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Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31

published:23 Aug 2012

Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31

Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31

published:23 Aug 2012

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In which John Green talks about the many revolutions of Latin America in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 1800s, Latin America was firmly under the control of Spain and Portugal. The revolutionary zeal that had recently created the United States and had taken off Louis XVI\'s head in France arrived in South America, and a racially diverse group of people who felt more South American than European took over. John covers the soft revolution of Brazil, inthe control of Spain and Portugal. The revolutionary zeal that had recently created the United States and had taken off Louis XVI\'s head in France arrived in South America, and a racially diverse group of people who felt more South American than European took over. John covers the soft revolution of Brazil, in which Prince Pedro boldly seized power from his father, but promised to give it back if King João ever returned to Brazil. He also covers the decidedly more violent revolutions in Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina. Watch the video to see Simón Bolívar\'s dream of a United South America crushed, even as he manages to liberate a bunch of countries and get two currencies and about a thousand schools and parks named after him.
Crash Course World


guitar as his favorite instrument.
At age fourteen influenced by family tradition, his aunts and cousins introduced him to the world of theater and becomes an actor/writer winning awards as the youngest writer of the industry which sets him up to travel to the National Theater of Panama  in 1988 for a presentation where he defects the Cuban regime. He arrived in Miami, Florida in 1990 and established residence where he now lives with his family.

Career

In the early nineties the doors open for him as a freelance writer when he manages to publish his first radio hit "Romanticos al Rescate" [] sung by Latin Star Luis Enrique (singer), soon getting the attention of multinational companies such as Sony Music Publishing  which agreed to work with theHe had minor roles in American Gangster, Pineapple Express and The Number 23 before landing a bigger part in 2008 horror film Pandorum. He enjoyed a string of larger roles in 2012 movies Nature Calls, Being Flynn and Dragon Eyes.

Eddie Rouse recently filmed the pilot for sci-fi TV series Westworld, an adaptation of the 1973 film about two guests at a futuristic theme park who go on the run after an android becomes deadly.

His manager Spacek adds, “This was the thing he wanted so badly – to get in front of an audience to show the world what he was all about.”


usually occurs in adults, but it may occasionally be found in children and adolescents. Men most often get melanoma on the trunk (the area of the body between the shoulders and hips) or on the head or neck, and women most often get melanoma on the arms and legs. In rare cases, it can develop in parts of the body not covered by the skin, such as the eyes, mouth, large intestine, or vagina.
Melanoma can be difficult to cure, and is often lethal. In the U.S. there are about 38,000 new cases of melanoma a year and approximately 7,000 melanoma deaths occur every year in the U.S. Current therapy for melanoma has many deficiencies and drawbacks. The first line therapy of choice is to remove the melanoma tissueHabitual
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It has been 7 years since the excellent Silent Shout, but 2013 marks the return of Swedish experimental/ electronic duo The Knife with their brilliant and bizarre fourth studio album, Shaking The Habitual.

Let me be abundantly clear here, this is a challenging album. At a staggering 96 minutes in length, Shaking The Habitual is not for the faint of heart. It by far their least accessible album, but it is a rich and rewarding listening for those willing to give it their time.

The Knife present us with an album full of massive, lush synth landscapes that are equally beautiful and terrifying, tribal/ jungle-esque percussion, industrial jams, and extended drone tracks. It is an album that is far too easy to get lost in. With that


honest.

Originally Posted by bmack86

And it's been long established that Chris hates fun.

Originally Posted by Hatinisbad

I took my niece this year and it was her first Coachella. It was so fun to see it through her eyes. She thought it felt like a magical scene from Shreck. The one where all the fairy tale creatures meet for the first time in Shreck's swamp.

Re: Tell Us About 2013 Releases

sounds like an existential fever dream of an album, meditative at times?

Well played.

Originally Posted by bmack86

And it's been long established that Chris hates fun.

Originally Posted by Hatinisbad

I took my niece this year and it was her first Coachella. It was so fun to see it through her eyes. She thought it felt like a magical scene from Shreck. The one where allsame same is pretty special, imo.

I also feel the same way as you do about The Black Angels...love the singer's voice. And, this new one was outstanding on first listen. I've been really impressed with the past two releases. Nothing has surpassed Passover yet, but still high quality stuff.

Re: Tell Us About 2013 Releases

The weirdest response I keep reading in a lot of places is "this is an album, where Angles was merely a collection of songs." Well sure, but at least four or five of those songs were pretty good.

Yeah, exactly. There is nothing even worth discussing on the new Strokes album. I at least enjoy about half of Angles.

Originally Posted by bmack86

And it's been long established that Chris hates fun.

Originally Posted by Hatinisbad

I took my niece


Washington (CNN) Republicans are mixed in their response after President Donald Trump's unpredictable Tuesday news conference, during which he defended white supremacists and blamed "both sides" for violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

But some Republicans spoke out against Trump, using his name directly to emphasize that they don't agree with what he said in Trump Tower.

During his news conference, Trump blamed "both sides" in the protests and equated the white supremacists on one side with the counter-protesters on the other side.

Some Republicans, to avoid more conflict, denounced racism after Trump's news conference -- and some indirectly referred to his statements when they called him out.

Republicans who used Trump's name

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a strong critic of Trump, took a hard stance on Wednesday against Trump's remarks at the news conference.

"Through hisstatements yesterday, President Trump took a step backward by again suggesting there is moral equivalency between the white supremacist neo-Nazis and KKK members who attended the Charlottesville rally and people like Ms. Heyer. I, along with many others, do not endorse this moral equivalency," Graham said in a statement.

He continued: "Many Republicans do not agree with and will fight back against the idea that the Party of Lincoln has a welcome mat out for the David Dukes of the world."

Sen. John McCain, whom Trump called out at the news conference for not voting for the GOP health care bill , tweeted, "There's no moral equivalency between racists & Americans standing up to defy hate& bigotry. The President of the United States should say so"

There's no moral equivalency between


— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) August 15, 2017

Sen. Cory Gardner also used Trump's name to say he was wrong at a town hall in Colorado.

"The President was wrong," Gardner said when asked about Trump's comments blaming the left, according to Fox31 Denver, a CNN affiliate.

Sen. Jerry Moran also called out Trump by name, writing in a tweet: "White supremacy, bigotry & racism have absolutely no place in our society & no one - especially POTUS - should ever tolerate it"

White supremacy, bigotry & racism have absolutely no place in our society & no one - especially POTUS - should ever tolerate it. Full STMT: pic.twitter.com/dufC1MGWgB — Jerry Moran (@JerryMoran) August 15, 2017

Ohio Gov. John Kasich didn't tweet but instead told NBC's "Today Show" on Wednesday that Trump's remarks were"pathetic."

"This is terrible. The President of the United States needs to condemn these kinds of hate groups," said Kasich, who ran against Trump in the Republican presidential primary. "The President has to totally condemn this. It's not about winning an argument."

Rep. Ed Royce tweeted, "The President needs to clearly and categorically reject white supremacists. No excuses. No ambiguity."

The President needs to clearly and categorically reject white supremacists. No excuses. No ambiguity. — Ed Royce (@RepEdRoyce) August 16, 2017

And Rep. Leonard Lance tweeted, "Mr. President, there is only one side: AGAINST white supremacists, neo-Nazis, anti-Semites & the KKK. They have no place in America or GOP."

Mr. President, there is only one side: AGAINST white supremacists, neo-Nazis, anti-Semites & the KKK. They have no place in America or GOP. —


of the systems under the hood, and to realize that every RPG element of past Paper Mario games—levels, experience, equipment, party members—has been stripped away.

What's left is a simpler game, with a different set of rewards. Like a sturdy piece of construction paper crumpled up and snipped and cut, and unfolded to form a slightly misshappen, if not unpleasant, paper snowflake.

The Paper world has never looked better than it does on the 3DS, and Nintendo has taken the Paper aesthetic to further extremes than ever before; residents of Decalburg, the game's hub town, get folded up and stacked in drawers by the nefarious Paper Bowser. Water is practically a death sentence in battle—to become soggy is to be paralyzed. And so on.

But instead of the typical JRPG formulaKomodo Pt. 1 is the first part of a three-part album project by San Francisco based artist Vyranis. Already deriving his name from the Komodo genus (Varanus komodoensis), Vyranis found it all too fitting to call his

first debut album Komodo, as an introduction to his flair, style, and soundscape. Just like the wild dragon

compromises to no other species, this album doesnt compromise to existing genre norms, blending and

styling quite a few in the process.

The first track, Music Box, was inspired by The Glitch Mob and the more cinematic dubstep pieces that have been released. Even though the track contains a typical wobble bass and dub drum pattern, the haunting melodies and themes introduced in the beginning burst forth from a truly different mold.

Be Free was a combination of


three influences. A strong influence from the vocal styling and mainroom house vibes of artists like Kaskade. The sultry female vocalist highlights these aspects perfectly. Blended with the mid tempo funkiness and bass-rockin beats of artists like Kill Paris, and finally fused with the compositional and glitch elements of house artists like Madeon.

The final track, Iguanodon, pulls influences from trap heavyweights Diplo and Gent & Jawns, but also introduces familiar melodic stylings of bass guitar lines. The end result is a ground-shaking trap song with catchy accessible guitar stylings, sure to be a new crowd favorite.

www.TMGSF.comin the developing world the biggest threat, the biggest enemy, is climate change."

Discontent directed at Washington came as the UN's top climate scientist, Rajendra Pachauri, warned the conference's 15,000 participants that global warming is leading to human dangers and soaring financial costs, but that containing carbon emissions will have a host of benefits.

