the past."

Gipp's verse serves as a coded critique of mass incarceration. As new correctional facilities sprouted around the nation, the Atlanta City Detention Center opened Downtown at 254 Peachtree St. the year of Soul Food's release. Gipp acknowledges the new jail in an often-misinterpreted line meant to highlight the pervasive prison industrial complex: "They got some new suites down Peachtree/Left wing for the Feds, right wing for the hardheads," he raps, distinguishing inmates facing federal charges from local.

Twenty years later, the War on Drugs is increasingly viewed as a failed effort, fiscally and socially. Even conservatives are pushing for sweeping reforms to the criminal justice system today, as critics acknowledge the inherent racial disparity of America's drug policies and the devastating impact on communities of color.

Former President Clintonhas also apologized in hindsight for the "three strikes" law. "I signed a bill that made the problem worse and I want to admit it," he told NAACP conventioneers in Philadelphia last August while campaigning for his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. But he also reminded current critics that the loudest outcry over crime in the '90s often came from black community leaders. It's a fact that's often ignored today in light of the criticism aimed at the Black Lives Matter-led focus on police killing African-Americans. For decades, the black community has been at the forefront of fighting crime within the community. That was the main motivation behind the Million Man March. And it continues today, despite "black-on-black crime" being exposed as a loaded misnomer.

"Maybe his life was


will be piped to televisions across the country.

Seems highly unlikely today considering the state of Atlanta's mainstream rap talent. But that's exactly what happened in 1996. Months after Soul Food hit the streets, scoring gold sales, BET's now-defunct youth talk show "Teen Summit" came to Atlanta with host Prince DaJour to roll with the Mob.

The episode opens with an interview at Big A Car Wash on Campbellton Road — where a shirtless CeeLo drops knowledge alongside his brethren — and ends with a soul food sit-down at the Beautiful on Cascade Road. In between, the members straight mobbed on Georgia's infamous Confederate battle flag.

"It's just a reminder that it still exists," CeeLo said at the time, back turned to the flag. "Whatever that flag is supposed to symbolizeone state over by a white supremacist who hoped to start a race war, the Confederate flag wars flamed again throughout the South. It looked like 1995 all over again.

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‘WTF HAS THIS POLITICIAN DONE FOR YOU?’: Former Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich and former Gov. Zell Miller are just some of the local and national politicians skewered on Soul Food.

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Twenty years ago, James Andrew Coleman was in the midst of waging an ultimately fruitless fight to banish Georgia's Confederate flag after filing a federal lawsuit against the state.

Not even the international attention of the forthcoming Olympics could shake Georgia lawmakers from their Confederate perch. Liberal icon and former President Jimmy Carter knew better than to go against the state's Confederate legacy. "We should take the attitude that


this flag is not racist in nature," the eventual Nobel Peace Prize winner said while the case was still pending in 1996. Former Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial board member and black journalist John Head compared Coleman's lawsuit to the absurd pursuits of Don Quixote. In what was meant to be a supportive editorial, he likened the suit to "tilting at windmills" and called Coleman's chances "slim and none."

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals eventually confirmed as much with a 1997 ruling that criticized the flag yet upheld its constitutionality.

When Governor Roy Barnes led the charge to remove the Confederate emblem from the state flag in 2001, he learned that old traditions die hard. Barnes became the state's first incumbent governor to lose a reelection bid. Republicans recaptured the state's'ATALANTA'

"South of the North, yet north of the south, lies the City of a Hundred Hills, peering out from the shadows of the past into the promise of the future."

— W.E.B. DuBois

Before there was Soul Food, there was The Souls of Black Folk.

Published in 1903, W.E.B. DuBois' definitive work practically predicts Goodie Mob's critical view of Atlanta nearly 100 years later, Hobson says. DuBois penned it during his professorship at the Atlanta University Center on the present-day campus of Morris Brown, where T-Mo and Khujo would one day walk in his footsteps as enrollees.

Like two bookends, The Souls of Black Folk and Soul Food frame the 20th century with a critical view of the black experience post-slavery and the future of Atlanta. But it's DuBois' chapter five essay,


"Of the Wings of Atalanta," Hobson argues, that draws a direct parallel to Soul Food.

In the essay, DuBois uses the legend of Atalanta as a metaphor for the city. The fast and beautiful Greek goddess would only marry a man who could beat her in a foot race. So when a suitor named Hippomenes sought the wisdom of Aphrodite to win Atalanta's eternal hand, he was given three golden apples to trick her. During the race he laid the apples before her and when Atalanta finally slowed to pick up the third one he caught her. In the end, their all-consuming love left them both cursed for life.

"This is what DuBois says," Hobson continues. "'If Atlanta be not named for Atalanta, she ought to have been,' because itends up being a city that falls in love with money and material rather than morality."

"Goodie Mob's Soul Food album speaks about Atlanta's autonomy. It looks at how this city has always been caught up with material wealth and what is useful in the eyes of a biracial coalition amongst the black political kingmakers and the white business elite. And what Goodie Mob asks is: 'But what has it done for the rest of the people?' That's what this album's about."

The question remains as relevant as ever.

Atlanta's public housing demolition, begun in preparation for the Olympics and completed approximately 15 years later, became the national model for ridding cities of public housing.

Now gentrification isn't just a concern for the downtrodden. The lower middle-class is suffering from displacement as


the city — and inner cities across the nation — transition to luxury playgrounds for the affluent.

In Downtown Atlanta, a new Falcons stadium is under construction across from Vine City to replace an old one, and an old stadium in Summerhill is being deserted by the Braves for a new one in Cobb County. Yet both of those inner city communities suffer similar disenfranchisement as they did two decades ago when the original stadiums were built in their backyards.

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THE LEAST OF THESE: “I feel cold inside like a man sitting on pavement under the bridge of I-20 West, the stress.” — Big Gipp, “I Didn’t Ask to Come”

Homelessness is still viewed as an eyesore rather than a social problem. As revitalization efforts move further inward, currentMayor Kasim Reed wants to close Atlanta's main homeless shelter with preliminary plans to scatter the homeless to smaller shelters throughout the city.

At its core, Atlanta remains the same: still suffering from racial and socioeconomic dysfunction; still padding pockets and selling out the disenfranchised; still cozying up to corporate greed and compromising its worth in the name of a come-up. The truth is no easier to digest now than it was then.

Maybe Soul Food was the canary in the mine. Maybe the members of Goodie Mob were prophets. Maybe they were just keeping it real.

Whatever the case, their message, their pain, their truths, have proven timeless. Maybe after two decades the nation can truly appreciate what they were saying all along.


the game."

Aramis Ramirez belted a two-run home run in the opening inning and Jean Segura
collected his first major league RBI with a ground out in the seventh for
the Brewers, who have won two straight on the heels of a three-game slide.

Zack Cozart ripped a double off Fiers leading off the seventh to break up the
perfect game and Brandon Phillips got the lone RBI on a sacrifice fly for the
NL Central-leading Reds, who have lost three straight.

Johnny Cueto (14-6) pitched well in defeat, allowing three runs on six hits
over seven innings with nine strikeouts, but it wasn't enough as the righty
lost for the first time since July 3.

Milwaukee struck for a pair of runs in its first at-bat. Ryan Braun was at
first courtesy of a fielder's choice, and Ramirezthen got a fastball from
Cueto and deposited it into the stands in left.

Cozart's two-bagger to left-center started the seventh against Fiers and ended
any chance of the franchise's first perfect game and second no-hitter. Cozart
was able to advance to second on a fly out to right by Drew Stubbs before
scoring on a sacrifice fly to deep center by Phillips.

Rickie Weeks doubled to deep center to begin the Milwaukee eighth and went to
third on a groundout by Jonathan Lucroy before scampering home on Segura's
groundout to third.

"The problem was their pitcher, he pitched a great game." Reds manager Dusty
Baker said. "That was one of the best games pitched against us in a long time.
There's not a lot we could do. He's very deceptive with his delivery."

Game Notes

Prior to Tuesday's loss, the


Pune by exploring in other locations like Bangalore, Chennai and Gurgaon wherein majority of its customers come from automobile, Information Technology and Engineering industries. It also has plans to expand Barbeque Nation brand from current 18 divisions in the country to around 33 divisions by the end of the year. The new Barbeque Nation restaurants will be opened in majorly in metropolitan seven cities such as Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune. The group’s turnover was roughly around Rupees 190 crore for the financial year 2010-11.

NEW DELHI: One of the pushiest area of South Delhi Vasant Kunj, take a stroll into Sector E and you get a chill down your spine. Rows and rows of vacant flats give a stare at you. It’s weird, hauntingmost preferred locations to stay in the city, has seen a drop. The Worli residential market saw a 21.31% drop last year, while the figure for Prabhadevi, Parel and Bandra (West) fell by 18%, 12% and 11.57%. “The rent in South Mumbai had gone up to the roof. It is still unaffordable. So, people are shifting towards the suburbs and outskirt of the city,” a real estate expert said. However, the rental value in the suburbs too has shot up radically. Borivli (West) witnessed a record of 42.25% growth, while the rates have shot up by 35.04% in Powai, 28.32% in Malad and 20.40% in Kandivli (East). The Mumbai metropolitan region too has seen a rise in rental value. The figure for Mira Road and Seawoods shot up


own. The DLF group company had
also launched, for the first time, its own brand, Pure Home and Living, a premier home decor and furnishing brand of retail showrooms. The first of the showroom opened in Delhi two months back competing with Future Group’s Home Town and Landmark Group’s Home Centre.

