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"The Heart Box"--Callie Bates. After his family dies in a car accident, a man removes his heart and becomes an emotionless immortal. Eventually a single mother and her child move in next door and he decides to reclaim his heart and live again. Fine but did nothing for me.
"Everybody Said It Would Hurt"--Lev Grossman. A section cut out from the 3rd book in
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Clegg 'mistake over complaints'
An independent report into how the Lib Dems dealt with harassment claims, has revealed a series of failings, including mistakes made by Nick Clegg. The inquiry was sparked by allegations involving the party's former chief executive, which he denies.
Lib Dem complaints 'should have been escalated'
In her inquiry into the processes of the Liberal Democrats, Helena Morrissey found that due to the "serious nature" of the allegations, the complaints should have been escalated for full investigation.
The report says: "The issues were ‘handled’ informally, principally by Jo Swinson and Danny Alexander, because that is what they thought the women wanted – primarily to protect their identities. While their actions were, I believe, in good faith, this approach was ultimately not sufficient.
Equalities minister Jo Swinson. Credit: Press Assocation
"Informalv. Mason, 417 F.Supp.2d 262 (S.D.N.Y.2006) (Chin, J.).
Barbara Rubens was fitted with a Dalkon Shield Intrauterine Device in 1973 and was later hospitalized for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), at which time the Shield was removed. She brought a claim against the Dalkon Shield Claimant's Trust (the "Trust") claiming that the Shield had caused her PID, and that she had suffered infertility, depression, loss of income, and pain and suffering as a result. Her husband brought a derivative claim. Under the options for redress provided by the Dalkon Shield Claims Resolution Facility, she and her husband each chose "Option 3," which allowed for a greater amount of compensatory damages. Rubens and her husband proceeded, separately, to arbitrate their claims, and Rubens's husband was awarded the maximum allowable compensatory damages
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and flying 120 feet. The modern aviation age was born. Three more tests were made that day, with Wilbur and Orville alternately flying the airplane. Wilbur flew the last flight, covering 852 feet in 59 seconds.
During the next few years, the Wright brothers further developed their airplanes but kept a low profile about their successes in order to secure patents and contracts for their flying machines. By 1905, their aircraft could perform complex maneuvers and remain aloft for up to 39 minutes at a time. In 1908, they traveled to France and made their first public flights, arousing widespread public excitement. In 1909, the U.S. Army’s Signal Corps purchased a specially constructed plane, and the brothers founded the Wright Company to build and market their aircraft. Wilbur WrightTrump is analyzing situation over Syria
US President Donald Trump has cast doubt over the timing of his threatened strike on Syria in response to a reported chemical weapons attack on civilians, saying it "could be very soon or not so soon at all". British officials said up to 75 people were killed.
The White House and National Security Council did not immediately respond to Anadolu Agency's requests for comment on the report.
Sanders adds that USA officials are "continuing to assess intelligence" and are "engaged in conversations with our partners and allies". In Thursday's tweet, Trump also suggested he did not get enough credit for USA gains against ISIS in the region, asking, "Where is our 'Thank you America?'" The White House also confirmed that Trump had spoken with French
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Public School on Long Island. There the Waldo book has been banned because of the breast.
The Cat in the Hat is nude except for the gloves, the tie and, yep, the hat. Winnie the Pooh does not wear pants. Just a warning.
The breast in the Waldo book is roughly the size of the last letter of this sentence. It appears in the first of the best-selling picture book series for children because, I suspect, of an old kids' gag fantasy, as enduring as the one about the drugstore with Prince Albert in a can ("You'd better let him out!") or the call to the deli to ask the counterman if he has pig's feet ("Well, just wear shoes. Nobody will notice them.").the disparity in their earnings. Since the trial court reserved jurisdiction to determine the amount, we declined to address this issue as non-final. However, on remand the trial court may re-address that issue, should it be appropriate, after devising an alimony award for Michelle.
The record establishes that the parties married on May 16, 1987 and separated on March 29, 2002, a fifteen-year marriage. They have three minor children: a daughter, Lindsey, born in 1989, a son, Ryan, born in 1993, and a son, Matthew, born in 1998. The parties stipulated that Michelle would be the primary residential parent and Robert would have reasonable visitation. Left to be resolved at trial were the equitable distribution of the parties' marital assets and liabilities, alimony for Michelle, the amount of child
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Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon didn't survive their best shot at Olympic glory, their dream dying when Dubreuil crashed to the ice.
Seconds from finishing their original dance at the 2006 Turin Olympics, and trailing the leaders by less than two points, Dubreuil fell out of their final lift, coming down hard on one hip. Unable to put any weight on her right foot, Lauzon gently glided her off the ice, and then hoisted his future wife into his arms.
She'd suffered a deep bone bruise. The two never skated the free dance.
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Dubreuil and Lauzon are making happier Olympic memories in Pyeongchang, finding success behind the boards as the coaches of the world's best ice dancers.
The top three teams in Monday's short dance – Canada's Tessa Virtueand Scott Moir, Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France, and Americans Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue – are among the 17 dance teams they coach at Montreal's Gadbois Centre.
"It's interesting, because T (Virtue) and I were the last members to the school, and it was full of people you knew you'd be in this position with in two years, that we'd be in a dog fight for our lives to try and win an Olympic gold medal with, and how they welcomed you with open arms, and what fantastic people they were," Moir said. "We'd never seen that before in our career.
"That stems from the coaches, and the culture that Patrice and Marie-France and Romain (Haguenauer) created. They just don't put up with anybody who's not a
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Qaeda and Haqqani Network.
