The Plan: During WWII, Axis powers attempted to wage psychological warfare against the Allies in a highly unusual way. They'd fly over enemy camps and drop pictures of buxom ladies on the troops. The twist? Most of the women were pictured in passionate embraces with strange men.

The Hope: According to German officials, the drops were meant to get GIs thinking about their wives and girlfriends back home-specifically, thinking about them being unfaithful. Axis propaganda wasn't always so convoluted, though. Sometimes the Germans simply dropped pictures of scantily clad women posed over quotes such as "You can enjoy this if you surrender."

The Disappointment: Surprise! Apparently, giving out free pictures of sexy women isn't the best way to demoralize soldiers. Far from being upset, the GIs began collecting the picsand using them as pinups.

The Plan: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted to spread the message of communism far and wide, so in 1934, he enlisted the ANT-20, a massive aircraft with a wingspan of more than 200 feet.

The Hope: In addition to its jaw-dropping size, the plane contained multiple radio stations, a photo lab, and even a printing press for distributing leaflets midair. But the best thing about the plane (from a propaganda point of view) was its loudspeaker. Known as the "Voice from the Sky", the sound system was so powerful that it could broadcast speeches and songs to the public from hundreds of feet in the air.

The Disappointment: Unfortunately for Stalin, the plane's lifespan didn't match its wingspan. In 1935, a fighter plane crashed into the


giant aircraft during a demonstration over Moscow, killing 45 people. But that didn't stop the propaganda from living on. Soviet officials quickly blamed the crash on the fighter pilot, Nikolai Blagin, and a new word, Blaginism, was introduced into the Russian language. It translates to "a cocky disregard of authority."

The Plan: In 1975, President Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act, and the United States embarked on a full-fledged campaign to join the rest of the world in using meters and grams.

The Hope: The federal government tried to get Americans on board by pumping tons of money into the effort. It funded metric-touring posters, pamphlets, and TV spots-including a series of animated shorts by the same team that did "Schoolhouse Rock."There was even an answering service set up tomay not perceive that the process is free of bias. Coaches and parents often feel the same way. You don't want to raise an issue if you think it could adversely affect an athlete's career."

Canada's Jasmine Mian, left, is shown competing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. (Markus Schreiber/Associated Press)

Duncan created the Working Group on Gender Equity in Sport in May, and safe sport is part of the group's mandate.

The wrestlers' initiative came from a couple of Wrestling Canada workshops earlier this month in Vancouver, where athletes discussed safe sport issues including code of conduct requirements for coaches with external facilitator Amanda Stanec. One of the major issues was the need for an independent body.

Wiebe, a 29-year-old from Stittsville, Ont., defeated Guzel Manyurova of Kazakhstan in


wrestling's 75kg event in Rio. She hopes her voice can contribute to a safer sports environment.

"Now I have this position as an Olympic champion, as somebody who has a voice in Canadian sport, I feel like I have a little more power than even I did two years ago, and so for me, it's essential to use it in the right way," she said.

She hopes wrestling can pave the way for other sports to follow.

"When I think about the role models and pioneers of women's wrestling, the women that came before me were leaders on the mat, in demanding an equal spot in the sport," she said. "It's still this perceived masculine terrain, and yet women in Canada are global leaders in the sport of wrestling, we're fearedto do the right thing, and they're trying to move this forward. I really think that they can," she said.

While the sentencing of U.S. gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar might have been a watershed moment for sexual harassment and assault in sport, Canada has had its share of high-profile cases. Marcel Aubut resigned as COC president in 2015 after an investigation over numerous sexual harassment complaints.

In June, several former members of Canada's ski team spoke publicly about the abuse suffered at the hands of former coach Bertrand Charest in the 1990s. Charest was convicted last year of 37 offences of sexual assault and exploitation.

On Friday, the sexual assault trial of former Canadian women's gymnastics coach Dave Brubaker wrapped up in Sarnia, Ont. Brubaker has pleaded not guilty to one


In December 1980, on a country road near Houston, Texas, three people had a terrifying close encounter with a large, low-flying, diamond-shaped Unidentified Flying Object that was being pursued or escorted by a large fleet of military helicopters. What would become known as the Cash-Landrum incident stands today as one of the most compelling–and also confusing–UFO cases on record; a case that resulted in significant health problems for one of the witnesses and which eventually lead to a $20 million lawsuit against the US government.

One of the world’s leading experts on the Cash-Landrum case is Curt Collins, the author behind Blue Blurry Lines, a website focused on UFO mysteries, legends, and hoaxes. In 2015, Curt was on the investigative team that exposed the BeWitness “alien” photo fiasco, thea two-lane country road in a sparsely populated area on the outskirts of the little town of Huffman. They rounded a bend and found a huge, blindingly bright, unidentified flying object hovering over the road. It intermittently emitted flames downward, and the witnesses were afraid and stopped. Betty stepped out of the car in attempt to get a better look at the object, but the other two quickly returned to the car. Shortly afterwards, the object lifted up and slowly flew away. The witnesses saw helicopters following it, and they had the impression they were military helicopters trying to surround the object, either to pursue it, or perhaps escort it. Once the aircraft had passed, they continued their drive home. Betty dropped Vickie and Colby off, and went


just described her ailments as alopecia areata and cellulitis. Betty’s hair loss and flu-like symptoms caused the physicians to check her for radiation exposure, but the results were negative.

RG: What was the official response to the sighting, from local authorities and from the military?

CC: It was over a month before the UFO incident was reported, and then it seems to have been informal. Vickie Landrum told her neighbor, Dayton Police Chief Tommy Waring, but the sighting had occurred out of his jurisdiction. He located a card with the phone number for the National UFO Reporting Center, and Vickie called them, which eventually led to news coverage and a civilian investigation. The military did not become involved until August 1981, after Betty Cash wrote to Texas senators, who advisedher to file a complaint at Bergstrom Air Force Base near Austin, Texas. The witnesses were interviewed and given damage claims forms, and afterwards there was a brief investigation, but they found it improbable that such an event could occur undetected so close to Houston Intercontinental Airport by tower equipment, personnel or the pilots of the many aircraft in the area. In 1982 Representative Ron Wyden asked for an investigation into whether US aircraft had been involved in the incident. The Department of the Army Inspector General (DAIG) assigned Lt. Col. George Sarran the task of investigating, and, by all accounts, he did a thorough job. Sarran found the witnesses to be credible, yet found no indication to support their claims that any helicopters had been involved.

RG: What


and sold it to the tabloids instead of investigating. Weeks later John F. Schuessler, the deputy director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), was contacted by Betty Cash, and he became the primary investigator for the case and became a “rabbi” for the witnesses, an advisor, confidante, their de facto press agent, and part of the story. Schuessler certainly seems to have had good intentions, but in trying to present the witnesses in the best light, did much to transform the story into a legend. Meanwhile, the dark side of ufology was on the rise, the nutty sinister conspiracy stuff that later made its way into The X-Files, and many of the players such as William Moore and Richard Doty tried to reframe the Cash-Landrum story to promotewhat kind of art you like, you’ll be able to find a class that you can take.

3 – Check out story time at the Orlando libraries – The Orange County Public Library has branches throughout the city, and they have amazing activities. Among them is story time, where you can listen to countless adventures, and sometimes even play with bubbles.

4 – Take in a show at the Orlando Repertory Theatre– The Orlando Repertory Theatre puts on a number of shows each year to entertain children and families, as well as to educate. With past hits such as Camp Rock, the Musical, Curious George stage productions, and a recurring anti-bullying magic show, ORT puts together amazing seasons each year.

5 – Go for a ride in the Swan Boats –


and Goldstar.

11 – Take in a discount movie – The summer discount movies may be over, but matinees are still playing every day. You can see some of the newest releases for less than $10 per ticket and then go out for lunch.

12 – Visit Leu Gardens and while there check out the Butterfly Garden, Vegetable Garden and the Horseshoe Fountain – Leu Gardens is a great place to spend a few hours enjoying nature. From vegetables to roses, from flowering trees to vines, walking through the gardens is a great way to spend the day. Just make sure to take your Claritin!

16 – Color, play, and learn at the Crayola Experience – The Crayola Experience encourages kids and adults to be creative, and to play with crayonsLearn about the history of Central Florida at the Orange County Regional History Center– Orlando didn’t come into being with Disney and Universal Studios. This area has a rich history, and the Orange County Regional History Center explores it with exhibits on farming, aviation in the area, first peoples and African American history.

Which of the above cheap things to do in Orlando are you most interested in?


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Manchester United's troubled defence of their Premier League title is harming the English top flight's worldwide brand, says the competition's chief executive Richard Scudamore.

Under new boss David Moyes, United are seventh in a disappointing campaign.

The 20-time champions are 18 points adrift of leaders Chelsea.