Mango, the Spanish Fashion Brand, with over 1,700 showrooms worldwide, decided to sign up DLF as partner to fast track its expansion after nearly a decade of operations in India. The Spanish Brand of clothing has been majorly in partnership with Major Brands through which it released almost 15 stores. DLF will be leading the new showrooms openings. DLF, which has already opened Mango’s travel retail showroom at the new terminal (T3) of New Delhi airport and plans tohad been more than doubled in the last four years, while the number of raids had came down. IT department searched 529 groups in 2006-07. The number of searches dropped to 454 in 2007-08, 429 in 2008-09 and 409 in 2009-10.

Over seven lakh of people had rowed up to try their luck to have one’s own house in Delhi and a majority of them were disappointed. But for the 16,118 people it was a short of miracle, who now finally have an address of their own. Though DDA had published the list in newspapers and also uploaded it on its website, many turned up at Vikas Sadan on Tuesday to ensure that it wasn’t a fantasy.

“Suresh Kumar Kher who works at the airport got lucky as he was


spreaded over 54 acres in all the phases. Firstly, they intend to develop one-tenth of the plot (5.4 acres) in first phase, for which they had made the building plan and had forwarded for the approval of the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA). In this context,” DLF has submitted a revised building plan for the Infopark project which is underscrutiny of BDA”.

After following the de-notification of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ), DLF had thought to develop the Infopark project under the STPI (Software Technology Parks of India) scheme.

DLF had made certain changes in its Infopark project which is to be built over 54 acres in the Infocity region of the city. DLF – real estate masters are interested on setting aside a greater area for non-processing facilities like shoppingmalls and multiplexes. This project which had to come up in three phases, comprises of an IT area, a luxury hotel, a chain of retails, service apartments and recreational facilities with a total built-up space of about 5.5 million sq ft. For the luxury hotel, DLF had tied up with Hilton which is a famous international hotel chain. For the first phase, DLF had committed an investment of Rupees 300 crores for developing an IT workspace of international standards which would be a built-up area of 5.7 lakh sq ft. This phase is scheduled to be operational within 18 months to 02 years after commencement of construction of work. The Infopark project may generate direct and indirect job opportunities for over 40,000 people in sectors like IT and


ITes (IT enabled services), retail and hospitality.

TATA Housing Development, a subsidiary of Tata Group is entering into its home market in Mumbai by taking up project of redeveloping of old building complexes. The developer has started operations pan India which has been restricted to building townships and residential complexes adjoining the Greater Mumbai.

Brotin Banerjee, Managing Director & CEO, TATA Housing Development said, “we expect to start doing the premium housing project of redevelopment of the societies in the western suburbs of Mumbai such as Andheri and Bandra. However, in such redevelopment projects societies normally they call for bids, which make it quite competitive. This was told to Financial Chronicle.

The company hopes that its reputation for ethical behavior would get preference even if its bid is lower than othersin Middle Earth, they were facing danger and battles of their own.

At the same time as the great armies besieged Minas Tirith a host of the allies of Sauron that had long threatened the borders of King Brand crossed the River Carnen, and Brand was driven back to Dale. There he had the aid of the Dwarves of Erebor; and there was a great battle at the Mountain's feet. It lasted three days, but in the end both King Brand and King Dáin Ironfoot were slain, and the Easterlings had the victory. But they could not take the Gate, and many, both Dwarves and Men, took refuge in Erebor, and there withstood a siege.
When news came of the great victories in the South, then Sauron's northern army was


filled with dismay; and the besieged came forth and routed them, and the remnant fled into the East and troubled Dale no more. Then Bard II, Brand's son, became King in Dale, and Thorin III Stonehelm, Dáin's son, became King under the Mountain. They sent their ambassadors to the crowning of King Elessar; and their realms remained ever after, as long as they lasted, in friendship with Gondor; and they were under the crown and protection of the King of the West.

From the Lord of the Rings appendices.
This attack was foreseen:

We discover that messengers have come also to King Brand in Dale, and that he is afraid. We fear that he may yield. Already war is gathering on his eastern borders. If we make no answer, the EnemyStudents at Marrickville Public School have put forward their vision for a greener, more sustainable and playful outdoor area, winning NSW finalist for the My Park Rules competition.

The My Park Rules competition, organized by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects invites pre-schools, day care centres, primary and high schools to submit their ideas on how to brighten and re-energise outdoor spaces.

After 100 entries and 30,000 votes cast across the nation, Marrickville Public School’s entry was judged the best in NSW

They will now go up against a school from each state and territory in their bid to win $100,000 to build the outdoor space of their dreams.

As part of this they have been partnered with a team from TRACT to turn their vision into a design.

I look forward to


you maintain your composure, your union will fight unequivocally with all of our resources and allies to right this wrong. Sincerely, Captain Mike Cleary

President

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Comment on this articleFotis Dulos’ five children visited him in the hospital in New York last month before he was taken off life support after police found him unconscious from an apparent suicide attempt inside his Connecticut garage, according to a statement issued by the family spokesperson Saturday.

Dulos was accused of murdering his wife Jennifer Dulos, whose body still has not been found after she first disappeared in May 2019 amid their contentious divorce and child custody battle. The couple’s five children had not seen their father since their mother first went missing and had been staying with their grandmother, Jennifer’s mother Gloria Farber, in New York.

"Five children have lost both parents in the span of eight months," Carrie Luft, the spokesperson for the family and friends of Jennifer Farber Dulos,


earlier that morning. Officers found Dulos in medical distress from an attempted suicide and forced entry into the garage, the Farmington Police Department said in a press release.

First responders performed CPR before rushing Dulos to UCONN John Dempsey Hospital in Farmington. He was then airlifted to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx for treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning. His sister, Rena Dulos, flew in from Greece to visit him before he was taken off life support Jan. 30.

"Mr. Dulos was tried and convicted in the court of public opinion. Now he has been executed,” Fotis Dulos’ attorney Norm Pattis said in a Jan. 30 statement, announcing his client’s death, according to Hartford's Fox 61. “We remain committed to demonstrating he did not murder Jennifer."

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Mr Richardson said while Europe is a "cauldron of risk", it would be prudent for the Reserve Bank to take a "wait and see" approach to rates.

"The rate cuts haven't necessarily stimulated the property market as the RBA would have hoped. So the Board may prefer, moving forward, to leave rates on hold and see what happens in Europe," he said.

Mr Richardson said potential home buyers were very cautious at the moment and, as such, not prepared to jump into the property market after a few rate cuts.

He said the housing market would broadly "head nowhere" for the next few years.

"This year will be fairly flat in terms of property price growth. Heading into 2013, I expect to see price growth in the range of 5 to 6


Hindu dharma is implicitly at odds with monotheistic intolerance.
What is happening in India is a new historical awakening... Indian intellectuals, who want to be secure in their liberal beliefs, may not understand what is going on. But every other Indian knows precisely what is happening: deep down he knows that a larger response is emerging even if at times this response appears in his eyes to be threatening.

Narendra Modi thinks a detergent named development will wash away the memory of 2002. In his speeches in the last year, he says, 'Gujarat is the growth engine of India that is why the Planning Commission, while fixing the growth target for the current Five Year plan, has given Gujarat a target of 10.2 per cent against the country's target ofnot on the map of India's IT sector, it boasts of the State Wide Area Network (GSWAN) -- the second largest in the world and largest such network in Asia.

Modi exploits this connectivity to reach out to the nooks and corners of 18,000 villages. All 25 districts and its talukas are connected live to the state headquarters. The state has set up SWAGAT (State-wide Attention on Grievances by Application of Technology) which is one of its kind.

If investments are not coming it is not because of the communal situation in Gujarat. Foremost, Gujarat does not have the lifestyle of Bangalore or Mumbai. The state's prohibition policy is a psychological barrier to attract highly talented young professionals.

Gujarat has entered an advanced stage of development, so freebies available to industrialists


have to say that development is above Hindutva. At that point, Modi watchers believe, he will lose his USP. How can any state have all-round prosperity without the meeting of minds of the minority and majority communities?

Why does Modi look invincible?

There are many reasons:

Because senior BJP leaders in Delhi are ageing and weakening. The BJP's second rank of leaders at the national level is full of individuals who are not in a position to win their own seats in an election. The BJP's meeting in Jharkhand recently showed that senior leaders acknowledge that Modi is their sole success story and is still popular amongst voters who elected him in 2002.

Second, his opponents in the state are in disarray. In Gujarat, the Congress doesn't have a single leader toto outsmart his rival camps. At the ground level, Modi is positioning himself as if he is a victim of the 'pseudo-secularist'' movement outside Gujarat.

One state cabinet minister asked mischievously: "Why are secular activists like Teesta Setalvad not as good in understanding the Hindu mind as they understand the Muslim mind?"

Modi is clearly positioning himself to encash these sentiments. The politics of the riot cases is his battleground. Ask any BJP leader and he will tell you that the Congress is behind the 'anti-Gujarat' campaign outside Gujarat. Re-investigations of some 2,000 cases will upset Hindus and will also harm the BJP's political interest but at the same time his party will claim that the Manmohan Singh government's 'anti-Hindu' political stance has worsened the situation and Modi is helpless.

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The $200m new roofed Forsyth Barr stadium in Dunedin should leased for grazing or dog walking, turned into an industrial park, converted into an indoor market garden, or a massive patch for growing cannabis or opium.

A guided walk across the top of the controversial facility, or its conversion into an IMAX theatre or film studios, were also among feedback to a Dunedin City Council community consultation exercise during the past month, designed to find ideas for increasing use of the controversial facility and how to make it pay.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull issued a call for help in the wake of the arena's poor financial performance and the mounting ratepayer debt it has created.