Not only this, the crowd can be clearly heard chanting "Musa-Musa, Zakir Musa'', referring to the slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Zakir Musa who was killed in an encounter in May this year. Both the reports chose to ignore this significant fact.
There is concrete evidence to prove that the terror organisations have been fueling unrest in the Valley. On May 10, 2019, the Islamic State (IS) announced that it has established a "province" in India.
Islamic State's official mouthpiece 'Amaq News Agency' had claimed that in its new province "Wilayat al-Hind" (IS name for India), it had inflicted casualties on Indian soldiers in Amshipora in the Shopian area of Jammu and Kashmir.
Presenting just one side of picture?
In its report, the BBC claimed to have "witnessed the policeits web page created a lot of confusion.
In one of its reports titled "Kashmir curfew eased for Eid al-Adha, queues at stores and ATMs", it put a multimedia report of people protesting in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir against the Indian government.
This anomaly was pointed out on Twitter as it gave the impression that the visuals of protests were from the Indian side of Kashmir.
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government in February 2009 would resurrect
the ailing schooling system, but lack of finance, teacher shortages and
political spats between teachers' unions are stalling the sector's recovery.
The country ditched its own currency, the Zimbabwe dollar, to tame
rampant hyperinflation. In a bid to revitalize public services, employees across
the board are paid a similar wage in US dollars, which was initially welcomed
but has since been derided as paltry by recipients.
The 40,000-member
Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA), seen as having strong ties to President
Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, is calling for a national strike, which some
teachers are already heeding. The union said the current US$140 salary was
inadequate and has demanded a US$500 monthly wage.
The usually militant
Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), aligned to Prime Minister Morgan
Tsvangirai's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), is urging its
20,000 membersZimbabwe's unity government as they are
deeply uncertain of the extent of ZANU-PF's commitment to democracy, so billions
of dollars of support remain on hold.
I would like to appeal to the
teachers to return to school because the third term is quite crucial ... public
examinations like the Ordinary and Advanced Levels are just round the
corner
David Coltart, minister of education,
sport and culture, and a member of a breakaway MDC party led by deputy prime
minister Arthur Mutumbara, has called on teachers to appreciate the country's
precarious financial situation and the importance of the third term to pupils.
"I would like to appeal to the teachers to return to school because the
third term is quite crucial ... public examinations like the Ordinary and
Advanced Levels are just round the corner," he said.
Teachers
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m0th64
Senior Slammer
Nope, Chuck Testa.
If a tree falls in the forest, you'll get three stories.
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Member Back to Top Post by m0th64 on I'm hosting a netplay invitational in the style of Smash Summit and the date has been tentatively set for November 19-20. The tournament will feature 10 of the best players in the world, as well as 6 more players as voted by the community. In order to be eligible, a player must either be ranked in the top 20 on the Slam Rank or have placed well at a tournament including or after Slam in the Swamp. ("Well" in this case isdefined as top 8 at a major, top 5 at a regional, or top 3 at a local.) There are a total of 47 players eligible to enter, with 10 of those already invited.
The first day of the tournament will feature top player ironman events and a draft crew battle tournament.
The second day will feature a 16-person double elimination bracket, as well as a Kirby Air Ride city trial event.
The first 10 players that have been invited to attend are as follows:
Boasting Toast
Provider of Souls
Squeachu
Sorzan
RedRidingShrek
Rubbermaid
Lord Ape
Freddy "Stickyhands" Bacon
EIREXE
m0th64
The remaining players will be voted in.
The first phase of voting will involve all 37 eligible players not already invited. Players and spectators each receive 20 votes to distribute among the eligible players as they see fit, and the 16 players
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(ISIL) have resorted to chlorine use in attacks in Iraq and Syria.
The grouping is no stranger to chlorine. In some earlier incarnation it was known as al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and later it rebranded itself as the Islamic State of Iraq when it explicitly began trying to control territory. Harsh imposition of its strict interpretation of Sharia law and extreme violence towards anybody refusing total subjugation to its rule soon had Sunni tribal leaders uniting in resistance early in 2007. They also began cooperation with forces of the US-led coalition occupying Iraq since 2003 and the Shia-dominated Iraqi government. AQI started mounting large-scale operations involving several hundreds of fighters to capture local seats of power. During the first half of 2007 suicide attacks with lorries rigged withto new and previously unknown pathogens. The principle of CureVac's proprietary technology is the use of mRNA as a genetic information carrier to instruct the human body to produce its own proteins capable of fighting a wide range of diseases. Additionally, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has committed a total of 90 million Euros to support this work (Smith [@CR12]).
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in China have also stepped up to the development of vaccines of SARS-CoV-2. Four SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have been approved for phase I or II clinical trial in China at the end of April of 2020. Several biotechnology companies have announced the development of mRNA vaccines against this mated coronavirus. In early January 2020, Stermirna Therapeutics, cooperating with Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University, proclaimed
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Get the story to fuel your conversation today.
Sometimes America's public school system gets black history wrong. So wrong, in fact, that Bethel University student Justin Giuliano created his own hashtag to spread awareness regarding black history he felt was overlooked in the average school's history curriculum.
"I thought, 'I'll just make a hashtag, #BlackHistoryYouDidntLearnInSchool, because he's been erased from history and I never learned about him in school,'" Giuliano, referring to the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, told PBS NewsHour in February. Rustin worked with Martin Luther King, Jr.
The United States recognizes Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 18. We've decided to commemorate his holiday by sharing seven facts about the civil rights leader that you weren't taught in school.
King first had a dream in Detroit.
Source: Anonymous/APTwomonths before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington D.C., he made mention to his dreams in Detroit. In June 1963, King marched down Woodward Avenue with a crowd of 125,000 in the largest civil rights demonstration the US had seen at the time.