"It's a double-edged sword," said Scudamore. "When your most popular club isn't doing as well, that costs you interest and audience in some places."

Former Everton manager Moyes has watched the Red Devils suffer 10 defeats in 31 league matches since he replaced Sir Alex Ferguson, who retired last summer after almost 27 years in charge.

His team were knocked out of the FA Cup at the third-round stage before being eliminated from the Capital One Cup in the semi-finals.

They


Post updated 12/16/14 with response from St. Louis City Health Department.

A new federal report shows that the city of St. Louis had the highest rate of chlamydia and the second-highest rate of gonorrhea infections among major U.S. cities in 2013.

"We've had persistently high rates for a long time," said Brad Stoner, who directs the St. Louis STD and HIV Prevention Training Center at Washington University. "These rates are difficult to bring down unless we develop a concerted, community-wide effort to reach out, screen and treat populations at risk."

According to historical numbers provided by the St. Louis City Health Department, the number of reported chlamydia cases have been relatively stagnant since 2005, after a decade-long increase.

Gonorrhea cases in the St. Louis metro area reduced slightly last year, and rates24, but teenagers (ages 15-19) are the second-highest risk group.

The report also shows the city of St. Louis had the second-highest rate in the nation for gonorrhea infections, at 551.3 cases per 100,000—a full three times higher than the rate in St. Louis County.

In a release, the St. Louis City Health Department said the rankings were meaningless because the city of St. Louis is counted separately from its county, and was compared to cities that sit within larger counties with lower population densities. When counted as a metro area, St. Louis ranks much lower.

"Preliminary data suggest that for 2014 compared to our high year of 2011, chlamydia may be down as much as 23 percent and gonorrhea down as much as 33 percent," the release stated.


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Once the vacuum pumps are turned on in the process chamber, the area of the gate valve exposed to vacuum on the process chamber side and standard atmospheric conditions on the other side translate into a force directed from the higher pressure side of the gate valve to the lower pressure side of the pressure chamber. This force assists to compress the seal between the gate valve and the chamber (or gate valve internal sealing face). In a sense, the seal between the gate valve and the process chamber becomes sealed by the process being performed in the chamber. In this case, the pressure in the process chamber is lowered or brought to a vacuum,after Dave Barrett. He held the post until September 2014, when Paul Davis was elected as PC leader.

Leadership
When Williams announced his resignation as premier and Progressive Conservative leader on November 22, 2010, Marshall was considered a potential candidate in the race to succeed him. However, Marshall announced in December 2010, that he would not be a candidate and would instead be endorsing  Dunderdale, who was later acclaimed leader. He became interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador on January 24, 2014. Marshall has stated he is only interested in being premier for several months, until the party selects a permanent leader.

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Dunderdale's resignation came after two years of dwindling public support for her, her government and the PC Party. In a


recovery. Unfortunately, Winn’s 2017 season with the team was cut short due to a torn ACL in the first preseason game.

Purcell, has played 25 games in his four years in the league. The Highlands Ranch native hasn’t appeared in an NFL game since 2016 and is better suited as a nose tackle.

Under the Radar: Will Deyon Sizer make the practice squad?

For Deyon Sizer being on the training camp roster is already an accomplishment for the Colorado State-Pueblo product. Sizer earned rookie mini-camp invitations with the Cleveland Browns and the Broncos before signing a contract with his hometown team. At 6-4, 280 pounds, the Aurora native was named as the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference First Team as a defensive tackle.

Stats to Know:

– Broncos had 21st ranked run defense (119.6New American Civil War coming in 2016?

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Could a second civil war be coming to the United States in only a few years? A retired US Army colonel has co-authored a piece of fiction that paints the possibility of what he predicts could arise as soon as 2016.

Retired US Army Col Kevin Benson currently instructs soldiers at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas’ University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies but has spent enough time with the Armed Forces to know his way around a battlefield. In a new essay he’s written alongside the University of Kansas’ Dr. Jennifer Weber, Benson implies that the United States could soon be the scene of a bloody uprising that might make way for a new form of government to emerge. In a fictional


essay published by the two last month in Small Wars Journal magazine, the team of experts bring forth an argument that ongoing economic unrest and political division within the US population could cause a civil war to erupt right here in the United States in only a few years’ time. The essay, “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future,” is in no way represented as a piece of pure truth, but its writers suggest that a civil war could happen much sooner than Americans may think of certain conditions occurring in the country today persist into the next few years.Benson and Weber paint a picture of what the not-so-distant future could hold if things aren’t changed for the better in a few years, andinfer that current conditions could trigger a uprising in their piece, which presents a realistic take on what could be done in event of an “insurrection” launched by the Tea Party and its allies:“The Great Recession of the early twenty-first century lasts far longer than anyone anticipated. After a change in control of the White House and Congress in 2012, the governing party cuts off all funding that had been dedicated to boosting the economy or toward relief. The United States economy has flatlined, much like Japan’s in the 1990s, for the better part of a decade. By 2016, the economy shows signs of reawakening, but the middle and lower-middle classes have yet to experience much in the way of job growth or pay raises. Unemployment continues to


The Washington Capitals will go to the White House on Monday to celebrate their Stanley Cup championship with President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE, according to spokesmen for the team and the White House.

The event, which was first reported by The Washington Post, has not yet been officially announced.

While several other title-winning sports teams have been disinvited from or declined to attend White House celebrations, that has not been the case for National Hockey League champions.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins, the previous Stanley Cup champions, visited Trump at the White House in October 2017.

Last year, Trump saidthe then-Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles were not welcome at the White House, citing national anthem protests. But several key members of the team had said they would not attend before Trump withdrew the invitation.

The defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors decided to forgo a White House visit with Trump and instead met with former President Obama in January. They visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture the previous February.

The Capitals won their first Stanley Cup in franchise history in June, defeating the Vegas Golden Knights in five games. It ended a 44-year Cup drought and a 26-year run without a major sports championship for the city of Washington, D.C.

Winger Devante Smith-Pelly, who is black, said after the victory that he would not visit the


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Charles Hoskinson recently participated in a panel discussion titled “Mass Influence and Adoption of Blockchain Technology” at Blockchain Futurist Conference 2018 in Toronto, Canada. The panel was moderated by Larry King, and Charles joined Justin Wu (advisor of Gear Blockchain), Al Burgio (CEO of Digital Bits), & Matthew Roszak (Co-Founder of Bloq) on the selected panel.

Larry King is an American television and radio host, best known for the 25 years hosting Larry King Live on CNN. But he has been in the business for much longer, noting in the panel discussion that he started 61 years ago in 1957. During this time, he lived through the “technology burst” and though he has not changed what he is doing (conducting interviews), the means of transmission and how it’s doneThis map was displayed during Autrey Mill Middle School's multicultural night in Alpharetta on Thursday, March 7, 2019. The principal denounced it in a letter to parents the next day. (Courtesy of Fulton County Schools)

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Fulton principal ‘disgusted’ by map replacing Israel with Palestine

An Alpharetta middle school’s multicultural night Thursday prompted a letter from the principal to parents voicing disapproval of a political display and informing them that an investigation was underway.

A display at Autrey Mill Middle School represented the culture of Palestinians and included a map that appears to show the outline of Palestine before Israel was recognized as a nation.

In an image of the map circulated on social media, no other contextual information can be seen with the map, which omits


how poignant the timing was, as the weekly Torah portion that will be read aloud at synagogues throughout the world is the last reading from the book of Exodus that chronicles the departure of the Jewish people from modern-day Egypt.Across the Wide River is a 176-page historical novel about the Underground Railroad. It follows the Rankin family, particularly Lowry Rankin, from the time he is 9 years old through early adulthood. Early on, Lowry learns of his family's involvement in helping slaves find their way north to freedom, and he soon finds himself having an active part in the process. This is a coming-of-age novel in which Lowry struggles with shyness, bullying, his faith, and the direction his life should take. It is labeled "teen fiction," and I'm sure most teens and preteens would be able to relate to Lowry's internal dialog. I, as an adult, thoroughly enjoyed the book. There is even a bit of romance, but nothing to put off a male reader. It is


all tastefully, well-written Christian fiction. The reader has the satisfaction of seeing Lowry emerge a secure man who knows he is doing God's will. The backdrop of the Underground Railroad in Ohio and Kentucky makes for an exciting and educational setting.

