doubt about it, New York is a city, but a lonely crowd for all but the elite of the elitists. I've commuted there for twenty years and I'm still seeking that edifying vibe. That's just me, I fall asleep at broadway plays.

175,000 blacks have left the city, according to the official numbers. It sure doesn't seem like it, though. Also, it's not just the numbers but the quality of those living here, and it's pretty low. A very large percentage are the absolute bottom of the ghetto barrel, complete with extensive gang tattoos and bad attitudes. A large part of the population is on welfare and considers going to jail a regular part of life.The city has a large floating population of homeless stinkballs that sleep everywhere, mostChicago for 20 years (and being in possession of a better understanding than most on the subject of how the City That Works actually works), Sailer can be forgiven if he notices Chicago's recent transformation into a city built around a large, affluent, sparkling business/residential center, with crumbling, dysfunctional, and crime-ridden areas having been pushed to the outer edges and collar suburbs (like Paris and some other European cities), and wonders whether former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley may have noticed the coincidence that his city's demographic makeup was beginning to bear similarities to the "wealthy in the center city-all bets off in the banlieues" demographic makeup of Paris during one of his frequent visits to the City of Light.

"Besides the preposterousness of comparing the majestic cities of Europe


to America's provincial hamlets, there is the issue that the comparison does not hold. European kick their poor to the suburbs because the oldest and most expensive residential areas in cities like Paris, Munich, Florence, etc, are at the center of town. This is not the case in the U.S. with it's middle-class, petit burgeoise Society, that has made middle-class residents to go live in the suburbs whilst the center of town is the commericial hub and only inexpensive residential facilities are available - and all American cities are like this."

"[Europeans] speak very highly of NYC... In fact, it is the only American city they know about or care about."

Since all American national media is based in NYC (minus the Beltway press corps, of course), and since theNYC-based media neither cares about, nor covers anything outside the orbit of Mahnattan/Brooklyn, NYC is, by extension, the only American city that Americans know or care about as well.

"The most intelligent and civilized Americans I have ever met are white people from New York. the rest of Americans strike me as provincial yobs with zero finesse or culture - and I can speak about this with good authority since I have been to all American states except Alaska...

The bottom line is that American cities will never have an "European" distibution of residential areas by socio-economic class, and poor people will always congregate and live downtown in American cities."

Uh, just how many American cities have you actually been to?

This iSteve post pokes fun at the notion, as put forth


by the cited City-Journal article, that Chicago's loss of nearly 200,000 poor black residents -- thanks to 20-plus years of gentrification and constant expansion of the wealthy downtown/central city core -- is evidence of Chicago's imminent doom.

Downtown Chicago is wealthy. So are the areas surrounding it. And so are the areas surrounding those surrounding areas.

What's more, Chicago is hardly the only American city that's been experiencing gentrification in it's central area.

Detroit and Cleveland may not be benefiting from very much gentrification, but a whole lot of American cities are.

I don't take you to be an "Anti-American uppity Frenchman" or a "Frog," as some others who have left comments apparently do. For no better reason than your use of whilst, you've got to be a subject of the Queenall of Western Civilization to the past 100 years? The number of GREAT scientists and mathematicians who's achievements far surpass anything that any Nobelist from the University of Chicago have ever accomplisheed who CHOSE to live in Paris was tremendous.

It is idiotic to argue that Chicago is in ANY WAY as important as Paris to the history of science, mathematics and especially the arts. It is even more idiotic to try to argue that Chicago has the same World-reknown that Paris. Here is a hint for you: very few people outside America knows that Chhicago even exists, but everyone has heard of Paris. The only American city that is on the same league of reknown as Paris is New York City, and that's it.

As for Florence, I rest


my case. A single one of Michelangelo's work surpasses all those Nobels from the University of Chicago in World recognition and importance. Everyone knows the Sistine Chapel, but who knows about the work of the University of Chicago economists outside the World of economics theory and finance?

Michelangelo's achievements in the arts >>>>>>>> ALL of the University of Chicago's Nobels put together.

LA is the city that has fallen off since the early 90's. It used to be that LA was the default setting for every other TV show and movie. Starting in the late 90's, the entertainment industry started to make an effort to explicitly set stories in other places to make things seem "more authentic."

This would be great fodder for its own huge thread at iSteve - Iworld-class physicists decided that their home turf was getting a little too tense, and decided to choose an American city over Paris in their monumental work cracking the secrets of the atom never happened then. Never.

Of course, had that happened, I'm sure that it was the lack of "charm, refinement or nobility of purpose" that drove them to come here and act as one of the deciding factors in who would become a power after the war, rather than going to some other more refined culture. Perhaps they just couldn't find any other culture that would take them, what with the whole Jewish thing. Either of those ringing your bell?

I don't feel qualified to judge the world's greatest cities, but when I went to Paris, I was awed


accept it and move on!

The Europeans who immigrated to America and formed the white American people were the rabble of Europe. They were the poor and the idiots who couldn't make it in Europe, so they went to America. Those Irish who came to America during the potato famine were not the best and brightest of Ireland. The Germans who came to America were the dispossed peasants from the Rhineland and not the aristocrats. The Europeans with graduate degrees were well-off and didn't go to the U.S. America is a country formed by losers. Hey, at least you guys can take solace on the fact that white people from Latin America are even bigger losers than you. All they are good for is having sex with Amerindian women,all American cities have been touched by this movement. New York has Central Park. San Francisco has Golden Gate Park and the whole Civic Center complex. Burnam and Olmstead and many others visited Paris to learn how an American city could look.

The movement reached it's apex with the Columbian Expostion of 1892 in Chicago. Chicago wanted to be Paris, or at least look like it.

Well, I visted Italy about 20 years ago and Italy is a bit dirty in most major ciites, the clean cities of Italy are in the north like Milan. Even the toilets were dirty paid toliets in one city. I love Roman History but modern Italy doesn't care as favorably with the US. Anicent Rome compared good to other anicent cities. As for France


went there doesen't mean they went there for inspiration."

Scientists don't go anywhere for inspiration. They are inspired by science, not the local night-clubs and coffee-house culture.

"And America has not produced any truly great theoretical physicist. Who are you talking about? Ed Witten? LOL. Pretty much ALL the great theoretical physicists were European. The U.S.A is the land of practical inventors and not theoreticians. Americans are MONEY-MAKERS and not abstract thinkers. Most of those Nobels from UOC were in econimics or MINOR achievements in physics, usually in practical applications."

You are evidently an idiot, who knows not whereof he speaks. Most of the top theoretical physicists of the last half of the twentieth century were Americans, born and raised: Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, etc. And to characterize theachievements of other lesser known physicsts as "minor" betrays your ignorance of science. The work of Michaelson, Millikan, Lawrence, Compton, Shockley, Bardeen, Brattain, Schriefer, Cooper, Hubbel, and many Americans was not "minor". Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain invented the transistor, for christ's sake. Bardeen was the only man to win two Nobel prizes in physics. Edwin Hubble discovered the expansion of the Universe - minor and practical? Alvarez and Shoemaker revolutionized our understanding of life (and death) on Earth.

"I am Asian, I have a high IQ and I am telling you that Europe is the best thing white people have created. Why the hell are you arguing with me? Just accept it and move on!"

That is one of the most assinine, ridiculous, and lamest things I have ever read


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attempted to stop the shipment of eggs from the Wisconsin Pasturelands Cooperative into California.

CDFA had somehow obtained a box of eggs from a FedEx facility that was being shipped to a Tropical Traditions customer.

Mr. Ramos sent a letter to Tropical Traditions demanding that they immediately stop selling eggs in California, stating that the package they found in the FedEx facility was not refrigerated properly. It should be noted that this action was taken after seizing a package in a FedEx facility in route to a customer, not because of any customer complaint about the eggs. He stated:

I received informaion (sic) from one of our Stanislaus County Inspector who was at a Fed-Express office. He noticed a package being delivered from your company. The pictures he sent me wherepersonal residence address of one of Tropical Traditions’ managers.

He allegedly showed up at the manager’s personal residence and demanded to see the egg operation. Seeing that there was obviously no egg farm on his property, the manager reportedly informed the inspector that the egg operation was in Wisconsin and that Tropical Traditions never took possession of the egg inventory – they simply provided an online service whereby consumers could purchase the eggs directly from the farmer. The farmers in Wisconsin were in complete compliance with regulations of selling eggs directly to the consumer from their farms, according to local authorities in Wisconsin.

It would seem that perhaps CDFA learned their lesson from the 2012 incident, where they had no jurisdiction over farmers in Wisconsin. When Wisconsin Inspector Michael Pederson


delivered the Cease and Desist letters this month (March 2017) from Michelle J. Krisher, Regulatory Specialist – Senior with the DIVISION OF FOOD & RECREATIONAL SAFETY of Wisconsin, the farmers asked who had complained about their eggs. The reply alleged given by Mr. Pederson was simply that it “came from California.”

Since Wisconsin would have no jurisdiction over customer complaints from California and given the past history of CDFA in trying to stop the Wisconsin eggs from being shipped into California, it is reasonable to suspect that once again this complaint came from CDFA in California.

California has a history of trying to protect its commercial egg operations from eggs imported from other states. In 2014 a new law went into effect in California requiring caged chickens to have moreI just uploaded the first chapter of "Untold Tales", an animated series featuring interesting stories by me. In this occasion, a band of robbers have a dispute when trying to distribute the booty they have just stealed. "Fight at the Cave of Thieves" (this is the name of the chapter) is just a thought on what thieves would do on extreme situations.