The plea attracted many positive responses around the creation of newStory highlights 117-year-old woman, Violet Moss-Brown, becomes the world's oldest person

She remembers when the first cars and planes came to Jamaica, her home country

(CNN) How to be the oldest person in the world? Don't drink rum, according to 117-year-old Jamaican Violet-Mosse Brown, recently dubbed the world's oldest human.

Brown -- otherwise known as Aunt V -- was born March 10, 1900, which is 67 years before Jamaica was founded. Good genes seem to run in the family; Brown's son is 97.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness congratulated Brown on the achievement.

The world's oldest human is Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on March 10, 1900. Congrats Violet. pic.twitter.com/AnjXdHK1Kz — Andrew Holness (@AndrewHolnessJM) April 15, 2017

According to a local Jamaican newspaper, The Gleaner, there is no secret formula to Brown's long


life. "Really and truly, when people ask what me eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken, and I don't drink rum and them things," Brown told The Gleaner.

Raised Christian, she has been a music teacher and church organist for over 80 years. After her husband's death in 1997, she took over his responsibilities and became a record-keeper for the local cemetery, a job she continued well after her 100th birthday.

Read More("UD") and member of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps ("ROTC"), brought claims against Defendant-Appellee the United States of America and its agency, the United States Army ROTC Battalion at UD, for violation of Lovely's rights under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, and for intentional infliction of emotional distress ("IIED") under the FTCA. Lovely's claims were based on actions taken by Lovely's ROTC commander in relation to a UD disciplinary proceeding initiated against Lovely by another ROTC cadet. The district court dismissed Lovely's IIED claim under the Feres doctrine, which precludes claims brought under the FTCA "for injuries to servicemen where the injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service." Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135, 146, 71 S.Ct.


153, 95 L.Ed. 152 (1950).[1] On appeal, Lovely argues that the district court erred in dismissing the IIED claim under Feres because Lovely was a UD student and not involved in any military activity at the time of his injury. For the reasons discussed below, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court dismissing Lovely's IIED claim as barred by the Feres doctrine.

I. BACKGROUND
Beginning in August 2001, Lovely was a student at UD and an ROTC cadet with an ROTC scholarship to UD. In the summer of 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Versalle Washington became the Professor of Military Science and Chair of the Department of Military Science at UD. As Professor of Military Science, Washington was the ROTC Battalion Commander at UD, with responsibility for training cadets so thatdefined by statute, Army regulation, and this contract, throughout the period of this contract." Id. If Lovely failed to complete the educational requirements or other terms of the contract or committed misconduct, he could either be ordered to active duty or instead be required to reimburse the United States for his educational costs paid under the contract.
In December 2003, Dr. Mark Ensalaco, Director of the Department of International Studies at UD, discovered that Lovely had plagiarized a research paper for one of Ensalaco's courses. At that time, Ensalaco orally told Washington of the plagiarism and offered to prepare for Washington a written statement about the plagiarism. It does not appear that Washington took Ensalaco up on the offer at that time.
In January 2004, a female cadet reported to


Washington that Lovely had sexually assaulted her in September 2003. She declined to press criminal charges, but accepted Washington's recommendation that she see a counselor at UD's counseling center. Upon the advice of Dr. Carol Cummins-Collier at the counseling center, the female cadet decided to pursue proceedings against Lovely through the UD disciplinary board. A UD disciplinary-board hearing was scheduled for February 17, 2004. The female cadet asked Washington if he would testify for her at the hearing, but he declined. The female cadet, however, already knew of Lovely's plagiarism and asked Washington to obtain a statement about the plagiarism from Ensalaco so that she could use it at the hearing to discredit Lovely. Washington contacted Ensalaco and asked him to send Washington the previously offered statement. Theappeal, and he was suspended on March 8, 2005.
In his complaint, Lovely makes several allegations that Washington took other actions against Lovely in relation to the hearing. Lovely alleges that Washington told other ROTC cadets that Lovely had admitted at the hearing that he had sexually assaulted the female cadet. Lovely also alleges that Washington told other cadets that they should support the female cadet and that Washington intimidated one of Lovely's witnesses so that the witness did not testify at the hearing.
After the UD disciplinary proceedings, Washington initiated proceedings to remove Lovely from the ROTC program. *781 Lovely claims that Washington improperly inserted himself into these proceedings by, for example, rejecting the suggestion of the UD Dean of Students that disenrollment could be prevented and insisting on


proceeding with disenrollment using UD's documents as supporting evidence. Lovely eventually was disenrolled from ROTC for misconduct, preventing any eligibility to re-enroll. Lovely also had to repay the ROTC scholarship money that he had been awarded.
Lovely filed a claim for damages with the Army, which was denied, primarily on the basis that Feres precluded Lovely, who was enlisted in the Army at the time of the alleged injury, from recovering for an injury incident to service. On June 9, 2006, Lovely filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio asserting a claim based on violation of the Privacy Act. Lovely then filed an amended complaint on November 6, 2006, adding his IIED claim under the FTCA. The amended complaint alleged that"Climbing to the Crest" a documentary about the opening of the United Federation of Teachers Elementary Charter School was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Noted politicians were on hand to show their support for the project and groundbreaking moment for the NY public school system.


The Mercers, secretive billionaires who are among President Trump's most powerful donors, also helped to fund Project Veritas, the controversial activist organization, tax filings obtained by BuzzFeed News show.

Gravitas Maximus LLC — a Mercer investment vehicle through which he also funded the conservative outlet Breitbart — gave $25,000 to Project Veritas, according to a nonpublic portion of a 2012 tax form. The family's involvement has not previously been made public.

The Mercer family did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The filings draw yet another connection in the web of conservative enterprises funded by Robert Mercer, who recently stepped down from his role as co-CEO of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies after a BuzzFeed News exposé revealed the connections among the Mercers, Breitbart, and white nationalists and neo-Nazis.

Project Veritashas come under intense scrutiny this week after one of its operatives, pretending to have been victimized by Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, tried to dupe the Washington Post. The scheme was uncovered by the Post on Monday. On Wednesday, BuzzFeed News published the names of two dozen donors to Project Veritas. A spokesperson for the organization responded that inquiries about donors were causing a spike in donations.

James O’Keefe, the organization's founder, came to national prominence for videos he made of employees of ACORN, a liberal organizing group, purportedly discussing illegal activities. He was later sued over the videos and paid out a six-figure settlement.

The tax filing listing several donations to Project Veritas was first surfaced by Nation Institute fellow Eli Clifton.


A Peterborough League Division Two match was abandoned at half-time on Saturday (December 10) after allegations of an assault by a Pinchbeck United reserve team player on referee Phil Hayes.

The alleged assault reportedly took place as the teams left the field at half-time in a match at Tydd St Mary when the home side were leading Pinchbeck 4-0.

Pinchbeck reacted quickly, issuing a club statement, and pulling their reserve team from the Peterborough League. It read: “Pinchbeck United Football Club are disgusted and appalled by the behaviour of one of our reserve players today.

“His actions are certainly not a representation of our football club and there is no place for that in football. We have already been in touch with the PDFL, Tydd St Mary and most importantly thestop at an intersection, nearly causing a collision with a police car. The officers performed a traffic stop and then arrested Morgan for failure to have a driver's license. While searching Morgan incident to his arrest, one of the officers discovered a single-edge razor blade in his pocket. After Morgan was placed under arrest, the same officer approached Morgan's vehicle and asked the female passenger to get out of the vehicle so that the other officer could question her. As she got out, she placed a soft drink container and a bag of potato chips on the driver's seat. After the passenger was questioned, one of the officers shined his flashlight into the driver's seat and saw a brown pill bottle inside the potato chip bag. The passenger


       Dec. 30, 1994.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of Texas.

Before WISDOM and JONES, Circuit Judges, and FITZWATER, District
Judge*.

       WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

       The plaintiff, Jerry Davis, seeks redress in federal court for

his loss of employment with the principal defendant, Ector County,

Texas.          Our decision today will only partially satisfy him:                In

part       we    affirm    and   in   part   we   reverse   the      District Judge of the Northern District of Texas, sitting
by designation.

                                             1
retaliation for his sending a letter, the contents of which we

detail below.    In so doing, he contends, they violated his First

Amendment rights and the Texas Whistle Blower Act1.

      Davis began his tenure with Ector County as an investigator

for the Permian Basin Drug Task Force ("Task Force") in June 1990.

As a Task Force employee, Davis came under the supervision of the

District Attorney who


at that time was Gary Garrison.            In October

of 1991, his wife, Connie Davis, filed a sexual harassment claim

against her employer, the Ector County Sheriff's Office, in the

Ector County Commissioners' Court.       At some point in this general

time frame, Garrison admonished the plaintiff not to involve the

Task Force or the District Attorney's office in his wife's lawsuit.

As part of that warning, Garrison told Davis to stay away from the

Sheriff's office and keep to a minimum his contacts with the

Sheriff's employees.

      The defining moment of this action came when Davis sent a

letter to the Ector County Commissioners' Court.           In        2
public image.2      He asserts that he also sought to stave off a

potential official coverup of sexual harassment in the Sheriff's

Office.

      When Garrison learned that Davis had written the letter to the

court, he felt that Davis had defied him and he promptly terminated

Davis's employment.       Davis believes that he was terminated because

he exercised his First Amendment rights and because he reported a

violation   of     law   to   the   Ector    County   Commissioners'    Court.

Accordingly, he filed suit.           The defendants answered


with the

defense that Davis was discharged for insubordination and, in

particular, enmeshing the Task Force in the private affairs of his

wife.

