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major industry event. Now blockbusters, including 2018’s A Quiet Place, make their world premieres there, while television powerhouses like HBO’s Game of Thrones put on immersive activations that give fans a chance to interact with their favorite characters, and a SXSW Film Award win can propel an indie filmmaker to glory – or at least a distribution deal. Paramount Theater during 2012 SxSW Film Festival, Austin, Texas, USA. © John Pesina / Shutterstock SXSW Interactive and Gaming Expo Launched along with film in 1994, Interactive (March 8-12) quickly grew from a curiosity in a city seemingly much more concerned with music and the arts to a staple of SXSW as the burgeoning Silicon Hills, Austin’s tech sector, went from neophytes on the world tech stage to contenders. In 2007 Twitter becameof a ramp running off the right lane of Route 22 and this concrete ramp, leading to the Borough of Fullerton, Forms, with the right lane of Route 22, a triangular or V-shaped area, composed of earth and grass, alongside of which is berm or shoulder, eight to ten feet in width, sufficient for a truck to travel on, composed of stones and earth, forming a smooth surface which parallels the cement portion of the highway in an eastwardly direction, far beyond the area here in question. 4 There were no eyewitnesses to the happening of the collision, except the driver, Price. He was not called to testify by the defense, but was called only in the plaintiff's case, and it is necessary to reconstruct much of its happening,

87 L.Ed. 1444).' 6 The defendant, Price, was the driver of a tractor-trailer, thirty-five feet in length, loaded with 15-16 tons of coal, and was proceeding eastwardly in the right lane of Route 22 when about 1500 feet west of the Fullerton exit, his left rear tire blew out and he proceeded to the nearest place where he would have the opportunity to drive off the highway and change the tire. The place he chose was the V-shaped or triangular area, heretofore described, formed by the junction of the Fullerton exit's eastern ramp and the right lane of Route 22. A portion of the rear of the defendant's truck was on a part of the concrete surrounding the V-shaped area, the front thereof facing eastwardly and directly infront of the berm, running along the cement portion of the highway. It took him about twenty minutes to replace the blown-out tire and he was helped in the operation by a young man whom he had picked up at the site, whose name he did not know and who was not available at the trial. He said that he noticed all the lights of his tractor-trailer burning when he went around the rear of it and removed a block which was under one of the wheels and that he looked up the highway to the west and saw no lights whatsoever of an approaching vehicle; that he proceeded along the trailer and got into the cab and looked through his rear-view mirror and again saw

testimony of record concerning defendant's movement from the V-shaped area, that he does not say how far he went down the berm before he entered the cement portion of the road, as Exhibit P-6 shows a truck parked exactly as it was the night of the collision with the front wheels heading directly east down the berm. In this position, the defendant must have proceeded some distance down the berm, as his tractor- trailer, thirty-five feet in length, could not have made a rightangle turn onto the cement portion of the highway. This is of the utmost importance because his testimony above only describes his position at the time of collision, that he was 'going parallel with the highway when the accident happened.' Though Pricelength of the truck, thirty-five feet, and the time it would take within this distance for it to enter on the cement portion of the highway, it could very easily have been a matter of two, or possibly three, seconds before becoming parallel thereon, leaving but a second or two before impact, from which the jury could reasonably infer there was an abrupt entrance in disregard of an oncoming lighted vehicle, as defendant admits seeing decedent's lights immediately before the time of impact. 25 The plaintiff's decedent was driving a tractor-trailer loaded with caps, the gross weight overall being some 51,000 pounds, in an eastwardly direction along Route 22. While there is a slight downgrade of three per cent from the brow of an incline 695 feet west of

would have had more than eleven seconds to observe the lights of plaintiff's decedent's tractor-trailer before impact, although, as adverted to above, he testified he never saw the lights of plaintiff's decedent's tractor-trailer, except at the moment before the impact. To say, as the defendant did, that he saw no lights from either of these points as he looked westwardly, is to deny seeing that which he obviously must have seen when he looked. Favazzo v. Philadelphia Transportation Co., 169 Pa.Super. 433, 82 A.2d 538. Accordingly, since he saw no lights where there were lights, it was a negligent act to come on the highway suddenly, as we have seen earlier, in the face of an oncoming lighted vehicle. 27 Again, it was a reasonable inference forthe jury to draw that the plaintiff's decedent was not contributorily negligent in the circumstances of this situation. This because plaintiff's decedent cannot be chargeable with anticipating negligence, as he had every right to assume a lighted truck on the berm would not enter the cement portion of the highway without exercising due care. The rule of law needs not citation taht contributory negligence must be proven by the defendant by the fair preponderance of the evidence and on the record the defendant has not met his burden. It is contended, however, that decedent was contributorily negligent in that he was in violation of 1002(a) of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, then in effect, which required a person driving a vehicle on the highway not

striking the rear of defendant's truck making its entrance on the right lane, (2) the force of the impact was extremely great as it sheared off both rear wheels of the defendant's coal truck and drove it 190 feet forward, and the plaintiff's decedent's truck 124 feet forward, smashing the tractor or cab back into the trailer, killing the decedent instantly, and (3) the greatest damage to the rear end of the defendant's truck was the left portion thereof which is some evidence of the fact that the plaintiff suddenly attempted to swerve to the left to avoid striking the defendant's truck entering the right lane at the last moment, as well as in accordance with the fact that the defendant's tractor-trailer, in coming on the cement portionincrease or decrease in air pressure in the semi-confined air spaces between the diaphragm layers, which causes sound waves to emanate from the front and rear openings of the semi-confined air spaces which are bound by the adjacent diaphragm portions, the folds between the diaphragm portions, and the various air-sealing surfaces located near the ends of the adjacent diaphragm portions. In related art, the aforementioned rectangular folded diaphragm, with its attached electrical conductors, is typically produced by using a photo-chemical process to etch an electrical signal path into an aluminum foil layer which has been laminated onto a very thin, rectangular plastic sheet, such as that shown in FIG. 1A of U.S. Pat. No. 3,832,499. This rectangular sheet, with its attached and straight, photo-etched conductors, in related art, is then

folded into a narrow, rectangular, accordion bellows-like shape, thus producing a plurality of long, narrow, semi-confined air spaces located between the moving, adjacent portions of the folded diaphragm. The resulting relatively long, straight, narrow folded diaphragm, after being placed in the appropriate magnetic field of a completed loudspeaker driver, is then typically mounted into a loudspeaker, with the longer dimension running in the vertical direction, and the shorter dimension running in the horizontal direction. The resulting long, narrow, straight, folded diaphragm shape, in related art, has a number of substantial and heretofore unavoidable drawbacks, including extremely limited vertical dispersion at the higher audio frequencies, especially above 2 Kilohertz, and a practical limit on the maximum length of the longer dimension of the folded diaphragm, which is typically not muchlonger than eight inches or so due to the handling problems caused by the use of extremely thin diaphragm material, which is typically only about 1/1000th of an inch thick. The resulting limitation on the maximum practical length of the long, straight, rectangular folded diaphragm, in related art, also limits the amount of total effective moving surface area available, which in turn limits both the low frequency cut-off of the device to about 800 Hertz, and also limits the maximum power handling capacity of the device because of the limited heat dissipation capability of the relatively small electrical conductor total surface area. The folded diaphragm, in related art, is typically limited in its narrower, horizontal dimension, to about one inch or less, to allow for high-frequency dispersion to exist in

the lookback period is a positive move," said Tony Maida, JD, partner in the Health Industry Advisory Group at the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, in New York City. Maida also advised CMS on drafting the proposed 60-day rule in his previous position at the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. Wanda Filer, MD, MBA, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), was slightly less happy. "Six years is better than 10 years, but not as good as 3 years which is what we would prefer," she said. "We will continue to encourage CMS -- maybe once they've got the learning curve established on 6 years, maybe 3 years may become more palatable." The academy discussed a 3-year lookback in aRussian activist sets fire to FSB Lubyanka door Published duration 9 November 2015 media caption Pyotr Pavlensky set fire to the door of the FSB, Russia's security service A Russian artist and political activist has been arrested after setting fire to the Moscow headquarters of the country's security service, the FSB. Pyotr Pavlensky set the door of the Lubyanka building alight and was pictured standing in front of the blaze holding a petrol can. Mr Pavlensky was arrested in 2013 after he nailed his scrotum to the floor of Moscow's Red Square in protest. The Lubyanka building is the historical home of Russia's security services. The imposing building was used by the country's secret police and later KGB - the forerunner to the FSB - and contains a prison. Mr Pavlensky has been questioned on

the shock factor of his art he is well known here and his latest work is perhaps his most audacious. On social media, some have praised his challenge to the powerful FSB as "courageous" and "heroic" - a fellow performance artist of Pussy Riot fame proclaimed Pavlensky the "mind, conscience and balls" of the age. But there's criticism too. State TV anchorman Vladimir Solovyov dismissed all talk of the fire as art. If someone set fire to an opposition leader's office, not the FSB, that would instantly be seen as a "terrorist act against freedom", he said. Surprisingly perhaps, Mr Pavlensky has only been prosecuted once before. That trial for vandalism is still ongoing but it clearly hasn't deterred him. When prosecutors tried to force him to undergo psychiatric testing,the artist stripped naked, mounted the wall of a famous psychiatric institute and lopped-off part of his ear lobe. Mr Pavlensky hit the headlines in 2013 after nailing his scrotum to the cobblestone of Red Square to protest against tight police control. He has previously sewed his lips shut to protest against the arrest of the band Pussy Riot, cut off part of his earlobe in a protest over the forced psychiatric treatment of dissidents, and wrapped his naked body in a "cocoon" of barbed wire outside Russia's parliament building. image copyright Handout/Reuters image caption Pyotr Pavlensky sewed his lips shut to protest against the arrest of the band Pussy Riot The artist is facing three years in prison over a 2014 performance in St Petersburg, in which activists set fire to

The price of class... Spurs ready to cull wage bill to save for Bale's huge new deal Tottenham will embark on a summer wage cull to help pay for Gareth Bale's bumper new contract after Real Madrid upped the ante in their quest to land the forward. Just 24 hours after Bale's agent Jonathan Barnett rocked the North London club by admitting the forward is open to moving to the Bernabeu, the Spanish club's president Florentino Perez further antagonised the situation by saying the Spurs winger is 'born' to play for Real. The 66-year-old's comments will only serve to strengthen Tottenham's fear that they will lose another one of their prized assets to the Spanish giants after Luka Modric moved their last season. Scroll down for video Top target: Real Madrid have long-standinginterest in Gareth Bale Waiting for the call: Bale's agent Jonathan Barnett Spurs will look to offer Bale a new and improved contract in an attempt to keep him from Real's clutches. Bale still has three-years to run on his existing £110,000-per-week deal, but as Sportsmail revealed earlier this month the Wales international wants a deal closer to £200,000-per-week to stay. Tottenham chiefs fear the the 23-year-old's wage demands are likely to be a step too far for the club's limited finances. But they hope attempts to streamline their squad this summer will help finance a contract to ensure Bale stays at the club for next season at least. Mega deal: Real Madrid will have to pay around £65m to lure Bale away from White Hart Lane David Bentley will leave the club when his

contract expires later this summer, saving the club £50,000-per-week. Likewise, William Gallas, who earns around £60,000-per-week, is also set to leave the club when his contract expires next month. Tottenham will also listen to offers for Emmanuel Adebayor, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Jake Livermore, Tom Huddlestone and Heurelho Gomes this summer. If the club were to successfully offload all the aforementioned players, it would save Spurs around £17million in wages a year. Offering Bale a £200,000-per-week deal would cost Spurs £10.4million per season. Save: Spurs will look to offload the likes of Emmanuel Adebayor (above) and Tom Huddlestone (below) There was, however, some good news for Spurs in their fight to keep Bale after Perez ruled out the chance of Cristiano Ronaldo leaving Real this summer. The Portugal superstar's departure would only intensify the La Liga club'sNick Gordon Arrested For Domestic Battery And False Imprisonment Laura Leal told Sanford Florida police that Gordon hit her with a closed fist after accusing her of trying to pick up his friend at a bar. Bobbi Kristina Brown’s ex, Nick Gordon, has been arrested by police in Florida for domestic violence. Gordon’s girlfriend Laura Leal told Sanford police that he beat her after they watched the NBA Finals on Friday night. According to the New York Daily News, Gordon, 28, allegedly attacked Leal because he believed she was “trying to hook up with one of his friends.” When they got home she claims he held her in his house “hitting and punching her in the face and the back of the head with a closed fist.” Eventually, Leal ran into Gordon’s

Manhattan's luckiest renter has paid just ONE DOLLAR a month since 2006 for his two bedroom apartment thanks to bureaucratic oversight Thanks to a little error on the part of the city of New York and a lot of blind luck, a Manhattan man pays the bargain basement rate of $1 per month in rent for his apartment. David Lieberman moved into the pad on Morningside Boulevard, an in demand section of up-and-coming Harlem, in 2006 and paid $2,100, market rate at the time for the two bedroom apartment. But since learning that the city lowered the rent to a buck for previous tenants while they waited for damages from a fire to be repaired, Lieberman has laid claim to the cheapest rent in the Big Apple. Behold: New York City's luckiestinvited to move back in. Instead, the apartment was listed at market price via Craigslist and that's how 30-year-old Liberman wound up there. But when he caught wind of the legal price of the place thanks to the lawsuit, he also sued the landlord claiming he was duped into believing the place was no longer rent stabilized. The owner of 98 Morningside lost and Lieberman was awarded $104,000 and his rent was lowered to his current rate of one dollar. Somewhere along the way, the Tonges' suit was dismissed and despite attempts by Singer to have the temporary dollar rent lifted, the unbelieveable deal remains.