Although he gave no explicit deadlines, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change implied that the world only has a few years before the Earth is irreversibly damaged by accumulations of carbon in the atmosphere.

The letter to Clinton signed by the chief executives of 16 major nonprofit groups also stressed the urgency of finding solutions to the world's emissions of carbon dioxide, mainly from burning fossil fuels for energy, industry and transportation.

"This is a


critical meeting, and we are rapidly running out of time to avert the worst impacts of climate change," it said.

It reminded Clinton of President Barack Obama's Presidential campaign pledges to move the US back into the forefront of global cooperation on global warming.

"Three years later, America risks being viewed not as a global leader on climate change but as a major obstacle to progress," said the letter.

It was signed by the heads of the Environmental Defence Fund, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defence Council and other major environmental lobby and activist groups.

Anger was directed at the US conditions for negotiating a deal that would legally bind all countries to limit their emissions, and for holding up discussion on how to raise USD 100 billion earmarked for poorFriday, August 29, 2008

Sometime way back, Graham Comorde invited me to a DIMACS workshop on Algorithms for Next Generation Networks, where I talked the usual talk about hash tables, Bloom filters, and things. The organizers later had the wherewithal to undertake putting together a book or collected chapters on the topic, and asked us (us being, of course, me and my student Adam Kirsch) for a chapter related to the talk. Adam was just finishing his thesis, and was willing to take on modifying his thesis to form the basis for a survey chapter. I wrote up a section or two, and for good measure, we got George Varghese, who is the world expert -- and author of the book Network Algorithmics -- to join in as well.


At the risk of seeming terribly reductionist, I would like to suggest that we have seen five eras of ballpark design in Major League Baseball.

In the Utilitarian Era (1876-1908), the goal was simply to lay out some grounds and throw up a grandstand quickly, and somewhere close to a center of population. With many franchises operating on a shoestring and just hoping to get through the season without missing the payroll, there was little money for infrastructure investments. You would build a wooden grandstand to seat a few thousand bugs, it would burn down after someone dropped a lit cigar in a bucketful of oily rags, and then you'd do it again.

In the Classic Era (1909-1960), owners took pride in their ballparks, which were seen as a reflectionof the owners themselves. Ballparks were intended to inspire the customers and enhance their perceptions, in the same vein as art museums and Carnegie libraries and ornate banks. Simply by stepping inside such edifices, you would become a better human being. That was the idea, anyway. The era was inaugurated in 1909 by Philadelphia's Shibe Park, the first steel-and-concrete ballpark.

In the Multipurpose Era (1964-1988), nobody cared one wit for anything but economy and efficiency. Gone were the terracotta flourishes of Shibe Park. Modern architecture abhorred ornamentation. Why build two stadiums when one might house your baseball team and your football team? Why mix up Neoclassical Architecture with Modern Professional Sports Profitmaking? Why play on something horses eat when Dow Chemical is perfectly happy to manufacture an outfield?

The response


was essentially unanimous. Houston's Astrodome actually had some character, if only because it was the first of its kind. But the roofless ashtrays that followed were highly functional but hardly attractive; once you'd seen one, you'd seem them all and sorta wished you hadn't.

In the NeoClassical Era (1989-2009), which began with the opening of Baltimore's Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the multi-purpose stadiums were repudiated and nobody missed them. There are now just three remaining: the Coliseum in Oakland, and the roofed stadiums in Toronto and St. Petersburg.

Most of you probably believe we're still in the NeoClassical Era -- Marlins Park notwithstanding, of course -- but I'm not so sure. Oriole Park was specifically designed to appeal to the classical sensibility, to bring back something that was lost.Ball succeeded Lowell Barron as a member of the Board; Barron had succeeded Mike McCartney. A question arose as to whether Ball was appointed *1122 to complete Barron's "unexpired term" or whether he was appointed for a full seven-year term. According to the petitioners, the answer to this question depends on whether Barron's term ended when he left the Board in 2003, or whether he left an unexpired term to be filled. This analysis depends, in turn, on when Barron's 12-year term began, which requires consideration of the service term of Barron's predecessor, McCartney.
A dispute arose because McCartney, whose term expired in 1991, had served a holdover period and Barron was confirmed in February 1993 for a 12-year term. Thus, under one view, Barron's 12-year term began in


1993 and had not expired when he left the Board in 2003, and Ball's appointment and confirmation in February 2004 was to fill the remainder of Barron's unexpired term. Under the other view, Barron's 12-year term began in 1991, when McCartney's 12-year term expired, and his term thus expired in 2003. Under the second view, Ball's appointment was not to fill an unexpired term, but was for a full seven-year term.
In October 2005, the attorney general, in response to a request by Dr. Richardson, issued an opinion addressing the term lengths of the Board members. The attorney general refused to express an opinion on the term length for each Board member, but he did offer an opinion as to what he deemed to be a correct statement ofthe law to be applied in making such a determination. See Op. Att'y Gen. 2006-002 (Oct. 7, 2005). The attorney general stated that under the holding of James v. Langford, 695 So.2d 1158 (Ala.1997), and the "plain language" of Amendment No. 161,[1] "the [12-year] term of a Board member appointed pursuant to Amendment 161 commences on the date the Board member is confirmed by the Senate, and not before," and a Board member may continue to serve, indefinitely, in a holdover situation until his or her successor is confirmed. The opinion recognized that Amendment No. 161 was amended in 2000 by Amendment No. 670,[2] under which several current members of the Board, including Carlisle, were appointed. Amendment No. 670 reduces from 12 years to 7 years a board


member's term and specifically limits *1123 an outgoing Board member's "holdover" service to one year. Additionally, according to the attorney general's interpretation of Amendment No. 670, "the term of a member of the Board appointed pursuant to Amendment 670 commences on the date the member is confirmed by the Senate."
After receiving the attorney general's opinion, Auburn University, acting by and through Dr. Richardson and/or the Board, determined that Barron, who was appointed pursuant to Amendment No. 161, was serving a 12-year term that began in 1993 and that that term had not expired when Barron left the Board in 2003. Consequently, Auburn University concluded that Ball's confirmation in 2004 was to fill the remainder of Barron's unexpired term, and not for a full seven-year term. When Barron's unexpiredterm ended in 2005, no successor for Ball had been confirmed. Thus, pursuant to Amendment No. 670, Ball was authorized to serve a one-year holdover term, which expired on February 10, 2006. Auburn University concluded that on that date Ball's service on the Board had ended and that the seat on the Board for the Fifth Congressional District was vacant. Ball agreed with the statement of law in the opinion of the attorney general and Auburn University's application of that statement of the law to his appointment and term length, and he voluntarily ceased serving as a Board member on February 9, 2006.
As provided in Amendment No. 670, Governor Bob Riley, as chairman of the appointing committee for the Board, called a meeting of the appointing committee for


the purpose of filling the slot left vacant by Ball's resignation. Before the appointing committee could meet, however, Carlisle filed a complaint in the Lee Circuit Court seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief. The complaint named as defendants Governor Riley, who is the president of the Board and the chairman of the appointing committee, the petitioners, and two additional individuals who serve on the appointing committee but are not members of the Board. Carlisle's complaint sought a declaration that Ball's term had not expired and that Ball is entitled to serve a seven-year term beginning from the date of his confirmation. In his complaint, Carlisle maintained that a term of a Board member appointed pursuant to Amendment No. 161 begins at the end of the predecessor's unextendedterm, not at Senate confirmation. Carlisle also sought a declaration that the attorney general's opinion had misconstrued Amendment No. 161, and a declaration of the ending dates of the terms of Board members Lowder, Blackwell, Spina, Franklin, Miller, and Rane. Lastly, Carlisle asked for a temporary restraining order prohibiting the appointing committee from meeting because, according to Carlisle, there was no vacancy to be filled.
The trial court conducted a hearing and issued a "temporary restraining order/preliminary injunction" prohibiting the appointing committee from meeting or taking action to appoint a trustee to the Board to represent the Fifth Congressional District until the question of the ending date of Ball's term was decided. On April 18, the defendants moved to dismiss the complaint on the ground that Carlisle lacked standing


in the expenditure of large sums of funds and the conduct of other business of the City which affects the rights of the [mayor] and his fellow citizens.'" Id. Thus, the Court held that the mayor had standing to bring the action because he had suffered an actual injury. See also Cleburne County Bd. of Educ. v. Payne, 518 So.2d 49 (Ala.1987)(holding that members of the board of trustees of an elementary school had standing to challenge the actions of the county board of education because they suffered an actual injury when the county board nullified their unanimous vote to reject a candidate for principal of the elementary school).
Unlike the public officials in Prichard and Cleburne, however, Carlisle has not suffered an actual injury to his rights asa public official nor has he been prevented from performing his duties. It is undisputed that Carlisle was confirmed pursuant to Amendment No. 670; therefore, Amendment No. 161 does not apply to Carlisle or affect his term of office, his right to hold office, his right to vote, or his right to request a vote. Additionally, Carlisle does not allege that his vote as a member of the Board has been "held for naught," that his seat on the Board has been challenged, or that he has been denied a request for a vote from the Board on its interpretation of the length of Ball's term or on the propriety of Dr. Richardson's request for an opinion from the attorney general on the length of terms of the


members of the Board. Indeed, Carlisle does not and, it appears, cannot allege that he or his term as a member of the Board has been affected by the attorney general's opinion or by Ball's voluntarily relinquishing his seat on the Board. Nothing, other than speculation and conjecture, indicates that Carlisle's abilities to perform his duties or his actions as a Board member are affected in any way by the attorney general's opinion or by the manner in which Amendment No. 161 is applied to those trustees appointed pursuant to its provisions. Carlisle simply does not establish that he has incurred an actual injury; therefore, he does not establish standing.
We decline Carlisle's invitation to extend to a trustee of a state university the principles of standing applicable toyears, and until their successors shall be appointed and qualified. The board shall be divided into three classes, as nearly equal as may be, so that one-third may be chosen quadrennially. Vacancies occurring in the office of trustees from death or resignation shall be filled by the governor, and such appointee shall hold office until the next meeting of the legislature. The members of the board of trustees as now constituted shall hold office until their respective terms expire under existing law, and until their successors shall be appointed."
[2]  Amendment No. 670 provides, in pertinent part:

"A trustee shall hold office for a term of seven years, and may serve no more than two full seven-year terms of office. . . .
"Each member of the board of trustees


the ferromagnetic AP layers being antiparallel. Sensors are still further classified as single or dual wherein a single sensor employs only one pinned layer and a dual sensor employs two pinned layers with the free layer structure located therebetween.
The first and second shield layers may engage the bottom and the top respectively of the CPP sensor so that the first and second shield layers serve as the aforementioned leads for conducting the perpendicular current through the sensor perpendicular to the major planes of the layers of the sensor. The read gap is the length of the sensor between the first and second shield layers. It should be understood that the thinner the gap length the higher the linear read bit density of the read head. This means thatlayers result in overbiasing end regions of the free layer and restricting the employment of narrow track width sensors.
An aspect of the invention is that the free layer includes first and second free films with the first free film interfacing the material spacer layer and the second free film interfacing the chromium spacer layer. In a preferred embodiment the first free film is composed of only iron (Fe) and the second free film is composed of nickel iron (NiFe). Accordingly, the second free film is magnetically softer than the first film and imparts softness to the first film so that both the first and second free films rotate responsively to a field signal from a moving magnetic medium. Most importantly, however, is that the iron composition of the


Thiamine and the elderly orthopaedic patient.
An assessment of thiamine status was made in two groups of elderly orthopaedic patients. None of the 30 men and women presenting for elective total hip replacement was malnourished before operation but there was a significant fall in the thiamine status 48 hours later, which had returned to normal by 14 days. In contrast, the majority of the 34 patients in the second group were thiamine deficient after surgery for a femoral neck fracture and remained so throughout the initial post-operative period of 14 days. In both groups those patients who were noticeably confused after operation were found to have a considerable fall in their thiamine status suggesting this may be a contributory factor to postoperative confusion.City League Cups

Manchester City won the League Cup for the fifth time last week beating Arsenal 3-0 at Wembley. Nostalgia looks back at the Blues’ League Cup triumphs over the years

The look on Jeff Astle’s face said it all.

He’d made history by becoming the first player to score in the final of both the League Cup and FA Cup at Wembley.

Jeff Astle is dejected after losing to City in the 1970 League Cup Final.

But the England and West Bromwich Albion centre forward had little to celebrate after facing Manchester City in the 1970 League Cup Final.

His fifth minute goal – a trademark header – had been cancelled out by City’s Mike Doyle and the match went into extra time.

City eventually won 2-1 with the crucial goal coming from


Glyn Pardoe.

The date was March 7th – 48 years ago today – but it feels like yesterday.

The Wembley pitch was heavy and muddy. It cut up badly during the match. Snow had been cleared into the corners of the ground as the teams took the field in front of a 97,963 crowd.

City rallied after Astle’s strike with Francis Lee hitting the bar. Our photo shows him being beaten to the ball by Albion full-back Doug Fraser. Clods of mud were sent flying through the air.

Albion’s Doug Fraser clears the ball from Francis Lee at Wembley, March 1970.

City ‘keeper Joe Corrigan was forced to make some difficult saves as Albion fought back. But he still found the strength at the end of the match to carry team-mate Ian Bowyeroff the field!

oe Corrigan carries Ian Bowyer off the pitch at Wembley, March 1970.

Then it was time for the customary lap of honour as the victorious City players paraded their hard-won trophy round the Wembley pitch.

Man City players parade the trophy to their fans on a lap of honour after the match.7th March 1970.

It was to be a season of celebrations for City. As well as the League Cup, they also won the European Cup Winners’ Cup, beating Polish club Gornik Zabrze 2-1 in the final.

It was a different story for the Blues in the League Cup Final of March 1974.

City lost 2-1 to Wolverhampton Wanderers in front of a 97,866 crowd at Wembley. Colin Bell equalized at 1-1, but John Richards got the winner in the 85th


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Colin Bell was injured for the game although defender Dave Watson was passed fit – even though he had earlier suffered a slipped disc.

Tueart, who had supported Newcastle as a boy, scored his winner at the start of the second half.

Dennis Tueart’s spectacular overhead goal at Wembley, February 1976.

A Willie Donachie ball to the far post was headed back across the box by Tommy Booth. Tueart, with his back to goal, executed an overhead kick that bounced beyond ‘keeper Mike Mahoney into the bottom left corner of the net.

Tueart later described the goal as the greatest of his career. Our photo shows him clutching the cup – in a Newcastle shirt – with team-mate Dave Watson.

Dave Watson and DennisTueart clutch on to the League Cup, February 1976.

City boss Tony Book became the first man to win the League Cup both as a player and a manager.

A bit like buses, City had to wait nearly 40 years for their next League Cup triumph – then three came along almost at once!

The Blues won the cup in 2014, 2016 and most recently last week.

The 2014 cup was secured with a 3-1 victory over Sunderland with the City goals coming from Yaya Toure, Samir Nasri and Jesus Navas.

Our photo shows ‘keeper Joe Hart and captain Vincent Kompany with the Capital One Cup, as it was then called, at Manchester Town Hall in May 2014.

The team had just enjoyed an open-top bus parade to celebrate winning the League Cup and


their tracks.”

Iran and the P5+1 group of countries – the United States, Britain, France, China, and Russia plus Germany – reached the JCPOA in July 2015. The deal came into force on Saturday, January 16, known as the “Implementation Day.”Unique benefits of nanotechnology to drug delivery and diagnostics.
Nanotechnology offers many potential benefits to medical research by making pharmaceuticals more efficacious and by decreasing their adverse side-effects. Preclinical characterization of nanoparticles intended for medical applications is complicated--due to the variety of materials used, their unique surface properties and multifunctional nature. This chapter serves as an introduction to the volume, giving a broad overview of applications of nanotechnology to medicine, and describes some of the beneficial aspects of nanotechnology-based drug delivery. We define nanotechnology and provide brief descriptions of the major classes of nanomaterials used for medical applications. The following two chapters discuss scientific and regulatory hurdles involved in the use of nanotechnology in medicine. The remaining bulk of the volume provides the reader with protocols that have been


a joint news conference with Putin after their private meeting, Trump hedged on whether he agrees with the U.S. intelligence community on its conclusion that the Russian government interfered with the 2016 presidential election.

"I have president Putin, he just said it's not Russia. I will say this, I don't see any reason why it would be," Trump said.

The comment came just days after special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence agent on allegations of meddling in the 2016 election that propelled Trump to the White House.

The president's statements also set off a firestorm in Washington, stoking criticism from prominent members of Trump's own party.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Trump's performance in Helsinki was a major setback in the fight against Russian interference in elections around the world.

Sen.Parliament logjam continues

Even as the winter session of Parliament continues to be plagued by the deadlock over the 2G spectrum scam issue, the government on Thursday went about completing the financial business in both Houses.

The Lok Sabha passed the supplementary demands of Rs.1,024.61 crore for the Railways amid uproar. Similar scenes were witnessed in the Rajya Sabha, which returned the supplementary demands (general) for Rs.45,000 crore and the relevant appropriation bills for 2010-11.

The supplementary demands for the Railways were passed in the Lok Sabha by voice vote, even as several members of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena and the Janata Dal (United) stormed the well of the House, reiterating their demand for a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam. The Lok


Sabha also passed demands for excess grants for the Railways for 2008-09.

With the approval of the supplementary demands for the Railways, the Lok Sabha has completed its financial business, while the Rajya Sabha is expected to do so on Friday.

Initially, both Houses were adjourned within a couple of minutes of assembling for the day and met again at noon to transact the financial business, even as Opposition members continued with slogans such as “We want JPC.”

Soon after completing the business, both Houses were adjourned for the day on the 15th straight working day.Lucas Janson

I am an Assistant Professor in the
Department of
Statistics at Harvard University, where I develop
methodology for
high-dimensional inference, robust machine learning, and
autonomous robotic motion planning. I am very interested in
applying my work to real data, with examples so far
including genetics, climate science, and health care.

Prior to Harvard, I was a Ph.D.
student in Stanford University's
Statistics Department,
where I was advised by Emmanuel
Candès. In 2011, I received a B.S. in mathematics (honors
thesis advised by
Bala
Rajaratnam) and physics, as well as a M.S. in statistics,
from Stanford University.


Mississippi State University’s EcoCAR has received many national awards.

Photo by Megan Bean, courtesy of Mississippi State University

Thanks to Mississippi State University’s growing tradition of sustainable energy research, maroon—the official university color—can now be considered the new green. With its competition successes and engineering achievements, the student design team working on advanced vehicle technology is part of that tradition. Its latest creation is a re-engineered sport utility vehicle that earns more than 118 mpg and has a 60-mile all-electric driving range.

The students started their project with a standard SUV donated by General Motors. After creating in-depth simulations and virtual models, they replaced its standard engine with hybrid technology. The resulting automobile can be charged on a standard electrical outlet and uses regenerative braking to recharge its battery while inuse. The dual-fuel platform ensures that the vehicle is functional for both day-to-day driving and long-distance trips.