      Davis's suit touched off a meandering procedural journey that

dismissed and reinstated claims and parties alike.               In his First

Amended Complaint, Davis alleged five causes of action, each

relating to specific defendants.            He alleged that Ector County and

Garrison violated his First Amendment rights;              that Ector County

violated his rights under the Texas Whistle Blower Act;              March 1993, however, the district court granted Davis's

motion to reinstate his Whistle Blower claim.   In the interim, on

January 1, 1993, John Smith began his term as District Attorney of

Ector and, as such, replaced Garrison as the named defendant in the

suit against the District Attorney in his official capacity.

     Eventually a jury trial was held.     The jury found against

Smith, in his official capacity as District Attorney, and against

Ector County on both the First Amendment and Whistle Blower claims.

The jury awarded Davis $90,800 in compensatory damages and $200,000

in punitive damages.    In accordance with the jury's verdict, the

district court held that Davis take nothing from Brookshire in his

individual or official capacities and that Ector County and Smith

were liable


                    I. The First Amendment

      The defendants assign three distinct errors to the trial

court's judgment against them on Davis's First Amendment claim.

First, they contend that the court erred in instructing the jury

that Davis's speech was on a matter of public concern.                 Second,

they contend that the court should have granted their motion for

judgment on the grounds that the state's interest in promoting the

efficiency of public services outweighed Davis's and the public's

interest in the speech in question.          Last, the defendants contend

that                              11
district attorney.31     Still, none of those attributes displaces the

"[o]ther and more significant factors" that militate in favor of

viewing the district attorney as a county official.32    The district

attorney's office is limited to exercising its powers in Ector

County, it is elected by Ector County voters, and it is supported

with Ector County funds.33    In sum, although the office (like Ector

County itself) is a creation of the state, all of its functioning

is county-based.

      The present matter is a case in point.    Garrison enjoyed free

reign


     Davis

reported violations alleged to have occurred in the Sheriff's

department, by whom he has never been employed.        Using that logic,

they similarly charge that Davis's report did not concern his

"employer".

      The workplace and employer in this case, however, is Ector

County, not merely Davis's immediate supervisor.         If we gave the

statute the narrow construction that the defendants urge, a whistle

     41
      Implicit in this conclusion is a rejection of the
defendants' charge that the trial court erred when it
incorporated the holding in Castaneda in the jury instructions.
In fact, the district court, in reinstating the claim, was guided
by the holding                      III.

     In accordance with the foregoing, the trial court judgment is

AFFIRMED on the First Amendment issues and REVERSED and REMANDED on

the Texas Whistle Blower Act issues.53

     FITZWATER, District Judge, concurring in part and dissenting
in part:

     I join completely the majority's resolution of plaintiff's

First Amendment claim, and therefore concur in part I of its

opinion.    I also agree with certain portions of the majority's

analysis   of    plaintiff's     Texas     Whistle     Blower      Act


The Raiders have announced they have signed veteran free agent defensive lineman Andre Carter. Reports came out earlier today that the team had cut Joseph Barksdale. While he was not practice, he was spotting leaving the Raiders practice facility with his belongings in hand. The team has made that cut official as the corresponding move to clear a roster spot for Carter.

Carter earned his first Pro Bowl selection last season, after totaling 10 sacks with the Patriots. He had played in 110 consecutive games before being placed on injured reserve late last season with a leg injury.

The 6-foot-5, 260-pound Carter is a 12th-year NFL veteran, having played for San Francisco, Washington and New England since entering the league as the 49ers' first-round selection (seventh overall) in the 2001NFL Draft, just one pick after the Patriots drafted Carter's new Raiders teammate Richard Seymour.

Carter has played in 163 career games with 147 starts, totaling 76 sacks, 23 passes defensed, 17 forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries. His 76 career sacks ranks eighth among active NFL players.

Carter has recorded 10 or more sacks in a season four times during his career, including a career-high 12.5 sacks with the 49ers in 2002. He totaled 10.5 sacks in 2007 and 11 in 2009, both with the Redskins.

The San Jose native played his collegiate career as Cal and finished as the school's all-time leader with 31 sacks, earning unanimous first-team All-America selections from the Associated Press and The Sporting News as a senior. He prepped at Oak Grove High School in


"Stick with me, Abbott pleads" is the headline of the Sydney Morning Herald on this glorious global warming day of the 23rd of January in the godly graceful year of 2015...

It's barely 8:30 (summer time) in the morning and the temperature is already above long-term MAXIMUM average. With the BoM, and the various news outlet, it's hard to know. The SMH posts 27 on its mast head, with a maximum of 28 — the ABC posts 25.9 with a maximum of 30, while the weather chart of the SMH shows it's 25.3 with a maximum of 29...

Francis Richard Conolly's well-reasoned documentary chronicles the rise of the moneyed elite and the means employed to control history and undermine democratic institutions since WWI. It is a long film - threeand half hours - and worth every minute.

Swedenborg ... went into a little inn in Bishopsgate Street, and was eating his dinner very fast when he thought he saw in the corner of the room a vision of Jesus Christ, who said to him, "Eat slower". This was the beginning of all his visions and mysterious communications.

How many insults does the European Union expect Russia to bear without consequences? Ethnic cleansing of Russian people by the Brussels-backed Kiev regime, a refugee crisis on Russia’s borders, economic sanctions based on groundless accusations hurting Russian society – and now this – the neo-Nazi cabal that seized power in Ukraine with CIA backing last year has repeatedly been found guilty of siphoning off Russia’s natural gas exports to the EU.

It’s been


vicinity of Fifth and Main Streets in the City of Los Angeles. He observed defendant walking northbound on Main Street carrying six or seven fishing rods and reels and also a brown paper bag.
Sergeant Rilling testified he was a very avid fisherman and owner of a fishing tackle store. He pulled to the curb and spoke to defendant, "How is fishing?" Defendant responded that fishing has been "pretty good." Sergeant Rilling asked, "What type of fishing do you do?" and defendant responded, "Well, mostly fresh water fishing." Sergeant Rilling then asked, "Where do you fish?" and defendant responded, "I fish on lakes around here." And Sergeant Rilling asked, "What kind of fish do you catch?" and defendant responded, "Well, mostly trout and salmon."
At this point, Sergeant Rilling testifieddown Main Street clutching a handful of fishing rods. Seeing an opportunity to break the monotony of patrol, he greeted this fisherman with a typical inquiry, "How is fishing?"
At the time of the "contact" Officer Rilling did not suspect the defendant of being involved in some criminal activity and had no intention to detain him. The continuing conversation between Officer Rilling and the defendant was typical banter between two anglers. "Where do you fish?" "What kind of fish do you catch?" It was not until the strange and incredible answers supplied by defendant, evidencing defendant's unfamiliarity with the difference between fresh water rods and sea water fishing rods, and the difference between reels for fresh water and salt water, and defendant's unfamiliarity with the lakes in the area


Players are hitting the ball out of the park at a record setting pace in 2017, yet their achievements are not receiving the attention some would have expected

Baseball is in the midst of a power explosion the likes of which historically has filled stadiums, driven ratings and created a new crop of home run-bashing American sports legends, yet the reaction this time around has been a little more ambivalent.

Yankees rightfielder Roger Maris led the original power explosion in 1961 when he slugged a then-record 61 home runs to pass Babe Ruth’s long-time single season mark. There were 2,717 home runs in baseball that season, which set an all-time MLB mark for 0.95 home runs per game. There was some discussion at the time about whether the ball hadas players like Wade Boggs and Andre Dawson enjoyed power surges well above their career averages and a thin rookie named Mark McGwire blasted 49 home runs for the Oakland A’s. Then power numbers dropped right back down again in 1988. No evidence or study was ever produced to explain the sudden and massive blip, but conventional wisdom said it was juiced baseballs.

Juice of another kind fueled baseball’s next power surge a decade later. With interest in baseball lagging following the work stoppage of 1994 and 1995, a home run chase by Sammy Sosa and McGwire – by then remade into the size and shape of an NFL defensive end – filled stadiums and made baseball the talk of the summer of 1998. Coverage of McGwire’s push to


it resented the satanism contained in black metal lyrics. The founder of unblack metal was Horde. The genre initially focused on Christian elementary content as the setting of the Father's Prayer, and issues such as conversion and salvation. The bands such as Antestor, Crimson Moonlight and Vaakevandring are believed to have taken a more emotional and philosophical approach to lyrics, as opposed to an exclusive evangelism approach. Vaakevandring transferred the development of the classic black metal in Scandinavian to the emotional dealing with philosophical and ideological content to the Christian part of the scene.

2007 led to a revitalization of the project. In the wake of the Endtime Festival in Sweden, the band played as the headliner. Because of the personnel, they overlapped their program together with Antestor.

Members
Last Knownrate dropped by 59 percent between 1995 and 2006, but Australia did more than prohibit the sale of semiautomatic and automatic rifles and shotguns; it implemented a mandatory buy-back program. Nobody is seriously proposing that in the United States – as if the Constitution would allow it, in any case.

But as Parker points out, the president's hometown of Chicago has some of the toughest gun-control laws and just ended the year with more than 500 murders. But not until Newtown did the president and other gun-control advocates discover their outrage.