In the author's note, Stephanie Reed states that although this is a work of fiction, it is based on a real family whose actual descendants provided her with helpful information. This she added to her years of library research in writing the book. Many of the characters are real, but their names have sometimes been changed. Stephanie Reed learned about the Rankin family when she was a child passing through Ripley on the way to her grandparents' home. Reading signs there about the Rankin home sparked the flamearm is typically on top. Ask the participants to relax their feet, their legs, drop their weight into the chair, relax shoulders down, relax the muscles of the face. Mindfully relax all the muscles of their body.Week 2: Ask the participants to settle into their chairs. Instruct the participants to close their eyes and begin a body scan, thereby tensing and relaxing each part of the body. Ask the participants to bring attention to their feet, legs, buttocks, stomach, chest, shoulders, lips, open and close the lower jaw, relaxing it.Week 3: Ask the participants to become aware of their breathing by concentrating on the rise and fall of their chest. For just a few minutes, allow the mind-chatter to become quiet. Instruct the participants to tense each part


scene to the border.

Arizona Takes Control

That homicide and other incidents pushed leaders in Arizona to do something. The result -- Arizona Senate Bill 1070, also known as the "Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act." Gov. Jan Brewer signed the legislation into law in late April.

"It shouldn't take a Rob Krentz on the border who was killed," said State Sen. Russell Pearce, the Republican who authored the bill. "It shouldn't take the line of officers that I mentioned, time and time again, that have been murdered. Four murdered recently. Four seriously wounded from illegal aliens. It shouldn't take that."

"Enough's enough," he continued. "Citizens have a constitutional right for our laws to be enforced. We're going to enforce them here in the state of Arizona."

Pearce said the newLost amidst the muck of the Jets’ poor offensive performance against the Panthers on Saturday night was yet another handful of eye-opening plays by LaDainian Tomlinson.

The veteran running back, who most assumed would quietly settle into a role as third-down back and complement to Shonn Greene, has been perhaps the Jets’ best player on offense through two preseason games.

This is an oddity, considering the fact that Tomlinson rarely played preseason games at all in San Diego, where the coaches preferred to rest him.

Tomlinson had a 20-yard run on a third-and-13 in the first quarter and finished with 26 yards on three carries. In two games, he has 43 rushing yards on 11 carries while Greene has 36 yards on 11 carries.

“I feel good,” Tomlinson said. “I told you


and nurses and provide free education for those that wish to staff these hospitals.

6. Add QoS Feedback Mechanism

HR676 adds some quality control mechanisms to Medicare:

SEC. 302. OFFICE OF QUALITY CONTROL. The Director shall appoint a director for an Office of Quality Control. Such director shall, after consultation with State and regional directors, provide annual recommendations to Congress, the President, the Secretary, and other Program officials on how to ensure the highest quality health care service delivery. The director of the Office of Quality Control shall conduct an annual review on the adequacy of medically necessary services, and shall make recommendations of any proposed changes to the Congress, the President, the Secretary, and other Medicare For All Program officials.

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SEC. 305. NATIONAL BOARD OF UNIVERSAL QUALITY AND ACCESS.

Theto Canada’s West Coast. The project includes a new super tanker port in Kitimate to fill 225 Exxon Valdez-sized super tankers with heavy oil to then travel 240 km of narrow and treacherous inland fjords en route to the open ocean and ultimately China and other ports in Asia.

Enbridge’s plans for a west coast pipeline have been under siege, and not just from the usual suspects. Polls show over 80 percent of British Columbians oppose the project and support a federal legislated ban on tankers in Canada’s northern Pacific coastal waters. The federal wings of the NDP and Liberal Party also support a legislated ban and have pledged to work together to make it a reality. Communities, first nations, and environmental groups have been lining up in opposition.

Surprisingly,


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1:40 p.m. EDT update: The Tigers announced that Cabrera is day-to-day with right ankle soreness.

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Miguel Cabrera was removed from Thursday’s game against the Blue Jays in the second inning with an injury.

Cabrera wasn’t involved in the play before he departed, but something was bothering him at third base. Manager Jim Leyland and the trainer came out to talk to him, and he was replaced by Ramon Santiago.

His posture suggested his back was bothering him, but Tigers color guy Rod Allen seemed to think it was his ankle. He did appear to be favoring it somewhat while running out a flyball in his first at-bat.

Cabrera is hitting .326 with 31 homers and 105 RBI in 482 at-bats this season.behavior into the stable and chaotic parts, which are carried by what are now called the Fatou and Julia sets. This elegant theory was developed through extensive use of complex function theory, especially the Montel theory of normal families. Then, in the early 1980s, this these questions were given a new approach, starting with Douady-Hubbard, Sullivan, Lyubich and others. This involved the use of the computer, as well as powerful new analytical tools. In the study of the quadratic family, dynamical bifurcations led to beautiful structures in parameter space.

There had also been questions of iteration of (real) polynomial maps of ${\Bbb R}$, strongly influenced by the work of Milnor-Thurston on the combinatorial structure of the dynamics. Around the same time Feigenbaum and Collet-Tresser introduced the method of renormalization.


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THE FREEDOM OF THE CHURCH IN THE MODERN ERA

The Western commitment to freedom of religion, reflected in the United States Constitution and in a variety of international human rights documents, arguably descends from the medieval campaign for libertas ecclesiae—“freedom of the church.” In modern times, though, it seems that the progeny (freedom of religion) has largely displaced—and forgotten—the parent (freedom of the church). Jurists and scholars debate whether there is any constitutional commitment to freedom of the church, or church autonomy, or institutional free exercise. And they often suppose that such commitment, if there is one, must be derivative from a more fundamental commitment to freedomAmazon

Sales of "1984," George Orwell's 1949 classic novel about the oppressiveness of government overreach and life in a world where there is no place to escape the watchful eye of Big Brother, have risen more than 3,000 percent on Amazon since the country learned of the U.S. government surveillance programs.

As of noon today, the book was number 5 on the "movers and shakers list," which represent the biggest gains in sales over the past 24 hours. The book's sales rank had jumped to 194, from 6,750 Monday.

The dystopian novel chronicles the plight of Winston Smith, a member of the government working in the fictional dictatorship Oceania. Smith is dissatisfied with his work and dreams of rebellion against totalitarianism.

The book aims to serve as a warning for what can


night's loss to the Pistons - fourth in five games. He was referring to Mike D'Antoni's weird ways - his ever-revolving rotation and inability to communicate to the players effected. He was referring to playing nine minutes in the first half, with no notice, and then being benched again in the second half. Hughes hadn't played in seven straight games since Nate Robinson's Jan. 1 return. Perhaps the coach could've given him a heads-up.

The incident with Hughes follows incidents with Nate Robinson. The Knicks are just simply not a team the Pistons should lose to. They proved through three quarters that they can allow David Lee to get his numbers and contain everyone else. That has to be the plan again going into today's game in New York.A new species of frog discovered in Costa Rica has such translucent skin on its underside that it's possible to see its internal organs.

The species, named Hyalinobatrachium dianae, is a type of glass frog, which are only found in regions of South and Central America. In this case, six specimens of the species have been found in the tropical wet forests of Costa Rica's Caribbean foothills. The nocturnal creature is distinct from other species thanks to skin texture, colouring and the sound of its call.

Costa Rican Amphibian Research Centre

The glass frog was discovered by zoologists working at the Costa Rican Amphibian Research Centre and has been detailed in a study published in the online journal Zootaxa. While bright green on top, the delicate frog's transparent underside allowed the


researchers to study the arrangement of the frog's internal organs in detail. "The bulbous liver and digestive organs are covered in white peritonea. The heart and ventral vein are blood red. Lungs transparent, but with a network of red blood vessels. The gallbladder is transparent Sulphur Yellow," they write.

The frog has been named in honour of the senior author Brian Kubicki's mother Janet Diane Kubicki, and also Diana the Roman goddess of the hunt, wild animals and woodland. "This being in relation to our own 'hunt' among Costa Rica’s mountainous forests to better understand the amphibians dwelling within," the authors explain.

Glass Frogs can be difficult to observe as they tend to inhabit vegetation high above streams and at sites with tough-to-navigate topography. The last glass frog described fromof 183 first grade rugby league games in Australia, is a Kingscliff local where he works as an electrician.

Field debuted for South Sydney in 1990 and was promoted to captain in 1994.

He also played for Manly-Warringah, Balmain and Wests Tigers.

His career highlights include the 1997 grand final which Manly lost to the Newcastle Knights 22-16 when Darren Albert famously scored the match winning try.

Detectives are continuing with their investigation into the incident and are urging anyone with information that might assist police to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.


NBC has kicked off the pickups of pilots to series with a nod to two comedies, the DC Comics-themed Powerless and Trial & Error, both from Warner Bros. TV. Powerless had an early pickup deadline, with the network supposed to make a decision by end of day today.