Mississippi State University’s EcoCAR has received many national awards.

Photo by Megan Bean, courtesy of Mississippi State University

Mississippi State’s EcoCAR was created as part of an ongoing series of advanced vehicle technology competitions sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, in which competitively selected university teams re-engineer a designated automobile to improve its fuel economy and reduce emissions while maintaining performance, safety, and consumer appeal. The Mississippi State team has consistently ranked as one of the leading teams and recently won first place in the Year One EcoCar2 Competition, where they re-engineered a Chevrolet Malibu.

At the Festival, visitors participated in informative and fun, hands-on activities that explored sustainability issues, such as energy consumption,


Chiropractor in Croydon : Chiropractor, Dr. Roddy Knight

As a chiropractor in Croydon I understand back pain...I suffered for 6 years and understand the pain and immobility associated with excruciating back pain.

I had never had any back pain until I was 25, it all started after bowling in the cricket nets. I'd been taking a Christmas break from University and been playing in forty degree heat during the middle of the day all month in Perth WA. I'd start the day early with a workout at the gym, then play tennis and cricket in the afternoon. The problem was I had been running around with a short right leg for 25 years. It was only picked up by a chiropractor when on Christmas day I couldn't move.

I suffered fromonly after a full evaluation.

Education

My secondary school was Caterham and I experienced 5 years of school on Saturdays. It was a day school and boarding school. There I realized sport was far more enjoyable then sitting at a desk and it made me determined to seek a career outside of an office environment. I studied Sports and Exercise Science at the University of Grenwich and worked as a personal trainer in South London, helping out at three London marathon's for the Children's Trust Charitable Organisation as a sports therapist.

While working at Beatty Park as a personal trainer I completed a remedial and sports massage certification, which was also beneficial in helping me provide care to students at the Australian University games in September 2004. Murdoch University was the


New York Times and Vanity Fair, helping to establish the most prominent gay Hip-Hop scene in the country.

Big Freedia (who, during shows, bills herself as “the dick eater”) was born Freddie Ross, and grew up in New Orleans’ Josephine neighborhood. Initially interested in gospel music, Ross spent much of her time singing in the church choir. Despite the religious Southern mother and church-infused upbringing, the 32-year-old rapper had little trouble coming out.

At New Orleans’ Cohen High School, Freedia became a cheerleader, director of the school choir and fast friends with Kenyon Carter, a baton twirler who grew up near Freedia in the Melpomene housing projects. This relationship would prove to be one of Freedia’s most important connections. Kenyon would go on to become Katey Red, one of the(CNN) -- A graduate student is suing a Georgia university, alleging that professors are requiring her to change her "biblical views" on homosexuality or be expelled from the counseling program there.

Jennifer Keeton filed a civil rights action in U.S. District Court on July 21 saying Augusta State University violated her "constitutional rights of speech, belief and religious exercise."

The action says university faculty have "promised to expel" Keeton "because she has communicated both inside and outside the classroom that she holds to Christian ethical conviction on matters of human sexuality and gender identity."

After Keeton expressed her views verbally and in written assignments, faculty mandated Keeton complete a "remediation plan."

CNN obtained a copy of the remediation plan from the Alliance Defense Fund, which represents Keeton in the action. The plan


addresses issues such as writing ability and organizational skills, as well as Keeton's ability to be a "multiculturally competent counselor, particularly in regard to working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning populations."

Among the plan's requirements, Keeton was to attend at least three diversity workshops, get more exposure to gay populations (one suggestion was to attend a gay pride parade in Augusta, where the university is located), do outside reading about gays and write reflections on these experiences and how they might benefit future clients.

At first, Keeton agreed to the remediation plan, according to the suit. Then, she had second thoughts.

In video provided by the Alliance Defense Fund, Keeton says, "I want to stay in the school counseling program, [but] I can't honestly complete the remediation program knowingNewsRoom," David French, a senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, said all Keeton did "was express her religious views inside of class and outside of class."

"As a result of that, she's being subjected to what is best described as a thought-reform program," French said.

"It all goes back to a student engaging in constitutionally protected speech."

French added there was no allegation Keeton has done anything to harm anyone in a counseling setting, or violated any code of ethics.

Also appearing on the program were Erin Martz, manager of Ethics and Professional Standards for the American Counseling Association, and Gregory Nevins, a supervising senior staff attorney for the advocacy group Lambda Legal.

Martz said the ACA's code of ethics "is not an issue of thought-policing or putting any restrictions on beliefs


The Materials Science and Nanotechnology graduate program has started accepting applications. Students from departments of materials science, physics, electronics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, biotechnology, genetics, pharmacy, mechatronics, agriculture and textile can apply.

The aim of the Centre is to provide a contral focus for nanoscience research in Cambridge, housing both a wide range of research equipment and office accomodation for researchers working on interdisciplinary nanotechnology projects.

CeNIDE is based on the strongly interdisciplinary research excellence in the area of Nanotechnology at the University Duisburg-Essen. This includes an exceptionally broad knowledge base in fundamental nanoscience, unique fabrication facilities for nanoscale materials in large quantities, and experience in questions of scalability and reliability.

The research at BioNano Systems Laboratory focuses on nanoscale materials, device structures and components based on silicon materials, circuits and microsystemsTeacher-strike talks continue at Northeastern Illinois U.

November 19, 2004

Talks between administrators and the union representing 500 faculty and staff members at Northeastern Illinois University continued with a federal mediator Thursday night, as both sides sought to avert a strike over workload and salary.

Officials with the University Professionals of Illinois, which represents the full-time faculty and staff at the North Side school of 12,000 students, said they are prepared to strike Friday unless terms for a new three-year contract are reached.

Negotiations over a new contract began last May.

If negotiations fail, it could signal the second higher-education strike in Chicago this fall, following a bitter three-week walkout at City Colleges of Chicago.

Anita Thomas, an associate professor of counselor education and union spokeswoman, said late Thursday the union is not seeking


Rev. William Barber is joining other religious and activist leaders to launch a new Poor People’s Campaign, picking up where Martin Luther King Jr. left off.

This post first appeared at Yes! Magazine.

In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and his allies started the Poor People’s Campaign, a movement meant to improve the lives of low-income Americans. But King was assassinated a few months before its political actions officially kicked off, and the campaign never reached its full potential.

Fifty years later, Rev. William Barber, head of the North Carolina NAACP, is joining other religious and activist leaders to launch a new Poor People’s Campaign, picking up where King left off. Although King is universally associated with civil rights and the struggles of African Americans, the original Poor People’s Campaign wasstation because narcotics are frequently sent
through El Paso to facilitate their entry into the eastern part of the United States.

       On that day, Arredondo and Zina began their inspection as they customarily did, starting

at the back of the train and working their way to the front. Arredondo was conducting an open-

air search of the luggage compartment of the coach area of the train when Zina “heavily” alerted

to a pink Tourister suitcase on the right side of the compartment. When Arredondo observed his

canine’s reaction, he contacted a detective on site and informed him of the alert. Once the

detective arrived, Arredondo pointed out the pink suitcase to him and then left to continue

searching.

       Detective Gardea responded to Arredondo’s


call. He and Detective Lucero were assigned

to work narcotics interdiction that day and were dressed in plainclothes. After Arredondo directed

Gardea to the pink suitcase, Gardea began pulling it out to further inspect it. As he was doing so,

the Appellant, Aerielle Kilgore, entered the compartment from the passenger area.              She

approached Gardea and told him the suitcase he was pulling out belonged to her. When he asked

her to confirm if she meant the pink suitcase, she stated she did. Kilgore then turned around and

left the compartment without saying anything further. Gardea went ahead and removed the

suitcase from the rack to inspect it. Moments later, Detective Lucero arrived in the compartment

and Gardea told him what had happened regardingtold

Detective Gardea she owned the suitcase and disbelieve she told Detective Lucero she did not own

it. However, her argument undergirding the fact issue is merely a description of the sequence of

events. Kilgore initially claimed ownership of the pink suitcase when she encountered a stranger

dressed in plainclothes pulling it down from the luggage rack. When she subsequently returned

to the luggage compartment and was confronted by a man identifying himself as a police officer

with his badge, she denied ownership of the suitcase. Both Detective Gardea and Detective

Lucero testified she denied ownership of the suitcase when Lucero asked her if it belonged to her.

Detective Gardea, under cross-examination, never contradicted this sequence of events. The

record reveals no factual dispute as to what she told the detectives. Further, no testimony was

presented to negate


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Smedley Darlington Butler

In the early 1930s, a secret collection of prosperous men are said to have assembled in New York City to discuss the dissolution of America’s democracy. As a consequence of the Great Depression, the countryside was littered with unemployed, and the world’s wealthy were watching as their fortunes deflated and their investments evaporated. As men of action, the well-financed New York group sought to eliminate what they reasoned to be the crux of the catastrophe: the United States government.

To assist them in their diabolical scheme, the resourceful plotters recruited the assistance of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, a venerated, highly decorated, and considerably jaded former Marine. It was the conspirators’ earnest hope thattheir army of 500,000 Great War veterans, under the leadership of General Butler, could overpower the US’ feeble peacetime military and reconstitute the government as a more economical fascist dictatorship.

General Smedley Darlington Butler’s long military career was packed with conspicuous gallantry, and owing to his bravery and brilliance he was highly respected throughout the ranks. During his service he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal of both the Army and the Navy; he was one of only twenty people in history to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal; and he was one of only a handful of men to twice receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Despite his intrepid leadership in multiple conflicts, Smedley “the Fighting Quaker” Butler gradually cultivated some resentment towards the frequent misuse of the


military as a corporate cudgel.