The National Rifle Association's call for armed guards in every school has been mocked by the intelligentsia and nobody should welcome a return to the Wild West. Conversely, no one should believe that violence will be eliminated by making


injury, one focusing on vessel disease, its prevention, and treatment, and the other centering on the brain tissue itself and the factors that render neurons and glia more susceptible or more tolerant to a lack of oxygenation. In the past several years, a number of methods, techniques, and animal models have been used to address the response of neurons and glia to lack of oxygen. In this review, we highlight some novel ideas and some results that we and others have obtained, mostly pertaining to the genetic endowment and responses of the central nervous system to O2 deprivation. The role and importance of genetic models, such as the Drosophila melanogaster, are discussed, and an example illustrating how to harness the power of Drosophila genetics is detailed.air turbine starter (ATS) includes a turbine wheel and an output shaft. The starter valve selectively couples the turbine wheel to a high-pressure fluid source such as, but not limited to, air from an auxiliary power unit, bleed air from the compressor stage of an operating gas turbine engine, and other sources. Once the starter valve is opened, the high-pressure air impinges on the turbine wheel, causing the output shaft to rotate. The output shaft, in turn, causes the turbine engine to rotate. Once the turbine engine achieves a desired rotational speed, jet fuel can be ignited within the turbine to start the turbine engine.
In the use of butterfly valves with anti-icing systems, the valves are commonly known as “anti-icing valves”. The anti-icing valve is used to divert


at a tent outside Belinda Nagawa's franchise in Nansana, Kampala to sip cups of Jibu water, filtered in an advanced mini-water treatment plant installed on site.

"I was working with another franchise as a manager," says the 21-year-old. "I had to get more involved myself in order to become a franchise owner."

Galen Welsch, CEO of the organisation, explains: "The franchisees come to us and they co-invest a licensing fee.

"Then we invest in the full build-out of the franchise, which is a production room and a high-visibility retail space. As they sell water, we charge them per litre they sell and that is how we recover the capital expenditure that we invested in the franchise launch."

The business targets people who previously boiled their drinking water, by offering a cost-effective andsafe alternative that is produced on location.

Image copyrightZoe FloodImage caption
The bottles are all reusable

Various bottle sizes line the shelves of Belinda Nagawa's new shop - Jibu distributes water in reusable bottles for which customers put down a small deposit.

"Most people take water from the tap and then boil it," says Mr Welsch. "The cost of boiling when you pay for charcoal or gas or electricity is actually quite high and boiling doesn't remove any sort of contaminants in the water."

Learning curves

Jibu piloted its model in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, but has since worked to launch in Kenya after the DR Congo pilot failed.

"We've gone from two franchises that were fully functional at the beginning of 2015 to 22 today, and then about 15 microfranchises


opening. In addition, it was decided that launching the event after the Fourth of July holiday would be sensible, according to an Off The Grid spokesperson.

Cohen said there will be little duplication with the trucks that serve the Gourmet Ghetto, which, he says tends to draw customers from El Cerrito, Albany, and Emeryville, as well as Berkeley. “While those trucks lean towards the artisanal, the ones on Telegraph will be more value-oriented,” he said.

Vendors who have already signed up include: Southern Sandwich, Old World Food Truck, Sunrise Deli, Hapa SF (which also serves North Shattuck), the Crème Brûlée Man, El Sur empanada truck, and Seňor Sisig.

The intersection of Telegraph and Haste is currently something of a wasteland with three of its corners abandoned. The northeast side, owned byKen Sarachan, has been vacant ever since the Berkeley Inn burned down in 1990; the Sequoia Building on the northwest corner, owned by the Ent family, burned down in November 2011; and the southwest corner retail space that housed the popular Cody’s bookstore, also owned by Sarachan, has been empty since Cody’s closed in 2006.

The advent of Telegraph Off The Grid could provide a boost to local retailers that have been badly hit by the Sequoia fire and the series of vacancies on the street.

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Off The Grid, the brainchild of Cohen, started operating in Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto in June 2011. Last month it launched its second food


19So the king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" And the woman replied, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. Indeed, it was your servant Joab who commanded me, and it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant;

9"Behold, he has now hidden himself in one of the caves or in another place; and it will be when he falls on them at the first attack, that whoever hears it will say, 'There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.'BEIJING — An explosion at a chemical plant in Shandong Province late Monday night killed at least one person, according to a Chinese news media report.

The fire had been extinguished by early Tuesday, and officials were investigating the cause. Industrial explosions in China have come under more scrutiny since the recent Tianjin disaster.

On Monday, officials in Tianjin said the explosions there on Aug. 12, set off by hazardous material in warehouses near the port of Tianjin, had killed at least 158 people and resulted in the hospitalization of 356 others. The dead included 94 firefighters, 11 police officers and 53 civilians. About 15 people remained missing.

An investigation by The New York Times showed that Rui Hai International Logistics, the company that was storing the chemicals, had exploited weak


AFM's IFTA Member Directory

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The IFTA Member Directory is a beautiful piece of work. Check it out for company profiles, film lineups, personnel, contact info. before and during AFM (American Film Market) November 3 - 10, 2010 in Santa Monica, California.

The IFTA Member Directory is a beautiful piece of work. Check it out for company profiles, film lineups, personnel, contact info. before and during AFM (American Film Market) November 3 - 10, 2010 in Santa Monica, California.

About The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA)The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) is the global trade association of the independent motion picture and television programming industry. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the organization represents and provides significant entertainment industry services to more than 180 member companiessmall car for enthusiast:

Eighth Generation Honda Civic SiThere have been ten generations of the Honda Civic spanning about 40 years. Generations three through nine have included the Honda Civic Si model to provide a sportier alternative for enthusiast small car buyers. The tenth generation Honda Civic Si sedan and coupe went on sale at Honda dealers on May 13, 2017.

The tenth generation Civic is a platform development tour-de-force. Honda lost its mojo with a generation of technically excellent, but unexciting products. Honda is now back with a vengeance. Their new generation stuff is outstanding. Their truck platform products are very good – Honda Pilot XSUV, Honda Ridgeline pickup and Honda Odyssey minivan. The Honda Accord is a very competitive premium mid-size car selling at high volumes.

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HOUSTON (AP) — Two MS-13 gang members from El Salvador, both in the United States illegally, held three teenage girls against their will and killed one of them in a satanic ritual, authorities in Houston said Friday.

Miguel Alvarez-Flores, 22, and Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 18, have been arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and murder — both first-degree felonies punishable by up to life imprisonment. Bonds totaling $300,000 have been set for each, but immigration detainers will keep both behind bars.

The 15-year-old girl's body was found Feb. 16 with gunshot wounds to the face and chest.

Homicide detective Sgt. Chris Sturdivant said the girl's identity has not been officially determined but that investigators are confident they know who she is — a girl reported missing in January in nearby Jersey Village,Texas.

The captives were three "young, impressionable women" ranging in age from 14 to 16 who succumbed to the allure of gang life before being taken to an apartment and held there against their will, Sturdivant said. The 14-year-old girl told investigators that they were fed drugs and alcohol and forced to have sex.

The girl said the 15-year-old was killed in a satanic ritual because she had struck the gang's shrine to a satanic saint, according to investigators.

She told investigators that Alvarez-Flores made a peace offering to the figure in the form of a cigarette.

"He returned from the statue and told the entire group that the beast did not want a material offering but wanted a soul," state District Judge Maria Jackson said during the men's initial court appearance


Wednesday.

The 14-year-old said she later awoke to find the 15-year-old gone, according to investigators.

The case comes as President Donald Trump is promoting concerns over criminal immigrants in the United States illegally. He has announced that he plans to create an agency, called Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement or VOICE, to serve victims of immigrant crime and their relatives. It will be part of the Department of Homeland Security.

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"The majority of the MS-13 members we come into contact with are here illegally," Sturdivant said.

Attorneys for Alvarez-Flores and Hernandez-Rivera did not immediately return calls Friday night. Sturdivant said both men admitted their involvement in the abductions and killing after their arrests Monday. An FBI multijurisdictional anti-gang task force continues to investigate, and Sturdivant said authorities are seeking other gangArchive for the ‘In Memoriam’ Category

Betty Ballantine (b. Elizabeth Jones, 1919) died on February 12. Ballantine introduced paperbacks to the United States and co-founded Bantam Books in 1945 with her husband Ian. Later on, the publishing company launched the Ballantine Adult Fantasy line and then started the imprint, Del Rey for science fiction and fantasy in 1977. In 1953, Ballantine […]

Author Carol Emshwiller (b.Carol Fries, April 12, 1921) died on February 2nd, 2019. Ms. Emshwiller began publishing science fiction in 1954, with the story “Built for Pleasure.” Emshwiller built a reputation as a short fiction author and Ursula Le Guin said that she had “one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction.” […]

K.C. Ball suffered a fatal heart attack on August 26. Ball attended


the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2010 and Launch Pad in 2011. She served as the publisher and editor of 10Flash Quarterly, an on-line flash fiction magazine. She also won the Speculative Literature Foundation Older Writer Award. In 2012, her short fiction appeared in the collection […]

Grand Master Harlan Ellison (b.1934) died on June 28, 2018. Ellison began his professional career in 1956 with the publication of the short story “Glowworm” in Infinity Science Fiction. Prior to that time, he was active in science fiction fandom. During the mid 1950s, Ellison lived in New York and produced a prodigious amount of short fiction […]

Gardner Dozois (b. 1947) died on May 27, 2018. Dozois won fifteen Hugo Awards for his editing and back-to-back Nebula Awards for his short stories“The Peacemaker” and “Morning Child.” He had a long career as an author and was one of the most influential editors the field has seen, publishing Year’s Best anthologies for more […]

Mary Rosenblum (b.1952) was killed on March 11 when the small plane she was piloting crashed near Battle Ground, Washington. Rosenblum’s debut novel, The Drylands, received the Compton Crook Award and was followed up by novels Chimera, The Stone Garden, Water Rites, and Horizons. Beginning in 1999, she also began publishing mysteries under her maiden […]

Kate Wilhelm (b.1928) died on March 8. Wilhelm was one of the founders of SFWA. Two years ago, SFWA named the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award in her honor. Wilhelm began publishing science fiction in 1956 with her short story “The Pint-Sized Genie”


and published her first science fiction novel, The Clone, co-written with Theodore L. Thomas, in […]

Ursula K. Le Guin (b.1929) died on January 22. Le Guin was named a Damon Knight Grand Master by the SFWA in 2003. Le Guin’s wrote for all ages and her Earthsea cycle, beginning with The Wizard of Earthsea, introduced many readers to fantasy and the wizard Ged. She wrote novels such as The Left […]

Author Julian May (b.1931) died on October 17. May entered fandom in her late teens and published the fanzine Interim Newsletter. Her first professional sale, “Dune Roller,” appeared in Astounding in 1951, including original illustrations by May. In 1952, she chaired the TASFIC in Chicago, becoming the first woman to chair a Worldcon.