Putin Inaugurates Bridge to Crimea On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin formally inaugurated the controversial new bridge across the Kerch Strait. The structure provides a strategic connection between contiguous Russian territory and Russian-occupied Crimea, a trip that previously required waterborne transportation. After a brief ceremony, Putin climbed behind the wheel of a Kamaz dump truck and led a convoy of construction vehicles across the new bridge. The 12-mile-long structure is now the longest in Europe, and according to the Kremlin, 10,000 construction workers put in enough effort to complete it six months ahead of schedule. Putin had pushed for the span to open in advance of the 2018 summer tourism season in order to encourage more Russians to travel to Crimea. In a statement issued Tuesday, the European Commission registered itscontinued objection to the bridge. "The Russian Federation has constructed the Kerch Bridge to the Crimean Peninsula without Ukraine's consent. This constitutes another violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity by Russia," the EC said. "The construction of the bridge aims at the further forced integration of the illegally-annexed peninsula with Russia and its isolation from Ukraine of which it remains a part." In a statement, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asserted that the bridge is "yet another piece of evidence of the Kremlin ignoring international law" and constitutes "an attempt to legitimize the [Russian] occupation of the Crimean peninsula." Two-way automobile and public transit traffic via the Kerch Strait Bridge opens on Wednesday, though as-yet-unfinished work on freeways on either side of the span may reduce the initial amount of

traffic. The adjacent railway section of the bridge (above left) is scheduled to open in late 2019. While the economic importance of the bridge remains to be seen, its strategic value is certain. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, returning full control over the naval base at Sebastopol to the Black Sea Fleet. Sebastopol was established and developed as a Russian naval base in the 1700s, and it is one of a handful of Russian deepwater ports that are ice-free year round. The bridge provides the Russian military with land access to the peninsula without crossing Ukrainian-controlled territory. Kerch Strait Bridge under construction, 2016 (Kremlin) As a side effect, it may also impose new physical limits on shipping to Ukrainian ports on the Sea of Azov, according to the European Commission. Thebridge's navigable span is 750 feet wide by 115 feet high, and the dredged channel through the strait has a navigable depth of about 26 feet. The Russian bridge is not the first across the Kerch Strait. In 1943, German forces attempted to build a bridge near the same site, but an assault by Soviet troops forced them to retreat before they could complete it. In 1944, Soviet forces managed to finish the project, but it was destroyed by heavy ice floes early the following year.

about us.” On Dec. 13, Decker was driving home from Broncos headquarters, listening to the news on the radio — a student had shot another student at Arapahoe. “It brings back flashbacks,” he said. “The library. Running out of the cafeteria. The gymnasium. You start praying for people.” Decker recalls the voice of his friend, as the two fled the cafeteria to the library, ran past the gymnasium and spotted the chaos: “That’s my brother!” On Sept. 24, 2003, a student shot and killed two other students at Rocori High School in small-town Cold Spring, Minn. Decker was connected to both victims — one was a former teammate on the baseball team, the other the brother of his close friend, Jesse Bartell. Decker was eating lunch with Bartell in the cafeteria when there wasa sudden announcement. Code red. The two started sprinting, and that’s when Bartell saw his younger brother, Seth, sprawled on the gym floor. The gunman, a disgruntled student, had also shot classmate Aaron Rollins. Decker and 11 other classmates hid in the library closet. Meanwhile, gym teacher Mark Johnson had heard a loud sound, which he at first thought was a light fixture falling to the floor. If only it had been. Johnson came into the gym and saw bloodshed at the hands of a boy. Freshman John Jason McLaughlin stood there, armed, “and I started walking toward him,” Johnson said. “He raised the gun at me and I stopped, took out my right hand and I just said, ‘No!’ I’ll be darned, he discharged the remaining shells on

WASHINGTON – Former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile appeared incoherent and agitated when WND approached her at a Tuesday book signing to ask her questions about murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich. Brazile says in her new book, which is dedicated to Rich, that she was deeply concerned with Rich's mysterious murder and had discussed it in a phone call with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after Clinton's election loss. She wrote that she asked Clinton to contribute to a reward fund to help find the slain DNC staffer's murderer, but Clinton ended the phone call. The following is an excerpt from Brazile's book "Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House": I knew the campaign had over $3 million set aside in a legallike to go on the record as saying that the attempt to smear Seth Rich has caused enormous harm to his family," she charged. "Joel and Mary (Rich's parents) deserve better than that kind of salacious, sensational type of journalism. "Seth was a patriot. I got a chance to work with him. I wish you would have known him, because, had you known him, you would not be bringing up some of what I call blatant attempts to smear his name." When WND finished recording her remarks, Brazile scolded WND a second time for asking her about allegations that Rich leaked the DNC emails. "Let me say one thing: Journalists trying to smear Rich with conspiracy theories are devastating the Rich family," Brazile retorted. "Rich was a patriot, and he doesn't

to a charitable foundation to fund a reward. There are ways that they could have made it happen if they wanted to. I would think that their lawyers could very easily make it happen." Rich was working on voter-registration systems for the DNC in the summer of 2016. According to online hacker Kim Dotcom, Rich was also developing other technologies to expose corruption and the influence of corporate money in politics. Kim Dotcom also claimed Rich was behind the DNC's leaked emails to WikiLeaks. In the early hours of July 10, 2016, Rich was gunned down by unknown attackers just blocks from his home. An official investigation has reportedly produced no leads in the effort to find Rich's killer or killers, nor any possible motive for the homicide. In her book,Brazile suggest Rich might have been killed for being white in the wrong neighborhood, though he lived in a quiet part of town and many of his neighbors were white. "Only to [her friend] Elaine could I say that I felt some responsibility for Seth Rich's death. I didn't bring him into the DNC, but I helped keep him there working on voting rights," Brazile wrote. "With all I knew now about the Russians' hacking, I could not help but wonder if they had played some part in his unsolved murder. Besides that, racial tensions were high that summer and I worried that he was murdered for being white on the wrong side of town." She also wrote that a friend in the intelligence community warned her to get protection

cricket Updated: Dec 16, 2018 16:37 IST It was a special performance by the India skipper Virat Kohli as he became the second fastest to 25 Test centuries after Don Bradman as he achieved the feat on Day 3 of the second Test between against Australia in Perth. That was not the only record that he claimed on Sunday as the right-hander also scored his sixth ton in Australia, joining boyhood hero Sachin Tendulkar, and he celebrated by suggesting he lets his bat do the talking. READ: Rishabh Pant surpasses MS Dhoni, creates another record Down Under However, the moment was somewhat tainted by the confusion and debate that surrounded his dismissal. Kohli’s innings came to an end when he edged Pat Cummins to a forward-diving Peter Handscomb at second slip. Whether Handscomb gotGov. Mark Dayton, trailed by GOP legislative leaders Sen. Amy Koch and House Speaker Kurt Zellers, headed to a news conference to announce the start of the special session at the Capitol Tuesday. David Joles, Star Tribune Dayton: Vikings may have to wait till 2012 session Article by: ROCHELLE OLSON Star Tribune July 19, 2011 - 10:15 PM The chances for a new Vikings stadium at Arden Hills appeared more uncertain than ever on Tuesday, with Gov. Mark Dayton saying he might let the issue wait until next year's legislative session. The Vikings had hoped to have the stadium plan included in the special session that started Tuesday. That ambition was quickly dashed. Dayton then said he might consider calling a second special session in the fall to determine the fate of the plan to

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was not too well prepped for the exam as it was, and expecting a miracle would not be scientifically sound judgment, but anyways, my point is, an exam should be geared towards a constructive assessment of a student and NOT a “destructive” one. Anyways. As any Feynman fan will remember, he decided to drop out of Physics for a while and check out Biology while he was in Princeton to just get a feel for what was going on in the world of science around him. Trust a scientific genius like him to do something weird like this. Anyways, so when he was doing Biology, he had a rather fun run in with a librarian when he demanded a “map of a cat” to study its anatomy. Now, in orderCitation CJ2 When Cessna redesigned their popular CJ1 aircraft, the result was the CJ2: bigger, faster, and more capable. The cabin and wingspan have been stretched from it’s predecessor. The CJ2 has a significantly increased payload capacity in comparison to the CJ1, and features increased range. The cabin holds six passengers with a generous baggage compartment. There is also an enclose fully flushing lavatory for passenger convenience. The CJ2 maintains the tradition of the private jet Citation line: economy, simplicity, and performance. Its operating costs are just as low as the original Citation Jet, but it offers a lot more range and a faster cruise speed. Examples of possible nonstop trips include Oakland to Cabo and San Francisco to Calgary.

University cricket: Super spells by Darshana, Khushbu Splendid bowling spells from Darshana Rajpoot and Khushbu Patel highlighted the pre-quarter round of the West Zone Inter-University women's cricket tournament organized by University of Mumbai and Rizvi College. Shivaji University's Rajpoot claimed six wickets to bundle out RDVV Jabalpur for 65. In reply, Shivaji University chased down the target with nine wickets to maintain their winning momentum yesterday. In another match, VNSGU Surat University's Patel's 4 for 8 helped restrict SGBU Amravati University for 134 in 33.4 overs. Rohini More's 55 went in vain as the Surat side won by six wickets with useful contributions from Payal Borkar (37 not out) and Hani Patel (31 not out).Pope Anastasius III was Pope from April 911 to his death in 913. He was a Roman by birth.[1] A Roman nobleman, Lucian, is sometimes recognized as his father, although other sources assert that he was the illegitimate son of his predecessor Pope Sergius III (904 - 911). Almost nothing is recorded of Pope Anastasius III, his pontificate falling in the period when Rome and the Papacy were in the power of Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, and his wife Theodora, who approved Anastasius III's candidacy. Under his reign the Normans of Rollo were evangelized. His papacy faced renewed threats from the Saracens, after they established themselves on the Garigliano river.

and far between, but they could often be truly incredible... and few were as incredible as Namco's Klonoa. For this week's Retronauts Micro, I briefly go over the creative choices and design excellence that made Klonoa so great. The series may be dead and buried at this point, but Klonoa remains fantastic; in fact, thanks to some quirks of its graphics, it actually gets better when you play it on more advanced formats than the original PS1 hardware. Klonoa was simple and sweet in a time when those were the last traits most people wanted in their console games, and it was all the better for that divergence. Download Links Libsyn (12:32, 8.7 MB) | MP3 Download | SoundCloud Episode Description Jeremy reminisces on the appeal of Namco's Klonoa, a PlayStation game whoseOur vision was to provide a free, globally accessible meeting in which neither the speakers nor the participants needed to travel. The meeting was completely delocalized, with the speakers, organizers, and attendees scattered across six continents and hundreds of locations, connected via a video-conferencing tool and social media. Despite this delocalisation, the meeting retained many characteristics of a traditional conference: invited and contributed talks with follow-up questions and discussion, and a poster session. However, unlike in traditional conferences, all attendees avoided air travel, registration costs, CO~2~ emissions and visa issues. The impact on families was minimized as well, although participants in inconvenient time zones had to wake up early or stay up late. While we were writing this piece, the APS March Meeting 2020 was cancelled due to the

know people our age that went broke.] *South Florida [Serves them right. They should have acted their age.] *Denver [DataMind must have done this on purpose, or maybe it got hacked.] *South Florida [Don't see why anyone would wish this on their worst enemy. No, it was an unintended consequence, hubris at its worst. And mother nature has had the last word.] *Alberta . . . The conversation went on endlessly like this: old farts chatting the night away. DataMind was the name of the smartphone app that had brought down the world. But it didn't start out that way, not by a long shot. Its first version had gone viral among the self-help/motivational blogosphere, and by the time version 2.0 was released, the business world had embraced the app with open armshalf-grinned. "I guess. I mean, that's closer than Florida, but I'd hate to try to walk there." "Hey, we should try to talk to him." "Who?" Nick asked perplexed. "Bob. He's not that far. Maybe he knows where we should go, or—who knows? He's the closest sane person we know. Except for Mrs. Lambert, but a lot of help she would be." Nick tried to hide his grimace at the mention of Mrs. Lambert. He hadn't told Jimmy, and he didn't plan on doing so. "What if some crazy is listening and figures out where we are?" Nick asked. "Really? You think they are sitting at home listening to shortwave?" "There could be unaffected people listening. People like us that are desperate enough to..." "The most dangerous thing right now is isolation," Jimmy said with self-evidential confidence. "Hardly,"

enough brain cells to be more agreeable, Nick thought. Then he squashed the notion, frustrated with himself for wasting time thinking about something other than getting out of the situation, preferably in one piece. Both boys had pen lights on their lanyards. Jimmy's was brighter than Nick's and between the two lights they could just make their way through the boxes upon boxes of storage. Things that would ordinarily go in someone's attic if they didn't mind cannibalizing their garage. Still, the two lights weren't enough to see everything. Not before the crazies would break through. Nick had an idea. He moved to the driver's side door and opened it. Jimmy saw him and followed after. "Shouldn't we turn off the engine? It's getting really hard to see..." He coughed.time for this," Jimmy insisted. That was it. That was the button Nick was waiting to have pushed. " _We_ don't have time for this?" Nick echoed. "Since when were _we_ making decisions? When did you last think about someone other than yourself?" "I'm trying to find a way out for both of us," Jimmy said as innocently as he could. "Why start now?" "What's that supposed to mean?" "Are you kidding me? Are you really asking me—" "You're the one making all the decisions, deciding we were going to stay in Fairbanks indefinitely," Jimmy whined. "And why did I have to make that choice for both of _us_?" "You didn't. And it was the wrong choice anyways." "We won't know that, Jimmy. Because now, we don't have the option to stay put. Thanks to you." "What'd I do?" Here

many things my little brother screwed up. Could you just once be concerned about me?" "You haven't earned that. You used up people's sympathy a long time ago. Even Mom and Dad stopped caring years ago." "That's not fair. You know they changed with the app." Nick knew Jimmy was right; the superhuman drive for work and efficiency brought about by DataMind hadn't turned people into the best parents. If anything, it was the opposite. There are no such things as efficient relationships. But facts weren't important right now. What mattered was that Jimmy was held to account for the jam he'd put both of them in. "Whatever makes you sleep better at night," Nick said. "I'm just saying, if not getting your way about Deadhorse was such a big deal thatstranded car to their van. The savings in time of getting two so they could relay their efforts wasn't worth the space it took up in his buggy. He needed the extra room for sodas, he told himself. _One down, one to go_ , he thought as he wheeled out of the aisle. There had been no siphon hoses next to the gas cans, which was the obvious place to find them if he was going to. But he had anticipated this. He made a cursory check of the two remaining aisles in automotive, just to be sure they didn't have hoses somewhere else. Then he headed toward the gardening section. He shined his light toward the corner of the store. As bright as the little light seemed, especially in