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appropriately titled Fable has been given a rather hopeful June 2004 release date, while Rare's Conkers: Live And Uncut is now tentatively down for a second quarter release, having been the subject of a development overhaul after the muted response post E3.

New games ahoy

But it's not all bad news. We're more than happy to report that the currently unannounced follow up to the excellent Rallisport Challenge is down for a February 2004 release, while the - also unannounced - Phantom Dust will be released in June 2004. Who is developing it or what this game is is anyone's guess, but we're sure Microsoft will get around to telling us now that the word's out.

On the PC side of its business, Halo has slipped a couple of weeks toexciting one for Xbox owners, with plenty of top-notch titles to look forward to. You can't help but feel, however, that Microsoft needed these titles this side of Christmas to provide a stern challenge to Sony.

Part 2: Live forever

Despite a relatively quiet start in Europe, (75,000 is the current subscription figure being bandied about for the whole of Europe) Live is still clearly at the forefront of Microsoft's plans, and the firm has just announced a whole raft of initiatives to kick start demand for the excellent online gaming service. The first, and most ambitious offering has just been announced in the US, and grants users free access to the Live service for two months on the purchase of one of around 50 Live-enabled new releases. The initiative


The Age of the Impossibility of Disbelief

In her excellent book, A History of God, Karen Armstrong takes an interesting detour on the language of belief and doubt. She describes how the proliferation of religious choices may have made faith more difficult, not less:

Indeed, by the end of the sixteenth century, many people in Europe felt that religion had been gravely discredited. They were disgusted by the killing of Catholics by Protestants and Protestants by Catholics. Hundreds of people had died as martyrs for holding views that it was impossible to prove one way or the other. Sects preaching a bewildering variety of doctrines that were deemed essential for salvation had proliferated alarmingly. There was now too much theological choice: many felt paralyzed and distressed by the variety ofagainst a majority government.

But that assumption is incorrect.

There are now eight Green politicians represented in federal and provincial legislatures, and they are having an impact across the country. Elizabeth May has been recognized by her peers as the hardest-working MP and Parliamentarian of the Year, and has been a crucial voice for civility in the House of Commons. The PEI Greens are causing waves in the small island province, doubling their caucus in the last year and polling neck-and-neck with the governing party heading into the next election. In New Brunswick, David Coon has passed four major pieces of legislation, including an MLA code of conduct. There are three Green MLAs in British Columbia engaged in a confidence and supply agreement with the minority NDP government, holding them


exchange I had with a diehard Leafs fan about road tolls. Initially, he told me he could never vote for a party that would charge him to drive to a Leafs game. I thanked him for his frankness and moved on. After I finished knocking on the rest of the doors on his cul-de-sac, the man called me back to his door. He told me that he wanted a lawn sign and that he was voting for me. He still disagreed with road tolls, but I had earned his vote by giving him the courtesy of an honest position.

Now that I have shown people that a Green politician can be elected in Ontario, I move onto the challenge of demonstrating what one MPP can accomplish.

For this I canFestival of Italian culture and food to take place at Keighley school

The Keighley branch of ACLI Italian Association will stage the event at University Academy Keighley, in Utley, on June 23 and 24.

An association spokesman said: "The aims of the festival are to bring together the community in Keighley, Bradford Leeds and surrounding areas, to raise funds for ACLI and to fund the Italian language classes held every week in Keighley, Bradford and Leeds.

"Even though it's an Italian festival it is an event that is designed to bring together people from any nationality or religious background.

"It will be supported by local businesses, and there will be wine and food tasting, Italian street food, a barbecue, face painting, a bouncy castle and other activities.

"Admission will be free and there


events?

I’ll give you an example: the story of “Mrs George”. In researching annual exhibitions in archaeology during my PhD I came across lots of names – the catalogues for these displays were full of them. Very useful for identifying the number and gender of contributors to a particular season’s work, but sometimes frustratingly vague: Mr-s and Miss-s galore.

In some cases it was easy to confirm full names, but in other cases (particularly if the individual was female and not a well-known scholar) confirmation was not so easy. “Mrs George” was one of the latter. She was an artist, and was married to an architect, Walter Sykes George.

Just before the First World War Mr and Mrs George were in Sudan, where Walter George was working as architect for JohnGarstang’s excavation at Meroe. Mrs George, like numerous other artists on sites in the early 20th century, was engaged in copying ancient paintings.

In 1913, “Mrs George”’s works were on display alongside her husband’s site plans at the Society of Antiquaries as part of the fourth exhibition of antiquities from Meroe. The exhibition catalogue indicates that some of her work, including scenes of “local colour”, was for sale. Next door at the Royal Academy yet more artists were taking part in the annual Summer Exhibition, in its final month.

On finding evidence of Mrs George’s contribution to the interpretation and display of Meroe in London, I wanted to find out more about her, and, if I could, discover her first name. At the very least this would ensure that work


credited to her would reflect her distinct identity as well as her marital status. But initial searches for “Mrs George” proved fruitless.

An aside in one of Walter George’s letters gave me the clue I needed. In said letter he referred to his wife exhibiting two works at the 1914 Autumn Exhibition of Modern Art at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. The 1914 catalogue is (luckily) still extant; scanning the list of contributors, there she was – Mrs Lena George, exhibiting in the Miniatures Room. Bingo.

Mrs George was no longer nameless in my records. With her first name I found references to other works attributed to her, including the (undated) oil painting "Travellers on the Outskirts of Town", sold at Christie's in 2010. Such references to her work outside ofarchaeology help to illuminate her as an artist within the early 20th century contemporary art scene.

Many contributors to excavation in the past were ephemeral – on site for a season or a couple of seasons and then gone from the archival or published record. And there were many other participants in the archaeological process – locally employed diggers, basket boys and girls, foremen and others who have only recently begun to be recognised and named, where possible, for the work they did.

The exhibitions after each season, ephemeral too, were one way to document the contributors to archaeological work year by year. The Egypt Exploration Society’s recent pop-up exhibition “Excavating Egypt” is a modern recreation of these past exhibitions. The display and accompanying events have showcased the treasures of


Mahdists in 1898. Wellcome was interested in improving medical conditions in Sudan and facilitating research on tropical diseases – in 1902 his Tropical Research Laboratories opened at Gordon College in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum.

Jebel Moya (or Gebel Moya) was the archaeological site Wellcome eventually excavated – he was convinced that it had potential to shed light on the origins of human civilisation. Located over a hundred miles south of Khartoum, Moya lies in the hills and valleys of the Gezira region, between the Blue Nile and the White Nile. In the Condominium period, Sudan’s Government Railway network was expanding rapidly. The railway line south from Khartoum followed the Blue Nile to Sennar then crossed the Gezira to link to the White Nile at Kosti. The journey to Jebel Moyaspent at Jebel Moya and other sites. In addition to this large workforce, he had a staff of between 17 and 22 “European” men, including archaeologists, anthropologists, engineers, physicians, photographers, surveyors and geologists as well as a cook and a valet. In charge of operations was a “Camp Commandant” (military tone intended). Wellcome employed not only locals from the surrounding villages, but also Egyptians and men from other African ethnic groups who worked in a specially designated “Africa Trench”.

Europeans and Africans were housed separately – in tents and grass huts respectively. Despite this segregation, in his memoir, British archaeologist O. G. S. Crawford, who worked for Wellcome during the final Jebel Moya season in 1914, gave an interesting insight into the social life of the dig. He recalled


attending the Friday night parties (called fantasias) held by the Egyptian labourers and regretted not joining other colleagues to sneak down to the village near the site for the even more exotic Sudanese fantasias.

During the seasons’ work, much of what was being excavated were graves – nearly 3,000 of them in total. The final distribution of materials resulting from the excavations at Moya shows that they ended up in a variety of locations, including museums in Khartoum; Oxford; Cambridge; Boston, Mass.;, Toronto, Canada; and Nairobi, Kenya.

Like other archaeologists working in Egypt and Sudan at this time, Wellcome also brought evidence of his excavations back to London. Visitors to his Historical Medical Museum of Wigmore Street in the 1920s would have encountered four cases of artefacts and human remainswere doubly linked. Garstang loaned his assistant, German photographer Horst Schliephack, and a corps of experienced Egyptian diggers to Wellcome during his first season at Moya. By 1914 Wellcome had become a member of Garstang’s Sudan Excavations Committee, helping to finance Garstang’s work.

Meroe has been in the news of late – the magnificent “Head of Augustus” excavated during Garstang’s 1910/1911 season is now the subject of a free exhibition at the British Museum, where it has resided since 1911. Sudan has changed dramatically in the decades following its independence in 1955 – in the last ten years ravaged by brutal conflict in Darfur and, since 2011, divided into two nations. The Jebel Moya excavations live on, however, in archive film footage that brings Henry Wellcome and the people


of pre-war Sudan back from the dead in fascinating, flickering black and white.

Before Mills & Boon became known as a purveyor of romance novels, it was a general publishing enterprise producing both fiction and non-fiction. Ethel Stefana Stevens (1879-1972) was one of its early authors. Stevens’ travel book My Sudan Year, published by Mills & Boon in November 1912, recounts her journey from London to Khartoum and beyond into what is now South Sudan.

Sudan had been under Anglo-Egyptian occupation since 1898. In her introduction Stevens promoted her work to a female audience, stating:

“Perhaps the mothers and sisters of Englishmen whose work lies out in the Sudan may find in this book a setting for their thoughts, a coloured background for their imaginings of the lives and doings ofStevens’ note of Garstang’s work at the site. The British Museum acquired the head in 1911, and it is still on display there in Room 70. (Its appeal remains undiminished; it is a Highlight Object and featured in the History of the World in 100 Objects series.)