In July 1930, when the Commandant of the Marine Corps Wendell C. Neville died unexpectedly, it was widely assumed that the responsibility would pass to the most senior major general on the active list, General Smedley Butler. But his candid comments regarding military misapplication had won him many political enemies, including President Hoover, and he was consequently denied the appointment. His irritation increased when he was threatened with a court-martial due to an uncomplimentary comment regarding Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. At his own request, Butler retired from active duty soon thereafter.

A Bonus Army encampment aflame

About six months later, he stood before a sea of exasperated World War 1 veterans which surrounded Washington DC’s Capitol Hill. The mass of over twenty thousand men— all unemployedto seriously contemplate taking matters into their own hands. Such sentiments were cemented following the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his promised New Deal, a series of reforms which decoupled American currency from the gold standard and erected a tall stack of corporate regulations. Convinced that the program would produce cataclysmic economic effects, the cabal of capitalist conspirators allegedly set their plan into motion.

On the 1st of July 1933, Smedley Butler was visited by a pair of gentlemen who had come to urge him to run for the office of National Commander of the American Legion, an influential organization of veterans. Though Butler declined the invitation, one of the men— Gerald MacGuire— made several subsequent visits during which he disclosed additional details. He claimed to represent The


Committee for a Sound Dollar, whose primary purpose was to pressure the president to reinstate the gold standard. He implied that his organization had the support of several political leaders, and the financial backing of some of the country’s most affluent individuals and successful corporations.

Gerald MacGuire

The credibility of MacGuire’s claims was reinforced when he produced evidence of considerable cash resources and made some eerily accurate predictions regarding personnel changes in the White House. He also accurately described the still-secret but soon-to-be-announced American Liberty League, a high-profile group whose stated purpose was to “defend and uphold the Constitution.” The League’s principal players were wealthy Americans, including the leaders of DuPont, JP Morgan, US Steel, General Motors, Standard Oil, Colgate, Heinz Foods, Chase National Bank, and Goodyear Tire. There areof government.” The Old Gimlet Eye, it turned out, had been playing along with Gerald MacGuire in order to glean information about the plot. Though Smedley Butler had indeed grown weary of being a government-sponsored “gangster for capitalism,” he was still a true patriot. Butler’s associate— Paul Comly French— was in actuality an undercover reporter for the Philadelphia Record and New York Evening Post. The two men testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), delighted to disclose all they had gathered from MacGuire. Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander James Van Zandt also testified, stating that he had likewise been approached to lead such a march on Washington.

General Smedley Butler's press conference

MacGuire and the wealthy men he allegedly represented all denied involvement in any such plot,


could be made with so little evidence. In addition, the plot was replete with political figures and the social elite, turning any journey towards justice into a minefield for all involved. Moreover, one month after the report was issued, Gerald MacGuire died of natural causes at the age of thirty-seven, eliminating the only witness with insight into the shadowy cabal.

Smedley Darlington Butler, still popular among veterans, continued to speak and write regarding what he referred to as the “racket of war.” Though he was officially a Republican, he spoke openly to publications of any party affiliation, as evidenced by his oft-quoted remarks in a 1935 issue of the socialist magazine Common Sense:

Capture of Fort Riviere, Haiti, 1915, by D. J. Neary; illustrations of Maj. Smedley Butler, Sgt. Iams,and Pvt. Gross (USMC art collection) “I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras “right” for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested…. Looking back on it, I felt I might have given Al


Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three continents.”

In the same year he wrote the short book War is a Racket wherein he advocated the transition of the military into a powerful defense-only force. His dream was to eliminate military gangsterism by restricting the American navy to within 200 miles of the US coast, to limit armed aircraft to within 500 miles, and to prohibit the army from even setting foot off of the US mainland.

In the decades since the Business Plot was brought to light, many historians have suggested that the treachery was exaggerated by Butler, or that Gerald MacGuire overstated the resources at the conspirators’ disposal. There is much evidence, however,gear are provided, the clutch being engaged and the brake being released to effect a direct-coupling range and the clutch being released and the brake being engaged to effect a reduced-speed range. The engaging and releasing of the clutch and the brake are changed over by switching the working oil of the hydraulic servomotor of the frictional engagement devices of the clutch and the brake by means of the manual shift valve which is controlled by automatic operation and a low-high switching valve which is controlled by hydraulic pressure corresponding to the vehicle speed and which sets the gear ranges of the sub transmission. The low-high switching spool of the low-high switching valve which switches the working oil between the hydraulic servomotors of the frictional engagement devices of


player's battle party. By performing their magic song, they can achieve various effects on battle—blocking enemies from moving, increasing characters' move count, making hasten the party's pace. Some songs can even be used for attack. Using the songs requires Mana Energy.

The game also has inter-character relationships. Depending on the player's selections during event scenes, movements and usage of group skills during battle, the characters' relationships will change.

Plot

Story
Within the Dragonia Empire, a plan to revive the leader of the Dark Dragon by sapping spirit energy from the land starts to unfold. With giant dragons rampaging throughout the land and the world engulfed in chaos, all hope has turn to the retrieval of the mysterious Shining Blade. And thus, a soul blader is given the task to obtain the

"Quickly, Demeter let the corn grow up from the fertile fields,

and the broad earth was weighed down with leaves and flowers.

But she, going to the law-giving kings,

showed to them--to Triptolemus and to Diocles, driver of horses,

to strong Eumolpus and to Keleus, leader of his people--

the rituals of her worship, and instituted secret rites for all of them." (-Homeric Hymn to Demeter, tr. C.A.Sowa) Computer-aided work on themes in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter uncovered a "supertheme" related to the founding of the Eleusinian Mysteries. (Illustration: relief depicting Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemus, found at Eleusis, illustrated in Seyffert's A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, revised by Nettleship and Sandys, 1899.)

NOTE: A program based on the CLUMP program described in this essay is being added to the MINERVA suite of programs


included with the Loom of Minerva self-study CD described on the home page of this Web site. It will thus be made available to scholars and students who want to try it out on their own data.

Summary of the essay: Ancient Greek epic poetry like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, and the so-called Homeric Hymns, were composed not in writing but "orally," by a bard who composed before an audience, more in the manner of a jazz musician, using traditional vocabulary and plot elements as an aid to composition. As described by Milman Parry (who studied oral poets in modern Yugoslavia) and James Notopoulos (who recorded surviving Greek epic singers), the singer recomposed the song at each performance; the song could be longeror shorter, ornamented or plain, according to the skill of the singer and the interest of the audience. The vocabulary consisted largely of "formulas," like "fleet-footed Achilles" or "then, when rosy-fingered Dawn appeared." Plots were built from traditional themes, like The Journey (or Wandering), The Marriage of the Fertility Goddess, The Young God Consolidates His Power, Invention by the Trickster, and the Epiphany of a God. These themes consist of modular plot elements (for example, when the Hero goes on a Journey, he meets the Goddess Across the Water, he meets the Two Helpers, he discovers the Secret of Life but cannot bring it back with him, and a Substitute dies). The traditional themes occur across cultures, and are even found in our own movies (see my companion


King of the Underworld. In a thematically complex poem, whose major themes include the Journey, the Marriage of the Fertility Goddess, the Resurrection of the Dying God, and the Epiphany of a God to a Mortal, we found, with the help of our Clump-Finder program, a "supertheme" of words referring to the sacred rites of the Mysteries of Eleusis, whose founding by Demeter forms the climax of the poem. This paper was originally published in Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 8, Pergamon Press, 1974, pp. 131-146. Material from this article was later used in Traditional Themes and the Homeric Hymns by Cora Angier Sowa, (Chicago: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1984; the book can be ordered from BolchazyCarducci Publishers, Wauconda, IL.) Other parts of this research are being used in The Loomof Minerva: An Introduction to Computer Projects for the Literary Scholar by Cora Angier Sowa. The article is in three sections: the first (comprising "Themes and the Homeric Hymns," "Content Analysis and Cluster Analysis," and "The Machine-readable Dictionary of Greek") and the last ("The Results") were written by Cora Sowa; the middle section ("The Clump Program"), describing the mathematical formula used to establish connections between clumps, is by John Sowa, who also developed the program for applying the mathematical formula. Greek words and text quotations appeared in the Greek alphabet in the original publication; they are represented by Roman letters in the Web version. The pictorialization of the clumps in Figure 1 was in the original article; illustrations in Examples 1 and 2, taken from Chapter 6 of


appearance according to the way they were used by each poet. The method in all of these procedures is to determine a particular author's emphasis by a quantitative study of his vocabulary. It differs, however, from a mere frequency count in that one is not only looking at the frequency of individual words, but at the groups or clumps of words that frequently occur together. In the case of an oral poet, the clumps of words have an additional psychological interest. Since he composes the poetry "live," before an audience, the clumps provide insight into the processes of word association going on in his mind at the moment of composition. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey represent one branch of the oral epic tradition of ancient Greece. The poems ofassigned forms of tiô to the historically unrelated TINW and gave POINH a stem of its own. Cases in which words seem to be related linguistically, but on some principle other than a simple shared root, had to be decided individually. The historical connections between dnophos (gnophos) "darkness," knephas "darkness, twilight," zophos "nether darkness," and Zephuros "the West Wind," for example, are murky, but rhyme seems to have played some part in the formation of these words and brought them together in a group, whatever the relationship between their roots. In the otherwise unrelated group of words nephelê "cloud," thuella "hurricane," and hêlios "sun," the /l/ phoneme seems to connote the idea of natural phenomena. Popular etymologies were included in assigning the stems, as when the name of