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Both single-camera comedies had been early favorites at NBC, which landed the pitches with big commitments last summer, and had been high on both pilots since their early stages. Written by Ben Queen, the workplace comedy Powerless features (mostly fringe) DC Comics superheroes and stars Vanessa Hudgens. The pickup gives DC a half-hour comedy series to go with the company’s superhero drama series Gotham on Fox, Supergirl on CBS and Arrow,Iran, that they respect their national interests?Flynt Leverett: The first thing that has to happen is this basic acceptance – acceptance of the Islamic Republic as a legitimate and rational actor. This is the model which Nixon and Kissinger used to pursue the diplomatic opening with China in the early 1970's. It's not their achievement, it was not that they started talking to Beijing. The United States had been talking to Beijing for years, but it was this very narrow kind of dialogue very focused on grievance – American grievances towards China and what China was going to need to do to bring itself in line with American preferences. Nixon and Kissinger flipped that on its head. They said alright, we are going to convey to the Chinese


Defense Department doing quintessentially Defense Secretary things in this environment, which is to cut the budget and try to keep the United States out of another war. Now that piece – trying to keep the United States out of another war – could have impact here, but the problem is he could potentially try to keep the United States out of another war without being able to offer a vision to deal with this challenge. The Islamic Republic poses a real challenge to the United States and a real challenge to Israel. That challenge significantly constrains both the United States' and Israel’s preferred strategies for the region – just to project force whenever, wherever and to whatever degree we want unilaterally. The Islamic Republic of Iran challenges thatjohnstanko.us

Pearl 23: Floating on Purpose

TOPIC: Purpose and Parenting

“At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child. For three months he was cared for by his family" - Acts 7:20.

All newborns look pretty much alike but Moses' parents saw something in their baby boy that was different. What did they see? They saw purpose! While all the other baby boys were being thrown into the river, they kept theirs for as long as they could. Then they complied with the edict, the only difference being they put him in a floating basket first. From there, Moses' purpose kept him safe and directed him into Pharaoh's household. If you have children in your family or work with them, what do you see? Do you see the problems


Syberia : The World Before – Kate Walker returns for a new adventure!

Paris, August 19th, 2019 – Microids and Benoît Sokal are delighted to announce the forthcoming release of a new episode in the pioneering and iconic adventure game franchise Syberia.

Entitled Syberia: The world before, this episode will invite us once again to follow the adventures of Kate Walker as she deals with a new investigation. This journey will take us across continents and through time periods to experience a journey rooted in the turmoil and tragedies of the twentieth century.

In production for the past 18 months, “Syberia: The world before” will bring the fans back to the unique atmosphere, trademark of the series. Discover a scenario full of mystery, poetry and emotion. An adventure based on travelalso saw an
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also cropped up — and some of them are downright weird.

Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen, for one, is the
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Sure, Cersei is naked during that scene, but she's also
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rings a bell and repeatedly chants, "Shame!" It's safe to presume HBO
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deadly weaponry, the number one priority would have to be eliminating the deadly weaponry. As @alexwlchan notes, the longer those things are still in the air, the longer HYDRA has to turn the tide back in its favor.
There's also the issue of Cap himself, who from his first exposure to Insight registered concern and noted that "the punishment [should come] after the crime". If Fury's plan was to commandeer the Helicarriers and use them against their enemies, Cap would never be on board.

numbers on the sides. In the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) era after 2008, at least one was repainted in the Shosholoza Meyl purple livery.

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Iran says President Donald Trump's claim the US shot down an Iranian drone is false, with one official joking that the US most likely destroyed one of its own by mistake.

On Thursday, Trump said the USS Boxer destroyed a fixed-wing unmanned aerial system that came within "threatening" range over the Strait of Hormuz.

Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Iran's deputy foreign minister, derided the claim on Friday, tweeting: "I am worried that USS Boxer has shot down their own UAS by mistake!"

The Pentagon rejected Iran's denial that the US took down one of its drones. A spokesperson told INSIDER, "We stand by our statement from yesterday."

The incident is the latest of several tense exchanges in the Persian Gulf, with US and UK forces involved in skirmishes since Iran said it wasbreaching limits on enriched uranium agreed under the 2015 nuclear deal.

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Iran laughed off President Donald Trump's assertion that the US shot down an Iranian drone on Thursday, with one official saying the country was "worried" the US actually destroyed one of its own.

"We have not lost any drone in the Strait of Hormuz nor anywhere else," Iran's deputy foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, tweeted early Friday.

"I am worried that USS Boxer has shot down their own UAS by mistake!"

—Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) July 19, 2019

On Thursday, Trump said the USS Boxer destroyed an Iranian drone that had come within "threatening" range of the amphibious assault ship as it sailed through the Strait of Hormuz.

A map showing the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow


mouth of the Persian Gulf where 18.5 million barrels of oil pass through every day. Google Maps/Business Insider

"At approximately 10 a.m. local time, the amphibious ship USS Boxer was in international waters conducting a planned inbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz," the chief Pentagon spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, told Business Insider's Ellen Ioanes.

Read more: Iranian gunboats backed away in a showdown with a Royal Navy frigate after staring down the barrel of the 'perfect weapon'

"A fixed-wing unmanned aerial system approached Boxer and closed within a threatening range," he added. "The ship took defensive action against the UAS to ensure the safety of the ship and its crew."

The Pentagon did not immediately say how the drone was destroyed, but CNN cited a US defense official as saying the shipsaid.

Wall Street Journal reporter Rory Jones, who was aboard the USS Boxer in the hours before it took down the drone, on Friday reported that he'd witnessed an Iranian helicopter as well as a military vessel come dangerously close to the Boxer.

Tensions in the Persian Gulf have intensified since Iran said it would breach its limit on low-enriched uranium, disregarding promises it made under the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Read more: The UK is deploying another warship to the Persian Gulf as concern grows over a tanker that went missing near Iran

The US pulled out of the deal in May 2018, and relations between the two states have become increasingly frosty since then. Tensions have heightened in recent weeks after a series


of skirmishes at sea in the waters around Iran.

On June 13, Japanese and Norwegian oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman. Iran swiftly denied responsibility.

An oil tanker on fire in the Gulf of Oman on June 13. AP Photo/ISNA

A video released by the US military the next day purported to show Iran Revolutionary Guard boats taking an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of the Japanese tanker.

On June 20, Iran shot down a US Navy RQ-4 Global Hawk drone. Trump quickly called the clash "a mistake," avoiding an escalation.

Tensions between Tehran and the West heightened further, however, when the UK seized an Iranian ship entering the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar, claiming it was illegally transporting oil to Syria.

Iran then responded by ordering all "foreignand his sister have participated in a naming ceremony with the Dakota Sioux at Standing Rock, formally reentering the community. In front of 1,000 members of the Nation, he was given his Sioux name, now Little Mountain—“Hela” in the Lakota language.

Kyrie has made his ancestral connection known for years. He tweeted support for the Indigenous people and environmental activists of Standing Rock and offered solidarity in their fight against the Dakota Access Pipe Line. He also has a tattoo of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal logo on the back of his neck. In addition, he gave the tribe $100,000 last year.

Irving also comes about the name Little Mountain—“Hela” in a profound way. In a statement from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, they said, “The family connection of Kyrie


Irving comes from the White Mountain family (also known as Mountain) of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe…. Kyrie’s grandmother is the late, Meredith Marie Mountain, who is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Kyrie’s greatgrandfather is Moses Mountain and great-grandmother is Edith Morisette-Mountain.”

This has been a story both moving and widely covered. But two issues shine out from this issue beyond Kyrie’s personal, political and spiritual journey. The first is, in a sports world that still leans on Native American racist mascots and slurs, including a billion-dollar NFL brand in Washington, DC, here is a very different kind of collision between Native American life and professional sports.

I turned to Jacqueline Keeler, a Navajo/Yankton Dakota Sioux writer living in Portland, Oregon, and co-founder of Eradicating Offensive Nativefrom their families and sending them to boarding schools fell out of favor, the US turned to the adoption system. In 1968, a year after Elizabeth Larson, Kyrie’s mother, was born, the Association of American Indian Affairs found that throughout Indian Country 25-35 percent of children were removed from their families and were adopted at [rates] 16 times higher than the national average and most Indigenous children were adopted by white parents.”

At this time, it was common for Native American children to be removed from their birth families. That only changed, as Ward explains, with “the strides made by the Red Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s forced the government to pass the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978, which gives Indigenous families priority in the adoption


Queer Pioneers Book of Love Headed to Denver

Underground genres like synthpop, goth, and punk have often been breeding grounds for alternative lifestyles and queer identities. Punks experimented with gender-bending and same-gender relationships, and these same ethos and ideas carried over into the genres it inspired.

Book of Love is one of the bands that pioneered queer identity in alternative music, and they are still doing it today. Made up of a mix of genders and sexual orientations, and spawned from a love of music and art, Book of Love were a queer band before queer bands were a thing, and laid the foundation for outsider music.

