September 27, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

I spent 8 hours with no breaks, observing the US House as it tried to deal with the complete collapse of the entire US banking system. While debating the $700 Billion Bank Bail Out Bill, I was astounded at the lack of knowledge, the shallow discussions, the stone-walling, the wailing of Gollum Sachs complaining about not sleeping, but no discussion as to how Congress enabled and assisted in this collapse. So here is a comprehensive article about just ONE aspect of this historic banking disaster: the death of the Glass-Steagall Act and how it enabled the banking lending bubble.

Time to examine the bill from Congress that helped to recreate the toxic trusts of the Roaring Twenties:

The bills were introduced in the Senate by PhilGramm (R-TX) and in the House of Representatives by James Leach (R-IA) and Thomas Bliley (R-VA). The bills were passed by a 54-44 vote largely along party lines with Republican support in the Senate and by a 343-86 vote in the House of Representatives. Nov 4, 1999: After passing both the Senate and House the bill was moved to a conference committee to work out the differences between the Senate and House versions. Democrats agreed to support the bill only after Republicans agreed to strengthen provisions of the Community Reinvestment Act and address certain privacy concerns. The final bipartisan bill resolving the differences was passed in the Senate and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999. The banking industry had been seeking the


prices, post-9/11. The US government was banging the drums for a war with Iraq. The Greenspan 1% interest rates were kicking in.

Citibank suddenly was 'capitalized' by all this and the new, sub-inflationary rates were a god-send to that bank and they began writing both private and corporate loans at a tremendous pace. The stocks shot up in value to the 2000 levels of $55 a share and this peaked on the end of February, 2007. This is when the first banking collapse shocks hit world markets.

From Culture of Life News, February 27, 2007: Chinese Communists Pull Rug Out From Under USA Capitalists

From Bellepheron on Pegasus to Icarus or the son of Helios, when one rides the wild horses to the very heavens themselves, the fall is great andAct. Provides for national treatment for foreign banks wanting to engage in the new financial activities authorized under the Act.

The negotiations going on this weekend concern this section of the banking reforms that utterly failed and ruined the entire US banking systems. Namely, the FDIC has to assist everyone or the whole mess will turn into a Great Depression. The hedges and assurances of this bill passed a mere 10 years ago are going out the window.

When this bill was passed, the national banks were NOT 'well capitalized and well managed' at all. Look at Citigroup's stocks from just before they got the exemptions! It was in the toilet. The exemptions allowed it to balloon rapidly in value! Also the pathetic timeline here: these laws were to take


I could. In the end, the phone interview was shortened from what was originally expected and I was told from the onset that I would have time to ask three questions. I chose the ones I felt would be best for the interview.

On a personal note, Terrell Davis is a class act. I really wish I would have had more time to speak with him. This may have been a platform for him to promote his product, but at the same time he was extremely sincere and engaged while responding to my questions.

As far as his answers, it becomes clear that winning a championship was the defining moment of his career. The MVP's, the records, the 2k season, all of those are ancillary accomplishments to winning the Super2 time NFL Offensive Player of the Year (1996, 1998)

- 1998 NFL MVP

- Super Bowl XXXII MVP

- 2 time Super Bowl Champion (XXXII, XXXIII)

- NFL 1990's All-Decade Team

- 2,000 Rushing Yard Club

- Denver Broncos 50th Anniversary Team

From 1995-1998 in the regular season, Terrell Davis

- Averaged 335 carries per season

- Gained 7,594 yards from scrimmage (1898 yards per season)

- Scored 61 touchdowns

- Recorded 31-100 yard rushing games

After his injury early in 1999, Davis played in 13 more regular season games from 1999-2001.

From 1995-1998 in the playoffs, Terrell Davis

- Averaged 142.5 yards per game (8 games)

- Gained 1271 yards from scrimmage (158 per game)

- Scored 12 touchdowns

- Recorded 7-100 yard rushing games, including a record setting seven straight from 1997-1998.

Playoff records compared to other modern day HOF running backs

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ENNIS HAS BEEN declared Ireland’s cleanest town in the 2017 Anti-Litter League by Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL).

Ennis, Roscommon and last year’s winner Kildare were all vying for the title, but the town in County Clare won out.

An Taisce surveyed 25 towns and 15 city areas on behalf of IBAL, with 88% of towns surveyed deemed to be as clean as the European average.

However, it was a mixed bag for cities, with Tallaght and Limerick City improving but Dublin Centre falling back to moderately littered, and disadvantaged city areas dominating the bottom places in the rankings.

Commenting on Ennis’ win, An Taisce said:

An exceptional result for Ennis, which has performed strongly in recent surveys. All approach roads to Ennis got the top litter grade and this high standardlitter blackspot, climbed to fifth in the rankings and was deemed “cleaner than European

norms”.

Castlebar and Portlaoise progressed strongly in the rankings, but Navan and Carlow both fell to “moderately littered”.

Despite some areas not showing improvement, some 88% of towns were deemed clean, a slight improvement on the previous year, with 40% judged to be cleaner than the European average.

Source: IBAL

In contrast, city areas occupied six of the bottom seven places in the rankings.

Continuing a trend of recent years, litter levels increased in Dublin city centre towards the end of the year.

Dublin’s north inner city

However, Dublin’s north inner city recorded its best ever performance since it was first surveyed in 2011.

An Taisce noted an absence of littered blackspots or seriously littered sites in the area.

“A starting point on the


The exhibition also includes a charming 11th-Century English map of the world, which gives us an insight into Anglo-Saxon identity. Britain and Ireland are squeezed into the bottom left-hand corner. (The two main population centres in England, London and Winchester, are noted.) The Mediterranean Sea is at the centre of the world’s land mass, with Rome prominent near the bottom on the left (‘Ro’ and then ‘ma’, with towers in between); across the water, Jerusalem is also prominent. Africa looms large on the upper right (follow the orange line up from the Nile delta), and India is the roughly triangular mass at the top centre.

This worldview was inherited from the Romans, who regarded Britain as being on the far edge of the world, but remained tied to the‘centre’ by the Christian religion. Throughout the Anglo-Saxon era, which ended with the Norman Conquest in 1066, there was religious (and with it, intellectual) traffic across Europe.

Venerable Bede, an English monk and historian, noted in the early 8th Century that Britain was inhabited by four peoples who used five languages: the Picts (who remain shadowy); the Scots (whose language became Gaelic); the Britons (whose language became Welsh, Cornish, and Breton); and the Anglo-Saxons (who used a form of English). The fifth language was the Latin of the church, which eventually provided an alphabet to replace runes. On top of all of this, the Viking invasion of Britain began in the early 8th Century, adding Danish culture to the mix.

It is important to remember that the formation of English


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The San Francisco Business That Tried To Evict A 98-Year-Old Woman Is Now Letting Her Live There For Free

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Jul 11, 2014 at 8:56 PM

Sam Colt

If ever there was proof that protesting pays off, this is it.

San Francisco resident Mary Phillips, 98, received an Ellis Act eviction notice last year. California's Ellis Act allows landlords to temporarily go out of business so they can resell their property at a higher prices.

News of Phillips' eviction brought an onslaught of protest on Urban Green Investments, the real-estate investment seeking to resell her home.

"[Urban Green] is taking advantage of a political economy that the tech community has fueled," said Erin McElroy of Eviction Free San Francisco.

Protesters gathered outside Urban Green's office on Wednesday and demanded that Phillips, as well as her caretaker,Sarah Brandt, be allowed to remain in their homes.

Although Urban Green did not confront the protesters and has been ignoring press requests for comment, the company clearly felt the community's ire.

Today Urban Green CEO David McCloskey released a statement saying that Phillips would be allowed to remain in her Mission neighborhood apartment for the rest of her life cost-free.

"Urban Green Investments and 55 Dolores Street, LLC have offered Mary Phillips the opportunity to remain in her home for the rest of her life with no cost to Mary," said McCloskey. "This offer was first communicated to Ms. Phillips' lawyer in March 2014, and has been the topic of negotiation ever since then."

The statemented suggested that widespread media attention made it necessary to release information about Phillips to the


to remain in her apartment was not made in good faith. Collier's relation to Phillips is unclear.

"The reality is that offering the 98 year old Mary Phillips the opportunity to live alone in a construction zone without her close friend and caregiver being able to stay in the building is an illusory offer, and UGI knows that," said Collier."UGI's efforts in publicizing settlement discussions is an attempt to deflect media attention away from their speculative evictions of seniors and disabled long-term tenants at this and other properties that they have purchased."