and the Hymn to Aphrodite, QEOS and QNA were the most frequent stems, with QEOS leading in the Hymn to Demeter and QNA leading in the Hymn to Aphrodite. This, too, confirms previous observation, since both poems are examples of the Marriage of the Fertility Goddess, a theme that tells how the goddess appeared to a mortal and wanted to make him immortal, but was balked in the attempt. In the Hymn to Apollo, the most frequent sterns were ENQA "there" and PANT "all." PANT led in the "Delian" part, ENQA in the "Pythian." The frequency of PANT is due to the presence of many generalizing expressions such as pantas...anthrôpous "all men," pantôs euumnon) "all singable," i.e., a fit topic for song. The frequency of ENQA (which isalso assigned as a "stem" to the forms enthade "in that very place" and enthen "thence") is accounted for by the fact that, although the poem as a whole represents the theme of the Hero's Consolidation of His Power, both parts of the poem are cast in the form of the theme of Wandering: in the "Delian" part, the goddess Leto searches for a place where she can give birth to her son, the god Apollo; in the "Pythian," Apollo as a young hero god searches for a place to build his temple. It is common for stories of Wandering to tell what the wanderer found at each point in his journey ("and there he found.. .") and Page 141

at the end of the episode to relate his


departure from the place ("and thence he sailed.. ."). Not unexpectedly, BAINW "to walk" and IKW "to come" were also frequent in the Hymn to Apollo. QEOS and QNA were third and ninth in frequency. In the Hymn to Hermes, the most frequent stems are BOUS "cow" and DIOS, which is the root both for the adjective dios "divine" and for the name of Zeus. This reflects the fact that two of the central episodes in the Hymn are Hermes' birth as the illegitimate son of Zeus and his comic theft of the cattle of Apollo, who is also a son of Zeus. QEOS and QNA were third and sixth. The simplest kind of clusters resulted from associations enduring for only a small span of verses, say, fiveto twenty lines. Often, a poet gets one word-stem or perhaps a group of word-stems in his mind and repeats them in varying orders and relationships in the course of the passage, playing with them, using them together as a formula, turning the formula inside out, using a stem now as verb, now as noun, now replacing it by a synonym. These repetitions float, isolated, in the rest of the poem; they occur sporadically and disappear, with no connection to the overall structure of the poem. Such runs of verses are particularly characteristic of Hesiod's Theogony and of the "Pythian" part of the Hymn to Apollo, in both of which such passages frequently illustrate and "explain" folk etymologies.11 These passages often combine several types of repetition, such as


indeed, at that time, were there paths or ways;

along Thebes' wheat-bearing plain, but it was held by woods .

Anaphora and parallel syntax are exhibited by ou gar pô "for not yet" and oud' ara pô "nor indeed yet." The actual clump which pointed to these variations included more than the stems QHBH and ULH. It also included ANQOS "flower," ENNUMI "to clothe," KRADIH "heart," and RION "headland," but the presence of these other stems is caused by their associations in another part of the poem. ENNUMI gets in because it is a fairly rare stem given a particularly strong connection to the clump because of its presence within three lines of three instances of QHBH and ULH. RION and ANQOS are associated with ULH verse 139, and KRADIHother with horses [i.e., in a chariot]? Indeed, he was not inferior to Triops . This is another example of variation on the formulaic level. Here the play is on the word hippos "horse" and the names of two antagonists of Apollo, [Phorbas, son of] Triops and Leukippos, whose name includes the word hippos. Another kind of repetition is provided by the repeated ê hama "or in competition with." The stems ALFI, KAIW, and PUR find their way into the clump because of their association with LEUK in the verse pur epikaiontes epi t' alphita leuka thuontes lighting a fire on it and on it sacrificing white barley which is repeated in verses 491 and 509. DMA is found in the word damarti "wife" in verse 212 and


Hesiod. These patterns are embedded in a poem whose thematic unity testifies, on the other hand, to the vitality of the themes themselves to shape the composition of the poet, no matter who he was. The most spectacular results to come from the computer program were connections where the clumps themselves were on the thematic level. These were most impressive in the Hymn to Demeter. The plot of the Hymn to Demeter is as follows: Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the grain, is abducted by Hades, the King of the Underworld. Distraught, Demeter searches for her daughter. When she is told the truth by Helios, she withdraws from the company of the gods and goes among men. Pretending to be an old woman who has justescaped from pirates, she hires herself out to the family of King Keleus of Eleusis, as a nursemaid to the infant prince Demophoon. She puts the child in the fire every night to make him immortal, and he grows miraculously until one night his mother Metaneira, who was spying on them, sees Demeter putting him in the fire, and rails at the old woman for harming her child. Demeter, angry, reveals herself in her full beauty and height to the frightened mortals and demands that they propitiate her by building a temple to her. After the temple is built, she withdraws again, this time from both gods and mortals. She "hides the seed in the ground" and refuses to let the farmers' crops grow until she regains her


daughter. Eventually Hades is persuaded by the other gods to return Persephone to her mother, but before he sends her back he plays a trick on her. Because he secretly makes her eat a pomegranate seed, she can remain above ground only two-thirds of each year and must live underground with him for one third. Demeter, rejoicing at her daughter's return, makes the crops grow again and imparts the ritual of her Mysteries to the people of Eleusis. The Hymn to Demeter is thematically complex. The major themes involved are the Death and Resurrection of the Dying God, the Marriage of the Fertility Goddess, the Withdrawal and Return of the Hero, Wandering, the Epiphany of a God to a Mortal, and the Wrath of God, not to mentionmany other thematic elements that contribute in a minor way.12 The entire poem also functions as an aetiological myth of the foundation of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the most famous mystery-cult of all antiquity, the precise nature of whose rites is still a secret today. The clump-finder discovered two important clusters of stems which many rereadings of the text had failed to find, and which together make up a powerful configuration of associations having to do with the Mysteries. The first has to do with eating and secrecy, the second with seeing and transgression. These stems describe the heart of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were concerned with grain, were secret, and were forbidden to profane eyes. The first clump included AD "to be pleasant," BAL "to cast," BROT "mortal,"


Galaxaurê "Milky Breeze." Demeter also refuses to eat or wash until she finds her daughter. The other group of stems had to do with seeing and transgression. The relevant clump included the stems AAW "to mislead, cause to act foolishly," AMFW "both," LOUW "to wash," MEILIC "soothe," PLAG "strike," QALAM "chamber," SKEP "look," THREW "to watch" (note that LOUW appears in both clumps). The interesting stems are AAW, SKEP, and THREW. The connection Page 144

between them is exhibited particularly where the mother, Metaneira, sees Demeter putting Demophoon in the fire. She saw something connected with Demeter which she shouldn't have seen. This is exactly what the uninitiate in the Mysteries was enjoined from doing. On rereading the Hymn, we realized that there is a great deal of emphasisthroughout the poem on the idea of "seeing," usually connected somehow with misfortune. The words for "seeing" are from various stems, and more study is needed to determine exactly how the poet distinguishes between them. The miraculous flower with which Persephone was lured to her capture was a wonder to see (idesthai). When she was captured, she still hoped, so long as she could see (leusse) the earth, sky, sea, and the sun's rays, that she would be able to see (opsesthai) her mother. No one saw her kidnapped, not even Helios, the Sun, the "watcher (skopon) of gods and men," although both Helios and the goddess Hekate heard her cries. Hekate twice says ouk idon ophthalmoisin "I did not see with my eyes." Later, Demeter is to


threaten not to make the crops grow "until she sees her daughter with her own eyes"--prin idoi ophthalmoisin, where the poet uses the same words as those he made Hekate use. At the end of the poem, naturally, there is a change of emphasis, to showing what it is lawful to see, when she demonstrates the correct ritual for the Mysteries to the kings of Eleusis. One could also widen this interpretation by referring to the emphasis in the poem on communication and perception generally, including hearing (no one heard the cries of Persephone) and speaking (Demeter's requests for information during her search for Persephone, her eager questioning of Persephone herself, after her return, to find out what happened to her). There are many words for speech andback at the only other occurrence of the stem TREIS in this poem, in verse 86, we find it connected with two stems that also mean "apportion," LAC and DA*IZW. This time, the concepts cooccur in the justification of Hades' rape of Persephone, that he will be a "not unworthy son-in-law" for Demeter since he rules one-third of the universe, namely the Underworld; the other two shares, the Sky and the Sea, belong to his brothers Zeus and Poseidon. The stem MEIR reappears in verse 481 in the description of the unhappy fate awaiting one who is "without share" (ammoros) in the Mysteries when he goes to the Underworld. Finally, there is a strange connection existing between ULH, the stem for "wood," and TEM, the stem meaning "to


one of those we mentioned as more typical of the Hymn to Apollo, where the poet plays with a group of stems within a passage of a short number of lines. Other words repeated in it are epêlusiê "witchcraft" and oida "I know." The repetition of oida gar "for I know" and oida d' "and I know" introduces anaphora, and sense repetition is exhibited by epêlusiê dêlêsetai "witchcraft will destroy" and epêlusiês polupêmonos "of witchcraft baneful." What is interesting is that the connection reemerges in a surprising way in the later part of the poem. When Persephone is being returned to the upper world the horses of Hades, bringing her back, "cut the air" (êera temnon verse 383). Three lines later Demeter is said to be like aand Days: An Example of the Ancient Greek Oral Style, diss. Harvard, 1961 (the contents of this dissertation are soon to appear in much expanded form as The Winged Word, to be published by the State University of New York Press); and the forthcoming book by C.A. Sowa, Traditional Themes and the Homeric Hymns. [Note: both books have since been published.] 3. W. Arend, "Die Typischen Szenen Bei Homer," Problemata 7 (Berlin, 1933), and C. A. Sowa, forthcoming. [See previous note.] Page 146

4. "Modulation" is the term used by Lord in The Singer of Tales to describe the process by which one theme passes over into another, related theme. In chapters 8 and 9, he shows how this principle applies to the Iliad and Odyssey. 5. "Cicero's Picture


of Marius," Wiener Studien 73 (1960), 83-122; "The Picture of Marius in Valerius Maximus," Rheinisches Museum 105 (1962), 289-337; "Content Analysis: Construing Literature as History," Mosaic 1, 1 (University of Manitoba Press, October 1967), 22-38; and "The Changing Picture of Marius in Ancient Literature," Proceedings of the African Classical Association 10 (Salisbury, 1967), 5-22. Since then, he has also published a book Content Analysis (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1972). 6. The text used was Thomas W. Allen's edition of 1912 (corrected 1946) in the Oxford Classical Text series. The machine-readable text and dictionary are available to interested persons from the American Philological Association's Data Bank, care of Dr. Stephen V. F. Waite, Kiewit Computational Center at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. [For present availability in disk form,collector car auction at Kissimmee, and made a side-trip down the peninsula to see how Revs kept its cars high and dry during such a devastating storm.

