syria.

Furthermore, since 2007, 72% of arms imported into Syria have come from Russia. Russia has maintained a close relationship with the


Assad regime in order to ensure the billion-dollar market for arms. In addition, the port at Tartus is an important military base and an entry point for Russia to the rest of the Middle East. As a result, Syria continues to be of geographic importance through the borders it shares with Israel, Iraq and its proximity to neighboring Iran, another close political and economic ally to both Syria and Russia that has become increasingly important in light of recent deteriorating relations with the West. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, Russia has been involved in developing the energy industry in Iran through Russian companies Gazprom and Lukoil. If Syria is destabilized, the alliance forged over decades between Syria, Iran and Russia will be destabilized andIran risks becoming politically unstable as well.

As Bashar's prospect for containing the uprising look increasingly dimmer in the long run, Russia's approval of the peace plan signals its loss of patience with the Syrian regime. Although Russia is far from supporting UN sanctions against Syria, within the last few weeks Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has already criticized the Syrian governments excessive use of force and lack of reforms. Russia may be planning for a future in Syria without Bashar Al-Assad and hopes to act as broker for peace to retain influence in Syria and more broadly in the region. Vladimir Putin leveraged his new Presidency weight behind the implementation of Kofi Annan's six-point plan, stating that Assad regime would comply, in its latest show of strength and


time they noticed the window without a hole, making it difficult to estimate a timeframe for the incident.

SHIRTLESS

Officer Evan Brent reported he went to the Warwick Medical Walk-in Center at 1131 Warwick Ave. around 1:45 p.m. on March 7. A man who was there seeking treatment told him he was driving on West Shore Road when the vehicle in front of him stopped in the middle of the road. He said he gave the driver a quick “beep to alert the driver” when the driver threw up her hands in an aggressive way with the passengers in the car all giving him the middle finger. He said he activated his directional to pull into the Walgreens at Warwick Avenue and the other vehicle followed him into the lot.He said the male passenger in the car got out and ran toward him and he exited his car to engage in a fight. He said the two females in the car got out and joined in the assault and his shirt and sweatshirt came off. He said the attackers then got up and grabbed his shirt and sweatshirt and left the scene. He said he didn’t want to file a criminal complaint but did want the incident on record.

SHOPLIFTING

Officer Michael Harris went to the Stop & Shop in Meadowbrook on March 10 to take custody of a shoplifting suspect. Loss prevention at the store told Harris they saw Catharine E. Hickey, 49, of 88 Beech Ave. in Cranston conceal a variety of items in reusable bags before


from a bench and left her iPad for about 10 minutes and discovered that the iPad was gone when she returned. She said she checked with employees later in the day but no one turned the iPad in. She said the iPad was worth $500. No suspects or witnesses.

A Warwick man told police he put his jacket in an unlocked locker at Healthtrax on Post Road around 6:30 a.m. on March 3 and forgot that he left his wallet in the pocket of the jacket. When he returned several hours later, he noticed the wallet was missing. He said it contained $21 in cash and a credit card and his Social Security card, VA card, Medicare card and his driver’s license.Rician factor increases. It is thus clear that the unique problem of “degradation of reception quality upon stabilization of the propagation environment in the spatial multiplexing MIMO system”, which does not exist in a conventional single modulation signal transmission system, occurs in the spatial multiplexing MIMO system.
Broadcast or multicast communication is a service directed towards line-of-sight users. The radio wave propagation environment between the broadcasting station and the reception devices belonging to the users is often an LOS environment. When using a spatial multiplexing MIMO system having the above problem for broadcast or multicast communication, a situation may occur in which the received electric field strength is high at the reception device, but degradation in reception quality makes it impossible to receive the service. In other words, in


Fixture

Away to Pontyberem 06/01/2018

New Year, new venue, first time at Pontyberem for Saints and after a convincing win at home in September by 24 points to 5, a good result was hoped for, to turn the club’s playing fortunes around after a bad run of four defeats.

The opening stages were scrappy but hard fought with both sides looking for opportunities to open the scoring but it was twenty minutes before the home side broke the duck from a scrum, with a routine score through a gap in Saints defence by their inside centre and a simple conversion for the outside half.

The visitors were finding it hard to establish any clear pattern of attack and mistakes on a slippery surface foiled many promising moves to strike a telling blowbefore number 10 Jake Philpin, on his debut, collected a loose ball on half way and showing a good turn of speed outpaced all the home side chasers to score his first try for Saints under the posts, converted by James Davies to level the scores.

Unfortunately Saints undid all this good, though slightly fortuitous turn of events, by then conceding a try immediately after the restart to go in at half time 12 points to 7 down.

Five minutes into the second half Llyr Ebsworth, playing in an unaccustomed wing position, levelled the scores with a good try in the corner and this set the scene for what turned into a thrilling final session of rugby with both sides looking to gain the upper hand in some end to


in all their acts. Still the fact remains that in the summer of 1914 Europe was at peace. Fifty years before, Germany had wrested Alsace-Lorraine from France. However, reluctant, France had accepted the situation, and the lines of the great countries were well established and had remained so for years. On the 28th of June, 1914, an Austrian prince and princcss were killed in Serbia. This murder grew out of political differences that were not new. The assassination of the prince and princess caused little comment in the world. The death of a prince to the most of us was no more than the death of any other man. Had it been a brakeman, it would probably have attracted the same attention, for a brakeman is of someservice to the world, but a prince—is a prince. This incident seemed to have been forgotten until July 23, when Austria sent her demand to Serbia. At that time all Europe, except Austria and Germany, believed that any serious trouble over the death of a prince had passed. Even the Kaiser was absent in Norway secrctly preparing an alibi for the most terrible assassination the world has ever known.

Serbia was an independent state, and this demand called on her to suppress all anti-Austrian propaganda and all Serbian papers hostile to Austria; to disband the national society, to dismiss teachers and officials connected with anti-Austrian propaganda and, lastly, to give up her own sovereignty and become a vassal of Austria! The note gave Serbia forty-eight hours in which to