The rally, known as "The Walk to Freedom", protested the civil rights issues of the time, such as segregation in the South, but also educational and economic inequality that persisted in the northern states. The march concluded at Cobo Hall, in the heart of Detroit.
"I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children, that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within," King said at
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Al-Qaeda.
In the video recording, a man in military uniform promises to avenge the IS members who died in the fighting.
Senior Middle East analyst Michael Nayebi-Oskoui at US-based global intelligence firm Stratfor said the loss of Derna does not greatly change IS's effectiveness in Libya.
"IS being kicked out of Derna does not dramatically alter the capabilities or effectiveness of the IS in Libya, as the group has faced and will continue to face stiff opposition from local competitors," he said.
"IS remains constrained in its ability to retaliate for any potential loss in Derna."
"That said, attacks (including suicide attacks) against security checkpoints in and around Sirte, Benghazi and Tripoli are all possible," Nayebi-Oskoui added.
After the fall of dictator Moamer Kadhafi's regime in 2011, Libya now has two parliaments and twogovernments vying for power, one based in Tripoli and one in Tobruk in the east.
Only the latter is recognised by the international community.
IS, which already controls large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, has exploited the chaos in Libya, notably taking control in June of the city of Sirte just 450 kilometres (280 miles) east of Tripoli.
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nowhere to go should Scots vote for independence.
That is the conclusion of a detailed study to be published on Monday on what is emerging as a huge question for defence chiefs. They are only now beginning to face the consequences of a possible future Scottish parliament voting to get rid of the Trident nuclear weapons bases at Coulport and Faslane.
Asked during the referendum debate in the Scottish parliament last week whether the government of an independent Scotland would do a deal to keep Trident, the first minister Alex Salmond replied: "It is inconceivable that an independent nation of 5.25m people would tolerate the continued presence of weapons of mass destruction on its soil."
His comments seemed to be directed at senior British defence officials figures who have suggested thatwere set on Salisbury Plain. (Interactive time line: "Stages of Stonehenge.")
First Minister Alex Salmond has told an audience in London that independence for Scotland would create a new 'social union' between the two countries of Scotland and England post-independence -- and be good for both countries. Delivering the Guardian newspaper's annual Hugo Young Lecture the evening before he publishes the Scottish Government's consultation on an independence referendum, the FM said that independence would leave Scotland and the rest of the UK free to work together as equal partners in many areas where values and interests were shared.
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of the enumerated respects if he had been sentenced on the day he entered his guilty plea rather than five months later. For example, the decision that petitioner serve his federal sentence in Georgia rather than in New Jersey cannot be deemed to be the result of any delay in sentencing as such. Indeed, the designation of the place of detention of a federal prisoner is within the sole discretion of the Attorney General of the United States. See 18 U.S.C. § 4082. And 18 U.S.C. § 4083 provides that "(p)ersons convicted of offenses against the United States . . . may be confined in Any United States penitentiary" (emphasis added).
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Similarly, inasmuch as petitioner's federal sentence Antedated his state sentence his right to abut it is one that could be carried in a wave. So keep an eye on it, but this outer Tampa based seat is not one of the key battlegrounds with Lee seeking re-election.
24th District: Jeff Brandes
After holding onto the St. Pete Mayoral office in an upset last fall, Democrats in the area are emboldened in their efforts to knock off State Senator Jeff Brandes in 2018. This will be a trickier thing to do, as SD-24 is whiter and more GOP-leaning than St. Pete as a city, and Brandes ran unopposed in 2016, showing his strength. Still, Democrats are enthused and they like their nominee, Carrie Lambeth Pilon, a trial lawyer who jumped into the race in April. She will need to make up a significant fundraising
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Adam Gnade
Bio
Straight from the PR's mouth:
In a nation so confused about its identity that citizens now rely on Crayola boxes to define themselves ("Are you red or blue?"), American musicians have turned to one of our greatest traditions, folk music, to reinvigorate their respective music scenes. Splicing folk narratives with post-punk, psychedelia, and non-traditional instrumentation, musicians like Akron/Family, Joanna Newsom, Sufjan Stevens and Castanets have created an exciting new folk movement, and upcoming artist Adam Gnade has joined their ranks.
Adam's newest album, Run, Hide, Retreat, Surrender (Oct. 25, Loud + Clear Records), is an alternately lurching and frenzied journey through our collective American identity crisis. It is a nine-track odyssey of anxiety, catatonic silence and healing, set to a psych-folk tapestry of clanging tambourines, clattering drums, ambient pianokeys, and the weary but ever-searching voice of Adam himself. Run tells the narrative of doomed lovers jumping in a car and flooring it away from one set of problems, only to drive straight into a storm of self-destruction, war fever and heartbreak. Adam's spoken vocals send the listener first fleeing from trouble and then barreling straight towards it, reminding us along the way that danger can be found, but rarely escaped, just about anywhere in America.
While Adam provides the voice and vision of the record, Run's sound is fleshed out by a revolving line-up of fellow musicians and friends who happened to be hanging out in the Portland basement where it was recorded. Dan O'Hara, who produced and recorded the album, handles guitar, piano, harbor bells, church
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to read this book in a few hours. I just found out that Ms. Wells has sold a total of four (count em (4)) novellas in the Murderbot series with the second titled "Artificial Condition" (16.99 for a hardcover and 9.99 for the kindle) to appear somewhere near the beginning of 2018 and upon a bit of research found the the book here at GR ->
Book 3 is scheduled to be a hardcover titled "Rogue Protocol" (The Murderbot Diaries #3)Entry #1
I will be starting to read this book in a few hours. I just found out that Ms. Wells has sold a total of four (count em (4)) novellas in the Murderbot series with the second titled "Artificial Condition" (16.99 for a hardcover and 9.99 for the kindle)do some work, and he has to interact with humans - his two least favorite activities.