First, some background: Naples is located on Florida’s southwestern coast, in Collier County, which takes its name from Barron Collier, who built an advertising and media empire in New York City, owned hotels and banks, was involved in telephones and transportation (some credit him with the widespread use of the white and yellow lines that keep traffic orderly on our roads), and was a major real estate developer in Florida.

Collier’s sons were among the founders of organized sports car racing in the United States. One of his grandsons is Miles Collier, who also raced, as well as assembling the amazing Collier Collection


and establishing the Revs Institute, which includes the facility in Florida and an academic program at Stanford University in northern California.

For a couple of decades, the Collier Collection was a private car museum in Naples, where vehicles were displayed within dioramas so those invited for viewing could see them in historical context.

During that private period, Collier and his team worked to develop its philosophy and practice of preservation rather than restoration or modification and modernization of vintage vehicles. They also enlarged the collection — of cars and documents — and devised new conservation practices for its preservation.

With the establishment of the Revs Program at Stanford, a major expansion of the Florida facility was undertaken. When the collection was re-opened for public viewing in 2014, the BBC called theprotect its surface.

Vargas joined the institute team two years ago. He grew up in Gary, Indiana, and like so many others there, went to work in the steel mills. But he also was going to college, and was volunteering in the campus library. When the mill laid off its workers, he focused on his studies, eventually earning a pair of master’s degrees from the University of Maryland and embarking on a career managing university libraries.

His initial duties at the Revs involved its library and the digitizing and meta-tagging of its documents and photographic archives. So far, 500,000 images are available for viewing, with 6,000 more added each month, he said.

But back to the mayonnaise… During one of the regular hurricane preparation meeting at the institute, one of the


fever pitch since Charlottesville. Last week someone was cited for disorderly conduct for throwing eggs at the hulking likeness of Rizzo and on Friday Philadelphia police arrested a man who had spray-painted the words “black power” on the statue.

Philadelphia has struggled for years to reconcile the legacy of Rizzo, who served as mayor from 1972 to 1980 and died in 1991. His fans remember him as a devoted public servant and defender of the middle class who was unafraid to speak his mind. His detractors saw his police force as corrupt and brutal and said Rizzo alienated and targeted minorities both as police commissioner and mayor. Democratic Councilwoman Helen Gym tweeted last week that the Rizzo statue should be removed, and Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney said Tuesday it'sthe "right time" for a conversation about the statue.

Mount Rushmore (Black Hills, S.D.): Each year around 3 million tourists from around the globe flock to the desolate Black Hills region of South Dakota to view the 60-foot high stone faces of President George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Those faces, along with its scale, ambition and the audacity to turn a massive mountain face into a presidential monument, have made Mount Rushmore both a beloved American icon and a heated symbol of Manifest Destiny.

The fight against Mount Rushmore began in earnest in the 1970s when the American Indian Movement led an occupation of the mountain with Lakota holy man John Fire Lame Deer planting a prayer staff on the summit of the mountain. Lame Deer


said that the staff was a shroud over the presidents' faces "which shall remain dirty until the treaties concerning the Black Hills are fulfilled.” The monument was built on land seized from the Lakota following the Great Sioux War of 1876, before which the Black Hills were granted in perpetuity to the Lakota under the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868.

In response to the completion of Mount Rushmore in 1941, some members of the Lakota tribe began carving a monument to famed Oglala warrior Crazy Horse into the side of Thunderhead Mountain – roughly 17 miles from Rushmore. Construction of the monument, which began in 1948 and is far from complete, has itself not been without controversy as some descendants of Crazy Horse and the traditional Lakota questionwhether he would have approved of his likeness being carved into the side of a pristine mountain and are upset his family was not consulted before dynamiting of the rock began.

V.I. Lenin Statue (Seattle): Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, hundreds of statues and monuments to communist leaders were torn down and either destroyed or put into special parks across the former USSR. So how did a 16-foot-tall bronze sculpture of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov -- better known to the world as Lenin – end up in the trendy Seattle neighborhood of Fremont?

The statue of the man arguably responsible for the birth of the Soviet Union was brought to the U.S. by Lewis Carpenter, an English-language teacher who was working in Slovakia when he found the sculpture lying


in a scrapyard with a homeless man living inside it. Carpenter had originally planned to put the statue in front of a Slovak restaurant, but he died in a car accident and through a few twists of fate the likeness of Lenin ended up on display in Fremont until a private buyer could be found for it.

That was in 1995.

Since then the Lenin statue has become a popular attraction in the counterculture-embracing Fremont, but it has also generated a number of calls for its removal. In 2014, following the Russian military intervention in the Ukraine, the Lithuanian envoy to Washington, D.C., warned that “one day you will wake up and instead of 'Go Huskies' Seattle residents will instead see Russian license plates on military vehicles in their city.”

Andin response to a Ten Commandments Monument installed by Oklahoma state Rep. Mike Ritze in 2012. Following the vandalism of the Ten Commandments monument and a ruling by Oklahoma’s Supreme Court declaring all religious displays illegal, however, the Satanic Temple moved the statue to a warehouse in Detroit.

The unveiling of the Baphomet monument in Detroit drew widespread protests from Christian organizations in the city, but also saw 700 people sell their souls to Satan in order to receive a ticket to the event -- a tactic used by the Temple to "keep away some of the more radical superstitious people who would try to undermine the event."

The Satanic Temple had planned to move the statue to the Arkansas statehouse, in protest of a Ten Commandments monument being erected


Timur, a 24-year-old tattoo artist from Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, caused a lot of controversy after he posted photos and a video of him tattooing his pet cat, a hairless Sphynx, on the Internet.

Apparently, Timur wanted his beloved cat, Coco, to have a similar tattoo as the one he had done on his chest. So he just put the hairless feline to sleep for an hour and unleashed his artistic talent on her little chest. Proud of his crazy idea, he videotaped the whole process and took some photos of the finished artwork and posted them on his VKontakte (Russian Facebook) profile. As you can imagine, animal rights activists weren’t very impressed with his achievement, and began accusing Timur of animal cruelty. Although the young artist tattooed CocoWashington Nationals ace Max Scherzer figured his season was done when he reached 300 strikeouts earlier this week in a win over the Miami Marlins.

Sep 25, 2018; Washington, DC, USA; Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer (31) records his 300th strikeout of the season against the Miami Marlins in the seventh inning at Nationals Park. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports

With the Nationals eliminated from playoff contention, there wasn’t much reason to force another start.

But the ever-competitive Scherzer hopes to take the mound on Sunday against the Colorado Rockies, but only if there are still playoff implications for the Rockies, who hold a one-game lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.

The Rockies clinched at least a wild-card spot with a 5-2 win over the Nationals


total coverage). Reed canary grass, however, continued to dominate some regions of cells once removal ceased. In total, 36.5 person-hours were expended weeding in 2004, 16.3 hours in 2005, 13.8 hours in 2006, and then weeding ceased in subsequent years. Muskrats invaded the cells in 2004 and inflicted damage through herbivory and extensive excavation of berms.

Control of muskrats was initiated by site managers, independently of the experiment, and took place on other wetlands on the 28 ha parcel of land on which the experiment wetlands were located. Conibear traps were deployed, primarily during the winter by a professional trapper who was granted access to this and other sites. However, muskrat population and resulting herbivory persisted throughout the remainder of the experiment. According to records shared by the trapper,The tale of lenalidomide clinical superiority over thalidomide and regulatory and cost-effectiveness issues.
In April 2017, the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (ANVISA-Brazil) approved lenalidomide (LEN) for multiple myeloma (MM) and myelodysplastic syndrome. ANVISA had rejected the first application in 2010, and denied a request for reconsideration in 2012. The reason for rejection was the lack of comparative effectiveness studies proving that LEN was more effective than thalidomide (THAL), a strictly controlled drug regulated by Federal law 10.651/2003 and dispensed to patients (at no costs) through public health system units and hospitals. ANVISA unexplained retreat on the LEN approval for marketing was an unquestionable triumph of the lobbying that ensued the denial, at the forefront of which were politicians, Congress members, patient organizations and medical societies. Two randomized (phase III)


Next week a 22 year old South African, Ryan Gibbons, will line up to start his first official top level race as a full member of the Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka World Tour Team.

Although Gibbons got the chance to taste the highest level of racing during the latter part of 2016 when he was placed as a trainee or stagiaire into the top level, the UCI 2.HC Tour of Dubai will be his first start as a Neo-Pro. What is a neo-professional? It is a term used for anyone under the ages of 25 who is competing in their first year or second year as a contracted professional in the top level.