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"If this is true, I believe it is probably one of the reasons the government has kept the public in the dark," he said.

Such sightings in 1975 even caused operators at one of the missile sites in Montana to alert the National Combat Operations Center in Colorado Springs, according to one of the documents.

He showed another document dated in 1950 by a high-level Air Force official saying the government did not want to start a "national panic" by telling the public of the probability of UFOs.

Hastings said he began investigating UFOs after witnessing radar operators track five unknown objects at a Montana Air Force base


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Mitarashi Anko

Biography

Anko was born and raised in Konoha. As an apprentice of Orochimaru, she has learned various jutsus, some of them even forbidden (kinjutsu). When she was a kid she must've been extremely talented, because just like Sasuke, Orochimaru gave her the Cursed Seal. When Orochimaru betrayed Konoha and fled from the village, Anko was furious because she was used by Orochimaru and then cast off like trash.

When Orochimaru appears back in Konoha for the first time since he left the village, during the 2nd chuunin exam in the Forest of Death, she felt that it was her job as a former subordinate of Orochimaru to kill him, even at the cost of her own life. Of course, she can't defeat Orochimaru and even regrets coming backalive from the Forest of Death.

She makes her first appearance in the anime as the instructor for the 2nd chuunin exam. She clearly shows some of Naruto's personality, as well as some of Orochimaru's blood-thirst.


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After the sealing of the two exposed distal and proximal ends, the surgeon creates a small opening in the proximal end of the bowel and inserts the removable anvil portion of an anastomosing and stapling instrument. This step, as well as those of the remainder of the surgical procedure, are related to the functioning of this surgical instrument whichthereof extends through the stapled distal end. The surgeon then joins the coupling ends of the anvil and shaft together and begins to manually rotate the dial in the handle again, this time bringing the anvil head closer to the tip of the shaft.
Once the anvil head and shaft are brought close together, after the surgeon has manually rotated the dial another thirty times, a grip-style trigger in the handle is manually actuated. This actuation causes a circular blade to advance axially out from the tip of the shaft, and into contact with the opposing face of the anvil. The blade cuts through the stapled-closed ends of the proximal and distal ends of the colon, thereby also cutting a new pair of ends of the proximal and distal


portions of the colon. The tissue which has been severed is held in an interior volume at the end of the shaft.
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There is in fact no checkpoint here anymore, just an intersection that lies on the main road leading into the village of Deh-e Kuchay where a platoon of soldiers from Company C, Task Force 1-66, Fourth Infantry Division, is based at Combat Outpost Brunkhorst. The site became a focal point for attacks earlier this year, when a unit of the Fifth Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Second Infantry Division, was stationed in the village. It lost 22 soldiers during its time in the Arghandab District of Kandahar Province.


written by a man who helped a woman find her contact lens and believes they may have “had a moment.” Enid responds to the ad, pretending to be the woman in question and setting up a date at a retro diner called Wowsville. Enid and Rebecca show up at Wowsville to spy on the man and have a laugh at his expense. When he shows up in his prearranged green cardigan, Seymour (played to perfection by Steve Buscemi) is just as pathetic as they imagined he would be. But his growing discontent at his absent date becomes unbearable for the girls to watch.

What starts as a cruel joke leads to the friendship at the heart of the film, as Enid follows Seymour home, and finds in him amovie is based on a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, and retains the emotional feel and overall aesthetic of the book, while expanding the story greatly. The performances in the film are wonderful throughout, not only in the main characters, but also those who show up for a scene or two, or inhabit the background. The late Brad Renfro has a good supporting role, as does the sublime Bob Balaban.

Ghost World is a movie that rewards multiple viewings. There are so many subtle details are that easily missed. Listen for the TV commercials, heard but never seen, for an oil company that cares about the environment. Or watch the background of the scene where Enid and Rebecca go apartment hunting. Did you see that young woman pass left


not just two characters fall in love, but watching the actors fall in love too.

Spencer Tracy plays Sam Craig, a sportswriter for the New York Chronicle. Early in the film Sam is sitting in his local watering hole with a couple of other sportswriters, when he hears a woman on the radio named Tess Harding (Hepburn) who has the nerve to disparage the game of baseball. Sam is upset by this; America is at war and baseball is our national pastime. So he responds to Tess in his column, despite the fact that she is also a columnist for the same newspaper. She responds to his column with one of her own, and the editor summons them both to his office; after all, he can’t have two ofmovie is the way it plays with stereotypes, (for most of its length anyway). Sam invites Tess to a baseball game, and there are funny moments as he tries to explain the game to her. But by the end of the scene, she is fully involved, cheering the Yanks along with everyone around her.

Sam has a harder time adjusting to her world, and we get some more funny moments as he attends a gathering at Tess’s where everyone seemingly speaks a different language. It is clear that these two are in love, and Sam impulsively asks Tess to marry him. She agrees, and the rest of the film follows Sam’s growing disillusionment as he tries to adapt to her ever busy, ever changing world, and Tess’s ultimate realization


of watching Spence and Kate get to know each other, get comfortable with each other, fall in love with each other.

If you pick up the Criterion version of this movie, be sure and watch the two documentaries that are included. Both are feature-length, and well worth the time. The first is about the life and career of director George Stevens. This documentary (written and directed by his son) paints the picture of a quiet, dignified man who created an impressive body of work and deserves to be mentioned alongside the likes of Ford, Hawks and Capra. The other documentary is a tribute to the life of Spencer Tracy, narrated by Katherine Hepburn. She speaks openly and honestly about their careers, their relationship, and his passing. It ends withone of the most moving scenes I have ever witnessed. In it, Hepburn reads a letter she had written recently to the long-dead Spencer Tracy, with her emotion getting the better of her at the end. (You can watch this scene below.) What a brave woman she was, to share this with the world. And what a great love she clearly had for him. God bless them both.

The new anthology series Feud debuts March 5 on FX, with season one (Bette and Joan) focusing on the often tortuous (and occasionally tortured) relationship between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. I expect good things from this series. Creator Ryan Murphy hasn’t made a real misstep yet, and the casting of Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange in the starring roles certainly


looks promising. So this seems like a perfect time to take a look at the movie that launched the titular feud.

The movie opens on the vaudeville stage, with a young blond girl singing and dancing for a star-struck crowd. She is not only a popular performer, but a bit of a marketing phenomenon as well. Her father hawks life-size Baby Jane dolls (with matching blond ringlets) from the stage. Jane’s dark-haired sister Blanche stands in the wings, radiating envy. Not only does Jane get all the attention, she is also a spoiled brat.

Twenty years later, the tables have turned. Blanche is a popular Hollywood actress, while her sister Jane struggles to keep herself out of the bottle long enough to act coherently. One night after a party, anaccident occurs, leaving Blanche paralyzed. Did her own sister run her down?

This is the set-up of the movie, which jumps to the early 60’s, where we find Blanche (Joan Crawford) dependent on her sister Jane (Bette Davis) for her care. Jane is resentful of her sister’s popularity before the accident, which had eclipsed her own, and resentful for having to care for her. Jane is drinking far too much. She also appears to be going completely bonkers.

This film does a marvelous job of slowly increasing the tension, as Jane’s behavior towards her sister grows more sadistic. We begin to wonder if Blanche can possibly survive her sister’s cruelty. I found myself really rooting for Blanche by the end of the film, which has an ending as strange and


unpredictable as the movie deserves.

The first time I saw this movie was on late-night cable, maybe 15 years ago, and my memories were of rather campy performances. Seeing it again, I was astonished at what a well-made film it is. The bulk of the movie takes place in the Hudson sisters’ house, and the black-and-white cinematography, set design, musical score, and Oscar-winning costumes all combine to create a perfectly realized setting. The acting is quite good throughout. Joan Crawford creates a truly sympathetic character (and it takes a lot for me to sympathize with Joan Crawford. Ever since seeing Mommie Dearest on HBO when I was about 10, she has thoroughly creeped me out). And sure, Bette Davis’ performance does become campy at times, but in this particularsweetheart, Debi (Minnie Driver). He stood her up on prom night, and still has some anxiety. Of course this is nothing compared to the anxiety his psychiatrist (Alan Arkin) experiences, because he has a killer for a client.