This story was short, but funny if you love depressed robots with low self-esteem.
Some heavy themes wrapped up in what is otherwise a relatively fluffy novella. The plot's straight-forward, the prose is decent, but it's charming and witty. Murderbot, who repeatedly says that she'd rather be netflixing, is surprisingly relatable. One of my favorite parts is when Murderbot is faced with the prospect of spending time with people and is (understandably) horrified. She can't control her facial reaction which in turn makes the human crew she's assigned to uncomfortable t3ish stars.
Some heavy themes wrapped up in what is otherwise a relatively fluffy novella. The plot's straight-forward, the prose is decent, but it's charming
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was to harm no one.
Myers. . . . . regards Blake as an example of strong imagination insufficiently controlled by supraliminal discipline: “throughout all the work of William Blake we see the subliminal self flashing for moments into unity, then smouldering again in a lurid and scattered glow” (Human Personality, vol 1, page 73).
According to Holmes, Shelley’s emphasis on love is marred by two very major blemishes (page 207-08):
The first is his blindness to the intrinsic value of constancy in human relations… His second blindness was to the way in which children made a fundamental alteration to the direction and responsibilities of a love relationship
What he learnt from observing his impact on others may eventually have helped him mellow the initially extreme impatience of his political perspective.
For example(page 288):
In the effort to face his certain aspects of himself, his attempts and failures to set up constant and happy relations with those around him, he made a breakthrough into a new kind of reflective writing.
He was also passionately curious about many different areas of human concern, from poetry through psychology and science to philosophy and the translation of classics such as Plato’s Symposium. This seemed to be feeding the subliminal processes connected with his art. [It was during this period (page 430) that Shelley began to make systematic translations from the Greek of Plato, something that was ultimately to influence his poetry.]
In terms of what was at the time the controversial issue of his atheism, perhaps the closest we can get is the description of his
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to end marijuana prohibition at the national level and replace it with a system of regulated production and sales that is largely governed at the local level," said Steve Hawkins, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project.
"The Canadian model is rather similar to what many envision for the US, and in many ways it mirrors what is happening here, as states have taken the lead in regulating commercial cannabis activity," Hawkins continued. "The big difference -- and it is a critical difference -- is the blessing provincial governments have received from their federal government. It is time for Congress to step up and take similar action to harmonize our nation's state and federal marijuana policies."
Indeed, Canada's full federal legalization is going to provide an edge for Canadian marijuanacompanies and researchers compared to the US. Even though nine states, including California (which has more people than Canada), the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands have legalized marijuana, the continuing federal prohibition on marijuana and its continuing classification as a Schedule I drug continue to create a significant hurdle for US pot businesses and research efforts.
America's loss could be Canada's gain, Hawkins said.
"As just the second country and the first G7 nation to end marijuana prohibition, Canada has positioned itself as a global leader for cannabis business and development. As the US continues to face federal roadblocks to cannabis-related medical research, Canada could very well become the world leader in discovering new cannabis-based medicines. The country has already begun to experience some of the economic
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treatment remains intact just keeps piling up. Numerous studies in the past few years have documented racially biased policing practices, including a 2002 ACLU report on SFPD racial profiling and a city-commissioned study by a national expert on biased policing.
Those studies uncovered a range of bias-related problems and made concrete recommendations for reform. Those were ignored. As the rotten policing practices festered, more reports detailing racial and ethnic disparities across the criminal justice system came out in 2013 and 2015.
Then, in 2015, as "Operation Safe Schools" was winding down, SFPD was hit by a new scandal when officers were caught exchanging racist text messages. Some used the N-word, others referenced cross burnings. Officers were caught calling black residents "savages," "wild animals," and "barbarians," and one officer told hissergeant "All n[ -- ] must fucking hang." Another officer sent a text with an image of a white man spraying a black child with a hose above the caption "Go be a n -- somewhere else."
That finally got the attention of city fathers -- as well as the Obama-era Justice Department. The city district attorney convened a Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement that documented SFPD's history of racially disparate enforcement and concluded that it was "in urgent need of important reforms." In 2016, the Justice Department weighed in with its own report finding that the department still engaged in racially biased policing, especially around traffic stops and police use of deadly force.
It's Not Just San Francisco
The ACLU's Edwards concisely makes the
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Dwayne Frazier White came under scrutiny last month, and Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents then made a controlled purchase of opioid tablets from White's patrol vehicle while he was in uniform. White was last reported being held at the Walton County Jail. It's not clear what the official charges are.
Trump Administration Seeks Public Comments On Marijuana Reclassification. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking public comment about "the abuse potential, actual abuse, medical usefulness, trafficking, and impact of scheduling changes on availability for medical use" of cannabis and several other substances now under international review. Marijuana is currently Schedule I under US law and international anti-drug treaties. Public comments "will be considered in preparing a response from the United States to the World Health Organization (WHO)the International Association of Police Chiefs in Orlando Monday, President Trump called on Chicago police to embrace "stop and frisk" policing as a tool to reduce violence in the country's third-largest city. "Stop and frisk" was embraced for years by the New York City police department, but was widely criticized as overwhelmingly aimed at minority populations and ultimately ruled unconstitutional as carried out by the NYPD. "Gotta be properly applied, but stop-and-frisk works," said Trump. The city of Chicago reached an agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois in 2015 to curb stop-and-frisk procedures after the ACLU threatened to file a lawsuit over the issue. A spokesman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) blasted Trump for his "clueless" criticism. "Even someone as clueless as Donald Trump has
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is complicated for Russia these days, or run it through Georgia and Turkey on land. In addition, the industry of eastern Ukraine is closely integrated with the Russian military-industrial complex in areas such as launch vehicle and carrier rocket production, production of turbines for nuclear power plants as well as production of ships and planes.