“I think that the main theme is really about being an outsider, and obviously gay people feel like they are outsiders, even though latelyRegion

The Pacific region and marine sites are underrepresented on the World Heritage List. Despite its huge potential and importance, the Pacific region has only a handful of sites among the 788 World Heritage sites. A World Heritage Marine Biodiversity workshop, held in 2002 in Vietnam, identified and recommended several tropical marine areas with high biodiversity for World Heritage status. The ...


where she was discovered." "Could someone have taken karen to this place by force?" "That is a possibility." "But at this stage in the investigation we can´t say for sure." "The 14th on January, to help you recall that night, the newspaper carried the story of Tandy... a fox terrier who´d been trapped in a manhole for more than three days." "Most newspapers carried a leading story and photograph of the recovery of Tandy." "The film you´re about to see shows a reconstruction of Karen´s last movements after she left this building - MacDonald´s Advertising, and said goodbye to an executive she´d been to see." "It was 630" "Wearing clothes like these and carrying her portfolio, she walked towards her blur Mini, which she´s left parked in a"The victim was found in 1986, knifed in a local public park." "Angela was a hairdresser, well-liked, about to get married." "Now, George Marlow was found staying in the vicinity at a local BB, 50 yards from the park gates and the area the body was discovered." "Phil?" "No marks to the upper arms, but the rope, the way the hands are tied was exactly the same as in victims one and two." "Have you tracked down the origins of that rope?" "It's a perfectly ordinary rope." "You can buy it anywhere." "So there's no lead on the rope, sarge." "Geddit?" " Frankie." " Fifth victim." "Sharon Reid." "Now, she worked part-time at a local beauty salon." "The owner of the beauty salon said she left on the


lock-ups along the back of the station." "That's the 18." "There's Jimmy now behind him." "Tony, you and Phil, get up to the lock-ups behind the station." "Stake them out." "Harry, pick up your car and do the same." "He's got off the bus." "He's heading for the station." "Looks like he's gonna do a runner back up north." "No, he's passed the station." "Maybe going for a cab." "No..." "No, he's going up Pancras Road." "May be going for the lock-ups." "I'm following him." "He's not hanging about, neither." "He's not going in the lock-ups." "He's going in a caff." "Phil, Tony, one of you take over." "He's ordered a cup of coffee." "He's chatting to the owner." "They seem to know each other." "This girl, didAt a campaign stop Wednesday, September 17, in Elko, Nevada, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama said Republican rival Sen. John McCain "is somebody who's been in Congress for 26 years - who put seven of the most powerful Washington lobbyists in charge of his campaign and now he tells us that he's the one who's going to take on the old boys network." He then added the applause line: "The old boys network - in the McCain campaign, that's called a staff meeting."

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McCain does have people who have registered to lobby Congress as both staff members and unpaid advisers. As CNN's Ed Henry reported September 9, the seven Obama refers to include campaign manager Rick Davis, a high-profile lobbyist whose clients


have included telecommunications companies, and senior adviser Charlie Black, whose lobbying has included working with dictator Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire (now Congo) and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in Angola.

McCain's senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann recently faced scrutiny over his foreign lobbying on behalf of the Republic of Georgia. While the claim that the staffers with lobbying connections are "in charge of his campaign" would be impossible to prove from the outside, members of the seven have appeared publicly on behalf of the campaign and have titles that would suggest they are part of McCain's inner circle.

The public watchdog group Public Citizen has praised McCain's record for trying to curb lobbyist influence in the Senate. And Obama's campaign isn't without its own members with a history asLast month, as the revelry ramped up in the streets of New Orleans, I was hosting my own kind of Mardi Gras. Over the last several weeks, I feasted on stories of New Orleans and Louisiana, inspired by my recent trip to the Crescent City.

This was my third visit to New Orleans. The first time, I was a teenager, awestruck by everything I saw, heard, and smelled in a city so full of life and personality. The second time, I was a twentysomething, charmed by the brilliant musicianship spilling out of the bars and into the streets at all hours of the night. This time, as I wandered the Quarter, uptown, and the Garden District, I was struck by a sense of rich and diverse stories simmering in


introduces an intriguing world in each new story—from a neighborhood of houses built on a bayou to a cattle farm disrupted by Hurricane Rita to a ten-bedroom home overlooking alligator-infested waters. My favorites were the tales of the Louisiana swamps and the men who wade in them. The “peat-stained” water, relentless swarms of mosquitoes, “guttural moaning of bullfrogs,” and boggy ground underfoot set the perfect stage for the unfolding of pivotal relationship moments. I especially loved two stories that explored the dynamics and tensions between strong, distinct characters: in one case, two estranged brothers, and in another, two coworkers with diametrically opposed temperaments.

Langlinais’s stories gave me a refreshing glimpse of modern south Louisiana and the complexities of the men who live there.

Book Deals Newsletter Sign up for ourof New Orleans, you get a sense that the hurricane created a profound shift in their lives—and these stories brought that feeling to life in a way I’d never previously experienced.

After sharing in these characters’ emotional and intellectual journeys, I truly felt as if I’d been given the opportunity to walk the world—and the south—in many other pairs of shoes.

Although Salvage the Bones, a National Book Award winner, is actually set in Mississippi, it features an important New Orleans character: Hurricane Katrina. The author, whose family’s home in Mississippi was damaged by the storm, also lived and worked in post-Katrina New Orleans. I picked up a copy of this book at Beckham’s Bookshop in the French Quarter and was immediately drawn into the lives of 15-year-old Esch, her


Orleans trip. Right away, I found myself laughing out loud at the eccentric characters imagined by Toole, who was born and raised in New Orleans. Between laughs, I followed the adventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, a misfit who considers himself a misunderstood genius. After holing up and writing in his mother’s house for years, he’s suddenly out in 1960s New Orleans, looking for employment for the first time in his life. He tries—and fails—to work a clerical job at a declining pants manufacturer, and later as a hot dog vendor. Meanwhile, the lives of a handful of other colorful characters—including a hapless patrolman, a sweet-natured aspiring stripper, and a witty nightclub porter—are unfolding all around Reilly, while he and they hurtle toward the story’s climax in the nighttimeJonathan Comey: Patriots favor youth with unexpected cuts

That was evident Friday as the team did its trimming to the first of what will be a succession of evolving 53-man rosters, cutting some unexpected names.

Tom Brady was already looking uncomfortable in preseason without his longtime left tackle Matt Light, and Friday's cuts took away three more squares in his security quilt: three-year backup Brian Hoyer, longtime center Dan Koppen and veteran receiver Deion Branch.

While Koppen's release was expected — Ryan Wendell and Dan Connolly were younger and offered positional flexibility — Branch and Hoyer came as surprises.

Hoyer lost out to Ryan Mallett based on talent (less) and salary (more), while Branch was a bigger surprise — one that suggests the Patriots aren't done tweaking their receiver mix.

Following the moves


seven that figures to take a quantum leap forward.

Some of the guys who wound up on the cutting-room floor Friday will wind up in other cities — as is the case every year with Patriot castoffs. You don't build a dynasty without the ability to track talent, and New England always has a surplus when the end of August rolls around.

For football geeks, the next few days are fascinating as teams make little tweaks to their rosters.

For the vast majority of fans, though, it's little more than a blip on the radar, and for good reason — no one that winds up as one of those tough roster cuts was or is going to have a big impact on a championship season.

The nucleus is what matters, and theStormy Rottman

Leon "Stormy" Rottman (1918 - January 15, 1993) was an American weather forecaster and television host. After his experience with reporting weather conditions for the U.S. Air Force during World War II and the Korean War, Rottman began a civilian career as a weather presenter on both television and radio. He was the primary evening weatherman for many years at Channel 9 in Denver, Colorado.

Beginnings and military service
Leon Rottman was born in 1918 in Chicago, Illinois. After enlisting in the U.S. Air Force, he was stationed in Kunming, China as a briefing officer. It was here that Rottman began forecasting weather conditions in the area, gaining the nickname "Stormy" that he would keep for the remainder of his career. During the Korean War, Rottman was stationed at


FARGO, N.D. — Like sweater vests, talk of his children, and condemnations of "ObamaCare," "glitter-bombing" has become an almost automatic feature of Rick Santorum's candidacy. Protesters targeted the candidate with glitter as soon as he took the stage at a packed rally tonight at the Holiday Inn in Fargo. Unruffled, he launched into his speech.

This is the third time in the last month that Santorum has been glitter-bombed -- Occupy protesters threw glitter at him at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina on primary night there, and another group of occupiers glitter-bombed him in Tacoma, Washington on Monday night.

It wasn't immediately clear who did the bombing tonight, though Occupy Fargo mentioned plans to do so on their Facebook page yesterday:market group.