Stevens’ book, priced at 10 shillings and sixpence, was part of Mills & Boons’ “My Year” series. The series covered life and travels in France, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Germany and Russia and had both male and female contributors. By the time Stevens wrote My Sudan Year she was a seasoned traveller and author, having lived in Turkey and Syria. From these previous experiences she produced an essay, “The Womankind of Young Turkey” in the May 1911 Contemporary Review, as well as a


novel, Sarah Eden, and travelogue, The Mountain of God based on her time in Syria.

The ‘lite’ popular fiction and non-fiction that Stevens wrote in early life is now obscured by the detailed scholarly work of her later years – studying the history, language and culture of a small gnostic sect called the Mandeans in Iran and Iraq.

The Bookman published a profile this vicar’s daughter in 1916. The short biographical sketch yields a fascinating picture of a woman in her early thirties making her way in the world through her pen and her remarkable experiences. Her obituary in The Times noted that that she published as E. S. Stevens even after she became Mrs (later Lady) Edwin Drower. You might say that Stevens’ daughter, the archaeologist and biographer ofCormier says she's concerned by the message sent by Henein's aggressive treatment of the women who had accused the former CBC host of sexual misconduct, and she wanted Henein's speech cancelled.

Jasmine Cormier, a student at St. F.X. in Antigonish, wrote an article in that university's weekly newspaper in November, saying Henein's selection serves to silence victims and perpetuate rape culture.

The prominent Toronto defence lawyer is scheduled to speak at Bishops University in Sherbrooke, Que., as part of a lecture series, with the presentation live-streamed to St. Francis Xavier and Acadia universities in Nova Scotia.

ANTIGONISH, N.S. — A speech by Marie Henein, Jian Ghomeshi's lawyer, will go ahead at three Canadian universities Friday evening despite opposition from some students in Nova Scotia.

Jian Ghomeshi leaves court with his attorney Marie


thing and doing another."<

After Ghomeshi's acquittal in March of charges of sexual assault and choking, the then-editor of Canadian Lawyer magazine, Gail Cohen, penned what was headlined "A love letter to Marie Henein," in which she said Henein's peers consider her one of the best in her field.

"The outrage, the mudslinging, the name calling, and the general focus on Henein is a sign of the times, and not a good sign, in my humble opinion. Almost all of it shows an incredible lack of understanding by the public of the justice system, what a defence counsel's role is in the system, and what the rights of the accused are," she wrote in May.

Henein penned her own opinion piece last fall, for The Globe and Mail, about the lessonsfor breast reduction is usually made along the areola. Flaps are created on both sides of the breast and the excess skin, fat, and glandular tissues are extracted. In most cases the nipples are moved to a higher position on the breast, but remain attached to the nerves and blood vessels. For very large breasts, however, the nipples may need to be moved and grafted to a completely new location. In these cases, the nipples are removed from the underlying connecting tissues and you will lose sensation in the nipple and areola.

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A view of Tesla Model S No. 9, a Signature edition set to be auctioned off in April. Sam Perry Sam Perry is a Tesla believer.

He was one of the first 100 people to buy a Tesla Roadster, the electric-car company's inaugural production vehicle.

Now he's just put his Tesla Model S — the ninth one ever built — up for auction.

The trailing digits of the sedan's vehicle-identification number say it all: 00009. It's the 2012 Model S Signature series, which means that it's loaded and dressed in the now iconic Signature Red paint.

"Elon [Musk] personally inspected these first cars to make sure the fit was exactly right," Perry told Business Insider in a phone conversation last week. "So it's one of the few hand-finished cars, and among thefirst to come off the assembly line."

The Silicon Valley investor, who runs Ascendance Ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area, says that he's selling his car now to make room for another Tesla: the falcon-winged Model X SUV. Perry said that he needed the extra space to haul a bunch of bicycles and other equipment "while still being able carry passengers."

We asked Perry why he wouldn't just park the new Model X next to the S, considering that the latter is so rare. He simply replied, "I don't need two large cars."

The electric-car bug has been running in Perry's family for generations. He boasted of a 1917 Detroit Electric car owned by his extended family.

"An uncle of mine updated it so it can run on 12-volt batteries," he


said, "but you wouldn't want to try driving it up a hill."

Of course, the Model S that Perry is selling is no slouch.

He applauded Tesla's role in kicking electric-vehicle development into high gear, even though EVs haven't yet won unanimous appreciation from consumers.

A view of a 2012 Tesla Model S Signature Series, the ninth production model of the electric car. which is set to be auctioned off in April 2016. Sam Perry

Total sales of new plug-in cars barely made a dent among the 17.5 million new cars and trucks sold in the US last year.

Tesla first-adopters — people like Perry who signed up to buy the earliest editions of the company's cars — are true believers in transport innovation.

Perry is also selling an ICON A5 personal aircraft —of spirit guides that appeared in Stella Polaris August/September 2017 under the heading ‘The Gentle Brother’: ‘All human beings in earthly life, as well as those who are presently resting and recuperating in our world, are born of God’s infinite and eternal, all-loving, giving and forgiving spirit. It is the same spirit that manifests itself in the beauty of nature, the power of the elements as well as in all human beings. At least potentially each one of you possesses every one of its characteristics and powers, and also the ability to create without restrictions and boundaries.

‘Do not allow the mind of your small frightened earthly selves to get in the way of your overall vision of life and how you think about it. In your daily lives


a young God in the making whose true home is the world of spirit or light, was withheld from humankind up to quite recently. This was necessary because that was the only thing that could stop you, My beloved children of the Earth, from leaving your earthly existence in droves and never wanting to return to it when the going got rougher and rougher, as it had to do during the lessons of the early stages of your development. Your lack of knowledge and understanding was the instrument the Angels and Me I used to keep the doors firmly locked and bolted. This protected you against discovering too soon about the nature of humankind’s true home, from which each one of you emerges at the beginning of anotherone of you has always been striving for since you were first placed in earthly life. The words of the commandment were purposely kept as if they had been composed by someone who had no idea about the nature of My love. This was done so that later – when the time for discovering the truth about Jesus had come – it would not be difficult to see who and what he really was. The Age of Aquarius is the time your world has been waiting for and the religions of the past with their misunderstandings and misinterpretations, intentionally and otherwise, are in the process of making room for the religion of the new age, which is based on honesty and truth. The old religions were of the


adventures for the testosterone driven patriarchal religions. Their remnants have not yet gone from your world, but they soon will do.

For quite some time, the Angels and I have been working on preparing your race for its rightful place in the Universe. A vast evolutionary cycle is closing and with the coming of My truth the religious beliefs that separate human beings from each other, are disappearing. They are replaced by the religion of the new age that tells you:

There is only one religion, the religion of love.
There is only one country, the whole of Mother Earth.
There is only one race and chosen people, the whole of humankind.
There is only one gender, who is androgynous, whole and holy.
There is only one language, the language of the heart.
And there

Discovered by chance, the secret Mexican crystal caves big enough to drive a car through

The Naica Mine of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, is a working mine that is best known for its extraordinary selenite crystals. Located in Naica in the municipality of Saucillo, the Naica Mine is a lead, zinc and silver mine operated by Industrias Peñoles, Mexico's largest lead producer. Caverns discovered during mining operations contain crystals of selenite (gypsum) as large as 4 feet (1.2 m) in diameter and 50 feet (15 m) long.

Formation of the crystals

Naica lies on an ancient fault and there is an underground magma chamber below the cave. The magma heated the ground water and it became saturated with minerals, including large quantities of gypsum. The hollow space of the cave


hydrogeology and the physical conditions prevailing in the Cave of Crystals.

Photos: Solid inclusions mainly consist of magnesium and iron oxy-hydroxide but no organic matter could be found associated with the solid hydroxides. No DNA from ancient bacteria could be extracted from the solid inclusions and amplified by PCR.Microbial studies on fluid inclusions are foreseen to attempt to evidence the presence of ancient micro-organisms in the original fluid solution in which the crystals developed.Other researches also cover the fields of palynology (pollen study), geochemistry, hydrogeology and the physical conditions prevailing in the Cave of Crystals.

A scientific team coordinated by Paolo Forti, specialist of cave minerals and crystallographer at the University of Bologna (Italy) explored the cave in detail in 2006. To survive and to be able to work inthe city (precincts 8, 13-17) are joined by regions south and east to form the Fourth District of the County Commission, which has been represented by Nancy Schouweiler since 1999. County commissioners serve four-year terms.

Eagan is in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district, represented by Angie Craig since 2019.

Since redistricting last occurred in 2012, Eagan straddles two Minnesota State Senate districts. Sixteen of Eagan's 17 precincts are joined with five precincts in neighboring Burnsville to form Senate District 51, represented by Senator Jim Carlson (DFL). Eagan's northernmost precinct is part of Senate District 52, represented by Senator Matt Klein (DFL).

In the Minnesota House of Representatives, each Senate District is divided into an "A" and a "B" side. The western half of District 51 makes up House District 51A, represented by


Canadiens, who have never shied away from small players, drafted Reway in the fourth round in 2013 and general manager Marc Bergevin has described the right winger as a player with National Hockey League talent.

After playing two seasons in Gatineau, Reway returned to Europe and again put up point-a-game numbers in the Czech and Swiss leagues.Seventy-nine international pro-Palestinian activists were denied entry into Israel Sunday at Ben Gurion Airport. 31 of the activists — mostly French nationals — were taken to Givon prison in Ramle pending deportation.

At least 13 of the protesters had been flown back to their home countries as of late evening Israel time. The rest were expected to be deported by Monday.