where'd he'd laid it. _That was it_ , he realized. The thing his brain knew had been left undone when his body told him to relax. He reached into the sliding compartment near the console where his half-empty box of nine-millimeter ammo was. He pulled out the carton of Remington UMC's and opened it carefully as if they were fragile, precious cargo. Like they would fly away if they were spooked. He counted them: twenty-three rounds. Enough to reload his empty magazine which held sixteen if you really squeezed the last one in, but not enough to replenish another mag if he should empty one. Jimmy came around the van and watched Nick load the empty magazine. "I hope Bob has more ammo in Deadhorse," Jimmy said idly. "I hope wepoint we didn't want to hear it anymore and gave in. Some of us did. Some of us didn't." Nick took another sip. He wanted to say he was sorry about Pete's son, but he didn't feel like his condolence could be taken seriously. He hadn't known the kid. It would seem trite and insincere. "What about Lusa? She's young." "Yes, she is. Some kids listen to their parents, and some don't. Simple as that." Pete poured another glass, this one taller than the last. Nick did the same albeit he wasn't ready for as tall a pour. The two sat sipping their drinks silently. But the silence didn't feel awkward to Nick. It felt like they were both exactly where they wanted to be. Nick looked at the fire. It

across the movie screen of his mind. His mom and dad. His stepmother. Jimmy playing with the kids. _Where was Jimmy?_ It didn't matter. He'd find some place to sleep. Someone would tell him what to do. Then he found the one. The thought that he liked the most and the one he wanted to hold onto until he fell asleep. Lusa. ## CHAPTER 18 NICK WOKE UP in a way he couldn't remember waking in years: slowly. Usually he was hearing the alarm clock for school, or his parents would wake him in the summer: "Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey," his stepmom used to say after she had already been up since five a.m., hyped on her latest DataMind meditation session. "Early bird gets the worm," she'd add. And beforeDataMind, he had Jimmy who liked to sleep in as much as he did. But if Jimmy happened to be the first one up, he would start shoving Nick over and over, shaking him awake. That was the way it had been back in Fairbanks before the update, before moving into Grandpa Joe's basement, and before driving two-hundred miles toward Deadhorse in a worn-out, flat-tired, seen-better-days Dodge Ram van. Today was different. The single window to the left of the door allowed warm light into the cabin, first hitting the wall and gently shifting its angle to strike Nick in bed. It was like so many morning glories who waited for the sun to invite them to open their petals. It was how it was supposed to be. Nick

It had almost felt like he was in time-out, detention even. Lusa started to return to a different group. Nick thought quickly. "Hey, there's something I don't get." "What's that?" she said looking coy. "Can't you just hang meat in your smokehouse? Wouldn't that keep things through the summer?" Lusa's eyes widened, then relaxed with a gentle smile. "It's not that kind of smokehouse," she said. "I've got to do some chores. See you later?" "Yeah, okay." That was weird, he thought. He must have said something wrong, or maybe she's telling the truth and really had to go. Nick watched the children playing. It was some variation on red-light, green-light with a different language and hand signals. And somehow the dogs were involved. Jimmy wasn't with them. "You sleep alright?" Pete asked, approaching him fromHave you seen him?" "He was going to spend the night at my house," the chubby kid said, "but he went to the smokehouse last night and never came out." "Where?" Nick asked quickly. The gang of little ones all raised their arms and pointed to the small cabin higher up the gentle rolling hill. It was the furthest away from camp and wasn't bermed with earth the way all the rest were. "Thanks, guys," Nick said as he started toward the cabin. Nick's mind raced as he climbed the subtle incline. He found himself walking faster and faster as he neared the cabin. His first reaction to the children's words was to think back to the garage, Jimmy's suicide attempt. Except, that didn't make sense. Jimmy hadn't made enough noise. He

need to pull the hammer back with your right-hand thumb." Jimmy did easily, and the old gun clicked softly. "It's cocked. Raise it to your shoulder, put your cheek against the stock, and aim at the sign." Jimmy did. "There's no sights," he said in mild panic. "That's because you don't need them on a scatter gun. Just get that forward bead over the target." Nick got behind Jimmy making sure he had the butt fully against his shoulder, firmly. "Okay, same drill. Breath out and gently squeeze." Nick switched his focus back and forth between Jimmy and the sign, watching for errors. He looked solid. The shotgun erupted, shoving Jimmy's shoulder. Jimmy maintained his position, the gun tight against his body. Nick looked at the sign, punched through with a dozen new holes. ThenNick felt vulnerable, not so much because they were out of the car—although that always made him nervous—but because they were out of road. If they ran into trouble, they couldn't simply retreat back to the van and go on to Deadhorse. _Where would they go?_ "There's the pipeline," Nick said after walking past the construction sign. From there the road gradually shifted from dirt to grass and permafrost snow, the kind that wasn't skied on. Nick started toward the pipeline. "Wait, what about the food?" Jimmy asked. Nick thought for a second. "Either we find Bob and everything's good, or we'll come back to the van and figure something else out. Let's get a couple bottles of water and leave everything else." Of course, Nick didn't mean leaving their guns,

to the station cracked open and a man with a blue coat and fur hood appeared. He raised a rifle towards them and shouted, "Identify yourselves." Nick and Jimmy both flinched. Nick started to reach for his pistol, but his reason stopped him. "We're Joe's grandkids," Jimmy yelled. "I'm Jimmy, and this is my brother Nick." The man pulled back his hood as if removing a disguise. His mouth opened and his blue eyes shimmered in astonishment. "You're Joe's boys?" he asked as he lowered his rifle. He didn't wait for them to respond but continued. "Well come on in for goodness sake." He stood sideways, his back against the open door like a concierge inviting in patron guests. Nick and Jimmy hurried forward. They walked through the door as the man watchedstood up and walked to the bay window and looked out. The sun shined brightly, bouncing its rays off the slick, reflective melting snow and into the station. Nick wished he had sunglasses. It was a reminder of how inhospitable the outside world really was. Like it was threatening him, even now. Warning him that it had more where that came from and that he and his brother better learn their lesson and stay indoors. Anthropomorphizing nature seemed silly, but the sense was palpable and real. Nick talked back silently, telling the old hag that he had no beef with her. That he was just trying to stay alive and that she needed to move on and pick on somebody else. Nick touched his Springfield, tucked into his waistband behind

forty tons and over three-thousand varieties of seeds saved in the mountain. Forced to, Nick could live out his days on the many lifetimes of calories represented by this cache. The questions on Nick's mind were, what would come next and how should this asset that was invisible to the rest of the world be tapped and utilized? It was far more valuable as starter seed than as direct food. Judiciously distributed, it could reboot the entire planet's agricultural system, one farm at a time. He looked back out the window, this time toward the horizon. On good days, he could see the pipeline in the distance. But today the snow blurred his view. Nick saw a figure emerge somewhere close to the valley's now frozen river. It was as ifthis person stepped through white curtains and onto center stage. The man slumped over, carrying a rifle in one hand and dragging part of an animal carcass with the other. Jimmy dropped the carcass and gazed toward the station knowing Nick was watching. He pulled up his snow visor and smiled. Nick reflexively grinned, recognizing the signal: his brother had been successful and needed help dragging home the kill. Nick rushed to put his shoes and coat on. In his haste, he slammed his cup down hard, spilling big black drops. He stopped, hesitated, looking deeply into the black liquid. It had been the blackness, the dark that he and Jimmy had looked into. Not because they chose to or wanted to, but because they had been held down against

down on the page. But soon, new fears rushed in, namely that I wouldn't be able to write another novel. That might seem silly, but I wondered if the _Anti Life Series_ was just the only story I had inside me, something akin to the Great American Novel, a myth that suggests just that. Well, I had a notion for another story. I've noticed as I get older, the way forward often seems to be going backward. I remember reading a similar thought by Ray Bradbury in his excellent collection of essays: _Zen in the Art of Writing_. My childhood and adolescent memories, dreams, and fantasies all seem charged with power when I revisit them: like unplanted seeds, charged points of potential, places where my life could have changed butSomaliland President &DP World CEO Address the Signing Ceremony of Berbera Port Expansion Somaliland President &DP World CEO Address the Signing Ceremony of Berbera Port Expansion As part of his unwavering determination to developing the country, the incumbent president of the republic of Somaliland H.E. Muse Bihi Abdi attended the signing ceremony of DP World Project on expanding Berbera port. Heralding a New Era Unlike other signing ceremonies, this glitzy ceremony attracted many international guests including veteran journalist from 24 countries, distinguished guests, ambassadors and other dignitaries from the neighboring countries. The former president of the republic of Somaliland H.E. Ahmed Silanyo has also attended this auspicious ceremony to mark the occasion. He is noted for his commencement of the deal at the beginning for the 30-year port concession. Dp World Perspective Marking the ceremony,

relationships that now exist and make Somaliland an important player in regional economic integration and growth. The importance of the Port of Berbera as a Red Sea gateway for the Middle East and Africa can now be realized, unlocking our potential as a trade hub and creating jobs across the country. The Berbera Port expansion and modernization work is the biggest construction project in Somaliland. This, together with the Berbera free zone and the new airport are an essential part of Somaliland’s economic development transformation and linkage to the wider regional economic integration and growth. This did not happen by itself. It is the result of tremendous work, notably by the governments of Somaliland, UAE and Ethiopia. Ladies and gentlemen, The Development of ports is about brining competitiveness which means betterin creating conducive environment for investment in Somaliland. Ladies and Gentlemen With the awarding of the contract, today we are getting much closer to realizing our vision to make Berbera a regional maritime hub in the Horn of Africa, and its development will spur economic growth for the region and boost local prosperity with jobs for the people of Somaliland. The former British Somaliland Protectorate achieved full independence from the United Kingdom on 26 June, 1960. On 1 July, 1960, the state of Somaliland united with Somalia, a territory under a U.N.- mandated Italian Trusteeship until that same day, thereby creating the Somali Republic. The Republic of Somaliland restored its independence after the total collapse of Somalia on 18 May 1991 as a result of the civil war of the late eighties

physical and metaphysical calculations. These calculations are needed to prioritize his actions – and her reactions – in a limited time. In delegating these decisions to the man, the partner has entrusted the task for both of them as a couple. Her Sensuality as a Nod, Her Smile as a Goal For her part, she offers a natural feminine characteristics: sensuality (The man’s sensual characteristics in general are no comparison to those of the females’ in their depth.). This sensuality underwrites her understanding in her task to follow. Therefore in the correct partnership there is a proper allocation of powers and responsibilities. No one is humbled: it’s simply that each gender has its own role and its own responsibility area. And the end result is achieved solely through mutual effort. ButHypovitaminosis A in metropolitan Adelaide. Hypovitaminosis A is a well-recognized condition in many developing countries. However, in the developed world the diagnosis is frequently missed or delayed because of its rarity. A 67-year-old man from metropolitan Adelaide presented to us with gradual but severe bilateral visual loss. He had marked punctate epithelial keratopathy in both eyes. Hypovitaminosis was suspected because of his bizarre dietary habit, and this was confirmed by a combination of impression cytology of the ocular surface and biochemical testing of his venous blood. His vision responded dramatically to vitamin A supplementation. Hypovitaminosis A should be suspected in severe cases of 'dry-eye', especially in those patients with unusual dietary habit or malabsorption.

mechanism includes a slide member for carrying an IC card, a locking member for holding the slide member in an IC card loaded position, and a spring member for energizing the slide member in an eject direction when the locking member is unlocked, wherein when the IC card is ejected as the slide member moves in the eject direction, the IC card is pushed out in the eject direction by an energizing force of the spring member. However, the above-described conventional IC card connector has the following problem in terms of construction. Since an IC card is energized in an eject direction along with a slide member for carrying the IC card, by an energizing force of a spring member for energizing the slide member in the eject direction,the energizing force of the spring member causes the IC card to pop out of the IC card connector. Although an energizing force of the spring member can be weakened to prevent an IC card from popping out, the weakened energizing force of the spring member would make it difficult to obtain strokes required to eject the IC card, making it difficult to take out the IC card.

Otakuusa Magazine Magazine Otaku USA is a bimonthly magazine published by Sovereign Media, which covers various elements of the "otaku" lifestyle (such as anime, manga, video games, cosplay and Japanese popular music) from an American perspective. The issues were accompanied by a DVD featuring three anime episodes but as of 2009 the DVD feature was dropped and the double sided poster feature of the Magazine was also dropped starting with the February 2010 issue. Source Outlet Details Recent Articles otakuusamagazine.com — See Ichigo’s First Hollow Battle in Live-Action Bleach Preview by Joseph Luster February 21, 2018 One of the next big live-action adaptations involves bringing Tite Kubo’s Bleach to the big screen. Set to premiere in Japan on July 20, the Bleach movie has director Shinsuke Sato (live-action Gantz movies, Oblivion Island) at the helm,and a new teaser gives us a glimpse of the action to come. otakuusamagazine.com — Hollywood Sonic the Hedgehog Film Release Date Announced by Matt Schley February 21, 2018 With the news the Super Mario Bros. would be heading to the big screen, we forgot for a moment that Mario’s speedy blue rival has a head start. The Hollywood take on Sonic the Hedgehog, announced back in 2014, will be released November 15, 2019, according to the Hollywood Reporter. otakuusamagazine.com — Worship the Idols of Utano Princesama: Legend Star on Home Video by Otaku USA Staff February 21, 2018 Featured Spotlight:The heat is on in the world of Utano Princesama! What started as a simple contest to become the opening act for Triple S ends up turning into something much more interesting in Utano

is DENIED AS MOOT. 1 In August 2005, Rondeno filed a claim under the LHWCA with the United States Department of Labor. That claim was eventually referred to an administrative law judge, who in November 2011 allowed Rondeno to withdraw his claim without prejudice. Rondeno also brought suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in May 2008. On Rondeno’s motion, the district court in that case dismissed those claims without prejudice. Oakland, CA-A settlement agreement announced today between watchdog groups Association of Irritated Residents, Clean Water Fund and Center for Environmental Health, and oil and gas wastewater disposal company, Valley Water Management (Valley) will require the company to stop discharging toxic chemicals into groundwater at two of its facilities east of Bakersfield. Valley, the single largest operator of unlined oil and gas wastewater pits in California, agreed to the settlement with the groups after they filed suit under the state’s Prop 65 safe drinking water law. The settlement with Valley, which operates 462 oil and gas wastewater pits at 28 facilities, is the first Prop 65 lawsuit to limit toxic oil and gas wastewater discharge into disposal pits. The organizations sued Valley under Proposition 65 for discharges of the cancer-causing