What happens to stocks when index providers preview a move up

These moves up to emerging markets status could mean billions of global investing dollars for the first time being tied to Kuwait's economy as emerging markets investors and funds that track index exposure, or have their performance measured against the EM index, are forced to buy shares of Kuwait stocks. Market history shows that, in the short-term at least, the index-review process can mean momentum for stocks in the market up for reclassification. Here are some recent examples. Argentina and Saudi Arabia went through similar emerging markets index reclassifications that started last year and resulted in official upgrades in June. The Saudi stock market was one of the top-performing equities markets around the globe during that process


and has outpaced most of the globe this year as well, though there are multiple reasons — oil prices have been rising strongly, and the economic reforms being promoted by the Saudi Crown Prince have contributed to investor confidence. Argentina shares have suffered recently, but its stocks were strong performers in 2017 — it was the No. 1 country stock market in the world last year. Kuwait has the oldest stock exchange in the Gulf, and several of the companies that trade on it are multinational in scope and would benefit greatly from reclassification, said Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute. Trading volume and price action in Kuwaiti stocks has picked up in 2018. Some of the top Kuwait exchange-listed stocksin frontier markets indexes have been on a strong performance run, including Kuwait Finance House and Mobile Telecommunications, 13 percent and 26 percent, respectively, between June and July. The relatively small size of the market overall, and its limited liquidity, also contributed to big run-ups in stock prices since the June news. But any short-term pop in Kuwaiti stocks based on investors getting ahead of the index moves doesn't reflect a very large hurdle that will remain for Kuwait's economy: Its massive public-sector reliance on oil, and its lack of investment in the private sector, has led to a series of large budget deficits.

An oil-heavy economy in need of change

Kuwait’s economy, like much of the Middle East, is heavily reliant on oil exports. It is home to 6


of the few animals that looks as if it would be good to eat: "you can't look at a gazelle's hindquarters without thinking of mint sauce."

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Disney's primacy in nature documentaries is a subject Neil Gabler examines in his recent biography of Walt Disney. Allegedly Walt himself was so fond of animals that he even spared a worm he found crawling on a tree: "This is one of God's creatures and we don't harm them." In the 1940s, Disney had an encounter with Stanford president David Starr Jordan, an expert on the fur seal territory debate between Japan and Russia. Thus Disney decided to make a documentary on the seal islands of the North Pacific. Disney's inspiration was to cut out most of the human factor: "More seals,"film exposed to the final film. Schickel's The Disney Version may express ambiguous feelings about Walt, but the critic has all admiration for Disney's unheralded nature photographers Al and Emma Milotte. "The tales of the patience and courage of the cameramen are endless," he writes. Some of these tales: six weeks' vigil over a slowly hatching alligator egg; 60 days inside a trailer in Africa's veldt until the lions were calm enough to allow themselves to be photographed at night, by searchlight. And five months on Beaver Valley, where Al Milotte was near breaking down when he couldn't get a close-up of one of the varmints chewing on a branch. ("Contrary to popular notion," Milotte said, "beavers are not always busy. Most of the time they just horse


around.")

Disney and his organization took these scripts "written by nature" and shaped them into melodramas. A National Geographic profile of Disney in 1963 quoted Walt's notes on The Living Desert: "Our heavy is the tarantula...Tarantula gets his and then Mr. Snake gets his."

Disney's Earth sticks with the successful formula. When we see a pride of lions lapping water together, their heads squeezed together by a telescopic lens, they look as conspiratorial as the Clanton Gang. It seems possible that Chuck Jones--always in a career-long reaction against Disney--may have created the Roadrunner and the Coyote as a commentary on Disney's nature shorts. In those cartoon gems, the role of "heavy" coyote and innocent road runner get blissfully scrapped. Mr. Coyote certainly gets his.

Cue Swell
Schickel writes, "There is no moralaccustomed to being lulled to sleep at the end of beery Sundays by the nature shows on KQED, just as their grandfathers were put into narcosis by Schlitz and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, which was broadcast at roughly the same day and time slot some 45 years ago.

The model is case-hardened; it's less cute than Disney's heyday but as edited for the upbeat. Always, delicate creatures make narrow, unlikely escape signifying the fate of a whole endangered species: "The marmoset is safe...for tonight. But how long can the whiskered monkeys of Venezuela hold their dominion against the invasion of Man?" On the one hand it reminds the gentle viewer of how much of the earth's creatures are hanging on by a thread; on the other hand it


on the shelves of a store dedicated to satisfying the demands of ordinary people, many of them relatively low-income. And not to go all “I, Pencil” on you (again), consider the vast enterprise that supports that process: the global container-shipping network, the bankers and insurers, the companies that produce the energy and raw materials, the logistics experts, the engineers and architects — it is so complex as to be literally incomprehensible, and it is all organized around the whims and desires and interests of ordinary schmucks like us.

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Not for free, of course. Jeff Bezos, the man behind Amazon, began his career as a seller of books in the electronic marketplace and has become the world’s wealthiest man and a pretty good candidate for real-life Bond villain byMichael Moore - ‘SNP are like UKIP’

SCOTTISH Secretary Michael Moore has compared the SNP to anti-EU party UKIP as he claimed there was a “clear parallel” between the two parties.

By ANDREW WHITAKER Monday, 16th September 2013, 7:57 pm

Michael Moore (centre), Secretary of State for Scotland. Picture: Robert Perry

Mr Moore claimed the SNP and UKIP had similar arguments as he claimed that both parties had a “hard need to assert a specific sense of national identity”.

The cabinet minister launched the attack on the SNP at a fringe meeting on the issue of Europe at the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow.

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before the Court after remand on motions for summary judgment or affirmance of the Secretary's regulations, there being no material facts in dispute. After reviewing the original and supplementary briefs of the parties and hearing two oral arguments on these issues, the Court makes the following rulings.

Background
When Congress passed the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 it included an employee protection program to protect employees who had relied on employment with regulated carriers and might be displaced in the transition to a deregulated, competitive market. Airline Deregulation Act, § 43, Pub.L. No. 95-504, 92 Stat. 1705, 1750 (1978) codified at 49 U.S.C. § 1552. Although this program, § 43 of the Act, has been in effect for over seven years, its turbulent history has prevented airline employees from receivingany substantial benefits from its provisions.
Section 43 contains two prongs. The first directed the Secretary of Labor to establish a program for providing displaced workers with monetary assistance funded from the United States Treasury. 49 U.S.C. § 1552(a)-(c). Congress has never appropriated funds for this program so no implementing regulations have been promulgated and no assistance has ever been provided by the government.
In addition to this monetary assistance, the statute establishes a second program, § 43(d), which obligates the airlines to give certain "protected employees" a first-right-of-hire when filling job vacancies. The Secretary of Labor's original proposed regulations were noticed for comment in 1979 but never resulted in a final rule. 44 Fed.Reg. 19146 (1979). A revised set of proposed regulations was issued in 1982 and published as


lever with a central neutral point to select both the direction of displacement of the machine and the speed at which this occurs. As already mentioned, the machine moves at a speed chosen to suit the nature of the soil. Thus the operator has to move the lever gradually to a position in one direction or the other corresponding to the chosen speed. Also, the vibration means are actuated by a control member situated in the vicinity of the path of movement of the lever so as to be engaged by the lever as soon as the operator commands starting of the machine. The control member is placed in the immediate vicinity of the neutral point of the lever so that the vibration means can function at low

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The silence in the night always had her on edge, the woman having to canvass the land as she panned the area looking for trouble. With her mind running on fumes, her attention slacked, her aura having to exert too much energy to keep her alert and body protected from the elements. She wrapped herself tight, regretting not packing warmer before she left her house for good.

She heard a commotion behind her, Ruby clumsily scaling the building as she held a mug full of hot brew in her hand. “Nailed it, kind of.”

“I told you to call me.”

“I'm still awake and I thought I'd bring a cup up to the woman who made a great escape today,”


from WW's, so that might not have affected her look.
So what do the stars on Wonder Woman's outfit represent?
WW:

Star Sapphires:

A:

From the comics:
The golden age (Earth-2) and silver age (Earth-1) versions of Wonder Woman provided no in-universe explanation of the similarity between her costume and the US flag (same colors, same color scheme (plus gold), white stars on a blue field).
In the (basically) rebooted universe following Crisis on Infinite Earths, Wonder Woman was reintroduced, and some explanation was given. In Wonder Woman #12 (Vol.2, Jan 1988), we find out that a female air force pilot (circa WWII) crashed on Paradise Island many years ago, and died helping the Amazons in battle. The costume was based on her "standard" (the US flag). She turned out to be Diana Trevor, motherLil Wayne appeared in an Arizona courtroom on Tuesday (May 6) to answer to several drug charges, stemming from an arrest in January.

As he has maintained since that arrest, the rapper (real name: Dwayne Carter) entered a not guilty plea on charges of multiple drug possession charges -- three being felonies -- and a misconduct involving weapons charge.