So how did this young man from Johannesburg end up in the top echelon of professionalcycling?

As with a lot of kids Ryan was led into cycling by his parent’s example, riding Cross Country and Marathon Mountain biking. His parents had completed the Cape Epic when he was very young. When he was 12 in his words “I did all right in a 20 kilometer race and thought this was cool” but as a teenager he then he moved onto the road as he felt the mountain bike scene would limit his development and career.

Ryan was picked up by the WCC Africa (MTN Qhubeka feeder team) as a 1st year Under 23 having ridden for the local Mr. Price team prior to that and then moving up through the ranks to the Dimension Data Continental team in 2016. He now has the great pleasure


The U.S. Justice Department will sue Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio if he continues to refuse to cooperate with a civil rights investigation, according to a letter obtained by The Arizona Republic.

Letter from Justice Department

The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division since March 2009 has been investigating Arpaio's operation for alleged discrimination and for unconstitutional searches and seizures. Arpaio has said he believes the investigation is politically motivated.

In a letter sent to Arpaio today, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez gave the Sheriff's Office until Aug. 17 to cooperate with the investigation, and to turn over documents requested last year for an inquiry into claims of discrimination based on national origin.

"MCSO's refusal to cooperate fully with the Division's investigation makes it an extreme outlier when compared with other recipients28 human beings have ever set foot on it. Knut Christianson, a 33-year-old glaciologist at the University of Washington, has been there twice. A few years ago, Christianson and a team of seven scientists traveled more than 1,000 miles from McMurdo Station, the main research base in Antarctica, to spend six weeks on Thwaites, traversing along the flat, featureless prairie of snow and ice in six snowmobiles and two Tucker Sno-Cats. "You feel very alone out there," Christianson says.

He and his colleagues set up camp at a new spot every few days and drilled holes 300 feet or so into the ice. But Christianson and his colleagues were not just ice geeks mapping the hidden topography of the planet. And that's just the picture in the U.S. Dr.


Jason Spindler, a Houston native, graduated from UT in 2000 after studying economics and finance, according to his LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. He was the co-founder and managing director of I-Dev International, a company that helps build businesses globally, and had lived in Nairobi for the past three years, according to his Facebook profile.A Shift in the Orbit: Immediate Endoscopic Reconstruction After Transnasal Orbital Tumors Resection.
Endoscopic endonasal resection of orbital lesions is a safe and common approach. Nevertheless, medial orbital wall defects following the procedure are not routinely addressed, potentially leading to diplopia and enophthalmos. In this article, the authors propose a new technique for purely endoscopic endonasal reconstruction of orbital wall defects following endoscopic endonasal resection of orbital lesions.The patient, a 43-year-old male, suffering from right exophthalmos and diplopia due to a venous malformation of the right orbit underwent endoscopic endonasal resection of the mass. Excision was followed by immediate transnasal endoscopic reconstruction with a commercially available porous polyethylene mesh (Medpor).The postoperative course was uneventful. The patient did not report any residual orbital asymmetry or diplopia. No recurrence of the


point, but only her subconscious would admit to that as she now stood in the middle of her cosy apartment, working down the mental list she had of the things she needed to do.

1) She was dressed and ready in an appropriate fashion that if everything went completely wrong, she wouldn't be hard done to if she had to walk somewhere. Although, things seemed to be on her side lately, so this was just her being overly prepared. 2) She had packed lunch for the pair of them, and the cooler was settled on the side table right next to the door for her to pick up as she passed. There was stuff to snack on during the trip if they needed it, as well as plenty todrink. 3) She'd printed off all the confirmation information and found her spare set of keys, Vince having been the last one to have the originals, which were now with the car. These were tucked away in her handbag with her phone and purse already, sitting on top of the cooler by the door.

She nervously checked her watch, just as she heard a car pull up outside. That must be Alex. She nodded to herself, letting out a sigh of relief. Exactly when he said he'd be here. Alex was definitely Mr. Reliable, something she very much wasn't used to when it came to any male, apart from say her brother and their father when he had been alive. She pulled on her jacket, pulling her braid out


from where it had got tucked in as she moved to the door. Picking up her keys, handbag and the cooler, she let herself out, almost skipping down the stairs, bringing herself to a stop, composing herself. She then proceeded to opened the door and let herself out, smiling brightly and waving at Alex before turning to lock the door behind her and drop her keys into her handbag.

She moved around the car, opening the door and settling into the passenger seat. "Hey! How are you? I brought lunch, as promised," she greeted, leaning around the back of Alex's seat to settle the little cooler in the footwell behind, resisting the urge to lean over and kiss Alex's cheek. Where did that urge even come from? She justabout recovered her smile as she sat straight in her own seat again. "Thanks for doing this by the way, I owe you," she said, dropping her handbag onto the floor between her feet and pulling on her seatbelt.

"Rob was still okay with this, right? You guys aren't too busy?" she asked, still concerned that he was taking time out of work to do this, regardless of her own somewhat selfish motivation of spending time with Alex without it getting... Weird or anything, and getting her car back, of course.

Although Alex found piece with working at the garage a long time ago, he didn’t mind the time away from his normal work environment for something new. He didn’t feel like helping Max pick up her car was a


job duty, instead it felt more like a friend helping out in a time of need. Nora had been dropped off at day care early and he filled out a late slip in case the trip took longer than expected before he left for the day. His recent conversations with Max at the Café and other places had started as mere conversation, but the more he ran into her in the city he found himself excited with the prospect of seeing her again. He wasn’t sure what he was feeling, but it had been awhile since he felt excited to see someone as much as he did now.

He had cleaned his car extra carefully the night before when he made the plans to pick her up and startthe road trip, and he was thankful he managed to overlook the busyness of his day to make sure one crucial item that would be housing the two of them for a few hours at least looked presentable. He managed his time surprisingly well enough that he arrived to pick up Max at the precise time they had set up before, and he grinned enthusiastically in response to the cooler in her hand.

He felt the heat instantly swell in his cheeks the moment Max reached behind his chair to set down the cooler behind him, but the man tried to push the thought of her being in such close proximity to him with a clear of his throat before he spoke, “Rob was more than okay with this,


sound old?” Alex chuckled before moving to turn the volume down on the radio after the realization that it might make a nervous conversation even more harder. His usual comfortable position with his arm resting against the back of the passenger seat no longer felt comfortable, and instead Alex found himself praying that he didn't look like a fool.

Max chuckled softly to herself when Alex attempted to act the tough guy in regards to whether his boss was okay with his little excursion. She was relatively sure he would be because Rob seemed like a reasonable sort of guy, and she must have some serious kind of damsel in distress vibe or something, but it didn't stop her wondering about it. She nodded proudly at the question regardingthe café. "These guys have been doing this since before I got here; I'm pretty sure they'll survive without me," she replied with a wide grin. The staff that still worked at the café had been there since her father was the owner. Sure, some people had moved on and a few faces had joined, but she had tried to keep things as they were, changing things little by little for the benefit of the business. Those that worked there had taken the challenge of the handover in their strides, and they were a credit to the ideals her father had wanted to develop. Because of their hard work, there hadn't been much of a break between her father's last shift as owner and her first shift. She


wasn't sure where things would stand without them. That, and the arrival of her brother helping her with the office had helped massively.

She laughed again, slouching a little in her seat as she got more and more comfortable. "Oh, absolutely - horrifically old," she teased, rolling her eyes dramatically as she continued to laugh. If Alex was old, so was her brother, and she was relatively sure he wouldn't appreciate that, joke or not - he already felt old being that he was married and had a four year old son. She let out a sigh as she composed herself, shaking her head for a moment. "Dad always said you're only as old as you feel," she mused in a sing-song voice, another smile creeping across her lips.Her dad has always had little gems, little things that didn't quite make sense to her growing up, but that she had come to appreciate as she got old. Man, did she miss him...

"Do you actually know where we're headed?" she asked suddenly, drawing herself back out of her head and turning to Alex curiously. She had every faith in his sense of direction, it was more because she didn't one hundred percent remember the way herself.

Alex definitely considered himself to be more adventurous when he was younger specifically in high school and the years that came after it, but he wasn’t sure if he should be embarrassed with the excitement he had over their little trip all week. Although he could tell that Nora was a bit


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Astros owner contradicts himself on impact of sign stealing Astros owner Jim Crane deflects questions about the impact of the team's sign-stealing scheme.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Houston Astros owner Jim Crane's latest attempt at damage control blew up in spectacular fashion Thursday. In the span of 27 minutes at a news conference, he claimed his team's routine cheating during its 2017 championship season didn't impact the game, declared he shouldn't be held accountable for the organization he runs, used commissioner Rob Manfred's report on the Astros' malfeasance as a binky and so often repeated talking points that the Apology.exe program he tried to install in his head looked as if it were glitching. The entire charade devolved into a glorious conflagration, Crane'sGlanville argues that the Astros' response on Thursday to the sign-stealing scandal wasn't enough and begs the question on how much they will actually reveal.

What's indefensible is asking for forgiveness while not abiding by its path. Crane zigzagged around his Thursday. His ruminations on accountability were particularly rich. He mused that Major League Baseball's suspension and his firing of general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch served as satisfactory pounds of flesh because, though neither was responsible for implementing the scheme, both were responsible for overseeing the team's baseball operations. Never mind that Crane, as the team's owner, was responsible for overseeing Luhnow and Hinch.

"No," Crane said, "I don't think I should be held accountable."

Such a bastion of accountability then suggested he was the one to keep