a provisional government and vowed to extend official recognition once it was formed. The statement by the French president, François Hollande, represented the furthest any Western leader had gone in pressuring the embattled government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. While the United States, Britain and other Western countries have called on Mr. Assad to resign and have supported the opposition with nonlethal aid — and American intelligence agents have helped funnel arms to rebel groups — they have not explicitly stated they would recognize a provisional government formed by Mr. Assad’s array of political enemies. The statement by the French president, François Hollande, represented the furthest any Western leader had gone in pressuring the embattled government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. While the United States, Britain andalso joined American and British warnings to the Assad government not to deploy its arsenal of chemical weapons, calling such a step grounds for a military intervention. Mr. Hollande also joined American and British warnings to the Assad government not to deploy its arsenal of chemical weapons, calling such a step grounds for a military intervention. The French leader spoke hours after Syrian antigovernment fighters said they had downed a government helicopter during fierce fighting in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. Syrian state television confirmed that a helicopter had crashed in the neighborhood of Qaboun, without detailing the cause. The French leader spoke hours after Syrian antigovernment fighters said they had downed a government helicopter during fierce fighting in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. Syrian state television confirmed that

a helicopter had crashed in the neighborhood of Qaboun, without detailing the cause. In an unverified video posted on the Internet on Monday purporting to show the crash, flames appear around a falling helicopter, before it bursts into a fireball and plummets to the ground. Another video appeared to show wreckage, with the charred fuselage and a rotor resting in a residential alleyway. In an unverified video posted on the Internet on Monday purporting to show the crash, flames appear around a falling helicopter, before it bursts into a fireball and plummets to the ground. Another video appeared to show wreckage, with the charred fuselage and a rotor resting in a residential alleyway. The Athar brigade, a rebel group, claimed responsibility, saying in a statement that the helicopter had beenshot down “with the participation of other brigades.” The Athar brigade, a rebel group, claimed responsibility, saying in a statement that the helicopter had been shot down “with the participation of other brigades.” Activist groups said that the helicopter had been used in a government assault on rebel fighters in Jobar, a patch of suburbs outside Damascus, the capital, that has been racked by periodic, heavy bouts of fighting since last year. After the helicopter went down on Monday, activists said that government forces had started shelling the area near the crash site. Activist groups said that the helicopter had been used in a government assault on rebel fighters in Jobar, a patch of suburbs outside Damascus, the capital, that has been racked by periodic, heavy bouts of fighting

the conflict. As it fights an insurgency on several fronts, the Syrian government has become increasingly reliant on warplanes and helicopter gunships to extend its reach. Military analysts say the government may be struggling to keep aloft its fleet of Mi-25 Hind-D attack helicopters, given the scarcity of spare parts and the intensity of the fighting. The government did not identify the type of helicopter that crashed on Monday. Syria was believed to have about three dozen of the Mi-25 Hind-D helicopters before the start of the conflict. The fighting on the eastern edges of Damascus came a day after residents in a southern suburb of the city held a mass burial for the victims in one of the deadliest episodes of the conflict. Witnesses and activist groups sayattacks in the last week by government forces have left hundreds dead in the Damascus suburb of Daraya. The fighting on the eastern edges of Damascus came a day after residents in a southern suburb of the city held a mass burial for the victims in one of the deadliest episodes of the conflict. Witnesses and activist groups say attacks in the last week by government forces have left hundreds dead in the Damascus suburb of Daraya. On the Syria border with Turkey, a backup of Syrians trying to flee their country appeared to be growing quickly, with nearly 10,000 massed on the Syrian side awaiting permission to cross, a Turkish government official reported. “There are people sleeping literally on the roadsides,” said the official, who spoke on condition

of anonymity. On the Syria border with Turkey, a backup of Syrians trying to flee their country appeared to be growing quickly, with nearly 10,000 massed on the Syrian side awaiting permission to cross, a Turkish government official reported. “There are people sleeping literally on the roadsides,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Turkey has already taken in more than 80,000 Syrians who have registered with the United Nations refugee agency. Turkey has built nine camps to accommodate them and is scrambling to construct six more, while temporarily housing 19,000 Syrians in student hostels until the new camps are completed. Turkey has already taken in more than 80,000 Syrians who have registered with the United Nations refugee agency. Turkey has built nine camps to accommodate themTurkish border, as well as the intensified military campaigns in the Damascus area and around the southern city of Dara’a near Jordan. The number of Syrians who have fled to Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon has surged in recent weeks and now exceeds 200,000, outpacing estimates by international relief agencies, which are struggling to accommodate the increased exodus. Relief officials have attributed the rise in refugees partly to heavy fighting in Aleppo, Syria’s commercial capital, which is near the Turkish border, as well as the intensified military campaigns in the Damascus area and around the southern city of Dara’a near Jordan. In a further sign of stress in the relief effort, Unicef issued an urgent appeal on Monday for additional funds to meet emergency needs at the Za’atari refugee

Iroquois County resident diagnosed with rodent-spread disease WATSEKA — The Illinois Department of Public Health reported late Friday (5/11) afternoon that an Iroquois County resident has been diagnosed with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. The syndrome is a disease spread by rodents, according to the report. The Iroquois County resident first showed symptoms in late April after cleaning out a structure where rodents were seen and was hospitalized in May with fever and shortness of breath. The person is recovering after being released from the hospital. Results of tests from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be available next week. According to a Department of Public Health press release, it marks the state's third case of the disease. The first case, which was reported in 1996, involved a northwestern Illinois man who died from theWashington (CNN) Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council official testifying publicly as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, has reached out to the US Army about the security of his family as he comes under repeated attack by Trump and his allies. The Army has had conversations with Vindman about the security of his family, a US defense official told CNN. These conversations were initiated at the request of the Vindmans, the source said. As of now, the Army does not believe there is an imminent security threat against the decorated veteran, the defense official said. Vindman testified before congressional lawmakers on Tuesday, telling them that Trump's push for Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden on a July call was "inappropriate," and

was enlightened, not sick; I was just too stubborn to see it. Just as Neil had idealized his uncle Brad and considered him the world's greatest painter as well as songwriter, he now idealized his gang and saw them as not only the world's greatest artists, but as the world's saviors. We started filming Alex on May 11, 1970. Donald Sutherland and I worked well together, and Paul Mazursky was a wonderful director. I loved the work. This was what I'd wanted for years, a good part in a wonderful script with a creative director, playing opposite an excellent actor. Is it any wonder I was in denial about the effect my success was having on Neil? I knew he was restless, frustrated, envious, and desperate. I just didn'tyears after resigning from conventional religion, it was a downright radical and exotic idea. I knew that Gurdjieff had been a profound teacher for the people who studied with him. But Gurdjieff was long dead. Although I was studying his system by myself, he made it clear that "the work" couldn't really be done alone. It should be done in a group and with a guide. But where was such a group and who would be that guide? From my reading I learned that Gurdjieff had been associated with the Sufis, an ancient mystical sect, but did they still exist? I didn't know. But I was drawn to one of the central concepts as I understood it: that the usual state of mankind was a kind of sleepwalking. That

life, winning both the Oscar and the Tony, and other awards as well. There were countless parties and celebrations. And I attended them all without one sip of champagne or any other stimulant. I was absolutely sober; therefore I was able to avoid getting caught up in the bubbly atmosphere that enormous success splashes over your inflating ego. But it was the fifth thing that Dr. Elahi asked me to give up that required true spiritual effort. I tried not to be judgmental, but I caught myself over and over again not only judging others, but I had a deep pattern of judging myself. If a person hits us over the head and takes our money, are we not to get angry, call the police, and call him ato choke out the words, "Turn the fucking camera off." Then I heard, "Cut." Only then. He couldn't use it. People ran to me. Everyone knew I was badly hurt. There was no doubt in anyone's mind. I was carried to my dressing room. Doctors were called. Nothing was broken, but everything was bruised. I was traumatized and went home early. The next day, Billy captured the genuine pain visible in my face in close-ups. I was exhausted and anxious. We'd been shooting for more than a hundred days. All of us were exhausted. Only Billy's dedication remained unflagging. I had one more difficult scene with Father Karras, and then the worst would be over. But Jason blocked on one line, and every time he came to it, he froze. We

to kill Edna, she goes away. At the end of the film we see her running the Last Chance gas station in the desert. She's taken it over from Esco, played by Richard Farnsworth. He's gone to Machu Picchu, as he always dreamed of doing. She still has her healing power, but she's relinquished the fame and is healing anonymously those who find her out in the desert, where hangs the sign, "God is love and versa vice." That is really the message of the movie and that's what I wanted to say. Edna heals by loving. We tend to limit our definitions of that word to sexual love or familial love, but there are so many kinds of love. Why could Jesus heal? Because he truly loved unconditionallyThe Fleur de Lis is located directly on the beach in Wildwood Crest, surrounded by immense natural beauty and a diversity of resort attractions. We pride ourselves in offering thoughtfully appointed homelike accommodations, and friendly service.... The newly renovated Embassy Suites Hotel Secaucus - Meadowlands is located in the Harmon Meadow Business and Entertainment complex adjacent to the Meadowlands Exposition Center. Every Embassy Suites stay, a famous cook to order breakfast is included.... This full-service upscale all-suite hotel is just a short drive from Bridgewater Commons Mall, the Flemington Outlet Center, The Mall at Short Hills, Princeton University, the New Jersey State Aquarium, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and the N... A neat hotel conveniently located across the Hudson from Manhattan, with access to New York City via the Lincoln

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John Jameson founded the company in 1780 in Dublin, Ireland. Jameson whiskeys have been very highly regarded over the years, but there is a horrifying legacy at the bottom of the bottle. The end of the 19th century was a time of unimaginable cruelty in Africa as the nations of Europe sought to divide it into imperialist states. Millions of Africans were killed by the conquering forces from the north as white men pillaged the land for its vast natural resources, gold, and diamonds. Expeditions were sent to the heart of the “dark continent” hoping to uncover treasures. One such excursion featured the wealthy James Jameson, heir to the whiskey empire. According to an affidavit by Assad Farran, a Syrian translator on the expedition to the Congo, Jameson expressed aninterest in witnessing cannibalism in 1888. He was advised to purchase a slave girl, which he picked up for the bargain price of six handkerchiefs. Jameson gave the 10-year-old girl as a gift to cannibals. She was lashed to a tree and stabbed to death, then hacked apart and devoured. Meanwhile, Jameson stood by, making a series of rough sketches of the incident. Article Continued Below Later, he would render a series of illustrations and display them to others in the group. In describing them, Farran said “There were six of them, all neatly done. The first sketch was of the girl as she was led to the tree. The second showed her stabbed, with the blood gushing from the wounds. The third showed her dissected. The fourth, fifth, and

Ranking based on the volume of services (2015 February) and calculated on government and corporate securities market excluding repo operations. Vision of Baku Stock Exchange – is to become a dynamic organization that offers reliable financing and investment opportunies by providing liquid, transparent, and fair trade of financial instruments based on advanced technologies Vision of Baku Stock Exchange – is to become a dynamic organization that offers reliable financing and investment opportunies by providing liquid, transparent, and fair trade of financial instruments based on advanced technologies Vision of Baku Stock Exchange – is to become a dynamic organization that offers reliable financing and investment opportunies by providing liquid, transparent, and fair trade of financial instruments based on advanced technologies Mission of Baku Stock Exchange – is to establish and develop market infrastructurethat will provide the trading of securities and efficent exectuion of transactions Mission of Baku Stock Exchange – is to establish and develop market infrastructure that will provide the trading of securities and efficent exectuion of transactions Mission of Baku Stock Exchange – is to establish and develop market infrastructure that will provide the trading of securities and efficent exectuion of transactions On March 11, 2015 an auction on placement of short-term notes of the Central Bank of the Republic of Azerbaijan with the state registration number 50100846S, with total volume of AZN 30 000 000, with the volume put-up to the auction of AZN 5 000 000, with face value per note of AZN 100, and with turnover period of 28 days took place at Baku Stock Exchange.