Three of the activists succeeded in gaining entry into the country; they traveled to Bethlehem, where they held a press conference. Authorities said late Sunday that they cannot say with certainty that all incoming activists were caught and noted that some may have slipped under the radar of immigration officials.

The foreign activists were part of the so-called “flytilla,” an intended mass fly-in protest organized by several pro-Palestinian organizations. Last


intervention higher up the diplomatic hierarchy.

Most of the foreign activists detained were French citizens. The remainder included Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Canadian and Swiss citizens.

Police also detained for questioning nine Israeli left-wing activists, who were at the airport to welcome the foreign activists to “Palestine.”

Security officials at the airport had been expecting the bulk of the international activists to arrive on flights scheduled to land in the late afternoon. But only relatively few more activists were detained as the evening went on.

Border police intended to deport any arriving activists back to their points of origin immediately. According to officials, if there was no room on outgoing flights Sunday, the activists would be handed over to immigration authorities.

A senior airport security official speaking on condition of anonymity said that anyand call for Israel’s destruction.”

Hundreds of international pro-Palestinian activists were scheduled to arrive at the airport on Sunday in protest of Israel’s policies in the West Bank, but were not expected to be allowed entry into the country. An estimated 650 police and security officials, most in plain clothes, were assigned to guard the airport.

According to Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, Sunday is to be a very busy day at Ben Gurion, with some 50,000 travelers passing through the airport at the end of the Passover and Easter holidays.

Turkish authorities were actively preventing activists from getting on flights from Istanbul, according to reports on Twitter.

Israel Radio reported that 100 activists in Geneva and seven in Rome were prevented from boarding their flights by authorities.

Dozens of left-wing activists protested at


The New Politics of Health Care

Published: September 30, 1999

Bill Bradley has proposed a bold and expansive plan to make health insurance available to all Americans. Its details and sizable cost -- roughly $65 billion a year to be financed by the non-Social Security surplus -- will certainly provoke debate from all quarters, and that is a splendid development for the 45 million Americans who lack health insurance. Mr. Bradley and Vice President Al Gore, who proposed a more modest health plan earlier this month, have now made access to health care a central issue of their fight for the Democratic nomination. By elevating the issue in their party, these two Democrats make it harder for the Republican Presidential candidates to avoid engaging the issue.

Mr. Bradley says his voluntarypackages or how medical costs would be contained. But in its architecture, the Bradley plan would reach many more people than the plan offered by Mr. Gore, and the impact on the contest between them was instantaneous. After months of ignoring Mr. Bradley, the Vice President yesterday called for a series of debates. We suggest that they make health care the subject of their first meeting. The challenge to Mr. Gore would be to go beyond his worthy, but narrow proposal to cover low-income children. The challenge to Mr. Bradley would be to defend both the cost and practicality of his approach. The challenge for the Republicans, of course, is to get into the discussion that with Mr. Bradley's embracing proposal bids once again to be a dominating


his remarks, Yahav described Elad as a “real hero” who was extremely dedicated to his community as a fire scout. The mayor noted that the youth who volunteer to assist in positions that also pose danger should not be taken for granted. He said he is “very impressed, moved and touched that B'nai B'rith has joined forces with the people of Haifa to commemorate this wonderful kid who gave his life for the community in an inconceivable tragedy.”

Elad’s mother Tzvia Riven also addressed the attendees, noting that her son’s birthday was the day before the inauguration.

“Elad loved volunteering with the firefighters and providing assistance to those who help others. Elad did not waste time, and when he went for his shift he took books along so that heone of whom, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in New York. The other suspect remains at large. Both have direct links to the Revolutionary Guards.

This news comes only weeks after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended the U.N. General Assembly, showcasing his repudiation of international norms of behavior. At the commemoration session of the biased 2001 World Racism Conference in Durban, South Africa, the Iranian foreign minister spoke of a “racist Zionist regime” in Israel, evoking age-old anti-Israel and anti-Zionist expressions. Recently, Iran also claimed it planned to move its naval vessels from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean near the United States.

“We must remain vigilant and prevent any Iranian threat to the United States and Israel,” said B’nai B’rith International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin. “These


3 killed, 20 injured in KZN accidents

Three people were killed and 20 others injured in accidents on KwaZulu-Natal roads this weekend, emergency medical services said on Saturday.

Three people travelling in a bakkie on the R103 near the Escort hospital were killed around 2.30am on Saturday, spokesman Robert Mckenzie said.

Seven other occupants were taken to hospital, four of them were in a critical condition.

Nine other people were injured when a bakkie they were travelling in was involved in an accident on the N2 near Tongaat on the north coast around 4am, he said.

They sustained serious and minor injuries and were transported to nearby hospitals.

Two others were injured when two cars collided on the N2 near the Balito offramp, just after 4am. They were taken to the KwaDukuza clinic forSpace budget boost puts Europe in lead to monitor carbon from space

Even optimists at the European Space Agency (ESA) were startled last week when its member governments awarded it a €12.5 billion, 3-year budget, its largest ever and more than 20% above its previous 3 years of funding. With the unexpected windfall, ESA will develop a reusable space cargo capsule, support the International Space Station until 2030, and join NASA in retrieving rocks from Mars.

But one of the biggest winners, up 29% to €1.8 billion, is Copernicus, a program supporting a fleet of satellites that continuously tracks features of Earth's atmosphere and surface, including the contours of the sea surface and shifts in vegetation. The money will help Europe expand the fleet to observe humanmade sources of carbon


dioxide (CO 2 ) on a daily basis—making ESA the only space agency capable of monitoring pledges made under the Paris accord to cut greenhouse gases. Europe's CO 2 monitoring plans are "unparalleled," says Christopher O'Dell, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. "The Europeans are just running with this."

Just why ministers from ESA's 22 member states were feeling so generous at a meeting last week in Seville, Spain, is unclear. It could be because Europe's economy is better than 3 years ago, or because ESA officials did a good job talking up plans with ministers and stakeholders, says Athena Coustenis, a planetary scientist at the Paris Observatory and chair of the European Space Sciences Committee, an advisory body. Regardless, the only mission not tofollow suit next year.

The Copernicus system of Earth-observing Sentinel satellites also got a lot of love. This joint venture with the European Union provides long-lived, unbroken data sets to government, industry, and academic users. Existing Sentinel satellites monitor, for instance, land use and sea surface height. The first three Sentinels are now operational, along with duplicate satellites that serve as backups. Three more Sentinels are in the works. When it comes to Earth observation, "Europe has the most capable fleet in orbit," says Martin Visbeck of the GEOMAR-Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, and chair of ESA's Advisory Committee for Earth Observation.

The funding boost ensures ESA can proceed with ambitious plans for a further set of six candidate Sentinels, among them the CO 2 monitoring mission.


Around the time of the Paris climate pact of 2016, the European Union decided that national carbon budgets, based on disclosures from known emitters such as power plants and cement works, needed checking from the sky. In response, ESA resurrected plans for CarbonSat, which failed to win a launch slot in 2015, and beefed it up into a Sentinel, which would look for the spectral absorption signals of CO 2 in infrared sunlight reflected off Earth's surface.

With the new funding, a CO 2 Sentinel could launch as soon as 2025, putting Europe in position to contribute to a census of emissions that the Paris accord says should take place every 5 years beginning in 2023. Carbon dioxide is "a quantity we need to watch for years to come,"launched this year and attached to the space station, is another short-lived research mission; the United States has no plans to follow up with an operational carbon-monitoring system. "It's a little frustrating watching from the U.S.," O'Dell says. "We've lost the leadership role in this."

ESA's CO 2 mission would operate for 20 years, with as many as three identical satellites scanning the entire globe with swaths 300 kilometers wide. The mission would scan each point on Earth every few days, capturing the changing plumes of individual power plants. "We're moving from 1D to 2D," says Michael Buchwitz, an adviser to the project at the University of Bremen in Germany. In a step up from the original CarbonSat proposal, the CO 2 Sentinels will also help identify emitters by


This invention relates generally to turbomachinery, and specifically to turbine flow path components for gas turbine engines. In particular, the invention relates to cooling techniques for airfoils and other gas turbine engine components exposed to hot working fluid flow, including, but not limited to, rotor blades and stator vane airfoils, endwall surfaces including platforms, shrouds and compressor and turbine casings, combustor liners, turbine exhaust assemblies, thrust augmentors and exhaust nozzles.
Gas turbine engines are rotary-type combustion turbine engines built around a power core made up of a compressor, combustor and turbine, arranged in flow series with an upstream inlet and downstream exhaust. The compressor section compresses air from the inlet, which is mixed with fuel in the combustor and ignited to generate hot combustion gas. The turbine section extractsNORWICH, Conn. - Matt Barnes struck out 10 in eight innings as the No. 20 UConn baseball team edged South Florida 2-1 in BIG EAST Conference action on Saturday night at Dodd Stadium in Norwich, Conn.

With tonight's win, UConn improves to 32-13-1 on the year and 16-3 in league action. South Florida falls to 22-23 overall and 11-8 in BIG EAST Conference play.

A two-run sixth inning lifted the Huskies to victory as Ryan Fuller led the charge with his 39th RBI of the season as his single through the left side of the infield scored George Springer to give UConn a 1-0 lead. Tim Martin followed with his 26th hit of the year as Fuller scored on the play extending the Huskies' advantage to two.