Martin Blank is being pressured by a business rival, Grocer (Dan Aykroyd) to join an assassin’s guild of sorts. Martin wants no part of it, which makes Grocer unhappy. It is at this point that Martin has a job opportunity in the same area that his reunion will take place, so he decides, after some prodding from his business partner (Joan Cusack) to kill two birds with one stone. He can take out his target, and go to the reunion.

The rest of the movie is set around reunion weekend in Grosse


music, surpassing everything I had imagined in my mind.

As a child, I had the biggest crush on Shirley Jones as Marion the Librarian; I wanted to be the brilliant, dynamic Robert Preston, wooing her, singing to her. The movie deals with a traveling salesman calling himself Professor Harold Hill, who is a shyster. He comes into town, sells the townspeople on the idea of a boy’s band, collects money for instruments and uniforms, then leaves in the dead of night. But in River City Iowa, he has met his match. He forms a bond with Marion the Librarian (Shirley Jones) and her younger brother, Winthrop (played by a young Ronny Howard), and is forced to look at his choices in life, and make a change. Will it bethe “Family Film Festival” on KTLA 5, hosted by Tom Hatten. This is one of hundreds of movies that I was first exposed to watching that program. The movie is based on a play by Mary Chase, and the film retains much of the dialogue and pacing of the play. In the film, Jimmy Stewart plays a man named Elwood P. Dowd, an affable gentleman, who has a 6 foot tall invisible rabbit for a best friend. His sister and niece, who are living with him, want to have him committed, because of his imaginary friend. Much of the movie involves the sister’s attempt to have Elwood committed to a mental hospital. The movie mixes comedy with moments of genuine affection, made all the more believable by Jimmy


Hitchcock’s Vertigo. She never disappoints.

I was having so much fun in 1950 that I decided to stay there for one more movie: Born Yesterday, directed by the George Cukor. This movie was based on the popular Broadway play of the same name. The plot involves an uncouth tycoon (really just a gangster who struck it rich), who comes to Washington D.C. to hobnob with some politicians, and see if he can tuck a few votes in his back pocket. He is played by Broderick Crawford, another character actor with a very prolific career who is primarily remembered for one movie, All the King’s Men. He was also in one of the most embarrassingly bad movies ever made, Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood. (Look it up.perfect, the score (John Williams again, who else?) is memorable, the effects hold up well. Jurassic Park did for movies in the 90’s what Jaws did in the 70’s. This is Spielberg upping the ante. And it still holds up today.

Because this movie was such a runaway success, a sequel was basically a foregone conclusion. So Michael Crichton, who had not intended to write a sequel, wrote a second book. Crichton killed off the Ian Malcolm character in the first book (which the movie thankfully did not), and I love the way Crichton just casually brought Malcolm back in his sequel.

The concept of The Lost World: Jurassic Park is pretty straightforward. The idea is that the character of John Hammond (Richard Attenborough, appearing in a cameo) had a


a languorous pace that I find frustrating. The Killing was Kubrick’s first feature-length movie that he made for a major studio. It is small budget, compared to his later films, but it has a fantastic visual flare.

The Killing tells the story of a group of guys who are planning to rob a race track, and walk away with the day’s take. The group (led by the great Sterling Hayden) have planned everything down to the last detail. Unfortunately, one of the gang (the unforgettable character actor Elisha Cook, Jr.) spills the beans to his unfaithful wife, and soon their best-laid plans have gone awry.

This movie is one of the best film-noir of the 1950’s, and has been vastly influential. It is one of the first movies to featureClaimant became pregnant and due to the high-risk nature of the pregnancy, she was placed on stringent work restrictions. Her employer, Botkin Lumber Company (Employer) granted her an unpaid medical leave, but continued to pay her insurance. The Appeals Tribunal concluded that Claimant had neither quit her job nor been fired and she expected to return to her job once she was physically able.
Claimant filed an application for review with the Commission. The Commission affirmed the decision of the Appeals Tribunal. The Secretary of the Commission certified that she mailed a copy of the Commission's decision to Claimant on December 9, 2003. Claimant filed a notice of appeal to this Court by facsimile on January 9, 2004.
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        In December of 1998, cooperating individual Donna Sanders informed agents with the 17th
Judicial District Drug Task Force of a potential drug sale that evening at her residence in Lewisburg,
Tennessee. That evening, two agents arrived at Sanders’ residence to purchase crack cocaine. The
Director, Assistant Director, and other agents of the task force were stationed in a vehicle
approximately one block from the residence to act as a surveillance and apprehension team.

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he would soon be leaving the residence in a truck, accompanied by an unidentified individual. When
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truck pulled over, the petitioner ran through brush and briars attempting to escape. He was observed
reaching into his pocket shortly before he was apprehended. Subsequently, a clear plastic baggie
containing a golf-ball-sized rock of crack cocaine was located in the bush beside which the petitioner
had earlier crouched. Upon his arrest, he gave the authorities his brother’s name. His true identity
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failure to appear. He was sentenced to an effective 39 year sentence in the Department of Correction
for the convictions. On direct appeal, this court affirmed the convictions after modifying the
sentences for criminal impersonation from eleven months, twenty-nine days to six months. See
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March 27, 2001. Subsequently, the petitioner filed a petition for post-conviction relief.

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A lock of Justin Bieber's hair has been sold for $40,668 (£25,024) in a charity sale on Ebay.

Bieber gave the piece of hair to US talkshow host Ellen Degeneres, having changed his trademark swept style in February.

There were 98 bids in total with bidding for the hair, which came in a signed box, closing on Thursday.

The money raised will be go to a charity which rescues and rehabilitates animals.

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his federal acquittal should have been barred by the Double Jeopardy Clause because "the extent of participation of the federal authorities" in the subsequent state trial made it "in actuality a second federal prosecution--a second federal try at Bartkus in the guise of a state prosecution."  Bartkus, 359 U.S. at 164-70, 79 S.Ct. at 702-05 (Brennan, J., dissenting).  These three Justices thus clearly agreed with the suggestion by the Bartkus majority that, in certain instances, one sovereign's involvement in another sovereign's prosecution might make the dual sovereignty doctrine inapplicable, and believed that the facts surrounding Bartkus's successive prosecutions made his case just such an instance.  See id

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 This reading of the Bartkus exception derives from the Bartkus case itself, since, as both the majority opinionBaker Mayfield entered Monday night’s game against the 49ers as football’s preeminent grudge-holder. This is the man who got so mad at Ohio State’s players for singing their fight song after their 2016 win over the Sooners (they do it every game) that a year later he claimed their stadium in the name of Oklahoma by dramatically planting a flag in the center of the field; the man who has public feuds with his first college coach and his first pro coach; the man who sometimes peppers NFL press conferences with high school football zings. He literally keeps a list of his haters.

But in one evening, the San Francisco 49ers collectively usurped his throne. First, Nick Bosa—who played at Ohio State during the Baker battles—took Mayfield down late


Floods have hit many districts in the northern parts of the country. (Reuters file photo)

Monsoon rains in the country in the week through Wednesday were above average for a fourth straight week, the weather office said, with floods hitting many districts in the northern parts of the country.

Monsoon rains are crucial to farm output and economic growth as the agricultural sector accounts for about 15% of India's $2.5 trillion economy.

India received 10% more rainfall than the 50-year average in the week to Aug. 21, data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) showed, with rice growing north-west India receiving 63% more rain.

Overall, India has received 2% more rain than average since the start of the monsoon season on June 1.as in electronic billing. The service costs $250 per month per provider or $350 per month if its hosted by eClinicalWorks.

eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani said his company's service includes five days of on-site training, maintenance for the first year and any upgrades. The company also offers online Webinars for continuing training. The service can be hosted by eClinicalWorks or installed completely on site and Navani said he expects the service to be nation-wide by the end of the year.

According to Navani, offering the technology as a SaaS model for small physicians' offices created a brisk business. First quarter sales this year were up 20% over the previous year. "We expect to see top- and bottom-line growth this year of 24% to 40%," he said. "Our revenue went from


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Opposition to Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch among Senate Democrats has grown exponentially, and they now have enough votes to filibuster his nomination.

Republicans needed eight Democrats to advance his nomination to a final vote to confirm him. Currently, the Senate has 52 Republicans and 48 Democrats. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, vowed that Senate Democrats would filibuster Gorsuch’s nomination if and when it makes it to the floor. He needs to receive at least 60 votes to overcome a filibuster.