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas (Reuters) - Mauro Morales has chickens in his yard, deer antlers hanging from the fence and a shed full of peyote behind his house. Peyote buttons are shown in the yard of Mauro Morales on October 12, 2007 in Rio Grande, Texas. Morales is one of three people licensed to sell the hallucinogenic cactus peyote in the United States, and advertises his business on a sign posted outside his home in the U.S.-Mexico border town. REUTERS/Jeff Franks A slight, balding man in his 60s, Morales is one of just three “peyoteros” in the country licensed by the government to sell the small green cactus that contains the hallucinogen mescaline. His profession is an old one that used to be more common along the Rio Grande, the onlyTCM. Maybe I felt his energy all along! Jason Hammel – A pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles at the time (now he’s with the Cubs), Jason used Acupuncture at the suggestion of his wife, and said he was “astonished” at how good it made him feel! It helped his energy, to enliven a “dead arm,”, and he also went in to use it as an alternative to medications for cholesterol. The cholesterol meds had given him body aches and hampered his abilities. Finally, many Olympic athletes use Acupuncture and TCM. Kevin Overland, a Canadian speed skater, used it to recover from a hip injury and won a Bronze medal, according to Acupuncture Today. Many athletes in the London Olympics also used Acupuncture. Five time Olympian high jumper Amy Acuff uses

the dog’s performing days. It may have been this “entertainment” connection that led to the poodle’s rise into the French aristocracy. However it evolved, fashionable women in France began carrying around poodles as elegant companions. It was in the late 19th century that poodles gained access to the show ring. Some of the early show dogs had corded coats which were long matted or thin tresses, instead of the common well-brushed coats. This made the poodles look very impressive, but the problem was that as a style, it was difficult to maintain and the trend waned in the early 1900s and the bouffant styles replaced it, becoming fashionable. In the 1920’s, however, the popularity of the Poodle waned in the United States and hardly had any dog of breed could befound in North America. The Poodle made a successful comeback after a decade later, which may have been helped along with their role in the military during WWII, and now have become one of the most popular dogs in the U.S.

their families is of paramount importance to us and we now feel that the time has come to stop filming." Over the weekend, Ant and Dec presented their latest episode of Saturday Night Takeaway without a studio audience and a pared-back film crew. It drew the duo's biggest-ever audience since the first series ran in 2002, with an average viewership of 9.5m viewers. At the end of the show, Ant and Dec told fans that next week's episode, the series finale, would be pre-taped. The BBC has already halted filming on continuing dramas including EastEnders, Casualty and Doctors; while Channel 4 has suspended production of its teen soap Hollyoaks. The broadcaster will ration new episodes of the show, showing three instalments a week instead of the usual five. A new series called Hollyoaks FavouritesBy ALEX OBOLENSKY Students from around the state of Virginia will gather from Feb. 13-15 with a twofold goal: to ensure that energy production occurs in an environmentally responsible way and that the youth of the world have a strong voice in shaping those decisions. This gathering, created in conjunction with the Virginia Student Environmental Council and the Virginia Student Power Network, called VA Powershift, will host its third annual conference in the Information and Technology Convergence Center at the University of Mary Washington. This past weekend, members of both VSEC and VSPN, including fifteen UMW students, met in Richmond to plan the upcoming conference. While in Richmond, leaders of VSEC delivered 200 letters to Evan Feinman, Virginia’s Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources, from citizens concerned about the Atlantic Coast natural gas

pipeline. Additionally, at a press conference under the Capital Bell Tower before their meeting Monday, student representatives from VSEC urged Governor Terry McAuliffe to reverse his decision allowing the construction of the 550 mile-long pipeline. The pipeline has sparked a controversial debate, especially in regions it would transverse, such as Nelson County, which held another town hall on the topic this past Tuesday. Critics highlight that some of the state’s most wooded spaces in the Shenandoah Valley are exposed to the threat of a spill or explosion by the project. However, proponents claim that construction would create as much as $25 million for the commonwealth in property taxes alone. The proposed pipeline has provoked a storm of protest and fed energy into the grassroots movement that the VA Power Shift attempts tosecond most vulnerable in the country to rising sea levels – falling behind only the infamous levies of New Orleans – the youth activists expected lawmakers to take their discussions seriously, and they were mostly proven correct. However, some members they met with demonstrated no interest in learning about the issues, and one even cracked iPhone jokes. Nonetheless, following the meetings, many students reaffirmed their commitment to the cause.

the room and stood quivering at attention, his lightning tulwar crackling as he saluted with it. Arthur heard the crash of at least a dozen boots out of sight down the corridor, evidence of more troopers suddenly coming from rest to parade-ground attention. "Lord Arthur! Guard present, sir!" Arthur was already in the wardrobe, taking off his paper clothes and quickly putting on the plainest uniform he could find, which happened to be the sand-colored tunic and matching pale yellow leather breeches of a Borderer on desert duty, though this particular tunic had gold braid stitched across the shoulders and the leather breeches had gold stripes down each leg. Both tunic and breeches were much softer and more comfortable than anything a regular Borderer would ever be lucky enough tothe silver jug they had. What, Suzy?" Suzy was tugging at his sleeve. "I'm coming too, right? To see the Rats and then sort out Saturday?" "You probably should stay and look after the Piper's child—" "Stay! Just because you've got taller than's sensible and your teeth all shined up doesn't mean you can do without me! Who's saved your bacon a mort of times?" "I perhaps should advise you, Lord Arthur, that I felt quite a level of resistance when we traveled here," said Scamandros. "Indeed, I was almost hurled back. It might be more prudent to take the elevator to Port Wednesday and send for the Raised Rats." "There isn't time," said Arthur. "But I think I will need you, so if you can bear it—" "I will attend you," said Scamandros. "I

BROWSE BY CONTENT TYPE Mostly interested in playing 16th - early 19th century lute and guitar music. Dabble in lute, and various other plucked strings, but classical guitar remains the everyday weapon of choice.Mostly interested in playing 16th - early 19th century lute and guitar music. Dabble in lute, and various other plucked strings, but classical guitar remains the everyday weapon of choice.second term. One sign of gumption was his unexpected promise to renew efforts to close the controversial detention center. Obama had called for the closure of Guantanamo as his first presidential order in 2009, but Congress blocked him by refusing to transport those detainees back to the United States. With little hope of transfer or release, more than half the detainees are now on a hunger strike. Now, Obama says, he is looking for potential allies in Congress who "care about fighting terrorism but also care about who we are as a people." “The idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried – that is contrary to who we are, it is contrary to our interests, and it needs to stop,” Obama said.

University : IIM Ahamdabad RahulandAnkurjoined a company called AeroSoft Corp together a few months after their Post Graduation from IIM A University. After a few years of work, their Manager promoted Rahul to a position of Senior Sales Manager, but Ankur remained in his entry level Junior Sales Officer position. Ankur developed a sense of jealousy and disgruntlement, but continued working anyway. One day Ankur felt that he could not work with Rahul anymore. He wrote his resignation letter, but before he submitted it to the Manager, he complained that Management did not value hard working staff, but only promoted only the favoured ! The Manager Mr Raju John knew that Ankur worked very hard for the years he had spent at the company; even harder than Rahuland therefore he deserved the promotion. So in order to… Trisha Karmakar is the queen of her own dreams, who has just stepped into her twenties. Having lived in New Delhi for 8 years and in Bangalore for 5, she has all that is necessary to have an uninfluential mindset about the world and of course, herself. Presently settled in Kolkata, she is pursuing graduation in psychology from Bethune College, which is renowned as the first women's college in Asia. Having said that, yes, listening to people is what she believes herself to be the best at. She has a very exceptional vision towards life and welcomes everything life throws at her, let that be a bundle of joy or a heap of sorrow. She believes it's a blessing

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Bruce and then directs in 2009 the sequel OSS 117: Lost in Rio. In 2011 he creates a modern silent black and white movie, The Artist, inspired by Hollywood Twenties movies, presented as a contestant at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011, where it has a great success, then winning further awards, among which the Directors Guild of America Awards, the Golden Globes, and the Baftas. Glasses with thick frames and a grizzled beard, Hazanavicius chooses dark suits for the evening and light for the day, white or light blue shirts left open without the constrain of ties, or he allows thin bow ties around his neck to accompany forced tuxedos. His casualwear is made of cotton jackets, pleated pants and shirts, just like long-sleeved polo shirts, jeans and ankleThe proposed development at 18th and Oak. All renderings by Archall, courtesy of Metropolitan Holdings. A proposal to build a mixed-use development at the northeast corner of 18th and Oak streets in Olde Towne East is beginning to work its way through the approval process. The plan, from Metropolitan Holdings, calls for a five-story building containing 117 apartments over about 4,600 square feet of ground-floor retail. A total of 278 parking spots would be provided; 146 of them in a first-floor garage, the others in adjacent parking lots. Currently occupying the site is the Central Seventh Day Adventist Church, a parking lot, and an empty field. The church building, most of which dates to the mid-nineties, would be demolished to make way for the new development. An existing single family home

parking for its office at 995 E. Broad St. – while the rest is controlled by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Metropolitan Holdings will be seeking a vote of approval from NEAC on the rezoning of the property. Currently split into several parcels and zoned for a mix of residential and apartment uses, the site would need to be rezoned to allow for a mixed-use development with some first-floor residential units. After the area commission vote, the proposal would then move on to the Development Commission and City Council for approval.El Salvador Just Had Its First Murder-Free Day In Three Years El Salvador received some much-needed good news this weekend, when officials announced that Saturday was the first homicide-free day in the country in three years, Reuters reports. "After years when the number of murders reached alarming levels of up to 18 per day, we saw not one homicide in the country," President Mauricio Funes said in a statement released on Sunday. The central American country has been plagued by drug wars for years, but last month, a truce was brokered by the Catholic church (with help from the government) between Mara Salvatrucha and Mara 18, the country’s two most powerful rival gangs, Salvadorian newspaper Contrapunto reports. However, Funes credits the drop to increased security measures. At the beginning of Funes’ term as president in 2009, El Salvador saw an average of 12 murders

a day, and according to statistics from the United Nations, the country’s homicide rate is 66 deaths per 100,000 people, one of the highest in the world. Much of the violence is blamed on Mexican cartels, who use the country as a transit point. The Catholic church is reportedly now in talks with gang leaders to eradicate extortion, which mainly affect small and medium entrepreneurs. If it goes well, it could dramatically improve the country’s economy by attracting foreign investment, according to the president of the Central Reserve Bank (BCR), Carlos Acevedo.New Year's in the Talmud The rabbis of the Talmud speculated about the nature of the Roman New Year's celebration. Since in the very first year of his life he had no way of knowing the cyclical seasonal changes that occur in the lengths of the days, Adam became very disturbed when the first winter began to approach and he saw that the days were getting shorter and the nights longer. He began to fear that the day was being consumed by a cosmic serpent, and that the pattern would persist indefinitely until daylight disappeared altogether. This dread continued to trouble Adam until the arrival of the winter solstice, when the pattern began to reverse itself and the days began to lengthen. At this point, relates Rav, Adam--in an allusion to

what would become known as the Kalends--exclaimed Kalon dio, a Greek phrase which has been construed by assorted modern scholars as meaning, "Praise be to God," "Beautiful day," or "May the sun set well." From that day onward, the Talmud concludes, the day of the solstice has been observed by Adam's descendants, though the original reason may have been garbled in the transmission. A Mythological Motif Another noted talmudic rabbi, Yohanan, proposed a different explanation of the origin of the Kalends. According to this version the story has nothing to do with biblical history, but goes back to a heroic exploit in Roman history. Once, during a war between Rome and Egypt, the two sides, recognizing the futility of continued combat, decided to award the victory to whichever general would agree tosacrifice his life by falling on his sword. The Roman general, an old man named Januarius, was persuaded to pay the ultimate price when he was assured that his twelve sons would be honored with noble titles as dukes, hyparchs, and generals. After he had performed the heroic deed, they renamed the day in his honor "the Kalendes of Januarius." It would appear the Rabbi Yohanan has interpreted the New Year Festival as a purely national holiday without any objectionable religious connotations. A closer look at the story however reveals some clearly mythological motifs. For example, the twelve sons bear a suspicious resemblance to the twelve months of the year that are being renewed at this point in time. The general Januarius reminds us of the two-faced Roman divinity Janus

who is actually being honored on this day and who gives his name to the first month. According to some scholars Janus was originally worshipped by the Etruscans as a god of Light and Day--a connection which fits in very nicely with Rav's legend of Adam and the shortening days. As a two-faced deity, Janus was believed to look simultaneously at the past and the future, and hence he was selected as the appropriate god for the new year. Though a similar account of a King Janus is recorded in a later Christian source, that story is certainly not referring to an actual historical event. Some scholars have explained that underlying Rabbi Yohanan's account is an old myth about how the ancient god Janus, the father of Time, died tomake room for his twelve sons, the twelve months. Dr. Eliezer Segal is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary. A native of Montreal, he holds a PhD in Talmud from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Holidays, History, and Halakhah, and many of his writings can be found on his personal website.

from a whole new perspective than from Airport World or Freeway World. Those who tend to think that the heart of our country is just a bunch of empty space to flyover are flat-out wrong! While I have ridden a number of trains in my day, including: The Alaska Railroad from Anchorage to Denali to Fairbanks; United Kingdom railroads in England and Scotland; Irish Rail over much of Ireland; Amtrak in the Great Lakes Region; and A number of commuter railroads in the USA, England, and Ireland. I have been looking forward to riding cross-country here in the states for a long time. Granted, Denver to East Lansing may not be ALL the way across the country, it is close enough for counting to me at this point. So, please excuse me as I startdangerous warming and a cascade of other impacts from climate change. The gathering wave of construction comes as the Trump administration works to deregulate American industry and roll back pollution controls, putting the U.S. at odds with the rest of the world's efforts to slow climate change. Trump announced in June 2017 that the U.S. had halted all implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement and intends to fully withdraw. America is now the world’s only state refusing participation in the global agreement to curb climate change (after Syria, the final holdout, signed in November 2017). This petrochemical industry expansion — much of it funded by foreign investors — makes America’s refusal to participate in the Paris Agreement all the more significant, because much of this new U.S. infrastructure would be built

outside of the greenhouse gas agreement affecting the rest of the globe. If American policy makers approve this wave of new plastics and petrochemical plants with little regard to curbing climate change and reducing fossil fuel use, environmentalists warn, they’ll be greenlighting hundreds of billions of dollars of investment into projects at risk of becoming stranded assets. From Rust Belt to Plastics Belt Some of the largest and most expensive petrochemical projects in the U.S. are planned in the Rust Belt states of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York, a region that has suffered for decades from the collapse of the domestic steel industry but that has relatively little experience with the kind of petrochemical complexes that are now primarily found on the Gulf Coast. In November 2017, the China Energythe projects are linked to foreign investment. State regulators in Texas and Louisiana have already issued permits that would allow a group of 74 petrochemical and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects along the Gulf Coast to add 134 million tons of greenhouse gases a year to the atmosphere, an Environmental Integrity Project analysis found in September. The group said that was equal to the pollution from running 29 new coal power plants around the clock. The expansion of plastics manufacturing in America also has environmentalists worried over a plastics pollution crisis. “We could be locking in decades of expanded plastics production at precisely the time the world is realizing we should use far less of it,” Carroll Muffett, president of the U.S. Center for International Environmental Law, told The Guardian

in December 2017. This story is part of Fracking for Plastics, a DeSmog investigation into the proposed petrochemical build-out in the Rust Belt and the major players involved, along with the environmental, health, and socio-economic implications. Petrochemical Paradox The petrochemical industry transforms ethane and other raw material into a huge range of products, including not only plastic, but also vinyl, fertilizers, Styrofoam, beauty products, chemicals, and pesticides. The petrochemicals industry itself straddles an uncomfortable fence when it comes to renewable energy and climate change. A significant portion of its revenue comes from “clean” technology sectors, as it provides materials used to make batteries and electric cars. One report last year concluded that roughly 20 percent of the industry’s revenue comes from products designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, the American ChemistryLast updated on .From the section Football Rory Loy will join Dundee in summer after signing a pre-contract. Dundee have signed Falkirk striker Rory Loy on a pre-contract as manager Paul Hartley begins his squad rebuilding for next season. The 26-year-old has scored 11 times this campaign and will join the club in June after agreeing a three-year deal. Loy signed for the Bairns from Carlisle in 2013 after previous spells at Rangers, Dunfermline and St Mirren. He was nominated for the PFA Championship Player of the Year award last season after netting 21 times.