South Florida's lone run


Alabama Supreme Court

United States District Courts
 José A. Cabranes (born 1940), judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut; subsequently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

United States Senators
 George J. Mitchell (born 1933), U.S. Senator from Maine
 Joe Lieberman (born 1942), U.S. Senator from Connecticut

United States Governors
 Mario Cuomo (1932–2015), Governor of New York

Executive Branch officials
 Richard Riley (born 1933), United States Secretary of Education; former Governor of South Carolina
 Bruce Babbitt (born 1938), United States Secretary of the Interior; former Governor of Arizona

Other backgrounds
 Guido Calabresi (born 1932), Dean of Yale Law School; subsequently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
 Stephen L. Carter (born 1954), professor at YaleArrests have been made after massive anti-government protests in an eastern Chinese city hit by catastrophic flooding, an official newspaper has said.

Thousands took part in the protest on Tuesday in the Zhejiang province city of Yuyao and an undisclosed number were arrested for "radical acts,'' including pelting police with bricks and turning over government vehicles, the official English-language Global Times reported on Wednesday.

It said residents were angered over an allegedly botched response to the flooding, the worst in decades, and the slow restoration of electricity and other basic services.

The flooding caused by a typhoon earlier this month killed at least six people in Zhejiang, left 11 million people deprived of water and power, and caused $2 billion in damages to homes, business, and infrastructure in Yuyao and nearby


Ningbo and Shanghai, the government said.

Such protests, termed "mass incidents'' by the government, occur regularly around China, sparked by everything from traffic accidents to industrial pollution and official abuses of power.

Huge security spending

Public outrage is often exacerbated by perceptions of special treatment for the rich and powerful and by distant and unresponsive autocratic leaders appointed from above by the ruling Communist Party.

The threat of violence has prompted massive outlays for the police and other internal security measures, spending on which now exceeds the defence budget, the world's second largest after that of the United States.

Photos from Yuyao posted to various Chinese websites showed protesters smashing vehicles and attacking city offices. Some were bleeding from the head after apparently being clubbed by riot police who were shown massed intheir hundreds in front of the city hall.

City officials on Wednesday either said they had no information or did not answer phones. The protest was ignored by local Chinese-language media and the Yuyao government's official website, which instead was filled with glowing reports on the city's flood response work.

Provincial official Cai Qi called on his microblog for a rational response to the flooding, and said officials had been working all-out to deal with the disaster.


Bunn Alley Foundations, the Tina Brozman Foundation, the Discovery to Cure Foundation, Immunomedics, Inc. and the Guido Berlucchi Foundation to AS. This investigation was also supported by NIH Research Grant CA-16359 from the NCI to AS.

[^1]: Edited by: Shannon Neville Westin, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States

[^2]: Reviewed by: Syed S. Islam, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia; Alexandra R. Fernandes, New University of Lisbon, Portugal; Umberto Malapelle, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

[^3]: This article was submitted to Women\'s Cancer, a section of the journal Frontiers in Oncology
WASHINGTON ― New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) declared victory Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R) on Wednesday morning, after an expensive and razor-close Senate race.

Ayotte, a former prosecutor, has been a leading female voice among Senate Republicans since 2011. In the purple state of New Hampshire, she has tried to portray herself as a moderate Republican. She struggled during the campaign with whether to distance herself from GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who repeatedly denigrated women, Muslims, Mexicans, immigrants and others. Ayotte said in early October that she was voting for Trump and that he was “absolutely” a good role model for children ― a comment she later tried to walk back after Hassan highlighted it in political ads.

Weeks later, when a 2005 video emerged in which Trump bragged


Sylvania police chief to retire in March

Retiring Chief of City of Sylvania Division of Police, William H. Rhodus, began his career in 1982. He served in Washington Township before being part of the Lucas County Sheriff’s Department. He started working for the Sylvania Division of Police in 1983. He was promoted to sergeant in 1994, captain in 2002 and in April of 2010 became Chief of Police. “I have been here 35 years,” stated Chief Rhodus. “Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be a police officer. I went on a vacation with my parents to Washington D.C. We went on a tour of the FBI headquarters and that experience sparked my interest in law enforcement and community service. I went in the army forCMS Environmentalists: Keeping the JIG Clean

CHAMBERSBURG — It was a typical spring day last weekend when about a dozen Chambersburg Area Career Magnet School students stepped into the frigid waters of the Conococheague Creek not far from their school.

Their goal was to clean a mile-long stretch of the creek often referred to as the JIG.

It was the second time members of the CMS Environmental Club would clean that part of the creek since adopting it as part of the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful initiative.

Created by CMS teachers Jennifer Kissel, Mary Jo Foy and Nina King last summer, the club has about 35 members.

CMS has a strong science department with a few environmental-related courses (Biology, Environmental Science, AP Biology), biology teacher King said.

Some students joined the new club because they


Torah, gefilte fish, and the road to the rabbinate

Eliezer Igra, a former combat soldier and settlement founder, and now a candidate for chief rabbi, speaks to The Times of Israel about ancient law in modern Israel and why the Jewish state is becoming more Jewish

Rabbi Eliezer Igra believes the chief rabbinate is 'at the heart of the unity of the People of Israel' (photo credit: Courtesy)

The upcoming selection of two new chief rabbis, a once-in-a-decade occurrence, has drawn more public attention than ever this year. The candidate who has energized the race and drawn the most public attention is David Stav — a national-religious rabbi with a reformist platform that aims to make the state’s official arbiter of Judaism more palatable to Israelis, many of whom view therabbinic bureaucracy as somewhere between archaic and malevolent and seek, in growing numbers, to circumvent it.

In part because of the makeup of the new coalition government, which includes no ultra-Orthodox parties, the religious Zionist camp has a shot at regaining control of the rabbinate, which has edged over the years toward the ultra-Orthodox and ever further from the Israeli mainstream on whose behalf it is supposed to tend to marriage, divorce, burial and conversion.

Though discussion of the race has centered on Stav, he is not the only candidate among religious Zionists. He faces a serious challenge inside his own camp from Eliezer Igra, a religious court judge and the rabbi of Kfar Maimon, a community in southern Israel. In February, a convention of Zionist rabbinic heavyweights selected Igra,


and not Stav, as their candidate for the job.

At stake is the job of Ashkenazi chief rabbi. A Sephardic chief rabbi is also set to be selected at the same time.

If Stav is portraying himself as someone who will shake up the rabbinate, Igra is seen as more conservative, a respected insider with a better chance of being accepted by the ultra-Orthodox rabbis who largely control the levers of the rabbinic bureaucracy — and, crucially, of the selection committee, a bewildering 150-member array of rabbis, mayors, religious functionaries, and government appointees. (In the committee’s current makeup, all but two members are male.)

The vote is supposed to take place in June, though no firm date has been set. Other rabbis are also in the running, and because of thecomplicated and opaque nature of the selection process, the results could be unexpected.

Igra, 59 and a father of nine, was born in Jerusalem. He attended a religious Zionist yeshiva that combined study and military service, and in the 1973 Yom Kippur War was sent straight from infantry basic training to hold an airport in Sinai. After the scale of the army’s tank losses in the war became apparent, he and his friends were given a lightning course on armored warfare and tanks from the 500th Brigade, which had just been badly mauled on the Suez Canal. “The tanks still had blood on them,” he recalled this week.

In 1982, he was among the founders of the West Bank settlement of Psagot, overlooking Ramallah, and helped create the first seminary


the real numbers is then the disjunction of its natural pseudo-order. The complex numbers, real vector spaces, and indeed any metric space then naturally inherit the apartness relation of the real numbers, even though they do not come equipped with any natural ordering.

If there is no rational number between two real numbers, then the two real numbers are equal. Classically, then, if two real numbers are not equal, one would conclude that there exists a rational number between them. However it does not follow that one can actually construct such a number. Thus to say two real numbers are apart is a stronger statement, constructively, than to say that they are not equal, and while equality of real numbers is definable in terms of their apartness, the apartnessSBS has restructured its non-English radio services with 12 language services axed, the SBS World News Radio analogue program discontinued and seven new languages added, following review of network’s programming after the 2016 census.

As a result of the changes Kannada, Tongan, Norwegian, Cook Island Maori, Fijian, Swedish and the English spoken African program will all be discontinued, while Lithuanian, Malay, Latvian, Danish and Maori have been in recess for the last year and a half.

The decision to cull the language services was due to a failure to meet the SBS ‘Selection Criteria’, which requires a population of more than 25,000 for large languages, and a population of more than 1,000 with English language proficiency at 45% for high needs languages.

Turkish, Croatian, Hungarian, Bosnian and Albanian languages will each


along with the policy rate recommended by the Taylor rule as calculated by the IMF. The chart shows how the interest rate was too high relative to the rules-based policy in late 1985 and throughout 1986. It also shows the swing with the policy rate set well below the rule from 1987 through 1990.

The dates of the Plaza and the Louvre meetings are marked in the chart. Observe how the move toward an excessively restrictive policy starts at the time of the Plaza meeting. Indeed, as chart shows, the Bank of Japan increased its policy rate by a large amount immediately following the Plaza meeting, which was in the opposite direction to what macroeconomic fundamentals of inflation and output were indicating. Then, after a year and a half,starting around the time of the Louvre Accord, Japanese monetary policy swung sharply in the other direction—toward excessive expansion. The chart is remarkably clear about this move. The policy interest rate swung from being up to 2¼ percentage points too high between the Plaza and the Louvre Accord to being up to 3½ percentage points too low during the period of time from the Louvre Accord to1990.

The evidence of an effect of the Plaza Accord on Japanese monetary policy goes beyond this simple correlation. The Plaza and Louvre communiques included specific commitments about Japanese monetary policy actions. In the Plaza Accord Statement, the Government of Japan committed to “flexible management of monetary policy with due attention to the yen rate.” In the Louvre Accord Statement, “The Bank of


At beloved falafel shop, Syrians get taste of pre-war Raqqa

Amid the ruins of Raqqa, a small red shop is bringing some color back to the city.