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was one of the towns that her team studied after Goth-wannabe Michael
Carneal shot five Heath High School classmates: three died, one is
paralyzed and another was badly wounded.

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research reflects that of many others in describing Carneal as typical
of school shooters.

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lasting friendships and never fit in at school or in his
football-worshiping community. He was looking for acceptance and
“shooting people is drawn straight from the Hollywood playbook that
equates masculinity with violence.”

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talked a lot about shooting and killing but no one risked being called a
snitch by alerting his parents or adults at school.

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MILWAUKEE -- We're learning more about who Ashanti Hendricks is. The 22-year-old Milwaukee man shot by police at Children's Hospital Thursday, has a fairly extensive criminal history, but most of his wrap sheet deals with drug charges.

In 2009, police arrested Hendricks for cocaine possesison with intent to deliver. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison. It was at that sentencing Hendricks was first informed, as a convicted felon, he could never possess a firearm.

Then, in December of 2009, Hendricks was arrested on drug charges again... This time for THC possession.

In June 2012, Hendricks was sentenced to prison, again for drugs.

Which leads us to his latest arrest before Thursday. That came in December 2012. Hendricks was charged with fleeing an officer,


THC possession and for being a felon carrying a firearm.

Hendricks agreed to plead guilty to the firearm felony and was supposed to be sentenced at the end of October.

But online court records show Hendricks never showed up for his sentencing hearing. A judge issued a bench warrant for his arrest.

Today, we went to Hendricks' last known address. A former neighbor of Hendricks showed up and didn't want to talk on camera, but told us more about him.

She says Hendricks last lived above her in a duplex in January, but would still periodically stop by to see if any mail or packages came for him. The neighbor tells us when Hendricks lived there with the mother of his child, they would fight often.

The neighbor says she last saw Hendrickslate this summer when he stopped by to check the mail again. He was told to stop coming to the house.

The neighbor says police came by in the last two weeks to search her level of the duplex. She says police looked extensively through her things, but didn't find anything.

She told police Hendricks lived upstairs, not down, but according to her they never searched the upper level.


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2012

Syverson, current District 34 incumbent, won re-election to the Senate in District 35 in the 2012. Syverson defeated incumbent Christine Johnson (R) in the Republican primary on March 20, 2012 and was unopposed in the November 6, 2012 general election.[4][5][6][7]

The election took place on November 2, 2010. Syverson ran unopposed in the Republican primary election on February 2nd.[10]

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On November 7, 2006, Republican Dave Syverson won re-election to the Illinois State Senate District 34 receiving 29,131 votes, ahead of Democrat Daniel Lewandowski (23,120 votes).[11]

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Interesting Facts about Shoebills

Shoebills are pelican like birds that live in Africa. They like the marsh areas of the Sudan and Zambia. Beds of Papyrus grass seem to be their favorite wading spots. They eat lungfish, frogs, water snakes, baby crocodiles, and sometimes turtles. A Shoebill stands perfectly still waiting for its meal. Then it quickly snaps down into the water and crushes its food with its funny shaped beak. Shoebills are blue gray color from head to legs, their legs are long and black.the suspect to shoot up the baseball game.

James T. Hodgkinson, who has been identified as the shooter, was an Illinois-based volunteer on the Bernie Sanders campaign.

The picture that emerges of him, from those who knew him and by his social media posts, is of someone with very firm political convictions who occasionally had minor run-ins with the law. But by no accounts was he mentally ill and, according to an acquaintance who spoke to The Washington Post, Hodgkinson was "a passionate progressive and showed no signs of violence or malice towards others."

But that almost reinforces my point. You can bet that there are a lot of otherwise nonviolent people who, if their community was under siege by violent racists intent on causing immediate harm, would rise to the


WEIMAR, Germany - Tourists visiting the city of Goethe and Schiller are bombarded with busts, key chains and other trinkets bearing the likeness of Weimar's two biggest celebrities in nearly every shop.

Just a few miles away, on a swath of wooded hilltop that is the site of the city's most somber tourist attraction, a gift shop offers little more than a wide assortment of books and postcards. For years, the Buchenwald Memorial has preferred to keep it that way.

But in a move that aims to confront the challenge of passing the solemn lessons of the Holocaust on to future generations, the memorial began working with design students at Bauhaus University in Weimar last spring to create what until now had been taboo: concentration camp souvenirs. A sampling ofthe results, ranging from small plaques to stationery embedded with tiny pebbles and twigs from the site, are to go on sale at the memorial's gift shop in time for the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation in April.

"This generation has grown up in a different culture, with different mediums," said Volkhard Knigge, a Holocaust scholar who directs the Buchenwald Memorial. "We need to attempt new ways of communicating with them, and give them the chance to formulate their own way of accessing" the history here. "Otherwise we're speaking a language they don't understand."


This Pan-Asia Mahabharata Project is an international touring production which started in 2013 and will run until the year 2020. The project focuses on stories adapted from one of the longest epics in the world, the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian Sanskrit epic which has made its mark in Asian history through its great influence in religious thought, philosophy, politics and culture.

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The release of Weekend marked Chris' big screen debut. Chris trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and, after graduating in 2006, built up an impressive reputation for his stage and small screen work. He starred opposite Alan Cumming in the 2006 revival of Martin Sherman's iconic play Bent in London's West end, only weeks after graduating from RADA, for which he was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer and the WhatsOnStage Theatregoers' Choice Award for London Newcomer of the Year. Read more... the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Young Vic, The Royal Exchange and London's Sadler's Wells. In 2009 he returned to the West End to star as Joe Orton in the stage adaptation of "Prick Up


Your Ears", and in 2010 made his New York debut leading the company of Peter Nichols' LIngua Franca which transferred to New York from London's Finborough Theatre. He has also worked regularly for the BBC in numerous television and Radio Productions.film peeling apparatus which has a base plate conveyor and which peels the cover film of an adhered photoresist film from the base plate has also been proposed. In these apparatus, when the base plate is conveyed to a prescribed position, lower and upper film processing members are synchronously moved up and down from their original positions toward the base plate to perform processing on upper and the lower films on the base plate. In the automatic film adhering apparatus, the processing members are film adhering members such as rollers or the like. In the automatic film peeling apparatus, the processing members are film loosening members.
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Maurice Lucas, the bruising All-Star forward known as the Enforcer who helped lead the Portland Trail Blazers to their only N.B.A. championship, died Sunday at his home in Portland, Ore. He was 58.

His death was announced by the team. Lucas had surgery for bladder cancer in the spring of 2009 but was hospitalized that fall for a recurrence of cancer. He was an assistant coach for the Trail Blazers in recent years.

Lucas was a rugged defender and an outstanding rebounder, capable of a sturdy pick and a timely basket on offense. Possessing a glare that presumably intimidated many an opposing player, he became the prototype power forward when he emerged as a star for the Trail Blazers in the late 1970s.

“There’s nobody can contest him inside,” Bill CartwrightThe Battle of Iwo Jima that started on 19 February until 26 March 1945, codename Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces to capture the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire during World War II. It had the goal of capturing the entire island, along with its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands.

After the heavy losses incurred in the battle, the strategic value of the island became controversial as it was useless to the U.S. Army as a staging base and useless to the U.S. Navy as a fleet base. However, Navy Seabees rebuilt the landing strips, which were used as emergency landing strips for USAAF B-29s.

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on the island were heavily fortified, with a dense network of bunkers, hidden artillery positions, and 18 km (11 miles) of underground tunnels. The Americans on the ground were supported by extensive naval artillery and complete air supremacy over Iwo Jima from the beginning of the battle.

Iwo Jima was also the only battle by the U.S. Marine Corps in which the American casualties exceeded the Japanese, although Japanese combat deaths numbered three times as many American deaths. Of the 22,000 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima at the beginning of the battle, only 216 were taken prisoner, some of whom were captured because they had been knocked unconscious or otherwise disabled. The majority of the remainder were killed in action, although it has been estimated that as many as3,000 continued to resist within the various cave systems for many days afterwards, eventually succumbing to their injuries or surrendering weeks later.

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Eyaz Zaxoyî

Eyaz Youssef Ahmed or Eyaz Zaxoyi (1961 - 20 January 1986) . was a celebrated Kurdish songwriter-singer and Composer from Zakho.