bids had been launched from the Red Devils camp. It seems like the new Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal is set to rekindle that interest again, with Portugal newspaper A Bola now claiming the Red Devils are favourite to sign him in the summer, not only because of the money they can put on the table but also are ready to offer Bebe in trade, which pleases Benfica. Benfica are set to lose Enzo Perez, André Gomes and Rodrigo to Valencia, and Bebe is in line with their policy to bet on young players and maximize their potential in the transfer market. Opinion from Soccerlens’ Portugal reporter Manuel Traquete: Gaitan has a market value of €18m and would be a top signing for Manchester United. Yeah, the deal likely toJennifer Lopez has made a U-turn on her decision to become a judge on Simon Cowell's US version of the X Factor. JENNIFER LOPEZ , the American singer and actress who is currently working as a judge on American Idol, has changed her mind about defecting to SIMON COWELL's rival show 'The X Factor', according to the UK's Daily Mirror.The newspaper claim that 41-year-old Lopez was approached by Cowell shortly after she had joined 'Idol', and the music mogul allegedly began "begging her to ditch it and join the panel of US X Factor". The singer was initially "bowled over by Cowell's charm offensive" and agreed to make the switch, however, she changed her mind after 'Idol' boss Simon Fuller flew to the US to persuade her to

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Thymic carcinoma with autoimmune syndrome: successful treatment with weekly infusional high-dose 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin. Thymic carcinoma is known for its poor clinical outcome and unsatisfactory response to conventional chemotherapy. A 53-year-old woman was diagnosed as having metastatic thymic carcinoma in 1989. She received systemic chemotherapy containing cisplatin, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide, and involved-field radiotherapy. A durable complete remission was achieved and lasted for 4 years. When the disease recurred in 1995, she was found to have an autoimmune syndrome in addition to pleural effusion, a posterior mediastinal mass and a left adrenal mass. The autoimmune manifestations were seen as scleroderma, high titers of rheumatoid factor and anti-nuclear antibody. We adopted a novel HDFL regimen, which is composed of weekly 24-hour infusion of high-dose 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin, for this patient. CompleteIn Game Seven of the American League Championship Series, Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch called on Lance McCullers in the sixth inning to relieve starter Charlie Morton. In his four inning outing, McCullers threw his curveball over 75% of the time, and finished the game with 28 straight breaking balls. He completely shut down a potent Yankees lineup and paved the way for the Astros second World Series appearance. McCullers is known to have a limited repertoire—a 94 mph fastball, a good changeup, and that tight bender—but he’s not unique on the Astros. As a team, they threw the fewest four-seam fastballs in the majors this season. It’s actually the third season in a row they’ve accomplished that feat. Charlie Morton threw his curveball almost 50% of the time

dozen new human diseases appear over the past 25 years. For instance, a killer tick-borne virus showed up in Kansas in 2014. A new type of leprosy dismembered a man in Arizona in 2002. And a new hemorrhagic fever jumped from rodents into people, killing three women in California in 1999 — to name just a few. But it's the tropical rain forest that is the most worrisome to many scientists like Olival. Wearing a headlamp and a khaki shirt with the words "Virus Hunter" embroidered on the back, Olival looks like Indiana Jones' nerdy brother. He is constantly talking about how much he loves bats and admits he picked up his future wife by wowing her with his bat knowledge. But at the end of day, he is aof a Coke bottle, to catch rodents, shrews and those tiny rabbit-size deer. And they have strung thin nylon nets high in the trees, like giant spiderwebs. "We've got one," yells Olival's colleague Jimmy Lee, a virologist with EcoHealth Alliance. We rush over to one of the nets. Dangling in the middle is one of the most beautiful sights to a virus hunter: a bat. Lee puts on thick gloves and starts to untangle the bat from the net. "They can bite," he says, as he holds the little creature gently in his hands. It's not much bigger than a grapefruit. One glimpse at the bat's face, and my heart melted. "He has a little puppy face, doesn't he?" Olival asks. And it's true. The bat — a short-nose fruit bat —

been sampling in rain forests around the world for seven years and found nearly 1,000 new viruses in more than 20 countries, such as a new rabies-like virus in shrews. And many, many SARS-like viruses in bats across three continents. And then Olival drops a bombshell. "These viruses aren't 'new,' " he says. "They're just new to science. But not to the animals in the forest," he adds. All these viruses have been circulating in bats, monkeys and rodents for tens of thousands of years, maybe longer, he says, and no one has cared. No one has noticed. They're just a natural part of the ecosystem of the rain forest, coexisting with the animals, who are generally not harmed by the viruses. How do they become problems then? "Well, they don't magically jumpthe forest. Destroying their homes. It's like puncturing a balloon filled with viruses, says Barbara Han, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in New York. "Whatever survives, spills out. Deforestation is closely tied to disease emergence." In the past 40 years, more than a third of the Borneo rain forest has been destroyed. About half of that land has turned into palm oil plantations. A similar pattern is happening all over the world. By 2050, more than half of the world's population is projected to live in the tropics and subtropics, Han says. Right now, only 15 percent of the world's rain forests is still intact. The rest has been burned flat. Broken into pieces. Or converted into farms, ranges for cattle, metal mines — even shopping malls. "It's soybeans

wings. OLIVAL: Little puppy face. DOUCLEFF: Little puppy face. OLIVAL: Short-nosed fruit bat. DOUCLEFF: Short-nosed fruit bat. So he's going into a bag. OLIVAL: Which he can breathe through. DOUCLEFF: The bag helps keep the bat calm as we carry him to a makeshift lab near the trapping site. OLIVAL: So we're going to take the bat out of the bag. DOUCLEFF: He really does look like a puppy. And he wraps his wings around his body like a little blanket. OLIVAL: Aw, there he is. DOUCLEFF: But this bat isn't something you want to snuggle with. OLIVAL: Just be careful. DOUCLEFF: This little guy - these bats are arguably one of the most dangerous animals in the world. OLIVAL: Take your time. DOUCLEFF: They triggered the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the pandemic of killer pneumonia back in 2003 - thatthe U.S. government. The goal is to catch the next killer virus before it catches us by setting up an early alert system for outbreaks. OLIVAL: Right now, he's collecting a throat swab. DOUCLEFF: The team is taking samples from all over the bat. OLIVAL: They just took the blood sample. And now they're putting a piece of cotton on it to stop the bleeding. (SOUNDBITE OF BAT CHIRPING) DOUCLEFF: He's starting not to like it. (SOUNDBITE OF BAT CHIRPING) DOUCLEFF: Now the bat is fighting on the paper towel and kicking. Oh they're giving him a treat. They're giving him fruit juice. OLIVAL: A little reward for his hard efforts. DOUCLEFF: It is really cute. He just sucked the fruit juice out of the pipette like a little bottle. Aw, he's hungry. OLIVAL: Yeah. DOUCLEFF: They put the

$5 billion for fascists; cuts at home. Updated 6:27 pm, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 It's remarkable how the United States spends massive amounts of money on war, terrorism and fomenting coups at the same time politicians and pundits insist there's no money for successful, much-needed domestic programs. Just since 2002, the U.S. has spent trillions waging war on Iraq and Afghanistan, with no end in sight to the spending or the misery of those two countries. At the same time, unemployment insurance, veterans' benefits and other programs get shredded because "there's no money." Meanwhile, tensions flare in the Ukraine and Venezuela largely because of vast sums the U.S. has funneled to counter-revolutionaries. Corporate flacks like President Obama and Fox News are united in insisting that U.S. imperialism has the right to interferein or invade any country it wants, whenever it wants, without having to answer or be held accountable to anyone. Noble talk of "democracy promotion" is a cover for opposition to democracy and is especially devious regarding Venezuela, which has democratic structures that exceed anything we have here. As people in the global South know all too well from a long and bloody history, profits of corporations and the destruction of any movement or state that dares challenge empire are the real objectives of U.S. foreign policy. The CIA, USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy and other institutions of imperial power have given millions of dollars to Venezuelan elites seeking to overthrow the popularly elected government. In 2002, reactionary forces used that aid to depose the late Hugo Chavez until

the people repelled the coup plotters. In the years since, the Bolivarian Revolution has grown stronger and those who wish to return to the days when a small oligarchy enjoyed great wealth, while the majority lived in squalor, have been rebuffed again and again. Because of Venezuela's oil reserves as well as the hope that the revolution inspires elsewhere, however, the U.S. fights on, fomenting sabotage and violence in the hopes of succeeding where it failed in 2002. Throughout the current crisis, the U.S. has talked incessantly about violence by the Venezuelan government, conveniently leaving out that the reactionaries are responsible for most of the killing, including decapitations. Meanwhile, the U.S. invested $5 billion to overthrow the Ukrainian government of now-deposed president Viktor Yanukovych, according to Assistant Secretary of StateVictoria Nuland, because he rejected the European Union and instead established closer ties with Russia several years after also refusing to join NATO. Given the destruction the EU and the West in general have wrought in Greece, Cyprus and throughout Eastern Europe, while outside investors earned billions in profits, that was a perfectly reasonable decision. Needless to say, the West's business class was not pleased so Yanukovych was overthrown. The Ukrainian people had many legitimate grievances against the Super Rich Yanukovych represented and it's possible a genuine movement for greater freedom and a fair economy might have succeeded. That possibility evaporated, however, as fascists hijacked the protests, and it was the fascist cause that the five billion from the U.S. aided. And make no mistake, the parliamentary party Svoboda and

the street thugs of the Right Sector -- those John McCain pal around with, those Obama and the punditocracy hail as "democrats," those driving events even if they aren't a majority -- proudly declare themselves ultra-nationalist supremacists in the tradition of World War IIcollaborators who helped the Nazis kill three million Ukrainians, and they have nothing but contempt for democracy. One of the West's goals is virtually assured, as the new Ukrainian government will undoubtedly surrender to the EU. Another objective is the further encirclement of Russia with military bases, a continuation of a policy of aggression dating to the U.S.-led invasion of the USSR shortly after the 1917 Revolution. NATO now includes virtually all of the countries of the old Eastern bloc, in violation of agreements made 25years ago with Mikhail Gorbachev, and is central to the U.S.'s determination to isolate and possibly destroy Russia, just as the West has destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and is seeking to destroy Syria and Iran. Last but far from least are the interests of Chevron, Cargill, Monsanto and other corporate vultures salivating at the profits to be made from pillaging yet another country. Lost amidst venomous jingoism from the likes of Hilary Clinton is the fact that Russia was invaded three times by the West in the 20th century, with a cost of 25 million lives. Vladimir Putin is an autocratic criminal but his response to the West's coup in the Ukraine must be understood in the context of those invasions and dead. Furthermore, Putin's diplomacy was key

Signups closed The American Center invites you to a launch of a new book by American author Helen Epstein. Helen Epstein is the author, co-author or translator of ten books of literary non-fiction, including the ground-breaking Children of the Holocaust, one of the first books to examine the inter-generational transmission of trauma; the memoir Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History and the last of the non-fiction trilogy The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma (January 2018). Her arts journalism includes the biography Joe Papp: An American Life and Music Talks. Helen Epstein’s books are rigorously documented but in their blend of biography, autobiography and history, the private domain and the public record, they read like novels. In cooperation with edition IRENE PRESS. Following the bookPark entrance. "I noticed there was a young woman with a couple of kids in the back that had a flat tire," Robinson said. So Robinson changed the flat. "I was going to change it myself, but thankfully, DNR showed up to help me change it, since I have an infant in the car, it's a little harder to do," Jaspers said. With the spare tire in place, the Jaspers were back on the road again. "Usually, you think of state troopers helping you out, but DNR's great," Jaspers said. "She's on her way to enjoy the weekend and had a rough start to it, so, just glad that I could help with that," Robinson said. Minnesota's budget impasse has forced Robinson into a quick-change artist. One moment, he's responding to a roadside emergency. The

Share this Story For 60 Years, Canyon Records Has Been Introducing the World to Native Music Vincent Schilling 6/19/12 In 1951, the Phoenix Little Theater asked Ray and Mary Boley, owners of a small recording studio in Phoenix, to record a performance there by a Navajo singer, Ed Lee Natay. The Boleys were so mesmerized by Natay’s show that they decided to record an album of his music. That album, Natay, Navajo Singer marked the birth of Canyon Records. Sixty years later, that album still earns royalties for the Natay family. It was the first of many success stories that have made Canyon one of the most prosperous producers and distributors of American Indian music in Indian country today. After recording Natay, Navajo Singer, the Boleys got a booth at the 1951 Arizona StateFair, where they sold the artist’s music. The album sparked curiosity from fair-goers as well as appreciation from the Native community—many American Indians had never seen their music available on a professional produced album. When a Hopi jewelry maker in the adjacent booth suggested that the Boleys record Hopi music, they decided to take that suggestion much further and record the music of many other American Indian tribes. For the next 20 years, the Boleys traveled to reservations to record for Canyon Records; they also ran Canyon Films, which provided Native music to the film industry. Ray produced and recorded the music; Mary produced, edited and oversaw accounting and royalty disbursement to their artists. In 1971, the Boleys sold Canyon Films and opened a retail store for their music in