War, as the Russian writer Arkadij Babtjenko wrote, is a key pillar of Putin’s regime—together with poverty, prisons, and television. Hopefully, Ukrainians will continue to hold their ground, the West will learn from its previous mistakes, and 2016 will see Putin falter.
Aaron Korewa is former political adviser to Carl Bildt, former Foreign Minister of Sweden. He lives in Stockholm.agree. "Revisions
in Need of Revising: What Went Wrong in the Iraq War [.pdf]," by David
C. Hendrickson and Robert W. Tucker, puts it plainly:
"Though the critics have made a number of telling points against the
conduct of the war and the occupation, the basic problems faced by the United
States flowed from the enterprise itself, and not primarily from mistakes in
execution along the way. The most serious problems facing Iraq and its American
occupiers 'endemic violence, a shattered state, a nonfunctioning economy,
and a decimated society' were virtually inevitable consequences that flowed
from the breakage of the Iraqi state."
It is of interest, and a hopeful sign, that this blunt assessment was published
by the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute.
One target the study hits squarely is the American assumption, still regnant
in the
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by the U.S. military
that it performed brilliantly; it was the politicians who lost the war (the
Vietnam War claim repeated). As the authors note, this reflects an overly narrow
definition of war:
"Other lessons are that the military services must digest again that
'war is an instrument of policy.' The profound neglect given to reestablishing
order in the military's prewar planning and the facile assumption that operations
critical to the overall success of the campaign were 'somebody else's business'
reflect a shallow view of warfare. Military planners should consider the evidence
that occupation duties were carried out in a fashion with the imperatives
of 'force protection' overriding concern for Iraqi civilian casualties that
risked sacrificing the broader strategic mission of U.S. forces."
Nor could the Iraq war have been won if we had sent more troops. MoreEtymology
The name "Hadrian" comes from the Roman cognomen Hadrianus, which meant "from Hadria" in Latin. Hadria was a town in northern Italy (it gave its name to the Adriatic Sea). A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain.
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road trip from Texarkana to Jonesboro, Georgia, recreating the route taken by the characters in the film.
The Bandit Run quickly caught on and has become a fixture, most recently[when?] celebrating the 40th anniversary of the movie with a special screening of the film attended by Burt Reynolds and a recreation of the jump undertaken by Bandit and Frog across a river.[30]
In 2014, petroleum company Mobil 1 produced television commercials, featuring NASCAR star Tony Stewart, closely based on the film. Called Smoke is the Bandit playing on Stewart's nickname, the commercials featured him as the Bandit opposite Darrell Waltrip who played Snowman and Jeff Hammond as Buford T. Justice. The story replaced the Coors beer with Mobil 1 products. The adverts poked fun at the film and even featureda Pontiac Trans Am and a cover version of the song East Bound and Down. The commercials were produced after Stewart mentioned that the movie was one of his favorites.[31]
When Smokey and the Bandit first aired on American network television in the early 1980s, censors were faced with the challenge of toning down the raw language of the original film. For this purpose, they overdubbed dialogue deemed offensive, which was (and remains, to an extent) common practice. The most noted change made for network broadcast was the replacing of Buford's often-spoken phrase "sumbitch" (a contraction of "son of a bitch"; usually in reference to the Bandit) with the phrase "scum bum". This phrase achieved a level of popularity with children, and the 2007 Hot Wheels release of the
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1970s Firebird Trans Am has "scum bum" emblazoned on its tail. The TV prints of the first two Bandit films are still shown regularly on television, although a few TV stations aired the unedited version in recent years as some of the phraseology (i.e. "(son of a) bitch", "ass", etc.) became more acceptable on TV.[citation needed]
The original actors mostly redubbed their own lines for the television version, except for Gleason. Actor Henry Corden, who voiced Fred Flintstone after original performer Alan Reed died, was used to replace a considerable amount of Sheriff Justice's dialogue.
In the UK, the heavily dubbed version was shown for a number of years, particularly by the BBC. However, in more recent years, the original version has been shown (on ITV, a commercial channel), usuallywith the stronger language edited out, often quite awkwardly and noticeably.[citation needed]
The theatrical release itself had a few lines deleted, including a creative edit in which Sheriff Justice tells a state trooper to "fuck off." His expletive is obscured when a passing big rig sounds its horn. At the time, using the 'F' word would immediately require an R rating and this clever self-censorship allowed the film to avoid this rating and reach a much larger audience. However, the scene and the obscured expletive was played for comedy value and written as such, with the passing truck being the gag of the scene more than a way to avoid the censors.
In 2006, a DVD re-release was issued of Smokey and the Bandit featuring a digitally-remastered audio track with
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collocation arrangement. Id. at 17823, ¶ 30. Indeed, even in the case of physical collocation in which the CLEC ultimately has physical access to the collocation space to install, maintain, and repair its equipment, the FCC requires the ILEC to "finish construction in accordance with the requesting carrier's application" before "turn[ing] functional space over to the requesting [CLEC]." Id. at 17812, 17823, ¶ 9, 30. Once the space is turned over to the CLEC in a physical collocation arrangement, responsibility then passes to the ILEC to "install, maintain, and repair its equipment".[6]Id. at 17812, ¶ 9. Thus, the Order describes a scenario in which the incumbent carrier is responsible for constructing the collocation space or arrangementthe part of the job that involves the incumbent's equipment and spaceand theMode of production and population patterns: policy implications for West African development.