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ku:Eyaz YusivTHE last time two Newcastle United players came to blows on a football field, it was a sure-fire sign of the club’s capacity for self destruction.

THE last time two Newcastle United players came to blows on a football field, it was a sure-fire sign of the club’s capacity for self destruction.

When Alan Smith got stuck into Mike Williamson at the weekend, it was an indication the Magpies will not give up on the Premier League place they believe ought to be theirs without a fight.

Playing away from the only ground where they have won in 2010, changing in a condemned stand before heading onto a pitch churned up by the rugby heavyweights who regularly plod up and down it, then seeing the heavens open spectacularly, Saturday was a


have realised what a spectacularly bad move that was by now, but the home fans reminded him every time he touched the ball.

A 25th-minute booking for a push on Heidar Helguson other referees could have judged a professional foul disrupted his equilibrium for a moment but once it was out of his system, he was back to the unspectacular old-fashioned centre-half Newcastle have become accustomed to. Unsurprisingly Smith too had his brushes with officialdom and could have collected the red card which would have put his team under far greater pressure than Williamson’s weak header. His yellow card came early in the second half for fouling Henri Lansbury.

It was blatant retribution for the kind of physical approach by the on-loan Arsenal midfielder which has Arsene Wenger saddling upLeigh Raven, Nikki Hearts (Sneaky Sharing  31.07.16)

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The legendary Cameo on South Beach is reborn. The infamous night club is back with a new attitude and a totally new look. Taking inspiration from "the dark and dirty side" of the disco era, Cameo brings a comforting feel to the club goer, while at the same time having plenty of surprises to keep things fresh and exciting. Spearheading the revitalization of Washington Avenue, Cameo is a symbol of this rebirth on Miami Beach.years ago, but I never would have met as many friends as I’ve met. It all started on the bar car, really," said Nan Buziak Lexow. "It’s a sad day for all of us."

Her husband, Fred Lexow, was a regular bar car rider for more than 20 years and was one of the original dice players. When he died in September 2012, she described him in his obituary as "a former regular rider of the 523 Club from Grand Central." Fellow bar car riders attended his wake, and bartenders sent flowers.

The bar cars are being retired because they cannot be coupled to a new fleet of train cars on the New Haven line. Transportation officials are hoping to buy new bar cars or retrofit some, but no decisions


The same day that the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 failed in the Senate, the author of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Security Protection Act (CISPA), took the opportunity to push his own cybersecurity bill.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), who brought CISPA into the House of Representatives in November 2011, wrote in an op-ed in Politico Thursday that his bill is “the right way to protect America from cyber threats.”

No one, including its authors, claimed the Cybersecurity Act was a perfect bill. But if it had the right amendments, some privacy advocates thought, well, there are worse cybersecurity bills than the Cybersecurity Act.

CISPA is one of those cybersecurity bills seen by privacy advocates as “worse.” Its critics range from to President Obama to Reddit to a whole campaign of activists. CISPAelected not to cover the Olympics, and NBC respects their decisions. Guthrie, who is due at the end of the year, said doctors recommended that she should not travel to Rio.

So far only one US athlete—cyclist Tejay van Garderen—has announced that he will not go to Rio, because he is concerned about transmitting Zika to his pregnant wife. A few other athletes backing out are also citing Zika. Several female athletes have also made public statements professing their concerns about contracting the virus before trying to get pregnant.

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Young people from ethnic minorities and from low incomes are under represented on the NCS programme and only 12% of those who were eligible for NCS took part in 2016, with 45% of young people not even aware of NCS.interest and attorney's fees to the wife in connection with sums found to be due to her under the marital contract. Because we find that this case is governed by contract principles and not the equitable discretion allowed in divorce actions, we reverse the *1278 court's rulings denying the wife interest and attorney's fees.
Incorporated into the final judgment of dissolution was a marital settlement agreement which the parties entered into when they separated in 1989. It provided for four installment payments to the wife of one million dollars each and one of $500,000. As security for these payments, the husband executed a mortgage on the former marital home for the first payment, a mortgage on vacant development property for the second payment, and assigned shares of stock in


a corporation for the last three payments. The security was to be released by the wife as each payment was made. If any payment was past due for thirty days, the entire remaining balance became due, bearing interest at the statutory rate of interest for judgments. If litigation resulted over the agreement, the prevailing party was entitled to reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
Without going further into the long history of contact between the parties, the husband paid the first two payments, but the wife failed to release the security. The husband never took legal action to obtain the releases because he said he loved his wife.[1] The wife did execute some partial releases for some of the development property. When the third payment was due, the husband askedcounsel explained that his breach claim was an affirmative defense. He also alleged that he was entitled to a credit for other distributions that he had made to the wife.
By partial summary judgment, the court determined that the wife was entitled to judgment as a matter of law and that the affirmative defenses of the husband were legally insufficient. Pursuant to that order, the court reserved jurisdiction to award interest and attorney's fees and to consider remaining defenses not argued. Although the wife argued that no equitable defenses applied to the accrual of interest, the court stated that it did not intend to strike those defenses as applied to the payment of interest. The court then granted the husband's motion to designate his setoff defense as a counterclaim


and affirmative defense of payment. This defense was based on other property given to the wife, which were conclusively proved to be gifts. Thereafter, the court granted a further summary judgment in the wife's favor on the setoff counterclaim and affirmative defense of payment. The husband then paid the principal amount of the monies owed.
After these orders, the only issue remaining was the claim for interest plus attorney's fees. Despite this, the entire *1279 matter was rehashed again in front of a successor judge who was asked to determine interest and attorney's fees. The husband again sought to raise the issue of his wife's breach of the agreement by failing to provide releases and also raised various equitable claims as to why interest should not be paid. Theright by petitioning the court to require the wife to deliver the releases. As no damages from the breach of the covenant were proved, there was no setoff available to the claim of interest.
The contract specifically called for the calculation of interest at the statutory rate to commence thirty days after the husband's failure to make a payment. The wife was entitled to that amount both as a matter of contract and a matter of common law principles. See Argonaut Ins., 474 So.2d at 215 (once a verdict liquidates damages on a plaintiff's pecuniary losses, the plaintiff is entitled as a matter of law to prejudgment interest from the date of the loss). The court thus erred in failing to award interest.
Likewise, the award of attorney's fees is


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In an effort similar to Dhar's, Stanford professor David Donoho, in September 2015, takes the proposition further by rejecting three simplistic and misleading definitions of data science in lieu of criticisms. First, for Donoho, data science does not equate to big data, in that the size of the data set is not a criterion to distinguishSACRIFICIAL ANODE FOR CATHODIC PROTECTIONYinguang Magnesium Co.,Ltd. was set up in 1995.There are 360 employees in the company including 69 technical personnel.Main products are more than fifty varieties such as magnesium,magnesium alloy and its castings.aluminum alloy castings,aluminium-base and zinc-base galvanic anode plates.With advanced production techniques,rich technical forces and complete inspection methods,and the most advanced vacuum spectroscopic analyzer imported from USA,products prouced is up to the same standard as the imported one.The products have been introduced by Shandong Xiaoya Group,Qingdao Haier,Qingdao Aucma and Chendu Haote Company which are famous enterprises and also exported to USA,Australia,Janpan,Malaysia and other a dozen of counties.


Indonesia Hopes To Get Exact Count Of Its Islands

Indonesia has so many islands that it has never been able to fully count or name them. But the government is now hoping to get a definite number in time for a United Nations meeting in August.

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:

Indonesia has 17,000 islands. At least that's what people say. No one's exactly sure how many islands there are. So earlier this year, the government started an official count, and it will submit the final number to the United Nations.

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

It's a daunting task because Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago.

TERRY BIGALKE: You could basically fit it over the continental United States. It's about 3,000 miles east to west and about 1,500 miles north to south.

SIEGEL: So that's Dr. Terry Bigalke.He's an Indonesia specialist with the East-West Center in Hawaii. He's been to quite a few of Indonesia's islands.

BIGALKE: Sumatra and Java, the Celebes, Borneo, Bali and Lombok and the western part of Timor.

SIEGEL: Those are among the thousand at most that are inhabited. Most of Indonesia's islands have no inhabitants. Bigalke says there's a wide variety.

BIGALKE: From some of the largest islands in the world to tiny, minuscule islands that are part of the whole kind of question of whether they're real or not.

MCEVERS: Some of Indonesia's islands are so small, they're really just sandy outcrops or reefs that get submerged at high tide. U.N. rules say those don't actually count as islands.