The al-Malik falafel restaurant, a culinary institution serving the city center for 40 years, finally reopened in early January.

The owners had fled during the four-month battle to expel the Islamic State group from the city. But they've now returned, and so have their customers.

Ammar Qattab, a restaurant owner, said "Our business is good, thank God. There is more and more work. There was a slowdown for a period, but since our return to the city work has resumed. "

Elsewhere in Raqqa, the same scenes are repeated: people recover what they can from damaged buildings, clearing and repairing their homes. Abdel-Sattar returned in earlyby packers so that the production tubing provides a pathway from the reservoir to the surface location, and all produced fluid flowing through the well from the reservoir to the surface location flows through the production tubing. The casing is perforated to admit the produced fluid from the reservoir into the production tubing.
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Even if the upper level of the liquid remains below the inlet of the production tubing,


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Thursday, January 4, 2018

2017 Year in Review

2017 had a number of triumphs, stumbles, and mixed bags for the residents of the virtual world of Second Life. Before we close the book on the old year, let's look at some of the highlights.

Some of the news discussed by residents was of developments outside Second Life that had the potential of affect the grid. One that got plenty of talk was Sansar, Linden Lab's next-generation virtual world. In development for over three years, it was made open to a selected group of volunteers in a closed beta in mid-2016. Originally slated to open to all in January 2017, Linden Lab kept postponing the opening until July 31. This new world was the subject of a lot of talk byresidents when under development, including a few conspiracy theories that Linden Lab would close Second Life and force everyone into Sansar despite people pointing out that the Lab would likely be cutting it's own throat on such a move. When it did open, Sansar got a number of curious looks by residents in it's first few days, then activity fell to a small fraction of what it was. While there were a few people whom were enthusiastic about it, most Second Life residents found little to keep their attention. Indeed there were suggestions that Sansar was evidence that Linden Lab had lost the creative spark it had at it's beginning when it created Second Life. At best, most residents felt Sansar's best quality was it's room for improvement,


and moved on back to developments in the virtual world they had known.

One issue talked about by residents wasn't so much about Second Life but the Internet in general. In November, the chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai announced a plan that would scrap US laws protecting Net Neutrality, the principle that Internet Service Providers should treat data content and access to it equally instead of blocking or slowing down access to certain places, such as websites and games owned by business rivals, or slowing down or "throttling" speeds of customers unless they pay more. Despite most of the public being against the repeal, as well as many tech companies, including Linden Lab with issued a last-minute statement calling for the existing law to be preserves, the FCCvoted to scrap the protections. Linden Lab's founder Philip Rosedale (Philip Linden) predicted the move could have "especially negative" consequences for Second Life as some ISPs could start charging heavily for bandwidth usage. There are efforts by various states' Attorney Generals and in Congress to bring back the protections. But what happens to the Internet and Second Life remains to be seen in 2018.

Of technical developments, Bento appeared in late 2016, and many designers began making items such as body parts for avatars that incorporated it. One side effect was that older viewers such as Singularity couldn't see Bento items properly, and as they became more and more popular some users began switching to more frequently updated ones such as Firestorm and the new Black Dragon. One development


that was announced late in the year was Animesh, which promises "independent objects to use rigged mesh and animations." So far, it's still in development, but promises more natural looking virtual pets and NPCs in the future. Linden Lab also introduced a new game to Second Life, "Tyrah and the Magical Glitches." Unlike previous Linden games, residents could make their sims part of the action just by offering to.

Linden Lab would continue to interact with the residents, with events such as the "Snowball Showdowns," "Hug a Linden/Dunk a Linden," and the "Creepy Crawl." They would also have a music event in cooperation with the resident-run Second Life Birthday. They would also do something new: taking part directly in the Relay for Life with their own "Bid Me Bald,"and there were "meet and greet" events with the Lindens at the Second Life Birthday and the Relay for Life's Castle Home and Garden. But for all of these public-relations boons, there was one bust near the end of the year when blogger Strawberry Singh was asked to edit or take down a tutorial video of the newcomer entry area due to it having Second Life's trademark's symbol, though Linden Lab soon apologized and thanked her, and others, for their coverage.

Politics was quite a topic in Second Life in 2016 as there was a Presidential Election in the US. In 2017, the topic died down somewhat but not completely. On Inauguration Day, the new President was honored in London City. But not everyone was impressed with him, a


group of artists organizing calling themselves, "Avatars Against Trump." One conservative podcaster whom broadcasted from Second Life announced he was temporarily putting his reports on pause, saying political discussion was becoming too repetitive. Linden Lab would step in political matters a few times, making statements against two of President's executive orders on immigration, and as mentioned earlier calling for the laws preserving Net Neutrality be maintained.

Besides the Linden-run events, there were many resident-run ones as well that took place over almost every month of the year. As before, the resident-run Second Life Birthday celebration was a success. The Relay for Life in Second Life as before had a number of events, such as the Fantasy Faire, Making Strides for Breast Cancer, the Christmas Expo, and their official seasonwith the Relay Walk as the high point. While no doubt their official season was a success, they couldn't help but notice they were not making as much as a few years ago. So came "Project Relay Refresh" with the goal of revitalizing the Relay though various changes such as a shorter season. Besides the Relay, there were other events to raise funds for charity, such as those by Team Diabetes, Creation for Parkinsons' Halloween-themed Gotham Island event, the monthly concerts at Veterans Isle for Homes For Our Troops, and others. There was also the One Billion Rising event to raise awareness to violence against women around the world. When Hurricane Harvey hit hard in Texas, there were some impromptu small-scale fundraising events. When content creators Elicio Ember


and Maxwell Graf fell on hard times, fundraisers were quickly organized to help them out, both raising more than a million Linden dollars apiece.

2017 would see some goodbyes. Breezes Babii, who was a longtime friend of the Newser and wrote some articles for the paper, passed away this year after a long illness. She was given a memorial service by the Tombstone community that was attended by many. Others who passed away included Riven Homewood whom was in several library and volunteer groups, Foxkin Impfondo whom was an estate owner, Spike Nico whom founded and ran the Rainbow Tiger club, and Jaxx Tarvis whom lived in the Sunweaver community where the Newser makes it's home.

There were also some sim closings. After getting a reprieve last year when theywere originally due to close, two of the University of Western Australia sims were closed down. The Basilique sim owned by Canary Beck closed it's doors. Late in the year, the owner of the St. John Estates announced they would be closing. One famous line of breedables, Ozimals, shut down their line of bunnies which they were noted for and helped breedable pets in Second Life become popular several years ago. The shutdown was due to a cease-and-desist legal order. While Ozimals announced plans to launch another line of bunnies, there has been no date yet set.

But there would be some openings and comebacks as well. After being without a home for over a year, the Steelhead community had a sim again with the founding of Steelhead Bay.


The Newser office's neighborhood, the Sunweaver Estates, would see four new sims added, plus two swapping owners and getting whole new looks. The Sunweaver/Angels' Club Zero Gravity space station club, which had closed down three years ago, was reopened. Among the new places opened were Montecito Bay, Furry Tiki Island, Palm Coast, Cerridwen's Cauldron, and more.

Second Life would get some mention not only in tech media, but also more mainstream media. Ars Technica, an online publication about tech media, published an article by a writer who returned to the virtual world after being out for several years. A writer for the Atlantic Monthly would visit the Grid for the first time and do a report. Both articles gave an overall positive message about Second Life.

Besides Sansar and theNet Neutrality issue, there were a number of other things online worth mentioning. Bitcoin, the noted virtual currency, skyrocketed in value from about $1000 each in value to over $19,000 before going down again, closing the year at $13451. In gaming, lootboxes became a source of controversy with charges of being a form of legalized gambling, particularly when they were made a key part of how to advance in EA's "Star Wars Battlefront II." The Conan Exiles game was also a source of some controversy due to the ability of players to enslave NPCs.

For the Second Life Newser, it was a busy year with over a thousand articles, press releases and announcements, reader submissions, and cartoons. We've had some exciting new talent come in to give their stories


for the purpose of investigating criminal liability, that the information sought was already in the possession of the IRS, and that the summons violated appellant's fifth amendment rights.  The district court enforced the summons without holding an evidentiary hearing.  Appellant has appealed, contending that he was improperly denied an evidentiary hearing on these three issues.

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Even accepting appellant's allegations as true, he has not made out a claim of improper purpose under United States v. LaSalle National Bank, 437 U.S. 298, 98 S.Ct. 2357, 57 L.Ed.2d 221 (1978).  He does not allege that the IRS had already recommended criminal prosecution to the Department of Justice or that the IRS, as an institution, had abandoned the possibility of civil tax liability andwas delaying recommending prosecution in order to gather further evidence of crime.  Appellant alleges only that the corporation's tax liability for the tax year ending February, 1974, and, he believes, for the tax year ending February, 1975, had already been determined.  From this, appellant concludes that information regarding those years was sought solely for the purpose of establishing criminal liability.  However, the summons was modified to exclude the year ending February, 1974, and in any event assessment of taxes would not preclude assessment of a civil penalty for fraud.  Appellant has alleged nothing which suggests that he can meet the "heavy burden" imposed by LaSalle on one who seeks to prove that no valid civil purpose exists for issuance of a summons by the


Commission took into account Citigroup's cooperation with the Commission's investigation, as well as its timely efforts to resolve the matter. The Commission brought its Enron-related actions in coordination with the New York County District Attorney's Office, which, also today, entered into settlement agreements with J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup. The Commission also acknowledges the assistance of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the New York State Banking Department in connection with today's Enron-related actions. Today, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency entered into separate written agreements with Citigroup. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the New York State Banking Department entered into a written agreement withRichard Sanchez's unbeaten streak lives on — but his run of clean sheets came to an end on Sunday as his Fort Lauderdale Strikers settled for a 1-1 draw at FC Edmonton in NASL play after a controversial strike by the Canadian side.