Phoenix, and began building a distribution network across the country. In the early 1980s, they began working with Jack Miller, a respected sound engineer. In 1984 they sold their retail store and distribution company to focus on producing quality music. In the early 1980s, Ray, who was considering retirement, came across the American Indian flutist R. Carlos Nakai. Ray had known Nakai’s father Raymond, who had long played Canyon Records music on his popular Navajo-language radio program. Boley made a deal with Nakai to distribute an album Nakai had recorded entitled Changes. With the addition of Nakai’s Changes to their catalog, Canyon Records made their crossover into the mainstream market. In 1991, Mary passed away and in 1992, Ray sold Canyon Records to Robert Doyle, who had worked closely withthe Boleys for more than a decade. In 2002, Ray Boley joined his wife on the other side, leaving behind an incredible legacy of American Indian music. Since acquiring Canyon Records, Doyle has continued to carry forward the Boleys’ passion to bring American Indian music and culture to the rest of the world. He has instituted innovative marketing programs and artist career development initiatives. Ray Boley and Ed Lee Natay (Kathy Norris) He has also worked with R. Carlos Nakai and international artists to establish the American Indian flute as a world-recognized instrument. Nakai performed and recorded with such artists as Tibetan flutist Nawang Khechog, Hawaiian Slack Key guitarist Keola Beamer and renowned percussionist Will Clipman. Nakai has also performed with more than 30 symphonies and chamber ensembles. An abundance of talented

Native artists have recorded for Canyon Records, including such iconic names as Northern Cree, Radmilla Cody, Kevin Yazzie, Louie Gonnie and Grammy winners Primeaux & Mike. The musical genres covered by Canyon include pow wow, peyote (Native American Church) and contemporary fusions of rock, rap, world and New Age music. Additionally Canyon has the only two gold records (500,000 units sold) for American Indian music, both by R. Carlos Nakai (his Canyon Trilogy album is nearing platinum status with 975,000 units sold). It has also received 30 Grammy nominations and won one with Primeaux & Mike’s Bless the People, plus 33 Native American Music Awards. The Here and Now A portrait of Ed Lee Natay hangs in the lobby of the Canyon offices, where racks display every album Canyon has produced.body.” Paskemin: Canyon has given me the great opportunity to show my singing and song-making style not only to my Native people from North America but also to people across the world. White: I get to control a lot of where my music is going, and Canyon is always open to ideas of where we can take Native American music. Nakai signed with Canyon in the early 1980s. (Kathy Norris) Doyle: What has been distinctive about Canyon is how the company was operated in the beginning and the philosophies established by the founders, Ray and Mary Boley. The Boleys were media pioneers in Phoenix. They approached Native American music not because they had a cultural agenda, but because they liked the music and the people. At a time when Native Americans were

Hundreds of Sikhs had gathered at the shrine to pay their respects to those killed in Operation Blue Star, the June 6 1984 raid of the temple by Indian troops aimed at flushing out armed separatists demanding an independent Sikh homeland.over as head coach for the 1996–1997 season. Watkins had two successful seasons as the Charlotte head coach, leading the team into the second round of the NCAA tournament in both years. He left to take the head coaching job at Texas A&M in 1998. Bobby Lutz years (1998–2010) After Watkins left for Texas A&M, Charlotte named Bobby Lutz its new head coach. Lutz was an assistant under both Watkins and Jeff Mullins at Charlotte. Lutz accepted the head coaching job at Gardner–Webb in 1995 only to resign two weeks later to accept the assistant job at his alma mater on Mullin's staff. Lutz's run of success in Conference USA is arguably the best sustained stretch in Charlotte basketball history. The 49ers reached the NCAA Tournament

NIT berth. The 2000–2001 seasons saw the arrival of Rodney White who would become the top scoring freshman in the country and be named ESPN's National Freshmen of the Year. Led by White, Charlotte would win its second CUSA Tournament Title in three years and earn a 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament with a 22–11 record. Charlotte would defeat Tennessee in the first round of the Midwest Regional before falling to #1 seed Illinois in the round of 32. White would leave Charlotte for the NBA Draft and be selected 9th overall by the Detroit Pistons. Over the following three seasons the 49ers would earn two additional NCAA tournament bids, in 2002 and 2004, earning #9 seeds and being eliminated in the first round both years. The 2004–200549ers were eliminated in round 1 at Providence. Following the 2012–13 season, Darion Clark announced he was leaving the program. Clark saw a total of seven minutes in the 49ers' two A10 tournament games, a large drop from his regular season average. In late April forward E. Victor Nickerson also announced he was transferring, leaving Charlotte with only 6 scholarship players on roster. The 2013–2014 season, in which the 49ers would rejoin Conference USA and claim the Puerto Rico Tip-Off Championship by beating a ranked Michigan team; ended with a late season 6 game losing streak in conference play, and the 49ers finishing with a 17–14 record and a second round exit from the C-USA Tournament. Having taken a medical leave of absence following the 2013–14 season, Coach Major

The Air Line Pilots Association - Trump, Biden renew push for Latino support Former Intel chief had 'deep suspicions' that Putin 'had something on Trump': book MORE, as well as FBI Director Christopher Wray (The Hill). Wray on Wednesday restated the FBI’s belief that Russia interfered with the election and “continues” the meddling in 2018. The cleanup: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later said that Trump was responding “no” to a question about whether he would take questions from reporters. Reporters in the room dispute that explanation. Sanders went on to say that the administration believes Russia is preparing to interfere in the midterm elections and that the White House is taking the threat seriously. The mess: Trump provoked outrage among Republicans on Capitol Hill for declining toMORE (R-Maine) called the explanations “dizzying.” The Hill: Trump’s damage control falters. The New York Times: White House journos, including The Hill’s Jordan Fabian, try team approach. The White House wants the news media to focus on the actions the administration has taken against Russia, and not on the president’s words. The Hill: Trump’s policies, actions create divide on Russia. The Trump administration has sanctioned Russian oligarchs and firms for interfering in the 2016 election and joined more than a dozen countries this year when the United States expelled 60 Russian officials as punishment for Russian poisonings in the United Kingdom. The White House is accusing the media of hysteria around Russia and of ginning up a modern day Red Scare. Sanders pointed to errors from reporters who attempted to tie together threads she

Why Putin hates me. LEADING THE DAY CONGRESS: Immigration issues crowd the political and policy battlefield with little more than 100 days left before the election... > Senate – ICE: The Hill: A symbolic GOP Senate resolution supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — and opposing progressives' political campaign to "abolish" the agency — was blocked by Democrats on Wednesday shortly after a similar measure was approved by the House. Democrats’ push to eliminate ICE, created in 2003, entered the national spotlight after the president's “zero tolerance” immigration policy resulted in the separation of immigrant families detained along the border. > DHS – wall funding: The Hill: Heeding Trump’s wish to make progress on his favored physical wall at the southern border, House lawmakers on Wednesday set aside $5 billion in areimagine 'Friends' to get out the vote Obama shares phone number to find out how Americans are planning to vote Michelle Obama: 'Don't listen to people who will say that somehow voting is rigged' MORE is wading into the midterms, according to Politico, launching a voter registration initiative that is being billed as nonpartisan. Meanwhile, former FBI Director James Comey James Brien ComeyDemocrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate Book: FBI sex crimes investigator helped trigger October 2016 public probe of Clinton emails Trump jabs at FBI director over testimony on Russia, antifa MORE is having a tough time finding a political home. After clashing with Trump during his high-profile book tour earlier this year, Comey is urging voters to elect Democrats. The problem for Comey is

Republicans up for reelection in 2018 (The Hill) … House Republicans are facing new attacks from Democrats, who are making rising ObamaCare premiums an election issue (The Hill) … five Democratic senators, including two up for reelection in states Trump won in 2016, will announce a proposal today defending the constitutionality of protections for pre-existing conditions under ObamaCare. IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES ➔ INVESTIGATIONS: Some interesting developments in the case against Maria Butina, the 29-year-old American University graduate who is accused of acting as a covert operative for the Kremlin at least since 2014, as described in a detailed indictment from the Department of Justice… A judge has ordered that Butina stay in jail as she awaits trial after prosecutors argued that she’s a flight risk (Reuters). The Associated Press details how Butina,a guns rights activist who became a fixture at conservative events around Washington, D.C., is alleged to have used “sex and deception to forge influential connections” here and then report back to Moscow. Butina is charged with conspiracy and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. She was arrested on Sunday amid growing fears from law enforcement that she was preparing to flee the country. The Washington Post: Alleged Russian operative denied bail. ThinkProgress: Photos of Butina meeting with Republicans and conservative leaders. ➔ ADMINISTRATION: Updates from around the agencies and departments… U.S. Census - director: Trump on Wednesday nominated Steven Dillingham to be the director of the U.S. Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce for the remainder of a five-year term expiring in 2021, which would take him beyond the controversial 2020

census, if confirmed by the Senate. Dillingham currently works at the Peace Corps; the director post has been vacant for more than a year. Veterans Affairs Department – staff shuffle: Ahead of Robert Wilkie’s likely confirmation to lead the VA, staff perceived to be disloyal to Trump are being reassigned or purged from the department, The Washington Post reports. The transfers include more than a dozen career civil servants who have been moved from the leadership suite at headquarters and reassigned to lower-visibility roles. Commerce Department – uranium: The Hill: The department has launched an investigation into the impact of uranium imports on national security, a move that could result in tariffs and add another front to the Trump administration's trade fight. HHS – migrants: The Health and Human Services DepartmentPeople's Democratic Party PDP. ) In the attack in 2005, Tarigami’s guards fought off the attackers, although one of his guards was killed. People representative Tarigami won the seat for the Kulgam constituency in 1996, 2002, 2008 and 2014. References Category:Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Jammu and Kashmir Category:Members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Category:Living people Category:Jammu and Kashmir MLAs 2014–2018 Category:People from Kulgam district Category:1947 births

So you think you're having a bad day. The following is taken from a Florida newspaper: A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the house in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle and somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear. The man, still holding the handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio door and the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house. The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room, and found her husband laying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle lying next to him and the patio door shattered. The wife ran to the phone and summoned an ambulance. Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down theseveral flights of long steps to the street to direct the paramedics to her husband. After the ambulance arrived and transported the husband to the hospital, the wife uprighted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing that gas had spilled on the floor, the wife obtained some papers towels, blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet. The husband was treated at the hospital and was released to come home. After arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went into the bathroom, sat on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl while still seated. The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud

explosion and her husband screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found her husband laying on the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs and his groin. The wife again ran to the phone and called for an ambulance. The same ambulance crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street. The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher and began carrying him to the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard, one of them tipped the stretcher and dumped the husband out. HeRSS News Feeds After Late Start, Republican Groups Jump Into the Lead Since August, 527s Raised Six Times as Much as Democrats By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 17, 2004; Page A15 With an overall fundraising advantage from the beginning of the presidential campaign, Republicans moved far more cautiously than Democrats to invest in 527 groups, but with the election just weeks away, groups aligned with the GOP are outspending their Democratic counterparts on radio and television by 6 to 1. Allies of President Bush have focused the efforts of their 527 groups on advertising, and the two leading pro-Republican groups -- Progress for America and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -- have played a key role in efforts to undermine Democratic nominee John F. Kerry's credentials as a Vietnam War

more than $9.4 million by the Bush campaign and Republican National Committee this election cycle. Like Democratic activists, Feather and other Republicans tried to anticipate the impact of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law and build a network of independent groups that would accept large, unregulated "soft money" contributions that the new law prohibited political parties from accepting. Feather's group, PFA, quickly became known in Republican circles as the organization favored by the White House. PFA held special briefings for donors, and the speakers included Karl Rove, Bush's chief political adviser, and Ken Mehlman, who later became manager of the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. The current success of the GOP 527 groups stands in stark contrast to a series of early setbacks. In late 2002, the National Republican Congressional Committee tried to jump-startFake identities and reports are swirling around the Las Vegas massacre. One man has been falsely accused of being at the centre of the attack, despite the fact that police have now named Stephen Paddock as the perpetrator of the worst mass shooting in US history. The false naming appears partly to be an effort to spread misinformation , propelled by the rush to find out new information. Some of the people spreading the false reports appear to be doing so with a political intent. Las Vegas shooting – in pictures Show all 15 1 /15 Las Vegas shooting – in pictures Las Vegas shooting – in pictures People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gun fire was heard Getty Las Vegas shooting – in

after hearing gun fire David Becker/Getty Las Vegas shooting – in pictures People stand on the street outside the Mandalay Bay hotel near the scene of the Route 91 Harvest festival on Las Vegas Boulevard EPA/Paul Buck Las Vegas shooting – in pictures FBI agents confer in front of the Tropicana hotel-casino after a mass shooting during a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Reuters/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus Las Vegas shooting – in pictures Las Vegas police run by a banner on the fence at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival grounds after shots were fired David Becker/Getty Las Vegas shooting – in pictures An injured person is tended to in the intersection of Tropicana Ave. and Las Vegas Boulevard after a mass shooting at acountry music festival Ethan Miller/Getty Las Vegas shooting – in pictures Metro Police officers pass by the front of the Tropicana hotel-casino after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Reuters/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus Las Vegas shooting – in pictures A woman sits on a curb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas Strip AP/John Locher Las Vegas shooting – in pictures A cowboy hat lays in the street after shots were fired near a country music festival in Las Vegas Getty Las Vegas shooting – in pictures Las Vegas Metro Police and medical workers stage in the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South after a mass shooting at a music festival

on the Las Vegas Strip Reuters/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus Las Vegas shooting – in pictures Sheriff Joe Lombardo (2-R) speaking during a press briefing in the aftermath of the active shooter incident on Las Vegas Boulevard EPA In the hours after the attack, amid a rush to find the latest news, a number of social media users named Geary Danley as the shooter. That was apparently because of a connection to Marilou Danley, the woman that police were searching for in the hours after the attack and have now allowed to go free. But police confirmed that the man at the centre of the attack was Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Nevada. He is now dead, and authorities believe he committed suicide. That did not stop people before and afterthe identity was revealed associating Mr Danley with the attack. Although some of the attempts to associate it with him appear to be genuine mistakes, others are intentional efforts to link his politics with the massacre. People on social media attempting to find the identity of the attacker found Mr Danley's profile page, and with it the fact that he had liked a set of left-wing and liberal social media pages. He was a member of groups including "Thank You Obama" and a whole host of pages devoted to opposing Donald Trump, for instance. He is also a registered Democrat and appears to have given his support to progressive causes.