SIEGEL: The South China Sea is to Indonesia's north. That's where China has been staking


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In another known solution, the problem of the pilot having to normally tension the toggle on the facemask each time he makes a turn is overcome by connecting the facemask inlet hose, supplied by the regulator to a bladder situated in the pilot's helmet between the back of his head and the inside of the helmet. With this arrangement, when the regulator automatically increases the breathable gas pressure to the facemask, the bladder is inflated and pushes the rear of the helmet away from the rear of the pilot's head.
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John Fleming, from Bigadon in Devon (near Buckfastleigh), was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Devonport for less than a year before his election was overturned.

Fleming first stood for Parliament at the Devonport by-election in June 1865, when he was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate Thomas Brassey. At the general election in July 1865 he won the seat, but an election petition led to the election of both of Devonport's MPs being declared void on 9 May 1866.

He did not stand again until the 1874 general election, when he was an unsuccessful candidate in Barnstaple.

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Call Me by Your Name has been named film of the year by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, which is comprised of more than 200 gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and entertainment journalists in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., which announced its Dorian Award winners on Wednesday. The film also earned Timothee Chalamet a Dorian Award as Film Performance of the Year – Actor and as Rising Star. Sally Hawkins was awarded the comparable best actress prize for The Shape of Water.

Lady Bird’s Greta Gerwig was named Director of the Year.

Jordan Peele earned Screenplay of the Year for Get Out. Peele was also crowned Wilde Artist of the Year and Wilde Wit of the Year. He shares the latter award with Saturdaylove story involving two gay men — won as GALECA's Unsung Film of the Year. The Shape of Water was recognized as Visually Striking Film of the Year. And mother!, Darren Aronofsky’s psychological chiller starring Jennifer Lawrence, was hailed as Campy Flick of the Year.

Among TV categories, HBO’s Big Little Lies took TV Drama of the Year, and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was named TV Comedy of the Year.

A number of the recipients will join the group for GALECA’s annual Winners Toast on Feb. 24 in Beverly Hills. A complete list of winners follows.


Jay Clayton is sworn in to testify at a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on his nomination of to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted on Tuesday to advance Jay Clayton’s nomination as the next head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to the full Senate for approval.

The committee voted 15 to 8, with some Democrats including Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown of Ohio voting against him amid concerns about his close ties to Wall Street through his career as a deal-making attorney for the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.down, to line the path of the chip.

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Replace the plexiglass.

Await your riches.

This method can go wrong—or, depending on your perspective, it can go wonderfully right. The Plinko board is often carted around for commercials and promotions outside the CBS studio, during which the fishing-line rigging method is often employed to ensure that chips will land in the $10,000 slot. In 2008, after taping one of these ads, producers forgot to remove the wires from the board. The redditor pacifictime told the story of his friend "N," allegedly the first "Price Is Right" contestant to be called to the board after it was rigged.

N ascends the staircase, and drops her first token on the board. It bounces down, around, and holy shit hits the


secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court. Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS.”

During the multi-country press tour for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, not even Jon Stewart has dared ask Tom Cruise about Scientology.

During the media blitz for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation over the past two weeks, Tom Cruise has seemingly been everywhere. In London, he participated in a live interview at the British Film Institute with the presenter Alex Zane, the movie’s director, Christopher McQuarrie, and a handful of his fellow cast members. In New York, he faced off with JimmyFallon in a lip-sync battle on The Tonight Show and attended the Monday night premiere in Times Square. And, on Tuesday afternoon, the actor recorded an appearance on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, where he discussed his exercise regimen, the importance of a healthy diet, and how he still has all his own hair at 53.

Stewart, who during his career has won two Peabody Awards for public service and the Orwell Award for “distinguished contribution to honesty and clarity in public language,” represented the most challenging interviewer Cruise has faced on the tour, during a challenging year for the actor. In April, HBO broadcast Alex Gibney’s documentary Going Clear, a film based on the book of the same title by Lawrence Wright exploring the Church of Scientology,


care of our own." ||
|| The Daredevil, Ruby Tuesday, Havoc Chaos||
|| The Moon Roach, Surf Rat, the $heik, ||
|| GrimJack, The Bullseye, D.B. Cooper, ||
|| The Anarchist, Teeny Bopper, DreadStar, ||
|| Space Ace, Ron S. VanZuylen, A Modem User||
|| Pleasure Victim, Dark Shadow, Torqa Dun ||
|| Alexander of Atlantis, Someone Else... ||
|| (Getting rather large, arn't we... || (Oh, gwad.)
\\-------------------------------------------//
Introduction (By Eric C. Thompson) "Did you know a cat will blink
------------- when struck with a hammer?"
-The VanMaster
Chapter one: Mow. The Coming. "If you can't beat them,
------------ have them killed."
-The VanMaster
Hello, this is the Daredevil. I'm going to prove how stupid people are, or
can be. For instance, most of you might have heard of, or be lucky to know Ron
S. VanZuylen. Ron and I happen to go to theget laid.
(Smack! Ruby just hit me.) You see, she's still not sure about devoting a
entire chapter of this wonderful little text-file to a homosexual from the
Garden of Eden. Now, how the heck did a homosexual get into the Garden.
Sources around that time say that he climbed the fence. Please note that there
were very few new users in this garden. Bob was supposed to have seduced Adam,
and Eve got the short end of the stick. Ruby ponders the fact that Eve must
have been rather jealous, and probally force fed this certain apple to Bob.
That was when Adam decided to have sexual relations with this apple. However,
the apple was plugged in, and the 64k ram card gave him a rather nasty shock in
a unique area of his body. Eve, again,


wasn't too happy about this. So, God
decided that they were all crazy, and had them evicted from the garden. And
the poor new users were weeded out, and forced to leave. Now, where, you might
ask, is this garden? Well, go over to the home of Eric C. Thompson and look
in his backyard. Now, granted, it's not there, but it's one heck of a start.
Chapter three: Belgian Waffles "The world is oyster. The
oyster is my pac-men."
-The VanMaster
We here, at Anarchy inc. have a guru. He has recently arrived from Belgium,
and he is a waffle. He speaks no English, has sexual fantasies with syrup, and
weird tattoos on his face. His name, as named by the holy waffle people in the
high mountains of Belgium, is translated loosely(hmmm...) as Yo-Gert of
VanZuylen. He hascome to the offices of Anarchy inc. for political asylum.
However, the judge almost threw us in the asylum, for trying to get United
States Citizenship for a waffle. The best we could do was get him his own
password on the Twilight Zone. We have come to know this guru very well, and
even though Eric C. Thompson has attempted many times to preform cannabalism
on him, we have vented Eric off, resulting in a very happy, and moldy, waffle.
It is said that Gandahi, when he died, his spirit lifted into the body of this
waffle. However, he would be an illegal alien, being in America, so our
beloved waffle is being deported tomorrow.
Coming soon...From Anarchy inc.
"The Quest for a Waffle"
"Uhhh, right."
I looked up at the Moon Roach, who stood towering over me. He


Regents Policy Manual ("ABOR Manual") § 4-104 (1987) (amended 1988). In January 2003, the Board amended its policy to provide that "total mandatory undergraduate resident student tuition and fees shall not exceed the amount required to maintain a position at the top of the lower one-third of rates set by all other states for undergraduate resident tuition and mandatory fees at the senior public universities." Id. (2003) (amended 2006).
¶ 4 In March 2003, the Board considered a proposal by the presidents of the three state universities to raise tuition and fees for state residents by 39.1% for the 2003-04 academic year.[2] The presidents claimed that such an increase was necessary in part to service the debt incurred by ongoing and future capital improvements. After a public hearing, thesupport.

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"But seriously, I'm honored. Merry Christmas, my friend," Clinton wrote.

Tattoo artist Jon Mesa told "Us" magazine that Davidson's tattoo is authentic and that he personally worked on it at his Lower Manhattan shop.