Dr. Yoji Kondo, known to sciencefiction readers as Eric Kotani, passed away yesterday at the age of 84. Yoji Kondo was an astrophysicist at NASA/GSFC, where he served as Director of the NASA International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite observatory, among other prestigious appointments, and had formerly served as the head of the astrophysics laboratory […]

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk reacts at a post-launch news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 2, 2019.

Tesla's decision to cut the price of its popular Model 3 suggests the electric car maker is approaching an "air pocket" in demand, which Morgan Stanley says could weigh on its bottom line and stock price.

Analyst Adam Jonas on Tuesday cut his first-quarter deliveries by 23 percent, reduced his Model 3 average transaction price to $53,000 by the end of the year and slashed his 12-month price target for the stock by more than 8 percent.

He also reduced his 2019 earnings per share estimateUFC president Dana White went on record saying, "this is one of the most selfish, disgusting decisions that doesn't just affect you. This is affecting 16 other lives, their families, kids are going back to school. The list goes on and on of all the things, the money that was spent for fighters to train and the list goes on and on. Like I said, I don't think this is going to make Jon Jones popular with the fans, sponsors, cable distributors, television network executives or other fighters."

Jones has been criticized for repeatedly poking his opponents in the eyes. In response to the criticism, Jones released a video in which he mocked fans by simulating crying, which has since been deleted. Dana White then stated, "we've got to


viola with the LPO! Here is the official write up:

New Water Music will be a free, public performance on Lake Ponchartrain debuting composer Yotam Haber's New Water Music. It will be performed from the water by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and community musicians in a spectacular choreographed visual presentation, conceived and executed by New Orleans Airlift.

New Water Music takes inspiration from Handel's Water Music, famously performed on the River Thames for the King of England in 1717, but also for the wider city who watched from shore and from boats. New Water Music pays homage by connecting exceptional music to diverse public audiences, but also uses this performance to illuminate Louisiana's coastal crisis of receding wetlands and changing lifestyles for fisherman and coastal residents, with repercussions for Newand to establish strategies to prevent frailty (including characterizing the trajectory of frailty, identifying predictive factors for frailty, and determining the prognosis for frailty) among community-dwelling elderly Japanese. In this report, we describe the study design and the profile of the participants at baseline.

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Study design, setting, and participants
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In this prospective study, the source population comprised community-dwelling individuals aged 65 years or older who lived in the town of Hatoyama in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Hatoyama is a suburban area located 50 kilometers northwest of central Tokyo and was developed as a commuter town of Tokyo. In June 2010, it had a population of 15 424 (7669 males and 7755 females), with 4028 people aged 65 years or older (proportion, 26.1%). Hatoyama can be divided into an old town and


a new town. The old town is a traditional residential and farming area. In contrast, the new town was developed as a new residential area in 1974, at the end of the high-growth period from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s. Many people from outside Hatoyama moved to live in this new area. As of June 2010, 53.5% of the population lived in the new town area.

To recruit the study participants, we used stratified sampling of 4 groups classified by age (65--74 and 75--84 years) and residential area (old town and new town). People with long-term care certification (level 1--5) and those admitted to hospitals or residing in nursing homes were excluded. The target population for sampling was the 3378 residents in Hatoyama aged 65 to 84 years asHatoyama Cohort Study, which was launched in 2010. We found notable differences in socioeconomic status and neighborhood characteristics between participants living in the old and new areas of the town regardless of age. These 2 areas have unique characteristics. The new town area has rapidly developed as a new residential area, while the old town remains a traditional residential area with extensive farm land. These attributes might explain the differences in socioeconomic status and neighborhood environment observed among the participants in the 2 areas. It is possible that these differences will have effects on health outcomes such as prevalence of frailty, functional decline, survival time, and LTCI certification.

The strengths of the Hatoyama Cohort Study are as follows. First, we are comprehensively investigating multiple gerontological factors that could influence


joining a plurality of members to be joined together, by piling the plurality of members on one another and joining together the members with one another at end portions of superposed parts of the members, characterized in that the superposed parts of the members are held by restraining the superposed parts from both sides thereof, while a pressing tool, which is harder than the members, is pressed to end faces, which are some sections of the end portions, of the superposed parts and the pressing tool is rotated and/or moved relative to the superposed parts, so that the end faces of the superposed parts are rubbed to cause a friction heating which leads to a plastic flow, whereby the plurality of the members are joined together at theend portions of the superposed parts thereof.
In the method of joining together the end portions of the superposed members according to the present invention, the superposed parts of the members are held by restraining the superposed parts from both sides thereof, while a pressing tool, which is harder than the members, is pressed to the end faces of the superposed parts and the pressing tool is rotated and/or moved relative to the superposed parts, so that the end faces of the superposed parts are rubbed to cause a friction heating which results in softening the end portions which leads to a plastic flow, whereby the plurality of the members are effectively joined together under solid phase at the end portions of the superposed parts thereof According to the


Saturday, November 29, 2008

Gianni Versace has become very well known for his bright, colorful, and extremely intricate scarf designs. These skirts are fine specimens of those print designs.

The first skirt is organza over a silk miniskirt done in a flag and sun pattern. The predominant colors in the skirt are blue, green, and yellow with hints of pink.

The second skirt is a four layer construction of scarf patterned silk. The waist and the first tier are red with a gold gilt floral pattern. The second tier is a deep orange with palm fron and gilt floral pattern. The third is blue with the same gilt floral pattern and occasional palm fron burst.

Both of these skirts are the perfect "it" piece to match with neutral solid color top andSome of the classical music buffs might think Schubert not sherbet when we speak of sherbet, so we are going to appease both your desires of gluttony and symphony with this delicious Jacqueline deRibes crepe chiffon empire waist gown that is perfect to wear to the symphony! How's that for a Franz Schubert tie-in. The pleated bodice has off-the-shoulder cap sleeves and a cascade ruffle going down the front of the dress from the empire, with a sexy high slit ready to expose a toned leg and a strappy sandal.

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Circuit Attorney News & Updates

A St. Louis jury has returned a guilty verdict on a 20-year-old rape case.

Wednesday, Juan Antwon Shepard was convicted on two counts of forcible rape.

In January of 1994, a victim was with two men in the 5900 block of Horton in the West End neighborhood. Despite her pleas, the men pulled out a gun and blocked her from leaving. Then, they raped her.

But, neither of the men was ever charged with the crime until 17 years later. An analysis by a national database revealed that Shepard’s DNA was consistent with the DNA found on the victim’s clothing. The victim also identified Shepard as one of her attackers.

Sex Crimes Team Leader Tanja Englelhardt presented the case and after deliberating for 50 minutes, the jury foundhighly intoxicated.

5. Drunk man shoots his dog (Georgia)

Police found the dog in a trash can. According to neighbors, the man frequently got drunk and fired a gun on his property.

6. Drunk woman mistakenly shoots her husband (Michigan)

She reportedly thought he was an intruder and shot him in the shoulder.

7. Drunk man shoots his two sons... (North Carolina)

...before reportedly attempting suicide. The two boys were ages three and four.

8. Drunk man shoots himself... (Nebraska)

...in the leg. Police said he accidentally fired the gun and shattered his own tibia.

9. Drunk man shoots himself... (Nebraska)

...in the foot. The man was reportedly highly intoxicated and shot himself while pointing his gun toward the ground.

10. Drunk man shoots himself... (Connecticut)

...in the hand, while buying a firearm, according to police. It all went down


fuel paid by it in accordance with a provision therefore in the lease. The second action, Ex. No. 10,623, is for nine unpaid installments of rent due for May 1961 to January 1962, inclusive, less the amount expended in any month by defendant for fuel in the heating of the demised premises.
At the trial in the superior court after plaintiffs had established defendant's obligation to pay the rent provided in the lease and its failure to perform such obligation, the defendant presented evidence intended to prove the allegations in its several pleas: first, that plaintiffs suffered the exterior of the leased premises to remain in such disrepair as to make them untenatable; second, that they failed to maintain the heating system, hot water and electric wiring systems asa result of which neglect defendant was forced to vacate the premises; third, that by reason of the above breaches of the lease by the lessors defendant was unable to obtain insurance against loss by water to its stock of merchandise and equipment.
Such defenses defendant sought to establish by the testimony of eight witnesses and certain documentary evidence, consisting of photographs of water-damaged portions of the demised premises, correspondence with plaintiff Peter King concerning the loss by defendant of "all risk" type of insurance on its property on the demised premises, and further correspondence pertaining to the same matter by way of notice to plaintiffs of its reason for vacating the premises on March 31, 1961.
The trial opened on September 11, 1963 and ended on September 18. At


Campos were born in 2011 in Pisa, from the collaboration between Simone Bettin and Davide Barbafiera.In 2017 they released their first album "Viva" which gave them the attention of Italian critics and took them on over 50 stages in a few months, also supporting big artists such as Devendra Banhart, Motta and Zen Circus.During this period Tommaso Tanzini got into the band.At the end of this short and intense tour, they started to compose their second album, engineered, produced and released by Andrea Marmorini.Its name is "Umani, vento e piante",Released November 9, 2018 for Woodworm.Imagination and technoscientific innovations: governance of transgenic cows in New Zealand.
This paper examines a controversial research programme aimed at the production of transgenic cows in New Zealand. It emphasizes the contested representation of the research, in its promotion, in its governance, and in the opposition sparked amongst environmentallanti-genetic modification groups and within the Māori community. The paper contends that the case of New Zealand's genetically modified cows certainly reveals some unique features of the prevailing economic, geographical and cultural context, but nonetheless has salience for the broader understanding of the promotion, public reception and governance of genetic modification.