The FC Dallas loanee made several diving saves, but his clean-sheet run came to an end at 353 minutes when the Eddies opened the scoring in contentious fashion. In the 38th minute, FC Edmonton were allowed to retake a free kick just outside the box after the referee ruled high winds had affected the first attempt.

Former Columbus Crew and Real Salt Lake trialist Lance Laing scored on the second attempt, and the subsequent protests by Ft. Lauderdale led to the ejection of their head coach and


There’s a documentary playing tomorrow night at Harlem Stage, “Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band,” which, if it doesn’t advance the form of documentary filmmaking, nonetheless delivers memorable and valuable insights into the life and work of a hidden hero of musical modernity. Its director, Carol Bash, happily departs from the lockstep of chronology to emphasize Mary Lou Williams’s latter-day musical achievements, introducing the mature musician in 1980, the year before her death, at the age of seventy-one, performing splendidly for a university audience, before sketching the launch of Williams’s musical career while still a teen-ager in the nineteen-twenties.

The life that Bash outlines, in a mere hour and ten minutes, is exactly what Williams herself knew it to be—a personal history of jazz. The directorcites Williams’s proud but apt assertion of her own place in the musical life of her time—“I’m the only living musician that was there when each era started”—and includes some snippets of performance that display the grand artistic import of Williams’s assertion. As the movie makes clear, she was more than just there—she was one of the key developers of the musical ideas of these eras, and she did more than just remain up-to-date; from era to era, she surpassed herself.

The point is one of a stark historical clarity: the rarity of stylistic change over the course of a jazz musician’s career. Louis Armstrong, for instance, the seminal soloist of the art form, more or less ended his musical development while still in his twenties, and held to


the same style from the time of his heroic recordings made between 1925 and 1930 through to the end of his life, in 1971. Duke Ellington, a peerless composer as well as a great pianist, reached a stylistic apogee in the early nineteen-forties and revealed little trace of new trends over the next thirty years. Among the greats, there’s only Coleman Hawkins, who played with Fletcher Henderson in the nineteen-twenties, with Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis in the nineteen-forties, with John Coltrane in the nineteen-fifties, and with Sonny Rollins in the nineteen-sixties; there’s Davis himself, who was in a state of perpetual revolution from the mid-forties through the mid-seventies; and Coltrane went further in a mere decade, from the mid-fifties through his death, in 1967, than any jazzmusician ever had.

But Williams, in continuing to outdo herself, also outdid these heroes of her time in several crucial respects: she played better in her sixties than she ever did, reaching an artistic fulfillment in the nineteen-seventies that was due to the triple coincidence of external circumstances of the music world, those of her personal life, and those of her own creative evolution. Williams didn’t just change, she grew; the brilliant ideas that were present in her earlier work expanded on contact with new musical realms, and she found herself doubling back on prior resistance to the strongest and most difficult new styles to incorporate both their freedom and their complexity into her playing.

If Louis Armstrong had stopped performing after 1930, or Duke Ellington had stopped performing after


1942, their places atop jazz history would be no less secure. But Mary Lou Williams, who created much great music throughout her life, did her most powerful, distinctive, personal, and innovative work in her sixties. In this regard, she’s unique in the history of jazz. In the music that she performed in the last decade of her life, in solos, duets, and trios, her originality and her passion, as well as the depth of her experience, come through in an awe-inspiring, hands-on rush of pent-up and long-gestating creative energy.

As Bash emphasizes, Williams’s musical career rose to the forefront of jazz when she was twenty, due to her association with Andy Kirk’s band. That’s where her first husband, John Williams, played (they married when she was in her teens).She greatly impressed Kirk musically, but Kirk didn’t like the idea of having a woman in the band; she was relegated to the role of a replacement pianist, but happened to be called upon to play when the band auditioned for the record-company executive Jack Kapp. The story that Bash tells of her change in fortunes is horrific: the band reached Chicago to record for Kapp, but Williams was left behind; Kapp insisted that the band couldn’t record without her; Kirk sent for her. In the train from Kansas City to St. Louis en route to Chicago, she was raped by the conductor. She then arrived in Chicago and went straight from the train to the recording session, where, upon arrival in the studio, Kapp tapped her to


relationship with her mother, were troubled, and she joined a travelling band both to make money and to get away.

Bash deftly outlines the effort that it took for her to escape from the “clowning” of show business and take her music seriously, and aptly highlights the cauldron of Williams’s musical innovation—the band’s residence in Kansas City. They had few commercial prospects, but the city was a thriving musical hub, and Williams played constantly alongside the greats of the time, including Hawkins, Lester Young, and Count Basie, and in the presence of the adolescent Charlie Parker, with whom she’d play in New York twenty years later.

“Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band” gets its subtitle from a composition by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, in honor ofWilliams, that the Kirk band recorded in 1936. Her association with that band ended in 1942, though, because she found its popular styles musically limiting. Bash details Williams’s move to New York, her prominence at Café Society, her passionate devotion to musical innovation and to the innovators themselves—and the trouble she faced due to her musical seriousness, her gender, and her dark skin (light-skinned black artists found a much easier time of gaining acceptance).

The movie’s prime virtue is its panoply of voices, including interviews with the musicians Hank Jones, Billy Taylor, Carmen Lundy, and Geri Allen (who is also filmed giving a splendid performance of Williams’s composition “Lonely Moments”); the historians Gary Giddins, Griffin, and Tammy Kernodle, and her friends Johnnie Garry and Gray Weingarten. There’s also a


Reversal of foul call leads to 25-5 Spartan run

By Jonathan Batuello

Saturday, January 05, 2013 07:13 pm

EAST LANSING — Matt Painter knew Purdue would need to stop Michigan State from making runs to beat the No. 18 Spartans. And up until the 13:14 moment of the second half, the Boilermakers had managed to do it.Then came a technical foul for an elbow.

Trailing by two points, Anthony Johnson had created a turnover and was streaking for the basket. As he went up, he was fouled by Michigan State's Travis Trice and had a chance to go to the line to tie the game.

Except the refs went to the scorer's table to review the play and came away calling a technical foul on Johnson for throwing his elbow as the playby going inside. After trailing by six at halftime, Purdue made it a point to get the ball inside to AJ Hammons.

He responded by scoring five of Purdue's first nine points in the half, including an emphatic dunk of an alley-oop pass from Terone Johnson that gave Purdue a 39-38 lead with 16:04 left in the game. Hammons would finish the game with 20 points and seven rebounds.

“Purdue is a very well-coached, tough, physical team, and I think we were trying to make Hammons an All-American and almost did, but give him credit because made some big plays, too,” Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo said.

Michigan State's speed and guard play frustrated Purdue doing it's big run as well. The Spartans were able to get out in transition


came in, we changed tyres, and adjusted the brake balance a bit more towards the rear. He completed a 12-lap run and a 13-lap run, setting a best time of 49.7 seconds twice."

Senna’s turn

After a short break, Senna slid into the narrow cockpit of the Penske Indy car.

“Normally, Formula 1 drivers get on the pace immediately," said Beresford. "Ayrton started doing some pretty slow laps initially, and that was a surprise.

"This car had a sequential gearbox and Senna had to get used to manipulating a gear shifter again. On occasion, he would lose his way through the gears. He would stop the car completely, select first gear and then go again.

Ayrton Senna had to get used to the characteristics of a turbo car. After completing 14 laps, heThe UK marine power sector needs to go further, faster.

Those were the words of Greg Barker, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, who spoke at the RenewableUK Wave and Tidal Conference in London last month.

He said that now is the time to make "bold steps" in an effort to move individual projects to wide commercial arrays. And that is exactly what the industry and the government is doing.

"Now is the time to make "bold steps" in an effort to move individual projects to wide commercial arrays."

In just over a week, tidal companies MeyGen and SeaGeneration Wales have been awarded £20m in funding for their projects off the coast of Caithness and Anglesey; the Scottish Government announced it will provide £3m to the European Marine Energy Centre


in Orkney, to enable the expansion of its testing facilities; and the UK's two marine energy parks formed a working partnership to share industry knowledge between England and Scotland.

Another key project to receive funding in February was the Marine Innovation Centre, being launched at Plymouth University to connect industry expertise, drive business growth and create jobs in the south-west's marine and maritime renewable energy sectors.

The £2m project will be based at the University's Marine Building, which houses what is the UK's most sophisticated wave energy testing tank.

Plymouth's wave testing tank

The £19m Marine Building, opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in October 2012, is Europe's largest marine institute and is recognised as a centre of excellence for research, teaching and training.

The institute is home to 400 scientists and specialists,as well as 2,000 students hoping to become tomorrow's problem solvers in the wave and tidal sector.

"The £19m Marine Building, opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in October 2012, is Europe's largest marine institute."

One of the key features of the Marine Building is the Coastal Ocean and Sediment Transport (COAST) laboratory, which offers equipment designed for device and array testing, environmental modelling and coastal engineering.

The lab includes three tanks and flumes - the Ocean Wave Basin, Coastal Basin and Sediment Wave Flume - which differ in size and depth to produce waves of up to 0.9m in height.

Students, along with researchers and small marine energy businesses, can carry out their experiments here.