Recent developments in population theory have made possible a re-examination of demographic evidence from West Africa which suggests that population growth and migration are primarily responses to changes in the nature of the production system. Precolonial, colonial, and independence period data provide a series of correlations consistent with the approach and suggest a possible new synthesis of the West African data. The poorest countries of West Africa are those bordering on the Sahara Desert, known as the "Sahel" region. In response to the drought and famine in that region from 1968-1974, numerous proposals have been made for increased attention to reducing population growth. The analysis presented in this paper leads to the conclusion that population policies other
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Ulf Leonhardt, Univ. of St. Andrews
(But no, the US Navy still denies it was ever trying to make ships invisible to radar during WWII.)
Traversable wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy. Dr Eric Davis, Earthtech International High Frequency Gravitational Wave Communications, Dr. Robert Baker, GravWave.
(Didn't Thomas Townsend Brown propose something similar in the 1950s? Well, he did, and "whew!" thank goodness they're still looking into it, even though they told us they never snatched up Brown's project.)
Antigravity for Aerospace Applications Dr. Eric Davis, EarthTech International. Field Effects one Biological Tissues Dr. Kit Green, Wayne State Univ. Metamaterials for Aerospace Applications, Dr. G. Shvets, Univ of Texas at Austin Warp Drive, dark energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions, Dr. R. Obousy, Obousy Consultants Materials for Advanced Aerospace Platforms Dr J.Times Union columnist Fred LeBrun wrote this 2005 remembrance of his experience on the press junket for "Star Wars," which was released 40 years ago this week.
My first encounter with "Star Wars" was a doozie.
It was a Friday morning in early June 1977, and I was running late as usual. There was still work to be done on the Sunday arts section of the paper, which was my responsibility, and a plane to catch to the best coast for a late-afternoon screening of some idiotic movie or other to satisfy one of my other hats at the paper, as the film reviewer.
In that era, movie studios routinely picked up the tab for critics on junkets, just tacking the expenses onto the cost of making and marketing the picture.
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"to lead." We borrowed "hypnagogic" (also spelled "hypnogogic") from French "hypnagogique" in the late 19th century.
: of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep
Examples
"People who play lots of computer games sometimes experience 'screen dreams' as they fall asleep, in which they see vivid images of the game they have been playing. These screen dreams are also products of the hypnagogic state." - From Paul Martin's Counting Sheep, 2002
"These hallucinations, called hypnagogic hallucinations, may occur when falling quickly into REM sleep, as you do when you first fall asleep, or upon waking." - From an article by Jeff Barnet in the Las Cruces Sun-News, January 11, 2011Three black trans women have been killed in Texas since October, and activists believe that attacks are on the rise due to a hostile political climate
The transgender community in Dallas was still grieving for Muhlaysia Booker when news broke last week that the body of Chynal Lindsey had been found in a lake, making her the second black trans woman murdered in the city in the space of a fortnight.
Three black trans women in their 20s have now been killed in the city since last October, when Brittany White was discovered fatally shot in a vehicle. Booker was found face down on a Dallas street on 18 May, five weeks after cellphone footage of her enduring a sustained beating in front of a jeering crowd went viral.
“I think
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from employment in any capacity with any member or member organization; and (2) a petition to this court (No. 78-1022) filed January 10, 1978, under section 25(a) of the Securities Exchange Act ("Act") seeking review of the SEC's order of November 23, 1977, denying a stay of the NYSE sanction.2
BACKGROUND
2
At the time of appellant's defalcations, he was a vice president and registered account representative with Dean Witter & Co., Inc. ("Dean Witter"), a broker and dealer in securities registered with the SEC and a member of the NYSE, employed in Dean Witter's Chicago office. He had been in the securities business as a salesman for some twenty-six years and had been a vice president of Dean Witter for about seven years. In January of 1975,appellant was assigned responsibility for the account of Mrs. Lillian Park, an 80-year old patient in a nursing home, whose nephew, Harold Burwick, represented her. Due to a clerical error, $10,000 in school district bearer bonds purchased by another customer were posted to Mrs. Park's account, and the January account statement sent by Dean Witter to Burwick so disclosed. Burwick called appellant about this, and appellant said he would take care of it. However, the bonds continued to show up in Mrs. Park's monthly account statements. Finally, in June, appellant requested Dean Witter's New York office to deliver the bonds to the Chicago office. When they arrived near the end of June, appellant, without authority, put them in his safety deposit box.
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corner, I remembered the most deadly weapon that had been enclosed. These were the origami paper cranes, a symbol of peace. Each one with its cockeyed beak and resolute tail had been carefully folded with prayer and petition. These symbols of peace would surely be a terrible threat to the continued bloodshed.
Yes, at the Syrian border, the weapons of war would be uncovered. Inside each piece of luggage would be found new life, joy, laughter, prayer, and peace. As our beloved sisters returned to the war zone they call home, these weapons that they cherished would no longer be concealed… and never, never confiscated.INTRODUCTION {#S1}
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In the last decade, Spanish community pharmacies have incorporated into their existing services a series of extra activities included within the concept of Pharmaceutical Care, with the aim of achieving the maximum benefit from patients' therapy. These activities are endorsed by the new Spanish law of Guarantees and Rational Use of Medicines and Medical Devices.[@B1]
Although implementation of these activities in daily practice has generally been lower than initially hoped, the challenges inherent in pharmaceutical care and pharmacists' services in general, have been taken on by a large number of pharmacists in Spain. As evidence of this is the appearance of specialized journals such as Seguimiento Farmacoterapéutico and Pharmaceutical Care España. There has also been a noteworthy increase in the number of communications presented at conferences focusing in
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the fuel in the container is conveyed through the channel to and into the wick. The wick permits air therethrough at least when the club is in relative rest so that air may be sucked in through the wick or between the wick and its support and in via the connection to the container, to eliminate the under-pressure that otherwise occurs in the container as a result of the removal of fuel from the container to the wick.