TVXQ still reigns supreme in Japan!

After the group dropped their ninth Japanese studio album “TOMORROW” on September 19, the album topped Oricon’s weekly album chart for the week of September 17 to September 23.

With this being TVXQ’s seventh No. 1 on Oricon’s weekly album chart, the group has made history. TVXQ broke their own record for having the most No. 1s on the Oricon weekly album chart for a foreign male artist and tied with BoA, who previously maintained her position as the foreign artist with the most No. 1s on the chart.

“TOMORROW” also rose to the top of Oricon’s daily album chart, recording 89,026 sold units in the first day of its release alone.

Congratulations to TVXQ!

Source (1)started out as a striker, delivering practice shots at his brother, who was a goalie. He feels that experience helped him later when he decided to follow suit and don the gloves too, and probably explains why he is so skilful with his feet. Training with the likes of Messi, Suárez, Iniesta and Neymar every day has also helped him to improve his footwork.

And finally, when asked to pick his standout moments since joining Barça, he named two. One was the first time he played at the Camp Nou and the second was his spectacular save against Lewandowski (below) in the Champions League semi-final second leg last year.

Hoping to stay

Ter Stegen joined Barça from Borussia Monchengladbach in 2014 and two years later, he’s feeling right at home in


4 and Xbox One back in late 2016, it blew critics and audiences away with a handsome open world environment and action-packed combat that was a drastic departure from previous titles. The PC version of the game will launch on Steam, Origin and Windows 10. It's worth noting that for owners of the current version of the game, you'll be able to purchase the new content as a Royal Pack, which will cost $20. For more on the future beyond Final Fantasy XV, check out our interview with game director Hajime Tabata, where we talk about what might come next.

Serbian government negotiators walked out of EU-mediated talks with Kosovo Albanians in Brussels after the news. Ivanovic served for several years as State Secretary in the now-downgraded Serbian ministryper cent from the previous month's 1.3 per cent. In particular, the December Consumer Price Index slipped (only slightly) to 3.0%.

India firm favourites against Papua New Guinea
Even ahead of the clash, a clinical India win was expected and the Indian openers - Shaw and Kalra - didn't disappoint. While Mavi bagged two wickets, Nagarkoti, who has impressed all with his pace, grabbed the wicket of Leke Morea.

France seeks new deal with United Kingdom over migrants
The president's trip was a preview of a tough new immigration and asylum bill to be presented to the Cabinet in February. But around 500-700 migrants continue to camp out in the town's margins, trying to stow away on trucks bound for Britain.

Actor Aziz Ansari responds to sexual misconduct allegations
She said it was "actually


1999). RFRHA does not appeal from the STB's denial of the exemption. The unambiguous statutory language in  10904 should not be distorted as a means to reach the same ends that could have been reached if the STB had granted RFRHA an exemption from the OFA process.

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been agreed on,” ICC chairman Shashank Manohar said.

The nine nations in the competition are Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and West Indies.

Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland called it “a really significant moment in international cricket history”.

“It’s a tremendous step forward. The ICC and member countries have made a strong statement about international cricket and how we want to make sure it remains at the forefront of the three forms of the game.”

Third-time lucky?

The ICC will hope it’s a case of third time lucky for the Test championship after two previous attempts failed without a ball being bowled in anger.

A version was supposed to begin in 2013 but was scrapped because existing commercial arrangements meant the ICC was obliged to stage the one-daywhich moves playing sessions to more spectator-friendly hours.

The idea of four-day Test matches has also been floated, although traditionalists oppose the move.

The Herald reported that the ICC will also look at a major shake-up of one-day international fixtures at the Auckland meeting.

It said a 13-nation ODI league was being considered, which would operate on a three-year cycle with results affecting World Cup qualification.

Under the plans, the number of ODIs in a series would be capped at three, ending the lengthy five-match series that are currently part of the international fixture list.


Five goals in second half see Marlborough Ladies fall to top-of-table Swindon team

Written by Alex Simmonds on 12 January 2017.

Marlborough Town Ladies 0 Swindon Town Development 5

Marlborough began the new year with a difficult battle against top of the league, Swindon Town Development on Sunday.

It was a great game of football but another loss for Marlborough with a final score of 5 nil.

Marlborough started strong; they worked hard to win everything and made it difficult for Swindon to develop any long-term possession. It was physical and fast paced but Marlborough kept their mind on the game.

Abbi Demir showed great spirit in central midfield and played some good passes to Kerry Ash and Dani Hull, who worked tirelessly up and down the wings. The defence was consistent and theMonthly Archives: November 2018

Three days after the Internet release of the free content 3D short Elephants Dream (see Wikinews coverage), we exchanged e-mails with Ton Roosendaal about the reaction to the film, open source filmmaking, and the changes to Blender that resulted from the production. Ton Roosendaal is the lead developer of the Blender 3D rendering and modelling software that was used for the movie. He is also the chairman of the Blender Foundation, a non-profit organization which was formed in support of the software and projects like Elephants Dream.

How much money did the Blender Foundation spend on producing the movie? Has the money been fully recouped by DVD orders and donations?

We still have to finish the final bookkeeping for this project. It has been executed in co-production


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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the agency responsible for investigating transportation accidents in the United States, released updates on three major investigations on June 14.

The NTSB, well known publicly for its involvement in the investigation of aviation incidents which involve harm or loss of human life, is also an agency that oversees the transportation of refined petroleum and gas products, chemicals and minerals.

The agency determined the cause of a natural gas pipeline explosion that killed six. It also detailed the cause of an accidental release of 204,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia from a pipeline in an environmentally sensitive area, andreleased preliminary information involving two commercial aircraft coming within 30-50 feet of each other on a runway.

In the gas explosion disaster, the towing vessel Miss Megan, which was of specifications that did not require inspection by the United States Coast Guard, was being operated in the West Cote Blanche Bay oil field in Louisiana by Central Boat Rentals on behalf of Athena Construction on October 12, 2006. The Miss Megan was pushing barge IBR 234, which was tied along the starboard side of barge Athena 106, en route to a pile-driving location. Athena Construction did not require its crews to pin mooring spuds (vertical steel shafts extending through wells in the bottom of the boat and used for mooring) securely in place on its barges and consequently this


had not been done. During the journey, the aft spud on the Athena 106 released from its fully raised position. The spud dropped into the water and struck a submerged, high-pressure natural gas pipeline. The resulting gas released ignited and created a fireball that engulfed the towing vessel and both barges. The master of the towing vessel and four barge workers were killed. The Miss Megan deckhand and one barge worker survived. One barge worker is officially listed as missing.

The NTSB blames Athena Construction for the disaster, citing in the final report that Athena Construction’s manual contained no procedures mandating the use of the safety devices on the spud winch except during electrical work. It was found that if the Athena 106 crew had used the steel pinsalarms displayed on the computerized pipeline monitoring system. Shortly after the first alarm the pipeline controller, in an attempt to remedy the low pressure, increased the flow of anhydrous ammonia into the affected section of pipeline. A total of 33 minutes elapsed between the time when the first alarm indicated a problem with the pipeline and the initiation of a shutdown.

In its initial report to the National Response Center (NRC), the pipeline operator’s accident reporting contractor reported a release of at least 20 gallons of ammonia, telling the NRC that an updated estimate of material released would be reported at a later time. No such report was ever made. Because of the inaccurate report, the arrival of representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency was delayed by a full


touched down, the Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS) alerted and the air traffic controller transmitted “Hold, Hold, Hold” to the SkyWest flight crew in an attempt to stop the aircraft short of runway 1L. The SkyWest crew applied maximum braking that resulted in the airplane stopping in the middle of runway 1L. As this was occurring, the captain of Republic Airlines flight 4912 took control of the aircraft from the first officer, realized the aircraft was traveling too fast to stop, and initiated an immediate takeoff. According to the crew of SkyWest 5741, the Republic Airlines aircraft overflew theirs by 30 to 50 feet. The Federal Aviation Administration has categorized the incident as an operational error.

The NTSB sent an investigator to San Francisco, who collected radar data,alien mixed in? For awhile we wonder which side she's on. She laughs at mankind's hopes of exploiting the creatures: "She's a queen," she says of the new monster. "She'll breed. You'll die." When the tramp freighter comes into play, we get a fresh crew, including Call (Winona Ryder), who has been flown all the way from Earth to provide appeal for the younger members of the audience. Ryder is a wonderful actress, one of the most gifted of her generation, but wrong for this movie. She lacks the heft and presence to stand alongside Ripley and the grizzled old space dogs played by Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, Dan Hedeya and Brad Dourif. She seems uncertain of her purpose in the movie, her speeches lack conviction, and when


Where are they now? Ridgefield graduate and former boxer Leo Loiacono

Twenty years ago, Leo Loiacono never envisioned so much occurring so soon during his unforeseen professional boxing career.

Leo Loiacono never aspired to be a heavyweight boxing contender, but he wound up in the ring with Ray Mercer.