He is scheduled to appear in court on May 19.

Weezy was arrested at in late January, following a search of his tour bus during a routine stop at a Border Patrol checkpoint just outside of Yuma, Arizona.

During the stop, DEA found numerous narcotics -- including 105 grams of marijuana, 29 grams of cocaine and 41 grams of ecstasy -- and a 40-caliber pistol registered to the rapper.

Wayne's legal team filed a


Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Group Counseling on the Mental Health of Midwifery Students.
The present study was conducted with the objective of investigating the effectiveness of solution-focused group counseling (SFGC) on promoting the mental health of midwifery students. The present study is an intervention-based study with a pretest, a post-test, and a control group. The statistical population included all of the midwifery students studying in the midwifery department of the Bam University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran, who filled out the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) in the screening phase. In the second phase, 40 individuals, having a low level of mental health based on the cutoff score of 23, were selected and randomly divided into 2 groups (intervention and control), each group with 20 participants. The intervention group participated inAward is held by a range of organisations including:

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the underground laboratory in the middle of the desert where scientific experiments would be tested on them. There were two scientists who conducted the experiment. One was overseeing the project while the other conducted the experiments upon the vagrants that they had rounded up. They were testing the limits of human memory in an effort to expand the human brain for an unknown purpose.

There were five vagrants locked up in the underground laboratory. The scientist who was in charge, a beady looking character, would see to the needs of the various vagrants that he kept in the laboratory. He kept them under lock and key, housed them in cages and would conduct ‘experiments’ upon them.

He was currently testing one of the vagrants. He had the vagrant, a woman,The present study had as objective to know the perceptions of adolescent fathers about school as a social network of support for paternity in the adolescency. This is a study with qualitative approach, which used as a theoretical reference the Sluzki´s concept on social networks. It was developed with five teenage parents: two were students of a local public school in the city of Pelotas and three were participants in a multicentric research called Support Network to Paternity in Adolescency. After the consent of participants, the collecting data began, which has occurred in the months of August and September of 2009, at home of each parent teenagers. The application of a semistructured questionnaire with open questions was used as a collection technique. The interviews were recorded, faithfully transcribed,


analyzed and organized into themes. It was found that teenage parents escaped from the school before the paternity because of the need to work and obtain financial resources to support themselves. None of them had knowledge about social support networks and also unaware of their rights as citizens and students, which are described in the Law of Directives and Bases of Education. The school, in the view of each of them, also showed no concern or encouragement to help them stay in school. It is necessary to disclose these parents their rights as citizens, because only through information and education is that they could reach their goals as men, as parents and as citizens.Compiling the best online articles about washington so there will be more in the future.

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D. THE TRIAL EVIDENCE
To prove its patent, TradeCard presented Guy F. Tozzoli, the inventor, and Kurt Cavano ("Cavano") and Gary D. Schneider ("Schneider"), the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and the Senior Vice President, of TradeCard. Tozzoli testified that, as President of a trade association, he conceived of a system to streamline the paper-intensive methods of international trade, and that he was awarded patent 6,151,588 on November 21, 2000 for the system he advanced, six years after his first application to the United States Patent Office, on October 13, 1994. Tozzoli testified that the heart of his invention was the automatic comparison features of the system, and that the concept of "hidden terms" made it possible for a buyer to agree in advance to accept possible variations between


the buyer's purchase order and the seller's proffered performance.
Cavano testified that Tozzoli came to him to develop the software for the invention. Cavano testified that, using web-based technology to permit various users to input their information, he developed a system to reduce the time and expense of international commercial transactions. Cavano testified that TradeCard licensed Tozzoli's system, and grew to have many offices in the United States and China, approximately 1500 customers in 40 countries, and revenues in 2005 of $7.5 million. Of his customers, Cavano testified, 60-70% purchased goods by "open" accounts without guarantees, and 30-40% were supported by guarantees, mostly given by insurance companies and non-bank financial institutions. Cavano testified that TradeCard had not been successful at selling its system to banks, presumably because banks preferredtheir traditional letter-of-credit systems.
Schneider testified about TradeCard's efforts to persuade banks to adopt TradeCard's system. TradeCard attempted, unsuccessfully, to convince banks that its system was preferable to their letter-of-credit systems. TradeCard also wished to schedule meetings with Bank of America in order to learn more about the financial services that Bank of America and other banks offered to their customers. Schneider testified that TradeCard's goal was to attract customers of banks, including customers of Bank of America, with the objective of becoming more appealing to both the banks and their customers. Bank of America also was interested to learn about TradeCard, and a series of meetings between TradeCard and Bank of America followed, in the fall and winter of late 2001 and early 2002, but TradeCard was not


able to interest Bank of America, or any other bank, in its product. In the meetings, TradeCard was careful not to disclose its source codes or design documents for its system; its representatives instead stressed the functions that it could perform electronically and automatically.
In summer 1991, Bank of America formed a task force to obtain an improved system to match purchasers' requirements with documents of sellers' deliveries. Bank of America had been using a purchase order tracking system ("POTS"). Customers of the bank, generally manufacturers *315 in Hong Kong exporting to the United States, transmitted the data reflected in their purchase orders from their computers to the computers of Bank of America, using templates customized for the style and requirements of each customer. The Bank's software would thenSenior Vice President, used the contacts he had gained in prior employments to gain access to Bank of America's task force, to demonstrate TradeCard's system. Schneider testified that TradeCard desired the meetings also for intelligence about the needs of Bank of America's customers, with the goal of eventually soliciting such customers directly. Schneider's efforts brought about several meetings, but Bank of America decided that its needs could be better met by S 1 and did not engage TradeCard.
Paul A. Johnson ("Johnson") of Bank of America testified that Bank of America agreed to the meetings also to gain intelligence, for TradeCard had been advertising itself as an alternative to banks, and Bank of America regarded TradeCard as a competitor. Johnson testified that the task force chose S1 to develop


the integrated system for Bank of America because of its experience and track record in developing systems for banks, and because S1 had a good reputation for being responsive to the needs of buyers and sellers in the bank systems that S 1 developed. In addition, TradeCard's system was perceived to relate more to open account transactions, while Bank of America's business plan emphasized letter of credit transactions.
Michael Thomas Timoney ("Timoney"), Manager of Program Innovation for Bank of America, testified that he developed the functional points of Bank of America's system. He wanted a system that could integrate purchase order data reflected on templates prepared by the Bank's customers, with the terms and conditions reflected on the letters of credit that Bank of America would issue. However, whensales invoices and shipping documents were presented to Bank of America, Timoney instructed that the comparisons should be made by visual reviews made by its letter of credit specialists, giving purchasers, the bank's customers, the opportunity to decide if the discrepancies should be grounds for rejection and non-payment, or waived. Timoney testified that Bank of America's customers preferred such a system that provided for communications between the Bank's trade specialists and the Bank's customers, and which kept track of payments and balances accruing over numbers of letters of credit transactions.
Timoney testified that he intended to preserve the function of Bank of America's POTS system, which displayed discrepancies to Bank of America trade specialists, to be followed by discussions between those specialists and the Bank, to enable the Bank's


customers to decide between rejection of the transaction or waiver of the discrepancies. The POTS template *316 also provided a box, "requested compliance," for customers who preferred to indicate in advance particular aspects of nonconforming merchandise that the customer would be ready to accept.
POTS had been a customized PC service, focused on the PC's of individual customers, and on imports by those customers, generally from exporters in Hong Kong. With the advent of the internet, Timoney wanted an internet-based system that was capable of interfacing flexibly with customers' purchasing needs, and integrating their terms and conditions into Bank of America's internal system.
Bryan T. Shannon ("Shannon"), who led the team that developed the software at S1, testified about the work of his team and its relations to Bank ofAmerica's systems people. Shannon testified that he and his team were not aware of TradeCard's system, and that they developed their system for Bank of America independently. Patricia Lanahan ("Lanahan"), Senior Director of Wholesale Banking Systems for S1, testified also that S1 did not have access to any information from others in developing the system it sold to Bank of America. S1's business was to develop systems for banks. Lanahan testified that, in 2000, S1 acquired Level Next, a company that had sold trade finance systems to banks. S 1 incorporated Level Next's trade finance product into its own suite of products and, in 2001, licensed that system to. Bank of America. Bank of America branded the system, Trade Direct. Later in 2001, S1 developed a backend purchase