The channel or the channels can have the shape of one or many radial bores at the bottom part of the container so that the channels exit at the lengthwise middle area of the wick.
In one embodiment of the invention the torch can be built from an elongate section of awas as a maintenance technician trainee, and thereafter he was promoted to maintenance technician in November 1975, and to senior maintenance technician, the highest non-supervisory position in that department, in May 1978. Coleman's abilities and desire for advancement were recognized by Dow, and he was highly rated within his department.
In 1982, defendant Robert Raymond ("Raymond") became Coleman's supervisor in the maintenance department. In 1984, Raymond brought to the attention of Plant Manager John Oberlatz the vacancy of a supervisory position in the maintenance department, and recommended Eugene Laroux, a white male, for that position. Oberlatz had final decision-making authority over that promotion decision; however, Raymond's evaluation of job performance was a factor which Oberlatz considered *148 when making that decision. On January 28, 1985, Oberlatz promoted Laroux to
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paper in one, with an emphasis on the central point of novelty.
To make a nest, the Bembicinae (previously called Nyssoninae) sand wasps dig a tunnel of many body-lengths, at the end of which they build a cell or a complex of cells, where they place their offspring and the prey on which the offspring will feed (Evans [@CR44]). They have natural enemies---two taxonomic groups of flies (the bee flies, Bombyliidae, and miltogrammine flies, Sarcophagidae) and two taxonomic groups of parasitic wasps (the cuckoo wasps, Chrysididae, and "velvet ants," Mutillidae)--- that parasitize their nests by laying there, and whose larvae either takes up valuable resources or destroy the larvae of the sand wasp. Parasites of the former two groups seek the nests of their hosts by sight, and ofthe notion of random mutation means that there is nothing of importance to be studied about the causes of mutation from an evolutionary perspective, the concept of non-accidental mutation provided by interaction-based evolution implies instead a whole world of biological mechanisms open to investigation.
Before Darwin, people used to think that different species were each created separately in an instant. While Darwin made an immense contribution by showing that this is not the case, and that species are generated gradually, a notion of creation in an instant has been maintained in neo-Darwinism in other areas: the origin of life, the origin of mutations, and cooption. While Livnat ([@CR113]) argued among other things against the origin of life in an instant, this paper argues against the other two. Novelty arises
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that day for good harvest, for
predicting the future, for attracting your future spouse etc. People
decorate their houses and lands with birch or sometimes oak branches and flowers as well as leaves, especially fern.
In rural areas livestock is also decorated. In modern days small oak
branches with leaves are attached to the cars in Latvia during the
festivity. Jāņi has been a strong aspect of Latvian culture throughout
history, originating in pre-Christian Latvia as an ancient fertility
cult."In the western town of Kuldīga,
revellers mark the holiday by running naked through the town at three
in the morning. The event has taken place since 2000. Runners are
rewarded with beer, and police are on hand in case any 'puritans'
attempt to interfere with the naked run.[22]"
Thursday, June 23, 2016
"Gaslighting or gas-lighting is a form of mental abusein which a victim is manipulated into doubting their own memory, perception, and sanity.[1][2] Instances may range from the denial
by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, up to the
staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.
"The term owes its origin to the 1938 play Gas Light and its film adaptations. The term has been used in clinical and research literature.[3][4]"
"RACINE RESIDENTS TO SEE MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WAUKESHA SHIT WATER FLOWING INTO RACINE’S ROOT RIVER.
"Thanks
to Racine Mayor John Dickert, Waukesha will divert an average of 8.2
million gallons of Lake Michigan water per day and return treated
wastewater to the lake via the Root River.
"Under the plan,
Waukesha would buy Lake Michigan water from Oak Creek, and build new
infrastructure to pipe it west.
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said he threatened to 'dock' her pay. A few weeks later, he fired her.
"Board members were clearly surprised by Schumacher’s comments. After
the meeting, Village President Jerry Garski said he takes the
allegations seriously.
"'This was surprising … it’s the first we’ve heard of these issues, and we will look into them,' he said after the board meeting.
"He did not offer any additional comment.
"Wahlen was not at the meeting because he is on vacation this week.
Racine County Eye did send him an email to his village email address and
will update this story if we reach him for comment. His contract with
the village expired on May 13, and negotiations for a new one have not
begun, according to sources close to the village.
Men in Black
Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panickyfor a total payoff demand of $269,506.69 ("the Payoff Demand"), an amount the Debtor considered excessive. See Payoff Demand, Exhibit Citi-2. Citifinancial received full payment of the Payoff Demand at the closing on June 22, 2006.
Through this claims objection, the Debtor seeks to recover the difference between the total Payoff Demand Citifinancial received and what she believes Citifinancial was lawfully due. On August 23, 2006, the parties submitted a Stipulation of Exhibits and Facts. On August 28, 2006, a hearing was held to complete the record. Post-trial briefing by the parties was completed on October 23, 2006.
III. THE CONTENTIONS OF THE PARTIES
The Debtor objects to Citifinancial's proof of claim, asserting that payment of the amount of the Payoff Demand is inconsistent with the terms of the Confirmed Plan.
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to deny Britain had voted for Saudi Arabia's ascension to the body, but Belgium's prime minister said he "regretted" his ambassador's vote in favour.