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Firdousi, a rampart crater (center) on Mercury, illustrates electric arc erosion. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

The Electrical Etching of Mercury

Sep 09, 2011 The MESSENGER space probe is confirming the Electric Universe theory. MESSENGER entered orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011 after traveling nearly eight billion kilometers. Since that time, it has sent hundreds of close-up images of the surface, revealing features and topography that assure Mercury's kinship with the Solar System's other celestial bodies: its surface is pitted, gouged, punctured, and grooved in ways so like its sisters and brothers that telling it apart from some of them would be difficult. Past electrical activity on Mercury is evident in several locations around the planet. Indeed, the entire planet could be said to"Day of wrath!" "O day of mourning!" "See fulfill'd the prophet's warning!" "Heav'n and earth in ashes burning!" "Loud, dramatic music begins the film, sounding the crack of doom from the very first." "Dreyer wanted the music played at a thunderous volume." "He wrote a letter to the projectionists who ran the film at its premiere where he said:" ""In order that the overture may have the intended doomsday character," ""it is important that it is played at full volume," ""that is, at as loud a volume" ""as the sound apparatus can possibly bear."" "Along with the booming music," "Dreyer displays images of hellfire and damnation, as well as the text of the Dies Irae hymn, rewritten specifically for the film by the Danish poet, Paul La Cour,


powerful." "There is power in evil." ""There is power in evil," says the old, potion-brewing wise woman." "And this is a film about the power of evil, the power of evil thoughts, evil intentions, evil appearances." "But is this an evil that belongs to the 17th century or one that exists today?" "Several expert historians have written that Dreyer in his film portrays the age of the great witchcraft persecutions of early modern Europe with an insight that was decades ahead of the historical profession." "Other critics have emphasised the fact that the film was made in 1943, when Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany, and suggested that the dark world of the film is an allegorical reflection of that grim reality." "Later in this commentary, we shallstagy and stiff, and in this first scene, the refusal to cut away to the angry mob has certainly been regarded by some as producing an unfortunate, noises-off-like effect." "Certainly, Day of Wrath, like both Master of the House and his three later features, is based on a stage play, and I think it is worth looking a little more closely at how Dreyer went about adapting this story." "The screenplay was based on a play called Anne Pedersdotter written by a Norwegian playwright named Hans Wiers-Jenssen and first performed in 1908." "The extended scene we are watching now corresponds roughly to the first act of the play, which ends with the capture of Herlofs Marte." "On the stage, the scene took place outside in the yard in


front of the rectory, but Dreyer prefers to remain indoors." "More importantly," "Dreyer has reshaped the personalities of the leading characters, particularly Absalon, who enters here." "Dreyer wrote out pen portraits of the characters to help the actors understand their roles." "Absalon he describes as follows:" ""Absalon is loving and kind towards his wife, Anne," ""and his mother, Merete." ""A good son." ""Indeed, almost too good and too obedient," ""because he has never quite succeeded in freeing himself" ""from his mother's sway over him." ""He is kind and credulous." ""Absalon is a dutiful clergyman, strict with himself as well as others." ""His mind-set is expansive in a time where narrow-mindedness is the rule." ""He is humane, lenient and sympathetic."" "Dreyer's understanding of Absalon as a kindly man iscalled "the woman in her" that Absalon cannot awaken." "Are you his son?" "Are you his wife?" "Dreyer's characterisation of Anne continues:" ""In general, she is quiet, perhaps a little shy."" "In defence against the pinpricks from her mother-in-law, she has made up a world of her own, where she comforts herself with her private thoughts." "In this world she carries a dream with her without really being aware of it." "When Martin arrives at the rectory, she becomes conscious of the dream, and when he takes her in his arms, the dream becomes reality, and in the same moment the child becomes a woman." "The dialogue at this point becomes strange and unsettling." "Anne and Martin repeatedly refer to themselves as mother and son." "But Anne's blooming


says of his first wife:" ""She gave me no joy."" "He continues, speaking to Anne:" ""But you were young and beautiful," ""my blood was on fire every time I saw you."" "This Absalon gave in to carnal desire, knowing very well what he was doing." "Even worse, he deliberately concealed his knowledge that Anne's mother practised witchcraft in order to marry her daughter." "Dreyer's Absalon, on the other hand, has never been conscious of any illicit emotions." "His encouragement of a kiss between Anne and Martin, despite his mother's warning, shows how trusting and innocent Absalon is." "He believes that he has helped Anne's mother out of the kindness of his heart." "He also thinks of his marriage to Anne as an unselfish act, taking a friendless orphanfriendship with Anne's mother, and Anne remains ignorant of her family's dark secret for much longer." "By having her, and the audience, learn of it at this point," "Dreyer not only enhances the tension and the structure of the story by introducing at a much earlier point the threat against Anne that she too might well be accused of witchcraft." "Dreyer also ensures that Anne learns of her dark inheritance at almost the same time as she experiences the first stirrings of erotic desire, so that her discovery of her own sexuality comes to run almost exactly parallel to her discovery of her powers of magic." "Merete's harsh rebuke of Anne for leaving the cupboard door open underscores her hostility towards Anne and contributes to what Dreyer called:"


""the latent tension, the smouldering dread lying beneath the everyday life" ""of the family in the rectory."" "And that tension, that dread was something he felt was essential to bring out." "The drama, to Dreyer, is above all psychological." "In a lecture he gave a few weeks after the opening of Day of Wrath, he said:" ""In the artistic film, it is human beings that we want to see" ""and their psychological experiences we want to experience." ""We wish to get close to and inside the human beings we see on the screen." ""We wish that the film may open a door slightly for us" ""leading onto the world of the inexplicable." ""We wish to be put in a state of suspense" ""caused not so much by thealso the case with Day of Wrath." "The stage play it is based on has only four acts, but they do in fact correspond rather well to one of Dreyer's acts." "So, Dreyer has added an extra act, and this is it." "Everything that happens from the arrest of Herlofs Marte to her execution is merely reported briefly in the dialogue of the play." "This means that the character of Herlofs Marte has been considerably expanded, and that witchcraft beliefs and the persecutions they produced are given more prominence in the film." "The play was based loosely on an actual case, probably the most famous witch trial in the history of Norway." "Absalon was a historical figure, a writer and humanist of considerable stature." "He died in 1575,


and after his death, his wife Anne Pedersdotter was tried as a witch and burned alive." "All the other elements of the drama, however, are fictional." "The historical Anne Pedersdotter was her husband's only wife and not much younger than he." "She had eight children, but no evil mother-in-law, as far as we know." "Her trial took place 15 years after Absalon's death, and while she was convicted of having committed murder by sorcery, she was not accused of having murdered her husband, as Anne will be at the end of both play and film." "Dreyer has separated the story even more completely from the historical background than the play had already done." "He has moved the locale to Denmark and advanced the time of the story almost50 years." "It is very fitting that the film is set in 1623, because the period from 1617 to 1625 was the time when witchcraft persecutions in Denmark were at their most intense." "The original play, however, was set 50 years earlier, when the Reformation in Norway still lay within living memory." "An important theme of the play is the continuing disagreements between Protestant zealots and those more tolerant of Roman Catholic traditions." "The zealotry of the hardliners makes them eager to see witches burn and the play thus makes religious strife an important motivating factor behind the persecutions, and at the same time, it suggests that other, more enlightened religious world views were available." "All this is absent from Dreyer's film." "Dreyer shows a community where religious


dogma rules unchallenged, its fundamental premises accepted even by its victims." "All the characters in the film accept witchcraft as a fact." "Not a single one of them seems able to even conceive of the idea that it might be superstitious nonsense." "The boys' choir singing the Day of Wrath hymn is replaced, using one of the few lap dissolves in the film, by the torture chamber where Herlofs Marte is put to the question." "Dreyer's camera slowly moves along the table in another one of his slow, careful movements, combining a tracking shot with a pan." "Dreyer asked to have a special dolly and tracks made for the film." "The only camera carts then available in Denmark ran on straight tracks and were unable to execute aon the words "made a voluntary confession"." "...as stated above and witnessed by us priests assembled." "The images of nature form a striking contrast to the interiors where most of the film takes place." "The light of the sun, and in particular, the movement created by the wind blowing through the trees and the fields, give a strong impression of fresh air." "The interiors, by contrast, seem still, heavy, dark, stuffy." "Most of those who have written about the film have mentioned this contrast, although not everyone has explained it in the same way." "The most obvious interpretation is to connect nature and the open air with love, freedom and healthy sexuality, while the sombre interiors are taken to correspond to the life-denying impositions of an oppressive, bigoted