order processing system for Bank of America, called by the acronym POPS, to be integrated with Trade Direct. In October 2002, Bank of America began to use the systems developed for it by S1, and announced their availability to the public by a press release of January 2003. Bank of America's System linked three components: (1) Trade Direct  a frontend, web-based system that captured the data reflected in the purchase orders of the bank's customers and transferred it electronically to the Bank's internal system; (2) the Bank's internal system to prepare letters of credit from the data thus transferred; and (3) Tradeline  a system to input and store data from sellers' invoices and bills of lading, thereby permitting checking, electronically and visually, for compliance and discrepanciesDirect. The system was an option available to customers without extra charge and, as Scanlan testified, Bank of America used that option for approximately 25% of its letter of credit customers whose transactions required intensive checking for comparisons and discrepancies. Bank of America offered its comparative checking services for a fee. No additional charges resulted when trade specialists used POPS for their comparative checking.
Kathleen A. Burger testified about prior art. Ms. Burger is the Trade Client Access Product Manager of JP Morgan *317 Chase Bank, in charge of computer applications to facilitate trade for the bank's trade customers. During 1989, 1990 and 1991, Ms. Burger was in charge of Systems Applications for First National Bank of Chicago ("First Chicago"), a predecessor of JP Morgan Chase. She was familiar


the trade services representative and the bank's customers was a desirable feature that the bank did not wish to change. First Chicago preferred to retain a non-automated, person-to-person step in the process.
Ms. Burger kept a notebook in which she described all the functionalities of the P.O. Track system and in which she documented her progress, and that of the group of which she was Product Manager, in developing improvements to the PO Track system. She was also involved in the creation of a user manual, design documents, and a computer source code written in the then-current language used by system designers. These were all contemporaneously prepared by or under the supervision of Ms. Burger and kept by her in her office, and were admitted into evidence. The sourcewith Hallmark in 1992, showing how the system she had developed would work, and won Hallmark as a customer.
Ms. Burger testified that First Chicago's system kept evolving, as she and others made changes and as Microsoft's DOS was improved by successive versions of Microsoft's operating systems. Between 2000 and 2004, First Chicago converted from Cibar to more advanced computer systems.
Plaintiff and Defendants also presented experts to testify on the issues of validity and infringement: Benjamin F. Goldberg for TradeCard, and Jack D. Grimes for Bank of America and S 1. Dr. Goldberg is a professor of computer science at New York University, and testified as an expert on computers and computer systems; he disclaimed expertise in the customs and practices of international trade. Dr. Grimes's expertise is in


bills of lading matched the buyer's offer or, alternatively, if after a visual noting of variations the buyer agreed that payment should be made, either pursuant to an earlier waiver or in response to the bank's specific inquiry.
Dr. Goldberg acknowledged that POPS required the Bank to input, manually, the terms and conditions of the seller's deliveries reflected on the seller's invoices and bills of lading, but, Dr. Goldberg testified, POPS contemplated an automatic comparison of the overt and hidden data embedded into the Bank's systems after the manual inputting was performed. However, and unlike Claim 8 of the '588 Patent, another human intervention by the Bank's letter of credit specialists followed. An automatic, electronic instruction that the "buyer's obligation to pay for the goods is due," as Claimeight provides, was not included in POPS. Bank of America's specialists gave that instruction, after inspecting the seller's documents against the letter of credit and after discussing with the buyer the acceptability of nonconforming merchandise. Dr. Goldberg conceded that in POPS, the instruction to pay was not automatic; it resulted from discussions between the buyer and the letter of credit specialist.[4]
Dr. Jack D. Grimes, an expert in the field of computer science applications to payment systems, examined the specifications and claims of the '588 patent, and compared those claims with the functions performed by Bank of America's system. Grimes testified that Bank of America's system required its employees to inspect the seller's shipping documents manually, to look for such things as certificates of origin, and to compare those


(7) impact of the invention on the industry, and (8) relationship between witness and alleged prior user. Juicy Whip, 292 F.3d at 741 (citing In re Reuter, 670 F.2d 1015, 1021 (CCPA 1981)). Under these criteria, the Jury was entitled to find invalidity on the basis of Kathleen Burger's testimony of the system that she and her team had developed for First Chicago, and the prior public use of that system. Her work was contemporaneously documented, and the users' manual and source code were introduced into evidence (4th criterion). She was not interested in the result, and her testimony was not contradicted or impeached (2nd and 3rd criteria). Further, she was familiar with the details of the system (5th criterion). There need not be corroboration with respect toDean Nemtsov told about how her family was affected by the death of his father

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Meghan Markle's outspoken sister has demanded the release of Tommy Robinson and called him a political prisoner - sparking derision online.

Samantha Markle, who lives in America, accused the UK of being in the 'dark ages' and shared a petition demanding the EDL founder is freed as well as a video of right-wing European leader Geert Wilders protesting outside the British embassy in Holland.

Robinson, 35, was jailed for 13 months last Friday for contempt of court after broadcasting onFacebook Live outside Leeds Crown Court, putting a major trial at risk of collapse.

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Meghan Markle's outspoken sister has demanded the release of Tommy Robinson and called him a political prisoner - sparking derision online

Samantha Markle accused the UK of being in the 'dark ages' and shared a petition demanding the EDL founder is freed as well as a video of right-wing European leader Geert Wilders protesting outside the British embassy in Holland

The EDL founder was held by police and taken up to a courtroom where he pleaded guilty to contempt of court.

He also pleaded guilty to breaching a suspended sentence from a previous court case.

Judge Geoffrey Marson QC blasted Robinson for his 'highly prejudicial actions'.

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landmass between Asia and Europe and includes countries such as Russia and the Ukraine.

Many Eurasian Ethnic groups arose during the Mongol invasion of Europe and the colonial occupation of Asian regions by European states and private corporations from the 16th century peaking in the 19th century.

The term 'Eurasian' was first coined in British India in 1844 and originally used by the Anglo-Indians - people of mixed British and Indian descent. They tended to socialize and marry among themselves forming a separate social and economic class.

Today the term is most commonly used as an ethnic definition to describe people of mixed European and East Asian descent.(Cultures based on Chinese culture and philosophy such as Chinese, Japanese Korean and some South East Asian cultures).

Hapa

The term Hapa originates in Hawaai denotingreasoning and linear thinking with man as the center of his universe and the application of science and technology as the basis of decision making.

The Eastern world (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and some Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam and Singapore) is dominated by Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. A world-view based on collectivism, harmony, inner reflection, filial piety and holism (The whole as being more than the sum of its parts) places importance on a person's role in society as opposed to the focus on the individuality of a person. Buddhism taught correct living through harmlessness, mindfulness and non-attachment to the material world.

In essence we can say that Westerners tend to be more expressive and assertive in their communications with the pursuit of happiness and self-interest motivating decisions.


In the East, people tend to be more context orientated, passive and yielding for the common good of the collective. Communication is more indirect and intuitive so as not to lose face or disrupt social order.

Who do You Think is Right about the Relationship Between east and West?

Rudyard Kipling: "East is East and West is West, Never the Twain Shall Meet"

Johann Goethe: " he who knows himself and other, will also recognize that East & West cannot be separate.

Complementarism

Historically society, scholars and thinkers believed that the two worldviews were contradictory and consequently separate development was pursued over many centuries. In past centuries and in the absence of modern technology it was easier to maintain the separation as the distance between these two worlds were far apart.

Much has changedsince the days of Rudolf Kipling who wrote in his famous ballad of 1889 'East is East, West is West, Never the twain shall meet'

Today, we live in a melting pot of different ethnicities called the global village with ever advancing technology. Eastern and Western world-views are increasingly perceived as complementary rather than contradictory.

Complementarism a term coined by physist Niels Bohr (1885-1962) holds that objects have complementary properties which cannot be measured accurately at the same time. Bohr often referred to his studies as the scientific equivalent to the yin and yang principal found in taoism.

His work was followed by Fritjof Capra an Austrian born american Physicist who published a best selling book in 1975 the Tao of Physics in which connections between Science and Eastern mysticism are


in the USA and the world. | Source

Loving Vs Virginia. A Landmark Civil Case.

A USA Supreme court ruling of 1967 found it unconstitutional to prohibit mixed race marriages based on laws prohibiting interracial marriages. ‘The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored".’Wiklopedia

The Loving and Virginia case was not only a landmark ruling in the USA, but also had a global reach.

Best of Both Cultural Expression.

According to a number of prominent scholars the Western world experienced a shift towards anEast-West culture since the 60's.

The wellness industry for instance where Eastern practices such as yoga, tai chi, Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are backed by Western Science.

A complementary fusion of Eastern and Western principles can be found in the arts, spirituality, cuisine and more recently music.

East-West culture is not quite a reality yet but most people today selectively practice some form of integrated East-West culture - even if it's just meals. Understanding how the principles of East-West blending are harmonized in cultural fields such as art and design, cuisine,spirituality, music,will provide a greater sense of one's heritage and an opportunity to appreciate its cultural expression and an opportunity to find ones own unique blended expression.

Bruce Lee was not only a prolific fighter but also a philosopher. He died at