The new changes mean women could, in some circumstances, study and access hospital treatment, work in the public and private sector and represent themselves in court without consent of a male guardian, said Maha Akeel, a women's rights campaigner and a director at Jeddah-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
"Now at least it opens the door for discussion on the guardian system," Ms Akeel told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Women are independent and can take care of themselves."
World news in pictures Show all 50 1 /50 World news in pictures World news in pictures 14 September 2020 Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga,former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida celebrate after Suga was elected as new head of the ruling party at the Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election in Tokyo Reuters World news in pictures 13 September 2020 A man stands behind a burning barricade during the fifth straight day of protests against police brutality in Bogota AFP via Getty World news in pictures 12 September 2020 Police officers block and detain protesters during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus. Daily protests calling for the authoritarian president's resignation are now in their second month AP World news in pictures 11 September 2020 Members of 'Omnium Cultural' celebrate the 20th 'Festa per la llibertat' ('Fiesta for the freedom') to mark
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district court's order and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
7
On October 5, 1984, Young pleaded guilty in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas to burglary. On November 14, 1989, while still on probation from his burglary conviction, Young was tried and convicted of robbery and sentenced to one-and-a-half to three years imprisonment. On March 21, 1990, finding that the 1989 robbery conviction violated the terms of Young's probation, Judge Tama Myers Clark revoked Young's probation on the burglary conviction and ordered him to serve ten to twenty years imprisonment. She later vacated that sentence pending disposition of the appeal of the 1989 robbery conviction. Then, on April 21, 1994, Judge Clark imposed asentence of five to ten years imprisonment for violation of probation, which Young is presently serving.
8
Having unsuccessfully challenged his 1989 conviction through direct appeal and state collateral attack,1 Young, acting pro se, filed the present habeas corpus petition under § 2254 on February 23, 1995,2 alleging ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel in connection with his 1989 conviction. Named as respondents are Donald T. Vaughn, the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania, and the District Attorney for Philadelphia County (collectively "the Commonwealth"). Although the petition makes no reference to the 1984 conviction, Young did explain the relationship between the two convictions and his present incarceration in his "Response to Respondent's Response to Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus," in which he contends:
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now in act to drag
Her from the swift steed's back. Confusedly
She thought: "Or shall I draw my mighty sword,
And bide Achilles' fiery onrush, or
Hastily cast me from my fleet horse down
To earth, and kneel unto this godlike man,
And with wild breath promise for ransoming
Great heaps of brass and gold, which pacify
The hearts of victors never so athirst
For blood, if haply so the murderous might
Of Aeacus' son may hearken and may spare,
Or peradventure may compassionate
My youth, and so vouchsafe me to behold
Mine home again?--for O, I long to live!"
So surged the wild thoughts in her; but the Gods
Ordainedhim thence to Ilium
The god-built burg. But Aias failed him not.
Swiftly that godlike man bestrode the dead:
Back from the corpse his long lance thrust them all.
Yet ceased they not from onslaught; thronging round,
Still with swift rushes fought they for the prize,
One following other, like to long-lipped bees
Which hover round their hive in swarms on swarms
To drive a man thence; but he, recking naught
Of all their fury, carveth out the combs
Of nectarous honey: harassed sore are they
By smoke-reek and the robber; spite of all
Ever they dart against him; naught cares he;
So naught of all their onsets Aias recked;
But first he
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single person in Australia, or at least Sydney, knows I have been convicted of a sex offence," he said. He said he was "shattered, horrified and sickened" after hearing the woman's victim impact statement.
Judge Huggett accepted Lazarus' offending occurred in the context of a recent break-up with his American girlfriend, who was not of Greek heritage, sparked by his parents' ultimatum that he had to choose between her and his family. He had experienced bullying at school, in part due to his short stature, and he revelled in the power and entitlement he enjoyed as the club owner's son. He has also expressed some remorse, claiming he would have "never deliberately hurt her". But neither the media coverage nor his mental health issues reduced his "moral culpability", JudgeHuggett said. However, she did acknowledge jail would be more onerous for him than "ordinary" inmates.
In a character reference tendered to the court Lazarus's father Andrew said there has been a "major backlash" against the Soho nightclub since the Herald reported his son's conviction on March 8. He said there has been "a significant decline in patronage" and after 19 years he is going to sell out. Mr Lazarus said the family had hoped to keep his eldest son's conviction under wraps. "It was our intention and hope that the incident could remain quiet to > protect Luke's good reputation," he said. "I didn't even inform my mother and sisters as I was acutely aware of how painful this would be for Luke and all his family and
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wedding receptions seem never to end: with only a dispiriting and possibly dangerous interlude with acrylic pearls awaiting them in the bridal suite, there is nothing to hurry the principals off the dance floor. The couple is far more interested in boogying down at the opulent party they've ordered—after all the hard work, a chance to have some fun!—than in attending to the drudgery of consummating the marriage. There was a time when a wedding wasn't just a fancy party, when it commemorated an occasion of tremendous moment, as true ritual always has—in this case the beginning of a woman's sexual life. The reception was once marked by a particular kind of shared anxiety, which fostered a genre of American humor that is now all but lost: thebe part of a frantic and terribly expensive effort to infuse a wedding with some small measure of the meaning it once had.
A little more than thirty years ago Joan Didion reported, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, on the Las Vegas wedding industry—which, she found, was not based solely on "the premise that marriage, like craps, is a game to be played when the table seems hot." She found instead that the Vegas wedding chapels, "with their wishing wells and stained-glass paper windows and their artificial bouvardia," were in fact selling "'niceness,' the facsimile of proper ritual, to children who do not know how else to find it."
Today's children do know where to find "proper ritual." They find it in a thousand showrooms and expos and trunk sales; they
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