First Bioengineered Vein Implanted for U.S. Dialysis Patient Yesterday, a kidney dialysis patient at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina was the first in the U.S. to receive a new bioengineered blood vessel developed by a Duke University spin-off company. The patient, a 62 year-old man from Danville, Virginia with kidney failure received in his arm the engineered blood vessel made with a process developed by Humacyte Inc., also in Durham. A new vein is often required by patients with kidney disease needing dialysis, who receive a graft to connect an artery to a vein to speed the flow of blood during treatments. Current options for this procedure all have drawbacks: Synthetic veins are prone to blood clots, harvesting other veins for transplants requires separate surgery with higher risks“Domestic, 71, Sings Songs of Own Composition in ‘Village,’” ran a New York Times headline in November of 1965. The piece, about a woman with “five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, a guitar, a banjo and about 20 old-time folk songs,” heralded the return of then-unknown folk songstress Elizabeth Cotten, who was poised to play the Gaslight Cafe, on Macdougal Street in a Greenwich Village still quaintly set off by single quotation marks. Though many had never heard Cotten’s name, they’d heard her most popular song, “Freight Train,” which became a hit when the crunchy folk ensemble Peter, Paul and Mary recorded and released it in 1963. (Many others have since recorded their own versions of the tune.) It was a song she’d written at 11 years old. But though it

became a standard, Cotten was never famous, and she’d slipped into total obscurity for four decades while raising a family of her own and working as a domestic in North Carolina, then New York City and Washington, D.C. While working briefly at a department store in the late 1940s, Cotten helped a lost little girl find her mother, and was offered a job as a maid for the family. The little girl was Peggy Seeger, who would go on to find folk-singing fame, and her mother was Ruth Crawford Seeger, a composer and folk music specialist. Cotten began doing the “washing, cleaning and baking” for the family of folk lovers — Charles Seeger, the patriarch, was a well-known musicologist; brother Mike was a musician and folklorist; and Pete Seegerbanjo (against his wishes) from a very young age — “My head was always full of music,” she said — and around age nine she saved her wages and bought her own Sears, Roebuck guitar. (She was already working as a domestic, making 75 cents a month.) Because she was left-handed, Cotten taught herself to play by turning her brother’s banjo upside down so her right hand was on the fretboard and her left picked the strings. Most notably, this also meant she played the treble notes with her thumb and the lower bass notes with her fingers. Her smooth, masterful two-finger picking, which sounds warm and full, became her signature style, known as “Cotten-picking,” and it’s worth watching vintage video of a cardiganed Cotten playing “Freight Train” or

“In the Sweet By and By,” her eyes gently closed as she plucks the notes. Although it was an outgrowth of the Old Left of the 1930s and ’40s and was largely espousing the message of social progressivism, the commercial folk music revival of the 1960s was, in the words of sociologist William G. Roy, “distinctly white.” In his 2010 book Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States, Roy writes that although the sixties folk project was dominated by white musicians like the Seegers, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie, and Peter, Paul and Mary, the scene loved the pared-down contributions of those they saw as the “real” authentic people. “The cultural elite of the folk project have valorized folk music precisely because it“humble” as could be, but her music had sophistication, bearing the nimbleness of a musical master and the mark of a lifetime of experience. She played her first live show with Mike Seeger in 1959 and before long had launched one of the more glamorous careers among grandmothers, at the intersection of folk and blues, playing alongside stars like Taj Mahal and Muddy Waters. Cotten also played the legendary Newport Folk Festival in 1968, as well as the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Smithsonian Festival, and others. She later relocated to Syracuse, New York, though she was frequently on the road. Cotten recorded seven albums and toured nationally and abroad for the duration of her life. She died in Syracuse at age 95. In 1985, at 93, Cotten won a

version as well as via physical/digital in the new REV 2 edition with all of the new additions included. For newcomers this is great as it includes everything in one package, but are the new additions worth enough for veterans to jump in as well outside of the hardcore that will pick it up regardless to stay competitive? The two most obvious additions, which ARC System Works headlined themselves the update with leading up to its release, is the two new additional characters included: Baiken and Answer. Long-time Guilty Gear fans will recognize the former, as she’s appeared in earlier entries in the series. She made a cameo in Revelator, but now in REV 2 she’s making an official entry into the series. ARC System Works kept her playform as indicated by a dotted line of FIG. 2. Subsequently, the opposite transverse press plates 20 are advanced to the middle of the scrap molding chamber 2 by pistons 22 of cylinders 21 to secondarily compress the primarily compressed metal scrap. After the metal scrap is secondarily compressed, a lower cover actuating cylinder 8 connected to the lower side of the lower cover 7 is driven to pull the middle of a link 10. As a result, the lower cover 7 is opened to the lower side, and therefore, a compressed lump 23 of metal scrap falls and is carried outside by a conveyor 18. A required number of compressed lumps of metal scrap of a predetermined standard manufactured according to the cited invention with the above-stated construction

had died in 2010, ironically on Valentine's Day, and since my beautiful Emily passed away to the other side to be with other relatives and friends that had gone over the years, I found it hard to handle. Five months after the funeral, I realised time wasn't such a great healer as every one seemed to claim. One day I went back to my bungalow and drank a full bottle of scotch in hope that I would collapse and never wake up the next morning. Obviously, I did wake up the next morning and the only thing that greeted me was a massive headache and a nauseous feeling, which I managed to overcome. After my wife had died, I still had my good friend, Jack Palin to have forand the residents in their late seventies, early and late eighties, had a touch of the old green-eyed monster. So once they were pushing up the daisies or sitting on someone's fireplace, in theory, I should be still kicking about in Misty Falls. Is that why elderly people always moaned about the youth of today? I thought. Were they jealous that while their life was coming to a close, others were just beginning? When I first arrived at the home, it was relaxed and nothing ever exciting ever happened. The only subject that would cause a stir was if a death had occurred during the night or day. The discussion afterwards would be about how they had died, if they had suffered, who was going to replace them, when

covered in tasty gravy. It was heaven and I could have stopped there and been extremely pleased with my day, but then the option of dessert had come up. It was an option I was willing to take and I ordered the chocolate fudge cake covered in warm cream. By the time the dessert had been devoured, half of the care home, including myself, Don, Jason and Penelope, were fast asleep with _The Sound of Music_ blaring in the background from the two TVs in the main area. After my dessert, the last thing I remembered was Julie Andrews singing that God-awful tune about a deer, and then I never woke up until two hours later. * It was January 7th 2013, and as per usual on an evening, the healthyand gazed out looking up to the red clouds as if they had been painted by God himself, as they stretched in a line in the centre of the blue sky with the fully bloomed trees at the front of Misty Falls where the car park was situated—a modest garden was at the back of the grounds. Jason then sighed and happily announced: "Well, you know what they say: Red sky...erm...shepherd's pie." At this point our first reaction was bafflement. We all looked at one another while Jason continued to gawp outside with a small thin smile on his features and the muffled laughter began with Don, myself, and then the girls were next. Jason had looked at us and kept on asking: "What are you laughing at? What's

what was on her mind. I allowed the silence to continue, to allow her to think before she opened her mouth, but the silence seemed to suffocate her and had forced her to retreat from her potential question or announcement. She eventually waggled her head from side to side. "It doesn't matter." I decided not to press the matter any further. Chapter Seven It was January 30th, Wednesday, and the gang were sitting around the bay window. The month had been pretty quiet and no alarming incidents had occurred. The boys glared out of the window, watching the traffic go by, while the girls were nattering to themselves about a new admission that had been moved to the first floor. This new admission had had trouble operating the elevator and couldn'ta Blackberry or iPhone. Also in the seventies only the local farmers possessed jeeps, now everyone had one, even the moms who had trouble seeing over the steering wheel and seeing out the back, had one, and would terrorise people with their erratic driving while doing the school run. It's not that I'm envious of the facilities people have these days, it's just that I think they don't appreciate it and take it all for granted. This sounds really trivial, but I remember back in the late seventies going to a bookshop to purchase the new book by the late James Herbert—I think it was called _Lair_. Once I purchased the book, I went home and read it on a night. These days, I could go to an online

bookstore and have it wired to my phone or iPad, if I had one, within seconds. How can bookstores compete with that? On the 18th February 2012, after watching _Questions of the Day_ with host, Nicky Campbell, I left my room on the ground floor and shuffled my way out of my room at precisely 11am. Apart from the presence of Agnes McCabe in front of me, who was notorious for taking a dump while she walked, I was pretty much all alone walking down that huge corridor. I didn't mind though, it was probably the only decent exercise I had all day. I kept an eye on Agnes and made sure my eyes flitted to the floor every now and again in case of any unusual surprises. Honestly, sometimesGrace and I. I thought about Grace's comment and although she was right about Emily, I couldn't help feel disappointed about what she had said. Emily had been dead for a while but the clock was ticking and if I could choose anyone to be—using Grace's words—my lady friend, it would be Miss Guerra without a shadow of a doubt. I remember a few years ago, a good friend of mine called Donny Henshaw had lost his wife to cancer and had re-married within six months. At first, I was shocked by the quickness of it all, but Emily had told me that if _she_ went first, then she would want me to find love and wouldn't want me to be on my own for the remaining years of my

Tate and her friends in her home in California. It was an eventful year to say the least, but for me it was the happiest year of my life. Even though the birth of my son, Sean, and my daughter, Donna, was a special day, the wedding just about topped it, which I know some would disagree with. How can you put your wedding day at the top of the pile ahead of the birth of your children? Some would say. Simple. Emily was the love of my life, and if I had never met her and hadn't married her, my kids would never have existed. Emily and myself did discuss death for many a year and what would we do. Like I had mentioned before, we both agreed if one of usnature, no one liked to be smothered. I sighed in defeat after our small heated discussion and we refrained from speaking and sat for a long twenty minutes before Jason got up to go to his room, followed by Amanda, Penelope and Don. When Don got up he patted me on my shoulder without saying a word, and I knew what that meant: _no hard feelings, pal_. And there wasn't any. Chapter Eleven The Pines was one of those places where they did family meals and had a lounge area for where they served those particular meals. There was also a bar area where people would drink, and drink only. It would have been a nice treat and a change to spend money on a mixed grill or a surf and turf,

noisy slurp of his cold beverage, the froth temporarily giving him a white foamy moustache. "It is for you," Don sniped at Jason. "You never go out usually, I'm putting this day in my diary. _Jason Duke goes out_ " I chuckled at Don's ribbing and asked him, "How's Becky getting on, over in Oz?" I knew she had called Misty Falls from Queensland on the morning, and Don had been on the phone to her for twenty minutes. "She's peachy. She keeps pestering me to get an iPhone and talked about this skype malarkey, but I can't be bothered with all that. A phone call is just as good, it's not as if I've forgotten what she looks like." "How long has it been?" I asked him. "Since I saw her? Properly?" Iajar by a few inches. I knew Hopper was inside, and it was probably him that had opened the door with the spare key, but arrogantly didn't shut it properly as it was at that time of night that nobody was really about, apart from the members of staff who were working. I gently pushed the door open, which opened by a few inches per second and couldn't believe what I saw. It half-sobered me up and I was bewildered why a human being would do such a thing to another human being. It disgusted me so much, my voice was stolen from the shock, and the nausea began to snowball the longer I looked at what was happening. Jason was lying on top of the bed, fully clothed and

his passing. He was the same age as Amanda. Once I logged off and closed my laptop, my thoughts went back to the previous night and although I was a little tipsy, I was certain that it was something I hadn't imagined. This was confirmed when I touched my sore forearm once again, and realised it must have been smarting because it was the arm that protected my face when Hopper threw me across the room. I'm just surprised the discomfort I was feeling never woke me up during the night. I must have been drunker than I thought. There was a knock on my door and I knew it was the new woman that worked in the kitchens. I opened the door and was greeted with the woman's beamingwhat was the best thing to do about the Hopper incident, and agreed with Don that the best thing to do was bide our time and hope he left pretty soon. Maybe it would increase respect between him and us, I thought. I feared that it also could do the opposite. If he thought we were too scared to report him, then maybe he would continue with his bullying. Only time would tell. It was now Thursday the 21st February and I hadn't seen Hopper for three days. The staff were on a rota, and most of the time we didn't know who was on what shifts. I checked my laptop once I woke up and checked the news. I sat in my room for hours and was pleased

know whether to make conversation or just lie there and enjoy the quietude. With a hesitant hand, I began to gently caress her hair and she never purred in delight or moaned negatively to let me know what she thought of my touch, but neither did she hint at me to stop what I was doing either, so I continued to stroke her hair. Then she suddenly began to speak. "I could have been _Mrs. Jeremy Houston_." Her announcement baffled me and she never followed her comment with any more words, so I had to ask her, "What do you mean?" Grace always kept her cards close to her chest as far as her private life was concerned. She was one of the rare women in Misty Falls that seemedonto a stretcher with wheels and took her away. And then I saw it. I heard doors on the ground floor shutting once the 'show' was over, but I continued to glare out with my door only a centimetre—if that—open. I saw Hopper standing with his hands on his hips, and then saw him mischievously staring down the ground floor corridor. Why? I don't know. Checking if all the residents were back in their rooms, maybe? Once he finished scanning the corridor area, a slight, but noticeable smirk appeared on his stupid face. Why was he smirking? I wondered. Because one of the people that we cared about was hurt? Because it was _him_ that pushed her? He then looked up at me, standing in the doorway of my room; he

a piggy." I begun to laugh, and knowing that I'd only seen the film a few weeks ago, I said, "It was actually Ned Beatty that was told to squeal like a piggy, not Burt Reynolds." "I thought it was Jon Voight," Jason scrunched his face. "No," I said. "Jon Voight was held against the tree while Ned Beatty was being raped, and Burt Reynolds was the man who shot one of those rednecks with the bow and arrow." "I thought that was Dustin Hoffman," Jason looked at me with a serious face. I sighed, "Hoffman wasn't even in the film." Jason looked perplexed and shook his head and told the group he was off to his room to make a coffee. "Does anyone want one?" he asked. I told Jason that I wasand it was good to get some air and be out of that place. Despite being out for a long period of time, I returned back to Misty Falls to find that all of my friends were still out, despite the fact that Jason usually had his nap at 3pm. It was after four. I scanned over the area where we usually sat, the five red seats sat empty. Amanda's old seat had been given to Kelly Harrow and I could see her sitting in the comfy chair on the other side of the room and it appeared that she was knitting a jumper of some kind. I looked up to the chandelier and thought about Don's rant a few days ago. I decided to leave the living room