society." "However, the American critic Robert Warshow interpreted the contrast between inside and outside in a very different way." "Warshow writes that Dreyer attempts to equate the outdoors, the world of nature, with evil." "The pastor's mother, who is the one firm moral pillar, is never seen outside the rigidly ordered household she controls." "Warshow supports his argument by pointing to the shadows of tree leaves that we will see playing both on the face of Herlofs Marte just before she is burned and on the face of Anne when she tries to use her supernatural powers." "Also, as we shall see, when Anne embarks on her adulterous affair, not only do the lovers' trysts take place out of doors," "Anne's "becoming a woman" is, as previously said,that Absalon is not sincere in his concern for Herlofs Marte's salvation." "This is another reason why the historian Carlo Ginzburg was so impressed by Day of Wrath." "Indeed, he has said that it was an important reason why he began to study witchcraft trials in the first place." "The point is that the encounter between the witch and her persecutors is not, as Ginzburg observes, a confrontation between good and evil." "The judges are not monsters or madmen." "They act as they do, firmly convinced of the justice of their actions." "The "profound historiographical intuition" of which Ginzburg speaks also consists in having rendered this extremely cruel situation not as a confrontation between good and evil, but as a confrontation between torturers and those they persecute, both


acting in good faith, and thus without anachronisms." "Dreyer's portrayal of the world of the great witch hunts thus captures important aspects of historical reality." "(Bell tolls)" "Again, Dreyer keeps the angry crowd off screen, making its presence known only by shouting, giving a calm and solemn cast to the grim scene ahead." "Note the cross with the little roof." "That is a graveyard marker." "We are in the churchyard." "Several more of these markers will be clearly visible throughout the scene." "And at the end of the film, we will see the shadow of a cross turn into the shadow of a graveyard marker like this, closing the film with the sign of death." "In this scene, it is worth noting how carefully Dreyer has orchestrated thedifferent points of view, shifting seamlessly back and forth between the overview of the scene as Anne observes it, her reactions to it, and the aspects of the situation which she remains ignorant of." "She would be unable to overhear the words that will soon pass between Absalon and Herlofs Marte as she makes a final attempt to reveal her secret and mark out Anne as a witch." "Also, in a moment, the horror of the scene becomes too much for Anne." "She turns her face away and therefore does not see its awful climax as we do." "It seems that Dreyer had initially considered not showing Herlofs Marte's plunge into the fire, describing her death only through off-screen screams." "But in the end, he decided that that


was not going to work." "Some reviewers at the time attacked him for taking things too far." "One even called Day of Wrath "a perverted horror movie"." "Dreyer, however, had his reasons, which he described in an interview." "But before getting to that, let me just point out the shadow of the tree leaves on the old witch's face, which, some writers suggest, link the world of nature with witchcraft." "In the interview I mentioned, Dreyer says:" ""The burning was necessary for dramatic reasons." ""This burning must make such a strong impression" ""on the film's female protagonist, Anne Pedersdotter" ""that it remains chiselled into her mind," ""that one understands her terror when she herself believes she is a witch," ""and that the same horrible fate awaits her aspreferred to see the intolerance on display in Day of Wrath, not as what it overtly is:" "a denunciation of the bigoted beliefs of the Christian Church, but rather as a covert description, an allegory of life under Nazi occupation." "Denmark was occupied by Germany in April 1940, but for a long time maintained the fiction of being still a sovereign nation." "There was a duly elected government, which had received a very strong mandate at a parliamentary election in 1942." "The Danish army and navy were still under arms and order was maintained by the Danish police." "This arrangement, after much stress, had collapsed at the end of August 1943." "The government was dissolved, the Germans declared martial law and attacked, disarmed and interned the Danish military."


"On 17 September, the Führer gave the order to round up the Danish Jews on 1 October, but the order was leaked to the Danish resistance, and most of the Jews were able to escape, crossing the narrow sea to neutral Sweden" "in fishing boats and other small vessels." "All this was fresh in the minds of audiences when the film opened on 13 November 1943." "There can be little doubt that many spectators felt that the atmosphere of terror and persecution of Dreyer's film was uncannily similar to the dark times they themselves were living through." "The vivid scenes of torture must have struck a powerful chord with audiences who knew that some of the courageous few who joined the underground resistance movement were at that veryJohanne Dybwad, had her greatest moment in this scene, where Anne first uses her supernatural powers, and Dreyer, who was then 18, may well have seen her perform the role in Copenhagen in 1909." "Hans Wiers-Jenssen, who wrote the play, was a firm believer in spiritualism and parapsychology, holding a leading position in the Norwegian Society of Psychical Research." "He seems to have had little doubt that psychic powers were real and that the superstitions of the past were attempts to account for them." "To the original play's author, then, witchcraft is real in the sense that Anne does have actual telepathic-hypnotic powers which she can use to summon Martin." "Should we assume that the same is the case in Dreyer's film?" "Note the shadow of waving leaves


ever baby boom during and immediately after the war, but there are probably other explanations for this." "Martin is clearly not quite comfortable with the situation." "Dreyer wrote only a brief personality sketch of Martin, which says that: "he is sincere and honest in his feelings for Anne," ""but he is inwardly disjointed, weak and vague" ""and without the courage which, when the great choice must be made," ""bears beyond life and into death."" "The great choice is, of course, the one he must make at the end of the film, where he accepts the idea that he must have been bewitched by Anne and abandons her to face the flames alone." "In the screenplay, Dreyer writes of the scene we are watching that it is intended toobsessive love affairs, evidently inspired by the sombre French dramas of the pre-war years like Marcel Carné's films, Quai des brumes and Daybreak or Le Jour Se lève." "The Danish films featured tragic stories of people so much in the grip of their passions that they were powerless to resist." "One was even called Obsession, Besættelse in Danish." "It came out in 1944 and tells the story of the obsessive love of an older man for a calculating young woman." "The Postman Always Rings Twice seems to have been a significant source of inspiration, although the film isn't an outright adaptation like Visconti's 1942 Italian film Ossessione." "The title of the Danish film, Besættelse, is a word which also means both possession, as in demonic possession, and occupation,


as in the German occupation." "In the screenplay, Dreyer uses the word "besættelse"" "in a comment about the following scene to describe the way Anne has become possessed by her passions." ""As for Anne, she is completely filled by her passion," ""which is so strong that it pushes all other feelings aside" ""and breaks down all inhibitions." ""Her love for Martin has become a sort of obsession, besættelse." ""From that comes her ruthlessness and selfishness."" "Can't it wait?" "I was looking forward to..." "The ruthlessness Dreyer talks about is perhaps an unconscious one, but it is evident that she has absolutely no consideration for Absalon's feelings." "She may not have heard of his hope to be "young with the young", but it is shattered almost as soon ascarry a fixed meaning." "Indeed, a bit further on," "Anne and Martin will offer divergent interpretations of a tree overhanging the water, both of them imposing their personal preoccupations on the image." "Dreyer again intercuts the idyllic nature scenes of the lovers with interior scenes of Absalon at Laurentius' deathbed, creating an obvious contrast but also ensuring that death is never far from our thoughts." "Day of Wrath could certainly be counted among those Danish films of the occupation period I mentioned before which tell stories of people in the grip of dark forces beyond their control." "And one might argue that there are interesting similarities between those stories and the situation of Denmark, which clung to the idea of normalcy even though the country was completely controlled


protest, it was given a glowing recommendation in the Kopenhagener Soldatenzeitung, the official news magazine of the German occupying forces." "Its reviewer lamented the narrow-mindedness of the Danish critics, who were largely hostile to the film, and suggested that if Denmark was too small a country for an artist of Dreyer's stature to have the opportunity to use his skills," ""it will be in the interest of European film art" ""that he be given such opportunities elsewhere", meaning, of course, in Germany." "As one might imagine," "Dreyer was anything but eager to be enrolled in the Nazi propaganda apparatus, and he left Denmark and went to Sweden, which it was still possible, though difficult, to do legally, and he spent the rest of the war years in Stockholm."entirely consistent." "One can point to several cases where Dreyer himself does things that he has cautioned against in interviews or published essays." "On the other hand, one should not, as at least one writer has done, question Dreyer's commitment to realism with the observation that he has included an evidently anachronistic object in his set, namely, the heavy sideboard in the background of this shot," "on which the date 1639 is clearly visible." "The film is set in 1623." "Rather, it is evidence of Dreyer's commitment to authenticity that he has had an actual piece of 17th-century furniture brought on to the set, very likely with the intention of helping the actors to get into the mood of the period." "A bit of dialogue that again emphasises