Loiacono, a former football standout for Ridgefield High School, began boxing at a New York PAL at the urging of one of his semipro football teammates. Before he knew it, Loiacono was boxing in the 1994 New York Golden Gloves.

Four years later, with just 10 amateur matches and 16 pro bouts on his résumé, Loiacono was promoted by Don King and stood across the ring from former WBO heavyweight champion Ray Mercer. A gold medalist at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Mercer wasone of the top heavyweights of his era, a hard-hitting ex-Marine many boxing observers believe beat Lennox Lewis in a May 1996 fight Lewis won by majority decision at Madison Square Garden.

Loiacono and Mercer, who had sparred against each other numerous times, fought for the No. 1 spot in the WBA rankings. The winner of their elimination match was supposed to receive a title shot.

Loiacono lost by second-round knockout that fateful February 1998 night in Miami. But reaching those heavyweight heights still was considered a successful run for a guy who didn’t box until he reached his mid-20s — after tryouts with the Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions and CFL’s Toronto Argonauts produced no contract offers.

"I’m so proud of that," Loiacono, 45, said. "To know that Ray was the


1988 Olympic gold medalist, the former heavyweight champion of the world and the No. 1 contender that year, it was an honor to fight him. Ray was someone I looked up to. Look at what he did to Tommy Morrison, what he did to Larry Holmes, even though he lost the fight, what he did to Lennox Lewis, what he did to Bert Cooper.

"Ray was a warrior. Ray was a bad [dude], man. I wish I could’ve given a better show. As a professional athlete, it hurt to lose. But to fight a world-class fighter like that, it was a thrill."

The affable Loiacono, who played defensive end and defensive tackle for Jersey City State and Kean, fought just three times after facing Mercer. He ended his four-year procareer with a 16-4 record, including 13 knockouts, and credits former manager Vinny LaManna with much of his success.

"Leo was a very tough guy," LaManna said. "And he had the looks and he had a big fan base. That was a big part of what allowed us to do a lot of things in boxing. As proud as I was for managing Imamu Mayfield when he won the IBF cruiserweight title, I’m just as proud of what Leo and I were able to do together."

Loiacono’s involvement in boxing these days involves the sport’s conditioning drills while working with autistic adults and children as part of an after-school fitness program he helps run at The Children’s Institute in Livingston. Loiacono, a retired Essex County corrections officer, also works during


school hours as an assistant one-on-one aide.

"It’s definitely rewarding work," said Loiacono, who has three daughters, Dionna, 17, Olivia, 8, and Elianna, 2. "It makes you think about your life and think about your kids and appreciate everything that you have."

Loiacono plans to pursue a master’s degree and would like to coach football at the high school level. He currently coaches Pop Warner in West Orange, where he and his family reside.

He also is open to acting again. Loiacono played a small role as a boxer in the 2009 film, "The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone," which starred Tony Danza, who went 9-3 as a middleweight from 1976-79.

"Boxing was supposed to be a fun thing for me, just to learn how to fight," said Loiacono, who wasranked No. 15 by the WBA and No. 9 by the IBF when he fought Mercer. "I wasn’t looking to become a heavyweight contender or a world-rated fighter. Any success I had in boxing, it just kind of happened. It was a pretty crazy ride."

Where are they now? Ridgefield graduate and former boxer Leo Loiacono

Leo Loiacono never aspired to be a heavyweight boxing contender, but he wound up in the ring with Ray Mercer.

By KEITH IDEC

STAFF WRITER |

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Twenty years ago, Leo Loiacono never envisioned so much occurring so soon during his unforeseen professional boxing career.

Loiacono, a former football standout for Ridgefield High School, began boxing at a New York PAL at the urging of one of his semipro football teammates. Before he knew it, Loiacono was boxing


in the 1994 New York Golden Gloves.

Four years later, with just 10 amateur matches and 16 pro bouts on his résumé, Loiacono was promoted by Don King and stood across the ring from former WBO heavyweight champion Ray Mercer. A gold medalist at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Mercer was one of the top heavyweights of his era, a hard-hitting ex-Marine many boxing observers believe beat Lennox Lewis in a May 1996 fight Lewis won by majority decision at Madison Square Garden.

Loiacono and Mercer, who had sparred against each other numerous times, fought for the No. 1 spot in the WBA rankings. The winner of their elimination match was supposed to receive a title shot.

Loiacono lost by second-round knockout that fateful February 1998 night in Miami. But reaching thosebetter show. As a professional athlete, it hurt to lose. But to fight a world-class fighter like that, it was a thrill."

The affable Loiacono, who played defensive end and defensive tackle for Jersey City State and Kean, fought just three times after facing Mercer. He ended his four-year pro career with a 16-4 record, including 13 knockouts, and credits former manager Vinny LaManna with much of his success.

"Leo was a very tough guy," LaManna said. "And he had the looks and he had a big fan base. That was a big part of what allowed us to do a lot of things in boxing. As proud as I was for managing Imamu Mayfield when he won the IBF cruiserweight title, I’m just as proud of what Leo and


ensures that the insufflation process may be started in a trouble-free manner immediately after the piercing of the abdominal wall.
In an improvement the distal end of the insufflation needle is pointless. On account of the pointless configuration of the distal end of the insufflation needle it is not possible that a tip existing on the insufflation needle will provoke lesions in the abdominal cavity after the abdominal wall has been pierced through.
In any case, the trocar mandrel is still suitable for use in the common manner due to the offset arrangement of the tip and the passage.
The inventive instrument, which combines an insufflation needle such as a Veress needle with a trocar mandrel in one and the same instrument, permits the creation of a direct access to theper se and may present a conically scarfed tip in particular. In another preferred embodiment the tip may present at least two slopes which form cutting edges. In this design the discharge opening of the insufflation passage may be provided in one of the slopes.
On account of the inventive combination of a Veress needle and a trocar in a single instrument it is moreover possible that the diameter of the insufflation passage and hence of the insufflation needle is larger than the diameter of bore of conventional Veress needles. In particular, the diameter may be roughly 3 mm and more.
It is yet possible to provide (at least) one additional flushing passage in the trocar mandrel for the supply and/or evacuation of a wash fluid, such as a liquid.
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viewing figures.

When all is said and done, last night's instalment of MAFS has put us in uncharted TV territory.

The face of a woman who knows a line has been crossed.

There is every chance it will end up being added to the list of episodes that have left an indelible mark on the pop culture psyche like Seinfeld's "The Contest", the first time masturbation was the focus of half an hour of mainstream comedy, or when Sex And The City's Charlotte had to be physically separated from her beloved Rabbit vibrator. (Wow, masturbation was a much bigger deal in the 90s wasn't it?)

Let's not forget Number 96's long list of taboo-smashing storylines, such as showing the world's first live-in gay couple, Carlotta starring as a transgender character and Aussieto gender roles and cultural practices that stand at the human-nature interface such as the hunting and consumption of possible animal vector carriers (in this case the bat).

Gender refers to socially defined and learned male and female behaviours that shape the opportunities that one is offered in life, the roles one may play and the kinds of relationships that one has. It is distinct from sex, which is a biologically determined and fixed set of characteristics for men and women. It is also distinct from- though closely linked with- sexuality, which is the "social construction of a biological drive" that is defined by how, why, and with whom one has sex \[[@CR5]\]. Since gender is a social construct, the differences between men and women may vary from place


big in size and are locally called \`*capitol\`* (meaning captain). When these bats become weak and their voices are not loud, they are exchanged for another \`*capitol\`* and the process continues. The hunters complain that bats are very strong, dangerous and very difficult to handle when alive. Once the bat is removed from the nets, the hunters wrench the vertebral column (around the neck) of the bat with their teeth while pressing the head with lot of force for it to die. Amazingly, the hunters do this with each of the bats caught.

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In the bush, the bats are put into a bag. They are transported to the kitchen on the head or the back. However, hunters from distance places like the Westis heavily influenced by climate change and the recent Ebola crisis of 2014--2016. According to local ethno-ecological knowledge, too much rain is not conducive to the hunting of bats. During the wet season, especially in the months of July and August, bat hunting is rare because of the heavy rains. During such periods, the bats fly very high in the sky, targeting fruits from tall trees in the forest. Whereas, fruits is less abundant in the dry season, which motivates bats to then fly low and even near dwelling settlements. Because of the climate change in the MCR due to climate vulnerability and change, bat hunters migrate to different communities as the bat themselves migrate in search of food and niche (ecological niche) \[[@CR39]\]. The Ebola crisis and


animal happened to escape from a snare trap. After a long fight, the animal cuts the snares but later on suffers from internal bleeding and dies;Some wild and stronger carnivorous animal can possibly kill a small or less powerful animal in the forest. Like many of our ethnographic partners, a hunter gave us to understand that tiger, gorilla, chimpanzee, and lion are killing most of the smaller animals in the forest. To him, most of these dead animals are rodents;Poisonous animals such as snakes and other reptiles can also bite and kill an animal.

In recent times, animals are also being caught using poisoned baits. This issue has raised considerable concern. It has however, been recently suggested that chemical poisons \[[@CR30]\] contaminate most bushmeat. Despite this suggestion, people whoQ:

Is Orphan Black's 5th season going to be its last?

Being a fan from the beginning, I was sorry to hear the news that the show has been cancelled. Does this mean that the 5th season will be its last?

A:

The show has been renewed for a 5th and final season .
From this:

BBC America, along with Canadian partner Space, announced today that the sci-fi drama has been renewed for a fifth and final season. The networks have ordered 10 last episodes to conclude the series in 2017, with its co-creators promising an "epic conclusion to the tale of Sarah and her clone sisters"