The first commercial testing at the lab was carried out by Offshore Wave Energy and IT Power


in September 2012, ahead of the Marine Building launch. Their device will ultimately be deployed at Wave Hub, a grid-connected facility off the North Cornwall coast, in 2013.

Since then, the WITT transmission system, designed to power navigational buoys and GPS systems, has been tested by WITT Energy, and this month, the Marine Building played host to the fourth wave energy experiment.

Sea Wave Energy spent two days testing a prototype device that it hopes will generate energy from waves and work as a desalination plant for areas where fresh water is scarce.

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Water-based solar energy concepts such as SUNDy and Hydrélio demonstrate how third generation solar panelsLOS ANGELES (AP) Although the wordless billboards went up quietly this week on the streets around Los Angeles FC's Banc of California Stadium, their message to the city is loud and clear.

Some of the huge signs show imperious LA Galaxy striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic running into LAFC's Latif Blessing, sending the smaller man flying. In others, Zlatan is making a saucy gesture toward LAFC's Carlos Vela, or perhaps celebrating in his fellow superstar's face.

Each of the photos captured a triumphant moment for Zlatan and the Galaxy during the first four editions of El Trafico, the increasingly outstanding rivalry series between Major League Soccer's two Los Angeles clubs. LAFC's fans have the best team in the league this season, but it has never beaten the Galaxy - and those fans


will have to walk past these trolling provocations around their home ground before the latest edition of the LA derby Sunday night.

"I thought it was funny," Galaxy midfielder Sebastian Lletget said after he saw the billboards on social media. "That stuff gets us going. It's just good for the city, man. Even though they're probably a little bitter about it."

A rivalry that didn't exist 18 months ago has grown into one of the highest-profile matchups in the league, drawing rowdy crowds and attracting international attention for the intensity and quality of the first four games.

The Galaxy are the only five-time champions in MLS history, while their crosstown foes are a model expansion franchise with a lavish new stadium near downtown LA. Multicultural Los Angeles has loved and embracedthe Galaxy's comeback victory in March 2018.

Ibrahimovic and Vela have scored a whopping six goals apiece in the four El Trafico games, doing everything that's expected from arguably the league's two best players. Their last meeting was dominated by the superstars, with Ibrahimovic's hat trick besting Vela's brace in a 3-2 victory for the Galaxy on July 19.

"When you play against the other team of the city, you always want to do your best," said Vela, who already has 26 goals and 15 assists in a historically prolific season. "You want to win. You want to show you are better than the other team of the city, and it's a good chance to show how good we are this season. I hope we can finally get the three


on April 6, 2002, Bryant, Madrigal, and Saldana worked at a bat mitzvah at a recreational area on the Lamar Campus. After the event, Madrigal informed Saldana that she had observed Bryant take an envelope from the gift table and suspected that he had disposed of the envelope in the trash behind the dining hall. Madrigal claims she looked for the envelope, but it was too dark to see anything, so she returned the following day and found three envelopes and three checks in the trash. She informed Saldana about the checks and provided a statement to Max Mitchell, the food services director for Chartwells at Lamar. Maria Ortiz, another Chartwells employee who worked at the bat mitzvah the night before, gave a statement to Lamar University policeClub History

Probably not the original BPRFC team.

In 1871 Belsize Park RFC was one of the 21 clubs at the inaugural meeting of the Rugby Football Union, and therefore became pioneers of the game of Rugby Union. However, in 1878, Belsize moved to form Rosslyn Park RFC – going on to become one of England’s leading clubs.

It was not until 1971 that the current incarnation of Belsize Park RFC was re-established by a group of local players who developed a philosophy to not only win the game, but to also win the party! The spirit of the ‘new’ club was set in its first season, when Belsize developed its 15-man game style of play and the Club had its first tour – Paris. Party to 7 a.m., kick off


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left arm. He returned to the hospital, where he was found to have a cold left upper extremity and
only passive range of motion. He was admitted to the hospital, where his shoulder pain was
controlled and treated with pain medication and injections. He was discharged on December 17,
2011. On December 20, 2011, he was treated by Dr. Wiater, who noted that plaintiff’s pain and
weakness in his left shoulder since the surgery were probably related to interoperative
positioning. An MRI on December 22, 2011 showed “supraspinatus and infraspinatus
tendinopathy and associated tears in the left shoulder,” and neurological testing showed “a
decrease in function of the suprascapular nerve and supra and spinatus muscles.”

         There is no dispute that the surgical procedure itself did not causedisclosed by the record are as follows: Appellant is a painting contractor. On November 6, 1939, he was painting a two-story building located at Buchanan and Greenwich Streets, San Francisco. On the lower floor of that building is a tavern operated by respondent, and projecting out from the building is a large electric and advertising the tavern. While painting the exterior of the building on the day in question appellant covered the electric sign with a large cloth. When he quit work for the day he forgot to remove the cloth. Respondent discovered that his sign was covered when he turned on his lights, and attempted to remove the cloth with a long pole. In the meantime, appellant, who had started towards his home, returned and discovered respondent


did want the cloth removed; that he then entered his tavern and went out in back. Mrs. Quilici, wife of respondent, testified that appellant then entered the tavern, pounded on the bar, and called her vile names, then left the tavern and went upstairs to the apartment of the landlady. The landlady testified that appellant came up the stairs and demanded the key to the garage where his ladders and painting equipment were stored; that appellant "was like a madman, he was furious and vicious at the time"; that when he asked for the key "he called me all kinds of insulting names and went downstairs mumbling to himself"; that he "dashed down the stairs furious as anything, and mad." When appellant got to the bottom of thestairs respondent had returned to the tavern, and seeing his wife in front of the door, went outside to talk to her. Mrs. Quilici testified that her husband asked her to come inside; that the appellant "came downstairs while he was saying that, so quick my husband says to me to go in the house, that was my place where I belonged. This painter came running down the stairs, called my husband all kinds of names and started with his fist, tried to fight my husband." Respondent testified that when appellant saw him in front of the tavern he came down the stairs and started towards him "like a wildcat"; that "the only thing I can do is push my wife inside and see what happened. I prepare


tell what they will become. It is in that age 23 season, or sometimes even a year or two later, that the shroud begins to lift. Another fellow Playmaker Mentality writer, Justis Mosqueda, combined his Force Players data with age and sack data to come up with the age of 23 as the critical season. He found that EDGE rushers who don’t have a season with 7 sacks by the time they are 23 are probably never going to break the 10 sack mark more than once, if that, in their career.

Melvin Ingram is a good example of it taking past the age 23 season for the picture to become clear. He came into the league at the “old” age of 23 and has only played double digitit shows up in his splits for the season’s first and second halves. Always let your best pass rusher focus on rushing the passer.

By all measures, Ingram had an incredible 2015 season. He had been swiftly labeled a bust after his first three seasons in the NFL, over which he combined for 6 sacks in 29 games. Finally, four seasons into his career, Ingram seems to have figured it all out. His ability to beat his blocker, pressure the quarterback, and bring him to the ground were all exceptional in 2015.

His Pressure Rate of 20.9% is truly elite. Of the limited sample of players I have charted from 2015 Ingram’s 20.9% is the best of the bunch. It’s also the only one above 20%. Being able to directly


A tiny town, a huge killing

The police officer from Elmendorf, Texas, was shot and fell by this utility pole at East Ninth Street and South First Avenue just before noon on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. The police officer from Elmendorf, Texas, was shot and fell by this utility pole at East Ninth Street and South First Avenue just before noon on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Photo: Billy Calzada, San Antonio Express-News Photo: Billy Calzada, San Antonio Express-News Image 1 of / 9 Caption Close A tiny town, a huge killing 1 / 9 Back to Gallery

SAN ANTONIO — There were few answers Sunday to the many questions left when the police chief of tiny Elmendorf was gunned down on a quiet rural street late Saturday morning.

What, exactly, happenedin the lead up to Chief Michael Pimentel's slaying? What of the reports the prime suspect, 24-year old Joshua Lopez, suffered from mental illness? What role could a warrant for Lopez on a misdemeanor graffiti charge have played in the shooting?

The Bexar County Sheriff's Office, which is leading the investigation, declined to offer any new details Sunday. Meanwhile, Lopez sits in Bexar County Jail facing a capital murder charge and, if convicted, possibly the death penalty.

A shooting like this is the kind of thing unlikely to happen in Elmendorf, a small South Texas town 17 miles southeast of San Antonio. Its population does not even reach 1,500, making it smaller than many high schools' student bodies.

That smallness extended to the scene of the shooting. Lopez grew up and


lived about a block from where Pimentel was killed, and the event and its aftermath was witnessed by people who had known him his whole life.

Beyond expressing shock about the shooting, those neighbors Sunday offered a series of reactions that ranged from astonishment to an almost unnerving expectation about Lopez's purported involvement.

No one answered the door at the address listed as Lopez's residence — according to Bexar County Jail records — when an Express-News reporter knocked, though there were two cars parked in the front and four dogs in the yard.

“He was just a very nice, quiet guy,” said Lillia Zancketti, who lives across the street from Lopez and described him as “very friendly” and “very polite,” the kind of guy who would say hello at the store.

Shesaid she had just brought her husband back from his dialysis treatment and was inside when the shooting occurred.

Pete Zavala, 67, lives in a mobile home directly across from the shooting. He said he was inside working on a puzzle when he heard two loud bangs followed by two quieter bangs.

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Two of his granddaughters, though, were outside at the time and one of them saw the shooting, he said, adding that one them told him that Lopez looked over after the shooting and “kind of pointed the gun at them, and they just ran in the house.”

Zavala described Lopez as odd.

“Even in summer time, he would always walk down the road there with a black-top coat with his collar up,” Zavala said. “It could